25 New Faces
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On the Road: the “25 New Faces” Screening Tour Hits the Midwest Today
Starting today, the Filmmaker “25 New Faces” screening series gets underway: Scott Blake (Surveyor), Anahita Ghazvinizadeh (Needle) and Mohammad Gorjestani (Refuge) are hitting the road, with myself in tow, with the first event taking place at the UW-Madison Cinematheque in Madison, WI. The road show, which is sponsored by Sony Creative Software and ARRI, will then progress to Cleveland, Iowa City, Kansas City, Columbia, MO and Nashville. If you’re in or around any of these places, please come to the event and say hi. As Scott wrote in his newsletter last week, this tour and the “Best Film Not Playing” screening series are our “ways of […]
by Nick Dawson on Nov 16, 2013 -
“25 New Faces” Tour Kicks Off November 16
Following screenings in Tacoma, Portland, and New York, three of this year’s “25 New Faces” are hitting the road to showcase their short films. Joined by Filmmaker Managing Editor Nick Dawson, Scott Blake (Surveyor), Anahita Ghazvinizadeh (Needle) and Mohammad Gorjestani (Refuge) will travel from Madison to Nashville on a tour sponsored by Sony Creative Software and ARRI. The full stops, as well as descriptions of the films and filmmakers, are listed below. THE 25 NEW FACES OF INDEPENDENT FILM TOUR CALENDAR: Saturday, November 16, 2013 UW-Madison Cinematheque, Madison, WI 3pm (tickets) Sunday November 17, 2013 Cleveland Cinematheque, Cleveland, OH 8pm (tickets) Monday November 18, 2013 […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Nov 6, 2013 -
OK, Enough, Goodbye To Be Released Via Vyer Films
Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, two of Filmmaker‘s 2011 “25 New Faces,” have found a home for their debut feature, OK, Enough, Goodbye, at Vyer Films. An unusual coming of age tale, Ok, Enough, Goodbye centers on a protagonist who is effectively old enough for a mid-life crisis. The aforementioned, nameless 40-year old man lives in Tripoli, Lebanon, with his mother, having long relinquished any prospects for independence. But when his mother abruptly leaves, the man is left with nothing but his surroundings. As he struggles to find his bearings adrift in the small city, he must keep his mother’s absence a […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Nov 6, 2013 -
“25 New Face” Mohammad Gorjestani’s Refuge a Staff Pick on Vimeo
Those 25 New Faces folks seem to crop up everywhere, so it’s no surprise that 2013 alum Mohammad Gorjestani‘s Refuge, an excellent sci-fi-tinged short about an Iranian immigrant set in the San Jose of the near future, has been chosen as a Staff Pick on Vimeo, by the cultured curatorial eye of Jason Sondhi, who was chosen for our 2011 list. Check out the film above, or here at Vimeo.
by Nick Dawson on Oct 25, 2013 -
Voices From the Street
A first feature by Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq (chosen for Filmmaker’s 2012 25 New Faces of Independent Film), These Birds Walk is an observational documentary following the hopes of a young Karachi runaway named Omar. The boy, no more than 10-years-old, escapes his rural village and, as the film begins, is ready to run away from his city youth home. Omar is befriended by Asad, a young ambulance driver who works near the orphanage, which is maintained by one of Pakistan’s great philanthropists, elderly Abdul Sattar Edhi. Two questions resound through Omar’s days, through ups and downs: Where is […]
by Ray Pride on Oct 21, 2013 -
Win Tickets to Tonight’s “25 New Faces” Screening at IFC Center in NYC
Tonight Filmmaker is holding its special “25 New Faces” screening (sponsored by Sony Creative Software and ARRI) at IFC Center in Manhattan, and there are two tickets up for grabs for tonight’s event. The following short films will play, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers plus previous alums, including Blue Caprice‘s Alexandre Moors: RPG OKC (Emily Carmichael, 2013, 9 mins) Old Man (Leah Shore, 2013, 5 mins) High Maintenance: “Dinah” (Katja Blichfeld & Ben Sinclair, 2013, 12 mins) Social Butterfly (Lauren Wolkstein, 2013, 15 mins) Between Colors of I (Iva Radivojevic, 2013, 9 mins) Palimpsest (Michael Tyburski, 2013, 17 mins) To win, […]
by Nick Dawson on Oct 2, 2013 -
“25 New Faces” Screening Next Wednesday at NYC’s IFC Center
Last year, Filmmaker organized a nationwide tour of “25 New Faces” screenings that included a very enjoyable, sold-out screening at IFC Center in Manhattan. This year, there is another tour (now sponsored by Sony Creative Software and ARRI) and we are very happy to be having another event at IFC Center, which will take place next Wednesday, October 2, at 8pm. Tickets are available here, and I will be there moderating a Q&A with a group of filmmakers who are showing a really excellent slate of shorts that night, while also joining in will be other 2013 alums plus some special guests. (Last year, Blue Valentine director […]
by Nick Dawson on Sep 27, 2013 -
“25 New Faces” Josephine Decker and Lauren Wolkstein on Hitchcock and the Choreography of Sex Scenes
Just named as two of Filmmaker‘s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Josephine Decker and Lauren Wolkstein have both produced an impressive body of work that has placed them as bold, young voices on the independent film scene. Decker’s feature Butter on the Latch premiered to strong reviews, including a New Yorker article that called her film “an utter exhilaration of cinematic imagination.” An actor in many of Joe Swanberg’s films, Decker is finishing her new feature film Thou Wast Mild and Lovely while Wolkstein, whose short Social Butterfly premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and whose The Strange Ones showed at SXSW […]
by Russell Sheaffer on Aug 19, 2013 -
25 New Faces of Independent Film 2013
Click here to see Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2013.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 18, 2013 -
Now Online: 25 New Face Ian Clark’s Searching for Yellow
Today Ian Clark posted to Vimeo his wonderful (longish) short Searching for Yellow, which last year got Clark selected for our “25 New Faces” list. We’re working on the 2013 list right now, but this film is still very strong in my memory, a lyrical, poignant piece of filmmaking that features Clark’s gorgeous cinematography. Here’s what I wrote about Searching for Yellow last year in my profile of Clark for the 25: Clark’s gift for image-making is most fully demonstrated in his latest work, the 25-minute short Searching for Yellow. Looking for a modern-day equivalent of the romantic notion of […]
by Nick Dawson on Jun 21, 2013
