{"id":53006,"date":"2023-09-08T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/film-mag.net\/wp\/?p=53006"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:29:00","slug":"female-filmmaker-duo-premiere-science-fiction-film-homologies-at-dc-shorts-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/film-mag.net\/wp\/?p=53006","title":{"rendered":"Female Filmmaker Duo Premiere Science Fiction Film ‘Homologies’ at DC Shorts Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles, CA\u2014September 2023 \u2013”Homologies,” a gripping short film that explores the dark side of our current parental arms race through the lens of genetic modification, will premiere at the 20th Anniversary edition of DC Shorts Film Festival this month. The talented female filmmaker duo, screenwriter Tatiana Blackington James and director Bryerly Long, both DC natives, are excited to return to their origins for the world premiere.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDC is my hometown. My first job was as an usher at the oldBiograph Theater. I moved to L.A. for screenwriting but am so happy to premi\u00e8re in the town where I grew up\u201d said Blackington.<\/p>\n

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The 2022 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards-winning script “Homologies” depicts a family dealing with the unintended consequences of genetically modifying their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany science fiction films are told from a male perspective,\u201d notes Long. \u201cWe wanted to personalize this genre with our own experiences as women of differentages by focusing on a new technology that has terrifying potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHomologies\u201d was shot in Spain, featuring an international cast, including Timothy Cordukes and Marta Rubio as the parents, both of whom also appear in Wes Anderson\u2019s \u201cAsteroid City\u201d. Academy-Award-Winner Andrew Carlberg (\u201cSkin\u201d) <\/em>joined as Executive Producer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomologies\u201d is one of several sci-fi shorts playing in \u201cThe Worlds Beyond\u201d section, on Friday, September 22, at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema DC, and is in consideration for both Outstanding Local Film and Outstanding Genre Short. The awards will be announced on the final day of the festival, which runs from September 20-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomologies\u201d has also been selected to the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival and Topaz Film Festival by Women in Film, Dallas, which take place in October.<\/p>\n

For more information about “Homologies” and the DC Shorts Film Festival, please visit homologiesshortfilm.com<\/a> and dcshorts.filmbot.com\/2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Writer\/Producer Tatiana Blackington James <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tatiana Blackington James writes about the intersection of the personal and the political, with a particular fondness for spy stories. She has written screenplays on Mata Hari for Universal Pictures, Albert Einstein for HBO, and the award-winning films, THE NARROWS, and HOMOLOGIES. She recently adapted the novel, An Unexpected Guest, <\/em>for British director John Strickland, and is developing a limited series on the writer, Ana\u00efs Nin, with French director Fran\u00e7ois Velle.<\/p>\n

Tatiana is proud to serve on the Los Angeles Committee for Human Rights Watch and on the Advisory Board of the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC.<\/p>\n

About Director\/Producer Bryerly Long <\/strong><\/p>\n

Fluent in French, German, Japanese, Spanish and English, Bryerly Long is a filmmaker with a global perspective. She graduated with highest honors from the University of Oxford, where she served as a Committee Member in the prestigious Oxford University Dramatic Society.<\/p>\n

Bryerly Long began her career as an actress in Japan. She starred in commercials, TV, theater and in several films by the Cannes-awarded director Koji FUKADA and became the first actor in the world to act opposite a real android robot on stage and in the feature film \u201cSayonara\u201d (2015).<\/p>\n

Long made her film directing debut with \u201cTokyo Dreamers, a little violence\u201d, which premiered at New Filmmakers Los Angeles in 2020. She studied Screenwriting and Producing at UCLA on a full scholarship. In 2022, she completed her Masters in Directing at ESCAC (Barcelona).<\/p>\n

About Executive Producer Andrew Carlberg<\/strong><\/p>\n

Named by Variety as one of \u201cHollywood\u02bcs New Leaders,\u201d Carlberg is an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning film, television, new media, Broadway, and Los Angeles stage producer. Andrew\u2019s extensive credits include, but aren\u2019t limited to, ABC\u2019s Castle, DirecTV\u2019s Full Circle, Broadway\u2019s Romeo and Juliet and Side Show, the Neil LaBute penned feature films Some Girl(s) and Dirty Weekend, actress Jennifer Morrison\u2019s feature directorial debut Sun Dogs (Netflix 2018), and the 2018 and 2021 Official Sundance Selection the Blazing World (short and feature).<\/p>\n

Notably, Carlberg was the producer of Skin, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.<\/p>\n

Recent credits include the romantic comedy Sister of the Groom and the HBOMax drama The Fallout, which premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, and won the Grand Jury and Audience Award. Other recent features include Peace in the Valley (2022 Tribeca Film Festival premiere) and Mutt (2023 Sundance Film Festival and 2023 Berlinale International Film Festival).<\/p>\n

Carlberg is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Shakespeare studies at Oxford University, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America, an alum of Film Independent\u2019s Fast Track Producing Fellowship and New York\u2019s Independent Filmmaker Project, and an event producer for the I Have a Dream Foundation – Los Angeles and the National Breast Cancer Coalition.<\/p>\n

Homologies – IMDb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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