In 2021, Miami-based filmmaker Edson Jean arrives with his SXSW preemed feature debut in Ludi, the story about a Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood based nurse who might be at wits end. Pulling from a personal space once again, Jean’s Know Me takes an in-depth dive into media (mostly sensationalist) headlines painting a more complete picture of a man who went off the deep end. This sophomore feature appears to be a sobering mental health themed film that humanizes and contextualizes the horrific events of 2012. I had the chance to speak to Edson Jean in Wroclaw.
While the eco-system remains inherently delicate, the American micro indie film scene thrives, and Ioncinema.com…...
While the eco-system remains inherently delicate, the American micro indie film scene thrives, and Ioncinema.com…...
- 12/7/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Not long ago, an award-winning Polish composer who’d scored dozens of films approached Ula Śniegowska about U.S. in Progress, an industry event conceived as a bridge between the Polish and American markets that runs parallel to the American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.
“He approached me saying, ‘I’ve done enough in the Polish market. I need an introduction to the international market. Can you, as U.S. in Progress, help me?’” Śniegowska recalls. “It seems we are a perfect matchmaker for those types of companies to have their work exposed in the U.S.”
Celebrating its 13th edition, U.S. in Progress was launched as a showcase for emerging independent American filmmakers. Each year, the event presents a curated selection of American indie titles in the final stages of production to European sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. This year’s edition takes place Nov. 8 – 10.
Since its inception,...
“He approached me saying, ‘I’ve done enough in the Polish market. I need an introduction to the international market. Can you, as U.S. in Progress, help me?’” Śniegowska recalls. “It seems we are a perfect matchmaker for those types of companies to have their work exposed in the U.S.”
Celebrating its 13th edition, U.S. in Progress was launched as a showcase for emerging independent American filmmakers. Each year, the event presents a curated selection of American indie titles in the final stages of production to European sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. This year’s edition takes place Nov. 8 – 10.
Since its inception,...
- 10/24/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
A low-key, poetic exploration of life’s ironies, Monica Sorelle’s feature debut Mountains frames the disappearance of Miami’s Little Haiti with a warm, compassionate gaze recalling the masters of social realism––akin to Roberto Rossellini with the touch of Ousmane Sembène’s lighter films. With a title drawn from a Haitian proverb “behind mountains there are mountains,” the film retains a light touch, somewhat more sad than mad as Little Haiti disappears in the city’s building boom. A modest dream home is unobtainable once the real estate vultures circle the neighborhood and Xavier Sr. (Atibon Nazaire), a demolition worker, plays a role in changing his neighborhood permanently, making way for young Whole Foods-shopping professionals to displace families and small businesses.
Xavier Sr. lives in a small bungalow with crossing guard / homemaker wife Esperance (Sheila Anoizer) and their floundering 20-something son Junior (Chris Renois), an aspiring stand-up comedian.
Xavier Sr. lives in a small bungalow with crossing guard / homemaker wife Esperance (Sheila Anoizer) and their floundering 20-something son Junior (Chris Renois), an aspiring stand-up comedian.
- 6/12/2023
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Dear Producer has set Liz Cardenas (7 Days), Megan Gilbride (Tower), Sabrina Schmidt Gordon (To the End) and Avril Z. Speaks (Jinn) as the recipients of its inaugural Dear Producer Award, recognizing excellence in independent producing.
The prize sponsored by Maida Lynn’s Genuine Article Pictures was established to help lift the financial burdens on indie film producers and to help build the independent film community through leadership and mentoring. It’s different from other filmmaking grants in that it supports the producer and is not based on a project or specific work. Each of this year’s recipients will receive an unrestricted grant of 50,000, attend a retreat focused on rest and community building, and commit to mentoring an emerging producer for one year.
Dear Producer is a digital platform founded by producer Rebecca Green, which was established to amplify the voices of independent producers and help make the industry more sustainable.
