Exclusive: Heat and Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemore has boarded Bruce Bellocchi’s female revenge thriller The Legend of Jack and Diane.
In the movie, Diane (newcomer Lydia Zelmac) decides to leave Indiana for a new life in Los Angeles. When Jack (David Tomlinson) and Diane discover secrets about the death of Diane’s mother, their worst fears are confirmed, and they are forced to run. On the way to Los Angeles to confront evil, they create a hit list to exact revenge on everyone involved. Cameras roll in Los Angeles next month.
Sizemore will star alongside Zelmac, Tomilson, Robert Lasardo (The Mule) and Alvaro Orlando (Destin Daniel Cretton’s I Am Not a Hipster). Bellocchi is directing from a screenplay he wrote with Rick Geller and Zelmac.
The project was originally written as an episodic series for HBO but lost its footing when the pandemic crippled the entertainment industry last year.
In the movie, Diane (newcomer Lydia Zelmac) decides to leave Indiana for a new life in Los Angeles. When Jack (David Tomlinson) and Diane discover secrets about the death of Diane’s mother, their worst fears are confirmed, and they are forced to run. On the way to Los Angeles to confront evil, they create a hit list to exact revenge on everyone involved. Cameras roll in Los Angeles next month.
Sizemore will star alongside Zelmac, Tomilson, Robert Lasardo (The Mule) and Alvaro Orlando (Destin Daniel Cretton’s I Am Not a Hipster). Bellocchi is directing from a screenplay he wrote with Rick Geller and Zelmac.
The project was originally written as an episodic series for HBO but lost its footing when the pandemic crippled the entertainment industry last year.
- 12/14/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton has entered into an exclusive multi-year overall deal with Disney companies Marvel Studios and Hulu’s Onyx Collective. The filmmaker is already in development with Marvel Studios on a new MCU series for Disney+.
At the same time, Disney has made it official that Cretton is returning to write and direct the previously rumored sequel to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Under the big new overall deal, Cretton will develop TV projects for both Marvel Studios for Disney+ and Onyx Collective across all platforms, including Hulu. Maui-born Cretton will produce through a new production company he is launching with partner Asher Goldstein, named Family Owned. Together they will focus on building a slate of projects in film and TV that highlight the experiences of communities that have traditionally been overlooked by pop culture.
At the same time, Disney has made it official that Cretton is returning to write and direct the previously rumored sequel to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Under the big new overall deal, Cretton will develop TV projects for both Marvel Studios for Disney+ and Onyx Collective across all platforms, including Hulu. Maui-born Cretton will produce through a new production company he is launching with partner Asher Goldstein, named Family Owned. Together they will focus on building a slate of projects in film and TV that highlight the experiences of communities that have traditionally been overlooked by pop culture.
- 12/6/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro, Nellie Andreeva and Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Beck Bennett (Saturday Night Live), D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place), Neil Casey (Ghostbusters), Dot-Marie Jones (Glee), and Janicza Bravo (Camping) are attached to star in Greener Grass, a film from writing and directing duo Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe. The helmers will also star in the pic, based on their SXSW short film. It’s set in a timeless suburbia and tells the story of soccer moms Jill (DeBoer) and Lisa (Luebbe). While their children compete on the soccer field, the pair competes in the bleachers in this dark comedy where every adult wears braces on their straight teeth, couples coordinate meticulously pressed outfits, and coveted family members become pawns in the ultimate competition for acceptance. Mary Holland (Veep), Jim Cummings (Thunder Road), Lauren Adams (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Asher Miles Fallica (Ozark), Julian Hilliard (The Haunting of Hill House), and John Milhiser (SNL) co-star. Natalie Metzger is producing Greener Grass,...
- 10/1/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Every breakout independent filmmaker faces the same challenge: Now what? You could stick to your own taste and never make money on your movies; that requires a second career as a professor, screenwriter, commercial, music video, or TV director (see: Kelly Reichardt, Alex Ross Perry, Zal Batmanglij, Errol Morris).
Or, you can walk another tightrope: Try to build your cred without selling out, and parlay that surge of attention into a sustainable career. Destin Daniel Cretton chose that path, and Lionsgate’s “The Glass Castle” starring Brie Larson is the result.
Read More:Brie Larson On the Kind of Roles She Never Wants: ‘I Won’t Take the Job If It’s Like That’
After the Hawaiian writer-director’s first feature, “I am Not a Hipster,” debuted at Sundance 2012, his agent sent him on the usual round of meetings. But it was his SXSW 2013 competition-winning gritty rehab drama, “Short Term 12,...
Or, you can walk another tightrope: Try to build your cred without selling out, and parlay that surge of attention into a sustainable career. Destin Daniel Cretton chose that path, and Lionsgate’s “The Glass Castle” starring Brie Larson is the result.
Read More:Brie Larson On the Kind of Roles She Never Wants: ‘I Won’t Take the Job If It’s Like That’
After the Hawaiian writer-director’s first feature, “I am Not a Hipster,” debuted at Sundance 2012, his agent sent him on the usual round of meetings. But it was his SXSW 2013 competition-winning gritty rehab drama, “Short Term 12,...
- 8/10/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Every breakout independent filmmaker faces the same challenge: Now what? You could stick to your own taste and never make money on your movies; that requires a second career as a professor, screenwriter, commercial, music video, or TV director (see: Kelly Reichardt, Alex Ross Perry, Zal Batmanglij, Errol Morris).
Or, you can walk another tightrope: Try to build your cred without selling out, and parlay that surge of attention into a sustainable career. Destin Daniel Cretton chose that path, and Lionsgate’s “The Glass Castle” starring Brie Larson is the result.
Read More:Brie Larson On the Kind of Roles She Never Wants: ‘I Won’t Take the Job If It’s Like That’
After the Hawaiian writer-director’s first feature, “I am Not a Hipster,” debuted at Sundance 2012, his agent sent him on the usual round of meetings. But it was his SXSW 2013 competition-winning gritty rehab drama, “Short Term 12,...
Or, you can walk another tightrope: Try to build your cred without selling out, and parlay that surge of attention into a sustainable career. Destin Daniel Cretton chose that path, and Lionsgate’s “The Glass Castle” starring Brie Larson is the result.
Read More:Brie Larson On the Kind of Roles She Never Wants: ‘I Won’t Take the Job If It’s Like That’
After the Hawaiian writer-director’s first feature, “I am Not a Hipster,” debuted at Sundance 2012, his agent sent him on the usual round of meetings. But it was his SXSW 2013 competition-winning gritty rehab drama, “Short Term 12,...
- 8/10/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
"I can't let you cling to the side your whole life just 'cause you're scared." Lionsgate has released a second trailer for the film The Glass Castle, the latest feature from filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton (I Am Not a Hipster, Short Term 12). From the looks of it, this is going to be something very special. Brie Larson plays Jeannette Walls, a woman who grew up in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with an eccentric mother and alcoholic father. The full cast features Naomi Watts & Woody Harrelson (as her mother & father, respectively), Sarah Snook, Max Greenfield, Brigette Lundy-Paine, and others. This looks like it has such strong emotions and will be very powerful and heart-wrenching to watch. See below. Here's the second official trailer (+ poster) for Destin Cretton's The Glass Castle, direct from YouTube: You can still watch the first official trailer for Cretton's The Glass Castle here,...
- 7/13/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"This is as real as it gets kids, you learn from living!" Lionsgate has unveiled the first trailer for the film The Glass Castle, the latest feature from writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton, who is one of the most underrated filmmakers working today. Cretton has made two outstanding films so far: I Am Not a Hipster (in 2012) and Short Term 12 (in 2013). This time he adapts the memoirs of Jeannette Walls, as played by Brie Larson, a woman growing up in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father. The cast features Naomi Watts & Woody Harrelson (as her odd mother & father, respectively), Sarah Snook, Max Greenfield, Brigette Lundy-Paine, and others. As expected, this looks fantastic and it's easily one of my most anticipated films to see this year. Take a look. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Destin Cretton's The Glass Castle,...
