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Brooklyn - based distributors Factory 25 have announced that they have acquired the distribution rights to Drinking Buddies director Joe Swanberg's latest film, All the Light in the Sky.

DRINKING BUDDIES director Joe Swanberg has returned with the trailer for his latest project ALL THE LIGHT IN THE SKY.

Not exact matches

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy.

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy, including Jake Johnson (who co-wrote the film with Swanberg), Rosemary DeWitt, Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Orlando Bloom, Mike Birbiglia, Judith Light, Sam Elliott, Jane Adams, Ron Livingston, Melanie Lynskey, and Jenny Slate.

«Digging for Fire» was shot in 35 mm by Ben Richardson, who lensed the director's «Drinking Buddies» and «Happy Christmas» as well as «Beasts of the Southern Wild.»

The ensemble is a disappointment, though some truly hardcore horror fans will like a few of the casing choices, such as B - movie scream queen Barbara Crampton (Body Double, Re-Animator) as the mother, schlock writer / director / actor Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter) as one of the first victims, and director Ti West (Drinking Buddies, Silver Bullets) as one of the significant others.

US indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas) joins the Hyphenates for our August 2014 edition, as we talk over the new releases of the past month, look at whether independent filmmakers can forge a career in the new media landscape, and check out the filmography of the influential and underrated director Paul Mazursky.

Considering Drinking Buddies had roughly ten times the amount of budget that director Joe Swanberg had for previous films, many thought this to be his crossover into the Hollywood system.

Magnolia Pictures announced today that they have acquired North American distribution rights to writer - director Joe Swanberg's DRINKING BUDDIES, starring Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick and Ron Livingston.

Drinking Buddies is somewhat of a crossover from micro-indie films into a larger budget film for Joe Swanberg; it contains a well - known cast (Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick) and much higher production values (having a dedicated director of photography, etc.) than his previous 14 films.

«Happy Christmas» also features Mark Webber and — naturally — Lena Dunham, filling out a cast of rather famous faces, much more in line with «Drinking Buddies» than the director's earlier, lower - profile films.

Absurdly prolific indie director Joe Swanberg, whose «Drinking Buddies» and «All the Light in the Sky» both came out in 2013, will also be exploring this theme with his feature «Happy Christmas» at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition.

The boys then come back to the States and recruit college drinking buddies Fink (Steve Lem me), Landfill (Kevin Heffernan), and drinking game legend - turned - prostitute Barry («Beerfest» director Jay Chandrasekhar) to go back to Beerfest in a year's time and bring the title to the US, who has never even been invited to the competition in the past.

Director / co-writer Ethan Hawke's biopic on the late, great songwriter Blaze Foley is blessed with a central performance by Little Rock singer and guitarist Benjamin Dickey, who lends this outlaw - country wildman and Townes Van Zandt drinking buddy an aura of tarnished - halo saintliness.

Wingard does take some liberties, including having a penchant for casting other indie directors in some of the lead roles, including Joe Swanberg (one of the pioneers of mumblecore and the director of last year's Drinking Buddies) and Ti West (actually a horror director, of The Innkeepers and The House of the Devil).

Cast: Jason Mitchell, Christopher Abbott, Michael Cera, Caleb Landry Jones Director: Sebastián Silva (Nasty Baby) Why It's Great: When Tyler (Jason Mitchell) arrives at a weekend - long house party where he's the only black guy, he's misidentified as «Tyrel» after being introduced to a new drinking buddy by his friend Johnny (Abbott).

A lesser effort in the aftermath of two eruptively sweet victories (Drinking Buddies and Happy Christmas), Digging for Fire takes on the humps and bumps of marriage and the battle of young parenthood with an enviable cast for any director.

He's probably best known for his role in the slasher flick You're Next, but Swanberg's 2013 effort Drinking Buddies earned him plenty of notice as writer / director with a refreshing voice.

Johnson co-wrote and produced the story with Swanberg, their second script collaboration after «Digging for Fire» and third as an actor and director («Drinking Buddies»).

Other galas and special event screenings include The Way, Way Back from writers / directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, «Gay - La» event G.B.F., Fanie Fourie's Lobola from South Africa (the centerpiece of the African Pictures section), Populaire from France, Papadopoulos and Sons from the U.K., Joe Swanberg's Drinking Buddies with Anna Kendrick and Olivia Wilder, and the documentaries Twenty Feet from Stardom, Inequality for All, and Somm.

Director / actor Joe Swanberg scored a recent cult and critical hit with impressively - cast comedy DRINKING BUDDIES.

Finally, there's Joe Swanberg's dramedy «Digging For Fire,» co-written by and starring Jake Johnson, who did his best film work to date in the director's «Drinking Buddies.»

Writer / director Joe Swanberg has become a festival favorite with such previous films as Drinking Buddies and Happy Christmas.

Ben Richardson, who worked with the director on the recent Chicago projects «Drinking Buddies» and «Happy Christmas,» teams up with Swanberg again for «Digging for Fire,» which was shot on warm, pleasing 35 millimeter film in the canyons and on the beaches of Los Angeles.