** HAPPY NEW YEAR to all from TRUCKSTOP Media **
A few brief news items to kick off '07:
"HERE" SELECTED FOR 2007 SUNDANCE SCREENWRITERS' LAB
Braden King and co-writer Dani Valent have been awarded a Screenwriting Fellowship from the Sundance Institute for their feature film script, HERE. The film is a structurally unique, landscape-obsessed road movie in which a solitary satellite mapping engineer charts the Armenian countryside with an expatriate art photographer revisiting her homeland. HERE is being produced by Julia King (AMERICAN SPLENDOR). Braden will be attending the Screenwriters' Lab from January 12 - 17, 2007. Further information and the full Sundance press release can be found here: http://www2.sundance.org/press.html
In other HERE news, Julia King has been awarded one of two IFP sponsorships to attend the 2007 Producers' Lab at the Rotterdam Film Festival's CineMart Co-Production Market. She and Braden will be attending CineMart and the Festival.
SONIC YOUTH: "RAPTURE" AT ROTTERDAM
"Do You Believe in Rapture?", a music video elegy for New York's recently closed CBGB, will screen at the 2007 Rotterdam Film Festival on January 31 and Feburary 2. The video was directed by Braden King. King also directed a video for the single "Reena" (both are from the most recent Sonic Youth album "Rather Ripped" and can be seen at http://www.truckstopmedia.com and on Sonic Youth's website: http://www.sonicyouth.com.
TRASH RELEASED BY ALPHABET CITY PRESS
Alphabet City's most recent anthology, TRASH, was released October 15, 2006. It features contributions by Edward Burtynsky, Heather Rogers, Nick Cave, Braden King and numerous others. King collaborated with Armenian filmmakers Tigran Xmalian and Gariné Torossian on [ IN | OUT ], a photographic and textual exploration of the ways in which post-Soviet Armenia conceives of domestic borders and sorts its metaphysical junk. Additional details (MIT Press / Alphabet City): http://tinyurl.com/ukfkv
Finally, one more surprise New Year link: http://www.stevekeene.com/
Happy New Year once again...
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