For nearly 15 years, Josh Ruben had been working in the industry making a name for himself on a variety of projects, but despite finding success in the world of comedy and a steady stream of commercial work, he still felt like something was missing. Eventually, Josh arrived at a crossroads, both personally and professionally, and decided it was time to get out there and start telling stories on his terms.
“This was a three-part journey for me,” explained Ruben. “I had this wonderfully privileged position of building up a brand and a name and a following for myself as a comedian and as a sketch comic writer personality as a cast member in the CollegeHumor world. But when I left CollegeHumor, I left to pursue a commercial directing career with a directing partner I had at the time, as that offered me the safety of a livable wage.”
“And in my partnership with that director,...
“This was a three-part journey for me,” explained Ruben. “I had this wonderfully privileged position of building up a brand and a name and a following for myself as a comedian and as a sketch comic writer personality as a cast member in the CollegeHumor world. But when I left CollegeHumor, I left to pursue a commercial directing career with a directing partner I had at the time, as that offered me the safety of a livable wage.”
“And in my partnership with that director,...
- 4/1/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Becks, directed by Daniel Powell and Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, screens Friday June 8th through Tuesday June 12th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30pm each night.
Review by Stephen Tronicek
Becks begins on an image of great hypnotic quality. As the image slowly fades in we see Lucy (Hayley Kiyoko) ordained in a turquoise light that creates an image that sucks you into the frame and immediately engages you. This image is so important because it is this woman that will hold precedence in the titular character’s mind the whole time that the film plays. We as an audience understand the protagonist, Becks (Lena Hall) because we understand the serendipity of the image she has created of Lucy. Even better, this opening image is followed by Malickian flashes of the relationship that they shared. Throughout the film, these flashes will not only haunt...
Review by Stephen Tronicek
Becks begins on an image of great hypnotic quality. As the image slowly fades in we see Lucy (Hayley Kiyoko) ordained in a turquoise light that creates an image that sucks you into the frame and immediately engages you. This image is so important because it is this woman that will hold precedence in the titular character’s mind the whole time that the film plays. We as an audience understand the protagonist, Becks (Lena Hall) because we understand the serendipity of the image she has created of Lucy. Even better, this opening image is followed by Malickian flashes of the relationship that they shared. Throughout the film, these flashes will not only haunt...
- 6/7/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Becks, directed by Daniel Powell and Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, screens Friday June 8th through Tuesday June 12th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30pm each night. Look for a review of Becks later this week here at We Are Movie Geeks.
Singer/songwriter Becks (Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated Lena Hall) gives up her Brooklyn apartment and heads across the country to join her long-distance girlfriend (Hayley Kiyoko) in La. But a surprise early arrival has disastrous consequences, and Becks abruptly heads back across the country to St. Louis, where she moves in with her disapproving mother (Christine Lahti). As Becks navigates her hometown, playing for tip money in an old friend’s bar, an unexpected relationship with Elyse (Mena Suvari), the wife an old nemesis, begins to take shape. Co-directors Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell — both former St. Louisans — make their narrative-feature debut with Becks,...
Singer/songwriter Becks (Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated Lena Hall) gives up her Brooklyn apartment and heads across the country to join her long-distance girlfriend (Hayley Kiyoko) in La. But a surprise early arrival has disastrous consequences, and Becks abruptly heads back across the country to St. Louis, where she moves in with her disapproving mother (Christine Lahti). As Becks navigates her hometown, playing for tip money in an old friend’s bar, an unexpected relationship with Elyse (Mena Suvari), the wife an old nemesis, begins to take shape. Co-directors Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell — both former St. Louisans — make their narrative-feature debut with Becks,...
- 6/4/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Becks screens Wednesday, Apr. 4th at 7:00pm at the .Zack (3224 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo 63103) as part of this year’s QFest St. Louis. Ticket information can be found Here.
Review by Stephen Tronicek
Becks begins on an image of great hypnotic quality. As the image slowly fades in we see Lucy (Hayley Kiyoko) ordained in a turquoise light that creates an image that sucks you into the frame and immediately engages you. This image is so important because it is this woman that will hold precedence in the titular character’s mind the whole time that the film plays. We as an audience understand the protagonist, Becks (Lena Hall) because we understand the serendipity of the image she has created of Lucy. Even better, this opening image is followed by Malickian flashes of the relationship that they shared. Throughout the film, these flashes will not only haunt both...
