Leilah Weinraub’s 2018 Shakedown, which began playing Metrograph on June 17th (and has been held over through June 30th due to high demand), has been touted by Variety as the “the first-ever non-adult film” to be picked up by Pornhub. Yet it could also be called the sex site’s first-ever Berlinale-premiering and Tate/Ica/MoMA PS1/Whitney Biennial-screened acquisition. And likely the smut streamer’s first-ever labor of love release as well. Indeed, Shakedown is a film that defies any easy categorization. Ostensibly a longform cinematic exploration (crafted over 15 years starting in 2002) of the titular, mid-city, Los Angeles, Black lesbian strip club, the doc […]
The post “I Can’t Afford to Let Cliches Live in the Cinema I Make”: Leilah Weinraub on Shakedown first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Can’t Afford to Let Cliches Live in the Cinema I Make”: Leilah Weinraub on Shakedown first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 6/28/2022
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Leilah Weinraub’s 2018 Shakedown, which began playing Metrograph on June 17th (and has been held over through June 30th due to high demand), has been touted by Variety as the “the first-ever non-adult film” to be picked up by Pornhub. Yet it could also be called the sex site’s first-ever Berlinale-premiering and Tate/Ica/MoMA PS1/Whitney Biennial-screened acquisition. And likely the smut streamer’s first-ever labor of love release as well. Indeed, Shakedown is a film that defies any easy categorization. Ostensibly a longform cinematic exploration (crafted over 15 years starting in 2002) of the titular, mid-city, Los Angeles, Black lesbian strip club, the doc […]
The post “I Can’t Afford to Let Cliches Live in the Cinema I Make”: Leilah Weinraub on Shakedown first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Can’t Afford to Let Cliches Live in the Cinema I Make”: Leilah Weinraub on Shakedown first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 6/28/2022
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Julia Oh has been hired by 2Am, the full-service production and management company founded by Christine D’Souza Gelb, David Hinojosa and Kevin Rowe, as a producer.
Oh will be based in NY with the company’s production team, working alongside Hinojosa and Zach Nutman.
2Am’s film and TV production division, overseen by Hinojosa, is currently in post-production on Halina Reijn’s English-language debut, Bodies Bodies Bodies, starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, and Pete Davidson, and on Emmy winner Billy Porter’s directorial debut, What If?, at Orion Pictures. It’s also finishing principal photography on Past Lives, a feature drama written and directed by Celine Song.
The company’s management division represents such acclaimed writers and directors as Amalia Ulman (El Planeta), Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version), Ari Aster (Hereditary), Janicza Bravo (Zola), Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), Kota Eberhardt (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Leilah Weinraub (The Shakedown...
Oh will be based in NY with the company’s production team, working alongside Hinojosa and Zach Nutman.
2Am’s film and TV production division, overseen by Hinojosa, is currently in post-production on Halina Reijn’s English-language debut, Bodies Bodies Bodies, starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, and Pete Davidson, and on Emmy winner Billy Porter’s directorial debut, What If?, at Orion Pictures. It’s also finishing principal photography on Past Lives, a feature drama written and directed by Celine Song.
The company’s management division represents such acclaimed writers and directors as Amalia Ulman (El Planeta), Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version), Ari Aster (Hereditary), Janicza Bravo (Zola), Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), Kota Eberhardt (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Leilah Weinraub (The Shakedown...
- 11/11/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Mubi has unveiled their lineup for next month, featuring the exclusive streaming premiere of Frederick Wiseman’s masterful documentary City Hall, the late Monte Hellman’s final film Road to Nowhere, a trio of works by Stephen Cone, two films by Alain Resnais, the multi-month series Sex, Truth, and Videotape: French Feminist Activism, and Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant.
As a special addition in addition to the regular programming listed below, the new restoration of Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris will be available as a free presentation celebrating Juneteenth, from June 18-19. Timed with the release of his latest gem Undine, a Christian Petzold retrospective continues with his earlier, essential films Yella, Barbara, Ostwärts, and The Warm Money.
Check out the lineup below, with links to reviews where available, and get 30 days of Mubi for free here. One can also check back for our new streaming picks every Friday here.
