Well we gotta get our snow fix SOMEWHERE
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.
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Our Head of Development would really like all of your money right now, OK great!
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 [...]
Out Harvey Wang’s window
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!
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 [...]
Favorite things
We’re excited to go to the launch tonight of The Recipe Project, the new book/CD collaboration between rock star chefs and One Ring Zero. Food, drink, writers like Mark Kurlansky and performances including the crazy talented ORZ and Claudia Gonson (The Magnetic Fields) and Allyssa Lamb (Las Rubias Del Norte). Video at Time Magazine. Piece at [...]
Deaf Jam
I was blown away watching deaf teens perform slam poetry with hearing teens in Judy Lieff’s “Deaf Jam”. The film, which we are friends of/fans of, is showing this week on Independent Lens.
Vote now, vote often
William Miller and Lee Baker’s film “Don’t Follow me (I’m Lost)” about musician Bobby Bare, Jr. is a pick of the day on Indiewire & is vying for pick of the week (https://apps.facebook.com/my-polls/2ej24e4j). We got to know these talented folks at a at a concert for the film in Brooklyn- we’d been fans of BBJr [...]
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