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FILMMAKER MAGAZINE PICK OF THE WEEK: HELL AND BACK AGAIN

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This week’s “Filmmaker Magazine Pick Of The Week” is Danfung Dennis’ Hell And Back Again. The opening paragraph of Paul Sbrizzi’s review sets the tone right away:

In recent years American war docs have largely moved away from exposés on corruption and bad government policy. Instead, the focus has shifted to small, largely apolitical stories about life in the military and the human cost of war. Hell and Back Again raises the bar for the subgenre, taking the viewer front and center on the physical battlefield and deep into the complex and troubled psyche of a charismatic young soldier.

Read the rest of that review RIGHT HERE (it will be going live on Hammer to Nail Monday morning).

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Michael Tully is an award-winning writer/director whose films have garnered widespread critical acclaim, his projects having premiered at some of the most renowned film festivals across the globe. He is also the former (and founding) editor of this site. In 2006, Michael's first feature, COCAINE ANGEL, chronicling a tragic week in the life of a young drug addict, world premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film immediately solidified the director as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s "25 New Faces of Independent Film,” a reputation that was reinforced a year later when his follow-up feature, SILVER JEW, a documentary capturing the late David Berman's rare musical performances in Tel Aviv, world-premiered at SXSW and landed distribution with cult indie-music label Drag City. In 2011, Michael wrote, directed, and starred in his third feature, SEPTIEN, which debuted at the 27th annual Sundance Film Festival before being acquired by IFC Films' Sundance Selects banner. A few years later, in 2014, Michael returned to Sundance with the world premiere of his fourth feature, PING PONG SUMMER, an ‘80s set coming-of-age tale that was quickly picked up for theatrical distribution by Gravitas Ventures. In 2018, Michael wrote and directed the dread-inducing genre film DON'T LEAVE HOME, which has been described as "Get Out with Catholic guilt in the Irish countryside" (IndieWire). The film premiered at SXSW and was subsequently acquired by Cranked Up Films and Shudder.

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    August 24, 2011
  • Anonymous

    This is another wanker filmmaker forum, from another scammer, everyone getting rich off the gullibility of filmmakers. No one reads this crap anyways, here is what is REALLY IN THE NEWS
    SCAM FEST THE MOVIE http://www.sundancefilmfestival2012.com

    August 24, 2011
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