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Our Father (2021 Film)
''Our Father'' is a 2021 American dark comedy film, written and directed by Bradley Grant Smith, and produced by Alex Thompson. It stars Baize Buzan, Allison Torem, Tim Hopper, Austin Pendleton, and Keith Kupferer. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 21, 2021, and was released that same year in the US by CINEDIGM, as the first Fandor original, on October 5, 2021. Cast * Baize Buzan as Beta Fohrman * Allison Torem as Zelda Fohrman * Tim Hopper as Henry * Austin Pendleton Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor. Pendleton is known as a prolific character actor on the stage and screen, whose six-decade career has included roles in films i ... as Jerry Fohrman * Keith Kupferer as Keith Fohrman * Corey Hendrix as Gerry * Lance Baker as Adam Fohrman * Guy Massey as Guy Fohrman * Marilyn Dodds Frank as Pippa * Joanna Maclay as Olive Awards and nominations References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradley Grant Smith
Bradley Grant Smith, also known professionally as Sad Brad Smith, is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker. He gained recognition in 2009 for his song, "Help Yourself", which featured in the Oscar-nominated film ''Up in the Air'', starring George Clooney and Anna Kendrick. He wrote, directed, and scored the 2021 film ''Our Father'', which was nominated for the Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival. Career While attending the wedding of friends Philip Sternberg and Catherine Reitman, Smith left a CD of home recordings in a mutual friend's car. After hearing them, Sternberg passed the recordings on to director Jason Reitman, thinking they might be right for his new film in pre-production, ''Up in the Air''. A year later, Smith's song "Help Yourself" was placed in a pivotal scene at the emotional climax of the film. Chicago Reader called it "the best thing about Up in the Air. . . it will probably break your heart." Oscar buzz for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Thompson (filmmaker)
Alex Thompson is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed and produced ''Saint France''s (2019), which won the Audience Award and the Special Jury Award at 2019 SXSW Film Festival. He also produced and co-directed ''Ghostlight,'' which opened the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, along with his partner Kelly O'Sullivan, who wrote both screenplays. He was nominated for the Bingham Ray breakthrough director prize at the Gotham Awards in 2020. Personal life Thompson grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and lives in Chicago with his partner Kelly O'Sullivan, with whom he shares a child. Filmography References External links Alex Thompson at IMDb
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Cinedigm
Cineverse Corp. (originally Access IT Digital Media, Inc., and later, Cinedigm) is an American entertainment company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Cineverse’s businesses encompass digital cinema, streaming channels, content marketing, and distribution. History Early years The company was founded in 2000, under the name Access IT Digital Media, Inc., through a group led by Bud Mayo. Mayo served as director until his retirement in 2010, and subsequently founded Digital Cinema Destinations Corp. In September 2013, the company changed its name to Cinedigm Corp. In January 2011, Chris McGurk became the new chairman and CEO. In July 2011, the company sold its physical and electronic distribution business to Technicolor. The following month, Screenvision acquired UniqueScreen Media, Inc. (USM), the cinema advertising division of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. The companies entered into a long-term agreement, with Cinedigm providing distribution and promotion for Screenvis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South By Southwest
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has continued growing 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, COVID-19 pandemic in Austin; in 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 SXSW Sydney festival (from 2023, in Sydney, Australia) and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural South by Southwest London, SXSW London will also take place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Comedy
Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss, aiming to provoke discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience. Thus, in fiction, for example, the term ''black comedy'' can also refer to a genre in which dark humor is a core component. Black comedy differs from ribaldry#Blue comedy, blue comedy—which focuses more on topics such as nudity, Human sexual activity, sex, and body fluids—and from obscenity. Additionally, whereas the term ''black comedy'' is a relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects, ''gallows humor'' tends to be used more specifically in relation to death, or situations that are reminiscent of dying. Black humor can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Thompson (filmmaker)
Alex Thompson is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed and produced ''Saint France''s (2019), which won the Audience Award and the Special Jury Award at 2019 SXSW Film Festival. He also produced and co-directed '' Ghostlight,'' which opened the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, along with his partner Kelly O'Sullivan, who wrote both screenplays. He was nominated for the Bingham Ray breakthrough director prize at the Gotham Awards in 2020. Personal life Thompson grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and lives in Chicago with his partner Kelly O'Sullivan, with whom he shares a child. Filmography References External Links Alex Thompson at IMDb
