The Rooftop Films 2024 Filmmaker Fund winners have officially been unveiled, with buzzy titles like Eliza Hittman’s fourth feature “Motherlove” and Debra Granik and Alex Mallis’ collaborative documentary among the top titles.
This year, twenty-three cash and service grants will be provided to independent filmmakers to support the production of their next short or feature film, including two Rooftop Films Water Tower Feature Film cash grants, generously supported by the Laurence W. Levine Foundation. In the past 24 years, Rooftop Films has awarded over $2,300,000 in cash and services to notable films and filmmakers including Alex Ross Perry, Carlos López Estrada, Nikyatu Jusu, and David Lowery.
Among the 2024 grantees are Eliza Hittman for her highly-anticipated fourth feature film, “Motherlove,” and Debra Granik and Alex Mallis for their untitled collaborative documentary investigating the past, present, and future of legalized marijuana in New York state.
Hittman’s acclaimed third feature “Never Rarely Sometimes Always...
This year, twenty-three cash and service grants will be provided to independent filmmakers to support the production of their next short or feature film, including two Rooftop Films Water Tower Feature Film cash grants, generously supported by the Laurence W. Levine Foundation. In the past 24 years, Rooftop Films has awarded over $2,300,000 in cash and services to notable films and filmmakers including Alex Ross Perry, Carlos López Estrada, Nikyatu Jusu, and David Lowery.
Among the 2024 grantees are Eliza Hittman for her highly-anticipated fourth feature film, “Motherlove,” and Debra Granik and Alex Mallis for their untitled collaborative documentary investigating the past, present, and future of legalized marijuana in New York state.
Hittman’s acclaimed third feature “Never Rarely Sometimes Always...
- 4/18/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Oscilloscope Laboratories is teaming with Mailchimp once again for #SupportTheShorts, a free streaming event featuring a selection of short films from the SXSW Film Festival on the global streaming platform Mailchimp Presents.
#SupportTheShorts launched last year when SXSW was canceled due to Covid-19 and hundreds of short filmmakers lost the opportunity for their work to be seen. To remedy this, Mailchimp partnered with Oscilloscope to give these short films and their creators a digital home where their work could be enjoyed from anywhere.
This year’s online edition of SXSW brings back the platform for filmmakers to showcase their art at the festival and to a broader audience. In addition to the film licensing, Mailchimp and Oscilloscope supplied hundreds of SXSW festival badges to 18 organizations committed to boosting opportunities for underrepresented communities in the film industry.
“We’re so proud to bring back Support the Shorts, a collection of short films from SXSW,...
#SupportTheShorts launched last year when SXSW was canceled due to Covid-19 and hundreds of short filmmakers lost the opportunity for their work to be seen. To remedy this, Mailchimp partnered with Oscilloscope to give these short films and their creators a digital home where their work could be enjoyed from anywhere.
This year’s online edition of SXSW brings back the platform for filmmakers to showcase their art at the festival and to a broader audience. In addition to the film licensing, Mailchimp and Oscilloscope supplied hundreds of SXSW festival badges to 18 organizations committed to boosting opportunities for underrepresented communities in the film industry.
“We’re so proud to bring back Support the Shorts, a collection of short films from SXSW,...
- 3/25/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to the documentary “Circus of Books” ahead of its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Rachel Mason wrote and directed the pic, and also produced it along with Kathryn Robson, Cynthia Childs, Camilla Hall and Adam Baran. Ryan Murphy, Josh Braun, John Battsek, Rhianon Jones and Gerald Herman executive produced. Bob Hawk is a consulting producer.
The doc is set in the gay porn shop “Circus of Books,” which for 35 years, has served as an epicenter for Lgbt life and culture in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to many in the community, the store is cultivated and cared for by its owners, Karen and Barry Mason — a straight couple with three children. The movie offers an intimate portrait of the Masons and their journey to become one of the biggest distributors of hardcore gay porn in the United States. Their story unfolds through the lens of their daughter,...
Rachel Mason wrote and directed the pic, and also produced it along with Kathryn Robson, Cynthia Childs, Camilla Hall and Adam Baran. Ryan Murphy, Josh Braun, John Battsek, Rhianon Jones and Gerald Herman executive produced. Bob Hawk is a consulting producer.
