Tag: independent film

Abhijit’s Swan Song

Drexel University’s first Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Indian independent film director Abhijit Chowdhury made his final public appearance this week before departing to India.

He spoke to students at my alma mater NYU Tisch School of the Arts Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing on Tuesday March 26th. Students in Department Chair Prof. Joe Vinciguerra‘s class Writing the Low Budget Feature.

Students had watched a portion of Abhijit’s latest film, The Strange Life of Dhrubo, currently in post-production, in advance of his visit to discuss the challenges of writing and producing independent films on a shoestring.

The Jury Has Returned

I’m honored to have served as a juror for the Sequoia Independent Film Festival, which features over 20 incredible shorts and features, including fictional narratives and documentaries, from around the world.

It’s happening NOW, this weekend 11/5 and 6, and is streamable in the US and Canada. Tickets and full info at

https://sequiff.uscreen.io/

An Ordinary Family

Thrilled that Mike Akel’s latest terrific feature film An Ordinary Family will be screening in the Philadelphia Film Festival on 10/22 and 10/26. How do I know it’s terrific? Because his previous film Chalk was terrific and also featured the incredible Janelle Schremmer and Troy Schremmer (themselves no ordinary family), both of whom also are major characters in this newest film.

Troy Schremmer (left) in An Ordinary Family

Thrilled that Mike Akel’s latest terrific feature film An Ordinary Family will be screening in the Philadelphia Film Festival on 10/22 and 10/26. How do I know it’s terrific? Because his previous film Chalk was terrific and also featured the incredible Janelle Schremmer and Troy Schremmer (themselves no ordinary family), both of whom also are major characters in this newest film.

Jonny Schremmer (right) in Tesla's Letters

Janelle would be Jonny Schremmer who rocked the regional premiere of my play Tesla’s Letters as Daisy Archer in 2001 (after its New York debut the previous year where Daisy was originated by Keira Naughton)…

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Jonny Schremmer (left) in Medicine, Man

and the world premiere of my followup play Medicine, Man as Dr. Sue Morrison in 2003…

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Jonny Schremmer (front and center) in High Tea

as well as in my short play “High Tea” in 2006.

 

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Go, T&J.  See you in Philly.