Doug and Scout Purdy’s PILGRIM heals the heart through a daughter and father’s journey in the mountains
Pilgrim, new indie film by Doug and Scout Purdy, a father and daughter’s emotional journey
FILMS GONE WILD: Why You Need to Get With The Program and Have a Proper Red Carpet at Your Film Festival
Anyone that knows me at all, or my history, knows about one of the primary things I do for a living, etc. would likely think it was fightin’ words if someone legitimately asked me, “What’s the point of having a red carpet at a film festival?”
FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Brooke and Doug Purdy’s QUALITY PROBLEMS delights and touches hearts during Los Angeles premiere at New Filmmakers L.A. on December 16
Brooke and Doug Purdy’s comedy/drama hybrid about a couple managing her reoccurrence of breast cancer at the same time her father is on the decline with Alzheimer’s and possibly most alarmingly, their daughter has an all-important 8th birthday party coming up, made its Los Angeles premiere at NewFilmmakers L.A. on Saturday, December 16.
FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Brooke Purdy and Colette Freedman ‘s QUALITY PROBLEMS Closes The Women Texas Film Festival’s red carpet with plenty of “Quality” talent as the fest closed things out with a lot of fun
The Closing Night red carpet for the Women Texas Film Festival was as energetic, eclectic, and fun as the headlining film, QUALITY PROBLEMS. Writer, director, star, Brooke Purdy and producer Colette Freedman set the tone for WTxFF’s big finale evening that included films from representing all sections and genres at the festival: documentaries, comedy, drama, horror, etc., you name it – the women that made it were on that carpet.
TEN BURNING QUESTIONS: Brooke and Doug Purdy ‘s QUALITY PROBLEMS
When I first got diagnosed, I was in a daze. You’re shuffling from this doctor to that surgeon to that oncologist. Plus, I was juggling a 3 ½-year-old and an 18-month-old. It. Was. Bananas. Since I went to film school and both of us are arty types, the only thing I could think to empower myself in an otherwise powerless situation was to document.
Ten Most Recent Films Watched: A Violent Reaction to the Sundance Movies Overload — from Films Gone Wild
the fact of the matter is that as much as I love independent film and celebrate it and would almost always choose it over studio fare, I still have a routine “violent reaction” to having overloaded on the Sundance/Slamdance stuff by going directly to movie comfort food. That means a by the numbers zombie movie, a doc of the National Lampoon, Tom Cruise and Matt Damon action fare