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PUBLICITY, PRESS & SALES
CONTENTS
1.
SALES (Producer's Rep)
2. PUBLICIST
3. DOWNLOAD PRESS MATERIAL (PDFs)
4. TRAILER - - Trouble with Quicktime? Watch the trailer on YouTube
5. PRODUCTION STILLS
6. PRESS CLIPPINGS
7. PRESS QUOTES
8. AWARDS
9. SYNOPSIS
10. CREDITS
11. FILM FESTIVALS
12. FAN MAIL
FOR
SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
ANDREW
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THE FILM SALES COMPANY
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INTERVIEWS, PRESS KITS, ETC. PLEASE CONTACT:
CYPRESS FILMS, INC.
P.O.
Box 147
Columbiaville, NY 12050
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3.
DOWNLOAD PRESS MATERIAL (PDFs)
Variety
Review (Variety_Review.pdf)
Press
Release (AFI premiere) (pressrelease.pdf)
EvenHand Synopsis (synopsis.pdf)
Cypress Corporate profile (corporate.pdf)
Director's Statement (dstatment.pdf)
Texas Music
Press Release (1/06/03)
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5.
PRODUCTION STILLS

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6.
PRESS CLIPPINGS
CONTENTS
Variety
Review (12/02/02)
Ozus'
World Dennis Schwartz Review (1/01/04)
The Pasatiempo New Mexican Review (12/11/03)
St. Paul Pioneer Press Review (9/17/03)
The Edinburgh Film Festival: The Z Review
(8/17/03)
Variety:
Getting Evenhand: Indie pic nabs Sundance airing, vid distrib
(7/09/03)
indieWIRE:
Surveying Year Two of the Tribeca Film Festival (5/14/03)
indieWIRE:
On the Scene at the Tribeca Film Festival (5/04/03)
Film
Threat Review (3/26/03)
eFilmCritic.com
Review (3/26/03)
The Nashville
Tennessean Review (4/26/03)
FilmBUZZ:
Memphis Film Festival Top 5 Feature Films
indieWIRE: On
the Scene at the Florida Film Festival (3/25/03)
Dallas
Morning News USA Festival Wrap-up (4/25/03)
PlayBack
St. Louis Festival Wrap-up (3//03)
Austin
360 review (3/11/03)
Resolution
365 Review (3/11/03)
Toronto
Star SXSW Festival Wrap-up (3/14/03)
CinemaSpeak.com
Review (11/16/02)
indieWIRE
(3/16/01)
Press Quotes on Tim Orr
San
Antonio Express-News (3/05/01)
IndieSlate
Magazine (indieslate.pdf)
AFI Fest Catalogue
Notes
Film & Televisie Interview
(Mei/Juni 2004)
The interview was conducted in Deauville, France in September of 2003.
Passion of the Indies
by Ivo De Kock. Also features extensive quotes from the J. Pierson
interview,
although we're clueless as to what was said (both articles are in Dutch).
Film
& Televisie is a Belgian publication.
Translate
one of the above interviews for me and I'll send you an EvenHand DVD.
Translate both and I'll send you an EvenHand T-Shirt as well.
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7.
PRESS QUOTES
"San Lovisa
comes to life on the screen with a vividness of local atmosphere such as
most movies have forgotten about." - Scott Foundas, Variety
"Evenhand simply
represents the best of what independent film has to offer." - Merle
Bertrand, FilmThreat.com
"EvenHand
moves deftly from insightful character study to endearing 'buddy flick'
" - Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
"Bill
Sage chews the scenery in an intense performance that is both fierce and
vulnerable." - Matt Mulcahey, eFilmCritic.com
"A superior indy cop film." - Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World
"A
satisfying, realistic must-see." - Dallas Morning
News
"The kind of fresh, well-crafted film we
haunt festivals hoping to see." - Jane Sumner, The Dallas Morning
News
"An
arresting film worth staking out." - Joe O'Connell, Austin
American-Statesman
"A sharply acted little gem." - Chris
Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Excellent." - Christopher Bahn, The
Minneapolis Rake
"A little jewel of human drama." -
Pasatiempo, the New Mexican
"A quietly powerful film" - The Scotsman, Edinburgh
- The List, Edinburgh
"The rookie cop teamed with cynical old hand
may be a familiar pattern, but there's something refreshing about
Pierson's approach." - The Guardian, London
FilmBUZZ
Memphis
International Film Festival
Top FilmBUZZ Films (What
is a Buzz Score?)
Feature
Films - BUZZ Score
1. Everybody Says I'm Fine - 85.7
2. Standard Time - 83.0
3. Levity - 80.3
4. EvenHand
- 80.1
5. Outpatient - 79.8
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THE PASATIEMPO NEW MEXICAN REVIEW (12/11/03)
A little jewel of human drama set against the backdrop of police work,
EvenHand is the story of two small-town police officers and the
day-to-day, unglamorous grind they live. Probably more realistic than most
cops-and-robbers pictures, EvenHand benefits from some low-key
but very real performances by actors Bill Sage and Bill Dawes. (R.N.)
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ST.
