Every week, I get several press releases, screening invitations and other notifications from a handful of studio contacts. While I won’t be sharing any information regarding my screening invites, some of the press releases might be of interest to my readers, so I thought I’d start sharing them in toto with all of you. These could include new image galleries for various films or important updates to upcoming releases from various smaller studios and art house production companies.

• Press Release: Regal Cinemas to Show “Girl Rising”
• Press Release: Strategy PR/Consulting 2013 Tribeca Film Festival Schedule
• Press Release: Brigade 2013 Summer Preview
• Press Release: Brigade 2013 Tribeca Film Festival Schedule

Press Release: Regal Cinemas to Show “Girl Rising”

Regal Cinemas Brings Girl Rising to Theatres Following Strong Moviegoer Interest

From Academy Award-Nominee Richard E. Robbins with Cate Blanchett, Priyanka Chopra, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Chloë Moretz, Liam Neeson, Freida Pinto, Meryl Streep, and Kerry Washington

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – April 4, 2013 – Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States, announced a week-long engagement of Girl Rising starting Friday, April 19. From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins, Girl Rising spotlights the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world. Tickets are on sale now at: REGmovi.es/16VClEn

Girl Rising first gained attention among moviegoers through a crowd-sourcing approach in which fans commit to buying enough movie tickets to secure a screening. Based on that interest, Regal Entertainment Group is now making the acclaimed film available to audiences in more than 150 theatres across the country.

“Regal recognizes the intense interest by American moviegoers demanding that this film be seen in their local communities,” stated Amy Miles, CEO of Regal Entertainment Group. “This movie is making an emotional impact on many of our patrons, me included. The stories from these extraordinary girls in nine different countries are accompanied by narration from an A-list of entertainers.”

Narrated by Cate Blanchett, Priyanka Chopra, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Chloë Moretz, Liam Neeson, Frieda Pinto, Meryl Streep, and Kerry Washington, the film has already proven a success. It is the centerpiece of 10×10 – a global campaign to educate and empower girls.

“With Girl Rising, we took a risk on a new model of on-demand theatrical distribution, and the leap of faith paid dividends,” said The Documentary Group’s Tom Yellin, executive producer of Girl Rising. “We’ve established a new model for impact filmmaking, to build a movement – and an audience – around a film. Regal joining this effort means an opportunity for people everywhere to see this beautiful and important film.”

A portion of all ticket sales at Regal Cinemas, United Artists and Edwards Theatres will go to the 10×10 Fund for Girls Education, which is distributed among 10×10’s high-impact network of non-profit partners: A New Day Cambodia, CARE, Girl Up/United Nations Foundation, Partners in Health, Plan International USA, Room to Read, and World Vision.

“We have been overwhelmed by the incredible response to Girl Rising,” said director, Richard E. Robbins. “Around the country, thousands of people have brought Girl Rising to their local theatres with on demand screenings. Now, Regal Cinemas is making this film – and the stories of these nine incredible girls – available to anyone who wants to see it. The more people who witness the impact of education on girls’ lives, the closer we get to driving change and getting girls into school.”

Produced by award-winning former ABC News journalists of The Documentary Group and Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions, Girl Rising is powered by strategic founding partner, Intel Corporation, and global television distribution partner, CNN Films. The executive producers of Girl Rising are Tom Yellin, Holly Gordon, Paul G. Allen and Jody Allen.

About Regal Entertainment Group:
Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC) operates the largest and most geographically diverse theatre circuit in the United States, consisting of 7,371 screens in 580 locations in 42 states along with Guam, Saipan, American Samoa and the District of Columbia as of March 29, 2013. The Company operates theatres in 46 of the top 50 U.S. designated market areas. We believe that the size, reach and quality of the Company’s theatre circuit not only provide its patrons with a convenient and enjoyable movie-going experience, but is also an exceptional platform to realize economies of scale in theatre operations. Additional information is available on the Company’s Web site at www.REGmovies.com.

ABOUT 10X10
10×10 was founded by award-winning journalists at The Documentary Group and Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions, along with strategic partner, Intel Corporation. 10×10 is built on a foundation of partnerships with NGOs, corporations, policy makers, and grassroots organizations — all working to change minds, lives, and policy. 10×10’s coalition of NGO partners include a high-impact network of champions and leaders in girls’ education. These organizations provide life-changing services to girls every day, and are among the best practitioners of their kind. 10×10’s film, Girl Rising, has been acquired by CNN Films and will be broadcast on CNN in the summer of 2013.

