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Act 1 Scene 1 on the Hollywood walk of fame

Hans Montelius — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:38:14 +0000

On June 3rd, our film Act 1 Scene 1 will open in LA. It’s Dances with films that will screen the film at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre next to the Hollywood walk of Fame. Dances with Films is a festival for independent filmmakers that don’t have any support from major studios. It’s a great festival. It was at Dances with Films that The Man with all the Marbles premiered. It then went on to 45 festivals around the world including a screening on Times Square in New York and before the Swedish Oscar submission 2010.

Dances with Films is also a great place to meet up and coming filmmakers and Hollywood producers and distributors. I attended the festival for the premiere of The Man with all the Marbles and I again attend the festival and do a Q&A for Act 1 Scene 1.

Act 1 Scene 1 Official Selection at Palm Beach International Film Festival

Hans Montelius — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:20:52 +0000

Our film Act 1 Scene 1 is the official selection at the Palm Beach International Film Festival

Today, the Palm Beach International Film Festival starts, featuring our film Act 1 Scene 1. The PBIFF has more than 20 000 visitors and has been recognized as one of the top 25 independent film festivals in the world.

The PBIFF has hosted a bevy of top celebrities and filmmakers including: Academy Award® Winners Adrien Brody, Anthony Hopkins, Tommy Lee Jones, Faye Dunaway, Dennis Hopper, Louise Fletcher and Michael Caine; Academy Award® Nominees Salma Hayek, Edward Norton, Robert Evans, Sylvester Stallone, Woody Harrelson and Burt Reynolds.

We’re very excited to be part of this festival!

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride

Hans Montelius — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:17:32 +0000

We love making films. We love it so much that we’ve made 10 shorts during the past three years, not to mention all the commercials, music videos and web videos. And that should be reward enough. But of course we’re also very happy when people enjoy our films. And they have now been the official selection at 173 film festivals and we were just honored with our 40th award. Still, there are some awards and film festivals that we haven’t gotten yet. We’ve screened at four Oscar qualifying film festivals, but haven’t gotten all the way. But, it’s nice just to be nominated. And we’ll keep on making films. Not for the awards, but for the sheer fun of it.

At The Bermuda International Film Festival with Act 1 Scene 1

Hans Montelius — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:05:10 +0000

Act 1 Scene 1 is our latest film. It premiered in March and has in just a few weeks been accepted to seven prestigious film festivals. One of those film festivals is the Bermuda International Film Festival, which I am now attending.

The Bermuda International Film Festival is an Oscar qualifying film festival, which means that it is one of only 62 film festivals that choose the nominees for the Best Short Film Oscar. In the past ten years, Bermuda has been very successful in its selection. It has chosen two films that have gone on to win the Oscar. One reason for this could be that jury consists of well known and respected people. Jurors at previous festivals have included actors Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuss, Willem Dafoe, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Riegert, Laura Harring, Judy Greer, Karen Allen and Jane Alexander, screenwriters Guillermo Arriaga, Carlos Cuaronand Jeff Arch, and film critics Richard Schickel, David Ansen and Robert Koehler. This year the jury consists of Nik Powell, Michael Frith, Leslie Taubman and Keith Caesar.

After having attended the first couple of days of films, I must say that the quality of the films is very high and it’s truly an honor just to have been selected for this festival.

You can see a trailer for Act 1 Scene 1 here:

Cast and Crew
Starring: Jonas Larsson, Lukas Loughran, Johanna Tschig

Director: Hans Montelius
Screenplay: Hans Montelius
Producer: Teno Cabrera Rodríguez
Director of Photography: Mats Ardström
First Camera Assistant: Majk Jakobsen
Steadicam Operator: Néstor Salazar
Second Camera Assistants: Jeanette Fredenberg, Martin Nyholm
Grip: Patrik Öhman, Johan Nyberg
Art Direction: Staffan Erstam
Make up, Costumes: Julia Heim
Sound technician: Teodor Kourkoulis, Eddie Boschek, Anders Dahl
First Assistant Director: Anna Modén
Script Supervisor: Emil Lindmark
Catering: Jocke Schwartz
Production assistants: Sara Larsson, Viktor Olson
Editing: Emil Stenberg
Sound editing: Teodor Kourkoulis
Music: AUX/Patrik Hinrichs, Pernilla Österberg
Music editing: Teodor Kourkoulis
Still Photographer: Linda Broström Cabrera
Poster: Robert Eldrim, Medljus

Trailer edited by Emil Lindmark

Score card

Hans Montelius — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:48:33 +0000

This is the score card for our films so far:

An Affair with Dolls

47 festivals, 14 awards

The Man with all the Marbles

46 festivals, 9 awards

Sidewalk Wars

16 festivals, 1 award

Mommy’s Boy

12 festivals, 2 awards

Positioning

12 festivals, 1 award

How to Prepare for a date

11 festivals, 1 award

Midsummer

5 festivals, 1 award

Feature length screenplays by Hans Montelius and Mark Lewandowski

10 awards

and for our latest film, which opened just two weeks ago:

Act 1 Scene 1

7 festivals, 0 awards

so far.

Total: 168 festivals, 39 awards

Act 1 Scene 1 official selection of the Sacramento International Film Festival

Hans Montelius — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:50:18 +0000

Our film Act 1 Scene 1 has just been selection as the official selection of the Sacramento International Film Festival. This is the fifth film festival that we’ve been invited after the films premiere in March.

Poster for our film Act 1 Scene 1

“Past highlights include fantastic presentations by Industrial Light and Magic (Star Wars, E.T.) and many industry guests like Academy Award winners John Daly (Terminator, Platoon) and director Vicky Jenson, (Shrek and Shark’s Tale).”

“Over the years, Festival organizers have featured film industry luminaries like actor Michael Madsen (Kill Bill) and Composer John Ottman ( X-Men) while supporting many budding film careers.”

- Martin Anaya, Executive Director, Sacramento International Film Festival

The other film festivals include Taos Shortsfest in New Mexico, Sofia International Film Festival in Bulgaria, Uruguay International Film Festival and Bermuda International Film Festival. Our film An Affair with Dolls won Best International Short at the Uruguay International Film Festival in 2010 and Bermuda is an Oscar qualifying film festival, which means that if our film wins there it will be eligible for an Oscar nomination. Hans will go to Bermuda at the end of March to attend the festival.

Behind the scenes – Act 1 Scene 1

Hans Montelius — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:20:18 +0000

Behind the scenes pictures from our film Act 1 Scene 1. Pictures by Linda Broström.

Vår filmstudio i Stockholm

Hans Montelius — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:47:24 +0000

En film vi har gjort om vår filmstudio i Stockholm:

Merry Christmas!

Hans Montelius — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:57:29 +0000

Holiday greetings from our film- and photo studio in central Stockholm. (God Jul means Merry Christmas in Swedish)

We are building a network of filmmakers

Hans Montelius — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:57:23 +0000

With the acquisition of our film studio in the central Stockholm, we are now setting our sights higher than ever before. The studio is 330 square meters and has been a successful photo studio for about a year run by Jini Sofia Lee, a well known photographer from Korea and Shanghai who now has set up camp in Stockholm.

Now we’re expanding the studio to include film and sound. We have a talented composer who is joining us. And we have already notived that the benefits of working in this kind of network is amazing.

Therefore, we are on the hunt for more talented and creative people to join our network. People we can give work with in an open non pretentious environment.

If you would like more information or know someone who might fit our network, contact us at info@cinemantrix.com.