Unamde in China PRESS

Presents Unmade In China

A Film by Tanner King Barklow & Gil Kofman

Distributed by 7th Art Releasing and Antidote Films Release Date: Friday, June 7, 2013 New York Los Angeles and other markets to follow

Running Time: 87 minutes www.UnmadeInChinaMovie.com Unmade In China

Winner:

2012 Sydney Underground film Festival: best Documentary 2012 Edmonton International Film Festival: Best Documentary

The International Art Consortium Presents A Film By Tanner King Barklow & Gil Kofman Original Music by Phil Geronimo Graphic Design and Animation Ed Alva Co-Producer Seth Scher Produced by Francis Krow Written and Directed by Tanner King Barklow & Gil Kofman Distributed by 7th Art Releasing and Antidote Films

Press Contacts:

7th Art Releasing Udy Epstein Ph: 323.259.8259 [email protected]

Australia & New Zealand Antidote Films Ph: 1300.884.800 www.antidotefilms.com.au [email protected]

The International Art Consortium Annalei Nemeth [email protected]

UNAMDE IN CHINA

Winner of Best Documentary Awards at the Edmonton International Film Festival and the Sydney Underground Film Festival, Unmade In China, is an absurd and hilarious tale overeager American filmmaker Gil Kofman striving to make art under the watchful eye of a Communist regime. He discovers that the old adage of making a film three times Ð in the writing, shooting, and editing Ð is in fact the opposite in China, where his film is “unmade” three times - in the writing, shooting, and editing - with each subsequent stage of the process even more excruciating and devastating than the one that came before it.

"Gutsy, hilarious filmmaking with global balance-of-power resonance." Ð Ross McElwee

Emmy¨ nominee Tanner King Barklow, producer of the 2012 Sundance Audience Award winner The Invisible War, co-directs the film with Gil Kofman, award winning director of The Memory Thief and Case Sensitive, who also stars. The film co-stars Chinese film star Feng Yuanzheng and Taiwanese starlet Ady Ang.

"A brilliant documentary... Kofman is some sort of genius." Ð Gig City

At first artistic compromises are decorously made and Kofman must ‘sell’ himself on the fact that these changes are mandated by cultural imperatives or differences delineating east and west. This notion of civil disparity is quickly disabused as lead actors are clandestinely recast in the dead of night, paychecks are withheld for weeks, and the script is hijacked and rewritten without consultation. Fortunately, the Los Angeles filmmaker is accompanied on his Sino-Sisyphean journey by documentarian and close friend, Tanner King Barklow, who intimately records the absurd lunacy that unravels. What results is a hilarious documentary of an overeager American struggling to work creatively under a Communist regime that is itself unsure of its identity. As well, Unmade In China, is a bittersweet tale of revenge and comeuppance when Kofman returns to China to bootleg the uncorrupted version of his own film, which the Chinese production re-cut entirely, to the point of making the film unrecognizable.

“One of the 10 best films of 2012.” Ð Film Bizzaro

Aside from a fun and frivolous tale that documents the trials and tribulations of an Angeleno filming in Xiamen China, Unmade In China, is a cautionary tale, redolent with political resonance, about the compromises an artist suffers and the measures he or she must take in order to right a wrong.

PRESS

Unmade in China better than the film they ruined Gig City 09.29.12 “Unmade in China” is a brilliant documentary about how the Chinese government turned a decent film into a terrible film. It’s not new turf, but it’s rarely covered better than this often-absurd examination of what happens when a mild mannered American director tries to make a movie in China. http://www.gigcity.ca/2012/09/29/eiff-review-unmade-in-china-better-than-the-film-they-ruined/

Director’s cut shows good film despite totalitarian meddling Gig City 09.29.12 “Gil Kofman is some sort of genius.” http://www.gigcity.ca/2012/09/29/eiff-review-directors-cut-shows-good-film-despite-toltalitarian-meddling/

Unmade in China Take One 05.27.12 “Kofman and Barklow personify idiosyncracy and artistic derring-do.” http://www.takeonecff.com/2012/unmade-in-china

