Cds Films recently had one if its first feature flicks Natural Born Pranksters picked up for distribution by Lionsgate. Now, the film division of the multi-channel network Collective Digital Studio is adding another title to its roster of original movies. Cds Films has started production on its newest feature starring Vine celebrity Matthew Espinosa.
Directed by Joshua Caldwell (Layover, South Beach), the untitled comedy-drama from tells the story of Jordan Jay (played by Espinosa), a teen pop star who just wants to lead a normal life. Jordan abandons his sold-out tour and runs away to a small town where he meets Emily, a girl described in a release as “a rebellious street artist who wants nothing to do with [Jordan].” Cds Films’ upcoming title also co-stars Sarah Jeffery (Shades of Blue), Tava Smiley (General Hospital), Caitlin Keats (Kill Bill: Vol 2), Lamonica Garrett (Sons of Anarchy), and Allison Paige (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries...
Directed by Joshua Caldwell (Layover, South Beach), the untitled comedy-drama from tells the story of Jordan Jay (played by Espinosa), a teen pop star who just wants to lead a normal life. Jordan abandons his sold-out tour and runs away to a small town where he meets Emily, a girl described in a release as “a rebellious street artist who wants nothing to do with [Jordan].” Cds Films’ upcoming title also co-stars Sarah Jeffery (Shades of Blue), Tava Smiley (General Hospital), Caitlin Keats (Kill Bill: Vol 2), Lamonica Garrett (Sons of Anarchy), and Allison Paige (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries...
- 12/10/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
The Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrates its epic 53rd annual edition on March 24-29 with a colossal selection of experimental short films and features.
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
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Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
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- 3/24/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Spoiler alert, but Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) was, in fact, not my favorite film of the year. I figured I should just get that out of the way at the start for those of you who feared I might have the same #1 film as Brad and Mike, both of whom listed Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's latest as their favorite film from 2014. Don't get me wrong, I really liked Birdman, but in a surprise to even myself, it didn't make my list, which I think you can pretty much chalk up to the surprisingly good year 2014 wound up being. I was certainly among the scoffers last fall about it being a bit of down year, and just a month or so ago I was of the opinion 2014 offered a lot of films to like, but very few to love. After going through and finalizing my list, I'd like to retract that statement.
- 1/27/2015
- by Jordan Benesh
- Rope of Silicon
This time of year most everyone in the film world is talking about Oscar contenders, movies like Boyhood, Birdman, and Selma, which get more press each week as awards season marches on. However, I'm here today to provide a recommendation for a film you likely haven't heard of, which you can check out right now on VOD. The film is called Layover, and it is an impressive high-concept drama that took me completely by surprise. The first outing from writer-director Joshua Caldwell, Layover is very much in the vein of Richard Linklater's Before trilogy. Driven not by traditional plot mechanics but by the characters we see on screen and the way they interact with the world around them, Caldwell's primarily French-language film centers on a Parisian woman named Simone (Nathalie Fay) as she navigates the city of Los Angeles for a night after her connecting flight to Singapore is cancelled.
- 12/16/2014
- by Jordan Benesh
- Rope of Silicon
The prevailing optimism tells us that whenever the Hollywood studio system is underserving an audience or an entire genre, indie filmmakers will appear like the cavalry to fill the gaps. If that’s true (and it probably is), it’s fitting that Joshua Caldwell‘s Layover was released the same week Warner Bros. announced its next thousand years of DC superhero movies. It’s an antidote to spandex, a movie that won’t set the world on fire that comes at a time when we should be questioning the virtue of movies that set the world on fire. What it is, is a beautifully mature work from a promising young director that calmly and confidently explores themes like the inevitability of life’s pattern and the unnecessary transformative effect of random experiences. It also does all this while being far less pretentious than that sentence is. Simone (Nathalie Fay) lands in Los Angeles after flying from Paris...
- 10/16/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
As Richard Linklater has perhaps most famously shown, a lot can happen in one night. The hours between sunset and sunrise have inspired numerous filmmakers to tell stories about the drama, comedy, and romance that can unfold, and another tale of a nighttime connection has arrived with writer/director Joshua Caldwell's "Layover." Starring Nathalie Fay, Karl E. Landler, Bella Dayne, and Hal Ozsan, the story follows Simone, a young Parisian on the way to her wedding in Singapore, whose connecting flight in cancelled, forcing her to spend the night in Los Angeles. She heads into the city to meet a friend, but is soon left on her own downtown without a ride, where she meets a motorcyclist who takes her on an adventure that makes her question the future she has waiting for her. In the clip below, you witness the encounter that takes Simone through the streets of L.
- 10/13/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Let’s say you desperately want to make a feature film, but you don’t have any money to do it. Can you scrape together a few thousand? Good, because writer/director Joshua Caldwell and producer Travis Oberlander join us this week to explain how they made Layover for only $6,000. Beyond making a movie for a few months’ rent, Geoff and I will answer your screenwriting questions and continue our star-spangled conversation from last week by exploring the concepts of Freedom and Revolution as they apply (for better and worse) to filmmaking. You should follow Caldwell (@joshua_caldwell), Travis Oberlander (@tobewan), the show (@brokenprojector), Geoff (@drgmlatulippe) and Scott (@scottmbeggs) on Twitter for more on a daily basis. Please review us on iTunes Download Episode #66 Directly Or subscribe Through iTunes On This Week’s Show: You Blew It [0:00 - 1:00] Your Screenwriting Questions [1:00 - 17:30] Freedom and Revolution [17:30 - 31:45] How to Make a $6,000 Movie (w/ Joshua Caldwell and Travis Oberlander) [31:45 - 50:15] Heroes of the...
- 7/11/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This weekend, I saw a movie at the Seattle International Film Festival that had a budget of $6,000. Joshua Caldwell’s Layover, which had its world premiere here, was shot in 11 days in Los Angeles and takes place during the course of a single evening, as a itinerant frenchwoman Simone (played by Nathalie Fay) re-connects with a […]
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- 6/3/2014
- by David Chen
- Slash Film
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