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.
Click here to read the full article.
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
“I’m attempting to make as many discoveries as I can along the way,” Brown says. “The hope is that that translates to what the audiences feels, a sense of discovery as you’re watching the movie. Patience can really be your friend.”
Read the piece at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/serenade-find-musical-connections-in-haiti/
Listen to the piece: https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20170406-Thu1100.mp3
Gar Smith of The Berkeley Daily Planet writes, “Serenade, a visually beautiful film,...focuses...on the bravery of young people and their teachers at the Sainte Trinite Music School in Port-au-Prince...One of ten films in the running for SFFilm's prestigious Golden Gate Award, Serenade illuminates the healing power of art and the stirring resilience of the Haitian people.”
Read the press break in its entirety here: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2017-03-31/article/45619?headline=SFFilm-Comes-to-BAMPFA--Gar-Smith
