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The Unrestricted View Film Festival just announced their award winners for their exciting 2017 edition. The festival is run by filmmakers and celebrates the very best in indie and encourages all aspects of independent film making. This year's fantastic line-up included new work from established and fresh filmmaking talent. Highlights included Untitled by Chris Loizou, The Bench by Mary Mullan, Red by Branko Tomovic, Mile End by Graham Higgins, 6 Love Stories by Michael Dunaway, Search Engines by Russell Brown, Northern Lights by Nick Connor and many other fantastic gems. Here is the list of this year's award nominees: Best Feature Untitled (A Film) - Award Winner Mile End Dead Certain What Waits in the Red Best Foreign Feature Bookends - Award Winner Search Engines White Night Public Intimacy Best Short Mia - Award Winner Latent Boris in the Forest Ken &...

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The Unrestricted View Film Festival is back for it's 2nd year. The festival is run by filmmakers and celebrates the very best in indie and encourages all aspects of independent film making. This year's fantastic line-up includes new work from established and fresh filmmaking talent. Look out for Untitled by Chris Loizou, The Bench by Mary Mullan, Red by Branko Tomovic, Mile End by Graham Higgins, 6 Love Stories by Michael Dunaway, Search Engines by Russell Brown, Northern Lights by Nick Connor and many other fantastic gems. Here is the list of this year's award nominees: Best Feature Untitled (A Film) Mile End Dead Certain What Waits in the Red Best Foreign Feature Bookends Search Engines White Night Public Intimacy Best Short Mia Latent Boris in the Forest Ken & Carol Lose the Plot Connie Goalie Padlock Best Foreign...

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The Unrestricted View Film Festival is back for it's 2nd year. The festival is run by filmmakers and aims to celebrate the very best in indie and encourage all aspects of independent film making. This edition will run from April 24th-30th in London and the fantastic line-up includes new work from established and fresh filmmaking talent. Look out for Untitled by Chris Loizou, The Bench by Mary Mullan, Red by Branko Tomovic, Mile End by Graham Higgins, 6 Love Stories by Michael Dunaway, Search Engines by Russell Brown, Northern Lights by Nick Connor and many other fantastic gems. You can find the complete program on their freshly launched website: http://www.uvff.co.uk/unrestricted-view-film-festival...

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Anyone who spends more than a few days at a major festival like the Toronto International Film Festival gets used to hearing the same question: “What’s the best thing you’ve seen?”

For this year’s edition of the Tiff Critics Poll, we asked a variety of writers covering the festival exactly that. The results, culled from 45 ballots, point to a particularly interesting mixture of awards season hopefuls and some of the festival’s standout international offerings.

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The quartet at the top? Fan favorite “La La Land” (which was named by seven different critics), followed closely by Barry Jenkins’ tender coming-of-age story “Moonlight” (six), Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann” (five) and Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” (four). However, there were many other votes cast for under-the-radar titles.

The close race partly reflects...

Digital Bolex launched a new distribution initiative for filmmakers shooting on its cameras Thursday, making 2015 Slamdance titles "Coming To," directed by Lindsay Haun, and "Courtesan," from Jeremy Osbern and Misti Boland, available on VOD via partner Seed&Spark. The films can be purchased for $2.99, or by using "Sparks" collected from pledging funds to Seed&Spark crowdfunding campaigns. Read More: "Exclusive: Film Crowdfunding Platform Seed&Spark Launches Distribution Arm" Haun's film won the Grand Prize at at the 2015 Fearless Filmmaking showcase, developed in partnership with Slamdance to encourage Digital Bolex owners and festival alumni to create "rebellious" films, and she joined Osbern, Boland, Paste Magazine editor Michael Dunaway, cinematographer Ben Kasulke, and director Leah Shore on the jury for this year's showcase — where the award went to Hilary Campbell's "Small...

An authorized documentary about “The Hateful Eight” director Quentin Tarantino titled “21 Years: Quentin Tarantino” is currently being shopped at the American Film Market, TheWrap has learned. Tara Wood will direct the film, having co-directed the 2014 documentary “21 Years: Richard Linklater” with Michael Dunaway. The independent filmmaker has recruited many stars from Tarantino’s movies to sit for interviews, including his frequent collaborators Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz and Michael Madsen. Wood told TheWrap that Uma Thurman will also be involved and that she’s waiting to hear from Brad Pitt, who has been busy promoting his turn in “By the Sea.

