Title: How To Cheat Writer-director: Amber Sealey Starring: Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey, Amanda Street, Gabriel Diamond, Paulette Osborne A dramatic competition title at the Los Angeles Film Festival, writer-director Amber Sealey’s How To Cheat is a seriocomic depiction of the messiness of modern marriage, and the temptation of infidelity. On the surface, a minor sort of thematic companion piece might be something like Kate Aselton’s The Freebie, in which she starred with Dax Shepard as a married couple who, trying to liven up their stagnant sex life, agree to mutual one-night-only, no-strings-attached hall passes, only to find discord and regret in their decision. Sealey’s movie, however, is a bit more subjectively focused and channeled...
- 7/1/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
The Los Angeles Film Festival just finished another successful year with some great entries and awesome film making showcased throughout the festival.
The festival has announced the jury and audience winners at the Awards Brunch on Sunday, with awards presented by Allison Janney and John C. Reilly. The film festival ran from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday June 26, 2011 in downtown Los Angeles.
The two top jury winners in the Narrative and Documentary category each won a $15,000 cash prize for the films director. This year, the Narrative Award went to Stephane Lafleur for the North American premiere of Familiar Ground about isolated family living in Canada.
The Documentary Award went to Beverly Kopf and Bobbie Birleffi for their film Wish Me Away, following the journey and coming-out of country singer Chely Wright.
The award for Best Performance in the Narrative Competition went to Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street, and Gabriel Diamond...
The festival has announced the jury and audience winners at the Awards Brunch on Sunday, with awards presented by Allison Janney and John C. Reilly. The film festival ran from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday June 26, 2011 in downtown Los Angeles.
The two top jury winners in the Narrative and Documentary category each won a $15,000 cash prize for the films director. This year, the Narrative Award went to Stephane Lafleur for the North American premiere of Familiar Ground about isolated family living in Canada.
The Documentary Award went to Beverly Kopf and Bobbie Birleffi for their film Wish Me Away, following the journey and coming-out of country singer Chely Wright.
The award for Best Performance in the Narrative Competition went to Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street, and Gabriel Diamond...
- 6/28/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
Beginning in downtown Los Angeles with Richard Linklater’s well-received “Bernie” on June 16, and wrapping up on June 26 with “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” the 2011 Laff managed to infuse its festival with the key ingredients of celebration and levity that make it one of the most enjoyable festivals on the planet.
Free outdoor screenings of classic comedies and contemporary documentaries, guest directors and artists-in-residence such as Guillermo del Toro and Erykah Badu, conversations and chats with Julie Taymor, James Franco, Jack Black and Shirley Maclaine, and a lounge sponsored by Jameson whiskey, all added up to another winning festival, the last planned under Dawn Hudson’s leadership of Film Independent.
With the two top juried awards each carrying a $15,000 cash prize for that film’s director, there is always weighted attention paid to the winners.
And the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival winners are…
Narrative Award – Stéphane Lafleur for...
Free outdoor screenings of classic comedies and contemporary documentaries, guest directors and artists-in-residence such as Guillermo del Toro and Erykah Badu, conversations and chats with Julie Taymor, James Franco, Jack Black and Shirley Maclaine, and a lounge sponsored by Jameson whiskey, all added up to another winning festival, the last planned under Dawn Hudson’s leadership of Film Independent.
With the two top juried awards each carrying a $15,000 cash prize for that film’s director, there is always weighted attention paid to the winners.
And the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival winners are…
Narrative Award – Stéphane Lafleur for...
- 6/27/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Beginning in downtown Los Angeles with Richard Linklater’s well-received “Bernie” on June 16, and wrapping up on June 26 with “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” the 2011 Laff managed to infuse its festival with the key ingredients of celebration and levity that make it one of the most enjoyable festivals on the planet.
Free outdoor screenings of classic comedies and contemporary documentaries, guest directors and artists-in-residence such as Guillermo del Toro and Erykah Badu, conversations and chats with Julie Taymor, James Franco, Jack Black and Shirley Maclaine, and a lounge sponsored by Jameson whiskey, all added up to another winning festival, the last planned under Dawn Hudson’s leadership of Film Independent.
With the two top juried awards each carrying a $15,000 cash prize for that film’s director, there is always weighted attention paid to the winners.
And the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival winners are…
Narrative Award – Stéphane Lafleur for...
Free outdoor screenings of classic comedies and contemporary documentaries, guest directors and artists-in-residence such as Guillermo del Toro and Erykah Badu, conversations and chats with Julie Taymor, James Franco, Jack Black and Shirley Maclaine, and a lounge sponsored by Jameson whiskey, all added up to another winning festival, the last planned under Dawn Hudson’s leadership of Film Independent.
With the two top juried awards each carrying a $15,000 cash prize for that film’s director, there is always weighted attention paid to the winners.
And the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival winners are…
Narrative Award – Stéphane Lafleur for...
