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How I ended up working with puppets in space for most likely a year or more OR the start of my adventure with Matt Zoller Seitz's movie Space Rabbit

Space Rabbit storyboard panel * Sujewa Ekanayake working on budget for Space Rabbit with Stephen, one of director  Matt Zoller Seitz's puppet friends * Sujewa, Stephen the puppet, and Matt discussing the budget for Space Rabbit * Matt receiving advice from Stephen on how to budget  for the needs of the puppet cast members *** Over 10 years ago a then little known film critic and filmmaker named Matt Zoller Seitz sent me his first feature "Home" to review on one of my blogs .  It was a pretty good first feature, and I kept in touch with Matt a bit over the years - easy to do thanks to Facebook and other social media.  About a year ago I ran into Matt on the subway in Brooklyn.  This was only the second time in real life that we hung out or met up - the first being back in 2007 during a film blogger meet up in NYC.  Anyway, at the subway meeting we briefly and quickly got caught up on news on our various creative projects and made vague p

Ingrid Veninger Interview - The Seventh Art

Ava DuVernay | '13TH' Press Conference | NYFF54

Candlestick trailer, link for movie at Indie Rights Movies

* Check out Candlestick at Indie Rights Movies -  https://indierights.vhx.tv/videos/candlestick-new-amazon-cropped

A Deeper Shade of Blue trailer, link for movie at Indie Rights Movies

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Druid Peak trailer, link for movie at Indie Rights Movies

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9 Full Moons trailer, link to movie at Indie Rights Movies

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On Cinema: Jim Jarmusch | NYFF54

Texas Heart trailer, link to movie at Indie Rights Movies

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Indie Rights launches new movie channel

Check out the channel here  -  http://www.indierightsmovies.com/ .  Subscription to watch hundreds of great indie movies available at a low cost ($4.99/month starting), with a 3 day free trial period. Movies available on many devices, through Roku, also VHX app. Details here.

Where the 1 Million Art Film Fans Are

We are all over the world.  And there's way more than 1 million of us.  Here's where some of the art film fans are - on Twitter: 1 - Cannes Film Festival, Twitter - 274K followers -  https://twitter.com/festival_cannes?lang=en 2 - Berlinale - 38.9K followers -  https://twitter.com/berlinale/followers 3 - Sundance - 659K followers -  https://twitter.com/sundancefest/followers ​4 - Filmmaker Magazine - 83.2K followers -  https://twitter.com/FilmmakerMag/followers 5 - NYFF - 15.4K followers -  https://twitter.com/TheNYFF/followers 6 - SF Film Society - 22.6K followers -  https://twitter.com/SF_FilmSociety/followers 7 - Locarno Film Fest - 39.5K followers -  https://twitter.com/FilmFestLocarno ​At this point we are already at over 1 million people.  And there are hundreds more Twitter accounts out there related to art film.

Lav Diaz on Long-take Aesthetics

New website for films by Sujewa Ekanayake

Check out Wild Diner Media's new website here -  http://www.wilddinermedia.com/

PATERSON - Press Conference - Cannes 2016

CANYON - new music + video from Amir Motlagh

Cafe Society press conference Cannes 2016

Cafe Society trailer

Good film.  The aliens from Stardust Memories would like it.  Playing everywhere now.

"Suddenly surrounded by Van Nuys and LAPD cops. Guns drawn, helicopter spotlights out." - Jerry Brewington on making indie action comedy LA Willy-Nilly

A Conversation with LA Willy-Nilly writer/director Jerry Brewington The new indie action comedy feature LA Willy-Nilly has been completed and is currently being submitted to film festivals.  Director Jerry Brewington sees screenings and VOD, DVD distribution for the movie in the near future.  The movie itself is a wild LA adventure.  And the making of the movie was also apparently an adventure of its own - sometimes a dangerous one.  We spoke with Brewington about the film and related matters. By Sujewa Ekanayake Jerry Brewington Jerry Brewington (3rd from left) with part of the cast & crew of LA Willy-Nilly Sujewa:  Jerry, what were you doing before you made LA Willy-Nilly?  And what other movies have you made or have you worked on? Jerry : Well Sujewa, I am a English Lecturer by profession but I have been writing and making short movies for quiet awhile. My main focus is on writing but I have made a few shorts on 16MM and digital, worked as a read

How Criterion Collection Brings Movies Back From the Dead

Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn’s DVD Picks from Criterion Collection's closet full of DVDs

For My Dinner With Andre fans.

Clip from The Violent Beauty of Lady Snowblood

New Argentine Cinema and Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga

Just Death - A comedy about the death penalty

Check out & support this new short film project - " When a prisoner due to be executed simply won't die, two inept bureaucrats must scramble to find another way to kill him. " -  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1292977089/just-death *

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Full Movie - SNEAK PREVIEW - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene And The Mystery Of Immortal Time Travelers

NEW - COSMIC DISCO DETECTIVE RENE (2023) - TRAILER!

The Secret Society For Slow Romance (2022) - available to rent as a new release starting January 1

Werewolf Ninja Philosopher at Vimeo VOD

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Indie Film Blogger Road Trip