Valentine’s Day is almost upon us, and for those who celebrate the holiday with a cozy movie night, “The Sky Is Everywhere” will launch just in time.
Adapted from the book by bestselling author Jandy Nelson, who also wrote “I’ll Give You the Sun,” “The Sky Is Everywhere” captures the wide range of emotions from grief to love and everything in between. Whether you fall under the ‘Young Adult’ category or not, this movie speaks to a wide range of emotions.
Avid fans of Nelson’s novel, those who follow every YA story, or those simply looking for something fresh and new will want to know how to watch this latest teen romance story. Below, all your questions on how to watch “The Sky Is Everywhere” are answered.
When Does “The Sky Is Everywhere” Come Out?
“The Sky Is Everywhere” debuts Friday, Feb 11.
Is “The Sky Is Everywhere” Streaming or in Theaters?...
Adapted from the book by bestselling author Jandy Nelson, who also wrote “I’ll Give You the Sun,” “The Sky Is Everywhere” captures the wide range of emotions from grief to love and everything in between. Whether you fall under the ‘Young Adult’ category or not, this movie speaks to a wide range of emotions.
Avid fans of Nelson’s novel, those who follow every YA story, or those simply looking for something fresh and new will want to know how to watch this latest teen romance story. Below, all your questions on how to watch “The Sky Is Everywhere” are answered.
When Does “The Sky Is Everywhere” Come Out?
“The Sky Is Everywhere” debuts Friday, Feb 11.
Is “The Sky Is Everywhere” Streaming or in Theaters?...
- 2/11/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
If your movie calls for a woman on the verge of — or completely in the throes of — a breakdown, Elisabeth Moss is the one for the job. With “Shirley,” Moss continues to flex her affinity for the mad, disheveled, unraveling, and messy, as already well-documented in films including “The Invisible Man,” “Her Smell,” “Queen of Earth,” and “Us.” In Josephine Decker’s new film, Moss stars as gothic fiction writer Shirley Jackson, opposite Michael Stuhlbarg as Jackson’s husband, the literary critic Stanley Hyman. Together, these two actors work at the peak of their powers to turn marriage into demented theater, coiling a young couple (played by Odessa Young and Logan Lerman) into their sick orbit and twisting the story into “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” territory, but with a hallucinatory edge.
And it’s this character, who only sees emptiness beneath the face powder of polite society and openly mocks decorum,...
And it’s this character, who only sees emptiness beneath the face powder of polite society and openly mocks decorum,...
- 6/5/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
From launching “Boys Don’t Cry” in 1999 to premiering “Call Me by Your Name” in 2017, the Sundance Film Festival has long housed some of the most transcendent, experimental, and provocative queer films of the last decades. This year is shaping up to be no different, with many of the most anticipated premieres promising thoughtful Lgbtq-related content. Though it’s impossible to know until we’ve seen the films, IndieWire culled the lineup, polled filmmakers and producers, and consulted GLAAD in order to create a list of the most exciting queer films playing the festival.
Laverne Cox executive produces the first cinematic history of trans representation in film, tapping the likes of Mj Rodriguez, Lilly Wachowski, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yance Ford to provide commentary. New offerings from masters of the avant-garde Miranda July and Josephine Decker both promise queer elements, while “How to Survive a Plague” filmmaker David France returns to form...
Laverne Cox executive produces the first cinematic history of trans representation in film, tapping the likes of Mj Rodriguez, Lilly Wachowski, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yance Ford to provide commentary. New offerings from masters of the avant-garde Miranda July and Josephine Decker both promise queer elements, while “How to Survive a Plague” filmmaker David France returns to form...
- 1/22/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
A24 and Apple have yet to release their first co-production, the Sofia Coppola-directed “On the Rocks,” but the duo have already made apparent their aims: ambitious offerings from some of indie film’s best female directors. Following Coppola’s Rashida Jones- and Bill Murray-starring comedy, A24 and Apple will release the latest film from indie wunderkind and “Madeline’s Madeline” breakout filmmaker Josephine Decker.
Deadline reports that A24 and Apple have teamed up for Decker’s next film, a big screen adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s Ya novel “The Sky Is Everywhere.” Nelson will adapt and write the script herself, with Decker on board to direct. Nelson’s debut novel was published in 2010 and initially optioned by Warner Bros. Per the book’s official synopsis, it “tells the story of an American high school girl, Lennie Walker, struggling to cope with the sudden death of her older sister.
Deadline reports that A24 and Apple have teamed up for Decker’s next film, a big screen adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s Ya novel “The Sky Is Everywhere.” Nelson will adapt and write the script herself, with Decker on board to direct. Nelson’s debut novel was published in 2010 and initially optioned by Warner Bros. Per the book’s official synopsis, it “tells the story of an American high school girl, Lennie Walker, struggling to cope with the sudden death of her older sister.
- 10/16/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United Kingdom. It is showing May 10 – June 8, 2019, and a retrospective of Decker's work is showing May 7 – June 27, 2019.A sensual charge that alternates between erotic and uneasy runs through the films of writer/director/editor Josephine Decker. One could describe the stories of her three features—Butter on the Latch (2013), Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014) and Madeline's Madeline (2018)—but it is truer to say that each evokes a visceral experience that viewers must configure in our deepest imaginations. This atmospheric ambiguity is partly a result of Decker investing high percentages of low budgets into sound design—she recruited Alejandro González Iñárritu's regular collaborator Martín Hernández for her last two pictures. Partly it is because she has found a cinematographer soulmate in Ashley Connor, whose woozy dreamlike images play with perception. And partly it is because her...
- 5/9/2019
- MUBI
The skeleton crew of Josephine Decker’s first feature “Butter on the Latch” was small, even by the standards of the wave of micro-budgeted films that were hitting festivals during the first half of the decade: a sound recordist and cinematographer, Ashley Connor. “I was producing, directing and costume designing, running around the woods being the Pa and all the writing was improvised,” said Decker. “So Ashley really determined so much about the look of that film.”
The result was an entirely unique approach to creating in-camera effects, but it took six years of experiments before they figured it all out.
