WEBSITE:
www.gissfilm.com
NEWS:
General Impression of Size and Shape was selected into theIFP Narrative Rough Cut Lab
in June. Since then the film has been completed and participated in the IFP Market last month in New York. We have just begun our festival submission process and look forward to our world premiere. Please stay tuned for more info...
STORY:
Fanatical birdwatchers have descended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou, searching for concrete proof of the recently-spotted Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, previously thought to be extinct. Rabid environmentalists, opportunistic small-town entrepreneurs, skeptics and disgruntled loggers and hunters vie for prominence in the ensuing chaos. Enter amateur birder and philosopher Johnny Neander, who has convinced his taciturn sidekick that they will be the ones to find it. Yet a worrying past and a drifting spirit suggest that this search may be for something much more troubling.
Exploring the twilight of uncertainty between narrative and documentary styles, all truth becomes subjective in this existential tragicomedy about hope, perception, and a very strange bird.
ABOUT THE WRITER/DIRECTOR:
Alex Karpovsky's first feature film, The Hole Story , was released theatrically last year and is now distributed through Indiepix. Filmmaker Magazine selected Alex as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film 2006†and he was shortlisted for the “Someone to Watch†Independent Spirit Award. Currently, Alex is in post-production for his third feature film, TJ & Dave, which focuses on America’s most revered long form improv comedy duo. In July, Alex acted as the male lead in Andrew Bujalski’s next film, which will be released next year. Alex can be reached at [email protected].
