tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40159862230516642942024-03-13T09:54:46.712-04:00Iron Mule BlogThe Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-80304000431849273892015-05-08T08:12:00.001-04:002015-05-08T08:25:10.722-04:00Notes from the May 3, 2015 Iron Mule Screening<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The was a warm Spring evening
this May 3rd and a happy crowd gathered at Symphony Space for a night of short
comedy films.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Co-host Victor Varnado began
the evening with a dramatic reading of the New Yorker’s pompous review of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Avengers: Age of Ultron</i>, and then we
introduced our guest judges: the team of Steve Rosenthal and Peggy O’Brien.
They’re a team because the work together, but also because they’re married.
Peggy is a writer and comedian and Steve is an editor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Steve showed us a “leaked”
video of Marvel’s plans for phase four of comic book movies. It’s pretty
amazing – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KqlJ_dAcf8" target="_blank">take a look</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">While our audience
fantasized about the upcoming Marvel movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">War
Thunder: Thunder War</i>, we showed the first film in the lineup: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Desk</i>, written, directed by, and
starring George Gaffney. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Desk</i>
tells the story of a concierge team in a swanky hotel that has to fight for
their jobs when a new boss takes over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">You can see a trailer <a href="https://vimeo.com/111668948" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George Gaffney talks about <i>The Desk</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">George was at the screening
and talked about how the project came about, what it's like to direct yourself in a movie, and how he hopes to expand the story of the characters in <i>The Desk</i> into
other episodes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The next block of films
featured the Australian short <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Batman and
Jimbo</i> by Angus Mullane, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_P0m-k0Gmk" target="_blank">Yellow Brick Hell: Michelle</a></i>, an
episode of a webseries starring Rob Asaro and Matt Cohen, directed by Justyn T.
Davis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rob and Matt were at the
screening and talked about how these episodes are based on true experiences in
Rob’s life.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Next up was <i>Knights of the Long Table</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, written by
Andrew Burlinson and Scott Kruse, directed by Andrew Burlinson. This movie,
from LA, tells an age-old origin story in unexpected ways. Next we showed <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/66989723" target="_blank">Woman Who Hates Plants</a></i> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">by New York
animator Morgan Miller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The next block of films
included, from the UK, Jonathan Brooks’ <i>Glasshole</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">,</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">about what <i>really</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> happened to Google Glass, and from Australia, <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZnSAa9Vbl0" target="_blank">Granny Smith</a></i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">,
written by Julian Lucas and Jack White, and directed by Julian Lucas. This
movie tells the story about a man who employs the ultimate excuse to get out of
work and pays the price. Co-writer and co-star Jack White was in town from
Australia for a wedding, and his entire rowdy family was in attendance. Jack
talked about how the film came about and his plans for more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our final film in the line up
was Keith Bearden’s <i>How to Get Rich in 13 East Steps</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, a unique, borderline surreal short shot in beautiful black
and white </span><u style="font-size: 14pt;">35mm film</u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">! We didn’t realize people could still do that,
especially for a short! We spoke with Keith about credit card debt and what
he’s up to next.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Director Keith Bearden talks with Victor and Jay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then, while votes for
audience favorite were being tallied, we presented the world premiere <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/126838919" target="_blank">Applesauce</a></i>,</span> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">our latest “Wanna Be a Star” movie starring audience member Emma
Kane and directed by Iron Mule co-host Jay Stern.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May's "Wanna Be a Star" winner Emma Kane announces the star of the June "Wanna Be a Star" movie.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Peggy and Steve then took the
stage to announce the Judges and Audience favorites – both went to <i>Granny Smith</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. It was a tough competition
with a split judges’ vote, but in the end, this scrappy movie from Australia
carried the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px; text-align: center;">Then it was off to our award-winning after party at Café Thalia for drinks and a fun hang with audience and filmmakers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Join us for our next
screening at Symphony Space on June 7th for another round of short comedy
films!</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-51160092520852452432015-03-12T15:58:00.000-04:002015-03-12T15:58:39.223-04:00Notes from our March 1, 2015 Screening
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It was a snowy night at the March 1st Iron Mule screening,
but the crowd was out in full for a new lineup of short comedy films.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Iron Mule audience, ready for some short comedy films</td></tr>
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Hosts Jay Stern and Victor Varnado were joined by guest judges Eleanor Kagan and Kseniya
Yarosh of the <a href="http://www.bonnieandmaude.com/" target="_blank">Bonnie and Maude podcast</a>, a monthly podcast that examines film and television from a femme-centric perspective.</div>
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Our first movie of the night was <a href="https://vimeo.com/104320715" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s Not Mine</i></a> by John Tuccillo, Jr. about a teen confronted by his
parents once they find drugs in his room. They’re not his, but who they belong
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Next up was Herminio Cardiel’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-CXfruP-4M" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Runner</i></a>, a movie from Spain about a man, a woman, and some
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Rounding out the block was Liz Rizzo’s gamer/thriller comedy
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA8tP7b_bu8" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zero Hour: Bad Call</i></a>.
Liz and one of the stars of the film, Kerry Hite, were in town from Los Angeles
for the screening, and they were there for a brief Q&A following the film.</div>
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The next block started with another movie from Spain, Alvaro
Martín’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYFLbX2pI0c" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Estocolmo</i></a>, about a child who’s father is in a unique line of work. Following this was
Michael Goldberg’s <a href="http://whatseatingdad.com/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What’s Eating Dad</i></a>, which chronicles the uncomfortable experience of what it's like to meet your boyfriend's family for the first time. </div>
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Michael Goldberg and producer David Chan were at the
screening to talk about their film, as well as most of the cast.</div>
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Our last film of the night was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Trust Me I’m a Lifeguard</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, written by and co-starring Christian Keiber and Tyler Hollinger and directed by Tony Glazer. Tony Hollinger and one of the stars and producers of the movie, Bree Michael Warner were there to talk about the movie, and how you can get eager cooperation and support to make a film from a local community outside of NYC or LA.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The last movie of the night was <a href="https://vimeo.com/121086635" target="_blank"><i>Health Food Cult</i>,</a> our "Wanna Be a Star" film starring David Stein, who was randomly chosen from the audience at the February Iron Mule to star in his own movie. The movie was written and directed by Darren Santa Maria.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Following <i>Health Food Cult</i>, Elanor and Kseniya returned to the stage to announce this month's audience and judges' awards, both of which went to <i>What's Eating Dad?</i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Then it was off to our after party at Cafe Thalia, where much mingling and fun was had by all.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thanks to all of you who made it out, and we'll see you again at the <a href="http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/8665/Comedy-Film/the-iron-mule-april-5th-2015" target="_blank">April 5th Iron Mule</a>!</span></div>
