Each year Film Independent’s Fast Track selects up to ten fiction and five nonfiction feature projects to participate in an intensive film finance market taking place over four days in November. Applications for Fast Track 2023 are now open. The regular deadline is June 16, while Film Independent Members have until July 10.
In this special guest post, 2019 Fast Track Fellow Tom Huang talks about his experience of the film financing market and the production of his new feature Dealing with Dad, which will have a special screening at the Film Independent Theater next week, May 22 and is now available to rent on all major platforms.
Hi there! I’m Tom Huang, a very tired indie writer/director filmmaker… Yay filmmaking! My latest project is Dealing with Dad, a dramedy about an Asian-American dysfunctional-functional family dealing with a depressed dad, who’s actually a lot nicer depressed than he is healthy. It...
In this special guest post, 2019 Fast Track Fellow Tom Huang talks about his experience of the film financing market and the production of his new feature Dealing with Dad, which will have a special screening at the Film Independent Theater next week, May 22 and is now available to rent on all major platforms.
Hi there! I’m Tom Huang, a very tired indie writer/director filmmaker… Yay filmmaking! My latest project is Dealing with Dad, a dramedy about an Asian-American dysfunctional-functional family dealing with a depressed dad, who’s actually a lot nicer depressed than he is healthy. It...
- 5/16/2023
- by Tom Huang
- Film Independent News & More
Exclusive: Robert Morgan’s Talaria Media has launched development on Arigato Tokyo, a new drama set in the world of women’s professional wrestling, after acquiring a feature pitch by Daytime Emmy winner Mark Blutman. Jamie Anderson is on board to direct the pic, with Morgan to exec produce.
The film will tell the story of Annie Able, an aging pro wrestler, who despite battles with addiction and mental health, returns to the land of the Rising Sun to reignite her feud with local Japanese legend Hoshi Tokao, whose series of epic and often bloody matches in the late ’90s made them rich and famous. During the build-up of their big match at the landmark Tokyo Dome, Annie falls for the son of Hoshi, a young man half her age, and while the unlikely relationship angers Hoshi, the meaningful bond they form is unbreakable.
Blutman is...
The film will tell the story of Annie Able, an aging pro wrestler, who despite battles with addiction and mental health, returns to the land of the Rising Sun to reignite her feud with local Japanese legend Hoshi Tokao, whose series of epic and often bloody matches in the late ’90s made them rich and famous. During the build-up of their big match at the landmark Tokyo Dome, Annie falls for the son of Hoshi, a young man half her age, and while the unlikely relationship angers Hoshi, the meaningful bond they form is unbreakable.
Blutman is...
- 4/28/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The BFFoundation, the nonprofit organization formed late last year to produce the Geena Davis-chaired Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas, is launching a production company that like the foundation and fest will champion women and inclusive voices in filmmaking.
The new Bentonville Way Entertainment already has a slate of films in the pipeline featuring alumni from from past Bentonville fests: the Amber McGinnis-directed Buddy, the Jennifer Gerber-directed Has Been Beauty Queen and Dealing With Dad written and directed by Tom Huang. Kristin Mann will serve as Head of Content.
Bwe will provide local production resources to its films, with the aim to produce in Arkansas whenever possible. The three features are currently in preproduction and expected to go into production in late 2021 and early 2022.
“We are excited that we can further the outcome of our mission by not only amplifying these voices through the festival each year,...
The new Bentonville Way Entertainment already has a slate of films in the pipeline featuring alumni from from past Bentonville fests: the Amber McGinnis-directed Buddy, the Jennifer Gerber-directed Has Been Beauty Queen and Dealing With Dad written and directed by Tom Huang. Kristin Mann will serve as Head of Content.
Bwe will provide local production resources to its films, with the aim to produce in Arkansas whenever possible. The three features are currently in preproduction and expected to go into production in late 2021 and early 2022.
“We are excited that we can further the outcome of our mission by not only amplifying these voices through the festival each year,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
There will be a four-episode prequel web series, A Darker Truth, showing every Tuesday leading up to the September 10 premiere of The Vampire Diaries on the CW. The network used Retrofit Films (Heroes web series) with Tanner Kling and Chris Hanada directing. Co-producer Sean Raycraft is the web series writer. There is no sponser for the series but you may notice some of the actors wearing “Truth” t-shirts since the CW has a deal with the anti-tobacco campaign. The vampires have agreed to only smoke in the sun. The Vampire Diaries centers around two vampire brothers–one good and one evil–who vie for [...]Post from: Screamstress...
- 8/30/2009
- by Alison
- Screamstress.com
One of the things Dread Central wasn't able to squeeze into its schedule during the recent San Diego Comic-Con was the preview of the first episode of The CW's "The Vampire Diaries" that was shown over the weekend. So we're still not sure if it's just more of the same Twilight-esque tween fodder or something a bit more edgy. Perhaps its four-episode prequel web series "A Darker Truth" will shed a bit of light on the show's intentions.
Tubefilter.tv provided the following bit of intel about "A Darker Truth": The network tapped Retrofit Films, the same shop that created four of the "Heroes" spinoff web series for NBC last year, with Tanner Kling and Chris Hanada directing. Cast members for the TV series, like stars Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev, are only used via clips and stills with new web-only actors used for most of the show. The showrunner for the TV series,...
Tubefilter.tv provided the following bit of intel about "A Darker Truth": The network tapped Retrofit Films, the same shop that created four of the "Heroes" spinoff web series for NBC last year, with Tanner Kling and Chris Hanada directing. Cast members for the TV series, like stars Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev, are only used via clips and stills with new web-only actors used for most of the show. The showrunner for the TV series,...
- 8/27/2009
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Vampires, they're so hot right now. As fall TV season approaches and the networks start the media buying blitzkrieg to promote their new wares, a few networks have turned to web series to stoke the fanbase fires. The CW opted for a prequel to its teenage vampire drama, The Vampire Diaries, with a 4-episode web series A Darker Truth, which leads into the series premiere of the hour-long drama on September 10. For the production of the A Darker Truth, they tapped Retrofit Films, the same shop that created four of the Heroes spinoff web series for NBC last year. Retrofit's Tanner Kling and Chris Hanada directed the series. Cast members for the TV series, like stars Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev, are only used via clips and stills, with new web-only actors used for most of the show. Showrunner for the TV series Kevin Williamson (Scream, Dawson's Creek) did not write the web version,...
- 8/26/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
NBC's popular Heroes franchise is once again preparing a batch of web-only episodes that extend the story line of the hit network series. First there was Heroes: Going Postal, then Heroes: Destiny then Heroes: The Recruit, and now a fourth, still unnamed series is the works according to our sources. The series is in post-production with David H. Lawrence, who plays Eric Doyle on the network series, said to star along with a few other actors crossing over from the main narrative. The web series will pick up where the show leaves off in April on the life of Eric Doyle, the Heroes marionette character. NBC and Executive producer Tim Kring have once again tapped La-based production outfit Retrofit Films, who created two of the Heroes web series (Going Postal and The Recruit), to take the reigns on the project. NBC also turned to them for Conspiracy Theory, a companion...
- 2/25/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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