Hell On Wheels Gang Girls Forever this weekend: NYC and INDIANAPOLIS!

LAST MINUTE NYC SCREENING ADDED

NYC November 14, 2010 4pm Webster Hall. NYC Film Collection Curated by Jim Muscarella of Royal Flush Film Festival hosted by Quarterly Arts Soiree @ Webster Hall

Indianapolis November 12-14 2010 Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival at Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Director & some cast members will be present! Screenings co-presented with the local Indianapolis Roller Derby Team the Naptown Roller Girls

Hell On Wheels Gang Girls Forever IS GETTING RAVE REVIEWS AND GREAT PRESS

“Ladies Start Your Engines!” Curve Magazine Feature Article by Kat Long

“Hell on Wheels Sold Out NYC Debut” Bust Magazine Review by Jodi SH Doff

“Katrina del Mar on Her Gorgeous Girl Gangs” Paper Mag interview with Katrina by Peter Davis

“Katrina del Mar maker of raunchy grrl biker film Hell on Wheels tells us how it is” The Most Cake, UK interview by Petit Fours

 

Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever WINS ACCOLADE AWARD!

Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever WINS ACCOLADE AWARD!

Director / Producer Katrina del Mar of Plushtoy Productions/ Delmarvelous has won a prestigious Award of Merit from The Accolade Competition. The award was given for Katrina del Mar’s exciting new film, Hell on Wheels, Gang Girls Forever.

The Accolade recognizes film, television, videography and new media professionals who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity, and those who produce standout entertainment of contribute to profound social change.  Entries are judged by highly qualified professionals in the film and television industry. Information about the Accolade and a list of recent winners can be found at www.theaccolade.net.

Betsy Todd as Krank meets the Outcasts;L-R Dolinda Meeker, Sarah Greenwood, Bones Patterson, Betsy Todd, Regan Venezia, Ashley "Patches" Evens

Katrina del Mar says, “Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever was a complete labor of love, or perhaps an exercise in mental insanity. We created this “no budget” girl gang movie with a giant cast of 55 women out of collective love for creativity and fun.  It’s a collaborative, improvisational effort, shot on a shoestring budget and propelled solely on love for filmmaking.

“I am extremely gratified to receive this award, I feel I have to share this award with the entire cast and crew: in particular, Betsy Todd, Genny Pavitt and Meredith Miller, who are extremely talented and funny people and who essentially wrote the film with me as we went along. Dee Finley and Lola RocknRolla also helped shape the vision of this film into a funny, somewhat meditative, usually violent kick in the teeth to preconceptions about vegans, the homeless, disabled people and bike messengers.

“I also want to thank the many many people who contributed time and effort to get this film made, including co-editor Melissa Huffsmith Roth, sound mixer Carl Mandelbaum, director of photography Beka Venezia and so many others*.

“My girl gang films are modern day fairy tales with elements of ugly reality firmly embedded like jewels in a tiara of sheer fantasy. With a knowing nod to the “genre” B-Movies of the ’50’s 60′ & 70’s.  The stories have a wide streak of cruelty, a little bit of pathos and an unhealthy dose of the bizarre.”

Accolade Award for Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever

IN WINNING this award, Katrina del Mar joins the ranks of other high-profile winners of this internationally respected award. Thomas Baker, Ph.D. who chairs The Accolade, had this to say about the latest winners, “The Accolade is not an easy award to win. Entries are received from around the world. The Accolade helps set the standard for craft and creativity. The judges were pleased with the exceptionally high quality of entries. The goal of The Accolade is to help winners achieve the recognition they deserve.”

Katrina del Mar , Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever, experimental

*Complete list of credits are at ganggirlsforever.com

NEW FILMS & FILMMAKERS ADDED to Katrina del Mar MOVIE MAYHEM..

Presented by Gail Thacker and the The Gene Frankel Theatre!

“Gang Girls 2000” is everything you could want in an indie flick and more”. – Chris Parcellin, Film Threat

August 10, 2009 (New York, NY) – NEW FILMS & FILMMAKERS ADDED TO MOVIE MAYHEM..
New York City filmmaker, photographer, artist and producer of massive collisions of talent and beauty, Katrina del Mar, triumphs in the underground, revels in the grit and lathers on the beauty in a number of short films and music videos that will be presented at Gene Frankel Theater in New York City Thursday, August 27th. Katrina will be on-hand for the screenings and a Q&A afterwards. Also Short “Art” Films by Anne Hanavan (sexually explicit self portraits where the artist works thru issues surrounding past experiences with sex work, rape, and Catholosm), Lola RockNRolla (The Lesbian John Waters), Jasmine Hirst (Dark Australian Film Artist most famous for her death row interview with Aileen Wuornos), Charlotte G. Choclet (youtube sensation, pregnant bikini model, and sensual astrologer) and more TBA!!*

Films presented include new scenes from the hotly, highly anticipated latest work “Hell on Wheels, Gang Girls Forever” (Slated to premiere in October ’09). Also “SURF GANG” (Awarded Best Experimental Film, Planet Out Short Movie Awards and the NYFA Fellowship in Video), “Gang Girls 2000,” and “A Beautiful Death” (Official Selection, Frameline Film Festival).

“Del Mar, known for her amazing photographs of Lower East Side freaks and rockers, builds on decades of traditional James Dean archetypes and comes out with a girl rebel vision that is truly unique…” – Sarah Jacobson, IFC Rant

Gaymous in Sydney

Cover story of Cherrie magazine in Australia on Katrina del Mar’s Gang Girls films coming to Sydney.