Heading into its 18th year in 2011, the Chicago Underground Film Festival is the longest-running underground film festival in the world. It used to be tied with the New York Underground Film Festival — both were started in 1994 — until Nyuff closed up shop in 2008.
In 1994, the Internet wasn’t the big promotional tool it is today so neither Nyuff nor Cuff that year had a website; or, if they did, those pages have since vanished off the web. So, details about what these fests screened in their first years have been sketchy. Well, until now for Cuff.
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I recently discovered that the alternative newsweekly the Chicago Reader had posted up the entire, full lineup of the first annual Chicago Underground Film Festival.
So, I copied that info and reformatted it into the style of Bad Lit’s traditional film festival lineups, which...
In 1994, the Internet wasn’t the big promotional tool it is today so neither Nyuff nor Cuff that year had a website; or, if they did, those pages have since vanished off the web. So, details about what these fests screened in their first years have been sketchy. Well, until now for Cuff.
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I recently discovered that the alternative newsweekly the Chicago Reader had posted up the entire, full lineup of the first annual Chicago Underground Film Festival.
So, I copied that info and reformatted it into the style of Bad Lit’s traditional film festival lineups, which...
- 12/9/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
If Jay McCarroll is somehow a victim of his own fame, he won't admit it. The first winner of the Emmy-nominated Project Runway hasn't broken the fashion world wide open, and he says that's an impossible goal to achieve in just a handful of years.
But the outspoken McCarroll, who did not take his six-figure winnings from the show, is still trying to push towards that finish line, constantly working and re-working his line of designs. Eleven Minutes directors Michael Selditch and Robert Tate spent many months with McCarroll as he prepared for his brief walk under the bright lights of New York's Fashion Week, showing us exactly how the newcomer prepared for his first independent show...without the helping hand of Heidi Klum and company.
Big Picture: Even though the runway show itself is short, it's nearly a year putting it all together, stitch by stitch. And in your situation,...
But the outspoken McCarroll, who did not take his six-figure winnings from the show, is still trying to push towards that finish line, constantly working and re-working his line of designs. Eleven Minutes directors Michael Selditch and Robert Tate spent many months with McCarroll as he prepared for his brief walk under the bright lights of New York's Fashion Week, showing us exactly how the newcomer prepared for his first independent show...without the helping hand of Heidi Klum and company.
Big Picture: Even though the runway show itself is short, it's nearly a year putting it all together, stitch by stitch. And in your situation,...
- 2/20/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Eleven Minutes
Featuring Jay McCarroll, Nancy Kane, and Kelly Cutrone
Directed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate
Rated R
Reality television has created an almost embarrassing array of minor celebrities, everyone from the naked tax evader guy on Survivor to William Hung. If we've seen them, how will we ever forget that shrieking religious banshee of Trading Spouses or Omarosa from The Apprentice?
These shows aren't immune from big personalities; that's the reason most people watch. But few reality or competition shows have as much on the ball as Project Runway. The contestants actually have to do something, and do it in original ways. EVery stitch is scrutinized.
From a pool of fashion designers, three are chosen each season to display their new lines of clothes at New York's Fashion Week, one of the biggest events in that entire industry. It would be like determining the American Idol winner by...
Featuring Jay McCarroll, Nancy Kane, and Kelly Cutrone
Directed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate
Rated R
Reality television has created an almost embarrassing array of minor celebrities, everyone from the naked tax evader guy on Survivor to William Hung. If we've seen them, how will we ever forget that shrieking religious banshee of Trading Spouses or Omarosa from The Apprentice?
These shows aren't immune from big personalities; that's the reason most people watch. But few reality or competition shows have as much on the ball as Project Runway. The contestants actually have to do something, and do it in original ways. EVery stitch is scrutinized.
From a pool of fashion designers, three are chosen each season to display their new lines of clothes at New York's Fashion Week, one of the biggest events in that entire industry. It would be like determining the American Idol winner by...
- 2/20/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
With all eyes on the upcoming Academy Awards (not to mention the Spirit Awards, the afternoon before), it's a relatively quiet week at the box office. There are some bubblegum high school antics, a couple of documentaries about the dysfunctional, a children's literary classic and a somber drama set during WWII. Take heart, we're nearly over the hump.
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"Delhi 6"
BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...
Download this in audio form (MP3: 6:11 minutes, 8.5 Mb)
"Delhi 6"
BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...
