Our bi-weekly Film Festival Roundup column explores notable stories and news updates from the circuit.
Long before Barry Jenkins or Laura Poitras won their first Oscars or Robert Eggers made one of 2016’s highest-grossing indies, or Denis Villeneuve graduated to Hollywood’s A-list, they were still just independent filmmakers with a dream — a dream that needed to be packaged, sold, and produced. Enter Ifp Film Week, home of one of the world’s most forward-thinking film markets, and the U.S.’s only market that presents new works across all platforms, all the better to serve their creator’s visions.
This year’s 2017 Ifp Film Week, presented by the Independent Film Project, has unveiled its slate for this year’s film project section. The lineup includes 110 narrative and documentary projects in development from over 15 countries. Curated by Ifp’s Deputy Director/Head of Programming Amy Dotson and Senior Director of Programming Milton Tabbot,...
Long before Barry Jenkins or Laura Poitras won their first Oscars or Robert Eggers made one of 2016’s highest-grossing indies, or Denis Villeneuve graduated to Hollywood’s A-list, they were still just independent filmmakers with a dream — a dream that needed to be packaged, sold, and produced. Enter Ifp Film Week, home of one of the world’s most forward-thinking film markets, and the U.S.’s only market that presents new works across all platforms, all the better to serve their creator’s visions.
This year’s 2017 Ifp Film Week, presented by the Independent Film Project, has unveiled its slate for this year’s film project section. The lineup includes 110 narrative and documentary projects in development from over 15 countries. Curated by Ifp’s Deputy Director/Head of Programming Amy Dotson and Senior Director of Programming Milton Tabbot,...
- 7/20/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Having made his Sundance debut with the short film Close. in 2011, filmmaker Tahir Jetter returned with his debut feature, How To Tell You’re A Douchebag — a film that, as he discusses below, he wasn’t sure would bring him back to Park City. After his web series Hard Times was picked up for distribution by Issa Rae Productions in 2014, Jetter set his sights on a feature film about dating in the modern world. To raise awareness of the project, Jetter published a blog, Occasionally Dating Black Women, written in a voice that would turn out to be his fictional main character. Inspired by films that handle […]...
- 2/2/2016
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Having made his Sundance debut with the short film Close. in 2011, filmmaker Tahir Jetter returned with his debut feature, How To Tell You’re A Douchebag — a film that, as he discusses below, he wasn’t sure would bring him back to Park City. After his web series Hard Times was picked up for distribution by Issa Rae Productions in 2014, Jetter set his sights on a feature film about dating in the modern world. To raise awareness of the project, Jetter published a blog, Occasionally Dating Black Women, written in a voice that would turn out to be his fictional main character. Inspired by films that handle […]...
- 2/2/2016
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
This lovely short film screened at the Boston International Film Festival in April, which is where I saw it. It stars two actors S&A readers will recognize: Tracey Heggins (Medicine For Melancholy, and she has done a few things since then), and Carlton Byrd, who has appeared in some short films S&A has profiled before, like Darius Clark Monroe's controversial Slow, and Train, as well as Tahir Jetter's Close. Andrea Ashton directs from a script written by Andrew Stoneham. I was glad to find out that there's a trailer for it which I just didn't know before, so S&A readers can catch a glimpse of it. Comparisons to films like Before Sunrise...
- 6/3/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
As previously announced on this blog, the 2011 Sundance Film Festival will gradually make some of its short and feature films available for public viewing online, via YouTube.
Nyu Tisch School graduate Tahir Jetter’s short film, Close., is one of those titles. Uploaded to YouTube just yesterday, I’ve embedded it below for you all to watch.
Its synopsis reads: “One night after a casual ‘visit’, Angela is all but ready to leave Derek’s apartment. Derek, however, is determined no to let her go without a fight.”
This is Tahir’s first Sundance Film Festival entry, and he plans to expand the autobiographical work into a feature film.
Watch Close. below:...
Nyu Tisch School graduate Tahir Jetter’s short film, Close., is one of those titles. Uploaded to YouTube just yesterday, I’ve embedded it below for you all to watch.
Its synopsis reads: “One night after a casual ‘visit’, Angela is all but ready to leave Derek’s apartment. Derek, however, is determined no to let her go without a fight.”
This is Tahir’s first Sundance Film Festival entry, and he plans to expand the autobiographical work into a feature film.
Watch Close. below:...
- 1/27/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Odds that a Sundance short films program will be a good harvest are in the high percentile -- with over 6000 short film submissions sent in and about less than 100 selected certainly increases those odds. In any given year at the festival, you could easily trace back a filmmaker's presenting his/her feature film to the roots of shorts included in the fest from previous years. Because we're big on auteur theory, this year's coverage will include several short film items. Program IV was the tops of my list because it includes the latest works from two filmmakers I discovered in 2006 with their ward-winning shorts: Carter Smith (Bugcrush) and Daniel Mulloy (Antonio's Breakfast). Carter Smith's Yearbook (see pic above) was a Diy (set in his kitchen actually) is a slideshow talking-heads-esque with distinct flavors a la Smith -- warped comedy elements (perhaps a companion piece to Bugcrush) with sci-fi elements.
- 1/23/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival announced the names of the its selected jury members earlier this morning, for its 5 categories – Us Documentary, World Documentary, Us Narrative, World Narrative and Short Films.
