On Thursday, October 2nd from 6:30pm- 10pm, the 7th Annual Bushwick Film Festival will host it's Opening Night festivities. Ticket's can be purchased here. The festival runs October 2-5.
The opening night film is "B.F.E." (Trailer). Director Shawn Telford will be flying in from Seattle to present the film and for a Q&A. "B.F.E." is essentially a film about the heavy feeling of being trapped in both your own life's circumstances as well as life's circumstances while desperately trying to escape. In this case, it's a small town, boredom, old age, young love and drugs. The tag line is "They say it's quiet out in the country....They don't know shit!"
The screening is followed by an opening night party that is free for ticket holders at Bushwick's hottest new venue Lot 45.
The four-day festival weekend will include films from all over the world including London, South Africa, France, Ukraine, Mexico, Peru, U.S. and of course Bushwick! The weekend is an opportunity to see amazing films that you won't find in regular ol' U.S. cinemas. They are true gems!
There will also be a Cinema talks series, Industry Events and Panels with guests from The Tribeca Film Institute ,Magnolia Pictures and Vimeo.
"I've put a lot of love in the program and spent a full year planning for the lucky 7. Over the year, I saw tons of films and traveled to see films to bring back to Bushwick to present. I learned that distribution and rights tend to be trickier than I imagined, however I was successful in bringing back one really great film I saw at the Berlin International Film Festival that nicely polishes off our feature film program. The film is "Los Angeles" directed by Damian John Harper," said Kweighbaye Kotee, Director of Programming.
In addition to all the events, each year the festival donates a portion of its ticket sales to an organization or individual that uses film or technology to positively impact their community. This award encourages charitable deeds through the use of cinema. As this year’s recipient, the festival will support Kriterion Monrovia’s, ”Together We Can Stop Ebola” Campaign."You can read the full press release here.
"In closing, the festival weekend marks a major accomplishment for me as a Director/Programmer and for the festival because we have grown in terms of film submissions (74% increase/18% international) and are recognized as a "locally bread celebration of independent film since 2007, that has grown into a slick beautiful community event recognized in the film industry," concluded Kweighbaye
For more information on the full line-up, events, and ticketing please visit Here...
The opening night film is "B.F.E." (Trailer). Director Shawn Telford will be flying in from Seattle to present the film and for a Q&A. "B.F.E." is essentially a film about the heavy feeling of being trapped in both your own life's circumstances as well as life's circumstances while desperately trying to escape. In this case, it's a small town, boredom, old age, young love and drugs. The tag line is "They say it's quiet out in the country....They don't know shit!"
The screening is followed by an opening night party that is free for ticket holders at Bushwick's hottest new venue Lot 45.
The four-day festival weekend will include films from all over the world including London, South Africa, France, Ukraine, Mexico, Peru, U.S. and of course Bushwick! The weekend is an opportunity to see amazing films that you won't find in regular ol' U.S. cinemas. They are true gems!
There will also be a Cinema talks series, Industry Events and Panels with guests from The Tribeca Film Institute ,Magnolia Pictures and Vimeo.
"I've put a lot of love in the program and spent a full year planning for the lucky 7. Over the year, I saw tons of films and traveled to see films to bring back to Bushwick to present. I learned that distribution and rights tend to be trickier than I imagined, however I was successful in bringing back one really great film I saw at the Berlin International Film Festival that nicely polishes off our feature film program. The film is "Los Angeles" directed by Damian John Harper," said Kweighbaye Kotee, Director of Programming.
In addition to all the events, each year the festival donates a portion of its ticket sales to an organization or individual that uses film or technology to positively impact their community. This award encourages charitable deeds through the use of cinema. As this year’s recipient, the festival will support Kriterion Monrovia’s, ”Together We Can Stop Ebola” Campaign."You can read the full press release here.
"In closing, the festival weekend marks a major accomplishment for me as a Director/Programmer and for the festival because we have grown in terms of film submissions (74% increase/18% international) and are recognized as a "locally bread celebration of independent film since 2007, that has grown into a slick beautiful community event recognized in the film industry," concluded Kweighbaye
For more information on the full line-up, events, and ticketing please visit Here...
- 9/22/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The 7th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival will screen a smorgasbord of cult flicks, horror movies, comedies and provocative documentaries on September 19-27 at The Screening Room in Tucson, Az.
