TFC Festival Distribution Updates, June 2019
A Girl from Mogadishu • Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street |
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Dear Programmers:
Revelatory social issues wrapped into engaging individual stories are at the core of what The Film Collaborative is about, and here we present two completely different films that enthrall us as viewers and celebrate the power of film!
A GIRL FROM MODADISHU (world premiere Edinburgh International FF) tells the inspiring true story of Ifrah Ahmed, a refugee from war-torn Somalia who is dangerously trafficked to Ireland, and becomes a leading international activist against gender-based violence and female genital mutilation. Starring Aja Naomi King (How to Get Away with Murder) as Ifrah.
SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (official world premiere not yet announced, sneak previews at Frameline and Outfest) tells the cautionary tale of Mark Patton, who became the first male “scream queen” in the gayest Hollywood horror film ever made, and was subsequently subject to intense homophobic backlash that ended his career. Featuring Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund.
From the ridiculous to the sublime, these films encompass it all! Please email us for screeners for these films or anything else on our slate at festivals@thefilmcollaborative.org.
All best,
The Film Collaborative |
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2019 | Ireland / Belgium / Somalia | 112 min.
Writer & Director Mary McGuckian
Producers Mary McGuckian, Adrian Politowski
Executive Producers Peter Bevan, Tatjana Kozar, Gilles Waterkeyn, Tom Harberd, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Emma Beanland Caroline Keeling, Victoria Oberfeld, Anastasia Garrett, Jason Garrett, Nadia Khamlichi, Bruce Weiss, Amber Willat, Boyd Willat, Dan Wechsler, Yann Borgstedt, Jasmin Zeinal Zade, Ciaran Mcguckian, Brian O'shea, David Rogers
Associate Producers Sana El Kilali, Terry Mcglynn, Noura Sakkaf
Cinematographer Michael Lavelle
Production Designer Emma Pucci
Costume Designer Nathalie Leborgne
Music Nitin Sawhney
Cast Aja Naomi King, Martha Cango Antonio, Barkhad Abdi, Orla Brady, Stanley Townsend, Pauline McLynn, Maryam Mursals
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ABOUT THE FILM:
Circumcised at eight. Raped by wandering militiamen at twelve. Fully infibulated again at thirteen, and then married off to a fifty-year-old man who regularly beat her; Ifrah Ahmed runs away to a place she had once known as home in war torn Mogadishu to find it had become the kind of battleground now known as “Black Hawk Down.”
Ifrah makes the extraordinary journey out of war-torn Somalia and arrives not in Minnesota, USA, as she had been lead to believe, but Dublin, Ireland.
Finally finding some sense of safety, her fears begin to subside and her traumatic days, she thinks, are behind her, until a routine medical smear test elicits such looks of horror on the faces of her Irish doctors that she suffers a profound sense of shame.
They say that anger is the flip side of shame. Channelling the feelings on both sides of that coin, she reacts incredibly quickly, learns English at break-neck speed and unearths an enviable technical talent for harnessing social media.
Within months she is campaigning for better conditions for asylum-seekers arriving in Ireland. She quickly becomes a leading activist against gender-based violence and fights through her campaign work for the abandonment of FGM world-wide.
As an Irish citizen, she presents her testimony on behalf of Ireland’s MEPs on the occasion of the ratification of the UN Convention against FGM/C at the European Parliament and it is passed unanimously.
Thus commences her now lauded professional career as an international activist.
FESTIVALS
2019: Edinburgh International (World Premiere)
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World
EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, Blu-Ray
MORE INFO:
agirlfrommogadishu-themovie.com
Email us for screeners or streaming links.
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2019 | USA | 100 min.
Directors Roman Chimienti, Tyler Jensen
Producers Roman Chimienti, Mark Patton
Executive Producer Matthew Chojnacki
Editor Tyler Jensen
Cinematographers Amber Grey, Julian Bernstein, Mark Zemel, Tyler Jensen
Cast Mark Patton, Robert Englund, Robert Rusler, Kim Myers, Clu Gulager
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ABOUT THE FILM:
At the time of release, The Advocate dubbed 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge the gayest horror film ever made. For the film’s closeted young star, Mark Patton, such a tag was a stark reminder about the homophobia rampant in Hollywood at the time—and the painful experience he had making the high-profile film and living through the polarizing critical aftermath.
This new documentary highlights Patton’s time in the horror spotlight, and Patton—who co-produced the film with Roman Chimienti, a NYC-based sound engineer—sets the record straight about the controversial sequel, which ended his acting career just as it was about to begin.
SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET follows Patton as he travels to horror conventions across the U.S. Each new city unwraps a chapter from his life that is met with equal parts joyful and bittersweet detail, as he attempts to make peace with his past and embrace his legacy as cinema’s first male “scream queen.”
