What great news!
Chicken & Egg grantee, Emily Hubley's "The Toe Tactic" is playing at the MoMA!
The Toe Tactic. 2008. USA.
Directed by Emily Hubley. 85 min.
With the voices of Eli Wallach, Marian Seldes, Andrea Martin, David Cross, and Don Byron.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 6:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Thursday, January 29, 2009, 8:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Friday, January 30, 2009, 4:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Saturday, January 31, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Sunday, February 1, 2009, 3:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Monday, February 2, 2009, 5:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
For tickets and information:
Click Here to MoMA's website
If you can, please check it out during its run!
Stay warm!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Ever wondered what it would be like to spend an evening with what Newsweek has called one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century"?
Chicken & Egg grantee, Tiffany Shlain, will be appearing at the JCCSF on February 18th in San Francisco and will be talking about: the founding of The Webby Awards, "Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness," "The Tribe," social activism and the internet, women's rights and and showing sneak peak animations of "Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence."
Her films are a fusion of documentary and narrative that unravel complicated subjects like politics, cultural identity, technology and science. A truly fascinating woman and evening.
Please see here for more details: http://www.jccsf.org/content_main.aspx?progid=2709&catid=542
Her films are a fusion of documentary and narrative that unravel complicated subjects like politics, cultural identity, technology and science. A truly fascinating woman and evening.
Please see here for more details: http://www.jccsf.org/content_main.aspx?progid=2709&catid=542
Chicken & Egg Pictures presents: Obama Goes to Sundance
On his way to the inauguration, "Barack Obama" stopped by Sundance. Brilliant filmmaker, and C&E grantee, Jesse Epstein collaborated with Chicken & Egger, Natalie Difford, to capture his visit in this cool little video Obama Goes to Sundance
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler win L'Oreal award at Sundance!
L'Oreal Paris presented the third annual L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth Vision Award to sisters Emily and Sarah Kunstler, Directors of William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, at a star-studded celebration hosted by Entertainment Weekly at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
As one of the Sundance Film Festival's sponsors, the L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth Vision Award was created to honor a female filmmaker whose work reflects the spirit of L'Oreal's Women of Worth initiative, a grassroots program that recognizes women from around the country who serve their communities, inspire others by example and have an innate sense of social responsibility and act on it.
The award was presented to Directors Emily and Sarah Kunstler by the first L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth Vision Award winner, filmmaker Cherien Dabis, who is celebrating the premier of her film, Amreeka at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Their prize a very useful check for $15,000! Congratulations to the Kunstlers, we have been incredibly proud to see their film take flight at Sundance.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Chicken & Egg Pictures at Sundance
Chicken & Egg Pictures is proud to be honoring filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler for their film William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
If you are around, check it out here...
FRI, 16th: 12pm Temple Theatre
SAT 17th: 2.30pm, Holiday Village Cinema III
SUN 18th: 6pm, Screening Room, Sundance Resort
MON 19th: 6.45pm, Broadway Center Cinemas
WED 21st: 9.15am, Holiday Village Cinema IV
FRI 23rd: 8.30pm, Holiday Village Cinema III
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a 2008 recipient of the Liberty Grant.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Burning In The Sun's co-director, Cambria Matlow, reports on her experience at Story Leads to Action series at the 92Y Tribeca.
Each month, Chicken & Egg Pictures, in partnership with Working Films, will be bringing the Story Leads to Action series to the 92Y Tribeca. Last month's environmental screening of three works-in-progress combined with three environmental organizations proved to be a exhilarating connection for all present. Here, Cambria Matlow, co-director of Burning In The Sun shares with you how story leads to action.
Right now I'm working on locking picture for BURNING IN THE SUN and seem to be riding a wave that started last December 18th at STORY LEADS TO ACTION, an event at 92Y Tribeca hosted and organized by Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working Films. The evening was not only fun but also totally useful.
The event's focus was on documentaries with environmental themes, and how each film could be strategically used as a platform for on-the-ground action. Each filmmaker screened a 20-minute sample of her work-in-progress. Then local green activists were invited onstage to introduce their organization's activities and discuss with the filmmakers how their films might be uniquely used to channel each group's mission.