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
- 9/19/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
I love Paris! Serving on the jury of U.S. in Progress to judge five American independent films in post production, bonding with filmmakers, organizers and the beautiful city itself, being part of a larger festival which featured films I particularly enjoyed like Nina Simone, Love Sorceress… Forever, It Felt Like Love by Eliza Hittman, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, what’s not to love?
The friendly openness of everyone at the festival made the event special. Sophie Dulac, the festival’s founder (and distributor, producer and exhibitor) whom I interviewed last year and again, almost as old friends again this year (see upcoming blog!), the publicist and programmer, Maxine Leonard, the staff, the Us in Progress organizers – Adeline Monzier (now also Us representative for Unifrance), Ula Śniegowska, Artistic Director of Wroclaw, Poland’s American Film Festival and Mobile New Horizons, my fellow jury members for USinP, and of course, the filmmakers themselves created a fun and inspiring event. What a great international film business we are in!
As I write this, the mailman just delivered a book, entitled Titra Film, A Cinematographic and Family Chronicle, sent to me by my fellow jury-member, Isabelle Frilley, who now, along with her children, owns and operates Titra, now called TitraTVS, the sub-titling company founded by her grandparents in 1933 shortly after talkies made subtitling de riguer . Very involved in the world of cinema, and inspired by her literary tastes, Isabelle has also helped develop multi-lingual subtitling for cinema, subtitling for the hearing impaired, and audio-description for the visually impaired. For many years, Isabelle Frilley has been a member of the juries of “Ciné en Construction” (for Latin-American cinema, in Toulouse), of “Cinéma en Mouvement” (for Mediterranean cinema, in San Sebastian), and of the Caméra d’Or in Cannes. She is only one of the illustrious jury among whom I was honored to count myself. Others included Julie Bergeron who runs Cannes Marche’s Producer Network among other things, Europa Distribution Eve Gabereau of Soda Pictures, a London-based indie distributor, Ciné Cinéma’s Bruno Deloye, Firefly’s Philippe Reinaudo, Commune Image’s Michael Werner, Eaux Vives Production’s Xénia Maingot, and Matthias Lavaux, the cofounder of touscoprod, the French crowdfunding website dedicated to movies, launched in January 2009.
1982 by Tommy Oliver
USinP’s winner, Tommy Oliver, whose previous film Kinyarwanda was a favorite of mine at Sundance a couple of years ago which Roger Ebert ranked 6 on his top ten films of 2011, is now in post on 1982 and won Us$60,000 worth of post production services.
Tommy’s directorial debut, 1982, starring Hill Harper, Sharon Leal, La La Anthony, Bokeem Woodbine, Wayne Brady and Ruby Dee, tells the story of a black father whose wife succumbs to a crack cocaine addiction and his efforts to shield their 10-year old daughter from the ill effects of having a drug addicted mother while trying to wean her off of her addiction. It's set in 1982 in Philadelphia at the very onset of the crack cocaine epidemic and ultimately, it's a story about a father doing whatever he can to protect his family. It's semi- autobiographical story and inspired by true events.
He also wrote and produced 1982 which also received a prestigious San Francisco Film Society Krf grant .
Tommy himself is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, a Microsoft alum and founder of Seattle-based interactive media firm Viliv Studios as well as La- based production company Confluential Films, which he started with actor/ author/ speaker Hill Harper.
I can confidently predict that this film will be seen on the festival circuit as it brings a humanity to the issue we’ve seen dozens of time – crack in communities – but never like this. We don’t see the ugly community violated by violence. We see a loving family coping with a personal and private disaster. Hill Harper plays a loving, compassionate good man. Comparisons will be made with Fruitvale Station, another African American “issue” film (police brutally killing an innocent family man) which will be released July 12 by The Weinstein Company. We need more such films to create a consistent pipeline for audiences who will pay to see these films. AFor his film 1982, he has devised a super-sophisticated, break-the-record domestic marketing plan. I am eager to watch the trajectory of this one.
The runner-up film, Bfe was supported with great gusto by its director and producer, Shawn Telford and producer, Mark Carr who brought a special energy to the entire event and were full of fun throughout. Shawn charmed his French hosts with his French. Watch for the film and with it, watch for Shawn!
I Believe In Unicorns is the feature debut of director Leah Meyerhoff. It was nominated for a Calvin Klein grant at the 2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards and stars Natalia Dyer, Peter Vack, Toni Meyerhoff, Julia Garner, Joshua Leonard and Amy Seimetz.
