In its continued bid to provide compelling artist-forward stories, WarnerMedia OneFifty has picked up the live action Oscar-nominated short “Please Hold” to stream exclusively on HBO Max where it bows on March 17.
The directorial debut of Mexican-American screenwriter Kd Dávila, who co-wrote the short with Levin Menekse, “Please Hold” is a darkly comic dystopian tale set in the not-so-distant future.
It follows young Mateo Torres (played by Erick Lopez) who in a case of mistaken identity, is arrested by a police drone while on his way to work. He finds himself in a fully automated prison cell where he struggles to find a living human being to set things straight as his situation gets even more absurd and frustrating by the nanosecond.
“The idea for the film came to us after I read this article about a Latino man who got arrested and jailed by mistake because he had a common Spanish name,...
The directorial debut of Mexican-American screenwriter Kd Dávila, who co-wrote the short with Levin Menekse, “Please Hold” is a darkly comic dystopian tale set in the not-so-distant future.
It follows young Mateo Torres (played by Erick Lopez) who in a case of mistaken identity, is arrested by a police drone while on his way to work. He finds himself in a fully automated prison cell where he struggles to find a living human being to set things straight as his situation gets even more absurd and frustrating by the nanosecond.
“The idea for the film came to us after I read this article about a Latino man who got arrested and jailed by mistake because he had a common Spanish name,...
- 3/14/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Showrunner Tanya Saracho and UCP (a division of Universal Studio Group) have selected 5 inaugural fellows for the Ojalá Ignition Lab: Diana Peralta, Luca Rojas, Melba Silwany, Samantha Renee Cordero, and Stephanie Adams-Santos.
Over the course of 26-weeks—beginning Jan. 11—, each fellow will have the opportunity to tell the story they want to tell and develop an original, polished television pilot script from start to finish, which will be commissioned by UCP.
The fellows will gather virtually on a weekly basis to share and receive constructive feedback on each other’s material, as well as receive support and feedback from Ojalá and UCP executives. They’ll also attend monthly speaker panels to gain industry insight from showrunners and producers. Upon completion of the Lab, fellows will have an amplified professional profile and meaningful industry peers and allies to help cultivate exciting collaborations and opportunities long into the future.
“I...
Over the course of 26-weeks—beginning Jan. 11—, each fellow will have the opportunity to tell the story they want to tell and develop an original, polished television pilot script from start to finish, which will be commissioned by UCP.
The fellows will gather virtually on a weekly basis to share and receive constructive feedback on each other’s material, as well as receive support and feedback from Ojalá and UCP executives. They’ll also attend monthly speaker panels to gain industry insight from showrunners and producers. Upon completion of the Lab, fellows will have an amplified professional profile and meaningful industry peers and allies to help cultivate exciting collaborations and opportunities long into the future.
“I...
- 1/11/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
“Son of Monarchs” has a lot on its mind. When Mendel (Tenoch Huerta), a biology grad student living in New York City, returns to his home town in Mexico to pay his respects to his late grandmother, old wounds he’d kept at bay resurface. Yet Mendel’s story becomes but a way for writer-director Alexis Gambis to map out an urgent plea about the effects of climate change, among many other timely concerns. As if wanting to give us a key to decipher his often clipped and dreamlike sensibility, Gambis offers us plenty of didactic moments throughout. Like when an artist explains she believes “we live in a time where social and environmental issues can’t really be treated separately anymore.” The line may well be a thesis statement for the film, capturing its intriguing concepts as well as it’s all too blunt rhetoric.
Brimming with ambitious ideas...
Brimming with ambitious ideas...
