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In its 11th year, the four day juried and invitational festival of independent motion pictures by African-American filmmakers will showcase features, shorts, animation, and documentary films.
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Extras celebrate role in locally-shot 'A Smile as Big as the Moon: WWAYTV3.com
Greg Kinnear an Jennifer Connelly are coming to Wilmington: Monsters & Critics
Casting announcements may be come within next few weeks for Iron Man 3: On Location Vacations
Locally filmed Hunger Games has a new movie poster! The world will be watching when The Hunger Games hits theaters March 23rd. You still have time to catch up on the books before the film is released!
Coming Soon:
SAFE HAVEN
Release: February 14, 2013
Director: Lasse Hallström
Writer: Dana Stevens
Cast: TBD
Producers: Ryan Kavanaugh, Nicholas Sparks, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen
Executive Producer: Tucker Tooley
Safe Haven, based on the latest novel from best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, whose books have been made into the hit films The Notebook, The Last Song,Nights in Rodanthe and Dear John, is a gripping love story infused with suspense and discovery. When a young woman escaping her past moves to a small North Carolina town, and falls for a loving widowed father, he heals her heart, and helps her escape the danger that threatens her.
We're switching our focus this new year to be more informative to our readers and provide weekly updates. Stay tuned to updates on the latest happenings in the state of North Carolina! Don't forget to friend us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! Our social networking sites will keep you updated if you don't get a chance to stop by the blog!
New Hallmark movie filmed in Wilmington premieres this weekend: StarNewsOnline
Iron Man 3 could start production as early April: Reelz
Alan Ball's "Banshee" will be filming in Charlotte: On Location Vacations
Wilmington Film Commission elects new officers: Greater Wilmington Business Journal
"Red Tails: film review: StarNewsOnline
Will you be attending the 2nd Annual 2012 Pink Sheep Film Festival this summer? If you haven't heard about the upcoming festival, listen to our interview with festival creators Channing Duke and Lynn Casper. The two provide an inside look as to how the festival was created and what film goers can expect when they see indie films courtesy of Pink Sheep!
The clip below is our interview from last year's festival. It was a success! Stay tuned for more info about the festival and if you're a filmmaker, the deadline to submit your film is April 1st!
NCIndieSeen's interview are starting to go viral! Stay tuned for more interviews and videos from your favorite North Carolina film blog! The transcript below is available if there are some issues with hearing any audio. We're gettin there guys!
NCIndieSeen: Tell us a little bit about the film "I Will Follow"
Ava: "I Will Follow" is really about a woman at a crossroads. The main character name is Maye and she's a makeup artist in New York City. She has a hot career and a hot boyfriend played by Blair Underwood. Then tragedy strikes in her family and she has to go home and take care of some things and in the process is struggling to keep her balance and keep her identity and so the film explores how to maintain yourself amidst personal chaos.
NCIndieSeen: Where was it shot and how long did it take for production on that?
Ava: 15 days. In Topanga Canyon, CA. I was really interested in Topanga its a canyon community in California. I'm from California and usually when you wanna see black people on screen they're not against greenery unless they're in the South and its a period piece. So I was really interested in seeing contemporary black people in a canyon setting which happens to not really have been captured on screen. So in moments in the film you see her walking in the street its greenery and that where they live, which I think that it's a little different from how we usually see ourselves in an urban setting or on the mean streets.
NCIndieSeen: How did you go about casting in this film?
Ava: I met the casting director Aisha Coley who actually cast Secret Life of Bees and Akeelah and The Bee and did alot of work with Spike Lee and so she was agreed to work with me early on and some of it was Aisha Coley auditioning in meetings and some of it was personal relationships like Blair Underwood is a good friend and his part was written with him in mind with hopes he would come out for a couple of days and do it. It was a mixuture of relationships and standard casting.
NCIndieSeen: What advice would you give to independent filmmakers trying to break out in the film industry and start their own feature films?
Ava: Well that's a huge question there are so many things to do. In general you have to have a passion for what you are doing for alot of folks when they are thinking about their first feature they're thinking about ok what will sell in the studios or what's in right now or other trends and I think the best films come from someone's heart and so you can tell when something is being done just to be done and something that means something to someone the film just feel different to the audience, and those that have some kind of connection are the most successful with audiences and stand the test of time I think. So I would just encourage people to dig deep and bare their soul and make something that's important to them, you may not get another chance.
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