Corsair Media Productions, LLC
5345 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
www.corsairmediaproductions.com
Louisiana
Indie Filmmaking Screening/Panel
Please join us this Saturday, July
18th for a film panel/screening showcasing Louisiana independent filmmaking at
the Big Top Arts Space located at 1632 Clio Street.
The films being featured include "The Last Lullaby" (7:00PM)
by Shreveport director Jeffrey Goodman and "Black Rock" (9:00PM) by
San Francisco/New Orleans director Kevin Epps. For more information about
the films, please visit http://www.theblackrockpremiere.com
AND http://www.thelastlullaby.com
Special guests/panelists will
also be in attendance and admission for the festivities will be $10.
Bruce Leininger will have
copies of his book about the reincarnation of a World War II fighter pilot
on-hand for sale and more information about the book can be found here: http://www.soulsurvivor-book.com/
For inquiries regarding the event and sponsorship
opportunities, please contact John Dean Alfone: nolagodfather@caa.columbia.edu
or (504) 344-2729
The festivities will kick
off with a “Meet the Filmmaker” panel that will take place from 5:30-7PM and
will discuss the pitfalls of both raising money (“blood, sweat, and tears
equity”) as well as the even more daunting task of finding distribution for
independent films once they are made.
The panel will feature the following luminaries:
Bruce Leininger, a writer whose book Soul Survivor (co-written
with his wife Andrea Leininger) was recently ranked #11 on the New York Times
Best Seller list for hard-cover non-fiction; Charlie Brown, a New Orleans moviemaker whose Angels Die Slowly is a “dark Goth ballad about two serial
killers in pursuit of a thrill and the Bourbon Street bouncer in search of
justice” that will be released next year; Kevin Epps, a San Francisco filmmaker/ New Orleans native whose documentary The
Black Rock: The Untold Story of the Black Experience on Alcatraz chronicles
the lives of African-American inmates who lived on the island jail from
1934-1963; Jeffrey Goodman, a
filmmaker who raised all the money himself for his project by selling the film
in $50,000 units to private investors in his hometown of Shreveport. Starring
Tom Sizemore, The Last Lullaby is a redemption tale about a hitman trying to
cope with the slow pace of retirement. In addition to being a director, Goodman
also writes an article for “Movie Maker Magazine” that examines the challenges
he faces as he seeks theatrical distribution for his film:
http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/category/adventures_in_self_releasing/More great info:
http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/jeffrey_goodman_the_last_lullaby_film_financing_20090121/http://www.sf360.org/features/epps-black-rock-unearths-buried-alcatraz-history