APRIL 22, 2010 NUTKIN'S LAST STAND will be screened at the COYOTE FILM FESTIVAL in Lake County, California this Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at 1:30pm and 7:30pm. It will be screened as part of an animal-themed short films program. You can read more about the screening in the Lake County Record Bee here.
FEBRUARY 28, 2010 Since I last wrote, NUTKIN'S LAST STAND has been screened at three festivals. Two of them were environmental film festivals: PLANET IN FOCUS in Toronto, Canada and BLUE PLANET FILM FESTIVAL in Santa Monica, California. The third was student film festival in Singapore called NEXT REEL, where it won the best documentary prize. Over the past year and a half, I've been working for Klutz Press on some filmmaking related kids books. So far I've co-written two books with Klutz founder John Cassidy. The first is called "Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic." The book has been out for about a year and it teaches really basic in camera effects. You can order it dircetly from Klutz here or from Amazon here. The second book is called "The Klutz Book of Animation: Make Your Own Stop Motion Movies" and it teaches a wide array of basic stop motion techniques. This one will be out in the next couple of weeks and you'll be able to order it from Amazon here.
MAY 24, 2009 NUTKIN'S LAST STAND will be screened at The Mendocino Film Festival in Mendocino, CA May 31 / 11:00am / Matheson Performing Arts Center (Buy tickets) w/ EATING ALASKA directed by Ellen Frankenstein It will also be screened at SILVERDOCS in Silver Springs, MD June 19 / 12:00pm / AFI Silver Theatre 1 (Buy Tickets) June 20 / 10:00am / AFI Silver Theatre 3 (Buy Tickets) playing as part of Shorts Program 4: CROSSING BORDERS w/
MAY 15, 2009 National TV Broadcast on POV August 18, 10:00pm
NUTKINS LAST STAND nominated for a STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD! GET NUTKIN'S LAST STAND ON WHOLPHIN #7
MARCH 29, 2009 NUTKIN'S LAST STAND will be screened at River Run International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, NC April 23/ 3:00pm / UNCSA - Babcock (Buy tickets) It will also screen at Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival in Potsdam, Germany April 24/ 3:00pm /Thalia 2 as part of the Verdrängen program. FEBRUARY 7, 2009 NUTKIN'S LAST STAND will be screened at ZAGREBDOX, a documentary film festival in Zagreb, Croatia. The festival will run from February 23th to March 1st
NOVEMBER 8, 2008 NUTKIN'S LAST STAND will be screened three times at IDFA in Amsterdam:
Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:00 Tuschinski Theatre 4 Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:30 Munt Theatre 12 Sunday, November 23, 2008 19:45 Tuschinski Theatre 5
NUTKIN'S LAST STAND will also be screened at the Wholphin #7 release party in NYC. Saturday, November 29, 2008 I'll be in Amsterdam but won't be able to make it to the Wholphin release party.
OCTOBER 13, 2008 THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE will be screening at the Hamptons Film Festival this Saturday, October 18th at United Artists Cinema 6 in East Hampton. It will be screeing as part of a 75 minute student awards program. NUTKIN'S LAST STAND will be screened at the Austin Film Festival next week as well. It screens twice, as part of Shorts Program 10: Sat, Oct 18th, 3:00pm @ Hideout Theatre & Tue, Oct 21st, 6:00pm @ Dobie Theatre NUTKIN'S LAST STAND has also been selected for IDFA in Amsterdam and for issue #7 of Wholphin.
Screening information for IDFA and the Wholphin release party in San Francisco coming soon.
AUGUST 31, 2008 THE MAN WITH THE ELECTRIC BOOTS has just been selected as a finalist for the "Back to Basics Documentary Challenge" on the IFC website. You can watch all the finalists here: http://www.ifc.com/backtobasics Last week I heard that THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE will be given a student filmmaker award at the Hamptons International Film Festival. I'll post more details about the festival when they become available. Also, NUTKIN'S LAST STAND will show at Stanford for the second time as part of the 2008 Reunion Weekend Film Festival on Saturday, October 11th from 2:30 to 4:30pm
JULY 8, 2008 Both THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE and THE MAN WITH THE ELECTRIC BOOTS will be screening at the Free Range Film Festival, which will take place in a barn in Wrenshall, MN on July 25th and 26th. The two films will be screened back to back as part of a shorts program starting at 7pm on Friday, the 25th.
MAY 3, 2008 The premiere of NUTKIN'S LAST STAND has been set for JUNE 14TH AT 2PM in Cubberly Auditorium at Stanford University. It will will be screening along with my seven classmates' films as part of the MFA thesis film screening. In other screening news, the program for the Mendocino Film Festival has been set. THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE will be screening in a shorts program called "Where There's Woman" at 3pm on May 31st at the Abalone Room.
