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Sunday, September 23, 2007
This year’s Woodstock Film Festival in upstate New York features a number of shorts, narrative features and documentaries that highlight the beauty of the Hudson Valley and the filmmakers who call it home. The Poughkeepsie Journal highlights several of these, including:
"Casting Pearls,” a short film produced by Woodstock-area resident and Woodstock Film Festival Advisory Board member Ron Nyswaner, who wrote the screenplays for “The Painted Veil” and “Philadelphia."
The short stars Calpernia Addams as an actress enduring a series of casting sessions, and was directed by Andrea James.
Many of the filmmakers, cast and crew of these films will be present at the screenings, which take place Oct. 11-14. Tickets range from $8 to $20. To purchase tickets, call 845-810-0131, visit http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com, or go to the festival box office, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock.
Full article:
* Festival highlights Hudson Valley films, actors
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Calendar item from LA Weekly, the essential online resource for Los Angeles:
Outfest Wednesdays Favorite Girls’ Shorts, featuring Andrea James’ Casting Pearls, Rebecca Feldman’s My First Time Driving, Christy Wegener’s Long Ago, Nicola Marsh’s Last Exit, Melanie McGraw’s Pitstop, and Dee Rees’ Pariah, winner of the Outfest 2007 Audience Award and Grand Jury Award for Dramatic Short Film.
More information:
* LA Weekly listing
* Casting Pearls website
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Roberto Friedman at Bay Area Reporter mentioned “Casting Pearls” as among the highlights of this Saturday’s 12-hour film festival in San Francisco. Directed by Andrea James and starring Calpernia Addams, the film will run with other notable shorts from the festival.
Out There (Roberto Friedman, Bay Area Reporter)
Coming up this Saturday, Sept. 22, Frameline will present Best of the Fest 2007, a one-day film event featuring audience favorites and award-winning films from the 31st SF International LGBT Film Festival. The films will screen for over 12 hours at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 16th St., SF.
Best of the Fest 2007 highlights include the sensuous Glue, this year’s Best First Feature; and Spider Lilies, a fest fave and winner of the Berlin Film Festival Teddy Award for Best Queer Feature. Also on tap, two award-winning documentaries: the Audience Award for Best Documentary, Semper Fi: One Marine’s Journey, about a gay Marine stationed in Iraq; and Red Without Blue, the Michael J. Berg Documentary Award-winner, the story of identical twins Alex and Mark as they struggle to reconcile their painful adolescence and Alex’s decision to transition to a woman.
Short films will include Audience Award-winner Pariah; Casting Pearls, starring Calpernia Addams ; the comedy Members Only; Australia’s Prada Handbag; and Cowboy Forever. Tickets are $12 for Frameline members, $15 for the public; and passes to the entire day are $50 for Frameliners, $65 for public. Info, go to frameline.org.
* Frameline Best of the Fest 2007
* “Casting Pearls” website
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Iconic LGBT magazine The Advocate is celebrating its 40th year in style, including a huge kickoff event last night in Los Angeles. Calpernia Addams and Andrea James of Deep Stealth productions were on hand, along with LGBT celebrities, activists, and media leaders. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave a speech to the crowd, as did Advocate editor in chief Anne Stockwell, TR Knight, Jane Lynch, and Staff Sgt. Eric Alva.
* Advocate 40th website
* Advoacte: 40 Heroes
Saturday, September 15, 2007
The Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival has announced “Casting Pearls” will screen on a double bill with the 2002 French drama “Un Autre Femme” ("Another Woman"):
Saturday, October 13, 2007 @ 2:00 PM
The Crest Theater
1013 K Street
Sacramento, CA
- Casting Pearls
Director Andrea James, 2006, USA, 7min
Calpernia Addams stars as a transsexual actress who endures a series of Hollywood auditions, each humorously spotlighting a different prejudice or misconception that transwomen encounter.
- Another Woman (Un Autre Femme)
Director Jerome Foulon, 2002, France
French with English Subtitles, 106min
Transsexual woman Lea returns to France and the family she left behind after disappearing for years during her transition.
For more information:
* SIGLFF 2007 program
* http://www.siglff.org/tickets.html
Friday, September 14, 2007
Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will be playing with the groundbreaking documentary “Red Without Blue” at the Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival:
Saturday, September 29 @ 3:00pm
Southwest Film Center
University of New Mexico Student Union Building
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
505.277.5608
Red Without Blue
Identical twins Mark and Alex Farley began life as close as two brothers born minutes apart can be, happily visiting Disneyland, celebrating birthdays, and being each other’s best friend. Their childhood, while appearing happy, was later revealed to be a tragic, disturbing and chaotic mess of divorce, drugs and sexual confusion. After a joint suicide attempt, the two young men part ways and move to opposite ends of the country. Unbeknownst to each other, they also gravitate to opposite ends of the sexual spectrum, with Mark finding a boyfriend in San Francisco and Alex finding himself transforming into a woman named Claire in New York City. Red Without Blue is a true-life chronicle of three years in the life of the Farley brothers as they succumb to the desire to reunite and attempt to reconcile their obvious differences with their parents, each other, and their inner selves. – Jeremy Olsen (USA, 2007, 76 min, dir: Brooke Sebold/Benita Sills/Todd Sills)
Casting Pearls
Calernia Addams stars as a transsexual actress who endures a series of Hollywood auditions.
(USA, 2006, 7 min, dir: Andrea James)
More information:
* Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
* Film schedule
* Casting Pearls website