Many boroughs were represented: Manhattan by Jamie Paquette, Operations Manager of Solar One (New York City's Green Energy, Arts and Education Center), Brooklyn by Micki Josie and Coquille Houshour, founders of UFT Green Schools Committee and Educatingtomorrow.org, and the Bronx by Omar Freilla from Green Worker Cooperatives. All had their own takes on the possibilities they saw in our films.
I first met Jamie Paquette when a snippet from BURNING IN THE SUN played on Solar One's giant solar-powered outdoor screen back in September as part of IFP's Indepenpendent Film Week. At STORY LEADS TO ACTION, we rekindled our relationship and discussed the obvious connections between BURNING IN THE SUN and the educational and political agendas of Solar One. Since my film addresses practical applications of solar energy, the democratization of renewable energy across income levels, and the need for green entrepreneurship, Jamie had a lot to say. Among other ideas we discussed using the film to lead workshops in New York City teaching high school kids to build solar panels from scratch.
After my coproducer Claire Weingarten mentioned Olga, a rural Malian woman in our film who wants to use solar energy to power a refrigerator and sell cold drinks in her village, I mentioned the idea that making one's living and doing good work for the environment ought to be, and could be, complementary efforts toward a holistic goal of sustainability. Omar Freilla from Green Worker Collective noticed this idea represented in our film, and also noted the documentary's inclusion of the still-radical concept of worker ownership of green energy. He thought the film could serve as an inspiration to many potential 'green collar' workers across the city, and in particular in the South Bronx, where opportunities for new ways of looking at employment and the natural environment abound.
Both Jamie and Omar expressed their eagerness to work with me in the future, and to show BURNING IN THE SUN at community events they regularly sponsored. These activitists work daily to gain the ear of policymakers. Collaborating with them, I have a tremendous opportunity to use my film to affect energy policy on local and national levels - a consequence I had mostly thought of as a 'Part 2' of my film's outreach program (Part 1 being more international in scope, and dealing more with foreign aid policy). I discovered that BURNING IN THE SUN could inspire action here in the United States just as much as it could encourage transformative change in Mali and other developing countries – the initial momentum behind making the film.
This was exciting for two reasons: 1) I had no idea how a more 'domestic' audience would receive the film, and 2) this means that the Africans depicted in the film came across significantly as business and energy leaders, and not as victims. This tone was very important for me to achieve - not every film about Africa does this but I am proud to say that this one does.
Particulary now, on the eve of an Obama presidency, with its intense focus on job-creation and its reevaluation of energy consumption and production, I realized this was a prime moment to introduce BURNING IN THE SUN to the public sphere and to use the film proactively to influence the new administration's policies.
After so much work on the tiny details of actually producing this film, the event served as a kind of 'homecoming' for me about the film's grander significance and why I chose to go after this subject matter in the first place. It felt like I was bringing the film back into the world of the living, breathing populace. This was an unprecedented moment for me, and the sudden burst of positive feedback and reassurance served to fire me up for these final stages of fine tuning I'm currently in.
And the best news of all: STORY LEADS TO ACTION felt like just the tip of the (slowly-melting) iceberg. Not only did I solidify some important new relationships, but I now have a greater sense of how other related organizations might receive the film, and what kinds of angles I might take when approaching them about using BURNING IN THE SUN to further their distinct agendas. More good matches are sure to come. And the timing is couldn't be better, since the film is right on the brink of making it out of post and into the world, ready to be seen!
Thanks are due to Chicken & Egg for walking the talk and making the evening happen. I plan to follow their lead.
-Cambria Matlow
co-director, BURNING IN THE SUN
LINK to BURNING IN THE SUN website:
http://www.indiegogo.com/project/view/301
Right now I'm working on locking picture for BURNING IN THE SUN and seem to be riding a wave that started last December 18th at STORY LEADS TO ACTION, an event at 92Y Tribeca hosted and organized by Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working Films. The evening was not only fun but also totally useful.
