KUCI: Film School
Independent Film News and Interviews
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Tuesday Mar 18, 2008
Tuesday Mar 18, 2008
An interview with TOM STERN, director, co-writer, and producer of THIS IS A BUSINESS - an indie feature in the truest sense. Made on a modest budget and completely outside established studio channels, THIS IS A BUSINESS is an Ionesco-esque comedy about a shipping clerk named Turtletaub who starts his own business knowing only that he intends either to create a product or to provide a service, and whichever one it is, he pledges, it will be good... for everyone. Turtletaub hires an awkward, kind day laborer (Ernesto) as his assistant and a confident yet conflicted salesman (Baltimore) as his sales force. Now all that Turtletaub needs is to figure out what it is that his business will do. But there is constant noise streaming through the vent in the ceiling of Turtletaub's unit, and the landlord keeps giving Turtletaub the run around, and his salesman has somehow started bringing in investment money even though they do not know what it is that their business does, and Turtletaub is not sure what it is, exactly, that he owes these investors. As the pressure builds and things start to move, Turtletaub seems farther and farther away from having his idea. Until one night, it hits... and it's great... Stern has also directed, produced, and written six short films and a number of plays. His short films - BLUE ME and THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TOM STERN, CHAPTER SIX: THE NEW SCIENCE - have been programmed in festivals on both coasts (Imagefest, LA Shorts, Independent Exposure 2007), and his stage production of FEIFFER'S PEOPLE was performed at The International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Tuesday Mar 11, 2008
Tuesday Mar 11, 2008
An interview with Neil Mandt the director and writer of Last Stop for Paul. Cliff and Charlie live boring lives in LA. In an effort to spice up their existence, Charlie suggests they go to the famous Full Moon Party in Thailand. Cliff agrees to go on the condition that they purchase around the world tickets and see the globe first. Along they way he wants to sprinkle the ashes of his recently deceased childhood friend, Paul. Together, Charlie, Cliff and the remains of Paul, embark on a trip of a lifetime as they travel to the Caribbean, South America, Europe and Asia. Shot in over 20 countries, Cliff and Charlie have unbelievable adventures in every location and their lives are changed forever. Winner of 45 film festival awards, Last Stop for Paul is the "Most Award Winning Independent Film of 2007."
Tuesday Mar 04, 2008
Tuesday Feb 26, 2008
Tuesday Feb 19, 2008
Tuesday Feb 19, 2008
An interview with Dan Klores the director of Crazy Love a documentary about the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the nation during the summer of 1959. Burt, a 32 year-old married attorney and Linda, a beautiful, single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance, which culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions that landed the pair's saga on the cover of endless newspapers and magazines. With the cooperation of the principles, Burt, now 79, and Linda, 68, Klores examines the human psyche and the concepts of love, obsession, insanity, hope and forgiveness. Crazy Love had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, earned the Best Documentary award at the 2007 Santa Barbara Film Festival and is a nominee for Best Documentary at this year's Independent Spirit Awards.
Tuesday Feb 12, 2008
Tuesday Feb 05, 2008
Tuesday Jan 29, 2008
Tuesday Jan 29, 2008
An interview with Diana Zahn-Storey the producer of the Film Independent Spirit Awards show which will take place on Saturday, February 23, 2008 telecasting uncut on IFC with an edited re-broadcast on AMC. The Awards are presented by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. Nominations for the 2008 Spirit Awards include Crazy Love, Manufactured Landscapes, Fire in the Lake, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I'm Not There, Juno, A Mighty Heart, Paranoid Park (trailer above) Ramin Bahrani, director of Chop Shop, Lee Isaac Chung, director of Munyurangabo and Ronnie Bronstein director of Frownland.
Tuesday Jan 22, 2008
Tuesday Jan 22, 2008
An interview with Bill Haney, director, producer and screenwriter of The Price of Sugar. In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are toiling under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced.
Tuesday Jan 15, 2008