Maria Lynn will retire as co-president of Wolfe Releasing at the end of March as co-president Jim Stephens assumes the role of sole president.
During her 22-year tenure Lynn helped steer the company as a leading distributor of Lgbt cinema.
“From the beginning, Maria has been a passionate supporter of Lgbt films and filmmakers,” said founder Kathy Wolfe. “She has played an integral role in the growth of our company and we will miss her incredible talent, dedication and passion.”
“Wolfe has been an amazing journey and I will forever be grateful for the experience of working with our partners, filmmakers and the Wolfe Pack,” said Lynn.
Stephens (pictured) was named co-president last year and has sat on the board since July 2013.
His credits include Reaching For The Moon, I Am Divine, Free Fall, Pit Stop, Five Dances and Tru Love.
“I enjoyed working with Maria as Co-President and have deep respect for her and the company...
During her 22-year tenure Lynn helped steer the company as a leading distributor of Lgbt cinema.
“From the beginning, Maria has been a passionate supporter of Lgbt films and filmmakers,” said founder Kathy Wolfe. “She has played an integral role in the growth of our company and we will miss her incredible talent, dedication and passion.”
“Wolfe has been an amazing journey and I will forever be grateful for the experience of working with our partners, filmmakers and the Wolfe Pack,” said Lynn.
Stephens (pictured) was named co-president last year and has sat on the board since July 2013.
His credits include Reaching For The Moon, I Am Divine, Free Fall, Pit Stop, Five Dances and Tru Love.
“I enjoyed working with Maria as Co-President and have deep respect for her and the company...
- 3/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
As you read this I've just arrived in La. After settling in at the brand new hotel The Line (it's so industrial chic inside), dinner with friends and then surely a fitful night of sleep given what happens in the morning: Christmas Presents (by which I mean "Oscar Nominations!") After that blessed event, I shall strap a tux on for the first time since my high school prom (!!!) for the Critics Choice Awards. Then jet off to meet up with Glenn and Michael at Sundance where I'll try to shift focus a bit from Oscar mania to snowbank-climbing film-festing. All of this while still wrapping 2013 up with my own awards ballots and continuing to process those Oscar nominations. I'm exhausted thinking about all this but I share it with you to lean on your collective strength. Give it to me!
My point is this: it's a good time to take...
My point is this: it's a good time to take...
- 1/15/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The first day of Polari (formerly aGLIFF) happened to coincide with the birthday of the Paramount theater last night.
Opening night found a nearly full house at Stateside Theatre for Alan Brown's award-winning Five Dances. First, however, creative director Curran Nault took the stage to open the fest and along with interim executive director Aaron Yeats and board Vice President Paul Soileau (aka Rebecca Havemayer, aka Christeene), reminisced on the contributions aGLIFF founder Scott Dinger. They announced that henceforth the festival's audience award will be officially known as the Scott Dinger Audience Award.
Five Dances is a sultry, sexy meditation on familiar themes of a rural boy coming to terms with his sexuality after leaving home for the city. Set to a soundtrack rich with cello by Private Romeo composer Nicholas Wright, and interspersed with crooning jazz tunes by Scott Matthew, Gem Club and Perfume Genius, five young attractive...
Opening night found a nearly full house at Stateside Theatre for Alan Brown's award-winning Five Dances. First, however, creative director Curran Nault took the stage to open the fest and along with interim executive director Aaron Yeats and board Vice President Paul Soileau (aka Rebecca Havemayer, aka Christeene), reminisced on the contributions aGLIFF founder Scott Dinger. They announced that henceforth the festival's audience award will be officially known as the Scott Dinger Audience Award.
Five Dances is a sultry, sexy meditation on familiar themes of a rural boy coming to terms with his sexuality after leaving home for the city. Set to a soundtrack rich with cello by Private Romeo composer Nicholas Wright, and interspersed with crooning jazz tunes by Scott Matthew, Gem Club and Perfume Genius, five young attractive...
- 10/17/2013
- by Mike Saulters
- Slackerwood
Matilda, Newsies and West Side Story actordancer Ryan Steele stars in the latest edition of the new video series ShareTheMattress that features creative artists dancing and playing on their beds. Steele is the star of the new film Five Dances, which comes out today, and was the official selection of the Seattle International Film Festival 2013 and Jacob's Pillow's Dance Festival 2013. A prolific actor and dancer in both film and theater, Steele has established himself as a prominent rising actor on Broadway and in Hollywood.
