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Exclusive: Veteran indie executive and filmmaker Jeff Lipsky is hooking up with Kino Lorber to launch The Jeff Lipsky Collection on growing streaming service Kino Now. The collection, which becomes available on March 5, will include five out of seven of Lipsky’s directing efforts dating from 2006-2019. Other filmmakers who are similarly represented with Kino Now Auteur Collections include Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Derek Jarman, István Szabó and F.W. Murnau.

On the Lipsky roster are Flannel Pajamas (2006), a relationship story co-starring Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk; family drama Twelve Thirty (2011), starring Jonathan Groff; surreal comedy Molly’s Theory Of Relativity (2013) with Sophia Takal and Lawrence Michael Levine; character study Mad Women (2015), co-starring Reed Birney and Jamie Harrold; and Holocaust-themed family drama The Last (2019), starring Rebecca Schull. Lipsky hopes to add his first film, 1997’s The End, to the collection as soon as its restoration is complete.

Says Lipsky, “Being inducted...

The Last Plainview Pictures Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net with Rotten Tomatoes link by: Harvey Karten Director: Jeff Lipsky Screenwriter: Jeff Lipsky Cast: Rebecca Schull, Jill Durso, Aj Cedeño, Reed Birney Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 3/16/19 Opens: March 29, 2019 Prospective viewers take note. “The Last” features a story that would play better on […]

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Exclusive: Veteran indie executive Jeff Lipsky, who launched distribution consulting firm Glass Half Full Media in 2017, returns to theaters as director/writer this spring with The Last, and we have the first clip (check it out above).

The Last is Lipsky’s 7th feature and is a Holocaust-themed family drama. It tells the story of a modern Orthodox Jewish family whose sense of identity is shattered when its beloved matriarch, played by Rebecca Schull, reveals her true lineage, and what she did during the war. The film co-stars Jill Durso, Aj Cedeño, Julie Fain Lawrence and Tony Award-winner and frequent Lipsky collaborator, Reed Birney.

Produced by Michael Goitanich, and executive produced by Nick Athas. The Last will be released by Glass Half Full Media in domestic theaters on March 29.

Lipsky is the respected co-founder of October Films who later segued to a dual career as a filmmaker and distributor,...

Year after year, festivals have come to show the love of film making people have, bringing together not only filmmakers to showcase their talent, but also moviegoers to enjoy these works of art. The Soho International Film Festival does just that.

The Soho International Film Festival took place from April 5th to April 12th, featuring the works of numerous filmmakers- all ranging from high school students to people with iPhones to filmmakers with actual professional grade camera equipment. No film is discriminated against and nothing is turned away. This is the fourth year of the festival, which films have been shown at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in Soho, New York. With its unique feel, the theater brings forth the audience and filmmakers to have a spectacular festival showing what someone’s passion can lead them to make.

Olivia Delaurentis, a high school junior, wrote and directed the 30 minute film, My Better Half.

The 2013 Soho Film Fest took place between April 5th to April 12th at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in Soho, New York. The fourth year in existence, the Soho Film Fest celebrates all types of filmmakers- from pros to amateurs and anything in between- to help promote the arts and the works of filmmakers everywhere. Anything from 2 minute shorts to full length feature films are shown, and it doesn’t matter who made them since all are shown to get the passion of filmmaking out throughout the world.

The following shorts and films were shown:

A Second Thought: Choice Skinner directed the 2 minute silent short, about a man’s encounter with a woman.

King Tigermore in Strawberry Fields: Tunde Reid-Kapo directed the 3 minute short, which is about a eight year who fell asleep during a chest match to find himself in another world.

Dance of the Books: directed by Lorena Fernandez,...