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Dear Colleague,
 
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sent out this year's entire Sundance festival line-up (which was
announced this morning).
 
They do a substantial amount of queer film coverage with regular festival
listings, calls for entries, resources, screenings, etc.  (Speaking of
which -- you should send them info about anything you're trying to
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So, here's a sample issue for you -- with a very nice little promo of
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[EDITORS NOTE: indieWIRE will publish a separate Sundance special
issue as a supplement to today's edition.  The EXTRA issue
includes the complete lineup of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.]
 
 
indieWIRE 1.0  Issue 350                          December 4, 1997
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H  E  A  D  L  I  N  E  S
 
indieWIRE NEWS:
 
(1) + IFFCON GEARS UP FOR e98, ANNOUNCES 60 PROJECTS
(2) + UNIVERSAL PICKS _KISSING A FOOL_ FOR EARLY 1998
(3) + BRITS CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF GUTS AND GLORY
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indieWIRE ON THE SCENE:
(4) + MIX, NEW YORK LESBIAN/GAY FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL
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indieWIRE LISTINGS:
(5) + THURSDAY: In Retrospect & Revival
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indieWIRE NEWS:
 
(1) + IFFCON GEARS UP FOR e98, ANNOUNCES 60 PROJECTS
by Mark Rabinowitz/indieWIRE
 
IFFCON (The Independent Film Financing Conference) has announced its
lineup for the 1998 edition, taking place from January 9-11 in San
Francisco. Now in its fifth year, IFFCON is a three day conference that
brings together filmmakers, buyers, financiers and sales agents to help
projects from North American producers become films. The conferenceis
first day is open to the general public, but the Saturday and Sunday
sessions are open to invited conference participants, only.
 
Domestic companies set to attend this yearis conference include:
Miramax, New Line Cinema, October Films, Next Wave Films, Good Machine,
ITVS and First Look Pictures/Overseas Filmgroup. Foreign attendees will
include: Jacquie Lawrence from Britainis Channel Four; Claus
Josten-ARTE; Andreas Lindenberg from Austriais Vienna Film Financing
Fund; and Carol Scotta & Caroline Benjo, producers of MA VIE EN ROSE
from France.
 
60 projects have been accepted for the 1998 event, they are: Chris Angel
-- MR. OCTOBER; Ralph Arlych -- SEAN NOW AND THEN; Jeffrey Brown --
ZOE; Margaret Cho -- CHERRY; Catherine Crouch -- BUTCH BABES ON
BIKINI BEACH; Andre Degas -- THE KITCHEN; Tina Defeliciantonio --
SILENT VOICES; Joshua Gibson -- TWO RIVERS; Jordana Glick - Franzheim
-- THE FISH BURGLARS; Noam Gonick -- GRAND THEFT CANOE; Robert
Goodman -- GIFTS IN THE MAIL; Lisa Gossels -- THE CHILDREN OF
CHABANNES; Sam Green -- REVOLUTION! THE STORY OF THE WEATHER
UNDERGROUND; Michelle Handelman -- SUGAR BABY; Buzz Hays -- NOT
FADE AWAY; Hugo Heppell -- DOWN TO YOU; Robert Hillmann -- DO IT
LIKE YOU KNOW IT; Chris Hoover -- AFRAID OF EVERYTHING; Ken
Jacobson -- THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES: BILLIE JEAN KING VS. BOBBY
RIGGS; Chuck Jessen -- THE VOW; Larry Kamerman -- THE STINGERS;
Susan Kaplan -- FROM LITTLE ACORNS...MIGHTILY OAK TREES GROW;
Joel Katz -- JOHNNY AND CLYDE; Josh Kornbluth -- HAIKU TUNNEL;
Norman Kurtin -- "HEIMZAHLEN" (GETTING EVEN); David Lancaster
-- LOVING JEZEBEL; Quentin Lee -- IN A WAVELESS CITY; Mark Leonard
-- WARRIOR IN TWO WORLDS; Andrew Louca -- ANGELS ON THE ROOF;
G Mac Brown -- COMMITTED; Deborah Magocsi -- RIGGS LOCKS; Sharon
Mcgowan -- KLEE WYCK; David Mcilwraith -- WILL SERGEANT; Richard
Natale -- EISENHOWER'S CAFE; Ary Park -- SECRET HOLIDAY; David Paul
-- CEMENT; Byron Pickett -- THE BUDDHA FROM BROOKLYN; Gerald
Rafshoon -- A DOLL'S HOUSE; Shari Robertson -- ASYLUM; Edward
Rosenstein -- THE RESURRECTION; Phillip Roth Jonathan Goldstein
-- TEEN MASOCHIST; Alicia Sams -- SUNBURN; Lina Shanklin --
THE DIVIDED HEART; Lara Shapiro -- UNTITLED; Leslie Smith --
IN HER SISTER'S LINCOLN; Geeta Sondhi -- MONARCHIES IN DISARRAY
AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM; Peter Stein -- THE HAIGHT-ASHBURY;
Anna Stratton -- REPUBLIC OF LOVE; Anne Sundberg -- IN MY CORNER;
Francesca Talenti -- SNAKE TAILS; Cassius Titus -- ESTA ES MI VIDA
(THIS IS MY LIFE); Sarah Vogel -- DELPHINE; Gary Weimberg -- THE
DOUBLE LIFE OF ERNESTO GOMEZ-GOMEZ; Roger Weisberg -- LIFE ON
THE MISSISSIPPI; Hilary Weisman -- NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST;
Yvonne Welbon -- SISTERS IN CINEMA; David Wells -- SCRABYLON;
Michael Williams -- LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN; Harrison Witt -- BAR
BELLES: DIARY OF A HIGH SCHOOL POWERLIFTER; and David Zeiger
-- THE BAND.
 
