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Coming soon! Theatrical release in New York and Las Angeles – Razing Liberty Square.

Update about our new film that is coming soon theatrically to New York.-  Razing Liberty Square.
Shorelightpictures Pictures is so excited and proud that we are beginning our theatrical run opening in NYC on Friday, October 27 until November 2 at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema.  

Below are the dates and times of our screenings after which we’ll have a panel discussion:

  • Fri Oct 27, 7pm: Housing Justice/ Public Housing NYC & Miami
    Q&A with Director Katja Esson, Protagonist Aaron McKinney and NYC Housing Justice Organizers, moderated by Neyda Martinez (“Decade of Fire”) 
  • Sat Oct 28, 2pm: Save Section 9 / NYCHA
    Panel/Workshop on Public Housing
  • Sat Oct 28, 4:30pm: Storytelling
    Q&A with Director Katja Esson, Editors Flavia de Souza and Toby Shimin moderated by Carla Gutierrez (“RGB”, “Julia”)
  • Sat Oct 28, 7pm: What is Climate Gentrification?
    Q&A with Director Katja Esson, Protagonist Aaron McKinney and Marika Dias (Managing Director, Safety Net Project, Urban Justice League) moderated by Kelly Anderson (“My Brooklyn”, “Rabble Rousers”)
  • Sun Oct 29, 4pm & 6:30pm:
    Q&A with Director Katja Esson and Producers Ann Bennett and Corinna Sager introduced by Sam Pollard 

The  New York theatrical engagement comes at a critical time in the city- when the New York City Housing Authority is set to demolish and redevelop two iconic public housing communities in Chelsea- the Fulton House & Elliot-Chelsea Houses home to 5000 New Yorkers.  The city is working with Related Companies on this plan—the same developers whose work in Miami we chronicle in Razing Liberty Square.

Shorelightpictures Pictures  will also have a theatrical run in Los Angeles starting November 10 at the 

Lumiere
9036 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Since premiering at Hot Docs this year, Razing Liberty Square has gone to be the closing night film at DocLands, Human Rights Watch New York, and an official selection at Sheffield, Hot Springs, New Orleans, Hawaii, and Woodstock Film Festival where it won the Change Maker Award.  

More About the Film

Miami is ground zero for sea-level rise. When residents of the Liberty Square public housing community learn about a $300 million revitalization project in 2015, they know that this sudden interest comes from the fact that their neighborhood is located on the highest-and-driest ground in the city. Now they must prepare to fight a new form of racial injustice—Climate Gentrification. 

For the New York release:
Full dates and times here

See you soon!

2023-10-23T00:11:05+00:00October 23, 2023|events, news, screenings|
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Razing Liberty Square – Press and Reviews

PRESS

2023-06-06T09:02:42+00:00June 6, 2023|news, reviews, screenings|
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Razing Liberty Square – Premiers Soon!

Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the historic Liberty Square public housing project learn about a $300 million revitalization plan for their neighborhood, which has long suffered from disinvestment, they know  that this sudden interest comes from the fact that their neighborhood is located on the highest-and-driest ground in the city. Now they must prepare to fight a new form of racial injustice – Climate Gentrification.

World Premiere at Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto

https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/hot-docs-festival/films/2023/razing-liberty-square

US Premiere at DocLands Film Festival in San Francisco

https://www.doclands.com/razing-liberty-square/

NYC Premiere at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival NY

https://ff.hrw.org/film/razing-liberty-square?city=New%20York

2023-04-28T12:10:47+00:00April 24, 2023|events, news, screenings|
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Anna Paquin & Ray Winstone Starring In Stephen Moyer-Directed ‘A Bit of Light’

Read the deadline.com Article:

Anna Paquin & Ray Winstone Starring In Stephen Moyer-Directed ‘A Bit of Light’

By Tom Grater

Senior Reporter & Deputy Film Editor, International @tomsmovies

 

2021-10-28T14:33:44+00:00October 28, 2021|news|
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Mickey and the Bear – Cannes Acid Selection

