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Dia Sokol Savage
Dia Sokol Savage is an American film and television producer, director and writer. She is best known as the executive producer of MTV’s hit series 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom franchise and as a producer on Andrew Bujalski’s films “Mutual Appreciation” and “Beeswax.” She currently runs 11th Street Productions with her producing partner Morgan J. Freeman. Background Sokol Savage was born in West Virginia and grew up in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Smith College and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY with her husband Garret Savage, a film editor. Career Film After college, Dia moved to Boston and started working for documentary director Errol Morris on projects such as Mr. Death, The Fog of War and his television series, “ First Person.” While there, she befriended Justin Rice who introduced her to Andrew Bujalski on the day Andrew moved back to Boston from Los Angeles. Soon after, Bujalski made “Funny Ha Ha,” a project he’d been trying to get off t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16 & Pregnant
''16 and Pregnant'' is an American reality television series that aired from June 11, 2009, to July 1, 2014, on the cable channel MTV. It followed the stories of pregnant teenage girls in high school dealing with the hardships of teenage pregnancy. Each episode featured a different teenage girl, with the episode typically beginning when she is – 8 months into her pregnancy. The episode typically ends when the baby is a few months old. The series is produced in a documentary format, with an animation on notebook paper showing highlights during each episode preceding the commercial breaks. ''16 and Pregnant'' has spawned five spin-off series: ''Teen Mom'', ''Teen Mom 2'', ''Teen Mom 3'', '' Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant'', and ''16 and Recovering'', which premiered on September 1, 2020. In September 2020, MTV announced a revival of the original series, which premiered on October 6, 2020. Episodes Reception Based on a preview of the show's first three episodes, ''The Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumblecore
Mumblecore is a subgenre of independent filmHoberman, J. (August 14, 2007).It's Mumblecore!. ''The Village Voice''. Retrieved on July 27, 2008.Lim, Dennis (August 19, 2007)Mumblecore – The New Talkies: Generation DIY ''The New York Times''. Retrieved on July 27, 2008. characterized by naturalistic acting and dialogue (sometimes improvised), low-budget film production, an emphasis on dialogue over plot, and a focus on the personal relationships of young adults. Filmmakers associated with the genre include Andrew Bujalski, Lynn Shelton, Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass (known collectively as The Duplass Brothers), Greta Gerwig, Aaron Katz, Joe Swanberg,Hubert, Andrea (May 19, 2007).Andrea Hubert on the latest fad to hit the US indie film scene. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved on July 27, 2008.Harring, Michael (Sep 29, 2009).Local Sightings Film Festival: An I-5 Road Trip and Other New Movies Debut". '' The Seattle Weekly''. Retrieved on Oct 7, 2009. and Ry Russo-Young. In many cases, tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy
''Queer Eye'' is an American reality television series that premiered on the cable television network Bravo in July 2003. Originally ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'', the title was later shortened to broaden the overall scope. The series was created by executive producers David Collins and Michael Williams along with David Metzler through their company, Scout Productions. Each episode features a team of gay professionals in the fields of fashion, personal grooming, interior design, entertaining and culture collectively known as the "Fab Five" performing a makeover (in the parlance of the show, a "make-better"), usually for a heterosexual (straight) man: revamping wardrobe, redecorating, and offering advice on grooming, lifestyle, and food. ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'' quickly became a surprise success, resulting in merchandising, franchising of the concept internationally, and a woman-oriented spin-off, '' Queer Eye for the Straight Girl''. ''Queer Eye'' won an Emmy Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Shelley
Adrienne Levine (June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006), better known by the stage name Adrienne Shelly (sometimes credited as Adrienne Shelley), was an American actress, film director and screenwriter. She became known for roles in independent films such as Hal Hartley's '' The Unbelievable Truth'' (1989) and ''Trust'' (1990). She wrote, co-starred in, and directed the 2007 posthumously-released film ''Waitress'' which later became a Broadway show. Shelly's death in 2006 was initially determined by police to be suicide; her husband's insistence on a re-evaluation brought her killer to justice. Shelly's husband established the Adrienne Shelly Foundation, which awards scholarships, production grants, finishing funds, and living stipends to artists. In her honor, the Women Film Critics Circle gives an annual Adrienne Shelly Award to the film that it finds "most passionately opposes violence against women." Early life Shelly was born Adrienne Levine in Queens to Sheldon Levine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiley Wiggins
Wiley Wiggins (born ) is an American game designer and film actor. A native of Austin, Texas, he is the nephew of Lanny Wiggins, who was a member of Janis Joplin's early band, The Waller Creek Boys. At the age of 16, Wiggins starred in Richard Linklater's film '' Dazed and Confused''. He later starred in Linklater's ''Waking Life''. He was involved in early 1990s cyberculture and wrote occasionally for such magazines as '' FringeWare Review'', ''Mondo 2000'', and ''Boing Boing''. Filmography *'' Dazed and Confused'' (1993) as Mitch Kramer *'' Love and a .45'' (1994) as Young Store Clerk *''Boys'' (1996) as John Phillips *'' Plastic Utopia'' (1997) as Jogger Joe *''The Faculty'' (1998) as F‘%# Up #2 *''Waking Life'' (2001) as Main Character; also one of the animators *'' Frontier'' (2001) as Soldier *''Goliath'' (2008) as Alvin *''Sorry, Thanks ''Sorry, Thanks'' (2009) is an independent feature film directed and written by filmmaker Dia Sokol, who previously produced ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IFC Films
