Film
Feature films are an artistic and technical undertaking working on many levels at once. Sometimes they work, sometimes not so much. Doesn’t matter – everyone performs at the top of their game. You won’t know how it all cuts until you put the team to work. We are proud of all of our accomplishments, honing our skills with each film.
Crickets
Inspired by slain wartime journlist Steven Vincent and cancer advocate Yvonne Brown, it is an experimental film that explores connectivity through death and the oneness of inspiring hope. Shot in Menlo Park.
Executive Producer: Morgan Brown
Producer/Director/Writer: Kari Nevil
DoP: Svetlana Cvetko
Editor: Ian Montgomery
Music: Bob Spector/Barbary Post
Casting: JE Talent
Cast: Aimee Miles and Phil Austin
- Official Selection, Connecticut Film Festival
- Official Selection, Baltimore Women's Film Festival
- Official Selection, Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival – Sarasota, Florida
- Official Selection, Cinequest Film Festival – Maverick Competition – San Jose, California
- Official Selection, California Independent Film Festival
- Official Selection, San Francisco Women's Film Festival - San Francisco, California
- Official Selection, Hearts & Minds Film Festival - Dover, Delaware
At Risk
Pitched to producer Kari Nevil at the Sundance Producer's Lab, it tackles heterosexual AIDS and features rising star Vince Vaughn. Shot in San Francisco.
Produced, directed and written by Elana Krauze Produced by Kari Nevil and David Pyle
Starring Vince Vaughn, Randy Travis, Elana Pyle, Daniel McDonald
- Official Selection, Premiered at Cannes Film Festival
- Official Selection, Hamptons International Film Festival
Planting Melvin
Metro Newpapers gave this film their Crictic's Choice nod, stating that "Nevil lucidly makes her point and yanks our heads up to look in the mirror at our own society." Also selected by the National Film Board of Canada to screen on the Montreal Masscre Memorial Day. Shot in Atherton and Pleasanton.
Written, produced and directed by Kari Nevil
Co-produced by Karen MacKellar and Donna Garrison
Executive produced by Doctor Wally Cash and Morgan Brown
Starring Irene Bedard, Hal Robinson,Richard Van Vleet and Don Most
- Official Selection, Audience Award Winner, Second Best Feature, Director Award, Hearts & Minds Film Festival
- Official Selection, Finalist, Moondance International Film Festival
- Official Selection, National Film Review Board of Canada
- Official Selection, Breckenridge Film Festival
- Official Selection, ReelHEART International Film Festival
- Official Selection, Zion Film Festival
- Featured Selection, Female Eye Film Festival
- Official Selection, Emerging Artist Showcase, Napa/Sonoma Film & Music Institute
- Official Selection, California Independent Film Festival
- Official Selection, World Premiere, Cinequest Film Festival
- Official Selection, GLBT Sponsored Screening, Breckenridge Film Festival
- Featured Screening, Montreal Massacre Memorial Day
- Official Selection, National Film Review Board of Canada Selection, Anti-violence Against Women and Children
The Strange Condition of Professor deGroot
Directed by Sundance Film Festival's Best Editor award-winner Joe Bini, this film was narrated by Werner Herzog and filmed in Oakland and Clayton.
Produced, directed and edited by Joe Bini
Produced by Kari Nevil and Josh Rosen
Narrated by Werner Herzog
- Official Selection, Cinequest Film Festival
- Official Selection, Seattle International Film Festival
Your Guardian
Working on this first film presented many "Living in Oblivion-like" obstacles, but this team stuck it out to convey a mother's eternal love for the daughter she'd left behind. Filmed in Princeton and Half Moon Bay.
Produced, written and directed by Kari Nevil
Co-produced by Susan England and Sally Wood Williams
Executive Produced by Adrianna Pope Sullivan and Elizabeth Tidmarsh Conely
Starring Chad Lowe and Irene Bedard
- Opening Night Feature Selection, Cinequest Film Festival
- Official Selection, Moondance International Film Festival – Finalist
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