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CINEMA GUILD HAS RELEASED BOTH OF MATT PORTERFIELD’S FILMS
HAMILTON & PUTTY HILL
IN A TWO DISC COLLECTOR’S EDITION!
BUY FROM AMAZON OR WATCH ON NETFLIX OR ITUNES TODAY!

AND CHECK OUT THE SICK BONUS FEATURES HERE!

AND FILMGALERIE 451 AND REVOLVER HAVE TEAMED UP TO RELEASE IN GERMANY!

Though we’re two days away from shooting, we’re still pulling together the resources to fund the picture through Kickstarter. Watch the video below and learn more about the project here.

• APR 8–14, 2011 :: Los Angeles, CA* :: Sunset 5 Theatre
• APR 11–21, 2011 :: Lake Worth, FL :: Lake Worth Playhouse Stonzek Theatre
• APR 15–21, 2011 :: Omaha, NE* :: Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater
• APR 22–28, 2011 :: Denver, CO* :: Denver FilmCenter, Colfax
• APR 22–28, 2011 :: Chicago, IL :: Gene Siskel Film Center
• APR 22-28, 2011 :: New Orleans, LA :: Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center

* Director, Matt Porterfield in attendance!

To celebrate the opening weekend of PUTTY HILL in New York City, February 18th at Cinema Village, Matt Porterfield will be sitting down with special guests for post-screening conversations after every evening screening .

The weekend will culminate with a party at Lit Lounge Sunday February 20th, featuring the music of Co La, Dustin Wong, and Dope Body.

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Friday 2/18

• 5pm screening: conversation w/ Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter) and Matt Porterfield
• 7pm screening: conversation w/ Jonathan Caouette (TARNATION), Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance and the PUTTY HILL crew
• 9pm screening: conversation w/ Yance Ford (POV), Esther Robinson (ArtHome, DANNY WILLIAMS: A WALK IN THE SEA), and Ross Kauffman (BORN INTO BROTHELS)

Saturday 2/19

• 12pm screening: conversation w/ Matt Porterfield and his dad, Gordon
• 5pm screening: conversation w/ Jeronimo Rodriguez (NY1 News) and Matt Porterfield
• 7pm screening: conversation w/ Richard Brody (The New Yorker) and Matt Porterfield
• 9pm screening: conversation w/ Amos Poe (filmmaker) and Matt Porterfield

Sunday 2/20

• 5pm screening: conversation w/ Amy Dotson (IFP) and Matt Porterfield
• 7pm screening: conversation w/ Chris Keating (Yeasayer) and Matt Porterfield
• 9pm screening: conversation w/ Jem Cohen (filmmaker) and the PUTTY HILL crew

A beautifully realized portrait of a close-knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore, PUTTY HILL is the second feature from celebrated young filmmaker Matt Porterfield (HAMILTON). At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life. In the process, they offer a window onto their own lives, an evocative picture of working-class America, dislocated from the progress and mobility around them, but united in pursuit of a shared dream. Exquisitely shot and employing surprising documentary techniques, PUTTY HILL, is one of the most exciting American indie films in years.

The Cinema Eye Heterodox Award marks a new award category created to honor a narrative film that imaginatively incorporates nonfiction strategies, content and/or modes of production. These films illuminate the formal possibilities of nonfiction filmmaking while raising provocative questions about on-going documentary orthodoxy and the perceived boundaries between narrative and nonfiction filmmaking.

The five films nominated for the first Heterodox Award are: Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio’s ALAMAR, Matt Porterfield’s PUTTY HILL, Michelangelo Frammartino’s LE QUATTRO VOLTE, Lena Dunham’s TINY FURNITURE, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES.

The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund established the Baker Artist Awards in 2008-2009 to recognize Baltimore’s artists and engage regional, national and international audiences in supporting these artists’ work. The 2011 Baker Artist Awards encourage all Baltimore area artists working in any creative discipline to register, exhibit their work, promote the site to friends, enjoy the broad public attention given to the site and compete for the Mary Sawyers Baker Prizes. The latest web technology is available to artists and the viewing public to better appreciate video, audio, image and text nominations. All site visitors are invited to logon as participants and to create a “favorites” exhibition, to comment on artist work and contribute to the site blog. Check out Matt Porterfield’s 2010 Baker Awards nomination HERE.