A micro indie L’Avventura-esque meets Miss Bala like oddity presented at the U.S in Progress (2015 Paris Champs-Élysées Film Festival edition), Logan Sandler reteams with Short Term 12‘s Keith Stanfield (both collaborated on Sandler’s second short, Tracks) and adds Dree Hemingway (Sean Baker’s Starlet) for what sounds like the mix between an art film and a genre film. Filmed in B&W, the American Film Institute grad saw Live Cargo get selected as one of ten feature films selected by Ifp for the annual Independent Filmmaker Lab of 2015.
Gist: A young couple mourning the death of their baby retreat to a tiny Bahamian island where they become entangled in a turf war between a dangerous human trafficker, an aging island patriarch and an obsessive homeless youth.
Production Co./Producers: Thymaya Payne (King Cobra), Mortimer Canepa.
Prediction: Narrow possibility for the Next, might trickle into SXSW and/or Locarno.
Gist: A young couple mourning the death of their baby retreat to a tiny Bahamian island where they become entangled in a turf war between a dangerous human trafficker, an aging island patriarch and an obsessive homeless youth.
Production Co./Producers: Thymaya Payne (King Cobra), Mortimer Canepa.
Prediction: Narrow possibility for the Next, might trickle into SXSW and/or Locarno.
- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Five graduates from the class of 2014 will receive funding for excellence in their thesis work.
Director-producer Rick Rosenthal (AFI Class of 1973) announced the following:
The William J Fadiman Award for Screenwriting ($15,000) was awarded to both Emily Ackerman for the screenplay Higher and Derek Ustruck for the screenplay Yì Qi; and
The Richard P Rogers Spirit of Excellence Award ($15,000) to director Stefan Kubicki for the film Against Night, which was recently nominated for a 2015 Student Academy Award in the Narrative category;
AFI Conservatory Dean Jan Schuette also presented:
The Franklin J Schaffner Fellow Awards ($10,000 each) to director Chloe Okuno for the film Slut and to director Logan Sandler for the film Tracks.
Director-producer Rick Rosenthal (AFI Class of 1973) announced the following:
The William J Fadiman Award for Screenwriting ($15,000) was awarded to both Emily Ackerman for the screenplay Higher and Derek Ustruck for the screenplay Yì Qi; and
The Richard P Rogers Spirit of Excellence Award ($15,000) to director Stefan Kubicki for the film Against Night, which was recently nominated for a 2015 Student Academy Award in the Narrative category;
AFI Conservatory Dean Jan Schuette also presented:
The Franklin J Schaffner Fellow Awards ($10,000 each) to director Chloe Okuno for the film Slut and to director Logan Sandler for the film Tracks.
- 8/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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