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The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-77204731223647339892015-02-04T19:13:00.000-05:002015-02-04T19:13:51.700-05:00Notes from the February 1, 2015 Iron Mule ScreeningA warm crowd of non-football-lovers braved the cold and sleet on this Superbowl Sunday to join the gang at Symphony Space.<br />
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Hosts Jay Stern and Victor Varnado's guest judge for the evening was filmmaker and video artist <a href="http://www.pinballfilms.net/#!about/c10fk" target="_blank">Joan Grossman</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victor and Jay greet the Iron Mule audience.</td></tr>
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Joan talked with Jay and Victor about what she likes in short comedy films (being funny and having a strong story helps) and what she doesn't like (a slow lead up to just one joke).<br />
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Then it was time for the films. Our first movie of the evening did have a slow build-up, but concluded with a series of jokes, each one building on the last. Shot in a creepy <i>CSI </i>style, Jean-Pierre Michael's <i>Impact, </i>our entry from France, was a classy way to begin the evening. It was followed by a West Coast film, Damien Patrick's <i>Directors on Directing</i>, in which, through a series of profound interviews, three movie directors reveal what they have discovered to be the <i>real</i> power of filmmaking.<br />
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Our second block of films began with Sam Frazier, Jr.'s documentary, <i style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/86790720" target="_blank">The Ghost Pepper Eating Contest of Jefferson County</a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">. We've shown a few films by Sam before, and this one was just as good as the others, documenting a competition in which people perform the stupid act of seeing how many ghost peppers they can eat before their body shuts down.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Next was a film by another returning filmmaker: Perry Strong was back with his movie </span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/72182184" target="_blank">The Stick</a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, a slickly-shot film about a very poorly executed caper. Perry was there to talk about his film afterwards, and we discussed his choice to shoot this very funny movie like a thriller.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Actor/writer/director Perry Strong talks to an adoring audience.</td></tr>
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Out last film in competition was the epic <a href="http://www.downinflamesfilm.com/" target="_blank"><i>Down in Flames: the True Story of Tony "Volcano" Valenci</i> </a>directed by William Stribling, and written by him and R.J. Lewis. This movie, featuring real Guinness World Record holders and performers Todd Robbins, The Great Throwdini, and Richie Magic, tells the story of a fire eater who decides his greatest stunt will be becoming the first person to blow fire while skydiving. Needless to say, his amazing journey is fraught with risks and challenges. Producer / writer R.J. Lewis was at the screening, along with actors Sarah Blaze and Richie Magic. We talked to them about their work on this ambitious film, which straddles reality and fiction in some interesting ways.<br />
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Closing out the night were not one, but <i>two</i> "Wanna Be a Star" movies, featuring audience members from previous shows who won a chance to star in their own movie. This time, Jay and Victor each made a movie, both starring the same two ladies, and both starting with the same two lines of dialogue. First up was Jay's <i><a href="http://vimeo.com/118075723" target="_blank">Velociraptors in Heat</a> </i>starring audience member Hannah Stone, and then Victor presented <i><a href="http://vimeo.com/118760031" target="_blank">Salmonella</a></i>, starring Trilby Schreiber. The ladies came on stage for an interview and seemed delighted with their appearance on the big screen.<br />
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Joan Grossman returned to announce this night's winners: the Judges' Award went to <i>Down in Flames</i> and the Audience Favorite was <i>The Stick</i>.<br />
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But as Joan said, all of the movies were winners, and we repaired to the Bar Thalia for our after party, where R.J. Lewis and Richie Magic thrilled the crowd with magic tricks!<br />
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Thanks to all of you who made it out to the February Iron Mule, and we'll see you next month at our March 1st screening!The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-20703159998145742792015-01-05T23:56:00.001-05:002015-01-08T08:08:14.020-05:00Notes from the January 4th, 2015 Iron Mule Screening<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Happy 2015 from Iron Mule! 2014 was a year with great shorts and what better way to celebrate than by presenting the "Best of's" from the year's past shows!</span><br />
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Sam talked about judging each work of comedy on its own terms and to determine if it successfully achieves what it tries to do. Of course with a "best of" her job of judging a favorite film was going to be extra hard, since all of the films in the lineup were quite successful.</div>
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There were many international submissions in 2014 with a quite few from Australia, two of which made to the top ten list. The first one of the evening was Craig Melville's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMrX8f06Fso" target="_blank">THE POLYGAMIST</a>, a funny story about a woman's life juggling three men. Next up was David Foster and Donald Russell's <a href="https://vimeo.com/55298196" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">YOU GOOD!</a>, a humorous twist of drug dealers working as doctors on the streets. Comedian Perry Strong also features in the film and co-produced. He was there to talk about the film, his work, and how to successfully get away with using the "n-word" in comedy.</div>
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We went back to Australia with Nick Hunter and Seaton Kay-Smith's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGGZOp-VTqE" target="_blank">FLOAT</a>, a long-standing favorite about a man disturbed by meeting his ex-girlfriend's new beau at a party. Director Pamela Wess presented her film, ON WOMEN WHO VALIDATE THEMSELVES THROUGH SEX, about one woman's angst in not getting enough attention from men as her friend lays spread-eagle on the ground, casually drawing in every guy walking by.</div>
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Next up, from the West Coast, was Jeremy Ungar's <a href="https://vimeo.com/77571864" target="_blank">I'M 23 AND THERE'S A FUCKING MONSTER UNDER MY BED</a> about, well, a 23-year-old still plagued by a monster under his bed, and his last-ditch attempt to get rid of it. Then came <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Jw5-NdSZI&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">SPOONERS</a>, in which writer/director Bryan Horch playfully exposes how a man struggles to buy a mattress for him and his husband without having to make a big deal out of it. Co-star Ben Lerman was there to represent the film.</div>
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We closed with one final live action film, and three animated ones. First, Chris Capel's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTXfAtckS3g&noredirect=1" target="_blank">LIVING WITH JIGSAW</a> starred a scary but very funny puppet playing twisted games. Last month's judge's award winner, <a href="https://vimeo.com/116015265#at=3" target="_blank">HIGHWAY OF HELL</a> by <a href="http://www.londonsquared.net/" target="_blank">Andy and Carolyn London</a>, returned for an encore performance of this unique charcoal on paper animation about the "beauty" of Clam Cove, Long Island. Next was <a href="http://natalielabarre.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Natalie Labarre</a>'s PAPA, a sweet father/daughter story where dad tries his best at being a good dad, despite the obstacles. Finally, Jason Coates' creative <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahm9L0YG908" target="_blank">DICTIONARY MODELS</a>, about a dictionary-model duo, capped the "Best of" list for 2014.</div>
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Then votes were tallied and Pamela Wess brought home the Audience Award for ON WOMEN… and in one of our toughest votes ever, Chris Capel's LIVING WITH JIGSAW squeaked to the top to win the Judges' Prize.</div>
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Thanks to all of you who came out, and to all the filmmakers who made 2014 so memorable.</div>
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Join us <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_788484876" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">February 1st</span></span> for the next Iron Mule screening at Symphony Space!<br />
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The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-63286101321063922252014-12-10T21:07:00.000-05:002014-12-10T21:07:34.671-05:00Notes from the December 7, 2014 Iron Mule Screening<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Happy Holidays from Iron Mule! We had a great crowd out on our December 7th show and hosts Jay Stern and Victor Varnado graced the stage in the spirit of the holidays. This month's guest judge was <a href="https://philipshane.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">Philip Shane</a>, an award-winning documentary producer, director and editor. </span><br />