As a special addition in addition to the regular programming listed below, the new restoration of Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris will be available as a free presentation celebrating Juneteenth, from June 18-19. Timed with the release of his latest gem Undine, a Christian Petzold retrospective continues with his earlier, essential films Yella, Barbara, Ostwärts, and The Warm Money.
Check out the lineup below, with links to reviews where available, and get 30 days of Mubi for free here. One can also check back for our new streaming picks every Friday here.
- 5/19/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
More than 50 years since black protestors first attempted to walk with protestors across a bridge in Selma—a bridge where they were met with violence and bloodshed at the hands of local authorities—it appears much and little has changed in American life. Millions make that connection each day as we head into the second weekend of protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Maybe that’s why some are eager to revisit the history of this American experience.
Hence Paramount Pictures announced Friday it is making Ava DuVernay’s Selma available for free across all major content platforms. This means you can watch the movie on Amazon, Apple, YouTube, or streamer of your choice.
“We hope this small gesture will encourage people throughout the country to examine our nation’s history and reflect on the ways that racial injustice has infected our society,” Paramount said in a statement.
Hence Paramount Pictures announced Friday it is making Ava DuVernay’s Selma available for free across all major content platforms. This means you can watch the movie on Amazon, Apple, YouTube, or streamer of your choice.
“We hope this small gesture will encourage people throughout the country to examine our nation’s history and reflect on the ways that racial injustice has infected our society,” Paramount said in a statement.
- 6/5/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The Criterion Collection on Thursday joined the wave of industry supporters who’ve come out in the past week to help fight systemic racism, and help advocate for police reform and support protesters across America. From A24 to Bad Robot, film’s leading voices are stepping up in response to current events. In an email from Criterion president Peter Becker and CEO Jonathan Turell, the company announced a $25,000 initial contribution, followed by an ongoing $5,000 monthly commitment for organizations supporting Black Lives Matter.
But Criterion also announced that it’s lifting the paywall on select titles from Black filmmakers, and white filmmakers who’ve captured the Black experience through documentary, so that audiences at home can stream them for free, with no need for a subscription.
Titles streaming for free on Criterion Channel include Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust,” Maya Angelou’s “Down in the Delta,” Shirley Clarke’s “Portrait of Jason,...
But Criterion also announced that it’s lifting the paywall on select titles from Black filmmakers, and white filmmakers who’ve captured the Black experience through documentary, so that audiences at home can stream them for free, with no need for a subscription.
Titles streaming for free on Criterion Channel include Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust,” Maya Angelou’s “Down in the Delta,” Shirley Clarke’s “Portrait of Jason,...
- 6/4/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Like many of us stuck at home, moviedom — or our recent virtual version of it — has been rummaging through the archives intrigued by films it never quite made the time for. So consider the streaming of Leilah Weinraub’s “Shakedown” (which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018) an example of a movie surfacing to the top when it likely deserved our attention from the get-go.
With archival images and footage the director-cinematographer shot over the span of a decade, “Shakedown” documents the life of the itinerant Los Angeles strip club of the title. The club-within-a-club catered to a black lesbian clientele during the ’90s and early aughts. In March, . (The site even hosted live chats with Weinraub.) “Shakedown” was subsequently offered to stream via the subscription-based Criterion Channel.
Okay, maybe a spit-take feels warranted: an adult entertainment online depot and a cinephile hub, really!? The overlap likely says something...
With archival images and footage the director-cinematographer shot over the span of a decade, “Shakedown” documents the life of the itinerant Los Angeles strip club of the title. The club-within-a-club catered to a black lesbian clientele during the ’90s and early aughts. In March, . (The site even hosted live chats with Weinraub.) “Shakedown” was subsequently offered to stream via the subscription-based Criterion Channel.
Okay, maybe a spit-take feels warranted: an adult entertainment online depot and a cinephile hub, really!? The overlap likely says something...
- 6/4/2020
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
Digital juggernaut Pornhub has offered itself as a streaming partner to Germany’s Oldenburg Film Festival, a 26-year-old indie movie event known for edgy programming and quirky celebrity tributes.
The offer, extended by Pornhub vice president Corey Price, comes nearly a week after the festival announced it will forge ahead as planned for a September run. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the festival is aiming for a combination of physical and virtual screenings. The move is yet another recent sign of Pornhub’s seriousness about participating in mainstream cinema.
