New Low Movie at Sundance!

Wednesday, December 31st - Tags: news

A movie I starred in got into Sundance! Here's the trailer:

So far, it's gotten good reviews from Variety, Slug Magazine, IndependentFilmQuarterly, and others (here's the Variety Review, and here's the Slug Review).

Our movie got paired with one of Derek Waters' "Drunk History" shorts, which means... if anyone wants to see the short, they have to see the feautre. And the short stars Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle.

Adam wrote/directed/edited/starred in the movie, and I play his best friend who enjoys drinking, partying, and Heelys. Our friends Jayme Ratzer and Valerie Jones also star in it.

Here's how it all happened. A couple years ago, I acted in an indie movie my friend Adam Bowers made called "New Low" in Gainesville Florida. He wanted to make a feature before we moved out to LA... so we shot one on my camera (a DVX 100B). Adam spent the next year or so editing and mixing the film from our apt in LA... while I made a bunch of YouTube videos.

Then one day, Adam called me and said, "Our movie got into Sundance."

The drive to Park City was nuts. It was my first time seeing snow, and I happened to be driving in it. And it was 2AM. Tanya wanted to stop and get a hotel, but I was all, "Noo no, I got this." Then we got a flat tire.

Luckily, we stopped in Cedar City at the most helpful Shell station in existence - they fixed our tire and gave us free coffee (thanks Ty and everyone else for helping)!

Anyway - Park City. None of the cast have ever seen snow, and Park City is a snow globe. We're surrounded by mountains, and there are 3 feet of snow atop every car, yard, and house. Also, there's an impenetrable glass dome surrounding the city.

It was fun walking around with a lead actor badge, getting free swag from Timberland (here are some pics of us wearing their apparel), Affliction (in case I ever want to wield some skulls and sequins), T-Mobile, uh... Aveeno. And more. Awesome.

Also we had some photoshoots and interviews, and we were on the morning news over there too. Here's a pic Tanya took of me being on it.

Adam submitted it as an afterthought - literally hours before the deadline, after one of his friends convinced him to submit (Thanks, one of his friends!). And then we're sitting in a huge condo within walking distance of everything at Sundance. It was surreal. By the way - thanksto Adam's dad for letting us all stay in this awesome condo!

Plus, I owe Wayne Federman $36. He said he'd prefer it if I gave him an Amazon Gift Certificate, so it'd feel like he was getting a present. Speaking of which... I should probably go take care of that.

Amen,

Toby

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February 06th, 2010 10:19 pm - Reply to Author

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Rosetta Rubino says

Sounds amazing to be able to attend Sundance! I'll have to add that one to the bucket list. I live in the Chicagoland area, so snow is nothing new for me but it is beautiful when there's a blanket of snow over everything, with no footprints or tire tracks in it. Shoveling's a bitch, though. "Also, there's an impenetrable glass dome surrounding the city." That made me think of Stephen King's new novel Under the Dome, but that takes place in Maine...I thought you were refering to the book until I reread the snowglobe part... D: random tidbit there. Peace off, Rosetta. P.S. OOH! BURN! I TOOK YOUR SIGN-OFF LINE. :P Don't worry, I'll never use it again.

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