Our short film, “Face Value” continues it’s festival run with screenings in Denver and Manhattan this week.
At the Starz Denver Film Festival, we screen on Thursday and Saturday in a shorts program entitled:”What I Did For Love.” The fest description goes:
Be they comic, tragic or simply bizarre, we all do the most extraordinary things in the name of love.
Back in New York, the 4th Annual Big Apple Film Festival kicks off this week at Tribeca Cinemas, where we’ll be screening in a shorts program on Saturday.
Big Apple is also showing the NYC Premiere of Stephane Gauger‘s “Owl and the Sparrow” (Winner—Audience Award 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, nominee 2007 Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director) and Alan Cumming‘s “Suffering Man’s Charity” (starring Alan Cumming, David Boreanaz, Anne Heche, Carrie Fisher).
Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it since I’ll be in Denver but Jeff will be on hand to represent.
And check back here for festival updates, where I’ll be “comic-blogging.”
The Coney Island Film Festival is a whole lotta fun, with a crazy opening night party with burlesque dancers and sword swallowers, along with a tight program of films, including docs about the Coney Island Cyclone and Don Dohler’s “The Cinema of Transgression” movement, as well as a screening of the Coney Island cult classic, “The Warriors.”
Screening this Saturday at 2pm will be our latest short film, Face Value.
(We also have a screening at the Global Peace Film Festival in Orlando, Florida on Sunday in a program called “Eastern Views - Shorts from the Middle East and Southeast Asia.”
Check out our “comic strip” trailer below.
Our short film THE TOURIST, the film that keeps giving, will be making a Manhattan appearance this Friday at Rooftop Films as part of their Collection of Best Shorts from 2007.
“The Tourist” is shot on Super 8 film, and features dreams with subtitles, gorgeous Kodachrome landscapes shot in South Carolina, Georgia, and France, as well as a cryptic plot involving a woman and a puzzle.
Musician and actress Rebecca Moore plays lead character Claire.
8:30pm - Live Music by Frances
9:00pm - The Films
11-1AM -After Party: Open Bar at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St @ Grand)
Courtesy of Martin Miller’s Gin
Venue: On the roof of the Open Road Rooftop Project
Address: 350 Grand Street @ Essex (Lower East Side, Manhattan)
Tickets are $8. Their shows tend to sell out but you can buy online here.
I can’t praise the folks at Rooftop enough for putting on such a top notch series with cool music, beautiful screening locations, and a great program. Check ‘em out!
Our short film, The Tourist, is currently showing at IFC.com thanks to fine folks at Rooftop Films and IFC. Woo hoo!
This Super 8 film (shot on b&w and Kodakchrome) is about a woman afraid to leave her Brooklyn apartment who makes a puzzling discovery.
It features music by Rachel’s and the indisputable lensing by one of the best Super 8 DP’s out there, David Teague.
The lovely musician and actress Rebecca Moore plays lead character Claire.
Click here to watch.
 
As we head into our next round of screenings of “Face Value” at the Sarasota Film Festival this week, I recently read an amusing theory that Gabe Wardell from the Atlanta Film Festival noted on his blog regarding our unusual screening matchup with Michael Tully‘s music doc “Silver Jew” at SXSW:
The short before, “Face Value,” seemed to have little in common with the feature. The feature is a music doc about one man’s religious and artistic epiphany, the other is a comic narrative short by the Israel brothers.
Then it became clear:
1) both films feature a stranger in a strange land struggling to make a connection.
2) “Silver Jew” is set in Israel, “Face Value” is BY the Brother’s Israel.
3) Both films are by indieWIRE bloggers. (Commenting on this last bit makes me feel soooooooooooooo indulgent.)
Another connection I noticed this week is that “Face Value” actress Niabi Caldwell is also in a short film, ”Look Alive, Mr. Kline”, which is screening at the Atlanta Film Festival. So Niabi has a total of four festival screenings in the next two weeks:
Apr 20 2007 2:45P
FACE VALUE @ SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL Sarasota FL
Apr 20 2007 5:30P
LOOK ALIVE, MR. KLINE @ ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL Atlanta GA
Apr 21 2007 11:00A
FACE VALUE @ SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL Sarasota FL
Apr 26 2007 7:00P
LOOK ALIVE, MR. KLINE @ ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL Atlanta GA
Girl, you’re on fire.
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