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Graphic novel about a woman who believes herself to be a knight in the modern world, to be drawn by comics legend Spain Rodriguez
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on April 16
Andrew Garrison
Posted project update #30TRash Dance wins Audience Award at Full Frame!
Dear Kickstarter friends of Trash Dance,
If you also supported the finishing phase on Trash Dance, please forgive me for sending this news to you again. I am pleased and honored that Trash Dance was selected to receive the Audience Award for the Best Documentary Feature at Full Frame. Full Frame is sponsored by Duke University's much-heralded Center for Documentary Study. It is both a high-profile documentary festival and a very low-key place with a lot of opportunity to talk with some of the best documentary makers in the U.S. and beyond.
Trash Dance, like all of the films screened on Saturday, had a full house. The audience loved the film, cheering for characters during the film and clapping along to the music in the credits performed by Orange Jefferson and Graham Reynolds (and Hector Moreno and Leah Zeger) while Anthony Phillips dances. It was great.
The film is playing in Sarasota on Tuesday and Nashville on Saturday and Sunday. More news as it comes.
Best wishes,
Andrew Garrison
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on April 16
Andrew Garrison
Posted project update #11Audience Award at Full Frame
Post CommentDear Kickstarter friends of Trash Dance,
I am pleased and honored that Trash Dance was selected to receive the Audience Award for the Best Documentary Feature at Full Frame. Full Frame is sponsored by Duke University's much-heralded Center for Documentary Studies. It is both a high-profile documentary festival and a very low-key place with a lot of opportunity to talk with some of the best documentary makers in the U.S. and beyond.
Trash Dance, like all of the films screened on Saturday, had a full house. The audience loved the film, cheering for characters during the film and clapping along to the music in the credits performed by Orange Jefferson and Graham Reynolds (and Hector Moreno and Leah Zeger) while Anthony Phillips dances. It was great.
The film is playing in Sarasota on Tuesday and Nashville on Saturday and Sunday. More news as it comes.
Best wishes,
Andrew Garrison
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on March 22
Andrew Garrison
Posted project update #29TRASH DANCE wins Award at SXSW!
Dear Kickstarter Supporters,
It was an amazing four screenings at SXSW! We may have set a record for largest number of people to see a film at SXSW. We had practically full houses at each screening and a standing ovation each time. And at each screening at least three of the employees showed up to speak after the film, some coming in after work and some taking a break while cleaning up at SXSW!
"Trash Dance" won the Special Jury Award at SXSW, an award specifically created to honor the film. I have pulled some quotes from some reviews and I am printing them below, along with upcoming festival screenings.
Best regards,
Andrew
*** WINNER — SXSW 2012 Special Jury Award ***
"A Must-See—A joyful, exuberant tale" - LA PRENSA"Inspired and inspiring...A paean to the nobility of labor." - PASTE MAGAZINE
Unbelievable, incredibly beautiful and moving" - BLACKBOOK MAGAZINE
"With national discussions swirling around the one-percent versus the 99-percent, Garrison’s thoughtful, eloquent documentary illuminates the reality that all work matters and has dignity, no matter the invisibility of the labor." - AUSTIN-AMERICAN STATESMAN
"Every once in a while a film comes along that opens your mind to the world around you, reminding you just how connected we all are." - AIN'T IT COOL NEWS"Amazing, inspiring and unexpectedly moving." - Emily Ramshaw, THE TEXAS TRIBUNENEW YORK TIMES Arts Beat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/finding-subjective-truths-at-sxswVideo clip of the audience reaction at the World Premiere: http://vimeo.com/38583484TRASHDANCEMOVIE.comUpcoming screenings:
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Saturday, March 31 at 7 p.m..
Atlanta International Film Festival - Saturday, March 31, at 12:45 at the Landmark 8 Theater in Atlanta, and I'll be there for the Q&A.
Full Frame - Sometime around Saturday April 14
Sarasota Film Festival - Screening April 17, 5:15 p.m. and April 18, 1:30 p.m.
Nashville Film Festival -Sometime April 19-26
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on March 22
Andrew Garrison
Posted project update #10Award Winner at SXSW!
Dear Kickstarter Supporters,
It was an amazing four screenings at SXSW! We may have set a record for largest number of people to see a film at SXSW. We had practically full houses at each screening and a standing ovation each time. And at each screening at least three of the employees showed up to speak after the film, some coming in after work and some taking a break while cleaning up at SXSW!
"Trash Dance" won the Special Jury Award at SXSW, an award specifically created to honor the film. I have pulled some quotes from some reviews and I am printing them below, along with upcoming festival screenings.
Best regards,
Andrew
*** WINNER — SXSW 2012 Special Jury Award ***
"A Must-See—A joyful, exuberant tale" - LA PRENSA"Inspired and inspiring...A paean to the nobility of labor." - PASTE MAGAZINE
Unbelievable, incredibly beautiful and moving" - BLACKBOOK MAGAZINE
"With national discussions swirling around the one-percent versus the 99-percent, Garrison’s thoughtful, eloquent documentary illuminates the reality that all work matters and has dignity, no matter the invisibility of the labor." - AUSTIN-AMERICAN STATESMAN
"Every once in a while a film comes along that opens your mind to the world around you, reminding you just how connected we all are." - AIN'T IT COOL NEWS"Amazing, inspiring and unexpectedly moving." - Emily Ramshaw, THE TEXAS TRIBUNENEW YORK TIMES Arts Beat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/finding-subjective-truths-at-sxswVideo clip of the audience reaction at the World Premiere: http://vimeo.com/38583484TRASHDANCEMOVIE.comUpcoming screenings:
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Saturday, March 31 at 7 p.m..
Atlanta International Film Festival - Saturday, March 31, at 12:45 at the Landmark 8 Theater in Atlanta, and I'll be there for the Q&A.
Full Frame - Sometime around Saturday April 14
Sarasota Film Festival - Screening April 17, 5:15 p.m. and April 18, 1:30 p.m.
Nashville Film Festival -Sometime April 19-26
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Marla Boye on March 22
I was at the premiere clapping, whistling, and screaming with all the rest. You deserve the "special award." You have honored and elevated everyone involved. As I have often told people, if you want to see who are the most important people in your city/life, just let the solid-waste workers go on strike. And, you showed Allison as she is; committed to letting people know who they are is more important than what they do, AND what they do can be beautiful, entertaining, and art. As one cast member said, "we are not our jobs." I think all that all who were involved and all who see the movie will think about that statement as it applies to their own life.
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Elisabeth Holm on March 22
so so so damn well deserved. this premiere was my favorite moment at the festival. hands down. thank you for your beautiful story! xo!
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on March 13
Andrew Garrison
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on March 10Funded!
TRASH DANCE Finishing! by Andrew Garrison
COMPLETION and WORLD PREMIERE FESTIVAL LAUNCH of the documentary film about dance, wonder, collaboration, and trash.
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113% funded $9,663 pledged
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on March 9
Andrew Garrison
Posted project update #817 minutes to go
I am humbled and amazed. You guys are awesome. I realize I sound like I am about 12. It is has been a stressful month. Tomorrow, just as when the performance took place, it is going to be raining for our premiere. I take that as a good sign in this parched land. Best wishes to you all.
Andrew
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Andrew Garrison
Austin, TX
Garrison has made documentaries about Appalachian children's photography, a small traveling circus, neighborhoods in Dayton, OH, and the impact of art on the people and economy of an inner-city community. His fiction film, THE WILGUS STORIES, and his ... view more
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