Monday, May 1, 2006

Welcome

To the blog dedicated to the goings on here at Citizen Cinema, The new production entity founded by Rob Nilsson, Chikara Motomura and Michael Edo Keane.

Rob is an OG from the early days of modern Indie film. His film, Signal 7 was the first theatrically released tape to film transfer. Heat and Sunlight, which won the Sundance Grand Jury prize in 1988, was shot on beta sp and converted to black and white, years before dogma 95.

In 2005 shooting completed on a 13 year mission, the 9@NIght Film Series. Born out of workshops set in the hard edged tenderloin district of San Francisco, these 9 films weave a thematic web that will linger long after the manic pop thrill of a Holly wood blockbuster. It is a true cinema of the street.

We are currently finishing post on the last three films in the series. We'll be putting up previews trailers and more as we ramp up towards distirbution.

We are starting production on a new feature, Presque Isle. This film offeres a radical departure from the concrete and neon of the TL. In June we will be in dense forest and lakes on a journey about a journey of a man who goes home to ease the pain of dissolution. Here he discovers erotic and ancestral keys to his buried past.

We are also fundraising, building new projects, going to festivals, meeting supporters, other filmmakers, exchanging ideas, opinions, complaints and discoveries. Now with the aid of the blogosphere we will expand that process to include you, fellow citizen.



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