Some say, write what you know. I guess the idiom here would be to…run with what you know. A project that producer Laura Wagner received support on via Sffs and the Sundance Institute, Tracktown is the sum of a devotion to a sport and a creative collaboration that sprung up at Dartmouth College. Grads Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas combined forces (both personally and professionally) in 2012 on the micro feature Tall as the Baobab Tree, and they are currently in finish line mode with their second creative collaboration. Teicher (featured in Filmmaker Mag’s Top 25 in 2013) co-wrote/directed/produced the project with Pappas who stars an literally borrows from her blistered feet days of the sport. Lensing on Tracktown began back in October of 2014 in Eugene, Oregon and the film also includes players such as newbie Chase Offerle, Rachel Dratch and Andy Buckley.
Gist: This follows Plumb Marigold (Pappas...
Gist: This follows Plumb Marigold (Pappas...
- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Mubi, the online streaming service, has partnered with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival to bring past festival highlights to over 200 countries around the globe. Mubi will screen a selection of retrospective titles from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival via its popular website, making these thought-provoking films available to audiences across the world to watch and discuss. Titles began screening on Mubi 2 days ago, March 18, and they include a few titles previously highlighted on this blog, like Hatian filmmaker Raoul Peck's Moloch Tropical, and the Senegalese drama Tall as the Baobab Tree, directed by Jeremy Teicher. "This is another great film festival to...
- 3/20/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Mubi is excited and proud to announce a partnership with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, whose London festival begins today and runs through March 28. To celebrate the 2014 festival, Mubi is mounting a retrospective of highlights from the festival's past. The following films—all shown at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival—will be given 30-day runs on Mubi in an extensive range of countries around the world beginning today.
Moloch Tropical (Raoul Peck, 2009)
The Red Chapel (Mads Brügger, 2009)
! Women Art Revolution (Lynn Hershmann-Leeson, 2010)
5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 2011)
Brother Number One (Annie Goldson, Peter Gilbert, 2011)
99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell, Nina Krstic, Lucian Read, 2013)
Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution (Alex Meillier, 2013)
Tall as the Baobab Tree (Jeremy Teicher, 2013)
The festival will continue its on-the-ground events throughout the year, including its other central film festival in New York in June.
Moloch Tropical (Raoul Peck, 2009)
The Red Chapel (Mads Brügger, 2009)
! Women Art Revolution (Lynn Hershmann-Leeson, 2010)
5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 2011)
Brother Number One (Annie Goldson, Peter Gilbert, 2011)
99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell, Nina Krstic, Lucian Read, 2013)
Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution (Alex Meillier, 2013)
Tall as the Baobab Tree (Jeremy Teicher, 2013)
The festival will continue its on-the-ground events throughout the year, including its other central film festival in New York in June.
- 3/18/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
A year after its launch, VOD initiative Iffr In the Cloud is looking to boost viewers by increasing its online visibility.
Iffr In The Coud, Rotterdam’s collaboration with digital distributor Under The Milky Way is now a year old – and lessons are being learned on both sides on how to maximize the impact of the festival’s films in their own iTunes room.
“It’s not like you press a button and the film is online,” said Jacobine van der Vloed, manager of Iffr In The Cloud.
Jeremy Teicher’s Tall As The Baobab Tree was the first Iffr title to appear on iTunes through Iffr In The Cloud. Initially, the film was available in Belgium and Luxembourg and sold slowly. The Netherlands was added in January and the aim is to spread to around 40 territories.
The attraction of the scheme for Rotterdam producers is obvious.
They don’t have to make an investment up front...
Iffr In The Coud, Rotterdam’s collaboration with digital distributor Under The Milky Way is now a year old – and lessons are being learned on both sides on how to maximize the impact of the festival’s films in their own iTunes room.
“It’s not like you press a button and the film is online,” said Jacobine van der Vloed, manager of Iffr In The Cloud.
Jeremy Teicher’s Tall As The Baobab Tree was the first Iffr title to appear on iTunes through Iffr In The Cloud. Initially, the film was available in Belgium and Luxembourg and sold slowly. The Netherlands was added in January and the aim is to spread to around 40 territories.
The attraction of the scheme for Rotterdam producers is obvious.
They don’t have to make an investment up front...