The ability of new digital Slr still photography cameras’ to record high-quality video, which made films like Decker’s debut possible, came with some trade-offs. The cameras had a shallow depth of field and the ability to precisely adjust (or rack) focus proved difficult. Connor, who was operating herself...
The result was an entirely unique approach to creating in-camera effects, but it took six years of experiments before they figured it all out.
The ability of new digital Slr still photography cameras’ to record high-quality video, which made films like Decker’s debut possible, came with some trade-offs. The cameras had a shallow depth of field and the ability to precisely adjust (or rack) focus proved difficult. Connor, who was operating herself...
- 8/23/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
What’s the matter with Madeline? And just who is this tempestuous teenager with the blazing eyes and wild bramble of red-brown hair?
“Madeline’s Madeline” is many things: an ambitious meta-exploration of identity through performance, a dizzying plunge into the imaginary psyche of a fictitious young actress (as played by once-in-a-lifetime discovery Helena Howard), an unnervingly personal form of penance by its director, Josephine Decker, for appropriating the lives of her collaborators. What it’s not is a satisfying answer to those earlier questions. That’s because “Madeline’s Madeline” mistakes intimacy for honesty, and it mis-assumes that audiences care nearly as much about the creative process as actors and directors do.
Decker’s third feature after “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” is by far her most accomplished, but also her most frustrating — and that’s saying something — as it forces audiences into the...
“Madeline’s Madeline” is many things: an ambitious meta-exploration of identity through performance, a dizzying plunge into the imaginary psyche of a fictitious young actress (as played by once-in-a-lifetime discovery Helena Howard), an unnervingly personal form of penance by its director, Josephine Decker, for appropriating the lives of her collaborators. What it’s not is a satisfying answer to those earlier questions. That’s because “Madeline’s Madeline” mistakes intimacy for honesty, and it mis-assumes that audiences care nearly as much about the creative process as actors and directors do.
Decker’s third feature after “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” is by far her most accomplished, but also her most frustrating — and that’s saying something — as it forces audiences into the...
- 8/11/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The story behind one of the most vital and visionary independent films of the 21st century began four years ago, when Josephine Decker woke up feeling like her movies didn’t matter, and fearing that they never would. It was the spring of 2014, and the filmmaker should have been on top of the world.
Barely 30 and blessed with an irrepressible creative streak that lit the way towards a brilliant future, her rising star had suddenly gone supernova: Both of the features she wrote and directed had been selected to premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. Feral and free, “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” boasted all the mainstream appeal of a renaissance faire, but they were touched with an arresting sort of newness that made some critics sound like astronomers — people wrote about her movies as if they had discovered new moons.
For Decker, it...
Barely 30 and blessed with an irrepressible creative streak that lit the way towards a brilliant future, her rising star had suddenly gone supernova: Both of the features she wrote and directed had been selected to premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. Feral and free, “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” boasted all the mainstream appeal of a renaissance faire, but they were touched with an arresting sort of newness that made some critics sound like astronomers — people wrote about her movies as if they had discovered new moons.
For Decker, it...
- 8/10/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Some movies are statistically designed to be seen by as many viewers as possible. Others are handcrafted in express defiance of commercialism. “Madeline’s Madeline” was definitely not created with mainstream tastes in mind. But by pushing to the edges of her own iconoclastic vision, director Josephine Decker touches on universal truths rarely found inside a multiplex. Will Decker’s experimental psychodrama — her third feature after festival favorites “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely”– be for you? Well, the very first line ought to give some indication: “You are not the cat,” an anonymous woman intones hypnotically. “You are inside the cat.” It should be said that things get much weirder from there. So yes, you’ll have to be ready to go with the film’s free-form flow. But the rewards are considerable, beginning with the discovery of striking newcomer Helena Howard playing the the teenage Madeline.
- 8/9/2018
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
‘Madeline’s Madeline’ Trailer: Helena Howard Dazzles In This Sundance Standout From Josephine Decker
If you don’t know Josephine Decker, you soon will. Actor/writer/director extraordinaire, Decker has been weaving in and out of the independent film-scape for years, with films like “Flames” and “Thou Wast Mild And Lovely.” Her projects are vibrant, full of imagination and color. And as seen in the trailer for her latest project, there’s a child-like wonder evident that the director has curated her whole career.
Continue reading ‘Madeline’s Madeline’ Trailer: Helena Howard Dazzles In This Sundance Standout From Josephine Decker at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Madeline’s Madeline’ Trailer: Helena Howard Dazzles In This Sundance Standout From Josephine Decker at The Playlist.
- 6/27/2018
- by Julia Teti
- The Playlist
"Madeline got the part! She's going to play the lead in a theater piece! Except the lead wears sweatpants like Madeline's. And has a cat like Madeline's. And is holding a steaming hot iron next to her mother's face – like Madeline is." Oh my goodness, this trailer is amazing. Oscilloscope Labs has released the first trailer for a film titled Madeline's Madeline, the latest feature from filmmaker Josephine Decker. The film premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance & Berlin Film Fests earlier this year, and hits theaters in NY & La this summer. Decker's one-of-a-kind performance piece film gets a one-of-a-kind trailer as well, made by artist Winston Hacking. They wanted to "create a trailer that dispels with the notion that trailers have a formula" and they have certainly made exactly that. Newcomer Helena Howard stars, with Miranda July and Molly Parker. It's hard to describe - you have ...
- 6/27/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Part of the new wave of idiosyncratic female auteur voices (Sophia Takal, Sarah Adina Smith, Janicza Bravo, Chloé Zhao and Eliza Hittman come to mind), the one-two karate chop in the shape of Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely got this American indie fan’s knickers in a knot.
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- 11/15/2017
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Flames marks cinematographer Ashley Connor’s third feature collaboration with filmmaker, artist and performer Josephine Decker — she previously lensed Decker’s Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Butter on the Latch — but this time there’s a twist. Decker “co-directed for a long time” (see the film and you’ll understand) with director Zefrey Thowell, and the movie bracingly, explicitly details the emotional, sexual and psychosexual gyrations of their turbulent eight-month relationship. The pair would often call Connor over to film a recreation of something that happened to them just a day earlier — like a bout of lovemaking leading to a […]...
