Independent filmmakers and enthusiasts have a new resource to demystify the often-complex world of film distribution. Distribution Advocates Presents, a podcast hosted by Avril Speaks, filmmaker and co-founder of Distribution Advocates, officially launches on January 31st.
Distribution Advocates is a collective advocating for filmmakers and maintaining plurality and originality. Members currently include Avril Speaks, Karin Chien, Abby Sun, Amy Hobby, and Carlos Gutierrez. Their singular goal is to collectively reclaim power for independent storytellers in the current systems of distribution and exhibition.
This podcast aims to shed light on the inner workings of independent film distribution, by addressing a crucial question: how can we understand and improve the current ecosystem to create more equitable distribution systems?
From the role of sales agents to the functions of film festivals, each episode is a journey into understanding the challenges of distribution and the potential for transformative change. Think of it less as...
Distribution Advocates is a collective advocating for filmmakers and maintaining plurality and originality. Members currently include Avril Speaks, Karin Chien, Abby Sun, Amy Hobby, and Carlos Gutierrez. Their singular goal is to collectively reclaim power for independent storytellers in the current systems of distribution and exhibition.
This podcast aims to shed light on the inner workings of independent film distribution, by addressing a crucial question: how can we understand and improve the current ecosystem to create more equitable distribution systems?
From the role of sales agents to the functions of film festivals, each episode is a journey into understanding the challenges of distribution and the potential for transformative change. Think of it less as...
- 1/31/2024
- Podnews.net
The Shift Network (Tsn), known for transformational media, is proud to announce the lineup for its second annual Shift Your World Film Festival. Running from February 17-20, 2022, the festival program includes opening remarks from actor and activist Jeff Bridges.
18 feature-length and six short films focused on wellness, sustainability, social justice, and spirituality. More than a dozen panels with filmmakers and thought-leaders…and the Culture Shift Legacy Awards. The full 2022 festival program and trailer can be found here.
Access to film screenings, panels and conversations with filmmakers, along with official festival voting, is free and open to the general public. An optional VIP Pass ($49) includes online, on-demand access to most of the festival films and filmmaker interviews, as well as admission to the Psychedelic Sunday program of films and panels devoted to the psychedelic renaissance.
“The themes of this year’s Shift Your World Film Festival — health, sustainability, social justice, and...
18 feature-length and six short films focused on wellness, sustainability, social justice, and spirituality. More than a dozen panels with filmmakers and thought-leaders…and the Culture Shift Legacy Awards. The full 2022 festival program and trailer can be found here.
Access to film screenings, panels and conversations with filmmakers, along with official festival voting, is free and open to the general public. An optional VIP Pass ($49) includes online, on-demand access to most of the festival films and filmmaker interviews, as well as admission to the Psychedelic Sunday program of films and panels devoted to the psychedelic renaissance.
“The themes of this year’s Shift Your World Film Festival — health, sustainability, social justice, and...
- 2/1/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: David Dalaithngu in Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout.Renowned Aboriginal film actor David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu has died. David Dalaithngu was seen as a trailblazer for his early roles in Walkabout (1971) and Storm Boy (1976), and later performances in films like the semi-autobiographical Charlie's Country (2013). He rose to prominence as an actor and traditional dancer during a time in which Indigenous roles were frequently played by non-Indigenous actors, often in blackface. In his own words, he described acting as a "piece of cake." Steven Soderbergh, Channing Tatum, and writer Reid Carolin have joined forces for the next installment in the Magic Mike franchise, entitled Magic Mike's Last Dance. "The stripperverse will never be the same," Channing Tatum said. First Cow takes the number one in Cahiers du cinéma's top ten list for 2021! The list...
- 12/1/2021
- MUBI
Pat Murphy's Maeve is showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries starting November 29, 2021 in the series Rediscovered.A couple years ago, Club Des Femmes invited co-director John Davies, director of photography Robert Smith, and myself to a screening of Maeve at the Rio in London. We made this film in 1980, but hadn’t watched it together since it was first released. Maeve is composed of a series of episodes in conversation with each other, but that night as the screening progressed, the three of us were watching another, more inner narrative strand, because every scene triggered such vivid personal memories of making the film in Belfast. Seeing the film at the Rio, I wondered at the craziness of making a feature in the middle of an escalating war, but we had some instinct that we could do it In those days, when filmmakers needed Belfast locations, they mostly used...
- 11/26/2021
- MUBI
Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983) is exclusively showing on Mubi in several countries in the series Rediscovered. This interview took place on May 17, 2021 via Zoom in connection to the Mubi premiere. Into the darkness of the pastWe’ve thrown the shamans of the ruling classThe struggle of the exploitеd massHas broken the oppressors’ lashWе are born in flames.—Red Krayola, “Born in Flames”Honey speaking at the pirate radio station Phoenix Radio in Born in Flames.Notebook: There’s an early scene in Born in Flames of what looks like a consciousness-raising group: women sharing their personal experiences of oppression in a collective setting. How much of the film’s themes came about through group discussions, like the ones in your first film Regrouping (1976)? Or did you approach the film with pre-arranged ideas? Lizzie Borden: Born in Flames was actually a reaction against Regrouping (1976). The original women I...
