The first five projects to campaign through the site are River of Grass, Kelly Reichardt’s wonderful, underseen debut a Kino Lorber selection of “Pioneers of African Cinema,” presented by DJ Spooky the German exploitation film Bloody Friday Living Los Sures, UnionDocs’ update on the 1984 documentary Los Sures and the VHS ’90s horror flick, Jungle Trap.

From River of Grass to Living Los Sures: George Schmalz on Kickstarter’s New Curated Restoration InitiativeĪs part of a new restoration initiative, Kickstarter is partnering with various distributors, filmmakers and organizations to raise funds to preserve and proliferate significant and niche films on the verge of obsolescence.

Immediately, he assured me that the future availability of by Sarah Salovaara on Mar 13, 2015 Though the post is now flagged for removal, I reached out to Oscilloscope’s Dan Berger about why the company was trying to find a new home for their own property. The dollar was a placeholder, but the offer was very much real: Oscilloscope was “cleaning (ware)house” and looking to sell 35mm prints of Wuthering Heights, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and a handful of others to the highest bidder.

Dan Berger on Why Oscilloscope is Selling Their 35mm Prints on CraigslistĪ somewhat unsettling Craigslist ad made the rounds on Twitter on Wednesday night, offering up “indie film prints” for the grand total of $1.

Potrykus, who previously directed Ape and Buzzard, recently penned an Op-Ed about why he’s a fan by Paula Bernstein on Sep 20, 2016 Starring Ty Hickson and Amari Cheatom, the film premiered at SXSW and screened at various other festivals including BAMcinemaFest and Fantasia. The Alchemist Cookbook is a portrait of a Sean, a young hermit in the woods who sets out to solve an old mystery, and loses his mind along the way.

Why Director Joel Potrykus is Releasing His New Movie as “Pay What You Wish”Īlong with the debut of a brand new trailer (above) for Joel Potrykus’ The Alchemist Cookbook, distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that the film will be released via BitTorrent Now for pay-what-you-wish on October 7th.

Oscilloscope will donate a portion of all proceeds from ticket sales to educational initiatives at Goodwill Industries’ McClelland Scholars, the organization by Andrew Cohn on Jun 7, 2017

Here he recounts his experience making his previous film, Medora, and how it made him question the motives and strategies many non-fiction filmmakers bring to their depiction of Midwestern subjects. With Oscilloscope releasing his latest documentary, Night School, this Friday in New York at the IFC Center and June 23 at the Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles (with nationwide roll-out to follow), filmmaker Andrew Cohn posts this guest essay about his choice to make films largely in America’s heartland.

Night School Director: “Why I (Only) Make Films in the Midwest”.

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