Taking place in the shadows of the Greater Toronto area and a liminal space of poverty, Scarborough isn’t an easy film to shake. A local, low-budget indie premiering in TIFF’s Discovery section, written by Catherine Hernandez (based on her novel) and directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson, the film traces three turbulent childhoods of three families grappling with a system that has set them up to fail and fall through the cracks. Opening with late-night escapes from abusive situations and into housing insecurity, it bursts with a raw immediacy. Shot and edited by co-director Rich Williamson, he brings a Frederick Wiseman-esque sensibility to certain moments within formal institutions—doctors’ offices and a daycare that become a sanctuary beyond their intention.
Scarborough primarily focuses on three young children: Bing (Liam Diaz), a gifted Filipino boy ushered away from his mentally ill father by his loving mother; Laura...
Scarborough primarily focuses on three young children: Bing (Liam Diaz), a gifted Filipino boy ushered away from his mentally ill father by his loving mother; Laura...
- 9/16/2021
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Festival top brass announced on Monday the 12 Narrative and eight Documentary Feature Film Competition films in 22nd edition, set to run in Park City from January 22-28, 2016.
The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.
All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.
Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.
“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.
“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”
All synopses provided by the festival.
Narrative Features...
The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.
All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.
Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.
“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.
“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”
All synopses provided by the festival.
Narrative Features...
- 11/30/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Festival top brass announced on Monday the 12 Narrative and eight Documentary Feature Film Competition films in 22nd edition, set to run in Park City from January 22-28, 2016.
The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.
All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.
Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.
“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.
“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”
Al synopses provided by the festival.
Narrative Features...
The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.
All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.
Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.
“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.
“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”
Al synopses provided by the festival.
Narrative Features...
- 11/30/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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. "Weekend Warrior" Tweetable Logline: Bobby Reddick decides to join the part-time army as a form of therapy. Elevator Pitch: Set on a non-existent Canadian military base, this film follows Bobby Reddick as he tries to adjust to life in the army, and the friction he encounters when his commanding officer discovers he's abusing the system for his own personal therapy. Production Team: Writer/Director/Actor - Lyndon Casey (Captain Coulier - Sundance) Producer - Shasha Nakhai (The Sugar Bowl, Joe) Cinematographer - Rich Williamson (The Sugar Bowl, Where Does It Go From Here) Actor - Dillon Casey (The Vow, Nikita, Vampire Diaries, Remedy, Mvp, Captain Coulier) Actor - Conor Casey (Mouthful - SXSW,...
- 11/28/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Tribeca: Will Forte on Going Dramatic for 'Run & Jump' and Alexander Payne's Cannes Drama 'Nebraska'
Comedic actors making a move to more dramatic fare is nothing new. Still, few might have guessed that Will Forte, the "Saturday Night Live" alum best known for the show's film spinoff "MacGruber" and appearances as a cross-dresser in "30 Rock," would join the herd. In Steph Green's feature film debut "Run & Jump" (a follow-up to her Oscar-nominated short "New Boy"), playing at the currently underway Tribeca Film Festival, Forte gives an understated turn that harks back to Steve Carell's surprising one in "Dan in Real Life." The film is an intimate portrait of an Irish family led by Vanetia and Conor Casey (Maxine Peake and Edward MacLiam) who find their life in turmoil when Conor suffers an unexpected stroke, changing his personality. A buttoned-up, calming American doctor (Forte) enters the fray when he stays with the family on a research grant to document their recovery process, upending the family's dynamics.
- 4/23/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
New York — Crossing the Atlantic to make his dramatic debut, Will Forte finds an ideal vehicle in Steph Green's Run & Jump, playing a brain researcher who gets more involved than expected with the family of an Irish stroke victim. The actor's name will draw attention to the film (which also marks Green's debut and that of co-screenwriter Ailbhe Keogan), but Run feels not a bit like a credibility-earning vanity project and should find admirers at fests and beyond. Forte's Ted Fielding, planning to write a paper on a man (Edward MacLiam's Conor Casey) whose stroke put
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- 4/23/2013
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Steph Green first caught our attention as the director of the Oscar-nominated short film "New Boy," adapted from a Roddy Doyle short story. Her follow-up feature, "Run & Jump," will hit the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20th, and we have an exclusive first look at the poster for the film starring Will Forte. The film is an intimate portrait of an Irish family led by Vanetia and Conor Casey (Maxine Peake and Edward MacLiam) who find their life in turmoil when Conor suffers an unexpected stroke, changing his personality. A buttoned-up, calming American doctor (Will Forte) enters the fray when he stays with the family on a research grant to document their recovery process, upending the family's dynamics. It's a rare dramatic performance "Saturday Night Live" vet Forte, which is intriguing all in itself. You can check out the poster below.
