Exclusive: The producers of Oscar winners Moonlight and Icarus, Oscar nominee Carol and Showtime series Billions, are among those bringing new projects to the Ifp Project Forum, which runs during the 40th Ifp Week in New York.
This year’s particularly buzzy Project Forum slate will comprise 150 U.S. and international films, series, digital and audio projects (for the first time) in different stages of development.
The co-production market will feature new narrative films and series from producers and Ep’s including Lamb On The Throne from Adele Romanski (Moonlight) and Sara Murphy (Land Ho!), Breezin’ from Amy Lo (Nancy), The Gymnast from Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Billions), The Fugitive Game from Ryan Cunningham (Broad City), Sleepwalkfrom Ryan Zacarias (A Ciambra), Bitterroot from Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim (Columbus) and Nine Days from Jason Michael Berman (Amateur), Mette-Marie Kongsved (I Don’t Feel At Home In This World...
This year’s particularly buzzy Project Forum slate will comprise 150 U.S. and international films, series, digital and audio projects (for the first time) in different stages of development.
The co-production market will feature new narrative films and series from producers and Ep’s including Lamb On The Throne from Adele Romanski (Moonlight) and Sara Murphy (Land Ho!), Breezin’ from Amy Lo (Nancy), The Gymnast from Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Billions), The Fugitive Game from Ryan Cunningham (Broad City), Sleepwalkfrom Ryan Zacarias (A Ciambra), Bitterroot from Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim (Columbus) and Nine Days from Jason Michael Berman (Amateur), Mette-Marie Kongsved (I Don’t Feel At Home In This World...
- 7/26/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Over the weekend, Jill Soloway brought her articulation and film smarts to the Cinefamily to promote Wifey.tv, a new digital platform for marginalized voices in media-making she co-founded in 2013 with Rebecca Odes. The video website is "a place where you can always go to watch something that's actually compelling. Complicated. Real. Funny. Sexy. Alive. Like you. Welcome," according to Soloway's "Womanfesto." (More on that here.) They partnered with bi-coastal female filmmaking collective Film Fatales to present six short films including Shaz Bennett’s “Alaska is a Drag,” Brooke Sebold’s “The Last Cigarette,” Sarah Gertrude Shapiro’s “Sequin Raze," Sian Heder’s “Mother,” Maggie Kiley’s “Some Boys Don’t Leave” and Jennifer Phang’s “Advantageous," which became a Sundance-winning feature now streaming on Netflix. Read More: Female Directors Pick Their Favorite Films Made By Women Soloway kicked off with a moving cry to action for female filmmakers, which.
- 7/27/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
On the heels of the 39th edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival (Sept 4-14), Ifp’s Independent Film Week is where a plethora of fiction, non-fiction and new this year, web-based series from the likes of Desiree Akhavan and Calvin Reeder find future coin. Sectioned off as projects at the very beginning of financing to those that are nearing completion, there happens to be tons of Sundance alumni in the names below. Among those that caught our attention we have Medicine for Melancholy‘s Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature, produced by Bad Milo!‘s Adele Romanski, Moonlight is about “two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth”. Concussion‘s Stacie Passon digs into the thriller genre with Strange Things Started Happening. Produced by vet Mary Jane Skalski (Mysterious Skin), this is about “a woman who has...
- 7/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 11th annual Coney Island Film Festival, running Sept. 23-25, offers an exquisite blend of freak show, burlesque and cinematic oddities, featuring movies about reformed gang members, unwitting superheroes, rock ‘n’ roll heaven and tons and tons of short films.
The fest opens with the portrait of a real-life Coney Island badass, Keith Suber, a reformed gang member who now teaches kids that violence isn’t the solution to their problems in the documentary The Last Immortal, directed by Charles Denson.
However, the highlight of the festival — in Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s opinion — is the headbangin’ documentary Heavy Metal Picnic by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, which beautifully relives the glory days of ’80s era rock ‘n’ roll Maryland in all its raucous glory. Featuring footage from an outrageous backwoods farm concert and a reunion among its (slightly) more mature participants. Read the official Bad Lit documentary review here.
