Hard Working Movies

Ride a Tricycle to the Edge of Dreaming

hwmgabriel — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:10:53 +0000

Tricycle, the publisher of the largest Buddhist magazine in the U.S., has selected Amy hardie’s The Edge of Dreaming as their monthly selection in their film club. If you’re interested in Buddhist views, value and practices, this is a great time to join them as a member and check out Amy’s film. Also, there is an ongoing discussion in their comments section, where members are able to discuss the film, and Amy is participating in that discussion. Head on over to check it out, and stay tuned for an interview with Amy coming to Tricycle’s site shortly!

Well we gotta get our snow fix SOMEWHERE

hwmgabriel — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:41:00 +0000

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.

Also at the festival are our UK-based friends at Passion Pictures, who have two films there: Bart Layton’s The Imposter, and Malik Bendjeloull’s Searching for Sugarman. Passion are working with us on Live Free or Die, and the director of that film, Jeremiah Zagar, is also at Sundance with his short film Heart Stop Beating.

"Quick, to the Prospector Square Theatre!"

So in short, we expect good times and cold weather for all. If you’re there and see us milling about, hit us up! If you’re not, enjoy your relative warmth, and pray that our snow boots don’t fail us…

Keeping quiet another day

loricheatle — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:22:31 +0000

We’ve been bottling up news since the new year, but it will all have to wait another day. Today we’re joining our host Wordpress and other sites for the Internet Blackout. An easy way to sign the petition is to go to google.com, click on the censorship banner and it leads you to one of the petitions. Even better, call your representatives.

Happy 2012!

loricheatle — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:20:24 +0000

The HWM’s office is closed this week, but we’ll be back in swing on the 2nd. Wishing you all a great year ahead…

112 Weddings awarded Tribeca grant

loricheatle — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:33:59 +0000

Our project with director and longtime collaborator Doug Block has received a Tribeca Documentary Fund grant. Thanks and kudos to Ryan Harrington and Tribeca for setting up the fund and recognizing that documentaries without social justice or political content are also worthy of financial help. Like the old days. Or European countries.

Our Head of Development would really like all of your money right now, OK great!

hwmgabriel — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:38:11 +0000

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 needs, well, money. So she’s launched a Kickstarter campaign for it – head on over and check it out, and help bring this bizarre idea into fruition!

Out Harvey Wang’s window

loricheatle — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:48:19 +0000

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.