American Scary And The Rondo Awards

American Scary

Fans of Horror films and all things related might want to check out the RONDO AWARDS voting which is going on right now. The Rondos, now in their ninth year, are fandom’s only classic horror award, decided by fans, for fans, and dedicated to preserving the undying spirit of monsters past. Every Rondo nominee is [...]

See SUMMER CHILDREN Tuesday – Shot By Vilmos Zsigmond

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Fresh from it’s World Premiere at Slamdance on Monday, Springfield native Jack Robinette brings his remastered film to the Queen City Cinema film series on Tuesday. UPDATE – screening moved to February 8th, 9pm due to snowstorm The film was made in 1965 on Catalina Island and locations around LA. The movie was shot by [...]

Winter’s Bone Earns Four Academy Award Nominations

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Here is the complete list of nominations received by the locally-produced film (Spring 2009) along with links to a number of stories on the nominations. Moxie Cinema is screening the film on Saturday night and hosting a party next door at Farmer’s Gastropub. Contact the theater for ticket availability ($25). The Academy Awards will be [...]

Summer Children Accepted To Slamdance

Summer Children

Summer Children, a black & white feature film shot in 1965, has been included in the SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL SCREENINGS PROGRAM. The Festival is in Park City, UT and runs concurrently with Sundance from January 21-27, 2011. The film was produced by Springfield native (Greenwood 1955/Southwest Missouri State 1959) and resident Jack Robinette and [...]

Chris Beckman’s Going To Sundance – You Can Help

Sophie Parker and Chris Beckman viewing Sundance Short Film Competition announcement

Park City, UT – The Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. This year the Festival’s Short Film Program comprises 81 short films from U.S. and international filmmakers selected from 6,467 submissions up 6% over 2010. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 [...]

Winter’s Bone Wins Best Feature At Gotham Awards

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Indiewire was on hand in New York City to cover the Gotham Awards. The big news is Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone” winning both Best Feature as well as Best Ensemble Performance at the 20th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, announced Monday November 29th Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. Per Indiewire, the film’s star Jennifer [...]

Chris Beckman Win’s Vimeo National Award

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From the Vimeo website: We are very proud to announce the winners of the 2010 Vimeo Awards. These exemplary films and videos were culled form over 6500 submissions and voted on by our esteemed judges. Chris’s film won the Experimental Award – Short films/videos that experiment with new ideas, forms, techniques, and expressions that are [...]

Winter’s Bone DVD Released

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It’s available! Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, this tense, naturalistic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly as she confronts the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father, who has put up the family homestead for his bail. [...]

Winter’s Bone Stands Out On The Indie Circuit

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From Variety and their story Distrib Uncertainty Colors Fall Film Festivals: The good news is that, even with all companies exiting indie distribution over the past several years, the parties still in business continue to need fresh fare. Many of the films premiering at Venice, Telluride and Toronto already have distribution, but a few titles [...]

Debra Granik and Jennifer Lawrence Discuss Shooting Winters Bone in Ozarks

This is borrowed directly from MovingPictures Magazine and their story Debra Granik and Jennifer Lawrence — ‘Winter’s Bone’ Director Debra Granik and actress Jennifer Lawrence talk about working with locals in Missouri during the making of their new film, “Winter’s Bone.” Based on a novel by Daniel Woodrell, “Winter’s Bone” tells the story of a [...]

Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini Sign With The Gersh Agency

From The Hollywood Reporter comes: Gersh signs ‘Winter’s Bone’ duo, Debra Granik and co-writer Anne Rosellini. By Jay A. Fernandez The Gersh Agency has signed independent filmmaker Debra Granik and her writing-producing partner Anne Rosellini. At last month’s Sundance Film Festival, Granik’s latest film, “Winter’s Bone,” won the grand jury prize in the dramatic competition. [...]

Bigelow one step closer to Oscar gold!

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Kathryn Bigelow, director of the award winning film “The Hurt Locker” has won the Best Director award at the British Academy Film Awards! Check out her appearance on the Charlie Rose show here – www.charlierose.com/guest/view/6688 The film has been nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Achievement in Cinematography (Barry Ackroyd), Best Achievement in Directing [...]

Cinematical Offers A Sundance Primer on Winter’s Bone

From the Cinematical website comes this introduction to Director Debra Granik and her new film, Winter’s Bone, shot on location in Taney County, Missouri. Back in 2004, Granik premiered her debut feature, Down to the Bone, at the Sundance Film Festival, and now she’s back several years later with another unique story about a female [...]

Thriller Added to National Film Registry, First Video Added

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While Hollywood sets records at the box-office this holiday season, the Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today selected 25 motion pictures that will be preserved as cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures for generations to come. Spanning the period 1911-1995, the films named to the 2009 National Film Registry of the Library of Congress range [...]

MSU Grad Byron White Editing “Hung” on HBO

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Have you seen the new HBO series “Hung” yet? Here’s how the show is described on the website – – Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ray Drecker’s situation couldn’t be much tougher. The former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach is divorced and struggling to provide for his kids [...]