"THE LAST FIVE MINUTES" = Director, Kerry David talks about the making of Breaking Their Silence
Newport Beach Film Festival - 2019
• Official Selection Breaking Their Silence
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival 2019
• Official Selection Breaking Their Silence
World Peace Initiative Cannes 2019
• Winner "Best Wildlife & Endangered Species Feature Documentary" Breaking Their Silence
Out of the Can Film Festival, Derby, England 2018
• Winner "Best First Time Director - Male or Female " Bill Coors: The Will to Live
The IndieFest Film Awards 2018
• Winner "Award of Excellence: Best Documentary: Special Mention" Bill Coors: The Will to Live
• Winner "Award of Excellence: Best Documentary: Female Filmmaker" Bill Coors: The Will to Live
Impact Docs Awards 2018
• Winner "Award of Excellence: Documentary Filmmaking" Bill Coors: The Will to Live
Queen Palm International Film Festival 2018
• Nominated "Best Producer" Bill Coors: The Will to Live
New York United Film Festival
• Winner "Best Documentary" Seeking Happily Ever After
Action On Film Festival
• Nominated, "Best Documentary" and "Best Female Filmmaker" Seeking Happily Ever After
LA United Film Festival
• Won, The Jury Award For Best Feature - for Like Dandelion Dust
CAIFF Film Festival
• Won, Mira Sorvino - "Best Actress" Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
San Diego Film Festival
• Won, Mira Sorvino "Best Actress" & Barry Pepper 'Best Actor" for Like Dandelion Dust
Cinema City International Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Deauville Film Festival
• Won, "Première" Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Gen Art Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
Heartland Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Dramatic Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
VisionFest International Film Festival
• Won, Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Best Screenplay for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Best Actor "Barry Pepper" for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Best Actress "Mira Sorvino" for Like Dandelion Dust
Las Vegas International Film Festival
• Won, Grand Jury Prize Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Jury Prize Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
New York VisionFest
• Won, Film Competition Award Production for Like Dandelion Dust
San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
• Won, George Sidney Independent Film Competition - Special Jury Prize Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Grand Rapids Film Festival
• Won, Jury Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Sedona International Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Sonoma Valley Film Festival
• Won, Jury Award Best Narrative Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Audience Award Best Picture for Like Dandelion Dust
Previous Year:
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
• Won, Jury Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
• Won, Special Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
Stony Brook Film Festival
• Won, Audience Choice Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• Won, "Best of the Fest" Like Dandelion Dust
Telly Award
• Won, Outstanding Instructional Content and Cinematic Excellence Expert Insight: Short Game Golf with Jim Furyk & Fred Funk (2007)
• Won, "Best of the Fest" Like Dandelion Dust (2009)
Locarno International Film Festival
Won, Critics Week Award - Special Mention for My Date with Drew
U.S. Comedy Arts Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
Vail Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Previous Year:
• Won, Audience Award Best Documentary for My Date with Drew
• Official Selection Breaking Their Silence
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival 2019
• Official Selection Breaking Their Silence
World Peace Initiative Cannes 2019
• Winner "Best Wildlife & Endangered Species Feature Documentary" Breaking Their Silence
Out of the Can Film Festival, Derby, England 2018
• Winner "Best First Time Director - Male or Female " Bill Coors: The Will to Live
The IndieFest Film Awards 2018
• Winner "Award of Excellence: Best Documentary: Special Mention" Bill Coors: The Will to Live
• Winner "Award of Excellence: Best Documentary: Female Filmmaker" Bill Coors: The Will to Live
Impact Docs Awards 2018
• Winner "Award of Excellence: Documentary Filmmaking" Bill Coors: The Will to Live
Queen Palm International Film Festival 2018
• Nominated "Best Producer" Bill Coors: The Will to Live
New York United Film Festival
• Winner "Best Documentary" Seeking Happily Ever After
Action On Film Festival
• Nominated, "Best Documentary" and "Best Female Filmmaker" Seeking Happily Ever After
LA United Film Festival
• Won, The Jury Award For Best Feature - for Like Dandelion Dust
CAIFF Film Festival
• Won, Mira Sorvino - "Best Actress" Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
San Diego Film Festival
• Won, Mira Sorvino "Best Actress" & Barry Pepper 'Best Actor" for Like Dandelion Dust
Cinema City International Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Deauville Film Festival
