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JuntoBox Films
JuntoBox Films was a Santa Monica-based independent film production company that focused on micro-budget films. It featured a social media platform where creators could share ideas and collaborate to make their ideas into films, and where members could vote which screenplays would be financed by JuntoBox. JuntoBox Films has been inactive since 2014/2015. History Philippe Caland founded JuntoBox in 2012 and officially launched it at that year's South by Southwest. The partnership with Indiegogo, a crowdfunding website, started upon its foundation. Actor Forest Whitaker was announced as co-chair in March 2012. The company's name was taken from Junto, a mutual improvement club started by Benjamin Franklin in 1727. Structure JuntoBox allowed actors, directors, producers, and writers to share ideas via a social media platform so they were able to collaborate with those without an agent or previous professional experience. Site users then voted on which films they thought Junto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacrifice (2014 Film)
''Sacrifice'' is a 2014 American thriller drama film written and directed by Michael Cohn and starring Dermot Mulroney, Melora Walters and Austin Abrams. Cast *Luke Kleintank *Austin Abrams *Lewis Tan *Brandon Mychal Smith *James McDaniel *Melora Walters *Dermot Mulroney Production Filming occurred in The Woodlands, Texas and wrapped in May 2013. Release The film premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival in October 2014. Reception Ella Taylor of ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont * ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Strong performances elevate this intermittently absorbing family melodrama from writer-director Michael Cohn." References External links * * {{Rotten Tomatoes, sacrifice_2015 American thriller films Films shot in Texas 2010s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Production Companies Of The United States
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Curtis
Bonnie Kathleen Curtis (born March 26, 1966) is an American film producer whose credits include ''Saving Private Ryan'', ''A.I.'', ''Minority Report'', and '' The Lost World: Jurassic Park'', directed by Steven Spielberg. Her first solo project was the 2005 release ''The Chumscrubber''. She then joined Mockingbird Pictures with partner Julie Lynn in 2011. Curtis and Lynn produced ''Albert Nobbs'', which was nominated for three Academy Awards. Curtis is a co-recipient of the 1999 Producers Guild Award for Motion Picture Producer of the Year, for ''Saving Private Ryan''. On March 12, 2015, Curtis was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame. Spielberg congratulated her via video message during the ceremony. Life and career Curtis was born in Dallas, Texas.20th Anniversary Topaz Awards Gala , October 22, 2004. She is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sweet Life (film)
''The Sweet Life'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Rob Spera. It stars Chris Messina and Abigail Spencer as two depressed people who take a road trip to commit suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge. Plot After a long day with no sales, Kenny Pantalio, an ice cream salesman for The Sweet Life, goes to a bridge. There, he meets Lolita Nowicki, an actuary. The two discuss their suicidal feelings and discover that they have the same therapist, Frank. They walk through Chicago, discussing the various forms of therapy suggested by Frank. As they pass a hotel, a man in a Mercedes mistakes Kenny for a valet and hands him the car keys. Lolita takes them and encourages Kenny to join her on a road trip to the Golden Gate Bridge, where they can both commit suicide. Kenny hesitates but goes along with her. Their first stop is at a convenience store, where Lolita impulsively tells the clerk that Kenny has a gun. The clerk says that he must see the gun before he can give them any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stu Rasmussen
Stu Rasmussen (September 9, 1948 – November 17, 2021) was an American politician. He became the nation's first openly transgender mayor when he was elected as the mayor of Silverton, Oregon in November 2008. He had previously been elected twice in the 1990s as mayor of this Willamette Valley community, before coming out as transgender. He was also three times a member of the city council. He was assigned male at birth, identified as a man, preferred masculine pronouns, had breast implants, and had a feminine gender expression. He sometimes went by the name Carla Fong. Rasmussen unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1994 as an independent, and a seat in the Oregon State Senate in 1996 as a Democrat. He ran for the House again in 1998 as a Democrat, losing with 41% of the vote. In 2013 a musical about Rasmussen, ''Stu for Silverton'', premiered at Seattle's Intiman Theatre. Rasmussen, a self-described fiscal conservative and social liberal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Nazarian
