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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 [...]

les filmes travailler…um… hard.

Parts of the HWM office might have dressed as Jean-Paul Belmondo from the last scene of Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou” for Halloween last night, no big deal. A classic costume choice, we say.

Don’t miss the mixtape

We’re admitted friends of most things Swedish here at Hard Working Movies, and our current serving of Scandinavian goodness comes in the shape of a terrific new doc from our friends over at Story, “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975“, which is primarily centered around amazing footage shot by Swedish television crews in the 60s and [...]

Hard Working Blenders

On any given day, we’re (obviously) hard at work with our film projects here at Hard Working Movies, but occasionally, we’ll also take on a few side projects here and there. Elizabeth Theis, our Head of Development, also spends some of her time writing comedy and developing her own TV show… oh, and also dabbling [...]

Before Morgan Spurlock…

…….there was Chris and Luke:…….

On the incommensurability of flying ashtrays

Docmaker Errol Morris has an interesting essay in today’s New York Times, about unexpected life turns, academic intolerance, chain smoking, and the elusiveness of the term “incommensurability” itself – well worth a read. And if the mere word “incommensurability” gave you a headache, it also includes a really nifty 1000 fps shot of said flying ashtray – [...]

Berlin without the brrr

Parts of Hard Working Movies (the Swedish contingency) just returned from Berlin and the film festival, and can happily announce that the regularly ruthless February weather the city usually suffers under was nowhere to be found (’twas just a little nippy is all), but talented filmmakers en masse were! We’re happy to have made lots [...]

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