SF Film Festival Premiere: Informant

SF Film Festival Premiere: The Informant

We just finished color and mastering for Informant by Jamie Meltzer, premiering Sunday night April 22 at 9PM at the Sundance Kabuki Cinema.

The film makes an interesting complement to last year’s festival winner for Best Documentary Better This World about the two Austin men Brandon Darby informed on to the FBI.

The path of Brandon Darby from the community activist hero of post-Katrina New Orleans to a Tea Party confederate by way of turning in his affinity group members at the 2008 Republican National Convention makes quite a bowl of “Rashomon”.

The filmmaker has bent himself into a pretzel to remain fair to his subject and entrusting his audience to use their own heads as Darby tells his own story in direct address. 

Top drawer RED ( as in the camera) cinematography by Frazer Bradshaw. 

 

“And that’s why I’m turning you in” -Phil Ochs, Love Me, I’m a Liberal

Doggie Boogie wins Best Feature Film Audience Award in Sonoma

Doggie Boogie, directed by Romanus Wolter, won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Sonoma International Film Festival this week.

This is the first feature shot on the RED camera we color finished and conformed at COLORFLOW in Berkeley’s Zaentz Media Center. We used the DaVinci Resolve for color finishing and SMOKE for conforming. 

Romanus calls the film a “Wizard of Oz for dogs”. Its family friendly and full of good heart.
The art direction is  gorgeous hippie chic. I will post again when it gets national distribution and/or television scheduling.

Coates Promotes: the San Francisco International FIlm Festival

Here’s to the locals in the festival:
“Tokyo Waka” by John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson
“Acid Queens: Peaches and Tommy” hosted by Miss Christ
“Informant” by Jamie Meltzer
“The Waiting Room” by Peter Nicks
“The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller” by Sam Green
“Bitter Seeds” by Micha X. Peled
“Twixt” by the independent Francis Ford Coppola
Merrill Garbus live accompaniment to Buster Keaton shorts

Who have I missed?

The Goldman Environmental Prize 2012

The Mill Valley Film Group presents their film portraits of the winners of the Nobel equivalent for international environmental activists today, April 16, in the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House with a future telecast on PBS to be announced.

The winning heroes.