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PAVILION, SXSW

Awesome slideshow from Pavilion’s trip to SXSW. 

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On May 11th, Rooftop Films will kick off its 2012 Summer Series, marking the start of their 16th season of bringing underground films, well, aboveground in outdoor screenings all across New York City. More than just a film festival, they’re a thriving community — of filmmakers, audience members, venues, and neighborhoods — and this year’s line-up includes amazing films by the likes of Bart Layton (his documentary, The Imposter, took Sundance by storm), Nina Conti, and Matthew Lillard. Even more exciting? They’re our Project of the Day. (Kidding, we know that’s not anywhere near as exciting!)

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Using bleeding edge technology, the tiny team behind the animated feature Dome will create a story that is as visually epic as it is entertaining. There’s adventure, hunters, a precarious journey, and best of all? Robots! Specifically, a Simple Robot on a Epic Voyage Home. We think that’s epic enough to qualify as our Project of the Day.

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Blue Like Jazz, still the most-funded film in Kickstarter history, opens in more than 100 theaters around the country today. It’s the biggest theatrical release of any Kickstarter project to date! Don’t miss it — get your tickets now.

You’re awesome, people! thank you!

fuckyeahworldoftaika:

Thanks to 1,826 Kickstarteristas @TaikaWaititi’s BOY will be playing in 50, count em 50, American cities in April! Wow: bit.ly/HbLBGh

— SundanceFilmFestival (@sundancefest) kwiecień 5, 2012

Hooray!

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The amazing (and Kickstarter-funded) feature film Bad Fever is all set for an LA premiere. It’s a one-night only engagement, so better get your tickets fast. The deets at a glance: Monday, April 2 @ 8PM, at the Downtown Independent in Los Angeles. And make sure to stick around afterward. There will be a reception, plus a Q&A with members of the crew and cast. Sweet!

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Filmmaker Nisan Dag left her home in Turkey two years ago to study film at Columbia University. She’s made a handful of short films so far, but nothing yet has excited her as much as The Marvelous Fish Man — the story of a man born with a fish head, who escapes life in a freak show, only to find out he’s in danger of drying out in the real world. In a last ditch effort for freedom, he sets out on an adventure to find the mythical lake where he was born. Weird, cool, and — no doubt — our Project of the Day.

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In 1976, the Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth electrified the world with his documentary on the Paris-Roubaix cycling race, A Sunday in Hell. The film defined a genre — it’s gritty realism is often credited with changing the very nature of sports coverage. Leth now comments on the race professionally for television, lending his wit and expertise to thousands of television viewers every year, so it seems about time that the lens was turned back on him. Created by Albert Maysles, and scored by Blonde Redhead, The Commentator will be a love-letter-as-documentary to the man. We love it! In fact, it’s our Project of the Day.

adrienneshelly:

Arrived in the mail today. Almost forgot about this actually. Good job, Hal!

We can’t wait for ours!

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Each screening was truly special and charged with incredible energy, but two wonderful things happened at our final screening. First,the head of SXSW, Janet Pierson, was in attendance and introduced the film - a highlight of my career and a sign that the film was at SXSW because she and her team truly believed in it and championed it as a work of cinematic art. Second, and even more important, was that a woman named Kathleen Powers came to the screening. Huh? Who’s she? Folks, she’s a BELIEVER, just like the rest of us. She contributed to our KICKSTARTER campaign and showed up in Austin, waited in line, took a seat, and watched the screen in anticipation as the theater went dark. She introduced herself to me after the screening and Q&A and I was thrilled to meet her and even more thrilled that she loved the film (phew) and was so proud of being a part of it.

I kind of floated all the way home.

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— Tim Sutton on the premiere of his film Pavilion at SXSW. 

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Exploring the intersection of technology and personhood and how the two work hand-in-robot-hand, documentary Welcome to the Machine asks what it means to be human being in an increasingly artificial world. From drone operators to IVF, Weider unpacks technology as a continuation of evolutionary process. Fascinating stuff — and our Project of the Day, to boot.

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Tonight! Blue Like Jazz ,the most-funded film in Kickstarter history (!!!), is set to have its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. (It’s one of 33 Kickstarter-funded films to be showing there.) Follow along with them tonight as they post pictures and news from the event, but if you’re one of the lucky ones that happen to be in town, stop by Paramount Theater at 6:45PM. Full details are here. The part that has us real super-fuzzy-inside feeling, though, is here.

"Community Trumps Industry: Women Support Women to get Movies Made and Seen"

— Sisterhood of Night Producer Lydia Dean Pilcher on Hope for Film. 3 days left on their campaign! Check out their over $100k project here.

The bewilderingly beautiful experimental film Solipsist premiered online this morning. It is free and available for all to watch, and will even be projected onto buildings in downtown Austin during SXSW as part of Vimeo’s programming. Perfect lunch break pyschedelia!

Boy, the popular New Zealand indie flick about — no duh! — a boy and his estranged father, is coming to the States! But before they take the nation by storm they are having a special screening next Tuesday at the Knitting Factory. Be there or be square.