APRIL 29, 2008
I'm proud to announce that THE MAN WITH THE ELECTRIC BOOTS will be playing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this June. I just heard today that it will be paired with the UK premier of Werner Herzog's ENCOUNTERS ATTHE END OF THE WORLD. Here are the showtimes: Wednesday 25 June 11:00 Filmhouse 2 (Press & Industry Screening: Encounters at the End of the World w/ The Man With The Electric Boots) Friday 27 June 19:05 Filmhouse 1 (Public Screening: Encounters at the End of the World w/ The Man With The Electric Boots) Saturday 28 June 16:30 Filmhouse 1 (Public Screening: Encounters at the End of the World w/ The Man With The Electric Boots) I am also pleased to report that THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE won the audience award in the Student shorts category at First Glance Film Festival Hollywood.
APRIL 23, 2008 Both THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE and SONG OF THE SPERM DONOR are through to the national finals at the Student Academy Awards! It will be about a month before winners are announced.
APRIL 22, 2008 I received the news this week that THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE is a regional finalist for the Student Academy Award in documentary. I find out on Wednesday if it will get through to the national finals. My classmate Emmanuel Dayan's film SONG OF THE SPERM DONOR is also a regional finalist.
FEBRUARY 24, 2008
I've just begun editing my thesis film which will be called NUTKIN'S LAST STAND and deals with England's fight to preserve her beloved red squirrels from an invasion of American gray squirrels. There were a couple of articles about my film in English newspapers. You can see some stills from the footage here. Here is some background for the film from my proposal: The English love their native red squirrels. The red squirrel was immortalized by children's author Beatrix Potter in the character of Squirrel Nutkin and is a ubiquitous figure in English arts, literature and lore. But all is not well for the red squirrel... The American gray squirrel was introduced to England late in the 19th century and since then the larger, bolder American import has been out-competing the native red squirrels for resources an claiming their territory. At present, the red squirrels have been forced into the North and it is estimated that their numbers have dwindled to around 150,000 compared with around 2 million grays. This has triggered outrage among many Britons and a plethora of organizations and individuals have stepped forward to take up the red squirrel's cause. The red squirrel's defenders have done everything from writing songs and books about its plight to killing and eating the grays. They include government organizations, activists, writers, lords and ministers. Their methods vary wildly but all share a common goal: to halt a foreign invasion and to preserve a beloved creature and a national symbol. Stay tuned for updates...
FEBRUARY 18, 2008 THE MAN WITH THE ELECTRIC BOOTS will be screening at the Ann Arbor Film Festival which runs from March 25th through March 30th. Apparently Ann Arbor is the oldest running film festival in North America. The film will screen at 3pm on March 29th.
FEBRUARY 16, 2008 A few festivals coming up: Both THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE and THE MAN WITH THE ELECTRIC BOOTS will both be showing at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana early next week. ELECTRIC BOOTS will show Tue, Feb 19, 4:15 PM and ROSALIE will show Mon, Feb 18, 2:30 PM. THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE will also be showing at the First Glance Film Festival Hollywood which will take place April 11-13th and at the Mendocino Film Festival May 29th to June 1st.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE was among four films chosen for a "Critic's Choice" award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They sent me along this logo for promotional purposes. The winning film's were selected by Paul Dale, film editor at The List (which is the Time Out equivalent in Scotland.) The other three winning films were SILENT (dir. Amanda Adolfsson, Stockholm's Dramatiska institutet); and TAKING CARE (dir. Jan Wagner, Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, Lodz) and SWEET (dir. Alex Taner, Metropolitan Film School, London.) ROSALIE is also among six finalists in the documentary category at the Angelus Film Festival. My three classmates' films are also among the finalists. Winners will be announced on September 28th.
AUGUST 15, 2007 This past week I've heard that THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE is among 12 semi-finalists for the Angelus Film Festival in LA on October 27th. Three of my classmates' films are on the list too. Peter Jordan and John Kane's LEFT IN BAGHDAD and Maylin Auyong's BULLET PROOF VEST. Hopefully we will all be among the five finalists that will be screened at the festival...
I also heard this week that THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE will be screened at the San Francisco Docfest which runs from September 28th through october 10th at the Roxie Cinema .
JULY 22, 2007 I just heard that my film THE LEGEND OF ROSALIE will be showing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Apparently it's one of the world's largest art festivals and it takes place every year for three weeks in August. My film will be part of the Festival of Film Shorts which will run from the 2nd through the 27th of August at "c venues." |
