Our favorite kind of fly
Everyone should know about Paul Goodman. A new film directed by Jonathan Lee and edited by our friend Kim Reed.
Moms vs Dads at HBO
At an advance screening of the HBO Father’s Day broadcast premiere of The Kids Grow Up (airing this Sunday), bloggers Catherine Connors, Doug French and NFI head Roland Warren discuss pros and cons of the changing roles of parents with our Doug Block. Read what other bloggers are saying. And check out HBO’s website for additional broadcasts.
“I’m not sure why it reminds me of Five Easy Pieces, but it does.”
We’re happy to see Matt Boyd’s unique film “A Rubberband is an Unlikely Instrument” will premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto next week, and it’s been singled out as one of their featured documentaries. Also playing from the IFP Labs is “Give Up Tomorrow“, which we posted about last month. “Give Up Tomorrow” was awarded a Special [...]
Kids vs Buzz Lightyear
We’re opening The Kids Grow Up tonight in Washington DC at the Avalon. Ann Hornaday writes in the Washington Post: Between “The Kids Are All Right” and “Toy Story 3,” audiences were gifted with particularly sensitive portrayals of one of the most bittersweet passages in family life, when the first child prepares to leave for college. [...]
The Edge of Dreaming at center of Brainwave Series
New York’s Rubin Museum of Art’s fantastic annual Brainwave series brings together guests from various fields to discuss all things related to the mind. This year they used Amy Hardie’s film (that we helped produce) to devise a series on dreaming, with several screenings of The Edge of Dreaming and Amy Hardie in person for [...]
And Everything is Going Fine
Our friend and sometimes producing partner, Amy Hobby, is at IFC Center tonight as part of a tribute to Spalding Gray that leads up to the opening on Friday of the beautiful Steven Soderbergh documentary on Spalding, “And Everything is Going Fine“. Amy produced AEIGF, along with Kathie Russo and Josh Blum.
TKGU back from L.A.
Had an excellent week in L.A. for the opening of The Kids Grow Up. Doug and Lucy held their own with the big guns on The Talk. One of our favorite filmmakers, Michel Gondry, took out time from his own film and book tour to host a great Q&A on opening night. We had help during [...]
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