While the festival has a lower profile than its sisters in Berlin and Munich, it is labelled by some as Germany’s Sundance, and touts an “openness to extremes” on its website. It’s also got history with Pornhub, having premiered an original short from the company called “Her & Him” in 2019, directed by former Disney star Bella Thorne.
“We’d love...
The offer, extended by Pornhub vice president Corey Price, comes nearly a week after the festival announced it will forge ahead as planned for a September run. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the festival is aiming for a combination of physical and virtual screenings. The move is yet another recent sign of Pornhub’s seriousness about participating in mainstream cinema.
While the festival has a lower profile than its sisters in Berlin and Munich, it is labelled by some as Germany’s Sundance, and touts an “openness to extremes” on its website. It’s also got history with Pornhub, having premiered an original short from the company called “Her & Him” in 2019, directed by former Disney star Bella Thorne.
“We’d love...
- 5/13/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
CAA has signed indie studio Memory and its founders, creative director Sebastian Pardo and projects director Riel Roch-Decter, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
Earlier this year Pardo and Roch-Decter received the Cinereach Producer Award, which provides programming, professional development and financial awards to producers of thought-provoking and innovative work. Their most recent feature, Marnie Ellen Hertzler's Crestone, premiered at the True/False Film Fest in march, and their other produced films include Celia Rolson-Hall's Ma, Carson Mell's Another Evil, Dean Fleischer-Camp's Fraud, Theo Anthony's Rat Film and Leilah Weinraub's Shakedown (Pornhub's first non-adult film release). Memory is now in post ...
Earlier this year Pardo and Roch-Decter received the Cinereach Producer Award, which provides programming, professional development and financial awards to producers of thought-provoking and innovative work. Their most recent feature, Marnie Ellen Hertzler's Crestone, premiered at the True/False Film Fest in march, and their other produced films include Celia Rolson-Hall's Ma, Carson Mell's Another Evil, Dean Fleischer-Camp's Fraud, Theo Anthony's Rat Film and Leilah Weinraub's Shakedown (Pornhub's first non-adult film release). Memory is now in post ...
- 4/14/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
CAA has signed indie studio Memory and its founders, creative director Sebastian Pardo and projects director Riel Roch-Decter, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
Earlier this year Pardo and Roch-Decter received the Cinereach Producer Award, which provides programming, professional development and financial awards to producers of thought-provoking and innovative work. Their most recent feature, Marnie Ellen Hertzler's Crestone, premiered at the True/False Film Fest in march, and their other produced films include Celia Rolson-Hall's Ma, Carson Mell's Another Evil, Dean Fleischer-Camp's Fraud, Theo Anthony's Rat Film and Leilah Weinraub's Shakedown (Pornhub's first non-adult film release). Memory is now in post ...
Earlier this year Pardo and Roch-Decter received the Cinereach Producer Award, which provides programming, professional development and financial awards to producers of thought-provoking and innovative work. Their most recent feature, Marnie Ellen Hertzler's Crestone, premiered at the True/False Film Fest in march, and their other produced films include Celia Rolson-Hall's Ma, Carson Mell's Another Evil, Dean Fleischer-Camp's Fraud, Theo Anthony's Rat Film and Leilah Weinraub's Shakedown (Pornhub's first non-adult film release). Memory is now in post ...
- 4/14/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Albertina Carri's The Daughters of Fire is exclusively showing March 23 - April 21, 2020 in Mubi's Undiscovered series.Dating back to making shorts in the late 1990s, Albertina Carri has become a significant iconoclast in Argentine cinema in both realms of fiction and non-fiction films. Film and politics run in her blood and have long informed her confrontational and subversive sensibilities. As a queer woman, sex and gender amid homophobia, sexism, maschismo culture, and the male gaze also inform her work and career, which in addition to filmmaking also has her working within Argentine film culture as a major creative force behind Argentina’s Lgbtq film festival, Asterisco. Her most recent feature, The Daughters of Fire, is provocative in its explicit scenes among a group of queer women in which sex is presented in shockingly honest and upfront detail in fully pornographic splendor.