- 4/8/2013
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
Robert G. Putka‘s Mouthful and Jared Varava‘s Tumbleweed! are two short films that have been selected to screen at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival, which will run in Austin, TX on March 9-17.
Mouthful is Putka’s second short film, a verbally raunchy comedy starring Eilis Cahill and Conor Casey as a young couple whose relationship becomes strained thanks to an overly frank discussion about their sexual histories. The film was recently reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film saying “one shouldn’t assume too much how the premise of a young man and woman discussing [male] anatomy will play out.”
Putka has also mounted an IndieGoGo campaign to help fund his filmmaking team’s trip to SXSW and for marketing material, such as posters, T-shirts, press kits and such. If you want to help out, please visit the Mouthful IndieGoGo page.
Tumbleweed! is the latest collaboration between...
Mouthful is Putka’s second short film, a verbally raunchy comedy starring Eilis Cahill and Conor Casey as a young couple whose relationship becomes strained thanks to an overly frank discussion about their sexual histories. The film was recently reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film saying “one shouldn’t assume too much how the premise of a young man and woman discussing [male] anatomy will play out.”
Putka has also mounted an IndieGoGo campaign to help fund his filmmaking team’s trip to SXSW and for marketing material, such as posters, T-shirts, press kits and such. If you want to help out, please visit the Mouthful IndieGoGo page.
Tumbleweed! is the latest collaboration between...
- 2/10/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Yes, by the title you can pretty much assume which part of the male anatomy Robert G. Putka‘s short comedy Mouthful will be primarily concerned with. However, one shouldn’t assume too much how the premise of a young man and woman discussing that anatomy will play out.
Putka essentially restages the same set-up as his previous short film, Hooka Face and the Virgin Boy. In Mouthful, another sexually anxious young man, Bobby (Conor Casey), gets pummelled with his own insecurities by a more experienced woman, Bliss (Eilis Cahill).
Despite Bobby and Bliss appearing to be about the same age — late teens to early ’20s — Bliss, we come to learn is way more emotionally mature than her anxiety-ridden boyfriend. Their maturity levels are so off that, in some ways, it appears that the two have, in fact, swapped gender roles.
In comedies, a man and a woman hanging out...
Putka essentially restages the same set-up as his previous short film, Hooka Face and the Virgin Boy. In Mouthful, another sexually anxious young man, Bobby (Conor Casey), gets pummelled with his own insecurities by a more experienced woman, Bliss (Eilis Cahill).
Despite Bobby and Bliss appearing to be about the same age — late teens to early ’20s — Bliss, we come to learn is way more emotionally mature than her anxiety-ridden boyfriend. Their maturity levels are so off that, in some ways, it appears that the two have, in fact, swapped gender roles.
In comedies, a man and a woman hanging out...
- 1/20/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Embedded above is a teaser clip from the upcoming short comedy Mouthful, directed by Robert G. Putka. It’s funny and well-acted, so check it out.
Although Putka has blogged fairly regularly about the making of the film, he’s been particularly mum on the details. The clip above gives a little more detail, but not much.
The director previously made the uncomfortable sexual awakening comedy Hooka Face and the Virgin Boy; and Mouthful seems to at least be following along those same lines.
But, what makes Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film particularly excited about seeing the full and complete Mouthful is that the female lead in the clip is actress Eilis Cahill, whose performance we really enjoyed in Andrew Semans’ awkward teen romance All Day Long. It looks like she’s putting in another thoughtful acting job here.
The male lead is Conor Casey, whom we’re unfamiliar with,...
Although Putka has blogged fairly regularly about the making of the film, he’s been particularly mum on the details. The clip above gives a little more detail, but not much.
The director previously made the uncomfortable sexual awakening comedy Hooka Face and the Virgin Boy; and Mouthful seems to at least be following along those same lines.
But, what makes Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film particularly excited about seeing the full and complete Mouthful is that the female lead in the clip is actress Eilis Cahill, whose performance we really enjoyed in Andrew Semans’ awkward teen romance All Day Long. It looks like she’s putting in another thoughtful acting job here.
The male lead is Conor Casey, whom we’re unfamiliar with,...
- 9/9/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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