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OLD GOATS Opens in NYC January 24th
MUSIC BOX FILMS PRESENTS
OLD GOATS
Written and Directed by Taylor Guterson
A HILARIOUS AND HEARTFELT STORY ABOUT THREE OLDER MEN WHO WILL NOT GO GENTLY—OR QUIETLY—INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
Winner! Special Jury Prize for Narrative Features at the 2012 Cinequest Film Festival!
Opens Jan 24th In New York City
January 17th in Chicago and Tucson
THE LULU SESSIONS AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVIELY FOR BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
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Women Make Movies and OO Media Present
THE LULU SESSIONS
They say love knows no beeping boundaries
TERMINAL BREAST CANCER IS NO MATCH FOR CANCER RESEARCHER AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY GIVES NEW MEANING TO LIFE, LOVE AND MODERN FAMILY FOR
OCTOBER BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
Special NYC, SF and LA Screenings in Conjunction with VOD / DVD Debut
Portion of Proceeds to Benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure®
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“Asian and LGBT festivals will line up for this audience puller.” – Variety
“Must-see” documentary!” – LA Weekly
“It’s showcasing the intimacies of this remarkable friendship that seems so nuanced and lovely. This isn’t just a story about cancer, it’s a story about love.” – After Ellen
“Intensely Magical…Inexplicable beauty, calmness, clarity and truth” – Toronto LGBT Film Festival
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This October, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Filmmaker S. Casper Wong presents the release of THE LULU SESSIONS, a raw and deeply personal documentary about the last 15 months of the larger-than-life LuLu, through the eyes of someone who couldn’t be more different – her best friend and ex-something, the filmmaker. The film will be available on DVD and a VOD sneak-preview (for month of October only) as well as special screening events with panel discussions in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco in collaboration with special sponsored organizations.
In support of women in the field of cancer research, a portion of the proceeds (via VOD and screenings) will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and organization that has played a critical role in every major advance in the fight against breast cancer. Today, Susan G. Komen is the boldest community fueling the best science and making the biggest impact in the fight against breast cancer.
The Lulu Sessions is a powerful, stark testimonial about the tenacity of love and our capacity for pushing past limits – in love, friendship, forgiveness and life itself, in the face of impending mortality. This film is one of the first personal documentaries seen through the lens of a Chinese American, queer woman. Yet, in its heart, “LuLu” binds audiences – straight or gay, Asian or not, men or women, young or old – to the most universal of stories, that of love and death. Reflective, intensely honest, and surprisingly humorous, this unforgettable documentary makes life’s last journey accessible in ways rarely seen before on screen.
Winner of 10 international awards, THE LULU SESSIONS has received accolades through the festival circuits including: the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Chicago LGBT Film Festival; Best Documentary Feature and the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival; Special Jury Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival; Second Place in Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Toronto LGBT Film Festival; the Opening Night Film at the Austin LGBT Film Festival; and has been nominated for 4 Grand Jury Awards, while S. Casper Wong was recognized with the George E. Lin Emerging filmmaker Award from the Asian Pacific American DC Film Festival and the Emerging Director Award at the New York Asian American International Film Festival
Today, Lulu’s legacy lives on with two scholarship awards in her honor: The Louise M. Nutter Student Research Award, in recognition of outstanding research achievement by a graduate student within the department, and The Thanassi-Nutter Awards, recognizing best presentations given by graduate students in the UVM Biochemistry Department’s Student Seminar Series.
Synopsis – The LuLu Sessions:
LuLu is unlike anyone you’ve ever met. She’s the amusingly profane, no-holds-barred Dr. Louise Nutter, genius cancer research scientist and demanding yet beloved professor. At 42, she is told she has the very illness she researches – end stage breast cancer. The next, and last, 15 months of Lulu’s life are an adventure that rattles her assumptions, values and places a spotlight on the boundaries of the bond between LuLu and the filmmaker.
The film reveals insight “not only into a deeply connected relationship but the beginning of an intimacy between two women that outgrows our understanding of friendship and partnership – and maybe even life.” Lulu returns to her family farm for stability and solace but battles resurrected ghosts instead. Dying becomes a process of shedding – of long-held but stale presumptions, obligations and relationships and forging new ones.
THE LULU SESSIONS is currently available on DVD for educational screenings and libraries through Women Make Movies, while the DVD for Home Use and for the Health and Medical Institutions, will be available on the film’s website. The special VOD sneak preview will be available on the film’s website only during the month of October.
For more information on Women Make Movies DVD for educational screenings and libraries, please visit: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c853.shtml.
