Mother/Son Filmmaking Team Sweep KY, OR & NYC; Take Top Honors
Las Vegas, Nevada – The Dynamic Duo keeps taking the indie film world by storm.
The real-life Mother and Son filmmaking team of Jack Truman and Opal Dockery took top honors at 3 film festivals across the country last week. PHONE SEX GRANDMA, the award-winning hit cult short film about a phone sex operator in a ghost town, won BEST DIRECTOR at the Oregon Film Awards. It also returned to New York City, screening at the Chashama Film Festival.
PHONE SEX GRANDMA premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival. Since its premiere, PSG has screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide, earning rave reviews.
THE OUTHOUSE, a short film documentary about a 60 year old woman and her backyard outhouse, won BEST INNOVATIVE FILMMAKER for Truman. Premiering at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival, OUTHOUSE has screened at over 50 fests worldwide. Slamdance gave Truman $99 to make a short film under 5 minutes.
November has been one explosive month for the real-life Mother/Son filmmaking team.
“It's refreshing. A shot in the arm”, stated Truman in press materials. “This is living proof that anyone can make a movie. No matter what. There is an audience for your film”.
Truman is a 25 year veteran of stage and screen. Dockery, a former burlesque dancer for over 20 years, is a writer and actress. The creative team tackles it all: from concept to distribution.
“Our films are designed to open people's eyes”, Truman states. “I want to make films that shock people, make them think, talk, and appreciate how different all of us are. That's what makes the world so great. That all of us are free to be different.”
PHONE SEX GRANDMA, the award-winning, hit cult mockumentary short film, starring Opal Dockery, returns to NYC! PSG screens at 1:45 p.m. Saturday at the Chashama Film Festival.
Directed by Dockery's real-life son, Filmmaker Jack Truman, PHONE SEX GRANDMA has screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide to date since its 2006 premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival. Rave reviews include:
"You've got a hit" - Roger Ebert "You've got a BIG hit" - John Malkovich "So damn disturbing" - Film Threat "Profane and Provocative" - E Insiders "Unforgettable" - Wilmette Weekly
Winner:
Audience Award, Best Film - Miami Underground Film Festival Best Comedy - Atlanta Underground Film Festival Best Comedy - Nevada Film Festival Best Comedy - Backseat Film Festival Best Director - Oregon Film Awards
Host AN EVENING WITH THE OLD STRIPPER on your campus!
Opal Dockery, the star, writer and creator of An Evening With THE OLD STRIPPER, is available to colleges that want to screen the film event. A collection of award-winning short films that have screened at over 300 film festivals worldwide to a late-night mature comedy audience, past screenings have received rave reviews and standing-room only audiences at festivals which include the Slamdance Film Festival, Cinequest Film Festival, Florida Film Festival and more! On these visits, along with the screening, Opal also includes a discussion / Q & A session after the screening.
An award-winning actress, writer and poet, Opal made her screen debut in the hit comedy smash PHONE SEX GRANDMA. She has a Master's degree in Criminal Justice, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology.
A fee is charged for an engagement like this but many schools have ways to fund this, like ticket sales, academic budgets, grants, etc. If your school would like to host a screening of the film with Opal Dockery, please email: dixiefilms@hotmail.com
(Note: Campus screenings conducted by members of An Evening With THE OLD STRIPPER are conducted as licensed film workshops. As with most retail DVDs, the short films on DVD included in An Evening With THE OLD STRIPPER that you buy in stores are not licensed for public exhibition or use in schools. For educational licensing email dixiefilms@hotmail.com )
Our award winning documentary short film THE ACCEPTABLE SIN, is rocking the film festival circuit!
Last week was the Colorado premiere in Aspen. And this week, ACCEPTABLE SIN has it's L.A. premiere at the Blue Planet Film Festival!
The film screens Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Check it out at:
http://www.blueplanetfilmfest.com
THE ACCEPTABLE SIN, a film about the direct link between obesity and religion, has screened worldwide at over 30 festivals to date. Own the award-winning documentary short only on AMAZON and CREATESPACE at:
Dixie Productions is seeking crew members and interns for JUNK STORE, a feature film comedy about a Mother and Son's junk store in a small Southern ghost town. A modern day Sanford and Son-style comedy, shot in a CLERKS/ANDY GRIFFITH style, from the real-life award-winning Mother/Son filmmaking team of Jack Truman and Opal Dockery.
Shoot begins late Summer / early Fall in SW Missouri. Meals, copy and credit provided. There is deferred pay.
For more info on the film, visit the film's FACEBOOK and MYSPACE pages.
Email resume/reel/inquiries to us at junkfeaturefilm@yahoo.com
Crew needed for ultra-low budget feature film documentary THE OLD STRIPPER, a film about a 60-something former burlesque dancer from the 1970’s and 80’s, Opal Dockery, who takes a cross-country road trip visiting the cities on her old burlesque circuit. As Opal travels the country to discover the changes over the years, she also visits and interviews people living in those cities that remember the theater there in their town. An eye-opening film, THE OLD STRIPPER opens the public’s eyes to a lost era of adult entertainment.
Various positions are available throughout the country for the road trip chapter of the film. Seeking production help in New York City, Pennslyvania, Ohio, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Meals, copy and credit provided. There is deferred pay.
For more information on the film, visit our FACEBOOK and MYSPACE pages for THE OLD STRIPPER.
Email resume and inquiries to us at theoldstripper@yahoo.com
