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Skatopia hits PBS… Brewce & Laurie Video Interview
Laurie House and Brewce Martin of Skatopia are interveiwed by Thom Hallock of Mountain Lake Journal about Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy. The movie will be playing June 11 at 11PM at the Lake Placid Film Forum.
Skatopia at the Lake Placid Film Forum!!
It’s fair to say that this’ll be the only time Skatopia shares the bill with Hal Holbrook and Parker Posey! Come check us out in Lake Placid – June 11th at 11 PM!
skatopia: 88 acres of anarchy. june 11 at 11.
May 25, 2010 by tjbrearton
There’s a lot of talk out there about anarchy, about anti-establishmentarianism. There’s a lot of talk about living the dream. The creator of the real-place “Skatopia” and his constituents are doing it. Skating, hedonism, and the impulses of the id reign. Not for the faint of heart, “Skatopia” delves into the philosophies of aggressive patriarch Brewce Martin, a self-described dictator, and the mythos of his disciples, prone to foul mouths, crash-up derby driving, and escaping from realities of life outside the park. Director of Programming for MLPBS Colin Powers and filmmaker Laurie House helm this down and dirty documentary.
“He comes to Skatopia for genuine reasons…to skateboard, get drunk, and [get] chicks….”
- Brewce, describing a regular visitor
Come for the skating, stay for the life.
Showing at the Lake Placid Film Forum Friday June 11th, at 11pm, Palace Theatre. Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Tribeca Film Fest takes its movies to Video on Demand
Tribeca looks to expand notion of film festivalBy JAKE COYLE (AP) – 6 days ago
NEW YORK — When British director Mat Whitecross was growing up in Oxford, only so many movies screened in his local cinema — and not the intriguing movies he read about playing at film festivals or elsewhere.
Whitecross estimates that 90 percent of the films that were influential to him — such as “Taxi Driver” and “La Dolce Vita” — he watched “on very dodgy, knocked-off VHS tapes” or on TV early in the morning with commercial breaks.
“Better to have seen them that way than not at all,” he says.
Whitecross’ experience guides the ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival, which kicks off Wednesday amid concern that the volcanic ash disrupting air travel in Europe might ground some of the many European filmmakers who were planning to attend.
. In an effort to help films find audiences, movies won’t just be screening in downtown Manhattan.
A new distribution company, Tribeca Film, founded by the festival’s parent company, Tribeca Enterprises, will make a dozen movies — including Whitecross’ directorial debut “sex & drugs & rock & roll” — available on TV by way of video-on-demand in some 40 million homes. A “virtual festival” will also stream eight movies and 18 shorts online for viewers willing to shell out $45.
A win-win for indy filmmakers and indy-loving audiences who can’t get to Manhattan (or can’t get a ticket.) Get the films on VOD and watch in your home theater. Now I’ve got to convince my little cableco to sign up!
Santa Barbara Photo Gallery – Skatopia gets cowpunky
Click the pic to see the whole gallery.
Raging at Red's in SB... Brewce & Dave Reul of the Skatanic Rednecks
Read All About It! – COVERAGE!
The Santa Barbara Independent wrote us up and interviewed Brewce last week. Check out what the “indy press” thinks about hillbilly anarchists.
Remy Stratton came up from the wilds of Orange County to experience the good life in SB… check it out here.
Enjoy!
Watch Daily Habit Today and Friday!!
Fuel TV’s Daily Habit is featuring Brewce and Laurie talking about the documentary, Skatopia and the Santa Barbara International Film Fest that we just played at. Showtimes: Thursday, Feb 18 at 9PM and Midnight EST, Friday Feb 19 at 2:30PM and 5:30PM EST. Converting these times to your time zone is your responsibility… don’t take it lightly!
Skaters Reclaim Hotsprings!
Despite being known as most skater-hating place in the US…
Arkansas Cop Joey Williams Choking Skateboarder photo: Skylar Nalls
Hot Springs rolled out the red carpet for Skatopia, Brewce, the filmmakers and dozens of skaters from all over Arkansas who came out for the screening of our film. Check out the gallery here or the slide show below for the full picture.
Great write up in Amsterdam!
Check out this write upon our film in the Amsterdam Event Guide
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The state of Indy film distribution today…
At the IFP Conference last week people were already referring to the “post-Toronto” landscape referring to the miserable number of acquisitions at this A-list fest. This wrap-up describes Toronto as a “bloodbath”, but my take on it is that we are just seeing the natural result of a) the economic downturn and the loss of many Indy film distribution houses, b) the glut of quality indy films, and c) the confusion amongst studios and networks about where the money is.
Ultimately, I came away more inspired than dejected. Our business plan for Skatopia has always held out the possibility or likelihood that we’d be pursuing what Peter Broderick has called “hybrid distribution.” Here is Indie Wire’s summary of the panel I enjoyed the most at the Conference. Our film seems excellently poised to move in the new direction.
Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy is headed for Amsterdam & Arkansas
Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy was just accepted at both the Amsterdam Internationl Film Festival AND the Hot Springs Documentary Festival for October.
Our first trip outside the US with the film – with support from RELOAD magazine and hopefully some other sponsors as well. We’re trying to get our main character Brewce a passport in time…
The Hot Springs Festival is one of the oldest and most respected doc fests around. We’re thrilled to be invited. We’ll put together a serious event around this screening only 12 hours from Skatopia.
Here’s one of Richie Wireman’s photos from Skatopia:
