Smush Media’s ultramarathon documentary to receive its world premiere at the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Desert Runners, produced in association with Salty Features and Spoken Media, follows a diverse cast of non-professional runners as they attempt to complete the four toughest ultramarathon races on Earth.
Directed, produced and edited by Jennifer Steinman, it has been produced by Oscar-winning producer Yael Melamede and Diana Iles Parker.
“Desert Runners is about running, but it is also about so much more,” said Steinman.
“It’s an exploration into the perceived limitations that people place upon themselves, and the mind-set necessary for some people to complete ‘impossible’ challenges.”
Desert Runners follows Steinman’s previous Motherland; which won an Emerging Visions Audience Award at SXSW.
Salty Features co-founder and producer Yael Melamede said: “This is a film that gives viewers a front row seat to see what it really takes – heart and soul – to attempt the extraordinary.”
Melamede’s producer...
Desert Runners, produced in association with Salty Features and Spoken Media, follows a diverse cast of non-professional runners as they attempt to complete the four toughest ultramarathon races on Earth.
Directed, produced and edited by Jennifer Steinman, it has been produced by Oscar-winning producer Yael Melamede and Diana Iles Parker.
“Desert Runners is about running, but it is also about so much more,” said Steinman.
“It’s an exploration into the perceived limitations that people place upon themselves, and the mind-set necessary for some people to complete ‘impossible’ challenges.”
Desert Runners follows Steinman’s previous Motherland; which won an Emerging Visions Audience Award at SXSW.
Salty Features co-founder and producer Yael Melamede said: “This is a film that gives viewers a front row seat to see what it really takes – heart and soul – to attempt the extraordinary.”
Melamede’s producer...
- 6/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
Relic Entertainment has revealed two brand new screens for their upcoming Rts, Company of Heroes 2.
The original Company of Heroes consumed a great amount of my time, as I couldn’t resist repelling wave of Nazi forces as I commanded the Us infantry. With Company of Heroes 2 gamers will now be taking control of Soviet forces on the Russian front as you are tasked with defending the Motherland of the invading Nazi forces.
Relic has gone to great lengths in order to create significant technological improvements to the original Essence 3 game engine. Weather plays a dynamic role in the course of your skirmishes. Snow can now slow your units to a crawl as they struggle to push through. Rain can flood certain areas of the map and effectively block entire routes. What’s even greater is that effects such as fire will now eat through buildings in the environment, burning them into piles of ash.
The original Company of Heroes consumed a great amount of my time, as I couldn’t resist repelling wave of Nazi forces as I commanded the Us infantry. With Company of Heroes 2 gamers will now be taking control of Soviet forces on the Russian front as you are tasked with defending the Motherland of the invading Nazi forces.
Relic has gone to great lengths in order to create significant technological improvements to the original Essence 3 game engine. Weather plays a dynamic role in the course of your skirmishes. Snow can now slow your units to a crawl as they struggle to push through. Rain can flood certain areas of the map and effectively block entire routes. What’s even greater is that effects such as fire will now eat through buildings in the environment, burning them into piles of ash.
- 6/25/2012
- by Michael Shelton
- Obsessed with Film
The 3rd annual Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (Pow!) has announced their full festival lineup, which includes 44 films from all over the world. The fest will run March 18-21 at the Hollywood Theatre.
Maybe this year, the Pow! fest will have something extra to celebrate if Kathryn Bigelow wins the Best Directing Academy Award on March 7th. Bigelow is the odds on favorite to take home the Oscar statuette this year for directing The Hurt Locker and, if she does, she’d be the first woman ever to do so. Actually, only four women have ever even been nominated: Bigelow, Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola.
The lineup below proves that women are a powerful force sitting in the director’s chair and Pow! has assembled an impressive lineup of animated films, shorts, features, documentaries, experimental films and more:
March 18
7:00 p.m.: “Local Shorts”
Nous Deux Encore,...
Maybe this year, the Pow! fest will have something extra to celebrate if Kathryn Bigelow wins the Best Directing Academy Award on March 7th. Bigelow is the odds on favorite to take home the Oscar statuette this year for directing The Hurt Locker and, if she does, she’d be the first woman ever to do so. Actually, only four women have ever even been nominated: Bigelow, Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola.
The lineup below proves that women are a powerful force sitting in the director’s chair and Pow! has assembled an impressive lineup of animated films, shorts, features, documentaries, experimental films and more:
March 18
7:00 p.m.: “Local Shorts”
Nous Deux Encore,...
- 2/17/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Gigantic launches new online platform for first-run indie films | News | Screen: "Gigantic launches new online platform for first-run indie films" with comments by Sydney
25 June, 2009 | By Wendy Mitchell
Gigantic Group is launching a full-service “online exhibition venue” for first-run independent films, called Gigantic Digital Cinema.
Gigantic Releasing had been a distribution platform working with digital arm Gigantic Digital. The company already had released (theatrically and online) acclaimed documentary Must Read After My Death.
With today’s announcement, the company will concentrate on online exhibition instead of distribution.
This play on words puts the business on its head, in effect eliminating the line between exhibition and distribution. How smart because in fact that is the stumbling block when everyone says that today's distribution system is broke/ broken. It's because one sees distribution as the feed to exhibition and there are either too many non paying (digital) exhibition platforms or too few...
