Producer Christy McGill: “The subjects of the film are artists who have a great sense of purpose in their art, their school and their community. They’re putting this wonderful, high-minded but also realistic, concrete community at the forefront and making it a priority at a great cost to themselves.”
Click here to read more about the Flyover Film Festival and films that will be screening.
KY connected films are making a splash, including our very own SERENADE FOR HAITI
In the article, Louisville-born director Owsley Brown reveals that, "...one of the school’s most impactful past directors and one of the most important living Haitian composers, Julio Racine, made Louisville his home many years ago and still lives here today with his wife, Nina, who taught many students ... at the Brown School."
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The Nantucket Film Festival spoke with Producer Christy McGill as a part of their "Five Questions with..." series.
Read the whole article here.
Colin Stanfield, a very close friend of SERENADE FOR HAITI and the Nantucket Film Festival, wrote a beautiful piece on how his friendship with Owsley - "A Friendship Forged at Film Festivals, Rekindled at a Laundromat" on Nantucket.
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SERENADE FOR HAITI producer Anne Flatte and consulting producer Guetty Felin were thrilled to join moviegoers at the AFI Silver DC Caribbean FilmFest this weekend. We so appreciate our audiences, who time after time bring thoughtful, heartfelt questions about the film, Sainte Trinité Music School, and Haiti to our Q&A sessions.
Producer Christy McGill spoke with Colin McEnroe on The Colin McEnroe Show, taped live at The Berkshire International Film Festival.
Listen to the full episode here. Fast forward to minute 22:10 to the start of the interview with Christy.
Other guests included David Edelstein (America's Greatest Living Film Critic), Kelley Vickery (Director & Founder of the Berkshire International Film Festival), Lee Slimmer (Director/Writer, CREEDMORIA) and Lara Stolman (Director/Producer, SWIM TEAM)
"Serenade for Haiti, entirely free of the clichés which inevitably roll in like fog after a natural tragedy, is one of the most moving and inspiring films I have seen in any genre."
Read the full article at the Berkshire Review for the Arts: http://berkshirereview.net/serenade-haiti-directed-written-owsley-brown-berkshire-international-film-festival-june-3/
"It’s a story brimming with music."
Read at the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/garchik/article/A-trip-to-Sixth-Street-the-new-promised-land-11078983.php