Eric Nazarian is an Armenian-American film director and screenwriter. He was born in Armenia and moved to the United States as a child, growing up in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Inspired by his father Haik's love of world cinema, Nazarian apprenticed at his father's photo lab where Haik taught him the fundamentals of visual storytelling through photojournalism and screenwriting. After graduating from Verdugo Hills High School, Nazarian traveled extensively, exploring the Southwest and Baja California, inspired by the photography of Robert Frank and the travelogues of Sam Shepard and John Steinbeck across America and the Sea of Cortez. With a Minolta 35mm. camera gifted to him by Haik, Nazarian photographed Southern California street cultures, immigrant communities, Los Angeles gangs and iconographies of underworld cultures pouring in from the former Soviet bloc. During his undergraduate years at USC Film Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operator (2016 Film)
''Operator'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Logan Kibens from a screenplay by Sharon Greene and Logan Kibens. It stars Martin Starr as Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, and Mae Whitman as Emily, a budding comedy performer, who are a happily married couple until they decide to use one another in their work. Nat Faxon, Cameron Esposito, Retta, and Christine Lahti co-star. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 12, 2016 and was released by The Orchard on November 8, 2016. Plot Joe (Martin Starr) is a programmer with a crippling anxiety problem who is unable to deal with uncertainty. At work he is tasked with creating an interactive call center answering machine that can convey empathy. Joe recruits his wife Emily (Mae Whitman) who has the perfect voice for the system. Emily works at the front desk of a swanky hotel during the day and has an uncanny ability to soothe even the most irate guests (at night she performs with a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repentance (2013 Film)
''Repentance'' is a 2013 psychological horror film written and directed by Philippe Caland, co-written by Shintaro Shimosawa and Yusuf Hassan and starring Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie, Mike Epps, Nicole Ari Parker and Sanaa Lathan. ''Repentance'' is the first major film production of CodeBlack Films since CodeBlack's merger with Lions Gate Entertainment in May 2012. The film had its limited release in US theaters on February 28, 2014. Plot summary Years after a drunken car crash that almost took his life, Tommy Carter ( Mackie) has reinvented himself as a therapist/spiritual advisor who advocates a synthesis of world religions and positivity. He has parlayed this vocation into a successful book release that one day draws the attention of Angel Sanchez (Whitaker), a profoundly troubled man fixated on the "untimely" death of his mother. When Carter takes on Sanchez as a personal client in an effort to raise funds for his indebted brother Ben ( Epps), things quickly take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slamdance Film Festival
The Slamdance Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on emerging artists. The annual week-long festival takes place in Park City, Utah, in late January and is the main event organized by the year-round Slamdance organization, which also hosts a screenplay competition, workshops, screenings throughout the year and events with an emphasis on independent films with budgets under US$1 million. History The festival was founded in 1995 by Dan Mirvish, Jon Fitzgerald, Shane Kuhn, and Peter Baxter, along with Paul Rachman, after they had been unsuccessful in submitting films to the Sundance Film Festival. Baxter has been in charge of Slamdance since 1997. Screenplay competition In addition to the festival, Slamdance's screenplay competition has discovered a number of talented screenwriters, including Joshua Marston (''Maria Full of Grace'') and Steven Fechter and Nicole Kassell, co-writers of ('' The Woodsman''). In 2008, Slamdance entered into an agreement with Upload Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green-light
To green-light is to give permission to proceed with a project. The term is a reference to the green traffic signal, indicating "go ahead". Film industry In the context of the film and television industries, to green-light something is to formally approve its production finance and to commit to this financing, thereby allowing the project to proceed from the development phase to pre-production and principal photography. The power to green-light a project is generally reserved to those in a project or financial management role within an organization. The process of taking a project from pitch to green light formed the basis of a successful reality TV show titled ''Project Greenlight ''Project Greenlight'' is an American documentary television series focusing on first-time filmmakers being given the chance to direct a feature film. It was created by Alex Keledjian, developed by Eli Holzman and produced by Ben Affleck, Matt ...''. At the Big Five major film studios in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