Press Release: Strategy PR/Consulting 2013 Tribeca Film Festival Schedule

Here’s the list of the films and talent Strategy PR/Consulting will be handling at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Please let us know if you would like to set up interviews, or if you are interested in event coverage, photos, clips or tickets.

Spotlight – Craig Zicks’ THE ENGLISH TEACHER (Distributor: Cinedigm and Tribeca Films)
Starring Julianne Moore, Michael Angarano, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins and Nathan Lane

Spotlight – Josh Fox’s GASLAND II (Distributor: HBO Documentary Films)

World Narrative Competition – Laurie Collyer’s SUNLIGHT JR. (Acquisition Title/ Domestic Sales: CAA & Cassian Elwes co-repping)
Starring Naomi Watts, Matt Dillon, Norman Reedus, and Tess Harper

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Spotlight – Craig Zicks’ THE ENGLISH TEACHER (Distributor: Cinedigm and Tribeca Films)

THE ENGLISH TEACHER, directed by Craig Zisk, follows Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore), a forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania. She shares a small apartment with two Siamese cats and her rich collection of great literature. She maintains no close personal relationships aside from those she has with her favorite authors and stories. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she devours on the page, and she likes it that way. But Linda’s simple life turns an unexpected page when former star pupil Jason Sherwood (Michael Angarano) returns to Kingston after trying to make it as a playwright in New York. Now in his 20s, Jason is on the verge of abandoning art, pressured by his overbearing father, Dr. Tom Sherwood (Greg Kinnear), to face reality and go to law school. Linda can’t stand the thought of Jason giving up on his dreams so she decides to mount his play – a dark, angst-ridden, ambitious work – as a Kingston High School production, with flamboyant drama teacher Carl Kapinas (Nathan Lane) directing. As Linda, now well out of her normal comfort zone, takes further risks in life and love, the stage is set for highly comic downfall. With the play, her reputation, and her teaching career on the line, Linda finds an unlikely ally in herself. Amidst the ruins of her formerly perfect life, can she find a way to her own unique storybook ending?

Screenings:
Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 10:15am– Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 8- Press & Industry Screening
Friday, April 26, 2013 at 6:00pm– BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center- Premiere
Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 6:00pm– AMC Village 7 Theatre 1- Public Screening #2
Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 3:30pm– SVA Theater 1 Silas- Public Screening #3

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Spotlight – Josh Fox’s GASLAND II (Distributor: HBO Documentary Films)

GASLAND PART II is the provocative follow-up to filmmaker Josh Fox’s 2011 Academy Award nominated documentary feature GASLAND, about the controversial methods of extracting natural gas and oil from rock layers deep within the earth, also known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Fox’s newest effort – with his trademark dark humor – shows how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most controversial environmental issues facing our nation today.

Screenings:
Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 3:30pm– SVA Theater 1 Silas- Premiere
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:45am– Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6- Press & Industry Screening
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 9:00pm– Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 7- Public Screening #2
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 2:30pm– AMC Village 7 (Theatre 3)- Public Screening #3
Friday, April 26, 2013 at 6:30pm– SVA Theatre 1 Silas- Public Screening #4

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World Narrative Competition – Laurie Collyer’s SUNLIGHT JR. (Acquisition Title / Domestic Sales: CAA & Cassian Elwes co-repping)

From writer/director Laurie Collyer (Sherrybaby) comes an intimate and intense love story about a young couple at odds with the American dream. Set in the underbelly of usually sunny Florida, Melissa Winters (two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts) works as a cashier at the local convenience store, SUNLIGHT JR. She lives in a seedy motel with her boyfriend Richie (Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon), a former television repairman who lives month to month on his government disability check, spending most of it at a neighborhood tavern. When their lives taken a sudden turn in a new direction, they are forced even more so to examine the realities of both of their lives, and to face some tough choices about what lies in the horizon. Produced by Charlie Corwin (The Squid & The Whale), Ariel Elia (The Exit Room) and Andrea Roa (Drinking Buddies), the film also stars Norman Reedus (AMC’s The Walking Dead) and veteran screen actress Tess Harper.