- 2/19/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Spring is a season of renewal, particularly in the movie business, where the completion of the awards derby allows Amy Adams to segue from playing a solemn nun in "Doubt" to a klutzy crime scene cleaner in "Sunshine Cleaning." Along with "Sunshine," there are plenty of festival favorites about to get their day in the sun, whether that's in theaters, on DVD or on demand online or on TV. This preview recognizes the many ways to get your indie film fix, as well as the special events you might want to head out to if you live in New York or Los Angeles, including "The Brothers Bloom" director Rian Johnson's week-long con man movie "Festival of Fakery" at L.A.'s famed New Beverly Cinema, about which we recently spoke to the director. But regardless of whether we're watching films from the past or present, we're looking forward to the next couple months.
- 2/18/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.] It’s doubtful anyone unfamiliar with Bravo’s series “Project Runway” will buy tickets to see the new documentary “Eleven Minutes,” even though Michael Selditch and Rob Tate’s film goes to great lengths to distance itself from that most trend-setting of TV reality shows. In its behind-the-scenes portrayal of “Runway”‘s season one winner Jay McCarroll, as he readies his first line for showcase and, hopefully, sale, “Eleven …...
- 2/17/2009
- Indiewire
By Neil Pedley
With all eyes on the upcoming Academy Awards (not to mention the Spirit Awards, the afternoon before), it's a relatively quiet week at the box office. There are some bubblegum high school antics, a couple of documentaries about the dysfunctional, a children's literary classic and a somber drama set during WWII. Take heart, we're nearly over the hump.
Download this in audio form (MP3: 6:11 minutes, 8.5 Mb) "Delhi 6"
BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...
With all eyes on the upcoming Academy Awards (not to mention the Spirit Awards, the afternoon before), it's a relatively quiet week at the box office. There are some bubblegum high school antics, a couple of documentaries about the dysfunctional, a children's literary classic and a somber drama set during WWII. Take heart, we're nearly over the hump.
Download this in audio form (MP3: 6:11 minutes, 8.5 Mb) "Delhi 6"
BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...
- 2/16/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
"Eleven Minutes" (a.k.a. "Jay McCarroll: Eleven Minutes") is a documentary helmed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate. The duo worked together in TV's "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" with Selditch producing and editing and Tate producing. The film sees a limited run on February 20th via indie distributor Regent Releasing, known for greats such as "Aurora Borealis" starring Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland. Check out the whole gallery.What's it about? It's been a while since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer" on season one of reality TV's "Project Runway" and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary Eleven Minutes chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores. The result is an in-depth, painfully raw and humorous exploration...
- 2/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"Eleven Minutes" (a.k.a. "Jay McCarroll: Eleven Minutes") is a documentary helmed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate. The duo worked together in TV's "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" with Selditch producing and editing and Tate producing. The film sees a limited run on February 20th via indie distributor Regent Releasing, known for greats such as "Aurora Borealis" starring Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland. It's been a while since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer" on season one of reality TV's "Project Runway" and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary Eleven Minutes chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park...
- 2/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"Eleven Minutes" (a.k.a. "Jay McCarroll: Eleven Minutes") is a documentary helmed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate. The duo worked together in TV's "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" with Selditch producing and editing and Tate producing. The film sees a limited run on February 20th via indie distributor Regent Releasing, known for greats such as "Aurora Borealis" starring Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland. It's been a while since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer" on season one of reality TV's "Project Runway" and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary Eleven Minutes chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park...
- 2/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Here! Films, the theatrical distribution and worldwide sales division of Here! Networks, has acquired worldwide distribution rights to "Eleven Minutes," a documentary about fashion designer Jay McCarroll, winner of the first season of "Project Runway." The project is co-directed and co-produced by Michael Selditch and Rob Tate.
Regent Releasing, Here!'s sister company, and Here! Networks will distribute the film day-and-date in theaters and on the cable network on Feb. 20.
In 2006, Selditch and Tate made a one-off TV special on McCarroll for Bravo called "Project Jay." "Eleven Minutes" picks up where that program ended.
The documentary chronicles McCarroll's year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores.
Regent Releasing, Here!'s sister company, and Here! Networks will distribute the film day-and-date in theaters and on the cable network on Feb. 20.
In 2006, Selditch and Tate made a one-off TV special on McCarroll for Bravo called "Project Jay." "Eleven Minutes" picks up where that program ended.
The documentary chronicles McCarroll's year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores.
- 12/17/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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