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May 15, 2012
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Help Sound Of Vision Win Audience Award – Watch and Vote!

Sound of Vision is a 7- minute documentary, about one man’s journey to belong as he confronts the hurdles, and embraces the beauty, of the city he will never see. The film was created in under five days for the International Documentary Challenge by 20Coop - a collaborative production team comprised of five New York based filmmakers from The United States, Canada, Russia, China and The Netherlands : Joseph Vele,  Julia Doran,  Konstantin Syomin, Dongnan Chen, and Loretta van der Horst.

Sound of Vision premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto on May 1 and took home five major awards including Best Film presented by the Documentary Channel, the POV Award presented by American Documentary/ PBS, Best Use of Genre, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing.

Sound of Vision and the eleven other finalists are online for viewing and voting for the Audience Award (presented by the Documentary Channel) in the International Documentary Challenge Screening Room.  

 

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May 14, 2012
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Tribeca Film Acquires Rights to Jagjaguwar-produced – The Comedy

“Heidecker’s Swanson is wired like Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, swapping violence for wisecracks.” – Hollywood.com

Tribeca Film announced today that it has acquired all North American rights to The Comedy, director Rick Alverson’s provocative character study, which is already one of the most talked about films since it bowed at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film, which Variety called “compulsively fascinating,” and Film Threat noted as “one of the most wildly inappropriate and pitch black comedies I’ve ever seen” also played South by Southwest and is set for BAMcinemaFEST this June, will be released in October 2012. Jagjaguwar, the prominent independent music label known for artists such as Bon Iver and Sharon Van Etten, produced The Comedy in conjunction with Greyshack Films and Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix, along with Mike S. Ryan and Brent Kunkle producing. Rough House Pictures, the Production Company of Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill, and Matt Reilly attached themselves to the film during Sundance.
About the film: 

On the cusp of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker, “Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!”) is a man with unlimited options. An aging hipster in Brooklyn, he spends his days in aimless recreation with like-minded friends (“Tim & Eric” co-star Eric Wareheim, LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy and comedian Gregg Turkington a.k.a.“Neil Hamburger”) in games of comic irreverence and mock sincerity. As Swanson grows restless of the safety a sheltered life offers him, he tests the limits of acceptable behavior, pushing the envelope in every way he can. Heidecker’s deadpan delivery cleverly masks a deep desire for connection and sense in the modern world. The Comedy wears its name on its sleeve, but director Rick Alverson’s powerful and provocative character study touches a darkness behind the humor that resonates with viewers long after the story ends.

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May 8, 2012
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Reggie Watts Makes Music with John Hamm

Watch Reggie Watts and Madmen’s John Hamm remix the theme from”Taxi” on IFC’s new talk show “Comedy Bang! Bang!” T-T-T-T-Tony Danza.

Packed with character cameos, short films, comedy sketches and games set in an off-beat world, Comedy Bang! Bang! delivers thirty minutes of absurd laugh-loaded fun featuring some of the biggest names in comedy, including Amy Poehler, Zach Galifianakis, Adam Scott, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks and, host Scott Aukerman. But before these comedy greats can make it to the relative safety of the couch, they have to get past Reggie Watts who has made it his mission to make each and every one of them sing with him. ” ( via IFC )

Comedy Bang! Bang! premieres on IFC on Friday June 8th at 10 p.m. ET

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March 21, 2012
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JARRED ALTERMAN’S DOCUMENTARY: CONVENTO

Filmmaker Jarred Alterman, takes you inside the phantasmagoric world of a family of artists, holed up in a centuries-old monastery in southeastern Portugal in CONVENTO;  a SXSW, Edinburgh, and Rooftop Films documentary fave.

Prima ballerina Geraldine, photographer Kees, and their two boys Christiaan and Louis left Holland in 1980 to take up residence at the Convento São Francisco de Mértola. Strategically situated at the convergence of two rivers in southeastern Portugal, this vacant monastery was left decaying for centuries until the Zwanikken family transformed it with their eccentric and earthy endeavors. In the airy studio converted from the estate’s chapel, Christiaan builds kinetic sculptures from discarded electronics and the skulls and bones of deceased wildlife. Combining the family’s home movies with his own observant photography, Alterman artfully casts these fantastical creatures as supporting characters as they literally move across the landscape, animating the ancient grounds.

Be sure to check out convento.tumblr.com for up coming screenings and check out christiaanzwanikken.wordpress.com for more information about the artist and upcoming exhibitions

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March 13, 2012
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HOWLING INTO HARMONY: BEIJING NOISE DOCUMENTARY

Beijing is a city of endless noise, the roar of construction and gridlocked traffic never too far off. The capital is also home to a flourishing experimental music scene, where young Chinese respond to their surroundings with a cathartic racket.

Howling into Harmony takes an intimate look at the lives of three local musicians and their parents, exploring the delicate balance between rock n’ roll rebelliousness and family, Westernized culture and deeply-rooted nationalism. Using underground music as an entry point, the film explores the world of young Chinese in the big city.

