PRESS RELEASES

New York City, (September 24, 2007) – VISIONFEST 07: The Other Festival (VF07) wrapped its five-day run last night, at the Tribeca Grand Hotel Screening Room, with its “closing night” Official Selection, pretty in the face, directed by Nate Meyer, and its 2007 Awards Ceremony, which saw the aforementioned film walk off with three major awards: Outstanding Achievement in Acting (female lead) for Meagan Moses; directing (Nate Meyer); and the festival’s top filmmaker recognition, the Domani Vision Award for Emerging Talent, also bestowed upon the film’s director, who walked to the podium and embraced his multiple award win “As validation for making a film without really worrying about what’s going to happen at the end of it.”  pretty in the face, which celebrated its New York Premiere at VF07, has been garnering rave reviews around the U.S. film festival circuit since its March 2007 World Premiere at South By Southwest, picking up several awards along the way. Visionfest co-founder, Mark Doyle stated that: “The movie had been an early favorite for the Domani Vision Award since we first screened it for our selection committee.  Everyone was blown away by its raw energy.”    VF07 co-director, Bruno Derlin added: “I haven’t seen anything this intense since Todd Solondz’ Happiness.”  The screening of the film, which ended in a round of sustained applause, prompted several other filmmakers to state how delighted they were to have come for the entire screening and not just for the Awards Ceremony.

VF07’s Jack Nance ‘Breakthrough Performance’ Award, a special nod recognizing that one performance that can easily be defined as the driving force behind a certain film, was assigned to Heather Graham for her riveting work in Alan White’s Broken, which also took home an award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography (for Neil Shapiro).  The film, which screened at VF07 as this year’s “opening night” selection, will be released theatrically in New York on October 5, 2007.  The film’s producer, Jerry Wayne, thanked VF07 personnel via telephone for recognizing Broken in these two categories and for embracing the film with such enthusiasm.

Other multiple award winners included Douglas Horn’s Entry Level, which picked up honors for Overall Production and for its sharp and witty ‘writing.’  Mr. Horn accepted his writing award first, saying very few words at the acceptance podium and savoring the moment, which had genuinely taken him by surprise.  A few minutes later, Mr. Horn was summoned once again to pick up the Overall Production award.  And this time he seemed gleefully elated and much more vocal.

Rob Muraskin’s “epic” short subject film, Olyver Brody, was named as the year’s Best Short, with a second award going to production designer, Tiffany Moore, for the visually stunning ‘fairytale’ world she created, using some very limited resources and lots of imagination.

Other award recipients rounding out the complete list include:  Adrian Belic’s Beyond the Call,

which was voted as the year’s Best Feature Documentary; Rock Kohli as Best Actor for his portrayal of an unlucky NY cabbie in the feature drama, Off Duty; and editor, William Daniels, for his work on Days of Darkness.   Award Certificates were presented to the short films Jesus Cooks Me Breakfast, Deleted Scenes, Other People’s Children, and Syzygy.  Feature Screenwriting Competition award recipients were announced as follows:  1^st Place:  Mark Winzer’s The Interview;  2^nd Place: Chuck Rose’s Steps, and 3^rd Place: John Daschbach’s That Day On The Road.  VF07 closed with a final after-party at Walker’s, announcing its 2008 film festival dates: September 17-21

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Red carpet to be rolled out for Heather Graham at

Visionfest 07 opener, Broken

VF07’s entire line-up of features is generating some very exciting advance buzz, with the completely ‘sold out’ New York Premiere screening of The Doorman; the World Premiere of zombie epic, Days of Darkness; and New York Premieres of Entry Level, Her Best Move, and pretty in the face

New York City, (September 18, 2007) – VISIONFEST 07: The Other Festival (VF07), which runs September 19-23, 2007, at Tribeca Cinemas (corner of Varick and Laight streets in New York City), has announced that Heather Graham (Boogie Nights; Bobby), who stars in the film festival’s opening night feature, Broken, is scheduled to attend the exclusive New York film festival premiere on Wednesday, September 19, 2007, at 8:30 p.m.  Ms. Graham is expected to arrive just before 8 in a Classic Car Club vehicle, and will be on hand to officially kick off VF07.  

The movie follows Hope (Heather Graham) as she makes a life-altering move away from her Midwestern town to pursue a singing career in Los Angeles.  Her newfound love interest, Will, (played by Jeremy Sisto), however, soon drags her down into his own dark world, where slacking off on life and experimenting with hard drugs seems to be the order of the day.  “In this film,” stated VF07 producer, Jana Frindtova, “Heather Graham takes on a truly challenging role.  Her ‘Hope’ is a character I think many women will identify with on so many levels. She is smart and talented, and ultimately a free spirit. And yet, she falls prey to her own emotions, allowing them to often get in the way of her own happiness.  But we root for her no matter what.”  Broken, which is directed by Alan White, will open theatrically in New York on October 5^th, and will unveil later in the month in Austin ,Chicago, Minneapollis, and Los Angeles.  Linda Hamilton (The Terminator), Tess Harper (Crimes of the Heart), and Jake Busey (Christmas With The Kranks) are among some of the other great performances featured in the film.

The very eclectic line-up of feature films in VF07 also boasts the New York Premiere of Wayne Price’s The Doorman, a docu-comedy that has already sold out its Thursday evening (Sept. 20) screening; the World Premiere of Jake Kennedy’s zombie-fest, Days of Darkness, creeping into Tribeca Cinemas on Friday evening (Sept. 21) as part of the festival’s annual “Fright Night Fridays” showcase; and the New York Premiere of Douglas Horn’s Entry Level, a slick, very funny, L.A. comedy featuring D.B. Sweeney (Gardens of Stone), scheduled for Saturday, the 22^nd, at 8:00 p.m.  Two feature-length documentaries are also included in the 2007 Independent Vision line-up.  Gary Null’s AIDS Inc., and Adrian Belic’s Beyond the Call, which marks Mr. Belic’s second documentary feature since his Oscar®-nominated, Genghis Blues, a 1999 Sundance Audience Award winner.  The two docs are screening on Thursday, September 20, at Tribeca Cinemas.

 And finally, rounding out the “narrative features” line-up, are the New York premiere of Her Best Move, by Norm Hunter, starring Leah Pipes (Life Is Wild; Pixel Perfect) – Sunday at 3:00 p.m., and the award-winning dramatic feature, pretty in the face, by Nate Meyer, which will officially close the Independent Vision Competition on Sunday evening, starting at 7:00 p.m., at the Tribeca Grand Screening Room.  An Awards Ceremony will follow after a brief intermission, culminating in an after-party at the Tribeca eatery, Walker’s (which will also be featured as the venue that is hosting the opening night after-party).  Other VF07 after-party venues include Dirty Disco (Sept. 21) and Novo (Sept. 20 and 22).

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