Newly award-winning film BERNARD AND HUEY is the only US feature having its North American Premiere this week at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in the Panorama International section. The film is screening Saturday, Oct 7th at 17:15 at Cinéma du Parc 2 with director Dan Mirvish in attendance, and it screens again Friday, Oct 13th at 21:30 in Cineplex Odeon Quartier SALLE 17. Details for the screening are on the FNC website: www.nouveaucinema.ca/en/programs/bernard-and-huey
BERNARD AND HUEY was written by Oscar/Pulitzer-winner Jules Feiffer (Mike Nichols’ CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, Robert Altman’s POPEYE). Feiffer wrote the screenplay 30 years ago, and based it on characters that go back to 1957 in his eponymous Village Voice cartoon strip, as well as cartoons for Playboy Magazine from 1982-86. Thought to be a lost script, Mirvish and Feiffer spent four years tracking down the screenplay before shooting it last fall in Los Angeles and New York, on Panavision Alexa and Super16mm film cameras.
The film stars Oscar-winner Jim Rash (co-writer on Alexander Payne’s THE DESCENDANTS) and David Koechner (ANCHORMAN, THE OFFICE) in the title leads, as well as such terrific actors as Sasha Alexander (SHAMELESS), Richard Kind (INSIDE OUT), Nancy Travis (SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER), Bellamy Young (SCANDAL) and Mae Whitman (PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER). Director/producer Mirvish is also the co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and the author of the Focal Press/Routledge book THE CHEERFUL SUBVERSIVE’S GUIDE TO INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING. BERNARD AND HUEY is Mirvish’s fifth feature film. His last one, BETWEEN US, starring Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs and David Harbour, played at 23 international film festivals and sold to 144 countries.
BERNARD AND HUEY just won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature this past weekend at the Guam International Film Festival, and world premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany (nominee for the German Independence Award) two weeks ago. The film is scheduled for 14 other film festivals this fall, including several in the US that were just announced: Denver, Napa Valley, Cucalorus (Wilmington), Virginia (Charlottesville) and the St. Louis International Film Festival which is presenting Mirvish with the Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Award.
Mirvish will be available for interviews in Montreal from Thursday night through Saturday night Please feel free to email publicist Eli Perle at eli.perle@provocationent.com or call/text Mirvish directly at +1 323 304 3593.
BERNARD AND HUEY was produced by Bernie Stern and Mirvish, and executive produced by John Feitelson, Will McCance, Christopher Schuman, Jeffry Powell, Rob Schwartz, Bobby Campbell, Todd Remis and Co-Executive Produced by Elisabeth Jereski and Dana Altman. The film is presented by Bugeater Films, Unfound Content and Rent My Brain Productions in association with Fusion for Peace Productions, Good Wizard Productions and Salem Street Entertainment. Film is repped by the Law Offices of Robert L. Seigel, Esq. All rights are available
