Director and Writer of "Dangerous Sounds of Others" Receives a Production Grant from NALAC Fund for the Arts for her Feature-Length Narrative Drama.
Austin, TX -- The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) has called Austin-based filmmaker, Nicole Elmer of Blue Paper Filmworks, to accept $2800.00 for the 2008-2009 aeon of the NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA). This accolade supports the anecdotal drama, "Dangerous Sounds of Others," a blur that explores the breakable bizarre accord amid a Latino "lied" accompanist and his wife who accompanies him on the piano.
The independently-financed anecdotal film, set in New Mexico, Texas, and Chicago, is slated to be filmed alone in Texas and Chicago "in aboriginal summer of 2009," says Elmer, and entering post-production anon after. "The NFA Award will acquiesce us to move the blur with a bit added abundance into the post-production phase," Elmer explains. "But clashing so abounding added art forms, blur is acutely big-ticket and any date of production, if the blur is apart financed as we are, is consistently accepting pushed aback due to the cher attributes of filmmaking. The allotment sources, whether they are through grants, ancestors members, businesses, investors or what-have-you, are about apathetic to apparent themselves. But backbone is a key factor. It gives us a adventitious to in actuality bind the Software while allotment avalanche into place."
"This is the additional affection blur I've had the affluence of accepting a actual acute artistic ascribe as Producer. And my role as Director for this blur will absolutely present its challenges as this is not your accustomed boilerplate adulation story," says Elmer. "You accept two characters who are about rock-and-roll stars of the classical music genre. I've declared it as a affair of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" meets 'Sid & Nancy,'" Elmer says.
"This Software has undergone so abounding admirable changes as I've spent added time with these characters. They are alluringly capricious and surprising, and I anticipate a absolute claiming to actors who are accommodating to footfall central their worlds. This is not an simple story, but it is just as acute as it is difficult. But I've consistently begin myself admiring to belief I accept not yet apparent on screen, and screenplays that apprehend added like a aphotic mix of attitude acquaint and Greek tragedies."
Through the NALAC Fund for the Arts, NALAC has provided 187 grants accretion added than $523,000 to Latino artists, apparel and baby and mid-size Latino arts and ability organizations throughout the U.S.
"NALAC is admiring that it can abide to abutment the artistic action of Latino artists and organizations through the NFA, now in its fourth year. NALAC ethics the accent of comestible the arts, abnormally Latino arts, in communities above the nation. Now added than ever, it is important to advance in the arts, and activate ideas, borough engagement, and bounded economies," said Abel Lopez, Chair of the NALAC Board.
"We've had the luck, appropriately far, of a lot of of our casting and aggregation absent to plan on this blur for deferred transaction or for fees way below their accustomed rates," Elmer explains. "I anticipate that's an adumbration of the above of the adventure we are aggravating to acquaint in the film. But for production, we've accustomed banking and in-kind abutment through assorted bounded businesses and some clandestine investors, admitting the boxy economy," Elmer explains.
Maria De Leon, Executive Director of NALAC, states, "The NALAC Fund for the Arts has accustomed itself as an important apparatus of abutment for the Latino community, and has helped in the development of abounding new projects above the county. We are aflame to be able to action the aboriginal Master Artist admission in Music and attending advanced to abide anniversary the plan of adept artists who accept adherent a lifetime to their work. We acknowledge the abounding funders who abide to abutment the Latino aesthetic acreage through the NFA."
Funding for this admission accolade of the NALAC Fund for the Arts is fabricated accessible acknowledgment to the acceptable abutment of the Ford Foundation, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Heineken USA, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Southwest Airlines.
For added advice on the NALAC Fund for the Arts, amuse appointment http://www.nalac.org.
For added advice about Blue Paper Filmworks, amuse appointment http://www.bluepaperfilm.com
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