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There are many holiday traditions which people follow around this time and at the Iron Mule there's no exception! We started as we have every December, since 2003, with the entertaining WHITE BLOOD CELL SAVES CHRISTMAS by Tate English and Dano Johnson. This animated film about a white blood cell taking over for an ailing Santa is an annual holiday classic of choice.</div>
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WHY I MAKE MOVIES by Sam Frazier, Jr. was the first film in competition and it presented to us the life of a filmmaker -- not about creating the art of film, but about the parties and the people you'll meet once the film gets into festivals. Frazier's witty slide projector style film gave an honest rundown of this glamorous festival lifestyle.</div>
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The next short was an animated piece by Jason Petrovich titled <a href="https://vimeo.com/97336117" target="_blank">JIM MORRISON'S BIG COMEBACK</a>. Playing on the hoax of the singer's death, Morrison is seen live and well as a ventriloquist for his puppet Mojo Risin.</div>
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The international part of the competition came from Karen Di Porto of Rome with her short called CAESAR. Shot around the surroundings of the Coliseum, the story focuses on a man's economic troubles who tries to make a living by taking photos with tourists dressed as a centurion. Ironically, his name is Caesar and we explore his modern day battle in the Italian tourism marketplace.</div>
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HANKY PANKY is a quirky short about a napkin expert set up on a blind date. Unaware and disinterested of his "date" at a friend's dinner, his love for napkins began to shine once the date's special vintage handkerchief enters and adds some sizzle. Hanky panky ensues between the animated napkins and possibly through their respective owners. Written by Nick Roth and Toby Bryan, directed by Lindsey Haun.</div>
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Asher Muldoon is the festival's youngest writer/director to have a short screened at the Iron Mule. screened His <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXJE39aNxHw" target="_blank">GOODNIGHT JEEVES</a> was creatively done with minimal time, cast, and space. The film presented his offbeat take of a man's relationship with his butler inspired by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's <i>Jeeves and Wooster</i>.</div>
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Geoffrey Plitt's <a href="https://vimeo.com/79618258" target="_blank">THE HERO SUPER</a> brought light to a different kind of superhero, a kind which doesn't get too much credit. In an effort to save his building from being demolished due to crime in the area, its very dedicated and handy superintendent makes himself into a superhero, complete with wrench nun-chucks and key-chain brass knuckles. It has all the suspense of a superhero film with a comedic twist.</div>
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Our last film in competition, HIGHWAY OF HELL, invites us to visit a peculiar town called Clam Cove on Long Island, expressed through a man's frightening but fascinating story of his youth there. The dark feel of the story was heightened by its animation done with charcoal on paper, creatively executed by Andy and Carolyn London.<br />
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Finally, it was time for the world premiere of this month's "Wanna Be Star" movie <a href="https://vimeo.com/113702754" target="_blank">HILL OF BEANS</a>, starring audience member winner Shelly Addi and written and directed by Pamela Wess. This film pretty much defies explanation. You can see it <a href="https://vimeo.com/113702754" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hosts Jay
and Victor kicked off November's show with special guest judge of the evening,
<a href="http://www.jessicadelfino.com/">Jessica Delfino</a>, a comedic musician who shared her experience riding a bicycle
around New York by performing a song titled "My Experiences Riding a
Bicycle Around NYC". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before
introducing the night's films, the hosts started off with a screening of
GENTRIFY OR DIE, a film written by Joshua Fisher and Mike Brown with host
Victor Varnado (who also directed), where tenants of a building fear hipsters moving in and
ultimately gentrifying the neighborhood. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first
film in competition came to us from Australia titled TRASH, a story about a
man who after fighting with his girlfriend needs to discreetly
dispose of "something" with the help of his laid-back younger brother
who has "done this before". Written and directed by Ryan
O'Donnell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Next,
Abby Holland's <a href="http://thereturnofsaturnseries.com/">THE RETURN OF SATURN</a> introduced a fun web series about how a
planet's orbit could bring big changes into adulthood, whether you like it or
not, even if it involves seeing imaginary friends. The series is
directed by Geoffrey Stevens.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with Abby Holland and Geoffrey Stevens</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then, Rahdy
Elwan's amusing one minute short <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtRuF-WwCU">SUPERSNACKERS</a> made us desire the power
to instantaneously snack whenever from wherever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
animated portion of the evening featured <a href="https://vimeo.com/82976465" target="_blank">SPAMORAMA</a> by Mondo
Ghulam, a creative puppet animation that made going through spam mail
entertaining, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahm9L0YG908" target="_blank">DICTIONARY MODELS</a>, a cleverly funny illustration created by
Jason Coates about Chuply and Babcock's career as models for dictionary words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rounding
out the final two films were <a href="https://vimeo.com/91534290" target="_blank">HOW GUYS' THOUGHTS RUIN PERFECT RELATIONSHIPS</a> by
Marvin Lemus, a humorous inside look of a guy's actual feelings about his girl,
and lastly Rob Muraskin's CARPOOL THERAPY, an offbeat take on
people's problems in carpooling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rob Murskin talks about "Carpool Therapy."</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last
month's "Wanna Be a Star" winner Martin Lund introduced his role in
FRONT ROW CENTER, which in typical "Wanna Be a Star" fashion was finished mere hours before the screening. The Audience and Judges' Award went to DICTIONARY
MODELS by Jason Coates.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Star Martin Lund talks about "Front Row Center."</td></tr>
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Our special guest judge Mike Maronna (Big Pete from <i>The Adventures of Pete and Pete)</i> was an excellent addition as hosts Jay and Victor took us through this GREAT lineup of films from around the world featuring a web series, zombies, late night horror hosts and wheelchair-bound bank robbers.<br />
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Our QnAs included a chat with Ryan Decker and Garrett Johnston, the writers/directors of <i>Man With a Van</i>, a web series about movers in New York.<br />
We then invited brothers Kyle and Levi McCachen, writer and director resp. of <i>Disabled and Dangerous</i>, a Canadian heist comedy about three friends with ALS who are driven to desperate measures.<br />
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The night's Judges' Award went to <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/44494192">Brains?</a></i> by Giles McNeil and Paul Stephanus, a fantastic comedy about zombies in New Zealand who are terrorized by the unstoppable threat.... of humans!<br />
Our Audience's Award was won by <i>Disabled and Dangerous</i>.<br />
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We closed the night, once again, with our Wanna Be a Star? film, which pairs one lucky audience member with a local filmmaker to create a short film based on an audience-generated title. This month's film was a horror flick, <i>Chop House</i>. It was written and directed by Iron Mule co-founder Victor Varnado, and starred audience member Natalie Shutler.<br />
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Come on over to Symphony Space on Sunday November 3rd at 7:30pm for silent comedies from Denmark, an out-of-work super sidekick, our next Wanna Be A Star? film <i>So I Married a Canadian</i>, and more!<br />
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Films from the October show included:<br />
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<i><a href="https://vimeo.com/44494192">Brains?</a></i><br />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Zombies are threatened by an unstoppable threat.</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<i>The Horrible Life of Dr. Ghoul</i><br />
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Three people with ALS resort to drastic measures to save their local ALS Center.</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">written by Barry Varga and Levi McCachen, directed by Kyle McCachen</span><br />
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<i>Night of the Loving Dead</i><br />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">A zombie movie with more heart than brains.</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">written by Anna Humphries, Regina Moriarty, and Toby Cohen, directed by Anna Humphries </span><br />
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<i>How To Steal a Bed</i><br />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">When a teenager tries to buy a bed for his grandmother, he learns some valuable life lessons. From Switzerland.</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR1u_IpI75Y">Guns For Cronuts and Other Pressing Issues Facing New Yorkers</a></i><br />
