The 11th annual Nevada City Film Festival, running Aug. 18-21, is four nights crammed full with short films, several feature-length documentaries, one dramatic feature, stand-up comedy performances and more surprises, all nestled within the rolling hills of Northern California.
The fest opens with the feature documentary Someplace With a Mountain, directed by Steve Goodall and narrated by Chevy Chase. The film tells the story of the embattled people of the Puluwat atoll who are besieged by the Pacific Ocean itself. Rising waters due to global warming are making their land slowly disappear beneath the waves.
Other feature docs include music-based films We Are Wizards, directed by Josh Koury, about the oddball phenomenon of rock bands that only craft songs about the world of Harry Potter; and Everyday Sunshine, directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, which profiles the legendary ska punk band Fishbone that continues to bring their enthusiastic music to the masses.
The fest opens with the feature documentary Someplace With a Mountain, directed by Steve Goodall and narrated by Chevy Chase. The film tells the story of the embattled people of the Puluwat atoll who are besieged by the Pacific Ocean itself. Rising waters due to global warming are making their land slowly disappear beneath the waves.
Other feature docs include music-based films We Are Wizards, directed by Josh Koury, about the oddball phenomenon of rock bands that only craft songs about the world of Harry Potter; and Everyday Sunshine, directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, which profiles the legendary ska punk band Fishbone that continues to bring their enthusiastic music to the masses.
- 8/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
We recently featured his Itvs Futurestates short film, Remigration, which received mucho acclaim; what I didn’t know was that Mr Barry Jenkins was working on another short film, which he tells me he shot the weekend before the South By Southwest Film Festival, late February, early March.
This one was commissioned by the Borscht Film Festival in Miami, Fl, which commissions and showcases films by emerging artists “that tell Miami stories that go beyond the typical portrayal of a beautiful but vapid party town.”
Barry was born and raised in Miami’s Liberty City, by the way.
Barry’s Borscht short is called Chlorophyl, and it’s one of 6 commissioned films by the festival, and will screen there on April 23rd, next Saturday.
The film is said to be inspired by Miami musician Millionyoung, and “follows a listless girl as she struggles with unrequited love, moving to the music...
This one was commissioned by the Borscht Film Festival in Miami, Fl, which commissions and showcases films by emerging artists “that tell Miami stories that go beyond the typical portrayal of a beautiful but vapid party town.”
Barry was born and raised in Miami’s Liberty City, by the way.
Barry’s Borscht short is called Chlorophyl, and it’s one of 6 commissioned films by the festival, and will screen there on April 23rd, next Saturday.
The film is said to be inspired by Miami musician Millionyoung, and “follows a listless girl as she struggles with unrequited love, moving to the music...
- 4/18/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Futurestates, the public broadcasting web series that "imagines America's tomorrow today," launched its second season featuring 10 new episodes. The sci-fi series, funded by The Independent Television Service, is a collection of "short narrative films created by veteran filmmakers and emerging talents transforming today’s complex social issues into visions about what life will be like in decades to come." Debuting at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival, the second season of Futurestates promises 10 filmmakers' visions of America in the not-too-distant future: what we'll do, where we'll live, and who we'll be. The lineup: Beholder by Nisha Ganatra Sasha A resident of the socially conservative gated community Red Estates, makes a discovery about her genetically engineered unborn child that causes her to rethink her allegiances. Remigration by Barry Jenkins In a future San Francisco that is entirely upper-class, the city starts a program to bring working-class families back to the city that pushed them out.
- 3/31/2011
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Making its online debut today, Barry Jenkins’ short film for Itvs Futurestates project – a series of 11 short films by up-and-coming filmmakers, commissioned by Itvs that explore “possible future scenarios through the prism of today’s global realities.”
Each episode presents a different vision of American society in the not-too-distant future, by each filmmaker (or as Itvs calls them, “Independent Prognosticators“) – using speculative fiction to explore, on film, social issues.
Barry’s piece is called Remigration (that’s its poster on the left; I also included some stills from the film below). its full synopsis reads: “Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives of the San Francisco Remigration Program. The men explain that San Francisco is now occupied entirely by the wealthy class. But stoplights still burn out and trains occasionally jump their rails. Blue-collar labor isn’t obsolete,...
Each episode presents a different vision of American society in the not-too-distant future, by each filmmaker (or as Itvs calls them, “Independent Prognosticators“) – using speculative fiction to explore, on film, social issues.
Barry’s piece is called Remigration (that’s its poster on the left; I also included some stills from the film below). its full synopsis reads: “Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives of the San Francisco Remigration Program. The men explain that San Francisco is now occupied entirely by the wealthy class. But stoplights still burn out and trains occasionally jump their rails. Blue-collar labor isn’t obsolete,...
- 3/21/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Add two more to the cast of NBC’s much buzzed new series, Grimm. Russell Hornsby (Lincoln Heights, Remigration) and Bitsie Tulloch (Quarterlife, The Artist) have joined the cast. The duo have joined the drama pilot, which is being described as a fantastical cop drama in which characters from Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist.
Thus far, David Giuntoli (Turn the Beat Around, Love Bites) has been cast as the show’s lead character, Nick Burckhardt, “a good-looking detective who starts to see humans as beast/animals and discovered that he has a legacy – to protect “humans” from these beasts.” Silas Weir Mitchell (My Name is Earl, Burn Notice) has been cast as Eddie Monroe, “a reformed big bad wolf who has tamed his murderous instincts through a strict regimen of diet and Pilates.”
Hornsby (pictured above, left) will play Nick’s partner, Hank Green, and Tulloch (pictured above, right) has...
Thus far, David Giuntoli (Turn the Beat Around, Love Bites) has been cast as the show’s lead character, Nick Burckhardt, “a good-looking detective who starts to see humans as beast/animals and discovered that he has a legacy – to protect “humans” from these beasts.” Silas Weir Mitchell (My Name is Earl, Burn Notice) has been cast as Eddie Monroe, “a reformed big bad wolf who has tamed his murderous instincts through a strict regimen of diet and Pilates.”
Hornsby (pictured above, left) will play Nick’s partner, Hank Green, and Tulloch (pictured above, right) has...
- 3/2/2011
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
AFI Fest 2010 Hi my name is Ava DuVernay. I make and market films. A good sister named Karen who runs this very cool site, ReelArsty.com, asked me to name 5 things that excite me in black film at the moment. What a cool concept. Just like Karen. And her site. Cool. So… here goes…
5) Matthew A. CherryI like this brother's style. He shoots. And shoots. And shoots. Music videos. Shorts. And coming soon - his first feature. He works with open arms. Embracing fellow filmmakers. Embracing social media. Embracing the energy currently brewing around the black indie film aesthetic. Here's his latest video which just dropped this week for Foreign Exchange. The guy makes, like, a video a week, I swear. I love it. Work!
4) Black Swan TheoryThis is a short film that I dig a lot for a couple of reasons. First: because this fierce black woman filmmaker smashed it.
5) Matthew A. CherryI like this brother's style. He shoots. And shoots. And shoots. Music videos. Shorts. And coming soon - his first feature. He works with open arms. Embracing fellow filmmakers. Embracing social media. Embracing the energy currently brewing around the black indie film aesthetic. Here's his latest video which just dropped this week for Foreign Exchange. The guy makes, like, a video a week, I swear. I love it. Work!
4) Black Swan TheoryThis is a short film that I dig a lot for a couple of reasons. First: because this fierce black woman filmmaker smashed it.
- 2/23/2011
- by karen@reelartsy.com (Karen)
- Reelartsy
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