Exclusive: The BFFoundation, the nonprofit organization formed late last year to produce the Geena Davis-chaired Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas, is launching a production company that like the foundation and fest will champion women and inclusive voices in filmmaking.
The new Bentonville Way Entertainment already has a slate of films in the pipeline featuring alumni from from past Bentonville fests: the Amber McGinnis-directed Buddy, the Jennifer Gerber-directed Has Been Beauty Queen and Dealing With Dad written and directed by Tom Huang. Kristin Mann will serve as Head of Content.
Bwe will provide local production resources to its films, with the aim to produce in Arkansas whenever possible. The three features are currently in preproduction and expected to go into production in late 2021 and early 2022.
“We are excited that we can further the outcome of our mission by not only amplifying these voices through the festival each year,...
The new Bentonville Way Entertainment already has a slate of films in the pipeline featuring alumni from from past Bentonville fests: the Amber McGinnis-directed Buddy, the Jennifer Gerber-directed Has Been Beauty Queen and Dealing With Dad written and directed by Tom Huang. Kristin Mann will serve as Head of Content.
Bwe will provide local production resources to its films, with the aim to produce in Arkansas whenever possible. The three features are currently in preproduction and expected to go into production in late 2021 and early 2022.
“We are excited that we can further the outcome of our mission by not only amplifying these voices through the festival each year,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Towards the beginning of “Animal Wisdom,” Heather Christian offers you 90 seconds (“one and one-half minutes”) to gather four specific items that might be safely in reach of wherever you might be watching. It’s one of a handful of moments in the early going that helps make this two-hour experience an uncategorizable thing.
“Animal Wisdom” is a theater piece, in the sense that it’s adapted from the show Christian wrote and mounted for a run at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn back in late 2017. “Animal Wisdom” is a film, in the sense that this particular incarnation was shot over the course of a week spent at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company space in Washington D.C. back in March.
It’s also a participatory experience, as much as one can be when performers and audience are separated by months and miles. That active engagement doesn’t end with those...
“Animal Wisdom” is a theater piece, in the sense that it’s adapted from the show Christian wrote and mounted for a run at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn back in late 2017. “Animal Wisdom” is a film, in the sense that this particular incarnation was shot over the course of a week spent at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company space in Washington D.C. back in March.
It’s also a participatory experience, as much as one can be when performers and audience are separated by months and miles. That active engagement doesn’t end with those...
- 6/22/2021
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
"If you want to get to my level, you just get nice and mediocre." Gravitas Ventures has unveiled an official trailer for an indie small town dramedy titled International Falls, the latest film from up-and-coming filmmaker Amber McGinnis (also of The Company We Keep). This premiered at the Atlanta Film & Video Festival, along with the Seattle & Nashville Film Festivals last year. A woman stuck in a small, snowbound border town has dreams of doing comedy when she meets a washed up, burned out comedian with dreams of doing anything else. One review states, "International Falls has a similar feel to Fargo… It will leave you feeling both sad and supremely satisfied." Starring real-life comedian / actress Rachael Harris, with Rob Huebel, Mindy Sterling, Erik Griffin, Matthew Glave, & Kevin Nealon. Looks charming and funny. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Amber McGinnis' International Falls, direct from YouTube: Dee (Rachael Harris...
- 3/18/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Eight female filmmakers have been selected to take part in an inaugural development program as part of Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Foundation, the organization said Wednesday, as part of an initiative to foster voices from underrepresented groups.
The See It, Be It Filmmaker Fellowship, a joint program between Bentonville and the Coca-Cola Foundation, offers a yearlong program for eight Bentonville Film Festival alumni, who will receive resources from the industry.
The selected filmmakers — McKenzie Chinn (Olympia), Jenna Laurenzo (Lez Bomb), Amber McGinnis (International Falls), Diane Paragas (Yellow Rose), Ursula Taherian (The Brownlist), Emily Ting (Go Back to ...
The See It, Be It Filmmaker Fellowship, a joint program between Bentonville and the Coca-Cola Foundation, offers a yearlong program for eight Bentonville Film Festival alumni, who will receive resources from the industry.
The selected filmmakers — McKenzie Chinn (Olympia), Jenna Laurenzo (Lez Bomb), Amber McGinnis (International Falls), Diane Paragas (Yellow Rose), Ursula Taherian (The Brownlist), Emily Ting (Go Back to ...
Eight female filmmakers have been selected to take part in an inaugural development program as part of Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Foundation, the organization said Wednesday, as part of an initiative to foster voices from underrepresented groups.
The See It, Be It Filmmaker Fellowship, a joint program between Bentonville and the Coca-Cola Foundation, offers a yearlong program for eight Bentonville Film Festival alumni, who will receive resources from the industry.
The selected filmmakers — McKenzie Chinn (Olympia), Jenna Laurenzo (Lez Bomb), Amber McGinnis (International Falls), Diane Paragas (Yellow Rose), Ursula Taherian (The Brownlist), Emily Ting (Go Back to ...
The See It, Be It Filmmaker Fellowship, a joint program between Bentonville and the Coca-Cola Foundation, offers a yearlong program for eight Bentonville Film Festival alumni, who will receive resources from the industry.
The selected filmmakers — McKenzie Chinn (Olympia), Jenna Laurenzo (Lez Bomb), Amber McGinnis (International Falls), Diane Paragas (Yellow Rose), Ursula Taherian (The Brownlist), Emily Ting (Go Back to ...
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