- 5/18/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Dominic Bogart (I Am Not a Hipster) is in negotiations to join The Glass Castle, a drama starring Brie Larson as a young girl who comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads. Her mother (Naomi Watts), an eccentric artist, and alcoholic father (Woody Harrelson) to try to stir their children’s imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty. Bogart will play Robbie; no character details were announced. Destin Cretten is directing The Glass Castle…...
- 5/25/2016
- Deadline
Now this is some casting news that genuinely makes me excited to see this. THR is reporting that Michael B. Jordan is attached to a starring role in the new project from Destin Daniel Cretton, the very talented filmmaker behind the exceptional films Short Term 12 and I Am Not a Hipster. Destin is developing an adaptation of Bryan Stevenson's memoir Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, and is currently working on the script with Andrew Lanham (of The Glass Castle). Broad Green Pictures will be distributing the project and has just picked up the rights, which include Michael B. Jordan as lead. Read on. For those just catching up, the Amazon.com description of the book Just Mercy that Cretton is adapting: Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor,...
- 7/27/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The self-destructive singer-songwriter in I Am Not A Hipster, Brook (Dominic Bogart), is not a hipster, but finds himself unfortunately surrounded by them. These young artists and wannabe-artists gather in strange, awkward social circles, their shared existence a continuous stream of cooler-than-thou shibboleths. Brook, deemed an iconic fixture in the indie-rock world, is as quick to shrug off the fame as he is the idea that these people who gravitate towards him are genuinely special in their own idiosyncrasies, or that they’re as talented or true to their work as he is.>> - Tina Hassannia...
- 1/22/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The self-destructive singer-songwriter in I Am Not A Hipster, Brook (Dominic Bogart), is not a hipster, but finds himself unfortunately surrounded by them. These young artists and wannabe-artists gather in strange, awkward social circles, their shared existence a continuous stream of cooler-than-thou shibboleths. Brook, deemed an iconic fixture in the indie-rock world, is as quick to shrug off the fame as he is the idea that these people who gravitate towards him are genuinely special in their own idiosyncrasies, or that they’re as talented or true to their work as he is.>> - Tina Hassannia...
- 1/22/2015
- Keyframe
"Just make a movie." That was "Short Term 12" producer Asher Goldstein’s advice for first-time filmmakers at the production case studies panel at the Film Independent Forum in October: Just make it, "not to make a ton of money—or make your money back, even—just making a movie, just to make it, to prove that you can." Read More: What I Wish I Knew About Film Distribution Before Self-Distributing "I Am Not a Hipster" Goldstein, his producing partner Ron Najor and "Land Ho!" writer-director Aaron Katz were on the panel discussing their films' paths to the big screen. Moderating the panel was Seth Caplan, producer of "The Young Kieslowski," which premiered at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival, and Spirit Award winner "In Search of a Midnight Kiss," which he discussed on this same panel at a past Forum. "I was in one of your guys’ seats a few years ago,...
- 1/21/2015
- by Mary Sollosi
- Indiewire
Diego Luna to Participate in the Ambulan-thon!: A Google Hangout Version of the Ambulante Experience
With 72 hours to go on Kickstarter, Ambulante California will host a monumental Google Hangout that will include an incredible line-up of guest speakers. Filmmakers, festival programmers, and other renown industry personalities will share their excitement for the traveling documentary film festival in unique ways, aiming to inform people what this great event will entail and hopefully inspire them to support its crowd-funding campaign. This great undertaking by the Ambulante team and friends will bring the festival experience to everyone that joins keeping in line with Ambulante's idea of connecting with audiences in innovative ways unbound by traditional spaces.
Tune in Monday July 14th from 9:00 Am to 9:00 Pm to learn how to start a revolution, how to make a movie, how to get that movie seen, breaking news, live musical sets, how to make delicious guacamole, a reading from 100 Years of Solitude, loteria cards, and many more fun an engaging activities in an effort to connect the festival and the film community with those who really have the power to enrich the project: the audience. It doesn’t get more immersive than this.
As if this is not enough, Ambulante’s very own Diego Luna will participate in this epic telethon, which will be helmed by Ambulante California’s Christine Davila. After the event’s conclusion the organizers and some of the guests will head over to “El Chavo” in Los Feliz for drinks to transform the virtual hang a real shindig. If you are in Los Angeles this is also a great chance to connect face to face with the team, and to witness first hand the outstanding community spirit of Ambulante.
You don’t have to wait till Monday. You can become a backer now: Ambulante California’s Kickstarter
The Hangout will take place in two parts (First part: 9:00 Am to 5:00 P/ Second part: 5:30 Pm to 9:00 Pm). You can RSVP Here
You can also click here for the Facebook Invite for the Google Hangout event
Here is the list of confirmed guests:
Master of Ceremonies and your host: Christine Davila, director of Ambulante California
Diego Luna - co-founder Ambulante
Elena Fortes - co-founder Ambulante
Richard Ray Perez - dir. of "Cesar's Last Fast"
Ondi Timoner - multi-media artist (We Live In Public)
Joe Beyer - Sundance Artist Services
Bernardo Ruiz - dir. "Reportero"
Tin Dirdamal - dir. of "Rivers of Men"
Viviana Franco - Executive Director of From Lot to Spot
Jehane Noujaim & Karim Amer dir. "The Square"
Gloria Moran - dir. "The Unique Ladies"
Basil Tsiokas - doc guru (WhatNotToDoc)
Tatiana Tensen- artist and bon vivant
Dilcia Barrera - Lacma programmer
Maggie McKay - La Film Festival
Yolanda Cruz dir. "Reencuentros: 2501 Migrantes"
Issa Rodrigues - East La Community Corporation
Ryan Murdock dir. "Bronx Obama"
Julianna Brannum dir. "Ladonna Harris"
Ron Najor - producer of "Short Term 12" and "I am Not a Hipster"...
Tune in Monday July 14th from 9:00 Am to 9:00 Pm to learn how to start a revolution, how to make a movie, how to get that movie seen, breaking news, live musical sets, how to make delicious guacamole, a reading from 100 Years of Solitude, loteria cards, and many more fun an engaging activities in an effort to connect the festival and the film community with those who really have the power to enrich the project: the audience. It doesn’t get more immersive than this.
As if this is not enough, Ambulante’s very own Diego Luna will participate in this epic telethon, which will be helmed by Ambulante California’s Christine Davila. After the event’s conclusion the organizers and some of the guests will head over to “El Chavo” in Los Feliz for drinks to transform the virtual hang a real shindig. If you are in Los Angeles this is also a great chance to connect face to face with the team, and to witness first hand the outstanding community spirit of Ambulante.
You don’t have to wait till Monday. You can become a backer now: Ambulante California’s Kickstarter
The Hangout will take place in two parts (First part: 9:00 Am to 5:00 P/ Second part: 5:30 Pm to 9:00 Pm). You can RSVP Here
You can also click here for the Facebook Invite for the Google Hangout event
Here is the list of confirmed guests:
Master of Ceremonies and your host: Christine Davila, director of Ambulante California
Diego Luna - co-founder Ambulante
Elena Fortes - co-founder Ambulante
Richard Ray Perez - dir. of "Cesar's Last Fast"
Ondi Timoner - multi-media artist (We Live In Public)
Joe Beyer - Sundance Artist Services
Bernardo Ruiz - dir. "Reportero"
Tin Dirdamal - dir. of "Rivers of Men"
Viviana Franco - Executive Director of From Lot to Spot
Jehane Noujaim & Karim Amer dir. "The Square"
Gloria Moran - dir. "The Unique Ladies"
Basil Tsiokas - doc guru (WhatNotToDoc)
Tatiana Tensen- artist and bon vivant
Dilcia Barrera - Lacma programmer
Maggie McKay - La Film Festival
Yolanda Cruz dir. "Reencuentros: 2501 Migrantes"
Issa Rodrigues - East La Community Corporation
Ryan Murdock dir. "Bronx Obama"
Julianna Brannum dir. "Ladonna Harris"
Ron Najor - producer of "Short Term 12" and "I am Not a Hipster"...
