Hard Working Movies

“High theatrical potential”

hwmgabriel — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:57:46 +0000

Lori and Doug, with Lisa Heller from HBO Documentaries, at the Forum pitching table. Photo by Joseph Michael.

That’s how Submarine’s Josh Braun described “112 Weddings“, per another nice write-up in Realscreen today, looking back at all the Hot Docs Forum pitches. Says the article: “The strongest pitch of the Forum’s first day came from New York based filmmaker Doug Block (The Kids Grow Up, 51 Birch Street), whose trailer for 112 Weddings brought much laughter to the Hart House hall. [...] To this reporter, of all the projects pitched at the Forum in 2012, Block’s has perhaps the greatest potential to crossover and succeed on a wide number of international networks”.

Read the whole thing here!

O Canada

hwmgabriel — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:48:32 +0000

Last week saw HWM crossing the border to our northern neighbor, to attend the Hot Docs festival. Specifically, we were at the Hot Docs Forum, a massive pitching market, where we got some good early buzz for our in-the-works “112 Weddings“.

BYOD

loricheatle — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:27:22 +0000

Ran into Ondi Timoner (Dig!, We Live in Public) at Tribeca last week, where she was meeting about her new fiction feature in the works. And she’s hosting a weekly talk show on documentaries called Bring Your Own Doc, where she talks to fellow filmmakers. Watch it for free on youtube.

Fathers and Sons

hwmgabriel — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:38:33 +0000

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 we choose in life. If you’re in New York, you can also catch a screening of it tomorrow, Wednesday the 25th at 6PM at the NYU Palladium Hall in NYC, followed by a panel discussion. More info about the screening can be found here.

No Money No Problems

hwmgabriel — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:48:25 +0000

Today marks the first day of the Festival Internacional del Cine Pobre in Gibara, Cuba, and the Swedish contingency of Hard Working Movies is reprazenting with “Slate“, a short film directed by Carmen Vidal that premiered at New Directors/New Films in New York in 2010.

(the trailer for the film)

Full Frame fêtes family films, former fest favorite “51 Birch Street” follows

hwmgabriel — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:32:54 +0000

Tomorrow marks the beginning of this year’s Full Frame Festival, one of our favorite fests, and this year we’re having a nice case of déjà vu, as our “51 Birch Street“, which originally played at the Festival in 2006, is back again. Filmmaker Ross McElwee has curated a program of family-themed films for the festival, and 51 Birch Street is one of his selections. Director Doug Block will be on hand in Durham, NC, where he will also participate in a panel discussion with Ross, Alan Berliner, and Nancy Buirski. Both events take place this coming Saturday, April 14th.

In conjunction with this, WUNC is re-airing an interview Doug did with Dick Gordon in 2007. It’ll air tomorrow, Thursday April 12th, and you can catch it here.

If you try to call us…

hwmgabriel — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:05:20 +0000

…and the sound quality leaves, shall we say, something to be desired – please bear with us; it seems our phone company is striving for abstract expressionism in our building’s switch box right now.