For more information on the DVD and VOD release for Home Use, please visit: www.LuLuSessionsFilm.com
About the Director/Writer
The LuLu Sessions is the debut feature documentary of director/writer S. Casper Wong. Her Shirts & Skins, a narrative short, was broadcast nationally by the Independent Film Channel and is in the Tribeca Film Institute’s curated Reframe Collection. OO 1, her narrative feature screenplay, received among others, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Grant for Screenwriting, Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters Lab and Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at Urbanworld Film Festival. She is a recipient of a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Casper represented and served as producer on Roger Corman’s first co-production in China, Hell’s Haunted Palace, and has been attached to direct his next action project. She is also currently developing an animated space adventure; Staying Well, a feature documentary and television mini-series in collaboration with UCLA about integrative East-West medicine; and Becoming, a longitudinal documentary chronicling Chinese adoptees growing up in American families. She is the founder of the professional working group, Asian American Women Media Makers. Prior to earning an MFA in film directing from New York University, Casper had been a senior attorney at IBM, a biomedical engineer at Columbia University and a cartoonist.
About Women Make Movies
Established in 1972 to address the under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media industry, Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women. The organization provides services to both users and makers of film and video programs, with a special emphasis on supporting work by women of color. Women Make Movies facilitates the development of feminist media through an internationally recognized Distribution Service and a Production Assistance Program.
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LOS ANGELES SCREENING
Screening and Q&A to follow
UCLA, RONALD REGAN MEDICAL CENTER
Tamkin Auditorium (B-310)
(757 Westwood Plaza)
Monday, October 14, 2013
@ 6:30pm
Co-presented by UCLA Shirley Hui Memorial and Susan G. Komen Los Angeles
SAN FRANCISCO SCREENING
Screening and Q&A to follow
DOLBY LABORATORIES SCREENING ROOM
(100 Potrero Avenue)
Thursday, October 17, 2013
@ 6:30 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8421863019
Co-presented by Susan G. Komen San Francisco and The Dolby Labs
Screening and panel to follow
NINTH STREET INDEPENDENT FILM CENTER
(145 Ninth Street)
Friday, October 18, 2013
@ 6:00 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8426065589
Co-presented by Center of Asian American Media, Bay Area Women in Film & Media and Frameline
NEW YORK CITY SCREENING
Screening and Q&A to follow
NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(1871 Broadway)
Monday, October 21, 2013
@ 6:30 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8422653383
Co-presented by Susan G. Komen Greater New York City and Asian CineVision
Screening and panel to follow
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
(32 Second Ave)
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
@ 7:00 pm
Presented by New York Women In Film & Television
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CLASSIC HIP-HOP FILM WILDSTYLE RETURNS TO THEATERS
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MUSIC BOX FILMS CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
LANDMARK HIP HOP FILM
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WILD STYLE
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WILD STYLE RETURNS TO THEATERS
Newly Re-mastered Version Opens September 27
at the IFC Center in New York and select markets this fall
WILD STYLE 30TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTORS EDITION
Newly Re-mastered Edition Debuts on DVD and On Demand October 1
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Marking the 30th anniversary of the hugely influential hip-hop musical drama, WILD STYLE, Music Box Films will return to theaters this Fall including the IFC Center in New York City on September 27th in addition to other select national markets. The re-release is in conjunction with the DVD and Digital Platform release of WILD STYLE: 30TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR’S EDITION, a newly-re-mastered version featuring never-before-seen bonus materials and a 48-page booklet written by director Charlie Ahearn.
Employing a cinema verite approach that can found in the finest documentaries and filmed with the raw authenticity of a zero-budget New York City indie flick, WILD STYLE, features legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones in the role of Zoro, and presents appearances and performances by such seminal artists of the day as Grandmaster Flash, Fab Five Freddy, Rock Steady Crew and Cold Crush Brothers. Thirty years later, WILD STYLE continues to reign as one of the most important artifacts in hip-hop culture.
Featuring a re-mastered edition of the film, Music Box Films will present a re-release of WILD STYLE at select theaters including: the IFC Center in NYC on September 27th; Portland (Hollywood Theatre, beginning 9/18); Seattle (SIFF Cinema beginning 9/19); Pittsburgh (Hollywood Theater, beginning 10/10); and Baltimore (Charles Theater, beginning 11/4).
Music Box Films Home Entertainment will release WILD STYLE: 30th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR’S EDITION on DVD and all Digital Platforms beginning October 1st (prebook Aug 27, 2013). The two-disc DVD set will include a host of bonus features, special booklet and carry the suggested retail prices of $29.95.
More information on WILD STYLE: 30th ANNVERSARY COLLECTOR’S EDITION can be found on the MUSIC BOX FILMS website at http://www.musicboxfilms.com
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