Review by Stephen Tronicek
Becks begins on an image of great hypnotic quality. As the image slowly fades in we see Lucy (Hayley Kiyoko) ordained in a turquoise light that creates an image that sucks you into the frame and immediately engages you. This image is so important because it is this woman that will hold precedence in the titular character’s mind the whole time that the film plays. We as an audience understand the protagonist, Becks (Lena Hall) because we understand the serendipity of the image she has created of Lucy. Even better, this opening image is followed by Malickian flashes of the relationship that they shared. Throughout the film, these flashes will not only haunt both...
- 4/3/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 2018 QFest St. Louis begins on Wednesday, April 4, and runs through Sunday, April 8. All screenings will be held at .Zack,. 3224 Locust St. in Grand Center. Advance sales will be available through MetroTix. The schedule of screenings, events, trailers, and full descriptions of the films will appear on the festival website at cinemastlouis.org/qfest. The official QFest St. Louis page on Facebook is facebook.com/QFestSTL.
QFest St. Louis, a presentation of Cinema St. Louis, is sponsored by Jeffrey T. Fort, Aarp in St. Louis, Whitaker Foundation, Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Arts Council, Arts & Education Council, Coffee Cartel, Dekkoo, Just John Nightclub, Dennis Gorg Trust, Mark Utterback, and Michael Reisers:
Here’s the line-up for the 11th Annual QFest St. Louis:
Becks Wednesday, Apr. 4th at 7:00pm.
Singer/songwriter Becks (Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated Lena Hall) gives up her Brooklyn apartment and heads across the country to join her long-distance girlfriend (Hayley Kiyoko) in La.
QFest St. Louis, a presentation of Cinema St. Louis, is sponsored by Jeffrey T. Fort, Aarp in St. Louis, Whitaker Foundation, Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Arts Council, Arts & Education Council, Coffee Cartel, Dekkoo, Just John Nightclub, Dennis Gorg Trust, Mark Utterback, and Michael Reisers:
Here’s the line-up for the 11th Annual QFest St. Louis:
Becks Wednesday, Apr. 4th at 7:00pm.
Singer/songwriter Becks (Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated Lena Hall) gives up her Brooklyn apartment and heads across the country to join her long-distance girlfriend (Hayley Kiyoko) in La.
- 4/2/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 2018 QFest St. Louis begins on Wednesday, April 4, and runs through Sunday, April 8. All screenings will be held at .Zack,. 3224 Locust St. in Grand Center. Advance sales will be available through MetroTix. The schedule of screenings, events, trailers, and full descriptions of the films will appear on the festival website at cinemastlouis.org/qfest. The official QFest St. Louis page on Facebook is facebook.com/QFestSTL.
QFest St. Louis, a presentation of Cinema St. Louis, is sponsored by Jeffrey T. Fort, Aarp in St. Louis, Whitaker Foundation, Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Arts Council, Arts & Education Council, Coffee Cartel, Dekkoo, Just John Nightclub, Dennis Gorg Trust, Mark Utterback, and Michael Reiser
Here’s the line-up for the 11th Annual QFest St. Louis:
Becks Wednesday, Apr. 4th at 7:00pm.
Singer/songwriter Becks (Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated Lena Hall) gives up her Brooklyn apartment and heads across the country to join her long-distance girlfriend (Hayley Kiyoko) in La.
QFest St. Louis, a presentation of Cinema St. Louis, is sponsored by Jeffrey T. Fort, Aarp in St. Louis, Whitaker Foundation, Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Arts Council, Arts & Education Council, Coffee Cartel, Dekkoo, Just John Nightclub, Dennis Gorg Trust, Mark Utterback, and Michael Reiser
Here’s the line-up for the 11th Annual QFest St. Louis:
Becks Wednesday, Apr. 4th at 7:00pm.
Singer/songwriter Becks (Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated Lena Hall) gives up her Brooklyn apartment and heads across the country to join her long-distance girlfriend (Hayley Kiyoko) in La.
- 3/8/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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The 15:17 to Paris [my review]
Dorothy Blyskal wrote the script for this docudrama about three young American men who thwarted a terrorist attack on a European train. (male director)
Fifty Shades Freed [my review]
Dakota Johnson costars as a newly married woman whose husband uses his fear over her stalker as an excuse to control her every move. (male writer and director)
limited
The Female Brain [IMDb]
Whitney Cummings directs, costars, and cowrites with Louann Brizendine (and another male cowriter) a ensemble romantic comedy about why women trip themselves up with men. Also costarring Sofia Vergara, Jane Seymour, and Beanie Feldstein.