Read More: Sarasota Film Festival Announces New Programmers The Sarasota Film Festival announced today the opening and closing night films for the 17th annual event. Director Oren Moverman's "Time Out of Mind" screens April 10 at 6:30pm at the Sarasota Opera House, while Brett Haley's "I'll See You In My Dreams" screens April 18 at 7pm.  "Time Out of Mind" stars Richard Gere, Jena Malone and Ben Vereen. Gere portrays a homeless man living on the streets of New York as he tries to rekindle a relationship with his daughter, played by Malone. "I'll See You In my Dreams" stars Blythe Danner, Sam Elliot, Malin Akerman, Martin Starr and June Squibb. Danner plays a widow content with her life until a series of events lead her back into the outside world.  "I'm thrilled to be able to showcase these two significant films for my first year at the festival,...

Film festivals can sometimes seem like a black box: submissions come in, a lineup comes out and what happens in between is a mystery. But there are real humans viewing and reviewing every entry. Those people are called programmers, and the Sarasota Film Festival just hired a brand new batch of them. The Sarasota Film Festival will take place this year in from April 10-19, hosted by a slew of new staff members. Michael Dunaway will serve as Director of Programming along with programmers Maggie MacKay, Derek Horne and Caley Fagerstrom. Nadine Zylberberg will serve as the new social media manager. All have experience in the independent/festival world, and Sff President Mark Famiglio called the group an "outstanding creative team." Their collective past experience includes Sundance, AFI Fest and the Independent Spirit Awards. These people know their stuff, and it will all makes for a better festival. Actress Lilli Taylor said,...

Just alright, alright, alright: Friends Laud Linklater’s Adulthood

Traditionally speaking, retrospectives of prominent people tend to transpire as an ode after the fact or as a memoriam piece. Though the director has an impressive number of films under his belt, recently topped by the critically acclaimed and charmer Boyhood, Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood’s 21 Years: Richard Linklater seems to come at an incidental time–it demarcating or capitalizing on what is unclear. Composed mostly of star-studded (Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Jack Black to name a few) albeit conventional talking heads reminiscing on their working relationships with Linklater, the documentary does not articulate any unprecedented insight or exclusive commentary. Ultimately the effort feels lackluster though it will most likely find a place of honor within the insular community and cult following that Linklater has cultivated.

Linklater’s own quote “the truth will only be told over a career” introduces...

Matthew McConaughey has an new film out this weekend — and no, we don't mean Interstellar. McConaughey is one of a number of stars who lined up to participate in the documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater, which centers on the work of the Boyhood director. Read more '21 Years: Richard Linklater': Film Review McConaughey made his first onscreen appearance in Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused (1993) and like everyone else approached for the doc, was immediately on board, say director Michael Dunaway. "We had a short period of time, but he gave us enough in that 45-minutes to make two movies just about

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21 Years: Richard Linklater

Directed by Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood

Written by Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood

USA, 2014

Most filmgoers don’t know Richard Linklater’s name but his effect has been felt through the American independent film scene since the debut of Slacker in 1991. For the star-studded cast of commenters sitting down for some insights into Linklater, it’s hard to imagine a world without him. He is the unicorn who managed to build an entire career of passion projects, a rare opportunity indeed.

Written and directed by Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood, 21 Years: Richard Linklater seeks perspectives on one of cinema’s most underrated directors via interviews and stories shared by notable filmmakers Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Jack Black, Keanu Reeves, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Reitman, Kevin Smith, the Duplass brothers, and Matthew McConaughey. To provide a unique spin on talking heads, Dunaway and Wood splice in animated...

“The truth will only be told over a career.” This quote by Richard Linklater opens a new documentary on the filmmaker and also could be applied to another that just hit Netflix Watch Instantly this week. The first is called 21 Years: Richard Linklater and follows a career spanning more than two decades, beginning with 1991’s Slacker and ending with Before Midnight — there’s no mention of this year’s Boyhood. The second is Altman, about Robert Altman, whose long career ended eight years ago as he was scouting for locations for his next feature, at age 81. Linklater’s statement isn’t saying a life story is told over a career (you can see the context in the Reverse Shot interview it comes from), but with both films it’s hard not to expect some sort of biographical portrait of their subjects through their work. The lives of artists, Linklater and Altman included, are...

Playing more like a distended awards show package than a proper documentary, 21 Years: Richard Linklater reflects on the first half of its title subject's directorial career. Directors Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood gather Linklater players and admirers to muse on the experience of working with the Austinite and the sensibility that he's brought to bear across a diverse but startlingly coherent body of work. To the extent that the release of Before Midnight and this year's Boyhood (mentioned only briefly here) prompted a reconsideration of that body, the assessments offered in 21 Years manage to feel like too little arriving a little late. Still, there is pleasure to be had in the reminiscences of Jack Black, Ethan Hawke, Keanu Reeves, and the much-in...