[For more information on IFFCON, visit their website at:
<http://www.iffcon.com>]
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(2) + UNIVERSAL PICKS _KISSING A FOOL_ FOR EARLY 1998
by indieWIRE
 
Director and screenwriter, Doug Ellin, sold the US and Canadian rights for
KISSING A FOOL to Universal Pictures. Produced by Tag Mendillo, Andrew
Form
and Rick Lashbrook, FOOL is about a iyoung man engaged to be married, who
becomes insecure about commitment and enlists his best friend in a test to
see if his fiancee will cheat on him.i While the film stars David
Schwimmer, one of televisionis FRIENDS, the cast also includes Jason Lee,
(CHASING AMY, MALLRATS) and Mili Avital (Jim Jarmuschis DEAD MAN).
Universal
is planning an early 1998 release for FOOL. Largo Entertainment is
distributing internationally.
 
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(3) + BRITS CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF GUTS AND GLORY
 
Hammer Film Studios, the legendary horror workshop, is celebrating 40
years
of celluloid gore with an exhibition at Londonis Museum of the Moving
Image. According to Reuters, the British studio was responsible for such
cult classics as THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, SLAVE GIRLS and THE CURSE OF
FRANKENSTEIN. Hammer was famous for its sensational violence and nudity.
They created topless versions of many films for European audiences and
extra violent scenes for Asian audiences. American audiences saw the more
modest versions. Over 100 films will unspool during the exhibition. Hammer
films are favorites of Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Steven
Spielberg. Scorsese once said, iIf we saw the logo of Hammer films we knew
it would be a very special picture.i
 
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indieWIRE ON THE SCENE:
 
(4) + MIX, NEW YORK LESBIAN/GAY FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL
by Ed Halter
 
Following the success of the New Queer Cinema in the early 90s, gay and
lesbian film festivals have achieved more community awareness, bigger
sponsors and greater industry attention. As a result, they have also
become
increasingly mainstream, abandoning much of the more experimental material
these same events were built on in their early days.
 
MIX, New York's Experimental Film & Video Festival, was founded over a
decade ago as an alternative to mainstream gay fests. Now entering its
second decade, MIX continues to promote queer works that confront
conventional cinema and break new ground. Don't show up if you're looking
for the next distributor-friendly gay love story featuring a shirtless
bohunk on the posters and a soundtrack by ABBA. First-year festival
director Rajendra Roy states emphatically that Mix exists to showcase
"film
for art's sake." Though less overtly political than previous editions, the
11th outing was no less challenging, presenting 10-day showcase of
guerrilla documents, scratches on celluloid and video feedback, and
tapping
into the outsider heritage of filmmakers like Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger
and
Barbara Hammer.
 