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<i>Man With a Van: The Commercial</i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>A fake commercial for the best fly-by-night moving company in the city.</b></span></span><br />
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<i>Chop House</i><br />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Part of the "Wanna Be a Star?" contest, starring audience member Natalie Shutler!</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br />
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The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-40543307424333122172013-09-09T13:44:00.000-04:002013-09-09T13:44:48.181-04:00Notes From Our September 8th ShowThe Iron Mule returned to <a href="http://www.symphonyspace.org/">Symphony Space</a> for a night of great shorts. We began with a film about love... Italian style. "L'Appuntamento" by co-writer/director/star <a href="http://www.gianpieroalicchio.com/en/index.asp">Gianpiero Alicchio</a> shows the intricacies and duplicity of dating complete with overpriced vegan dinners and unforeseen second dates.<br />
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Next we showed a few films from LA-based sketch comedy troop, Kill Bosby. Check them out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/killbosbycomedy">HERE</a>.<br />
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Our audience award went to Kevin Maher & William Scurry's film, "King Kong Deleted Scenes." Scurry was in attendance for a QnA and to show off his sweet bow tie. Watch this long-lost conversation from the voyage back from Skull Island <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuaf-Utah5A">HERE</a>.<br />
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The judges' award went to "Garden of Steven" from Chris Keener and Robert Shore. Producer Nick Fitzhugh joined us for a QnA. Check out the trailer for this excellent, Guatemala-set film about a hapless missionary and his encounter with the saint of sinners and drunks, Maximon <a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thegardenofsteven/64579880">HERE</a>.<br />
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Once again, we closed the night with our Wanna Be a Star? film, a series of films that pairs one <i>or more</i> lucky audience members with a director and an audience-submitted title to create <i>something</i> that will be screened at the following month's show. This month it was "Chartreuse Pantograph" directed by Iron Mule producer, Ryan Decker. The audience members participated in a fake audition for a terrible space opera about an inter-sex alien parasite who is trying to reunite the galaxy after a universe-wide war. The audience members included Kate Britton, Zak Kaplan, Garrett Johnston and Tim Hoobler.<br />
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Head to Symphony Space on Sunday October 6th for the next installment in the series, "Chop House" directed by the Iron Mule's co-founder Victor Varnado, a Halloween-themed lineup of films, and a very special guest judge!<br />
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Check out our <a href="http://www.ironmulenyc.com/">site</a> for more details and we will see you at the next Iron Mule!The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-41576129753216389882013-08-07T12:43:00.000-04:002013-08-08T10:07:21.816-04:00Notes from our August 4th Show.The Iron Mule returned with guest judge, comedian <a href="http://kidliam.blogspot.com/">Liam McEneaney</a>, and a host of great comedies from around the world.<br />
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We started out with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZr6nWycNc">ABOGADO AVOCADO</a> from Austin, TX, an absurdly funny commercial for the tastiest law firm this side of the border. Directed by David Ward.</div>
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Our audience award went to<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFOoTipWNZY"> COMPULSIVE LOVE</a>, a great web series about a psychotic-romantic who can't help falling in love. Written by Adam Szymkowicz, directed by Kevan Tucker.</div>
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We closed the night with our Wanna Be A Star? film by local filmmaker and comedian <a href="http://jeffoseal.tumblr.com/">Jeff Seal</a>. Audience member Shlomo Gewirtz offers Jeff a little advice on the fairer sex in this <i>very</i> funny short.</div>
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The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-51647154213996580442013-07-09T00:13:00.000-04:002013-07-09T20:42:55.544-04:00Notes From Our July 7, 2013 Screening<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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The Iron Mule just had its first show at Symphony Space, and how sweet it was. We had a great turnout and showed some damn-good films.<br />
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We kicked off the evening with <a href="http://www.ithentic.com/videos/watch/hiccup/" target="_blank">HICCUP</a> by Derville Quigley which was a surreal piece about the things that lie within and outside of our control... And bouncy castles, of course.<br />
Then from Byron Brown and the guys at <a href="http://humordy.com/">HUMORDY</a> we showed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nUv1qqKmDk" target="_blank">MY COOLEST FRIEND</a>. There's a lot of fun to be had when you combine a porche, an electric dog collar and John Merriman in a wig.<br />
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From Tim Blackburn and Lyndal Moody we showed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P14bWf52op8" target="_blank">MONOBROW</a>, a hilarious short about a girl who's met the perfect guy, except.... He has a giant unibrow. Follow the link to see, it's Iron Mule approved after taking home our Audience Award!<br />
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Next we screened the first installment of the upcoming webseries, <a href="http://manwithavan.tv/" target="_blank">MAN WITH A VAN</a>, a series about the misadventures of movers in New York. It's funny AND it's written and directed by one of Iron Mule's producers <i>and local man with a van,</i> <a href="http://www.ryandeckerfilms.com/" target="_blank">Ryan Decker.</a><br />
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From Mitch Rouse we showed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MerkinPenal" target="_blank">MERKIN PENAL</a>, a prison comedy with more rape jokes than you could shake a shank at.<br />
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Jeff Seal came by to share a drunken conversation he'd recently had with his drunken 15 year old self called... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IId9AesGEU" target="_blank">A (DRUNKEN) CONVERSATION WITH MY 15 YEAR OLD SELF</a>.<br />
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Then from Periods Films we saw <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHR87YIvqZo" target="_blank">BIG CITY, BRIGHT LIGHTS</a> which was a great, five minute, first-person POV version of the novel/Michael J Fox movie.<br />
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Our Judges Award went to I'LL BE HERE ALL NIGHT by Andrew Parkhill, which featured a beleaguered pub singer and the deranged old man who just wouldn't let him finish his set.<br />
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We then ended our night with our monthly WANNA BE A STAR? movie which pairs one lucky audience member with an Iron Mule filmmaker to make a short to screen at the following month's show. This time around it was <a href="http://vimeo.com/69864915" target="_blank">GRANDPA'S CANDY</a> written & directed by Iron Mule hosts Jay Stern and Victor Varnado and starring audience member Brad Brownson. Check it out!<br />
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We will be back at Symphony Space on August 4th for the next installment of the Iron Mule. See you there!The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-21421958130873737472013-06-13T20:03:00.003-04:002013-06-13T20:03:58.448-04:00Acclaimed Director, Editor, and Producer Phillip Shane to Guest Judge July 7 Iron MuleWe wanted to kick off our first show at Symphony Space with a bang, so we booked a high-caliber guest judge: old friend of the Iron Mule, Phillip Shane. Here's some info about Phillip.<br />
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Philip Shane is an award winning documentary producer,
director and editor with over 25 years experience. Some of his most recent
films include DANCING IN JAFFA (Editor; 2013 TriBeCa Film Festival World
Premiere, and Winner of the Best Editor award at the DocAviv Festival in
Israel), BEING ELMO (Co-Director, 2010 Sundance Film Festival World Premiere
& Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary), and the acclaimed
biography EINSTEIN (Producer/Director, 2008, History Channel).<br />
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For more than ten years he was an editor with ABC News on many distinguished
documentaries, including TIP OF THE SPEAR (2004, DuPont Columbia Award for
Distinguished Broadcasting) and MARTIN LUTHER KING (2000, Emmy Award for
Outstanding Historical Program). A short film he made with Peter Jennings and
Senior Producer Richard Gerdau, WITNESS TO HISTORY, which explored Jenning's
personal memories of 9/11, was entered into the permanent collection of
American History at the Smithsonian Institution.<br />
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But, holy moly, documentaries can be depressing, so he also loves comedy. As a
student, performer and director at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater for
over 12 years, he was a founding member of the pioneering LECHE MAGICA short
comedy film festival, and he and Rob Huebel (of "Human Giant")
created, directed and starred in FILET O' FILM, a short film & live comedy
show which ran for many years at the UCB Theaters in New York and Los Angeles.
