From: Howard Allen [mailto:howarda@email.arizona.edu]
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 4:41 PM
Subject: Tucson's CoyoteMoon Films Launch Event
Howard Allen, hallen@coyotemoonfilms.com
Megan Guthrie,megan@coyotemoonfilms.com
For Immediate Release
Event: Nov. 7, Saturday, November 7, Crossroads Cinemas
A FILM COMPANY LAUNCH EVENT:
CoyoteMoon Films releases our short film, Se Habla Español, a Christmas Poem and DVD extras package that will make an ideal Christmas present for and about Tucson.
Along with our special guests, the filmmakers of Time And Again (Una y Otra Vez) who recently won Best Narrative Short Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The producer Diana Wade is from Tucson. And we hope to also bring the award winning writer/director Antonio Méndez Esparza in from New York.
The filmmakers at CoyoteMoon Films are using Se Habla Español as the Launch for our film company and hope to use this event to introduce Tucson and especially potential investors to our company. A company with several Feature Film scripts already in development. The filmmakers of Time And Again have a chance to enter their movie in the Oscars Short Film competition but they had to turn in the entry as a 35mm film at a cost of about $10K, which they borrowed. So they need film-loving investors too.
The films go together in a couple wonderful ways: Time And Again is neo-realism with minimal production values but amazing cinema verité storytelling. Se Habla Español is highly produced with the latest technology, professional actors and a music score to show our potential for feature films. But both are non-linear in the storytelling—more slices of lives told well. Both have themes associated with the Latino culture inside its own world and inside our Anglo culture.
Admission is only $8. Meet the filmmakers, casts and crew.
A link to the theater:
http://www.movievalue.com/Crossroads.html
Crossroads Cinema
4811 E. Grant Road
Tucson, Arizona 85712
(520) 327-7067 info
(520) 326-2929 office
Se Habla Espanol
Se Habla Espanol is a very contemporary film poem in 3 scenes around Tucson that follows the wonderful Angelica through one very moving day in her life.
Angelica Jessica Montalvo
Director/ Screenwriter Howard Allen
Executive Producers Jim Scott & Nathan Shelton Desert Penguin Media
Steve Bayless Michelle B. Graye
Co-Producer Megan Guthrie
Composer, Music Score Rob Resetar
Sound Supervisor/ Sound Mixer Michaela Pentacoff
Directors of Photography Jim Scott and William Eisley
Editor and Editing Supervisor Sean Lonergan and Steve Bayless
Director's CoyoteMoon Films Statement
It takes a village of talented people to make a good film, and many of Tucson's best took a chance on me and the new CoyoteMoon Films company to make this movie. Plus, CoyoteMoon has already assembled a team of highly acclaimed and successful industry consultants, including successful Arizona film company execs. In the current film marketplace an extraordinary opportunity is developing for micro-budget "renegade" independent films. Movies with outstanding production values comparable to Hollywood fare, and movies with a strong character-driven stories that stays with you long after viewing. We believe that a film's success depends on more than the size of its budget. Every movie begins with a script -- with all of the magic and passion that a writer brings to the project. Then a CoyoteMoon Film will work with the best Arizona and national talent to bring unique characters to life. CoyoteMoon Films wants to follow Se Habla Espanol with our blues-music story, our magical healer story, our detective film-noir story or others we have in development.
Howard Allen (thedoc@scriptdoctor.com) has worked for many years as a professional actor, playwright, director, screenwriter and literary manager -- as well as a reporter, reviewer and editor in his journalistic career. Latest news: he is again a Star Speaker at L.A. Screenwriters Expo 7 because of his skills at ScriptDoctor.com (rated 4th nationally by Creative Screenwriting magazine) and his CoyoteMoon Films (.com), a production company aiming to honor the storyteller, just finished shooting it's first film Se Habla Espanol. Look for him acting in recent films Red 71 and The Decoy and as Script Consultant on recent films: The Good Boy and The Graves. As a member of Actor's Equity and the Screen Actor's Guild, he has performed in LORT B theatres and recently directed Robert Picardo and Armin Shimerman in two plays.
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