- 4/25/2017
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
When you have an artist like Miranda July co-signing and excited for an up-and-coming filmmaker’s next effort, perhaps that’s ample reason to sit up and take notice if you haven’t already. And you absolutely should. Performance artist, actor, and filmmaker Josephine Decker took the indie world by storm in 2014 with her startling one-two punch of “Thou Wast Mild And Lovely” and “Butter On The Latch.” Even before they premiered, the movies were the talk of the indie space after both pictures were accepted into the Berlin Film Festival that year, which raised Decker’s profile exponentially.
Continue reading Passion Turns To Heartbreak In the First Nsfw Trailer For Josephine Decker’s ‘Flames’ [Watch] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Passion Turns To Heartbreak In the First Nsfw Trailer For Josephine Decker’s ‘Flames’ [Watch] at The Playlist.
- 4/14/2017
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Filmed over the course of five — often wonderful, occasionally excruciating — years, Josephine Decker and Zefrey Throwell’s “Flames” chronicles the artist pair’s real-life falling in (and out of) love story. The film, set to bow at Tribeca later this month, blends reality and art, fact and fiction, the past and the present, all to tell a deeply intimate and very original story.
Read More: Cinelicious Pics Acquires Two Raunchy Josephine Decker Films
Decker, best known to cinephiles as the singular mind behind the double-whammy dramas “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely,” and performance artist Throwell fell madly in love when they first met, kicking off a passionate romance punctuated by their own desires to document their budding relationship (hey, artists).
But a whirlwind vacation to the Maldives rocks their relationship to its core — or is the trip really to blame? — and when the pair decides to split,...
Read More: Cinelicious Pics Acquires Two Raunchy Josephine Decker Films
Decker, best known to cinephiles as the singular mind behind the double-whammy dramas “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely,” and performance artist Throwell fell madly in love when they first met, kicking off a passionate romance punctuated by their own desires to document their budding relationship (hey, artists).
But a whirlwind vacation to the Maldives rocks their relationship to its core — or is the trip really to blame? — and when the pair decides to split,...
- 4/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
After highlighting 50 films that we can guarantee are worth seeing this year, it’s time we venture into the unknown. Rather than regurgitating a list of dated-years-in-advance studio releases, we’ve set out to focus on 100 films we’re genuinely looking forward to, regardless of their marketing budgets. While some might not have a set release — let alone any confirmed festival premiere — most have wrapped production and will likely debut at some point in 2017, so make sure to check back for updates over the next twelve months and beyond. Be sure to keep the following one-hundred films on your radar (with release dates, where applicable). If you want to see how we did with our picks last year (potentially to shame us), head on over here.
100. The Discovery (Charlie McDowell; Winter Tbd)
One of the primary pleasures of Charlie McDowell‘s directorial debut The One I Love was his ability...
100. The Discovery (Charlie McDowell; Winter Tbd)
One of the primary pleasures of Charlie McDowell‘s directorial debut The One I Love was his ability...
- 1/11/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Tormenting the Hen
Logline: A feature film tumult of social malaise and toxic love, set in the picturesque Berkshires!
Elevator Pitch:
When playwright Claire is invited to set her latest work at a rural theatre company, her fiancé Monica tags along for a much-needed vacation. Upon encountering Mutty, an enigmatic groundskeeper with a gross lack of boundaries, Monica’s hopes for respite, her future with Claire, and her very sanity are thrown into jeopardy.
Production Team:
Theodore Collatos – Writer, Director, Cinematographer and co-editor (“Dipso”, “Time”)
Ben Umstead – Producer (“Albatross”, “Three Fingers”)
George Manatos – Producer, Editor...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Tormenting the Hen
Logline: A feature film tumult of social malaise and toxic love, set in the picturesque Berkshires!
Elevator Pitch:
When playwright Claire is invited to set her latest work at a rural theatre company, her fiancé Monica tags along for a much-needed vacation. Upon encountering Mutty, an enigmatic groundskeeper with a gross lack of boundaries, Monica’s hopes for respite, her future with Claire, and her very sanity are thrown into jeopardy.
Production Team:
Theodore Collatos – Writer, Director, Cinematographer and co-editor (“Dipso”, “Time”)
Ben Umstead – Producer (“Albatross”, “Three Fingers”)
George Manatos – Producer, Editor...
- 10/18/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Exclusive: WestEnd Films boards Animal Kingdom-produced rom-com starring rising UK actor Callum Turner.
Ahead of its world premiere in Toronto, WestEnd Films has boarded Tramps, the sophomore feature from Gimme The Loot writer-director Adam Leon.
Rising British actor and former Screen Star Of Tomorrow Callum Turner (BBC-twc’s War & Peace) stars in the rom-com, which is produced by Joshua Astrachan (Short Term 12) and David Kaplan (It Follows) of New York indie maestros Animal Kingdom, alongside Andrea Roa (Drinking Buddies) and Jamund Washington (Gimme The Loot). Washington also shares a story by credit on the film.
Green Room star Turner plays opposite another rising actor Grace Van Patten, who recently wrapped on Noah Baumbach’s upcoming untitled comedy with Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman.
In Tramps, Ellie (Van Patten) and Danny (Turner) are an unlikely pair of would-be criminals thrown together over two New York City summer days. Their misadventures...
Ahead of its world premiere in Toronto, WestEnd Films has boarded Tramps, the sophomore feature from Gimme The Loot writer-director Adam Leon.
Rising British actor and former Screen Star Of Tomorrow Callum Turner (BBC-twc’s War & Peace) stars in the rom-com, which is produced by Joshua Astrachan (Short Term 12) and David Kaplan (It Follows) of New York indie maestros Animal Kingdom, alongside Andrea Roa (Drinking Buddies) and Jamund Washington (Gimme The Loot). Washington also shares a story by credit on the film.
Green Room star Turner plays opposite another rising actor Grace Van Patten, who recently wrapped on Noah Baumbach’s upcoming untitled comedy with Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman.
In Tramps, Ellie (Van Patten) and Danny (Turner) are an unlikely pair of would-be criminals thrown together over two New York City summer days. Their misadventures...
- 8/17/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: WestEnd Films boards Animal Kingdom-produced rom-com starring rising UK actor Callum Turner.
