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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Best New York Narrative
Friday, May 1st, 2009The award winners for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced. Here and There received the award for Best New York Narrative. Everyone’s hard work paid off!
Horror Show?
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
AMC just compiled their list of the top ten Horror movies of 2008. Nine of the films are your typical horror fair; zombies, flesh eating plants, pro-genocide monsters. And then, there is our documentary, I Think We’re Alone Now.
We didn’t expect the film to be received so well by Horror film fanatics. As we spent more time with both Kelly and Jeff, the two main subjects of the documentary, those initial fears one has as an outsider began to dissipate. When we saw exaggerated obsession, others saw horror. When we saw loneliness, others saw horror. In July of 2008, we played at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, a festival that plays primarily horror, sci-fi, and fantasy films. The film was very well received, and we even won the audience award for best documentary, but I never expected to make it on a top ten horror films list.
Like most things, if you are committed, you tend to focus on the positive and tune out everything else. While shooting, there were certain moments that did make my jaw drop, but in the end, it will be the impenetrable determination of spirit that I will remember most.
Access Hollywood
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
One thing I learned this week is that Access Hollywood will not offer payments to air footage of our documentary for a segment they are doing on celebrity obsession. Mainstream Media 1, Independent filmmakers 0. I guess we don’t pull weight like Brad Pitt, and we should just be happy to get some air-time.
In all honesty, the segment was much better than I expected. In my mind, it would end up being a completely unsympathetic mockery of Jeff. But to my surprise, they touched on his Asperger’s Syndrome, the disability that impairs Jeff’s social skills.
Click here to watch the segment
Backstory: Jeff Turner is one of two subjects in I Think We’re Alone Now. He first came to the media’s attention in the late 80′s for “stalking” pop star Tiffany. His fondness for Tiffany lasted many many years, and eventually Jeff had to move on. Cut to December 2008. Jeff is making headlines again for “stalking” another celebrity. I use quotations because it has been director Sean Donnelly’s intention while making this film, to explore Jeff’s side of the story. While typical media coverage slings around the word stalker to create hype and fear, I Think We’re Alone Now attempts to show the man behind the headlines.