Sundance. Berlin. Tribeca. Cannes. Venice. Toronto. New York. Once saved for occasional weeks out of any given year, “film festival season” has now become a year-long event. Be it the aforementioned biggest of the big, or the ever growing slate of must-attend smaller festivals like Hot Docs, True/False, Stanley or Telluride, film festivals are cropping up across the globe.
But very few of them are set against a beautiful landscape quite as glorious as the Mammoth Lakes region of California.
Marking their debut this year, the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will launch their inaugural lineup this week, with a hotly discussed documentary from Alex Gibney leading the way.
Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine will open the festival this Wednesday. “We are blessed to have gotten such a strong lineup this year,” says Shira Dubrovner, founder of the festival. She, along with veteran programmer Paul Sbrizzi...
But very few of them are set against a beautiful landscape quite as glorious as the Mammoth Lakes region of California.
Marking their debut this year, the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will launch their inaugural lineup this week, with a hotly discussed documentary from Alex Gibney leading the way.
Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine will open the festival this Wednesday. “We are blessed to have gotten such a strong lineup this year,” says Shira Dubrovner, founder of the festival. She, along with veteran programmer Paul Sbrizzi...
- 5/27/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Sex. We wouldn't be here without it. And we sure do like it. But who wants to talk about it? Especially all those particulars...Filmmaker Jiyoung Lee is ready to though, and her intelligent, equally charming and cheeky examination on female sexuality and desire in Female Pervert is damn fine proof. Phoebe (Jennifer Kim) is a computer engineer/designer working for a boutique PR firm in some affluent, semi-rural part of America. She lives on a beautiful plot of land in a post-modern house that came cheap because of the toxic spill that happened nearby a few years back. To counteract any toxins she constantly snacks on blueberries. She can't stand hearing her earwax moving around, is part of a book club that reads exclusively Murakami. She...
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- 1/25/2015
- Screen Anarchy
The most extensive previews of this year's Slamdance, opening tonight and running through Thursday, come from Paul Sbrizzi at Hammer to Nail and Twitch. Sbrizzi has notes on Perry Blackshear's They Look Like People, Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson's Diamond Tongues, Patrick Ryan's Darkness on the Edge of Town, Alexandre Paschoalini's Asco, Johanna Moder's High Performance, Jiyoung Lee's Female Pervert, Gary Walkow's The Trouble with Dot and Harry and Stephen Richter's Birds of Neptune, plus two documentaries, Maurizius Sterkle Drux’s Concrete Love – The Böhm Family and Paul-Julien Robert's My Fathers, My Mother and Me. We'll be collecting full-blown reviews as they appear. » - David Hudson...
- 1/23/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The most extensive previews of this year's Slamdance, opening tonight and running through Thursday, come from Paul Sbrizzi at Hammer to Nail and Twitch. Sbrizzi has notes on Perry Blackshear's They Look Like People, Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson's Diamond Tongues, Patrick Ryan's Darkness on the Edge of Town, Alexandre Paschoalini's Asco, Johanna Moder's High Performance, Jiyoung Lee's Female Pervert, Gary Walkow's The Trouble with Dot and Harry and Stephen Richter's Birds of Neptune, plus two documentaries, Maurizius Sterkle Drux’s Concrete Love – The Böhm Family and Paul-Julien Robert's My Fathers, My Mother and Me. We'll be collecting full-blown reviews as they appear. » - David Hudson...
- 1/23/2015
- Keyframe
With Slamdance and Sundance rapidly approaching, the list of exciting, provocative titles worth checking out is growing increasingly larger (you can see some of our most anticipated here, here and here). Add to that list Jiyoung Lee’s sex comedy Female Pervert, about a woman seeking a meaningful relationship and feminine empowerment but meeting an impasse thanks to her curt manner toward sex and her kinky interests in the bedroom. The film stars Jennifer Kim as the perverted romantic looking for love. The Playlist had the exclusive premiere of the trailer, and here’s the synopsis:
Female Pervert is a provocative sex comedy by Atlanta based female writer/director Jiyoung Lee (Moral Sleaze, 2013), premiering at Slamdance this year. Actress Jennifer Kim (Mozart In The Jungle) shines as the titular star, a painfully awkward, sex obsessed video game designer who meets a series of men in hopes of sparking a love connection,...
Female Pervert is a provocative sex comedy by Atlanta based female writer/director Jiyoung Lee (Moral Sleaze, 2013), premiering at Slamdance this year. Actress Jennifer Kim (Mozart In The Jungle) shines as the titular star, a painfully awkward, sex obsessed video game designer who meets a series of men in hopes of sparking a love connection,...
- 1/20/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
“No testicle is safe” is my favorite phrase in the long synopsis for Female Pervert, a new feature about to premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival. “Like Lena Dunham” is my least favorite. Not because I have anything against Dunham, but her name and her show are mentioned way too much in the promotion of other women filmmakers and other movies and TV series about hip femmillennials, especially those living in the big city. Last year, on the eve of Sundance, Obvious Child was being likened to Girls, sight unseen. And Appropriate Behavior writer-director Desiree Akhavan was heavily compared to Dunham (now Akhavan is actually a cast member on Girls for the new season). There was also Fort Tilden, which debuted at SXSW, easily looked at as a Girls wannabe. For some it can in fact be a positive selling point, but for many others it can be a negative. Female Pervert...
- 1/20/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Sexual humor is no longer just the domain of dudes. A new generation of women are lending their own spin to the foibles that happen between the sheets, and writer/director Jiyoung Lee is hoping to add her emerging voice with her latest feature film "Female Pervert," premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival. And today we have the exclusive trailer for the comedy. Starring Jennifer Kim, Skizz Cyzyk, Brian Cafferty, Joshua Mikel, Jesse Price, Kate McManus, Taylor Proctor, and Eddie Ray, the story follows sex-obsessed video game designer Phoebe, who looks to improve herself and fall in love. But as she starts dating, her perversions scare off prospective partners, and Phoebe is left to wonder if she can change, or live with her unique sexual interests. And some of those obsessions and how they play out can be seen in the trailer below, which gives a nice preview of Phoebe and her direct sexual manner.
- 1/19/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
TwitchFilm is proud to present an exclusive clip from Jiyoung Lee's Female Pervert, which will have its world premiere January 24 in the Beyond program at the 21st Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. To say this one is tantalizing is well, a way to get you to take a peek, although I'm sure the above headline grabbed enough attention on its own (and will all make perfect sense soon).Female Pervert stars Jennifer Kim as a promiscuous video game designer who, as you'll see in the clip, can't help but get very, very creative when it comes to her carnal desires. No doubt cheeky in its challenge to upend notions on female sexuality (by making a few balls blue in the process), I'm keen...
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- 1/13/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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