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"Meskada" (2010)
Directed by Josh Sternfeld
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
When this thriller premiered at Tribeca this past spring, Alison Willmore wrote, "the second film from writer/director Josh Sternfeld ("Winter Solstice") has ambitions reaching beyond being a straightforward police procedural," though critics, including her, were mixed about the end result. Nick Stahl and Rachel Nichols star as small-town sleuths who investigate a botched home invasion case that claims the life of a young child in an affluent community and enflames class divisions when the main suspects are from the poorer community nearby. Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep's second daughter to go into the family profession, makes her film debut.
"Anywhere USA" (2008)
Directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine
Released by Cinevolve Studios
Winner of a Spirit of Independence prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Chusy Haney-Jardine's collection of three comic vignettes involves a...
"Meskada" (2010)
Directed by Josh Sternfeld
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
When this thriller premiered at Tribeca this past spring, Alison Willmore wrote, "the second film from writer/director Josh Sternfeld ("Winter Solstice") has ambitions reaching beyond being a straightforward police procedural," though critics, including her, were mixed about the end result. Nick Stahl and Rachel Nichols star as small-town sleuths who investigate a botched home invasion case that claims the life of a young child in an affluent community and enflames class divisions when the main suspects are from the poorer community nearby. Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep's second daughter to go into the family profession, makes her film debut.
"Anywhere USA" (2008)
Directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine
Released by Cinevolve Studios
Winner of a Spirit of Independence prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Chusy Haney-Jardine's collection of three comic vignettes involves a...
- 3/22/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
NEW YORK -- Indie banner Seventh Art Releasing has picked up U.S. rights to filmmaker Andrzej Krakowski's feature documentary Farewell to My Country. Country centers on the stories of Polish Jews who were expelled from their homeland in 1968 in the wake of student demonstrations. According to Seventh Art's press notes, the event marked Poland's expulsion of "the last remaining Jews from what once was the largest Jewish settlement in the world, effectively ending over a thousand years' history." The film was executive produced by Barbara Lavery and written, produced and directed by Krakowski through the Pine Hill Prods. banner in association with the Bendheim Performing Arts Center. The pact was brokered by Krakowski and Seventh Art topper Udy Epstein. Krakowski's feature credits include the screenplay for Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos.
- 11/19/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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