- 10/20/2021
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Butterflies Are Free: Gambis Mines Identity Through Metaphor/mosis in Sophomore Film
Director Alexis Gambis returns to his favored motif of genetics in his latest film Son of Monarchs, dissecting how inherent biological mechanisms override the trauma potential in the nurture side of an age-old debate. If Calvin Bridges was the underlying inspiration of his 2014 debut, the period piece The Fly Room, then it’s Gregor Mendel whose spirit is personified by the main protagonist of his latest, exploring hybrid cultural identities through the metaphorical lens of the orange-winged royal butterfly of the title. It is a theme which Gambis has touched upon in short works as well, from his contribution to the portmanteau Mosaic (2017) through a quartet of 2018 shorts which explored themes expanded upon here.…...
Director Alexis Gambis returns to his favored motif of genetics in his latest film Son of Monarchs, dissecting how inherent biological mechanisms override the trauma potential in the nurture side of an age-old debate. If Calvin Bridges was the underlying inspiration of his 2014 debut, the period piece The Fly Room, then it’s Gregor Mendel whose spirit is personified by the main protagonist of his latest, exploring hybrid cultural identities through the metaphorical lens of the orange-winged royal butterfly of the title. It is a theme which Gambis has touched upon in short works as well, from his contribution to the portmanteau Mosaic (2017) through a quartet of 2018 shorts which explored themes expanded upon here.…...
- 10/12/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Woodstock Film Festival has announced the slate for its 22nd edition, with 11 world premieres among the 43 features on the bill.
The festival will take place September 29 to October 3 in three Hudson Valley communities about two hours north of New York City. In-person screenings and events will be featured throughout the fest’s five days, but online options will also enable attendees to connect amid the ongoing challenges of Covid-19.
Panels, concerts and comedy sets along with film screenings are planned in Woodstock, Kingston and Saugerties. Neon chief Tom Quinn is slated to receive the festival’s Honorary Trailblazer Award, an honor announced in 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic.
The festival will kick off with Fanny: The Right to Rock, a documentary about a pathbreaking Filipina-American garage band, with a performance by some of the band’s members following the screening. Music is an annual touchstone for Woodstock’s lineup,...
The festival will take place September 29 to October 3 in three Hudson Valley communities about two hours north of New York City. In-person screenings and events will be featured throughout the fest’s five days, but online options will also enable attendees to connect amid the ongoing challenges of Covid-19.
Panels, concerts and comedy sets along with film screenings are planned in Woodstock, Kingston and Saugerties. Neon chief Tom Quinn is slated to receive the festival’s Honorary Trailblazer Award, an honor announced in 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic.
The festival will kick off with Fanny: The Right to Rock, a documentary about a pathbreaking Filipina-American garage band, with a performance by some of the band’s members following the screening. Music is an annual touchstone for Woodstock’s lineup,...
- 9/1/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Sundance director Alexis Gambis has signed with M88.
The French-Venezuelan filmmaker and biologist saw his second feature, Son of Monarchs, debut at Sundance 2021 and earn the Sloan Feature Film Prize. The drama, which stars Tenoch Huerta, follows a Mexican biologist who studies butterflies in a New York City lab return home to the Monarch forests of Michoacán.
Son of Monarchs was acquired by WarnerMedia 150 creative hub and is set to stream on HBO Max this fall. Gambis’ first feature film, The Fly Room, based on the true story of the birth of modern genetics, was produced with support from the Spike ...
The French-Venezuelan filmmaker and biologist saw his second feature, Son of Monarchs, debut at Sundance 2021 and earn the Sloan Feature Film Prize. The drama, which stars Tenoch Huerta, follows a Mexican biologist who studies butterflies in a New York City lab return home to the Monarch forests of Michoacán.
Son of Monarchs was acquired by WarnerMedia 150 creative hub and is set to stream on HBO Max this fall. Gambis’ first feature film, The Fly Room, based on the true story of the birth of modern genetics, was produced with support from the Spike ...
Sundance director Alexis Gambis has signed with M88.
The French-Venezuelan filmmaker and biologist saw his second feature, Son of Monarchs, debut at Sundance 2021 and earn the Sloan Feature Film Prize. The drama, which stars Tenoch Huerta, follows a Mexican biologist who studies butterflies in a New York City lab return home to the Monarch forests of Michoacán.
