After Tim Sutton’s portrait in 2014, this could this be a back-to-back Sundance editions with the idea of Memphis in the forefront. Taking perhaps the tortoise route towards fruition, Free in Deed was part of the same 2005 Screenwriters Lab (same year as Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre and So Yong Kim’s Treeless Mountain) with stops at the but the Cannes Atelier, 2006 Sundance Institute Director Lab and Annenberg Film Fellowship Grant. This project is definitely in the homestretch. Jake Mahaffy who first broke out with Frontier section War in 2004 and followed that up with the 2008 SXSW Dramatic Comp Grand Jury Prize winning Wellness (also an Ifp Gotham Awards – Best Undistributed Film Nominee) has been keeping the coals fired up working in the short and installation forms. He had previously made appearances in Park City with his Motion Studies series in Gravity (2005), Mobile (2005), Heat (2005), Inertia (2008), and most recently broke onto the...
- 11/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Over the past years I directed two no(?)-micro(?)-low(?)-budget (what’s the latest on who qualifies?) features and a dozen short films and almost every time I held open community meetings seeking the public’s support. I didn’t think this was anything special but the producers on Free in Deed asked me to describe the rationale for running ‘Open Call Info Sessions’ to the community on low-budget projects instead of traditional ‘closed-door auditions’.
On a low-budget film, we need all of the resources we can imagine and especially those that we can’t yet anticipate. I want to delay the ‘self-censor’ in people who might feel inadequate or unqualified to cooperate on a Movie! for whatever reason. These are likely to be the exact same individuals the project needs the most. The finished film will be a result of each person involved and we want to start from the largest pool possible.
On a low-budget film, we need all of the resources we can imagine and especially those that we can’t yet anticipate. I want to delay the ‘self-censor’ in people who might feel inadequate or unqualified to cooperate on a Movie! for whatever reason. These are likely to be the exact same individuals the project needs the most. The finished film will be a result of each person involved and we want to start from the largest pool possible.
- 9/22/2014
- by Jake Mahaffy
- Hope for Film
Dozens of caring strangers are working together to turn one boy's wishes into reality. Five-year-old Liam Myrick was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the age of three, and has been bravely fighting the cancer ever since. "He's had 14 rounds of chemo, intravenously; he's had nine major surgeries, two bone marrow transplants," his mother Shawna Myrick told 10News. Unfortunately, doctors are worried the boy might not make it to his next birthday. Throughout all the highs and lows, the Myricks of Houston, Missouri, have kept family and friends updated on Liam's progress and unwavering optimism through the Facebook page Miracle Boy 4 a Cure.
- 8/27/2014
- by Kelli Bender, @kbendernyc
- PEOPLE.com
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