The fest opens with the portrait of a real-life Coney Island badass, Keith Suber, a reformed gang member who now teaches kids that violence isn’t the solution to their problems in the documentary The Last Immortal, directed by Charles Denson.
However, the highlight of the festival — in Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s opinion — is the headbangin’ documentary Heavy Metal Picnic by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, which beautifully relives the glory days of ’80s era rock ‘n’ roll Maryland in all its raucous glory. Featuring footage from an outrageous backwoods farm concert and a reunion among its (slightly) more mature participants. Read the official Bad Lit documentary review here.
- 9/14/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Robin Wilby's Loop Planes , produced by Christine Vachon, is the first project to emerge from the partnership between Massify and Killer Films, and it has just wrapped production. Brooke Sebold is documenting the process over at Massify, and the first video is now up. It is embedded below, and make sure to visit the page and the site for more on the project and Massify in general. Massify + Killer Films Episode 1 from Massify on Vimeo.
- 8/28/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
I heart Palm Springs! Why not? It's my hometown :happy
And I equally heart the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films! Honestly, I like this better than the bloated International Film Fest in January. Why? Because this is more about the craft of filmmaking than the celebrities.
Also, the Short Fest is a good predictor of the Oscars for Best Short Film. So pay attention to the winners, and then next year, take a look at the nominees. Chances are, you'll hear about them again at the Oscars!
The 2009 Palm Springs International ShortFest award winners are:
Jury Awards
Best of Festival, "The Dinner" (Vacsora), Karchi Perlmann
Future Filmmaker Award, Katie Wolfe, "This is Her"
Panavision Grand Jury Award, "Jonathan's Home," Nathanael Carton
Audience Awards
Live Action Short, "Dandelion Dharma," Veronica Dipippo
Documentary Short, "Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics On Trial," Jonathan Joiner, Robert H. Martin
Animation Short, "Lost and Found,...
And I equally heart the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films! Honestly, I like this better than the bloated International Film Fest in January. Why? Because this is more about the craft of filmmaking than the celebrities.
Also, the Short Fest is a good predictor of the Oscars for Best Short Film. So pay attention to the winners, and then next year, take a look at the nominees. Chances are, you'll hear about them again at the Oscars!
The 2009 Palm Springs International ShortFest award winners are:
Jury Awards
Best of Festival, "The Dinner" (Vacsora), Karchi Perlmann
Future Filmmaker Award, Katie Wolfe, "This is Her"
Panavision Grand Jury Award, "Jonathan's Home," Nathanael Carton
Audience Awards
Live Action Short, "Dandelion Dharma," Veronica Dipippo
Documentary Short, "Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics On Trial," Jonathan Joiner, Robert H. Martin
Animation Short, "Lost and Found,...
- 7/1/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Hungarian film-maker Karchi Perlmann's "The Dinner" (Vacsora), the tale of a hapless pig farmer, received the best of festival award at the 2009 Palm Springs International ShortFest & Short Film Market, which concluded Sunday.
Nathanaelcq Carton's "Jonathan's Home" took home the Panavision grand jury award and best live action award.
Katie Wolfe's "This is Her" scored the future filmmaker award.
Winners were announced Sunday as the fest, which screened 315 short films from among more than 2,200 submissions, drew to a close on Monday. A total of 27 awards were handed out.
The 2009 Palm Springs International ShortFest award winners are:
Jury Awards
Best of Festival, "The Dinner" (Vacsora), Karchi Perlmann
Future Filmmaker Award, Katie Wolfe, "This is Her"
Panavision Grand Jury Award, "Jonathan's Home," Nathanael Carton
Audience Awards
Live Action Short, "Dandelion Dharma," Veronica Dipippo
Documentary Short, "Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics On Trial," Jonathan Joiner, Robert H. Martin
Animation Short, "Lost and Found,...
Nathanaelcq Carton's "Jonathan's Home" took home the Panavision grand jury award and best live action award.
Katie Wolfe's "This is Her" scored the future filmmaker award.
Winners were announced Sunday as the fest, which screened 315 short films from among more than 2,200 submissions, drew to a close on Monday. A total of 27 awards were handed out.
