sundance backstage: debra granik & sebsatian junger

I’ll start blogging from Sundance as the fest ends. One minute backstage with the two Grand Jury Prize winners at the Sundance Film Festival:

eug posted to Film Festivals on January 31, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (0)

colorado | i seventy

Somewhere on I 70 in Colorado, en route to Telluride, a roadside stand with some mighty tasty fresh peaches.
photo by eugene hernandez

eug posted to Film Festivals on September 5, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

in cannes | 47 short films by the safdie brothers

Josh Safdie contacted me earlier this week about indieWIRE hosting 47 short films, or buttons, that he, his brother Benny and their colleague Alex Zalman created while in Cannes this year with their film, “Got Get Some Rosemary.” “We’ve just starting editing these button,” Josh told me in an email, “a japanese couple looking for baby names in a book, Francis Ford Coppolla basking in flashes just after his screening, people mooning us from a yacht, a touchscreen mcdonalds, Jerry Lewis’s abridged press conferences and those of us who invaded it, a guard bouncing a ball while watching the door… we’ve got some really nice observations.”

We posted them on indieWIRE this weekend. Enjoy!

RED BUCKET FILMS CANNES BUTTONS 2009: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

eug posted to Film Festivals on May 31, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

in cannes | pedro

Pedro Almodovar in Cannes today, chatting about his latest film, “Broken Embraces.”

eug posted to Film Festivals on May 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

tribeca | meet the press

Spike Lee, Robert DeNiro, Uma Thurman, Jane Rosenthal and others were among the folks gathered at BMCC in Tribeca this morning for the annual kick-off press conference at the Tribeca Film Festival, watching a fest promo clip and then posing for some photos. While the event technically opens its eighth festival tonight, iW’s coverage began last week. And on Tuesday, indieWIRE offered a trio of pieces. A first dispatch from the festival, including a conversation with Jane Rosenthal, a roster of ten films to watch at this year’s fest, and news of the fest juries. Much more to come over the next ten days or so, get the latest anytime in iW’s Tribeca fest archive.
[photos by eugene hernandez]

eug posted to Film Festivals on April 22, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)