Carolyn Pickman's Artios Award for Outstanding
Achievement for Dramatic Feature Film Location
Casting 2003-2004 for MYSTIC RIVER. Photo
courtesy of CP Casting.
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December 2004/January 2005
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| WWW stands for WORKS (in progress), WRINKLES or WHOOPS (whenever they happen), and WRAPS (completed films and projects of any kind.) |
WINNERS
Carolyn Pickman WINS Artios Award!
Carolyn Pickman has been chosen for an Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement for Dramatic Feature Film Location Casting 2003-2004. Please note the nominees and their affinities for New England.
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Carolyn Pickman's Artios Award for Outstanding |
Best Feature Film Casting - Drama 21 GRAMS - Francine Maisler BIG FISH - Denise Chamian
MYSTIC RIVER - Phyllis Huffman, Carolyn Pickman THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG - Deborah Aquila, Tricia Wood
The Casting Society of America (CSA) gives the "Artios" annually. The CSA is the premier organization of theatrical Casting Directors in film, television, and theatre. Although it is not a union, its members are a united professional society that consistently set the level of professionalism in casting on which the entertainment industry has come to rely. Its more than 350 members are represented not only in the United States, but also in Canada, England, Australia and Italy.
Congratulations Carolyn! We are proud of your work and the professionalism you and your actors represent in our region. (See IMAGINE December 2002, Casting MYSTIC RIVER). Visit www.cpcasting.com.
"Kind Hearted Woman" Wins Fist Place in One In Ten Screenplay Contest
Lorre Fritchy's feature screenplay, "Kind Hearted Woman," won first place in the 2004 One In Ten Screenplay Contest. This is a Colorado-based competition, which received 200+ entries from around the world. The contest is dedicated to the positive portrayal of gays and lesbians in film. Fritchy, a member of Women In Film & Video/New England and the Harvard Square Scriptwriters, received notice she was a top ten finalist in early November and was notified as the Winner on Nov. 15. With a $1,000.00 cash prize as well as agency/studio submission, Lorre allowed herself about one hour of jubilation before jumping right back into the three other scripts she's writing. More information on her latest projects may be found on her web site at www.masterpeaceproductions.com.
Sundance Invites Jean-Philippe Boucicaut as Jury
Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Boucicaut, a Brookline resident, has been invited to participate in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival as a Documentary jury member for the highly regarded Independent Film Competition.
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Jean-Philippe Boucicaut is a documentary editor. His last project, CITIZEN KING, had a special screening at the SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2004, won the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival/Emerging Pictures Audience Award and a Special Mention at the Locarno International Film Festival 2004. He produced and edited LIBERIA: AMERICA¹S STEPCHILD, and WER¹E STILL HERE, a film about the Lakota Indians, for which he won the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking 2004, both aired on PBS. He is the winner of a National Emmy Award and his work, like SECRET DAUGHTER and AFRICANS IN AMERICA, have received numerous recognitions that include a Gold Baton from Dupont-Columbia and three Peabody Awards.
He currently has a dramatic film project in development with writer/director Jimmy Smallhorne slated for production in 2006.
WORKS
Viewpoint Creative Develops Promotional Campaign for Discovery Channel's "Rameses: Wrath of God or Man?"
Discovery Channel once again teams up with Viewpoint Creative to develop and produce the promotional package for their newest special presentation "Rameses: Wrath of God or Man?" This is the latest in a
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yearlong series of advertising and promotional projects that Viewpoint Creative has done for the network. Others include "Nefertiti Resurrected" and "Columbus: Secrets from the Grave". Each special features exciting archeological discoveries and modern forensic technology that, together, reshape the way we look at history.
Viewpoint Creative's Joseph Kiely (Creative Director, Design) comments, "Each of these projects has involved a wonderful creative partnership between Viewpoint Creative and the Discovery on-air and marketing team and Rameses is no exception. Our approach was to begin epic, ushering the viewer into the world of the great Egyptian Pharaoh then to pull the rug out revealing this fantastic murder mystery lurking below the surface. And we wanted to do it in a contemporary way that modern audiences can relate to."
