Archive for December, 2011

  • Spotlight: Spork

    Spotlight: Spork

    December 14th, 2011 | Spotlight | jwilka

    Rachel Fox and the Cast of Spork Spork at the Tribeca Film Festival Q&A with J.B. Ghuman Jr. 1. The film is so dependent on its very young cast, who had to be able to act and dance. What was the casting process like? My film was casted by Jeremy Gordon, CSA who was a [...]

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    The Wrap: VOD Distributor Gravitas Ventures Eyes China

    December 7th, 2011 | Gravitas News, News | jwilka

    VOD Distributor Gravitas Ventures Eyes China With New International Unit (Exclusive) Published: December 07, 2011 @ 7:24 am By Brent Lang EXCLUSIVE Video on demand supplier Gravitas Ventures is expanding its international operation with an eye toward Asia. The El Segundo, Calif.-based company — which packages independent films to major cable companies and streaming services – has formed Gravitas [...]

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  • Spotlight: A Warrior’s Heart

    Spotlight: A Warrior’s Heart

    December 7th, 2011 | Spotlight | jwilka

    On the Set of A Warrior’s Heart Q&A with director Mike Sears 1. What part of the story most resonated with you? When I first read Marty Dugard’s script, I felt that he had interwoven two stories. The first was a sports film, with lots of lacrosse and tension created by where the teams are [...]

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  • A Warrior’s Heart

    A Warrior’s Heart

    December 2nd, 2011 | Drama, Family, Films | jwilka

    In shock and denial over his Marine father’s death in battle, star Lacrosse player Conor Sullivan, always a maverick and a hothead, starts acting out in self-destructive ways that have his mom, Claire, at her wit’s end. But arduous training in a wilderness Lacrosse camp under the tutelage of his dad’s old combat buddy, Sgt. [...]

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  • Spotlight: Born and Bred

    Spotlight: Born and Bred

    December 1st, 2011 | Spotlight | jwilka

    Q&A with director Justin Frimmer 1. What drew you towards boxing? I think, when it comes down to it, boxing delves into the belief that one person can overcome everything that the universe throws at him or her with just a pair of fists. Even if it doesn’t make sense in the grand scheme of [...]

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  • Born and Bred

    Born and Bred

    December 1st, 2011 | Documentary, Films | jwilka

    Born and Bred is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the lives of a new generation of young boxers fighting for their place in the American boxing capital of Los Angeles, where Latino immigration is surging to a historical breaking point. At the heart of the film is the story of 15-year-old twin brothers in their [...]

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  • I Am

    I Am

    December 1st, 2011 | Documentary, Films | jwilka

    Hollywood comedy director Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) gets contemplative in this documentary, which finds him conversing with prominent philosophers and spiritual leaders about what ails our world and how we can improve it. Traveling the globe to conduct his in-depth interviews, Shadyac finds insights and inspiration from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, historian Howard Zinn, [...]

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  • Spork

    Spork

    December 1st, 2011 | Comedy, Films | jwilka

    A colorful and foul-mouthed feature musical comedy.A film about a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork who is trying to navigate her way through the annals of junior high. When a school dance show provides a chance for Spork to show up a mean girls gang, her trailer-park neighbor steps up to coach her with some [...]

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  • Daylight

    Daylight

    December 1st, 2011 | Films, Horror, Thriller | jwilka

    A harrowing psychological thriller from a widely acclaimed filmmaker, Daylight pits a couple lost in America against a conniving gang of kidnappers, in David Barker’s rigorous and personal re-imagining of the genre film. Despite its familiar genre elements, Daylight is different – a powerful, shocking piece of vigorous cinema, which fuses eroticism and tenderness with [...]

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