Ahead of its world premiere in Toronto, WestEnd Films has boarded Tramps, the sophomore feature from Gimme The Loot writer-director Adam Leon.
Rising British actor and former Screen Star Of Tomorrow Callum Turner (BBC-twc’s War & Peace) stars in the rom-com, which is produced by Joshua Astrachan (Short Term 12) and David Kaplan (It Follows) of New York indie maestros Animal Kingdom, alongside Andrea Roa (Drinking Buddies) and Jamund Washington (Gimme The Loot). Washington also shares a story by credit on the film.
Green Room star Turner plays opposite another rising actor Grace Van Patten, who recently wrapped on Noah Baumbach’s upcoming untitled comedy with Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman.
In Tramps, Ellie (Van Patten) and Danny (Turner) are an unlikely pair of would-be criminals thrown together over two New York City summer days. Their misadventures...
Ahead of its world premiere in Toronto, WestEnd Films has boarded Tramps, the sophomore feature from Gimme The Loot writer-director Adam Leon.
Rising British actor and former Screen Star Of Tomorrow Callum Turner (BBC-twc’s War & Peace) stars in the rom-com, which is produced by Joshua Astrachan (Short Term 12) and David Kaplan (It Follows) of New York indie maestros Animal Kingdom, alongside Andrea Roa (Drinking Buddies) and Jamund Washington (Gimme The Loot). Washington also shares a story by credit on the film.
Green Room star Turner plays opposite another rising actor Grace Van Patten, who recently wrapped on Noah Baumbach’s upcoming untitled comedy with Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman.
In Tramps, Ellie (Van Patten) and Danny (Turner) are an unlikely pair of would-be criminals thrown together over two New York City summer days. Their misadventures...
- 8/17/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: WestEnd Films boards Animal Kingdom-produced rom-com starring rising UK actor Callum Turner.
Ahead of its world premiere in Toronto, WestEnd Films has boarded Tramps, the sophomore feature from Gimme The Loot writer-director Adam Leon.
Rising British actor and former Screen Star Of Tomorrow Callum Turner (BBC-twc’s War & Peace) stars in the rom-com, which is produced by Joshua Astrachan (Short Term 12) and David Kaplan (It Follows) of New York indie maestros Animal Kingdom, alongside Andrea Roa (Drinking Buddies) and Jamund Washington (Gimme The Loot). Washington also shares a story by credit on the film.
Green Room star Turner plays opposite another rising actor Grace Van Patten, who recently wrapped on Noah Baumbach’s upcoming untitled comedy with Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman.
In Tramps, Ellie (Van Patten) and Danny (Turner) are an unlikely pair of would-be criminals thrown together over two New York City summer days. Their misadventures...
Ahead of its world premiere in Toronto, WestEnd Films has boarded Tramps, the sophomore feature from Gimme The Loot writer-director Adam Leon.
Rising British actor and former Screen Star Of Tomorrow Callum Turner (BBC-twc’s War & Peace) stars in the rom-com, which is produced by Joshua Astrachan (Short Term 12) and David Kaplan (It Follows) of New York indie maestros Animal Kingdom, alongside Andrea Roa (Drinking Buddies) and Jamund Washington (Gimme The Loot). Washington also shares a story by credit on the film.
Green Room star Turner plays opposite another rising actor Grace Van Patten, who recently wrapped on Noah Baumbach’s upcoming untitled comedy with Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman.
In Tramps, Ellie (Van Patten) and Danny (Turner) are an unlikely pair of would-be criminals thrown together over two New York City summer days. Their misadventures...
- 8/17/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Editor’s Note: Last week. producer Dan Schoenbrun announced that he would be giving away his festival hit “collective:unconscious” for free. While the strategy may be surprising, from the start nothing about the project — in which five up-and-coming directors would adapt each other’s dreams — was particularly conventional. We asked Schoenbrun the philosophy behind giving the film away and he shared with us this essay.
Read More: How Five Directors Adapted Each Others’ Dreams in ‘collective:unconscious’
I’ve spent the past two years producing “collective:unconscious,” an omnibus feature film where I asked five of my favorite filmmakers (Lily Baldwin, Frances Bodomo, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Josephine Decker and Lauren Wolkstein) to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen.
We premiered the movie to a sold out screenings at SXSW, where we became the first ever anthology film to play in Competition. From there, we took the film out on the festival circuit,...
Read More: How Five Directors Adapted Each Others’ Dreams in ‘collective:unconscious’
I’ve spent the past two years producing “collective:unconscious,” an omnibus feature film where I asked five of my favorite filmmakers (Lily Baldwin, Frances Bodomo, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Josephine Decker and Lauren Wolkstein) to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen.
We premiered the movie to a sold out screenings at SXSW, where we became the first ever anthology film to play in Competition. From there, we took the film out on the festival circuit,...
- 8/2/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Dan Schoenbrun’s film “collective:unconscious” is an omnibus film like no one has ever seen before. In 2014, Schoenbrun asked five filmmakers to adapt each other’s dreams for the screen. What began as a quick five-part web series evolved into one of the most original debut features of 2016. Now, the film will be available to the public to download for free exclusively on BitTorrent on August 9th, complete with bonus features, samples of the directors’ previous work, and the original recordings of the dreams they adapted. Watch the trailer for the film below and check out a poster as well.
Read More: Cannes 2016: Meet Dan Schoenbrun, Senior Film Outreach Lead At Kickstarter
The five filmmakers featured in “collective: unconscious” are Lily Baldwin (“Sleepover La”), Frances Bodomo (“Afronauts”), Daniel Patrick Carbone (“Hide Your Smiling Faces”), Josephine Decker (“Thou Wast Mild and Lovely”), and Lauren Wolkstein (“Social Butterfly”).
Dan Schoenbrun is...
Read More: Cannes 2016: Meet Dan Schoenbrun, Senior Film Outreach Lead At Kickstarter
The five filmmakers featured in “collective: unconscious” are Lily Baldwin (“Sleepover La”), Frances Bodomo (“Afronauts”), Daniel Patrick Carbone (“Hide Your Smiling Faces”), Josephine Decker (“Thou Wast Mild and Lovely”), and Lauren Wolkstein (“Social Butterfly”).
