It's interesting how connections are made in this industry. A friend of a friend of a guy who used to couch surf in the midwest while working on a set as a PA and made friends with a photographer for a band that knew a guy who did graphic design who's sister was a chef and was featured on the local news with her aunt who started her own business before her husband's career as Broadway musical star tanked after the release of their last show that was written by an up and coming screenwriter who wrote something for a film competition your company was in and lost to it but you met the director at the Q & A.
whew.
This isn't that extensive, but you get the point.
The film is produced by Hazazah Pictures and written/directed by Ralph De Haan and Lars Siemens (aka "the Dutch Brad Pitt") whom we've established a new working relationship (albeit digitally) We were introduced to Lars through a good friend (and one of the subjects in the film) HBO Def poet, Bonafide Rojas (check out his performance here). He also performed at our Factory B: Portraits and Poetry last August.
The film follows 7 NYC poets around town in a series of single vignettes and then compiled into a whole film. The film premiered at the International IDFA festival and has since screened at others and, if we do say so, it's shot very well (on 16mm no less). In any case, here's the video in it's entirety. It's a bit of a time capsule work, considering it was also filmed about 7 years ago and then shelved since the filmmakers weren't sure initially on what to do with the footage. I'll say this, I'm glad they finished the project, for sure. Cheers.
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