- 7/13/2014
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Ron Najor produced "I Am Not a Hipster" with a group of friends in his hometown of San Diego. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where Najor and his team worked with The Sundance Institute ArtistServices to fund and distribute its independent release. He then went on to work with writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton to produce the SXSW Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winning "Short Term 12" in 2013. Najor attended Sundance's first #ArtistServices Workshop in 2012 in Park City and recently presented at the 2nd annual #ArtistServices San Francisco Workshop. This post, which supplemented his presentation, was originally published at The Sundance Institute's web site. In it, Najor reflects on self-releasing "I Am Not a Hipster" and what he wishes he knew about distribution when he was just starting out. We shot "I Am Not a Hipster" on a modest budget in the summer of 2011 and were...
- 6/25/2014
- by Ron Najor
- Indiewire
After more than 25 years, The American Pavilion’s student programs at the Cannes International Film Festival will have a record-breaking Festival, with more than 200 students confirmed to participate in the highly-respected program, and more international students than ever before. In addition, Director of Student Programming Michael Bremer announced today the addition of a Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity Intensive. Bremer will launch a pilot program with a group of students at this year’s festival in June.
Year after year, since 1989, The Pavilion’s student presence has increased in attendance and expanded in scope. Originally intended to give Film and Media students a window into the Festival, the Student Programs have evolved to now include Culinary, Hospitality and Event Management students, as well as Mba Business graduate students who work assignments with companies doing business in the Marché.
Under the direction of indie veteran Michael Bremer, The American Pavilion’s Business, Event, and Culinary programs have increased an average of 50% since 2012.
Bremer attributes the uptick to two key factors: “We announced our first-ever international outreach initiative during last year’s Festival, and I’m thrilled to report that our student body this year is more international than it’s ever been, with participants hailing from Canada, Hong Kong, Brazil, Panama, El Salvador, Dubai, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan. These students will witness in our Pavilion a microcosm of a much bigger dance going on just outside our doors, where film lovers from all corners of the globe come together to do business.”
More than 700 students from all over the world applied to this year’s various Cannes programs, with only about 30% of the applicants accepted. An additional 300 applicants are under consideration for The American Pavilion’s three smaller programs, the L.A. Intensive in August, the Venice Intensive at the Venice Film Festival, and AmPav’s newest program, the Cannes Lions Intensive in June.
“Additionally, we’ve made a conscious effort to increase enrollment in our Hospitality, Culinary, and Business programs to bring those student numbers more in line with the larger Film contingent that joins us every year,” Bremer added. “In fact, one of our culinary students from 15 years ago is now an educator at the University of Central Florida’s prestigious Rosen School of Hospitality, and returns this year in a faculty-mentor capacity with 16 students from Rosen.”
A group of 16 Rosen College students are participating in the Cannes Hospitality & Event Management Program through The American Pavilion, a 5,000-square-foot facility for the American film community at the Cannes International Film Festival. This is the first time that Rosen College students will participate in this program and as a result, Ucf will be the most represented institution in Cannes with the largest group of students.
“I’m excited about the Cannes Lions Intensive,” Bremer continued. “About six months ago we approached the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, often regarded as the world’s largest ad festival, proposing to develop for them what we’ve done for the Film Festival. With so many new attendees like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Netflix, Amazon, and even Xbox upending traditional advertising paradigms, it’s vital that we in the entertainment sector sit up and take note. I will bring a pilot program of students this first year, and hope to increase the scope of our presence there in the coming years.”
The American Pavilion has been committed to giving opportunities to students and young filmmakers since its inception and their numbers have grown exponentially over the years. As a result of the Student Programs, past alumni are now gainfully employed throughout the industry at companies such as The Weinstein Company, DreamWorks, Paramount, The William Morris Agency, Sony, Industry Entertainment, ICM, 20 Century Fox, Universal and The Walt Disney Company.
Specific alumni of the internship program include: Morgan J. Freeman, (whose film Hurricane Streets became the first narrative film to win three awards at The Sundance Film Festival), Jeff Nichols, (director, writer, producer, Take Shelter and Mud), Alexa Alemanni, (SAG Award-winning actress), Hope Hall (White House Videographer), and Ron Najor , who recently produced award-winning SXSW film Short Term 12 and last year’s I Am Not a Hipster.
For more information visit Here
The American Pavilion
Recently celebrating its 26th year as the center of American hospitality for the film industry in Cannes, The Pavilion brings professional and emerging filmmakers together. The American Pavilion is the center of activity at the Cannes International Film Festival for the American film community, offering membership for professionals, provocative and insightful programming, immersive student programs, the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase, and more.
Serving as a communication and hospitality center for the thousands of Americans in Cannes during the Cannes Film Festival, The American Pavilion provides an impressive array of facilities and services to the international film community. Since its debut at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, The Pavilion has become a permanent fixture on the Cannes landscape.
For the corporate sponsors of The American Pavilion, the dozens of exhibitors and office holders, and the thousands of American participants, The American Pavilion accommodates the need for information, orientation, and recreation. For the duration of the Festival, The American Pavilion provides both a dynamic business environment and an opportunity to relax in comfortable surroundings.
Year after year, since 1989, The Pavilion’s student presence has increased in attendance and expanded in scope. Originally intended to give Film and Media students a window into the Festival, the Student Programs have evolved to now include Culinary, Hospitality and Event Management students, as well as Mba Business graduate students who work assignments with companies doing business in the Marché.
Under the direction of indie veteran Michael Bremer, The American Pavilion’s Business, Event, and Culinary programs have increased an average of 50% since 2012.
Bremer attributes the uptick to two key factors: “We announced our first-ever international outreach initiative during last year’s Festival, and I’m thrilled to report that our student body this year is more international than it’s ever been, with participants hailing from Canada, Hong Kong, Brazil, Panama, El Salvador, Dubai, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan. These students will witness in our Pavilion a microcosm of a much bigger dance going on just outside our doors, where film lovers from all corners of the globe come together to do business.”
More than 700 students from all over the world applied to this year’s various Cannes programs, with only about 30% of the applicants accepted. An additional 300 applicants are under consideration for The American Pavilion’s three smaller programs, the L.A. Intensive in August, the Venice Intensive at the Venice Film Festival, and AmPav’s newest program, the Cannes Lions Intensive in June.
“Additionally, we’ve made a conscious effort to increase enrollment in our Hospitality, Culinary, and Business programs to bring those student numbers more in line with the larger Film contingent that joins us every year,” Bremer added. “In fact, one of our culinary students from 15 years ago is now an educator at the University of Central Florida’s prestigious Rosen School of Hospitality, and returns this year in a faculty-mentor capacity with 16 students from Rosen.”
A group of 16 Rosen College students are participating in the Cannes Hospitality & Event Management Program through The American Pavilion, a 5,000-square-foot facility for the American film community at the Cannes International Film Festival. This is the first time that Rosen College students will participate in this program and as a result, Ucf will be the most represented institution in Cannes with the largest group of students.
“I’m excited about the Cannes Lions Intensive,” Bremer continued. “About six months ago we approached the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, often regarded as the world’s largest ad festival, proposing to develop for them what we’ve done for the Film Festival. With so many new attendees like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Netflix, Amazon, and even Xbox upending traditional advertising paradigms, it’s vital that we in the entertainment sector sit up and take note. I will bring a pilot program of students this first year, and hope to increase the scope of our presence there in the coming years.”
The American Pavilion has been committed to giving opportunities to students and young filmmakers since its inception and their numbers have grown exponentially over the years. As a result of the Student Programs, past alumni are now gainfully employed throughout the industry at companies such as The Weinstein Company, DreamWorks, Paramount, The William Morris Agency, Sony, Industry Entertainment, ICM, 20 Century Fox, Universal and The Walt Disney Company.
Specific alumni of the internship program include: Morgan J. Freeman, (whose film Hurricane Streets became the first narrative film to win three awards at The Sundance Film Festival), Jeff Nichols, (director, writer, producer, Take Shelter and Mud), Alexa Alemanni, (SAG Award-winning actress), Hope Hall (White House Videographer), and Ron Najor , who recently produced award-winning SXSW film Short Term 12 and last year’s I Am Not a Hipster.