Becks [IMDb] pictured
Lena Hall stars in a musical drama about a singer/songwriter who moves back to her hometown after a bad breakup. Codirected by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, and cowritten by Rohrbaugh and Rebecca Drysdale (and another male cowriter).
FourPlay [IMDb]
Tammy Blanchard and Emanuela Galliussi costar in an ensemble romantic dramedy. Cowritten by Galliussi.
The 15:17 to Paris [my review]
Dorothy Blyskal wrote the script for this docudrama about three young American men who thwarted a terrorist attack on a European train. (male director)
Fifty Shades Freed [my review]
Dakota Johnson costars as a newly married woman whose husband uses his fear over her stalker as an excuse to control her every move. (male writer and director)
limited
The Female Brain [IMDb]
Whitney Cummings directs, costars, and cowrites with Louann Brizendine (and another male cowriter) a ensemble romantic comedy about why women trip themselves up with men. Also costarring Sofia Vergara, Jane Seymour, and Beanie Feldstein.
Becks [IMDb] pictured
Lena Hall stars in a musical drama about a singer/songwriter who moves back to her hometown after a bad breakup. Codirected by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, and cowritten by Rohrbaugh and Rebecca Drysdale (and another male cowriter).
FourPlay [IMDb]
Tammy Blanchard and Emanuela Galliussi costar in an ensemble romantic dramedy. Cowritten by Galliussi.
- 2/9/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired domestic rights to the musical drama Becks, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival this year and won the U.S. Fiction prize. A 2018 theatrical release is planned. Co-written, co-directed and produced by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell, the pic centers on a Brooklyn musician (Tony winner Lena Hall) who moves back in with her Midwestern mother (Christine Lahti) after a crushing breakup with her girlfriend. As she navigates…...
- 9/28/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: We’re still six weeks from the start of the America Film Market, but so far there are 32 films from female directors that will be screened, sold or premiering at the market. Only four of those films — or 13% — were produced in the U.S.: Lynne Southerland's Cinderella and The Secret Prince, Elizabeth Rohrbaugh’s Becks, Rebecca Addelman’s Paper Year and Tali Shalom-Ezer’s My Days of Mercy. The Lili Fini Zanuck-helmed Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars also is…...
- 9/21/2017
- Deadline
Five competition sections drew 42% female, 40% non-white directors.
Becks (pictured) directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell won the U.S. Fiction Award. Lena Hall and Mena Suvari star in the drama about a singer-songwriter who moves in with her ultra-Catholic mother after a break-up and strikes up an unexpected friendship with the wife of an old nemesis.
Mexico’s The Night Guard (El Vigilante) by Diego Ros earned the World Fiction Award and tells of a security guard who becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a crime at the construction site he is paid to patrol. Leonardo Alonso, Ari Gallegos,...
Becks (pictured) directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell won the U.S. Fiction Award. Lena Hall and Mena Suvari star in the drama about a singer-songwriter who moves in with her ultra-Catholic mother after a break-up and strikes up an unexpected friendship with the wife of an old nemesis.
Mexico’s The Night Guard (El Vigilante) by Diego Ros earned the World Fiction Award and tells of a security guard who becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a crime at the construction site he is paid to patrol. Leonardo Alonso, Ari Gallegos,...
- 6/22/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Becks, the musical drama directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell starring Lena Hall, won the La Film Festival’s U.S. Fiction Award today, while Karen Moncrieff’s The Keeping Hours took the Audience Award for a fiction feature. Those winners were among the awards announced today at the festival’s Awards Reception by Festival Director Jennifer Cochis and Film Independent President Josh Welsh (see the complete list below). Festival Guest Director Miguel Arteta (Beat…...
- 6/22/2017
- Deadline
Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powers’ Becks, inspired by the life of singer-songwriter Alyssa Robbins, took home the U.S. Fiction Award, and Amanda Kopp and Aaron Kopp’s Liyana, which focuses on a group of orphaned children in Swaziland, claimed the Documentary Award as jury prizes were announced at the Los Angeles Film Festival, which concluded Thursday.
Audience Awards were presented to Karen Moncrieff’s The Keeping Hours, named best fiction feature film, and to Mark Hayes’ Skid Row Marathon for best documentary feature. The latter, a film about a running club organized by Los Angeles Superior Court judge Craig Mitchell,...