Mickey and the Bear


Un film de Annabelle Attanasio États-Unis – 2019 – 89 min

Mickey Peck, une adolescente du Montana, a la lourde responsabilité de s’occuper de son père, un vétéran accro aux opiacés. Quand l’opportunité se présente de quitter pour de bon le foyer, elle fait face à un choix impossible…

Mickey Peck, headstrong teen from Montana, is faced with the responsibility to take care of her opioid- addicted veteran father. When she receives the opportunity to leave her home for good, she must make an impossible decision…

Avec :
Camila Morrone , James Badge Dale , Calvin Demba , Ben Rosenfield et Rebecca Henderson

À PROPOS DE MICKEY AND THE BEAR

Pour survivre, faut-il s’enfuir ? Creusant le sillon d’un cinéma indépendant américain soucieux de se confronter au réel, la jeune cinéaste Annabelle Attanasio met en récit le désir d’émancipation d’une adolescente. Situé au fin fond du Montana, ce premier long-métrage déploie une trajectoire qui multiplie les fausses pistes, sachant éviter, comme son héroïne, les écueils d’un parcours où tout serait joué d’avance. Porté par une mise en scène élégante et épurée, incarné par une comédienne fascinante, ce premier long- métrage questionne la place de la femme dans une société patriarcale. Les figures de la virilité sont ainsi mises à jour sans ostentation, mais avec un souci critique. Ici le stress post-traumatique du soldat, là les armes à feu ou encore la question de l’héritage familial. C’est face à toutes ces brutalités qu’on ne doit jamais abdiquer pour vivre sa vie, pour devenir l’auteur de son propre destin.

Savoir penser son époque sans être didactique, savoir subtilement mettre à nu la violence du monde sans en être fasciné et croire que par le romanesque tout peut être divulgué. Voici, sans doute, la force intime de ce film qui nous bouleverse.

Must one flee in order to survive? Furrowing the lands of a certain independent American cinema concerned with confronting reality, the young filmmaker Annabelle Attanasio tells a tale of a teenager’s desire to emancipate. Set in the depths of Montana, this first feature film unravels a journey, which accumulates false leads while astutely avoiding, along with its heroine, the pitfalls of a path where all would be known from the onset. Carried by an elegant and pared down mise en scène, embodied by a fascinating actress, this first film questions the place given to women in a patriarchal society. Figures of virility are unveiled without ostentation, but from a critical standpoint. Here the PTSD in a soldier, there fire arms or even the question of a family inheritance. Faced with all these brutalities, one must never abdicate. To live one’s life. To become the sole author of one’s destiny.

Thinking the era without being didactic. Knowing how to uncover the violence of the world without succumbing to fascination. Believing that through the strength of fiction all can be imparted. There lies the intimate force of this film, which so overwhelms us.

LA PROGRAMMATION ACID CANNES 2019 :

ACID filmmakers are thrilled to present this year in Cannes, a program of 9 feature-length films of which 7 are first time features. Films will be shown in the presence of the film crews and of their supporting filmmakers from ACID.

5 fictions and 4 documentaries, 4 of which were directed or codirected by women.

This program is enhanced by a focus on Argentinian cinema, ACID TRIP#3ARGENTINE, in partnership with Argentinian filmmakers of the PCI.

« As the world faces deep changes, this 2019 ACID program honors vanishing points and celebrates paths with which destinies are built, where bodies instead of disappearing or submitting, assert their presence, as a starting point for organized resistance.

Tales of fantasy, emancipatory fables, documentary realism? The cinema on which we thrive defies categories, articulates unseen or forgotten esthetical blends. Characters do not so much transcend their destiny to reach for the universal, rather they embody their destiny within their singularity and intensity. Granting us privileged access to what is strange, foreign. A curious paradox? Rather the means for us filmmakers, forever and again, to share the world. »

Programmers filmmakers 2019

Sylvie Ballyot, Aurélia Barbet, Marta Bergman, Michaël Dacheux, Marina Déak, Delphine Deloget, Jean-Louis Gonnet, Diego Governatori, Hanna Ladoul, Marco La Via, Vladimir Perišić, Clément Schneider, Idir Serghine, Christian Sonderegger, Laure Vermeersch.

