Tomorrow, the Winchester Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will screen THE BROKEN HEART OF GNOCCHI BOLOGNESE as part of the opening night program of the Spotlight Film Series. I'm really excited to finally have a chance to screen GNOCCHI in my hometown!

If you happen to be in Winchester around 7 PM on Thursday, September 1, come check it out!

http://drafthouse.com/blog/entry/spotlight_film_series

If, like me, you are sad about how quickly summer has been passing, hopefully these Gnocchi updates will take the edge off.


FESTIVALS

Two more upcoming festivals:

1) Columbia Gorge International Film Festival in Vancouver, WA: We screen on Thursday, August 11at 5:30 PM. More info here: http://www.angaelica.com/festivals/cgiff2011/officialselections/

2) Hyart Film Festival in Lovell, WY: We screen on Friday, August 12 at 7:00 PM. More info here: http://www.lovellinc.org/downtown.html


IPAD DISTRIBUTION

THE BROKEN HEART OF GNOCCHI BOLOGNESE - along with many other great shorts - is now available on iTunes for the iPad through the Play Festival Films app. The app is free, and films are $1.99 to download. The app is available here: http://bit.ly/p9JMW9


REVIEW

We got a glowing review in the Phoenix Examiner:

http://www.examiner.com/indie-films-in-phoenix/filmstock-film-festival-now-you-see-it-now-you-don-t-review

Earlier in April, all in the course of one magical weekend, THE BROKEN HEART OF GNOCCHI BOLOGNESE played at four different festivals across the US: the Fallbrook Film Festival, in SoCal, the FilmStock Film Festival in Arizona, the SENE Film, Music & Arts Festival in Rhode Island, and On Location: Memphis in (obviously) Tennessee. The weekend ended with the film receiving five (5!) awards:

1) Best Student Film from On Location: Memphis
2) Best Cinematography for DP Collin Brink from FilmStock
3) Best Actor for Johanna Parker for her portrayal of Gnocchi from FilmStock
4) Audience Choice Award from FilmStock
5) Best of Fest from Filmstock

Congrats to the whole cast and crew for garnering all the acclaim!

The next screening is going to be at the Charleston International Film Festival in Charleston, SC at 7 PM on May 21. Check out the festival website for more info!

http://www.charlestoniff.com/

If you're in the LA area, stop by the Los Angeles International Women's Film Festival to see Gnocchi play at 8 PM on Monday, March 28, 2011. The screening is at Laemmle's Sunset 5 on Sunset & Crescent Heights, and it'll be playing in a block with three other short films. Info on the program here:

http://lawomens.slated.com/2011/films/studentshorts2_lawomens2011_lawomens2011

Upcoming Screenings:

Up first: The Dam Short Film Festival in Boulder City, NV. We're in Drama Program H, which screens on Friday, Feb. 11 at 3:30 PM. More info here: http://www.damshortfilm.org/

Then: The Macon Film Festival in Macon, GA. This time we're in the Student Program #9, screening Thursday, Feb. 17th at 6:00 PM and Saturday, Feb. 19th at 5:15 PM. More info here: http://maconfilmfestival.com/festival

Finally: The Beloit International Film Festival in Beloit, WI. We're in Shorts Slot #8, which screens on Friday, Feb. 18th at 2:30 PM and 10:00 PM, and Saturday, February 19th at 5:00 PM. More info here: http://www.beloitfilmfest.org/

THE BROKEN HEART OF GNOCCHI BOLOGNESE is screening at two festivals in very different parts of the world in October:

1) The Naoussa International Film Festival in Naoussa, Greece: http://www.niff.gr/en/
Screening October 1st at 6:00 PM (or 18:00, if you don't want to sound like an outsider)

2) The Cincinnati Film Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio: http://cincinnatifilmfestival.com/
Screening October 8th at 5:00 PM and October 12th at 3:00 PM

Please feel free to pass along the good news to friends and family in the Mediterranean and/or Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky tri-state areas!

The weekend of April 9-11 is heavy on the gnocchi!

Check out THE BROKEN HEART OF GNOCCHI BOLOGNESE in the Southwest at the Phoenix Film Festival on April 9th and 10th, and then head up to Northern California to catch it at the San Francisco Women's Film Festival on April 11th!

Friday, April 9th
Harkins Scottsdale 101 Theater 7
7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054
2:30 PM
http://phoenix.bside.com/2010/films/thebrokenheartofgnocchibolognese_phoenix2010

Saturday, April 10th
Harkins Scottsdale 101 Theater 2
7000 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054
9:10 AM
http://phoenix.bside.com/2010/films/thebrokenheartofgnocchibolognese_phoenix2010

Sunday, April 11th
Variety Screening Room (inside the Hobart Building)
582 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94104
3:00 PM
http://www.sfwff.com/schedule/schedule_041110.html#broken

GNOCCHI will be having another screening at 11 AM on Saturday, April 17 as part of USC's FirstLook! Put it in your calendar now so you don't miss out on all the fun...

THE BROKEN HEART OF GNOCCHI BOLOGNESE screens tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 12) at the Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival. Check it out at 5 PM in Theater 5!

More info about the festival here:

http://www.tviff.com/index.html

GNOCCHI has been accepted into two more awesome festivals:

1) The Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival in Temecula, CA from September 9-13.

2) The Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market in Sapporo, Japan from October 14-18.

More details to come!

A few important things:

1) GNOCCHI will be screening at the LA Shortsfest on Tuesday, July 28th at 3:15 PM...if you're in LA, check it out! All the screenings are at Laemmle Sunset 5, which is one of my favorite LA theaters.

More info here:
http://lashortsfest.com/film_program_details.asp?programnumber=26


2) GNOCCHI just played at the Long Island International Film Expo, where it was nominated for Best Short Film!


3) At long last, the trailer is ready. Hope to be posting it on this site soon, but in the meantime, you can check it out on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxnQW9ZPAaM

Are you busy on July 17th at 3:30 PM? No? Then come see Gnocchi at the Long Island International Film Expo at Bellmore movies! Buy your ticket in advance here:

http://liifilmexpo.org/sections/tickets.html

I'll be there, so if you come, please find me to say hello!

THE BROKEN HEART OF GNOCCHI BOLOGNESE screens today, Sunday February 8th, at 4:00 PM at Norris Theater on USC's campus. For a map of USC's campus, go here:

www.usc.edu/private/about/visit_usc/USC_UPC_map_gray.pdf

GNOCCHI will screen with two other films: THE INDIAN & THE SAMURAI, written and directed by Shilpi Roy, and SHATTERCANE, written and directed by Michael Tringe.

Hope to see you there!

Collin, Kwok and I met up yesterday to do color correction on the film. It's always fun to hang out with those guys but it was even better last night since, at around 11 PM, the film was finished! It will screen at USC on Sunday, February 8, so mark your calendars now.

I also want to give a special shout out to my parents, Tom Harada and the Samuel and Lorenza Gary Memorial Award, for helping to push the movie through the final stages of post-production.

For everybody who is anxious to hear the most updated information about the status of the film -- we did the online and layback about two weeks ago, which means that the final hurdle to jump before we have a completed movie is color correction. That should happen in the next few weeks.

In other news, for anybody on myspace, check out Gnocchi's page and become a friend of the movie!

http://www.myspace.com/gnocchibolognese

The exciting news of the moment is that the sound mix was completed today! The fact that this was actually accomplished is due in no small part to the awesomeness of mixers Dave Lankton and Paul Fonarev. Thanks, guys!