"What is wrong with you?!" Oscope Labs & Factory 25 has debuted an official trailer for an indie satirical comedy titled The Misogynists, the latest from filmmaker Onur Tukel. This premiered at a few smaller film festivals in 2017, but has been quietly awaiting release ever since. Mostly because it's about two assholes and comes with a title as blatant as "The Misogynists". In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 general election, two Trump supporters celebrate the results. "Led by Dylan Baker's gleefully deranged performance, Tukel's tongue-in-cheek exploration of a divided America digs deep into the night's mass existential crisis and uncovers some disquieting truths." In addition to Dylan Baker, this also stars Trieste Kelly Dunn, Ivana Milicevic, Lou Jay Taylor, Matt Walton, Christine Campbell, Nana Mensah, Rudy De La Cruz, Cynthia Thomas, Darrill Rosen, Karl Jacob, and Matt Hopkins. "The makers of this film would like to...
- 2/7/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A decade ago, Arin Crumley was a trailblazing filmmaker at the epicenter of the American Diy movement. “Four Eyed Monsters,” the semi-fictionalized look at his digital relationship with co-director Susan Buice, gained an online following through its web series; it eventually generated an international fan base and became a groundbreaking example of crowdsourcing for the creative community.
After Crumley and Buice parted ways, Crumley faced the usual filmmaker pressures to produce something new. In keeping with his “Four Eyed Monsters” trajectory, he rejected offers from agents and leading producers, choosing another ambitious and unorthodox project: “Matter Out of Place,” which he envisioned as a group effort to create a semi-fictionalized drama at the center of Burning Man, the annual communal art gathering in Black Rock Desert.
This time, it didn’t go so well. Crumley found himself swept up in myriad complications that turned his experimental production into a microbudget “Apocalypse Now.
After Crumley and Buice parted ways, Crumley faced the usual filmmaker pressures to produce something new. In keeping with his “Four Eyed Monsters” trajectory, he rejected offers from agents and leading producers, choosing another ambitious and unorthodox project: “Matter Out of Place,” which he envisioned as a group effort to create a semi-fictionalized drama at the center of Burning Man, the annual communal art gathering in Black Rock Desert.
This time, it didn’t go so well. Crumley found himself swept up in myriad complications that turned his experimental production into a microbudget “Apocalypse Now.
- 8/26/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Karl Jacob is the writer and director of “Cold November,” a feature film about a 12-year-old girl being raised by women who is taken through her first deer hunt starring the magnetic breakout actress Bijou Abas. The film is available on iTunes, Amazon and Vimeo on Demand now.
The first film I co-directed, “Pollywogs,” played at the La Film Festival in 2013. There is one scene in the movie where three family members are casually putting away guns after target practice. As a director, this action was a natural choice, since it provided a reasonable backdrop for the conversation the characters were having about a bad breakup that turned angry, but not violent.
After our premiere screening, there were several viewers that were not only taken aback, but wholly disturbed by the casual treatment the guns received in that scene. They also were confused that no one got hurt by one of the weapons.
The first film I co-directed, “Pollywogs,” played at the La Film Festival in 2013. There is one scene in the movie where three family members are casually putting away guns after target practice. As a director, this action was a natural choice, since it provided a reasonable backdrop for the conversation the characters were having about a bad breakup that turned angry, but not violent.
After our premiere screening, there were several viewers that were not only taken aback, but wholly disturbed by the casual treatment the guns received in that scene. They also were confused that no one got hurt by one of the weapons.
- 5/25/2018
- by Karl Jacob
- Indiewire
Excusive: Ira prison break drama to get private screening on Croisette.
Visit Films heads to Cannes with a sales slate that includes Ira thriller Maze, SXSW selections M.F.A. and Flesh And Blood, and Us coming-of-age drama Cold November.
Ryan Kampe will also be talking up recent Sundance and Rotterdam selections Family Life and Columbus, and Sundance and Berlinale selection Dayveon.
Kampe has scheduled a private buyers’ screening for Maze starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward, and Martin McCann. Lionsgate will distributes in the UK and a number of territories are pre-sold.
The thriller chronicles the mass break-out in 1983 of 38 prisoners from the Maze high security prison.
The film focuses on Larry Marley, the chief architect of the escape, who strikes up a complex friendship with Gordon, a prison warden.
Stephen Burke directs and Jane Doolan of Mammoth Films and Brendan J. Byrne of Cyprus Avenue Films serve as producers. The Irish Film Board, Film Väst, Rte...
Visit Films heads to Cannes with a sales slate that includes Ira thriller Maze, SXSW selections M.F.A. and Flesh And Blood, and Us coming-of-age drama Cold November.
Ryan Kampe will also be talking up recent Sundance and Rotterdam selections Family Life and Columbus, and Sundance and Berlinale selection Dayveon.
Kampe has scheduled a private buyers’ screening for Maze starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward, and Martin McCann. Lionsgate will distributes in the UK and a number of territories are pre-sold.
The thriller chronicles the mass break-out in 1983 of 38 prisoners from the Maze high security prison.
The film focuses on Larry Marley, the chief architect of the escape, who strikes up a complex friendship with Gordon, a prison warden.
Stephen Burke directs and Jane Doolan of Mammoth Films and Brendan J. Byrne of Cyprus Avenue Films serve as producers. The Irish Film Board, Film Väst, Rte...