The doc is set in the gay porn shop “Circus of Books,” which for 35 years, has served as an epicenter for Lgbt life and culture in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to many in the community, the store is cultivated and cared for by its owners, Karen and Barry Mason — a straight couple with three children. The movie offers an intimate portrait of the Masons and their journey to become one of the biggest distributors of hardcore gay porn in the United States. Their story unfolds through the lens of their daughter,...
- 4/25/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Buoyed by the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, things looked really good for Lgbtq people at the start of 2016. Then came the Orlando massacre, and with it the reminder that queer people were not safe, not even within the comforts provided by its culture.
That was only six weeks ago, but it seems longer. Orlando has fallen out of the news cycle — for the media, too many fresher tragedies take precedence. There’s the police murders of black men, an assassin’s murders of police and the public in Dallas, the Nice attacks, and even another Florida nightclub shooting, this one in Fort Myers. And for the public, the crises converge. There were signs remembering Orlando at Black Lives Matter rallies, and the Lgbtq community responded to Orlando with anti-gun rallies and messages of support for Muslims.
This puts Lgbtq culture in a familiar position: If the threats to...
That was only six weeks ago, but it seems longer. Orlando has fallen out of the news cycle — for the media, too many fresher tragedies take precedence. There’s the police murders of black men, an assassin’s murders of police and the public in Dallas, the Nice attacks, and even another Florida nightclub shooting, this one in Fort Myers. And for the public, the crises converge. There were signs remembering Orlando at Black Lives Matter rallies, and the Lgbtq community responded to Orlando with anti-gun rallies and messages of support for Muslims.
This puts Lgbtq culture in a familiar position: If the threats to...
- 7/29/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Exploring Ira Sachs' filmography is like paging through his personal diaries. Each film is deeply connected to a significant moment and time in his life, which makes a masterclass with the director, the first of its kind for NewFest, an education not just in filmmaking but in the filmmaker himself. Read More: Ira Sachs on Premiering 'Love is Strange' and Meeting with Buyers NewFest Senior Programmer Adam Baran who, along with Sachs, presents the monthly film series Queer/Art/Film at the IFC Center in New York, moderated the discussion. Once the talk began it was clear why such a series was of interest to Sachs; he's a cinephile through and through, both attaining his film education and his inspiration through lesser-seen cinema. In addition to his filmmaking, Sachs is a professor (previously at Columbia, currently at Nyu), which makes him a natural yet approachable lecturer. Here...
- 10/27/2015
- by Rodney Uhler
- Indiewire
Presented by HBO and in partnership with Outfest, the 27th annual NewFest will present almost 100 Lgbt films Oct. 22–27. Among the highlights are festival centerpiece “Carol,” the Todd Haynes–directed lesbian drama starring award season frontrunners Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Kicking off the festivities will be the opening night feature “Eisenstein in Guanajuato,” a depiction of Russian director Sergei Eisenstein’s gay coming-of-age journey to Mexico in the 1930s. The film has been hailed as a masterpiece and highlight of director Peter Greenaway’s career. Closing the festival will be Alexandra-Therese Keining’s stylish “Girls Lost,” a thrilling exploration of sexuality and identity that spans the Lgbt spectrum. “Our world is almost impossibly diverse,” said NewFest programmer Adam Baran, in a statement. “As a film festival, it is our duty to showcase that world as best we can. From people of color to youth films to more films by and about women,...
- 9/28/2015
- backstage.com
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
The producers of a documentary about a Twin Peaks mega-fan who spent his teen years in the town where the cult TV series was shot are seeking funds for their movie on Kickstarter. The proposed film, Northwest Passage: A Doc About Growing Up in Twin Peaks, will tell the story of Travis Blue, who survived bullying and bouts with hooking and doing drugs by relying on his Laura Palmer fandom. The producers aim to put out the film next year, the same year in which Twin Peaks will return...