As noteworthy as the film is and as talented as Leah is, the producers themselves are also notable and prolific! Allison Anders, Katie Mustard and Heather Rae who also produced the Academy Award nominated film Frozen River, starring Melissa Leo, which won the 2008 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, opened the New York Film Society’s New Directors/New Film series and was acquired by Sony PicturesClassics. She won the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for her production work on Frozen River. Heather also produced Mosquita Y Mari (Sundance 2012), Backroads (Sundance 2000), Trudell (2005 Sundance Film Festival), Ibid (2008 SXSW), The Dry Land (Sundance 2010), Magic Valley (Tribeca 2011), and is currently in post-production on Five Thirteen (with Tom Sizemore), Ass Backwards (with Alicia Silverstone and Vincent D’Onofrio) and Plastic Jesus (with Paul Schneider and Mackenzie Foy). For six years she was a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival and ran the Native Program at the Sundance Institute and recently joined the Sundance Board of Trustees.
Ping Pong Summer
Michael Tully made his directorial debut, Cocaine Angel, world premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Michael Tully (Director) was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. His follow-up, Silver Jew, world premiered at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival. In 2011, he wrote, directed, and acted in Septien, which world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by Sundance Selects. He’s currently in post-production on his newest feature, Ping Pong Summer, which he wrote and directed. Since 2008, he has been the head writer/editor of HammerToNail.com, a website devoted to championing ambitious cinema.
Producers: George Rush, Brooke Bernard, Ryan Zacarias, Michael Gottwald, Billy Peterson, Jeff Allard
Main Cast : Susan Sarandon, John Hannah, Leah Thompson, Judah Friedlander, Amy Sedaris
Children
Director : Jaffe Zinn Producer : Jaffe Zinn and Sterling Hoch
Aside from the jury, the films were seen by members of Europa Distribution:
Alpha Violet - Keiko Funato & Virgine Devesa - France - Sales agent Bac Films - Crasset Véronique - France - Sales agent & Distributor Bankside - Alice Ramsey - UK Sales Agent Chrysalis - Camille Lopato - France – Distributor Content - Toby Melling - UK - Sales Agent Coproduction Office - Marina Perales & Philippe Bober - France - Sales Agent Distrib Films - François Scippa-Kohn - France - Distributor Equation - Didier Costet - France - Distributor Eurozoom - Manon Galibert - France - Distributor Film Republic Rashid Xavier UK sales agent Films Boutique - Jean-Christophe Simon - Germany - Sales Agent Hanway - Fabien Westerhoff - UK - Sales Agent Happiness - Isabelle Dubar - France - Distributor Heliotrope - Laurent Aléonard & Goldfain Philippe - France - Distributor Imagine - Bral Tinne - Benelux - Distributor Jour 2 Fête - Sarah Chazelle - France - Distributor K5 Intl - Oda Schäfer - Germany - Sales Agent Kmbo - Grégoire Marchal - France - Distributor Le Pacte - Nathalie Jeung - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Level K - Freja Johanne - Denmark - Sales agent Locarno Film Festival - Aurélie Godet - France - Festival Memento Film - Tanja Meissner & Ram Murali - France - Sales Agent & Distributor MK2 - Emmanuelle de Couesbouc / Juliette Shramek - France - Sales Agent Premium Films - Karwan Kasia - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Reel Suspects - Frederic Gentet - France - Sales Agent Rezo - Sebastien Chesneau - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Sacrebleu - Louise Bellicaud - France - Producer Soda Pictures - Eve Gabereau - UK - Distributor Sophie Dulac Distribution - Eric Vicente - France - Distributor The Works - Steve Bestwick - UK - Sales Agent Tribeca Film Festival - Frédéric Boyer - USA - Festival Trust Nordisk - Silje Glimsdal - Denmark - Sales Agent Urban - Claire Charles-Gervais - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Versatile - Violaine Pichon & Pape Boye - France - Sales Agent Wide Management - Loïc Magneron - France – Sales Agent Wild Bunch - Emmanuelle Fellous - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Zed - Martine Scoupe - France - Distributor...
The friendly openness of everyone at the festival made the event special. Sophie Dulac, the festival’s founder (and distributor, producer and exhibitor) whom I interviewed last year and again, almost as old friends again this year (see upcoming blog!), the publicist and programmer, Maxine Leonard, the staff, the Us in Progress organizers – Adeline Monzier (now also Us representative for Unifrance), Ula Śniegowska, Artistic Director of Wroclaw, Poland’s American Film Festival and Mobile New Horizons, my fellow jury members for USinP, and of course, the filmmakers themselves created a fun and inspiring event. What a great international film business we are in!
