NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The Overlook Film Festival announced today the full lineup for its upcoming 2023 edition, taking place March 30 – April 2
Posted By Kiko Martinez on Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 9:16 AM click to enlarge The American Standard Film Co. The dark comedy
The Touch of the Master’s Hand won the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The announcement was made Tuesday evening (February 2) during the Sundance virtual awards ceremony. The short follows a young Mormon missionary who must confess to church leaders that he has a pornography addiction. It was written and directed by Gregory Barnes. The cinematographer on the short was San Antonio native and filmmaker Fidel Ruiz-Healy (
The Homefront), a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
The American Standard Film Co. Writer and director Gregory Barnes, a former member of the Mormon Church, received permission from church leaders for him and his crew to shoot a short film inside an 85-year-old temple in Los Angeles. There was one problem, though. The crew didn’t get cleared to actually step into the baptismal pool. So, the members had to work fast before someone came along and told them they shouldn’t be there. One of those crewmembers was San Antonio native and filmmaker Fidel Ruiz-Healy (
The Homefront), a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. On set as cinematographer, he said there was a “guerilla filmmaking aspect” to the project.