As cinema continues to be at the forefront of expression and representation in our ever deepening understanding of the nuances and touchstones of humanity's beautifully complex sexual cycles, one area that has rarely been looked at in storytelling is that of asexuality. Filmmakers Marzy Hart, Victoria Negri and Stacey Maltin are looking to change that with the genre-infused short film 2 Weeks, written by and starring Hart. In her own words the film is about: 2 Weeks accompanies Tanya, a 20-something, asexual. She is struggling to find a balance between honoring her sexuality, the commitment she made when she fell in love with her partner, and pursuing a career in an industry that perpetuates women’s worth based on sex appeal. With no place to escape,...
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- 3/30/2018
- Screen Anarchy
A clearly personal effort for its director/screenwriter/star, Victoria Negri's debut feature is notable for the powerful supporting turn by the late Robert Vaughn in his final screen appearance. Delivering a mostly silent performance as the stroke-afflicted father of Negri's central character, the veteran actor embodies the anguish of a once vital man reduced to pointing at words as his sole means of communication.
The semi-autobiographical Gold Star features Negri as Vicki, a twentysomething woman who once aspired to a classical music career but now makes her living, such as it is, working part-time at a health club. Her life changes...
The semi-autobiographical Gold Star features Negri as Vicki, a twentysomething woman who once aspired to a classical music career but now makes her living, such as it is, working part-time at a health club. Her life changes...
- 11/9/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s been nearly a year since Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Robert Vaughn (Aka television’s very first Napoleon Solo) passed away, but his remarkable humanity and skill on the screen will soon be on full display in Victoria Negri’s upcoming “Gold Star.” Vaughn stars alongside Negri in the film in a family drama that’s partially inspired by the filmmaker and star’s own experiences with her family.
The film follows Negri as Vicki who, after dropping out of music school, “drifts aimlessly between her family’s house in Connecticut and an itinerant existence in New York. When her father suffers a debilitating stroke, she has to become his primary caretaker. Vicki resists connecting with him, and making peace with herself, but finds a way forward thanks to a new friend and a life-changing event.” Catherine Curtin and Jacob Heimer co-star alongside Vaughn and Negri in the film.
The film follows Negri as Vicki who, after dropping out of music school, “drifts aimlessly between her family’s house in Connecticut and an itinerant existence in New York. When her father suffers a debilitating stroke, she has to become his primary caretaker. Vicki resists connecting with him, and making peace with herself, but finds a way forward thanks to a new friend and a life-changing event.” Catherine Curtin and Jacob Heimer co-star alongside Vaughn and Negri in the film.
- 10/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Lineup Announcements
– The 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival (Svff), presented by Zions Bank, has announced its film line-up for the weekend of March 15 – 19. Now in its sixth year, Svff offers five days of 30 feature film screenings, including 5 world premieres and featuring 16 documentaries and 14 narrative features.
The festival will open with the World Premiere documentary “Blood Road” starring Sun Valley local Rebecca Rusch on March 15 and close with the documentary “Big Sonia” on March 19. Additional film highlights include “The Hero,” starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter and Nick Offerman, “Custody” with Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Ellen Burstyn and Tony Shalhoub, and “Dina,” winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance. The film slate can also be viewed here.
– Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival...
Lineup Announcements
– The 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival (Svff), presented by Zions Bank, has announced its film line-up for the weekend of March 15 – 19. Now in its sixth year, Svff offers five days of 30 feature film screenings, including 5 world premieres and featuring 16 documentaries and 14 narrative features.
The festival will open with the World Premiere documentary “Blood Road” starring Sun Valley local Rebecca Rusch on March 15 and close with the documentary “Big Sonia” on March 19. Additional film highlights include “The Hero,” starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter and Nick Offerman, “Custody” with Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Ellen Burstyn and Tony Shalhoub, and “Dina,” winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance. The film slate can also be viewed here.
– Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival...
- 2/23/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
I know what Victoria Negri‘s debut feature, Gold Star, is about, even if the thing never quite finds the footing to fulfill its promise. It’s about a young woman trapped in a life she never thought she’d lead — a part-time fitness club employee who’s lost the nerve to follow her dreams of becoming an internationally renowned concert pianist — her existential struggle for identity, reconciling desire with a rebelliously nihilistic streak, and coping with the unavoidable reality her birth provided. When your father is older than your mother’s parents, dealing with his depleting health and death is inevitable. Facing his mortality will either jumpstart her ambition to stop squandering obvious potential or expose perseverance’s futility in a world driven by tragic uncertainties and fate’s unyielding calculations.
These are the issues bearing down on Vicki (Negri playing a fictionalized version of herself going through similar...
These are the issues bearing down on Vicki (Negri playing a fictionalized version of herself going through similar...
- 10/9/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The idea of confronting a possessed murderer was not the most frightening part of Victoria Negri's audition for the feature-length horror film "The Murders of Cane Hill." What terrified her was that the entire audition would consist of completely improvised scenes."It was pretty scary," Negri recalls. "A bunch of improv auditions with high stakes. If you don't go full out, it's not going to be realistic or believable."A nonunion actor who spent four years at New York University, through which she studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Stonestreet Screen Acting Studios, Negri is constantly checking BackStage.com, refreshing the casting calls and reading advice columns, while she sits in front of a computer all day at her job as a transcriptionist. After submitting her headshot and résumé for Poseidon Productions' "The Murders of Cane Hill" on BackStage.com, she was given three scenarios for the character Izzy Conrad.
- 9/17/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Alison Mierzejewski)
- backstage.com
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