As I write this, the mailman just delivered a book, entitled Titra Film, A Cinematographic and Family Chronicle, sent to me by my fellow jury-member, Isabelle Frilley, who now, along with her children, owns and operates Titra, now called TitraTVS, the sub-titling company founded by her grandparents in 1933 shortly after talkies made subtitling de riguer . Very involved in the world of cinema, and inspired by her literary tastes, Isabelle has also helped develop multi-lingual subtitling for cinema, subtitling for the hearing impaired, and audio-description for the visually impaired. For many years, Isabelle Frilley has been a member of the juries of “Ciné en Construction” (for Latin-American cinema, in Toulouse), of “Cinéma en Mouvement” (for Mediterranean cinema, in San Sebastian), and of the Caméra d’Or in Cannes. She is only one of the illustrious jury among whom I was honored to count myself. Others included Julie Bergeron who runs Cannes Marche’s Producer Network among other things, Europa Distribution Eve Gabereau of Soda Pictures, a London-based indie distributor, Ciné Cinéma’s Bruno Deloye, Firefly’s Philippe Reinaudo, Commune Image’s Michael Werner, Eaux Vives Production’s Xénia Maingot, and Matthias Lavaux, the cofounder of touscoprod, the French crowdfunding website dedicated to movies, launched in January 2009.
1982 by Tommy Oliver
USinP’s winner, Tommy Oliver, whose previous film Kinyarwanda was a favorite of mine at Sundance a couple of years ago which Roger Ebert ranked 6 on his top ten films of 2011, is now in post on 1982 and won Us$60,000 worth of post production services.
Tommy’s directorial debut, 1982, starring Hill Harper, Sharon Leal, La La Anthony, Bokeem Woodbine, Wayne Brady and Ruby Dee, tells the story of a black father whose wife succumbs to a crack cocaine addiction and his efforts to shield their 10-year old daughter from the ill effects of having a drug addicted mother while trying to wean her off of her addiction. It's set in 1982 in Philadelphia at the very onset of the crack cocaine epidemic and ultimately, it's a story about a father doing whatever he can to protect his family. It's semi- autobiographical story and inspired by true events.
He also wrote and produced 1982 which also received a prestigious San Francisco Film Society Krf grant .
Tommy himself is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, a Microsoft alum and founder of Seattle-based interactive media firm Viliv Studios as well as La- based production company Confluential Films, which he started with actor/ author/ speaker Hill Harper.
I can confidently predict that this film will be seen on the festival circuit as it brings a humanity to the issue we’ve seen dozens of time – crack in communities – but never like this. We don’t see the ugly community violated by violence. We see a loving family coping with a personal and private disaster. Hill Harper plays a loving, compassionate good man. Comparisons will be made with Fruitvale Station, another African American “issue” film (police brutally killing an innocent family man) which will be released July 12 by The Weinstein Company. We need more such films to create a consistent pipeline for audiences who will pay to see these films. AFor his film 1982, he has devised a super-sophisticated, break-the-record domestic marketing plan. I am eager to watch the trajectory of this one.
The runner-up film, Bfe was supported with great gusto by its director and producer, Shawn Telford and producer, Mark Carr who brought a special energy to the entire event and were full of fun throughout. Shawn charmed his French hosts with his French. Watch for the film and with it, watch for Shawn!
I Believe In Unicorns is the feature debut of director Leah Meyerhoff. It was nominated for a Calvin Klein grant at the 2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards and stars Natalia Dyer, Peter Vack, Toni Meyerhoff, Julia Garner, Joshua Leonard and Amy Seimetz.
As noteworthy as the film is and as talented as Leah is, the producers themselves are also notable and prolific! Allison Anders, Katie Mustard and Heather Rae who also produced the Academy Award nominated film Frozen River, starring Melissa Leo, which won the 2008 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, opened the New York Film Society’s New Directors/New Film series and was acquired by Sony PicturesClassics. She won the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for her production work on Frozen River. Heather also produced Mosquita Y Mari (Sundance 2012), Backroads (Sundance 2000), Trudell (2005 Sundance Film Festival), Ibid (2008 SXSW), The Dry Land (Sundance 2010), Magic Valley (Tribeca 2011), and is currently in post-production on Five Thirteen (with Tom Sizemore), Ass Backwards (with Alicia Silverstone and Vincent D’Onofrio) and Plastic Jesus (with Paul Schneider and Mackenzie Foy). For six years she was a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival and ran the Native Program at the Sundance Institute and recently joined the Sundance Board of Trustees.
Ping Pong Summer
Michael Tully made his directorial debut, Cocaine Angel, world premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Michael Tully (Director) was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. His follow-up, Silver Jew, world premiered at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival. In 2011, he wrote, directed, and acted in Septien, which world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by Sundance Selects. He’s currently in post-production on his newest feature, Ping Pong Summer, which he wrote and directed. Since 2008, he has been the head writer/editor of HammerToNail.com, a website devoted to championing ambitious cinema.
Producers: George Rush, Brooke Bernard, Ryan Zacarias, Michael Gottwald, Billy Peterson, Jeff Allard
Main Cast : Susan Sarandon, John Hannah, Leah Thompson, Judah Friedlander, Amy Sedaris
Children
Director : Jaffe Zinn Producer : Jaffe Zinn and Sterling Hoch
Aside from the jury, the films were seen by members of Europa Distribution:
Alpha Violet - Keiko Funato & Virgine Devesa - France - Sales agent Bac Films - Crasset Véronique - France - Sales agent & Distributor Bankside - Alice Ramsey - UK Sales Agent Chrysalis - Camille Lopato - France – Distributor Content - Toby Melling - UK - Sales Agent Coproduction Office - Marina Perales & Philippe Bober - France - Sales Agent Distrib Films - François Scippa-Kohn - France - Distributor Equation - Didier Costet - France - Distributor Eurozoom - Manon Galibert - France - Distributor Film Republic Rashid Xavier UK sales agent Films Boutique - Jean-Christophe Simon - Germany - Sales Agent Hanway - Fabien Westerhoff - UK - Sales Agent Happiness - Isabelle Dubar - France - Distributor Heliotrope - Laurent Aléonard & Goldfain Philippe - France - Distributor Imagine - Bral Tinne - Benelux - Distributor Jour 2 Fête - Sarah Chazelle - France - Distributor K5 Intl - Oda Schäfer - Germany - Sales Agent Kmbo - Grégoire Marchal - France - Distributor Le Pacte - Nathalie Jeung - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Level K - Freja Johanne - Denmark - Sales agent Locarno Film Festival - Aurélie Godet - France - Festival Memento Film - Tanja Meissner & Ram Murali - France - Sales Agent & Distributor MK2 - Emmanuelle de Couesbouc / Juliette Shramek - France - Sales Agent Premium Films - Karwan Kasia - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Reel Suspects - Frederic Gentet - France - Sales Agent Rezo - Sebastien Chesneau - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Sacrebleu - Louise Bellicaud - France - Producer Soda Pictures - Eve Gabereau - UK - Distributor Sophie Dulac Distribution - Eric Vicente - France - Distributor The Works - Steve Bestwick - UK - Sales Agent Tribeca Film Festival - Frédéric Boyer - USA - Festival Trust Nordisk - Silje Glimsdal - Denmark - Sales Agent Urban - Claire Charles-Gervais - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Versatile - Violaine Pichon & Pape Boye - France - Sales Agent Wide Management - Loïc Magneron - France – Sales Agent Wild Bunch - Emmanuelle Fellous - France - Sales Agent & Distributor Zed - Martine Scoupe - France - Distributor...
- 7/12/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Event, hosted by Champs-Elysées Film Festival, aims to find European distribution for upcoming Us fare. By Melanie Goodfellow Tommy Oliver’s drama 1982 about a father’s efforts to protect his daughter from the impact of his wife’s crack cocaine addiction has won the top prize at the Us in Progress showcase in Paris. The event, hosted by the Champ-Elysées Film Festival, s Event, hosted by Champs-Elysées Film Festival, aims to find European distribution for upcoming Us fare. By Melanie Goodfellow Tommy Oliver’s drama 1982 about a father’s efforts to protect his daughter from the impact of his wife’s crack cocaine addiction has won the top prize at the Us in Progress showcase in Paris. The event, hosted by the Champ-Elysées Film Festival, showcased five films in post-production by upcoming Us independent filmmakers. Shawn Telford’s Bfe, following the adventures of a terminally ill old man and his grandson as they look for a way to...
- 6/15/2013
- ScreenDaily
Event, hosted by Champs-Elysées Film Festival, aims to find European distribution for upcoming Us fare.