Working closely with Discovery, Viewpoint's creative team fleshed out the concept and production design. Viewpoint Director, Patrick Kiely, filmed the project in Los Angeles. Editorial, composite and soundtrack were completed in Boston. The final campaign includes TV spots, on-air teases and radio. "Rameses: Wrath of God…or Man?" will air in December.
View the quicktime movie at: http://www.viewpointcreative.com/vpt_site/VPS_PR/12.04_Disc_Rameses/
HIGH OUTPUT OFFERS BUDGET TRUCK RENTAL
High Output is now a Budget Truck Rental dealer. High Output currently has 10' & 15' trucks (with or without liftgates) dedicated to their location. Larger trucks (24') may be requested, pending availability.
For an added convenience, High Output will also shelve and pre-load your truck in advance. You can contact them for details on van and one-ton drive away packages.
Jim Hirsch says, "We are always looking for more ways to fill our customers needs!" You can call their Budget hotline at 781-821-9532, speak with your rental manager or visit www.highoutput.com
WRINKLES
Coolidge Corner Theatre Premieres HOLY WATER-GATE: ABUSE COVER-UP IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
It's only the subject that qualifies, as a "wrinkle" in the fabric of our society and certainly examination is required, if not a little "ironing it out."
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HOLY WATER-GATE: ABUSE COVER-UP IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH will screen at the Coolidge Theater on Monday, January 10th, 2005 at 7:30pm for its Boston debut. This powerful film presents untold stories reflecting the many facets of the scandal; and inside sources reveal the astonishing efforts of the church hierarchy to keep it concealed. Exposing how those in power have protected offenders and not victims, HOLY WATER-GATE draws from personal confessions to conduct a thorough and dramatic investigation. "With swift, deft scalpel strokes, the film lays bare hypocrisy and institutionalized abuse in the Catholic Church. The film shows this graphically, but also that humble, decent priests still do Christ's work at grassroots level, and that some even risk everything to fight the snakes in their hierarchy." -Michael Rabiger, Author, Filmmaker and recipient of the IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award
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Director Mary Healey-Conlon (Providence) and co-producer Louise Rosen (Boston) will attend the premiere, with Q&A to follow the one-hour documentary. Healey-Conlon, an Emerson College alumnus, is a professor of communications and film studies at URI, as well as owner and principal of C Videofilms in Warren, RI. Gathering interviews and archive from across the US, Healey-Conlon worked on the film for over five years. Documenting the lengths to which sexual abuse has been systematically obscured throughout the nation, the film presents testimony from an admitted priest perpetrator, church officials and victims. This is her first full-length film project.
Co-producer Louise Rosen (see IMAGINE cover story October 2001), a veteran international film and television distributor, has sold HOLY WATER-GATE to television channels in Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Spain and Denmark. Negotiations are underway for French, German and US broadcast, and the film is expected to see wide educational distribution throughout North America.
For more information about this film visit: www.holywater-gate.com
THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Flavia Bechara (Lamia) stares across Lebanon's border with Israel in THE KITE, a film included in Boston's 5th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Photo courtesy of HRWIFF. This year the Festival showcases a dozen titles, many focusing on the justice system here and abroad and conflicts, which turn family and friends into strangers and enemies, particularly when borders and personal identity get in the way.
Highlights of this year's festival include the Opening Night BORN INTO BROTHELS which follows the lives of children born to Bombay's sex workers; JUVIES which introduces the audience into the world of juvenile offenders and the failure of the justice system to protect them, narrated by Dorchester, MA native, Mark Wahlberg; a Catholic gay marriage in SAINTS AND SINNERS; political corruption in the Peruvian WHAT THE EYE DOESN'T SEE; and a mother's fears as her Islamic son turns militant in SILENT WATERS.
The festival closes with a special reprise of THREE KINGS, whose images of the first Gulf War speak closely to events happening today.
