March 23, 2009

It’s bad, I’ve been back in the office from my trip in Austin, Texas for SXSW for a few days and I only get to do a recap now. Things are very busy in the office you see, in-between HANSEL & GRETEL starting its run in Toronto on Friday, the Crying Fist DVD getting in its final stages of production and ADRIFT IN TOKYO to come out in theatres soon. Amongst many other things! Tim League and the Fantastic Fest folks were nice enough to program BLACK in their SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest programming, which got us all very excited to have BLACK’s World Premiere there. Both March 14th and March 18th screenings were at the South Lamar Alamo Drafthouse Theatre, to sold-out audiences that seemed very eager to see this new genre of French action flick with Blaxploitation influences starring MC Jean Gab’1.


The sold-out house on the 1st screening.


Lauranne Bourrachot, one of the producer of the film, and Pierre Laffargue, the director.

 
The Q&A session after the first screening. A video of it will be posted soon on YouTube.

 
The presentation of the second screening.

Great reviews got posted on blogs following the screenings. You can read them right here:
A first Ain’t It Cool Review
A second Ain’t It Cool Review
A review on Cinematical
A review on HitFix
A review on RowThree
And finally an interview with Pierre Laffargue on eFilmCritic

BLACK will be released in France in July and in Canada in August. There is no American distributor yet for the film but we wouldn’t be surprised that one is signed on soon following all this great buzz!

Posted in In the Press, Special Screenings