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Featuring: Chris Alexander, Dave Alexander, Chad Archibald, Charles Band, Yazid Benfeghoul, Justin Benson, Zack Bernbaum and many more! | Directed by Justin McConnell

If you watch independent movies, listen to the podcasts about them and follow the people that make them on social media, then Clapboard Jungle is the movie for you. Directed by Justin McConnell he films his own story as an independent filmmaker and all of the struggles that go along with it. He shares five years of his life (2014-2019) but also interviews directors, writers, producers, festival organisers, distributors and much more,giving the viewer a kind of ‘survival guide’ for anybody already in or wanting to start in the industry.

Every talking head has something interesting to say from Guilermo del Toro to Heather Buckley to Mick Garris to Gigi Saul Guerrero to Mike Mendez and many many more. They each talk about their own experiences, what...

Featuring: Chris Alexander, Dave Alexander, Chad Archibald, Charles Band, Yazid Benfeghoul, Justin Benson, Zack Bernbaum ana many more! | Directed by Justin McConnell

If you watch independent movies, listen to the podcasts about them and follow the people that make them on social media, then Clapboard Jungle is the movie for you.

Directed by Justin McConnell he films his own story as an independent filmmaker and all of the struggles that go along with it. He shares five years of his life (2014-2019) but also interviews directors, writers, producers, festival organisers, distributors and much more,giving the viewer a kind of ‘survival guide’ for anybody already in or wanting to start in the industry.

Every talking head has something interesting to say from Guilermo del Toro to Heather Buckley to Mick Garris to Gigi Saul Guerrero to Mike Mendez and many many more. They each talk about their own experiences, what...

Zack Bernbaum directed story of estranged siblings on personal mission.

Concourse Media has licensed North American rights on The Dancing Dogs Of Dombrova starring Katherine Fogler (Suits) and Douglas Nyback (Defiance) to Film Movement.

Zack Bernbaum directed and produced the feature from a screenplay by Michael Whatling about an estranged sister and brother who travel to Poland at the request of their dying grandmother to retrieve a dog from her past.

The Dancing Dogs Of Dombrova has screened at the RiverRun International Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival, and San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, among others. Michael Rosenberg of Film Movement...

Exclusive: The thriller will be sold at Mipcom this week.

Screen Media Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to Sudden Storm Entertainment’s Cold Deck and will begin foreign sales on the crime thriller at this week’s Mipcom market in Cannes. A Us ancillary release is planned for late this year or early 2016.

Cold Deck stars Paul Sorvino, Robert Knepper and Stéfano Gallo in the story of a gambler who has to pull off a high-stakes heist in order to get out of debt. Zack Bernbaum (And Now a Word From Our Sponsor) directs from a screenplay by Jason Lapeyre (I Declare War), Gallo and Slater Jewell-Kempker.

Jesse Ikeman and Jeff Glickman from Sudden Storm produced alongside executive producers Justin McConnell, Gallo and Bernbaum.

The deal was negotiated by Ikeman, Unstable Ground’s Justin McConnell and Screen Media director of worldwide acquisitions Seth Needle.

• Guy Pearce and Dominic West have signed on for Genius, joining Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Laura Linney. Michael Grandage is directing the film, marking his feature debut. John Logan adapted A. Scott Berg’s book for the screen. Pearce will play F. Scott Fitzgerald, while West will portray Ernest Hemingway. The film will relay the true, complicated relationship between novelist Thomas Wolfe (Law) and his editor, Max Perkins (Firth). Kidman will play Aline Bernstein, with Linney as Louise Perkins. Genius comes as the third collaboration between Grandage, producing partner James Bierman, and John Logan. Filming kicks off...

Paul Sorvino, Robert Knepper and Stéfano Gallo have been cast in Cold Deck ahead of the scheduled September 30 start in Toronto.

Zack Bernbaum directs from a screenplay by Jason Lapeyre and Stéfano Gallo about a gambler who

Cold Deck centres on a gambler who must pull off a robbery to pay off his debts.

Jesse Ikeman and Jeff Glickman from Sudden Storm Entertainment are producing alongside Scooping Owl Productions’ Stéfano Gallo, who also serves as executive producer with Justin McConnell and Zack Bernbaum.

Sudden Storm’s Ikeman and Innovative Artists negotiated the deal with Sorvino (pictured) and Kramer Management for Knepper.

