Press Releases/News

We're very excited to be launching the 4th Annual Adrienne Shelly Foundation Celebrity eBay Auction on November 1! There are lots of incredible experiences to choose from including exclusive lunches with Michelle Williams, Paul Rudd, Cheryl Hines, Rosario Dawson and Jon Hamm; set visits to Castle, Pan Am, The Good Wife, Rachel Maddow, Hardball with Chris Matthews; Walk-ons in Hung, Community, Ted Hope film; VIP tickets to Two and a Half Men, Letterman, Chelsea Lately, Colbert, Daily Show, Ellen; VIP ticket/meet & greets to Rachael Ray, Martha Stewart, Wrap Up Show (plus tour of Howard Stern studio), The Soup, E! News; VIP Owner's Box NY Giants Football tickets plus field passes and signed Eli Manning helmet; Today Show tour with Al Roker and on-air spot; and more! Click here for more info http://www.ebay.com/asfoundation

We are pleased to be announcing an exciting new Adrienne Shelly Foundation event we're hosting Wednesday November 2nd at 7PM with the Museum of Modern Art. It will be held at the MoMA Titus 1 theater at 11 West 53rd.  It's our first annual Woman of Vision Salute. Our inaugural honoree is the very talented filmmaker Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Friends with Money, Lovely & Amazing, Please Give). We'll be screening her film Lovely & Amazing, followed by an informal discussion with her and actor Catherine Keener. We'll also be awarding our Director's Grant with IFP and screening a short montage of Adrienne's work. Tickets are $150. To purchase tickets visit click DONATE on our home page and enter the amount of tickets you'd like x $150. Your funds will go directly to helping ASF support women filmmakers. Thank you, as always.
 

Check out this terrific story in The Atlantic on Maryam Keshevarz's CIRMCUMSTANCE http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/08/in-movies-by-iranians-a-feminist-streak/244307/#.Tl1W2u8eddc.facebook

Great news for Maryam Keshevarz's CIRCUMSTANCE: it's holding all seven of its New York theatres and adding the following four more at Cinemas 1,2,3 at East 59th St; BAM; Stamford, CT; Huntington Arts on Long Island

Please join filmmaker (and recent ASF grantee) Lisa Robertson and cast for a special Screen Actors Guild screening and Q&A Wednesday August 31st at 7PM in Los Angeles. Click here for more information and to register http://www.sagfoundation.org/userhome/eventdetails/8883

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/circumstance/

For more info on the film click here https://www.facebook.com/circumstancethemovie?sk=info

Congratulations to 2007 ASF/Sundance grantrecipient Maryam Keshevarz, whose film CIRCUMSTANCE opens this Friday in new York and Los Angeles. The film won the  Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Great article in today's (Sunday 8/21) NY Times. Good luck Maryam! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/movies/circumstance-a-film-of-underground-life-in-iran.html

Click here to contribute to 2008 ASF/Columbia University Best Female Director grant recipient Madeleine Olnek's "Codependant Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same."  Funds to be used to finish post and prep for distribution http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/84148707/codependent-lesbian-space-alien-seeks-same?play=1&ref=search

Clip from COMMERCE premiere at AFI this week. Lisa Robertson (writer/director) is ASF's latest grantee. Interviews with Lisa, Annabeth Gish, Eddie Izzard...Congrats Lisa! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZeN_e9soYY&NR=1