Son of Monarchs was acquired by WarnerMedia 150 creative hub and is set to stream on HBO Max this fall. Gambis’ first feature film, The Fly Room, based on the true story of the birth of modern genetics, was produced with support from the Spike ...
The French-Venezuelan filmmaker and biologist saw his second feature, Son of Monarchs, debut at Sundance 2021 and earn the Sloan Feature Film Prize. The drama, which stars Tenoch Huerta, follows a Mexican biologist who studies butterflies in a New York City lab return home to the Monarch forests of Michoacán.
Son of Monarchs was acquired by WarnerMedia 150 creative hub and is set to stream on HBO Max this fall. Gambis’ first feature film, The Fly Room, based on the true story of the birth of modern genetics, was produced with support from the Spike ...
WarnerMedia OneFifty, WarnerMedia’s content innovation hub, has snagged the U.S. rights to the winner of the Sundance Film Festival Alfred P. Sloan prize, “Son of Monarchs,” for HBO Max where it will start streaming this fall.
The semi-autobiographical film by biologist-filmmaker Alexis Gambis stars Tenoch Huerta (“Narcos: Mexico”), who is playing a villain in the upcoming “Black Panther” sequel. Here he plays Mendel, a Mexican biologist working at a lab in New York who is called back home for his grandmother’s funeral in his hometown of Angangue, a butterfly forest town set near the stunning Monarch butterfly reserves of Michoacan, Mexico. Once back home, he embarks on a personal journey where he faces the traumas of his past and his own mixed identity.
“This film exemplifies what WarnerMedia OneFifty is all about: It is a powerful, unique, and bold vision from a talented creative team and an innovative filmmaker that perfectly juxtaposes,...
The semi-autobiographical film by biologist-filmmaker Alexis Gambis stars Tenoch Huerta (“Narcos: Mexico”), who is playing a villain in the upcoming “Black Panther” sequel. Here he plays Mendel, a Mexican biologist working at a lab in New York who is called back home for his grandmother’s funeral in his hometown of Angangue, a butterfly forest town set near the stunning Monarch butterfly reserves of Michoacan, Mexico. Once back home, he embarks on a personal journey where he faces the traumas of his past and his own mixed identity.
“This film exemplifies what WarnerMedia OneFifty is all about: It is a powerful, unique, and bold vision from a talented creative team and an innovative filmmaker that perfectly juxtaposes,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
The feature premiered internationally in Sundance’s Next sidebar earlier this year.
Paris-based sales company Wide Management has acquired world sales rights for French-Venezuelan filmmaker Alexis Gambis’s Sundance 2021 selection Son Of Monarchs ahead of the physical Cannes market in July.
The feature premiered in Sundance’s Next category earlier this year where it won the Alfred P. Sloan feature film prize for best science-themed work and received a warm critical reception.
Rising Mexican actor Mexican lead actor Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Narcos: Mexico) stars as a New York-based Mexican biologist specialising in butterflies.
Zigzagging between his new life in New...
Paris-based sales company Wide Management has acquired world sales rights for French-Venezuelan filmmaker Alexis Gambis’s Sundance 2021 selection Son Of Monarchs ahead of the physical Cannes market in July.
The feature premiered in Sundance’s Next category earlier this year where it won the Alfred P. Sloan feature film prize for best science-themed work and received a warm critical reception.
Rising Mexican actor Mexican lead actor Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Narcos: Mexico) stars as a New York-based Mexican biologist specialising in butterflies.
Zigzagging between his new life in New...
- 6/28/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The feature premiered internationally in Sundance’s Next sidebar earlier this year.
Paris-based sales company Wide Management has acquired world sales rights for French-Venezuelan filmmaker Alexis Gambis’s Sundance 2021 selection Sons Of Monarchs ahead of the physical Cannes market in July.
The feature premiered in Sundance’s Next category earlier this year where it won the Alfred P. Sloan feature film prize for best science-themed work and received a warm critical reception.