- 10/4/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
If only verisimilitude equaled quality. But unfortunately, schmaltzy music and drab melodrama drag down the otherwise graceful moves of Five Dances. Writer-director Alan Brown uses the classic elements of a backstage drama: Chip (Ryan Steele) has landed a solo with a high-profile choreographer only a few months after coming to New York. His dedication and late nights rehearsing at the studio belie larger personal problems. Chip doesn't have anywhere to live, and crashes on the loft floor in a sleeping bag; his redneck, alcoholic, homophobic mom has lost her house and wants him to come back to Kansas (why having a second person to take care of would help this situation is never explained); he's internalized his homophobia, remains sullen and withdrawn, and lashes out at a fellow ...
- 10/2/2013
- Village Voice
The Wolfe Releasing company has acquired the U.S. digital and DVD rights to the film "Five Dances." The director Alan Brown ("Private Romeo", "Book of Love") teamed up once again with cinematographer Derek McKane to capture the story of Chip (Ryan Steele's first film role) as he joins a small dance company in and around Soho. There Chip is initiated into the rites of passage of a New York dancer's life, where discipline and endless hard work, the fear of not being good enough, and his first-ever love affair unfolds. "Five Dances" will debut on VOD and DVD in 2014, following a limited theatrical release beginning October 4th. "Alan Brown is an enormously talented writer-director and we’re thrilled to release his wonderful new film," said Wolfe President Maria Lynn. "As emotionally nuanced as his innovative gay romance, "Private Romeo," we're confident that audiences will adore Five Dances as much as we do.
- 10/1/2013
- by James Hiler
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media (Fdm) has come on to handle all digital rights to Rocky Powell’s rom-com Language Of A Broken Heart and will release on VOD and DVD on October 1.
Juddy Talt wrote and stars in the story of a romance author who is unlucky in love and returns to his hometown to reconnect with the things that matter most.
Julie White, Kate French, Ethan Cohen, Oscar Nunez and Lara Pulver round out the key cast.
Powell produced Language Of A Broken Heart with Luke Coffee and Jennifer Beasley while Kerry McCluggage served as executive producer.
House Lights Media staged a theatrical release last March in 10 Us and Canadian markets.
Freestyle Digital Media CEO Susan Jackson brokered the deal with House Lights Media president Steve Roberts and svp of acquisitions, operations and marketing Sandy Moore.
“Language Of A Broken Heart is a great addition to Fdm’s repertoire of releases,” said Jackson...
Juddy Talt wrote and stars in the story of a romance author who is unlucky in love and returns to his hometown to reconnect with the things that matter most.
Julie White, Kate French, Ethan Cohen, Oscar Nunez and Lara Pulver round out the key cast.
Powell produced Language Of A Broken Heart with Luke Coffee and Jennifer Beasley while Kerry McCluggage served as executive producer.
House Lights Media staged a theatrical release last March in 10 Us and Canadian markets.
Freestyle Digital Media CEO Susan Jackson brokered the deal with House Lights Media president Steve Roberts and svp of acquisitions, operations and marketing Sandy Moore.
“Language Of A Broken Heart is a great addition to Fdm’s repertoire of releases,” said Jackson...
- 9/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Polari Film Festival (which used to be known as the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival) recently announced the theme for their 26th year: "Don’t Just Sit There: Indulge. Engage. Create."
Artistic Director Curran Nault says about this year's slate, "Our theme and focus is on work that is uncommonly galvanizing, vibrant and sensuous." Among the nearly 100 films selected for the schedule will be a number of dance-themed movies.
The five films announced early for the fest, which runs October 16-20 at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz and Stateside at Paramount, are:
Five Dances (2013) -- This opening-night selection is directed by Alan Brown, who will be at the screening with star Ryan Steele. Chip (played by newcomer Steele) is an 18-year-old dancer from Kansas bursting into the world of modern dance in NYC. [trailer on Vimeo]
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Artistic Director Curran Nault says about this year's slate, "Our theme and focus is on work that is uncommonly galvanizing, vibrant and sensuous." Among the nearly 100 films selected for the schedule will be a number of dance-themed movies.
The five films announced early for the fest, which runs October 16-20 at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz and Stateside at Paramount, are:
Five Dances (2013) -- This opening-night selection is directed by Alan Brown, who will be at the screening with star Ryan Steele. Chip (played by newcomer Steele) is an 18-year-old dancer from Kansas bursting into the world of modern dance in NYC. [trailer on Vimeo]
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- 9/10/2013
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
Charlie Hunnam goes full circle with Fifty Shades of Grey, One Direction readers One Direction slash on Tumblr, we meet Raising My Rainbow
Ryan Steele talks with Out about his upcoming movie, Five Dances, in which he plays an 18-year-old ballet dancer from Kansas who leaves his life behind to head to New York to pursue his dream and has an affair with another dancer. He’s not worried about the steamy nature of the movie. “I don’t think it’s anything that’ll hurt my career. It just might give me a different sort of fan base. Dancers have a certain amount of comfort that’s a little weird to normal people. We’re physical people. We’re always changing in front of each other. There are no secrets in a dance company.”
