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Its five-year mission: to seek out new plays

With 450 performances under its belt, the Summer Play Festival must be doing something right.


Five years ago, Tony Award-winning producer Arielle Tepper Madover, troubled by the lack of opportunities for playwrights in New York City, came up with a simple idea: create a play festival to showcase the work of emerging scribes. While the concept may not seem revolutionary at face value, Tepper Madover’s version employed a formula that was uniquely friendly to undiscovered talent. She charged no application fees, openly encouraged unsolicited submissions, and offered full production support and professional guidance to the chosen playwrights. Additionally, by keeping ticket prices low (a mere $10), she made sure the plays had the most important element of all — an audience......more

NY Producers Unfazed by Potential Strike: Despite the looming possibility of a strike by the Screen Actors Guild, whose union contract expired June 30, TV producers in the Big Apple remain unstirred and instead are thrilled with booming business. New York increased its tax incentive to 30 percent in May, sprouting production work throughout the city.....more


Death of the Mini Majors? Summertime typically equals huge motion pictures, like the much-anticipated “Dark Knight” and “Hancock,” but for us Indiewood lovers, what has happened to our favorite artistic, low-budget films? With bona fide independent hits like “Juno” becoming more and more scarce, the indie-film industry is feeling the pinch......more


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By John Rowell

 

ICE, ICE, BABY!

 

Anything that even sounds remotely cool, or cold or chilled is enough to pique my interest in these tropically hot days of late. And that’s part of what makes Soho Think Tank’s Obie Award-winning 2008 Ice Factory Festival so... hot. (That, plus talent, plus innovation, plus ambition, plus downtown cred.) It’s the Ice Factory’s 15th Anniversary, actually, and this year’s festival features seven New York premieres, including legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young’s rock opera Greendale, Soho Think Tank Artistic Director Robert Lyons’ red-haired Thomas, and Adriana Shaplin’s media satire Victory at the Dirt Place. Performances begin July 9 at the Ohio Theatre, and the festival continues through August 23. For more info, visit www.SohoThinkTank.org.

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By Sarah Ricard

 

Gill Spills About Indie Crisis

 

Last week at the L.A. Film Festival’s Financing Conference, Film Department CEO Mark Gill spoke on the current crisis in the independent film business with a speech entitled, “Yes, the Sky is Really Falling.” The speech in its entirety is posted at the IFP’s Web site, but the gist of Gill’s remarks boils down to some basic principles of surviving in any industry: “smarts, passion and elbow grease.” In a key passage from the talk, Gill hits on perhaps the most important advice for any indie filmmaker when he says, “Make movies that we absolutely love. Not ones we like. Not ones we need to do as a favor. Not the ones we do because they seem like a good piece of business. Not ones we do because we think, hope or wish that the kids will like them. Not the knock-offs of the ones that worked at the box office last year. In a word, we should only pick the films we're passionate about — and that have an audience.” I’m sure a lot of filmmakers were already going for that (perhaps unsuccessfully), but it’s nice to hear a big shot articulate the need for quality. To read the whole speech, visit www.indiewire.com.....more 

 

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