Exclusive: Argent Pictures has acquired the feature rights to The Good Time Girls, Courtney Hoffman's widely acclaimed feminist western short film. The film production/financing company run by Jill Ahrens, Ryan Ahrens and Ben Renzo, will finance and produce the feature remake, and they've set a February start date in New Mexico. That means that Hoffman, who scripted the film adaptation of the short with Lucy Teitler, and who directed the while establishing herself as a…...
- 11/17/2017
- Deadline
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When the popular women-focused lifestyle website Refinery29 began to build out its original video assets, they hit a stumbling block: they wanted more women creators to make their projects, but they couldn’t seem to find them through traditional means.
“We were building so many things simultaneously,” Chief Content Officer Amy Emmerich recently explained to IndieWire. “And having such a tough time finding women directors and hearing what the agents would say to us, like, ‘We don’t have someone who is a comedy director for you,’ or ‘There aren’t that many,’ and we kind of looked at each other, like, ‘What the hell is happening?'”
For a female-focused business, that idea just wasn’t tenable, and Emmerich and scripted programming executive producer Shannon Gibson set out to launch their own program aimed at female creators.
When the popular women-focused lifestyle website Refinery29 began to build out its original video assets, they hit a stumbling block: they wanted more women creators to make their projects, but they couldn’t seem to find them through traditional means.
“We were building so many things simultaneously,” Chief Content Officer Amy Emmerich recently explained to IndieWire. “And having such a tough time finding women directors and hearing what the agents would say to us, like, ‘We don’t have someone who is a comedy director for you,’ or ‘There aren’t that many,’ and we kind of looked at each other, like, ‘What the hell is happening?'”
For a female-focused business, that idea just wasn’t tenable, and Emmerich and scripted programming executive producer Shannon Gibson set out to launch their own program aimed at female creators.
- 11/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Earlier this year, Frank Stiefel’s unique documentary short “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405” pulled off a unique two-fer: winning both the Audience Award and the Jury Award for Best Short at the annual non-fiction-focused festival. The film follows artist Mindy Alper, who has spent her life creating remarkable works of art, despite a lifelong struggle with depression and anxiety, a story that is warmly and expressively told through Stiefel’s compelling lens.
In announcing its 2017 Jury Award for Best Short Film, the Full Frame jurors explained so much of the film’s profound charm: “We are presenting the award to this film for its incredibly intimate access to a remarkable subject and for its ability to allow the viewer to profoundly enter her world. Complimenting this access with assured storytelling and great visual style, the film introduces us to the gifted artist Mindy Alper and her lifelong struggle with mental illness.
In announcing its 2017 Jury Award for Best Short Film, the Full Frame jurors explained so much of the film’s profound charm: “We are presenting the award to this film for its incredibly intimate access to a remarkable subject and for its ability to allow the viewer to profoundly enter her world. Complimenting this access with assured storytelling and great visual style, the film introduces us to the gifted artist Mindy Alper and her lifelong struggle with mental illness.
- 8/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Academy Board of Governors convenes Tuesday night to pick their next president. Three major candidates have emerged from the 54-member body, although anything can happen.
Dern would be the first actress since Bette Davis’s notoriously short two-month 1941 tenure. (She quit when she realized the all-male board would give her no power.) While movie stars like Gregory Peck and Douglas Fairbanks have served as president, only two women have served since Davis: Screenwriter Fay Kanin presided effectively from 1979 to 1983, and publicity executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs (the first African-American to hold the post) is exiting at the end of a tumultuous four-year term. During that time, she and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson spearheaded a concerted drive to add more diversity to the Academy, urging the 17 branches to actively recruit a younger and more inclusive membership from all over the world.
Isaacs also presided over the infamous last Oscar show, with...
Dern would be the first actress since Bette Davis’s notoriously short two-month 1941 tenure. (She quit when she realized the all-male board would give her no power.) While movie stars like Gregory Peck and Douglas Fairbanks have served as president, only two women have served since Davis: Screenwriter Fay Kanin presided effectively from 1979 to 1983, and publicity executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs (the first African-American to hold the post) is exiting at the end of a tumultuous four-year term. During that time, she and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson spearheaded a concerted drive to add more diversity to the Academy, urging the 17 branches to actively recruit a younger and more inclusive membership from all over the world.
