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Back up my friend and amazing doc filmmaker Tarryn Crossman’s first feature film FATHERLAND on Kickstarter!
FATHERLAND tells the verite-style story of an Afirkaans nationalists group running a military training camp near Rustenberg, South Africa. The camp aims to train young, white Afrikaans males to defend themselves using the techniques of the Apartheid regime. The film will let viewers decide if the trainings are purely security-based or a right-wing extremists recreating exclusive Afrikaans nationalism.
Saw a guerilla movie premiere flash mob for the first time last night. The film was Josh Fox’s latest short – Occupy Sandy – edited in less that a month. The screening location was kept secret until the very last moment. In order to find out where it would take place you had to text Occupy Sandy or follow #climatecrime on Twitter.
The location picked up was an Exxon Mobil gas station on 2nd Street and Avenue C. About 100 people turned out for the screening, which was beamed onto a nearby wall by a van equipped with a high-powered projection system.
The film follows some of the Occupy Movement’s grassroot reaction and effective civil support after the devastating storm and focuses on the link between the disaster, climate change and the fossil fuel industry. See the whole thing and decide for yourself at www.occupytheclimate.com
Watched Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the house of God by Alex Gibney at the DOC NYC Fest. The film explores the issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church from a striking US case with hundreds of abused deaf children all the way to the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI. Disturbing and inspiring at the same time, I highly recommend it!
FATHER – the animated documentary short which I produced while at Compote Collective has been having a great festival life. The latest news is that it got awarded with the Golden Dove in the International Competition for Animated Films and Videos of the DOK Leipzig International Film Fest 2012.
According to the jury consisting of Mariola Brillowska (Germany), Sylvie Bringas (Great Britain) and Zbigniew Żmudzki (Poland) the film “makes sensitive use of documentary material, and very effectively weaves different styles of animation together to represent different experiences of fatherly abandonment and betrayal. This collaboration has produced a fresh approach to making documentary animation, and has broadened the potential for this developing form.”
You can watch a short extract of the film at www.father-film.com
Hi to all
So this is my first blog…decided to start with this ROA graffiti simply because I find street art fascinating. You can also see an Instagram widget on the bottom of the web which will link you to some of the fab art I come across on the streets of NY (and sometimes simply weird things my friends or strangers do).
Here is what I plan to post about: projects I work on, films I’ve seen and street art I find interesting. Hope it makes sense to someone else too and really hope to hear back from people who do!