- 4/3/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSBest known for iconic roles in The Seventh Seal and The Exorcist, Max von Sydow has died at the age of 90. In light of increasing reports on the Covid-19 outbreak, this year's edition of SXSW has been cancelled, bringing with it the heartbreaking layoffs of one third of its employees. Recommended VIEWINGFor the entire month of March, Leilah Weinraub's Shakedown is exclusively available on Pornhub, where Weinraub hopes to reach women audiences. A chat window will be open for users to discuss the film, and Weinraub will drop in once a week to join the conversation. Read Sarah-Tai Black's review of the film upon its 2018 theatrical release here. A new trailer for Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which follows a young girl as she traverses to New York City for an abortion.
- 3/11/2020
- MUBI
First stop Pornhub, next stop Criterion Channel. The Canadian pornography website will release Leilah Weinraub’s art film “Shakedown,” a narrative non-fiction film about a string of pop-up lesbian strip clubs in Los Angeles in the early 2000s. The film has been looking for a home for many years, and has only screened a handful of times, including the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, Tate Modern, and MoMA PS1. “Shakedown” was created from over 400 hours of footage that Weinraub has collected over the past 15 years, incorporating live tapes from the strip club, backstage videos, archival material, flyers, and interviews.
Per the official synopsis: “Capturing the early-aughts underground Los Angeles Black lesbian owned and operated strip club from which the film gets its name, ‘Shakedown’ chronicles the personal and professional relationships of the club’s female performers, the Shakedown Angels. Weinraub maps out an all cash economy run...
Per the official synopsis: “Capturing the early-aughts underground Los Angeles Black lesbian owned and operated strip club from which the film gets its name, ‘Shakedown’ chronicles the personal and professional relationships of the club’s female performers, the Shakedown Angels. Weinraub maps out an all cash economy run...
- 3/3/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Netflix might say they have more than 160 million subscribers worldwide. But can the streaming platform claim that it receives 115 million unique visitors each and every day? You know what streaming service can claim that? Pornhub. And now, the incredibly popular adults-only website is deciding to get into the feature film streaming game with a new documentary titled “Shakedown.”
Read More: Bella Thorne Says She’s “Lucky” To Release Her Directorial Debut On Pornhub As She Describes Filming “Real-Life F–cking”
According to Variety, Pornhub will exclusively stream the new documentary “Shakedown” from director Leilah Weinraub.
Continue reading Pornhub To Exclusively Stream A New Strip Club Documentary Before It Hits Criterion Channel This Spring at The Playlist.
Read More: Bella Thorne Says She’s “Lucky” To Release Her Directorial Debut On Pornhub As She Describes Filming “Real-Life F–cking”
According to Variety, Pornhub will exclusively stream the new documentary “Shakedown” from director Leilah Weinraub.
Continue reading Pornhub To Exclusively Stream A New Strip Club Documentary Before It Hits Criterion Channel This Spring at The Playlist.
- 3/3/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Ubiquitous American pornography website Pornhub is releasing its first ever non-adult film on Wednesday, the company exclusively announced to Variety.
The move places the digital giant, which estimated 42 billion visits to the site last year, in the company of other streamers seeking to expand audiences and diversify its content portfolios. The movie in question is the documentary “Shakedown,” from filmmaker and conceptual artist Leilah Weinraub. It hails from the upper echelons of the art world, where the project enjoyed a prestige rollout in exhibits at the Whitney Museum and MoMA over the last three years.
“Shakedown” is a stream-of-consciousness, nonfiction narrative about the queer women and men who populated the lesbian strip club scene in Los Angeles in the early aughts. It is culled from neatly 15 years of footage shot by Weinraub over her adult life, and offers a humorous, sensual and informative look at a vibrant subculture.
Repped by distributor Grasshopper,...
The move places the digital giant, which estimated 42 billion visits to the site last year, in the company of other streamers seeking to expand audiences and diversify its content portfolios. The movie in question is the documentary “Shakedown,” from filmmaker and conceptual artist Leilah Weinraub. It hails from the upper echelons of the art world, where the project enjoyed a prestige rollout in exhibits at the Whitney Museum and MoMA over the last three years.
