As the Sundance Film Festival welcomes its first crowdfunded film tonight, Brian Ries takes a look at the rise of websites that make it easier than ever to get free cash from total strangers online.
Matthew Lessner has a lot of strangers to thank.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Who Spends the Most?
As the clock strikes midnight tonight inside Park City's Holiday Village Cinemas on the second day of the Sundance Film Festival, his indie satire The Woods will make its premiere in front of a sold-out crowd.
It nearly didn't happen.
It was late summer, in 2009, and Lessner was running out of money as he neared the completion of his film. His credit was drying up, too. So he turned to a website called Kickstarter.com. "With your help and support (whoever you may be) we hope to make the dream of finishing and releasing-what we believe...
Matthew Lessner has a lot of strangers to thank.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Who Spends the Most?
As the clock strikes midnight tonight inside Park City's Holiday Village Cinemas on the second day of the Sundance Film Festival, his indie satire The Woods will make its premiere in front of a sold-out crowd.
It nearly didn't happen.
It was late summer, in 2009, and Lessner was running out of money as he neared the completion of his film. His credit was drying up, too. So he turned to a website called Kickstarter.com. "With your help and support (whoever you may be) we hope to make the dream of finishing and releasing-what we believe...
- 1/21/2011
- by Brian Ries
- The Daily Beast
Vanguard Cinema has picked up "Tenderloin" for direct-to-dvd and digital distribution. Michael Anderson directs from the writing by Ned Miller. The drama stars Kurt Yaeger as a wounded Iraq War veteran who moves into the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. There, his self-destructive drinking is interrupted by local residents which includes his son. The film had its premiere last October at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Yaeger is an amputee as a result of a motorcycle accident. According to performers unions SAG and AFTRA, the film is one of the most diverse features ever made with black, Asian and Latina character as well as several actors over the age of 60 and two transvestites.
- 3/2/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Vanguard Cinema has acquired "Tenderloin" for direct-to-dvd and digital distribution.
Written by Ned Miller and directed by Michael Anderson, the drama stars Kurt Yaeger as a wounded Iraq War veteran who moves into the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, where his self-destructive drinking is interrupted by locals, including his son.
The film premiered in October at the Mill Valley (Calif.) Film Festival and is seeking a slot at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June.
"Tenderloin" is notable for its diversity; Yaeger is an amputee as a result of a motorcycle accident. According to performers unions SAG and AFTRA, the film is one of the most diverse features ever made, featuring black, Asian and Latina characters, plus several actors older than 60 and two transvestites.
As a performer with a disability, Yaeger has taken aim at breaking down barriers for disabled actors. More than 57 million Americans have a disability, but less...
Written by Ned Miller and directed by Michael Anderson, the drama stars Kurt Yaeger as a wounded Iraq War veteran who moves into the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, where his self-destructive drinking is interrupted by locals, including his son.
The film premiered in October at the Mill Valley (Calif.) Film Festival and is seeking a slot at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June.
"Tenderloin" is notable for its diversity; Yaeger is an amputee as a result of a motorcycle accident. According to performers unions SAG and AFTRA, the film is one of the most diverse features ever made, featuring black, Asian and Latina characters, plus several actors older than 60 and two transvestites.
As a performer with a disability, Yaeger has taken aim at breaking down barriers for disabled actors. More than 57 million Americans have a disability, but less...
- 3/1/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Mill Valley Film Festival opens tonight, filling the next 10 days with some of the most anticipated films of the rest of the year, as well as a selection of international films making its way to the Bay Area. In addition, the festival will also host the awarding of talents such as Woody Harrelson, Clive Owen, Uma Thurman, Jason Reitman and screen legend Anna Karina.
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
- 10/8/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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