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| High
Maintenance featured in AFI Daily News spread "Future
Shock"
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HERE to check out the article on High
Maintenance, cinema
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| High
Maintenance an official selection of over a
half-dozen more festivals!
These
include AFI Dallas, Cleveland,
Indianapolis,
Short Shorts, Short Escape Barcelona,
Sonoma Valley and more! |
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| Come
Wander With Me featured in 3D
Creative Magazine!
CLICK
HERE to see the insanely beautiful four-page
spread about
Phillip's new short Come Wander With
Me in 3D Creative Magazine.
Come
Wander With Me is the final film in the Exquisite
Corpse series by Little Minx.
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| Come
Wander With Me is finished
CLICK
HERE to watch
Come Wander With Me, Phillip's new short film. It is
the final film in the Exquisite
Corpse series by Little Minx, a division of RSA.
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| Check
out more of Phillip Van's work at RSA's
beautiful new site
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HERE
to link to Phillip's page on the RSA/Little Minx website |
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| Phillip
Van named one of SHOOT
Magazine's
Up & Coming Directors in the Fall 2007 Director's Issue
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HERE
to read the article from SHOOT Magazine.
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| High
Maintenance plays at Over Two Dozen New Festivals
High
Maintenance
is an official selection of a slew of fests including, Palm
Springs, Starz Denver, Stiges
(Spain), BendFilm, Flickerfest
(Australia), St. Louis,
Bahamas, Olympia, Milwaukee,
San Diego, Woodstock, Rhode Island
and many others
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| High
Maintenance WINS Grand Jury Awards for Best Directing
and Best Cinematography at HATCHfest
An industry
jury selected High
Maintenance to receive the top award at HATCHfest,
a $10,000 cash
prize and a $5000 post-production
grant
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High
Maintenance on Reelz
Channel coverage of the 2007 Student
Academy Awards!
Phillip
Van interviewed along with John Landis and Zooey
Deschanel for awards coverage.
To watch, click HERE.
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Phillip
signed to Little
Minx at
RSA
Phillip
is signed to Little
Minx, a commercial production
division of
RSA,
Ridley Scott's
commercial production company
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| High
Maintenance is the winning U.S. Entry in
Kodak's Showcase at the
2007
Cannes Film Festival
A total
of 4 short films were chosen from around the world to represent
the United States, Canada, Latin America and Asia in Kodak's
showcase at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
Each film formerly recieved one of Kodak's
awards to make it elligible for selection in the showcase. |
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High
Maintenance WINS AUDIENCE AWARD for Best International
Short Film at Florida Film Festival
Out of 22
amazing international shorts in both the narrative and animated
categories, High
Maintenance receives the highest
audience rating and takes the award! |
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After
receiving the highest viewer rating from thousands of
passengers flying on Delta Airlines, High
Maintenance wins the competition!!! This means
a trip to Sundance where there will be a screening and
celebration in honor of the film and a $10,000 cash prize,
and a $2500 Gen Art membership!!!
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Phillip's short film, High
Maintenance is playing domestically and internationally
on Delta Airlines. Industry professionals have chosen five filmmakers
from across the country to participate and all five films will
be shown on select Delta flights as well as on delta.com.
The filmmaker with the highest viewer rating wins a whopping $10,000
cash prize and a trip to Sundance!
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Kodak's
spotlight article titled, "Phillip Van beats the
odds with his High Maintenance project" features
an in-depth look at the production of High
Maintenance, the winning of the Berlin
Talent Campus and the 1st
Place Eastman Scholarship, the premiere at the Telluride
Film Festival and the next-to-nothing odds of all three!
| MovieHabit
reviews High
Maintenance at
the 33rd Telluride Film Festival
"Of
the student films, the biggest crowd pleaser —
the one that buzzed on the Gondola — is High
Maintenance." -MovieHabit |
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Student
Filmmakers' five page spread on the making of High
Maintenance details the film's intensive pre to
post production process in an interview with director Phillip
Van. CLICK
HERE to read the article!
Phillip
is awarded the 1st
place Eastman Scholarship in a ceremony held at the
Kodak / UFVA conference in Orange, California on August
2nd. The $12,000 award is for his excellence in filmmaking
as a director and cinematographer, with particular regard
to his short film High
Maintenance. A Blue Panel Jury consisting of auspicious
industry professionals chose Phillip from 9
finalists from leading graduate film programs around
the country nominated by their faculty.
| Pictures
of the Berlin Film Festival Party in Soho for Dieter
Kosslick are up on IndieWIRE |
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IndieWIRE
posted a picture of Phillip at a Berlinale party for festival
director Dieter Kosslick.
| Phillip
directs a Metlife PSA
Phillip
was chosen to write and direct a PSA for Metlife and
Strang Cancer Prevention Center's Healthy Children,
Healthy Futures. |
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| DUNNY
official selection and award winner - NYU's First
Run Film Festival in NYC
DUNNY
wins craft awards for Best Screenwriting and Best
Ensemble Cast. |
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| Phillip
signs with France/UK commercial production company,
Mr.
Hyde
Fresh
off his international screenings of DUNNY
and High
Maintenance,
Phillip signs to direct commercials with a stellar
production company in France and the UK, Mr.
Hyde. |
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