Come watch and support Joshua Frank’s  documentary at Big Snow Buffalo Lodge in Brooklyn – Wednesday, March 21st :

Howling into Harmony (dir. Joshua Frank)

Soviet Pop (Beijing)
Zhang Shouwang (of Carsick Cars and White – Beijing)
Sontag Shogun (Brooklyn)
Ashcan Orchestra (Brooklyn)

Film at 8 p.m.
Bands at 9 p.m.

Big Snow Buffalo Lodge
89 Varet St., Brooklyn

Wednesday March 21

And be sure to download a copy of the upcoming issue of Discosalt Magazine, featuring Joshua Frank’s film Howling into Harmony 

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March 6, 2012
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STOP KONY 2012

Facebook has been inundated with a storm of KONY 2012 posts in the past couple days and the viral video, directed by Jason Russell has amassed over 9 million views. The film and campaign by Invisible Children aims to make Joseph Kony – one of the world’s worst war criminals –  famous, not celebrate him but raise support for his arrest, disarm the LRA, bring child soldiers home and set a precedent for international justice.

HOW TO HELP:

Visit: kony2012.com
Donate to Invisible Children: stayclassy.org/checkout/set-donation?eid=14711
For info on Invisible Children: invisiblechildren.com

 

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March 2, 2012
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WIN A DECK INSPIRED BY TRISTAN PATTERSON’S DRAGONSLAYER

SNAGFILMS is giving away a free Addikt Skatedeck, plus an assortment of Skate DVD’s for the itunes launch of DRAGONSLAYER.

1 X Addikt Skateboard deck inspired by the legend of “The Gonz” graphic

3 X Action-packed street/bowl skateboarding DVD featuring Skreech and other insane skaters

Dragonslayer is available for download here. Check it out!

Here is how to win:

Real Simple.

Like us on Facebook.

Share this post – on our wall – with your friends.

Winners from this pool will be selected at random – and contacted on April 16th.

Read our interview with DRAGONSLAYER director Tristan Patterson HERE
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February 11, 2012
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BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW: THEATRICAL TRAILER



Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983,

BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW
is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies and Saturday morning cartoons. We are hoping the transgressive mind-trip of a sci-fi throwback, lives up to it’s trailer, which looks like a cross between 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Tron and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The film was spawned from the pre-teen fantasies of debut writer-director Panos Cosmatos and premiered at the 2010 Whistler Film Festival and showed at several film festivals throughout 2011, including Tribeca and Fantasia. The good folks at Magnet, the genre division of Magnolia Pictures are gearing up for a limited domestic theatrical release for the film.

Cosmatos was born in Rome in 1974 to the late Greek movie director (George Cosmatos) and a Swedish experimental artist mother. He spent his early formative years traveling all over the globe before settling in Canada. In 1981, the family lived for a year in Mexico where exposure to the strange local interpretations of American pop culture had a profound and lasting effect on his creative life. Growing up in the isolated suburbs of Vancouver Island during the 80s, he obsessed over the minutiae of heavy metal, fantasy art, and science fiction horror films, which he still does to this day. He then immersed himself in the underground art and music scenes making short films, album covers and music videos with a burgeoning group of influential and groundbreaking artists. Panos currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

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February 2, 2012
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THE GITS: A DOCUMENTARY

In the early 1990s, Seattle was the focal point of an emerging musical underground. The Gits helped spearhead this new scene. Their sound was proto-grunge and all-out punk aggression.  The earnest, blues wail of front woman Mia Zapata was its center. Mia was the very embodiment of riot grrrl intensity, talent, and humanity. Her uncompromised integrity epitomized a way of life that influenced an entire generation of female artists to follow. Upon returning from a successful European tour -and at the height of The Gits’ popularity- singer Mia Zapata was found raped and murdered, unfairly abbreviating the band’s fable. Incredibly, more than a decade later, new evidence would surface, Mia’s case file would be reopened, and a suspect would be brought to justice –as cameras rolled.

The Gits is an account of overcoming adversity, addiction, love, loss and pain. It’s a punk rock mystery, but not merely a tale of tragedy. It’s the mythic story of a great American Rock N Roll band.

Watch the full film HERE.

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February 2, 2012
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RIP!: A REMIX MANIFESTO

Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age.

Brett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and new media director. He is the creator of opensourcecinema.org, a video remix community which supports the production of his feature documentary RiP: A remix manifesto. He is also the web producer of the Homeless Nation.org, a web project dedicated to bridging the digital divide – allowing everyone to participate in online culture.

 

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February 1, 2012
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BURNING ICE: A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY PETER GILBERT


In September 2009, documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert joined more than 40 observers – including musicians Laurie Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Robyn Hitchcock, Ryuichi Sakamoto and writer Suzan-Lori Parks – on an ice-breaking ship for a nine-day voyage off the coast of Greenland with artist-led climate change project, Cape Farewell.

Their goal was to see, experience and contemplate the effects of climate change first-hand – and to begin a creative conversation with the rest of the world about one of the most important and pressing issues facing the future of humanity.

Watch the full film HERE

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January 31, 2012
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TRANSPORT: A SHORT FILM FROM REGGIE WATTS

Transport is a short film collaboration between comedian/musician/maverick Reggie Watts and photographer Noah Kalina. Watts not only makes crazy beats and sounds with his voice, but also acts in this elegantly shot black and white walkabout.  Check out more of Watts here. 

 

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