Here is a slide show of the 1998 BROAD HUMOR FILM FESTIVAL in Venice, CA. This is the only woman’s comedy film festival in the world and CREATING KARMA won for BEST FEATURE FILM!!!!!!!!!
WINNER! BEST FEATURE: 2008 BROAD HUMOR FILM FESTIVAL, Venice, CaliforniaWINNER! BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE COMEDY/Category/About Women By Women: 2007 BRILLIANT LIGHT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Los Angeles, California
Festivals
Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NYC) - World Festival PremiereGem City Film Festival (Palatka, FL) *** Brilliant Light International Film Festival of Los Angeles - LA Festival Premiere: WINNER! BEST IN CATEGORY: NARRATIVE COMEDY FEATURE BY WOMEN FOR WOMENCannes Film Market (Marche du Film) (Cannes, France) Cape May NJ State Film Festival (Cape May, NJ) PFF London Film Makers Convention (Notting Hill, London, UK) TOMI Film Festival (New Orleans, Louisiana) ***The Broad Humor Film Festival (Venice, CA) WINNER! BEST FEATUREPortobello Film Festival (Notting Hill, London, UK)Somewhat North of Boston (S.N.O.B.) Film Festival (Concord, New Hampshire)
Professional Affiliations
Equity, SAG, AFTRA, SCL, associate with SSDC
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General
CREATING KARMA is about: Poetry, sitar, ukelele, gay lifestyle, straight lifestyle, fashion, actors, dancers, bellydancing, water birth, Woodstock, Borscht Belt, New York City, Lower East Side, punk, sing-a-longs, folk music, East Village, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Kali, karma, rock music, pop, designer coffee, gentrification, Bear Mountain, upstate New York, theater, musicians, daisies, mandrake, Washington Square, Central Park, street vendors, dog walkers, hats, shopping, models, London, Baden Baden, French Riviera, creative writing, turbans, hula hoops, therapy, yoga, nutrition, vegetarians, lattes, nuns, rabbis, podiatry, sunglasses, tofu, puppets, cafes, massage, dry cleaning, stand up, ice cream, lollipops
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CREATING KARMA (SYNOPSIS):
Karma, uptight fashion editor, becomes a poet after losing her job and moving in with her wacky new-age therapist sister in this first time feature by Jill Wisoff. While the film's screwball characters gives a nod to the sixties Peter Sellers screwball farces “The Party” and “I love you Alice B. Toklas”, it's to be enjoyed for its corny borscht belt humor and New York angst familiar in the works of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen.
Creating Karma is a truly indie film with a screenplay by and co-starring Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo, a cast of over one hundred including top billed dancing diva co-star of "Saturday Night Fever" fame Karen Lynn Gorney as Karma's shopaholic mother Chanel, esteemed character actor Joe Grifasi and talented newcomers. Catchy songs by Jill Wisoff ("Welcome to the Dollhouse" songs/score, co-star in Todd Solondz's "Fear, Anxiety & Depression") and music by Joel Diamond (Sundance Winner “The Believer”, “Milarepa”).
Winner of two best comedy feature awards including the 2008 Best Feature Award at the Broad Humor Film Festival. Comedy
Publicity quote by the 2008 Broad Humor Festival:
"This manic Bollywood-style romp from the 60's era of free love to contemporary pseudo-spiritual philosophy is big-screen farce full of fun!"
Official LA Splash Review:
“Farce is a genre where, if you do it right, your movie ebbs and flows comfortably between the ridiculous and the outrageous. And farce in full force is what you will get with the comedy feature Creating Karma. The montage cross dissolving motif employed in the film serves well to toy with time and add a healthy touch of the dreamscape surreal. Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo are co-writers and co-stars in this “boobs to the wall” comedy with Wisoff also tackling director duties. CREATING KARMA was awarded BEST FEATURE in the 2008 Broad Humor Film Festival.”
"Kudos to Rahad Coulter-Stevenson for his noteworthy performance. The role of Vincent features a sock puppet as a co-star. Stevenson gives a lovely, balanced, eccentric performance in a role that could have very easily fallen prey to mere "impression of insanity" with less capable actor."
Neil Pedly for ifctv.com:
“With the rancid taste of the unmitigated comedy disaster that was "The Love Guru" still fresh in viewer's mouths, it's a brave person (or in this case, two) that would bring campy sitar players and kooky New Age therapy back to the big screen so soon. A directorial bow for musician and composer Jill Wisoff, this quirky comedy finds a well-to-do fashion magazine editor (co-writer Carol Lee Sirugo) undergoing a radical transformation into a poet when she moves in with her hippie half-sister (Wisoff)
HISTORY:
CREATING KARMA put in its dues with 2 years on the film festival circuit garnering 2 best feature awards and official selection picks in its festival version edit. This version screened at US festivals and twice in London as well as the Cannes Film Market. The film is being prepared for a pre-Xmas 2009 U.S. anamorphic widescreen dvd release as well as other formats for theatrical, download and broadcast.
