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Filmmakers, producers and actors will be in attendance! Get ready for something special, because we have dozens of directors, producers, actors and film people coming into Iowa City for the festival. They will introduce their films and sit on panels to discuss their work and to answer questions from the audience.
From Thursday to Sunday at the Landlocked Film Festival, Iowa City area residents will have a chance to watch the work of dozens of independent filmmakers from throughout the world as well as participate in panel discussions and workshops with film professionals dedicated to helping develop the state's fledgling film industry. As explained in today's Opinion Forum, such festivals are necessary incubators for helping to grow Iowa's next crop: filmmakers. [Full Story in the Iowa City Press Citizen] This Would Look Great in a Movie 8/20/08 I am walking the perimeter of a friend's organic farm not far outside Iowa City. The day is warm and bright; a soft breeze cavorts amid the alfalfa and clover. The air has a sharp, fresh, clean edge. It is truly beautiful, and like every beautiful vista I've ever seen, it makes me stop and think to myself: "Hey, this would look great in a movie." [Full Story in the Iowa City Press Citizen]
Telling the Stories of Both Iowa and the Ioway 8/20/08 We left the City of Angels convinced we could more effectively grow our midwestern historical documentary film production and distribution business by living where we shoot. While based in L.A., we spent two months over two years traveling 20,000 highway miles to gather 50 hours of footage for "Lost Nation: The Ioway." "Ioway" tells the dramatic and nearly forgotten story of the American Indians who gave the state its name. [Full Story in the Iowa City Press Citizen]
My latest documentary, "This American Gothic," weaves together two distinct stories from some of the real people who live in America's heartland. The first is a history of Grant Wood's painting "American Gothic" -- which turned 75 in 2005. It explores the controversy that accompanied the painting's first public appearance and its evolution into a national emblem as recognizable as the American flag. [Full Story in the Iowa City Press Citizen]
Press Citizen Opinion Forum 8/19/08 Wednesday’s Opinion Forum (“Iowans realize, ‘this would look great in a movie”) will include three columns by local filmmakers participating in the Landlocked Film Festival, which takes place from Thursday to Sunday in Iowa City’s Sheraton Hotel, hoteVetro, public library and Englert Theatre. [Full Story]
CorridorBUZZ 8/15/08 Sympathetic Details, scheduled for a 7:45 p.m. screening Friday at the Englert Theatre, was written and directed by “Wire” actor Busch on the slimmest of budgets. “I had $50,000 and that could get me 12 days of crew, film equipment, insurance, hotels, transportation and lunch,” Busch wrote in an e-mail interview with CorridorBUZZ.com. [Full Story]
Little Village Magazine 8/02/08 Both the Landlocked Film Festival and the Hardacre Film and Cinema Festival are all about independent, underground films, and attract entries from the United States and beyond. Hardacre is in its 11th year of operation and touts cinema as art and filmmakers as artists, which isn’t necessarily untrue of major Hollywood films, though directors who haven’t proved themselves yet must cater to studio wishes before producing their own vision. [Full Story]
"[Independent films] are different from the Hollywood type of movie," said Mary Blackwood, co-founder of Landlocked.
To her, the stories are much more interesting because they are unique, and they do not follow a cookie-cutter Hollywood action or romance mold.
One film she is particularly eager to show is "The Flyboys." |
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