Cinereach is proud to announce that six films supported through the Cinereach grants program will be showcased at this year’s IDFA in both the festival and the forum, running Nov 16 – 27.
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Posts Tagged ‘Dragonslayer’
11/16/2011
» Cinereach Supported Projects at IDFA
10/27/2011
» Dragonslayer Opens in Theaters
Dragonslayer, a Cinereach 2010 grantee and winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at SXSW, begins its theatrical release on Friday, November 4th.
Executive Produced by Christine Vachon, Tristan Patterson’s directorial debut draws a vivid portrait of a new generation of kids growing up in the rotting suburbs of inland California by following one of them, a skater named Skreech, over the course of a typically turbulent year.
Skreech’s skating may be framed by the sloped walls of an empty swimming pool, but his story fits into a larger scope of dimished dreams. As described in a New York Times profile of the film, “Existing on the fringes, pool skating has always thrived during times of crisis.”
With acclaimed cinematography by Eric Koretz, textured score by T. Griffin, and a galloping soundtrack populated by musicians from rock labels Mexican Summer and Kemado Records, Dragonslayer‘s energy is best experienced big and loud in a theater.
The film opens in New York at the Cinema Village and travels around the country in the weeks that follow. This is the second feature film to be released theatrically by Drag City Records. Check out their website for more information about where Dragonslayer will play next.
In advance of its opening weekend, New Yorkers can get into the Dragonslayer mood at a free concert on Tuesday, November 1st. The bands Psychic Ills and Endless Boogie, and DJ Steve Lowenthal, will provide the night’s soundtrack at Public Assembly in Brooklyn. See details in the flyer below.
Cinereach is proud to announce that five films supported through various Cinereach initiatives will be showcased at this year’s BFI London International Film Festival, running October 12 – 27.
Dragonslayer
Director: Tristan Patterson
Nonfiction | Winter 2010 & Summer 2010 Grantee
Festival Screening Information
Drag City in association with Killer Films presents the transmissions of a lost kid, falling in love, in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty.
Here
Director: Braden King
Fiction | Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Festival Screening Information
Measurement and orientation break down in an intensely visual, landscape-obsessed road movie that chronicles the relationship between an American mapmaker and a foreign art photographer who impulsively decide to travel together into deeply uncharted territory.
On the Ice
Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Fiction | Winter 2010 Grantee & Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Festival Screening Information
On the snow-covered Arctic tundra, at the top of the world in Barrow, Alaska, two Inuit teenagers try to get away with murder.
Pariah
Director:Dee Rees
Fiction | Winter 2009 & Winter 2010 Grantee
Festival Screening Information
When forced to choose between the fragile cohesion of her middle-class family and loyalty to her best friend, a Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Return
Director: Liza Johnson
Fiction | Winter 2010 Grantee & Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Festival Screening Information
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli slowly realizes that her everyday life doesn’t resemble the one she left. Can she regain her place in the kind of life she’s been fighting to protect?
The Forgiveness of Blood
Director: Joshua Marston
Fiction | Supported through Cinereach Productions & Winter 2009 Grantee
Festival Screening Information
In The Forgiveness of Blood, the lives of a teenage boy and his younger sister are thrown into turmoil after a killing in a dispute over land draws their northern Albanian family into a blood feud.
The contagious energy of film festivals makes them the ideal environment to experience new films. If you’re in New York, Los Angeles, DC or beyond, please check out these upcoming events, as well as the Cinereach-supported films that are screening at them. The links below will take you to more information about the festivals, films and screening details.
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield, United Kingdom
June 8th – 12th
Sheffield Doc/Fest brings the international documentary family together to celebrate the art and business of documentary making. In addition to a wealth of inspirational documentary films, Doc/Fest offers pitching opportunities, controversial discussion panels and in-depth filmmaker masterclasses. Cinereach is excited to have several grantee projects involved in this year’s Doc/Fest, in various ways including a world premiere for one!
Just Do It: A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws
Winter 2011 Grantee
Director: Emily James
Producer: Lauren Simpson
For a year the filmmaker submerged herself in documenting the secret activities of environmental direct action activists in the UK. The result is a behind the scenes portrait of a community of actively engaged citizens who aren’t prepared to sit back and allow the destruction of the world’s ecosystems and climate.
Just Do It Screening Information – World Premiere!
Sheffield Doc/Fest will also screen If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (screening information). See the Human Rights Watch Film Festival section below for more information about the film.
Several Cinereach-supported projects are also participating in the MeetMarket. Look for Gardens of Paradise, Teenage, When Two Worlds Collide and Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute grantee God Loves Uganda.
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival
New York, NY
June 16th – 30th
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival brings to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathize and demand justice for all people. In presenting this work, the festival creates a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference.
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Directors/Producers: Marshall Curry & Sam Cullman
Daniel McGowan was arrested for being part of the Earth Liberation Front, a group responsible for arsons against timber companies and SUV dealerships. Through his story the film sheds light on two of our most important and timely issues–terrorism and environmentalism.
If a Tree Falls screening information. Discussions with filmmaker Marshall Curry will follow both screenings.
