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February 2013 - Congratulations to David Gordon Green (Class of 1998) for winning the Silver Bear - Best Director award at the Berlinale Film Festival for PRINCE AVALANCHE (USA).
http://www.indiewire.com/article/berlinale-2013-awards-announced?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Indiewire%20Today&utm_content=
February 2013 – Watch an interview from The Beaufort International Film Festival with the crew of UNCSA student film, SARGEANT TOWNSEND (Editor, Christopher Frith, Director Ben Hall and Producer Jacob LaGuardia, all seniors at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts).
http://youtu.be/e7QeME4huoc
February 2013 - Creator Of Doritos "Fashionista Daddy" Super Bowl Ad, Mark Freiburger (UNCSA class of 2005) Wins Grand Prize To Work With Michael Bay On Paramount Pictures' And Hasbro's 'Transformers 4'.
http://www.pepsico.com/PressRelease/Creator-Of-Doritos-Fashionista-Daddy-Super-Bowl-Ad-Wins-Grand-Prize-To-Work-With02042013.html
February 2013 – UNCSA Alumni class of 2010 Alex Moratto selected as one of 8 directors for Film Independent's 12th Annual Director's Lab.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/f29c2b50-6f1a-11e2-9832-22000a1d0930
February 2013 - Director Zach Clark (UNCSA class of 2004) will be premiering his new film WHITE REINDEER at SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST. Alexander Sablow (UNCSA class of 2009) was 1st AC on the project.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_FS13839
January 2013 – (UNCSA class of 2004) Chad Hartigan's THIS IS MARTIN BONNER won the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Best of NEXT Audience Award. See Chad discussing the film in an interview using the following link…
https://www.sundance.org/video/next-13-chad-hartigan/
January 2013 – David Gordon Green (UNCSA class of 1998) was interviewed with actor, Emile Hirsch about PRINCE AVALANCHE; the inspiration for the film and the process of making it. See the interviews with the links below…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgJsZ26_AXU
http://www.sundance.org/video/morning-after-prince-avalanche/
Another interview including Paul Rudd…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8kLvMIJLt0
December 2012 – 2013 Sundance Film Festival Announces Premiere Films
Prince Avalanche / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: David Gordon Green – UNCSA Class of 1998) — Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Cast: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch.
http://www.sundance.org/festival/release/2013-sundance-film-festival-announces-films-in-spotlight-park-city-at-midni/
December 2012 – 2013 Sundance Film Festival Announces Films in NEXT category
This is Martin Bonner / U.S.A.(Director and screenwriter: Chad Hartigan - UNCSA Class of 2004) — Martin Bonner has just moved to Reno for a new job in prison rehabilitation. Starting over at age 58, he struggles to adapt until an unlikely friendship with an ex–con blossoms, helping him confront the problems he left behind.
Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Richmond Arquette, Sam Buchanan, Robert Longstreet, Demetrius Grosse.
http://www.sundance.org/festival/release/2013-sundance-film-festival-announces-films-in-u.s.-and-world-competitions-/
November 2012 – 2013 Sundance Film Festival Announces Spotlight Films
Mud / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter:Jeff Nichols – UNCSA Class of 2001) — Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and reunite him with his true love.
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon. North American Premiere
http://www.sundance.org/festival/release/2013-sundance-film-festival-announces-films-in-spotlight-park-city-at-midni/
October 2012 - CW is finalizing a deal with (David Marshall) Grant to executive produce a drama titled "Blink". Written by (UNCSA alumni class of 2011) Vera Herbert (Awkward), the CBS Television Studios is described as a dark family story about a girl whose father is in a coma.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/brothers-sisters-david-marshall-grant-hbo-comedy-383363
October 2012 - UNCSA alumni class of 2001 Rebecca Green has been selected to participate in the Film Independent Producing Lab with one of (UNCSA School of Drama alumnus) Brett Haley's projects.
http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/film-independent-names-lab-participants/
October 2012 -
UNCSA alumni class of 1998 Jeff Nichols to chair the International Jury for Roma Cinema Fest.
http://www.romacinemafest.it/ecm/web/fcr/en/home/fondazione-cinema-per-roma/news/content/screenwriter-and-director-jeff-nichols-to-chair-the-international-jury.0000.FCR-2307
October 2012 - Angus MacLachlan, the screenwriter of 2005’s beautiful and sweet “Junebug,” is set to make his directorial debut with “Goodbye To All That” and he’s cast a pair of character actors as his leads. (UNCSA alumni class of 1998) Paul Schneider (“Bright Star,” "The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford") and Melanie Lynskey (gaining some heat from her revelatory turn in “Hello I Must Be Going”).