He has made many short comedy films (which you can find on YouTube and Funny Or
Die if you look hard enough) which are all pretty funny, and just a little bit
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The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-72876388111563336692013-06-03T20:22:00.000-04:002013-06-03T20:33:08.015-04:00Notes from our June, 2013 screeningOn Sunday we had our final show at 92YTriBeCa. It was a fond farewell featuring some great films and it was even hosted <i>the now</i> <i>former </i>film programmer 92Y TriBeCa, our friend<a href="http://twitter.com/piercingscreen" target="_blank"> Cristina Cacioppo</a>.<br />
We kicked the night off with Cristina's Wanna Be A Star film, SLEDGE, an old favorite of the Mule's.<br />
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We then showed <a href="https://vimeo.com/46941683" target="_blank">BREAKFAST SURPRISE</a> by Chris Capel, a bloody/ puke-filled film about breakfast and Jenga. There were as many screams in the audience as there were laughs.<br />
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That was followed by another installment in the <a href="https://vimeo.com/48678289" target="_blank">J. CREW CREW</a> series about the adventures of models and friends. Writer/ Director <a href="http://www.meghanoneill.org/" target="_blank">Meghan O'Neill</a> came to talk about this and other pieces based on magazines lying around her apartment.<br />
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A rare, midwestern appearance was made by Zach Yokum's <a href="https://vimeo.com/41297623" target="_blank">SPRING FORWARD</a>. A very punctual father rushes to get his family to church on time after daylight savings, and all in one Steadicam shot! Next up was another episode of <a href="https://vimeo.com/60293979" target="_blank">SERIOUS BUSINESS</a> (we also screened one at our May show) from Ballard Boyd.<br />
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From french filmmakers, Laurence Arcadias and Juliette Marchand, came a fantastic stop-animation video about a couple trying to rekindle their lackluster love life called TEMPEST IN A BEDROOM. It took home BOTH our Audience's and Judges' Awards. Co-director, Laurence Arcadia was in attendance to accept.<br />
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Next we screened DINNER WITH HOLLY from Joel Crockett and Daniel Sinclair, a great film about a young couple who invite their more adventurous friend, Holly, over for dinner and a chance to spice up their sex life.<br />
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Our Wanna Be A Star video this month, NEVERMIND, was written and directed by host Victor Varnado and starred audience member Sharon Alkalay.<br />
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Before the lights came up one last time for us at 92YTriBeca, we had a cerimonial handing off of the official hard drive from Cristina to Aishah at our new home, <a href="http://symphonyspace.org/" target="_blank">Symphony Space</a>.<br />
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Our May show kicked off with a brief chat with our guest judge, screenwriter and producer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833971/" target="_blank">George Strayton</a> (credits include XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS). We then showed <a href="http://www.joelipari.com/" target="_blank">Joe Lipari</a>'s DREAM JOB, a film about a down-on-his-luck filmmaker who gets the chance of a lifetime, to shoot a film for<i> who he thinks is</i> George Lucas. The film also features a cameo from the Iron Mule's Victor Varnado as none other than "Mr. Lucas."<br />
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We then screened an episode of Meghan O'Neil's J. CREW CREW, a web series about models... who are friends... and go on adventures... and wear J. Crew. It's great, and not just coz we said so; it took home our audience's choice award! Check it out <a href="https://vimeo.com/46776539" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Next up was a very informative video from David Ward called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0lBn2WCHvM" target="_blank">HOW TO TIE A DOUBLE WINDSOR ON CRACK</a>. Need we say more? Then a great, silent comedy from Ben Model and Jeff Seal, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM8XGCX0qHQ" target="_blank">IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN</a>. This was Ben and Jeff's second time at the Iron Mule, we screened another silent film from them a few months back, <a href="https://vimeo.com/29484728" target="_blank">A DAY'S MESSING</a>.<br />
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From Steve Collins we saw <a href="https://vimeo.com/28384623" target="_blank">MARKELSON'S SYNDROME</a>, a story of new love, a rare disease and goulash.<br />
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The Judges award went to <a href="https://vimeo.com/50996114" target="_blank">POCKETS</a> by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, a hilarious short about a robbery that goes horribly wrong and involves lots and lots of pockets.<br />
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Next we screened an episode of <a href="http://seriousbusinesscomedy.com/focus-group/" target="_blank">SERIOUS BUSINESS</a> by Ballard Boyd, and had a QnA with the series' co-writer and star, Rob Asaro.<br />
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And finally we closed with our Wanna Be A Star? film (a monthly series that pairs one lucky audience member with one of the festival's filmmakers to make a short). This month's film was a great comedy about a puppet sub-letter who loves to party named <a href="https://vimeo.com/65487872" target="_blank">SASSAFRAS BEANBAG</a>, directed by <a href="http://www.ryanarey.com/" target="_blank">Ryan Arey</a> and starring audience member Chiara Zaccheo.<br />
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As programming is winding-down at 92Y TriBeCa, this was our second to last show at this venue. For our final show at the space, our announcement of our new home, and a new episode of J. CREW CREW, come on down to 92Y TriBeCa (200 Hudson St.) on June 1st for the next Iron Mule!<br />
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.The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-14547658661898453922013-04-17T14:28:00.001-04:002013-04-17T14:28:19.942-04:00Guest Judge George Strayton to join us at the May 4th show!<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1366171562619_49083" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">George Strayton has written and produced both television and film, including Sam Raimi's </span><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1366171562619_49085" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Xena: Warrior Princess</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Dragonlance</i><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1366171562619_49070" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> starring Kiefer Sutherland for Paramount Pictures, and <em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1366171562619_49077">Transformers 1 & 2</em>. He recently optioned the screenplay <em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1366171562619_49072">Xombie</em> to K/O Paper Products (writer/producers of <em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1366171562619_49076">Star Trek Into Darkness, The Proposal, Fringe, The Amazing Spider-Man 2</em>, etc.) He earned an MFA in Film from Columbia University and has lectured at various film festivals, the Columbia Film Program, and the 92Y.</span></div>
The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-44662348627158299262013-03-28T11:08:00.002-04:002013-03-28T11:08:57.633-04:00Iron Mule Turns 11This April, the Iron Mule will mark its 11th anniversary.<br />
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<br />The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-24287068160813457512013-03-23T13:30:00.000-04:002013-03-23T14:13:32.200-04:00The End of An Era: 92YTribeca to CloseWord came this month that the 92YTribeca screening room, the
home of Iron Mule, will be closing this June.<br />
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Before our time at 92YTribeca, the Iron Mule screened for
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92YTribeca was just opening when that theater went under, and the fledgling
institution offered us a new home. We were proud to hold one of the first
screenings at 92YTribeca. And over the years, members of the Iron Mule community have
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Cristina’s unique vision mixing good and
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live experience of a theatrical film screening was a perfect match for what we
strive for at the Iron Mule. She was an advocate for independent voices and all
kinds of cinema, high and low. There has been and is no other programming line
up just like Cristina’s. The closest cognate is the type of programming you get
at the Alamo Drafthouse (outside of NYC, but moving here in 2014 – they could
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The people at the 92nd Street Y, which is a revered and
powerful cultural institution, stated in their press release that “a second,