“Shakedown” is a stream-of-consciousness, nonfiction narrative about the queer women and men who populated the lesbian strip club scene in Los Angeles in the early aughts. It is culled from neatly 15 years of footage shot by Weinraub over her adult life, and offers a humorous, sensual and informative look at a vibrant subculture.
Repped by distributor Grasshopper,...
- 3/3/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
The Tribeca Film Festival will launch its inaugural Tribeca Celebrates Pride event on May 4 which will include a day of Lgbtq-focused programming of speakers, conversations, and events featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Asia Kate Dillon, John Cameron Mitchell, Raul Castillo, Patti Harrison, Angelica Ross and iconic writer Larry Kramer. The day will celebrates Lgbtq+ culture and honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. It will all conclude with the world premiere of the HBO documentary Wig, which spotlights the art of drag, followed by a performance by the legendary Lady Bunny. The event will also include a curated program of seven Lgbtq+ short films, all of which are playing in competition at the Festival.
“This year, Tribeca will showcase artists who have used storytelling to bring people together around a common goal: inclusivity. We’ve come so far in the fifty years since the Stonewall riots, but there is...
“This year, Tribeca will showcase artists who have used storytelling to bring people together around a common goal: inclusivity. We’ve come so far in the fifty years since the Stonewall riots, but there is...
- 4/9/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the best-curated year-end lists every year comes from the long-running Film Comment magazine and their poll featuring around 100 of their contributors. This year’s list is no different, topped by Lucrecia Martel’s astounding Zama (now on Amazon Prime!) and also featuring Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, Valeska Grisebach’s Western, Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In, Andrew Bujalski’s Support the Girls, and more.
Along with their top 20, they also give a list of the best undistributed films of the year, from Mariano Llinás’s 14-hour epic La Flor to Jodie Mack’s gorgeous feature debut The Grand Bizarre to new films from Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-liang, Lav Diaz, Roberto Minervini, and more. So, distributors take note, and check out both lists below.
Film Comment’s Top 20 Films Released in 2018:
1. Zama Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Brazil/Spain
2. Burning Lee Chang-dong, South Korea
3. First Reformed Paul Schrader,...
Along with their top 20, they also give a list of the best undistributed films of the year, from Mariano Llinás’s 14-hour epic La Flor to Jodie Mack’s gorgeous feature debut The Grand Bizarre to new films from Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-liang, Lav Diaz, Roberto Minervini, and more. So, distributors take note, and check out both lists below.
Film Comment’s Top 20 Films Released in 2018:
1. Zama Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Brazil/Spain
2. Burning Lee Chang-dong, South Korea
3. First Reformed Paul Schrader,...
- 12/12/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Sundance Institute today announced the four filmmakers and six grantees who comprise the 2018 Art of Nonfiction program. Launched in 2018, Art of Nonfiction is the Institutes’s program “working at the vanguard of inventive artistic practice in story, craft and form.” This year’s Art of Nonfiction Fellows are Deborah Stratman, Natalia Almada, Sam Green and Sky Hopinka. Grantees are Jem Cohen, Kevin Jerome Everson, Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Latoya Ruby Frazier and Leilah Weinraub. “This year’s cohort reflects our continuing desire to explore the space in between,” said Tabitha Jackson, Director of the Documentary Film Program, in […]...
- 10/23/2018
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Sundance Institute today announced the four filmmakers and six grantees who comprise the 2018 Art of Nonfiction program. Launched in 2018, Art of Nonfiction is the Institutes’s program “working at the vanguard of inventive artistic practice in story, craft and form.” This year’s Art of Nonfiction Fellows are Deborah Stratman, Natalia Almada, Sam Green and Sky Hopinka. Grantees are Jem Cohen, Kevin Jerome Everson, Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Latoya Ruby Frazier and Leilah Weinraub. “This year’s cohort reflects our continuing desire to explore the space in between,” said Tabitha Jackson, Director of the Documentary Film Program, in […]...
- 10/23/2018
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The Sundance Institutes’ Art of the Nonfiction Program today announced its 2018 fellows and grantees. Launched in 2016 to creatively and financially support filmmakers “exploring inventive artistic practice in story, craft and form,” the program is unusual in that it supports filmmakers and their process, rather than specific projects.