- 6/14/2021
- MUBI
Pat Murphy’s movie follows a young woman returning to Northern Ireland and a reckoning with sneering soldiers, brutal police and sexist hostility
A steady flame of rapture and pain burns through Pat Murphy’s captivating Maeve from 1981, now rereleased: it is vehemently acted, superbly composed and remarkably shot on the streets of Belfast. It is a fierce, gaunt prose poem of a movie, born of the British Film Institute’s art-cinema aesthetic of that era, starkly realist and yet at the same time mysterious and wan. It is theatrically stylised, always stumbling across dreamlike tableaux of its own devising. There is something of Terence Davies here, and also Ibsen and Beckett. This was an approach that went out of style in British cinema quickly enough, although Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz from 2018 is a potent, intelligent reminder.
Mary Jackson plays Maeve Sweeney, a young woman from a Catholic...
A steady flame of rapture and pain burns through Pat Murphy’s captivating Maeve from 1981, now rereleased: it is vehemently acted, superbly composed and remarkably shot on the streets of Belfast. It is a fierce, gaunt prose poem of a movie, born of the British Film Institute’s art-cinema aesthetic of that era, starkly realist and yet at the same time mysterious and wan. It is theatrically stylised, always stumbling across dreamlike tableaux of its own devising. There is something of Terence Davies here, and also Ibsen and Beckett. This was an approach that went out of style in British cinema quickly enough, although Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz from 2018 is a potent, intelligent reminder.
Mary Jackson plays Maeve Sweeney, a young woman from a Catholic...
- 5/11/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Cph:dox, the Danish documentary film festival, has cancelled its opening night gala after Denmark’s government responded to the growing spread of coronavirus by asking organizers to pull events featuring more than 1,000 people. The event had been due to kick off with a screening of Kenneth Sorento’s The Fight For Greenland. The festival will otherwise go ahead as planned, with heightened hygiene procedures, unless the government introduces more severe measures to combat Covid-19, organizers said in a statement today.
This year’s Dublin International Film Festival closed over the weekend, with John Connors’ debut feature documentary Endless Sunshine On A Cloudy Day scooping the audience award. Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which premiered at Sundance, closed the festival as a gala screening and also took the Human Rights Film Award. Actor Liam Cunningham received the inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award. Elsewhere, Milje Li’s Confucian Dream won in the Documentary Competition,...
This year’s Dublin International Film Festival closed over the weekend, with John Connors’ debut feature documentary Endless Sunshine On A Cloudy Day scooping the audience award. Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which premiered at Sundance, closed the festival as a gala screening and also took the Human Rights Film Award. Actor Liam Cunningham received the inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award. Elsewhere, Milje Li’s Confucian Dream won in the Documentary Competition,...
- 3/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The immensely popular trio provides an extremely pleasant eighty minutes of musical nostalgia – with plenty of full performances but also the full variety of their music through the years. Interviews with the principals give us the back story, light but not superficial, while film clips show their political activism through the years.
50 Years with Peter Paul and Mary
DVD
Mvd Visual
2014 / B&W + Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 78 min. / Street Date December 9, 2016 / 19.95
Starring Peter Yarrow, Noel (Paul) Stookey, Mary Allin Travers.
Film Editor Pat Murphy
Produced by Jim Brown, Heather A. Smith
Directed by Jim Brown
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When we watch movies about music groups we can be looking for historical and personal insights, or we could just want happy nostalgia, to hear the music and see our favorites as they appeared through the years. Many of us instantly recognize groups from the 1960s when we hear them,...
50 Years with Peter Paul and Mary
DVD
Mvd Visual
2014 / B&W + Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 78 min. / Street Date December 9, 2016 / 19.95
Starring Peter Yarrow, Noel (Paul) Stookey, Mary Allin Travers.
Film Editor Pat Murphy
Produced by Jim Brown, Heather A. Smith
Directed by Jim Brown
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When we watch movies about music groups we can be looking for historical and personal insights, or we could just want happy nostalgia, to hear the music and see our favorites as they appeared through the years. Many of us instantly recognize groups from the 1960s when we hear them,...
- 12/27/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Sarik may be the oldest police dog serving St. Paul, Minnesota, but he’s still got new tricks.
The specially-trained K9 sniffed out 9 lbs. of methamphetamine from a flower bed on Saturday, according to the Star Tribune, which reported the story. The drugs were packed in sealed containers inside of a cooler.
Officer Pat Murphy and his canine partner were searching the outside of a suspected drug house when the dog detected something near the flower bed, Wcco News said.
“He started making sharp turns, trying to figure out where it was actually coming from,” Murphy told Wcco. “It’s...
The specially-trained K9 sniffed out 9 lbs. of methamphetamine from a flower bed on Saturday, according to the Star Tribune, which reported the story. The drugs were packed in sealed containers inside of a cooler.
Officer Pat Murphy and his canine partner were searching the outside of a suspected drug house when the dog detected something near the flower bed, Wcco News said.
“He started making sharp turns, trying to figure out where it was actually coming from,” Murphy told Wcco. “It’s...
- 10/14/2016
- by amyjamiesonweb
- PEOPLE.com
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