2021-10-28T14:13:24+00:00May 13, 2019|news|
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Mickey and the Bear – Distribution deal with UTOPIA

Exclusive report in Screen Daily: https://www.screendaily.com/news/cannes-acid-selection-mickey-and-the-bear-on-inaugural-utopia-slate-exclusive/5139305.article

Former Gunpowder & Sky head of global sales David Betesh arrives in Cannes with an inaugural sales slate for Utopia that includes Cannes Acid selection Mickey And The Bear and Lynn Shelton’s Sword Of Trust.

The Utopia slate kicks off with Actress Annabelle Attanassio’s directorial debut Mickey And The Bear (pictured), which premiered at SXSW earlier this year and stars Camila Morrone as a headstrong teen who must choose between caring for her opioid-addicted veteran father Hank (James Badge Dale) or leaving her Montana home to start her own life.

Shelton’s Sword Of Trust also launched at SXSW and will open in the US through IFC Films. Marc Maron (Glow) and Jillian Bell from Sundance breakout Brittany Runs A Marathon star in the comedic tale of a family heirloom that alt-history conspiracy theorists believe offers proof that the South won the Civil War.

Schwartzman’s (The Unicorn, Dreamland) upcoming feature The Argument stars Dan Fogler from the Fantastic Beasts franchise, Maggie Q, and Emma Bell from The Walking Dead in a comedy about a couple who get into an argument that ruins their cocktail party, only for the guests to decide they should recreate the evening to determine who was right.

Award-winning documentary Fiddlin’ by Julie Simone rounds out the slate, and profiles the rich history, music, and people of the world’s oldest Fiddler’s Convention in the Appalachian Mountains, captured on film for the first time in its 80-year history.

“We’re honored and thrilled to be representing such a remarkable slate of films,” said Utopia head of sales and acquisitions Betesh. “With a range that includes both a celebrated stalwart director like Lynn Shelton and also the absolute brightest of newcomers in Annabelle Attanasio, it’s a slate that we strongly feel constitutes the very best of American independent cinema.”

Schwartzman co-founded the company, which will also launch a technology platform later this year to offer multiple services including a streaming platform.

2021-02-08T09:06:03+00:00May 13, 2019|news, screenings|
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Mickey and the Bear – Press Breaks

THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE – March 7, 2019
“Tackling Inherited Trauma in SXSW Film Mickey and the Bear” by Beth Sullivan
MICKEY AND THE BEAR was one of three films premiering at SXSW chosen for their preview “This Woman’s Work” – on films at the fest made by female filmmakers and/or tell women’s stories. This piece will run in print on March 8.
 
THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE – March 7, 2019
“15 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at SXSW 2019” by Staff
MICKEY AND THE BEAR is included by Beth Sullivan.
CINAPSE – March 6, 2019
“SXSW 2019: Most Anticipated Films” by Rod Machen
MICKEY AND THE BEAR is included by Ed Travis.
 
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THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE – March 7, 2019
“Tackling Inherited Trauma in SXSW Film Mickey and the Bear” by Beth Sullivan
MICKEY AND THE BEAR was one of three films premiering at SXSW chosen for their preview “This Woman’s Work” – on films at the fest made by female filmmakers and/or tell women’s stories. This piece will run in print on March 8.
 

Tackling Inherited Trauma in SXSW Film Mickey and the Bear

Writer/director Annabelle Attanasio on when bloodlines become scars

BY BETH SULLIVAN

As Mickey and the Bear opens, Mickey Peck cycles through the early morning routine familiar to most heads of household: divvying up meds and frying up eggs while calling out for her charge, the unseen Hank.