Teen Mom Farrah Abraham, who did her own porn film with James Deen was asked...
Ryan Steele talks with Out about his upcoming movie, Five Dances, in which he plays an 18-year-old ballet dancer from Kansas who leaves his life behind to head to New York to pursue his dream and has an affair with another dancer. He’s not worried about the steamy nature of the movie. “I don’t think it’s anything that’ll hurt my career. It just might give me a different sort of fan base. Dancers have a certain amount of comfort that’s a little weird to normal people. We’re physical people. We’re always changing in front of each other. There are no secrets in a dance company.”
Teen Mom Farrah Abraham, who did her own porn film with James Deen was asked...
- 9/4/2013
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Like any young person who comes to New York City to make their dreams come alive, those who strive to become dancers set themselves up for a life of heartache, hard work, competition, and tears. But at the end of the day, there’s joy and worth in what they do, as shown in the trailer for Alan Brown‘s Five Dances, the story of one such young man who does just that: makes his way to the big city on a dance scholarship to work his way up in the contemporary dance world. Black Swan this is not; the dancers make no allegations that they are perfect specimens, nor does the trailer show them undergoing any rigid standards that you usually see in dance movies. In fact, our dance hero’s main stressors come from the outside world, in the form of family troubles back home and sexual tension with co-workers. Maybe...
- 8/22/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Taking the path of being a dancer doesn't just require physical fortitude, but mental strength as well. It's an arena that's fiercely competitive, where only the very top performers have even a shot at making a career and opportunities for longevity are few and far between. And outside forces—a new relationship, a troubled family life—can shake the foundation of the pillar of resolve needed to succeed. And that's where "Five Dances" comes in. Starring Ryan Steele, Reed Luplau, Catherine Miller, Kimiye Corwin and Luke Murphy and directed by Alan Brown, the film chronicles the coming of age tale of a gifted young dancer, recently arrived in New York City, and his first love and work in the downtown contemporary dance world. Casting actual dancers and shooting in a Soho dance studio, the films aims to capture the real vibrancy and creative spirit of that world, and judging by the trailer of the film,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Rural Russian film takes top prize at Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Russian director Alexander Fedorchenko’s Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari received the Grand Prix and a €20,000 ($27,000) cash prize at the 13th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 18-28) in Wroclaw.
The decision by the International jury, headed by Hungary’s Bela Tarr and including Polish film-maker Joanna Kos-Krauze and Berlinale Forum director Christoph Terhechte, was announced ahead of the Polish premiere of Malgorzata Szumowska’s In The Name Of on Saturday evening.
Fedorchenko’s film had its world premiere at last year’s Rome Film Festival.
Review: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
In June, it won three awards - best script, best cinematography and the Prize of the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics - at the Kinotavr “Open Russian” Film Festival in Sochi.
The $2m production by Fedorchenko’s 29 February Film Company explores the myths of the Russian...
Russian director Alexander Fedorchenko’s Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari received the Grand Prix and a €20,000 ($27,000) cash prize at the 13th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 18-28) in Wroclaw.
The decision by the International jury, headed by Hungary’s Bela Tarr and including Polish film-maker Joanna Kos-Krauze and Berlinale Forum director Christoph Terhechte, was announced ahead of the Polish premiere of Malgorzata Szumowska’s In The Name Of on Saturday evening.
Fedorchenko’s film had its world premiere at last year’s Rome Film Festival.
Review: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
In June, it won three awards - best script, best cinematography and the Prize of the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics - at the Kinotavr “Open Russian” Film Festival in Sochi.
The $2m production by Fedorchenko’s 29 February Film Company explores the myths of the Russian...
- 7/29/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
David here, with an interview from Private Romeo director Alan Brown on his latest film Five Dances, which opened this year's Fringe! Film Festival in London, a celebration of multiple queer films and artists.
Chip (Ryan Steele) and Theo (Reed Luplau)
‘I purposely wanted to test myself – I wanted to work in a freer environment. And it was terrifying - purposely so!’ Alan Brown laughs as he describes the genesis of his latest feature. Five Dances received its European premiere as the opening night of the third London Fringe! Film Festival, a volunteer-run festival that has quickly grown in stature since 2011.
Five Dances is Brown’s fourth feature, following the great success of his homo-Shakespeare adaptation Private Romeo, currently available to watch instantly on Netflix. Brown slides together dance and drama as he tells the story of Chip (Ryan Steele), a young dancer who’s moved from smalltown Kansas to...