Shooting has begun in New York on The Boombox Project, the first feature from commercials director Rohan Blair-Mangat. Former Screen International Star Of Tomorrow by Dominic Buchanan of Stink Films produces the film about the rise of the speaker system in the 1970s and 1980s.

Commercial Failure: Bernbaum’s Debut Doa

What sounds good on paper doesn’t always translate well on screen, and Zack Bernbaum’s directorial debut, And Now a Word from Our Sponsor, exemplifies the delirious dangers of gimmicky filmmaking. A cutesy idea that doesn’t seem far removed from something that could have easily been a wooden studio feature top lining Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler, sinks like a lead balloon within its establishing frames. Instead of making any attempt to redirect from the predictable trajectory outlined by its feeble premise, Bernbaum, together with Michael Hamilton-Wright’s naggingly insistent screenplay, instead plunge head long into its flat concept, a stubborn perseverance that makes its slight running time a grueling test of patience.

Opening with a montage of famous commercials, we find the collapsed body of Adan Kundle (Bruce Greenwood), unconscious in a white room filled with static television sets. It turns...

There’s a nugget of a great satire within Zack Bernbaum’s “And Now A Word From Our Sponsor,” which begins with the discovery of missing advertising wizard Adan Kundle (Bruce Greenwood). A year has passed since the eccentric head of Kundle Advertising walked out of his office and disappeared, found passed out in front of a row of televisions in an electronics store. Physically, he’s fine: Greenwood is a perfect casting choice as a man seemingly born to sell. It’s fitting that despite a solid collection of big-screen roles, Greenwood has always seemed more at home on television. Distinguished but with a devilish grin, Greenwood can’t help but always seem like he’s just stepped out of a Gillette commercial. In the hospital, he wakes to the face of Karen Hillridge (Parker Posey), a former student from Kundle’s advertising workshop twenty years prior. Karen is...

Still lean and handsome in his 50s, Bruce Greenwood has proven to be an incredibly versatile actor over a career that stretches back to the late 1970s. In many of his roles, Greenwood has exuded great intelligence, whether he's playing a heroic type or a villain, so casting him in And Now a Word From Our Sponsor as a guileless advertising executive who can only speak in advertising slogans sounds like a canny idea. The execution of that idea falls short, however. In the screenplay written by Michael Hamilton-Wright and directed by Zack Bernbaum, Greenwood embodies Adan Kundle with the requisite blank-eyed expression and stiff body language, and he recites marketing catchphrases with aplomb. After kind-hearted charity fundraiser Karen Hillridge (Parker Posey) agrees to put...

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Adan (Bruce Greenwood) may have disappeared from the advertising world but he is still a [M]ad man in his mind. Unable to speak without parroting advertising slogans, Adan finds himself relegated to Karen's (Parker Posey) hospital. Now a hospital administrator, Karen studied advertising at some point in her past, and is an admirer of Adan's work. Her past hero worship of Adan somehow convinces Karen that it would be a great idea to take this certifiably crazy man into her home where she lives with her stereotypically disrespectful teenage daughter, Meghan (Allie MacDonald). Hilarity ensues. Okay, maybe not. For the most part, Zack Bernbaum's And Now a Word from Our Sponsor plays the satirical card with a totally straight face. This is not a goofball comedy about a man who speaks only in slogans. Despite the nonsensical absurdity of it all, And Now a Word from Our Sponsor opts...

Ever wonder what it’d be like to just talk in advertising slogans? Well, you’ll find out when you watch the intriguing comedy/drama “And Now a Word from Our Sponsor.” The film, directed by Zack Bernbaum and written by Michael Hamilton-Wright and stars Parker Posey, “Star Trek” star Bruce Greenwood and Callum Blue delves into strangeness when an ad exec is discovered unconscious and wakes up to only speak in ad slogans: “Adan Kundle (Bruce Greenwood), CEO of a major advertising agency, is discovered unconscious in front of a wall of TVs. When he wakes in the hospital, Adan can only communicate through advertising slogans. There he meets Karen Hillridge (Parker [ Read More ]

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Well that was.interesting. Until the last drop even. This first trailer for Zack Bernbaum.s debut feature And Now a Word from Our Sponsor, released by Apple, does a solid job of conveying its mildly ridiculous plotline, which involves a man whose communication skills allow him to speak only using commercial slogans. And for better or worse, it.s one of the only previews that may make you second guess whether you.re watching a skippable YouTube ad or not. In the film, Bruce Greenwood plays Adan Kundle, an advertising agency CEO who goes missing after falling unconscious in front of a wall of TVs. He is soon found in under a doctor's care by the hospital.s charity head Karen Hillridge, played by the always enjoyable Parker Posey, who reluctantly takes him into her home while they wait for a more permanent solution for Adan.s slogan-speaking affliction.