A rap on the door by the police, however, soon reveals that Hank is neither partner nor child, but a father in need of collection after spending the night in jail for driving under the influence – an occasion proven all too familiar by Mickey’s blasé utterance to the officer: “I’ll get my shoes on.”

In her debut feature, actor-turned-writer/director Annabelle Attanasio chronicles the seemingly loving yet unpredictable relationship between Mickey (Camila Morrone) – a high school senior in remote Anaconda, Mont., with dreams of attending college in San Diego – and her widowed, Marine Corps veteran father (Hold the Dark‘s James Badge Dale), who spends his days engulfed in an oxycodone, boozed-out haze at their shared mobile home; Attanasio described the pair as “thick as thieves” and also the source of each other’s codependent tendencies.

The eldest of three siblings, Attanasio drew heavily from her own experiences taking on the responsibility of her family’s emotional weight. As a kid and teenager with a family background she called “volatile,” she says, “I was kind of oscillating between the feeling of tremendous pride for taking that weight on, but also tremendous guilt.”

Similarly, Mickey shoulders one burden after the other for Hank: hiding his guns every night out of fear of him ending his own life – or perhaps even others’ – and stealing a prescription slip from the V.A. psychiatrist (Russian Doll‘s Rebecca Henderson) lest she face the wrath of an opioid addict without a fix. Though Attanasio insists Hank’s underlying addiction narrative “is not at the forefront” of Mickey‘s themes, she couldn’t ignore it when developing his background as an injured vet. “I couldn’t tell the veteran’s narrative in 2018 without including the addiction narrative and the opioid narrative.” Hank’s far from an upstanding father, but can you really blame him? “He’s failed by the system that really claims his support to him,” said Attanasio. “He served his country, and look how it pays him back.”

“Young girls and young women are taught that martyrdom is the only way to be a woman.”– Writer/director Annabelle Attanasio on the burdens of Mickey (Camila Morrone) in Mickey and the Bear.

Attanasio’s inspiration to write Hank’s veteran storyline emerged when she discovered parallels in how partners and children of Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans – sometimes injured, often experiencing PTSD, and prescribed “irresponsible amounts of opiates” – inherit their trauma as well. She explained, “On one hand, it’s your responsibility to fix things, but on the other hand, it’s such a larger, systemic problem that it’s totally out of your hands, and you can feel totally hopeless and totally microscopic in this huge failing system.”

For Attanasio, what she sees as Mickey’s “martyr syndrome” is hardly the stuff of fiction. “I think young girls and young women are taught that martyrdom is the only way to be a woman and [that to be] an ideal, upstanding human is to be somewhat subservient and to live your life in service to your partner, husband, and children,” she observed. At the outset of the film, Mickey is “somewhat numb” to those entrapments. “She’s like, ‘This is my life. I live in service to my father. I love him. I would do anything for him because he would do anything for me. He’s all I have.'”

Mickey and the Bear

NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION

Saturday, March 9, 11am, Stateside
Sunday, March 10, 2:30pm, Alamo S. Lamar
Thursday, March 14, 5pm, Alamo S. Lamar

A version of this article appeared in print on March 8, 2019 with the headline: Bloodlines and Scars
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THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE – March 7, 2019
“15 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at SXSW 2019” by Staff
MICKEY AND THE BEAR is included by Beth Sullivan.
 

15 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at SXSW 2019

A few words about some of our favorite films coming to the fest

BY THE SCREENS STAFF

Mickey and the Bear

As Mickey and the Bear opens, Mickey Peck cycles through the early morning routine familiar to most heads of household: divvying up meds and frying up eggs while calling out for her charge, the unseen Hank.

A rap on the door by the police, however, soon reveals that Hank is neither partner nor child, but a father in need of collection after spending the night in jail for driving under the influence – an occasion proven all too familiar by Mickey’s blasé utterance to the officer: “I’ll get my shoes on.” – Beth Sullivan
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CINAPSE – March 6, 2019
“SXSW 2019: Most Anticipated Films” by Rod Machen
MICKEY AND THE BEAR is included by Ed Travis.
 