Rising Mexican actor Mexican lead actor Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Narcos: Mexico) stars as a New York-based Mexican biologist specialising in butterflies.
Zigzagging between his new life in New...
Paris-based sales company Wide Management has acquired world sales rights for French-Venezuelan filmmaker Alexis Gambis’s Sundance 2021 selection Sons Of Monarchs ahead of the physical Cannes market in July.
The feature premiered in Sundance’s Next category earlier this year where it won the Alfred P. Sloan feature film prize for best science-themed work and received a warm critical reception.
Rising Mexican actor Mexican lead actor Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Narcos: Mexico) stars as a New York-based Mexican biologist specialising in butterflies.
Zigzagging between his new life in New...
- 6/28/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The San Francisco International Film Festival (Sffilm) has today announced the full lineup of this year’s festival, which includes both online and in-person events taking place at the Fort Mason Flix drive-in theater. The opening night selection will be the world premiere of Chase Palmer’s “Naked Singularity,” which stars John Boyega as a public defender wrapped up in a drug heist. The full lineup includes buzzy festival titles like “Cryptozoo,” “The Dry,” “Strawberry Mansion,” “Son of Monarchs,” “Homeroom,” “Lily Topples the World,” and “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It.”
This year’s complete program includes 42 feature films, 56 short films, and, new to the festival this year, five mid-length films. 13 films will be making their world premiere with an additional 15 making their North American premiere. The lineup includes films from 41 countries around the world. Among the full festival lineup, 57% of the films were helmed...
This year’s complete program includes 42 feature films, 56 short films, and, new to the festival this year, five mid-length films. 13 films will be making their world premiere with an additional 15 making their North American premiere. The lineup includes films from 41 countries around the world. Among the full festival lineup, 57% of the films were helmed...
- 3/24/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Who knew peeling open a chrysalis under a microscope could be so mesmerizing? Apparently, Alexis Gambis did. The filmmaker opens “Son of Monarchs” (“Hijo de Monarcas”) with that unique image — a pointy tweezer piercing through the layers of an inert butterfly cocoon. The effect is a compelling mixture of beautiful and disturbing aspects that Gambis revisits throughout the film, as well as collages of pixelated close-ups of opaque wings, and the circular cells speckling a slide. These geometric images blend fluidly with more pastoral scenes — a young boy covered in a flutter of orange and black spots, the rolling greenery of Michoacán, the cold blues of a flooded memory — to form a visual landscape shrouded in unnerving color.
As arresting as it is disorienting, the imagery in “Son of Monarchs” eclipses its unwieldy script, which crowds its compelling protagonist with too many sub-plots and incidental players. Pared down to its essentials,...
As arresting as it is disorienting, the imagery in “Son of Monarchs” eclipses its unwieldy script, which crowds its compelling protagonist with too many sub-plots and incidental players. Pared down to its essentials,...
- 2/4/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The narrative feature “Coda” and the documentary “Summer of Soul” swept the top categories at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prizes and also taking the audience awards in the U.S. dramatic and documentary competitions.
“Coda,” director Sian Heder’s coming-of-age story in which Emilia Jones plays the only hearing member of a deaf family, also won an award for its ensemble, many of them deaf actors who performed in ASL. Its wins come three days after the film set a record for the largest sale in Sundance history, a $25 million deal with Apple.
“Summer of Soul,” which like “Coda” screened on the festival’s opening night, is a documentary by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson built around long-unseen concert footage from the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, a six-weekend event that first-time director Questlove uses as a launching pad to explore race relations and Black culture in that tumultuous time.
“Coda,” director Sian Heder’s coming-of-age story in which Emilia Jones plays the only hearing member of a deaf family, also won an award for its ensemble, many of them deaf actors who performed in ASL. Its wins come three days after the film set a record for the largest sale in Sundance history, a $25 million deal with Apple.
“Summer of Soul,” which like “Coda” screened on the festival’s opening night, is a documentary by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson built around long-unseen concert footage from the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, a six-weekend event that first-time director Questlove uses as a launching pad to explore race relations and Black culture in that tumultuous time.