"Everything can be bought and sold. Even you." Well, this looks strange. Indie darling Parker Posey joins forces with Star Trek actor Bruce Greenwood for this little strange comedic drama called And Now a Word from Our Sponsor. As you might be able to guess from the title, the story takes place in the world of advertising where the CEO of a major advertising company (Greenwood) who has disappeared, but is discovered in a hospital by a charity foundation head (Posey). The catch? He's only speaking in advertising slogans, and his company's board wants him declared incapacitated so he can be thrown overboard. The trailer feels like a commercial for all commercials with some vague hint of an indie movie in there. Watch? Here's the first trailer for Zack Bernbaum's And Now a Word from Our Sponsor, via Apple: Adan Kundle, CEO of a major advertising agency, is discovered...

108 Media was launched early this year by COO Nathaniel Warsh and CEO Ahbi Rastoghi, the former Managing Director of Cinesavvy, a Canadian film finance and sales company where he exec produced Golden Globe nominated Frankie & Alice starring Academy Award winner Halle Berry and , established2012. They set up 108 Media as a unique, vertically integrated and diversified next-generation media company with activities including worldwide sales, distribution, and ownership of films, television, and digital content. The company seeks underappreciated, overlooked gems across a wide range of genres, with and without North American rights attached.

In December 2011, 108 began acquiring more than 10 pictures, some for North American Distribution, some for international sales representation and some for both.

In August 2012 the company announced a partnership with Mark Urman's Paladin for North American distribution to be led by My Brother the Devil. The new venture kicks off with an initial slate of five titles that 108 Media has acquired over the past several months. The films will be released starting late this year and will extend through the first quarter of 2013.

Of the deal Urman says, "I am thrilled to be working with 108 Media on the distribution of these impressive and varied films, and am even more excited about the projects we will be able to pursue together.” Rastogi comments, "We always had Mark in mind as the ideal partner to do the films justice and help us plant a flag in the U.S. His reputation, contacts, and talents are second to none and, with several fine films in hand, we can hit the ground running as a full-service distributor."

Exemplifying the sort of project 108 Media and Paladin plan to release-- quality based, distinctive films with festival pedigree and critical cachet-- is Sally El Hosaini's My Brother the Devil, which has garnered awards and acclaim at Sundance, Berlin, Frameline, and Outfest. Developed at multiple Sundance Institute labs, the film stars James Floyd as a young Londoner from a traditional Egyptian family who tries to break free from the violent street gang he belongs to, only to discover that his teenage brother is attracted to the very life he is trying to escape. The film is slated for a March 2013 release.

Also on the slate are two provocative documentaries that premiered at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival: Alexandra Berger’s Danland, a candid look at the personal life of amateur pornographer Dan Leal; and Todd Kellstein’s Buffalo Girls, a searing exposé of the world of child boxing in Thailand. Representing international cinema is Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe, Akan Satayev’s sweeping historical epic, a box-office smash in its native Kazakhstan and the country’s frontrunner to be this year’s official foreign language Oscar entry. Equally successful in its homeland is the animated feature Leafie, by Seong-yun Oh, the acclaimed, award-winning hit from Korea. Leafie will be dubbed into English for its North American release.

With its partnership with Paladin in place, 108 Media is in a position to guarantee North American distribution to its international sales clients and is also able to pre-buy domestic rights on a selective basis going forward. Current world sales titles include the aforementioned Myn Bala as well as Zack Bernbaum’s contemporary comic fable, And Now a Word From Our Sponsor, starring Bruce Greenwood and Parker Posey.

108 Media’s ancillary arrangements include a combination of direct deals with certain platforms as well as select partnerships with established companies. Announcements on these deals will be made shortly. “Thanks to Paladin and our new ancillary partners,” says Rastogi, “we are now in a unique position to offer a full spectrum of services and a customized release strategy, both domestically and internationally, to a broad range of films and filmmakers worldwide.”...