The 2009 Palm Springs International ShortFest award winners are:
Jury Awards
Best of Festival, "The Dinner" (Vacsora), Karchi Perlmann
Future Filmmaker Award, Katie Wolfe, "This is Her"
Panavision Grand Jury Award, "Jonathan's Home," Nathanael Carton
Audience Awards
Live Action Short, "Dandelion Dharma," Veronica Dipippo
Documentary Short, "Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics On Trial," Jonathan Joiner, Robert H. Martin
Animation Short, "Lost and Found,...
- 6/30/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dylan Verrechia's Tijauna Makes Me Happy took home the grand jury award for best narrative feature, while Adam Hootnick's Unsettled picked up the grand jury award for best documentary feature at the 13th Slamdance Film Festival, which concluded Saturday in Park City, Utah.
Separately, the Slamdunk Film Festival concluded on Friday, awarding its best fictional feature prize to The Junior Defenders and its documentary prize to This African Life.
At the Slamdance awards ceremony, which took place Friday, the top audience award winners were Jeremy Saulnier's Murder Party, named best narrative feature, and Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills, which took the prize for best documentary.
Jury awards were also given to Robin Fuller's The Ballad of Mary Slade, best animated short; Alice Nelson's A Map with Gaps, best documentary short; Cesar Velasco Broca's Avant Petalos Grillados, best experimental short; and Charles Williams' The Cow Thief, best narrative short.
Other audience award winners were Danny Bourque's "Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith," which copped the Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film, and JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees' The Mallorys Go Black Market, which scored the Spirit of Slamdance Award.
Separately, the Slamdunk Film Festival concluded on Friday, awarding its best fictional feature prize to The Junior Defenders and its documentary prize to This African Life.
At the Slamdance awards ceremony, which took place Friday, the top audience award winners were Jeremy Saulnier's Murder Party, named best narrative feature, and Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills, which took the prize for best documentary.
Jury awards were also given to Robin Fuller's The Ballad of Mary Slade, best animated short; Alice Nelson's A Map with Gaps, best documentary short; Cesar Velasco Broca's Avant Petalos Grillados, best experimental short; and Charles Williams' The Cow Thief, best narrative short.
Other audience award winners were Danny Bourque's "Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith," which copped the Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film, and JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees' The Mallorys Go Black Market, which scored the Spirit of Slamdance Award.
- 1/29/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dylan Verrechia's Tijauna Makes Me Happy took home the grand jury award for best narrative feature, while Adam Hootnick's Unsettled picked up the grand jury award for best documentary feature at the 13th Slamdance Film Festival, which concluded Saturday in Park City, Utah.
Separately, the Slamdunk Film Festival concluded on Friday, awarding its best fictional feature prize to The Junior Defenders and its documentary prize to This African Life.
At the Slamdance awards ceremony, which took place Friday, the top audience award winners were Jeremy Saulnier's Murder Party, named best narrative feature, and Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills, which took the prize for best documentary.
Jury awards were also given to Robin Fuller's The Ballad of Mary Slade, best animated short; Alice Nelson's A Map with Gaps, best documentary short; Cesar Velasco Broca's Avant Petalos Grillados, best experimental short; and Charles Williams' The Cow Thief, best narrative short.
Other audience award winners were Danny Bourque's "Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith," which copped the Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film, and JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees' The Mallorys Go Black Market, which scored the Spirit of Slamdance Award.
Separately, the Slamdunk Film Festival concluded on Friday, awarding its best fictional feature prize to The Junior Defenders and its documentary prize to This African Life.
At the Slamdance awards ceremony, which took place Friday, the top audience award winners were Jeremy Saulnier's Murder Party, named best narrative feature, and Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills, which took the prize for best documentary.
Jury awards were also given to Robin Fuller's The Ballad of Mary Slade, best animated short; Alice Nelson's A Map with Gaps, best documentary short; Cesar Velasco Broca's Avant Petalos Grillados, best experimental short; and Charles Williams' The Cow Thief, best narrative short.
Other audience award winners were Danny Bourque's "Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith," which copped the Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film, and JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees' The Mallorys Go Black Market, which scored the Spirit of Slamdance Award.
- 1/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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