Emerald City Screens at STIFF!
The Seattle film where a director combines elements of an audible medium (Hip Hop) and interprets them visually for his deaf brother, will show at Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival (STIFF).
Henry Darrow McComas explains, “I found a character named Elijah. I identified with Elijah because he was a boy who was becoming a man and was starting to realize that he had to face his insecurities about his craft as well as his fears of death, a recurring theme in Elijah’s life. Emerald City has been to eight festivals across the globe, won two awards and received great reviews, but the news I found out today “takes the cake.â€
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Seattleites and Washingtonions, Crooked Lake Productions’ short film, Emerald City, has just been officially selected by Seattle True Independent Film Festival! It has been a long time coming and well worth the wait. After covering the globe, our self-titled short film, Emerald City, will be screening in the 206. Words cannot express how excited I am to share this piece with you; this is a dream come true, maybe more like a vision.”
Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival is held at multiple venues throughout Seattle. It is a celebration of off-beat independent films from the Northwest and the rest of the world. Combined with the companion Music and Stand-Up Comedy festival, STIFF Licks, both feature the best independent entertainment in the entire city. STIFF will be screening in remarkable theaters such as Northwest Film Forum, Rendezvous and Central Cinema as their screening rooms. The festival runs from June 5th through the 14th.
STIFF is still finalising the program and will be sending out the screening dates for all films within the next week. Tickets should be available for purchase in approximately two weeks. www.crookedlp.com will send an update with firm dates once all of the details are worked out.
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When Seattle’s Hip-Hop and Film Collides…
The result is Emerald City, a short film about a young man growing up in Seattle. Written and produced by Henry McComas, of Crooked Lake Productions, Emerald City was created with his deaf brother in mind. The tag is embodied both in the production and the film’s plot: “If you can’t hear the music, feel it.â€Emerald City revolves around the recurring vision of main character Elijah, also known as MC Ellipsis. The vision visits Elijah’s childhood in Louisiana, the death of his brother and the mic that he can’t imagine losing. I had a chance to see the film, and the excitement and plot that McComas comfortably fits into the span of 13 minutes is stunning.
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Emerald City Screening a Success
Friday night was the Seattle premiere of “Emerald City†a short film from Crooked Lake Productions.People from various areas of the North West art scene filled the Boxcar Ale House to join with local filmmakers to celebrate the success of 206’s first festival distributed hip-hop short film.
The first screening packed chairs and lead to there being standing room only. Writer, producer and Director Henry Darrow McComas delivered a speech on independent filmmaking and community. Co-producer, editor and Special Effects Supervisor Colin McLoughlin then ended the speech with the start of the film.
A clearly happy filmmaker, Henry McComas said, “It was great to see how people from Seattle reacted to the film and with each other; I couldn’t picture making this movie anywhere else. The film was about a young man and his environment, his neighborhood; my neighborhood makes me want to create more.”
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Emerald City is a thirteen minute short written directed and produced by Henry Darrow McComas and co-produced and edited by Colin McLoughlin.It has been officially selected to the Short Film Corner of Cannes, the Inigo film festival, Swansea Bay UK, Black Earth Film Festival and made Semi Finalists in the Action/Cut Film Festival and now has been officially selected to Raindance ‘08 in London, which runs from
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The Making of Emerald City
Henry McComas is close to his older brother, Daniel. Daniel is deaf, and so when they were growing up in Anchorage, Henry would plug his ears with the red wax from cheeses to try to understand his brother’s experience of the world.Now, Henry wants to make a film that shows his brother what his world is like. “I started thinking about how I could express my love for hiphop to Danny—the challenge of getting the aesthetics of the music across to a deaf person,” explained Henry, who is now living in Seattle and running a small company called Crooked Lake Productions.
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Film screening at Boxcar Ale Friday night
The short film, Emerald City, was shot all around Seattle by up and coming local filmaker Henry Darrow McComas. Post production took place in Magnolia and the film is said to feature outstanding visual effects. The movie brings to life the story of a young musician named Elijah and Seattle’s hip hop community played a large part in the film and the soundtrack.
