Post Natyam in Film Sunday, April 30th, Los Angeles
Post Natyam
Come see our newsest member's work! Sangita Shresthova playfully dances behind the camera, Sandra and Shyamala dance in front of the camera, and Anjali provides the music. It's a real Post Natyam adventure!
Information is listed below. We're on last so see the bottom of the e-mail for the piece description of "Alarippu Gone Astray".
Best,
Shyamala, Anjali, Sandra and Sangita
FILM SUNDAY
Attic Theatre & Film Center
5429 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90018
The Last Sunday of Every Month, the ATTIC theater screens short films by new filmmakers who share the stage with musicians, poets, and spoken word artists.
PLAYING SUNDAY, APRIL 30th
SHOWTIME – 6 PM
ADMISSION - $5
FEATURED FILMS
GETTING TO KNOW YOU
Written & Directed by Liz Lachman
Starring DANA DELANY & ELIZABETH KEENER
Screening Time 30 Minutes
A romantic comedy about sex, intimacy, women, and the value of getting to know someone first. TENNY BELL (Elizabeth Keener), a successful but superficial cartoonist, has a horrendous dating philosophy: Look…and leap! Her sister MARLA (
Dana Delany) try to point Tenny in the right direction, but Tenny continues to only date the beautiful women, with disastrous results. When Tenny meets the perfect woman an out-of-town bridal shower, a phone-sex and internet dating storm brews as she tries to do it right. But there are a few surprises in store for Tenny and she's about to learn how to truly "get to know" someone.
Getting to Know you is a established festival winner including:
2006 BEST SHORT Bilbao International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2005 BEST LESBIAN SHORT Barcelona Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2005 BEST SHORT Ibiza Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2005 HBO AWARD FOR BEST SHORT
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2005 BEST LESBIAN SHORT Phoenix International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2005 BEST COMEDIC SHORT-WOMENS Fort Worth Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and 2005 BEST FEMALE SHORT Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
"Even busy chefs need to get outside once in a while and throw one hot party"
~ L.A. Times Magazine, April 10, 2005
" Captivating a totally-ready-for-prime-time comedy about the romantic misadventures of an Angelena cartoonist (the captivating Elizabeth Keener, sister of Catherine) in search of her dream girl."
The Advocate
Read the full article
www.verybaddogfilm.com
VISITNG NANA
Writer/producer: Iris Yamashita
Director: VV Hsu
Runtime: 9 min. 27 sec
An obnoxious geek comes to collect on his unwilling date. Little does he know what he is in for when she agrees to go on the date only after they stop to visit her Nana on the way. A comedy with a supernatural twist.
Producer Iris Yamashita's feature WWII script is currently in production by Warner Brothers and DreamWorks. The film, titled RED SUN, BLACK SAND is to be directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Clint Eastwood, Paul Haggis and Steven Spielberg.
Director V V. Hsu is an accomplished writer/director with two features (My American Vacation) and several award winning documentaries (Roar) to her name.
http://vvdachinhsu.com/biography.htm
AT NIGHTFALL
Director/Producer/Performer – Stefanie Adcock
Runtime – 10 Minutes
At Nightfall is a dance movie based on the traditional Japanese Dance "KuroKami" (black hair). It was selected for the 2004 DanceCamera West Film Festival. Stefanie's work as a chorographer and director has been presented at the Kennedy Center.
ALARIPPU GONE ASTRAYDirected/Arranged by: Sangita Shresthova Dancers: Sandra Chatterjee, Shyamala Moorty Nattuvangam (vocal): Anjali TataProduced by: The Post Natyam CollectiveRunning Time: 4 minutes Over the last 60 years, India's commercial Hindi film industry, colloquially known as Bollywood, has developed distinctive conventions for filming dance. These strategies include quick edits on off beats, unexpected frame entrances and exits, chronological distortions, location shifts and close ups of eyes and gestures to stress dance rhythm and melody. Inspired by these conventions, this film explores the intersections of "Indian classical dance", contemporary dance and film through "Alarippu", a rhythmic composition from the Bharat Natyam repertoire. In Alarippu Gone Astray, two dancers and the camera create a contemporary Indian dance in the streets of Los Angeles. In a game of hide-and-seek, the dancers challenge the camera and force it execute dance of its own.
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