One of our newest shorts "We Had Plans," has been accepted to the 19th NYC PictureStart Film Festival! This is a festival that accepted only 7% of films submitted this year! We'll be screening on June 2nd at 7pm. Tickets are $10 online, $12 at the door. RSVP to the screening here.
Summit's First Festival Acceptance!
Summit has made official selection at this year's Manhattan Film Festival!!! We're so excited about this and cannot wait to finally share this film with the public! It screens on June 18th at 7pm. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased HERE.
Thank you to all who helped make this film possible! It's been a long 2 years of post-production & anxiously waiting. It feels absolutely amazing to finally have a screening to share with our patiently awaiting audience & supporters!
The Players Theatre (our screening venue)
IndieWorks: Insider Series w/ Hye Yun Park
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Part of our effort for IndieWorks is to feature & support indie filmmakers outside of our monthly screenings. We bring our winning filmmakers to your screen for a chat with IndieWorks co-host Lauren A. Kennedy in our series titled "IndieWorks: Insider Series".
Hye Yun screened the first episode of her web series, "Hey Yun," with us at Web Series Month in September 2014 and won the Silver Whiskers Award. The episode is clever and relatable, and incredibly well done. She not only screened with us again this past February with her excellent short "Sumi," but "Hey Yun" went on to win the Audience Choice Award at Year 2's Best of Fest! We invited her over to chat with Lauren about the making of the episode and the series as a whole, including the second season, which just premiered last month.
Hye Yun Park:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hyeheyyun
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/hypark
IndieWorks: Insider Series w/ Mark Nickelsburg
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Part of our effort for IndieWorks is to feature & support indie filmmakers outside of our monthly screenings. We bring our winning filmmakers to your screen for a chat with IndieWorks co-host Lauren A. Kennedy in our series titled "IndieWorks: Insider Series".
Mark Nickelsburg screened his film "Harry Grows Up" in January 2014 and won the Audience Choice Award. His film is very creative and technically impressive, as well as just a ton of fun. We invited him over to chat with Lauren about his approach to making the film and what else he's been working on (including a project for which he found his crew through IndieWorks).
Mark Nickelsburg:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marknickelsburg
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/marknickelsburg
Most of our CongestedCat Productions team, alongside Heinz & Al of our venue PEOPLE's Lounge & Erica of our sponsor Seed&Spark.
IndieWorks: Best of Fest Year 2 Recap
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INDIEWORKS: BEST OF FEST
WOW! We cannot get over how amazing last night was! Between the 11 phenomenal films, the brilliant filmmakers and the wonderful audience (of over 115 people), we had so much fun and made so many new connections! We hope everyone that was part of it enjoyed the night as much as we did!
THANK YOU.
To all of the incredible people involved in this community who submit their work, attend our monthly series, follow our content and spread the word of anything IndieWorks... we truly thank you. It's been another great year of fantastic films and talented filmmakers.
Two years ago, Christina decided she wanted to create a monthly film series for local independent filmmakers to showcase their work for an audience and connect with their (our) peers in a friendly, supportive, engaging and still encouragingly competitive environment. Sure enough, she made it happen pretty quickly and it has grown to something so wonderful, more so than we could have imagined, in just two years. It's been a real passion project from our team, and we hope it has stayed true to the ideals of helping independent filmmakers find an audience and build a network & community of likeminded, productive & talented individuals. Thank you all for being part of it! We're honored to screen & support your work!
The lineup & list of filmmakers can be found in our previous post.
Photos of the night include Step & Repeat coverage by resident photographer Chris Carroll & floor/stage coverage by our friend Alyssa Meadows. See all the fun we had below! Big thanks for their time & talent all night!
Sissy Denkova, the producer of the film "Bureau of Short-Term Affairs," requested we mention that she's looking for scripts to produce. So, reach out to her if you're interested!
THE AWARDS GO TO...
Audience Choice Award
Golden Whiskers Award
Hye Yun Park for "Hey Yun"
Brittany Fennell for "Q.U.E.E.N."
Sponsor Prizes:
PEOPLE Lounge: an evening of bottle service at their venue (gratuity not included).
Seed&Spark: a copy of Bright Ideas Magazine & $200 toward a crowdfunding campaign if funded on Seed&Spark.
Sponsor Prizes:
PEOPLE Lounge: 1 free 8-hour day of shooting a film project at their venue during off hours.
Seed&Spark: a copy of Bright Ideas Magazine, $200 toward a crowdfunding campaign if funded on Seed&Spark & "Q.U.E.E.N." has optional online distribution in Seed&Spark's Cinema.
Watch "Hey Yun"
Watch the "Q.U.E.E.N." Trailer
THat's a wrap!
Check out the recaps from ALL 10 SCREENINGS of Year 2 of IndieWorks.
As we take next month as an opportunity to go out and make things, we hope you will too. Our third year of IndieWorks kicks off in June -- so keep in touch & stay up to date through our social media accounts. We want to see YOU at the next screening!
Be sure to submit your films on our IndieWork page, and watch episodes of our Insider Series with the Silver Whiskers Award Winners of both years to get more insight into their screened films & upcoming work.
Discover Shorts. Find an Audience. Build the Community.