The Film Collaborative Client Update
Dear Collaborators:
If you are going to be in San Francisco or New York this weekend, don't miss the opportunity to see two exciting films by TFC clients! Also a brief update on our Shorts Initiative.
SAN FRANCISCO
“Undertow manages so many qualities seldom found together, or pulled off at all, that respect is due. It's sensuous and erotic without becoming puerile fantasy; renders remote, beach-y locations alluring without pandering postcard exoticism or turning the people who live there peasant-quaint. More impressive still, it seamlessly folds magic realism — that very literary quality — into an already well-in-progress narrative without losing any of the emotional groundedness already established.”
— Dennis Harvey, SF Bay Guardian
Fri-Sat: 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35
Sun: 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:25
Mon-Thu: 4:30, 7:00, 9:25
Director Javier Fuentes-León in person on Fri-Sat 9/17-18 at 7:00 & 9:35 shows
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-León 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 later this fall in subsequent markets including New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Diego.
WEBSITE: UNDERTOWFILM.COM
NEW YORK
TFC is proud to supports its Board of Advisor member and its client Effie Brown, producer of THE INHERITANCE, which premiered at the American Black Film Festival in Miami where it won the award “Best Actor.” TFC will soon announce the US and Canada distribution for the film, but you can see it this weekend at the Urbanworld FIlm Festival. TFC is proud to be working with Effie Brown on an initiative for distributing black film which we will announce more details about in the coming weeks.
Family friends gather during a winter storm for a "secret" family reunion at the family estate. The five young family friends are all bright and talented going about their lives as they see best. The connection to their tortured history is one of only passing fascination. They are completely ignorant that every choice they've in their lives has actually been made for them The reunion turns deadly when the elders have to make good on an ancient pact with a spirit of an ancestor. Now, its this generations turn to make the ultimate sacrifice. It is their duty and their destiny, but they won't give up without a fight to survive
Sun 9/19: 2:30pm, AMC 34th Street, Theatre 12
WEBSITE: THEINHERITANCEMOVIE.COM (Coming soon)
TFC has added a few more short films to its Worldwide LGBT Shorts Initiative and the full line up will be announced mid October.
TFC is now also considering packaging them as a collection to be put onto Netflix and welcomes feedback from its community of filmmakers.
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE
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