Well we gotta get our snow fix SOMEWHERE
Posted on January 19, 2012
Yes, New York has been barren and dry this winter, with barely a flake of snow to be seen. Unacceptable! So we (and the rest of filmmaking America) are heading to Sundance, where – if past events are of any guidance – we’ll soon learn to miss the relative warmth and dryness of Brooklyn.
Also at the festival are our UK-based friends at Passion Pictures, who have two films there: Bart Layton’s The Imposter, and Malik Bendjeloull’s Searching for Sugarman. Passion are working with us on Live Free or Die, and the director of that film, Jeremiah Zagar, is also at Sundance with his short film Heart Stop Beating.
"Quick, to the Prospector Square Theatre!"
So in short, we expect good times and cold weather for all. If you’re there and see us milling about, hit us up! If you’re not, enjoy your relative warmth, and pray that our snow boots don’t fail us…
Keeping quiet another day
Posted on January 18, 2012
We’ve been bottling up news since the new year, but it will all have to wait another day. Today we’re joining our host Wordpress and other sites for the Internet Blackout. An easy way to sign the petition is to go to google.com, click on the censorship banner and it leads you to one of the petitions. Even better, call your representatives.
Happy 2012!
Posted on December 26, 2011
The HWM’s office is closed this week, but we’ll be back in swing on the 2nd. Wishing you all a great year ahead…
112 Weddings awarded Tribeca grant
Posted on December 20, 2011
Our project with director and longtime collaborator Doug Block has received a Tribeca Documentary Fund grant. Thanks and kudos to Ryan Harrington and Tribeca for setting up the fund and recognizing that documentaries without social justice or political content are also worthy of financial help. Like the old days. Or European countries.
Our Head of Development would really like all of your money right now, OK great!
Posted on December 15, 2011
Elizabeth Theis, our Head of Development, develops more than just projects for us here at HWM. She’s also writing and starring in a TV pilot for her own show, which she intends to enter into the New York Television Festival’s Pilot Competition. But to do that, she needs to shoot it, and to shoot it, she needs, well, money. So she’s launched a Kickstarter campaign for it – head on over and check it out, and help bring this bizarre idea into fruition!
Out Harvey Wang’s window
Posted on November 30, 2011
Friend and director/photographer Harvey Wang has a new show documenting the changes in the Lower East Side from the late 1970’s, when he lived there.
Comedy tonight!
Posted on November 9, 2011
Our EP on What A Mother, Caroline Hirsch, is founder of The New York Comedy Festival, which runs from November 9th – 13th. Comedians include Wanda Sykes, Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher , Kathy Griffin and Jim Gaffigan, to name a few. The office here will be at a number of shows, including Louis C.K., and Sarah Silverman in our home turf of Brooklyn (with the incredible Reggie Watts).