The prize sponsored by Maida Lynn’s Genuine Article Pictures was established to help lift the financial burdens on indie film producers and to help build the independent film community through leadership and mentoring. It’s different from other filmmaking grants in that it supports the producer and is not based on a project or specific work. Each of this year’s recipients will receive an unrestricted grant of 50,000, attend a retreat focused on rest and community building, and commit to mentoring an emerging producer for one year.
Dear Producer is a digital platform founded by producer Rebecca Green, which was established to amplify the voices of independent producers and help make the industry more sustainable.
- 6/10/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro and Shein Mompremier (Black Lightning) have joined the cast of Sony Pictures and Affirm Films’ untitled biopic of legendary two-time world heavyweight champion George Foreman, from director George Tillman Jr..
They will star alongside previously announced cast members including Khris Davis, Sullivan Jones, and Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker.
The film will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman, from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship at age 45, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
Tillman Jr. and Frank Baldwin penned the screenplay,...
They will star alongside previously announced cast members including Khris Davis, Sullivan Jones, and Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker.
The film will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman, from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship at age 45, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
Tillman Jr. and Frank Baldwin penned the screenplay,...
- 2/24/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
by Cláudio Alves
The necessity of money rules our lives. Only the chronically wealthy, blinded by the shining gold of privilege, can wave their hands in denial and say it's not important. Need delineates our lives, and hard work is often the consequence of it, obsessively so.
For Ludi, the protagonist of Edson Jean's feature directorial debut, work is everything. How could it be any other way when there's a family, back in Haiti, to help? She's bough into the American dream, the song of hard work and just rewards. However, Ludi has failed to realize she's playing the part of Sisyphus in the story of her life…...
The necessity of money rules our lives. Only the chronically wealthy, blinded by the shining gold of privilege, can wave their hands in denial and say it's not important. Need delineates our lives, and hard work is often the consequence of it, obsessively so.
For Ludi, the protagonist of Edson Jean's feature directorial debut, work is everything. How could it be any other way when there's a family, back in Haiti, to help? She's bough into the American dream, the song of hard work and just rewards. However, Ludi has failed to realize she's playing the part of Sisyphus in the story of her life…...
- 3/19/2021
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
For the Haitian-American, West Palm Beach native, Edson Jean, “Ludi” is a personal story. Set in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, the compact drama concerns a Haitian immigrant nurse, Ludi (Shein Mompremier), tirelessly working to supply her niece’s American dream. A low-stakes slice of life drama, with a high emotional toll, Jean and co-writer Joshua Jean-Baptiste’s script follows the health care worker for a night as she tries to earn extra money for her family back home.
Continue reading ‘Ludi’: A Modest, But Powerful Critique Of The American Dream [SXSW Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Ludi’: A Modest, But Powerful Critique Of The American Dream [SXSW Review] at The Playlist.
- 3/17/2021
- by Robert Daniels
- The Playlist
Arriving on the festival circuit just as a group of Ivy League-educated millionaires in Congress punted on raising the minimum wage, Edson Jean’s Ludi is an often riveting work of social realism following its title character, a health care aide played by Shein Mompremier as the chases her American Dream. A Haitian immigrant living in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, she engages in spirited debates throughout her daily life, asking her bus driver why he left a dictator in Haiti while embracing Trump’s Maga politics. For Ludi, anything is possible in the US even if she often feels as if she’s working to survive. In one passage we learn her job at a nursing home has taken away her vacation days because she didn’t use them.
Always seeking out overtime and extra shifts, Ludi reluctantly takes her roommate Blanca (Madelin Marchant) up on the offer of a home aide visit,...
Always seeking out overtime and extra shifts, Ludi reluctantly takes her roommate Blanca (Madelin Marchant) up on the offer of a home aide visit,...
- 3/16/2021
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Festival helped attract audiences back to cinemas for first time.
Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? picked up the top international prize at a Facebook Live virtual ceremony on Sunday evening (March 14) as this year’s Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival drew to a close.
Žbanić’s film walked away with the $25,000 Knight Marimbas Award, supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the event’s international competition strand for new narrative feature films that best exemplify richness and resonance for cinema’s future.