For more information visit Here
The American Pavilion
Recently celebrating its 26th year as the center of American hospitality for the film industry in Cannes, The Pavilion brings professional and emerging filmmakers together. The American Pavilion is the center of activity at the Cannes International Film Festival for the American film community, offering membership for professionals, provocative and insightful programming, immersive student programs, the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase, and more.
Serving as a communication and hospitality center for the thousands of Americans in Cannes during the Cannes Film Festival, The American Pavilion provides an impressive array of facilities and services to the international film community. Since its debut at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, The Pavilion has become a permanent fixture on the Cannes landscape.
For the corporate sponsors of The American Pavilion, the dozens of exhibitors and office holders, and the thousands of American participants, The American Pavilion accommodates the need for information, orientation, and recreation. For the duration of the Festival, The American Pavilion provides both a dynamic business environment and an opportunity to relax in comfortable surroundings.
- 5/2/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Stars: Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr., Stephanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia Du Veaux | Written and Directed by Destin Cretton
Destin Cretton (I Am Not A Hipster), who as well as this version also wrote and directed the short film on which Short Term 12 is based, is certainly a director to watch after his work on this movie, released in November of 2013 in cinemas and on Blu-ray and DVD just a week or so ago.
Set in a facility that cares for and houses foster kids that are in-between homes and for whatever reason are no longer with their birth families, the story of Short Term 12 follows a twenty-something manager of the facility named Grace, played with subtlety, heart and a wonderful sense of realism by Brie Larson (The Spectacular Now). Grace is juggling her work at the facility, her secret relationship with co-worker Mason,...
Destin Cretton (I Am Not A Hipster), who as well as this version also wrote and directed the short film on which Short Term 12 is based, is certainly a director to watch after his work on this movie, released in November of 2013 in cinemas and on Blu-ray and DVD just a week or so ago.
Set in a facility that cares for and houses foster kids that are in-between homes and for whatever reason are no longer with their birth families, the story of Short Term 12 follows a twenty-something manager of the facility named Grace, played with subtlety, heart and a wonderful sense of realism by Brie Larson (The Spectacular Now). Grace is juggling her work at the facility, her secret relationship with co-worker Mason,...
- 3/19/2014
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”…
Jonny Mars: 1. Wendy Davis. 2. I Am Not A Hipster. 3. Enlightened the series
Lavallee: You and Deke are among the few carryover actors from the original short were you aware back then that this could/should elongated, a broader in scope feature length? And are you incarnating the same character this time out?
Mars: Yes. We all saw the potential in adapting the short. Aaron Paul plays the character I played in the original. Maybe you‘ve heard of him?
Lavallee: Describe to the future viewer what Duncan’s Pov of the world he sees in front of him?
Mars: Duncan’s Pov would make a great t-shirt: Beers, Babes and Baseball.
Lavallee: Last year you had a fairly unique Sundance experience with four films included in the festival. How do you look back at having one year’s worth...
Jonny Mars: 1. Wendy Davis. 2. I Am Not A Hipster. 3. Enlightened the series
Lavallee: You and Deke are among the few carryover actors from the original short were you aware back then that this could/should elongated, a broader in scope feature length? And are you incarnating the same character this time out?
Mars: Yes. We all saw the potential in adapting the short. Aaron Paul plays the character I played in the original. Maybe you‘ve heard of him?
Lavallee: Describe to the future viewer what Duncan’s Pov of the world he sees in front of him?
Mars: Duncan’s Pov would make a great t-shirt: Beers, Babes and Baseball.
Lavallee: Last year you had a fairly unique Sundance experience with four films included in the festival. How do you look back at having one year’s worth...
- 1/15/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Continued from picks 15 to 11…. 15. American Hustle – David O. Russell 14. The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese
13. Blue Is the Warmest Color – Abdellatif Kechiche
12. Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón 11. Spring Breakers – Harmony Korine
10. Blood Brother – Steve Hoover
I must admit that I was never completely won over by Steve Hoover’s music video work, but that was more the fault of his chosen musical collaborators than his keen eye for the alive and his feeling for rhythmically propulsive pacing. With his debut feature doc he expands on these talents, crafting a bracingly vivacious work of soul searching and self sacrifice that sees the American dream traded by his best friend Rocky Braat for the cyclic misery of caring for Indian women and children doomed to die at the cruel hands of HIV/AIDS. Despite their destiny, the children are given love and hope, and in return, Braat and Hoover find within themselves a...
13. Blue Is the Warmest Color – Abdellatif Kechiche
12. Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón 11. Spring Breakers – Harmony Korine
10. Blood Brother – Steve Hoover
I must admit that I was never completely won over by Steve Hoover’s music video work, but that was more the fault of his chosen musical collaborators than his keen eye for the alive and his feeling for rhythmically propulsive pacing. With his debut feature doc he expands on these talents, crafting a bracingly vivacious work of soul searching and self sacrifice that sees the American dream traded by his best friend Rocky Braat for the cyclic misery of caring for Indian women and children doomed to die at the cruel hands of HIV/AIDS. Despite their destiny, the children are given love and hope, and in return, Braat and Hoover find within themselves a...
- 1/8/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Short Term 12 director discusses adapting the bestselling memoir for a film set to star Jennifer Lawrence.
Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of award-winning indie drama Short Term 12, has revealed details of what looks to be his next project – The Glass Castle.
Earlier this month, rumours began circulating that the up-and-coming filmmaker was in early negotiations to direct the Lionsgate feature, an adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ 2005 bestselling memoir set to star Jennifer Lawrence.
When asked about his next project by ScreenDaily at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival this week, Cretton said: “I’m going to choose my words very carefully because the project I’m working on next isn’t completely finalised yet. But it is much bigger – a studio movie.
“But it’s the same thing. It’s a movie about a family that is just as intimate as anything else I’ve done. It’s going to have more locations and is a period...
Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of award-winning indie drama Short Term 12, has revealed details of what looks to be his next project – The Glass Castle.
Earlier this month, rumours began circulating that the up-and-coming filmmaker was in early negotiations to direct the Lionsgate feature, an adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ 2005 bestselling memoir set to star Jennifer Lawrence.
When asked about his next project by ScreenDaily at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival this week, Cretton said: “I’m going to choose my words very carefully because the project I’m working on next isn’t completely finalised yet. But it is much bigger – a studio movie.
“But it’s the same thing. It’s a movie about a family that is just as intimate as anything else I’ve done. It’s going to have more locations and is a period...
- 10/30/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
First things first, if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend watching Destin Cretton's film Short Term 12 as soon as possible. One of those films that will probably be one of your favorites this year. We're very big fans of filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton, of two great films so far - I Am Not a Hipster (Sundance 2012) and Short Term 12 (SXSW 2013), as well as a number of shorts. Happy to report more good news about him as Variety reports he's in early negotiations with Lionsgate to direct the adaptation of The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, which has Jennifer Lawrence attached to star. This would be a big leap ahead for Destin. The book recounts Walls' and her siblings' unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents. Here's a better synopsis for Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle from Amazon: Jeannette Walls grew...
- 10/10/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
If you've been around this blog, you might've heard about a little film called "Short Term 12." It's one that we've already named one of The Best Films Of The Year...So Far, and in addition to putting Brie Larson into the awards season conversation early on (while she won't get into the Oscars, the Indie Spirits are calling her name) it firmly marked the arrival of director Destin Cretton. Last year's "I Am Not A Hipster" director made the waves that he surfed on in 2013 with the raw "Short Term 12," and how he's getting a bigger board to ride on. Variety reports that Cretton will helm the adaptation of Jeannette Walls' best-selling memoir "The Glass Castle," that already has Jennifer Lawrence slated to star. Marti Noxon ("Buffy The Vampire Slayer," "Fright Night") and Andrew Lanham have already worked on a script that Cretton will rewrite, that will tell...
- 10/10/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Today’s film is the 2007 short Deacon’s Mondays. The film stars Dominic Bogart and Jane Evans, and is written and directed by the duo of Lowell Frank and Destin Cretton. Cretton turned some heads in the critical community in 2012 with his debut full-length feature I am not a Hipster, before garnering wider critical acclaim at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with his new feature Short Term 12. The movie, which Cretton wrote and directed, and which stars Brie Larson and Kaitlyn Dever, opens in wide release in American theatres this weekend.
