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filmswelike presents the new anti-festival...
Generation D.I.Y.
Bloor Cinema: Toronto- JUNE 19-22 - Press Kit Toronto
The Winnipeg Film Group - JUNE 26-29 - Press Kit Winnipeg
Metro Cinema: Edmonton - JULY 4-10- Press Kit Edmonton
Vancity: Vancouver - JULY 11-17 - Press Kit Vancouver
Showtimes!
| “…mumblecore is the sole significant American indie film wave of the last 20 years to have emerged outside the ecosystem of the Sundance Film Festival…” - The New York Times |
 This summer, Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential) and independent promoter Gary Topp (Ramones, The Police, Dixie Chicks) bring ‘Generation D.I.Y.’ to theatres across Canada, an unlikely assembly of films by a collection of American filmmakers who are young, ambitious, and broke.
Heralded as the "mumblecore" movement at 2005's South By South West film festival, their works share achingly relatable stories of twenty-somethings and a grainy lo-fi esthetic that have won them critical acclaim everywhere from The New York Times to Entertainment Weekly.
Generation D.I.Y. visits Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Edmonton in June and July, with directors speaking in select cities.
Opening night premier’s director Joe Swanberg’s new film Nights and Weekends, featuring indie darling Greta Gerwig; Joe and Greta will be speaking in Toronto.
Click on the titles below for information on each film:
NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS | THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE | FOUR EYED MONSTERS | QUIET CITY | DANCE PARTY USA | FUNNY HA HA | MUTUAL APPRECIATION | LOL | FROWNLAND | ORPHANS | THE DEATH OF INDIE ROCK |BACKROAD BLUES | A SIMPLE MIDWEST STORY
NEWS, REVIES AND UPDATES!
twitchfilm.net
 The anti-festival is here! Generation DIY hits Toronto this week!
Always open to new experiences with cinema I agreed to look at a trio of films being screened as part of Generation DIY, dubbed the anti-festival. This festival will tour across Canada through June and July, starting this week here in Toronto at the Bloor Cinema on June 19th. Read More! |
Nights and Weekends: Review
torontoscreenshots.com
 Nights and Weekends (2008, Directors: Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig): A fitting opening night film for the Toronto leg of the Generation DIY mini-fest, Nights and Weekends is co-director Joe Swanberg’s fourth feature film in four years (in addition to two series of online shorts), and he’s still just 26. Read More! |
Toronto Star: Fest spirit
Toronto thinks outside the multiplex when it comes to feeding our passion for movies.
Besides big-budget flicks, there's always at least one small festival going on every weekend, celebrating regional cinema or a specific theme. Read More! |
| ChartAttack.com
Article: Kingston, Ont. Filmmakers Claim Indie Rock Is Dead  Actor/musician Doug Brown
It might be every Canadian rocker's dream to make it in the music industry, but the film The Death Of Indie Rock shows that it's not an easy road to stardom. Read More!
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Eye Weekly Review: Jason Anderson
 A baker’s dozen of recent US (and one Canadian) indie flicks whose collective cool factor couldn’t be higher, Generation DIY is more than a film festival: it’s a test case. What I wanna know is whether mumblecore still counts as a movement if the audience it reflects doesn’t support it. Largely born out of the South by Southwest’s film fest — where many of these movies found a home after being ignored by Sundance (as well as TIFF, which missed the boat entirely) — mumblecore has developed as a blanket term for new features that are often very disparate in style but mostly share an intentionally roughhewn quality, some aesthetic touchstones (Rohmer, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Dogme) and an indie-rock sensibility which may or may not be derived from the onscreen presence of Will Oldham. Read More! |
Now Magazine Review: Norman Wilner
Talking the talk
MUMBLECORE SERIES OFFERS GEMS (NNNN)
 Now that the means of movie production have become cheap, lightweight and digital, anyone with an iMac and some editing software can make a releasable feature.
Thus, a new wave of American indie dramas has surfaced in recent years. These films have been grouped into a loose genre labelled “mumblecore” – a reference to their often limited sound design and the shuffling, hesitant attitude of their slacker characters, who tend to be averse to decisive action and declarative statements. Read More!
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Globe and Mail Article - Guy Dixon
Film's new genre is 'like watching the French New Wave'ES:
 To some, it may feel like a new genre of horror films. A trend toward ultra-low-budget movies has been percolating for a few years and is now seeping into the mainstream. The films invariably focus on characters in their 20s, young people in vintage T-shirts who sit around and pretty much just talk, or try to. Disaffected and disenfranchised, with no career paths and little financial support, they struggle to find their way or to express their emotions. Fifteen years ago, they would have been dubbed slackers. Read More! |
June 11, 2008
MUMBLEFLICKS COME TO CANADA FilmCAN would like to mostly, proudly, endorse a cool new mini-fest called GENERATION DIY, that’s coming to Canada this month. Ron Mann and Gary Topp’s aptly named distro company filmswelike brings a smattering of the “mumblecore” movement’s greatest hits to Toronto (Bloor Cinema, June 19-22), Winnipeg (Winnipeg Film Group, June 26-29), Edmonton (Metro Cinema, July 4-10) and Vancouver (VanCity, July 11-17) - for the first time! Read More!
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June 10, 2008
Matt Dentler says "it's about damn time [...] I've always felt that 1990s
Canadian indie film was the unintentional harbinger of "mumblecore."" The full piece can be found here!
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MAY 29, 2008
MOVIE FEATURE
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GLENN SUMI AND NORMAN WILNER
DIY delivery Low-budget, talky yet oddly compelling films like Mutual Appreciation, Funny Ha Ha and LOL have amassed cult DVD audiences with their intimate indie vibe... click here for the full story and other summer happenings.
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May 28, 2008
North By North East (NXNE) and NOW Magazine have joined us as official sponsors of Generation D.I.Y.
What this means is the first 50 of you with a NXNE pass or wristband gets in to the screening of 'The Death of Indie Rock' FREE! Any NXNE pass holder gets to see 'The Death of Indie Rock' for only $5.
NOW Magazine will be giving away 10 full series passes online. If you manage to snatch one of these 'golden tickets' you are entitled to see any film... any Q&A... any time. Details on this online contest coming soon.
Don't forget you can get full-series passes for only $25 at www.ticketweb.com
 
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April 30, 2008
Ronald Bronstein: Frownland director discusses the fine art of discomfort
Eye Magazine - April 30, 2008
 Though he partially financed his first feature from the insurance money he received when his apartment burned down, Ronald Bronstein isn’t anywhere near as unlucky as the hero of his movie Frownland. The projectionist-turned-director says he can’t believe how much his life has changed since Frownland won a special prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival last year and began accruing kudos on the festival circuit.
It finally hits Toronto on May 1 at Over the Top’s film fest and returns in June as part of Generation DIY, a touring package of “mumblecore” movies by young American indie directors, a group with which Bronstein has only a tangential relationship. With his confrontational, intentionally grubby aesthetic, he’s shaping up to be a more old-school sort of maverick — he even shot Frownland on 16mm and cut it on a flatbed. He recently edited Yeast, the first feature by his wife Mary Bronstein (who plays Laura in Frownland) and is looking for financing for his next movie. He spoke by phone last week from a screening at Boston’s Independent Film Festival. Read More! |
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