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JULY 2010 Newsletter
features from THE FILM COLLABORATIVE
The Film Collaborative is thrilled to represent A SMALL ACT, the award-winning documentary by Jennifer Arnold, which has moved audiences to tears of joy at Sundance, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and beyond. This is a truly one-of-a kind inspirational doc, and if you haven't seen it…you simply must!
A Small Act
ABOUT THE FILM:
When Holocaust survivor Hilde Back sponsored a young, rural Kenyan student, she thought nothing of it. She certainly never expected to hear from him, but years later she does. Now a Harvard graduate and a Human Rights Lawyer for the United Nations, Chris Mburu decides to find the stranger that changed his life. Inspired by her generosity, he starts a scholarship program of his own and names it for his former benefactor.
The top students in Mukubu primary school are in the exact same situation as Chris once was. They are bright, but can’t afford to pay school fees. With the creation of Chris’ fund, these students have new hope. But the program is small; how many will qualify for a scholarship?
Using a strong narrative, the film interweaves seemingly separate lives into a cohesive whole. With clarity and grace, A SMALL ACT bears witness to the ripple effect a single action can create.
2010 | USA | 88 min.
DIRECTOR: Jennifer Arnold
WRITER: Jennifer Arnold
PRODUCERS: Patti Lee, Jeffrey Soros, Jennifer Arnold
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Patti Lee
TERRITORIES: The World
EXHIBITION FORMATS: HDCAM, DIGIBETA, DVD
FESTIVALS: 2010 Sundance Film Festival, 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival, 2010 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, 2010 Hot Docs, 2010 Nantucket Film Festival, 2010 Provincetown International Film Festival
download:
festSelects.com VOD password: available now; please email us.
announcing…
TFC is pleased to announce that our Programmer VOD service, festSelects™ is now live!
In order to preserve resources, for overall expediency, for the environment, and to attempt to curtail DVD piracy…we have switched to a password-protected VOD system for buyers and programmers only.
We ask that you watch our film(s) online. If this REALLY can't work for you, we can still provide you with DVD if necessary of course.
As of today, all Film Collaborative and New American Vision films are online at festSelects.com
Select WOLFE films are coming soon.
So if you want to bring one of our films for your Festival, please request the PASSWORD codes for the following films;
- A SMALL ACT
- UNDERTOW (CONTRACORRIENTE) (for non-US programmers only)
- CHILDREN OF GOD
- THE OWLS
- EYES WIDE OPEN
- MAGGOTS AND MEN
- CURIOUS THING (short)
- SWIMMING (short)
We hope you'll enjoy our new service…Please let us know if you experience any difficulties.
For best results, we recommend that you watch these films on a reliable high-speed internet connection.
And PLEASE do not share passwords without asking our permission first. Piracy is quickly becoming a major issue for us, and we ask you to help us protect filmmakers' intellectual property rights.
We hope you can embrace the future with us, and watch our films this way now!
QUEER FILM DATABASE update
Programmers peeps, we have realized that you just don't like adding entries into the QFD and so we have decided to save a step and just send you our recommendations via these blasts. So in addition to our own films, we will recommending some other highlights we want to make sure are on your radar from the latest queer fests, such as:
- The Evening Dress (La Robe du soir), DIR: Myriam Aziza
- The Adults in the Room, DIR: Andy Blubaugh
- Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, DIR: Michelle Lawler
- Hooters!, DIR: Anna Margarita Albelo
- Open, DIR: Jake Yuzna (which we also flagged in Berlinale)
- Le Tigre: On Tour, DIR: Kerthy Fix
- Paulista (Quanto Dura O Amor?), DIR: Roberto Moreira (which we have flagged before as well)
- I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), DIR: Xavier Dolan, which we have been gushing over since Cannes 2009 and of course his latest Heartbeats from Cannes 2010
also available for 2010 FESTIVALS…please email us
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UNDERTOW (CONTRACORRIENTE) (North American Festivals)
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UNDERTOW (CONTRACORRIENTE) (International Festivals)