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- 8/24/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Though I originally caught Destin Cretton’s film I Am Not A Hipster at last year’s Sundance Film Fest, I finally got a chance to speak with the bright young filmmaker over the phone last week. We discussed his writing process and his willingness to use personal experience in his work. Destin also speaks briefly about his upcoming film Short Term 12, which, as it turns out, is not just a return to his short of the same name. Here’s our conversation below:...
- 8/24/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
To celebrate the release of Short Term 12, which opens in theatres this Friday, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to see the film at Landmark Theatres in either NYC or La, as well as a copy of the official poster. Starring Brie Larson and John Gallagher Jr., the film tells the story of Larson’s character Grace, a 20-something year old who works as a supervising staff member at a foster care facility.
You can check out the full synopsis below:
Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.). But Grace’s own difficult past – and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself – throw her into unforeseen confusion,...
You can check out the full synopsis below:
Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.). But Grace’s own difficult past – and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself – throw her into unforeseen confusion,...
- 8/22/2013
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Twenty-three-year-old California bred Brie Larson has mined an impressive career as a stellar supporting player with memorable performances in "Rampart," "21 Jump Street" and Diablo Cody's HBO show "The United States of Tara" as Toni Collette's rebellious daughter. In the SXSW sensation (it won both the jury and audience top prizes) "Short Term 12," the second feature from "I Am Not a Hipster" director Destin Daniel Cretton, the actress moves up to leading lady status to anchor the indie drama as Grace, a 20-something supervisor at a foster-care facility, pregnant with the child of her co-worker boyfriend (John Gallagher Jr.), and weighed down by one dark secret she's harboring. [Editor's Note: This interview was originally published during the 2013 SXSW Film Festival.] Many critics at SXSW singled out Larson's performance as the highlight of the Cretton's feature (Indiewire's Eric Kohn praised her turn as "tremendously involving"). Larson sat down with Indiewire...
- 8/22/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This August, we get to once again profile an American Independent filmmaker who had the wind blowing in his sails moments before he launched his micro-budgeted I Am Not a Hipster at Sundance in 2012. Before unleashing his sophomore film, the character-rich, emotionally textured Short Term 12 in March, Destin Daniel Cretton had won over the Sundance jury with the short film going by the same name (2009 Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking). Winner of the 2013 SXSW Film Festival Grand Jury Award (worth mentioning, of which I was a proud member of) and an Audience Award at a handful of fests since SXSW, its the folks at Cinedigm who’ll be launching the film in select theaters on August 23rd. Here is our profile on Destin Daniel Cretton and we’re lucky enough that...
- 8/15/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The so-called American Indie style, a plague of unmotivated gestures and poorly told stories, brought on by affordable digital cameras, Sundance and SXSW encouragement, and the wave of naive filmmakers in the right place and right time has, within its landscape, exceptions to the rule. Such is Destin Cretton's Short Term 12, a reminder that great films can come from seemingly bankrupt territory. Unlike most of his contemporaries working within similar molds, Cretton has several things going for him: he knows how to tell a story, how to build characters from moments of interaction, how to frame an image, and how to create an emotionally-driven film without crossing into epiphany-laden sentimentality. Like Gregg Araki, he also knows how to portray young people, how to build drama around them and how to script and direct their humor. It doesn't hurt that Short Term 12 is built around an incredible cast headed by Brie Larson,...
- 8/12/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Digital distribution company Cinedigm and production and financing company Demarest Films announced today that they have entered into a distribution partnership by combining their respective marketing capabilities and production resources. As a distributor, Cinedigm's recent releases include "Arthur Newman" and "Dead Man's Burden." Demarest Films' recent productions include "Byzantium" and "A Most Wanted Man." The parties' first collaboration will be Destin Daniel Cretton’s film "Short Term 12," winner of this year's Los Angeles Film Festival Audience Award as well as the SXSW Grand Jury and Audience Awards. The film, Cretton's second feature following 2012's "I Am Not a Hipster," stars Brie Larson and John Gallagher Jr. as co-workers at a foster-care facility for at-risk teens. You can check out Indiewire's glowing review here. "Short Term 12" hits theaters August 23rd.
- 6/25/2013
- by Julia Selinger
- Indiewire
At this year's South by Southwest Film Festival there were a lot of high profile movies that only garnered limp shrugs and seesawing hands when you would ask the festival's hardcore how they were. But there was one movie had everyone in rapturous "Omg You've Got To See It" mode, and that movie was "Short Term 12." The affecting drama, written and directed by "I Am Not a Hipster" filmmaker Destin Cretton, won both the Grand Jury Prize award and the Audience Award at SXSW (a rare feat indeed), and based on this trailer, it's easy to see why.
Based on a short film Cretton debuted at Sundance in 2008, "Short Term 12" concerns Grace (Brie Larson, from "21 Jump Street" and this summer's "Spectacular Now"), a supervisor at a foster care facility that specializes in potentially at-risk teens. John Gallagher Jr. plays her longterm boyfriend, who also works at the facility and Kaitlyn Dever,...
Based on a short film Cretton debuted at Sundance in 2008, "Short Term 12" concerns Grace (Brie Larson, from "21 Jump Street" and this summer's "Spectacular Now"), a supervisor at a foster care facility that specializes in potentially at-risk teens. John Gallagher Jr. plays her longterm boyfriend, who also works at the facility and Kaitlyn Dever,...
- 6/4/2013
- by NextMovie Staff
- NextMovie
Cinedigm-distributed Short Term 12 opens in theaters from August 23rd and the first trailer is up for the drama directed and written by Destin Cretin (I Am Not a Hipster). The cast includes Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Stepanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia De Veaux, Keith Stanfield and Frantz Turner. In Short Term 12, a young foster-care supervisor looks after troubled teens & reckons with her own past.
- 6/4/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
If the summer wasn’t already crowded enough with promising new independent features, here comes another must see film. On August 23, the independent gem Short Term 12 is due to have a limited theatrical screening. A trailer is currently available for viewing. Taking the SXSW Grand Jury and Audience Award prizes this year, the second feature from writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton (I Am Not A Hipster), stars Brie Larson and John Gallagher Jr. as a young couple who find themselves dealing with their own personal problems while also coping with displaced foster kids they look after. Watch the trailer after the jump. Enjoy!
Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr....
Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr....
- 6/4/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
I Am Not a Hipster writer/director Destin Cretton's latest feature, Short Term 12, is based off of his 2008 Sundance short, and follows Grace (Brie Larson), a supervisor at a foster care facility for at-risk teens In the drama-comedy, Grace, like the kids she mentors, is forced to confront her own painful past. The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore, in his SXSW film reveiw, called Laron's performance a "breakthrough." Photos: The Scene at SXSW: James Franco, Olivia Wilde, Snoop Lion Take Austin by Storm John Gallagher Jr. (The Newsroom) plays Grace's understanding long-term boyfriend and coworker, and
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- 6/3/2013
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"I take good care of everyone..." This is a must watch trailer for one our favorite indie favorites of 2013, a film called Short Term 12, written & directed by Destin Cretton of Sundance film I Am Not a Hipster. Brie Larson (Tanner Hall, Scott Pilgrim, 21 Jump Street, Don Jon) stars as supervisor at a foster care facility for at-risk teens. The smart, dark comedy tells an incredibly endearing and heartfelt, but challenging and intimate story. It's a beautiful trailer for a film that deserves as much love as it can get. Appearances by Rami Malek, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever and Keith Stanfield as Marcus. Don't miss this one! Here's the very first trailer for Destin Cretton's Short Term 12, originally from Yahoo: Short Term 12, written & directed by indie auteur Destin Cretton (I Am Not a Hipster), is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a 20-something supervisor...
