#female filmmaker friday
Check out this absolutely terrific VOICE IT! by Mandi Kaye! https://youtu.be/dDS_ZdUTy8k
Mandi is the co-founder of the media network Eloquent Gushing, where she hosts several podcasts including Pop Culturally Deprived and Southern Fried Pop Culture. More info at www.eloquentgushing.com; Mandi can be found on Twitter at: @mandikaye and Instagram at: @themandikaye.
This #femalefilmmakerfriday we’d like to take a moment to re-share this brief promo video of our lead actress Julia Morizawa, who has been seen in TV shows such as SCANDAL and SEAL TEAM, and heard in audio dramas including THE BRIGHT SESSIONS, THE BIG LOOP, WOLF 359, EOS 10, WITHIN THE WIRES, THE AMELIA PROJECT, and more!
For this #femalefilmmakerfriday, we’d like to take a moment to share the reel of our amazing director, Cate Carson.
For more info about Cate, visit www.catecarson.com
This #femalefilmmakerfriday we’d like to take a moment to re-share this brief promo video of our lead actress Julia Morizawa, who has been seen in TV shows such as SCANDAL and SEAL TEAM, and heard in audio dramas including THE BRIGHT SESSIONS, THE BIG LOOP, WOLF 359, EOS 10, WITHIN THE WIRES, THE AMELIA PROJECT, and more!
We check in with our core team members to answer some questions about their relationship with PURE.
In this video, we ask Julia Morizawa: What are you most looking forward to?
Follow/support/share at www.journeytotheannex.com.
We check in with our core team members to answer some questions about their relationship with PURE.
In this video, we ask Julia Morizawa: Why is PURE important to you?
Follow/support/share at www.journeytotheannex.com.
We check in with our core team members to answer some questions about their relationship with PURE.
In this video, we ask Julia Morizawa: What changes would you like to see in film and TV?
Follow/support/share at www.journeytotheannex.com.
After the record-breaking sales of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Festival films are steadily rolling out for the summer. This month, escape the heat—in theaters or on the couch—and catch three brand-new Festival releases: Share, David Crosby: Remember My Name,and The Farewell.
A heartfelt celebration of both the way we perform family and the way we live it, The Farewell, opening in theaters July 12, masterfully interweaves a gently humorous depiction of the good lie in action with a thoughtful exploration of how our cultural heritage does and does not travel with us when we leave our homes.
Writer/director Lulu Wang imbues The Farewell with warmth and knowing wit, while the uniformly excellent ensemble cast (anchored by a breakout performance by Awkwafina) invites us to share this extended clan’s joy and sorrow—and to feel, for the length of this remarkable film, like a part of their family.
Director Lulu Wang attends The Farewell premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Film still above courtesy of The Farewell. Read more onSundance.org
Late Night is now playing in select cities and opens nationwide on Friday.
Director Nisha Ganatra and screenwriter Mindy Kaling premiered Late Night during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and it went on to be one of the Festival’s biggest deal earners of the year.
“So much of this movie is about being a fan and being on the outside of the entertainment business,” says Kaling. “That story has been told many, many, many times by 52-year-old white men, and I love all those movies. And as a comedy nerd I’ve always identified with them because it was the closest thing that I could identify with. There was no one like me making those kind of films.” - Mindy Kaling from Variety
Emma Thompson brings pathos and amusingly severe charm to the pantsuit-clad Katherine Newbury. Smartly written by Mindy Kaling and snappily directed by Nisha Ganatra, Late Night takes on white privilege, entitlement, and a culture veering toward crassness and conservatism. Questioning how women in power are “supposed” to act, it delivers a winsome, sophisticated comedy about the times in which we live.
1: Mindy Kaling and Nisha Ganatra during 2019 Sundance Film Festival. © 2019 Dia Dipasupil/WireImage.com; 2, 3: Film stills courtesy of Late Night.
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Following the Satanic Temple’s announcement that the IRS now recognizes it as a church, Penny Lane’s Hail Satan? opens in theaters nationwide this month. “That recognition means the group can now get the same benefits as religious organizations —including tax exemption and protection from discrimination,” reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
One of the less traditional political documentaries to come through the 2019 Festival, the film explores the Satanic Temple and its grassroots political activism, which fluctuates between the rational and the absurd in its efforts to uphold the division between church and state. Lane’s portrait takes their principles seriously and forces audience to challenge their ideas of what a “normal” or “reasonable” religion is.
Watch a conversation with Director Penny Lane and Satanic Temple Co-Founder Lucien Greaves below, and find Hail Satan? showing at a theater near you!
Film still courtesy of Hail Satan?
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First-time feature director Nia DaCosta will see the official release of her film Little Woods tomorrow, April 19. Little Woods is a blend of familial drama, neo-western, and crime thriller with a focus on the perspective of women navigating highly politicized conflicts like the opioid crisis and restricted access to reproductive health care. The film stars Tessa Thompson and Lily James as estranged sisters struggling under the strains of poverty in a North Dakota oil boomtown. Thompson has been involved with the film since the 2015 Sundance Institute Directors Lab, where she volunteered her time to be a resource actress for the project. DaCosta is currently directing the ‘spiritual sequel’ to the 1992 horror classic Candyman.
1, 2, 4, 6, 7: © 2015 Sundance Institute | Photo by Brandon Cruz ; 3: © Sundance Institute | Photo by Fred Hayes ; 5: © 2017 Sundance Institute | Photo by Kate Webber
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Short Film Spotlight: Green
Green, an undocumented Turkish pedicab driver, unwittingly draws police attention, endangering his brother, his community, and himself.
Director/screenwriter Suzanne Andrews Correa, screenwriter/producer Mustafa Kaymak, and producer Michael Peters took home the Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
Film still and poster courtesy of Green. Photo: Mustafa Kaymak, Aziz Capkurt, Erol Afsin, Suzanne Andrews Correa, and Michael Peters attend the premiere of Shorts Program 4. © 2019 Sundance Institute | Photo by Lauren Wester
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Don’t say his name, but do check out the official trailer for Sundance alums director/screenwriter Nia DaCosta, screenwriter/producer Jordan Peele, and screenwriter Win Rosenfeld’s new take on the terrifying urban legend that is Candyman.
Nia DaCosta workshopped her first feature, Little Woods, during the 2015 Directors Lab, Jordan Peele premiered Get Out during a surprise screening at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and Win Rosenfeld premiered Lorena alongside Jordan Peele at the 2019 Festival.
Candyman will be unleashed on June 12.
