<font color="maroon">by Larry Richman </font>
<font color="gray" size="1">August 24, 2008 5:42 PM</font>
We've been following the progress of George Gallo's <em>Local Color</em> since attending <a href="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=620150#620150" target="_blank">the World Premiere</a> at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. The film stars the legendary Armin Mueller-Stahl and Trevor Morgan.
I saw the film twice more after that: at a screening in Nyack, New York, presented by the Rivertown Film Society in conjunction with an exhibition of writer/director George Gallo's paintings at the Hopper Arts Center gallery there and at the Sedona Film Festival in early 2007. It's one of my favorite (so far unreleased) films of the past few years.
News about the film is sprinkled throughout this blog. The story of the filmmakers' personal odyssey to get this film made and privately distributed is heartening. Against all odds, without a distribution deal in place, the filmmakers got <em>Local Color</em> into festivals and theaters across the country for short runs. But the film seemed destined to disappear into the indie ether.
Enter Empire Film Group, who have acquired the film and set a date for the proper theatrical distribution this film deserves. Look for <em>Local Color</em> on November 7 in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas-Ft.Worth, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, San Diego, San Antonio, Washington, D.C., Kansas City and N.W. Arkansas. Empire plans to expand the release to additional markets throughout November and December.
<a href="http://www.localcolormovie.com/Media/Local%20Color%20Trailer%20Web.mov" target="_blank">OFFICIAL TRAILER</a> 640x400 -- 25.2Mb
CLIPS (QuickTime)
<a href="http://www.localcolormovie.com/Media/localcolorsizzle.mov" target="_blank">"Sizzle Reel"</a> -- 95.4Mb
<a href="http://www.localcolormovie.com/Media/Paying%20a%20visit%20(condensed)-Local%20Color%20Web-1.mov" target="_blank">"Paying A Visit"</a> -- 12.1Mb
<a href="http://www.localcolormovie.com/Media/First%20Lesson%20(condensed)-Local%20Color%20Web.mov" target="_blank">"First Lesson"</a> -- 11.0Mb
<a href="http://www.localcolormovie.com/Media/Adopted%20Country-Local%20Color%20Web.mov" target="_blank">"I Love My Adopted County"</a> -- 9.0Mb
<a href="http://www.localcolormovie.com/Media/Art%20Festival-Local%20Color%20Web.mov" target="_blank">"The Art Fair"</a> -- 19.3Mb
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