Pretty Okay Pictures

Runtime: 10:16

Cast: Jayson Therrien, Josh Bertwistle, Deborah Scullion, Mitch Barany

Director: Luke Black, Writer: Chris Turtle, Producers: Christopher Hutchens, Marc Vandergraaf & Luke Black, Associate Producer: Matt Watterworth, Director of Photography: Jamie Wensley, Editor: Don Gyryluk, Key Grip: Vasco Jesus Maria, Assistant Directors: James Reckseidler & Christopher Hutchens, Location Sound: Alex Mitchell, Sound Editor: Graydon Johnston, Costume Designer: Tara Charran, Makeup Artist: Laurena Pollock, Graphic Design: Jeremy Pollock

Song – “I Wish You All The Happiness” – Written and performed by Calvin Becker – calvinbecker.com

Screenings:

2012 Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, 2012 Boomtown Film & Music Festival, 2012 Sunscreen Film Festival, 2012 Snake Alley Festival of Film, 2012 Weyauwega International Film Festival, 2012 Ionian International Digital Film Festival, 2013 Jaipur International Film Festival

If you are in Regina, Saskatchewan this Sunday (Feb. 17th), come by the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative to catch Beef Barley Brothers at the Filmpool Members Showcase Screening.

The screening will feature five short films by Filmpool members Nora Gardner, Callen Diederichs, Luke Annand, rjamesmisfeldt and myself.

Show starts at 6 pm and I`ll be in attendance.

This just in!

Beef Barley Brothers is going to in India.
Specifically, the Jaipur International  Film Festival will be screening our short twice – on January 31st, 2013 at 11 am and on February 2nd, 2013 at 10 am.

To tease the screenings, here are some of the other short films screening with Beef Barley Brothers:

The Soundman’s Love, directed by Toshimichi Saito

Blue Dragonfly, directed by Makoto Fujihashi
(Disclaimer: I am pretty confident this is a trailer for Blue Dragonfly … but I can’t read Japanese and could be wrong.)

Stammering Love, directed by Jan Czarlewski

Once Upon a Sultan, direct by Ishita Tiwari, Ritika Kaushik & Farah Yameen

Thanks to the organizers and volunteers at the Jaipur International Film Festival for the amazing opportunity to have Beef Barley Brothers screened on the other side of the world!

This short film is impossible not to fall in love with.

Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart pack so much comedy and heart into Long Branch that I’d put it right up there with my all-time favourite romantic comedy, The Apartment.

This is great!

2012 was the 20th anniversary of the $100 Film Festival. A festival very near and dear to my heart.
The festival was originally conceived by a filmmaker named James Morison and, for the 20th installment, he create a new film contemplating the history of the festival, it’s inception and his role in it all.

I don’t think there could be a better tribute to the $100 Film Festival’s anniversary than this film.

Contingency won the 2012 Best of Alberta award.

The Weyauwega International Film Festival is the next stop for Beef Barley Brothers!

You can catch the screening at the George Gerold Opera House on November 9th at 5:30pm in Weyauwega, Wisconsin.

Thanks to all the good people at Weyauwega International Film Festival for putting on this event.

When I can, I like to showcase the other films in the package we will be screening with, but this time my mind was blown!

Beef Barley Brothers will be screening along side a short film written by Neil LaBute and directed by Nathaniel Krause about their own homeless guy and regular guy.
Will they be best friends? Only time will tell.

Also in our program are these sharp-looking films, should be a really great screening:

Hourglass by Pedro Collantes

Written in Ink by Martin Rath

Searcy County by Noam Osband

Great news!

Beef Barley Brothers will take it’s European bow in Greece on Monday September 17, 2012 at the Ionian International Digital Film Festival.

You can catch the screening at 1:20 pm at the Cine Apollon in the heart of Lefkada, Greece.

Special thanks to the organizers of IIDFF. We are extremely excited to have our work shown at your festival!

The Minneapolis Underground Film Festival has just announced their 2012 lineup of films and I am honoured to have had Beef Barley Brothers selected to screen at the festival!

If you are in Minneapolis on Friday, August 17th, you can catch Beef Barley Brothers in the shorts program at 4:30 pm at the St. Anthony Main Theatre. Oh, and as an extra incentive, admission to this program is free!

Thanks to all the people at the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival. I am proud to be a part of your 2012 festival!

It’s time once again for the annual Calgary Filmmakers Challenge.

This year, the screening will feature six new films from Calgary filmmakers Darius de Andrade, Hussein Juma, Jun K. Lee, Farhan Daya, Jeff Hanni, Roberta McDonald, Keely Bruce & the Film Acting Fight Club.

The Challenge asks filmmakers to create a new short film using randomly selected criteria.
The criteria for this round of films was:

• Theme: In The Public Domain
• Character: A Teacher
• Technical Requirement: A Sequence Presented In Reverse
• Random Element: Pencils Stuck In A Ceiling

You can check out the film at the screening on July 4th at Concept Lounge (lower 908, 17 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta).
Doors open at 7pm, films start at 8pm. 

You can get all the info for the event on the Facebook event page and get more info about the Calgary Filmmakers Challenge on it’s Facebook group.

For the 2012 $100 Film Festival, I collaborated with the cats from the Calgary Underground Film Festival – Brenda Lieberman, Brennan Tilley, Caitlind Brown & John Frosst – to create a short super 8 film for the $100′s Film Music Explosion featuring the music of Jesse and the Dandelions.

You can check out the results of our combined efforts below!