We are incredibly proud of our cast and crew’s hard work on 45RPM and we are pleased to announce that the hometown of much of our team will offer up a great film festival experience this May!
Today, the Little Rock Film Festival announced that 45RPM will screen as part of the “Made in Arkansas” showcase.
Screening dates and times will be released soon.
Made In Arkansas – Little Rock Film Festival
There are a few advanced screening tickets remaining for this Saturday night at 7pm.
The Ozark Foothills FilmFest is hosting a great event at the historic Lander’s Theater in Batesville, Arkansas.
This will be your first chance to see 45RPM!
Don’t miss it.
COMING FALL 2012
Starring Liza Burns & Jason Thompson
Written & Directed by Juli Jackson
Cinematography by Bryan Stafford
Edited by Les Galusha & Brent Bailey
*Song Credit: 1960s Arkansas band Barefacts – “Tell Me”
Available on the Lost Souls Volume 1 Compilation
Lucky 13! This day found the 45 RPM crew in Stanford, Arkansas. The whole community got together, bringing out tables, and 1000s of personal items to help create our very own Swap Meet set for the movie. Thank you so much to everyone that participated!
Stills by photographer Kandi Cook
Photographer Mike Poe was on set during 45RPM filming on Production Day 17! Take a look as the crew shoots the lounge scene at Martha’s Rock City Lounge in Little Rock, Arkansas!
Keep up with more 45RPM action on Facebook and more in our Behind The Scenes page!
The Ozark Foothills Film Fest has worked hard to develop a new Indie Film Initiative and my feature film has been selected as 1 of 3 award recipients in the state!
I am thrilled, honored, and ready to make Arkansas proud.
Congratulations to the other 2 award recipients!
Taylor Feltner “Man Shot Dead” Documentary
Brent Renaud “My Brother’s Heart” Documentary
Last Friday and Saturday I had the opportunity to attend the 5th annual Little Rock Film Festival. Moviemaker Magazine had listed this fest as one of the “Top 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee” and I would agree whole-heartedly.
This festival really had some brains behind it as everything was very organized, friendly, and just all around awesome. Volunteers were everywhere if you had questions, badges were very reasonably priced, the website was clear and easy to navigate, and the program book even had a place for notes! I have attended much bigger older festivals that didn’t have any of these perks! Not that the LRFF seemed small though, with 3 venues, multiple screenings at all times, all kinds of special events, tons of Q & As (even had attending filmmakers for the World Shorts Program!) and full houses for the screenings I attended.
The Arkansas Shorts Programs had me the most excited and they were packed! Standing room only at some points. I have to say I was completely blow away by the films that were made in Arkansas. High production values all around, original and fascinating stories, and my favorites managed to have the gritty Southern feel that I love so much.
I highly recommend Pillow by Josh and Miles Millers, Seven Souls by Gerry Bruno, Foot Solider by Jon Bryant Crawford, The Orderly by Daniel Campbell, Ballerina by Bryan Stafford, and Cotton County Boys by Collin Buchanan. These shorts really stood out to me and are what I feel indie filmmaking is all about.
I wanted to congratulate ALL the filmmakers for their hard work. It was thrilling to see so many of these films I watched and really enjoyed win festival awards and get the recognition they deserve.
Really there were so many great films at this festival, like the darkly funny Prairie Love and films I missed that I’m going to have to follow & watch later like The Last Ride, about Hank Williams.
After meeting many of the filmmakers and forming fast friendships through our films and experiences, I am even more eager to make 45 RPM in the great state of Arkansas with such talents folks. The fun has already started!
By June 1st 2011, 45RPM’s facebook page had reached over 100 fans. The first 100 were entered into a drawing. This video shows the drawing and reveals the winner!
The prize awarded was this vintage 45 molded into a bowl.
On Saturday my production space was a-buzz with activity. With some fantastic help from Kandi Cook & Mandy Maxwell, I managed to shoot a lot of great content including animation, still photos, driving shots, and other timelapse footage for 45 RPM’s upcoming fund-raising video. I decided to setup a webcam timelapse in the main room to document some of our efforts. This video is about 9 hours of our day compressed into 6 minutes.
The songs “Black Forest” and “Lil Jimmy Swing” were graciously provided by the Fayetteville-based band, Voyageurs, off of their album Alien Iverson. Find more of their music here.
Thank you to everyone involved. It was a very productive day!