- 6/3/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Short Term 12," the second feature from "I Am Not a Hipster" director Destin Daniel Cretton, was the toast of this year's SXSW Film Festival, winning both the Grand Jury and Audience awards. It left the Austin-based festival with distribution via Cinedigm, who are releasing it August 23rd. The company unveiled the first trailer for the acclaimed drama today. Read More: Brie Larson Discusses the Daunting Challenge of Leading 'Short Term 12' and Only Doing Projects She Believes In In "Short Term 12," California-bred actress Brie Larson moves up to leading lady status as Grace, a twentysomething supervisor at a foster care facility who's pregnant with the child of her coworker boyfriend (John Gallagher Jr.), and weighed down by one dark secret she's harboring. "Taking its time to let the world take shape, 'Short Term 12' builds to an involving series of mini-climaxes without tidying up every loose end,...
- 6/3/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
#95. Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12
Gist: Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Award (it would have easily measured up against any film at Sundance and garnered the same response) Cretton’s quickly shot sophomore film follows one year after I Am Not A Hipster saw its premiere at Sundance 2012. Based on his short film, this is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers.
Prediction: SXSW preemed films have managed to sneak into the Cannes Film Festival line-up in the past two editions with Gimme the Loot which cracked the Un Certain Regard section, and the year before that The Myth of the American Sleepover hit Critics’ Week. Both of those were debuts. This year, Cretton could be the second jury prize winner in a row and it helps that the star quotient is almost non-existent…this despite...
Gist: Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Award (it would have easily measured up against any film at Sundance and garnered the same response) Cretton’s quickly shot sophomore film follows one year after I Am Not A Hipster saw its premiere at Sundance 2012. Based on his short film, this is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers.
Prediction: SXSW preemed films have managed to sneak into the Cannes Film Festival line-up in the past two editions with Gimme the Loot which cracked the Un Certain Regard section, and the year before that The Myth of the American Sleepover hit Critics’ Week. Both of those were debuts. This year, Cretton could be the second jury prize winner in a row and it helps that the star quotient is almost non-existent…this despite...
- 4/2/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Cinedigm has snapped up all North American and Latin American rights to Destin Daniel Cretton's SXSW Grand Jury and Audience award winner "Short Term 12," starring Brie Larson as a troubled foster care worker. The company is eyeing a late summer release, with an awards push for its star, who gives a "career-defining performance," says Vincent Scordino, VP of Cinedigm theatrical acquisitions. "'Short Term 12' is exactly the kind of film we are looking to champion as we expand our theatrical presence." This is director Cretton's second feature, following Sundance Next entry "I Am Not a Hipster" in 2012. Toh! interviewed him out of SXSW. ...
- 3/28/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
A runaway hit at this year's SXSW Film Festival, "Short Term 12" has landed with Cinedigm after winning both the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at the event in Austin. The company plans to release the Brie Larson-starring drama theatrically this summer in North and Latin America. Read More: Brie Larson Discusses the Daunting Challenge of Leading 'Short Term 12' and Only Doing Projects She Believes In Written and directed by "I Am Not a Hipster" helmer Destin Daniel Cretton, the film stars Larson as Grace, a 20-something supervisor at a foster-care facility, pregnant with the child of her co-worker boyfriend (John Gallagher Jr.), and weighed down by one dark secret she's harboring. "'Short Term 12' is an inspiring, beautifully crafted film that represents the best of what American Independent cinema can be," said Vincent Scordino, Vice President of Theatrical Acquisitions, for Cinedigm. "This is...
- 3/28/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
The 2013 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas has wrapped up this weekend. Winners for the audience awards at the festival were unveiled, along with the jury prizes given out last week. The big winner - a film called Short Term 12, directed by Destin Cretton, whose feature debut was I Am Not a Hipster, one of my favorite films of last year. Short Term 12 took home the Grand Jury prize for Narrative Feature, and went on to win the Audience Award as well, a similar double win just like with Fruitvale at Sundance earlier this year. As for docs, Josh Greenbaum's The Short Game took home the audience award. Full lists below. 2013 SXSW Film Festival Jury Awards: Narrative Feature Competition: Grand Jury Winner - Short Term 12, Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton Special Jury Recognition for Ensemble Cast - Burma, Featuring: Christopher Abbott, Gaby Hoffmann, Christopher McCann, Dan Bittner,...
- 3/18/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Director: Destin Cretton Writer: Destin Cretton Starring: Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Keith Stanfield, Rami Malek Grace (Brie Larson), is a twenty-something counselor at Short Term 12; a safe-place foster center for at-risk adolescent and teenage children. Along with her boyfriend Mason (John Gallagher Jr.) and the other young adult staff members, they establish a place of love and structure for children who otherwise would be completely without. While working with the kids on their issues, the layers are also pealed back on Grace as her and Mason face mature decisions that will affect their future together. The complexities of Grace's childhood become clear as she learns that her father is about to be released from prison. At the same time her focus is drawn to a troubled new intake that mirrors her guarded childhood, adding perspective to her past, present, and future decisions. Simply put, this film is beautiful.
- 3/14/2013
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
I first encountered director Destin Daniel Cretton via the brilliantly titled (and very well done) "I Am Not A Hipster" when it played at the Seattle International Film Festival. His short film "Short Term 12" won Sundance's short filmmaking award in 2009 and was then developed into a feature thanks in part to Cretton winning the Academy's Nicholl fellowship. Now the feature "Short Term 12" has debuted at SXSW to rave reviews--and won the fest's Grand Jury Award. (Here are reviews from ThePlaylist and Indiewire.) Set in a short term care facility for at-risk youths, the film approaches the micro-tales of each guest (and those of their equally unsettled adult supervisors) which sometimes seem familiar but remain fresh; the plot is never too calculated. A lightness shows through the cracks in the characters, off-setting the potential for sad stories of emotional damage to weigh things down. Stars Brie Larson ("Scott Pilgrim,...
- 3/13/2013
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Twenty-three-year-old California bred Brie Larson has mined an impressive career as a stellar supporting player with memorable performances in "Rampart," "21 Jump Street" and Diablo Cody's HBO show "The United States of Tara" as Toni Collette's rebellious daughter. In the SXSW Narrative Competition entry "Short Term 12," the second feature from "I Am Not a Hipster" director Destin Daniel Cretton, the actress moves up to leading lady status to anchor the indie drama as Grace, a 20-something supervisor at a foster-care facility, pregnant with the child of her co-worker boyfriend (John Gallagher Jr.), and weighed down by one dark secret she's harboring. The film premiered yesterday to rave notices in Austin, with many critics singling out Larson's performance as the highlight of the Cretton's feature (Indiewire's Eric Kohn praised her turn as "tremendously involving"). Larson sat down with Indiewire to discuss the pressure of carrying the drama, her fresh outlook on.
- 3/11/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
There is undoubtedly a potential bad version of "Short Term 12" that writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton ("I Am Not a Hipster"), fortunately, didn't make. The movie, which follows the experiences of staff and patients at the eponymous foster care home for at-risk teens, contains a series of sentimental hooks without overplaying any of them. Cretton's screenplay pulls off a tricky balance of imbuing its story with emotional weight while not coming across as cloying in the process. The situation is inherently dramatic, but the filmmaker complicates it with characters worth rooting for. That success is aided by impeccable performances all around. Brie Larson, to date best known for her role on the now-defunct "United States of Tara," delivers a tremendously involving turn as Grace, the young supervisor of the facility drawn into the distinctive needs of various patients while maintaining a warm relationship with co-worker Mason (Jason Gallagher Jr., subdued but equally.
- 3/11/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
"I Am Not A Hipster," Destin Daniel Cretton's directorial debut, premiered at last year's Sundance, and now a mere 14 months later he is preparing the release of his follow up "Short Term 12." Starring Brie Larson with a script by Cretton, the film follows the complex connection between Larson, a co-worker and a troubled teenager, as she attempts to reconcile her past while anticipating the future. What it's about: "Short Term 12" follows Grace (Brie Larson), a young supervisor at a foster-care facility, as she looks after the teens in her charge and reckons with her own troubled past. Tell Us About Yourself: I was born and raised on the island of Maui, Hawaii, where I spent the first 19 years of my life. I moved to San Diego for school, and after graduating, I spent 2 years working as a line staff in a group home for at-risk teenagers. When I started that job,...
