NYC screening info on a film we first profiled on the old S&A site in 2011... Written and directed by Guy Hanks/Marvin Miller Screenwriting Fellowship and Jerome Foundation grant recipient, Kelvin Z. Phillips, the film is titled A Swingin' Trio. It's described as a dramedy. Synopsis reads: Homer Garçon is a not yet published, but smarter-than-every-man-in-the-room novelist. Trude Garçon-Moore is his independent, stunningly attractive, star-is-rising-fast, film producing wife. Together, their addition should equal two, but a curious Valentine’s Day dinner alters their arithmetic in life-changing ways.The film stars Timeca M. Seretti (blacktino), Johnny Walter...
- 8/5/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A husband slaving over the stove for dinner. A Valentine's dinner set for three. This is not the usual setup for a romantic drama, but it is for the promising debut A Swingin' Trio.
Kelvin Phillips and Carla Jackson's first feature is a tense tale of secrets, lies and revelations interspersed with the cool jazz stylings of the Jeff Lofton Trio. Homer (Johnny Walter) is a writer married to successful producer Trude (Timeca Seretti). He has all the time in the world while collecting rejection letters on his literary masterpiece. Meanwhile, Trude can't seem to detach herself from her phone and her business deals, breezing through the house as if it's a hotel. Homer has something special planned for Valentine's Day dinner, but it's not just his signature seafood gumbo.
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Kelvin Phillips and Carla Jackson's first feature is a tense tale of secrets, lies and revelations interspersed with the cool jazz stylings of the Jeff Lofton Trio. Homer (Johnny Walter) is a writer married to successful producer Trude (Timeca Seretti). He has all the time in the world while collecting rejection letters on his literary masterpiece. Meanwhile, Trude can't seem to detach herself from her phone and her business deals, breezing through the house as if it's a hotel. Homer has something special planned for Valentine's Day dinner, but it's not just his signature seafood gumbo.
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- 10/25/2011
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Written and directed by Guy Hanks/Marvin Miller Screenwriting Fellowship and Jerome Foundation grant recipient, Kelvin Z. Phillips, the film is called A Swingin’ Trio.
It’s described as a dramedy.
Synopsis reads: “Homer Garçon is a not yet published, but smarter-than-every-man-in-the-room novelist. Trude Garçon-Moore is his independent, stunningly attractive, star-is-rising-fast, film producing wife. Together, their addition should equal two, but a curious Valentine’s Day dinner alters their arithmetic in life-changing ways.”
The film stars Timeca M. Seretti (blacktino), Johnny Walter and LeMarc Johnson as our swingin’ trio.
I don’t have a much more info on it, other than to expect its debut some time this year; but I’m sure I’ll know more eventually. However, you can follow the film’s progress on Twitter or Facebook if you’d like.
Teaser trailer below (h/t Rodney):...
It’s described as a dramedy.
Synopsis reads: “Homer Garçon is a not yet published, but smarter-than-every-man-in-the-room novelist. Trude Garçon-Moore is his independent, stunningly attractive, star-is-rising-fast, film producing wife. Together, their addition should equal two, but a curious Valentine’s Day dinner alters their arithmetic in life-changing ways.”
The film stars Timeca M. Seretti (blacktino), Johnny Walter and LeMarc Johnson as our swingin’ trio.
I don’t have a much more info on it, other than to expect its debut some time this year; but I’m sure I’ll know more eventually. However, you can follow the film’s progress on Twitter or Facebook if you’d like.
Teaser trailer below (h/t Rodney):...
- 3/18/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Blacktino is nothing short of revolutionary. As a crowdpleaser, it’s so frank about diversity, the notion is reduced to its smallest unit: the individual. Aaron Burns has crafted a rich and lively human comedy blending the dead pan of Napoleon Dynamite (and the better films it influenced, arguably including Juno) and the rich humanity of Mike Leigh.
Austin Marshall is Stefan Daily, an overweight kid whose African American mother is chasing demons unmentioned while his estranged Hispanic father is a Hollywood producer whose latest film is an action adaptation of Citizen Kane, starring Michelle Rodriguez as Citizen Jane.
