WE LIVE IN PUBLIC is in Auckland, NZ for our first screening with the New Zealand Film Festival.  We were lucky enough to be paired up with NZ director Pietra Brettkelly who is hosting us and squiring us around this lovely country.  She directed a great doc that went to Sundance last year called The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins.

We all went to the beach yesterday and worked off our jetlag while laughing at the handful of dogs going ballistic in the volcanic sand and gazing at the glorious sky as the sun went down.

Today it’s wine tasting on some island that’s a stone’s throw from Auckland and then… our New Zealand premiere!  If you are in the neighborhood  — 9:00 PM July 23rd at Sky City Cinemas.

WELIVEINPUBLIC wins Student Jury Grand Prize at Newport International Film Festival!

Chosen by a panel of eight Rhode Island students, WELIVEINPUBLIC was awarded the Student Jury Documentary Grand Prize during the annual international film festival in Newport, Rhode Island. From June 3rd-7th the festival premiered over 90 U.S. and international feature, documentary and short films culminating in a collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art: Archival Screenings.Winners were announced June 7th in the Filmmaker Lounge at the festival headquarters at Empire Tea & Coffee in Newport.

The WELIVEINPUBLIC team is honored that experts on living in public—teenagers—felt a connection with the film and awarded us with the Grand Jury Prize.

For an inside look at the festival, check out ABC 6’s news report

See the festival’s Full List of Winners here

We are excited to be heading to the esteemed Seattle Film Festival this weekend.  The full festival runs from May 21st until June 14, and we have *two* WLIP screenings:

Saturday May 23
Neptune Theater
7pm

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Monday May 25
Egyptian Theater
11am

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We will be interviewing attendees at both screenings for inclusion on our website.  Come be a part of the online experiment or if you can’t attend, visit weliveinpublicthemovie.com to see reactions straight from the center of the action.  The videos will kick off our (drum roll please…) virtual guest book, which will be incrementally rolled out in the near future.

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher recently joined the ever-growing army of We Live In Public fans. They both tweeted about our film last week, calling it “brilliant” and “amazing” respectively, driving lots of views on our trailer, hits to our site and retweets.  We love when you guys go public on behalf of WLIP, so please don’t be shy.  Shout it out!  Our official film Twitter hashtag is #wlip — join the conversation.

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that We Live In Public has been acquired into the permanent film collection by the NY Museum of Modern Art.  This is Ondi’s second film to receive this honor —  Dig! was purchased by the museum in 2004.

There are so many upcoming exciting events on the docket: Australia, Silverdocs, LA Film Festival…. stay tuned for more info on all of it!  And as always, keep up with us on Ondi’s twitter (twitter.com/onditimoner), the official film Twitter (twitter.com/wlip), our Facebook fanpage and our website at weliveinpublicthemovie.com for festival times, news, pics, bios, our trailer, and more.  We are in the process of launching lots of cool features on our site… be afraid, be very afraid .

Thank you SO MUCH for all of your support!

xo,
Team WLIP

We Live in Public was just selected to be the closing night film for the New Directors New Films festival in New York on April 5th, 2009. This is an incredible honor! Come join us in New York or check out our festival schedule page for other screenings in the near future.

We are thrilled to be heading to the True/False Festival in Missouri, SXSW in Austin and our New York premiere at the New Directors/New Films Lincoln Center/MOMA event. Find more info on our festival schedule page.

“We Live in Public” has won for the Documentary Competition top honor, the jury selected Ondi Timoner’s We Live in Public from the 16 films in the U.S. Documentary category. This is Ondi’s second Grand Jury Prize (she won in 2004 for Dig!). “Sundance is home to me,” Timoner said as she accepted her award. “It’s such a nurturing environment.”

BMI has announced that Ondi will appear at the “Music & Film” The Creative Process” panel on Wednesday, January 21. The panel will take place at the Sundance House at the Kimball Art Center (638 Park Avenue) from 11:00am – 1:00pm. Directors scheduled to speak include Michel Orion Scott (Over The Hills and Far Away), Duncan Jones (Moon), Max Mayer (Adam), R.J. Cutler (The September Issue), Dana Heinz Perry (Boy Interrupted), Dana Heinz Perry (Boy Interrupted), Ondi Timoner (We Live In Public) and Tze Chun (Children of Invention). The discussion will be moderated by Doreen Ringer Ross, Vice President, Film/TV Relations at BMI.

You can follow Ondi during Sundance at twitter.com/onditimoner. She’ll be living in public for the next few weeks and sharing her experience.

Our first public screening is just seven days away! We couldn’t be more thrilled, and are so excited to show you the movie.