Dan Schoenbrun is...
- 7/19/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
When some of the most invigorating and intriguing American independent filmmakers join together to interpret each other's dreams on screen, cinematic magic is inevitable. The thought of Lily Baldwin (Sleepover La), Frances Bodomo (Afronauts), Daniel Patrick Carbone (Hide Your Smiling Faces), Josephine Decker (Thou Wast Mild and Lovely), and Lauren Wolkstein (Social Butterfly) collaborating on a film project together should be mind-blowing to anyone who has paid close attention to any of these filmmakers.
- 3/14/2016
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
What happens when five independent filmmakers join together to adapt each other's dreams for the big screen? If the results are anything like the exclusive poster above, than the final product will be as experimental and avant-garde as it is stunningly visual. Entitled "collective:unconscious," the new film is a collaborative experiment from directors Josephine Decker ("Thou Wast Mild and Lovely"), Frances Bodomo ("Afronauts"), Daniel Patrick Carbone ("Hide Your Smiling Faces"), Lauren Wolkstein ("Social Butterfly") and Lily Baldwin ("Sleepover La"). Read More: Exclusive: Award-Winning Indie Filmmakers Adapt Dreams for Web Series The official synopsis reads: "A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of...
- 2/16/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Josephine Decker's Butter on the Latch is playing on Mubi in the Us through September 30. Her next film, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, will be running through October 1. Photo courtesy of josephinedecker.squarespace.com.Josephine Decker’s last two films (Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely) were both exciting low budget gems that won over audiences and critical praise at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. Decker is able to command a strong hold of everyday realism, similar to that of contemporary director and collaborator Joe Swanberg, while her main characters lose hold of their own reality, reaching a breaking point before they can pull themselves back together and push forward. Decker’s films can also be humorous and genuinely frightening works, maintaining the low budget mumblecore feel with an added touch of psychological horror.It was a real pleasure getting to talk to Josephine Decker...
- 9/2/2015
- by David Grillo
- MUBI
Josephine Decker | Close-Up Cinema | An Evening With Fenella Fielding | Film4 Summer Screen
It has been widely agreed that New York film-maker Josephine Decker has “got something”. The New Yorker described her as “the most original independent film-maker to surface in the past few years”, and her first two features, Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely are both sensual, impressionistic, elliptical stories, teetering on the edge of strangeness. These films are probably too experimental for mainstream distribution: as an alternative, Decker is touring them as a double bill in seven UK cities this month, and holding Q&As after each event.
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It has been widely agreed that New York film-maker Josephine Decker has “got something”. The New Yorker described her as “the most original independent film-maker to surface in the past few years”, and her first two features, Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely are both sensual, impressionistic, elliptical stories, teetering on the edge of strangeness. These films are probably too experimental for mainstream distribution: as an alternative, Decker is touring them as a double bill in seven UK cities this month, and holding Q&As after each event.
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- 7/31/2015
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Nathan Silver is unstoppable at the moment. The NYC-based indie auteur premiered “Uncertain Terms” last summer at La Film Fest (a film we called “wry, oddly funny, but poignant”), and his next project, his fifth feature, “Stinking Heaven,” is already done and bowing at the Rotterdam International Film Festival next week. The film’s log line reads “a black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in early 90's suburban New Jersey,” and seems to be at least a thematic continuation observing the ups and downs of group dynamics in extraordinary or odd circumstances. “Uncertain Terms” took place at group home for pregnant teens, though the tone and style of "Stinking Heaven" looks to be profoundly different. Today, we’ve got the exclusive premiere of a clip from the film, and the poster. The striking one-sheet was designed by Dana Davis, who also designed the...
- 1/21/2015
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
Following the Fall and Winter slate of Summer of Blood, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, Butter on the Latch, The Foxy Merkins and the currently screening Something, Anything, Ifp has announced their Spring lineup for Screen Forward. The four films set for week long theatrical runs at Dumbo’s Made in NY Media Center by Ifp are Approaching the Elephant, She’s Lost Control, I Believe in Unicorns and L For Leisure. Both Approaching the Elephant and L For Leisure screened in MoMa and Filmmaker‘s Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You series last December, while Approaching the Elephant and I Believe in Unicorns participated in Ifp’s Independent Film Labs. Find […]...
- 1/15/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Following the Fall and Winter slate of Summer of Blood, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, Butter on the Latch, The Foxy Merkins and the currently screening Something, Anything, Ifp has announced their Spring lineup for Screen Forward. The four films set for week long theatrical runs at Dumbo’s Made in NY Media Center by Ifp are Approaching the Elephant, She’s Lost Control, I Believe in Unicorns and L For Leisure. Both Approaching the Elephant and L For Leisure screened in MoMa and Filmmaker‘s Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You series last December, while Approaching the Elephant and I Believe in Unicorns participated in Ifp’s Independent Film Labs. Find […]...
- 1/15/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Update: The ten best lists are rolling in fast and furious. We've rounded up highlights below, including lists from Film Comment, NY Times, David Edelstein, Vanity Fair, Time and more. Tastemaker Richard Brody's as-always eclectic mix of indie, arthouse and studio favorites has also landed. Also check out J. Hoberman's predictably pretentious list here, and AFI's rather by-the-numbers top 11 here. Richard Brody, The New Yorker: 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely 3. Goodbye to Language 4. The Last of the Unjust 5. The Immigrant 6. American Sniper 7. Listen Up Philip 8. Actress 9. Memphis 10. Butter on the Latch Film Comment’s Top 10 Films Released in 2014 1. Boyhood Richard Linklater, U.S. 2. Goodbye to Language Jean-Luc Godard, France 3. The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson, U.S. 4. Ida Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland 5. Under the Skin Jonathan...
- 12/12/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
A considerable crowd of critical praise has coalesced around the work of Josephine Decker, most notably this “A Star is Born” piece from her longtime champion Richard Brody. Kevin B. Lee at Fandor put forth a more tempered assessment of Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (ending their week run at the Ifp Media Center today), but he also compiled this beautiful, elliptical montage of the imagery in the two films. Narrative and/or stylistic misgivings aside, it is undoubtedly clear that Decker buttresses her films with a visceral atmosphere, achieved through fine details, ethereal lighting and playful camerawork, […]...