To American audiences exploring the indie film scene in the 1990s, few names mattered as much as Richard Linklater’s. One of Generation X’s essential voices, Linklater’s idiosyncratic dialogue-driven efforts – Slacker, Before Sunrise, Dazed & Confused, to name a few – struck a nerve among film fans across the country and beyond. On the verge of earning his first Oscar nomination for Best Director for the coming-of-adolescence masterwork Boyhood, the indie underdog is finally starting to reap the praises he has deserved since starting his career nearly 25 years ago.

Boyhood brought the writer/director virtually unanimous praise from critics and audiences. In the wake of that film’s success, though, a light career retrospective of Linklater’s principal work from the new documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater, feels superfluous. It is easy to figure out why he is such an essential director to audiences craving original material, to the actors he...

21 Years: Richard Linklater, which had its world premiere at Austin Film Festival on Oct. 24, primarily consists of two types of footage: interviews with charismatic actors who have worked with Richard Linklater, and scenes from the director's films up to and including Before Midnight (Boyhood is mentioned in passing). The result is often enjoyable but limited in scope, and ultimately the film comes off as more of a puff piece than an insightful documentary.

The question underlying 21 Years seems to be, "Why isn't Linklater better known and and as universally well loved as he is in Austin?" It's a good one to ask, but directors Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood don't so much answer that question as compile a series of examples that he is truly respected and admired by actors who have worked with him.

Repeat collaborators like Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey seem to have...

Richard Linklater is at the height of his power coming off this year’s Boyhood, and yet what’s funny is that he hardly exudes the presence of an auteur the way so many of his contemporaries or his idols have before him. “This Slacker ain’t no slacker”, as Matthew McConaughey says in a trailer for a new documentary about the director, 21 Years: Richard Linklater. Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood direct the documentary asking people who have starred in his films what makes him so special, everyone from McConaughey to Ethan Hawke, Zac Efron, Julie Delpy, Billy Bob Thornton, Jack Black and some his fans Kevin Smith and Jason Reitman.

The documentary intends to perform an overview of the artist he’s become 21 years in the making, which the synopsis says is enough time to define the career of the artist. Yet it’s hard to think of too...

In this summer’s Boyhood, Richard Linklater summed up 12 years of a kid’s life into one feature-length movie. Now the documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater will do the same to the filmmaker’s career. Directed by Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood, the documentary is based on the idea that “the first 21 years defines the career […]

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From Slacker to Boyhood a new documentary will attempt to sum up 21 years of Richard Linklater.s artistry. Directors Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood have rounded up some pretty impressive talent and collaborators to discuss everything Linklater. We get to hear from Matthew McConaughey (all right all right all right), Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Zac Efron , Keanu Reeves, Jack Black, and others! Linklater has been one of my favorite directors since Before Sunrise blew me away nearly twenty years...

The first trailer for 21 Years: Richard Linklater shows the director's far-reaching influence, as stars flock to honor the filmmaker onscreen — some more poignantly than others. While Ethan Hawke notes that "he's onto something special, that's unique to him" and Julie Delpy describes him as wise and laidback, Jack Black also says, "He's a sneaky Shakespeare, and Matthew McConaughey calls him "Ricky Ticky Linklater" (and not without an "alright, alright, alright" as well). Keanu Reeves also adds, "There's no slacker in that Slacker." Watch more Richard Linklater Reveals Why 'Boyhood' Took 12 Years to Film The tribute documentary, directed by Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood, is based

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Richard Linklater's had a good year, with Boyhood enjoying strong buzz since its debut this summer. Linklater took 12 years to shoot and produce the film. In that span of time, the renowned director created a number of other influential films. In honor of his work, 21 Years: Richard Linklater brings together actors and directors who have worked with or been influenced by Linklater, and the film's first trailer offers no shortage of praise for him. Predicated on the idea that the first 21 years of an artist can define them, 21 Years documents Linklater's incredible slate of films, including the Before trilogy,...

"There's no slacker in that slacker!" We've been patiently waiting for this one. There's a documentary about filmmaker Richard Linklater being released this fall (in November) titled simply 21 Years: Richard Linklater, looking back at the first 21 years in his directing career - from Slacker to Boyhood. The doc features interviews with everyone from Matthew McConaughey to Jack Black to Jason Reitman to Kevin Smith, and many of them pop up in this trailer. It's perhaps mere coincidence that Linklater seems to be having a landmark year, with Boyhood in theaters now, Before Midnight still getting love, and all of this acclaim on top of it. I'm a huge fan of Linklater and have been anxiously awaiting this - it looks like fun. Here's the first trailer for Michael Dunaway & Tara Wood's 21 Years: Richard Linklater, via YouTube: See the official poster here. "It's been said that the first 21 years defines the career of an artist.