- 6/27/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Amber Sealey's How to Cheat Narrative Award – Familiar Ground Documentary Award – Wish Me Away Best Performance in the Narrative Competition – The Cast of How to Cheat: Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street and Gabriel Diamond Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature – Attack the Block Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature – Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Audience Award for Best International Feature – Senna Best Narrative Short Film – The Wind Is Blowing on My Street Best Documentary Short Film – I Am A Girl! Audience Award for Best Short Film – Blind Date Best Animated Short Film – The Eagleman Stag Audience Award for Best Music Video – Can’t Shake This Feeling Photo: Los Angeles Film Festival...
- 6/27/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
La Film Fest is just about wrapped up and awards have been announced for the Narrative Competition films premiering at this year's festival. The $15,000 top Narrative Prize went to Stéphane Lafleur's Familiar Ground. While I have yet to catch Lafleur's French-Canadian deadpan comedy, I did see and like How to Cheat - which took home the Best Performance award for the ensemble cast of Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street, and Gabriel Diamond. Here's a quick look at a few of the competition films premiering at this year's fest: My pick of the competition lineup is Mike Akel's An Ordinary Family. This very well scripted verite piece, co-written and produced by Matthew Patterson, takes us inside a family vacation that becomes a bit...
- 6/26/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Presented By Los Angeles Times
Stéphane Lafleur.s Familiar Ground and Beverly Kopf & Bobbie Birleffi.s Wish Me Away Win Jury Awards Joe Cornish.s Attack the Block, Michael Rapaport.s Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest and Asif Kapadia.s Senna Win Audience Awards
Best Performance, Short Film and Music Video Award Winners Also Announced
Los Angeles (June 26, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times and supported by L.A. Live, announced the jury and audience award winners for the 2011 Festival at the Awards Brunch, sponsored and hosted by Chaya Downtown for the second year, and sponsored by Dove® Hair Care. Allison Janney and John C. Reilly were on hand to present the awards. The Los Angeles Film Festival ran from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday, June 26 in downtown Los Angeles. (See list Here).
.David, Doug and the team continue to...
Stéphane Lafleur.s Familiar Ground and Beverly Kopf & Bobbie Birleffi.s Wish Me Away Win Jury Awards Joe Cornish.s Attack the Block, Michael Rapaport.s Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest and Asif Kapadia.s Senna Win Audience Awards
Best Performance, Short Film and Music Video Award Winners Also Announced
Los Angeles (June 26, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times and supported by L.A. Live, announced the jury and audience award winners for the 2011 Festival at the Awards Brunch, sponsored and hosted by Chaya Downtown for the second year, and sponsored by Dove® Hair Care. Allison Janney and John C. Reilly were on hand to present the awards. The Los Angeles Film Festival ran from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday, June 26 in downtown Los Angeles. (See list Here).
.David, Doug and the team continue to...
- 6/26/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival gave two juried awards: the Narrative Award recognizes the finest narrative film in competition at the festival and went to Stéphane Lafleur for the North American premiere of Familiar Ground, while the Documentary Award recognizes the finest documentary film in competition and went to Beverly Kopf and Bobbie Birleffi for the world premiere of Wish Me Away. Each carries an unrestricted $15,000 cash prize funded by Film Independent for the winning film’s director to pursue their artistic ambitions. The award for Best Performance in the Narrative Competition went to Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street and Gabriel Diamond for their performances in Amber Sealey’s How to Cheat. For the first time, the Los Angeles Film Festival awarded an unrestricted $5,000 cash prize to each short film category. The award for Best Narrative Short Film went to Saba Riazi’s The Wind Is Blowing on My Street.
- 6/26/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
Whenever you hear about a situation where someone has cheated, you typically side with the person being cheated on and not the two participating in the cheating. However in How To Cheat, Amanda Street turns in a multi-dimensional portrayal of the woman who gets involved with married Mark (Kent Osborne), making her character Louise infuriating, confusing and compelling. There are always two sides to a story, but Louise makes you wonder about the third side and where her character is coming from.
Read more on Laff 2011 Interview: How To Cheat actor Amanda Street...
Read more on Laff 2011 Interview: How To Cheat actor Amanda Street...
- 6/23/2011
- by Allison Loring
- GordonandtheWhale
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Amber Sealey
Starring: Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey, Amanda Street, Dan Ewen, V. Kim Blish and Gabriel Diamond
Watching an out-of-shape middle-ager bounce around his backyard wearing nothing but his (lack of) dignity is a rare beginning to a rare movie about a married limo driver who sketches raunchy stick figures on Post-it notes and for whom sex with his wife is something slotted between appointments for the purposes of conception. While traffic congestion is forever imminent, and L.A.’s concrete streets are represented with a poetic prettiness, the idiosyncrasies inherent in this union sit uncomfortably in the foreground of all decisions and actions to unfold.
Kent Osborne’s brand of real man was used to apt effect in Joe Swanberg’s “Hannah Takes the Stairs” and “Uncle Kent,” and Osborne again brings an...