25 June, 2009 | By Wendy Mitchell
Gigantic Group is launching a full-service “online exhibition venue” for first-run independent films, called Gigantic Digital Cinema.
Gigantic Releasing had been a distribution platform working with digital arm Gigantic Digital. The company already had released (theatrically and online) acclaimed documentary Must Read After My Death.
With today’s announcement, the company will concentrate on online exhibition instead of distribution.
This play on words puts the business on its head, in effect eliminating the line between exhibition and distribution. How smart because in fact that is the stumbling block when everyone says that today's distribution system is broke/ broken. It's because one sees distribution as the feed to exhibition and there are either too many non paying (digital) exhibition platforms or too few...
- 6/25/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
"Made in China," a comedy about a Texan boy who heads to Shanghai to capitalize on his novelty invention idea, and "45365," a documentary about everyday life in a small town in Ohio, took the top prizes at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival this year. Tennessee drama "That Evening Sun" and Katrina pet rescue doc "Mine" took the audiences awards. The full list of winners is below:
Feature Jury Awards
Documentary Feature: "45365," director: Bill Ross
An inquiring look at everyday life in Middle America, the film explores the congruities of daily life in an American town Sidney, Ohio.
Honorable Mention: "The Way We Get By," director: Aron Gaudet
On call 24/7 for the past 6 years, a group of senior citizens transform their lives by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine.
Narrative Feature: "Made in China," director: Judi Krant
Lost in Shanghai, an inventor discovers that it...
Feature Jury Awards
Documentary Feature: "45365," director: Bill Ross
An inquiring look at everyday life in Middle America, the film explores the congruities of daily life in an American town Sidney, Ohio.
Honorable Mention: "The Way We Get By," director: Aron Gaudet
On call 24/7 for the past 6 years, a group of senior citizens transform their lives by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine.
Narrative Feature: "Made in China," director: Judi Krant
Lost in Shanghai, an inventor discovers that it...
- 3/18/2009
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
The SXSW Film Festival explores distinguished filmmaking from provocative documentaries to subversive Hollywood comedies. The event is going on right now until March 22nd in Austin, Texas.
Check their official website right here.
Here's the not-so-complete list of the SXSW film festival winners (some winners will not be announced until Friday):
Feature Jury Awards
Documentary Feature
Winner . 45365
Director: Bill Ross
Honorable Mention . The Way We Get By
Director: Aron Gaudet
Narrative Feature
Winner . Made in China
Director: Judi Krant
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast . That Evening Sun
Director: Scott Teems
Audience Awards
Emerging Visions
Winner . Motherland
Director: Jennifer Steinman
Documentary Feature
Winner . Mine
Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Narrative Feature
Winner . That Evening Sun
Director: Scott Teems
24 Beats Per Second
Winner . To Be Announced on Friday, 3/20
Lone Star States
Winner . To Be Announced on Friday, 3/20
Special Jury Awards
SXSW & Aiga...
Check their official website right here.
Here's the not-so-complete list of the SXSW film festival winners (some winners will not be announced until Friday):
Feature Jury Awards
Documentary Feature
Winner . 45365
Director: Bill Ross
Honorable Mention . The Way We Get By
Director: Aron Gaudet
Narrative Feature
Winner . Made in China
Director: Judi Krant
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast . That Evening Sun
Director: Scott Teems
Audience Awards
Emerging Visions
Winner . Motherland
Director: Jennifer Steinman
Documentary Feature
Winner . Mine
Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Narrative Feature
Winner . That Evening Sun
Director: Scott Teems
24 Beats Per Second
Winner . To Be Announced on Friday, 3/20
Lone Star States
Winner . To Be Announced on Friday, 3/20
Special Jury Awards
SXSW & Aiga...
- 3/18/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
St. Patrick's Day at SXSW meant a sea of green t-shirts on the backs of attendees and big smiles on the faces of the jury and audience award-winners, announced in the evening.
Awards: The Documentary Feature Competition jury awarded their prize to 45365, director Bill Ross' examination of a small town in Ohio, with honorable mention to Aron Gaudet's The Way We Get By, which our own Eugene Novikov described as "a lovely, uncondescending look at three lives enriched by kindness."
Judi Krant's Made in China took home the Narrative Feature Competition award; the film follows a novelty toy inventor from East Texas who travels to China to get his invention made. Scott Teems' That Evening Sun received a "Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast." Hal Holbrook plays a displaced Tennessee farmer drawn into a grudge match with an old foe. The cast includes Ray McKinnon,...
Awards: The Documentary Feature Competition jury awarded their prize to 45365, director Bill Ross' examination of a small town in Ohio, with honorable mention to Aron Gaudet's The Way We Get By, which our own Eugene Novikov described as "a lovely, uncondescending look at three lives enriched by kindness."
Judi Krant's Made in China took home the Narrative Feature Competition award; the film follows a novelty toy inventor from East Texas who travels to China to get his invention made. Scott Teems' That Evening Sun received a "Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast." Hal Holbrook plays a displaced Tennessee farmer drawn into a grudge match with an old foe. The cast includes Ray McKinnon,...
- 3/18/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
SXSW is one of my favorite festivals of the year as it showcases some of the best and most innovative real independent films, and with this host of world premiers, it's also playing alot of Sundance material as well as genre fare from all over the world, many of which we've covered heavily in these pages.
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
- 2/2/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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