physical location is not critical to our mission,” which discounts the
thousands of filmmakers and scores of independent filmmakers who have relied on
92YTribeca for a unique film-going experience, and often the only opportunity
to see rare and classic films on the big screen. We presented a screening of Olsen and Johnson’s
<i>Crazy House</i> there in a 35mm print – we bet that will not happen again in a NYC theater for
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As the New Yorker critic Richard Brody points out in his
article <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2013/03/save-92y-tribeca.html">“Save 92YTribeca,”</a> 92YTribeca has made itself critical to NYC
moviegoers and deserves saving. But whether such saving will happen is extremely
doubtful. So we bid a fond farewell to 92YTribeca. There will be nothing quite
like you. And here’s to the years of fantastic work by Cristina Cacioppo, and her singular programming vision. We can’t wait to see what she does
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The Iron Mule returned to 92Y TriBeCa for another sold-out show. The night began with a performance by our guest judge, Audrey Crabtree. Hosts Jay Stern and <a href="http://thiskevin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Maher</a> (playing the role of Victor Varnado) then kicked off the film program with an entry from Austin, Texas, <a href="http://t.co/G8Pg9Azp1H" target="_blank">THE PROSTITUTE </a>by <span class="s1">Byron Brown, which took home our judges award. The film featured a male street walker with a wide array of costumes to choose from, including "karate Patrick Ewing."</span></div>
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Heading back north we showed a film from New York-based, brother filmmakers Conor & Tyler Byrne. Just to prove how incestual the film industry is, these rising stars at the Iron Mule were actually students of Steve Collins' at Wesleyan University. Their film <a href="https://vimeo.com/47978830">HEADBANGER</a> was a fantastic short about a mother and son learning to rock together. This was the second film by the brothers Byrne to be screened at the Iron Mule and the entire Byrne clan was in attendance, including their mother who co-starred in the film.</div>
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From Todd Alcott we screened an absurd and funny dissection of a Beatles song, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rGgjBTnRLM">SHE LOVES YOU: A CLOSER LOOK</a>. Click to unveil answers to the burning questions of who the "she" and "you" are in this pop gem.</div>
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Our audience award went to the improvised, guerilla, iPhone-shot <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47e3vjA_4uc">PANHANDLER PARTY</a> by Gary Lee Mahmoud and Josh Apter. The film featured a train filled with a circus performer, a lawyer, a WASPy couple, an undercover cop, and more all asking if you can spare some change. Click to join the party.</div>
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<br />The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-83056858995676054632013-02-04T22:29:00.001-05:002013-02-04T22:29:32.633-05:00Another sold out night at the 92Y TriBeCa! The February Iron Mule was a good time had by all. Jay and Victor kicked off the evening with updates on their upcoming feature films "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTVjjYsH92w" target="_blank">The Realm of LARP</a>" and "<a href="http://adventuresofpaulandmarian.com/" target="_blank">The Adventures of Paul and Marian</a>. "Our guest judge, <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=323&Itemid=62" target="_blank">Michael Kupperman</a>, gave a great, illustrated presentation featuring excerpts from his new book "Tales Designed To Thrizzle Vol 2."<br />
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The film program began with an entry from our friends at <a href="http://iThentic.com/">iThentic.com</a>,<a href="http://www.ithentic.com/videos/watch/the-money-shot/" target="_blank"> "Money Shot"</a> featuring the misadventures of an Ebay-er with a presumably magic camera that has the power to duplicate whatever it shoots.<br />
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Next we showed a hilarious and expertly shot film from Spain called <a href="http://vimeo.com/53686724" target="_blank">"Division Azul"</a> by Sergi Marti. In order to conquer Lenigrad, Hitler orders two Spanish soldiers to parachute behind enemy lines, but the plan backfires when their chutes get stuck in the trees.<br />
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From Peter Alton we screened <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVTDa_jvOn8&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">"And When He Died All He Left Us Was Alone"</a>a film about two sisters forced to compete for their late father's inheritance... With a fight to the death.<br />
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The Audience choice Award went to Josh & Jason Diamond's <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/de3562b703/nana" target="_blank">"Nana,"</a> featuring a steamy moment of lucidity from a seemingly senile granny as she reflects upon a V Day gangbang.<br />
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Our Judge's award went to <a href="https://vimeo.com/29484728" target="_blank">"A Day's Messing"</a> directed by and starring Jeff Seal. It was a hilarious, silent comedy featuring a Buster Keaton-esque bike messenger doing his best to deliver his "triple rush" package and get the girl (Carlen Altman cameo alert) while fighting off commuters, cabbies and a gypsy sorceress.<br />
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We finished the night with our monthly series, "Wanna Be A Star?" which features one lucky member of last month's audience and a title by the first person to scream a suggestion. This month's edition was directed by Mary Beth Coudal and starring Michael Martin and Jay Fortunato called "Spork Wars." A traveling salesman stops into a diner to share with the owner his latest invention and a secret that ties the two men together in a bond as unbreakable as spoon and fork in this funny tale revolving around the spork.The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-67215828016538036162013-01-06T22:30:00.000-05:002013-01-06T22:30:46.989-05:00January's ShowHappy New Year! We kicked off 2013 with a great show featuring new films by some Iron Mule favorites and a few new faces.<br />
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The night began with a film from our friends at <a href="http://ithentic.com/">iThentic.com</a>. A hapless boyfriend struggles to listen to his girlfriend and not ogle a bar filled with porn stars in "<a href="http://www.ithentic.com/videos/watch/an-evening-with-mike-jessica-at-the-kings-head-inn/" target="_blank">An Evening With Mike & Jessica at the King's Head Inn</a>," directed by David Tamkin.<br />
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Next we showed a fantastic, stop-motion film about a man coming to a nudist colony to care for his dying mother, along with a bunch of other surrealistic stuff. Everybody loved it! (<a href="http://www.emmadeswaef.be/ohwilly" target="_blank">"Oh Willy..."</a> by Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels)<br />
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From Erich Eilenberger came <a href="http://vimeo.com/48885282" target="_blank">"Stockholm,"</a> the story of a radical freegan who kidnaps a vapid, LA celebutante in order to brainwash her to join his cause, but it all goes sour over steak and cake.<br />
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Then from Australia, we showed Burleigh Smith's "Thing My Father Never Taught Me," a sweet film about a father imparting a little wisdom about the fairer sex to his three-year old son.<br />
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Kevin Maher shared his new web series, <a href="http://a12sdc.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">"Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay</a>," which featured the fanboy comedian's routines about sex, droids and hobbits. A must-see for all fans of stand-up and cylons.<br />
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Our judge's award went to Eric Hendricks for his found-footage tale of a ship lost at sea (<a href="http://videoremix.freemusicarchive.org/video/158/sirens-of-the-past" target="_blank">"Sirens of the Past"</a>). And Ryan Arey's story of a man who's GPS knows a more than just how to get home took the audience's choice award (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oalpJ_ZSPnc" target="_blank">"What Drugs Are You Looking For?"</a>)<br />
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We closed the night with Victor Varnado's <a href="http://ironmulenyc.com/films.php" target="_blank">Wanna Be a Star?</a> video, "Alan Ladd Syndrome,"starring Mary Beth Coudal doing her best to save her boyfriend from the symptoms of this horrific, under-publicized condition.The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-45111887375688031592012-12-03T22:54:00.000-05:002012-12-04T20:36:12.076-05:00Notes from our December 1st ScreeningAfter being rained-out by Superstorm Sandy, the Iron Mule bounced-back better than ever with a strong lineup from some of our favorite filmmakers.<br />