Marking its North American debut, Žbanić’s multi Bafta-nominated and Oscar long-listed...
Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? picked up the top international prize at a Facebook Live virtual ceremony on Sunday evening (March 14) as this year’s Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival drew to a close.
Žbanić’s film walked away with the $25,000 Knight Marimbas Award, supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the event’s international competition strand for new narrative feature films that best exemplify richness and resonance for cinema’s future.
Marking its North American debut, Žbanić’s multi Bafta-nominated and Oscar long-listed...
- 3/14/2021
- by Stuart Kemp
- ScreenDaily
Jasmila Žbanić’s film based on the true events of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” took home the top prize at the Miami Film Festival.
The Balkan war drama earned the $25,000 Knight Marimbas Award for its richness and resonance for cinema’s future, in addition to the Rene Rodriguez Critics Award. Representing Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is also shortlisted for the Oscars and is nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards and British Academy Film Awards.
The 38th year of the Miami Dade College festival ran March 5-14 both virtually and in-theater. Making its North American premiere, Roberto Salinas’ documentary “Cuban Dancer” won the Knight Made in Mia Feature Film Award. The film earned the $45,000 prize for its use of setting in its story about a Cuban ballet dancer’s culture shock upon relocating to Florida. The jury singled out Edson Jean’s “Ludi” for a special mention...
The Balkan war drama earned the $25,000 Knight Marimbas Award for its richness and resonance for cinema’s future, in addition to the Rene Rodriguez Critics Award. Representing Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is also shortlisted for the Oscars and is nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards and British Academy Film Awards.
The 38th year of the Miami Dade College festival ran March 5-14 both virtually and in-theater. Making its North American premiere, Roberto Salinas’ documentary “Cuban Dancer” won the Knight Made in Mia Feature Film Award. The film earned the $45,000 prize for its use of setting in its story about a Cuban ballet dancer’s culture shock upon relocating to Florida. The jury singled out Edson Jean’s “Ludi” for a special mention...
- 3/14/2021
- by Haley Bosselman
- Variety Film + TV
“Glocal” is the key word for the Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival as the annual event provides a platform for both local and global projects. Of the 93 international submissions to the Oscars, the Florida fest has picked seven films “that moved us and that would speak powerfully to our Miami audience,” says festival executive director Jaie Laplante, who leads a selection committee alongside programming co-director, Lauren Cohen.
“We’ve always thought it important to look out for films by female directors but it wasn’t at all difficult this year,” says Cohen about the festival’s lineup, which includes nearly 100 shorts and features from some 40 countries.
This year’s 38th edition, which takes place March 5-14, and for the first time in its history, runs before the Oscars, includes international film shortlisted contenders “La Llorona,” “Sun Children,” “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” “Charlatan,” “The Mole Agent” and “Night of the Kings.
“We’ve always thought it important to look out for films by female directors but it wasn’t at all difficult this year,” says Cohen about the festival’s lineup, which includes nearly 100 shorts and features from some 40 countries.
This year’s 38th edition, which takes place March 5-14, and for the first time in its history, runs before the Oscars, includes international film shortlisted contenders “La Llorona,” “Sun Children,” “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” “Charlatan,” “The Mole Agent” and “Night of the Kings.
- 3/5/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Likely no one believes more in the mythologized dream of better living in certain western country than immigrants. Whether those dreams be based on the truth or not. And in these pademic times, our thoughts have turned often to front-line workers, who care for the elderly and infirm, who sells us our foods and other essential goods, who are keeping us going, and again, are often immigrants and from marginalized groups. What makes them take these jobs? Is it solely necessity? What are their lives and their contribution? What are their connections to their homeland, their new land, and the space between in which they exist? Actor and filmmaker Edson Jean's feature film debut Ludi looks at a day in the life of Ludi, a...
