{"id":2541,"date":"2010-12-31T23:56:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T05:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:55:16","slug":"iow-virginia-amber-trailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2541","title":{"rendered":"IOW: VIRGINIA, AMBER trailers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This final C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> post of 2010 might seem a bit of a downer considering the non-festive nature of the material \u2013 trailers for movies about male antagonists who threaten or damage female protagonists that ultimately pull through at a price \u2013 but the reason to feature them now is because they serve as a timely exclamation point for the strides made this year with locally produced film. That said, not enough of an annual critical mass transpires in the C-U to warrant end-of-year awards or lists or any such thing \u2013 if you want to see what went down during the past 12 months, feel free to search and scroll \u2013 so, for the moment, a simple show-and-tell will do.<\/p>\n

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Finding Virginia Trailer<\/span><\/a> from Pounded Pavement Productions<\/span><\/a> on Vimeo<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re excited to preview this teaser trailer for the New York<\/strong>-produced, Decatur<\/strong>-filmed independent feature drama FINDING VIRGINIA<\/strong> even though we hated <\/em>finding out about it and the newly launched Web site<\/a> in second-hand fashion through Facebook<\/strong> chatter. Additional comments imply producers Thomas C. Cord<\/strong> and Stephanie Gold<\/strong> have finished editing it together which means festival submissions and preview screenings should happen shortly. VIRGINIA<\/strong> stars Jessica Alexandra Green<\/strong> as a single mother psychologically tormented by a devious abductor played by Jeff Kurysz<\/strong>; Brett Hays<\/strong> of Shatterglass Studios<\/strong> in Champaign <\/strong>helped manage the production and bring in Midwest crew while Kymberly Harris<\/strong> of TheatresCool<\/strong> in Bloomington <\/strong>aided with casting area talent. You may remember VIRGINIA <\/strong>from the article we ran in C-U Confidential<\/strong> issue 4<\/a> and we plan to continue our coverage as Pounded Pavement Productions<\/strong><\/a> strives to find the film an audience!<\/p>\n

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We also realized that we hadn\u2019t yet posted the above trailer from AMBER ROSE<\/strong>, the C-U-filmed feature length movie<\/a> written and directed by Mike Trippiedi<\/strong> who always has been happy to keep us abreast on his activities. It\u2019s been available on our YouTube<\/strong> channel<\/a> for a while but we\u2019re presenting it here for completion’s sake. First-time screen actress Zoe Capps<\/strong> plays the title role, a precocious 11-year-old whose mother Lynn (Carolyn Kodes-Atkinson<\/strong>) works at a liquor store; both face double trouble when a brain-damaged man named Skip (Steven M. Keen<\/strong>) and his wife Judy (Amy Stoch<\/strong>) move in next door and Skip’s shady friend Gil (Joe Dempsey<\/strong>) comes calling. Originally written as a stage play that was deemed too disturbing by several theater groups according to Trippiedi, AMBER <\/strong>is produced by Traci Nally<\/strong> and Mark Roberts<\/strong> (Welcome to Tolono<\/span>, TWO AND A HALF MEN<\/strong>) while long-time Trippiedi collaborator Bill Yauch<\/strong> served as cinematographer and editor as our man Larry E. Gates II<\/strong> cooked up his first movie score for the show. Following a successful sneak preview at the Art Theater<\/strong> in the fall, Shut Up & Do It Productions<\/strong> has been submitting AMBER ROSE<\/strong> to film festivals nationwide.<\/p>\n

As twenty-ten drifts off into the history books, we hope that you and yours are having a memorable New Year\u2019s experience and thank you for reading C-U Blogfidential<\/strong>. Here\u2019s to a 2011 filled with life, love, progress, and further creation of the movies of Champaign, Urbana<\/strong>, and the cities beyond!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: At long last, we can share a first look at Pounded Pavement Productions’ feature, FINDING VIRGINIA, which they filmed in Decatur, IL, in October 2009, while we also post the trailer for the feature AMBER ROSE, filmed in Champaign-Urbana, IL, in May 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,20],"tags":[458,299,457,294,583,296],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-production-updates","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-amber-rose","tag-finding-virginia","tag-mike-trippiedi","tag-pounded-pavement-productions","tag-shut-up-do-it-productions","tag-thomas-c-cord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}