- 2/3/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Director Alexis Gambis didn’t spend his 20s studying at a prestigious film school, but rather as a research scientist studying fruit flies in a New York City lab. Years later, in what he called his “new skin” as a filmmaker, Gambis took those experiences and funneled them into the new film “Son of Monarchs.” The drama about identity and loss premieres at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
“In many ways, the story I told about trying to find who I was comes through in the film I made. The experience of making it, I discovered it’s interesting to understand identity from a different perspective,” he tells Gold Derby. “From a scientific perspective, from a cultural perspective, from a political perspective, from a sociological perspective — identity has all of these different ways in which we think about it. One of the biggest challenges for me was trying to...
“In many ways, the story I told about trying to find who I was comes through in the film I made. The experience of making it, I discovered it’s interesting to understand identity from a different perspective,” he tells Gold Derby. “From a scientific perspective, from a cultural perspective, from a political perspective, from a sociological perspective — identity has all of these different ways in which we think about it. One of the biggest challenges for me was trying to...
- 1/30/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
French-Venezuelan biologist and filmmaker Alexis Gambis, whose sophomore drama, “Son of Monarchs,” screens in t Sundance’s Next section, has always been fixated on the confluence of art and science. It led him to found the Imagine Science Film Festival, which enters its 14th edition in October, and the five-year old VOD platform Labocine, both of which showcase science in film and seek to further the discourse among scientists, artists and educators.
In December, Sundance bestowed its 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize on the semi-autobiographical drama, which the jury cited “for its poetic, multilayered portrait of a scientist’s growth and self-discovery as he migrates between Mexico and New York City.”
For lead Tenoch Huerta, who plays a villain in the upcoming “Black Panther II,” portraying a scientist on “Monarchs” was a far cry from his previous roles in such projects as Netflix’s drug trafficking series “Narcos,” and migrant caravan drama,...
In December, Sundance bestowed its 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize on the semi-autobiographical drama, which the jury cited “for its poetic, multilayered portrait of a scientist’s growth and self-discovery as he migrates between Mexico and New York City.”
For lead Tenoch Huerta, who plays a villain in the upcoming “Black Panther II,” portraying a scientist on “Monarchs” was a far cry from his previous roles in such projects as Netflix’s drug trafficking series “Narcos,” and migrant caravan drama,...
- 1/29/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Sneak Peek clips of footage from the dramatic feature "The Color Of Time", written/directed by 12 New York University film-makers including Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Brooke Goldfinch, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Tine Thomasen, Virginia Urreiztieta and Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo. Starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff and Jessica Chastain, now available on DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment:
"...based on 'Pulitzer Prize'-winning poet Ck Williams' "Tar" collection, 'The Color of Time' is a poetic expression of Ck’s life, taking a journey through several decades of American life, from Ck's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940's and '50's to the early 1980's.
'Ck'(Franco) and his wife 'Catherine' (Kunis) are married with a son. Ck spends his nights struggling to write new poems and haunted by memories of his past. As Ck drives to a reading in New York City,...
"...based on 'Pulitzer Prize'-winning poet Ck Williams' "Tar" collection, 'The Color of Time' is a poetic expression of Ck’s life, taking a journey through several decades of American life, from Ck's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940's and '50's to the early 1980's.
'Ck'(Franco) and his wife 'Catherine' (Kunis) are married with a son. Ck spends his nights struggling to write new poems and haunted by memories of his past. As Ck drives to a reading in New York City,...
