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OUR FIRST DVD REVIEW:
Racing Daylight
By Ed Grant -- Video Business, 11/10/2008
VANGUARD
Street: Dec. 23
Prebook: Nov. 14
> Unconventional chick flick toys with time-travel.
A clever variation on Akira Kuro-sawa’s Rashomon, this time-traveling romance presents three points of view on events in present and post-Civil War America. The film is smartly scripted by director Nicole Quinn, but its strongest suit is its cast. Melissa Leo (Righteous Kill) plays the schizo lead character, a present-day woman who has hallucinations that she is her 1860s ancestor. The superb David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck) steals the picture as the man she loves in both eras, who solves her dilemma when he turns into a third-act narrator who explains most—but not all—of what we have seen.
Shelf Talk: Racing Daylight is hard to categorize, but it is most like memory and time-travel chick flicks The Lake House and The Notebook. Target female viewers looking for a slightly offbeat “timeless romance” with a comfortably happy conclusion.
Drama, color, NR (nothing offensive), 83 min., DVD $19.95
Extras: none
Director: Nicole Quinn
First Run: DVD premiere
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| nquinn (Fri Oct 10) |
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RACING DAYLIGHT SCREENS:
NYWIFT/CINEWOMEN-NY Screening Series, Tuesday October 28, 6:30 Two Boots Pioneer Theater
S.N.O.B. FILM FESTIVAL, Concord, New Hampshire, OPENING NIGHT FILM, Nov 7-9
The film releases on DVD through Vanguard cinema International December 23rd, 2008
AWARDS & PRIZES
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival
BEST ACTRESS, Melissa Leo, Ny Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, Giancarlo Esposito, NY Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles
BEST FEATURE, Ny Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles
BEST USA NARRATIVE FEATURE, Women's International Film Festival
GRAND JURY PRIZE, Fairhope Film Festival, the 1st Romance Film Festival!
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE, The Accolade
OFFICIAL SELECTION, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film and Lecture Series, 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION : Cannes in a Van @ Movieum, London
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Summer Tromadance, 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION, The Wrath of Con Sci-fi Convention and Film Festival
TOP FIVE of the festival,audience votes, Kansas International Film Festival
TOP THREE, of the festival Kansas City Star
FINISHING FUNDS, Women in Film |
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| nquinn (Wed Sep 24) |
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RACING DAYLIGHT, a film written/directed by Nicole Quinn and produced by Sophia Raab Downs screens in NY:
REEL SISTERS FILM FESTIVAL, Brooklyn, NY, Sunday S9/28/08, 3:15, LIU Kumble Theater, Brooklyn
new!!! NYWIFT/CINEWOMEN-NY Screening Series, Tuesday October 28, 6:30 Two Boots Pioneer Theater
The film releases on DVD through Vanguard cinema International December 23rd, 2008
AWARDS & PRIZES
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival
BEST ACTRESS, Melissa Leo, Ny Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, Giancarlo Esposito, NY Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles
BEST FEATURE, Ny Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles
BEST USA NARRATIVE FEATURE, Women's International Film Festival
GRAND JURY PRIZE, Fairhope Film Festival, the 1st Romance Film Festival!
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE, The Accolade
OFFICIAL SELECTION, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film and Lecture Series, 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION : Cannes in a Van @ Movieum, London
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Summer Tromadance, 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION, The Wrath of Con Sci-fi Convention and Film Festival
TOP FIVE of the festival,audience votes, Kansas International Film Festival
TOP THREE, of the festival Kansas City Star
FINISHING FUNDS, Women in Film |
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| nquinn (Thu Sep 18) |
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RACING DAYLIGHT, a film written/directed by Nicole Quinn and produced by Sophia Raab Downs screens in NY:
NY FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, Village East Cinema, Friday 9/19/08, 6pm, 181-189 2nd Ave, NYC
REEL SISTERS FILM FESTIVAL, Brooklyn, NY, Sunday S9/28/08, 3:15, LIU Kumble Theater, Brooklyn
The film releases on DVD through Vanguard cinema International December 23rd, 2008
AWARDS & PRIZES
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival
BEST ACTRESS, Melissa Leo, Ny Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, Giancarlo Esposito, NY Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles
BEST FEATURE, Ny Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles
BEST USA NARRATIVE FEATURE, Women's International Film Festival
GRAND JURY PRIZE, Fairhope Film Festival, the 1st Romance Film Festival!
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE, The Accolade
OFFICIAL SELECTION, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film and Lecture Series,2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION : Cannes in a Van @ Movieum, London
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Summer Tromadance, 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION, The Wrath of Con Sci-fi Convention and Film Festival
TOP FIVE of the festival,audience votes, Kansas International Film Festival
TOP THREE, of the festival Kansas City Star
FINISHING FUNDS, Women in Film |
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| nquinn (Mon Sep 08) |
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RACING DAYLIGHT SCREENS:
New York Film and Video Festival - New York
Friday, September 19th, 6pm
Village Cinemas East, Screen 6
181 - 189 2nd Ave
New York, NY 10003 • 212-529-6799
village.east@readingrdi.com
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| nquinn (Mon Jun 09) |
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RACING DAYLIGHT is in the INDEPENDENT FEATURES online film festival. Please visit their site, view our film, and vote often!
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