Just to date myself, I’ll announce that seven years ago, I graduated High School. This weekend, my youngest sister, Francesca, graduated, and so did her best friend, Brigid. They grew up together, living in the same neighborhood since they were born. I’ve known Brig just about as long as I’ve known Frankie. I’ve seen them grow up together, now they taking separate paths, just like Sara and Adele.

My best friend Allison and I took separate paths seven years ago, but we’ve stayed close. She’s someone I talk to about jobs, love, everything. She’s always there and I’m glad I have her. I can see these girls going down that path too.

Even if it’s not always the same as it was, it’s a friendship bigger than that.

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CANARSIE SINGING from White Horse Pictures on Vimeo.

In the past few weeks we’ve done some Voice Over work with our Sound Editor, Eric Hoffman. Megan and Vanessa came in the studio, and so did Lili. Here are some pics.

Lynn Cohen, who plays Sylvia in NWBD is also in a film that opens Friday in Manhattan.

Check out the Review here.

Our cinematographer, Nathan, has been up to something a bit different after the insanity that we put him through with our production… Nate’s friend, Wes, and his architecture firm SITU built this really awesome exhibit, called reOrder, at the Brooklyn Museum. Nate filmed the whole production. His time-lapse video is on display in the exhibit, but you can see it here too.

Definitely go check it out in person if you get a chance, it’s pretty awesome.

See the NY Times Article or the video that Nate made below.

There is an awesome article about Adam in the New York Times today.

Check it out here.

It’s not posted online, but I scanned my copy to post.

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Our production deisgner, Katherine Rusch also designed HAPPY NEW YEAR which will premiere in competition at SXSW in March.

Check out KT’s work here.

Check out info about the film here

She’s our Production Coordinator/1st AD and more importantly – friend – who directed her first feature film last year. The film is called No Matter what, and it was just announced that it will be premiering at South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2011. Nice work Cherie and Crew!

See the full list of SXSW films here

This is their facebook page.

This year’s Sundance film festival has seen a resurgence of acquisitions activity. It seems that distributors are willing to take on riskier films again, and they are even partnering with equity to put up P and A costs for the film. It’s very exciting and inspiring for us as we are in the edit process of NWBD. We still have a ways to go, the post process is long, but we’re so happy to see other small films getting out there.

Another great indie film success this week is the Oscar Nominations. A slew of last year’s Sundance films made the cut for best picture and best documentary, Winter’s Bone, The Kids are Alright, and Exit Through the Gift Shop. Hopefully this will instill more faith in distributors that people want to see great stories. The box office numbers from this year have reflected this as well. The two nominations of Jennifer Lawrence and Hailee Steinfeld for best actress show us they want to see great fresh talent too. It also comes on the heels of the release of the Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman headlined No Stings Attached, it was not a pretty sight. People want to see good stories, so hopefully the distributors will give the people what they want and independent film will continue it’s resurgence.

If you want to follow along with the Sundance Sales read this.