- 3/5/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
"I Am Not A Hipster" opens with indie rock darling Brooke Hyde (Dominic Bogart) bailing on the opening number of his show to puke up his one-too-many whiskey shots in the bathroom of the local venue, stranding his band onstage. Clearly this guy, while talented (from the little bit we get to hear of his song), is not just troubled, he's in a really bad place, a place beyond just the inner recesses of the local dive's porcelain. Despite it's too clever title, "I Am Not A Hipster" is more than just a lampooning of the hipster scene of Anywhere, USA, which in this case is San Diego. It's a deep dive into the effects of grief on the creative process, on the strength of family ties and how easily they can be lost, and what it can mean to be recognized for your work. These are all things that Brooke,...
- 1/21/2013
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
The Sundance Institute has 13 independent films available through a variety of platforms to rent, download or stream via the Institute’s Artist Services program. Titles include 2012 Sundance Film Festival films Detropia, I Am Not a Hipster, The Atomic States of America, and We’re Not Broke. For full details on where to access these films, please visit sundance.org/nowplaying. (The complete list of new titles available follows below.)
“With the proliferation of new digital outlets these days, Sundance Institute saw a real need to help filmmakers and producers easily access these platforms and to provide information on how best to navigate and take advantage of independent distribution,” said Keri Putnam, Executive Director, Sundance Institute. “ It's exciting to see these filmmakers charting their own path towards finding audiences.”
In addition, to making it easier for audiences to find Sundance Institute and Film Festival films all year long, this year’s online film guide and mobile app for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival includes a new feature from GoWatchIt.com which creates a universal ‘queue’ so fans can be notified as soon as films they are interested in become available in the marketplace. Sundance Institute has also installed GoWatchIt on the Now Playing page (www.sundance.org/nowplaying) for the titles accessing distribution through its Artist Services.
Look for the Artist Services films on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, Sony Entertainment Network, SundanceNOW, Vudu and YouTube. Special bonus video content from the Institute’s archives is available for select titles. The Artist Services program provides Institute artists with exclusive opportunities for creative self-distribution, marketing and financing solutions for their work. New Video, a Cinedigm company, is the exclusive aggregation partner for distribution across all portals in the program. The Artist Services initiative is made possible by The Bertha Foundation. These deals were brokered via pro bono legal services generously provided by law firm O’Melveny & Myers, which has built the legal framework for the Artist Services program and participating filmmakers since its inception.
Titles That Are Available:
The American Astronaut (Director and Screenwriter: Cory McAbee) — Sundance Institute Screenwriter’s Lab Fellow Cory McAbee stars in his sci-fi feature film as an interplanetary trader. The film also stars 2012 Independent Spirit Award nominee James Ransone (Starlet, HBO’s Treme and The Wire) as Bodysuit. (2001 Sundance Film Festival)
The Atomic States of America (Directors: Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce) — Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce’s provocative documentary takes viewers on a journey to nuclear reactor communities across the country. (2012 Sundance Film Festival)
Budrus (Director: Julia Bachas) — Documentary filmmaker Julia Bacha’s award-winning 2009 documentary follows a Palestinian community organizer who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save the village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier. Budrus was produced by Just Vision, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the power and legitimacy of Palestinians and Israelis working nonviolently to end the occupation and resolve the conflict. (2009 Sundance Documentary Film Grant)
Detropia (Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady) — Winner of the Best Documentary Editing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and nominated for Gotham and Cinema Eye awards, Detropiachronicles the lives of several Detroiters trying to survive and make sense of what is happening to their city – once an industrial utopia, now on the brink of bankruptcy. (2012 Sundance Documentary Film Grant, 2012 Sundance Film Festival)
High School Record (Director and Screenwriter: Ben Wolfinsohn) — In Ben Wolfinsohn’s semi-improvised 2005 “mock doc,” four exceptionally awkward 17-year-olds struggle through their senior year as moments of humiliation and triumph are caught on tape in a documentary shot by fellow classmates at a performing arts high school. (2005 Sundance Film Festival)
I Am Not A Hipster (Director and Screenwriter: Destin Daniel Cretton) — Featuring music by indie electronic band, Canines, and a break-out performance by Dominic Bogart (Flash Forward), Cretton’s music-focused drama premiered at sold-out screenings at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. (2011 and 2012 Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute Grant, 2012 Sundance Film Festival)
Primer (Director and Screenwriter: Shane Carruth) — Shane Carruth’s cult classic won the Grand Jury Prize and Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Timed to the premiere of the director’s much-anticipated follow-up film, Upstream Color, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. (2004 Sundance Film Festival)
Pursuit of Loneliness (Director and Screenwriter: Laurence Thrush) — Award-winning director Laurence Thrush’s (Left Handed) 2012 Sundance Film Festival premiere stars a cast of non-professional actors depicted in their own workplace roles. (2012 Sundance Film Festival)
The Slaughter Rule (Directors: Alex Smith and Andrew Smith) — David Morse (Treme) and Ryan Gosling (Drive) star in Alex and Andrew Smith’s feature writing-directorial debut about a fatherless high-school quarterback. Nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards’ John Cassavetes Award.. (2002 Sundance Film Festival)
Stingray Sam (Director and screenwriter: Cory McAbee) — Cory McAbee’s 2009 follow up to The American Astronaut features writer-director McAbee as Stingray Sam and “Crugie” as The Quasar Kid, two space convicts in a series of episodic adventures narrated by David Hyde Pierce (Frasier). (2009 Sundance Film Festival)
to.get.her (Director and screenwriter: Erica Dunton) — Five teenage girls with a shared secret get together for a weekend of “no consequences” in this 2011 Sundance Film Festival premiere that won the Best of Next <=> Audience Award. Actress-model Jazzy De Lisser stars in a “mystery” written and directed by Erica Dunton (The 27 Club). (2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Wave Twisters (Directors: Eric Henry and Syd Garon) — Animators Syd Garon (Superheroes, Last Call at the Oasis) and Eric Henry’s “turntablism-based musical” won the 2001 Midnight Films Audience Award at the 2001 SXSW Film Festival. Scripted to a recording by “scratch” artist DJ Qbert, Wave Twisters follows a group of heroes traveling through inner-space on a quest to save the lost art of Hip Hop. (2001 Sundance Film Festival)
We're Not Broke (Directors: Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce) — A timely exposé on how the government has allowed U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes, and the growing wave of discontent that is has fostered. A 2012 Sundance Film Festival premiere from the filmmakers of The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt. (2012 Sundance Film Festival)
Sundance Institute
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“With the proliferation of new digital outlets these days, Sundance Institute saw a real need to help filmmakers and producers easily access these platforms and to provide information on how best to navigate and take advantage of independent distribution,” said Keri Putnam, Executive Director, Sundance Institute. “ It's exciting to see these filmmakers charting their own path towards finding audiences.”
In addition, to making it easier for audiences to find Sundance Institute and Film Festival films all year long, this year’s online film guide and mobile app for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival includes a new feature from GoWatchIt.com which creates a universal ‘queue’ so fans can be notified as soon as films they are interested in become available in the marketplace. Sundance Institute has also installed GoWatchIt on the Now Playing page (www.sundance.org/nowplaying) for the titles accessing distribution through its Artist Services.
Look for the Artist Services films on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, Sony Entertainment Network, SundanceNOW, Vudu and YouTube. Special bonus video content from the Institute’s archives is available for select titles. The Artist Services program provides Institute artists with exclusive opportunities for creative self-distribution, marketing and financing solutions for their work. New Video, a Cinedigm company, is the exclusive aggregation partner for distribution across all portals in the program. The Artist Services initiative is made possible by The Bertha Foundation. These deals were brokered via pro bono legal services generously provided by law firm O’Melveny & Myers, which has built the legal framework for the Artist Services program and participating filmmakers since its inception.
