April 2010 Newsletter
New American Vision is proud to announce a plethora of fantastic new films for the 2010 Festival Circuit.
This season is incredibly exciting and already VERY BOOKED…please email us as soon as possible.
We're offering some of the the best of this year's independent cinema, so please make sure to scroll through the films below!
from WOLFE RELEASING
Wolfe is proud to announce of one of the most “buzzed about” films of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival…a controversial Festival hit generating major press attention and theatrical bookings all around the country!
This film is available to Festivals from Wolfe Releasing day and date with the THEATRICAL RELEASE on June 18th. All Festivals wishing to book this spectacular and controversial film following JUNE 18TH should be in touch with us.
8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION
About the Film:
8: The Mormon Proposition exposes the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8 and the religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights. The film takes place in California and Utah as Mormons, following their prophet’s call to action, wage spiritual warfare with money and misinformation against gay citizens, doing everything they can to deny marriage and the rights that come with it. 8: The Mormon Proposition opens in theaters on June 18th, 2010, two years after the first gay marriages took place in California.
USA | 2010 | 80 min.
writer & director: Reed Cowan
Narrated by: Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter, MILK
available formats: Digibeta, HDCAM, DVD, Blu-Ray
festivals: 2010 Sundance Film Festival
screeners: available now; please email us.
from THE FILM COLLABORATIVE
CHILDREN OF GOD
About the Film:
Set against the backdrop of a nation grappling with violent homophobic crime and offering a scathing examination of the underlying hatred for gays rampant in Caribbean societies, Bahamian Kareem Mortimer’s debut narrative feature tells the stories of three very different individuals: Lena, the conservative, deeply religious wife of a secretly gay firebrand pastor; Romeo, a handsome young black man hiding his sexuality from his close-knit and loving family; and Jonny, the conflicted and creatively-blocked white artist in search of himself. All three head for the spectacularly beautiful and tranquil island of Eleuthera, each with a different reason for escaping current circumstances.
Bahamas | 2010 | 103 min.
written & directed by: Kareeem Mortimer
starring: Nicole LaLiberte
available formats: HD SR, Digibeta
festivals: 2010 Miami International Film Festival, 2010 London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (closing night gala), 2010 Boston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (closing night gala)
screeners: available now; please email us.
and…
One of the most astounding films of revisionist history ever made! Never before seen on the Silver Screen…delve into the world of Sergei Eistenstein (Battleship Potempkin) and a transgender cast of ore than one hundred! You think we're kidding?…We promise, this is not to be missed! Experimetal queer cinema at its penultimate!
MAGGOTS AND MEN
About the Film:
A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of formerly pro-Soviet sailors at the Kronstadt naval garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the new Bolshevik state.
USA | 2009 | 53 min.
director: Cary Cronenwett
territories: Worldwide
available formats: Digibeta, DVD
upcoming festivals: 2009 Frameline Festival, 2009 Outfest Film Festival
screeners: available now; please email us.
also available for 2010 FESTIVALS…please email us
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QUEER FILM DATABASE update
A title to watch out for that we have not yet mentioned is: The People I've Slept With (Quentin Lee) which recently played at Fusion and the Asian American Film Festival in San Francisco.
Titles from Berlinale that we wanted to flag other than The Kids Are Alright and Howl are:
- Arias With A Twist the movie by Bobby Sheehan
- Making The Boys by Crayton Robey
- Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannons) by Ferzan Ozpetek
- Open by Jake Yuzna (which Orly likes but some disagree)
- From the Beginning to the End (a tale of sibling sex that was in the market, this is all Jeffrey's guilty pleasure)
- Zona Sur (Southern District) by Juan Carlos Valdivia
- and both Orly by Angela Schnelec and Soreret (Black Bus) by Anat Yuta Zuria, which were both in Forum but are not really queer in content.
(if contact info is needed please just let Orly know and she'll provide if it's not entered into QFD). AS we learn of more queer titles at TriBeCa and other fests we'll update QFD and send text email updates. Both Arias and Loose Cannons are showing at TriBeCa. Some may consider the Sundance Joan Rivers doc a queer title, and that is at TriBeCa as well.