A Warm Spell, the short film I produced that's written/directed/edited by my good friend and frequent collaborator, Toshimichi Saito, will have it's UK Premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in October!
Congratulations, Toshi! I'm very excited for you.
P.S. Toshi is killing it with this film
The feature film I produced, But Not For Me, will be playing the Capital City Black Film Festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday, August 14th, 2015.
But Not For Me is going to Texas!
If you're in Texas and want to see the film, check out the festival's website: http://www.capcitybff.com/
Otherwise, like the film's Facebook page for info on future screenings: https://www.facebook.com/ButNotForMeFilm
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But Not For Me, the feature film I produced that's written/directed by my Impolite Company partner Ryan Carmichael, had it's World Premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival on June 4th. The premiere was SOLD OUT and was hosted by the Nitehawk Cinema.
Our film closed the festival on Sunday, June 7th, with an even larger audience. And that evening we won the Audience Choice Award (Feature Narrative) and Best Original Score Award!
The next screening in New York will be held on July 6th at Videology - it SOLD OUT in four hours after posting the invite on the film's Facebook page. BUT - put your name on the waitlist so you can get a ticket if any open up and to be notified about future screenings: butnotformefilm.eventbrite.com
Sort of. I said this about the book, and he put it in the book ("award-winning" filmmaker attribution courtesy of Peter):
Peter's book The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community Swim and Racquet Club the Summer Before Last is on sale now in e-book form for ONLY $5.99. Support an up-and-coming, independent artist and buy his book here: www.TinyUrl.com/PetesEbook
Print version is coming June 21st! More info: http://peterlharmon.tumblr.com/
The short film I produced, A WARM SPELL, will be screening at the New York Japan Cinefest at the Asia Society and Museum on Thursday, June 4th, at 6:30pm.
I'll be participating in a Q&A session with the film's director of photography and my NYU Grad Film classmate, Michael Wood.
From AM New York: "5 must-sees at the Brooklyn Film Festival"
"A world premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival, this movie stars Marcus Carl Franklin as a New York-dwelling copy writer grappling with the challenges of life in the big city. It's one of many movies with strong local connections playing here."
The short film I produced, FOG CITY (written, directed, and starring Liam Brady), will have it's World Premiere at the Oak Cliff Film Festival in Dallas, TX, on June 12th. Congrats to Liam and the entire team!
Update 5.27.15: AND THE WORLD PREMIERE HAS SOLD OUT! Tickets still available for the Sunday, June 7, 8pm screening - get them now before they're gone!
The feature film I produced, BUT NOT FOR ME, will have it's world premiere Thursday, June 4, at 9pm via the Brooklyn Film Festival at Nitehawk Cinema. We're super pumped and want you there to see it!
Check out our festival page for more info about the film and to purchase tickets: http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=1530
In the meantime, check out a clip from the film below:
Uploaded by Lilly Riber on 2015-05-11.
Middle Ground is an official selection of the Take Two Film Festival in New York. The film will screen at 5pm on Sunday, April 12th at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village.
Tickets are $8 per block of film. Visit the festival website for more info: http://www.taketwofilmfestival.com/
Middle Ground has been nominated for the James R. Janowsky Award at NYU. Feels good to start to find an audience for the film!
Will report back if the film wins!
My short film, Middle Ground, has been awarded a Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellows Fund grant. This is super exciting because I can definitely use the money to support the film and the HFPA is the organization that awards the Golden Globes each year.
What makes this even cooler is that the feature film I produced, But Not For Me, also won the same grant! It's been an encouraging week and I'm thankful for that.
Check out that crowd - so big, so cool!!
My first mention on the NYU Grad Film Blog and I didn't even notice it at first! Woo Hoo! Personal goal accomplished.
This is cool: I was tooling around on Google and discovered the organization Coalition to Stop Gun Violence - a group I connected with in 2013 - had actually discovered online and shared my short film, The Choi Family, a year earlier in 2012. That's neat! I guess in this instance the film found its target audience.
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A Warm Spell (formerly Koharubiyori) - the film I produced that was shot in Japan in February 2013 - has been accepted to the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival. Clermont-Ferrand is one of the best short film festivals in the world and only 77 films were chosen for the International Competition.
Big congrats to Writer/Director Toshimichi Saito, cast, and crew!
We in the papers! Website coming very, very soon.