For more information on the films, ticket prices and show times, visit the HRWIFF website at www.hrw.org/iff Information for individual venues can be found by contacting the Coolidge Corner Theatre at 617 734-2500 and www.coolidge.org and the Museum of Fine Arts at 617 369-3306 and
www.mfa.org/film
WRAPS
THE LEGEND OF LUCY KEYES
Julie Delpy (THE THREE
MUSKATEERS, KILLING ZOE,THREE COLORS:WHITE) stars in John Stimpson's THE LEGEND OF LUCY KEYES, which wrapped recently in Princeton, MA. The film is producted by moody street pictures in Waltham, MA.
Photo by Claire Folger
THE LEGEND OF LUCY KEYES, written and directed by John Stimpson and produced by Mark Donadio and Miriam Marcus of Moody Street Pictures of Waltham, MA, wrapped this Thanksgiving. The independent full-length ghost thriller stars French actress Julie Delpy (BEFORE SUNSET) and Justin Theroux Theroux (MULHOLLAND DRIVE, CHARLIE'S ANGELS, FULL THROTTLE).
Producer Mark Donadio and script supervisor Kelly Cronin watch Julie Delpy on the monitor on the set of THE LEGEND OF LUCY KEYES. Actor Justin Theroux in the role of Guy Cooley and Director John Stimpson in the Cooley Barn location. Photos by Clarie
Folger.
The film was shot entirely in HD by DP Gary Henoch using the Panasonic Varicam on location in Princeton, MA, the site of the actual legend upon which the story is based. The film also features Brooke Adams (MADE-UP (See IMAGINE December 2002), INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, DAYS OF HEAVEN) Mark Boone Jr. (MEMENTO, BATMAN BEGINS) and young Cassidy Hinkle (THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS). John MacNeil of Moody Street Executive Produced the film, which is produced by Moody Street Pictures of Waltham, MA (see October 2003 IMAGINE cover story). For more information visit www.moodystreetpictures.com
Garth Donovan is completing post-production of his latest fictional feature project, FENCES AND FINGERNAILS (formerly titled SAMANTHA). The premiere screening is January 7, 2005, at the Belmont Studio Cinemas, at 8 pm. It's a story about a young high school female hockey star athlete who finds the pressure of family; school, sports, and life begin to tear her apart. You can check out the trailer at www.garthdonovan.net.
SPAGHETTI AND MATZO BALLS
Dave Lewis is wrapping up his latest comedy short, SPAGHETTI AND MATZO BALLS, with music composer John Kusiak (FOG OF WAR) on board to finish the score. The movie expects to finish postproduction in early 2005 with a prospective premiere in February. The film, shot on 35 mm by Emmy winning D.P. Will Barrett, will be just under 20 minutes when completed. Over a year in the making, Lewis said the Maven Productions' short morphed out of a feature script he is still completing. As producer, along with Yankee Classic Pictures' J.P. Ouellette, Lewis plans to use this as a springboard to attract financing to the feature length movie, which he will direct, and to get recognition in film festivals. "The film stands on it's own," Lewis said, "basically it's the first 15 minutes of the feature with some additions to frame a stand-alone story. It's coming along great."
AUTOMATIC DRIP
Judy Laster's latest project, the comedy short AUTOMATIC DRIP, premiered to an audience at The Northampton Film Festival in October. November was the Woods Hole Premiere at The Captain Kidd Restaurant to a party of cast and crew and well wishers. Starring local actors Vincent Myette, Garth Donovan and Sean Boyce, Laster's film takes viewers on a quirky ride of coffee addiction and the mess it can create. Zombies and shark slippers highlight the madness. A catchy original score rounds out this film short.
Now in its fifth year in Boston, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (HRWIFF) returns this January 27-31 to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre, bringing its mix of challenging and provocative documentary and dramatic films on human rights issues (more wrinkles) around the world. From February 1-3, the Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre will offer rollover screenings of several of the festival's most popular films in the Video Screening Room.
FENCES AND FINGERNAILS
