Fathers and Sons
Our friend Fivel Rothberg, a documentary filmmaker who assisted us here at HWM HQ in the first stages of our upcoming “112 Weddings“, has been hard at work on his own film “House Devil, Street Angel. An autobiographical doc, the film is about father-son relationships, intra-family abuse, roles and ideas about masculinity, and the paths [...]
Amy’s new film(s)
Amy Hardie, who directed our The Edge of Dreaming, has recently finished her new film. It’s called Tuesdays and centers around a group of women with advanced cancer. As per Amy’s own site:
Meet a group of very different women who come together every Tuesday in Dundee. They laugh, they cry, they exchange shopping and cooking tips, [...]
Ode to SxSW
We have a special fondness for SxSW, having screened several films at the festival and over the years seeing so much standout music there (recalling a slightly younger Wanda Jackson at the Continental Club). We can’t make it this year, but look out for some of our friends’ amazing films: Gayby (producer Amy Hobby), Remains (dir [...]
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 [...]
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