Chip (Ryan Steele) and Theo (Reed Luplau)
‘I purposely wanted to test myself – I wanted to work in a freer environment. And it was terrifying - purposely so!’ Alan Brown laughs as he describes the genesis of his latest feature. Five Dances received its European premiere as the opening night of the third London Fringe! Film Festival, a volunteer-run festival that has quickly grown in stature since 2011.
Five Dances is Brown’s fourth feature, following the great success of his homo-Shakespeare adaptation Private Romeo, currently available to watch instantly on Netflix. Brown slides together dance and drama as he tells the story of Chip (Ryan Steele), a young dancer who’s moved from smalltown Kansas to...
- 4/16/2013
- by Dave
- FilmExperience
Tla Releasing has acquired the Us, UK, and French speaking European rights to Alan Brown's contemporary dance drama "Five Dances". The film will see a theatrical release this spring and will be followed by a DVD and VOD release. Derek Curl, Tla Releasing President, said, "Alan Brown has made an original, moving and modern film which we are sure will speak to our core audience and far beyond." The film captures the experience of Chip, a dancer who begins his journey with a New York dance company after having left behind his family and former life for the city. 'Five Dances' follows his emotional transition from fear of the unknown to the exhilaration of a perfectly executed performance. 'Five Dances' made its debut as the opening night film at the 2013 Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center.
- 2/13/2013
- by Cristina A. Gonzalez
- Indiewire
It seems the only thing I've ever written about Olly Murs is how famous his bulge is in the UK. Beyond that, I really knew nothing about him, until now. When Heat magazine inquired about the source of that bulge, Olly claims to be packing a whopping 13cm. For those of us not on the metric system, that's about 5.2 inches, which doesn't seem to match up with the physical evidence.
As the details of the encounters with Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash and accuser number three come out, the claims are fairly shocking, with tales of alcohol and role playing that emphasized the difference in ages between Clash and the sixteen year old. I keep hoping this isn't true.
Slate posits that the rise in marriage equality hasn't made the United States queerer, if anything it's made the gay community more bourgeois. The recent vote to ban public nudity in San Francisco is used as evidence,...
As the details of the encounters with Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash and accuser number three come out, the claims are fairly shocking, with tales of alcohol and role playing that emphasized the difference in ages between Clash and the sixteen year old. I keep hoping this isn't true.
Slate posits that the rise in marriage equality hasn't made the United States queerer, if anything it's made the gay community more bourgeois. The recent vote to ban public nudity in San Francisco is used as evidence,...
- 11/29/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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. "Five Dances" Tweetable Logline: A coming-of-age portrait of a talented young dancer who leaves behind a troubled family life to join a small dance troupe in New York City. Elevator Pitch: A coming-of-age portrait of a talented young dancer who leaves behind a troubled family life to join a small dance troupe in New York City, Five Dances is a creatively adventurous feature film by award-winning writer-director Alan Brown. The film features five of New York's most gifted dancers acting on film for the very first time, and performing the choreography of internationally acclaimed choreographer Jonah Bokaer. Production Team: Alan Brown - Director Agathe David-Weill -Producer Derek McKane - Cinematographer Jarrah.
- 6/7/2012
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Ryan Reynolds is in final discussions to play the title role in the reboot of Highlander. I used to love the television show, but this feels like another unnecessary reboot.
The NAACP has passed a resolution supporting marriage equality. “Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,” says NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous.
As the Facebook Ipo fizzled (funny how a magic $100 billion appearing is a fizzle), Bono was reportedly set to reap a lot of money through his Elevation Partners, which purchased 2.3% of the company two years ago. Word was, he'd become the world's richest musician, surpassing Sir Paul McCartney's $1 billion net worth. But Bono says that the stock is owned by many partners, and the news of his ascension to billionaire is grossly exaggerated.
As sentencing approaches for Dharun Ravi in the death of Tyler Clementi, support for leniency is appearing from many gay voices,...
The NAACP has passed a resolution supporting marriage equality. “Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,” says NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous.
As the Facebook Ipo fizzled (funny how a magic $100 billion appearing is a fizzle), Bono was reportedly set to reap a lot of money through his Elevation Partners, which purchased 2.3% of the company two years ago. Word was, he'd become the world's richest musician, surpassing Sir Paul McCartney's $1 billion net worth. But Bono says that the stock is owned by many partners, and the news of his ascension to billionaire is grossly exaggerated.
As sentencing approaches for Dharun Ravi in the death of Tyler Clementi, support for leniency is appearing from many gay voices,...
- 5/20/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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