Screenings:
Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 6:00pm– BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center- Premiere
Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 9:00AM– Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 4- Press & Industry Screening
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 4:00PM– Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 5- Public Screening #2
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 5:30pm– AMC Loews Village 7 (Theatre 3) – Public Screening #3
Friday, April 26, 2013 at 9:00PM– Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 7- Public Screening #4

Press Release: Brigade 2013 Summer Preview

BRIGADE 2013 SUMMER PREVIEW UPCOMING RELEASES

Jared Moshé’s DEAD MAN’S BURDEN
(May 3, 2013)

Starring Clare Bowen, David Call and Barlow Jacobs

Reeling from a Civil War that divided both their country and their family, a brother and sister reunite on the western frontier only to uncover each other’s unforgivable secrets.

Ben Wheatley’s SIGHTSEERS
(May 10, 2013)

Starring Alice Lowe and Steve Oram

A pair of sad-sack lovers turns into a frumpy Bonnie and Clyde as their romantic getaway to the English countryside turns into a bloody killing spree in this dark comedy.

Katie Aselton’s BLACK ROCK
(May 17, 2013)

Starring Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell, Katie Aselton

Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.

Franck Khalfoun’s MANIAC
(June 21, 2013)

Starring Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder

Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. A 21st century Jack the Ripper set in present day L.A. MANIAC is a re-boot of the William Lustig cult film considered by many to be the most suspenseful slasher movie ever made.

Jeff Garlin’s DEALIN’ WITH IDIOTS
(Summer 2013)

Starring Jeff Garlin

Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son’s youth baseball team, a famous comedian decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the league better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie.

David Gordon Green’s PRINCE AVALANCHE
(August 2013)

Starring Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne
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..

THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX
(August 23, 2013)

Starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anais Demoustier, Catherine Arditi

Audrey Tautou stars in this adaptation of François Mauriac’s legendary 1927 novel as a provincial housewife whose suffocating marriage to a landowner inspires her to a fatal bid for freedom. The final film from the inestimable Claude Miller.

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DEAD MAN’S BURDEN

Directed by: Jared Moshé
Written by: Jared Moshé
Starring: Clare Bowen, David Call, Barlow Jacobs
Studio: Cinedigm
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Genre: Western
Festivals: LAFF 2012

The year is 1870, and a fragmented America still strains to pick up the pieces from a savage Civil War. Martha (Clare Bowen, ABC’s “Nashville”) and her husband Heck (David Call, TINY FURNITURE) are living on a homestead Martha’s father purchased on the rural New Mexico frontier and struggle to make ends meet. When a mining company expresses interest in buying their land, Martha and Heck see their ticket to a better life.

Their hopeful plans are soon complicated when Martha’s oldest brother Wade (Barlow Jacobs, SHOTGUN STORIES)—whom she had thought killed during the war —returns to the family homestead after learning of their father’s death. A defector to the Union Army, Wade soon discovers that Martha is hiding secrets of her own. As the two siblings become reacquainted, torn between a desire to reconcile with the only family they have left and their clashing convictions, tension and suspicion continue to mount. Filmed on location in the rugged high desert of northern New Mexico, DEAD MAN’S BURDEN, shot in the style of a classic western, marks Jared Moshé’s directorial debut.

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SIGHTSEERS

Directed by: Ben Wheatley
Written by: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram and Amy Jump
Starring: Alice Lowe & Steve Oram
Studio: IFC Films
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Genre: Dark Comedy
Festivals: Cannes 2012, Toronto 2012, Sundance 2013

Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that separates these wonders in his life. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him the wrong way, over a very jagged edge.

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BLACK ROCK

Directed by: Katie Aselton
Written by: Mark Duplass
Starring: Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell, Katie Aselton
Studio: LD Entertainment
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Genre: Thriller
Festivals: Sundance 2012

Three young women – Sarah (Kate Bosworth), Abby (Katie Aselton) and Lou (Lake Bell) – get together for a private campout at one of the iconic settings of their childhood, an empty island off the coast of Maine, to renew their bond of sisterhood. They quickly learn, though, that the island is anything but empty, when they encounter three recently-returned servicemen, who have come to the island to hunt. A misunderstanding quickly turns to tragedy, and the three women soon find themselves the targets of the hunt. What started as a simple getaway to recall old times is now a race for survival as three ordinary woman must find extraordinary strength in order to beat the odds against violence and the elements.

Directed by Aselton and written by her husband Mark Duplass, BLACK ROCK was filmed on location off the coast of Maine, where beautiful imagery is interplayed with a host of horrors as the three friends try to make it out alive.

