July 2, 2008
LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "I'll Come Running" Director Spencer Parsons and "HottieBoombaLottie" Director Seth Packard
by indieWIRE (June 25, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
In this installment spotlighting emerging filmmakers from the
Los Angeles Film Festival,
indieWIRE received remarks from "
I'll Come Running" director
Spencer Parsons, about is narrative feature detailing the ramifications of a Danish tourist's one night stand in Austin, Texas, and "HottieBoombaLottie" writer-director-star Seth Packard's comedy about a peculiar teenager.
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June 28, 2008
LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Must Read After My Death" Director Morgan Dews
by indieWIRE (June 28, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Screening in the Documentary Competition of the
Los Angeles Film Festival,
Morgan Dews' "
Must Read After My Death details the lives of Dew's grandparents, Allis and Charley. From a mass of recorded audio diaries, Dictaphone letters, photographs, and home movies, Dews recalls two independent thinkers raising a family of four in 1960s Connecticut. indieWIRE talked to Dews about the film, and is expectations for LAFF.
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June 27, 2008
LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story" Director Stefan Forbes
by indieWIRE (June 27, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Screening in the Documentary Competition of the
Los Angeles Film Festival,
Stefan Forbes's "
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story" tells the story of the late iconoclast
Lee Atwater Atwater was the man behind successful campaigns for Reagan and the Bush Dynasty, pioneering the art of campaigning. Featuring
Ed Rollins,
Michael Dukakis,
Tucker Eskew,
Howard Fineman,
Mary Matalin, and
Sam Donaldson, "Boogie Man" depicts Atwater's role in the G.O.P.'s hold on America. indieWIRE talked to Forbes about the film, and his hopes for LAFF.
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LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Thing With No Name" Director Sarah Friedland
by indieWIRE (June 27, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Screening in the Documentary Competition at the
Los Angeles Film Festival,
Sarah Friedland's "
Thing With No Name" zeroes in on problems in post-apartheid South Africa, where a disease has a hold on a vanishing population. In Kwazulu Natal, the rate of infection in women is twice that of men, and one out of every six people is HIV-positive. Friedland follows two Zulu women as they begin antiretroviral drug therapy. She talked to indieWIRE about the experience and her hopes for LAFF.
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June 26, 2008
LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Trinidad" Co-Directors Jay Hodges and PJ Raval
by indieWIRE (June 26, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Screening in the Documentary Competition at the
Los Angeles Film Festival,
PJ Raval and
Jay Hodges' "
Trinidad" follows Dr. Marci Bowers, a former patient of Dr. Stanley Biber, who had begun conducting genital-reassignment surgeries in Trinidad, Colorado in 1969. Bowers took over Biber's practice after his death, enhancing the procedure to "near perfection." "Trinidad" details Bowers and two of her patients, both at different stages of their sexual transformation from male to female. indieWIRE talked to both Hodges and Raval about the film, and their hopes for LAFF.
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LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Loot" Director Darius Marder
by indieWIRE (June 26, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Screening in the Documentary Competition at the
Los Angeles Film Festival,
Darius Marder's "Loot" follows Lance Larson, a second generation treasure hunter. His current project is two World War II veterans who buried treasure after the war, one in Austria and the other in the Philippines. Larson is determined to find the riches. Marder's debut film parallels this search with revelations from the past, showing a quest for closure. The director talked to indieWIRE about "Loot" and his hopes for LAFF.
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LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Prince of Broadway" Director Sean Baker
by indieWIRE (June 26, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Screening in the Narrative Competition at the
Los Angeles Film Festival,
Sean Baker's "
Prince of Broadway" follows Lucky, a New York merchandise hustler and Ghanaian immigrant who unexpectedly becomes a single father. Co-written by
Darren Dean, the film stars
Prince Adu,
Karren Karaguilian and
Aiden Noesi. indieWIRE talked to Baker about the film and its premiere at LAFF.
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June 25, 2008
LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Largo" Co-Director Andrew van Baal
by indieWIRE (June 25, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Screening in the Documentary Competition at the
Los Angeles Film Festival,
Andrew van Baal and
Mark Flanagan's "
Largo" looks at the Hollywood club of the same name, which had a reputation among both performers and fans as "a place where what's on stage truly matters." Featuring interviews with
Aimee Mann,
Fiona Apple,
Sarah Silverman,
E from
the Eels,
Patton Oswalt,
Zach Galifianakis, and
Jon Brion, "Largo" takes an intimate look at a club and its performers. Co-director van Baal talked to indieWIRE about the film and its premiere at LAFF.
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LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Finishing Heaven" Director Mark Mann, "Big City Heart" Director Ben Rodkin, and "The Poker House" Director Lori Petty
by indieWIRE (June 25, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
In this installment spotlighting emerging filmmakers from the
Los Angeles Film Festival,
indieWIRE received remarks from "
Finishing Heaven" director
Mark Mann, about his documentary that focuses on
Robert Feinberg and
Ruby Lynn Renyner 's quest to finish Feinberg's 1970 student film,
Ben Rodkin, whose narrative film, "
Big City Heart" is about an a recent parloee in industrial Los Angeles, and
Lori Petty, director of "
The Poker House," about a teenager girl facing grim circumstances.
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June 24, 2008
LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Pressure Cooker" Directors Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker
by indieWIRE (June 24, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Screening in the Documentary Competition at the
Los Angeles FIlm Festival,
Jennifer Grausman and
Mark Becker's "
Pressure Cooker" follows three inner-city seniors at Philadelphia's Frankford High School as they take on Wilma Stephenson's Culinary Arts class. With her assistance, the students prepare for a citywide cooking competition for scholarships to some of the country's top culinary arts institutions. Both directors talked to indieWIRE about their experience and the film's screening at LAFF.
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LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe" Director Harry Kim
by indieWIRE (June 24, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Director
Harry Kim's "
Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe" is premiering in the Documentary Competition of the
Los Angeles Film Festival. The film details Los Angeles-based artist Choe from 2000 to 2007, a period of "adventure and excess" that captivated close friend Kim, as well as the time that Choe rose to fame and fortune in the art world. Kim captures everything from jail sentences to an addiction to shoplifting to a journey to wrestle pygmies in the heart of the Congo. He talked to indieWIRE about their experience and the film's screening at LAFF.
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June 23, 2008
LAFF '08 INTERVIEW | "Paper or Plastic?" Co-Directors Justine Jacob and Alex D. da Silva
by indieWIRE (June 23, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.]
Screening in the Documentary Competition at the
Los Angeles Film Festival, directors
Justine Jacob and
Alex D. da Silva's "
Paper or Plastic?" follows eight state champions heading to the National Grocers Association's annual bagging competition in Las Vegas. The contestants, ranging from rural housewives to ambitious immigrants to awkward teens, each have significant motivations to claim the "Best Bagger" title. Both of the film's directors talked to indieWIRE about their experience and the film's screening at LAFF.
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June 27, 2007
iW PROFILE | Introducing Scott Prendergast
by Eugene Hernandez (June 27, 2007)
Remembering a phone call from
Lisa Kudrow that jumpstarted his first feature, "
Kabluey," director
Scott Prendergast noted that he was flustered and began stammering when the popular actress contaced him about the project. "She called me and I started hyperventilating," Prendergast said Monday during a post-screening Q & A at the Los Angeles Film Festival after his film's world premiere. "And then I realized I was standing in my driveway in boxers with nothing else on." Laughing near Prendergast at the Q & A, Kudrow added, "And the reason why I was calling was to make sure he was not crazy!"
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