Ballast Articles

J. Hoberman in The Village Voice: "All hail Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E — even us! Sometimes, the movies really are universal. And so a major studio’s mainstream, multiplex, mega-million-dollar-grossing, Oscar-friendly “summer movie” resoundingly won the ninth annual Village Voice–L. A. Weekly poll of (mainly) alt-press critics, named on 35 of 80 ballots. "Unlike last year, when Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood materialized in late [...]

2008 Gotham Awards 2008 Gotham Independent Film Award nominations: October 20, 2008 2008 Gotham Award winners: December 2, 2008, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Melissa Leo in Frozen River   Best Feature Ballast Lance Hammer, director; Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh, producers (Alluvial Film Company) * Frozen River Courtney Hunt, director; Heather Rae, Chip Hourihan, [...]

2008 Berlin Film Festival: Official Competition Line-Up The Berlin Film Festival will be held between February 7–17, 2008. Avaze Gonjeshk-ha / The Song of Sparrows, Iran (World Premiere) by Majid Majidi with Reza Najie, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hossein Aghazi Ballast, USA (International Premiere) by Lance Hammer with Micheal J. Smith, Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs Bam gua Nat / Night and Day, Republic of [...]

Sundance 2008: Dramatic Competition   Jason Ritter, Marianna Palka in Good Dick Film information from the Sundance Film Festival press release AMERICAN SON (Director: Neil Abramson; Screenwriter: Eric Schmid)— Before being deployed for active duty, a young Marine takes a four-day Thanksgiving leave to return home to Bakersfield, California. There he meets a young woman, tries to connect with old friends, and confronts his volatile [...]