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MANIAC

Directed by: Franck Khalfoun
Written by: Alexandra Aja & Grégory Levasseur
Starring: Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder
Studio: IFC Midnight
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Genre: Horror
Festivals: 2012 Cannes Film Festival, 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival, 2012 Zurich Film Festival

Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. Frank (Elijah Wood) is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna (Nora Arnezeder) appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank’s obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill. A 21st century Jack the Ripper set in present day L.A. MANIAC is a re-boot of the William Lustig cult film considered by many to be the most suspenseful slasher movie ever made – an intimate, visually daring, psychologically complex and profoundly horrific trip into the downward spiralling nightmare of a killer and his victims.

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DEALIN’ WITH IDIOTS

Directed by: Jeff Garlin
Written by: Jeff Garlin
Starring: Jeff Garlin, Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Bob Odenkirk, J.B. Smoove, Gina Gershon, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Jami Gertz, Timothy Olyphant, Richard Kind, Steve Agee, David Sheridan, Nia Vardalos
Studio: IFC Films
Release Date: Summer 2013
Genre: Comedy

Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son’s youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie.

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PRINCE AVALANCHE

Directed by: David Gordon Green
Starring: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Release Date: August 2013
Festivals: Sundance 2013, Berlin International Film Festival 2013, SXSW Film Festival 2013, Tribeca Film Festival 2013
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Driven by striking performances from Rudd and Hirsch, PRINCE AVALANCHE is an offbeat comedy about two men painting traffic lines on a desolate country highway that’s been ravaged by wildfire. Against this dramatic setting, the men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship. Funny, meditative and at times surreal, PRINCE AVALANCHE features a score by Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo, and was shot by frequent Green collaborator Tim Orr was. Loosely adapted from Either Way, an Icelandic film by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson.

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THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX

Directed by: Claude Miller
Written by: Claude Miller & Natalie Carter, based on the novel by François Mauriac
Starring: Audrey Tautou
Studio: MPI Pictures
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Genre: Drama
Festivals: Cannes 2012

François Mauriac’s legendary 1927 novel of French provincial life has been gloriously brought to the screen by the inestimable Claude Miller in his final film. Sumptuously photographed to capture the full beauty of the pine-forested Landes area in southwest France, THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX is a beautifully conceived drama of exquisite taste. Marvelously played by the luminous Audrey Tautou, Thérèse is a heroine hewn from the same stock as Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina, suffocated by her provincial marriage.

Thérèse has married less for love than for convenience, but it is not long before the casual disinterestedness shown her by her arrogant husband, Bernard (Gilles Lellouche), sets her mind in motion. Life is easy at first, as Bernard’s pinewood estates keep them both in the lap of luxury. But when Thérèse’s best friend Anne (Anaïs Demoustier), who also happens to be Bernard’s younger sister, falls madly in love with a handsome young Portuguese man, Thérèse begins to see what she has been missing in her life. Corralled by Bernard’s family into persuading Anne to forego her planned nuptials, she begins to see first-hand the awesome power of passionate love, as Anne will go to any length to keep her lover by her side. Soon, Thérèse begins her own fight against the oppressive Desqueyroux family.

Press Release: Brigade 2013 Tribeca Film Festival Schedule

Here’s the list of films and talent Brigade will be handling at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Please let us know if you would like to set up interviews, or if you are interested in event coverage, photo, clips or premiere tickets.

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World Narrative Competition – Lance Edmand’s BLUEBIRD (Acquisition Title)
Screenwriter: Lance Edmands
Starring: Amy Morton, John Slattery, Louisa Krause, Emily Meade, Margo Martindale, Adam Driver

In the northern reaches of Maine, a local school bus driver becomes distracted during her end-of-day inspection, and fails to notice a sleeping boy in the back of the bus. What happens next shatters the tranquility of her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.

World Documentary Competition – Matt Wolf’s TEENAGE (Acquisition Title)
Screenwriters: Jon Savage and Matt Wolf
Featuring: Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, Julia Hummer, Jessie Usher

‘Teenagers’ didn’t always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.

Viewpoints – Steph Green’s RUN & JUMP (Acquisition Title)
Screenwriters: Ailbhe Keogan and Steph Green
Starring: Will Forte, Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam

A spirited Irish wife is determined to keep her family together after a rare stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed. All the while, the family is under the microscope of an American researcher documenting their recovery process.