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Amber Sealey
Starring: Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey, Amanda Street, Dan Ewen, V. Kim Blish and Gabriel Diamond
Watching an out-of-shape middle-ager bounce around his backyard wearing nothing but his (lack of) dignity is a rare beginning to a rare movie about a married limo driver who sketches raunchy stick figures on Post-it notes and for whom sex with his wife is something slotted between appointments for the purposes of conception. While traffic congestion is forever imminent, and L.A.’s concrete streets are represented with a poetic prettiness, the idiosyncrasies inherent in this union sit uncomfortably in the foreground of all decisions and actions to unfold.
Kent Osborne’s brand of real man was used to apt effect in Joe Swanberg’s “Hannah Takes the Stairs” and “Uncle Kent,” and Osborne again brings an...
- 6/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Amber Sealey
Starring: Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey, Amanda Street, Dan Ewen, V. Kim Blish and Gabriel Diamond
Watching an out-of-shape middle-ager bounce around his backyard wearing nothing but his (lack of) dignity is a rare beginning to a rare movie about a married limo driver who sketches raunchy stick figures on Post-it notes and for whom sex with his wife is something slotted between appointments for the purposes of conception. While traffic congestion is forever imminent, and L.A.’s concrete streets are represented with a poetic prettiness, the idiosyncrasies inherent in this union sit uncomfortably in the foreground of all decisions and actions to unfold.
Kent Osborne’s brand of real man was used to apt effect in Joe Swanberg’s “Hannah Takes the Stairs” and “Uncle Kent,” and Osborne again brings an...
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Amber Sealey
Starring: Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey, Amanda Street, Dan Ewen, V. Kim Blish and Gabriel Diamond
Watching an out-of-shape middle-ager bounce around his backyard wearing nothing but his (lack of) dignity is a rare beginning to a rare movie about a married limo driver who sketches raunchy stick figures on Post-it notes and for whom sex with his wife is something slotted between appointments for the purposes of conception. While traffic congestion is forever imminent, and L.A.’s concrete streets are represented with a poetic prettiness, the idiosyncrasies inherent in this union sit uncomfortably in the foreground of all decisions and actions to unfold.
Kent Osborne’s brand of real man was used to apt effect in Joe Swanberg’s “Hannah Takes the Stairs” and “Uncle Kent,” and Osborne again brings an...
- 6/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Rating: 3/5
Writer: Amber Sealey
Director: Amber Sealey
Cast: Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street
There are certain things in this world you know are wrong. It is wrong to steal, it is wrong to lie, it is wrong to cheat. But is anything ever that simple or black and white? Amber Sealey’s How To Cheat dives in to that gray area where something that should be immediately tagged wrong may also have other factors driving it, how those factors can effect one’s reaction to it, and whether or not they should have an effect on that reaction.
Read more on Laff 2011 Review: How To Cheat...
Writer: Amber Sealey
Director: Amber Sealey
Cast: Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street
There are certain things in this world you know are wrong. It is wrong to steal, it is wrong to lie, it is wrong to cheat. But is anything ever that simple or black and white? Amber Sealey’s How To Cheat dives in to that gray area where something that should be immediately tagged wrong may also have other factors driving it, how those factors can effect one’s reaction to it, and whether or not they should have an effect on that reaction.
Read more on Laff 2011 Review: How To Cheat...
- 6/19/2011
- by Allison Loring
- GordonandtheWhale
Check out the movie trailer and images from How to Cheat, starring Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey and Amanda Street. Amber Sealey directs and writes as well as producing the comedy alongside Ben Thoma. The Indiepix Films-distributed film makes its premiere at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. In this funny and honest depiction of the messiness of modern marriage, writer-director Amber Sealey (A Plus D) also stars as Beth, a woman of child-bearing age and inclination who, with her husband Mark, has been struggling to conceive. Sealey's guileless performance as a woman betrayed by her own body is matched by Kent Osborne's...
- 6/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the movie trailer and images from How to Cheat, starring Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey and Amanda Street. Amber Sealey directs and writes as well as producing the comedy alongside Ben Thoma. The Indiepix Films-distributed film makes its premiere at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. In this funny and honest depiction of the messiness of modern marriage, writer-director Amber Sealey (A Plus D) also stars as Beth, a woman of child-bearing age and inclination who, with her husband Mark, has been struggling to conceive. Sealey's guileless performance as a woman betrayed by her own body is matched by Kent Osborne's...
- 6/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the movie trailer and images from How to Cheat, starring Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey and Amanda Street. Amber Sealey directs and writes as well as producing the comedy alongside Ben Thoma. The Indiepix Films-distributed film makes its premiere at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. In this funny and honest depiction of the messiness of modern marriage, writer-director Amber Sealey (A Plus D) also stars as Beth, a woman of child-bearing age and inclination who, with her husband Mark, has been struggling to conceive. Sealey's guileless performance as a woman betrayed by her own body is matched by Kent Osborne's...
- 6/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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