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Tomb Raider [my review]
Alicia Vikander stars as a puzzle-solving adventurer in this action movie. Cowritten by Geneva Robertson-Dworet. (male director)
Love, Simon [IMDb]
Elizabeth Berger cowrites this dramedy about a gay (male) teenager coming to terms with his sexuality. (male director)
7 Days in Entebbe [IMDb] pictured
Rosamund Pike costars in this historical thriller about the 1976 hijacking of a commercial airliner.
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No Light and No Land Anywhere [IMDb]
Amber Sealey writes and directs this drama about a woman (Gemma Brockis) grieving the death of her mother and her failed marriage.
In the Land of Pomegranates [my review]
Hava Kohav Beller directs this documentary about the Palestinian/Jewish conflict in the Middle East.
Keep the Change [IMDb]
Rachel Israel writes and directs this romantic comedy about a couple who meet at an autism support group. Costarring Samantha Elisofon.
Maineland [IMDb]
Miao Wang directs this documentary about two students (one female) from mainland China attending school in the United States.
Tomb Raider [my review]
Alicia Vikander stars as a puzzle-solving adventurer in this action movie. Cowritten by Geneva Robertson-Dworet. (male director)
Love, Simon [IMDb]
Elizabeth Berger cowrites this dramedy about a gay (male) teenager coming to terms with his sexuality. (male director)
7 Days in Entebbe [IMDb] pictured
Rosamund Pike costars in this historical thriller about the 1976 hijacking of a commercial airliner.
limited
No Light and No Land Anywhere [IMDb]
Amber Sealey writes and directs this drama about a woman (Gemma Brockis) grieving the death of her mother and her failed marriage.
In the Land of Pomegranates [my review]
Hava Kohav Beller directs this documentary about the Palestinian/Jewish conflict in the Middle East.
Keep the Change [IMDb]
Rachel Israel writes and directs this romantic comedy about a couple who meet at an autism support group. Costarring Samantha Elisofon.
Maineland [IMDb]
Miao Wang directs this documentary about two students (one female) from mainland China attending school in the United States.
- 3/16/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Autism rom-com Keep the Change, which won two awards at last year's Tribeca Film Festival is set to hit theaters in New York on March 16.
The film, which The Hollywood Reporter is exclusively debuting the trailer (above) and poster (below) for, follows aspiring filmmaker David (Brandon Polansky) as he falls for the quirky and outgoing Sarah (Samantha Elisofon).
David is struggling to come to grips with his own high-functioning autism, insisting he's "normal" at the beginning of the trailer, but he's won over by Sarah, describing her as "weird," and saying, "I'm weird too."
The trailer shows the two...
The film, which The Hollywood Reporter is exclusively debuting the trailer (above) and poster (below) for, follows aspiring filmmaker David (Brandon Polansky) as he falls for the quirky and outgoing Sarah (Samantha Elisofon).
David is struggling to come to grips with his own high-functioning autism, insisting he's "normal" at the beginning of the trailer, but he's won over by Sarah, describing her as "weird," and saying, "I'm weird too."
The trailer shows the two...
- 2/9/2018
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Want to hear a joke? David (Brandon Polansky) has plenty, but you might not find them funny. There’s the one about Bill Cosby (you can likely guess the punchline), another about Kobe Bryant (same) and more than a few about his fellow Jews. This latter category tends to do best at the local Jewish Community Center, where David has unwillingly been sent to attend a support group for adults with disabilities.
Like many in “Keep the Change,” Polansky is a nonprofessional actor on the autism spectrum. Rachel Israel’s debut feature — which just took home the prize for Best U.S. Narrative Feature at Tribeca — is marked by a docu-reality aesthetic befitting its modest-but-effective storytelling. Expanded from her short film of the same name, it also shows signs of its truncated origins: The film’s central relationship is strong, but it’s virtually the only layer in a story...
Like many in “Keep the Change,” Polansky is a nonprofessional actor on the autism spectrum. Rachel Israel’s debut feature — which just took home the prize for Best U.S. Narrative Feature at Tribeca — is marked by a docu-reality aesthetic befitting its modest-but-effective storytelling. Expanded from her short film of the same name, it also shows signs of its truncated origins: The film’s central relationship is strong, but it’s virtually the only layer in a story...
- 4/29/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Sarah (Samantha Elisofon) is charmed by David (Brandon Polansky) in Rachel Israel's disarming and engagingly outspoken debut feature Keep The Change
Rachel Israel's Keep The Change, a Tribeca Film Festival highlight, deftly brings us into the challenges a couple has with building face-to-face personal relationships. Before the Tribeca World Premiere, Rachel and I discussed the connection to director Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes, At Any Price) and producer Summer Shelton (Sara Colangelo's Little Accidents and Jim Strouse's People Places Things), Adam and Eve-ing with production designer Alina Smirnova (Brian Oakes' Jim: The James Foley Story), casting Brandon Polansky, Samantha Elisofon, Will Deaver, and Nicky Gottlieb, consulting with Drama Therapist Heidi Landis, the Grimms' Frog King, and wanting Keep The Change to be "centered, contained within a neurodivergent world".
Rachel Israel: "I'm working on an adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
David (Polansky), new to a...
Rachel Israel's Keep The Change, a Tribeca Film Festival highlight, deftly brings us into the challenges a couple has with building face-to-face personal relationships. Before the Tribeca World Premiere, Rachel and I discussed the connection to director Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes, At Any Price) and producer Summer Shelton (Sara Colangelo's Little Accidents and Jim Strouse's People Places Things), Adam and Eve-ing with production designer Alina Smirnova (Brian Oakes' Jim: The James Foley Story), casting Brandon Polansky, Samantha Elisofon, Will Deaver, and Nicky Gottlieb, consulting with Drama Therapist Heidi Landis, the Grimms' Frog King, and wanting Keep The Change to be "centered, contained within a neurodivergent world".