Spotlight – Chiemi Karasawa’s ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME (Acquisition Title)
Screenwriter: Chiemi Karasawa
Featuring: Elaine Stritch, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Cherry Jones, Nathan Lane, James Gandolfini, John Turturro

Broadway legend Elaine Stritch remains in the spotlight at eighty-seven years old. Join the uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award-winner both on and off stage in this revealing documentary. Blending rare archival footage and intimate cinema cinema vérité, the film reaches beyond Stritch’s brassy exterior, revealing a multi-dimensional portrait of a complex woman and an inspiring artist.

Spotlight – David Gordon Green’s PRINCE AVALANCHE (Magnolia Pictures)
Screenwriter: David Gordon Green
Starring: Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch

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.

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World Narrative Competition – Lance Edmand’s BLUEBIRD (Acquisition Title)

In his striking and moving debut feature BLUEBIRD, writer/director Lance Edmands explores the interconnectedness of a small town in the northern reaches of Maine. When Lesley, the local school bus driver, (Tony nominee Amy Morton, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY) becomes distracted during her end-of-day inspection, she fails to notice a sleeping boy in the back of the bus. What happens next shatters the tranquility of her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.

Stricken by an overwhelming sense of guilt, Lesley’s fragility is further tested by her husband (John Slattery, “Mad Men”)—a local logger preoccupied by the imminent closing of the town paper mill—and the boy’s mother Marla (Louisa Krause, KING KELLY), a disaffected young woman looking to take advantage of a delicate situation. Shot on location in the stark, frozen Maine hills, BLUEBIRD fosters a profound sense of place—chillingly capturing the setting’s lonely yet beautiful tone—thanks to the masterwork of cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes (MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE). The film boasts a powerful supporting cast including Emily Meade (“Boardwalk Empire”), Emmy winner Margo Martindale (“Justified,” MILLION DOLLAR BABY), and Adam Driver (“Girls”).

2013, 90 minutes, color, USA

Screening Times:
Thursday, April 18th at 6:30pm – SVA Theater 1 Silas – World Premiere
Friday, April 19th at 2:30pm – Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 4 – Press & Industry Screening
Saturday April 20th at 1:00pm – AMC Loews Village 7-2 – Public Screening #2
Monday, April 22nd at 8:30pm – AMC Loews Village 7-3 – Public Screening #3
Tuesday, April 23rd at 10:00pm – Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 5 – Public Screening #4

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World Documentary Competition – Matt Wolf’s TEENAGE (Acquisition Title)

Before the ‘Teenager’ was invented, there was no second stage of life. You were either a child or you went to work as an adult. At the turn of the century, child labor was ending, ‘adolescence’ was emerging, and a struggle erupted between adults and youth. Would the young be controlled and regimented, or could they be free?

Inspired by punk author Jon Savage’s book and directed by Matt Wolf, TEENAGE gives voice to young people from the first half of the 20th century in America, England, and Germany—from party-crazed Flappers and hip Swing Kids to zealous Nazi Youth and frenzied Sub-Debs. By the end of World War II, they were all ‘Teenagers’: a new idea of youth.

Four young voices narrated by Jena Malone (THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE), Ben Whishaw (SKYFALL), Julia Hummer (CARLOS), Jessie Usher (BEAUTIFUL BOY) bring to life rare archival material and filmed portraits of emblematic teenagers from history — Brenda Dean Paul, a self-destructive Bright Young Thing; Melita Maschmann, an idealistic Hitler Youth; Tommie Scheel, a rebellious German Swing Kid; and Warren Wall, a black Boy Scout. This living collage is punctuated by a contemporary score by Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound).

TEENAGE is a story that ends with a beginning: a prelude to today’s youth culture. In each generation, adults often mistake youthful unrest for an emotional right of passage. But history proves that rebelling teenagers aren’t just claiming their independence, they’re shaping the future.

