Indomina Releasing will release Sheldon Candis’s drama "Luv" exclusively at AMC theaters around the country through the AMC Independent program Jan. 18. Starring Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Charles S. Dutton and newcomer Michael Rainey Jr., “Luv” follows a Baltimore pre-teen who learns hard lessons while spending a day with his uncle, just released from an eight-year prison stint. The film, which Candis wrote with Justin Wilson, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Jason Michael Berman, W. Michael Jenson, Gordon Bijelonic, Datari Turner, Joel Newton, James R. Rosenthal, Common and Derek Dudley produced. “AMC Independent exists to help bolster awareness for and cultivate the growth of independent films like ‘Luv,’” said AMC exec Nikkole Denson-Randolph. “This is a thought-provoking, character-driven film that will appeal to a wide moviegoing audience and is exactly the kind of movie...
- 11/29/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Exclusive: I’m told that Indomina Entertainment is making a distribution deal on Luv, the Sheldon Candis-directed film that premiered January 23 at the Eccles Theatre. The deal will be in the low seven-figures and includes a TV component. This comes as the film screens at Efm. The film is about an 11-year old boy who awaits the return of his missing mother, and who lives with his grandmother and Uncle Vincent. He idolizes the latter, a man who is fresh off an 8-year prison stretch and who takes it upon himself to help the youth become a man. When Vincent’s attempts to open a business doesn’t work out, and pressure is brought to bear by his old Baltimore crime boss Mr. Fish, the youth’s growth into manhood accelerates. The film stars Common, Dennis Haysbert, Michael Rainey Jr., Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton and Michael Kenneth Williams.
- 2/9/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Dir. Sheldon Candis and actor Michael Rainey Jr
Writer/director Sheldon Candis and producer Jason Berman talk with Josh Welsh, Film Independent’s Director of Artist Development, about their feature film Luv, which tells the story of William “Woody” Watson, a shy 11-year old boy who is forced to face the unpleasant truth about his only father figure during one harrowing day on the mean streets of Baltimore. Luv will have its world premiere in the narrative competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
First off, congratulations on finishing Luv, and of course for getting into Sundance! Sheldon, what’s your background and how did you get into film?
Sheldon Candis: I was born in Baltimore. Half of my childhood was there and the other half in Statesville, Nc. My love for movies came from two places: One, my father would religiously take my mom and me to see movies...
Writer/director Sheldon Candis and producer Jason Berman talk with Josh Welsh, Film Independent’s Director of Artist Development, about their feature film Luv, which tells the story of William “Woody” Watson, a shy 11-year old boy who is forced to face the unpleasant truth about his only father figure during one harrowing day on the mean streets of Baltimore. Luv will have its world premiere in the narrative competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
First off, congratulations on finishing Luv, and of course for getting into Sundance! Sheldon, what’s your background and how did you get into film?
Sheldon Candis: I was born in Baltimore. Half of my childhood was there and the other half in Statesville, Nc. My love for movies came from two places: One, my father would religiously take my mom and me to see movies...
- 12/1/2011
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent
Sean Patrick Flanery and Louise Linton have joined the indie sci-fi thriller "Scavengers" says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story follows crews of space scavengers competing for supplies, energy and treasure.
When the crew of the Revelator, led by Emerson (Linton), comes across the alien-created Chaos Generator, they must fight to keep it out of the hands of her former shipmate, the sinister Captain Jekel (Flanery).
Production designer Travis Nicholas Zariwny makes his directorial debut on the project which has just begun filming. James Rosenthal is producing.
The story follows crews of space scavengers competing for supplies, energy and treasure.
When the crew of the Revelator, led by Emerson (Linton), comes across the alien-created Chaos Generator, they must fight to keep it out of the hands of her former shipmate, the sinister Captain Jekel (Flanery).
Production designer Travis Nicholas Zariwny makes his directorial debut on the project which has just begun filming. James Rosenthal is producing.
- 12/9/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sean Patrick Flanery and Louise Linton have joined the indie sci-fi thriller "Scavengers" says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story follows crews of space scavengers competing for supplies, energy and treasure.
When the crew of the Revelator, led by Emerson (Linton), comes across the alien-created Chaos Generator, they must fight to keep it out of the hands of her former shipmate, the sinister Captain Jekel (Flanery).
Production designer Travis Nicholas Zariwny makes his directorial debut on the project which has just begun filming. James Rosenthal is producing.
The story follows crews of space scavengers competing for supplies, energy and treasure.
When the crew of the Revelator, led by Emerson (Linton), comes across the alien-created Chaos Generator, they must fight to keep it out of the hands of her former shipmate, the sinister Captain Jekel (Flanery).
Production designer Travis Nicholas Zariwny makes his directorial debut on the project which has just begun filming. James Rosenthal is producing.
- 12/9/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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