The War On Kids - November Screenings and Reviews

THE WAR ON KIDS is screening in NYC this month at The Quad Cinema.

Come see the film that The New York Times called: "A shocking chronicle of institutional dysfunction."

Directed by Cevin Soling
Produced by Jeremy Carr, Dawn Fidrick and Cevin Soling
Cinematography and Editing by Jeremy Carr

For more information: THE WAR ON KIDS official website

Read the reviews in VARIETY and THE NEW YORK TIMES here:

NEW YORK TIMES Review

VARIETY Review

The Dirtiest Racket In Town - Screening at Brooklyn Film Noir Festival

We are very excited that our short film "The Dirtiest Racket In Town" will be screening in April at the Detour: Film Noir & Arts Festival in Brooklyn, NY.

It looks to be a fun night of noir movies, live jazz and burlesque.

WHEN: Thursday, April 16th, 2009

WHERE: Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street
Brooklyn (Dumbo), NY

For more information: www.lookpresents.com

Nicholl Fellowships - Trolling

Jeremy Carr's dramatic feature length script TROLLING has advanced to the Quarter-Finals of the 2008 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition.

Ice Cream Ants wins Best Short Film Award

We are thrilled to announce that "Ice Cream Ants" has won the award for Best Short Film at the 2007 Evil City Film Festival.

Special thanks to everyone who came out to support the film and especially to Jim Muscarella, James Galus and the rest of the gang from Evil City. The closing night party was a blast!

For more information:

http://www.evilcityfilmfest.com

Ice Cream Ants wins Dewar's "Dewey" Award

The First Annual "Dewey" Award, presented by Dewar's was awarded to Jeremy Carr, the writer & director of "Ice Cream Ants."

The award, which was presented at the 2007 Boston Underground Film Festival, recognizes the auteur spirit and cinematic wordsmithing.

As part of the prize, Jeremy Carr has been commisioned to direct a short film for The Dewar's Collective and Bacardi, Inc.

Video from the award ceremony can be found on Independentfilm.com

Thanks to BUFF, Dewar's and everyone who came out to the festival!

The Hacker's Source - Film Review!

"Ice Cream Ants"
Reviewed by Dave Dunwoody

Got twenty minutes to tie your brain into a knot? Ice Cream Ants is a mood-heavy noir nightmare, very well-produced and brimming with atmosphere & a great cameo by Tom Noonan, the original "Red Dragon" in the film Manhunter. Our protagonist (Marcus Ashley), called "Lover" by a husky phone voice (Jill Tracy), is roused from his sleep and fires a shot in the dark. Who did he shoot? Questions are only answered with questions in a dimly-lit dive which he's summoned to by that phone call, where Noonan, as "the Thinker", tosses out theories scrawled on sheaves of paper while the bartender passes down the Ice Cream Ants. This is a quick, seamless walk through Nightmaresville where the road comes around and drops you back where you started. The editing is sharp, and jerks the viewer from quandary to quandary without stumbling in any sort of randomness for randomness' sake. An intriguing, chilling piece, showcasing some great camera work and moody music from Stephen Light and Jill Tracy.

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"Ice Cream Ants"
Directed by Jeremy Carr
Sageworx LLC/Crutch Films
www.crutchfilms.com

"Ice Cream Ants" at Boston Underground Film Festival

"Ice Cream Ants" will be screening in Beantown this March at the Boston Underground Film Festival. Additional information can be found on their website:

http://www.bostonundergroundfilmfestival.com/index.php

Ice Cream Ants - Review

Ice Cream Ants was recently reviewed by Isabel Pinedo, who saw the film at the 2006 NYC Horror Film Festival. Professor Pinedo is the author of "Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing," and she teaches in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College.

Here's some of what she said:

"Its surreal narrative draws on the time travel loop of Chris Marker's short film, La Jetee (1962), the vision of heaven in After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1998), and the philosophical musings of a television episode of The Sixth Sense (1972) that posed the question: What if what we think of as dream life is the reality, and what we think of as waking life is but a dream? Ice Cream Ants pulls together some of the philosophical veins that first intrigued me about sci-fi and horror: What is reality? What is hell? I'm not sure the film works without engagement with these questions, but works well as a piece of existential horror."

The complete article can be found here:

http://theword.hunter.cuny.edu/culture/horror.html