Audience Awards were presented to Karen Moncrieff’s The Keeping Hours, named best fiction feature film, and to Mark Hayes’ Skid Row Marathon for best documentary feature. The latter, a film about a running club organized by Los Angeles Superior Court judge Craig Mitchell,...
- 6/22/2017
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Inspired by the life of singer/songwriter Alyssa Robbins, Becks is not just a lesbian love story, but a universal love story first and foremost that speaks to the broader human experiences of love,...
- 6/15/2017
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
This year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, better known as Laff if you’re fun, has unveiled its full slate of 2017 offerings, including new offerings from Vincent Grashaw, Leena Pendharkar, Hong Sangsoo, Lea Thompson and many more. The slate includes 48 feature films, 51 short films, 15 high school short films and 10 short episodic works representing 32 countries. The festival’s five competitions feature 37 World Premieres, 2 International Premieres and 9 North American Premieres. Across the competition categories, 42% of the films are directed by women and 40% are directed by people of color.
“Our competitions reflect who Film Independent is as an organization,” said La Film Festival Director Jennifer Cochis. “Within each section you’ll find discovery, diversity, and promising talent both in front of and behind the camera.” Programming Director Roya Rastegar added, “The films curated for the 2017 competition reflect the changing political climate’s impact on emerging independent filmmakers, who are compelled to tell stories about the power of conviction,...
“Our competitions reflect who Film Independent is as an organization,” said La Film Festival Director Jennifer Cochis. “Within each section you’ll find discovery, diversity, and promising talent both in front of and behind the camera.” Programming Director Roya Rastegar added, “The films curated for the 2017 competition reflect the changing political climate’s impact on emerging independent filmmakers, who are compelled to tell stories about the power of conviction,...
- 5/9/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The days are getting longer and the nights are getting warmer, which means that we're edging ever closer to this year's La Film Festival. Taking place June 14th–22nd, the La Film Festival's 2017 competition lineup has been unveiled, and of particular interest for genre fans is the Nightfall section, which includes Colin Minihan's It Stains the Sands Red, Julius Ramsay's Midnighters, and Amanda Evans' Serpent.
Press Release: Los Angeles (May 9, 2017)— Today the La Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, unveiled the official U.S. Fiction, Documentary, World Fiction, La Muse and Nightfall sections. The 2017 La Film Festival will screen a diverse slate of feature films, shorts and episodic series, along with programs such as Coffee Talks and Future Filmmakers Showcase. The La Film Festival takes place June 14 – June 22, 2017 headquartered at ArcLight Cinemas Culver City, with additional screenings at ArcLight Hollywood,...
Press Release: Los Angeles (May 9, 2017)— Today the La Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, unveiled the official U.S. Fiction, Documentary, World Fiction, La Muse and Nightfall sections. The 2017 La Film Festival will screen a diverse slate of feature films, shorts and episodic series, along with programs such as Coffee Talks and Future Filmmakers Showcase. The La Film Festival takes place June 14 – June 22, 2017 headquartered at ArcLight Cinemas Culver City, with additional screenings at ArcLight Hollywood,...
- 5/9/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Being a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, I’m pleased to announce that at the 2012 St. Louis International Film Festival, five documentaries are in competition for our Eda Award for Best Documentary Directed by a Women.
The Eda Award will be presented at the St Louis International Film Festival’s closing ceremonies on November 18, 2012, along with the Eda Award for Best Narrative Feature Directed by A Woman. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists members on the documentary award jury are Monika Bartyzel (Movies.com), Jeanne Wolf (Parade Magazine), Karen Krizanovich (Radio Times), Jette Kernion (Slackerwood.com) and myself. For more on the awards: http://cinemastlouis.org/2012-sliff-awards
The films are:
Her Master’s Voice - Directed by Nina Conti, UK – All about truth in ventriloquism! The Perfect Victim - Directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh (Us) – A film about women who were convicted of murdering their husbands, without being...
The Eda Award will be presented at the St Louis International Film Festival’s closing ceremonies on November 18, 2012, along with the Eda Award for Best Narrative Feature Directed by A Woman. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists members on the documentary award jury are Monika Bartyzel (Movies.com), Jeanne Wolf (Parade Magazine), Karen Krizanovich (Radio Times), Jette Kernion (Slackerwood.com) and myself. For more on the awards: http://cinemastlouis.org/2012-sliff-awards
The films are:
Her Master’s Voice - Directed by Nina Conti, UK – All about truth in ventriloquism! The Perfect Victim - Directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh (Us) – A film about women who were convicted of murdering their husbands, without being...
- 10/22/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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