Stefan’s best friend, Laura (Devyn Ray) is a goth girl –with a valid reason to be, she calls Stefan “Urkle” – after Steve Urkle’s alter ego (there’s another hilarious Family Matters reference a few scenes later). Stefan does not have an easy life: being both bi-racial in a school...
Austin Marshall is Stefan Daily, an overweight kid whose African American mother is chasing demons unmentioned while his estranged Hispanic father is a Hollywood producer whose latest film is an action adaptation of Citizen Kane, starring Michelle Rodriguez as Citizen Jane.
Stefan’s best friend, Laura (Devyn Ray) is a goth girl –with a valid reason to be, she calls Stefan “Urkle” – after Steve Urkle’s alter ego (there’s another hilarious Family Matters reference a few scenes later). Stefan does not have an easy life: being both bi-racial in a school...
- 3/12/2011
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
This is a profile I posted last September, when I first learned about the film; give today’s announcement that it will premiere at the South By Southwest Film Festival next month, I thought I’d post it again, for those who may have missed it.
blacktino is the first feature film from writer/director Aaron Burns, a self-described “blacktino nerd from Austin, Texas,” who got his start at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios doing visual effects on films like Grindhouse, and Machete.
Synopsis: “blacktino is a dark teen comedy about an overweight black Latino nerd named Stefan Daily, who was raised by his African American grandmother in a medium-sized suburb of Austin, TX. Struggling to find his place in a mostly white high school, Stefan finds sanctuary among the eclectic mix of social outcasts in the school’s Theatre Department.”
Newcomer Austin Marshall (pictured below-right) stars as Stefan, and...
blacktino is the first feature film from writer/director Aaron Burns, a self-described “blacktino nerd from Austin, Texas,” who got his start at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios doing visual effects on films like Grindhouse, and Machete.
Synopsis: “blacktino is a dark teen comedy about an overweight black Latino nerd named Stefan Daily, who was raised by his African American grandmother in a medium-sized suburb of Austin, TX. Struggling to find his place in a mostly white high school, Stefan finds sanctuary among the eclectic mix of social outcasts in the school’s Theatre Department.”
Newcomer Austin Marshall (pictured below-right) stars as Stefan, and...
- 2/2/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
blacktino is the first feature film from writer/director Aaron Burns, a self-described “blacktino nerd from Austin, Texas,” who got his start at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios doing visual effects on films like Grindhouse, and Machete.
Synopsis: blacktino is a dark teen comedy about an overweight black Latino nerd named Stefan Daily, who was raised by his African American grandmother in a medium-sized suburb of Austin, TX. Struggling to find his place in a mostly white high school, Stefan finds sanctuary among the eclectic mix of social outcasts in the school’s Theatre Department.
Newcomer Austin Marshall (pictured below-right) stars as Stefan, and he’s surrounded by a cast that includes a few familiar names/faces, like Danny Trejo and Jeff Fahey, along with Selma Pinkard, Devyn Ray, Tiger Sheu, Leon Washington, Denise Williamson, Bryan Jackson, Conrad Gonzales, Timeca Seretti, and Daryl Sabara.
The film is currently in post-production.
Synopsis: blacktino is a dark teen comedy about an overweight black Latino nerd named Stefan Daily, who was raised by his African American grandmother in a medium-sized suburb of Austin, TX. Struggling to find his place in a mostly white high school, Stefan finds sanctuary among the eclectic mix of social outcasts in the school’s Theatre Department.
Newcomer Austin Marshall (pictured below-right) stars as Stefan, and he’s surrounded by a cast that includes a few familiar names/faces, like Danny Trejo and Jeff Fahey, along with Selma Pinkard, Devyn Ray, Tiger Sheu, Leon Washington, Denise Williamson, Bryan Jackson, Conrad Gonzales, Timeca Seretti, and Daryl Sabara.
The film is currently in post-production.
- 9/28/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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