'Medicine For Melancholy' Gets Picked Up By IFC!
As a filmmaker, I'm often simultaneously supportive and envious when I read news like this. Supportive because I'm happy to see another black filmmaker get the kind of opportunity that many of us (regardless of skin color) dream about; and envious for the same reason :o)After much festival play and awards won, Medicine For Melancholy, a film I've talked about at least once before on this blog, has finally been picked up for distribution by IFC Films, buying up world rights to writer-director Barry Jenkins' San Francisco-set love story.
For those unaware, the film is described as "a love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco—a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city."
It stars 2 relative unknowns, Wyatt Cenac and Tracy Heggins.
According to Variety Magazine, IFC plans to release the film in 2009, on its day-and-date (simultaneous theatrical and video-on-demand) distribution program. I'll most certainly be looking out for it!
You can read the PDF press release from the film's website HERE. Go to http://www.strikeanywherefilms.com for everything you need to know about the film. Check out its lovely trailer HERE.
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