JUNE 2009

HOLLYWOOD, JE T'AIME

ABOUT THE FILM:

Biting Hollywood satire meets a melancholy search for love and acceptance in this sweet and surprising fish-out-of-water film. The story begins in wintry Paris, where our hero Jerome (Eric Debets) is down in the dumps. His ex-boyfriend has moved on with a new hunk and Jerome needs to escape from reality. Next stop? The city of Angels. As Jerome strives to forget his love back home, he searches for new experiences and connections on the strange, colorful streets of Los Angeles. Featuring gay icon Chad Allen as a West Hollywood stoner who helps Jerome audition for several low-level Hollywood acting gigs.

2009 | USA | 95 min.

WRITER & DIRECTOR: JASON BUSHMAN
PRODUCER: Charles Herman Wurmfeld
CINEMATOGRAPHER: ALISON KELLY

WEBSITE:
 HJTMOVIE.COM

TERRITORIES: THE WORLD – ALL TERRITORIES AVAILABLE


EXHIBITION FORMATS: ALL DIGITAL FORMATS AVAILABLE


UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
Los Angeles Film Festival: Sun. June 21, 7pm, Majestic Crest
Frameline: June 27, 8:30 pm, Castro Theatre
Outfest: Fri., July 17, 8:30pm, Ford Amphitheatre

screeners: available now; please contact Jeffrey Winter (323.466.3536)

BEAUTIFUL DARLING:
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CANDY DARLING,
ANDY WARHOL SUPERSTAR

ABOUT THE FILM:

Even amongst the oversized personalities of '60s/'70s New York, few shone as brightly as the transgender pioneer Candy Darling (1944-1974). Andy Warhol discovered her star power and cast her in his films; Lou Reed wrote “Walk on the Wild Side” and “Candy Says” about her; Tennessee Williams wrote her a starring role in “Small Craft Warnings”; and Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton and a young Robert Mapplethorpe photographed her ethereal beauty. How did a young boy from suburban Long Island become a stunning throwback of Hollywood glamour, poised at the nexus of art and fashion? And what was the ultimate price for this transformative act of self-creation? Using rare archival footage, excerpts from Candy’s personal journals and papers, and both archival and contemporary interviews, director James Rasin tells the compelling story of Candy’s journey toward one particularly outré American Dream, examining the apparent contradictions of Candy’s persona while exploring the universal question she so profoundly dramatizes: Who am I?

2009 | USA | 82 min.

WRITER & DIRECTOR: JAMES RASIN
PRODUCERS: EREMIAH NEWTON, GILL HOLLAND, MICHAEL J. NEWMAN
CINEMATOGRAPHY: MARTINA RADWAN

WEBSITE:
 BEAUTIFULDARLING.COM

TERRITORIES: ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE EXCEPT US BROADCAST (SUNDANCE CHANNEL)

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
CineVegas (Work In Progress): Thu, Jun 11, 5:00 pm, Brenden Theatres, Fri, Jun 12, 6:30 pm, Brenden Theatres
WORLD PREMIERE AT INTERNATIONAL FEST TBA

screeners: available now; please contact Jeffrey Winter (323.466.3536)

BANDAGED

ABOUT THE FILM

Since his wife’s death, Arthur, a peculiar and severe surgeon, cloisters his teen daughter Lucille inside a strange mansion. Desperate, Lucille tries to commit suicide but ends up with her face burned and bandaged. Arthur, with the assistance of his aunt Ingrid who doesn’t know what he is really doing, prepares a weird skin graft in order to give back Lucille a face, a face that resembles his beloved and deceased wife. To take care of Lucille, the father hires Joan, an attractive nurse with a somber past. Lucille and Joan start a forbidden and passionate love affair...

