25 New Faces
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“25 NEW FACES” SERIES BEGINS AT TACOMA’S GRAND CINEMA
Today begins a week-long run at Tacoma, Washington’s Grand Cinema devoted entirely to films from this year’s “25 New Faces” filmmakers. If you live within driving distance of Tacoma, please check out this event and meet some of the filmmakers — 12 of the 25 will be attending. From the Grand Cinema website: From August 20-26 some of the best young independent filmmakers in the United States will have their work showcased at the Grand Cinema. Selected by Filmmaker Magazine as 2010’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film”, the Grand is proud to host films from 21 of these filmmakers. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 20, 2010 -
“25 NEW FACES” FEATURED AT THE GRAND CINEMA IN TACOMA, WA
Attention film lovers in or around Tacoma, Washington: Beginning this Friday, The Grand Cinema will be presenting projects from this year’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Nowhere else in the country will you be able to see the works from this year’s 25 New Faces in a concentrated program at the same venue. The six-day event will include 21 films and 12 of the “25” will be making the trip to be in attendance, including New Low‘s Adam Bowers, Babyland‘s Marc Fratello and The New Year‘s Trieste Kelly Dunn. We here at Filmmaker would like to give a special […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 16, 2010 -
SPARROW SONGS LAUNCHES KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN
I was happy to see Adam Daniel Mezei on his new PMD for Hire blog respond to the work of the Sparrow Songs team of Alex Jablonski and Michael Totten from this year’s “25 New Faces” list. Like me, he found something special in the tone and execution of these monthly short documentary pieces. (Check out Mezei’s post for detailed musings on five of the episodes.) Now, Jablonski and Totten are launching a Kickstarter campaign to allow them to cover the expenses of the project and to shoot three particularly ambitious final episodes. Check out their work on their own […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 2, 2010 -
25 New Faces
Welcome to the 2010 edition of Filmmaker‘s annual survey of new independent film talent. Victoria Mahoney Writer-director Victoria Mahoney began her artistic career as an actress in theater and then film. “Shelly Winters was my teacher,” Mahoney says. “If you touched your hair too many times in her class, she’d come over and cut off your bangs. She taught me the gift of stillness.” After working off-off Broadway, Mahoney went to L.A., did a number of pilots, a few European films, and a season of Seinfeld (she played Gladys Mayo, owner of the clothing store Putumayo). But then there […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 20, 2010 -
THE NEISTAT BROTHERS PREMIERE ON HBO
I checked out the first two episodes of the Neistat Brothers HBO show on Thursday night at the Rooftop Films premiere party at Kips Bay. I liked them. Somehow, the Neistats got HBO to give them an eight-episode series which mostly seems to be about the two brothers making stuff and doing things and then documenting these processes in as rag-tag, homemade and lo-fi manner as possible. What kind of stuff? Stuff like smuggling American maple syrup past TSA to Amsterdam because the waffles are great but the syrup sucks there, or finding one brother’s biological birth father. (The series […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 4, 2010 -
SUNDANCE DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITING LABS ANNOUNCED
Today the Sundance Institute announced the 13 projects selected for this year’s Director and Screenwriting Labs. Talking place in Park City, Utah June 1-25, the Labs will be filled with many familiar names to Filmmaker readers. 2008 25 New Faces alum Myna Joseph will be attending; as will Ondi Timoner, whose doc We Live In Public won the doc Grand Prize at Sundance in 2009; Ry Russo-Young, who was awarded our Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award for You Wont Miss Me at last year’s Gothams, will be attending with her latest screenplay; and ’09 25 […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Apr 26, 2010 -
ADAM’S DA BOMB
Adam Bhala Lough is one of our 25 New Faces alumni, and his feature Bomb the System opened in New York this weekend. Here are quotes from an interview with him in the Gothamist. On the difficult of making sympathic graffiti artist characters: “…anyone who’s walked up to their apartment in NY and saw a fresh tag on their door, literally dripping because it just went up, and got pissed off, they’re going to bring that hatred to the movie. A lot of people even asked me, ‘why did you even bother making a movie about graffiti writers? They’re horrible […]
by Scott Macaulay on May 28, 2005 -
25 NEW FACE ALUMNI WIN AT TRIBECA ALL ACCESS
As we begin putting together our annual “25 New Faces” issue of Filmmaker, in which we identify and profile the filmmakers who we believe will the independent stars of tomorrow, we also check back on the successes of our past selections. So, when a press release from the Tribeca Film Festival arrived in my in-box this morning I noticed that of the three winners of the Tribeca All Access Award, two — Dennis Lee (a member of the company Kulture Machine) and Mario de la Vega (pictured) — were directors spotlighted in last summer’s issue. From the press release: “The […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 29, 2005
