The 9th annual Calgary Underground Film Festival will run on April 16-22 at the Globe Cinema with a mix of outrageous comedies, documentaries about controversial personalities, cult flicks and some frank depictions of sexuality.
The fest launches on the 16th with the new comedy by Bobcat Goldthwait, God Bless America, in which Joel Murray stars as a terminally ill man who decides to kill as many stupid people he can can before he perishes himself. Also on the comedic front are Rick Alverson’s The Comedy starring TV’s Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareham as troublemaking urban hipsters; and Mikkel Nørgaard Klovn (Clown) about a Danish loser who takes a young boy on a brothel tour.
On the cult film front are Jack Perez’s Some Guy Who Kills People starring Kevin Corrigan in the eponymous role; Alex Ross Perry‘s abusive sibling flick The Color Wheel; the brutal Father...
The fest launches on the 16th with the new comedy by Bobcat Goldthwait, God Bless America, in which Joel Murray stars as a terminally ill man who decides to kill as many stupid people he can can before he perishes himself. Also on the comedic front are Rick Alverson’s The Comedy starring TV’s Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareham as troublemaking urban hipsters; and Mikkel Nørgaard Klovn (Clown) about a Danish loser who takes a young boy on a brothel tour.
On the cult film front are Jack Perez’s Some Guy Who Kills People starring Kevin Corrigan in the eponymous role; Alex Ross Perry‘s abusive sibling flick The Color Wheel; the brutal Father...
- 3/19/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
In part four of HuffPost Culture's ongoing series, The Sundance Diaries, our five featured shorts filmmakers tackle big questions. Like: What's an animator to do with a woman behind a veil? And was growing up in the seventies like being in a horror movie? (Disclosure: the answer has nothing to do with using a clothing iron on one's head, surprisingly.)
As always, click on any filmmaker's name below for their individual entry, and click "More" at the liveblog's end for previous installments. Have at it!
"Avocados" animator Kataneh Vahdani on learning to observe people in a country where women cover themselves with veils. Director Kelly Sears on how the politics of the 1970s inspired her minimalist horror short, "Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise." Jessie Ennis on directing "The Arm" with two fellow actresses who knew how to dress the part. Animator Stephen Neary on the nonsense film that made "Dr.
As always, click on any filmmaker's name below for their individual entry, and click "More" at the liveblog's end for previous installments. Have at it!
"Avocados" animator Kataneh Vahdani on learning to observe people in a country where women cover themselves with veils. Director Kelly Sears on how the politics of the 1970s inspired her minimalist horror short, "Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise." Jessie Ennis on directing "The Arm" with two fellow actresses who knew how to dress the part. Animator Stephen Neary on the nonsense film that made "Dr.
- 1/17/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Every year the Sundance Film Festival committee selects a group of filmmakers who usually have day jobs. These are the shorts filmmakers -- artists who spend months and even years putting together movies that run under 50 minutes. Often first-time directors, most of these women and men had no reason at the start of their process to believe they'd reach the public at all, much less at the best-known film festival in the country.
This year, 32 shorts were selected from a pool of 4,038. From now until the festival's close at the end of January, Huffington Post Culture will be bringing you diary-style entries from the storytellers, animators and documentarians behind these 32 works, as they navigate a path that's new to many of them and invisible to most of us. Our first five entries start below (you can go directly to any individual post by clicking on the filmmakers' names below). Enjoy!
This year, 32 shorts were selected from a pool of 4,038. From now until the festival's close at the end of January, Huffington Post Culture will be bringing you diary-style entries from the storytellers, animators and documentarians behind these 32 works, as they navigate a path that's new to many of them and invisible to most of us. Our first five entries start below (you can go directly to any individual post by clicking on the filmmakers' names below). Enjoy!
- 1/6/2012
- by Mallika Rao
- Huffington Post
Liv Mjönes, Ruth Vega Fernandez, With Every Heartbeat Breakthrough Selections Expecting: In Chile, a young girl and her boyfriend wait for a black-market drug to take effect in this tense and insightful examination of teen pregnancy. Dir/Scr Francisca Fuenzalida. Chile. U.S. Premiere. Light Of Mine: Rapidly going blind, photographer Owen and his wife Laura take a life-changing trip to Yellowstone National Park where they experience a beauty that rivals their tragedy. Dir Brett Eichenberger. Scr Jill Remensnyder. USA. Three And A Half: Three women risk everything and travel to the northwest Iranian border in hopes of escaping prison and reuniting with their comrades. Dir/Scr Naghi Nemati. Cast Samaneh Vafaiezadeh, Shooka Karimi, Negar Hassanzadeh, Mehdi Poormoosa. Iran. U.S. Premiere. With Every Heartbeat: In this Swedish romantic drama, uptight Mia attends her father’s engagement party and not only gains a stepmother, but also a new lover,...
- 10/23/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
ATAS presents College TV Awards
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation handed out its 29th College Television Awards on Saturday night at a black-tie gala ceremony at Culver Studios.
Among the winners were Stephen Neary of New York University (animation category), Michelle Tessier of UCLA (children's program), Reed Van Dyk of Cornell University (comedy), Jonas Mayabb of Pasadena's Art Center College of Design (commercials), Jolene Pinder and Sarah Zaman of the University of Florida, Gainesville (documentary), Nicole Haeusser and Ulrich Schwarz of UCLA (drama), Tim Wilkerson and Sean Brown of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (magazine shows), Jean-Olivier Begin of the Manhattan School of Music (in collaboration with Columbia University) (best composition), Sou Yun Sim of Florida State University Graduate Film School in Tallahassee (best use of music) and Ryan Dietz and Patrick Lester of Northwestern University (newscasts).
Among the winners were Stephen Neary of New York University (animation category), Michelle Tessier of UCLA (children's program), Reed Van Dyk of Cornell University (comedy), Jonas Mayabb of Pasadena's Art Center College of Design (commercials), Jolene Pinder and Sarah Zaman of the University of Florida, Gainesville (documentary), Nicole Haeusser and Ulrich Schwarz of UCLA (drama), Tim Wilkerson and Sean Brown of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (magazine shows), Jean-Olivier Begin of the Manhattan School of Music (in collaboration with Columbia University) (best composition), Sou Yun Sim of Florida State University Graduate Film School in Tallahassee (best use of music) and Ryan Dietz and Patrick Lester of Northwestern University (newscasts).
- 3/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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