Indie Alert: King’s LOVELY clip, Spaltro’s THINGS, and more
A little bit of indie to start your Saturday. Filmmaker Gary King posted a clip from his film What’s Up Lovely. Check it out below. And you can catch the World Premiere screening Oct. 6 in NYC. David Spaltro, the filmmaker behind …Around, is seeking pre-production funds for Things I Don’t Understand on IndieGoGo. Spaltro says, “The film is a meditation of life, death, growing-up and protecting the homes we make for ourselves.” Derek Young is making Josie. From the IndieGoGo page: “Josie is a sadistic female. This film will take a female and throw her in the role of Michael Myers but 10 times crazier!” And yes, the Butler Brothers are still making Gut Rot. Watch it now....
Read MoreONE HOUR FANTASY GIRL on Netflix, HEART OF NOW on OpenIndie and more in your Indie New Links
What’s your fantasy? One Hour Fantasy Girl, directed by Edgar Michael Bravo and produced by John Paul Rice, is coming to Netflix. (Netflix) Heart of Now, directed by Zak Forsman, wants to be the first film on OpenIndie to get 100 requests. Worth a click. (OpenIndie) The Butler Brothers, my favorite indie brewers, are taking Confusions of an Unmarried Couple to Pittsburgh. Screening at Indies for Indies tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday. (PittNews) Fin. Got indie film news? Send it to...
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 MoreSWALLOW a go go, GUT ROT: Episode II, and Spaltro’s Wrap in your Sunday evening Indie News Links
Do it with others. Justin D. Hilliard wants you… to help him make Swallow. And you should. (IndieGoGo) The Butler brothers, my favorite Canadian indie brewers, just posted the second episode of their web series Larry & Burt’s Gut Rot. (YouTube) David Spaltro writes about making his spectacular indie …Around for The Wrap. (The Wrap)...
Read MoreKickstarting JOE SCHERMANN SONG, FOOTSTEPS behind the scenes, Lumiere’s Obama Experience in your Indie News Links
Drinking it indie… Gary King‘s indie musical How Do You Write a Joe Schermann Song just crossed $1,500 on Kickstarter. Help him make the film happen. Gavin B. James’ Footsteps, which has a hypnotic little trailer, now has some behind the scenes footage online at Vimeo. Better late than never: Check out Frederic Lumiere’s Obama Inauguration video, Keep it Moving, released last month....
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This hypnotic, atmospheric trailer for Footsteps, an indie film written, directed and produced by Gavin B. James, is quite possibly one of the best cut indie trailers I’ve ever seen. What that means for the film, I can’t really say. It is a trailer–one that I can’t stop watching. From the trailer’s Vimeo page: Ever since Douglas’ Mother mysteriously vanished when he was 8 years old, his life has been controlled by panic, fear and desire. Now, two decades later, Douglas returns home to his small industrial town to take care of his dying father. In a bar one night he finds a mysterious wallet and in attempts to return it, enters a world of lust, deceit and murder; a world that holds the secret to his family’s tortured past. Follow Footsteps on...
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