The 6th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival might be beginning on the unluckiest day of the year — Friday the 13th — but the residents of Tucson are lucky for this 9-night extravaganza of wild and wooly cinema from all over the globe. The fest runs Sept. 13-21 at The Screening Room and other locations.
Opening Night films include the retro, music-fueled slasher flick Discopath by Renaud Gauthier and the Internet-based bloodbath Truth Or Dare, directed by scream queen Jessica Cameron making her filmmaking debut. The last film of the fest on the 21st is the cryptic post-apocalyptic thriller Dust of War, directed by Andrew Kightlinger.
The rest of the fest includes mind-bending fiction flicks like the cult-ish Fateful Findings by Neil Breen; the 90-minute, one-shot noir Worm by Andrew Bowser; Zach Clark’s twisted holiday movie White Reindeer; Drew Tobia’s surreal See You Next Tuesday; as well as challenging documentaries...
Opening Night films include the retro, music-fueled slasher flick Discopath by Renaud Gauthier and the Internet-based bloodbath Truth Or Dare, directed by scream queen Jessica Cameron making her filmmaking debut. The last film of the fest on the 21st is the cryptic post-apocalyptic thriller Dust of War, directed by Andrew Kightlinger.
The rest of the fest includes mind-bending fiction flicks like the cult-ish Fateful Findings by Neil Breen; the 90-minute, one-shot noir Worm by Andrew Bowser; Zach Clark’s twisted holiday movie White Reindeer; Drew Tobia’s surreal See You Next Tuesday; as well as challenging documentaries...
- 9/13/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The American Film Institute’s 2011 Directing Workshop for Women participants presented their short films earlier this month at an event at the DGA in Hollywood, hosted by Lisa Cholodenko (“High Art,” “The Kids are All Right”).
Over 250 women have participated in the program and, interestingly, most of the successful alum of the program have become directors of television programming.
Of the eight films presented by 2011′s directors Amy French, Jennifer Glynn, Rachel Goldberg, Kimberly McCullough, Lisa Robertson, Courtney Rowe, Tina Salmassi and Velvet Andrews Smith, “Commerce,” written and directed by Lisa Robertson, was chosen by The Adrienne Shelly Foundation to receive a production grant that will enable Robertson to explore the production of a feature film from her material.
Robertson’s short stars Joel Gretsch (“V,” “The 4400″), Annabeth Gish (“Mystic Pizza,” “The West Wing”) and Noel Fisher (“Twitlight: Breaking Dawn,” “The Riches”), and presents a traditional family man being...
Over 250 women have participated in the program and, interestingly, most of the successful alum of the program have become directors of television programming.
Of the eight films presented by 2011′s directors Amy French, Jennifer Glynn, Rachel Goldberg, Kimberly McCullough, Lisa Robertson, Courtney Rowe, Tina Salmassi and Velvet Andrews Smith, “Commerce,” written and directed by Lisa Robertson, was chosen by The Adrienne Shelly Foundation to receive a production grant that will enable Robertson to explore the production of a feature film from her material.
Robertson’s short stars Joel Gretsch (“V,” “The 4400″), Annabeth Gish (“Mystic Pizza,” “The West Wing”) and Noel Fisher (“Twitlight: Breaking Dawn,” “The Riches”), and presents a traditional family man being...
- 6/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The American Film Institute’s 2011 Directing Workshop for Women participants presented their short films earlier this month at an event at the DGA in Hollywood, hosted by Lisa Cholodenko (“High Art,” “The Kids are All Right”).
Over 250 women have participated in the program and, interestingly, most of the successful alum of the program have become directors of television programming.
Of the eight films presented by 2011′s directors Amy French, Jennifer Glynn, Rachel Goldberg, Kimberly McCullough, Lisa Robertson, Courtney Rowe, Tina Salmassi and Velvet Andrews Smith, “Commerce,” written and directed by Lisa Robertson, was chosen by The Adrienne Shelly Foundation to receive a production grant that will enable Robertson to explore the production of a feature film from her material.
Robertson’s short stars Joel Gretsch (“V,” “The 4400″), Annabeth Gish (“Mystic Pizza,” “The West Wing”) and Noel Fisher (“Twitlight: Breaking Dawn,” “The Riches”), and presents a traditional family man being...