- 11/20/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A considerable crowd of critical praise has coalesced around the work of Josephine Decker, most notably this “A Star is Born” piece from her longtime champion Richard Brody. Kevin B. Lee at Fandor put forth a more tempered assessment of Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (ending their week run at the Ifp Media Center today), but he also compiled this beautiful, elliptical montage of the imagery in the two films. Narrative and/or stylistic misgivings aside, it is undoubtedly clear that Decker buttresses her films with a visceral atmosphere, achieved through fine details, ethereal lighting and playful camerawork, […]...
- 11/20/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
Written and directed by Josephine Decker
USA, 2014
If Terrence Malick had a twisted little sister, it would be Josephine Decker; the resemblance is clearly discernible in her sophomore feature, Thou Wast Mild & Lovely, utilizing Malick’s uninhibited and experimental handheld style but with her own dash of psychosexual drama. Decker’s story is framed against the backdrop of a quiet country farm, and shells out the kind of chills that not even Malick could muster.
In the vein of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, the film follows Akin (Joe Swanberg), a man who’s taken a summer job on a farm only to develop an attraction to its owner’s daughter, Sarah (Sophie Traub). In what’s seemingly an inevitable romance, the pair’s physical attraction is amplified by their isolated setting, leading this quaint farm story to pack a ferocious intensity.
To drive the plot,...
Written and directed by Josephine Decker
USA, 2014
If Terrence Malick had a twisted little sister, it would be Josephine Decker; the resemblance is clearly discernible in her sophomore feature, Thou Wast Mild & Lovely, utilizing Malick’s uninhibited and experimental handheld style but with her own dash of psychosexual drama. Decker’s story is framed against the backdrop of a quiet country farm, and shells out the kind of chills that not even Malick could muster.
In the vein of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, the film follows Akin (Joe Swanberg), a man who’s taken a summer job on a farm only to develop an attraction to its owner’s daughter, Sarah (Sophie Traub). In what’s seemingly an inevitable romance, the pair’s physical attraction is amplified by their isolated setting, leading this quaint farm story to pack a ferocious intensity.
To drive the plot,...
- 11/19/2014
- by So Yun Um
- SoundOnSight
“So many fantasies are fear based, so I can understand why you’d want Ronald Reagan shoving cake in your mouth,” said Amy Seimetz. She was responding to a particular fantasy from an anonymous audience member after a screening of Josephine Decker’s Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, nearing the midway point in its one week run at the Ifp Media Center. Seimetz and Decker, along with Mild and Lovely d.p. Ashley Connor, Ry Russo-Young, Emily Carmichael, and Celia Rowlson-Hall were all in attendance for an interactive panel on Female Sexual Fantasies in Film. The filmmakers began with a discussion that centered on the […]...
- 11/17/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
“So many fantasies are fear based, so I can understand why you’d want Ronald Reagan shoving cake in your mouth,” said Amy Seimetz. She was responding to a particular fantasy from an anonymous audience member after a screening of Josephine Decker’s Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, nearing the midway point in its one week run at the Ifp Media Center. Seimetz and Decker, along with Mild and Lovely d.p. Ashley Connor, Ry Russo-Young, Emily Carmichael, and Celia Rowlson-Hall were all in attendance for an interactive panel on Female Sexual Fantasies in Film. The filmmakers began with a discussion that centered on the […]...
- 11/17/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Writer, musician, actor, filmmaker and performance artist Josephine Decker is in love with the creative process and, as her two new films show, thrives within collaborative environments. Those two new films are Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Butter on the Latch; both were created quickly and with low budget, and include a lot of improvisation. Decker likes to create an environment and then shoot the magic as it’s happening. She feels that a script can be constricting if one follows it too religiously.>> - Adam Schartoff...
- 11/16/2014
- Keyframe
Writer, musician, actor, filmmaker and performance artist Josephine Decker is in love with the creative process and, as her two new films show, thrives within collaborative environments. Those two new films are Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Butter on the Latch; both were created quickly and with low budget, and include a lot of improvisation. Decker likes to create an environment and then shoot the magic as it’s happening. She feels that a script can be constricting if one follows it too religiously.>> - Adam Schartoff...
- 11/16/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Josephine Decker's two first features, Butter on the Latch (2013), with Isolde Chae-Lawrence, Sarah Small and Charlie Hewson, and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014), with Joe Swanberg, Sophie Traub and Robert Longstreet, are opening today in New York—and premiering online, too, right here on Fandor. At Twitch, Christopher Bourne argues that Butter "impressively renders the psychological state of its protagonist in striking visual terms, and represents a wonderful artistic symbiosis among its collaborators." For Kate Erbland at the Dissolve, this "double feature serves as an effective, evocative introduction to Decker, who knows how to subvert demands while still serving up something fresh and compelling." We've got more reviews and trailers. » - David Hudson...
- 11/14/2014
- Keyframe
Josephine Decker's two first features, Butter on the Latch (2013), with Isolde Chae-Lawrence, Sarah Small and Charlie Hewson, and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014), with Joe Swanberg, Sophie Traub and Robert Longstreet, are opening today in New York—and premiering online, too, right here on Fandor. At Twitch, Christopher Bourne argues that Butter "impressively renders the psychological state of its protagonist in striking visual terms, and represents a wonderful artistic symbiosis among its collaborators." For Kate Erbland at the Dissolve, this "double feature serves as an effective, evocative introduction to Decker, who knows how to subvert demands while still serving up something fresh and compelling." We've got more reviews and trailers. » - David Hudson...
- 11/14/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Eventually perfected in Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, Butter on the Latch features sublimely impressionistic lensing (courtesy of cinematographer Ashley Connor) that creates a fantastical mise-en-scène in which nightmares and libidinous desires coexist. Basically, Butter on the Latch is kind of a modern hipster version of Dirty Dancing on a micro-budget -- and with very little dancing -- shot as a verbosely impressionistic fantasy tale. Butter on the Latch is a film that luxuriates itself in the sublime lyricism of primal rhythms and gypsy folklore; abiding by a unerringly hypnotic pulse, the psychological framework of Butter on the Latch skillfully relegates the viewer into a near hallucinatory trance, reflecting the woozy, sleepless unease of the two protagonists.