The 2018 Art of Nonfiction Fellows are: Deborah Stratman, Natalia Almada, Sam Green, and Sky Hopinka; biographies at the end of this article. These fellows receive an unrestricted, year-long grant tailored to their creative aspirations and challenges.
The 2018 Art of Nonfiction Fund Grantees are Jem Cohen, Kevin Jerome Everson, Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Latoya Ruby Frazier, and Leilah Weinraub. Each grantee is in the early stages of developing new work. These artists will have access to a range of Sundance Institute programs and opportunities open only to alumni, as well as ongoing strategic and creative support from the Documentary Film Program.
The 2018 Art of Nonfiction Fellows are: Deborah Stratman, Natalia Almada, Sam Green, and Sky Hopinka; biographies at the end of this article. These fellows receive an unrestricted, year-long grant tailored to their creative aspirations and challenges.
The 2018 Art of Nonfiction Fund Grantees are Jem Cohen, Kevin Jerome Everson, Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Latoya Ruby Frazier, and Leilah Weinraub. Each grantee is in the early stages of developing new work. These artists will have access to a range of Sundance Institute programs and opportunities open only to alumni, as well as ongoing strategic and creative support from the Documentary Film Program.
- 10/23/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSStephen Chow and Tsui Hark.Stephen Chow is currently filming King of Comedy 2, the sequel to his 1999 hit King of Comedy (about the blunders and tribulations of an aspiring actor). It is set to be released early 2019, during Chinese New Year. In the same article, China Film Insider also reports that master filmmaker Tsui Hark is mounting an epic Wuxia trilogy entitled Return of The Condor Heroes, based off of the first Wuxia novel he ever read.Grasshopper Film has announced its first music release, a compilation of tracks from the films of Bertrand Bonello: Nocturama, Saint Laurent, and House of Intolerance. Only 500 copies of the vinyl record are available for order here. Recommended VIEWINGThe first arresting trailer for Claire Denis' High Life is here, and it does not disappoint. You can...
- 10/17/2018
- MUBI
Amassed from 300 hours of footage shot almost entirely by director and Hood by Air CEO Leilah Weinraub, the synesthetic vérité documentary Shakedown manages to compress its runtime down to 82 minutes of pure space. Following the eight-year run of its titular, L.A.-based, black lesbian strip-night and underground party series, Shakedown foregoes a tired, conventional documentary structure in favor of a more textural morphology that draws viewers into its world in a way that is at once hypnagogic and lushly formed. Weinraub began documenting Shakedown nights at the age of 23, starting off as the still photographer for the 2000s parties until she began video-recording the Thursday and Friday night performances with an Sd prosumer camcorder. After working with the footage over the course of sixteen years, Weinraub’s mindful handling of her amassed media gives it a captivating collage quality that, rather than flattening and re-articulating its individual parts, is...
- 10/8/2018
- MUBI
Shakedown
This year's Scottish Queer International Film Festival (Sqiff) is to open with Visible, a film exploring the stories of queer trans intersex people of colour, it was announced today. The documentary short will feature as part of a night of Lgbtq+ shorts from around the world, all of them new to Scotland.
Also showing in Scotland for the first time will be Shakedown, the story of Los Angeles' famous all black, women-owned lesbian strip club. Director Leilah Weinraub will attend for a Q&A after the screening. Jason Barker will be at the festival to introduce A Deal With The Universe, about his journey through pregnancy and new parenthood as a trans man,.
Dykes, Camera, Action! + Boom Bust: Feminist Filmmakers Blowing Up the Canon will explore the history of lesbian representation onscreen and the potential for new expressions of queer identity.
Tickets for these events are now on sale.
This year's Scottish Queer International Film Festival (Sqiff) is to open with Visible, a film exploring the stories of queer trans intersex people of colour, it was announced today. The documentary short will feature as part of a night of Lgbtq+ shorts from around the world, all of them new to Scotland.
Also showing in Scotland for the first time will be Shakedown, the story of Los Angeles' famous all black, women-owned lesbian strip club. Director Leilah Weinraub will attend for a Q&A after the screening. Jason Barker will be at the festival to introduce A Deal With The Universe, about his journey through pregnancy and new parenthood as a trans man,.