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Los Angeles Film Festival
Los Angeles, CA
June 16th – 26th
The Los Angeles Film Festival is produced by Film Independent, an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting independent films and filmmakers. In the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the festival connects the movie-loving public to emerging talent, through FREE screenings of films. Included in the festival:
On the Ice
Winter 2010 Grantee & Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Writer/Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Producer: Cara Marcous
On the snow-covered Arctic tundra, two teenagers try to get away with murder.
On the Ice screening information
The Bully Project
Summer 2009 Grantee
Director: Lee Hirsch
Producer: Cynthia Lowen
“A year in the life” of America’s bullying crisis that offers an intimate look at how bullying has touched the lives of five kids and their families.
The Bully Project screening information
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BAMcinemaFest
Brooklyn, NY
June 16th – 26th
Now in its third year, BAMcinemaFest collects dynamic and innovative new work from recent festivals. It has been called New York’s “best independent-film showcase” by Richard Brody of The New Yorker. Four films supported by Cinereach will be included in this year’s lineup, including a short nurtured through the Reach Film Fellowship.
Love Lockdown
2010 Reach Film Fellowship Project
Director: Nadia Hallgren
A young mother from the Bronx reaches out to the incarcerated father of her children, via Lockdown Love, a popular late-night radio show.
Love Lockdown screening information
Dragonslayer
Winter 2010 & Summer 2010 Grantee
Director: Tristan Patterson
Producer: John Baker
The transmissions of a lost kid, falling in love, in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty.
Dragonslayer screening information
BAMcinemaFest will also screen On the Ice (screening information) and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (screening information). Please see previous festival sections for more information about those films.
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Silverdocs
Silver Spring, Maryland
June 20th – 26th
The AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival has been called “Non-Fiction Nirvana” by Variety, the “Pre-eminent documentary Festival in the US” by Screen International and the “premiere showcase for documentary film” by Hollywood Reporter. Silverdocs is a festival and conference that promotes documentary film as a leading art form, supports the work of independent filmmakers and fosters an atmosphere for public dialogue and civic engagement around the issues and ideas explored in the films. Included in this year’s Silverdocs are:
Donor Unknown
Winter 2010 Grantee
Director: Jerry Rothwell
Producers: Hilary Durman & Al Morrow
A twenty-first century tale of identity and genetic inheritance, and perhaps the family of the future.
Donor Unknown screening information
Silverdocs will also screen Dragonslayer (screening information), The Bully Project (screening information) and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (screening information). Please see previous sections for more on these three films.
Known for its creative content and diverse programming, South By Southwest serves as an ever-growing outlet for emerging filmmakers. Cinereach is proud to announce that three films supported through various Cinereach initiatives will be showcased at this year’s festival, which runs March 11-19.
Dragonslayer
Winter 2010 & Summer 2010 Grantee
Documentary Feature Competition
World Premiere
Director: Tristan Patterson
Producer: John Baker
Killer Films presents the transmissions of a lost kid falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty.
SXSW Screening Details
Love Lockdown
Supported through the 2010 Reach Film Fellowship
Documentary Short
World Premiere
Director: Nadia Hallgren
Producer: Jamie-James Medina
Love Lockdown is a short documentary inspired by the impassioned phone calls and shout-outs made to prisoners on “Lockdown Love,” a popular late night radio show in New York City. The film tells the story of Shoshana, a young mother from the Bronx, as she eagerly awaits the fate of Felix, the father of her children, who is incarcerated and on trial facing a ten-year jail sentence. Dialing tirelessly and waiting for hours on hold, Shoshana’s phone calls tell an unconventional story of love and commitment. Will their love remain locked down or will the family be reunited?
SXSW Screening Details
Yelling to the Sky
Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute 2010
Spotlight Premiere
North American Premiere
Writer/Director: Victoria Mahoney
Producer: Victoria Mahoney, Billy Mulligan, Ged Dickersin
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O’Hara’s future feels uncertain. At the abusive hands of her father, her mother and sister take off, leaving Sweetness to fend for herself. Determined to correct the mistakes of the past, Sweetness takes control of her life.
SXSW Screening Details
10/13/2010
» Cinereach Announces 2010 Summer Cycle Grants
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On May 5th The San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) announced its Golden Gate award winners and juried prize/grant recipients. Here’s the full announcement.
Image courtesy of Maryam Keshavarz
Two members of the Cinereach family have been awarded San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, which recognize narrative films that tackle social justices themes from unique, personal perspectives, and take an artistic approach.
Cinereach grantee Circumstance, a fiction feature film by Maryam Keshavarz, received $50,000 towards post-production. Set in Iran, Circumstance is about three childhood friends as they grapple with sexuality, love and friendship during a tumultuous adolescence.
Image courtesy of Court 13
Beasts of the Southern Wild, which Cinereach Productions is producing with New Orleans-based Court 13, also received $50,000. ‘Beasts’ draws inspiration from the dissolving bayou landscape and is driven by collaboration with communities living on the edge of the Louisiana Delta.
Image courtesy of Dragonslayer
Cinereach Grantee Dragonslayer, a documentary film by Tristan Patterson, was under consideration to receive the SFFS/Film Arts Foundation grant, offered this year only (in honor of Film Arts Foundation’s 32-year legacy of support for nonfiction filmmaking) and received Honorable Mention.