• Won, "Première" Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Gen Art Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
Heartland Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Dramatic Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
VisionFest International Film Festival
• Won, Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Best Screenplay for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Best Actor "Barry Pepper" for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Best Actress "Mira Sorvino" for Like Dandelion Dust
Las Vegas International Film Festival
• Won, Grand Jury Prize Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Jury Prize Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
New York VisionFest
• Won, Film Competition Award Production for Like Dandelion Dust
San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
• Won, George Sidney Independent Film Competition - Special Jury Prize Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Grand Rapids Film Festival
• Won, Jury Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Sedona International Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Sonoma Valley Film Festival
• Won, Jury Award Best Narrative Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
• Won, Audience Award Best Picture for Like Dandelion Dust
Previous Year:
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
• Won, Jury Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
• Won, Special Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
Stony Brook Film Festival
• Won, Audience Choice Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• Won, "Best of the Fest" Like Dandelion Dust
Telly Award
• Won, Outstanding Instructional Content and Cinematic Excellence Expert Insight: Short Game Golf with Jim Furyk & Fred Funk (2007)
• Won, "Best of the Fest" Like Dandelion Dust (2009)
Locarno International Film Festival
Won, Critics Week Award - Special Mention for My Date with Drew
U.S. Comedy Arts Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for My Date with Drew
Vail Film Festival
• Won, Audience Award Best Feature for Like Dandelion Dust
Previous Year:
• Won, Audience Award Best Documentary for My Date with Drew
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Getting to the Yes - Secrets of a Hollywood Insider!
Many filmmakers make common and easily fixable mistakes by not knowing enough about what the studio executive, financier or distributor is looking for. This article helps eliminate the no's to discover the "yes"!
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* Writers/Actors/Producers/Directors and all Filmmakers dedicated to success.
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* Below the line crew interested in Producing.
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Wouldn't you like to read about some of the things you can do to better prepare your project for a resounding "yes" when you pitch it?
What people are already saying about "Getting to the "YES"
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"Finally! Smart strategies about how to get through the process of showing your work and making sure you get noticed. Kerry writes in a friendly, relatable voice, and offers specific steps that will help everyone get to the final YES."
Michelle Cove, bestselling author and documentary filmmaker - Boston.
"Getting to the "YES" is compulsory reading if you are dedicated to making it in the entertainment industry and willing to think a little more outside the box.
Autumn Burke; Singer, Actress, Assembly Woman - Pacific Palisades
For only $9.99 you can learn new strategies for success and put into practice tools learned from a working producer. Using her own stories from the many projects she's produced over the years as examples, she shares with her readers how she turned the "no's" into a resounding "YES" and how, with a little creative thinking and insider know-how, you can too!
Kerry David is a multiple award-winning producer of such projects as "Like Dandelion Dust", "Expert Insight: Short Game Golf with Jim Furyk & Fred Funk", "Perfect Romance", My Date with Drew", "Agent Cody Banks", "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London", "The Usual Suspects: Deposing the Usual Suspects" and the upcoming: "Seeking Happily Ever After", "Making Miles: The Miles Davis Story", "College Sucks", "Wrapped In A Black Flag" and "ShadowTrade. She founded the social networking site IndieProducer.net to encourage and support new and emerging filmmakers, and has been a guest speaker, panelist, and moderator at film festivals and film summits all over the world. She is a member of the PGA (Producers Guild of America) and BAFTA (British Academy of Film & TV awards and a mentor for the Step Up Program which mentors young women in business.
Many filmmakers make common and easily fixable mistakes by not knowing enough about what the studio executive, financier or distributor is looking for. This article helps eliminate the no's to discover the "yes"!
Who should purchase this article?
* Writers/Actors/Producers/Directors and all Filmmakers dedicated to success.
* Filmmakers looking to green light their projects.