Tommy Oliver’s [pictured] drama 1982, about a father’s efforts to protect his daughter from the impact of his wife’s crack cocaine addiction, has won the top prize at the Us In Progress showcase in Paris.
The event, hosted by the Champ-Elysées Film Festival, showcased five films in post-production by upcoming Us independent filmmakers.
Shawn Telford’s Bfe, following the adventures of a terminally ill old man and his grandson as they look for a way to end the former’s life, was given a special mention.
It is the second time the Champs-Elysées Film Festival has hosted the progress event.
Last year’s winner A Teacher by Hannah Fidell went on to premiere at Sundance and was subsequently picked up by Oscilloscope Laboratories for the Us. It will be released in the Us in September.
The Us in Progress...
Tommy Oliver’s [pictured] drama 1982, about a father’s efforts to protect his daughter from the impact of his wife’s crack cocaine addiction, has won the top prize at the Us In Progress showcase in Paris.
The event, hosted by the Champ-Elysées Film Festival, showcased five films in post-production by upcoming Us independent filmmakers.
Shawn Telford’s Bfe, following the adventures of a terminally ill old man and his grandson as they look for a way to end the former’s life, was given a special mention.
It is the second time the Champs-Elysées Film Festival has hosted the progress event.
Last year’s winner A Teacher by Hannah Fidell went on to premiere at Sundance and was subsequently picked up by Oscilloscope Laboratories for the Us. It will be released in the Us in September.
The Us in Progress...
- 6/14/2013
- ScreenDaily
Us in Progress initiative to showcase five features by independent Us filmmakers.
Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Michael Tully’s [pictured] coming-of-age-vacation comedy Ping Pong Summer kicks off the latest edition of Us in Progress on Thursday.
The Us in Progress initiative, hosted by the Champs Elysées Film Festival, will showcase five features by independent Us filmmakers over the coming two days to some 30 European buyers.
Set against the Maryland beach resort of Ocean City, Ping Pong Summer combines a cast of unknown adolescent actors with established big screen stars Susan Sarandon and John Hannah.
The picture was among six recipients last year of a $300,000 grant from the San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Other projects in that selection included Fruitvale and Short Term 12.
Tully’s previous films include Cocaine Angel, Silver Jew and Septien.
Also screening on Thursday is New York director Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns about a teenager who runs...
Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Michael Tully’s [pictured] coming-of-age-vacation comedy Ping Pong Summer kicks off the latest edition of Us in Progress on Thursday.
The Us in Progress initiative, hosted by the Champs Elysées Film Festival, will showcase five features by independent Us filmmakers over the coming two days to some 30 European buyers.
Set against the Maryland beach resort of Ocean City, Ping Pong Summer combines a cast of unknown adolescent actors with established big screen stars Susan Sarandon and John Hannah.
The picture was among six recipients last year of a $300,000 grant from the San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Other projects in that selection included Fruitvale and Short Term 12.
Tully’s previous films include Cocaine Angel, Silver Jew and Septien.
Also screening on Thursday is New York director Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns about a teenager who runs...
- 6/13/2013
- ScreenDaily
Us in Progress is a joint initiative between the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris and Black Rabbit Film. It is the first and only professional event dedicated to the independent American cinema which happens twice a year – during each festival. Movies that were featured at recent Us in Progress events have gone on to be selected for festivals such as Sundance 2013, the Berlinale 2013, SXSW 2013 and Tribeca 2013.
The point of Us in Progress is to present American independent films in their post-production phase to potential European buyers in order to encourage their distribution and broadcast across Europe.
Why create an event in favor of the American cinema in European?
There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that today the European market is dominated by American films. But by American films we generally mean big budget films produced by big studios. These films are no doubt entertaining, but they reflect only a portion of what the Us is all about. Outside of the big studios, there is a dynamic and interesting group of people making independent films. However, this other, independent, world lacks an efficient international strategy and European buyers are often unaware of the films being produced.
Thus, Us in Progress aims at building new bridges between today’s up-and-coming generation of talented American filmmakers and European buyers. In a word, they want to present the new faces of the Us cinema to the European market.
Us in Progress Paris will take place during the second edition of the Champs Elysées Film Festival in Paris, on June 13-16 2013. The programme will present 4-6 Us indie films in post-production to European buyers in order to achieve completion and to foster the circulation and distribution of American indie films in Europe. The event will take form of two days of intense exclusive screenings (behind closed doors, for registered guests only) and one-to-one meetings.
