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In the Land of What Now, a collection of short stories that were adapted into the movie Flood Streets, is now available via Amazon/CreateSpace. |
Flood Streets premiered at the 44th Annual WorldFest - The Houston International Film Festival, where it won the Gold Remi Award for Best Low-Budget Feature! We also won Best Picture at the 2011 Action on Film Festival in Pasadena, CA and runner-up for Best Director at the White Sands International Film Festival!
Flood Streets was also an official selection of the 2011 Boston International Film Festival, Naperville Independent Film Festival and San Antonio Film Festival.
The next screening will be at the Naperville Independent Film Festival on Monday, September 19.
We're very excited for our local premiere
at the New Orleans Film Festival on Sunday, October 16 at 4:45pm at the
Prytania Theater.
Here is the facebook
event where you can RSVP
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Here is some of the amazing press Flood Streets has been getting:
Houston Chronicle Sunday entertainment section cover story
3 out of 4 star review by Houston Chronicle film critic Louis B. Parks
3 star review by Mark Bell for Film Threat
Review of Flood Streets in the Village News (page 4)
Best of the Fest Pick from Houston Film Critics' Society President Nick Nicholson
Interview with Variety film critic Joe Leydon for CultureMap
Profile by Marian Luntz, curator of film and video at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Profile of actor/director Joseph Meissner in the Houston Chronicle
ArtThrob Blog, Profile on Flood Streets at the Boston International Film Festival
Profile of actor/director Joseph Meissner in Houston's Bellaire News
Profile of Flood Streets writer/producer Helen Krieger in the UDallas University News
Complete press clippings, with full text here.
Flood Streets
star Becky Stark's musical project The Living Sisters has released
their first album! Preview it on Amazon!
News archive:
See the trailer for "The Jack of Spades," a feature film written by Thomas Johnson, directed by Miceal Og O'Donnell, and starring The Hatchery partner Joseph Meissner.
Flood Streets star Becky Stark is the lead female vocalist on the new album from The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love!
Flood Streets: The Staged Reading
with special guests Harry
Shearer (Spinal Tap, The Simpsons), Becky Stark
Lavender
Diamond
Tuesday, February 17, 7-10 pm
Marigny Theatre, 1030 Marigny Street
marignytheatre.org
Free! RSVP to
joseph [at] thehatcherymedia.com
Join us for a staged reading of our upcoming feature film, Flood Streets.
A young musician attempts to eke out a living selling worthless real estate, a dying woman creates a mini-utopia in a storm-ravaged neighborhood, a single mom's schemes to find love and money put her daughter in danger, and a failed writer can’t stop fantasizing about his dentist – together these creative misfits struggle to bring life back to New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina.
>> read more about Flood Streets
The Foundation: Voice and Body Training for the Actor
Saturdays 2:30-4:30pm
Jan 17, 24 and Feb 7, 14, 28, more TBA?
$150 for this 18 hour course
Instructor: Joseph Meissner | joseph [at] thehatcherymedia.com
This first acting course from The Hatchery Media will focus on building the foundation for subtle, deep, and compelling acting: the voice and body.
The voice and body are the actor’s instruments. Learning to relax and connect to deep impulses, to allow natural unfiltered reactions to flow out of imaginary situations and to respond spontaneously and unselfconsciously to a partner or situation are the keys to subtle and powerful performance.
The text we will use for the class is Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristin Linklater. I highly recommend that you get the book and read it at home as we progess through the exercises.
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