The Film Collaborative September 2010 Newsletter

Dear Collaborators:

We hope you had a great summer…as we head into the busy Fall Festival season, TFC is pleased to announce exciting new films, new initiatives, pending releases, and immediate festival travel plans so you can find us wherever we are on the globe.

In this newsletter:

• our new film clients at the Toronto International Film Festival, HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY and JUCY
• the status on our LGBT shorts initiative with partner Babelgum
• Exciting news about Javier Fuentes’ UNDERTOW (CONTRACORRIENTE), which begins its U.S. theatrical release on September 17th at the Bridge Theatre in San Francisco
• TFC’s September Festival Travel Plans
• Advisory Board Update

TFC gives a big shout it to its über cool client ONDI TIMONER for her new film COOL IT having its World Premiere @ TIFF.

The Film Collaborative is proud to present the Official TIFF Selection HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY for WORLDWIDE Sales and Distribution.

HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY

DIRECTOR: Jody Shapiro

2010 | Canada | 72 mins.

Jody Shapiro’s ultra-sharp documentary How to Start Your Own Country examines micro-nations — tiny states seldom recognized by better-known, more conventionally established countries. Traversing the globe, Shapiro introduces us to several states you’ve almost certainly never heard of.

WEBSITE: HOWTOSTARTYOUROWNCOUNTRY.COM

Toronto Public Screenings:

Saturday September 11, 5:15pm, AMC 2
Sunday September 12, 2:45 PM, AMC 10
Wednesday September 15, 2:30 PM, AMC 10

The Film Collaborative congratulates its client Louise Alston on her film JUCY being an Official TIFF Selection. Her film is being repped for sales by Odins Eye.

JUCY

DIRECTOR: Louise Alston

2010 | Australia | 81 mins.

Jackie (Francesca Gasteen) and Lucy (Cindy Nelson) are two twentysomething best friends who’ve made an art of not doing much. They’re so inseparable that they’ve earned the collective moniker “Jucy.” Working together in an alternative video store, they smoke pot, play video games and actively encourage each other’s eccentricities and often delusional world view.

WEBSITE: JUCYTHEMOVIE.COM

Toronto Public Screenings:

Saturday September 11, 7:45 PM, AMC 2
Monday September 13, 8:45 PM, AMC 9
Saturday September 18, 12:15 PM, AMC 10

Theatrical Release begins on Sept. 17th at San Francisco’s Bridge Theatre!

2010 Sundance World Cinema Audience Award winner and Peru’s Official Submission to the 2011 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, UNDERTOW (CONTRACORRIENTE) by Javier Fuentes-Lèon is a romantic, magical reality “ghost story” set along the rugged and beautiful Peruvian coastline. A handsome young fisherman, married to the 7-months pregnant Mariela, is simultaneously engaged in a secret love affair with the openly gay painter Santiago. When Santiago drowns accidentally in the ocean’s strong undertow, local traditions dictate that he cannot pass peacefully to the other side. Miguel must choose between sentencing Santiago to eternal torment or doing right by him and, in turn, revealing their relationship to Mariela and the entire village.

Following its initial theatrical run in San Francisco, UNDERTOW will be released in subsequent markets including New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Diego.

WEBSITE: UNDERTOWFILM.COM

WATCH THE TRAILERS HERE

TFC’s September Festival Travel Plans

The Film Collaborative will be at the following festivals/markets this month:

• Toronto International Film Festival
• Houston Business of Film Conference
• Urbanworld
• IFP Market
• Bend international Film Festival

Our foreign sales partner Ariel Veneziano of Recreation Media can be reached during TIFF at: 310.266.3087

Jeffrey Winter can be reached at: jeffrey@thefilmcollaborative.org or 818.679.8751

Orly Ravid can be reached at: orly@thefilmcollaborative.org or 323.610.8128

TFC welcomes Philip Alberstat, Partner, Branded Entertainment and Business Affairs, Fuel Industries, to our Board of Advisors.

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