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The evening kicked-off with a presentation on paint toxicity that was as informative as it was funny by <a href="http://thecinematologist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kriota Willberg</a>. Then we screened the Iron Mule classic, WHITE BLOOD CELL SAVES CHRISTMAS by Dano Johnson & Tate English. This holiday favorite features a giant white blood cell that takes over for Santa when he's too sick to deliver gifts to all the good girls & boys.<br />
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Next we showed<a href="http://www.ithentic.com/videos/watch/the-lost-tribes-of-new-york-city/" target="_blank"> THE LOST TRIBES OF NEW YORK CITY</a> by Andy & Carolyn London featuring some great interviews with some of the often overlooked residents of NYC, like phone booths and manholes...<br />
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Then we took a trip to Norway for a good old fashion mother-son suicide pact, subtle hilarity ensues, DIN TUR by Vegard Dahle. Keeping with the theme we then watched the campaign spoof, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYrMxuK9QP4&noredirect=1" target="_blank">POLITICAL SUICIDE</a> by Kevin Maher & Bill Scurry.<br />
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Next we showed some hilarious, single-take videos featuring heavy metal and cut-out puppets from musician/ filmmaker, <a href="http://www.wattwhite.com/" target="_blank">Watt White </a>(I WANT TO BE A FASHION BLOGGER and THE BATTLE AT IKEA).<br />
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Then we showed a film about a cranky, old couple who, after falling and not being able to get up, are forced to spend a night together on their front yard, TWO OLD NUTS by Spencer Lenzie.<br />
From Iron Mule's vaults we brought back Ryan Arey & David Valentine's FLORIDA?, and their latest, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smLqiP5EPww" target="_blank">FLORIDA? 2</a>, featuring a cute, green puppet, his dead father and their harrowing journey across the sea.<br />
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We ended the night with the WANNA BE A STAR? film, <a href="https://vimeo.com/54746991" target="_blank">INVINCIBLE ANTICHRIST VICTORY</a> by <a href="http://www.jaystern.com/" target="_blank">Jay Stern</a> and featuring audience member/ actor, <a href="http://www.joannaparson.com/" target="_blank">Joanna Parson</a>.<br />
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We will return to <a href="http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/index" target="_blank">92Y TriBeca</a> on Saturday January 5th for the next installment of the<a href="http://www.ironmulenyc.com/" target="_blank"> Iron Mule</a>. See you there!<br />
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<br />The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-4655839666502075572012-10-08T12:37:00.000-04:002012-10-08T18:34:39.279-04:00Notes from our October 6th ScreeningThe October edition of the Iron Mule featured a strong lineup and a nearly-packed house. We began with<i> </i>a film<i> </i>from our friends at <a href="http://ithentic.com/">iThentic.com</a>, a funny short about a new student confronting the unnavigable social strata of high school called <i><a href="http://www.ithentic.com/videos/watch/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-high-school-but-were-afraid-to-ask/" target="_blank">Everything You Always Wanted To Know About High School...</a> </i>Next we showed a great animated piece by <a href="http://vimeo.com/michellebrost" target="_blank">Michelle Brost</a> about a lumberjack who has a passion for knitting, <i>Leonard</i>.<br />
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The latest from <a href="http://www.periodsfilms.com/" target="_blank">Periods</a> was a hit, an hilarious retelling of John Steinbeck's classic <a href="http://www.periodsfilms.com/major-works-season-2/east-of-eden-by-john-steinbeck" target="_blank">East of Eden</a> *Full disclosure, none of us -- no, not even the guys at Periods-- has read it, we've only seen the film starring James Dean. But it was still hilarious and had more dick jokes than you could shake a stick at. Next, repeating Iron Mule offenders Ben and Chris Blaine had their new film <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf6JsU2BSzg&feature=BFa&list=PL6827B38BC3D55690" target="_blank"><i>What Time Do You Call This?</i></a> featuring a drunken Brit wooing his disgruntled girlfriend with a little <i>dirty dancing.</i><br />
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We then changed gears and screened an excellent stop-motion piece called <i><a href="http://vimeo.com/cowboyhas1friend" target="_blank">Cowboy, Clone, Dus</a>t </i>by Matt Christensen. It was a very imaginative and unassumingly profound film... Or at least our guest judge, best-selling author <a href="http://www.mylagoldberg.com/" target="_blank">Myla Goldberg</a>, thought so! But seriously, Matt's film was a highlight for all of us at Iron Mule.<br />
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Next we showed <i>The Shuffle </i>by Robert Nguyen, a film about a guy who can't muster-up enough courage to talk to the girl of his dreams, so he does what any normal, tax-paying everydude would do... He stalks her and has his friend steal her yoga mat. Hilarity ensues.<br />
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Before all the votes were counted we showed our latest <i>Wanna Be a Star? </i>film starring audience member Joshua Breeze. The title, selected by the audience at the August edition of Iron Mule, was <i>In the Arms of the Angel</i> and was directed by and co-starring Iron Mule newb, <a href="http://www.ryandeckerfilms.com/" target="_blank">Ryan Decker</a>. Moral of that story: don't buy dogs while intoxicated. Just don't. It's a uniquely terrible idea.<br />
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After all the ballots were counted and the judges conferred with the inimitable Ms. Goldberg the victors of the October screening series were <i>Cowboy, Clone Dust </i>giving Matt Christensen the audience award and Giovanni Autran of <i>Periods </i>took home the judges' award for <i>East of Eden.</i><br />
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All in all it was a great night filled with great films and side-splitting humor. Come on down to 92YTriBeCa on November 3rd for the next installment in the Iron Mule canon to see the next installment in the <i>Wanna Be a Star? </i>(<i>Invincible Antichrist Victory!!!) </i>other original, strange and <i>funny</i> short films.The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-7442287687508830742012-07-11T07:59:00.000-04:002012-07-11T07:59:22.692-04:00Notes from our July 7th Screening<span style="background-color: white;">A happy crowd of New Yorkers braved the July heat to pack
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of what was going on in Jay and Victor’s lives. Victor
has two web series online right now: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTVjjYsH92w" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><i>The Realm of Larp</i></a><span style="background-color: white;">, and </span><i style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od4vPCVFpGI" target="_blank">Funny Cause it’s True</a></i><span style="background-color: white;">. Jay is finishing up tow
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screenings since 2007 and has probably soon more short comedy films than your
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The next film in the lineup was <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Sassanelli" target="_blank">Paolo Sasseneli</a>’s
<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYlYl4d_lrk" target="_blank">Uerra</a></i>. Paolo is a famous TV and
film actor in Italy, and this was his first short. Beautifully shot (in 35mm! remember that?), <i>Uerra</i> is a
period film that tells the story of a group of people living in an apartment
building struggling with the aftermath of the Second World War. And it’s a comedy. Paolo couldn’t make it to New York, but
he sent a representative, his friend and fellow actor Laura Caparrotti, who was on hand to talk
about Paolo and his work and Italian shorts in general. Laura explained that the film was shot
in a very thick Italian dialect that few people outside of the region can
understand. (Naturally, our
audience couldn’t understand it either, but that’s why there were English
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Two more films were up next: Chris Capel’s commercial spoof <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/43233558" target="_blank">Naptime!</a></i> in which we learned
about a product that will silence even the most annoying of children, and <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/36353725" target="_blank">First Mate</a></i>, from brother filmmaking team, <a href="http://brudderfilms.com/" target="_blank">Conor and Tyler Byrne</a>. Conor and Tyler were at the show to