Rachel Israel: "I'm working on an adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
David (Polansky), new to a...
- 4/23/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Oren Moverman's Time Out of Mind and The Dinner star Richard Gere Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Tribeca Film Festival will open this Wednesday, April 19, with the World Premiere of Clive Davis: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives at Radio City Music Hall, followed by performances with Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, and Earth, Wind & Fire. A transformative Cate Blanchett in Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto; Sandy Chronopoulos's exposé on Zac Posen, featuring Lola Kirke, André Leon Talley, Stella Schnabel, Paz de la Huerta, Claire Danes and Naomi Campbell in House of Z; Richard Gere (Joseph Cedar's Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer), Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall in Oren Moverman's The Dinner; Rachel Israel's Keep The Change with Brandon Polansky and Samantha Elisofon are four of this year's feature highlights.
An episode spoofing Spike Jonze and Viceland with Emmy Harrington...
The Tribeca Film Festival will open this Wednesday, April 19, with the World Premiere of Clive Davis: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives at Radio City Music Hall, followed by performances with Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, and Earth, Wind & Fire. A transformative Cate Blanchett in Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto; Sandy Chronopoulos's exposé on Zac Posen, featuring Lola Kirke, André Leon Talley, Stella Schnabel, Paz de la Huerta, Claire Danes and Naomi Campbell in House of Z; Richard Gere (Joseph Cedar's Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer), Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall in Oren Moverman's The Dinner; Rachel Israel's Keep The Change with Brandon Polansky and Samantha Elisofon are four of this year's feature highlights.
An episode spoofing Spike Jonze and Viceland with Emmy Harrington...
- 4/18/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Samantha Elisofon and Brandon Polansky in Keep The Change
Keep The Change is a short film with a lot to say. Originally made as a Columbia University project and voted best of 2013, it tells the story of a young man who meets a woman at an autism support group but gradually realises she has a very different attitude to life which he will have to adapt to if he wants her to win her over. Director Rachel Israel is currently raising funds to turn it into a feature length film, so I asked her where the idea originally came from and how it has developed over the intervening years.
Rachel Israel
It actually began life as a feature film idea, she says. "The lead actor, Brandon [Polansky] is a friend of mine, has been for about 12 years, and he was the inspiration for the project. I realised that something I hadn...
Keep The Change is a short film with a lot to say. Originally made as a Columbia University project and voted best of 2013, it tells the story of a young man who meets a woman at an autism support group but gradually realises she has a very different attitude to life which he will have to adapt to if he wants her to win her over. Director Rachel Israel is currently raising funds to turn it into a feature length film, so I asked her where the idea originally came from and how it has developed over the intervening years.
Rachel Israel
It actually began life as a feature film idea, she says. "The lead actor, Brandon [Polansky] is a friend of mine, has been for about 12 years, and he was the inspiration for the project. I realised that something I hadn...
- 7/13/2015
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Tangerine Entertainment, a production company that focuses on films by women directors, has teamed up with producer Summer Shelton to bring us "Keep the Change," a romantic drama directed by newbie Rachel Israel. Read More: Amy Hobby and Anne Hubbell Launch New Female-Driven Production Company Tangerine Entertainment Based on Israel's Columbia thesis short film, "Keep the Change" stars non-professional actors Brandon Polanksy and Samantha Elisofon (both who appeared in the short) as two individuals with autism who fall in love. Polanksy stars as David, a man who tries to hide his high-functioning autism, but is nonetheless forced to attend a support group for people with disabilities. There he meets Elisofon's character, a shy woman with autism. "We were already fans of Summer’s work," Tangerine's Anne Hubbell said. "When she introduced us to Rachel, we saw how deftly and honestly she directed autistic actors to create a universal, emotional...
- 6/13/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
Amy Hobby and Anne Hubbell will work wiht Summer Shelton to produce Keep The Change.
Tangerine Entertainment’s Amy Hobby and Anne Hubbell are joining with Summer Shelton to produce writer/director Rachel Israel’s autistic love story, Keep The Change.
Israel builds on her Columbia thesis short film of the same name for her feature directorial debut. Newcomers Brandon Polansky and Samantha Elisofon (pictured) play the lead roles.
The story follows an upper-class charming man who is a high-functioning austistic man who falls in love with a sheltered young autistic woman he meets at a support group.
“I want to portray these magnificent characters in all of their flawed humanity, not a sanitized version of people with disabilities. Identity, classism and sexual prejudices are important and truthful issues we explore in this world,” said Israel. “I am thrilled to have a passionate producing team that shares that vision.”
Hubbell added, “We were already...
Tangerine Entertainment’s Amy Hobby and Anne Hubbell are joining with Summer Shelton to produce writer/director Rachel Israel’s autistic love story, Keep The Change.
Israel builds on her Columbia thesis short film of the same name for her feature directorial debut. Newcomers Brandon Polansky and Samantha Elisofon (pictured) play the lead roles.
The story follows an upper-class charming man who is a high-functioning austistic man who falls in love with a sheltered young autistic woman he meets at a support group.
“I want to portray these magnificent characters in all of their flawed humanity, not a sanitized version of people with disabilities. Identity, classism and sexual prejudices are important and truthful issues we explore in this world,” said Israel. “I am thrilled to have a passionate producing team that shares that vision.”
Hubbell added, “We were already...
- 6/13/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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