The opening night program featured a selection of shorts ranging from
Sundance alumni to camcorder epics. The gem of the program was Greg Sax's
newest film, 28, a meticulously paced and gorgeously hued meditation on
time and desire. Jason Romily's unsettling ALONE marries neorealist acting
with a candy-colored visual style to relate three interlocking stories of
loneliness and despair. Hypnotically rhythmic and surprisingly formalist,
Stephen Grandell's video SLAP DRAG ONS presents a poker-faced drag queen
throwing attitude into her own hand-held camera -- sort of like a TO WONG
FOO as directed by Michael Snow. Meena Naji's IT IS A CRIME serves up a
dizzying montage of Subcontinental images taken from Western films with
pulsating textual commentary.
 
Two of the most untraditional programs were also the most popular. A
youthful blue-hair-and-chain-choker contingent turned out in droves for
QUEER(S)PUNK, curated by Steven Kent Jusick, which explored the
contemporary collusion of punk and queer aesthetics. G.B. Jones' glorious
catfight THE YO YO GANG screened in its long-awaited final form. Shot in
saturated super-8 with overdubbed audio, the first half is a masterpiece
of
trash, chronicling the battles between two rival punk girl gangs. TASTE
THE
SWEAT, from twin skinhead brothers Dominik and Ben Redding, envisions a
carefully rendered daydream of tattoo parlors and punk-on-punk love. It's
a
beautifully accomplished film that should garner further gay festival
attention, despite its fringey subject matter. David Wilson's KANSAS
ANYMORE tells a surprisingly sensitive coming-out story with an
anti-WalMart stance, set in the world of midwestern slackers. Although
marred by poor audio, Wilson's first film shows the beginnings of a
do-it-yourself John Hughes for the eyebrow ring generation.
 
Curator Anie Stanely's SCARED STIFF presented queer works with horror
themes, many of which also indulged in a punky aesthetic. Highlights
included INTERVIEW WITH A ZOMBIE (featuring a spasmodically undead Bruce
La
Bruce), Doug Buck's notorious family gorefest CUTTING MOMENTS, and THE
ABBOTESS & THE FLYING NUN, a strangely alluring, Cocteau-inspired
nightmare. SCARED STIFF also featured a horror-themed art exhibit with
edgy
works from Michelle Handelman & Monte Cazazza, Richard Kern, Teri Rice,
Kelly Webb and other underground notables.
 
Although a decidedly youthful, renegade spirit informed this year's MIX as
a whole (including a zine-y program design and closing night performances
by queer punk bands Tribe 8 and Pansy Division), the festival showcased
new
work from established experimentalists as well. New films and videos were
presented from international festival mainstays Matthias Muller (PENSAO
GLOBO), Louis Khlar (PONY GLASS), M.M. Serra (JUST FOR YOU GIRLS) and
Cecilia Dougherty (THE DREAM AND THE WAKING). The indefatigable and
always-evolving Barbara Hammer, a pioneer lesbian experimental media
artist, scanned artwork brought to the fest for her Lesbian Community
Cyberspace project. Mix also premiered Warren Sonbert's final film,
WHIPLASH, a lyrical home-movie shot in the early 90s but with an early 60s
New Cinema flair.
 
Two archival programs presented rarely-screened films from queer New York
underground filmmakers of past decades. Early Warhol drag superstar Mario
Montez starred in Jose Rodriguez-Soltero's LUPE (1966), an improvised
retelling of the rise and fall of tragic Hollywood starlet Lupe Velez --
complete with a thankfully restrained suicide scene. Swathed in tacky
glamour, crayola-rich color and dreamy superimpositions, LUPE recalls the
early films of George Kuchar and well deserves a place in future
retrospectives of the early New York scene. A newly restored 1975 work by
FLAMING CREATURES maker Jack Smith also screened, with the fabulous title
I
WAS A MALE YVONNE DECARLO FOR THE LUCKY LANDLORD UNDERGROUND. A curiously
ritualistic Hollywood fantasy, the film was used by Smith as part of a
performance piece of the same name. For the performance, Smith reportedly
screened the film while engaging in a maniacally improvised argument with
the projectionist.
 