talk about their movie and what it’s like to makes movies with your brother (apparently there’s punching involved).</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Our last film in competition was </span><a href="http://stephenneary.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Stephen Neary</a><span style="background-color: white;">’s </span><i style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/26942241" target="_blank">Doctor Breakfast</a></i><span style="background-color: white;">. We’ve shown some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_69pjhor5iU" target="_blank">other</a>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/20690757" target="_blank">films</a> by Stephen at past Iron Mules, but this one is really something
special. It’s about a guy whose
soul escapes and starts eating things and then some deer show up and try to
console the guy, and, well, it’s going to make absolutely no sense unless you
watch it. So <a href="https://vimeo.com/26942241" target="_blank">take a look</a>.</span><br />
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Then, while our vote counters were tabulating the audience
votes and our secret cabal was tabulating the judges’ votes, we premiered out
latest installment in the monthly “Wanna be a Star” series, Zombie
Barbeque. The film starred Aaron
Rudelson, who was randomly chosen at the June screening to star in his very own
film. It was written by Ryan
Guiterman and directed by Jovon Outlaw, and starred Aaron as a Zombie having
trouble getting people to attend his barbeque. Aaron happens to be an actor, so his performance (done
entirely in zombie language with English subtitles) was quite convincing.</div>
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Then it was time to announce the winners, and the audience
favorite went to <i>First Mate</i> and the judges award went to <i>Keith Reynolds Can’t Make
it Tonight</i>. But everyone was a winner as we moved on to the after party where drinks were had, jokes were cracked, and mingling was
done until it was late and people went back to their (hopefully
air-conditioned) homes.<br />
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Join us at 92YTribeca on August 4th for our next screening!</div>The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-40525746780746430582012-06-25T18:47:00.001-04:002012-06-25T19:24:50.781-04:00Now That Everyone Has a HD Camera...A friend of ours forwarded <a href="http://m.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/are-indie-movies-getting-too-pretty/256367/" target="_blank">an article from <i>The Atlantic</i></a> that puts into words a problem we've seen with submissions in the past few years.<br />
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Now that everyone has access to HD cameras with nice lenses, everything is starting to look really pretty.<br />
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It's becoming easier and easier to shoot something that automatically looks professional. But that doesn't mean that the quality of submissions is getting better. In fact, having the ability to make a film look professional without a lot of work has made filmmakers lazy. With an automatically slick-looking film, young filmmakers are more inclined to settle with that and focus less focus on storytelling, character development, acting, etc. When we started our festival back in 2002, we would often get submissions on VHS tape that had technical limitations, but we could see how the filmmaker really struggled with what he or she had to make the movie as tight and good as possible.<br />
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Now, we get movies shot with DSLR cameras that look really professional visually, but are 10 minutes longer than they should be.<br />
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And let's not assume that a camera that gives you good depth of field and wonderfully saturated colors means that you know how to light, compose shots or operate the dang thing. The camera makes it look like a real movie, but it doesn't make it good.<br />
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Director Doug Bayne (whose <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/11000538" target="_blank">Factoids and Slapstick</a></i> and <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/10973773" target="_blank">Tiny Legs of Fire</a></i> have played numerous times at the Iron Mule) puts it nicely in his Open Letter to Canon, posted below.<br />
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So don't rely on your camera to take care of everything. And if you have access to another format, think about trying that out every once in a while and see how it affects your storytelling. We'd LOVE to get a submission in Super 8.The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-71777022211284554472012-05-06T13:59:00.000-04:002012-05-06T18:36:47.597-04:00Notes from our May 5th screeningWe officially launched our 10th year with a new lineup of films on May 5th.<br />
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Going back to our roots as a screening series designed to showcase our own work, the screening began with <i><a href="http://vimeo.com/41658650" target="_blank">Botanical Gardens</a></i>, a new music video by Jay Stern featuring a song by <a href="http://www.dalegoodson.com/" target="_blank">Dale Goodson</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/specky4eyes" target="_blank">M. Sweeney Lawless</a>. Following this, Victor presented a secret work-in-progress that we're not allowed to write about here. This is why you should really come to these screenings.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We began the competition with our iThentic.com selection, <i><a href="http://www.ithentic.com/series/king-temp/" target="_blank">King Temp</a></i>, written by Jason Saenz and Nick Turner and directed by Justin Tyler. This series tells the story of a man who makes the most out of his temp lifestyle, with helpful tips for you temps out there.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Next was <a href="http://www.raymondclai.com/media.php" target="_blank">Raymond C. Lai</a>'s wonderfully odd green-screen TV pilot <i>At Your Convenience</i>. <i>At Your Convenience</i> tells the story of two best friends who run a convenience store. In the pilot, one of them gets caught up in a gang, leading the other to enter the magical world of crack smokers. It's much funnier and more surprising than this description makes it sound, with really strong performances by the entire cast.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">We began our next block of films with another <i>King Temp</i> episode, followed by Ryan Arey and David Valentine's <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi1CG3nwXn0&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Florida?</a></i> which tests just how far you can go combining dark and cute in a 2-minute movie. Ryan directed the film and David designed the puppet. The three of them (Ryan, David, and the puppet) were at the screening and we spoke to them about their work and puppet-making in general.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The next film in the lineup was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=px0Sugn9Qjg" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Professor Pebbles</a><i>, </i>Pierce Davidson's claymation film about a devil that can't do evil no matter how hard he tries, and our Australian addition to the evening. We closed this block with a final <i>King Temp</i> episode. D</span>irector Justin Tyler and producer <span style="background-color: white;">Vincenzo Picciano were on hand and Jay and Victor interviewed them about this series and their other work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">As always at the Iron Mule, we ended the screening with our "Wanna Be a Star" film, stars an audience member from the previous month's screening with a title suggested by the audience.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Our star this month was Tom Carrozza, who happened to also play a lead role in our first ever "Wanna Be a Star" film that premiered 10 years ago this very month. So we had an encore screening of that film, <i>Monkey Balls</i>, followed by the new film <i>The Zebra's Refrigerator</i>. And just like old times, these were Jay and Victor films (Jay directed <i>Monkey Balls</i> and Victor directed <i>The Zebra's Refrigerator</i>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Next it was time to announce the winners of the evening -- the audience favorite award went to </span><i style="font-size: 16px;">Florida?</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> while the judges prize went to </span><i style="font-size: 16px;">At Your Convenience</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">Then it was off to our award-winning after party that lasted until the wee hours of the evening. Join us at our June 2nd Iron Mule screening and experience the magic yourself!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span>The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015986223051664294.post-54093169757864690302012-03-26T22:04:00.001-04:002012-03-26T22:05:03.567-04:00Iron Mule celebrates 10 YEARS this April!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/The-Iron-Mule-Short-Comedy-Film-Festival.aspx" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k65cUGmLeyQ/T3Ef3VKbfUI/AAAAAAAAASE/0YCpx1dSYLA/s640/92Y-780-IronMulePoster.jpg" width="480" /></a></div>The Iron Mule Film Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13260185868415169866noreply@blogger.com0