Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”…
Josh Hamilton: Book: Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon. Record: The Clean — Anthology.
Movies: Dance of Reality and Two Days, One Night.
Lavallee: At this year’s Sundance, you’ve got a brief appearance in the Experimenter (working with a seasoned pro) but you find yourself (not unlike a “little” Sundance debut film called The House of Yes) working for a newbie. I was wondering if you could first describe your first impressions about Matt Sobel’s text, subtext, dialogue, themes and character set and if there is an added layer of profundity when you find yourself drawn to a project coming from a new voice?
Hamilton: When I first read Matt’s script, I was struck by the delicate yet unmistakable level of tension and unease that existed among these people. In any piece about families- where the layers...
Josh Hamilton: Book: Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon. Record: The Clean — Anthology.
Movies: Dance of Reality and Two Days, One Night.
Lavallee: At this year’s Sundance, you’ve got a brief appearance in the Experimenter (working with a seasoned pro) but you find yourself (not unlike a “little” Sundance debut film called The House of Yes) working for a newbie. I was wondering if you could first describe your first impressions about Matt Sobel’s text, subtext, dialogue, themes and character set and if there is an added layer of profundity when you find yourself drawn to a project coming from a new voice?
Hamilton: When I first read Matt’s script, I was struck by the delicate yet unmistakable level of tension and unease that existed among these people. In any piece about families- where the layers...
- 2/6/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Matt Sobel is a self described, "optimist to the point of idiocy," which has gotten him into trouble before, but might also be the reason he was able to make this film. Two years ago, and already three years deep in this project, he had nothing but a beat up script -- no cast, no crew, no money. "I really should have packed it in, but instead he called our casting director and set a start date." "Sobel, in his first feature, creates a world wrought with secrets, misinterpretations, and subtext. Ryder, an artsy teenager, travels from California with his parents, Don and Cindy, for a family reunion in Nebraska. Upon their arrival, Ryder's impish nine-year-old cousin, Molly, leads him to a barn to show him a bird’s nest. What happens behind barn doors makes Ryder the sudden target of suspicion and unearths a long-buried family secret. Ryder and...
- 1/16/2015
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
The scrooge in me doesn’t care much for Xmas themed films. But worry not, this Christmas without snow will surely bring out the yuletide spirit. Following Four Letter Words, Take Out, Prince of Broadway and Starlet, on paper, Sean Baker’s fifth feature film promises more of the same: an immersive experience with characters you’d never thought you had a rapport with in a scape you probably didn’t know existed. Think street National Geographic style d examinations of the human condition. A featured Ioncinephile filmmaker, Baker began filming Tangerine very early in the year, and as usual, we find a mix of non-actors (stars newbies Kiki Lee Key and Mya Taylor) with a seasoned pro in James Ransone.
Gist: Co-scripted with Chris Bergoch, this is a rip-roaring journey through various subcultures of Tinseltown on Christmas Eve.
Production Co./Producers: Sean Baker, Through Films’ Marcus and Karrie Cox,...
Gist: Co-scripted with Chris Bergoch, this is a rip-roaring journey through various subcultures of Tinseltown on Christmas Eve.
Production Co./Producers: Sean Baker, Through Films’ Marcus and Karrie Cox,...
- 11/14/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Easily among our favorite curated lists/annual page turners, Filmmaker Magazine has unveiled their 25 New Faces (or 29, when you count the quad creative teams) for 2014, highlighting talents that would also get our vote. Among those with a future that is bright, we’ve got a good sampling from this year’s Sundance Film Fest in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night‘s helmer Ana Lily Amirpour, short film gold nugget helmers Janicza Bravo (see pic above) & Bernardo Britto, the versatile, can’t sit still Dustin Guy Defa who moves in front of (Swim Little Fish Swim, Computer Chess) and behind the camera for SXSW and Sundance short and feature length film items and, the future is bright cinematographer Sean Porter who we first discovered with It Felt Like Love and then laid it on thick with the Zellner Bros.’ Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. Here are the individual profiles.