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- 3/5/2021
- Screen Anarchy
The last film festival I attended in person was Miami, 11 months ago; the day after I left, the festival was forced to shut down in the first wave of pandemic lockdown. And while I might not be able to be there in person this year, like many fests have been doing since last year, Miami Film Festival is soldiering on, offering a hybrid event of both in-theatre and virtual presentations. The festival will open with the feature directorial debut of actor and Floria native Edson Jean. Ludi follows the story of the titual character, a nurse trying to make her way in the Little Haiti neighbourhood of Miami, against numerous antagonistic forces. That same opening night will see the presentation (virtually) of the Precious...
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- 2/4/2021
- Screen Anarchy
The Miami Film Festival is set to go ahead with a hybrid 2021 edition in March with physical theater and online screenings amid the pandemic.
The Festival’s March 5-14 run this year will open with an in-theater world premiere of Edson Jean’s Ludi — about a hardworking and exhausted nurse chasing the American Dream in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood — and close with the debut of Jayme Gershen’s Birthright.
In March 2020, the Miami Film Festival shut down screenings in physical theaters mid-run as the pandemic swept across the U.S.
“In this year like no other, we all long ...
The Festival’s March 5-14 run this year will open with an in-theater world premiere of Edson Jean’s Ludi — about a hardworking and exhausted nurse chasing the American Dream in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood — and close with the debut of Jayme Gershen’s Birthright.
In March 2020, the Miami Film Festival shut down screenings in physical theaters mid-run as the pandemic swept across the U.S.
“In this year like no other, we all long ...
The Miami Film Festival is set to go ahead with a hybrid 2021 edition in March with physical theater and online screenings amid the pandemic.
The Festival’s March 5-14 run this year will open with an in-theater world premiere of Edson Jean’s Ludi — about a hardworking and exhausted nurse chasing the American Dream in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood — and close with the debut of Jayme Gershen’s Birthright.
In March 2020, the Miami Film Festival shut down screenings in physical theaters mid-run as the pandemic swept across the U.S.
“In this year like no other, we all long ...
The Festival’s March 5-14 run this year will open with an in-theater world premiere of Edson Jean’s Ludi — about a hardworking and exhausted nurse chasing the American Dream in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood — and close with the debut of Jayme Gershen’s Birthright.
In March 2020, the Miami Film Festival shut down screenings in physical theaters mid-run as the pandemic swept across the U.S.
“In this year like no other, we all long ...
The 10th edition of U.S. In Progress Wroclaw, the industry wing of the American Film Festival in Poland which was held online this year, wrapped over the weekend and presented a variety of awards to the participating American film projects.
The awards range from post-production services to travel bursaries and cash. A $10,000 cash prize to be put towards post-production in Poland was awarded to the film To The Moon from director Scott Friend and producers Cate Smierciak, Everett Hendler, Stephanie Randall, and Gabe Wilson. The full list of awards is below.
In addition to the U.S. projects, a group of U.S. experts including Sony Pictures Classics’ Dylan Leiner and CAA execs Maren Olson and Kat Moncrief took part in pitching and one-on-one sessions with Polish projects seeking U.S. partners. The non-competitive event is designed to foster potential co-productions and was hosted by Deadline.
In the wider festival,...
The awards range from post-production services to travel bursaries and cash. A $10,000 cash prize to be put towards post-production in Poland was awarded to the film To The Moon from director Scott Friend and producers Cate Smierciak, Everett Hendler, Stephanie Randall, and Gabe Wilson. The full list of awards is below.
In addition to the U.S. projects, a group of U.S. experts including Sony Pictures Classics’ Dylan Leiner and CAA execs Maren Olson and Kat Moncrief took part in pitching and one-on-one sessions with Polish projects seeking U.S. partners. The non-competitive event is designed to foster potential co-productions and was hosted by Deadline.
In the wider festival,...
- 11/16/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Complex Networks has picked up its first scripted series. The media company has inked a deal with Adaptive Studios to distribute Grown, which won Adaptive and Project Greenlight Digital Studios' Get The Greenlight contest two years ago.
Grown, which comes from Haitian-American filmmakers Joshua Jean-Baptiste and Edson Jean, will tell the story of two cousins looking to make the most of their lives in Miami. When Jean-Baptiste and Jean were announced as the Get The Greenlight winners back in January 2016, their project was known as #Josh. Now, two years later, it has a new name and a new distributor.