IFC Films is an American film production and distribution company based in New York. It is an offshoot of IFC owned by AMC Networks. It distributes mainly independent films under its own name, select foreign films and documentaries under its Sundance Selects label and genre films under its IFC Midnight label. It operates the IFC Center. History The IFC Films division has a predecessor film label, Next Wave Films, designed to release movies, which was in operation from 1997 to 2002, when it was shut down and folded into IFC themselves. IFC also launched a film company, IFC Productions, which set up operation in March 1997 to produce their own feature film projects. On January 18, 1999, IFC launched a film label Agenda 2000, which set up their own film projects, which have their world premiere on IFC. On September 26, 2000, IFC launched its own feature film unit, branded IFC Films, to be headed by Bob Berney, who went on to have jobs at Newmarket Films, and later founder of Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SXSW
South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987 and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas; both years, there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW Edu and the upcoming SXSW Sydney festival, and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. It has previously run or co-run the events North by Northwest (1995-2001), West by Southwest (2006-2010) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorry, Thanks
''Sorry, Thanks'' (2009) is an independent feature film directed and written by filmmaker Dia Sokol, who previously produced ''Mutual Appreciation'' and the MTV reality series ''16 and Pregnant''. ''Sorry, Thanks'' premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in the Emerging Visions category, and was shown at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2009. Plot summary An ensemble comedy, the plot begins when Kira, reeling from a brutal break-up, sleeps with Max, a charming but disheveled wreck already committed to longtime girlfriend Sara. Max becomes obsessed, mostly with Kira, but vaguely with his curious lack of conscience as well. Kira, fighting to win a job she hates and running aimless romantic loops, faces the precarious double challenge of choosing a next step and charting a course back to sanity. Production ''Sorry, Thanks'' was shot entirely on location in San Francisco's Mission District in the fall of 2007. The film is built on idiosyncratic perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Independent Spirit Awards
The Independent Spirit Awards (abbreviated Spirit Awards and originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards), founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the bare budgets of independent films. Since 2006, winners have received a metal trophy depicting a bird with its wings spread sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole. In 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards. Now called the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the show is produced by Film Independent, a not-for-profit arts organization that used to produce the LA Film Festival. Film Independent members vote to determine the winners of the Spirit Awards. The awards show is held inside a tent in a parking lot at the beach in Santa Monica, California, usually on the day before the Academy Awards (since 1999; originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodpecker (2008 Film)
''Woodpecker'' is a 2008 comedy film directed by Alex Karpovsky and starring Jon Hyrns. The film follows Hyrns and his cohort, Wesley Yang, as they obsessively search the Arkansas bayou for proof that ivory-billed woodpecker is in fact not extinct. ''Woodpecker'' is filmed in a docufiction style, set in the small Arkansas town of Brinkley. It incorporates faux-interviews with Brinkley residents recounting their experiences with the mysterious bird. Hyrns becomes increasingly erratic and comic in his attempts to locate the animal. Soundtrack The film’s soundtrack received positive reviews. The score, composed by James Lavino, was performed by Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood and Lee and Tyler Sargent of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (sometimes abbreviated to CYHSY) is the musical project of American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Alec Ounsworth, active since the early 2000s in and out of Philadelphia. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have rel . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Karpovsky
Alexander Karpovsky (born September 23, 1975)Rick PorterAlex Karpovsky - Apple TV ''Apple TV'' is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and film editor. He is best known for playing Ray Ploshansky on the HBO comedy-drama series ''Girls'' and Craig Petrosian on the Amazon series ''Homecoming''. Early life and education Alex Karpovsky was born in Israel and raised in Newton, Massachusetts. He earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University before receiving a master's degree in visual ethnography at the University of Oxford. Career His debut feature, ''The Hole Story'', earned him a slot in ''Filmmaker'' magazine's 25 new faces of independent film. His subsequent feature-length films include ''Woodpecker'' (SXSW Film Festival, 2008), ''Trust Us, This Is All Made Up'' (SXSW Film Festival, 2009), ''Rubberneck'' (Tribeca Film Festival, 2012), and ''Red Flag'' (LA Film Festival, 2012),Neil GenzlingerFilm Festival Blooms With Ripe Perversity ''The New York Times'', April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nights And Weekends
''Nights and Weekends'' is a 2008 American mumblecore film co-directed, co-written, co-produced by and co-starring Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig. The film follows a long-distance relationship and its aftermath. It premiered at South by Southwest, screened within such festivals as Maryland Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 10, 2008. Plot The film recounts a long-distance relationship between two people, one of whom lives in Chicago, the other in New York City. The first half of the film follows their relationship while the second half focuses on the dissolution and potential continuation of it, which occurs a year after the events of the first half of the film. Cast * Alison Bagnall as Reporter * Elizabeth Donius as James' brother's wife * Jay Duplass as James' brother * Greta Gerwig as Mattie * Kent Osborne as Mattie's sister's boyfriend * Lynn Shelton as Mattie's sister * Ellen Stagg as Photographer * Joe Swanberg as James * Jesse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