But by far one of the most accomplished and impressive films was Laurence
Brose's DE PROFUNDIS. 65 minutes of over-processed, abstracted images of
men washed in opalescent fashion colors, set to a rhythmic, looping score
of overlapping voices and text from Oscar Wilde, DE PROFUNDIS is a
rigorously structured investigation of queer identity at the end of the
millenium. Brose took over four years to complete the work,
hand-processing
the footage in a variety of materials including his own urine.
 
Although Mix screened to sell-out crowds at Cinema Village for shows like
QUEER(S)PUNK and SCARED STIFF, many of the best programs like DE PROFUNDIS
were less well attended. Mix does have a somewhat unfair reputation for
showing films of "mixed" quality, and perhaps it could improve by being
less inclusive at times. Overall, however, few festivals can match Mix for
pure do-it-yourself attitude and an unwavering devotion to its mission to
promote and screen unconventional, decidedly uncommercial lesbian and gay
work.
 
[Ed Halter is director of the New York Underground Film Festival
<http://www.nyuff.com>]
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indieWIRE LISTINGS:
Edited by Maya Churi
 
     Monday - DEADLINES! Call for Entries / Grants
     Tuesday - Festivals, Forums & DIY
     Wednesday - Tee Vee & Multiple Media
---> Thursday - In Retrospect & Revival
     Friday - Premieres
 
---NEW YORK---
JACK SMITH RETROSPECTIVE - Jack Smith (1932-1989), legendary Lower East
Side filmmaker and performer was the edgiest of creative personalities
and the antithesis of the Hollywood glamour that
ambivalently obsessed him. His incendiary Flaming Creatures--banned in
New York for its orgiastic nudity and transvestism-was the most
liberating underground film of the 1960s as well as the most
influential. Key works from the heroic age of the New American Cinema,
Jack Smith's films have been preserved by Jerry Tartaglia on behalf of
the Plaster Foundation, Inc. The first Jack Smith film retrospective,
with numerous premieres of restored films, a selection of Smith's
film-performances, and a few of his favorite movies, will be presented
at the American Museum of the Moving Image on weekends from November 29
through December 14. For information: call 718-784-0077, or email
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DANGER ADDICTS:  THE CINEMA OF LARRY FESSENDEN.  presented by THE NEW
YORK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL.  A first-ever retrospective of
underground filmmaker Larry Fessenden, director of the critically
acclaimed HABIT (1997).  FessendenIs gritty, Lower East Side filmmaking
documents individuals pushed to the limits by their own addictions for
pleasure and pain.  Program includes HOLLOW VENUSE: DIARY OF A GO GO
DANCER (1986) and STUNT, a musical documentary on David Leslie, Ithe
Evel Knievel of performance artO (1989).  Saturday, Dec. 6 at 7:00 pm.
At the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St., NYC.  For more info check out
the website @
<http://www.knittingfactory.com>
 
---LOS ANGELES---
LACMA BING THEATER - 213.857.6010 - Presents "Polonsky and Garfield."
Friday @ 7:30pm BODY & SOUL (1947), Dir. Robert Rossen and written by
Abraham Polonsky w/ John Garfield. (special guest Abraham Polonsky) then
stay for FORCE OF EVIL (1948), Dir. Abraham Polonsky.  Then on Saturday
@ 5:30pm don't miss "Classics of the American Left"- POINT OF ORDER
(1964), Dir. Emile Antonio and then @ 7:30pm SALT OF THE EARTH (1953),
Dir. Herbert J. Biberman and NATIVE LAND (1942), Dir.Leo Hurwitz and
Paul Strand.
 
---HOUSTON---
MUSEUM FINE ARTS - 713.639.7531 - Presents REPULSION, Dir. Roman
Polanski.  Catherine Deneuve stars as a manicurist in Paris who goes mad
when left alone in her sisters apartment.  It's amazing on the big
screen.  Friday @ 7:30pm; Sat @ noon and Sun @ 7PM.
 
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office
address below.  The weekly DEADLINE is FRIDAY.]
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