Production of the companion book
to the Nether World film is underway. Below are some sample panels from
the book. We hope to have the illustrations and text finished and everything
ready for press by this September.
300+ people turned out for a SRO audience at the United Teen Equality Center for the live performance and film of Nether World: A Modern Fairy Tale on Saturday, March 7th. Performance photos © shantijain.com
Roselle falls under the dark spell of the villain, Catskin
Mendusa exorcises her demons at Club 33
The conflicted Goddess and her accomplice, Joe Darensbourg
Upcoming Events
Jim Higgins will be participating as part of a filmmakers panel at the Lowell Film Festival on Saturday, April 4th, 5:15PM, Lowell National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street, Lowell. Go to www.lowellfilms.org for more info.
And on Tuesday, April 28th at 7PM we will be presenting a live performance and 10 minute film clip of Nether World at the Urban Village Arts Series (UVAS), also at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center. We will be sharing the bill with musician Kevin Stevenson, former leader of Lowell and Boston area punk band The Shods; and New York poet Anselm Berrigan of Bard College and Wesleyan University.
Saturday, March 7th - Doors Open at 7:30 pm - Free Event - Good Food
United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) - 34 Hurd Street - Downtown Lowell, MA
Former St. Paul's Church (Brick building with white wooden steeple)
Please use the Club 33 entrance
Directions to UTEC
Directions coming from Boston: Take 93 North to 495 South (Toward Lowell).
Follow 495 South for less than 10 minutes to the Lowell Connector.
Follow the Lowell Connector all the way to the end. Make a left at the end of the Connector at the light.
Follow this street (Gorham) until it intersects Central Street.
Go straight onto Central Street then 2nd right onto Hurd Street
Parking in the Lower Locks Garage is a $2 minimum. On street parking is also available.
After nearly 400,000 still photos and 14 months, shooting for Nether World has wrapped with our final shoot taking place on a cold and windy rooftop. We are now beginning the final picture editing and a rough estimate of the completed film's running time is about 40 minutes. Our premiere for both the film and live performances will be March 7th, 2009 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Please keep checking back for additional info.
Holland's Jeroen de Bruin and Nicky Deborah have joined us to create the sound score for Nether World. Go to the People page to check out the details on these two very talented musicians. For more info: www.myspace.com/wickednature
Through the Cultural Organization of Lowell, Flying Orb Productions was recently awarded a Parker Foundation grant for development of the live performances that will be part of the Nether World film presentations. Stay tuned for sneak previews and photos from the rehearsal sessions!
The August edition of New England Film's online magazine features a story about our films called Stop Motion. NewEnglandFilm.com is the premier online resource and magazine for local film and video professionals -- reaching over 59,000 (as of Nov-Dec 2007) unique people each month according to Google Analytics. Check out the story at www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/2008/08/higgins.htm
Flying Orb's short film trilogy Shadow Worlds will be one of the featured films at the 10th Annual Roxbury Film Festival. Our film will be showing Sunday, August 3rd at 3:40pm at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
The Roxbury Film Festival, produced by ACT Roxbury and The Color of Film Collaborative, is the largest festival in New England dedicated to screening films by, for, and about people of color. While the motion picture industry has historically eclipsed the works of independent filmmakers of color, the Roxbury Film Festival supports them by putting their works on the screens of important Boston-area cinemas.
For more information, go to www.roxburyfilmfestival.org
This month part of the Flying Orb crew went to the Boston performance of the Cambodian-American psychedelic rock band Dengue Fever. Singer and guitar player Zac Holzman invited Flying Orb performers Sophy Leng and Monica Veth to join the band on stage for a song. After the show, lead singer Chhom Nimol (center left) joined our crew for a group photo.