2009 | 90 min. | Germany

DIRECTOR: MARIA BEATTY

WRITERS: CLAIRE MENICHI
PRODUCERS: JURGEN BRUNING, CLAUS MATTHES, MARIA BEATTY

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: CARO KRUGMANN

WEBSITE: BANDAGEDTHEFILM.COM

TERRITORIES: All Territories available EXCEPT German- and French-speaking Europe

PAST SCREENINGS:
London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Palais de Tokyo, Brisbane Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Fairytales International Queer Film Festival

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
Frameline: Mon., June 22, 9:30 pm, Roxie Theatre
Outfest: Wed., Jul 15, 4:00 pm, Fairfax 1
Tel Aviv Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Athens Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Queersicht Film Festival

screeners: available now; please contact Jeffrey Winter (323.466.3536)

HANNAH FREE SCREENERS NOW AVAILABLE!
This much-anticipated feature stars Sharon Gless (Cagney & Lacey, Queer As Folk) in a passionate love story about the lifelong affair between an independent spirit and the women she calls home. HANNAH FREE is the Closing Night Gala at the upcoming Frameline: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. Get your screeners NOW by emailing Jeffrey Winter.

UPDATE ON CHICA BUSCA CHICA
Spain's webisode answer to The L-Word has been previously available to festivals as a sneak preview of episodes 1 - 9. Now you can book BOTH halves of the series: episodes 1 - 9 (81 mins) AND episodes 10 - 16 (72 mins) as a special two-part event! CHICA BUSCA CHICA will have it's full North American Premiere (2 consecutive days, all 16 episdes) at the Philadelphia QFest, coming this July. If you want to consider this option, email Jeffrey Winter now. Available for North American only.

BoY
BoY by Auraeus Solito makes it North American premiere! Following a hit engagement at the Seattle International Film Festival, this evocative and tender film by the award-winning maker of The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveras and Tuli next hits screens at Frameline, Outfest, and Philadelphia QFest. Be sure to consider this unqiuely literate and sexy film...screeners available now, email Jeffrey Winter.

NAV releases the Sundance documentary END OF THE LINE about the pending decimation of fish and the destruction of the world’s oceans. National Geographic, Oceana, Heal the Bay, National Resource Defense Council, Sierra Club, and Greenpeace are marketing partners. Film starts its release on June 19th in NYC (Cinema Village) and Los Angeles (Laemmle Sunset 5) and in many cities thereafter (Landmark Theatres). For more info please go to: endoftheline.com

QFD (QUEER FILM DATABASE)
The QFD has been updated to include info for Official Cannes Selections: J’ai Tue Ma Mere and Eyes Wide Open, two films we’re very fond of. U.S. deals are pending. Spring Fever, which was in Competition and was already listed, was bought by Strand for the U.S. We’ve also added Off and Running, a wonderful doc by Nicole Opper that screened at TriBeCa and soon screens at Outfest. TriBeCa also showed an Israeli feature called A Matter of Size that while very charming, is not queer enough to belong here. There were a handful of other queer titles in the Marche du Cannes, but non which merit our including in the QFD, except for Plan B (distribution deal in the U.S. also still pending and it will soon have an International festival premiere).

and last but not least...

 

GLOBAL NON-PROFIT FILMMAKER DISTRIBUTION COLLABORATIVE
NAV is also launching a global non-profit distribution collaborative. Representing a culmination of the work we've been doing for the last five (5) years, this collaborative will draw upon our expertise in areas such as grassroots and niche marketing at film festivals and in distribution; collaboration with non-profit organizations and film festivals; and comprehensive distribution, marketing, and licensing/sales rep services for independent, art house/world cinema and especially niche and activist cinema. Additionally, we plan to expand our ongoing pioneering work on digital distribution to serve non-profit entities. By combining a built-in marketing network with an aggregated body of programmed and marketed film, the collaborative will help the work of filmmakers reach greater audiences and achieve the fullest possible distribution potential.

We are inviting filmmakers and industry professionals to weigh in on the mission, proposed structure, and overall functionality of the collaborative. We would also love the opportunity to keep you informed of our plans,...so please join our new NAV Facebook FAN page (note: our GROUP page will be going away at the end of the month).