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| Watch the 25th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards |
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Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson - the comedic duo and creative team behind Comedy Central's critically-acclaimed Broad City - will host the 25th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday November 30. The Gothams will be streamed live on Monday night at www.ifp.org beginning at 6:15pm with red carpet arrivals (actually a silver carpet this year for the 25th Anniversary). The red carpet will be hosted by Catie Lazarus,host of "Employee of the Month," a monthly comedy show and podcast filmed live at Joe's Pub in New York City. Lazarus was recently awarded Best Comedy Writer by the ECNY Awards.
Award presenters currently scheduled for the evening include: Glenn Close, Robert De Niro, Topher Grace, Mariska Hargitay, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon, Julianne Moore, Sarah Paulson, Rosie Perez, Dan Rather, Michael Shannon, Julie Taymor.
Additional artists who will be in attendance will include Blythe Danner, Paul Dano, Paul Haggis, Gaby Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal,Courtney Hunt, Jennie Livingston, Brie Larson, Melanie Lynksey, Rami Malek, Rachel McAdams, Josh Mond, Jason Ritter, Emmy Rossum, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Sarsgaard, Christian Slater, Tanya Wexler, and Kristen Wiig.
Tributes will be given to actors Helen Mirren and Robert Redford, director Todd Haynes, and producer Steve Golin in addition to awards in ten competitive categories.
The Premier Sponsors of the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards are:
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| Bid in the Annual Gotham Awards Online Auction! |
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The Gotham Awards' fifth annual fundraising auction, held in conjunction with charitybuzz.com, is another way to support the work of independent film. The auction raises funds for IFP's educational programs to provide ongoing support to filmmakers throughout the year. The auction includes nationally accessible items. Bid to win a consultation with HBO's Sheila Nevins or Sony Pictures Classics' Dylan Leiner, or you could win casting sessions with industry pros like Laura Rosenthal or Susan Shopmaker.
Also offered are exclusive prizes like VIP screening tickets to Sony Pictures Classics' upcoming Maggie's Plan and exclusive tickets to Variety's invite-only Power of Women Conferences in New York City and LA.
All items are open for bidding from November 24 through December 10, 2015 here.
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| Tenth Annual "Best Film Not Playing at Theater Near You" Series @ MoMA December 11-14 |
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The annual Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Screening Series, co-presented by The Museum of Modern Art, Filmmaker Magazine, and IFP kicks off December 11th at MoMA. The series, now in its tenth year, singles out outstanding films from the film festival circuit that are currently not available in theaters and deserve a wider audience. Each film will screen twice at MoMA from December 11-14. Most screenings will be followed by Q & A's with the directors and additional talent.
The selected films are Bloomin Mud Shuffle, directed by Frank V. Ross; Bob and the Trees, directed by Diego Ongaro; H., directed by Daniel Garcia and Rania Attieh; In Transit, directed by Albert Maysles, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and David Usui; andUncertain, directed by Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands.
For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
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| IFP Member Event: IFP Industry Talks - Case Study:Cartel Land |
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Part of IFP's "Industry Talks" series, exclusively for IFP members at the Individual level or higher
This event will take place at DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10013)
Wednesday, December 2nd
Doors: 6:30PM
Event: 7:00PM
Most recently nominated for five Cinema Eye Honors, Best Documentary by the Gotham Independent Film Awards, and recipient of the International Documentary Association's "Courage Under Fire" Award, Matthew Heineman's Cartel Land was also the winner of both Best Director and Best Cinematography in the U.S. Documentary competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Comfortably sitting in the how-did-they-do-that category of cinema verité, the film is leaving viewers completely immersed and in awe of the directorial achievement. Hailed by New York Magazine as "one of the year's most important documentaries," Cartel Land looks at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy - the murderous Mexican drug cartels.
For this intimate Case Study, we will be joined by Heineman, editor Matthew Hamachek, and cinematographer Matt Porwoll to discuss how this crew gained such an unprecedented amount of access while simultaneously constructing a thoughtful feature documentary about the Mexican drug war.
For more information and to RSVP, click here.
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| IFP Screen Forward Presents Cronies! Opens December 11 |
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A 2015 Sundance hit, Michael J. Larnell's Cronies, from Executive Producer Spike Lee, opens Friday, December 11 at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP!
Louis and Jack were best childhood friends, but their present-day relationship is challenged by Louis' new friendships and family priorities, which collide with Jack's loud and aggressive behavior.
The growing rift between them becomes unavoidable when Jack unexpectedly meets Louis' new friend, Andrew, and Jack realizes that their plans don't include him. Refusing to accept his exclusion, Jack forces himself into Louis and Andrew's lives for the day, derailing their plans and needling their friendship. Louis is surprised by Jack's blatant jealousy of Andrew and his frustration boils over when Jack tells Andrew a dark secret about their childhood.
