The debut memoir “Confessions of a Rebel Debutante,” written by North Carolina-native Anna Fields, has been optioned to be made into a feature film.
The Directors Guild of America selected Alex Moratto, a 2010 graduate of the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, to receive its Best Latino Student Filmmaker jury award for his student film “The Other Side.”
In early October, Overture Films distributed the prison drama “Stone” in limited release around the country. Directed by John Curran and starring Robert DeNiro, Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich, the film was written by North Carolina screenwriter and playwright Angus MacLachlan (“Junebug“), who still calls Winston-Salem home.
As director of the Cucalorus Film Festival for more than a decade now, Dan Brawley has been instrumental in growing the festival’s presence on the national scene and shaping it into one of the Southeast’s premiere cultural events. When the curtain rises on Cucalorus this November, it will mark the 16th installment of the festival, [...]
Now entering its 16th season and making more and more noise on the national film festival scene with each passing year, the 2010 Cucalorus Film Festival is set to electrify downtown Wilmington once again, running from November 11-14 this fall. As in previous installments, the program will boast approximately 120 films selected from a record-breaking [...]
Illumination Dynamics has established a camera division at its North Carolina facility. The addition of cameras will further complement the rental of lighting, grip, generators and power distribution to the entertainment, live broadcast and special event industries. The new department will be fully supported by parent company ARRI CSC and will start with a camera [...]
Shortly after returning from the Venice Film Festival, we caught up with ‘Road to Nowhere’ producer Steven Gaydos to find out how the trip went and to learn more about the film.
On October 18, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue announced that New Line Cinemas would soon begin production in Wilmington on “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.” The 3-D adventure film will star Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Kristin Davis and Josh Hutcherson. “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” is a sequel to 2008′s “Journey to the Center of [...]
The independent feature “Hellphone,” filmed in August in Madison and Mayodan, North Carolina, will hold its world premiere on November 16 at the Carousel Luxury Cinemas in Greensboro. This low-budget combination of horror and humor marks the first feature-length collaboration between Jason Pierce, the film’s writer, director, editor and co-producer and Stephen van Vuuren, the [...]
The short film “Crossbar Hotel” wrapped production in October. The 20-minute film follows a man recently released from prison, who tries to bond with his young son, who he barely knows. The film’s 12-person crew, led by co-director Will Joines and writer and co-director Karrie Crouse, principally consisted of recent alumni from UNCSA in Winston-Salem [...]
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