On Thursday, October 2nd from 6:30pm- 10pm, the 7th Annual Bushwick Film Festival will host it's Opening Night festivities. Ticket's can be purchased here. The festival runs October 2-5.
The opening night film is "B.F.E." (Trailer). Director Shawn Telford will be flying in from Seattle to present the film and for a Q&A. "B.F.E." is essentially a film about the heavy feeling of being trapped in both your own life's circumstances as well as life's circumstances while desperately trying to escape. In this case, it's a small town, boredom, old age, young love and drugs. The tag line is "They say it's quiet out in the country....They don't know shit!"
The screening is followed by an opening night party that is free for ticket holders at Bushwick's hottest new venue Lot 45.
The four-day festival weekend will include films from all over the world including London, South Africa, France, Ukraine, Mexico, Peru, U.S. and of course Bushwick! The weekend is an opportunity to see amazing films that you won't find in regular ol' U.S. cinemas. They are true gems!
There will also be a Cinema talks series, Industry Events and Panels with guests from The Tribeca Film Institute ,Magnolia Pictures and Vimeo.
"I've put a lot of love in the program and spent a full year planning for the lucky 7. Over the year, I saw tons of films and traveled to see films to bring back to Bushwick to present. I learned that distribution and rights tend to be trickier than I imagined, however I was successful in bringing back one really great film I saw at the Berlin International Film Festival that nicely polishes off our feature film program. The film is "Los Angeles" directed by Damian John Harper," said Kweighbaye Kotee, Director of Programming.
In addition to all the events, each year the festival donates a portion of its ticket sales to an organization or individual that uses film or technology to positively impact their community. This award encourages charitable deeds through the use of cinema. As this year’s recipient, the festival will support Kriterion Monrovia’s, ”Together We Can Stop Ebola” Campaign."You can read the full press release here.
"In closing, the festival weekend marks a major accomplishment for me as a Director/Programmer and for the festival because we have grown in terms of film submissions (74% increase/18% international) and are recognized as a "locally bread celebration of independent film since 2007, that has grown into a slick beautiful community event recognized in the film industry," concluded Kweighbaye
For more information on the full line-up, events, and ticketing please visit Here...
The opening night film is "B.F.E." (Trailer). Director Shawn Telford will be flying in from Seattle to present the film and for a Q&A. "B.F.E." is essentially a film about the heavy feeling of being trapped in both your own life's circumstances as well as life's circumstances while desperately trying to escape. In this case, it's a small town, boredom, old age, young love and drugs. The tag line is "They say it's quiet out in the country....They don't know shit!"
The screening is followed by an opening night party that is free for ticket holders at Bushwick's hottest new venue Lot 45.
The four-day festival weekend will include films from all over the world including London, South Africa, France, Ukraine, Mexico, Peru, U.S. and of course Bushwick! The weekend is an opportunity to see amazing films that you won't find in regular ol' U.S. cinemas. They are true gems!
There will also be a Cinema talks series, Industry Events and Panels with guests from The Tribeca Film Institute ,Magnolia Pictures and Vimeo.
"I've put a lot of love in the program and spent a full year planning for the lucky 7. Over the year, I saw tons of films and traveled to see films to bring back to Bushwick to present. I learned that distribution and rights tend to be trickier than I imagined, however I was successful in bringing back one really great film I saw at the Berlin International Film Festival that nicely polishes off our feature film program. The film is "Los Angeles" directed by Damian John Harper," said Kweighbaye Kotee, Director of Programming.
In addition to all the events, each year the festival donates a portion of its ticket sales to an organization or individual that uses film or technology to positively impact their community. This award encourages charitable deeds through the use of cinema. As this year’s recipient, the festival will support Kriterion Monrovia’s, ”Together We Can Stop Ebola” Campaign."You can read the full press release here.
"In closing, the festival weekend marks a major accomplishment for me as a Director/Programmer and for the festival because we have grown in terms of film submissions (74% increase/18% international) and are recognized as a "locally bread celebration of independent film since 2007, that has grown into a slick beautiful community event recognized in the film industry," concluded Kweighbaye
For more information on the full line-up, events, and ticketing please visit Here...
- 9/22/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The 7th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival will screen a smorgasbord of cult flicks, horror movies, comedies and provocative documentaries on September 19-27 at The Screening Room in Tucson, Az.
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
- 9/19/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Us in Progress is a joint initiative between the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris and Black Rabbit Film. It is the first and only professional event dedicated to the independent American cinema which happens twice a year – during each festival. Movies that were featured at recent Us in Progress events have gone on to be selected for festivals such as Sundance 2013, the Berlinale 2013, SXSW 2013 and Tribeca 2013.
The point of Us in Progress is to present American independent films in their post-production phase to potential European buyers in order to encourage their distribution and broadcast across Europe.
Why create an event in favor of the American cinema in European?
There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that today the European market is dominated by American films. But by American films we generally mean big budget films produced by big studios. These films are no doubt entertaining, but they reflect only a portion of what the Us is all about. Outside of the big studios, there is a dynamic and interesting group of people making independent films. However, this other, independent, world lacks an efficient international strategy and European buyers are often unaware of the films being produced.
Thus, Us in Progress aims at building new bridges between today’s up-and-coming generation of talented American filmmakers and European buyers. In a word, they want to present the new faces of the Us cinema to the European market.