Us In Progress Offers :
- Travel and accommodation: flight from the Us for the producer or director of the selected films as well as 3 nights in Paris for both the producer and the director.
- Networking: a chance to present your project in person at exclusive screening (behind closed doors, for registered industry guests only) to ca. 40 key European buyers
- Direct business opportunities: one-to-one meetings to discuss your needs and strike post-production and distribution deals
- Awards: free services from our sponsors : digital postproduction package by Commune Image & Eaux Vives, subtitling and Dcp by Titra Film, Acquisition by the TV Channel Cine+, promotion via Europa Distribution and Touscoprod, Producers Network 2013 invitation…
- Plus pleasures: parties and screenings and further networking at the Champs-Elysées Film Festival
For its second edition within the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris, Us in Progress will present four to six selected feature films to about forty potential buyers, distributors, festivals and European producers. It will be the first time any of the selected films are presented to the European market.
Selected Films
- Beneath the Harvest Sky by Gita Pullapilly
- B.F.E. by Shawn Telford
- Children by Jaffe Zinn
- Ping Pong Summer by Michael Tully
- I Believe in Unicorns by Leah Meyerhoff
- 1982 by Tommy Olivier
Endowments
All of the partners of Us in Progress are proud to offer a series of benefits to the winning film:
- Digital postproduction work (2k or 4k) or a cutting room lent by our partner company Commune Image
- The colorimetric software suite Firefly will be at the filmmakers’ disposal and Eaux Vives will coordinate post-production work
- Titratvs will edit the subtitles and make a Dcp in original language with subtitles
- Ciné+ will buy the film and broadcast it on the Ciné+ Club channel
- The movie will be promoted by a network of thirty-five European distributors and the one hundred and ten members of Europa Distribution
- The producer’s name will be added to the Producers Network list (Cannes).
- The film will also be promoted and supported by TousCoprod (the French Kickstarter) and its partners.
The point of Us in Progress is to present American independent films in their post-production phase to potential European buyers in order to encourage their distribution and broadcast across Europe.
Why create an event in favor of the American cinema in European?
There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that today the European market is dominated by American films. But by American films we generally mean big budget films produced by big studios. These films are no doubt entertaining, but they reflect only a portion of what the Us is all about. Outside of the big studios, there is a dynamic and interesting group of people making independent films. However, this other, independent, world lacks an efficient international strategy and European buyers are often unaware of the films being produced.
Thus, Us in Progress aims at building new bridges between today’s up-and-coming generation of talented American filmmakers and European buyers. In a word, they want to present the new faces of the Us cinema to the European market.
Us in Progress Paris will take place during the second edition of the Champs Elysées Film Festival in Paris, on June 13-16 2013. The programme will present 4-6 Us indie films in post-production to European buyers in order to achieve completion and to foster the circulation and distribution of American indie films in Europe. The event will take form of two days of intense exclusive screenings (behind closed doors, for registered guests only) and one-to-one meetings.
Us In Progress Offers :
- Travel and accommodation: flight from the Us for the producer or director of the selected films as well as 3 nights in Paris for both the producer and the director.
- Networking: a chance to present your project in person at exclusive screening (behind closed doors, for registered industry guests only) to ca. 40 key European buyers
- Direct business opportunities: one-to-one meetings to discuss your needs and strike post-production and distribution deals
- Awards: free services from our sponsors : digital postproduction package by Commune Image & Eaux Vives, subtitling and Dcp by Titra Film, Acquisition by the TV Channel Cine+, promotion via Europa Distribution and Touscoprod, Producers Network 2013 invitation…
- Plus pleasures: parties and screenings and further networking at the Champs-Elysées Film Festival
For its second edition within the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris, Us in Progress will present four to six selected feature films to about forty potential buyers, distributors, festivals and European producers. It will be the first time any of the selected films are presented to the European market.
Selected Films
- Beneath the Harvest Sky by Gita Pullapilly
- B.F.E. by Shawn Telford
- Children by Jaffe Zinn
- Ping Pong Summer by Michael Tully
- I Believe in Unicorns by Leah Meyerhoff
- 1982 by Tommy Olivier
Endowments
All of the partners of Us in Progress are proud to offer a series of benefits to the winning film:
- Digital postproduction work (2k or 4k) or a cutting room lent by our partner company Commune Image
- The colorimetric software suite Firefly will be at the filmmakers’ disposal and Eaux Vives will coordinate post-production work
- Titratvs will edit the subtitles and make a Dcp in original language with subtitles
- Ciné+ will buy the film and broadcast it on the Ciné+ Club channel
- The movie will be promoted by a network of thirty-five European distributors and the one hundred and ten members of Europa Distribution
- The producer’s name will be added to the Producers Network list (Cannes).
