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OCTOBER 2010 Newsletter
We hope you are all familiar with our non-profit organization THE FILM COLLABORATIVE.
We will be slowly migrating all festival distribution to be under that organization, which is the first non-profit fully devoted to educating filmmakers about and affording them distribution of independent cinema without taking their rights.
Interested in hosting a distribution panel or webinar?
We speak about new media and distribution on international festival panels regularly and would be delighted to work with any of you on educating your filmmakers about their options in distribution. We can prepare presentation materials or appear in person or via Skype.
For more information about us please go to: thefilmcollaborative.org — and be sure to check out the ABOUT section and our DISTRIPEDIA. Please also join our Facebook Page for daily new media and distribution informational updates.
We look forward to collaborating with you soon.
How To Start Your Own Country
ABOUT THE FILM:
What makes a country a country? What makes a state a state? A nation a nation? And what’s to stop you from starting your own? In a globe-hopping search for an answer to these fundamental but little understood questions of sovereignty, Jody Shapiro’s ultra-sharp documentary HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY examines six micro-nations — unrecognized self-declared sovereign entities that you will not find on a political map. Traversing the globe, Shapiro introduces us to several states you’ve almost certainly never heard of. Shapiro’s documentary mixes comedy and compassion with a serious analysis of the concept of statehood and citizenship.
2010 | Canada | 72 min.
DIRECTOR: Jody Shapiro
WRITER: Denis Seguin with Jody Shapiro
PRODUCERS: Phyllis Laing, Jody Shapiro
CO-PRODUCERS: Denis Seguin
CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Gurdebeke
TERRITORIES: THE WORLD
FESTIVALS: TORONTO
EXHIBITION FORMATS: HDCAM, DIGIBETA, DVD
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screeners: available now; please email us.
The Adults in the Room
ABOUT THE FILM:
In 1995, Andy Blubaugh—then a curious and lonely fifteen-year-old—began a sexual relationship with Peter, a successful, deeply closeted man who was nearly twice his age. In 2010, Andy now a filmmaker and teacher, revisited this complex relationship in a hybrid documentary film and how it informed his own sense of boundaries with his teenage students. The film combines re-enactments of their troubled romance through the recollections of a now wiser Andy and interviews with relationship columnist Dan Savage, educators and social workers to explore this thorny issue of adolescent sexuality and the relationships that make us who we are.
2010 | USA | 73 min.
DIRECTOR: Andy Blubaugh
WRITER: Andy Blubaugh
PRODUCERS: Erin Donovan, Phoebe Owens
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Anna Farrell, Jon Beanlands
TERRITORIES: THE WORLD
FESTIVALS: Outfest 2010, Frameline 34, Sarasota, Ashland
EXHIBITION FORMATS: HDCAM, Digibeta, DVD
download:
screeners: available now; please email us.
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
ABOUT THE FILM:
Chronicling the remarkable experiences of Vicki Marlane, a drag performer still strutting it onstage in her seventies, Vicki takes us on the ride of her life — from roller-skating cross dressed in her youth, to hoochie-coochie girl carnival sideshows and romantic road trips. We hitchhike through the adventures that led to her being San Francisco’s “Toast of the Town” in the early ’70s, and Vicki even shares her tips of the trade acquired from decades of drag experience at hot-spot venues including Aunt Charlie’s in the Tenderloin District. Directed by Michelle Lawler, and produced by archivist Kim Klausner (Choosing Children) and Emmy Award-winning Susan Stryker (Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, Frameline30) this film is a loving tribute to a living legend.
2009 | USA | 54 min.
DIRECTOR: Michelle Lawler
PRODUCERS: Kim Klausner, Susan Stryker
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mark Arellano
TERRITORIES: THE WORLD
FESTIVALS: Outfest 2010
EXHIBITION FORMATS: DIGIBETA, BETASP, DVD
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screeners: available now; please email us.
We’d also like to recommend the following film to programmers:
Where Are You Taking Me?
ABOUT THE FILM:
A high society wedding, a boxing club, a beauty salon, a school for survivors of the civil war: these are a few of the many places in Uganda discovered in Kimi Takesue's feature documentary, WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME. Employing an observational style, this contemplative documentary reveals multifaceted portraits of Ugandans in both public and private spaces. The film travels through Uganda, roaming the vibrant streets of Kampala and the rural quiet of the North, to reveal a diverse society where global popular culture finds expression alongside enduring Ugandan traditions. Throughout the journey, WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME asks us to consider the complex interplay between the observer and the observed, and challenges our notions of both the familiar and exotic. WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME offers unexpected images of a complex country, encouraging us to abandon preconceived notions of where we are going and what we will find.
2010 | Uganda/USA | 72 min.
DIRECTOR: Kimi Takesue
PRODUCERS: Kimi Takesue, in association with Lane Street Pictures
CO-PRODUCERS: Richard Beenen
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kimi Takesue
FESTIVALS: 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival
EXHIBITION FORMATS: HDCAM
screeners and press materials: please email Reuben Lim.
also available for 2010 FESTIVALS…please email us
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UNDERTOW (CONTRACORRIENTE) (International Festivals)