Unmade in China - Review "This documentary is superb. I loved every little bit of it... Not only inspirational... It's absurd and fucked up, sure, but very funny." http://www.filmbizarro.com/view_review.php?review=unmadeinchina.php

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

TANNER KING BARKLOW (Director) Is an Emmy and Independent Sprit award-nominated producer. He recently produced The Invisible War, which has won numerous awards including the 2012 Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary and Best Documentary at the Seattle Film festival. He also co-produced the Emmy-nominated Outrage, a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of powerful, closeted politicians and the political and media institutions that protect them. He served as the English assistant director on the 2011 Chinese film production Case Sensitive, directed by Gil Kofman. He studied at Harvard University, Bennington College in Vermont and Hollins University in Virginia.

GIL KOFMAN (Director) Gil Kofman was born in Nigeria and raised in Kenya, Israel, and NYC, Gil Kofman studied physics at Cornell before attending NYU Graduate Film School, and later getting an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

Kofman’s play American Magic, a dark political satire, was produced in NY, LA, and London with music by Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth and Richard Foreman playing the part of the President. His other plays Entrivista 187 won a Dramalogue award in LA and was later produced at the Dallas Theater Center. His other plays The Report and Pharmacopeia were produced at the Evidence Room in LA. Other plays were produced at CBGBs, Workhouse Theater, Adobe Theater in NYC plus other theaters in Canada and Chicago.

The Memory Thief, Kofman’s first narrative feature, won the Digital Feature Award at the 21st Edmonton Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at the Red Rock Film Festival The Memory Thief played in competition at the Seattle, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Calgary Sydney and Atlanta Jewish Film Festivals, amongst many others. He also helped produce, edit and shoot the Sundance award Winning documentary Derrida.

BRIAN DAVIS (Editor) Brian Davis is an award-winning director and editor from central Virginia. With a M.F.A in Film Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, he has produced works that have aired on MTV, The Documentary Channel and PBS, as well as screened at prestigious film festivals including Slamdance, Seattle and Gen Art film festivals. In 2008, he was awarded the Student Academy Award in the Documentary Category by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for his film, If A Body Meet a Body, and was named one of Coca-Cola's Refreshing Filmmakers Finalists.

SETH SCHER (Co-Producer) Scher produced the 2011 Chinese language thriller Case Sensitive, directed by Gil Kofman. The film screened in over 2,000 theaters in Mainland China. In 2008 he co-produced Explicit Ills, which starred Mark Webber, Rosario Dawson, and Paul Dano.

CREDITS

The International Art Consortium Presents

With approval by State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, People's Republic of China 国家广播电影电视总局

A Francis Krow Production 制作一部影

Produced by Francis Krow

Co-produced by Seth Scher

Edited by 编辑 Brian Davis

Music by 音乐由 Phil Geronimo

Written & Directed by 编写和导演 Tanner King Barklow Gil Kofman

As themselves

Gil Kofman Tanner King Barklow Yuan Zhengfeng Ady An Shone An Chunjun Jing Seth Scher Michael Hersey George F. Richards Amy Ziering

Producer Francis Krow

Co-Producer Seth Scher

Editor Brian Davis

Assistant Editor Edward Patrick Alva

Original Music Phil Geronimo

HD Services Provided By Different By Design & HD Cinema

Online Editor Matt Radecki

Colorist Brian Hutchings

Mix Facility Sound Logic Post

Re-Recording Mixer Jeremy Grody

Webmaster Edward Patrick Alva

Special Thanks Corey Barklow Lucas Barklow Tony Bill Mary Conlon Cristina Cuevas-Wolf Kirby Dick Udy Epstein Ralph Gervasio Jonathan Goldman Nicole Guillemet Joav & Sara Kofman Ulli Lommel Loretta Miles Kimi Reichenberg Matt Ridecki Nicholas Ruffo Owen Shapiro Carolle-Shelley Abrams Randi Steinberger Harlen Steinberger Ti Ti

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