New TFC Titles
Five Star • Song from the Forest
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Dear Programmers,
TFC is proud to announce its association with FIVE STAR, the only film in 2014 to World Premiere at Tribeca and go on to its International Premiere at the Venice International FF. Fresh off such impressive accolades, this film is now available for Festivals world-wide and it is something you need to see!
Also—with the environmental film festival circuit upon us soon in early 2015, you’ll need to check out SONG FROM THE FOREST…which has wowed audiences at such Festivals as IDFA, SXSW, and most recently DOC NYC.
Request screeners here.
All best,
Jeffrey Winter |
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2014 | USA | 83 min.
Writer & Director Keith Miller
Producers Keith Miller, Daryl Freimark, Luisa Conlon
Executive Producer Russell Miller
Co-Producer Landon Van Soest
Associate Producers Alexander Mallis, Ynette Hogue, James Hogue, Mindy Miller, Lee Weinstein
Editor Keith Miller
Cinematographers Ed David, Alexander Mallis
Production Designers Jennifer Correa, Kelley Van Dilla
Music Michael Rosen
Cast James 'Primo' Grant, John Diaz, Wanda Nobles Colon, Tamara Robinson Jasmin Diaz
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ABOUT THE FILM:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film and in reality—the streets of Brooklyn are all Primo has ever known. While John questions whether or not to enter into this life, Primo must decide whether to leave it all behind as he vows to become a better husband and father. Set during those New York summer weeks where the stifling heat seems to encase everything, FIVE STAR plunges into gang culture with searing intensity. Director Keith Miller observes the lives of these two men with a quiet yet pointed distance, carefully eschewing worn clichés through its unflinching focus. Distinctions between fiction and real life remain intentionally ambiguous, allowing the story of these two men to resonate beyond the streets, as they face the question of what it means to be a man.
Five Star is the second narrative feature film by director Keith Miller (Welcome to Pine Hill).
FESTIVALS
2014: Tribeca, Venice, Seattle International, Rooftop
AWARDS
Best Editing in a Narrative (Tribeca)
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World
EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, HDCAM, Blu-Ray, DVD
MORE INFO:
fivestarthemovie.com
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Song From
the Forest
ABOUT THE FILM:
As a young man, U.S.-born Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that never let him out of its grasp. He followed the mysterious sounds back to the Central African rainforest, found his music with the Bayaka pygmies—and never came back. Today, 25 years later, Louis is a full member of this community of hunters and gatherers. Louis has a son with a Bayaka woman, 13-year-old Samedi. As a baby, Samedi became seriously sick. As he lay dying, Louis held him the whole night and promised him: “If you survive, one day I will show you the world from which I came.”
Now it is time to keep his promise, and so Louis travels with his son from the African rainforest to a different jungle made of concrete, glass and asphalt—to New York City, where he stays with his best friend, indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. Soon after their arrival, there is a first surprise: Samedi, who had never left the rainforest and does not speak a word of English is far more comfortable with the US than Louis. The rapprochement with the world that his father wanted to forget and that his son now wants to conquer is slow, quiet and not free from setbacks. Joined by the contrast between the rainforest and the urban US, the unequal couple grows ever closer on the road. SONG FROM THE FOREST narrates their victories, but also their defeats in a modern epic in which the shared journey of father and son steers towards a surprising reversal of roles and gives the viewer an intimation that the African rainforest and urban America, these apparently separated worlds, are not all that separate after all.
FESTIVALS
2013: IDFA (World Premiere); 2014: SXSW, Thessaloniki
AWARDS
Best Feature-Length Documentary (IDFA)
EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, HDCAM, Blu-Ray, DVD
Click here for more information about this film.
WEBSITE:
songfromtheforest.com
Email us for screeners or streaming links.
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