“Through our projects, we work to enhance Miami’s cultural relevance and seek to color the multi-media canvas with the rich, yet complex, characteristics of the Haitian American culture,” Jean-Baptiste and Jean said in a press release.
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Grown, which comes from Haitian-American filmmakers Joshua Jean-Baptiste and Edson Jean, will tell the story of two cousins looking to make the most of their lives in Miami. When Jean-Baptiste and Jean were announced as the Get The Greenlight winners back in January 2016, their project was known as #Josh. Now, two years later, it has a new name and a new distributor.
“Through our projects, we work to enhance Miami’s cultural relevance and seek to color the multi-media canvas with the rich, yet complex, characteristics of the Haitian American culture,” Jean-Baptiste and Jean said in a press release.
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- 4/11/2018
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
In a matter of seconds, “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins’ friends, collaborators, former teachers, and students experienced disappointment, confusion, and total jubilation Sunday night during the official “Moonlight” Oscar party in Liberty City, Miami.
After “La La Land” was mistakenly announced as the winner, a snafu in the live feed at the outdoor block party led to even more confusion. “The thing that’s insane about being here is that the whole thing glitched out, it’s overwhelming,” said Daniel Soto, a volunteer with the Borscht Film Festival, which co-presented the party with A24 and the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, where Jenkins held auditions to find the film’s stunning young actors.
“Every ounce of skepticism in my body wants to deny it,” said Soto. “I have no idea how to process this. We’re not used to it.”
The block party was the final event of the weekend of the Borscht Film Festival,...
After “La La Land” was mistakenly announced as the winner, a snafu in the live feed at the outdoor block party led to even more confusion. “The thing that’s insane about being here is that the whole thing glitched out, it’s overwhelming,” said Daniel Soto, a volunteer with the Borscht Film Festival, which co-presented the party with A24 and the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, where Jenkins held auditions to find the film’s stunning young actors.
“Every ounce of skepticism in my body wants to deny it,” said Soto. “I have no idea how to process this. We’re not used to it.”
The block party was the final event of the weekend of the Borscht Film Festival,...
- 2/27/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
A24 has released more than its fair share of notable films during its brief existence so far. Just this year alone, they’ve released “The Lobster,” “Green Room” and “The Witch, all of which have been widely acclaimed. But their latest film “Moonlight” represents a first for the young studio. Writer/director/producer Barry Jenkins’ upcoming drama marks the company’s first in-studio production alongside Plan B Productions, with Brad Pitt onboard as executive producer. Check out the first trailer below.
Read More: New Classics: Barry Jenkins’ ‘Medicine for Melancholy’
Based on the play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the film tells the life story of a young man named Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) via three defining chapters of his life. Set in the 1980’s Miami during the height of Reagan’s War on Drugs, “Moonlight” follows Chiron as he comes of age, falls in love and discovers his own sexuality,...
Read More: New Classics: Barry Jenkins’ ‘Medicine for Melancholy’
Based on the play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the film tells the life story of a young man named Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) via three defining chapters of his life. Set in the 1980’s Miami during the height of Reagan’s War on Drugs, “Moonlight” follows Chiron as he comes of age, falls in love and discovers his own sexuality,...
- 8/11/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Issa Rae’s Color Creative TV and Project Greenlight Digital Studios are looking to promote a new class of creators. The two companies have joined forces for the New Normal Writing Contest, which asks each entrant to submit a pitch for an anthology series based around the theme “trophy.”
Writers who are interested in New Normal can enter the contest by putting together a one-page pitch for a series that shows, as Rae puts it, “at what lengths people will go to obtain that symbol of victory.” From that pool of pitches, Project Greenlight and Color Creative will select a pool of 60 semi-finalists that will be whittled down to 12 finalists and, eventually, three winners. Those winners will each be matched with showrunners, directors, and line producers to bring their pitches to life; they’ll also take home $5,000 prizes.
New Normal continues Project Greenlight’s quest to shine light on unheralded...
