Friday, October 16, 2015

Cedar Street Receives 'Best Oregon Film'

Cedar Street screened at Oregon Independent Film Festival September 26th and also received the award "Best Oregon Film"
So thrilled and grateful to my crew of women who created such a great piece.

If you haven't seen it, we are done submitting to festivals, so are now making it available to the public online here:



Cedar Street from monica graves on Vimeo.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Watch Cedar Street September 26th at Oregon Independent Film Festival

Oregon Independent Film Festival has posted their festival Program Guide.


 Join us to watch Cedar Street on the big screen in the dramatic shorts block.
Saturday, September 26 at 9:45pm at The Clinton Street Theater.
Tickets can be purchased here

Learn more about the festival and other great films that will be screening here: Oregon Independent Film Festival

Hope to see you there!

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Cedar Street Accepted To OIFF

So happy to hear this morning that Cedar Street has been accepted into Oregon Independent Film Festival.  Program guide will be available August 17th.  

Here's some general info from the venue:


The Oregon Independent Film Festival (OIFF) is bringing our collection of new independent films again this year from September 21st - 28th, 2015 to Portland and other cities across Oregon.
With festival screenings and events in Portland at The Clinton Street Theater and at the Bijou and Metro cinemas in Eugene, with more surprise screening stops to be announced.
 

Find out more about OIFF here.


Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Best Student Short

Incredibly happy that Cedar Street received Best Student Short at the L.A. Women's Fest.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Los Angeles Screening of Cedar Street


Cedar Street has been accepted into the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival and will be screening March 22nd in L.A.

You can buy tickets in advance here:  http://lawiffshortstwo.brownpapertickets.com/
 Cedar Street Screens in Shorts Program Two Sunday, March 22 at 12:00pm.


Learn more about the festival here:  http://www.lawomensfest.com/


http://www.lawomensfest.com/

Saturday, March 1, 2014

March 1st Update

Cedar Street will be showing at The Hollywood Theater, March 27th, and so much has happened since our last post!
  • Our editor has been working like crazy to piece all the beautiful footage together.
  • Our composer, Nat Graves, has been recording amazing, original music to place into our film.
  • Our sound designer, Raven Flemming, has been organizing and mixing and placing all of our sound files.
  • And our miniature team, built an awesome, beautiful, paper miniature world of the Cedar Street neighborhood.  It was completed in January, and all of our miniature scenes have been shot and placed into the film.  Here are a few stills from this new portion for you to enjoy!


Monday, September 16, 2013

Friday, September 6, 2013

Director goes home, Sweet Home

Check out the article below about the filming of Cedar Street, found on The Albany Democrat Herald's website.

Director goes home, Sweet Home

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Cedar Street is a short film about childhood and the suffering some kids sadly endure. Cedar Street is being produced and filmed by an all female crew.


 
Our Story
Jeremiah is currently the outcast of the Cedar Street neighborhood kids.The Peterson and Sellar girls have a new club on the nearby abandoned train tracks, where vagrants are often seen passing through town.Jeremiah wants to be a part of the club, and won’t give up until he is.

Every day after school Jeremiah shows up at the club asking to join, and every day the girls give him a new task to complete before they’ll let him in.Jeremiah continually fails to complete the tasks, and returns unnoticed by all to his empty, filthy, home.



Finally, Jennifer Peterson promises Jeremiah if he is able to sleep in the club overnight, he will not only become a member, but he will be the leader.Jeremiah, dying for acceptance, does as he is told, but when he arrives at the club he is met by a surprise, and what happens afterwards changes the neighborhood forever.



Our Crew
We will be shooting this film with an all female crew.  Don't get us wrong, we like men, but we thought it would be fun to do things a little different than normal.

Here's a list of some of our leading ladies:
Monica Graves (director/producer), Shannon Breen (director of photography), Kia Geraths (editor), Alex Short, Raven Fleming, Kathleen Kelly, Heather Dominguez, Sara Prevo, Addison Graves, Coleman Stevenson, Betty Alcaraz.

We'll post updates as we move through the production process.  Or if you've donated to our kickstarter - you can see exclusive updates here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1697075487/cedar-street