This weekend OPERATOR will participate in the 2014 Sloan Film Summit, which celebrates science and technology themed films. We’re lucky to be a part of their reading series, where an excerpt of the film will be performed. Check out their website for all the films and scientists participating!
We were very fortunate to be selected as part of the New Cinema Network for the 2014 Rome International Film Festival. In addition to meeting dozens of incredible producers and financiers from around Europe, my Co-Writer Sharon and our producer Felipe and I got to tour around the gorgeous city of Rome. Not a bad thing to call your job. Thank you to the wonderful organizers of the festival for taking such great care of us!
We are so honored to be a part of this incredible new fellowship and to be supported by the wonderful artists and filmmakers of the JuntoBox family!
Check out the IndieWire article below for more info on this brilliant new program –
My lovely (all the time) wife and (sometimes) co-writer and I unleashed some absurdity onto the world via this Funny or Die video. It started as one of those random jokes you have in bed in the morning and got all the way to produced short with the help of Nonetheless Productions and my awesome producer and friend Gorav Kalyan.
Check him out acting alongside the ever hilarious Charlie Saxton in the link below, and vote us funny if you like it!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6eb52ec3ca/fusion-lap-dance
Last week my producer Felipe Dieppa and I got to take part in Fast Track, a film financing market at the Los Angeles Film Festival to pitch OPERATOR to almost 60 industry executives. We had a terrific time, got very positive responses to the project, AND Film Independent selected us for the Sloan Fast Track production grant!
Doron Weber from the Sloan Foundation had this wonderful thing to say about OPERATOR – “We are delighted to partner with Film Independent for the seventh year and to make the 2014 Sloan Fast Track award to Logan Kibens’ Operator, a smart, contemporary comedy about a programmer who learns, at the risk of losing his wife, that technology must serve humanity,”.
Check out the FIND press release HERE
The Variety article HERE
And the Hollywood Reporter article HERE
Check out this great article on xojane, curated by the brilliant April Wolfe. I’m incredibly honored to be included in this list of awesome female filmmakers!
You can read more of April’s wonderful writing on her blog.