Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American distribution rights to At the Ready, the documentary from Maisie Crow that follows three El Paso teenagers who embark on careers in law enforcement as the debates surrounding immigration and police reform in America reach fever pitches. The doc will be released in theaters and on digital platforms October 22.
Crow’s film focuses on students at El Paso’s Horizon High School, 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, who are part of a criminal justice club, which includes mock-ups of drug raids and active-shooter takedowns as they eye careers with the Border Patrol and in policing and customs enforcement. They soon discover their choices may clash with the values and people they hold most dear.
Crow, Hillary Pierce and Abbie Perrault are producing. Gravitas previously released Pierce’s immigration doc The River and the Wall.
Gravitas’ Huggins and Tony Piantedosi negotiated the deal...
Crow’s film focuses on students at El Paso’s Horizon High School, 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, who are part of a criminal justice club, which includes mock-ups of drug raids and active-shooter takedowns as they eye careers with the Border Patrol and in policing and customs enforcement. They soon discover their choices may clash with the values and people they hold most dear.
Crow, Hillary Pierce and Abbie Perrault are producing. Gravitas previously released Pierce’s immigration doc The River and the Wall.
Gravitas’ Huggins and Tony Piantedosi negotiated the deal...
- 8/21/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
An effective horror keeps you unaware of the danger lurking in the shadows. The less you know about what’s coming the better because you don’t want to end up spending your time guessing how the problem will be solved when you should be experiencing its escalating terror. This means filmmakers won’t be able to rely on jump scares to wake audience members up, a staple in mainstream Hollywood genre fare wanting everything spelled out in lieu of atmospheric tension that builds its mythos as it progresses. The task then falls to indie artists with the creative freedom to place their vision onscreen regardless of bottom-line concessions. They can afford to scare with what’s not made visible as opposed to that which is manipulated to shock with brute force.
Gary King’s latest Among Us (formerly Unnerved) is one such example of how creative license almost always...
Gary King’s latest Among Us (formerly Unnerved) is one such example of how creative license almost always...
- 8/7/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"It's pushing through." "What is?" "Something big." A full-length trailer has debuted for a new indie horror film called Unnerved, written and directed by Gary King, an up-and-coming filmmaker who is a friend of this site. The film is about a couple whose child is killed but they still feel his presence. They flee to a remote lake house to escape the unrelenting haunting following them, but (of course) learn that it's still very much with them. Starring Katie Morrison, Mark Diconzo, Elena Sanz and Marty Lang. This looks like it's having fun with the typical horror tropes rather than repeating them, but it's hard to tell where it's all going. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Gary King's Unnerved, direct from YouTube: Whatever killed their son continues to haunt Mallory and Frank no matter which place they go. While hiding out at a remote lake house, Mallory struggles...
- 9/6/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Rising Star is an independent film that recently won two Awards at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival, including Best Premiere for drawing the biggest audience and Best On-Screen Romance. I had the joy of seeing and reviewing it earlier this year, and found myself enjoying the charming and light-hearted romantic comedy a lot. So it was with pleasure that I spoke with the film's director - Professor Marty Lang. Marty, congratulations on the success of your new film Rising Star at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival where it had its World Premiere. What gave you the inspiration to make this film in the first place?Thanks for the congratulations! The inspiration for Rising Star came from a few places. The first was my own work...
- 7/9/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Rising Star is a romantic comedy that is written, directed and produced by Marty Lang, an independent filmmaker who is interestingly also a university professor of Film. One of the appeals of this film, at least for me, is therefore to see how Lang puts theories into practice. Pleasingly, Rising Star does not disappoint. It is light-hearted and unpretentious, unlike many of the romantic comedies coming out of Hollywood these days. Most of the film takes place on one Saturday. When the two lead characters, Chris (Gary Ploski) and Alyza (Emily Morse) travel from place to place after meeting each other and starting to fall in love, audiences get treated to a mini-tour around Connecticut, which includes both the attractions such as the famous Mark Twain...
- 5/13/2012
- Screen Anarchy
While on the plane to Salt Lake City, it occurred to me that it might be fun to do Park City coverage as a live blog from the perspective of someone who’s never been there before. I have a press pass for Slamdance, so I’m mostly covering that.
