Indie Alert: THERE ARE NO GOODBYES, THINGS I DON’T UNDERSTAND, and more
John C. Lyons just launched the website for his second feature film, There Are No Goodbyes. You can catch a sneak preview of this rust belt drama at the Boonies International Film Festival in Warren, Pennsylvania, August 17-20. You can also get Lyons’s first feature, Schism, on Amazon VOD. Things I Don’t Understand, the second feature from David Spaltro, just wrapped production. You can check out character posters and stay up to date on the film’s Facebook page. If you want to check out Spaltro’s first feature, Around…, you can catch it on Amazon VOD. Zak Forsman is seeking funding for his crime thriller Down and Dangerous. You can help him reach his $30,000 goal on Kickstarter. Seattle-based filmmaker David Spies also needs your help to get his Christmas short, Silver Bells, into production. You can help him reach his...
Read MoreIndie Alert: JOE SCHERMANN SONG poster, THERE ARE NO GOODBYES funding, more
It’s been a while, but I’m feel like spreading a little indie love tonight. Director Gary King just released the teaser poster for his upcoming musical How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song. Check it out here. There Are No Goodbyes, from filmmaker John C. Lyons, is in the home stretch of its funding campaign on IndieGoGo. Give! Check out this clip from the Oscar nominated indie Let’s Pollute! The animated short film comes from former Pixar animator Geefwee Boedoe. I randomly stumbled upon this Kickstarter campaign for a short film from Jeffrey K. Miller titled Lectern. Gets a spot tonight because of this bold description: “A comic fable in the (nonexistent) hybrid tradition of Stephen Chow, Jean-Luc Godard, and Network.” Fin. Got indie news? Send...
Read MoreIndieGoGo, FAITH film, GROVER trailer and more in your Indie News Links
Independent happenings: IndieGoGo, the crowdsource funding website for indiemakers, has acquired Distribber, a digital distribution service, so it can offer a toolbox for independent filmmakers using its fundraising service. (indieWire) Eli Daughdrill’s Faith, a narrative feature taking a “sensitive, but critical” look at religion in America, needs a kickstart. (Kickstarter) Sabi Pictures, the production company behind White Knuckles and Heart of Now, is taking its films on the road in August 2010. Tell them you want the films to come to your town. (Sabi Pictures) John C. Lyons’ launched the Facebook page for his next motion picture, There Are No Goodbyes. Become a fan. (Facebook) And now, the trailer for The Grover Complex. If you’re in LA, you can catch this indie teen comedy at New Filmmakers Los Angeles on March 18....
Read Moreschism DVD review
schism (2009) DVD Review Schism is a tough film to watch. It’s tough because the story, one of a older man named Neil who is stuck in a nursing home battling the onset of Alzheimer’s, isn’t something we like to talk about in our culture. Bring up eldercare at a party, or even in everyday conversation, and, well, I don’t even know what. I can’t say that I’ve ever even had a conversation like it. For families that love someone like Neil, such conversations are part of a difficult reality. What schism succeeds in doing is making us aware of what dementias really look like. In its own surreal way, schism shows it to us, warts and all. Families affected by similar circumstances know they’re not alone after seeing schism. And people who haven’t personally experienced what we see...
Read Moreschism at the Lancaster Area Film Festival
A little hometown news. Erie filmmaker John C. Lyons directed a film called schism, the making of which I chronicled in the now grossly neglected section of this blog called In the Lyons Den. (Sorry, John.) The film tells the story of a man’s descent into Alzheimer’s dementia. Heavy stuff, but beautifully made. Well the film is playing at the Lancaster Area Film Festival tomorrow night. If you’re in the Lancaster area, you should definitely go see it. As I said after I first saw the movie, Lyons has a little Aronofsky in him. Screening info after the jump. schism at the Lancaster Area Film Festival When: Friday, May 2nd 2009 Where: Liberty Place, 313 W. Liberty St., Lancaster, PA 17603 Time: 6pm – DoorsOpen; 7:15pm – Films Start Tickets:...
Read MoreIn the Lyons Den: The Last Shot
Part Seven Seven months. Fifty single days. Hundreds of hours. On June 3, 2007, it all came down to one last shot. There was a decidedly cheery atmosphere at the nursing home location as director John C. Lyons and his crew filmed the last shot of Lyons’s dramatic indie Schism. Despite the upbeat mood, the simple zoom-tracking shot still had lighting director Michael Best moving lamps into the right position and sound recordist Kirk Daniels expressing concern over the air-conditioning noise. The film’s lead Terry Smith was in character as he sat hunched in a Geri-chair with assistant director Dorota Swies applying touches of make up on the top his head. They were still working, but the nervous, almost giddy energy on the set meant one thing: their months of toiling through weeknight and weekend filming sessions were over....
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