Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari’s “The Silence,” a tender story about a young girl and her Kurdish mother, won the Industry Prize at TheWrap’s Shortlist Film Festival on Wednesday. Joe Talbot’s “American Paradise,” a dark comedy about race and bank-robbing, took the Audience Prize at a ceremony at IMAX headquarters in Playa Vista, California. And “Fanny Pack,” a story by a USC student about a young Indian woman hilariously clashing with her conservative father, won the first-ever ShortList prize for a student film. Also Read: ShortList 2017: 'The Silence' Is Haunting Tale of Grief Lost in Translation...
- 8/24/2017
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
People spend their entire lives searching for what the main character of Nicolas Menard’s “Wednesday With Goddard” found in a single afternoon. But Menard, a London-based artist and animator, manages to compress one man’s quest for meaning — and subsequent existential crisis — into a five-minute film. Also Read: ShortList 2017: 'American Paradise' Tells a Funny But Timely Story of Race in America (Video) “Wednesday With Goddard” is one of 12 finalists in TheWrap’s 2017 ShortList Film Festival. In it, during one rainy afternoon, the main character (an unnamed man) emerges from his house to admire the rain. He...
- 8/15/2017
- by Ashley Eady
- The Wrap
Joe Talbot’s “American Paradise” tells an absurd and amusing story and has been drawing laughs at film festivals including Sundance and SXSW, but it’d be a mistake to call the 18-minute short a light comedy. That’s because the film, which is one of the 12 finalists in TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival, which is presented with support from IMAX, is a wild and weird yarn designed to tell a story about race in America. “I found this strange story in a deep corner of the internet, about a white guy who had robbed multiple banks wearing a hyper-realistic black-man mask,...
- 8/11/2017
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Rooftop Films has announced its lineup for the 2017 Summer Series. This year’s series will feature more than 45 outdoor screenings in more than 10 venues, including films like Michael Showalter’s Sundance hit “The Big Sick” Ana Lily Amirpour’s “The Bad Batch,” (dates still Tbd).
The series kicks off on Friday, May 19 with “This is What We Mean by Short Films,” a collection of some of the most innovative, new short films of the past year. The screening will take place on the roof of The Old American Can Factory, in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The following night, Saturday, May 20, Rooftop will present a sneak preview screening of Zoe Lister-Jones’ 2017 Sundance entry, “Band Aid,” free and outdoors at House of Vans in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The entire lineup so far is below. Tickets are already for sale.
Friday, May 19
“This is What We Mean by Short Films”
Saturday, May 20
“Band Aid” (Zoe Lister-Jones)
Saturday,...
The series kicks off on Friday, May 19 with “This is What We Mean by Short Films,” a collection of some of the most innovative, new short films of the past year. The screening will take place on the roof of The Old American Can Factory, in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The following night, Saturday, May 20, Rooftop will present a sneak preview screening of Zoe Lister-Jones’ 2017 Sundance entry, “Band Aid,” free and outdoors at House of Vans in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The entire lineup so far is below. Tickets are already for sale.
Friday, May 19
“This is What We Mean by Short Films”
Saturday, May 20
“Band Aid” (Zoe Lister-Jones)
Saturday,...
- 5/5/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Sundance Institute fellow Joe Talbot, following the Sundance film fest debut of his short film American Paradise, has signed with CAA for representation. The film, which also screened at SXSW in Austin, follows a desperate man in Trump's America who tries to shift his luck with the perfect crime. Talbot is at work on his feature The Last Black Man In San Francisco, developing it alongside Jimmie Falls, with production slated to begin later in the year. Writ Large has…...
- 4/7/2017
- Deadline
Over the last seven years, The San Francisco Film Society (now known simply at Sffilm) has become one the largest nonprofit supporters of independent and documentary film having doled out over $800,000 to individual films in 2016. With targeted and flexible filmmaking grants the SFFilm Maker program has been able to give individual films a significant financial boost when they need it most – ranging from before the script is written all the way to the sound mix.
Read More: San Francisco’s Master Plan to Keep Film Relevant In the 21st Century — Sf International Film Festival
Having played a critical role in successful films like “Short Term 12,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Fruitvale Station” getting made, Sffs’s support has also come to signal to the rest of the film world that a project is worth tracking.
However, the film society’s mission goes beyond being a key cog in...
Read More: San Francisco’s Master Plan to Keep Film Relevant In the 21st Century — Sf International Film Festival
Having played a critical role in successful films like “Short Term 12,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Fruitvale Station” getting made, Sffs’s support has also come to signal to the rest of the film world that a project is worth tracking.