- 1/28/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The following is a guest post by Jeremy Teicher, who debut feature, Tall as the Baobab Tree, landed him on Filmmaker‘s “25 New Faces” list in 2013. A documentary-narrative hybrid, the film was shot in Sinthiou Mbadane, Senegal – a small rural village with no running water or access to electricity – with nonprofessional actors and a four-person crew. Tall as the Baobab Tree premiered a year ago at Rotterdam and is out now on VOD through iTunes, SundanceNOW, YouTube and a host of other digital platforms thanks to Sundance Artist Services and Iffr in the Cloud. I thought the […]...
- 1/24/2014
- by Jeremy Teicher
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The following is a guest post by Jeremy Teicher, who debut feature, Tall as the Baobab Tree, landed him on Filmmaker‘s “25 New Faces” list in 2013. A documentary-narrative hybrid, the film was shot in Sinthiou Mbadane, Senegal – a small rural village with no running water or access to electricity – with nonprofessional actors and a four-person crew. Tall as the Baobab Tree premiered a year ago at Rotterdam and is out now on VOD through iTunes, SundanceNOW, YouTube and a host of other digital platforms thanks to Sundance Artist Services and Iffr in the Cloud. I thought the […]...
- 1/24/2014
- by Jeremy Teicher
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
For our readers in the Sun Valley, Idaho area - a part of the USA that I don't think has ever received any digital ink on this blog... a number of films we've highlighted in the last year (like Anita, Tall as the Baobab Tree and Bay of All Saints), which may not have made it to your neck of the woods, are coming your way, so here's your opportunity to see them on the big screen.Via press release:The 7th annual Family of Woman Film Festival in Sun Valley, Idaho will take place March 7-9, 2014, at the Sun Valley Opera House. The festival supports the United Nations Population Fund (Unfpa), which works in over 150 countries to achieve a world where every pregnancy is...
- 1/7/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Belle
The 2014 Athena Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of narrative, documentary and short films.
The New York Premiere of Belle, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and directed by Amma Asante, is the Athena Film Festival’s Opening Film, screening on Thursday evening. Decoding Annie Parker, starring Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton and directed by Steven Bernstein, is the festival’s Centerpiece Film, and will be screened on Friday evening. Geraldine Ferraro: Paving The Way, directed by her daughter, Donna Zaccaro, is the festival’s Closing Film, screening on Sunday evening.
The festival honors extraordinary women in the film industry and showcases films that address women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. Now in its fourth year, the festival runs from Thursday, February 6 through Sunday, February 9 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights. Artemis Rising Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Festival.
The Book Thief
Among...
The 2014 Athena Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of narrative, documentary and short films.
The New York Premiere of Belle, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and directed by Amma Asante, is the Athena Film Festival’s Opening Film, screening on Thursday evening. Decoding Annie Parker, starring Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton and directed by Steven Bernstein, is the festival’s Centerpiece Film, and will be screened on Friday evening. Geraldine Ferraro: Paving The Way, directed by her daughter, Donna Zaccaro, is the festival’s Closing Film, screening on Sunday evening.
The festival honors extraordinary women in the film industry and showcases films that address women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. Now in its fourth year, the festival runs from Thursday, February 6 through Sunday, February 9 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights. Artemis Rising Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Festival.
The Book Thief
Among...
- 1/7/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 24th edition of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival will return to New York this summer from June 13-23 with a program of 20 films from across the globe calling for social change and fighting against injustice. The festival will open on June 13 with a fundraising Benefit Night, featuring a screening of Sebastian Junger's moving tribute "Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington." The Main program will kick off the next day, with Freida Mock's "Anita" set as the opening night film, and the award-winning drama "Tall As the Baobab Tree," closing the festival with a screening on June 23. In addition to being picked for their social stances, each film on this year's lineup will be categorized into one of this year's four themes, which will be Traditional Values and Human Rights, Crises and Migration, Focus on Asia, and Human Rights in the United States.
- 5/10/2013
- by Cameron Sinz
- Indiewire
This is an exclusive guest column by director Jeremy Teicher for Pure Movies on Tall as the Baobab Tree, starring Alpha Dia, Mouhamed Diallo, Mboural Dia, Dior Ka, Oumul Ka and Cheikh Dia. As a relatively inexperienced director at age 23, I certainly recognized that it was borderline insanity to shoot my first feature film in a rural African village miles away from the nearest paved road. But I had no choice: out in the village of Sinthiou Mbadane, Senegal, I had landed myself in the middle of a cultural revolution. Follow @puremovies on twitter...
- 10/8/2012
- by Jeremy Teicher
- Pure Movies
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