Down to the Dirt CD Soundtrack Release Party

This Friday October 10th, 2008 – don’t miss the Down To The Dirt Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Release party featuring Mark Bragg and friends. “Down To The Dirt” was  produced by Anna Petras & Justin Simms, directed by Justin Simms, and based on the celebrated Joel Hynes novel of the same name.

The album is comprised of twenty tracks in total and features instrumental music, guest tracks from Blair Harvey, Lizband, and Persona, plus six new Mark Bragg songs written specifically for the film.

Details:

Down To The Dirt Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
St. John’s CD Release Party
Friday, October 10th, 11PM
The Rock House on George Street
Admission $10 at the door $20 with CD purchase
(Regular cd retail price $15)

Bragg will be joined by musicians Brad Power, Curtis Andrews, Victor Lewis, and Luke Power for a grand Ho-Down with guest appearances by the movies musical cast and artists featured on the album, including Liz Solo, Jill Porter, Blair Harvey, Phil Churchill, and more.

Warming up the night are the Pathological Lovers, featuring Jody Richardson whose performance as “Francey” in the movie will really creep you out.

If you can’t make it – go buy the CD – it’s available at Fred’s Records on Duckworth!

PS. The Down to the Dirt film just picked up a few awards from the Atlantic film festival. Bravo. The big St. John’s Premiere is next week – it’s the gala opening film for the St. John’s film festival.

PSS. ya gotta come. I feel so close to this since I built the Down to the Dirt web site. Just saying.

Down To The Dirt At The Toronto Film Festival

Down to the Dirt - the feature film based on the novel by Joel Thomas Hynes is screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Now that’s a big deal folks. TIFF as it’s called [rhymes with SJIWFF } is one of the most important festivals there is, and is perhaps the hottest marketplace for film. To have your film screen at TIFF is HUGE!!  Competition is stiff – everyone wants in so there are tons of submissions, and tons of rejections – so make sure you give the D2D filmmakers a big hand when they get home – because they done damn good.

Actually, forget waiting till these guys get home – the filmmaking team is super busy the next few months showing off their film at tons of other important festivals too. Who knows when we’ll see them next.

So – in the meantime send them some love by leaving a comment on their brand new website. (NB. It’s built by moi using Wordpress….more on how Wordpress is great for building web sites for filmmakers and artists here.)

Now just who is this illustrious team of filmmakers? Well, it’s a Newfound Films production – directed by St. John’s residents Justin Simms and produced by Anna Petras, the latter of which just happens to be my landlord – the bestest landlord in the word. These guys have been working together for a while producing award winning films, and this is their first feature length production.

Down To The Dirt is a homegrown love affair and as all films, is a collaborative effort of some of the city’s best artists and filmmakers. Imagine a drum roll here as I list off some of the key players: the screenplay is co-written by Justin with Sherry White, who will be directing her feature Crackie this fall; Executive produced by Jennice Ripley – who is also producing Crackie; original music and soundtrack by local fave Mark Bragg. Charlotte Reid on costumes.

Starring Joel Thomas Hynes as Keith, with key roles played Robert Joy, Hugh Dillon, Phil Churchill, Jody Richardson, Glenn Downey, Sherry White. Lois Brown and Mary Lewis just to name a few.

The film is off to Halifax next to be screened at the Atlantic Film Festival, then Vancouver, Wales, Sudbury – who knows when we’ll see these guys next.