Adam Reid, creative director of content creation/production company Bodega with offices in N.Y. and San Francisco, has seen his feature film debut, Hello Lonesome, garner a 2012 Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for the John Cassavetes Award. The Cassavetes honor is given to the director, writer and producer of the best feature film made for less than $500,000.
Reid produced, wrote and directed Hello Lonesome, in association with Bodega’s partner postproduction boutique Northern Lights, which is headed by the film’s executive producers David Gioiella and Mark Littman. Postproduction on the movie was done by Northern Lights while opening titles were designed by VFX/design sister shop Mr. Wonderful.
Reid cites the strength of both his behind-the-scenes partners and on-set collaborators as a key factor in the film’s breakthrough success. “It really takes a village to make a film like Hello Lonesome–and, in this case, it was a very talented and generous village.”
Hello Lonesome stars James Urbaniak, Lynn Cohen, Sabrina Lloyd, Harry Chase, and Nate Smith. With an enchanting mixture of laughter and longing, Hello Lonesome weaves together the worlds of six flawed yet endearing individuals as they explore those age-old human desires: to love and be loved.
Single urbanite Gordon (Smith) meets Debby (Lloyd) online and finds their new relationship put to the ultimate test. Sassy suburban widow (Cohen) gets much more than she was looking for when she leans on her vaguely peculiar but quite witty next-door neighbor (Urbaniak) for support. And in the country, successful voiceover artist Bill Soap (Chase), who lives and works in his underwear, starts to make amends for being a lousy father.
Other nominees for the John Cassavetes Award are Bellflower (writer/director Evan Glodell), Circumstance (writer/director Maryam Keshavarz), Pariah (writer/director Dee Rees) and The Dynamiter (director Matthew Gordon, writer Brad Inglesby).
“It hardly seems possible that a film as truly tiny as Hello Lonesome would be chosen to share the spotlight with so many amazing films,” said Reid.
The winner will be announced at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, slated for Saturday, February 25, 2012, in Santa Monica.
Here’s the trailer for Hello Lonesome:
DGA Feature Nominees: Audiard, Baker, Berger, Corbet and Mangold
The field of feature nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards spanning two categories is set. Nominated for the DGA honor for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 are: Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, Sean Baker for Anora, Edward Berger for Conclave, Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, and James Mangold for A Complete Unknown.
The DGA also revealed the nominees for the Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film. The first-time narrative feature directors are: Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine as Light, Megan Park for My Old Ass, RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys, Halfdan Ullman Tondel for Armand, and Sean Wang for Diddy.
“2024 has been a truly extraordinary year for storytelling--and today’s nominees have created audacious and unique films that expand the possibilities of cinematic excellence,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “I am thrilled to congratulate all our nominated directors for their brilliant work, which is visionary, inspirational and speaks to the depth of the human experience. To be chosen by one’s peers is the true marker of outstanding directorial achievement and what makes these nominations so very special.”
The winners will be announced at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8.
Here’s a fuller rundown of the nominees in both DGA Award categories:
THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 (in alphabetical order):
JACQUES AUDIARD
Emilia Pérez
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