- 5/26/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Long considered one of the greatest shows ever to grace television, David Lynch's Twin Peaks is often approached and understood in a sort of bubble, a vacuum. Which is appropriate, on a certain level, given that it was totally unlike anything that had ever come before and exists without obvious, conventional frames of reference but it overlooks the impact that the show had on the actual, flesh and blood people who found this dark, strange, wonderful world deeply personal. People such as Travis Blue, an outcast growing up in the actual town where Twin Peaks was shot. Northwest Passage is a unique, visually-stunning documentary from director Adam Baran (Jackpot), executive producers P. David Ebersole & Todd Hughes (Room 237, Hit So Hard) and executive producer...
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- 5/6/2015
- Screen Anarchy
If you still have an affinity for books, there can be few more choice summer reads than Edmund White's 2005 autobiography, My Lives. Divided into nonlinear sections devoted to his relationships with his parents, his hustlers, and his female entanglements, there's also a chapter entitled "My Europe." Herein White notes how while in the Paris of the 1980s, he became aware that petite green beans are tastier than their larger cousins. He also recounts how the social theorist Michel Foucault, a pal of his, noted that while "'gay philosophy' and 'gay paintings' were meaningless notions...writing gay fiction was legitimate since it enabled us to imagine how gay men should live together."
Foucault apparently "felt that relationships between gay men were tenuous, undefined, still to be invented, and that gay fiction was the place where a vision of association could be worked out in concrete detail."
The same could be said of Lgbt cinema,...
Foucault apparently "felt that relationships between gay men were tenuous, undefined, still to be invented, and that gay fiction was the place where a vision of association could be worked out in concrete detail."
The same could be said of Lgbt cinema,...
- 7/26/2014
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
QFest St. Louis which begins this weekend, will screen Getting Go: The Go Doc Project at 9:15 pm Monday April 28th.
QFest St. Louis, the annual gay and Lesbian Film Festival presented by Cinema St. Louis, kicks off this weekend. It runs through May 1st and all films will be screened at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in The Loop, University City, Mo)
QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and celebrate queer culture. The 2014 event features an eclectic slate of contemporary Lgbtq-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Tickets are now on sale for all shows.
Getting Go: The Go Doc Project screens at 9:15pm Monday April 28th
“Getting Go” is an artful look at modern dating and honesty in the digital era. Doc, a shy and somewhat nerdy college student, invents a fake documentary project to get close to Go, a sexy male go-go dancer.
QFest St. Louis, the annual gay and Lesbian Film Festival presented by Cinema St. Louis, kicks off this weekend. It runs through May 1st and all films will be screened at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in The Loop, University City, Mo)
QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and celebrate queer culture. The 2014 event features an eclectic slate of contemporary Lgbtq-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Tickets are now on sale for all shows.
Getting Go: The Go Doc Project screens at 9:15pm Monday April 28th
“Getting Go” is an artful look at modern dating and honesty in the digital era. Doc, a shy and somewhat nerdy college student, invents a fake documentary project to get close to Go, a sexy male go-go dancer.
- 4/25/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Beautiful, Erotic Music Video for Holopaw's 'Dirty Boots' Celebrates All the Manifestations of Leather This Nsfw video artfully depicts a gay bike gang. by Liam Mathews Holopaw is an indie band from Gainesville, Florida. They teamed up with filmmaker Adam Baran to make a video for their song "Dirty Boots" that creates a Mapplethorpian portrait of a gang of kinky gay bikers. Both the imagery and the song are haunting, and strike a delicate balance of tenderness and hedonism. The connection to the Sonic Youth song of the same name is unclear, though. [h/t Vice] Image via [...]...
- 3/11/2014
- by Liam Mathews
- Nerve
Why Watch? Jack Hoffman desperately wants to jack his hoffman, but it isn’t all that easy. He’s resigned himself to department store catalog models — guys in tight sweaters, guys in genuine Jockeys — because 1) he’s 14 and 2) it’s 1994 and the internet isn’t in every household yet. Tough break being born in 1980. When he hears about a stash of porn mags on the other side of town, he risks being caught by a trio of bullies to secure the necessary visual aids. Funny thing is, his imagination seems to already be pretty strong. Adam Baran’s Jackpot is simple and sweet. It stops just short of being schmaltzy due to a genuinely likable hero in Ethan Navarro’s Jack, and a comic relief porn-star-of-many-wardrobe-changes played by Adam Fleming. Plus, as bully-dodging stories go, this one feels a bit more honest when it comes to danger, consequences and the anticipated payoff. It...
