Exclusive: The producers of Oscar winners Moonlight and Icarus, Oscar nominee Carol and Showtime series Billions, are among those bringing new projects to the Ifp Project Forum, which runs during the 40th Ifp Week in New York.
This year’s particularly buzzy Project Forum slate will comprise 150 U.S. and international films, series, digital and audio projects (for the first time) in different stages of development.
The co-production market will feature new narrative films and series from producers and Ep’s including Lamb On The Throne from Adele Romanski (Moonlight) and Sara Murphy (Land Ho!), Breezin’ from Amy Lo (Nancy), The Gymnast from Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Billions), The Fugitive Game from Ryan Cunningham (Broad City), Sleepwalkfrom Ryan Zacarias (A Ciambra), Bitterroot from Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim (Columbus) and Nine Days from Jason Michael Berman (Amateur), Mette-Marie Kongsved (I Don’t Feel At Home In This World...
This year’s particularly buzzy Project Forum slate will comprise 150 U.S. and international films, series, digital and audio projects (for the first time) in different stages of development.
The co-production market will feature new narrative films and series from producers and Ep’s including Lamb On The Throne from Adele Romanski (Moonlight) and Sara Murphy (Land Ho!), Breezin’ from Amy Lo (Nancy), The Gymnast from Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Billions), The Fugitive Game from Ryan Cunningham (Broad City), Sleepwalkfrom Ryan Zacarias (A Ciambra), Bitterroot from Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim (Columbus) and Nine Days from Jason Michael Berman (Amateur), Mette-Marie Kongsved (I Don’t Feel At Home In This World...
- 7/26/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Film Review: 'Live Nude Girls Unite!'
Even on the art house circuit, a documentary about union organizing can pretty much be considered a commercial nonstarter. But make it a documentary about strippers and sex-club workers marching for better workplace conditions, throw in plenty of scenes of the nubile girls at work and, hey, you've got something!
Actually, "Live Nude Girls Unite!" which despite its title, is not a sequel to the indie drama of a few years back, is a perfectly fine, microbudgeted docu that brings to light a situation that few -- even the members of the raincoat crowd-- have previously thought about. Co-directed and co-written by documentary filmmaker Vicky Funari ("Paulina") and Julia Query, a lesbian stand-up comic and former stripper, the film tackles its subject with a refreshing sense of humor. But that's to be expected in a film about a labor struggle in which the striking workers' chant is "two, four, six, eight -- don't go in to masturbate!"
The film documents the efforts of the strippers at San Francisco's Lusty Lady club to improve their working conditions. Denied sick leave, illegally videotaped by the customers, pressured to perform sexual favors, forced to pay "stage fees" before performing and discriminated against because of skin color or breast size, the workers certainly have a lot to complain about.
Shot in 16mm, the film is a distinctly personal effort as well. Query's mother is Dr. Joyce Wallace, a New York physician who has devoted herself to improving the lives of prostitutes. While Wallace knew her daughter was gay, she had no idea that she was also a stripper. Query reveals this in a scene that would be of far better use in a therapy session than in this documentary. There are also numerous excerpts from Query's stand-up comedy act, which again detracts from the main focus.
But the film delivers illuminating insights and observations about the sex industry, and it provides convincing evidence that the nature of one's occupation has no bearing on the need for dignity and fair treatment in the workplace.
LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE!
First Run Features
Directors-screenwriters: Julia Query, Vicky Funari
Producers: Julia Query, John Montoya
Executive producer: Gini Reticker
Directors of photography: Julia Query, John Montoya, Sarah Kennedy, Vicky Funari
Editors: Vicky Funari, Heidi Rahlmann Plumb
Music: Allison Hennessy and Kali, Alex Kort, Blaise Smith and Dale Everingham, Khayree Shaheed
Color/stereo
Running time- 70 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Actually, "Live Nude Girls Unite!" which despite its title, is not a sequel to the indie drama of a few years back, is a perfectly fine, microbudgeted docu that brings to light a situation that few -- even the members of the raincoat crowd-- have previously thought about. Co-directed and co-written by documentary filmmaker Vicky Funari ("Paulina") and Julia Query, a lesbian stand-up comic and former stripper, the film tackles its subject with a refreshing sense of humor. But that's to be expected in a film about a labor struggle in which the striking workers' chant is "two, four, six, eight -- don't go in to masturbate!"
The film documents the efforts of the strippers at San Francisco's Lusty Lady club to improve their working conditions. Denied sick leave, illegally videotaped by the customers, pressured to perform sexual favors, forced to pay "stage fees" before performing and discriminated against because of skin color or breast size, the workers certainly have a lot to complain about.
Shot in 16mm, the film is a distinctly personal effort as well. Query's mother is Dr. Joyce Wallace, a New York physician who has devoted herself to improving the lives of prostitutes. While Wallace knew her daughter was gay, she had no idea that she was also a stripper. Query reveals this in a scene that would be of far better use in a therapy session than in this documentary. There are also numerous excerpts from Query's stand-up comedy act, which again detracts from the main focus.
But the film delivers illuminating insights and observations about the sex industry, and it provides convincing evidence that the nature of one's occupation has no bearing on the need for dignity and fair treatment in the workplace.
LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE!
First Run Features
Directors-screenwriters: Julia Query, Vicky Funari
Producers: Julia Query, John Montoya
Executive producer: Gini Reticker
Directors of photography: Julia Query, John Montoya, Sarah Kennedy, Vicky Funari
Editors: Vicky Funari, Heidi Rahlmann Plumb
Music: Allison Hennessy and Kali, Alex Kort, Blaise Smith and Dale Everingham, Khayree Shaheed
Color/stereo
Running time- 70 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/26/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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