Rights Available for Tribeca Award-Winning A SUITABLE GIRL @ Sheffield 2017 and Other Top-Notch Titles from SXSW and HotDocs

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Tribeca Award-Winner A Suitable Girl @ Sheffield Doc/Fest

Other Top-Notch Documentaries Available:
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (SXSW Award-Winner)
More Art Upstairs (Hot Docs)


	The Film Collaborative is proud to offer for sales the following three unique and expertly-crafted documentaries, all of which have recentently premiered at A-list film festivals (and one that is playing at Sheffield this weekend). To learn more, please click on one of the posters below for an instant hyperlink, or simply scroll down. Lastly, The Film Collaborative will be in attendance at Sheffield! We’d welcome the opportunity to connect in person, so please do not hesitate to reach out.


	Playing at Sheffield Doc/Fest Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award (Tribeca)		Audience Award Winner, Documentary Spotlight (SXSW) Best Documentary Jury Winner (Outshine Miami) Audience Award (Nashville)


	2017 \| India / USA \| 94 min. Directors Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra Writers Jennifer Tiexiera, Smriti Mundhra, Sarita Khurana Producers Smriti Mundhra, Jennifer Tiexiera, Sarita Khurana Executive Producers Cal Amir, Ken Castelino Editor Jennifer Tiexiera Cinematographers Andre de Alencar Lyon, Naiti Gamez Music Gingger Shankar Cast Dipti Admane, Amrita Jhanwar, Ritu Taparia, Seema Taparia		A Suitable Girl ABOUT THE FILM: A SUITABLE GIRL follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. Ritu, Dipti and Amrita represent the new India. Educated, financially stable and raised with a mix of traditional and contemporary values in the urban cities of Mumbai and New Delhi, they have access to the world in ways their mothers did not. Yet their lives take a dramatic turn when the pressure to settle down and get married hits. Career aspirations become secondary to the pursuit of a husband, and the women struggle with the prospect of leaving their homes and families to become part of another. Documenting the arranged marriage and matchmaking process in vérité over four years, the film examines the women’s complex relationships with the institution of marriage and the many nuanced ways society molds them into traditional roles and makes it nearly impossible to escape. FESTIVALS 2017: Tribeca (World Premiere) AWARDS Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award (Tribeca) AVAILABLE TERRITORIES The World PRESS KIT DOWNLOAD INDIAN DIASPORA FACT SHEET DOWNLOAD TRAILER https://vimeo.com/213179888 password: suitable MORE INFO: Facebook Page 74K followers

	Date	Time	Venue
Sheffield Doc/Fest Screening	Sun., Jun 11	9:30am	Showroom Screen 1


	“A Suitable Girl is an overwhelming testament to the power of patriarchy and the continued struggle of women to gain agency over their lives—and the many power structures that conspire to restrict their movement, their sexuality and their life choices.” — Shubhodeep Pal, The Hindu


	“Heartbreaking” “Stirring in its examination of ingrained sociocultural sexism, and the toll it takes on entire families, the film seems likely to appeal to a significant audience.”		“The film succeeds… largely due to the engaging personalities of its subjects and their families”

	“Does everything a good documentary should do”		Directors Use Film to Speak on Social Issues at 2017 Tribeca Film Festival

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	“With A Suitable Girl, Filmmakers Sarita Khurana & Smriti Mundhra have achieved what many documentarians can only attempt, taking a topic that many outsiders misunderstand and laying it beautifully bare. In this case, the subject of arranged marriages has become increasingly controversial to the Western world over time, as women have rightfully embraced their independence and released the ties of tradition. In this film, we meet several of these contemporary women, all of whom relish their greatness as individuals while acknowledging the importance of tradition to their identities. A Suitable Girl challenges conventions and reveals truthful portraits of its central subjects with beautiful cinematography, compelling characters, and a gorgeous score from Gingger Shankar.” — Priyanka Vartak, “Tribeca Film festival 2017: Top 10 movies to watch out for” The Free Press Journal


	2017 \| USA \| 91 min. Director Jennifer M. Kroot Producers Gerry Kim, Mayuran Tiruchelvam Editor Bill Weber Cinematographer Shane King Sound Lora Hirschberg Music Michael Hearst animation Grant Nellessen		THE UNTOLD TALES OF Armistead Maupin ABOUT THE FILM: ARMISTEAD MAUPIN examines the life and work of one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels have inspired millions to claim their own truth. Jennifer Kroot’s documentary about the creator of Tales Of The City moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. With help from his friends (including Neil Gaiman, Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Sir Ian McKellen and Amy Tan), Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of 70’s San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war. FESTIVALS 2017: SXSW (World Premiere), Frameline (Opening Night) AWARDS Audience Award Winner, Documentary Spotlight (SXSW), Best Documentary Jury Winner (Outshine Miami), Audience Award (Nashville) SALES TERRITORIES The World PRESS KIT: Download Press Kit MORE INFO: armisteadfilm.com

Armistead Maupin will be the headliner at the Manchester Literature Festival (in the UK), Oct. 6-22, and will be there promoting his new book, Logical Family (to be published by Harper Collins) in late October.

http://www.thefilmcollaborative.org/eblasts/theuntoldtalesofarmisteadmaupin-still




	2017 \| USA \| 76 min. Writer & Director Jody Hassett Sanchez Producer Jody Hassett Sanchez Executive Producer John Kingston Editor Joshua Woltermann Cinematographers Nelson Walker III, Josh Tyron Sound Matthew Lohr Music Bob Dixon		More Art Upstairs ABOUT THE FILM: Grand Rapids, Michigan has gotten more people to pay attention to art. MORE ART UPSTAIRS follows four accomplished artists as they compete at ArtPrize, a populist experiment that’s challenging the art world’s hierarchy by giving the public the power to decide which art will win almost half the $500,000 in prize money. For three weeks in September, hundreds of thousands of people flock to Grand Rapids to engage in beer-fueled debates in the bars of one Michigan town aren’t about sports, politics, or business—they’re about art. With unmatched access to artists, organizers, jurors and visitors, this excellent film captures the entire wild ride of the ArtPrize competition. It’s a thoughtful yet exuberant experience about this curious confluence of paintings, populism and the notion that art can express something important about what it means to be human. FESTIVALS 2017: HotDocs (World Premiere) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES The World TRAILER Watch Trailer PRESS KIT View Press Kit MORE INFO: moreartupstairs.com Facebook Page ***ArtPrize Facebook post promoting film has over 107K total page followers


	“It’s essentially the democratization of art, no elites allowed.” “The event has all the makings of a cruel, Christopher Guest-like mockumentary, in which common-folk creatives are held up against the potentially harsh spotlight of their own outsider-art creations… Yet Jody Hassett Sanchez’s doc takes a different, more appreciated tack.”		“Supremely entertaining throughout and building genuine tension as the competition nears its conclusion, Sanchez has made a crowd pleasing film with More Art Upstairs, but one that also slyly asks the viewer to think critically about what they’re seeing.” “More Art Upstairs is a fascinating microcosm of the modern art world played out over the course of a single event, told through the eyes of sometimes flustered organizers and passionate artists all vying for notoriety and validation.”

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