Chicago – With the evolution of marijuana legalization, and the continued hilarity of people getting high, the time has come for a new age stoner comedy. “My Friend’s Rubber Ducky” – written and directed by Josh Hyde – has its Chicago Premiere at the Midwest Independent Film Festival on Tuesday, June 7th, 2016. For complete information, click here.
The film is basically a four person comedy, having to do with an uncollected debt and the Stockholm syndrome. When Joseph (Jordan Kenneth Kamp) seeks to get a long-lost loan back from Oliver (Kenneth Yoder), kidnapping the deadbeat seems the only solution. Joseph enlists his stoner roommate Tee (Alex Hardaway) and girlfriend Mauve (Rinska Carrasco) to help keep Oliver in their apartment until he pays, and unexpectedly the captors and their victim begin to bond.
Director Josh Hyde Sets Up a Shot for ‘My Friend’s Rubber Ducky’
Photo credit: Josh Hyde
Writer/director Josh Hyde...
The film is basically a four person comedy, having to do with an uncollected debt and the Stockholm syndrome. When Joseph (Jordan Kenneth Kamp) seeks to get a long-lost loan back from Oliver (Kenneth Yoder), kidnapping the deadbeat seems the only solution. Joseph enlists his stoner roommate Tee (Alex Hardaway) and girlfriend Mauve (Rinska Carrasco) to help keep Oliver in their apartment until he pays, and unexpectedly the captors and their victim begin to bond.
Director Josh Hyde Sets Up a Shot for ‘My Friend’s Rubber Ducky’
Photo credit: Josh Hyde
Writer/director Josh Hyde...
- 6/6/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In Postales, the effects of U.S. imperialism on Latin America play out through the microcosm of one white North American family’s interactions with a poor native family eking out a living in hardscrabble Peru. While the pairing of the different members of the two clans can tend toward the schematic, writer-director Josh Hyde allows the various interactions to play out in generally surprising ways. Essentially, the younger the people involved, the less likely the relationship is to be defined by mutual exploitation. While the white father is in Peru to arrange the sale of a piece of land out from under the central native family, his two daughters strike up rather different relationships with the Peruvian clan’s two boys. The older girl begins a romance with the older b...
- 7/24/2013
- Village Voice
The inaugural New York Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival kicks off next week on September 1, and in advance of ten days of films and fun, the festival has released their full lineup. The festival will open with Jay Duplass’ Kevin and will close with Craig Vivieros’ Lost in Italy (starring Glen Murphy and Ray Winstone). The festival’s centerpiece film is Josh Hyde’s Postales (an Official Selection at the Edinburgh and Shanghai International Film Festivals). In between those three framing films, the festival will show over 140 features and shorts, along with a number of interesting and unique panels. Duplass’ documentary Kevin is the director’s first foray into documentary features, and its opening night screening will be followed by a performance by Kevin Gant himself (a talented performer that both the Duplass brothers idolized as kids). Gant and Duplass will also participate in a Q&A moderated by Matt Singer. Other...
- 8/23/2011
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The inaugural New York Hell's Kitchen Film Festival, boasting a lineup of over 140 features and shorts, will kickoff September 1. Highlights include a screening of "Ken Park" with director Larry Clark in person on September 2, the opening night screening of Jay Duplass' documentary "Kevin," and the closing night screening and world premiere of Craig Viveiros' "Lost in Italy." Josh Hyde's Peruvian drama "Postales" will be the centerpiece film. ...
- 8/23/2011
- Indiewire
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
New York-based IFP has chosen 10 narrative features, all in their rough-cut stage, to be part of its Filmmaker Lab, which runs for five days beginning Mondayunder the leadership of producers Scott Macaulay and Gretchen McGowan.
The mentorship program is designed for first features shot on budgets of less than $1 million.
The 2009 projects picked are "Au Pair Kansas," from director Jt O'Neal, producers Joan Jerkovich, Catherine A. McCabe & O'Neal and editor Brad Roszel; "City on a Hill" (director Amy Seimetz, producer Justin Barber, editor Adele Romanski); "The Imperialists Are Still Alive!" (director Zeina Durra, producer Vanessa Hope, editor Michael Taylor); "The Myth of Time" (director Miller "Jaguar X" Koepenick, producer Scorpion Hernandez, editors Koepenick & Hernandez); and "Perfection" (director Christina Beck, producer Annette Murphy and editor Rob Poswell).
Also selected are "Phasma Ex Machina," from director/editor Matt Osterman and producer Jennifer Kramer; "Postales" (director Josh Hyde, producers Clare Connelly, Dan Fischer,...
The mentorship program is designed for first features shot on budgets of less than $1 million.
The 2009 projects picked are "Au Pair Kansas," from director Jt O'Neal, producers Joan Jerkovich, Catherine A. McCabe & O'Neal and editor Brad Roszel; "City on a Hill" (director Amy Seimetz, producer Justin Barber, editor Adele Romanski); "The Imperialists Are Still Alive!" (director Zeina Durra, producer Vanessa Hope, editor Michael Taylor); "The Myth of Time" (director Miller "Jaguar X" Koepenick, producer Scorpion Hernandez, editors Koepenick & Hernandez); and "Perfection" (director Christina Beck, producer Annette Murphy and editor Rob Poswell).
Also selected are "Phasma Ex Machina," from director/editor Matt Osterman and producer Jennifer Kramer; "Postales" (director Josh Hyde, producers Clare Connelly, Dan Fischer,...
- 6/1/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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