2013, 80 minutes, color, USA

Screening Times:
Saturday, April 20th at 9:00pm – Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 7 – World Premiere
Monday, April 22nd at 9:45pm – Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 8 – Public Screening #2
Wednesday, April 24th at 9:00pm – AMC Loews Village 7 – 1 – Public Screening #3
Saturday, April 27th at 12:45pm – Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 8 – Public Screening #4

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Viewpoints – Steph Green’s RUN & JUMP (Acquisition Title)

RUN & JUMP follows Vanetia Casey (Maxine Peake), the spirited and impossibly optimistic center of the Casey family, determined to get life back tonormal after her 38-year old husband, Conor (Edward MacLiam), suffers a rare stroke leaving him fundamentally changed. Entering the emotional fray is buttoned-up American doctor, Ted Fielding, (Will Forte) who arrives in Ireland to stay with the family with a research grant providing the Caseys with essential financial aid. With the family under the microscope Vanetia treats Ted with resistance, but as she observes his calming influence she begins to value his friendship. Ted’s continued presence in the house sets the family on course for an emotional collision.

An authentic, unconventional love story and an intimate family portrait, RUN & JUMP is the feature film debut of Steph Green, whose short New Boy was nominated for an Academy Award. The film marks a discovery for Maxine Peake and a yet unforeseen dramatic showcase for Saturday Night Live star Will Forte.

2013, 102 minutes, color, Germany / Ireland

Screenings:
Saturday, April 20th at 6:30pm – Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6 – World Premiere
Monday, April 22nd at 3:45pm – Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6 – Public Screening #2
Tuesday, April 23rd at 8:30pm – Clearview Cineams Chelsea 4 – Public Screening #3
Friday, April 26th at 6:00pm – AMC Loews Village 7 – 1 – Public Screening #4

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Spotlight – Chiemi Karasawa’s ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME (Acquisition Title)

At 87, Broadway legend Elaine Stritch remains indisputably in the spotlight. In the revealing and poignant ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME, the uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award-winner is showcased both on and off stage via rare archival footage and intimate cinema vérité. By turns bold, hilarious and moving, the film’s journey connects Stritch’s present to her past, and an inspiring portrait of a one-of-a-kind survivor emerges.

In stolen moments from her corner room at the Carlyle and on breaks from her tour and work, candid reflections about her life are punctuated with photographs from her personal collection and words from friends (including Hal Prince, George C. Wolfe, Nathan Lane, Cherry Jones, Tina Fey, James Gandolfini and John Turturro). Whether dominating the stage, tormenting Alec Baldwin on the set of “30 Rock,” or sharing her personal takes on her struggles with aging and alcoholism, ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME reaches beyond the icon’s brassy exterior and reveals a multi-dimensional portrait of a complex woman and artist.

ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME marks the directorial debut of acclaimed producer Chiemi Karasawa.

2013, 101 minutes, color, USA

Screenings:
Friday, April 19th at 6:30pm – SVA Theater 1 – World Premiere
Saturday, April 20th at 10:00am – Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 5 – Press & Industry Screening
Monday, April 22nd at 5:30pm – SVA Theater 2 – Public Screening #2
Wednesday, April 23rd at 3:00pm – Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 7 – Public Screening #3

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Spotlight: David Gordon Green’s PRINCE AVALANCHE (Magnolia Pictures)

In PRINCE AVALANCHE, American filmmaker David Gordon Green exhibits his mastery for infusing poignant character study with comedic insight through subtle shifts in tone, incisive dialogue, and a profound appreciation for place. Set to the haunting backdrop of a barren expanse of burnt-out Texas wilderness—whose melancholic beauty is accentuated with the music of the rock band Explosions in the Sky and collaborator David Wingo’s stunning score as well as Tim Orr’s sweeping cinematography—PRINCE AVALANCHE bucks convention by exploring male bonding in a refreshingly genuine–and often absurdist–way.

An odd couple of sorts, Alvin (Paul Rudd), meditative and stern, and his girlfriend’s brother Lance (Emile Hirsch), dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravaged by wildfire. As the two begin their gradual journey across the landscape, swapping stories and butting heads, what unfolds is an unexpectedly humorous yet moving examination of an unlikely friendship that reveals distinct approaches to finding one’s way in life. Adapted from EITHER WAY, an Icelandic film, PRINCE AVALANCHE is driven by strong performances by the two male leads.

Magnolia Pictures will release PRINCE AVALANCHE in theaters the summer of 2013.

2012, 94 minutes, color, U.S.A.

Screenings:
Wednesday, April 23rd at 9:00pm – BMCC Tribeca PAC – New York Premiere
Friday, April 26th at 5:30pm – AMC Loews Village 7 – 3 – Public Screening #2
Sunday, April 28th at 6:30pm – SVA Theater 1 Silas – Public Screening #3