Writers who are interested in New Normal can enter the contest by putting together a one-page pitch for a series that shows, as Rae puts it, “at what lengths people will go to obtain that symbol of victory.” From that pool of pitches, Project Greenlight and Color Creative will select a pool of 60 semi-finalists that will be whittled down to 12 finalists and, eventually, three winners. Those winners will each be matched with showrunners, directors, and line producers to bring their pitches to life; they’ll also take home $5,000 prizes.
New Normal continues Project Greenlight’s quest to shine light on unheralded...
- 2/12/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
"Get the Greenlight" is Project Greenlight Digital Studios’ first contest which awards $25,000 to an emerging filmmaker to produce a digital series, as part of a development deal with Project Greenlight Digital Studios. We alerted you to the contest when it was first announced last year, so I assume some of you entered it. All you needed to do was submit a creative one to three-minute pitch video selling the contest judges on why your series should "Get the Greenlight," and you had to do so by November 25, 2015. Finalists were announced on December 21, 2015, and the winner was announced today, January 8, 2016. Congratulations to Edson Jean and Joshua...
- 1/8/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
In November 2015, Project Greenlight Digital Studios launched Get The Greenlight, a contest that offered a $25,000 production deal to one winning. Now, that winner has been revealed, and it’s #Josh, a comedy project from creators Joshua Jean-Baptiste and Edson Jean.
#Josh, set in Miami, contains several plot details that will be familiar to people who watch a lot of independent web series. Jean-Baptiste stars as Josh, a digitally-dependent twenty-something Haitian-American struggling to get his footing. Jean will play Wes, whose brash attitude and promiscuous tendencies will set him up as Josh’s comedic foil. A few snippets of the show are on display in Jean-Baptiste and Jean's pitch video.
“This entire #GetTheGreenlight process has been a roller coaster of emotions, or as our fellow Haitians would say...Mezami!” said Jean-Baptiste and Jean in a press release. “We are forever grateful that an organization like Project Greenlight is determined to get stories like ours out there.
#Josh, set in Miami, contains several plot details that will be familiar to people who watch a lot of independent web series. Jean-Baptiste stars as Josh, a digitally-dependent twenty-something Haitian-American struggling to get his footing. Jean will play Wes, whose brash attitude and promiscuous tendencies will set him up as Josh’s comedic foil. A few snippets of the show are on display in Jean-Baptiste and Jean's pitch video.
“This entire #GetTheGreenlight process has been a roller coaster of emotions, or as our fellow Haitians would say...Mezami!” said Jean-Baptiste and Jean in a press release. “We are forever grateful that an organization like Project Greenlight is determined to get stories like ours out there.
- 1/8/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
We have a winner of Project Greenlight Digital Studios’ #GetTheGreenLight web series contest. #Josh directors Joshua Jean-Baptiste and Edson Jean will receive $25,000 and a development deal with the studio. Their Miami-set film centers on a chaste, digitally dependent twentysomething who is forced to coexist with his promiscuous, problematic cousin. Watch the filmmakers’ winning pitch above. “Project Greenlight Digital Studios was created in part to help find exceptional…...
- 1/8/2016
- Deadline
Read More: Exclusive: Cast Your Vote for the Next 'Project Greenlight' Filmmaker Back in November, Indiewire announced a new contest from the producers of Project Greenlight entitled the "#GetTheGreenlight Contest." Filmmakers were asked to send in two-minute pitches for their own digital web series. The public voted on the submissions, with the winner receiving $25,000, as well as distribution for their series. As of today, Indiewire can officially announce the contest winners: Edson Jean and Joshua Jean-Baptiste for their web series "#Josh." "#Josh" follows the title character, a young Haitian-American, as he moves on from the recent death of his mother and into the apartment of his sexually promiscuous cousin in Miami, Florida. In their pitch video, the filmmaking duo spoke of their desire to combine a universal coming-of-age story in a contemporary atmosphere (the viewer can follow character interaction through various social media...
- 1/8/2016
- by Mike Lown
- Indiewire
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