Opening This Week
Treeless Mountain (Film Forum, NYC)
From the press materials: New York filmmaker So Yong Kim draws from her own childhood to tell this gentle and restrained account of two little girls in South Korea. When their mother leaves them to find their estranged father, six-year-old Jin and her younger sister, Bin, are left to live with their neglectful aunt. With only a piggy bank and their mother’s promise to return when it is full, the girls are forced to acclimate to traumatic changes in their family life. Counting the days, and the coins, they eagerly anticipate their mother’s homecoming. But when the bank fills up, and with their mother still not back, their aunt decides that she can no longer care for them and the girls are forced to discover the emotional resources needed to survive.
Films Currently in Theatres
American Violet
The Lemon Tree (NY)
Sunshine Cleaning
Duplicity
Everlasting Moments
Coraline
Pray the Devil Back to Hell- Charlotte, NC
Women Directed Films
Sugar- directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
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You Have Freedom From the Consequence of Decisions
My husband and I went to Duplicity this weekend–the theater was packed! (Saturday 7 pm showing.) And we both enjoyed it, and people were laughing loudly through parts of it.
I just wrapped principle on a short film-
the DP, Gaffer and I (writer/director) all female
as well as the co-prod., M/U, wardrobe, PA, etc.
The story is female character driven-
most crew donated their time-
most of the equip was donated or offered at astounding low rates (lenses!!!!)
the editing is being donated-
all the men in the crew are pro feminist men who read the script before signing on-
there is light
thought you’d like that bit of good news.
more to come.