- 11/14/2014
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
While pursuing their unique artistic paths, they’ve also been a creative force churning out short film items since 2008′s Ella and the Astronaut and the Sundance-programmed Charlie and the Rabbit in 2010 — which would land Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 new faces in 2010. Their feature debut Forty Years from Yesterday (Locarno 2013) played the film fest circuit, and Machoian would be welcomed back to Park City in 2013 with shorts Movies Made from Home #15 and Movies Made from Home #6. Formerly titled “The Latchkey Kids,” the California based filmmakers’ sophomore feature film that has gotten some recent traction. God Bless the Child was invited at the Poland’s American Film Festival’s U.S. in Progress this past October, and is a finalist for some coin support via the Sffs / Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant.
Gist: Five siblings spend a summer day on their own. Only the eldest—the one girl,...
Gist: Five siblings spend a summer day on their own. Only the eldest—the one girl,...
- 11/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, the more structured and narrative-driven of Josephine Decker's first two features, takes place on a farm run by gruff patriarch Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet) and his winsome daughter Sarah (Sophie Traub). The introduction of a hired hand (Joe Swanberg) whom Jeremiah openly distrusts creates a sort of triangular tension, much of it sexual, and pangs of desire that are rarely spoken of even when acted upon. This tension is constantly rising and falling like the readout of a seismometer during a series of small earthquakes, each more noticeable than the last, as it builds toward something dire. The seeds of all future conflict in Thou Wast Mild and Lovely were sown long ago by some elemental trauma that each character has tried to b...
- 11/12/2014
- Village Voice
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
Written and directed by Josephine Decker
USA, 2014
The rustic, lyrical sophomore feature of writer-director Josephine Decker, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely proves as slippery and elusive a film as its characters do to one another. A work of atmospheric dread enhanced through loose editing and heightened colours and sound design, it opens with a sensual female voice discussing an unknown lover – “But the way my lover opened and closed my legs, the way my lover folded and unfolded me into my lover’s breast, my lover knows how to love me” – over the image of a perturbed, barking dog, this coming right after footage of a father and adult daughter playing in a field with a headless chicken, each with the exuberance of running puppies. What follows rarely deviates from that enigmatic prologue’s register.
That father is Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet), who lives on a...
Written and directed by Josephine Decker
USA, 2014
The rustic, lyrical sophomore feature of writer-director Josephine Decker, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely proves as slippery and elusive a film as its characters do to one another. A work of atmospheric dread enhanced through loose editing and heightened colours and sound design, it opens with a sensual female voice discussing an unknown lover – “But the way my lover opened and closed my legs, the way my lover folded and unfolded me into my lover’s breast, my lover knows how to love me” – over the image of a perturbed, barking dog, this coming right after footage of a father and adult daughter playing in a field with a headless chicken, each with the exuberance of running puppies. What follows rarely deviates from that enigmatic prologue’s register.
That father is Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet), who lives on a...
- 10/23/2014
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Ifp’s brand new Screen Forward initiative, which offers filmmakers a one-week theatrical run at the Media Center in Dumbo, is now open for submissions. The series kicks off on October 17 with Onur Tukel’s Summer of Blood, followed by former 25 New Face Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely on November 14. Here’s the first trailer for the latter title, still making the festival rounds in London this week.
- 10/9/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Ifp’s brand new Screen Forward initiative, which offers filmmakers a one-week theatrical run at the Media Center in Dumbo, is now open for submissions. The series kicks off on October 17 with Onur Tukel’s Summer of Blood, followed by former 25 New Face Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely on November 14. Here’s the first trailer for the latter title, still making the festival rounds in London this week.
- 10/9/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
With one feature under his belt, filmmaker Brandon Colvin is taking another big step forward with his next feature "Sabbatical." Boasting some big names in the cast, including Robert Longstreet ("Thou Wast Mild And Lovely," "The Catechism Cataclysm") and Thomas Jay Ryan (Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool" trilogy), the director is putting forth a very distinct aesthetic, and today we have the exclusive trailer for the film. Also featuring Rhoda Griffis, Kentucker Audley, Rebecca Koon, and Frank Mosley, "Sabbatical" centers on Ben, who returns home to care for his ill mother and to work on a new book. However, he soon finds his relationships with his mother, his brother, his ex-wife, and his high school pal tested, and he'll have to decide whether or not engage or abandon those responsibilities. "Sabbatical" will screen at the New Orleans Film Festival in October. Check out the trailer below.
- 9/24/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced the first five projects to get weeklong theatrical runs at the state of the art Made In NY Media Center’s theater as part of the Screen Forward program. Starting October 17th, the program will give filmmakers in the process of self-distribution the unique opportunity to gain a much-coveted NYC theatrical week-run, with Ifp working with each filmmaking team on comprehensive audience engagement and grassroots outreach strategies, publicity support, coverage in Filmmaker Magazine, and a revenue split to all participating filmmakers.
The fall slate includes: Josephine Decker’s "Butter on the Latch" and "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely;" Paul Harrill’s "Something, Anything," Onur Tukel’s "Summer of Blood;" and Madeleine Olnek’s "The Foxy Merkins."
“ Screen Forward is a natural outgrowth of our mission to foster and celebrate the work of emerging artists,” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of Ifp and the Made in NY Media Center. “With the Media Center’s state-of-the-art facilities, and Ifp’s 36-year-history elevating new works in the marketplace, we’re able to provide filmmakers with a truly unique theatrical launch.”
Opening October 17th, Onur Tukel’s "Summer of Blood" centers on a irascible loner whose romantic failures are suddenly in turnaround after being bitten by a Williamsburg-dwelling vampire. After world premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, the film was picked up by Mpi for distribution.
