Here's your daily dose of an Indie film in progress -- at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: is this a movie you'd want to see? Tell us in the comments. Superpowerless Tweetable Logline: A coming-of-middle-age-story: a superhero loses his powers and must adjust to a new life. Elevator Pitch: "Superpowerless" is a coming-of-middle-age story about a superhero who loses his powers after turning 40 and who must adjust to a new life. Why should teenagers have all the angst? Production Team: Duane Anderson, Director/Writer/Producer/Editor Dave Boyle, Editor Yukie Hashimoto, Producer Alun Lee, Producer Bill Otto, Cinematographer Dominic Mah, Screenwriter About the Film: The genesis of this film began when actor Josiah Polhemus and I met in the first grade. As kids we would make super-8 movies when ever we had free time. Years later we reconnected...
- 3/4/2015
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Hi. Jennifer Phang here, back again to report on the Ifp No Borders Co-Production Market 2009. Quick notes: I'm twitterable at HalfLifeJen, here's our Half-Life website, and Half-Life facebook page. Friends, fans, indie/arthouse sympathizers, and all generally good-hearted people, please join up and help us spread the news of our approaching December release. Pictured on the right: filmmaker Tze Chun and I in silent agreement that blue/blue-gray with a black lanyard accent was the power ensemble of the day. No, we are not related. I have to get some sleep for Day 3, so I'll keep it to the important info and save the full gushing and wit for my third post next week. No Borders Day One saw our team (writer Dominic Mah, producer...
- 9/22/2009
- by Jennifer Phang
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
I'm Jennifer Phang, a writer-director currently blogging out of New York, about one day before No Borders. For twitter-lovers, I am now twitterable as HalfLifeJen. Our No Borders project is called Look For Water, a screenplay based on Dominic Mah's stageplay. It's a unique story, part romantic comedy, part paranormal thriller. Included here on the right is a pre-vis (pre-visualization) image from our look book. Dominic and I are long-time collaborators and are adapting the script together. I am directing, and we now have on board two producers I have worked with before: Producer Reuben Lim and co-executive producer Robert Chang (two of our big movers and shakers from our first feature together, Half-Life). Reuben is our primary...
- 9/18/2009
- by Jennifer Phang
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
- Submit a short film at Sundance. Get accepted. The relationship begins. A little more than 13 directors/screenwriters will be getting a helping hand via the likes of Robert Elswit, Stephen Gaghan, Atom Egoyan and Joan Tewkesbury this summer for the Sundance Institute's annual summer labs. Here are the following projects that will sweat it out in Utah this summer. The projects and participants selected for the June Directors Lab from May 26-June 21 are: Blood Abundance, Or The Half-life Of Antoinette/John Magary (writer/director), U.S.A.
Casa Grande/Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa (co-writer/director) & Karen Sztajnberg (co-writer), U.S.A./Brazil
MEADOWLANDZ/Moon Molson (writer/director), U.S.A.
Pariah/Dee Rees (writer/director), U.S.A.
Poletown/Daniel Casey (writer/director), U.S.A.
Return/Liza Johnson (writer/director), U.S.A.
Shockheaded Peter/Frank Budgen (writer/director), United Kingdom
TSHEPANG/Lara Foot Newton & Gerhard Marx (co-writers/co-directors), South Africa...
- 5/1/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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