Us in Progress Paris will take place during the second edition of the Champs Elysées Film Festival in Paris, on June 13-16 2013. The programme will present 4-6 Us indie films in post-production to European buyers in order to achieve completion and to foster the circulation and distribution of American indie films in Europe. The event will take form of two days of intense exclusive screenings (behind closed doors, for registered guests only) and one-to-one meetings.
Us In Progress Offers :
- Travel and accommodation: flight from the Us for the producer or director of the selected films as well as 3 nights in Paris for both the producer and the director.
- Networking: a chance to present your project in person at exclusive screening (behind closed doors, for registered industry guests only) to ca. 40 key European buyers
- Direct business opportunities: one-to-one meetings to discuss your needs and strike post-production and distribution deals
- Awards: free services from our sponsors : digital postproduction package by Commune Image & Eaux Vives, subtitling and Dcp by Titra Film, Acquisition by the TV Channel Cine+, promotion via Europa Distribution and Touscoprod, Producers Network 2013 invitation…
- Plus pleasures: parties and screenings and further networking at the Champs-Elysées Film Festival
For its second edition within the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris, Us in Progress will present four to six selected feature films to about forty potential buyers, distributors, festivals and European producers. It will be the first time any of the selected films are presented to the European market.
Selected Films
- Beneath the Harvest Sky by Gita Pullapilly
- B.F.E. by Shawn Telford
- Children by Jaffe Zinn
- Ping Pong Summer by Michael Tully
- I Believe in Unicorns by Leah Meyerhoff
- 1982 by Tommy Olivier
Endowments
All of the partners of Us in Progress are proud to offer a series of benefits to the winning film:
- Digital postproduction work (2k or 4k) or a cutting room lent by our partner company Commune Image
- The colorimetric software suite Firefly will be at the filmmakers’ disposal and Eaux Vives will coordinate post-production work
- Titratvs will edit the subtitles and make a Dcp in original language with subtitles
- Ciné+ will buy the film and broadcast it on the Ciné+ Club channel
- The movie will be promoted by a network of thirty-five European distributors and the one hundred and ten members of Europa Distribution
- The producer’s name will be added to the Producers Network list (Cannes).
- The film will also be promoted and supported by TousCoprod (the French Kickstarter) and its partners.
The point of Us in Progress is to present American independent films in their post-production phase to potential European buyers in order to encourage their distribution and broadcast across Europe.
Why create an event in favor of the American cinema in European?
There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that today the European market is dominated by American films. But by American films we generally mean big budget films produced by big studios. These films are no doubt entertaining, but they reflect only a portion of what the Us is all about. Outside of the big studios, there is a dynamic and interesting group of people making independent films. However, this other, independent, world lacks an efficient international strategy and European buyers are often unaware of the films being produced.
Thus, Us in Progress aims at building new bridges between today’s up-and-coming generation of talented American filmmakers and European buyers. In a word, they want to present the new faces of the Us cinema to the European market.
Us in Progress Paris will take place during the second edition of the Champs Elysées Film Festival in Paris, on June 13-16 2013. The programme will present 4-6 Us indie films in post-production to European buyers in order to achieve completion and to foster the circulation and distribution of American indie films in Europe. The event will take form of two days of intense exclusive screenings (behind closed doors, for registered guests only) and one-to-one meetings.
Us In Progress Offers :
- Travel and accommodation: flight from the Us for the producer or director of the selected films as well as 3 nights in Paris for both the producer and the director.
- Networking: a chance to present your project in person at exclusive screening (behind closed doors, for registered industry guests only) to ca. 40 key European buyers
- Direct business opportunities: one-to-one meetings to discuss your needs and strike post-production and distribution deals
- Awards: free services from our sponsors : digital postproduction package by Commune Image & Eaux Vives, subtitling and Dcp by Titra Film, Acquisition by the TV Channel Cine+, promotion via Europa Distribution and Touscoprod, Producers Network 2013 invitation…
- Plus pleasures: parties and screenings and further networking at the Champs-Elysées Film Festival
For its second edition within the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris, Us in Progress will present four to six selected feature films to about forty potential buyers, distributors, festivals and European producers. It will be the first time any of the selected films are presented to the European market.
Selected Films
- Beneath the Harvest Sky by Gita Pullapilly
- B.F.E. by Shawn Telford
- Children by Jaffe Zinn
- Ping Pong Summer by Michael Tully
- I Believe in Unicorns by Leah Meyerhoff
- 1982 by Tommy Olivier
Endowments
All of the partners of Us in Progress are proud to offer a series of benefits to the winning film:
- Digital postproduction work (2k or 4k) or a cutting room lent by our partner company Commune Image
- The colorimetric software suite Firefly will be at the filmmakers’ disposal and Eaux Vives will coordinate post-production work
- Titratvs will edit the subtitles and make a Dcp in original language with subtitles
- Ciné+ will buy the film and broadcast it on the Ciné+ Club channel
- The movie will be promoted by a network of thirty-five European distributors and the one hundred and ten members of Europa Distribution
- The producer’s name will be added to the Producers Network list (Cannes).
- The film will also be promoted and supported by TousCoprod (the French Kickstarter) and its partners.
- 6/7/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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