- The film will also be promoted and supported by TousCoprod (the French Kickstarter) and its partners.
- 6/7/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Us in Progress Paris which promotes about a half dozen American independent film currently in post-production to European buyers in the context of the Champs Elysées Film Festival in Paris (this June) have selected film items from the likes of Michael Tully, Leah Meyerhoff and Jaffe Zinn — projects we are more than likely going to see as early as the fall, Sundance 2014 and beyond. The 2nd edition of the Us in Progress Paris morphed from the already popular American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland will invite the following:
Blue Potato
Directed by Gita Pullapilly who first blasted on the scene with the docu The Way We Get By (winner of the Special Jury Award – 09′ SXSW) this Northeastern tale (see pic above) set in Van Buren, telling “the story of 17-year-old Dominic Roy, a headstrong teen working his final potato harvest to earn enough money to escape the pitfalls and...
Blue Potato
Directed by Gita Pullapilly who first blasted on the scene with the docu The Way We Get By (winner of the Special Jury Award – 09′ SXSW) this Northeastern tale (see pic above) set in Van Buren, telling “the story of 17-year-old Dominic Roy, a headstrong teen working his final potato harvest to earn enough money to escape the pitfalls and...
- 4/16/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo's brand of man-in-black country is both straight faced and as you'll notice, equal parts lewd and hilarious. They're as likely to remind you of Devo as they are Johnny Cash.
Seattle director Shawn Telford lets loose John Waters meets David Lynch style and everyone gets their freak on in this video for "Man In Charge." Just when you think you have the song figured out, and possibly even the sexed-up Elvis under control, in comes Seattle rapper Tilson (The Saturday Knights). Crazy train honky-tonk, all aboard!
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo's album "Please Stand By," is out on Spark & Shine Records. The band will be playing several shows at SXSW, dates below!
Download: "Man in Charge"
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo SXSW dates:
Mar 16 - Velveeta Room SXSW Showcase, Austin, TX
Mar 17 - Trophy's, Austin, TX
Mar 18 - Threadgills, Austin, TX
Mar 19 - Kaos radio!
Seattle director Shawn Telford lets loose John Waters meets David Lynch style and everyone gets their freak on in this video for "Man In Charge." Just when you think you have the song figured out, and possibly even the sexed-up Elvis under control, in comes Seattle rapper Tilson (The Saturday Knights). Crazy train honky-tonk, all aboard!
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo's album "Please Stand By," is out on Spark & Shine Records. The band will be playing several shows at SXSW, dates below!
Download: "Man in Charge"
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo SXSW dates:
Mar 16 - Velveeta Room SXSW Showcase, Austin, TX
Mar 17 - Trophy's, Austin, TX
Mar 18 - Threadgills, Austin, TX
Mar 19 - Kaos radio!
- 3/8/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Hosted by The Central Heating Lab at Act, the Rawstock Summer Film Festival includes an all-star lineup of independent Seattle filmmaker premieres. David Lowery's evocative and sublime feature film, St.Nick, is a 70-minute tone poem that evokes Malick in its bittersweet chronicle of a runaway brother and sister and their symbiotic relationship. This feature length Seattle premiere is preceded by a program of all new shorts from cutting-edge local filmmakers, including Shawn Telford and Jason Reid. Directors David Lowery, Shawn Telford, and Calvin Reeder will be in attendance for a pre-screening Q&A.
- 6/24/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Central Heating Lab at Act celebrates Rawstock's Fifth Anniversary Screening, Friday March 6. Rawstock V features cinematic highlights such as Spencer Susser's brilliant zombie love story Sara Jane, Megan Griffith's drama Moving (featuring Humpday director Lynne Shelton), Tor Fruegaard's ultraviolent puppet epic It Came From The West, Darrius Scheider's Fluffer (his follow up to I Married A Towel) and Lick A Ninja, Shawn Telford's beserk foray into corporate sponsorship. The evening is bookended by two decadent parties sponsored by Bulliet Bourbon and features live music from The Fred Roth Revue. Yet any description of the night falls short of capturing the energy and essence of this event. As local filmmaker Darrius Scheider recently opined, "The only way to describe Rawstock is to experience Rawstock."...
- 2/9/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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