0Our DC preview screening has been sold out for a week, and demand has been high for a second screening, so here it is:
October 31
Washington DC, USA
E-Street Cinema
Special screening with director Gary Hustwit, in association with AIGA DC and IDSA Mid Atlantic.
9pm screening added!
Tickets available now.
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In commemoration of the completion of the Design Trilogy (and that all three films had their NYC premiere at IFC Center) there will be special screenings of Helvetica and Objectified hosted by diretcor Gary Hustwit and guests from each film. See them in full high-definition and surround sound on the big screen! And all attendees will receive film freebies like buttons, tote bags, and whatever else we can find in the studio…
October 27
IFC Center
New York NY, USA
7:30pm: Helvetica, hosted by Gary Hustwit and designer Paula Scher (Pentagram)
9:30pm: Objectified, hosted by Gary Hustwit and designer Dan Formosa (Smart Design)
Get tickets.
Categories: Film News, Helvetica, Objectified
0October 24
Dublin, Ireland
The Sugar Club
Special Screening and post-film discussion with director Gary Hustwit special guests TBA.
8pm
Tickets on sale now.
November 21
Vancouver BC, Canada
Rio Theatre
Special Screening with director Gary Hustwit.
7pm.
Tickets on sale now.
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1How awesome is this? Our friends at Field Notes have made a run of custom Urbanized Field Notes notepads, and they’re giving them free to everyone who attends the Chicago Premiere this Sunday!
Categories: Film News, Merchandise
2November 8
Atlanta GA, USA
The Plaza Theatre
Special Screening with director Gary Hustwit and cast member Ellen Dunham-Jones. Presented in association with AIGA Atlanta.
7pm.
Tickets on sale now.
Categories: Film News
7Finally got a trailer for Urbanized done! Hope you enjoy:
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4We’re please to announce a Preview Screening and post-film discussion in London, with director Gary Hustwit and cast members Ricky Burdett (LSE Cities/Urban Age), Alejandro Aravena (architect, Elemental), and other special guests TBA. Tickets are very limited for this special event. More UK and EU screenings will be announced soon!
October 21
London, UK
Sheikh Zayed Theatre
London School of Economics
6:30pm
Tickets available now.
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Greetings from the Toronto International Film Festival, where Urbanized had its World Premiere this week. TIFF is a great festival, I’ve attended several times but have never had a film screen there. And Toronto is one of my favorite cities. We really couldn’t have had a more ideal premiere: over 1,000 people at the Ryerson Theatre (a very vocal, diverse, and enthusiastic crowd) a lively Q&A afterwards, and only one typo in our on-screen graphics (apologies to all the citizens of Columbia… I mean, Colombia!)
I’ve screened Helvetica and Objectified to live audiences maybe 300 times over the past five years. And occasionally those audiences broke out in laughter if one of our interview subjects had a humorous line. But I have never had an audience spontaneously applauding during the film when someone on screen says something they believe in, which happened about eight times at the premiere! It really blew me away, thanks so much to our TIFF audiences for their passion and excitement for the film. It was really gratifying, and a day I won’t forget. I was glad to have cinematographer Luke Geissbühler, editors Shelby Siegel and Michael Culyba, associate producer Pamela Puchalski, and cast member Noah Chasin on stage with me. I’m so grateful to them and the literally hundreds of people around the world who worked on this film with us. Cheers!
Crowd of 1,000 before the Ryerson Theatre premiere.
Gary Hustwit (with mic) and Urbanized cast/crew take questions from the audience.
Another interesting factor was how city government was a big part of the audience for this film. Of course this makes sense, good city officials always want to know about urban design solutions employed in other cities around the world. So we were honored to have the former Mayor of Toronto, David Miller, and city councillors Adam Vaughan, Kristyn Wong Tam, Joe Mihevc, and other city officials attending screenings throughout the week.
I hadn’t anticipated was how the issues in the film would resonate with Torontonians and correspond with urban issues the city is facing now. Bike lanes and proposed waterfront development seem to be the biggest local issues, and there’s a lot of contention over the actions of newly-elected Mayor Rob Ford. I put out an open invitation to Mayor Ford to attend any of the Urbanized screenings, but he was a no-show… which was too bad, I think he could use a few new ideas.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s reserved seat goes un-used… (Photo: Sarafina DiFelice)
All in all it was a fantastic week, thanks so much to my lady Jessica Edwards for all her work, Aleysa Young for her party rocking skills, all the volunteers who helped out, and everyone who came to the screenings. And a special thanks to Thom Powers, Cameron Bailey, Piers Handling, Sarafina DiFelice, and all the TIFF staff, I look forward to coming up and showing more film with y’all in years to come.
Here’s a roundup of some of the press reviews and stories from this week at TIFF:
- National Post – Interview and story on local Toronto politics
- Filmmaker Magazine interview
- CBC Radio’s Matt Galloway and I discussed Urbanized on Metro Morning
- Screen Daily interview
- Globe & Mail interview and article
- BlogTO review
- Indiewire TIFF overview. Favorite line: “Urbanized is my kind of porn.”
Cheers!
Gary
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3Feast your eyes upon the official Urbanized poster, designed by the always industrious folks at Build. It’s two-sided, 27″ x 39″, and remixes some of the iconography Build created for the Urbanized limited-edition silkscreen prints (only a few of those left, get one).
Why two sides? 1) You get to you choose which side you want to display, and 2) If they’re randomly alternated when we post multiple copies, they create sort of a “city skyline” of their own, like such:
We’ll be bringing these along with us on the screening tour, and selling them via the website soon, so stay tuned. But we’ve also printed a special 11″x17″ version especially for the TIFF ’11 World Premiere, and we’ll be giving a copy to the first 100 ticket/pass holders who show up for the screening at the Ryerson Theatre tomorrow.
Cheers!
Gary
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