Over 250 women have participated in the program and, interestingly, most of the successful alum of the program have become directors of television programming.
Of the eight films presented by 2011′s directors Amy French, Jennifer Glynn, Rachel Goldberg, Kimberly McCullough, Lisa Robertson, Courtney Rowe, Tina Salmassi and Velvet Andrews Smith, “Commerce,” written and directed by Lisa Robertson, was chosen by The Adrienne Shelly Foundation to receive a production grant that will enable Robertson to explore the production of a feature film from her material.
Robertson’s short stars Joel Gretsch (“V,” “The 4400″), Annabeth Gish (“Mystic Pizza,” “The West Wing”) and Noel Fisher (“Twitlight: Breaking Dawn,” “The Riches”), and presents a traditional family man being...
- 6/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Buried"
Directed by Rodrigo Cortes
Released by Lionsgate
"Paper Man"
Directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney
Released by Mpi Home Video
While one can't feel too badly for the future "Green Lantern" star and People's sexiest man alive, Ryan Reynolds' two stabs at glory outside the beaten path went largely unseen, which is particularly a shame in the case of Rodrigo Cortes' "Buried," the thriller where Reynolds has no acting partner but a cell phone as a military contractor who finds himself trapped in a coffin with no knowledge of how or why he got there. A success at Sundance, Lionsgate scrapped expansion plans for the film when it didn't do well in limited release, so home video will be the first chance for many to catch it. Still, that was a considerably bigger success than "Paper Man," which snuck in...
"Buried"
Directed by Rodrigo Cortes
Released by Lionsgate
"Paper Man"
Directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney
Released by Mpi Home Video
While one can't feel too badly for the future "Green Lantern" star and People's sexiest man alive, Ryan Reynolds' two stabs at glory outside the beaten path went largely unseen, which is particularly a shame in the case of Rodrigo Cortes' "Buried," the thriller where Reynolds has no acting partner but a cell phone as a military contractor who finds himself trapped in a coffin with no knowledge of how or why he got there. A success at Sundance, Lionsgate scrapped expansion plans for the film when it didn't do well in limited release, so home video will be the first chance for many to catch it. Still, that was a considerably bigger success than "Paper Man," which snuck in...
- 1/18/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
This is a pseudo-documentary about the minuscule rise and subsequent fall of a Scots-English man who was raised Mexican and who despite his non-Mexican look and lack of talent is determined to be a Ranchera singer. The film is trying to say something about assimilation and cultural identity, but there are better and clearer films on the subject out there. Some of the humor is amusing and some just falls flat. The highpoint of the film is the performance of the two familiar actors, Lupe Ontiveros and Danny Trejo. Amy French and Spencer John French act and star in the film with Amy also directing. Rating: 0 (-4 to +4) or 4/10...
- 1/13/2011
- Arizona Reporter
Let's just get one thing clear, right off the bat: Amy French is not Mexican. Turns out she's not even French. What she is, though, is a born and raised Angeleno and as such is one of the millions of souls dipped into a melting pot of cultural experiences only to emerge coated in a kaleidoscope of customs and traditions. If allowed to, that is. It's one of these souls French allows to emerge, fly and soar to the tune of his own mariachi song in her debut feature film, El Súperstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Frances, the only-in-(East)-La-story of a Güero who is...
- 9/16/2010
- by gomifuneus
- Examiner Movies Channel
Like singer-dancers and actor-models, Chris Game is a hyphenate but of a less common variety. He's a casting director–director, and he thinks the job should be an industry standard. In his 14 years as a CD, Game has also directed several plays annually for the Elephant Theatre Company in Los Angeles. The actors he meets for casting assignments often end up in his plays, and the actors in his plays may find themselves in a film or commercial he is casting. "I try to run my life as a giant repertory company," said Game, whose eponymous casting business has filled roles in such films as The Uninvited and The Good Humor Man. New York casting directors Stuart Howard and Billy Hopkins agree. Howard has been working since the mid-1970s and has close to 40 Broadway casting credits, including August: Osage County and the new revival of West Side Story. He...
- 3/18/2009
- by Simi Horwitz
- backstage.com
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