Absolutely thrilled to screen The Unbroken Sky in Guadalajara during the huge International Book Fair there, to visit Francisco Jiménez’s birthplace in nearby Tlaquepaque, and to meet so many wonderful Mexican filmmakers and supporters.
Beautiful weekend of principal photography on Your Rose Garden, the latest musical short collaboration between Josh and singer-songwriter Alexis Harte. This one’s a celebration of Berkeley’s Rose Garden and the New Deal programs that built it and so many other American landmarks to help lift us out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Honored to win an Audience Award at the spectacular San Luis Obispo Film Festival. Many thanks to the wonderful festival staff and filmgoers!
Deeply honored to win another award at the Poppy Jasper Film Festival, after screening The Unbroken Sky for a great audience including Chicano cinema legend Luis Valdez, who said, “I loved the film. You really got into the fabric of the farmworker’s life.”
Our first award! Thank you, San Francisco Short Film Festival.
Forest Born‘s next festival showing: the Alexandria Film Festival, just outside Washington, DC, November 5-8. More details soon!
Heartfelt thanks to all the supporters who took us to our Kickstarter goal and beyond! With our post-production budget met, we have finished color grading and sound mixing – Harmon is now finished! We’re submitting it to film festivals now. Stay tuned…
Please take a minute to check out our Kickstarter campaign for Harmon. You can see a short trailer there and make a pledge (really, any amount helps, no matter how small, by boosting our number of backers and getting us more “Popular” visibility on the Kickstarter site). And tell your friends – we’re coming down to the wire and we really need your help. Thank you!
Green Growth Productions is now Sweepshutter Films! We have restructured, rebranded, and rebooted, but we’re still the same little production company that could, with Josh Peterson at the helm as Creative Director.
Take a look at our new logo animation – it might give you a hint about where the name came from (it was Josh’s word for a common device when he was a toddler)…
We’re all set to screen at the Alexandria Film Festival on Saturday, November 17 at 4:00 pm. If you’re in the Washington DC area, don’t miss it!
The theater is in the US Patent and Trademark Office at 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
More info here!
