** HAPPY NEW YEAR to all from Braden King and TRUCKSTOP Media **
A few news items to kick off '08:
"HERE" ONE OF THREE U.S. FINALISTS:
2008 SUNDANCE / NHK INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKERS AWARD
[ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ]
LIVE FILM AND MUSIC EVENT AT THE 2008 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
"HERE" LOCATION SCOUT PHOTOGRAPHS:
CHICAGO MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
"SONIC YOUTH: DO YOU BELIEVE IN RAPTURE"
COMES HOME TO ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES / NYC
"HERE" ONE OF THREE U.S FINALISTS:
2008 SUNDANCE / NHK INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKERS AWARD
On December 11, Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) announced the twelve finalists for the 2008 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award. One winner each from Europe, Latin America, the United States and Japan is selected by members of an international jury. HERE, written by Braden King and Dani Valent, is one of the three U.S. finalists selected for the award, along with Jake Mahaffy's FREE IN DEED and James Ponsoldt's REFRESH, REFRESH. The winners will be announced during the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. HERE was also selected for the 2007 Sundance Writers and Directors Labs and received 2007 grants and awards from the Annenberg and Sloan Foundations. Further information: see the attached press release or check out this link: http://tinyurl.com/27swbt
[ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ]
LIVE FILM AND MUSIC EVENT AT THE 2008 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
This live, multi-media film and music event explores the pre-narrative ether from which the Movie emerges. A collaboration between filmmaker Braden King, composer Shahzad Ismaily and video artist Deborah Johnson along with guest musician Michael Krassner, [ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ] literally and figuratively shines a light onto the Film's initial, unconscious, non-narrative points of origin and inspiration. In this case, the film is King's upcoming narrative feature, HERE: a dramatic, intensely visual, landscape-obsessed road movie that chronicles the relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer and an expatriate art photographer who impulsively decide to travel together into uncharted foreign territory. Combining Johnson's dynamic multiple projections of King's scouting and research footage, film "samples" of past and related work and Ismaily's improvised score and sound design, [ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ] creates a literal and metaphoric map of the at
mospheric tone and dreamlife from which HERE is now awakening. Thursday, January 24th at New Frontier on Main, 9:00 PM. Further information: http://www.sundance.org/festival/
"HERE" LOCATION SCOUT PHOTOGRAPHS:
CHICAGO MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
An artists book of location scout photographs taken during the research and planning stages of HERE is currently on display at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the MAPPING THE SELF exhibition. The show was organized by Tricia Van Eck, the MCA's Curatorial Coordinator and Curator of Artists' Books. It runs through March 2nd. Further information: http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=166
"SONIC YOUTH: DO YOU BELIEVE IN RAPTURE"
COMES HOME TO ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES / NYC
A music-video elegy for the NYC's late CBGB club and all the great shows we've all ever been to, DO YOU BELIEVE IN RAPTURE capped off a year of screenings that included the Vienna Viennale, Rooftop Films, Silver Docs and the Rotterdam, Sydney, and Silverlake Film Festivals with a special screening as part of the NewFilmmakers program at Anthology Film Archives in New York (right around the corner from where the club used to be) on Jaunary 2nd. Many thanks to the programmers and viewers who gave this piece such a great life in 2007.
PLEASE ALSO LOOK OUT FOR:
Brent Green's continued march toward animated world domination: http://tinyurl.com/244yyn
Jake Mahaffy's new short, MOTION STUDIES: INERTIA at Sundance,
and his new feature (and Tiger Award Nominated!) GO WITH PEACE JAMIL at Rotterdam.
David Lynch on the iPhone: http://tinyurl.com/2xmvtf
(if you only click one link, make it this one.)
James Ponsoldt's interview with Paul Thomas Anderson in upcoming issue of Filmmaker Magazine
(post it, Scott!)
Invisible Cinema: http://invisiblecinema.typepad.com/invisible_cinema/
Announcement of the new crop of 2008 Creative Capital grantees - any day now: http://www.creative-capital.org/index.html
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!
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