Featuring characters from all around the world and all different aged groups, Ester Brym's new film "My Pandemic Year'
promises intimate look into people's lives during the Covid-19 Pandemic lockdown.
The various testiomonies bring us closer to what connected all of us during the long months of social distancing worldwide.
Divided into four seasons, each character dives deeper into their struggles, fears but also things they gained and learnt to love
thanks to the eff...
Not Your Skin explores the lives of 4 transgender families across USA and across generations.
The will wil Premiere on November 3rd, 2018 as part of The Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Synopsis:
10-year-old Kylee is only starting her journey and her family is considering hormone blockers. Her parents changed her name and gender on her birth certificate and struggle with transitioning what they though was their son into a little girl that Kylee wants to be. They are preparin...
This is the trailer for Drat, an award-winning animted film by Farzin Farzaneh. It is produced by Lachrymose Films in Montreal, Canada. Please take a moment to visit the website at:
http://www.lachrymosefilms.com/dratpage1.html
Director: Farzin Farzaneh.
Drat is a gothic tale of a woman living alone in a country house. Her solitary routine is disrupted when she suspects that some kind of animal is trying to invade her home. Her suspicion turns into obsession as she tries in vain to keep the creature out. These efforts, along with the woman's growing anguish, are the primary focus of film. The woman finally confronts the intruder in her basement; however, all is not well. The landscape surrounding her abode rustles and heaves restlessly, and the roots of a nearby tree threaten to crack the very foundations of the woman's house. This is the story of one person’s lonely attempts to hold on to the small haven that she has carved out of her environment, and to keep it secure against the outside forces of nature. To her chagrin, she finds that the natural environment does not always recognise her exclusive right to such comforts.
To find out more about the film, go here
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The screening of the Award winning film about YouTubers takes place tonight at 7PM at The Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles.
To find our more about the film, read today's article on Patch.com
Looking forward to seeing you here:
Valley Film Festival
Saturday, November 13 @ 7:00pm
CAP Theatre
13752 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Want to know more about the documentary? Click here
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The A.D.D. Short Film Festival will be taking place in Cleveland on Saturday May 7th at a rock 'n' roll bar called Now That's Class (located at Detroit Avenue & W.114th). It's a little DIY film fest celebrating microcinema that will feature low-budget / no-budget, amateur, underground, & student works. The ADD Fest is now accepting submissions! There is no entry fee and you can submit as many films as you want. All submissions should be under thirty minutes in length and should be sent on DVD to: 761 E. 254th Street; Euclid, OH 44132 along with contact information and a brief description of the film (100 words or less). The submission deadline is Friday April 1st. For more information you can send an e-mail to westsalemcongress@hotmail.com or call (216) 731-3577. Please spread the word to any filmmakers you know!
Archived festival (terminated)
To take over another continent with our
awesome documentary about YouTubers, we have accomplished another sale
last week, this time to ZUKU TV in Nairobi, Kenya in Africa. I
am really super excited we are able to show all over the world only one
year after our Premiere in Los Angeles. I am also super very excited to
see where else we go in the next year coming up. Eventhough YouTube
seems very popular in the USA, Internet video is still in development
stages in many parts of the res...
Pre-order
Butterflies DVD Now
It is finally here!!!
The special limited 2 disc edition of Butterflies feature film about
YouTubers is coming to DVD this winter.
This 2 disc edition will not last as only limited number is released, so
please order yours right away.
...Go here to
order and find out what special features will be included.
http://www.butterfliesthemovie.com/dvd.html
******* bonus for the first 20 orders!
*The DVD will ship in the beginning of December.
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After crazy month on YouTube where most of you noticed Butterflies on the front page,
here are some new
clips and interesting info from behind the scenes.
First, if you
still didn't see the film, it is available for rent here.
If you
are interested in making of the
film, you can read an article published by YouTube or see the filmed
interviews here.
You
will find out why the characters featured in the film were picked and
if Butterflies 2 is in the works :) Who sh...
One of the first feature films distributed on YouTube is Fest 21 member's documentary film Butterflies.
The independent film from European filmmaker Ester Brym has finished its festival run last year graduating with a couple of awards
and going on to make history as one of the first films being available for rent on YouTube.
Butterflies is feature film following the
lives of six young people that are prominent 'weblebrities' on a video
site YouTube. The film explores th...
Ester Brym's feature documentary Butterflies focuses on the celebrity life of YouTube personalities.
The film premiered in July 2009 at AOF film festival in LA and signed with UK distributor Journeyman Pictures in October.
The director shot this as her directing debut on a budget put together from her savings and credit cards.
See what people say about the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4IzM59EZnI
Watch the trailer:
http://www.ButterfliesTheMovie.com
Watch the film now:
ht...
MIX 22: New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, November 17-22, 2009
Butterflies has closed its festival run last month at the First Glance Film Festival where it received one last Award.
We are very grateful to all who supported us throughout the festival
screenings and thank you to everyone who came to see the film, even
more special thanks to all of you who came and saw more than once <3
Read some background news on how Indie Producer helped us here and then watch the video.
More info at the Butterflies Official Website
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Hello Butterflies:
The festival round is coming to its
end with Butterflies screening this Sunday for the very last time on a
big screen at First Glance Film Fest in Philadelphia.
You can find the info here:
http://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesTheMovie
From
all your requests on the videos, we realize we can't bring the film
everywhere. But, because we know that lot of you can't make the
festival screenings, we are deciding on our next step and want to bring
the Award Winning film...
Lives of YouTube “Weblebrities” Chronicled in Upcoming Documentary
The
increasingly popular world of new media has introduced online viewers across
the world to a diverse group of individuals in cyberspace. YouTube.com has emerged as one of the
leaders to catapult an Average Joe into an instant “Weblebrity” with the stroke
of a computer key. Meet six folks
in the feature documentary “Butterflies” who share the common goal of becoming
internet sensations via YouTube...
La Femme Film Festival will present the Award Winning documentary
Butterflies about YouTube on Thursday, October 15th at 6PM at the Davidson/Valentini
Theatre in Hollywood.
See the feature film about YouTubers one last time, before the festival season closes at the end of the month in Philadelphia.
Subscribe here for the trailers and behind the scenes:
http://www.youtube.com/ButterfliesTheMovie
Follow FILMESTER on Twitter for updates from the festivals.
Let's get together one last time ...
Join Butterflies fanpage to get invited to all other upcoming screenings:
http://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesTheMovie.com
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September is here and Butterflies is ready:)
Sept 5th in the Czech Republic, Sept 11th and 13th and Temecula, California,
Sept 16th in New York City and Sept 26th-27th in Montana.
Now, anyone can see that it is absolutely impossible for me to make to all these fests.
Plus, I have to be in Virginia on the 23rd.
So, now what?
However, there is some good news! The Butterflies fanpage just reached its 600th fan!!!!
That is a great number! That is more than half on the way to the magical 100...
After party will follow the Friday screening :) Please come and join us or check for more dates here:
http://www.ButterfliesTheMovie.com
...
Other dates and cities to be announced bellow:
Butterflies will screen at:
Freeze Fest, Czech Republic, September 5th, 2009
Temecula Valley International Film Festival, September 9-13th, 2009
New Filmmakers, New York City, September 16th, 2009
Montana Independent Film Festival, September 27th-28th, 2009
First Glance Philadelphia, October 2009
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