SXSW 2019: Most Anticipated Films

Our staffers share the picks they don’t want to miss

Rod Machen

Ed Travis

I’d like to begin by calling bullshit on the entire endeavor of picking out the most anticipated films of SXSW (or really any film festival). Most likely, “most anticipated” films are going to have some kind of point of pre-established connection, such as a star, a filmmaker, or even a label you’re particularly fond of. But, in reality, many of the best film festival discoveries come from risks taken on films where you know little or nothing about who made it or what it’s really going to be like. Anyone who’s attended a film festival could likely attest to this phenomenon of joyful discovery.

And for another thing, film festivals are the places that even hardcore film devotees go to learn about what is coming up and should be buzzed about all year long. I make these discoveries DURING the fest, normally. So beforehand I’m not really sure exactly what to be excited about.

All that said, here’s a few things I’m anticipating in no particular order:

MICKEY AND THE BEAR: This movie has James Badge Dale in it. I therefore want to see it.

2019-03-08T23:38:08+00:00March 8, 2019|news|
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Mickey and the Bear on INDIEWIRE

INDIEWIRE – March 6, 2019
“SXSW 2019: 14 Must-See Films at This Year’s Festival, From ‘Us’ to ‘Booksmart’” by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Chris O’Falt, Zack Sharf, Jude Dry, Tambay Obenson
*MICKEY AND THE BEAR is included by David Ehrlich.
 

SXSW 2019: 14 Must-See Films at This Year’s Festival, From ‘Us’ to ‘Booksmart’

From returning Austin favorites to newbie talents to watch out for, we’ve got over a dozen new films you can’t miss at this year’s festival.

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The annual South By Southwest Conferences and Festivals — which pretty much everyone knows as SXSW — is hitting Austin, Texas later this week, armed with fresh film offerings (plus music, interactive, and a litany of exciting panels and conversations) and, with it, the promise of a brand new festival-going season. As ever, the annual gatherings is playing home to dozens of feature films and shorts, and while there’s plenty to anticipate seeing, we’ve waded through the lineup to pick out the ones we’re most looking forward to checking out.

From SXSW regulars like Harmony Korine and Lynn Shelton to rising stars like Olivia Wilde and the comedy duo D.A.D.D.Y. and marquee names like Jordan Peele, this year’s SXSW Film Festival has a robust new slate. Here are the ones that look most promising. Stay tuned for more on SXSW’s Episodics section. The 26th edition of the film festival runs March 8 – 17 in Austin, Texas.

“Mickey and the Bear”

“Mickey and the Bear”

SXSW

Annabelle Attanasio could have coasted to a lucrative career as a supporting actress in CBS procedurals, but the former “Bull” star wanted more for herself, and found the courage to leave that (extremely troubled) show after its second season in order to write and direct her debut feature. A coming-of-age drama that’s grounded in the cold realities of growing up in modern America, “Mickey and the Bear” is centered around Camila Morrone (so magnetic in last year’s “Never Goin’ Back”) as a Montana teenager who’s struggling to reconcile her responsibility to her grieving, opioid-addicted father (James Badge Dale) and her own dreams of a better life on the west coast. A story about the complicated relationship between family and independence, the film shines a spotlight on two compelling American actors — both on the cusp of stardom in their own ways — and reintroduces us to a third, whose true calling might have been found behind the camera. —DE

2019-03-08T23:38:38+00:00March 8, 2019|news|
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Elizabeth Lail stars in Netflix series YOU

Elizabeth Lail who played adult Lea in Unintended now stars as Guinevere Beck in Netflix series YOU.

From The New York Times:

What Made the TV Show ‘You’ a Hit? Netflix

“The show drew virtually no audience when it premiered on Lifetime in September. Now that it’s streaming, it’s a different story.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/business/media/netflix-you-ratings.html

2019-01-25T09:19:01+00:00January 25, 2019|news|
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