* Actors/writers/directors or producers looking for representation.
* Interns and assistants looking for insider information.
* Anyone graduating or starting film school or the arts.
* Anyone interested in the script submission process.
* Below the line crew interested in Producing.
* Anyone who wants to learn how to turn those "no's into a resounding "YES"!
Are you feeling stuck? Feeling like you can't move forward? Trying to submit your script to a studio, producer, financier or executive but you keeping hearing no? Or maybe you're trying to get an agent or manager but not sure how to get their attention. Multiple award-winning Producer & Hollywood Insider Kerry David answers these questions & more as she shares her secrets for navigating all those Hollywood "no's" and getting to the "yes".This insightful twenty-six page article is written to shed light on some of the ways you can rethink your project or career; reposition it if necessary to find success and even suggests that hearing "no" can sometimes be a good thing!
Wouldn't you like to read about some of the things you can do to better prepare your project for a resounding "yes" when you pitch it?
What people are already saying about "Getting to the "YES"
"This felt like a year of film instruction covered in 26 pages! Inspiring to any filmmaker, beginner or established. I highly recommend it!
Brian Herzlinger, Writer, Director, On-Air Talent - Los Angeles
"Finally! Smart strategies about how to get through the process of showing your work and making sure you get noticed. Kerry writes in a friendly, relatable voice, and offers specific steps that will help everyone get to the final YES."
Michelle Cove, bestselling author and documentary filmmaker - Boston.
"Getting to the "YES" is compulsory reading if you are dedicated to making it in the entertainment industry and willing to think a little more outside the box.
Autumn Burke; Singer, Actress, Assembly Woman - Pacific Palisades
For only $9.99 you can learn new strategies for success and put into practice tools learned from a working producer. Using her own stories from the many projects she's produced over the years as examples, she shares with her readers how she turned the "no's" into a resounding "YES" and how, with a little creative thinking and insider know-how, you can too!
Kerry David is a multiple award-winning producer of such projects as "Like Dandelion Dust", "Expert Insight: Short Game Golf with Jim Furyk & Fred Funk", "Perfect Romance", My Date with Drew", "Agent Cody Banks", "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London", "The Usual Suspects: Deposing the Usual Suspects" and the upcoming: "Seeking Happily Ever After", "Making Miles: The Miles Davis Story", "College Sucks", "Wrapped In A Black Flag" and "ShadowTrade. She founded the social networking site IndieProducer.net to encourage and support new and emerging filmmakers, and has been a guest speaker, panelist, and moderator at film festivals and film summits all over the world. She is a member of the PGA (Producers Guild of America) and BAFTA (British Academy of Film & TV awards and a mentor for the Step Up Program which mentors young women in business.
Articles and interviews with Producer, Kerry David:
http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/indieproducer_kerry_david_20100714/
http://www.horrornews.net/interviews/_interviews_Kerry_David.html
http://www.actorslife.com/article.php?id=84
http://www.thestream.tv/watch.php?v=1281
http://www.geniuseffectla.com/geniussaves/tag/kerry-david/
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=165611
http://www.indieproducer.net/profile/KerryDavid
http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2008/07/seeking_happily_ever_after.php
http://collegesucksthemovie.com/College_Sucks_The_Movie/Kerry_David.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/Kerdavid
http://www.scriptmag.com/event-coverage/the-second-annual-ip-awards-gala.html
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrydavid
http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/indieproducer_kerry_david_20100714/
http://www.horrornews.net/interviews/_interviews_Kerry_David.html
http://www.actorslife.com/article.php?id=84
http://www.thestream.tv/watch.php?v=1281
http://www.geniuseffectla.com/geniussaves/tag/kerry-david/
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=165611
http://www.indieproducer.net/profile/KerryDavid
http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2008/07/seeking_happily_ever_after.php
http://collegesucksthemovie.com/College_Sucks_The_Movie/Kerry_David.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/Kerdavid
http://www.scriptmag.com/event-coverage/the-second-annual-ip-awards-gala.html
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrydavid