Winners of Bangkok IndieFest's 'Golden Shirt' Award to be Determined by Audience Choice
Winners of Bangkok IndieFest's 'Golden Shirt' award in each category to be determined by audience choice this year, via ballot selection for each of the 80+ participating films.*YOU* can help determine the winners! See complete schedule and lineup here:http://www.bangkokfest.com/schedule_venues/schedule_venues.htmlBANGKOK INDIEFEST 1.0: August 6-8, 2553More info @ aahttp://www.bangkokfest.com/Thursday, July 29, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
LOST IN NEW MEXICO rises above the indie pack!
LOST IN NEW MEXICO rises above the indie pack!
Award winning writer-director J Rosette's 2nd feature, LOST IN NEW MEXICO: the Strange Tale of Susan Hero (www.lostinnewmexicomovie.com) continues to garner more positive press, rising above the Indie Pack.
"It would be interesting to see Rosette’s obvious abilities supported by a professional cast and crew and studio-grade equipment." - The Moving Arts Journal "Recommended for Adventurous Viewers" - Lib. Journal "It’s the sort of film that would probably be a sleeper hit if it had the money behind it." - Rogue Cinema
His 3rd feature, FREEDOM DEAL, is the never-before told dramatization of the US incursion into Cambodia in 1970 as part of the wider VN-US conflict.
** The director has spent over half a decade living and working in Cambodia, researching material related to this little known and mysterious episode in US-Asian history **
Contact: CAMERADO / camerado@camerado.com / www.camerado.com for inquiries about all our projects!LOST IN NEW MEXICO: the Strange Tale of Susan Hero (http://www.lostinnewmexicomovie.com)
====================================>>>> LOST IN NEW MEXICO: The Strange Tale of Susan Hero (2009) By Eric M. Armstrong, The Moving Arts Journal Jason Rosette’s no-budget tale of desolation, desperation and loss subtly weaves together the disparate lives of a group of struggling Southwesterners in “Lost in New Mexico.” Susan (Drea Pressley), grieving and aimless after the loss of her newborn daughter, thoughtlessly seeks out a rogue animal-cloning geneticist (Dr. Alan Rice) to reverse, or subvert, the most inevitable of human events — death. Along the way she encounters mysterious illegal immigrant, Javier (Jaime Estrada), and the two run away from their respective troubles together, forging an unlikely friendship of circumstance and innate understanding. Running parallel to this central storyline is a tandem of narratives: one, following a down-on-his-luck Native American pottery artist (David Paytiamo) scrambling to find money to send his daughter to college, and the other, a hapless FDA agent (Jason Rosette) tracking down the clone-doctor to break up his illegal operation. The narratives are eventually entwined quite nicely, although the characters aren’t necessarily aware when this happens, which makes it all the better. Rosette’s direction is mostly adept. He employs a number of small touches that bring the film’s mise-en-scène to life. The Southwestern setting properly reflects the desolation and intense desire to seek, which drives virtually every character in the film. The script is surprisingly consistent, with incrementally more substantial setups and payoffs plotted steadily throughout the unfolding story making it clear that a lot of care was taken in the writing process. Although the setting couldn’t be more apt for the players and their stories, the visual composition is noticeably lackluster. This is understandable and quite common in micro-budget films, but minor adjustments in color correction, framing and maybe even different shutter speed, lens filter and video rendering choices may have increased the film’s overall visual appeal. Sub-professional equipment can also artificially diminish an actor’s performance, which may have been the case here. No one stood out as particularly magnetic, though no one was bad enough to the point of distraction either. It would be interesting to see Rosette’s obvious abilities supported by a professional cast and crew and studio-grade equipment. The hook of “Lost in New Mexico” is its human cloning element and the ethical questions that very real dilemma raises. While controversial issues like this are certainly compelling, the film really shines when it explores the emotional implications of such drastic thinking.”Lost in New Mexico” wisely steers clear of the minutiae of genetics and cloning, using that hook as nothing more than a portal into the intimate and heartbreaking sphere of a mother’s loss. Everything else is merely ancillary to that central internal conflict. And though it could have used some minor tweaking, “Lost in New Mexico” is a unique and interesting take on the fluidity of technology versus the recurring commonality of the human condition.
Monday, July 05, 2010
New Review for 'Lost in New Mexico: the strange tale of Susan Hero' from Moving Arts Jnl
Lost in New Mexico: The Strange Tale of Susan Hero (2007)
Jason Rosette’s no-budget tale of desolation, desperation and loss subtly weaves together the disparate lives of a group of struggling Southwesterners in “Lost in New Mexico.”
Susan (Drea Pressley), grieving and aimless after the loss of her newborn daughter, thoughtlessly seeks out a rogue animal-cloning geneticist (Dr. Alan Rice) to reverse, or subvert, the most inevitable of human events — death. Along the way she encounters mysterious illegal immigrant, Javier (Jaime Estrada), and the two run away from their respective troubles together, forging an unlikely friendship of circumstance and innate understanding.
Running parallel to this central storyline is a tandem of narratives: one, following a down-on-his-luck Native American pottery artist (David Paytiamo) scrambling to find money to send his daughter to college, and the other, a hapless FDA agent (Jason Rosette) tracking down the clone-doctor to break up his illegal operation.
The narratives are eventually entwined quite nicely, although the characters aren’t necessarily aware when this happens, which makes it all the better.
Rosette’s direction is mostly adept. He employs a number of small touches that bring the film’s mise-en-scène to life. The Southwestern setting properly reflects the desolation and intense desire to seek, which drives virtually every character in the film.
The script is surprisingly consistent, with incrementally more substantial setups and payoffs plotted steadily throughout the unfolding story making it clear that a lot of care was taken in the writing process.
Although the setting couldn’t be more apt for the players and their stories, the visual composition is noticeably lackluster. This is understandable and quite common in micro-budget films, but minor adjustments in color correction, framing and maybe even different shutter speed, lens filter and video rendering choices may have increased the film’s overall visual appeal.
Sub-professional equipment can also artificially diminish an actor’s performance, which may have been the case here. No one stood out as particularly magnetic, though no one was bad enough to the point of distraction either. It would be interesting to see Rosette’s obvious abilities supported by a professional cast and crew and studio-grade equipment.
The hook of “Lost in New Mexico” is its human cloning element and the ethical questions that very real dilemma raises. While controversial issues like this are certainly compelling, the film really shines when it explores the emotional implications of such drastic thinking. ”Lost in New Mexico” wisely steers clear of the minutiae of genetics and cloning, using that hook as nothing more than a portal into the intimate and heartbreaking sphere of a mother’s loss. Everything else is merely ancillary to that central internal conflict. And though it could have used some minor tweaking, “Lost in New Mexico” is a unique and interesting take on the fluidity of technology versus the recurring commonality of the human condition.
Friday, July 02, 2010
Lineup Announced for BANGKOK INDIEFEST 1.0 (2010/2553) Edition
| Selections for BANGKOK INDIEFEST 1.0 (Detailed schedule and film info to be posted @ www.bangkokfest.com shortly) | www.bangkokfest.com |
| Note: Schedule TBA; additional films may be added | August 6-8 2553 BANGKOK, Thailand |
|
10 Years to Nashville | Katarzyna Trzaska |
| 34 & Park | Cameron Pearson |
| Amexica | Ron Krauss |
| Born to Be Alive | Alexander Felsing & Tobias Sparrman |
| Broken | Christian Doran |
| Bye Bye Now! | Ross Whitaker, Aideen O'Sullivan |
| Case Closed | Kevin Stocklin |
| Correspondence | Oliver Waghorn |
| Coup De Grace | Thymaya Payne |
| Cravings | Andreas Lindergard |
| Das Paket | Marco Gadge |
| Dental Breakdown | Ian Power |
| D'entre les morts (Among the Dead) | Alain BASSO |
| Die Entbehrlichen (The Dispensables) | Andreas Arnstedt |
| Die Seilbahn (the Cable Car) | Claudius Gentinetta |
| Dieu est Americain (God is American) | Richard MARTIN-JORDAN |
| Dominoes and checkers competition | Alexander Gornovsky |
| Door to Door | Ida Akesson |
| Dried Up | Isaiah Powers |
| Drown | Nottapon Boonprakob |
| EAST PLANET | Hiroshi Toda |
| Eulogy | Ben Claremont |
| Everything Is As It Should Be | Jennifer Ruff |
| Father returning home | Imaad Shah |
| Flip | Peter Allen |
| Go For It | DEJAN AĆIMOVIĆ |
| Insurgency of Ambition | Anya Belkina |
| Intersection (Thai Version) | Jae Woe Kim |
| It Shines And Shakes And Laughs | Matthew Wade |
| Kamikire Ichimai | Momi Yamashita |
| Keeping Them Safe | Lauren Sandler |
| LA GLACIÈRE ROUGE | Michel Jr Tremblay |
| La Lampadina | Thai Pradithkesorn |
| Last Night | Ed Park |
| Le prix à payer (The Price to Pay) | Paul Gayard |
| L'Empire des enfants, une femme de Dakar en colère (The Children's Empire, an angry Dakar woman) | Gerard Moreau |
| les intestins de la terre | Barbier Olivier |
| Little Jijar | Gun Sangkaew |
| LIMINAL | Stephen Keep Mills |
| Lollipop Man | Nils Gaard |
| Lya | Nicolas Siegenthaler |
| Make Me | John Ma |
| Mannen med kulorna (the Man with all the Marbles) | Hans Montelius |
| Massacrator | Pierre Ayotte |
| Meltdown in Tibet | Michael Buckley |
| Mørke Sjeler | César Ducasse |
| Mu -emptiness- | RIA AMA |
| MUGS | Ronnie Cramer |
| My Asian Heart | David Bradbury |
| Nobody's Business | Tyler Savage |
| North Horizon | Thomas Freundlich & Valtteri Raekallio |
| Parking Space | David Bitton |
| Pedaço de Papel (Piece of Paper) | Cesar Raphael |
| Peel | Douglas Williams |
| Puffer Girl | Joan Gratz |
| Retour au pays des ames (Return to the Land of the Souls) | Jordi Esteva |
| Return To Gaza | Michael Weatherhead |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead | Jordan Galland |
| Run Granny Run | Nikolaus von Uthmann |
| Scissu | Tom Bewilogua |
| Sombras | Oriol Canals |
| Sometimes I Dream of Reindeer | Tom Feiler |
| Song of the River | Krissada Tipchaimeta |
| Souvenirs | Andy Pearson |
| star, dust | Karen Hanson |
| Staubkaskade | Stefan Pautze |
| Storm'n the Castle | Chris Timmons |
| Suck 3/2 Seed | Siwawut Sewatanon |
| Sweet Crude | Sandy Cioffi |
| Takeo | Omar Samad |
| Televisnu | Prithi Gowda |
| The Cockerels Egg | Peter Allen |
| The Hirosaki Players | Jeff Sousa |
| The Last Elephants in Thailand | Donald Tayloe |
| The Magnitude of the Continental Divides | Christopher Coleman |
| The Marina Experiment | Marina Lutz |
| THE MOVING TOWN | Alberto Nacci |
| The Package | Oliver Waghorn |
| The Quackening | Norm Fassbender |
| Vitruvius' Toybox | Dennis Iannuzzi |
| Wet Nana Dreamscape | Jimmie Wing |
| Why Do You Have A Beard? | Paul O Donoghue |
| World Vote Now | Joel B. Marsden |
| Zwischen Licht und Schatten | Fabian Giessler |
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