Opening November 14th, are two films by Josephine Decker, "Butter on the Latch" and "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely" (Official website)
Opening December 5th, Madeleine Olnek’s "The Foxy Merkins" is a wildly funny toss-up to the hustlter films of old such as The Midnight Cowboy, except in Olnek’s take we follow Margaret: a new-to-New-York lesbian prostitute who, under the tutelage of a straight woman, plans to make it big with Manhattan’s elite. A brilliant buddy-comedy, The Foxy Merkins world premiered at the Next Fest in Los Angeles, and has gone on to screen at the Seattle International Film Festival and Frameline. (Official website)
Opening January 9th, Paul Harrill’s "Something, Anything" is a meditative study of a life-altering tragedy that forces a newlywed woman to embark on a journey towards recovery. An alumnus of Ifp’s Narrative Labs and No Borders Co-Production Market, as well as a Filmmaker Magazine “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Something, Anything premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival and Wisconsin Film Festival, and has gone on to screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and BAMCinemaFest. (Official website)
Tickets will go on sale in October at www.nymediacenter.com, where filmmakers will also be able to submit their projects for consideration for the spring slate. Films will be programmed based on artistic merit and perceived marketplace and audience engagement potential.
About Ifp
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include Independent Film Week, Filmmaker Magazine, the Gotham Independent Film Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by Ifp, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. Ifp represents a growing network of 10,000 storytellers around the world, and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 35-year history, Ifp has supported over 8,000 projects and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, including Debra Granik, Miranda July, Michael Moore, Dee Rees, and Benh Zeitlin. More info at www.ifp.org.
The fall slate includes: Josephine Decker’s "Butter on the Latch" and "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely;" Paul Harrill’s "Something, Anything," Onur Tukel’s "Summer of Blood;" and Madeleine Olnek’s "The Foxy Merkins."
“ Screen Forward is a natural outgrowth of our mission to foster and celebrate the work of emerging artists,” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of Ifp and the Made in NY Media Center. “With the Media Center’s state-of-the-art facilities, and Ifp’s 36-year-history elevating new works in the marketplace, we’re able to provide filmmakers with a truly unique theatrical launch.”
Opening October 17th, Onur Tukel’s "Summer of Blood" centers on a irascible loner whose romantic failures are suddenly in turnaround after being bitten by a Williamsburg-dwelling vampire. After world premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, the film was picked up by Mpi for distribution.
Opening November 14th, are two films by Josephine Decker, "Butter on the Latch" and "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely" (Official website)
Opening December 5th, Madeleine Olnek’s "The Foxy Merkins" is a wildly funny toss-up to the hustlter films of old such as The Midnight Cowboy, except in Olnek’s take we follow Margaret: a new-to-New-York lesbian prostitute who, under the tutelage of a straight woman, plans to make it big with Manhattan’s elite. A brilliant buddy-comedy, The Foxy Merkins world premiered at the Next Fest in Los Angeles, and has gone on to screen at the Seattle International Film Festival and Frameline. (Official website)
Opening January 9th, Paul Harrill’s "Something, Anything" is a meditative study of a life-altering tragedy that forces a newlywed woman to embark on a journey towards recovery. An alumnus of Ifp’s Narrative Labs and No Borders Co-Production Market, as well as a Filmmaker Magazine “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Something, Anything premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival and Wisconsin Film Festival, and has gone on to screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and BAMCinemaFest. (Official website)
Tickets will go on sale in October at www.nymediacenter.com, where filmmakers will also be able to submit their projects for consideration for the spring slate. Films will be programmed based on artistic merit and perceived marketplace and audience engagement potential.
About Ifp
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include Independent Film Week, Filmmaker Magazine, the Gotham Independent Film Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by Ifp, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. Ifp represents a growing network of 10,000 storytellers around the world, and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 35-year history, Ifp has supported over 8,000 projects and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, including Debra Granik, Miranda July, Michael Moore, Dee Rees, and Benh Zeitlin. More info at www.ifp.org.
- 9/20/2014
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced during Independent Film Week the first five projects to get week-long theatrical runs at the Made In NY Media Center’s theatre as part of the Screen Forward initiative.
Starting on October 17, the programme will give filmmakers in the process of self-distribution the opportunity to gain a New York theatrical run, with Ifp working alongside each filmmaking team on a range of support including audience engagement and grassroots outreach strategies, publicity and a revenue split.
The fall slate includes: Josephine Decker’s Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely; Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything; Onur Tukel’s Summer Of Blood; and Madeleine Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins.
“Screen Forward is a natural outgrowth of our mission to foster and celebrate the work of emerging artists,” said Joana Vicente (pictured), executive director of Ifp and the Made in NY Media Center. “With the Media...
Starting on October 17, the programme will give filmmakers in the process of self-distribution the opportunity to gain a New York theatrical run, with Ifp working alongside each filmmaking team on a range of support including audience engagement and grassroots outreach strategies, publicity and a revenue split.
The fall slate includes: Josephine Decker’s Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely; Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything; Onur Tukel’s Summer Of Blood; and Madeleine Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins.
“Screen Forward is a natural outgrowth of our mission to foster and celebrate the work of emerging artists,” said Joana Vicente (pictured), executive director of Ifp and the Made in NY Media Center. “With the Media...
- 9/18/2014
- ScreenDaily
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp), Filmmaker Magazine‘s parent organization, announced the first five projects to get weeklong theatrical runs at the state of the art Made In NY Media Center’s theater as part of the Screen Forward program. Starting October 17th, the program will give filmmakers in the process of self-distribution the unique opportunity to gain a much-coveted NYC theatrical week-run, with Ifp working with each filmmaking team on comprehensive audience engagement and grassroots outreach strategies, publicity support, coverage in Filmmaker Magazine, and a revenue split to all participating filmmakers. The fall slate includes: Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely; Paul Harrill’s Something, […]...
- 9/18/2014
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp), Filmmaker Magazine‘s parent organization, announced the first five projects to get weeklong theatrical runs at the state of the art Made In NY Media Center’s theater as part of the Screen Forward program. Starting October 17th, the program will give filmmakers in the process of self-distribution the unique opportunity to gain a much-coveted NYC theatrical week-run, with Ifp working with each filmmaking team on comprehensive audience engagement and grassroots outreach strategies, publicity support, coverage in Filmmaker Magazine, and a revenue split to all participating filmmakers. The fall slate includes: Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely; Paul...
- 9/18/2014
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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