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Tim Hopper
Tim Hopper is an American actor known for his appearances in movies like '' Tenderness'' and ''To Die For''. He has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois since 1988 and acted in various stage productions, including Arthur Miller's The Crucible. He was nominated for the 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award in the category "Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play" for "The Violet Hour" and received an Obie Award for his performance in "More Stately Mansions" at the New York Theatre Workshop __NOTOC__ New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) is an Off-Broadway theater noted for its productions of new works. Located at 79 East 4th Street between Second Avenue and Bowery in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, it h .... Accessed Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Pendleton
Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor. Pendleton is known as a prolific character actor on the stage and screen, whose six-decade career has included roles in films including ''Catch-22 (film), Catch-22'' (1970); ''What's Up, Doc? (1972 film), What's Up, Doc?'' (1972); ''The Front Page (1974 film), The Front Page'' (1974); ''The Muppet Movie'' (1979), ''Short Circuit (1986 film), Short Circuit'' (1986); ''Mr. & Mrs. Bridge'' (1990); ''My Cousin Vinny'' (1992); ''Mr. Nanny'' (1993); ''Guarding Tess'' (1994); ''Amistad (film), Amistad'' (1997); ''A Beautiful Mind (film), A Beautiful Mind'' (2001), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination; and ''Finding Nemo'' (2003). Pendleton received a Tony Award nomination for Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Best Direction of a Play for the Broadway (theatre), Broadway revival of ''The L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CINEDIGM
Cineverse Corp. (originally Access IT Digital Media, Inc., and later, Cinedigm) is an American entertainment company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Cineverse’s businesses encompass digital cinema, streaming channels, content marketing, and distribution. History Early years The company was founded in 2000, under the name Access IT Digital Media, Inc., through a group led by Bud Mayo. Mayo served as director until his retirement in 2010, and subsequently founded Digital Cinema Destinations Corp. In September 2013, the company changed its name to Cinedigm Corp. In January 2011, Chris McGurk became the new chairman and CEO. In July 2011, the company sold its physical and electronic distribution business to Technicolor. The following month, Screenvision acquired UniqueScreen Media, Inc. (USM), the cinema advertising division of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. The companies entered into a long-term agreement, with Cinedigm providing distribution and promotion for Screenvis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandor
Fandor is a division of the American entertainment company Cineverse. It is a streaming service dedicated to independent films, documentaries, international titles and classics. History Fandor was founded in 2010 in San Francisco, California by Dan Aronson, Jonathan Marlow and Albert Reinhardt. Fandor announced its initial launch in 2011 at SXSW. Leadership has included former Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly, independent film producer and former director of the San Francisco Film Society Ted Hope and Larry Aidem, former Sundance Channel head. In 2018, Fandor announced the layoff of its staff and the sale of its assets to an undisclosed investment firm. In January 2021, American independent entertainment company Cinedigm announced the acquisition of Fandor, with plans to relaunch the service and the digital editorial publication ''Keyframe''. Cinedigm announced that Fandor would relaunch under the leadership of film producer, film archivist and president of The Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SXSW Film Festival
South by Southwest (SXSW) 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. It began in 1987 and has continued growing 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; in 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 SXSW Sydney festival (from 2023, in Sydney, Australia) and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural SXSW London will also take place. The company has previously run or co-run the events North by Northwest (1995–200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Films
2021 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2021, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "From an artistic perspective, 2021 has been an excellent cinematic vintage, yet the bounty is shadowed by an air of doom. The reopening of theatres has brought many great movies—some of which were postponed from last year—to the big screen, but fewer people to see them. The biggest successes, as usual, have been superhero and franchise films. '' The French Dispatch'' has done respectably in wide release, and '' Licorice Pizza'' is doing superbly on four screens in New York and Los Angeles, but few, if any, of the year’s best films are likely to reach high on the box-office charts. The shift toward streaming was already under way when the pandemic struck, and as the trend has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