22 January; 2:18am
When I arrived in Park City, all anyone was talking about was how there was a complete lack of snow. Well, today the snow arrived. Man, did it arrive. It snowed pretty much all day. By the time I left to meet Marty Lang for dinner around 5pm, it was getting difficult to walk the sidewalks without getting wet. By later in the evening, people were having trouble commuting to Salt Lake City.
The snow is going pretty much sideways, so you spend a lot of your time with your head down, which is great until someone...
22 January; 2:18am
When I arrived in Park City, all anyone was talking about was how there was a complete lack of snow. Well, today the snow arrived. Man, did it arrive. It snowed pretty much all day. By the time I left to meet Marty Lang for dinner around 5pm, it was getting difficult to walk the sidewalks without getting wet. By later in the evening, people were having trouble commuting to Salt Lake City.
The snow is going pretty much sideways, so you spend a lot of your time with your head down, which is great until someone...
- 1/23/2012
- by Lucas McNelly
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
If you visit this site regularly, then you’ll know about “A Year Without Rent,” filmmaker Lucas McNelly’s Kickstarter-funded twelve-month experiment in community-minded film production and online journalism. At the beginning of this year McNelly staged a dramatic Kickstarter campaign for what seemed like a crazy goal: he’d spend twelve months crisscrossing the U.S., working for free on independent films. Then, he’d document them on his site and at places like Filmmaker, Film Courage, Film Threat and Mubi. The Kickstarter raise was successful, and McNelly has been hard at work since then — rigging lights, manning craft service, holding a boom, and honing an increasingly compelling form of personal reportage.
Now, with four months left to go, McNelly is running out of money. He’s worked on 32 films and clocked more miles on the road than he originally planned. So, some of the filmmakers he’s crewed for,...
Now, with four months left to go, McNelly is running out of money. He’s worked on 32 films and clocked more miles on the road than he originally planned. So, some of the filmmakers he’s crewed for,...
- 11/2/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
News of one other film debuting online this Halloween landed in our inbox so of course we have to share, especially since Fog Warning promises a new twist on vampire movies, and lord knows we can certainly use another one of those! iTunes is the place to find this indie flick by director Christopher Ward labeled as a horror/action/thriller.
Synopsis:
A small New England town is rocked by a vampire scare. Many people have been murdered, and their blood has been sucked. Ronny, manager of a local comic book store, who is house-sitting at a future historical site, decides to kidnap a woman whom he believes is with Satan. He locks her up in the attic of the historical home. He's joined by two thugs, Karl and Eddie, who enjoy tormenting the woman. All they need is her confession, which Ronny can record with his digital camcorder. However,...
Synopsis:
A small New England town is rocked by a vampire scare. Many people have been murdered, and their blood has been sucked. Ronny, manager of a local comic book store, who is house-sitting at a future historical site, decides to kidnap a woman whom he believes is with Satan. He locks her up in the attic of the historical home. He's joined by two thugs, Karl and Eddie, who enjoy tormenting the woman. All they need is her confession, which Ronny can record with his digital camcorder. However,...
- 10/29/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Thanks to your votes, insurance adjuster romcom "Rising Star" won this weekend's Project of the Week contest for this week! Congratulations to "Rising Star" director Marty Lang. The filmmaker will receive a digital distribution consultation from SnagFilms and is now officially a candidate for Project of the Month. That winner will be awarded with a consultation from the Sundance Institute. Go here to vote for Project of the Week for ...
- 9/26/2011
- Indiewire
In keeping with a bit of our theme from last week we tackle the subject of using our films to make a larger audience aware of a subject or group, and in turn gain a network of people we would have never come in contact with. If crowdsourcing is a way to gain a new following and engage an audience in the filmmaking process, then social change can do the same thing, but also give back to a community or group in more ways than just one narrative film can. It can also serve to engage a larger network in a very specific community need or cause. This was the very idea that had Marty Lang so excited, and me so intrigued. I was curious how micro-budget films could spark such awareness. I now realize not only is it possible, but almost necessary if we are to grow as a...
- 7/7/2011
- by John Yost
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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