What A Busy Year!

Wow, we have been busy since our last news update! We will be sure to add a few extra posts to catch everyone up! We are currently at work on documentaries, in addition to some very exciting short form projects.  Here are some quick highlights:

 

We have partnered with long-time friend and colleague, Daniel Junge, to produce a short doc for HBO currently entitled Saving Face. This documentary follows a London-based plastic surgeon as he travels to his home country of Pakistan to work with survivors of acid attacks. The film is Produced by Davis Coombe, Daniel Junge, Alison Greenberg, Sabiha Sumar, and Directed by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

 

We are deep in production with Producer/Director Amie Knox’s documentary about artist Clyfford Still, and the new Clyfford Still Museum currently being built in Denver. To view a teaser, please visit www.clyffordstillmuseum.org and click on Clyfford Still: A Life in Paintings.

 

Post is wrapping up on Chasing Ice, a feature-length documentary Produced by Paula DuPré Pesmen and Directed by Jeff Orlowski. This film is very powerful and absolutely stunning! The film follows photographer, James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey’s documentation of retreating glaciers. We will be posting information about where/when you can see it soon. Visit http://chasingice.com/ for a trailer and details.

 

Stop by the Denver Art Museum, and visit the newly opened American Indian Galleries. Their collection is spectacular and extensive, with tens of thousands of artifacts. Milkhaus is proud to have created three video installations for the gallery: an interactive presentation about artist Mateo Romero, “Meet the Artists” display of artist inspirations, and “What is Native American Art?”.

  • The National Geographic Channel will be airing Chasing Ice in the United States on April 19th at 8pm EST and Worldwide in 171 countries on April 20th.  Be sure to tune in! Learn More

  • Once again, Sam Miller of ONLYCH1LD has shown his stylistic directorial mastery in a new series for Complex Magazine called Magnum Opus, a string of short docs about game-changing tracks by some of hip hop’s classic artists. For the first episode Special Ed’s “I Got It Made,” Sam and his producers carved out a great story with graphic design and [...]

  • The film won Best Short at this year’s IDA Documentary Awards.  A huge congrats to the whole crew! More Details  

  • Building on the February 2012 Oscar win for Saving Face and its March 2012 HBO broadcast, outreach efforts have been in full effect. Project SAAVE  leverages the film to raise awareness of the issue of acid violence and highlights solutions to eradicate it. You can now join Glamour Magazine and Project SAAVE in an effort to [...]

  • Chasing Ice has been shortlisted for an Academy Award in the Documentary Feature category!  Congratulations to the incredibly talented  production team - including Milkhaus’ own Davis Coombe, who edited the film!  In case you have missed this gorgeous, thought-provoking film, check for showtimes in your area – the film is screening across the country.  Fingers crossed for the Nomination! Review: Variety Review: Huffington [...]

  • Director Alexandre Philippe and Editor Chad Herschberger have been busy putting the finishing touches on Teaser Trailer #1 that you can view now!  Milkhaus is once again working with the Exhibit A Pictures‘ team – serving as the post house for this upcoming zombie culture documentary.   Check out some of the mentions popping up [...]

  • We are blushing.  The Starz Denver Film Festival has announced a Tribute to Milkhaus by showcasing 3 recent films that passed through our shop.  We sincerely appreciate the thumbs up from our local community.  We are so proud to have been a part of the amazing teams behind these films and we think it proves that Colorado filmmakers [...]

  • Each year, the Starz Denver Film Festival honors its sponsors with a short film at the festival’s Red Carpet events, and Milkhaus is pleased to announce that we are back with a new short that is sure to please the crowd.  We are working with local actors John Ashton and Paul Orosz.  Plus as an added treat, the [...]

  • Saving Face has been invited to screen at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in October 2012.  We are very excited to screen at this prestigious festival.  Please check the festival site for screening information.

  • “Saving Face”, “Chasing Ice” and ‘The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus” all screened at the Sheffield DocFest in June 2012 as part of each films’ exciting global festival run.   It is a rare treat to have three films that we worked on screening at the same festival.