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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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

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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

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indieWIRE: On the Scene at the Florida Film Festival (3/25/03)

- Eugene Hernandez

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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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>> "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]