Titles That Are Available:
The American Astronaut (Director and Screenwriter: Cory McAbee) — Sundance Institute Screenwriter’s Lab Fellow Cory McAbee stars in his sci-fi feature film as an interplanetary trader. The film also stars 2012 Independent Spirit Award nominee James Ransone (Starlet, HBO’s Treme and The Wire) as Bodysuit. (2001 Sundance Film Festival)
The Atomic States of America (Directors: Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce) — Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce’s provocative documentary takes viewers on a journey to nuclear reactor communities across the country. (2012 Sundance Film Festival)
Budrus (Director: Julia Bachas) — Documentary filmmaker Julia Bacha’s award-winning 2009 documentary follows a Palestinian community organizer who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save the village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier. Budrus was produced by Just Vision, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the power and legitimacy of Palestinians and Israelis working nonviolently to end the occupation and resolve the conflict. (2009 Sundance Documentary Film Grant)
Detropia (Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady) — Winner of the Best Documentary Editing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and nominated for Gotham and Cinema Eye awards, Detropiachronicles the lives of several Detroiters trying to survive and make sense of what is happening to their city – once an industrial utopia, now on the brink of bankruptcy. (2012 Sundance Documentary Film Grant, 2012 Sundance Film Festival)
High School Record (Director and Screenwriter: Ben Wolfinsohn) — In Ben Wolfinsohn’s semi-improvised 2005 “mock doc,” four exceptionally awkward 17-year-olds struggle through their senior year as moments of humiliation and triumph are caught on tape in a documentary shot by fellow classmates at a performing arts high school. (2005 Sundance Film Festival)
I Am Not A Hipster (Director and Screenwriter: Destin Daniel Cretton) — Featuring music by indie electronic band, Canines, and a break-out performance by Dominic Bogart (Flash Forward), Cretton’s music-focused drama premiered at sold-out screenings at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. (2011 and 2012 Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute Grant, 2012 Sundance Film Festival)
Primer (Director and Screenwriter: Shane Carruth) — Shane Carruth’s cult classic won the Grand Jury Prize and Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Timed to the premiere of the director’s much-anticipated follow-up film, Upstream Color, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. (2004 Sundance Film Festival)
Pursuit of Loneliness (Director and Screenwriter: Laurence Thrush) — Award-winning director Laurence Thrush’s (Left Handed) 2012 Sundance Film Festival premiere stars a cast of non-professional actors depicted in their own workplace roles. (2012 Sundance Film Festival)
The Slaughter Rule (Directors: Alex Smith and Andrew Smith) — David Morse (Treme) and Ryan Gosling (Drive) star in Alex and Andrew Smith’s feature writing-directorial debut about a fatherless high-school quarterback. Nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards’ John Cassavetes Award.. (2002 Sundance Film Festival)
Stingray Sam (Director and screenwriter: Cory McAbee) — Cory McAbee’s 2009 follow up to The American Astronaut features writer-director McAbee as Stingray Sam and “Crugie” as The Quasar Kid, two space convicts in a series of episodic adventures narrated by David Hyde Pierce (Frasier). (2009 Sundance Film Festival)
to.get.her (Director and screenwriter: Erica Dunton) — Five teenage girls with a shared secret get together for a weekend of “no consequences” in this 2011 Sundance Film Festival premiere that won the Best of Next <=> Audience Award. Actress-model Jazzy De Lisser stars in a “mystery” written and directed by Erica Dunton (The 27 Club). (2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Wave Twisters (Directors: Eric Henry and Syd Garon) — Animators Syd Garon (Superheroes, Last Call at the Oasis) and Eric Henry’s “turntablism-based musical” won the 2001 Midnight Films Audience Award at the 2001 SXSW Film Festival. Scripted to a recording by “scratch” artist DJ Qbert, Wave Twisters follows a group of heroes traveling through inner-space on a quest to save the lost art of Hip Hop. (2001 Sundance Film Festival)
We're Not Broke (Directors: Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce) — A timely exposé on how the government has allowed U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes, and the growing wave of discontent that is has fostered. A 2012 Sundance Film Festival premiere from the filmmakers of The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt. (2012 Sundance Film Festival)
Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to inform, inspire, and unite diverse populations around the globe. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, I Am My Own Wife, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
- 1/18/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Destin Cretton’s wonderful fictional feature debut, I Am Not A Hipster, just got released across multiple platforms, from several different VOD services to Blu-ray and DVD. With this exclusive clip you’ll find the film’s first two minutes, giving you a gorgeous musical performance and an introduction to the strident but afflicted lead, Brook (played by Dominic Bogart), who is lost in a world where art has lost its importance in the face of loss and loneliness. Pick up the disc (or even a t-shirt) from the filmmakers direct here.
- 1/16/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Institute Artists Services, In collaboration with Cinedigm Entertainment Group/New Video, announces the Si films releasing today on various digital platforms. Check here to watch them. The Artist Services program provides filmmakers with exclusive opportunities for self-distribution, marketing and financing solutions. Among the new releases are Shane Carruth's "Primer," "Destin Cretton's "I Am Not A Hipster" and Cinema Eye Honors' winner "Detropia." Detropia – Winner of the Best Documentary Editing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and Cinema Eye Honors for Outstanding Direction and Original Score, Detropia chronicles the lives of several Detroiters trying to survive and make sense of what is happening to their city – once an industrial utopia, now on the brink of bankruptcy. Available day-date on Cable VOD and DVD. I Am Not A Hipster – Featuring music by indie electronic band, Canines, and a...
- 1/15/2013
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Following up his award winning short, Short Term 12, writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton returned to Sundance the following year with another personal reflection, this time on the San Diego indie scene through the eyes of young musician desperately trying to cope with his mother’s passing. The title I Am Not A Hipster suggests a focus on image and perception, which in fleeting instances come to fruition, but the film is really a heartfelt meditation on loss, loneliness, and art’s curious ability to both help process the past or flatly provide phlegmatic entertainment. Cretton’s feature is a work of deep emotion that showcases a breakout performance by Dominic Bogart and a wonderful original soundtrack by Joel P. West that stands center stage.
Brook (Bogart) has made a name for himself in the San Diego music scene with a powerful self recorded indie rock record and an enthralling live show,...
Brook (Bogart) has made a name for himself in the San Diego music scene with a powerful self recorded indie rock record and an enthralling live show,...
- 1/15/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
"A film that, even if you hate hipsters, you may fall in love with, just like me." Yep, that's what I'm quoted as saying (from this review) in this new and, likely, final trailer for Destin Cretton's I Am Not a Hipster, a film that premiered at Sundance last year as one of my favorites of the fest. Despite that title and what it sounds like, it's not a film about hipsters, it's an emotional, entertaining, heartfelt and easily lovable indie musical drama about a struggling family. Dominic Bogart stars as Brook, with Tammy Minoff, Lauren Coleman and Kandis Erickson as his three sisters, and Alvaro Orlando as his friend. I re-watched this recently and really enjoyed it again, such a great film, it's worth seeing when possible. Fantastic final trailer. Watch the second official trailer for Destin Daniel Cretton's I Am Not a Hipster, via Vimeo: From the...
- 1/8/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
10. Leviathan
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel’s follow-up to their fascinating depiction of traveling sheep herders in Sweetgrass, is this year’s quintessential art doc. With a myriad of weather-proof digital cameras strapped to a North America trolling ship, the film documents the grotesque nature of the commercial fishing profession on a very physical level. We slosh about the deck bathed in the blood of countless sea creatures while we watch weathered men be pelted by an ever present downpour as hungry gulls flutter against a black sky hoping to score some remains. This is Deadliest Catch without the embellishments of competition, personality or theme music and it is a purely guttural experience to be had.
9. Post Tenebras Lux
Carlos Reygadas’s latest is the only film on the list that debuted at Cannes this year that I’ve managed to see (I’m still patiently awaiting Holy Motors, Amour,...
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel’s follow-up to their fascinating depiction of traveling sheep herders in Sweetgrass, is this year’s quintessential art doc. With a myriad of weather-proof digital cameras strapped to a North America trolling ship, the film documents the grotesque nature of the commercial fishing profession on a very physical level. We slosh about the deck bathed in the blood of countless sea creatures while we watch weathered men be pelted by an ever present downpour as hungry gulls flutter against a black sky hoping to score some remains. This is Deadliest Catch without the embellishments of competition, personality or theme music and it is a purely guttural experience to be had.
9. Post Tenebras Lux
Carlos Reygadas’s latest is the only film on the list that debuted at Cannes this year that I’ve managed to see (I’m still patiently awaiting Holy Motors, Amour,...
- 12/31/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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