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"Games People Play", the 2014 comedy film from Ron de Cana Productions, Inc., will be projected at Awards Night on June 12th, 2015 at the Twickenham Alive Film Festival in Twickenham, UK as the Best International Comedy.
http://www.twickenhamfilmfestival.com/index.html
Helmed by Dawn Westlake, the film stars reknowned former Second City artistic director David Razowsky (from "Late Night with David Letterman" with Albert Brooks, etc.) and newcomer Mark Jacobson, along with W...
GoPro footage shot by Ron de Cana Productions' Dawn Westlake in Arizona and Utah in January 2015 was featured in Drive Sessions 7, the latest release on Acoustic Labs' Music for Film channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wRf7jIDHLw
Westlake traveled to the Grand Canyon by rail from Williams, AZ on January 21st and then drove in the Navajo Tribal Park of Monument Valley, UT later in the month to get the footage, using the GoPro Hero3 and Hero3+ on a car mount.
For more of Drive Sess...
"Games People Play" has been selected to the 2015 Tripoli Film Fest in Tripoli, Lebanon for April 30-May 7, 2015. Helmed by Dawn Westlake, the film was shot on the Canon C500 by Jon Carr, who also edited and did VFX. The film stars David Razowsky and Mark Jacobson, along with Westlake. The original score was provided by Alvarez-featured guitarist Gregory Johnson of Acoustic Labs.
For more info on "Games People Play" and to see a trailer, please visit:
http://dawnwestlake.co...
With a singular cinematic perspective, directors Bill and Turner Ross (TCHOUPITOULAS, 45365) are known for capturing dreamy vérité images to create rich portraits of life in American landscapes. They open their latest tale before the storm hits: the people of Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Mexico are joined together to celebrate their harmonious past with a festival that all but throws open the international border. Welcoming the revelers are Chad Foster, the beloved mayor...
Dawn Westlake was recently interviewed by Cortos Verdes Internacional, an online cinema magazine out of Mexico. To read the full interview (in Spanish) click here: http://cortosverdes.blogspot.mx/2014/11/dawn-westlake-directora-productora.html
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"Games People Play" has been selected to the Film Noir Festival in Vincennes (Paris), France for November 27-30, 2014. The dark comedy was written and directed by Dawn Westlake and shot on the Canon C500 by Jon Carr. An original 'spaghetti western'-style score was composed by Gregory Johnson of Acoustic Labs. "Games People Play" stars former Second City-LA artistic director David Razowsky and Mark Jacobson (featured in the viral video hit "First Hand Job", a...
Hany Abu-Assad doubts love means never having to say you're sorry. His Oscar-nominated film Omar makes his case. While still in L.A. after the Academy Awards, the Palestinian director shed light on this star-crossed love story that plays like a thriller and thinks like a Western:
http://www.thalo.com/articles/view/907/director_hany_abu_assad_explores_love_among_the
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"The Martini Effect" plays the Grand Junction Film Festival in Colorado on February 15th, 2014. The list of selected short films is here: http://www.gjfilmfest.org/SELECTION.html
Directed by Dawn Westlake, "The Martini Effect" features Emanuele Secci, Dawn Westlake and narrators David Razowsky and Susan Messing. The film was shot on the Canon C300 with Cineprime lenses in Los Angeles and Malibu, with underwater photography in Barbados and Puerto Rico.
For more info on the f...
Director: Damián Leibovich.
Patagonia Outlaws it's an adventure movie with western elements but in present time.
PANCHO it's a Buenos Aires movie maker searching finance for his third independent movie. Pancho travels to the Patagonia, drived by Fausto, his grandfather, searching for the millionaire booty left behind by Butch Cassidy in 1905.
There's a fundamental key for finding the booty: A painting painted by Cassidy himself, pointing que place where the treasure it's buried.
On the road, he meets NANCY, a young Cultural Patrimony Official, who's needed to guide him, as she's the one who found the painting and she knows the historical events. Anibal joins them, who's unique purpose is to seduce Nancy.
Pursued by Commisioner Galvez, they must compete against eht powerfull Dimitre (a cruel treasure hunter), who also knows about the painting and the existence of the hiding booty.
Frequency Film Festival will be a monthly film festival, starting in 2013, and based in San Diego, CA, USA. There are no entry fees or deadlines.
Frequency Film Festival will present over 30 screenings, in twelve days, each month.
Documentary, Foreign, Horror, Action, Drama, Western, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Silent, Musical, Experimental, LGBT, Animation, Crime, Romance, and Family.
The mission of the Frequency Film Festival is to promote unique and exciting films and to screen ...
For short films completed in 2011 (after June 1, 2011): October 15, 2012
For short films completed in 2012 (after January 1, 2012): December 20, 2012
Submissions must be postmarked by the applicable deadline based on the production year of your film, and late submissions will not be considered and screener DVDs cannot be returned under any circumstances.
International / Asia International Competition
1. Japan Premieres Only:
Your film MUST NOT have been screened in Japan on any media and oc...
Director: Matthias Rosenberger.
When losers win...
Of the money-grubbing homeless,
to wanton barmaids
and armed grocery bandits...
Or, how a seemingly ordinary day
becomes a significant turning point
for an unremarkable man,
thanks to a minimal shift of fate.
Call for Script/Film Entries: The 6th
Annual SURGE Film Festival
Dear friends in this group and beyond,
The Sixth Annual S.U.R.G.E. Film
Festival is accepting entries.
We accept Multimedia, Film and Script
Entries. We offer wonderful Early Bird discounts until July 14th on
all entry Fees. We accept entries through Withoutabox (click here) or through our
website (click here). After that we accept entries until November 2011 for the
2012 festiva...
Classic Western Goes Green! The Going Green Film Festival not only
encourages green filmmaking, it rewards it. Visit www.goinggreenfilmfestival.com/registration.html to submit your film now for a
chance to win a Hybrid! Festival runs April 2-4, 2010 at the Writers
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