- 2/26/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Adam Baran, Rosie Haber, J Michael Feldman, Pete Mercurio and Julia Dwyer Sullivan have been selected for this year’s 2013 Screenwriting Lab, now in its 11th year and set to take place in June.
The workshop is backed by a grant from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences and will include sessions with other industry professionals, structured career development opportunities and participation in ongoing festival events.
Outfest executives said 2013 had already been an “extremely successful” year for scripts mentored through previous Screenwriting Labs.
Former fellows and their works that have premiered at festivals in the year-to-date include Yen Tan whose Pit Stop [pictured] screened in Sundance, George Northy’s G.B.F. in Tribeca and Doug Spearman’s Hot Guys With Guns, the closing night film at the Miami Gay And Lesbian Film Festival.
“The fellows selected for the 2013 Outfest Screenwriting Lab have written fresh, exciting Lgbt stories that depict the complexity and beauty of Lgbt lives,” said...
The workshop is backed by a grant from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences and will include sessions with other industry professionals, structured career development opportunities and participation in ongoing festival events.
Outfest executives said 2013 had already been an “extremely successful” year for scripts mentored through previous Screenwriting Labs.
Former fellows and their works that have premiered at festivals in the year-to-date include Yen Tan whose Pit Stop [pictured] screened in Sundance, George Northy’s G.B.F. in Tribeca and Doug Spearman’s Hot Guys With Guns, the closing night film at the Miami Gay And Lesbian Film Festival.
“The fellows selected for the 2013 Outfest Screenwriting Lab have written fresh, exciting Lgbt stories that depict the complexity and beauty of Lgbt lives,” said...
- 6/3/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Outfest has announced the five fellows of its 2013 Screenwriting Lab, a program in its 11th year and with support from a grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Full list of recipients below. Over 2000 scripts have been submitted to the program since its conception in 1997. This year alone, a record number of over 170 scripts were submitted. The workshops -- a three-day, mentor-led program to take place at the Los Angeles Athletic Club -- will be held in June. A public reading of the fellows' works will follow at the 2013 Outfest Los Angeles Lgbt Film Festival, running July 11-21.2013 Fellows And Projects:Adam Baran is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, writer and curator whose most recent short film Jackpot recently won Best Short at the 2013 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival."The Hidden People": Two frustrated gay artists journey across Iceland in hopes of making contact with the country...
- 6/3/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Outfest has announced the 2013 Screenwriting Lab Fellows, with 5 individuals selected for the 11th year of the program: Adam Baran, Rosie Haber, J. Michael Feldman, Pete Mercurio and Julia Dwyer Sullivan. “The fellows selected for the 2013 Outfest Screenwriting Lab have written fresh, exciting Lgbt stories that depict the complexity and beauty of Lgbt lives,” said Executive Director Kirsten Schaffer, in a statement. “The lab mentoring process has helped dozens of writers hone their craft and I am very proud of the three films that premiered at film festivals this year originally developed through the Outfest Screenwriting Lab.” To be held in June, the workshop will include "sessions with other industry professionals, structured career development opportunities and participation in ongoing festival events." Recent scripts mentored through previous Screenwriting Labs include Yen Tan’s "Pit Stop" (Sundance 2013) and George Northy’s "G.B.F." (Tribeca 2013). Since...
- 6/3/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
In 2009, when Rachel Chanoff had just begun programming at the 92Y Tribeca in New York, she asked Ira Sachs (the director of the '12 Sundance hit "Keep the Lights On" and '05 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Forty Shades of Blue") if he'd be interested in programming a queer film series for the space's ambitious and eclectic film program. Sachs had recently met a young filmmaker, Adam Baran (who was then Contributing Editor at the iconic Butt Magazine and is currently working on a short film, "Jackpot"), and the two had been talking about approaching film from an art perspective. Together, Sachs and Baran joined forces to accept Chanoff's offer. Three years later, the monthly film series is one of the best programmed and most community-centered in the city, regularly selling out shows at their new, larger venue, the IFC Center in the West Village. Last night, they debuted at Cinefamily's Silent Movie Theatre,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
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