PAUL PIONEER PRESS REVIEW (9/17/03)
BY Chris Hewitt, Movie Critic
Police Procedurals are big this year.
Hollywood's "Narc" and "Dark Blue" were outstanding. The
fest's opening night movie, "Evenhand," is even better. A sharply
acted little gem, it's reminiscent of "Training Day" at first: a new
cop (Bill Dawes) gets an eye-opening introduction to his beat from a veteran
with shaky morals (Bill Sage). But their relationship shifts as the film becomes
a compassionate portrait of the demands of police work. 7 p.m. today, St.
Anthony Main theaters, Minneapolis.
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Photo Credit: Brian Brooks / © indieWIRE
Hanging out at the
event, "Evenhand" casting director Kim Moarefi,
director Joe Pierson and assoc. producer Lovisa Inserra. "Evenhand" is
screening in the festival's Showcase section.
indieWIRE:
Surveying Year Two of the Tribeca Film Festival (5/14/03):
Joseph
Pierson's "EvenHand" was another delight. This was a cliché-busting
look at two small-town Texas cops, helped by excellent performances by
Bill Sage and Bill Dawes, and a note-perfect script by Texas-born
screenwriter Mike Jones (a former indieWIRE editor).
- Eugene Hernandez
Read
the entire article
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indieWIRE:
On the Scene at the Florida Film Festival
(3/25/03)
In the dramatic competition, a
highlight was Joseph Pierson's "EvenHand." A buddy cop story
unlike most, the film stars Bill Sage and Bill Dawes (it was written
by Mike Jones, a former indieWIRE staffer, and shot by Tim Orr). Set
in a fictional Texas town, and shot primarily in San Antonio, the
drama unfolds quietly as the two cops make there way from incident to
incident until a defining moment on the job changes everything. Dawes
performance as Officer Francis draws in the viewer and offers a
humanist portrait of a sensitive man struggling to be the best cop
that he can amidst the inherent turmoil of his job.
- Eugene Hernandez
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the entire article
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THE
NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN REVIEW (4/26/03)
***
EvenHand, directed by Joseph Pierson
Smells
like Training Day, the cop flick with the well-meaning officer
and his unruly partner. The similarities end there, though, as EvenHand
introduces us to San Lovisa, Texas, a small town where beat officers
know their suspects by their first names and arrests seem more like
reunions. No sexy, headline-making drug busts here, just junkie
juveniles, quarreling couples and a self-destructive psycho or two.
Offenders are even forced to carry signs that detail their crimes. EvenHand
plays out like an elongated Cops episode: compelling, in large
part because of its various suspects. The freak show landscape is
perhaps the most interesting aspect of the film, though actors Bill
Sage and Bill Dawes capably fill their roles as neighborhood cops. The
psychological wear of the job propels the plot forward; but just when
you get too confident, that sneaky San Lovisa comes back to bite you,
proving that small town justice has its own karma and complexity. - A.
Tacuma Roeback
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indieWIRE
(3/16/01)
>>
"EvenHand" in Production in the Lone-Star State
(indieWIRE/03.16.01) -- Production began recently in San Antonio, TX
on "EvenHand," directed by Joseph Pierson and written by
Mike Jones. The film, a South Texas cop story, is being shot by Spirit
Award nominee Tim Orr (DP for David Gordon Green's "George
Washington") and stars Bill Sage ("American Psycho,"
"Boiler Room") Bill Dawes ("Sex in the City,"
"Law and Order").
New York-based production
company, Cypress Films and Joseph Pierson are producing the film. Like
"Cherry," starring Shalom Harlow, an earlier project of
Pierson's, "EvenHand" is having its production documented
with updated commentary and images on its web site at
www.cypressfilms.com/evenhand, a unique marketing technique championed
by Cypress to much fanfare on previous projects.
Writer Mike Jones, a South Texas native and a former managing editor
at FILMMAKER Magazine and indieWIRE, recently finished rewriting
"Beneath the Banyon Trees" which will be directed by Matt
Dillon and he is currently penning the robot-themed
"Automata" for Columbia and Stan Winston Productions. Jones
will also direct "Miller," a South Texas "Death of a
Salesman" story starring Chris Cooper ("American
Beauty" and "Lone Star") slated to begin this autumn.
Production on "EvenHand" is expected to run through April 3,
2001. [Brian Brooks]
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PRESS
QUOTES ON TIM ORR
Re: George Washington directed by David Gordon
Green (2001)
"The cinematographer Tim Orr has accomplished something
remarkable: the African-American children seem to have been lighted
from within, and their skin has a slight burnished glow, as if the sun
is deftly tracing across their bodies. Mr. Orr emerges as a star. This
may be the best photographed film of the year." - Elvis
Mitchell, The New York Times
"The cinematography, by Tim Orr, is the best of the year." -
Roger Ebert
"The delicacy of Tim Orr's widescreen camerawork is
extraordinary." - Rolling Stone
"Terrific 35mm Cinemascope cinematography...kudos to
cinematographer Tim Orr for an intelligent use of camera angles and
natural lighting that definitely helps set the mood." - The
Hollywood Reporter
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8.
AWARDS
BEST
DIRECTOR -- ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL (6/14/03)
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