Isaacs also presided over the infamous last Oscar show, with...
- 8/8/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The Academy Board of Governors convenes Tuesday night to pick their next president. Three major candidates have emerged from the 54-member body, although anything can happen.
Dern would be the first actress since Bette Davis’s notoriously short two-month 1941 tenure. (She quit when she realized the all-male board would give her no power.) While movie stars like Gregory Peck and Douglas Fairbanks have served as president, only two women have served since Davis: Screenwriter Fay Kanin presided effectively from 1979 to 1983, and publicity executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs (the first African-American to hold the post) is exiting at the end of a tumultuous four-year term. During that time, she and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson spearheaded a concerted drive to add more diversity to the Academy, urging the 17 branches to actively recruit a younger and more inclusive membership from all over the world.
Isaacs also presided over the infamous last Oscar show, with...
Dern would be the first actress since Bette Davis’s notoriously short two-month 1941 tenure. (She quit when she realized the all-male board would give her no power.) While movie stars like Gregory Peck and Douglas Fairbanks have served as president, only two women have served since Davis: Screenwriter Fay Kanin presided effectively from 1979 to 1983, and publicity executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs (the first African-American to hold the post) is exiting at the end of a tumultuous four-year term. During that time, she and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson spearheaded a concerted drive to add more diversity to the Academy, urging the 17 branches to actively recruit a younger and more inclusive membership from all over the world.
Isaacs also presided over the infamous last Oscar show, with...
- 8/8/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
By H. Perry Horton
Everything the actress touches in 2017 is solid gold.
The article Short of the Day: Laura Dern’s Big Year Continues in Feminist Western ‘The Good Time Girls’ appeared first on Film School Rejects.
Everything the actress touches in 2017 is solid gold.
The article Short of the Day: Laura Dern’s Big Year Continues in Feminist Western ‘The Good Time Girls’ appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 8/7/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Long before Swedish film director Ruben Östlund became one of the more exciting international filmmakers working today, he went to the Berlin International Film Festival with an 11-minute single shot film called “Incident By A Bank.”
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Based on a real event that occurred on June 26, 2006, the short recreates a failed bank robbery from the outside looking in. Östlund begins with an establishing shot of the location and never cuts for 11 minutes, creating a single shot that slowly moves around the scene and checks in with witnesses. “Incident By a Bank” won the Golden Bear at Berlinale in 2009 for short film.
Östlund had his breakthrough five years later with “Force Majeure,” which received critical acclaim and became Swedish’s official Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film. The director won the Palme d’Or this year for “The Square,...
Read More‘The Square’ Is Almost a Great Movie, But an Even Bigger Disappointment
Based on a real event that occurred on June 26, 2006, the short recreates a failed bank robbery from the outside looking in. Östlund begins with an establishing shot of the location and never cuts for 11 minutes, creating a single shot that slowly moves around the scene and checks in with witnesses. “Incident By a Bank” won the Golden Bear at Berlinale in 2009 for short film.
Östlund had his breakthrough five years later with “Force Majeure,” which received critical acclaim and became Swedish’s official Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film. The director won the Palme d’Or this year for “The Square,...
- 8/2/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
You don’t want to mess with Laura Dern, and you especially don’t want to mess with Laura Dern when she’s a rifle-wielding crack shot hellbent on revenge. In Courtney Hoffman’s directorial debut, the blood-soaked Western short “The Good Time Girls,” a badass Dern and her cadre of just-as-wild-gal-pals go to war against a pack of men who have done them wrong at every turn. Let’s just say it doesn’t work out so well for the dudes.
Read MoreLaura Dern Speaks the Truth: An Honest Interview with the Most Scrutinized Actress of 2017
Earlier this year, Hoffman explained to The Hollywood Reporter how her work as a costume designer helped push her towards directing. “It wasn’t always something I knew I wanted to do,” she told the outlet. “What I was giving to them as a costume designer was more — they trusted me with how I affected their performances.
Read MoreLaura Dern Speaks the Truth: An Honest Interview with the Most Scrutinized Actress of 2017
Earlier this year, Hoffman explained to The Hollywood Reporter how her work as a costume designer helped push her towards directing. “It wasn’t always something I knew I wanted to do,” she told the outlet. “What I was giving to them as a costume designer was more — they trusted me with how I affected their performances.
- 8/2/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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