Festival Updates

Sorry for the delay between updates but we’ve been busy scheduling our next round of festival screenings as well as arranging for the much-anticipated distribution. More on distribution by end of August, but in the meantime, here’s a list of upcoming screenings. Continue to check back regularly as we’ll post more screening and distribution news when we have it:

August 3 — Pleasantville, New York @ Jacob Burns Film Center

August 10 — Oslo, Norway @ Øya-festival

September 23 – October 3 — Milwaukee, Wisconsin @ Milwaukee Film Festival (check back in mid-August for exact screening dates)

September 30 – October 15 — Vancouver, Canada @ Vancouver International Film Festival (check back in mid-August for exact screening dates)

October 20-27 — Bergen, Norway @ Bergen International Film Festival (check back in early September for exact screening dates)

October 28 – November 7 — Barcelona, Spain @ In-Edit International Music Documentary Festival (check back in late September for exact screening dates)

November 11-14 — Zion Canyon, Utah @ Red Rock Film Festival of Zion Canyon (check back in early October for exact screening dates)

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European Festival Premiere

More festival news — Ride, Rise, Roar will have it’s European festival premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, screening July 4, 5, and 9 — details here http://www.kviff.com/en/films/film-detail/3006-ride-rise-roar/.  Also In July, a screening at the Munich Film Festival — http://www.kviff.com/en/films/film-detail/3006-ride-rise-roar/.  Finally, we’re thrilled to be one of the selections of the “Sounds of Summer” film music series at the Jacob Burns Film Center, August 3 in Pleasantville, NY — http://www.burnsfilmcenter.org/films/film-series/detail/24140#28946.

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See you at Silverdocs!

We are thrilled to announce that our East Coast Premier will be at Silverdocs — which has been hailed as the ‘pre-eminent documentary festival in the US’, and runs June 21-27 at the AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center, just outside Washington, DC.  Details on screening and tickets are here:

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Wired: Ride, Rise, Roar Burns With Strange Grace

But it’s the live sequences that are truly extraordinary. You wouldn’t be mocked for feeling apprehensive about a show that combines pop music with modern dance — “An idea fraught with danger,” Curtis said — but the results are quite awesome. The dancers aren’t just there to add a dramatic visual element to the show. In some songs, they actually “play” the band, moving the microphones around on the stage (“I Zimbra”) and forcing the musicians to do things with their bodies they wouldn’t normally do (“I Feel My Stuff”).

Read the complete review at Wired!

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Variety: This Ain’t No Humdrum Concert Documentary

Highlights include a thrillingly propulsive version of “Burning Down the House” performed by Byrne and company while wearing tutus, and the sinuously sexy movements (aptly described by a choreographer as “Fosse-like”) employed by one and all during “The Great Curve.” Here and elsewhere, Byrne rivets attention with a stage presence that suggests subzero heat — wild abandon under scrupulous control. The musicians, vocalists and dancers take their cue from him, to great effect.

It takes nothing at all away from Jonathan Demme’s groundbreaking Talking Heads doc “Stop Making Sense” (1984) to say that “Ride, Rise, Roar” might very well introduce Byrne to a new generation of fans.

Read the rest of the review at Variety.

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A Wonderful Premier

Thanks so much to everyone who attended our world premier tonight. The energy in the room was fantastic.

Here’s what people are saying on Twitter.

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SXSW, Here We Come

Road trip! From NYC down the coast to the Outer Banks, then angling across the Tar Heel State up into the Great Smokies, down through the Chatahoochee and into New Orleans, then on to Austin.  Can’t wait to see you all there.

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