- 2/2/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Paul Thomas Anderson’s legion of fans will get their chance to see the filmmaker’s latest Inherent Vice – at least those in New York and L.A. after a long build-up of anticipation. Studio Warner Bros. is handling the director’s latest, set in a drug-laced L.A. in the 1970s. Barring some unforeseen cataclysm, the feature is easily going to be this week’s b.o. superstar and likely one of the year’s biggest per screen debuts. How it will fare against other fall b.o. knock-outs like Searchlight’s Birdman or TWC’s The Imitation Game remains to be seen. A slew of Specialty openers will coincide with the Inherent Vice juggernaut. A24 will open Oscar-nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s The Captive day and date after an early fall bow in the director’s native Canada. Sundance Selects will expose Free The Nipple in New York...
- 12/12/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
For every mainstream studio film that James Franco stars in he seems to make six indie films. Of those indie films, he is usually directing or writing them with mixed results. In the case of Tar, Franco is content to just act for twelve Nyu film students that he likely met during his time at the university. Those directors (Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Bruce Thierry...
- 11/11/2013
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Starring James Franco in the lead, Tar is a collaborative effort between twelve students that has perhaps the greatest cast of any student film ever made.
The film will be debuting at the International Rome Film Festival next month, and the first two images from the film have surfaced online.
Based on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, C. K. Williams, the film is written and directed by Edna Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Omar Zuniga Hidalgo, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Tine Thomasen, and Virginia Urreiztieta, with supervision from Franco himself.
Franco stars as C. K. Williams, alongside Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, Bruce Campbell, and Henry Hopper, who will be playing the younger version of the poet.
Tar will be making its world premiere in Rome next month, and hopefully will be picked up at the festival for distribution elsewhere.
The film will be debuting at the International Rome Film Festival next month, and the first two images from the film have surfaced online.
Based on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, C. K. Williams, the film is written and directed by Edna Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Omar Zuniga Hidalgo, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Tine Thomasen, and Virginia Urreiztieta, with supervision from Franco himself.
Franco stars as C. K. Williams, alongside Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, Bruce Campbell, and Henry Hopper, who will be playing the younger version of the poet.
Tar will be making its world premiere in Rome next month, and hopefully will be picked up at the festival for distribution elsewhere.
- 10/23/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
James Franco doesn't stop for one second. Currently filming "As I Lay Dying," Franco has been busy overseeing two other projects this year, omnibus efforts by Nyu grad students, "Tar" and "Black Dog Red Dog," based the poems of C.K. Williams and Stephen Dobyns, respectively. And one of them is ready to see the light day. The Rome Film Festival has announced that "Tar" will make be making its world premiere (as well as a Franco short entitled "Dreams," of course) as it rolls out the red carpet next month. Remember these names -- Edna Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Omar Zuniga Hidalgo, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Tine Thomasen, Virginia Urreiztieta -- because they are students-turned-filmmakers, and undoubtedly some of them will be moving on to even bigger and better things. The project saw Franco working the phones a...
- 10/23/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Tar, starring James Franco, Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain, will premiere this November at the Rome International Film Festival.
The feature film, adapted by Franco and the students in the class he teaches at New York University, is a compilation of twelve short films each directed by a student. They’re based on a book of poems titled Tar by Pulitzer Prize winner C.K. Williams. Each short film is based on a stand-alone poem in the book but they are bought together as a one feature to give a greater look at the poet’s life, through his poetry.
We also have the official synopsis for the film, which reads:
“Tar is based on Pulitzer prize-winning poet C.K. Williams’ collection of the same name. Written and directed by 12 filmmakers, the film blends together adaptations of numerous poems, creating a poetic road trip through C.K. William’s life.
The feature film, adapted by Franco and the students in the class he teaches at New York University, is a compilation of twelve short films each directed by a student. They’re based on a book of poems titled Tar by Pulitzer Prize winner C.K. Williams. Each short film is based on a stand-alone poem in the book but they are bought together as a one feature to give a greater look at the poet’s life, through his poetry.
We also have the official synopsis for the film, which reads:
“Tar is based on Pulitzer prize-winning poet C.K. Williams’ collection of the same name. Written and directed by 12 filmmakers, the film blends together adaptations of numerous poems, creating a poetic road trip through C.K. William’s life.
- 10/22/2012
- by Blake Dew
- We Got This Covered
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