:: HOUSE OF THE TIGER KING REVIEWS, PRESS & FILM FESTIVALS >>>

 

"In turns fascinating, surreal
and just plain annoying."
Time Out, London


 

HOUSE OF THE TIGER KING is being noted in press for it's
innovative form:

The New Hybrids: Fact and Fiction Fuse to Form Bold and Challenging "Documentaries",
by Jonny Leahan, IndieWIRE

read full article here ::>>>

     

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::UPCOMING FILM FESTIVALS >>>


> Mill Valley, Calif., IndieWIRE: Undiscovered Gems

> Official invitation to The Nashville Film Festvial, April 14-21, 2005.

> Minneapolis Film Fest., Minnesota, USA

> RiverRun N. Carolina, USA

> Warsaw Film Fest., Poland

> Thessaloniki Film Fest, Greece

 

 

 


::Film Festivals for HOUSE OF THE TIGER KING earlier 2004 and spring 2005 >>>

> UK Premiere at the EDINBURGH Film Festival
> OPENING FILM at the Sheffield Int. Documentary Film Festival
> World Premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA)
> The CALGARY Int. Film Fest,
> HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Aspen, USA.
> HOUSE OF THE TIGER KING recently screened at a sold out venue at the TRUE/FALSE Film Fest, Missouri MO, USA.
> Adelaide Int. Film Festival, Australia
> CORK Film Festival 2004, Ireland
> Tromsö Int. Film Festival, Norway,

> TEMPO Docu. Film Fest, Sweden and
> Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden.

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::HOUSE OF THE TIGER KING press excerpts >>>

Sheffield. Docu. Film Fest
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...despite the prevalence of head shrinkers in the surrounding area. Gung-ho survivalist Richard Fowler has promised to get them in and out alive - swearing he has been flying over the area regularly during his drug- induced dreams.
 
Neil Young, Jigsaw Lounge
House of the Tiger King proved one of the event's more unexpected crowdpleasing highlights. It's rollicking post-modern ripping-yarn deconstructionist documentary, in which film-maker Flamholc and writer-explorer Tahir Shah penetrate the Peruvian rainforest of Madre de Dios in search of the 'lost city' of Paititi...

 


Sheffield. Docu. Film Fest
.
...despite the prevalence of head shrinkers in the surrounding area. Gung-ho survivalist Richard Fowler has promised to get them in and out alive - swearing he has been flying over the area regularly during his drug- induced dreams.
 
Edinburgh Int. Film Fest.

Shah, Flamholc, Fowler...//...trapped together in one of the most inaccessible and inhospitable regions of the earth - for 14 weeks - the resulting film is a tangle of clashing perspectives and separate agendas, one which undoes (remakes?) documentary practice as it goes. Superbly entertaining, but hardly reliable.
     

 

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