New TFC Films
RED HOOK SUMMER | More stars narrate A FIERCE GREEN FIRE | ELEMENTAL
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Dear Programmers:
The Film Collaborative is proud to announce a new slate of indie films resplendent with A-list directors and actors available for film festivals and non-theatrical events worldwide.
First, we are thrilled to be representing Spike Lee’s new film RED HOOK SUMMER. Following its U.S. theatrical release, the film is now available for international (non U.S. festivals). This film has played almost exclusively in North America thus far—most territory premieres are still available!
Second, Mark Kitchell’s A FIERCE GREEN FIRE has finally finished post-production and now features an amazing A-level cast of narrators for this history of the environmental movement. Narrators are Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Ashley Judd, Isabelle Allende, and Van Jones. The film was literally finished last week—so be among the first to see the final cut! The film is now available WORLDWIDE from TFC.
Finally, for now, TFC is pleased to announce ELEMENTAL, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee’s inspiring environmental doc about three activists trying to change the world. ELEMENTAL just world premiered this month at Mill Valley Film Festival and Austin Film Festival. Now available for bookings worldwide.
To request screeners or to book, email us at festivals@thefilmcollaborative.org.
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2012 | USA | 121 min.
Director Spike Lee
Writers Spike Lee, James McBride
Producer Spike Lee
Co-Producer James McBride
Editor Hye Mee Na
Director of Photography Kerwin Devonish
Production Designer Sarah Frank
Music Bruce Hornsby
Songs by Judith Hill
ALL NEGRO SPIRITUALS ARRANGED BY Dr. Uzee Brown
ALL ORIGINAL HAMMOND B-3 ORGAN MUSIC WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY Jonathan Batiste
Cast Clarke Peters, Jules Brown, Toni Lysaith, Nate Parker, James Ransone, Thomas Jefferson Byrd
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ABOUT THE FILM: The latest in Spike Lee’s Chronicles of Brooklyn series (which also include She’s Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Crooklyn, Clockers, and He Got Game), RED HOOK SUMMER tells the story of Flik Royale, a sullen young boy from middle-class Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his deeply religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook. Having never met before, things quickly get off on the wrong foot as Bishop Enoch relentlessly attempts to convert Flik into a follower of Jesus Christ. Between his grandfather’s constant preaching and the culture shock of inner-city life, Flik’s summer appears to be a total disaster—until he meets Chazz Morningstar, a pretty girl his age, who shows Flik the brighter side of Brooklyn. Through her love and the love of his grandfather, Flik begins to realize that the world is a lot bigger, and perhaps a lot better, than he’d ever imagined.
FESTIVALS
2012 Sundance Film Festival
THEATRICAL RELEASE
US: Variance/40 Acres and a Mule (August 2012)
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World, except North America
EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Digibeta, BluRay, DVD
Click here for more information about this film.
WEBSITE:
redhooksummer.com
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2012 | USA | 114 min. Writer & Director Mark Kitchell
Executive Producer Marc Weiss
Producer Mark Kitchell
Editors Ken Schneider, Veronica Selver, Jon Beckhardt
Cinematographer Vicente Franco
Music George Michalski, Sonya Kitchell, Garth Stevenson, Randall Wallace
| | We are proud to announce that Mark Kitchell’s big-picture exploration of the environmental movement, which premiered as a work-in-progress at Sundance this year, has now finished its final round of post-production. It now features narration by Robert Redford, Meryl Steep, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, and Isabel Allende. ABOUT THE FILM: A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement—grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization, the film tells vivid stories about people fighting —and succeeding—against enormous odds.
It’s not easy being green. Environmentalists have been revered and reviled, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great causes of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a juncture in history when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth. It’s the battle for a living planet.
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE focuses on activism. It’s about movements more than issues. It’s a more engaging approach, full of drama and passion. It’s also a more open-ended approach than cant and rant. We emphasize synthesis, bringing together all the pieces of the environmental picture to explore connections, resonance, larger visions and deeper meanings. Never has a film told the full story of environmentalism. Our hope is it will be a defining film that reaches and teaches a huge and hungry audience.
FESTIVALS
Sundance 2012
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World, including North America
EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Digibeta, Blu-Ray, DVD
Click here for more information about this film.
WEBSITE:
afiercegreenfire.com
For screeners, please email us.
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2012 | USA | 93 min. Directors Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Writer Gayatri Roshan
Producers Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Editor Pedro Kos
Cinematographer Emily Topper
Sound Chris Smith
Music H. Scott Salinas, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Cast Eriel Deranger, Rajendra Singh, Jay Harman
 | | ABOUT THE FILM: ELEMENTAL tells the story of three individuals united by their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most pressing ecological challenges of our time.
The film follows Rajendra Singh, an Indian government official gone rogue, on a 40-day pilgrimage down India’s once pristine Ganges river, now polluted and dying. Facing community opposition and personal doubts, Singh works to shut down factories, halt construction of dams, and rouse the Indian public to treat their sacred “Mother Ganga” with respect. Across the globe in northern Canada, Eriel Deranger mounts her own “David and Goliath” struggle against the world’s largest industrial development, the Tar Sands, an oil deposit larger than the state of Florida. A young mother and native Denè, Deranger struggles with family challenges while campaigning tirelessly against the Tar Sands and its proposed 2,000-mile Keystone XL Pipeline, which are destroying Indigenous communities and threatening an entire continent. And in Australia, inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harmon searches for investors willing to risk millions on his conviction that nature’s own systems hold the key to our world’s ecological problems. Harmon finds his inspiration in the natural world’s profound architecture and creates a revolutionary device that he believes can slow down global warming, but will it work?
Separated by continents yet sharing an unwavering commitment to protecting nature, the characters in this story are complex, flawed, postmodern heroes for whom stemming the tide of environmental destruction fades in and out of view—part mirage, part miracle.FESTIVALS
Mill Valley International Film Festival (World Premiere), Austin Film Festival FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Digibeta, Blu-Ray, DVD Click here for more information about this film. WEBSITE:
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