04.14.07
MN Film Board hosts IcePack Event
The Minnesota Film and TV Board, deftly steered through the turbulent and competitive sea of state film commissions by Lucinda Winter and her two person crew of Chris Grap and Mary Moga, hosted a networking event on April 13th at Rusty’s Surf Ranch on the Santa Monica pier. Tess and John were invited to speak about the latest developments for Remember Minnesota.
According to Tess’s eye witness account, the room was abuzz with downright stereotypical accents. Chris darted through the room with tireless enthusiasm, made sure to keep one eye on the soccer game playing on the overhead screens, announced to his cohort Lucinda that their rental car had gotten a flat tire, marveled that springtime in LA feels a lot like springtime in Minneapolis, and professed his love for horror films.
David Anderson, Minnesota transplant and the LA-based columnist for Mpls/St. Paul Magazine, had a much more professional account in his blog. He writes:
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Guthrie alum John Carrol Lynch—who plays the suspected killer in the new film Zodiac and played Frances McDormand’s husband in Fargo—was the star power of the Ice Pack night. An affable presence, he’s heading up the production of Remember Minnesota, the inspiring true story of the 1987 University of Minnesota crew team.
“It shows the beauty of sport as well as its grotesque brutality,” Lynch told me. With great detail he then went on to describe the corrugated tin hut behind the power plant on the Mississippi River where the University of Minnesota crew boats are kept—hopefully a future location for the film. He’s truly passionate about this project—so passionate, in fact, that when he co-wrote the project with Tess Clark, he didn’t think to write a clear part for himself. A reading of the script is set for Monday, May 14, at 7 p.m. at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis as part of the Screenwriters’ Workshop series, ScriptNight.
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It was a fun evening by all accounts. And the biggest take-away was that the Minnesota Film and TV Board will not only go the extra mile to lure filmmakers to their state, but they “worked their butts off for four months” according to Chris to develop a really cool website. So check it out!
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