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- 7/17/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Top brass at the Independent Filmmaker Project announced on Monday (9) the 10 narrative features selected for the 2014 Independent Filmmaker Labs.
The creative teams of the selected films, chosen from a nationwide pool of more than 150 submissions, are attending the first session of the program – The Time Warner Foundation Completion Labs – taking place this week in New York.
The 2014 Labs mark the 10th anniversary edition of the mentorship programme.
The scheme was established in 2005 by Filmmaker Magazine’s editor-in-chief Scott Macaulay as a three-day event for eight narrative projects and has evolved under the leadership of head of programming Amy Dotson and senior director of programming Milton Tabbot into a year-round process for 20 projects – 10 documentaries and 10 narratives.
The ninth documentary lab took place recently (pictured).
As an extension of the Labs programme, Ifp has launched First Run to host week-long theatrical releases at the Made In NY Media Center by Ifp this autumn.
“We are thrilled...
The creative teams of the selected films, chosen from a nationwide pool of more than 150 submissions, are attending the first session of the program – The Time Warner Foundation Completion Labs – taking place this week in New York.
The 2014 Labs mark the 10th anniversary edition of the mentorship programme.
The scheme was established in 2005 by Filmmaker Magazine’s editor-in-chief Scott Macaulay as a three-day event for eight narrative projects and has evolved under the leadership of head of programming Amy Dotson and senior director of programming Milton Tabbot into a year-round process for 20 projects – 10 documentaries and 10 narratives.
The ninth documentary lab took place recently (pictured).
As an extension of the Labs programme, Ifp has launched First Run to host week-long theatrical releases at the Made In NY Media Center by Ifp this autumn.
“We are thrilled...
- 6/9/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Top brass at the Independent Filmmaker Project announced on Monday (9) the 10 narrative features selected for the 2014 Independent Filmmaker Labs.
The creative teams of the selected films, chosen from a nationwide pool of more than 150 submissions, are attending the first session of the program – The Time Warner Foundation Completion Labs – taking place this week in New York.
The 2014 Labs mark the 10th anniversary edition of the mentorship programme.
The scheme was established in 2005 by Filmmaker Magazine’s editor-in-chief Scott Macaulay as a three-day event for eight narrative projects and has evolved under the leadership of head of programming Amy Dotson and senior director of programming Milton Tabbot into a year-round process for 20 projects – 10 documentaries and 10 narratives.
The ninth documentary lab took place recently (pictured).
As an extension of the Labs programme, Ifp has launched First Run to host week-long theatrical releases at the Made In NY Media Center by Ifp this autumn.
“We are thrilled...
The creative teams of the selected films, chosen from a nationwide pool of more than 150 submissions, are attending the first session of the program – The Time Warner Foundation Completion Labs – taking place this week in New York.
The 2014 Labs mark the 10th anniversary edition of the mentorship programme.
The scheme was established in 2005 by Filmmaker Magazine’s editor-in-chief Scott Macaulay as a three-day event for eight narrative projects and has evolved under the leadership of head of programming Amy Dotson and senior director of programming Milton Tabbot into a year-round process for 20 projects – 10 documentaries and 10 narratives.
The ninth documentary lab took place recently (pictured).
As an extension of the Labs programme, Ifp has launched First Run to host week-long theatrical releases at the Made In NY Media Center by Ifp this autumn.
“We are thrilled...
- 6/9/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Former "West Wing" star Richard Schiff has joined the cast of three different movies, including Michael Cuesta's "Kill the Messenger," according to an individual with knowledge of the actor's plans. Schiff, who had a role in this summer's "Man of Steel," has also appeared in three different plays over the past year, including the Al Pacino-led revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross," but the Emmy-winning actor's focus now shifts to features. He is currently filming Matt Sobel's "Explosion, in which he plays the father of a California teen who unravels after being accused...
- 8/22/2013
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
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