Last week in Bend, Oregon, THE OVERBROOK BROTHERS had a huge weekend, winning 3 different awards at the 2009 BendFilm Festival. They include:
Best Actor – (Mark Reeb) The Overbrook Brothers
Best Screenplay – (John Bryant & Jason Foxworth) The Overbrook Brothers
Best of Show – The Overbrook Brothers
Here’s a blurb from Morgan Salvo (The Source Weekly) that I really like:
The Overbrook Brothers (Directed by John Bryant) This movie swept up three completely deserved awards: Best of Show, Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Mark Reeb). A hilarious and realistic comedy, it features the road trip of two brothers on a mission to discover their heritage and their escalating rivalry. Reeb delivers a performance that is a cross between Josh Brolin and John Malkovich.
The Overbrook Brothers will be screening in Philadelphia as part of the 18 1/2 Philadelphia Film Festival: 5 Days of World Class Cinema. We’re not sure that anyone from Team Overbrook can be there, but please, if you’re in Philadelphia, come out and see the film!
Philadelphia Film Festival – October 15th thru October 19th, 2009
Screening Date/Time: Friday, October 16th at 9:45 pm – Ritz Bourse A
Screening Date/Time: Saturday, October 17th at 2:45 pm – Ritz Bourse C
In my “works-in-progress” kind of news, we have a finecut of my first feature film. Seeing the film, from end to end, is enthralling, scary, calming and humbling all at the same time. Of course it needs many, many more man hours of work and there are things that work and don’t quite work in the film, but getting to see it all in one fell swoop, “like a real movie” has definitely moved the film to its next stop on the train tracks of its life. I’m excited to show the film to a few carefully selected folks who can articulate what they think about it in its current form… I’m headed back into the editing room, but I can’t ever go back from where the film is now in its life… and that feels really good.