However, the film society’s mission goes beyond being a key cog in...
- 4/6/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
The San Francisco Film Society has announced today that the 60th San Francisco International Film Festival’s anticipated Centerpiece event will be “Patti Cake$,” from first-time feature director Geremy Jasper. The film bowed at Sundance in January, featuring a star-making turn from Danielle Macdonald as the eponymous rapper Patricia “Patti Cake$” Dombrowski.
The film was purchased at the festival by Fox Searchlight, who paid a healthy $9.5 million for the feature. “Patti Cake$” was a Spring 2014 Sf Film Society / Krf Filmmaking Grant winner.
“We are thrilled that Patti Cake$,’ a film we supported in partnership with Kenneth Rainin Foundation, will be the Festival’s Centerpiece,” said Noah Cowan, Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society. “The film is not only hugely entertaining, with great music and spectacular performances, but also deftly addresses issues of great importance in our current political climate, from the harsh social conditions faced by working-class families...
The film was purchased at the festival by Fox Searchlight, who paid a healthy $9.5 million for the feature. “Patti Cake$” was a Spring 2014 Sf Film Society / Krf Filmmaking Grant winner.
“We are thrilled that Patti Cake$,’ a film we supported in partnership with Kenneth Rainin Foundation, will be the Festival’s Centerpiece,” said Noah Cowan, Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society. “The film is not only hugely entertaining, with great music and spectacular performances, but also deftly addresses issues of great importance in our current political climate, from the harsh social conditions faced by working-class families...
- 3/1/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Whether you like it or not, President Trump is happening. Tomorrow, in fact. If you still need a minute to let that sink in, the The Sundance Shorts Program entry American Paradise might help. From writer-director Joe Talbot, American Paradise follows a desperate man in Trump’s America who tries to shift his luck with the perfect crime. Inspired by true events, the short stars Sky Elobar. The production has released a pair of very tonally apropos and…...
- 1/20/2017
- Deadline
If you’re wondering where the next Damien Chazelle will come from, look no further than the 2017 Sundance Film Festival short film lineup.
Sundance has a long history of discovering the next generation of acclaimed filmmakers by first championing their short films. Chazelle made his first big splash by winning the 2013 Grand Jury Prize for “Whiplash” (the short). Last year, Jim Cummings won that prize for “Thunder Road,” and he’s back this year with a new short. Also generating a lot of pre-festival buzz is Kristen Stewart, making her writing/directing debut with the short “Come Swim.”
Before the Sundance Film Festival commences on January 19, 2017, here’s a briefing on Cummings’ “The Robbery,” Stewart’s “Come Swim” and eight other buzzworthy shorts (two of which are viewable online).
IndieWire reached out to the filmmakers to ask about their inspiration, production challenges and future projects. Check out our list below,...
Sundance has a long history of discovering the next generation of acclaimed filmmakers by first championing their short films. Chazelle made his first big splash by winning the 2013 Grand Jury Prize for “Whiplash” (the short). Last year, Jim Cummings won that prize for “Thunder Road,” and he’s back this year with a new short. Also generating a lot of pre-festival buzz is Kristen Stewart, making her writing/directing debut with the short “Come Swim.”
Before the Sundance Film Festival commences on January 19, 2017, here’s a briefing on Cummings’ “The Robbery,” Stewart’s “Come Swim” and eight other buzzworthy shorts (two of which are viewable online).
IndieWire reached out to the filmmakers to ask about their inspiration, production challenges and future projects. Check out our list below,...
- 1/10/2017
- by Kim Adelman
- Indiewire
From a Kristen Stewart artsy diptych of a man’s day in the life to a desperate con pulling off the perfect crime in so-called “Trump’s America,” the Sundance Shorts lineup will offer an eclectic group that touches on many of the timely issues already on view with the festival’s broader roster.
In total, 68 shorts were selected as part of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and include narrative, animation and documentary work including Stewart’s Come Swim and Joe Talbot’s American Paradise. Other highlights include Garrett Bradley’s doc short Alone, which investigates the layers of mass incarceration and how it shapes...
In total, 68 shorts were selected as part of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and include narrative, animation and documentary work including Stewart’s Come Swim and Joe Talbot’s American Paradise. Other highlights include Garrett Bradley’s doc short Alone, which investigates the layers of mass incarceration and how it shapes...
- 12/6/2016
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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