SCREAM, QUEEN! also finds Patton confronting the Freddy’s Revenge cast and crew for the first time, including co-stars Robert Rusler, Kim Myers and Clu Gulager, as well as Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund. The film also discusses Freddy’s Revenge’s status as an LGBTQ cult classic, and illustrates how the career turbulence experienced by Patton—whose résumé includes stints on Broadway and a regarded role in the 1982 film Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean—wasn’t out of the ordinary for the time. “There were plenty of gay actors like me,” says Patton. “They starred in one movie and just disappeared. A whole generation just vanished.”
FESTIVALS
2019: Cleveland International (Special Advanced Screening), QDoc Portland (Sneak Preview), Inside Out Toronto (Special Sneak Preview), Frameline43 (Special Advance Screening)
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World
EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, Blu-Ray
MORE INFO:
screamqueendocumentary.com
Email us for screeners or streaming links.
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AFTER SO MANY DAYS
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Dallas International (World Premiere), NorthwestFest (Opening Night)
After a decade of playing music together, Jim and Sam, a newly married singer-songwriter duo, are not the successful band they imagined they’d be. In an attempt to break through the noise of the modern day music business and ignite their careers, they decide to uproot their lives and put their music, health, egos, and relationship through a 365 day tour.
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ALWAYS IN SEASON
AWARD WINNER!
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency (Sundance)
When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of lynching bleeds into the present. ALWAYS IN SEASON explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial violence today.
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ARTIFISHAL
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Seattle International, Telluride Mountainfilm, Seoul Eco, Greenwich International
A highly-localized story of environmental and wildlife degradation that speaks to humanity’s overarching and ultimately self-defeating desire to control the natural forces around us (trailer).
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CHANGING THE GAME
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Tribeca, Telluride Mountainfilm, Frameline: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
A ground-breaking documentary that takes us into the lives of three high school athletes—all at different stages of their athletic seasons, personal lives, and unique paths as transgender teens (trailer).
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GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH
AWARD WINNER!
Tribeca – Audience Award, Best Documentary; NorthwestFest – Audience Award, Best Documentary; Jury Prize, Best Music Documentary; Pink Apple Zurich – Audience Award, Best Documentary
The film is an instant-classic human rights film, detailing the efforts at community reconciliation undertaken by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus in the wake of the Trump election (trailer).
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GOOD KISSER
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Seattle International (World Premiere), Inside Out Toronto
Jenna agrees to a sexy weekend fling with her materialistic girlfriend Kate and the worldly Mia, but as the night unfolds, Jenna notices discomfiting details about them, and the love triangle starts to crack.
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LEONARD SOLOWAY’S BROADWAY
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Cleveland International (World Premiere)
AWARD WINNER!
Runner-up for Audience Award for Best Documentary (Outshine)
A fun-filled stroll through the golden age of Broadway through the eyes of a legendary 90-year-old gay, Jewish producer who is still peddling his latest show! LEONARD SOLOWAY’S BROADWAY Weaves between the modern day ups and downs of his most recent production, while continuously looking back at Soloway’s role working in some of Broadway’s biggest shows with many legendary stars including Marlene Dietrich, Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Lauren Bacall, Jerome Robbins, Bernadette Peters, Carol Channing and many more. (trailer).
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MR. TOILET
AWARD WINNER!
Student Choice Awards (Hot Docs)
Nearly a third of the world's population is put at risk by lack of access to proper sanitation. This global crisis finds an unlikely hero in 60-year-old Singaporean Jack Sim, also known as Mr. Toilet. With a lighthearted sense of humor and compelling and unnerving statistics, he cuts through the cultural taboos of a topic that tends to make people uncomfortable. It's fair to say...this man gives a shit, and so should we. (trailer).
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OUR TIME MACHINE
AWARD WINNER!
Tribeca – Best Cinematography, Documentary; Los Angeles Asian Pacific (LAAPF) – Grand Jury Award, International Documentary Feature; CAAMFest — Best Documentary
The film is a transcendent story of both large-scale artistic achievement and intimate human struggle, focusing on a leading Chinese conceptual artist and his quest for a final connection with his larger-than-life father (trailer).
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SELL BY
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Inside Out Toronto (World Premiere), Frameline
In a city of 8 million people, everybody has a love story. Scott is mired as a ghost painter for a famous artist, while his boyfriend is rocketing to stardom as an Instagram fashion icon. Featuring Scott Evans, Augustus Prew, Kate Walsh, and Patricia Clarkson, SELL BY asks the timeless questions…how do you know who’s right for you, and how do you know when to let go?
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