Eighteen Films. One legend. Gravitas Ventures has revealed poster art for their upcoming documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater, telling the story of Linklater's filmmaker career so far. Co-directed by Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood, the doc features (some of these guys are seen on the poster) Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Billy Bob Thornton, Jack Black, Kevin Smith, Parker Posey and many others. It's already set to premiere in theaters and VOD starting this November, so there's not too much longer of a wait for this one. I'm looking forward to delving deeper into Linklater's fascinating and invigorating career. Here's the first poster for Michael Dunaway & Tara Wood's documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater: Description from publicity: "It's been said that the first 21 years defines the career of an artist. Few directors have single-handedly shaken up the film establishment like the godfather of indie, Richard Linklater. From the groundbreaking Slacker to his innovative Boyhood,...

Whoa - where did this come from? A press release has announced that Gravitas Ventures has acquired Us release rights to release a documentary about the filmmaking career of Richard Linklater, who just debuted his 12-year project Boyhood at Sundance earlier this year. Titled 21 Years: Richard Linklater, the feature-length doc "examines the first 21 years of Linklater's career and includes intimate interviews with many of the filmmakers' longtime collaborators and animation by Austin-based Powerhouse Animation Studios." His first 21 years of work includes classic films like Slacker, Dazed & Confused, Before Sunrise & Sunset, Waking Life, School of Rock, Bad News Bears, Fast Food Nation and A Scanner Darkly. Read on. The documentary is made by Paste Magazine's movies editor Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood. Here's the full description of the project direct from the press release, detailing some of the people interviewed: Drawing on the idea that the first 21 years of work defines the career of an artist,...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights and select territories to 21 Years: Richard Linklater.

Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood co-directed the documentary examining the first 21 years of Linklater’s career with interviews with collaborators and animation provided by Austin-based Powerhouse Animation Studios.

Wood, Dunaway and Miller produced with Gravitas Ventures’ Nolan Gallagher and Michael Murphy serving as executive producers along with Pamela Sutton, Robert C McGirr, Mario Davila, William Pedroza and Gregory Norman McGuire.

Wood Entertainment will represent available territories at Cannes.

Film Movement has picked up Us rights to Stations Of The Cross, winner of the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear for best screenplay and the Ecumenical Jury’s best competition film. Dietrich Brueggemann’s religious drama follows 14-year-old girl of extreme Catholic faith on a journey to become as close to God as possible.

Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights and select territories to 21 Years: Richard Linklater.

Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood co-directed the documentary examining the first 21 years of Linklater’s career with interviews with collaborators and animation provided by Austin-based Powerhouse Animation Studios.

Wood, Dunaway and Miller produced with Gravitas Ventures’ Nolan Gallagher and Michael Murphy serving as executive producers along with Pamela Sutton, Robert C McGirr, Mario Davila, William Pedroza and Gregory Norman McGuire.

Wood Entertainment will represent available territories at Cannes.

Film Movement has picked up Us rights to Stations Of The Cross, winner of the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear for best screenplay and the Ecumenical Jury’s best competition film. Dietrich Brueggemann’s religious drama follows 14-year-old girl of extreme Catholic faith on a journey to become as close to God as possible.

Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American and numerous international rights for "21 Years: Richard Linklater," a celebration of the director's career.The feature-length documentary was made by Paste Magazine’s movies editor Michael Dunaway and co-director Tara Wood. It examines 21 years in Linklater's career and includes intimate interviews with many of his longtime collaborators including actors such as Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey, Billy Bob Thornton, Keanu Reeves, Julie Delpy, Jack Black and Jason Reitman. The directors drew on the concept that the first 21 years in a director's career defines their work and artistic vision. The film follows his groundbreaking work on "Slacker" to his most recent, 12-year-long feat "Boyhood." It's a behind the scenes look that includes insight into his style, skills, and motivation via his friends, his casts and other filmmakers. Too bad filming finished before Linklater ">invited convicted murderer and...

Each quarter, Paste Movies Editor Michael Dunaway and critic David Roark have the task of making their way through the new offerings from The Criterion Collection. Nice work if you can get it! For our money, everything Tcc does is top notch, but since your time is limited, we bring you our top picks each quarter. For the Spring 2013 releases, Badlands is the featured film. Other picks are discussed below....

This year during South By Southwest Interactive, Paste and Sennheiser teamed up to present a spread of great interviews each day from the Blackheart on Rainey Street. From actors to game developers to musicians and more, each interview was an engaging encounter that highlighted the amount of creative energy present in Austin that week. Sennheiser stepped up the experience with their wireless headphones, allowing those in attendance to listen in on the interviews even as they milled around on the patio in the Texas sunshine. For the latest installment of the Sound Bytes interview series, Paste film editor Michael Dunaway...