FILMMAKER'S MESSAGE WITH CREATING KARMA:
Being in the arts in New York City I've had first hand experience watching as friends of mine have slowly been shut out of an acceptable quality of life, unable to continue in their crafts as musicians, actors, artists and dancers in Manhattan as rents have skyrocketed. This film was made in response to the hopelessness that's been experienced as a result of the economic crisis and gentrification of New York City and to bring a smile to the faces of those in similar states of desperation and flux from being pushed out of their homes for reasons beyond their control elsewhere.
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CREATING KARMA
Runtime: 90 minutes
comedy feature NTSC Color
NR (no rating by the MPAA)
Film contains a couple of instances of mild profanity and visual insinuation. Content would be over the head for young children; tween and up appropriate. Parental guidance suggested.
CREATING KARMA...MAIN CREDITS:
Jill Wisoff: Director, Co-Writer, Producer; Carol Lee Sirugo: Co-Writer; David Wright: Co-Producer; Associate Producer: Catherine Gulacsy; Carter Bissell: DP; Editor: Jill Wisoff, Christine Giorgio, David Wright; Composer: Joel Diamond; Art Direction: Kathleen Muldoon; Costumes: Nina SimichCAST:Karen Lynn Gorney, Carol Lee Sirugo, Jill Wisoff, Rahad Coulter-Stevenson, Joe Grifasi, Roland Sands, Peggy A. Kirkpatrick, Jeremy Ebenstein, Jennifer Lee Mitchell, Riana Hershenfeld
Additional featured actors include: David Wright, David Schecter, Nimo Gandhi, Marion Markham, Brad Lee Wind, Nick Raio, Emily Mitchell, Angela Muto, Joe Cross, Robert Galinsky, Dinarte Freitas, Bronwen Coleman, Cathie Boruch, Brian Armstrong, Alexandre de Toulouse Lautrec, Pashu Pathi Ganeshan, Moogy Klingman, Danielle Roth, Lucy McMichael, Katie Christian, Johnny Black, Jimi Black, Ronnie Barua, Leslie Levinson, Brett Haines, Andrew McCann, Maia Kern, Steve Bussen, Donna She Wolf, Joseph (Scheebo) Pampillonia, Harvey Kaufman, Mark Philip Patrick, Stephen LeMay, Norma Chu, Marlene Villafane, Veronica Ramirez, Talulah Marie Gilroy, Patrick Cashin, Jeremiah Neeley, Paul Parker, Eric Holzer
DIRECTOR'S BACKGROUND:
In addition to creating the musical score/songs for Sundance winner WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (Sundance winner 1996) and co-starring in Todd Solondz's first feature FEAR ANXIETY & DEPRESSION, Jill Wisoff is best known from bands as a guitarist/bass player most notably as bassist for the late JOHNNY THUNDERS in the formative line-up of The Oddballs.
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Fantastic
Planet is invading the screens of Dendy Cinema Newtown, from October 30 to
November 6, 2009. There are side-screenings, forums, and parties at other
Sydney venues including: Metro Screen, Mu-Meson Archives, and Club 77.
Tickets for all Dendy Newtown sessions are
available now.
Book online or by phoning (02) 9550 5699.
Friday morning Sept 4, on Turner Classic Movies, Bonita
will appear in two classic films. The first, starting at 7am Eastern is
the very rare gem HITLER'S CHILDREN from 1943.
This propaganda
piece starts in 1933. Prof. Nichols' American school in Berlin is next
door to a school for the Hitler Youth. Karl, from the latter, is
attracted to German-American Anna, but events lead to their separation.
Later, at the outbreak of war in Europe, Anna is removed from Nichols'
school on presumption of German citizenship. Nichols becomes obsessed
with finding her, as Anna undergoes a rather lurid odyssey through the
Nazi nightmare. This movie is very rare and has not yet been released
on home video.
Next at 10 am (Eastern) we have SEVEN MILES FROM
ALCATRAZ made in 1942. After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison
live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to
a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse
island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their
efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a
big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their
patriotism? Bonita stars as Anne Porter in this rarely shown film. It
too has yet to be released on home video.
Please check your local listings and set your DVRs or video recorders NOW to capture these two great films.
If you are a classic movie lover, you will not be disappointed!
Hey Jill, its Derrick. Im Mike Georges old punk student who just graduated. We spoke on my old myspace. This is my new band in the city! We are actually not bad, so if you get a chance, please give us a listen! I would really love to hear what you think about us! Thank you soo much! Much respect, -Derrick Utopic
You have surely heard about the tragic death of a brave young woman who was murdered in Iran just for peacefully protesting with her father on the streets of Teheran.
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Hey! How's it going? It's getting hot outside and it's time for indie films.
This month I'm promoting this Indie Film - "Gentleman's Choice - The Chris Adams Story" - a hard hitting documentary on the tragic death of a sports entertainer.
Watch it online ($5) or buy the DVD at http://gentleman.eyesoda.comGentleman's Choice: The Chris Adams Story Trailer
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“New Flavors: The Emergence of Southern Hip Hop” features dirty-south players like Chamillionaire, Akon, Luke, Trina and Piles.
You can watch this film online 24/7 at http://www.eyesoda.com/film/219 .
New Flavors
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