- 5/12/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A clip from Micheal Bafaro's Wrecker reminds us that road rage can be deadly. Also in this round-up: a new trailer for the film Applesauce and a call for entries to the Silver Scream Fest, featuring the 35th anniversary screening of An American Werewolf in London.
Wrecker: "Best friends Emily and Lesley go on a road trip to the desert. When Emily decides to get off the highway and take a “short cut,” they become the target of a relentless and psychotic trucker who forces them to play a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Directed By: Micheal Bafaro. Story By: Evan Tylor and Micheal Bafaro. Screenplay By: Micheal Bafaro. Cast: Anna Hutchison and Drea Whitburn."
Distributed by XLrator Media, Wrecker hits theaters, VOD, and iTunes on November 6th.
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Applesauce: Press Release: "In rising filmmaker Onur Tukel's latest provocative comedy-drama Applesauce, a married man is...
Wrecker: "Best friends Emily and Lesley go on a road trip to the desert. When Emily decides to get off the highway and take a “short cut,” they become the target of a relentless and psychotic trucker who forces them to play a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Directed By: Micheal Bafaro. Story By: Evan Tylor and Micheal Bafaro. Screenplay By: Micheal Bafaro. Cast: Anna Hutchison and Drea Whitburn."
Distributed by XLrator Media, Wrecker hits theaters, VOD, and iTunes on November 6th.
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Applesauce: Press Release: "In rising filmmaker Onur Tukel's latest provocative comedy-drama Applesauce, a married man is...
- 11/4/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Read More: Tribeca Review: New York Comedy is Rarely More Scathing Than Onur Tukel's 'Applesauce' A married man is severely tested after a string of twisted, mysterious and frightening events in rising filmmaker Onur Tukel's latest dark comedy. "Applesauce." The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and co-stars Max Casella, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Dylan Baker, Jennifer Prediger and Karl Jacob. The official film synopsis reads: "Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites his listeners to call in and share 'the worst thing they've ever done.' Tonight, Ron Welz (Tukel) is ready to share his story. But soon after he confesses on the air, someone starts sending him severed body parts. Ron becomes paranoid, terrified. His life begins to unravel. His marriage begins to fall apart. He has no idea who's tormenting him. Is it his insolent high school student? Is it his best friend?...
- 11/3/2015
- by Sonya Saepoff
- Indiewire
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
"Pollywogs," the semi-autobiographical improvisational comedy that premiered at last year's Los Angeles Film Festival, is being released by Godigital beginning today on various VOD platforms, including Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, iTunes, PlayStation and Xbox. But there's one scene from the film that you can only see here -- because it was cut from the final version of the film. "Pollywogs" marks actor ("The Roost," "Young American Bodies") and producer ("Happy New Year") Karl Jacob's directorial debut (he co-directed with T. Arthur Cottam). Jacob also wrote the film and plays the lead character, Dylan, who, on the heels of a bitter breakup, returns home to Minnesota for a family reunion where he runs into his childhood sweetheart, Sarah (Kate Lyn Sheil, soon to be seen in season two of "House of Cards"). The deleted scene features "Girls" actor Alex Karpovsky as Dylan's friend who recently embraced his Judaism. Jacob...
- 2/11/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Thirty-something Dylan is reeling from a bitter breakup when he travels to Minnesota for a family reunion. His childhood love, Sarah, also returns to their hometown after leaving with her family for years to a religious compound. After not seeing each other for 18 years, will her appearance add to his heartache or will it heal his wounds in “Pollywogs”? “Pollywogs” is premiering and is one of the entries in the narrative competition at this year’s Los Angeles Film Fest. With the film, Karl Jacob, who plays Dylan and is a producer, makes his feature film writing and directing (he co-directed with T. Arthur Cottam) debut that was largely inspired by a rough break-up that he went through. The Virginia, Minn. native had always wanted to do a film in home state, particularly northern Minnesota, and spotlight its culture.
- 6/19/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Recovering from yet another failed relationship, Dylan (Karl Jacob) retreats back to his rural Minnesota hometown for a family reunion. Upon arrival, idyllic memories of Sarah -- Dylan's first love at age ten -- rush straight to his head; then, as fate would have it, Sarah (Kate Lyn Sheil) appears at Dylan's family reunion. They have not seen each other for 18 years, yet they both have held onto idealized fantasies about what it would be like to reunite. That is a heck of a lot of pressure for two single people who may or may not be wanting to fall back in love. Dylan and Sarah form a cute foursome with Dylan's cousin Julie (Jennifer Prediger) and her husband Bo (Larry Mitchell), which temporarily eases the romantic pressure. Luckily, they have plenty of booze and weed to calm their nerves and a sauna to steam things up. The drastic juxtaposition...
- 6/18/2013
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Check out this exclusive clip from Karl Jacob and T. Arthur Cottam's "Pollywogs," making its world premiere in the Narrative Competition lineup at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 14. The film centers on a young man, Dylan (Jacob), who heads for a rural family reunion following a nasty breakup. In the below clip, Dylan meets Sarah (rising indie actress Kate Lyn Sheil), who he grew up with, and the attraction is palpable. The film was shot on location in the woods of Minnesota. More info on "Pollywogs" is here.
- 6/13/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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