Lucas McNelly is working with the Hollywood Theater in Dormont on a series called “Indies for Indies”, a screening series that strives to work with filmmakers to grow their audience in the greater Pittsburgh region,
and brings to Pittsburgh the type of films that struggle to get
traditional distribution. They’re bringing to town some of the best
films from the festival circuit, films from Sundance and SXSW, as well
as a few World Premieres.
It’s rare in that it gives filmmakers a portion of the ticket sales,
thus helping them get that much closer to the ever-elusive financial
break-even point.
The series, which will run weekly, will show a different film each
week (three screenings–Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday), starting on
March 6th with the World Premiere of Iranian-American filmmaker Amir
Motlagh’s WHALE, coupled with David Lowery’s award-winning short A CATALOG OF ANTICIPATIONS.
Lucas and Hollywood Theater at Dormont thinks this is a great thing for Pittsburgh, both for audiences looking for something different and the local indie film community that’s struggling to find an audience (one of their priorities will be quality local features, as they become available), and they’d much appreciate it if you would be willing to help spread the word. Maybe a thing on the morning show where you preview that week’s film or a plug on the webpage or a feature on the start of the series or something.
Screenings:
Sat @ 4:30pm
Mon @ 7pm
Tues @ 9:30pm
At the Hollywood Theater (1449 Potomac Ave, 15216)
They have a really cool lineup, films from SXSW, Sundance, and a couple World Premieres.
Here’s the first couple films in our schedule (pretty well locked in):
March 6-9: Amir Motlagh’s WHALE (World Premiere), with short David
Lowery’s A CATALOG OF ANTICIPATIONS (Official Selection, Slamdance, SXSW, Palm Springs Shorts, AFI Dallas, etc)
March 13-16: Jarrod Whaley’s HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE (Official Selection, 2010 Cinequest), with a world premiere of a short from the
Netherlands(!), Peet Gelderblom’s OUT OF SYNC
March 20-23: TBA (depends on whether or not the filmmaker can get the stuff to me in time. if not, they may move something up from April
that’s not listed here)
March 27-30: The Butler Brothers’ CONFUSIONS OF AN UNMARRIED COUPLE, winner of 7 awards internationally including: AUDIENCE CHOICE (Indiana Independent), INDIE SPIRIT (ReelHeART International), BEST DIRECTOR
(Bootleg), BEST PRODUCER (Queens International); with Clay Liford’s
short film MY MOM SMOKES WEED (2010, Sundance)
April 3-6: Pericles Lewnes’ LOOP (kind of a political David Lynch style film)
After that they have 2 sxsw features, a local film (Lucas’s), and they are trying to get one of this year’s sundance features.
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Indies for IndiesLucas McNelly is the award-winning filmmaker behind such feel-good movies as BLANC DE BLANC and GRAVIDA. His work has been featured all over the internets, television, and newspapers. Maybe you’ve heard of him, maybe you haven’t.
