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THIS SIDE OF MIDNIGHT
a feature documentary in postproduction 
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THIS SIDE OF MIDNIGHT is an immersive, archivally-drenched, arts and culture feature documentary film about the influential post Warhol generation of artists of the legendary 1980s New York nightlife.

 

Telling the story of the original influencers and creative iconoclasts that brought underground culture to the mainstream, the film revisits a densely vivid moment of New York history that bridges the Studio 54 and Reagan eras with the AIDS crisis and Giuliani years, from the perspectives of those who survived.

THIS SIDE OF MIDNIGHT is being produced by Erin Wright (THE NEW BAUHAUS).

BRILLO BOX (3¢ OFF) an HBO Documentary Film
now streaming on MAX 

OSCAR SHORTLIST, BEST SHORT SUBJECT

 

OFFICIAL SELECTION

  • The 54th New York Film Festival

  • Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK

  • Provincetown International Film Festival

  • Aspen International Shortsfest

  • St. Louis International Film Festival

  • Doc/Edge International Film Festival 

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CAPTURE THE FLAG 

based on the novel by Rebecca Chace

WINNER of the Nantucket Film Festival Showtime Tony Cox Award

Best Short

starring Scott Cohen and Jane Stiles

 

 

OFFICIAL SELECTION  

  • Aspen International Shortsfest

  • Nantucket Film Festival

  • Mill Valley Film Festival

  • Hamptons International Film Festival

  • Vancouver International Film Festival

  • Cinequest Film Festival

  • The Loft FIlm Fest

GETTING TO KNOW YOU (SUNDANCE CHANNEL)

based on stories by Joyce Carol Oates / rereleasing in 2025

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD NOMINEE

 

OFFICIAL SELECTION   

  • Sundance Film Festival

  • Venice Film Festival

  • Stockholm Film Festval, FIPRESCI award

  • San Francisco International Film Festival

  • Seattle International Film Festival

  • Rencontres de Cinéma International, Paris

  • Melbourne International Film Festival

  • Vancouver International Film Festival

 

“..this movie provides more surprises and real drama than almost any of the big-time films we’ve seen this summer…Two thumbs up!” 

ROGER EBERT & RICHARD ROEPER                                 

NO LOANS TODAY (PBS/POV)

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NO LOANS TODAY was recently acquired by the UCLA Film & Television archives.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

  • Sundance Film Festival 

  • AFI Film Fest

  • San Francisco International Film Festival

  • South x Southwest Film Festival

  • Marseilles Vue sur les Doc Film Festival

  • Florida Film Festival

"Lisanne Skyler's documentary on South Central Los Angeles clocks in at just under an hour, but the stories it tells  --  by turns devastating and infuriating  --  lingers.

Working in a direct cinema style, Skyler manages an anatomy of a neighborhood by way of a pawnshop, finding and listening to voices not generally heard." 

MANOHLA DARGIS

DREAMLAND (PBS/POV)

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OFFICIAL SELECTION

  • CineVegas Film Festival 

  • San Luis Obispo International Film Festival

 

TV CRITICS PICKS

  • The New York Times

  • The Los Angeles Times

  • The San Francisco Chronicle

 

"A candid, uncompromising look at compulsive gambling and the effect of neighborhood casinos on Las Vegas. Not since Martin Scorsese's CASINO has the naked truth about Las Vegas been captured so perfectly on screen."   

LAS VEGAS CITY LIFE
 

A FEW THINGS ABOUT ROBERT IRWIN

a LACMA PRODUCTION

A FEW THINGS ABOUT ROBERT IRWIN debuted at the 2016 LACMA ART + Film Gala honoring Robert Irwin and Kathryn Bigelow, 

co-chaired by Leonardo DiCaprio and Eva Chow

OFFICIAL SELECTION   
  • Los Angeles Film Festival
  • AFI Docs
  • Provincetown International Film Festival
  • Florida Film Festival
  • St. Louis International Film Festival
  • The Loft Film Fest

"Short documentaries can be a kind of nonfiction poetry. Images, editing and sound are sometimes as important as verbal cues and exposition. Such is the case in Lisanne Skyler’s 'A Few Things About Robert Irwin'"

PETER KEOGH,  THE BOSTON GLOBE

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