IFP MARKET
The Independent Feature Project kicks off its 26th IFP Market, Conference & Expo in New York on Monday with a screening of Brad Anderson’s The Machinist, starring Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh; the director, actors and screenwriter Scott Kosar will participate in a panel discussion about the making of the film on Tuesday. Paramount Classics will release the film, in which Bale plays a man who has not slept in a year and who is slowly becoming delusional, later this fall.
The Market will close on September 24 with a screening of Rodney Evan’s Brother to Brother, which will be released theatrically by Wolfe Video in October. Evans’s film, about a young gay black writer who meets a surviving poet from the era of the Harlem Renaissance, received a Gordon Parks Award for best screenplay from the IFP in 2000.
Included among numerous other events planned throughout the coming week are sneak preview screenings of Robert Altman and Gary Trudeau’s miniseries, Tanner on Tanner, which will air as four half-hour episodes on the Sundance Channel each Tuesday in October, beginning October 5 at 9:00 p.m. Part political satire and part wry portrait of an independent filmmaker, Tanner on Tanner revisits subject matter first explored in Altman’s 1988 miniseries Tanner ’88.
Throughout the week the IFP Market will screen 224 projects in various stages of development at the Angelica Film Center in lower Manhattan; numerous panel discussions and workshops will take place at the nearby Puck Building, and at locations throughout the city.
