A visually-stunning…well…EPIC Blue Sky Studios production that mingles a heartwarming father-daughter story with an end of world battle right in our own backyards.
Click thru for our interview with Director Chris Wedge and Writer James V. Hart and review of EPIC.
This past weekend Academy Nicholl Fellow James DiLapo’s script “Devils at Play” was giving the staged reading treatment at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Tx. Click thru for my travel pictures and a review of the future film.
The Dallas International Film Festival 2013 introduced me to the wonderful work being made by New Zealand film production outfit, Candlelit Pictures. The film was part of Shorts Program 1 and had a beautiful grittiness that I couldn’t get out of my mind. I reached out to Producer Alix Whittaker to learn more about the Auckland film outfit. Click thru for our interview with Founder of Candlelit Pictures Alix Whittaker.
Before we jump into the wonderfully inventive mind of young talent Terence Nance, how about we look at some other movie releases this weekend. Click thru for all the greatness.
From The Reading Event Page:
“Ballroom Marfa’s distinguished Filmmakers’ Selection Committee has chosen Academy Nicholl Fellow James DiLapo’s script “Devils at Play” for the 2013 production of The Reading on Saturday, May 18 at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas.”
Click through for our chat with James and Director for the Reading Julia Dyer.
From Desperate Acts of Magic Website:
“A magician competes in an international magic contest where he goes head-to-head with a female street magician he has fallen in love with.”
Click through for our chat with the Co-Directors Joe Tyler Gold and Tammy Caplan.
Click thru for our chat with Generation Um Writer/Director Mark Mann
From ATTPAC site:
“Ryan Thomas Becker has been nominated for “Best Instrumentalist”, “Best Group” (RTB2), “Best Male Vocal”, “Best Solo Performer”, and “Best Blues Act” (RTB2) by the Dallas Observer, and can be seen about town playing in RTB2, Ryan Thomas Becker & Last Joke, and Hares on the Mountain. Friendly, neighborhood Dallas singer-songwriter Madison King’s brand of rock lurks in a darkened alley, barely holding its rockabilly impulses in check…”
The full Patio Sessions schedule is here and click thru for the rest of our Must-See’s for May 2013.
From Stryngs Facebook:
“Stryngs is a fantastical tale of life and death as seen through the eyes of an aging puppeteer!”
Click through for our chat with Director Derek Presley, Producer Geoff McGee and Star Grant James
The Bounceback, along with short SLASH, were real highlights from DIFF 2013. Here is our chat with Director Bryan Poyser and Writer Steven Walters