Dykes, Camera, Action! + Boom Bust: Feminist Filmmakers Blowing Up the Canon will explore the history of lesbian representation onscreen and the potential for new expressions of queer identity.
Tickets for these events are now on sale.
- 9/26/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Outfest Los Angeles Lgbtq Film Festival has unveiled winners for its 2018 edition that wrapped Sunday, with Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals taking the U.S. Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize and Jamie Patterson’s Tucked scoring the Best Narrative Audience Award among the honors.
Drew Droege, who starred in the Michael Urie-directed Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, won the U.S. Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance. The top documentary winners included T Cooper’s Man Made in the audience category and Jamal Sims’ When the Beat Drops landing the grand jury prize.
The Orchard acquired North American rights to We The Animals, based on Justin Torres’ debut novel, after it took the Next Innovator Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It will hit theaters sometime this year. Tucked, meanwhile, inked an output deal with Gravitas Ventures last week ahead of its world premiere.
Drew Droege, who starred in the Michael Urie-directed Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, won the U.S. Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance. The top documentary winners included T Cooper’s Man Made in the audience category and Jamal Sims’ When the Beat Drops landing the grand jury prize.
The Orchard acquired North American rights to We The Animals, based on Justin Torres’ debut novel, after it took the Next Innovator Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It will hit theaters sometime this year. Tucked, meanwhile, inked an output deal with Gravitas Ventures last week ahead of its world premiere.
- 7/23/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Seán McGovern's continued reporting from the Berlin International Film Festival. Click back to part one if you missed it the opening film "Isle of Dogs". Here are notes on four more films playing at Berlinale 2018.
Shakedown (dir. Leilah Weinraub, 2018)
This slightly chaotic documentary charting the history of a Los Angeles lesbian dance club in the early Aughts is dope-tempered and energetic. Leilah Weinraub's confident and assured filmmaking features several years of footage of Shakedown's nights – the women who performed and the women who watched. There are plenty of anthropological documentaries about queer subcultures, but Weinraub's doc is anything but...
Shakedown (dir. Leilah Weinraub, 2018)
This slightly chaotic documentary charting the history of a Los Angeles lesbian dance club in the early Aughts is dope-tempered and energetic. Leilah Weinraub's confident and assured filmmaking features several years of footage of Shakedown's nights – the women who performed and the women who watched. There are plenty of anthropological documentaries about queer subcultures, but Weinraub's doc is anything but...
- 2/21/2018
- by Seán McGovern
- FilmExperience
At least, that’s what Jezebel.com says. Though, I’m not sure there are that many documentaries about black lesbian strip clubs to compare it to (if I’m wrong about that, feel free to correct me).
The film is called Shakedown, and they’ve got an interview with the director, Leilah Weinraub, which you can read Here.
And then watch the 4 1/2-minute preview of the film in the Kickstarter window below. As the widget underneath the video shows, the project just raised over $25,000 in finishing funds, but I’m sure your donations/contributions would still be welcome, so click to give.
The film is called Shakedown, and they’ve got an interview with the director, Leilah Weinraub, which you can read Here.
And then watch the 4 1/2-minute preview of the film in the Kickstarter window below. As the widget underneath the video shows, the project just raised over $25,000 in finishing funds, but I’m sure your donations/contributions would still be welcome, so click to give.
- 2/4/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
At least, that’s what Jezebel.com says. Though, I’m not sure there are that many documentaries about black lesbian strip clubs to compare it to (if I’m wrong about that, feel free to correct me).
The film is called Shakedown, and they’ve got an interview with the director, Leilah Weinraub, which you can read Here.
And then watch the 4 1/2-minute preview of the film in the Kickstarter window below. As the widget underneath the video shows, the project just raised over $25,000 in finishing funds, but I’m sure your donations/contributions would still be welcome, so click to give.
The film is called Shakedown, and they’ve got an interview with the director, Leilah Weinraub, which you can read Here.
And then watch the 4 1/2-minute preview of the film in the Kickstarter window below. As the widget underneath the video shows, the project just raised over $25,000 in finishing funds, but I’m sure your donations/contributions would still be welcome, so click to give.
- 2/4/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.