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Hearing is Believing
Logline: In a world filled with noise, there is another sound worth hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers.
Elevator Pitch:
“Hearing Is Believing” is the new feature documentary from award-winning producer/director Lorenzo DeStefano (“Talmage Farlow,” “Los Zafiros-Music From The Edge Of Time”). It introduces the world to the astonishingly talented young musician and composer, Rachel Flowers.
DeStefano and his team have created a dynamic and engaging portrait of a year and a half in the life of a tight knit American family, a single mom and her two kids, living paycheck to paycheck, with Rachel’s stunning music as the soundtrack.
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Hearing is Believing
Logline: In a world filled with noise, there is another sound worth hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers.
Elevator Pitch:
“Hearing Is Believing” is the new feature documentary from award-winning producer/director Lorenzo DeStefano (“Talmage Farlow,” “Los Zafiros-Music From The Edge Of Time”). It introduces the world to the astonishingly talented young musician and composer, Rachel Flowers.
DeStefano and his team have created a dynamic and engaging portrait of a year and a half in the life of a tight knit American family, a single mom and her two kids, living paycheck to paycheck, with Rachel’s stunning music as the soundtrack.
- 8/23/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
For many, mention the name Darwin and images of evolution are conjured. While Charles Darwin Herbert Spencer is the origin of the term “survival of the fittest,” which carries a coincidental resonance, he has nothing to do with director Nick Brandestini’s film Darwin, a film about a small, isolated town that sits at the end of a worn out road in the middle of Death Valley.
Population 35, no children, no true government of any form, Darwin is the decaying remnants of a town more than 150 years old. Once inhabited by miners, prostitutes and outlaws at varying staged of its turbulent past, Darwin now is the unlikely home for a handful of intriguing characters, all of them real, each of them with their own story. Together, the lives captured on film create one of the most compelling documentaries I’ve seen in years.
The residents of Darwin somehow find ways to coexist and survive,...
Population 35, no children, no true government of any form, Darwin is the decaying remnants of a town more than 150 years old. Once inhabited by miners, prostitutes and outlaws at varying staged of its turbulent past, Darwin now is the unlikely home for a handful of intriguing characters, all of them real, each of them with their own story. Together, the lives captured on film create one of the most compelling documentaries I’ve seen in years.
The residents of Darwin somehow find ways to coexist and survive,...
- 8/12/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Award Winning Docu Darwin . A Documentary By Nick Brandestini Opens August 12 In New York At The IFC Center And August 19 In Los Angeles At The Laemmle.S Sunset 5 Cinemas
The award winning insightful and moving documentary, Darwin . A Film By Nick Brandestini, takes the viewer on a journey into an isolated community at the end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. Propelled from society by tragic turns, the people of Darwin (population 35) must now find ways to coexist in a place without a government, a church, jobs, or children. The near-ghost town’s survival depends on a fragile, gravity-fed waterline that descends from the mountains where top-secret weapons are being tested. One “accidental” drop of a bomb could wipe out their entire town joke many of the locals.
Meet:
Monty – The salty old miner mysteriously bound to Darwin since the 1950′s. With the help of his firecracker wife,...
The award winning insightful and moving documentary, Darwin . A Film By Nick Brandestini, takes the viewer on a journey into an isolated community at the end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. Propelled from society by tragic turns, the people of Darwin (population 35) must now find ways to coexist in a place without a government, a church, jobs, or children. The near-ghost town’s survival depends on a fragile, gravity-fed waterline that descends from the mountains where top-secret weapons are being tested. One “accidental” drop of a bomb could wipe out their entire town joke many of the locals.
Meet:
Monty – The salty old miner mysteriously bound to Darwin since the 1950′s. With the help of his firecracker wife,...
- 7/30/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With Waste Land, Killing in the Name and Sun Come Up scoring the Oscars nods out of DocuWeeks 2010, other Showcase alums have made their presence felt elsewhere. In the recently concluded Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Montana, Thomas Bursteyn's This Way of Life captured the Best Feature Prize, while Steam of Life, from Joonas Berghall and Mika Hotakainen, took the Artistic Vision Award. Elsewhere among the Ida community, Darwin, produced by former Ida executive director Sandra Ruch and Documentary magazine contributing editor Taylor Segrest (also credited as writer), earned ...
- 2/20/2011
- by IDA Editorial Staff
- International Documentary Association
The International Documentary Assn. has chosen Favela Rising, Our Brand Is Crisis, and The Children of Leningradsky as the winners of distinguished documentary achievement awards. Also recognized were CNN Presents and The Staircase, and all will be presented with achievement awards during the 21st annual IDA Awards Gala Benefit here Dec. 9 at the DGA Theatre. The docus were chosen by a jury of peers and chosen from hundreds of films submitted from around the world, IDA executive director Sandra Ruch said.
- 11/16/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The International Documentary Assn. this year will recognize the work of documentary film editors for the first time at IDA's 21st annual Award Gala. Kate Amend (2000's Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport) will be the first person honored for outstanding documentary editing Dec. 9 at the IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards Gala Benefit at the DGA Theater in Hollywood. IDA executive director Sandra Ruch said that the IDA board of directors decided to create an award that celebrates editors' careers because of their vital contributions to the collaborative process of nonfiction filmmaking.
- 10/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The International Documentary Assn. has announced the 15 documentaries in DocuWeek, the ninth annual Theatrical Documentary Showcase. A dozen feature-length docus and three short nonfiction films will be shown on two screens at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood from Aug. 19-25 before traveling to venues nationwide. "Our goals are to help deserving filmmakers qualify for Oscar consideration by providing theatrical platforms where their films can be seen," IDA executive director Sandra Ruch said.
- 7/20/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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