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/melanie-lynskey-paul-schneider-say-goodbye-to-all-that-nate-parker-goes-non-stop-adam-brody-has-a-baggage-claim-more-20121008
September 2012 - UNCSA alumni class of 1997 David Gordon Green will direct Nicholas Cage in Joe, based on Larry Brown's novel. New financing and production company Worldview Entertainment is backing the gritty Southern drama.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nicolas-cage-joe-368730
September 2012 - UNCSA alumni class of 2006 Craig Zobel's COMPLIANCE screened at the 38th Deauville American Film Festival in France.
http://www.festival-deauville.com/DEV/index.php?pid=57&film_id=1869&c=4
Photocall: http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/ktX44eiRDx4/Compliance+Photocall+38th+Deauville+American/6fCEUBptWU-/Craig+Zobel
August 2012 - UNCSA alumni class of 2006 Craig Zobel, is set to write and direct an untitled thriller project for Focus Features.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118058416?refCatId=13
July 2012 - Sundance Producing Labs - The Bingham Ray fellow, Summer Shelton, comes to the feature film lab with an untitled project about brothers hoping to smuggle exotic lumber, written and directed by (UNCSA alumni class of 2010) Alex Moratto.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056617?refCatId=13
June 2012 - The creator of "Mad Men" made his long-brewing movie "You Are Here" with a little help from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, one of THR's film schools to watch.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/matt-weiner-mad-men-you-are-here-354955
May 2012 - UNCSA Class of 1998 Jeff Nichols "Steals the Spotlight from Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon" in Cannes 2012
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/cannes-2012-mud-director-jeff-nichols-steals-spotlight-matthew-mcconaughey-reese-withers
April 2012 - UNCSA Alumni Class of 2001 director Jeff Nichols' film 'Mud,' which stars Reese Witherspoon and Matthew McConaughey, will compete at Cannes Film Festival.
http://www.austin360.com/movies/austins-nichols-to-take-mud-to-main-cannes-2314789.html
March 2012 – UNCSA's Leo Hurley (UNCSA School of Music) wins College Television Award for Music: Best Composition for the score on 2011 School of Filmmaking student film, ZomRomCom: The Musical!
http://www.emmysfoundation.org/2012-CTA-Winners-List
February 2012 – UNCSA Alumni Class of 2006, Zach Seivers, Class of 2008, Justin Davey, and Class of 2009 John Maynard win GOLDEN REEL AWARD for GETTYSBURG.
September 2011 – Class of 2001 alumnus Jeff Nichols' TAKE SHELTER wins Grand Prize at Deauville (France) Film Festival
http://www.contactmusic.com/news/jeff-nichols-take-shelter-wins-grand-prize-at-deauville_1244784
September 2011 – Video of Interview with Emmy Award-winning Class of 2006 alumnus Zach Seivers on the sound design of Gettysburg.
http://oneminutenews.com/channel/entertainment/59501/scott-talks-with-emmy-award-winning-sound-designer-for-gettysburg
August 2011 - UNCSA Film School ranked 2nd best public film school in the United States, 12th best film school in the world!
http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article/186525/327/UNC-School-Of-Filmmaking-Receives-National-Recognition
August 2011 – TAKE SHELTER Director Jeff Nichols’ Next Movie Will Star Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon http://www.indiewire.com/...
August 2011 - Rough House (Danny McBride, David Gordon Green and Jody Hill) sign a one year deal with 20th Century Fox Television. http://www.reuters.com/...
July 2011 – Hollywood Reporter names Top 25 Film Schools including UNCSA as #12 internationally and #2 in U.S. public undergraduate programs. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/...
May 2011 – Jeff Nichols’ TAKE SHELTER Wins Top Critics Prize at Canneshttp://thefilmstage.com/news/...
March 2011 – Will Files, sound designer, discusses the making of IRONMAN with visual effects director Aaron McBride. http://www.soundonsight.org/...
February 2011 - Aaron Katz Braves the Cold Weather http://www.moviemaker.com/...
January 2011 – Tim Orr serves on U.S. Dramatic Jury for Sundance Film Festival 2011 http://www.cyndigreening.com/... |
