Writer/Director Jerome Yoo took his cloistered feelings of stifled creativity and claustrophobia from the pandemic and poured them into the creation of his idiosyncratic short River Boy Blues. Inspired by an old folk tale, with injections of fantasy and an improvised approach to production, River Boy Blues follows a troubled teen couple on an outlandish trip to find a happy home for a pet turtle. Their relationship is far from ideal and nothing in this selfish pair’s path seems planned but this chaos is as delightful as it is confusing. Yoo overcame the restrictions of a small crew and limited resources by adopting a guerilla shooting style which echoed his continually adaptive approach to the film’s script. As River Boy Blues premieres on Dn’s pages today, we speak to Yoo about the freedom he found in his less structured production process, the procedures put in place...
- 3/21/2024
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
Exclusive: Cameras have started rolling in Tokyo on Akashi, the debut feature from Japanese and Canadian writer-director Mayumi Yoshida.
Yoshida, best known as an actor for her role in The Man in The High Castle, will also star in the film alongside veteran performers Hana Kino, Chieko Matsubara, Kunio Murai, and rising performer Ryo Tajima.
Described as a “coming-of-age love story,” Akashi follows Kana (Yoshida), an artist who is at a crossroads in her career. After finding out her Grandmother (Kino) has passed, she returns home to Tokyo for the funeral, where she rekindles a romance with childhood love Hiro (Tajima) and uncovers a family secret about her Grandpa (Murai).
Akashi is written and directed by Yoshida, who developed the script through the TIFF Writer’s Studio. The pic produced by Nach Dudsdeemaytha,...
Yoshida, best known as an actor for her role in The Man in The High Castle, will also star in the film alongside veteran performers Hana Kino, Chieko Matsubara, Kunio Murai, and rising performer Ryo Tajima.
Described as a “coming-of-age love story,” Akashi follows Kana (Yoshida), an artist who is at a crossroads in her career. After finding out her Grandmother (Kino) has passed, she returns home to Tokyo for the funeral, where she rekindles a romance with childhood love Hiro (Tajima) and uncovers a family secret about her Grandpa (Murai).
Akashi is written and directed by Yoshida, who developed the script through the TIFF Writer’s Studio. The pic produced by Nach Dudsdeemaytha,...
- 12/11/2023
- by Zac Ntim and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Hannah Emily Anderson, Daniel Arnold, Madison Walsh, Helen Belay, Roseanne Supernault, Kyra Harper, Luke Moore | Written by Berkley Brady, Tim Cairo | Directed by Berkley Brady
Dark Nature begins with a much different, and more realistic horror than what follows. Joy is busy in the kitchen making dinner when Derek gets home. It’s obvious he’s not happy and from the way both Joy and the dog react we know that is a very bad thing. She barely escapes, the dog isn’t so lucky.
Six months later Joy is still trying to get past this trauma and her friend Carmen thinks she has the solution. She convinces her to join her, Tara (Helen Belay; Abracadavers), Shaina and some others on a camping trip/therapy session with the somewhat controversial Dr. Dunnely, “You guys talk about her like you’re in a cult”.
Berkley Brady makes her feature debut...
Dark Nature begins with a much different, and more realistic horror than what follows. Joy is busy in the kitchen making dinner when Derek gets home. It’s obvious he’s not happy and from the way both Joy and the dog react we know that is a very bad thing. She barely escapes, the dog isn’t so lucky.
Six months later Joy is still trying to get past this trauma and her friend Carmen thinks she has the solution. She convinces her to join her, Tara (Helen Belay; Abracadavers), Shaina and some others on a camping trip/therapy session with the somewhat controversial Dr. Dunnely, “You guys talk about her like you’re in a cult”.
Berkley Brady makes her feature debut...
- 5/29/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
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