The event's focus was on documentaries with environmental themes, and how each film could be strategically used as a platform for on-the-ground action. Each filmmaker screened a 20-minute sample of her work-in-progress. Then local green activists were invited onstage to introduce their organization's activities and discuss with the filmmakers how their films might be uniquely used to channel each group's mission.
Many boroughs were represented: Manhattan by Jamie Paquette, Operations Manager of Solar One (New York City's Green Energy, Arts and Education Center), Brooklyn by Micki Josie and Coquille Houshour, founders of UFT Green Schools Committee and Educatingtomorrow.org, and the Bronx by Omar Freilla from Green Worker Cooperatives. All had their own takes on the possibilities they saw in our films.
I first met Jamie Paquette when a snippet from BURNING IN THE SUN played on Solar One's giant solar-powered outdoor screen back in September as part of IFP's Indepenpendent Film Week. At STORY LEADS TO ACTION, we rekindled our relationship and discussed the obvious connections between BURNING IN THE SUN and the educational and political agendas of Solar One. Since my film addresses practical applications of solar energy, the democratization of renewable energy across income levels, and the need for green entrepreneurship, Jamie had a lot to say. Among other ideas we discussed using the film to lead workshops in New York City teaching high school kids to build solar panels from scratch.
After my coproducer Claire Weingarten mentioned Olga, a rural Malian woman in our film who wants to use solar energy to power a refrigerator and sell cold drinks in her village, I mentioned the idea that making one's living and doing good work for the environment ought to be, and could be, complementary efforts toward a holistic goal of sustainability. Omar Freilla from Green Worker Collective noticed this idea represented in our film, and also noted the documentary's inclusion of the still-radical concept of worker ownership of green energy. He thought the film could serve as an inspiration to many potential 'green collar' workers across the city, and in particular in the South Bronx, where opportunities for new ways of looking at employment and the natural environment abound.
Both Jamie and Omar expressed their eagerness to work with me in the future, and to show BURNING IN THE SUN at community events they regularly sponsored. These activitists work daily to gain the ear of policymakers. Collaborating with them, I have a tremendous opportunity to use my film to affect energy policy on local and national levels - a consequence I had mostly thought of as a 'Part 2' of my film's outreach program (Part 1 being more international in scope, and dealing more with foreign aid policy). I discovered that BURNING IN THE SUN could inspire action here in the United States just as much as it could encourage transformative change in Mali and other developing countries – the initial momentum behind making the film.
This was exciting for two reasons: 1) I had no idea how a more 'domestic' audience would receive the film, and 2) this means that the Africans depicted in the film came across significantly as business and energy leaders, and not as victims. This tone was very important for me to achieve - not every film about Africa does this but I am proud to say that this one does.
Particulary now, on the eve of an Obama presidency, with its intense focus on job-creation and its reevaluation of energy consumption and production, I realized this was a prime moment to introduce BURNING IN THE SUN to the public sphere and to use the film proactively to influence the new administration's policies.
After so much work on the tiny details of actually producing this film, the event served as a kind of 'homecoming' for me about the film's grander significance and why I chose to go after this subject matter in the first place. It felt like I was bringing the film back into the world of the living, breathing populace. This was an unprecedented moment for me, and the sudden burst of positive feedback and reassurance served to fire me up for these final stages of fine tuning I'm currently in.
And the best news of all: STORY LEADS TO ACTION felt like just the tip of the (slowly-melting) iceberg. Not only did I solidify some important new relationships, but I now have a greater sense of how other related organizations might receive the film, and what kinds of angles I might take when approaching them about using BURNING IN THE SUN to further their distinct agendas. More good matches are sure to come. And the timing is couldn't be better, since the film is right on the brink of making it out of post and into the world, ready to be seen!
Thanks are due to Chicken & Egg for walking the talk and making the evening happen. I plan to follow their lead.
-Cambria Matlow
co-director, BURNING IN THE SUN
LINK to BURNING IN THE SUN website:
http://www.indiegogo.com/project/view/301
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