Sponsored by:
For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
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| Racing Extinction |
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Airs Wednesday, December 2nd on the Discovery Channel. Check local listings
Utilizing covert tactics and state-of-the-art technology, Oscar winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists to expose the hidden world of extinction. Two worlds drive extinction across the globe, potentially resulting in the loss of half of all species: the international wildlife trade creates bogus markets at the expense of creatures that have survived on this planet for millions of years, and the oil and gas companies hide in plain sight with pollutants they don't want the rest of us to see .
Racing Extinction exposes these two worlds in an inspiring affirmation to preserve life as we know it.
Racing Extinction is an alumnus of Spotlight on Documentaries at Independent Film Week. For more information, click here. |
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| Christmas, Again |
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Opens December 3rd at the Museum of Modern Art at 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019
Directed, Written, and Produced by Charles Poekel
MoMA presents a weeklong theatrical run of Christmas, Again, one of the highlights of New Directors/New Films 2015. The forlorn Noel (Kentucker Audley) pulls long, cold nights as a Christmas-tree vendor in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. As obnoxious, indifferent, or downright bizarre customers come and go, doing little to restore Noel's faith in humanity, only the flirtatious innuendos of one woman and the drunken pleas of another seem to lift him out of his funk.
Writer-director Charles Poekel has transformed three years of "fieldwork" peddling evergreens on the streets of New York into a sharply observed and wistfully comic portrait of urban loneliness and companionship. While Christmas, Again heralds a promising newcomer in Poekel, it also confirms several great young talents of American indie cinema: actors Audley and Hannah Gross, editor Robert Greene, and cinematographer Sean Price Williams.
Christmas, Again is an alumnus of IFP's Independent Filmmaker Labs. For more information on tickets, click here. |
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| Made in NY Media Center by IFP Events |
| Virtual Reality: Business, Production and Distribution |
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Saturday, December 5th at 10am
Learn how to create a Virtual Reality project from conception to distribution! This is a full course inthe business of VR, immersive design, and the ins and outs of this emerging production specialty. Instructors will give you an overview of the business models and distribution opportunities for this exciting new platform.
Use the code IFPmember to get $100 off!
If you attend to this event, you can attend our VR panel on December 8th free of charge. Use code VRpros to register.
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| Virtual Reality: What Works, What Doesn't, and How to Navigate a New Frontier |
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Tuesday, December 8th at 6pm
Join us in this panel as we discuss what it takes to tell a story in VR, from concept, to production, to distribution. Mike Woods (Framestore's Digital Department), Marcelle Hopkins (director of the Immersive Documentary Recipe for Famine), Ray Tintory (Court 13 filmmaking collective), Heidi Boisvert (future Perfect lab), Jaime Pallot (Emblematic Group) will bring together creative forces across different facets of VR storytelling, from CG animation to live action documentary, from branded content to originals. The panel will be moderated by Jess Engel, producer at Virtualize.
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| This week on FILMMAKER Magazine |
| DOC NYC: Lessons and Takeaways from a Week of Masterclasses |
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by Cheree Dillon
An added feature of the 2015 DOC NYC festival was the DOC NYC PRO Conference, which included a weekend of masterclasses dedicated to the work process in cinematography, animation, editing, and building your film's sound with the composer. Over 20 professionals touched upon the nuts and bolts of each craft while dialing into the importance of building the relationship with their director as a key element in serving the story.
To read more, click here.
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| Hamptons International Film Festival - Screenwriters Lab |
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Deadline info:
Earlybird - December 1
Regular - December 15
Late - December 29
WAB Extended - January 12
The Hamptons International Film Festival's Screenwriters Lab, going into its 16th year, is an intimate gathering that takes place each Spring in East Hampton, New York (April 8- 10, 2016). The Lab develops emerging screenwriting talent by pairing established writers & creative producers with up-and-coming screenwriters. With scripts from past writers produced year after year, the Lab continues to be an inspiring and safe place for artists to find and hone their creative vision. A number of recent projects in the Lab have gone on to be produced and distributed and to screen at festivals around the world such as Sundance, South by Southwest, Karlovy Vary, Locarno and the Los Angeles Film Festival. Selected highlights include Short Term 12 with Brie Larson and John Gallagher, which won the Grand Jury and Audience Award at SXSW, The Discoverers starring Griffin Dunne, Little Accidents featuring Elizabeth Banks and Chloe Sevigny, etc.
Recent mentors at the lab include Alex Dinelaris (Birdman); Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy), Oren Moverman (The Messenger); Michael Cunningham (The Hours, Evening); James Vanderbilt (Zodiac); Mark Heyman (Black Swan); Rob Siegel (The Wrestler); Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson, Sugar, It's Kind of a Funny Story); Hawk Ostby (Children of Men); Billy Frolick (Madagascar); J.D. Zeik (Ronin); J. Robin Baitz (People I Know, The Substance of Fire); Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding, Cosmopolitan); Gregory Widen (Highlander, Backdraft); Mark Christopher (54); Maggie Greenwald (Songcatcher, Ballad of Little Jo); Laurie Collyer (Sherrybaby); Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, P.S.).
For more information and to apply, click here.
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