Congrats are in order to Barry Jenkins who will be sitting in the judges panel as a member of the Short Films jury! Of course, if you’re new here, Barry directed the 2008 indie darling of a film, Medicine For Melancholy, and we’ve certainly been following his progress since then, which a search of his name on this site will show.
Of relevance to this site, Moon Molson and Tahir Jetter both have short films in competition at the festival this year – Moon’s short film about an African-American young man who finds his Nigerian-immigrant stepfather passed out drunk in their project-building hallway and is pressured by a friend into murdering him, is titled Crazy Beats Strong Every Time; and Tahir’s short,...
Congrats are in order to Barry Jenkins who will be sitting in the judges panel as a member of the Short Films jury! Of course, if you’re new here, Barry directed the 2008 indie darling of a film, Medicine For Melancholy, and we’ve certainly been following his progress since then, which a search of his name on this site will show.
Of relevance to this site, Moon Molson and Tahir Jetter both have short films in competition at the festival this year – Moon’s short film about an African-American young man who finds his Nigerian-immigrant stepfather passed out drunk in their project-building hallway and is pressured by a friend into murdering him, is titled Crazy Beats Strong Every Time; and Tahir’s short,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Can’t make it to the festival this year? No problem! Bring the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to you!
As they did last year, the Sundance Film Festival is partnering up with YouTube to make 12 short films from this year’s festival available for free, online, in YouTube’s Screening Room.
The YouTube Screening Room can be accessed at www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom.
The films are scheduled to be screened on the web, via YouTube, in 3 sessions – January 20th, January 27th, and February 3rd, 2011.
So, check out the list of 12 shorts below; of note is Nyu grad Tahir Jetter’s Close – which Sergio profiled on this blog a couple of weeks ago Here:
8 Bits (Valere Amirault, Sarah Laufer, Jean Delaunay, and Benjamin Mattern)
A fight between an 8-bit superhero and a high-def boss, in a retro-gaming world.
Andy and Zach (Nick Paley)
When Zach decides to move out, his roommate Andy...
As they did last year, the Sundance Film Festival is partnering up with YouTube to make 12 short films from this year’s festival available for free, online, in YouTube’s Screening Room.
The YouTube Screening Room can be accessed at www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom.
The films are scheduled to be screened on the web, via YouTube, in 3 sessions – January 20th, January 27th, and February 3rd, 2011.
So, check out the list of 12 shorts below; of note is Nyu grad Tahir Jetter’s Close – which Sergio profiled on this blog a couple of weeks ago Here:
8 Bits (Valere Amirault, Sarah Laufer, Jean Delaunay, and Benjamin Mattern)
A fight between an 8-bit superhero and a high-def boss, in a retro-gaming world.
Andy and Zach (Nick Paley)
When Zach decides to move out, his roommate Andy...
- 1/11/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Institute announced that 12 short films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, as well as eight classic short films from Institute alumni and earlier Festivals will be available in the You Tube Screening Room. The first launch date is January 6, 2011 and will continue to release through February 3, 2011.
Each YouTube Screening Room series is scheduled to run for a span of six weeks.
”We are thrilled to be able to share a selection of short films free online on the YouTube Screening Room with the broader public,” said Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “The Screening Room will offer just a sample of the diversity and originality of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program, as well as a taste of Institute history.”
The YouTube Screening room (www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom) is a curated wing of YouTube that focuses on independent films.
Short Films from Directors with Feature...
Sundance Institute announced that 12 short films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, as well as eight classic short films from Institute alumni and earlier Festivals will be available in the You Tube Screening Room. The first launch date is January 6, 2011 and will continue to release through February 3, 2011.
Each YouTube Screening Room series is scheduled to run for a span of six weeks.
”We are thrilled to be able to share a selection of short films free online on the YouTube Screening Room with the broader public,” said Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “The Screening Room will offer just a sample of the diversity and originality of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program, as well as a taste of Institute history.”
The YouTube Screening room (www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom) is a curated wing of YouTube that focuses on independent films.
Short Films from Directors with Feature...
- 1/6/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Well, we’ve see the list of feature-length films that are in the 2011 lineup of the Sundance Film Festival. Just moments ago, the festival revealed the full list of short films that will accompany those features – 44 in total, from a record 3,453 submissions! Wow! Glad I’m not on that judging committee.
But of note in the below list are 2 filmmakers who are followers of this blog, both I’ve communicated with in the past – one actually was mentioned on Black Filmmakers To Watch thread, so we may as well add the other.
I’m referring to Moon Molson and Tahir Jetter.
Moon’s short film is titled Crazy Beats Strong Every Time. Some may recall that, in September, I posted an entry for Moon, to help raise money to complete the short film. He was trying to raise $8,000, and actually ended up raising $10,250! So, congrats to Moon! The synopsis for...
But of note in the below list are 2 filmmakers who are followers of this blog, both I’ve communicated with in the past – one actually was mentioned on Black Filmmakers To Watch thread, so we may as well add the other.
I’m referring to Moon Molson and Tahir Jetter.
Moon’s short film is titled Crazy Beats Strong Every Time. Some may recall that, in September, I posted an entry for Moon, to help raise money to complete the short film. He was trying to raise $8,000, and actually ended up raising $10,250! So, congrats to Moon! The synopsis for...
- 12/6/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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