Creating Karma
Creating Karma is a 2009 American screwball comedy[1] film directed by Jill Wisoff[2] about an uptight, New York fashion editor who becomes a poet after losing her job, moving in with her eccentric new-age therapist sister, and meeting Mr. Wrong, owner of a local poets' café.[3]
Independently produced, the film kicked off its film festival run at the 2006 Coney Island Film Festival,[4] garnered a Best Feature Comedy win in Los Angeles at the 2008 Broad Humor Film Festival,[5] screened in New Orleans at the 2008 TOMI film festival[6] and in Notting Hill, London as an official selection of the 2008 Portobello Film Festival.[7] It had its U.S. theatrical premiere on October 16, 2009[8] in Los Angeles.[9]
The original screenplay was co-written by Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo, co-produced by David Wright, and stars Karen Lynn Gorney, Carol Lee Sirugo, Jill Wisoff, Joe Grifasi, Rahad Coulter-Stevenson, Roland Sands, Jeremy Ebenstein, Jennifer Lee Mitchell and Riana Hershenfeld; with musical score by Joel Diamond, cinematography by Carter Bissell, production design by Kathleen Muldoon and costumes by Nina Simich.[10]
References
- ^ http://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-all-screwball-comedy-movies/reference?page=2
- ^ http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Director-of-indie-film-to-appear-at-Bethel-Cinema-216307.php
- ^ http://openindie.com/films/creating-karma
- ^ http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/7379
- ^ http://www.lasplash.com/publish/Los_Angeles_Entertainment_109/Creating_Karma_Film_Review_-_What_Goes_Around_Comes_Around_Comically.php
- ^ http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/marketing/release/402
- ^ http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/2008/09-03_inn.html
- ^ http://www.boxoffice.com/reviews/theatrical/2009-10-creating-karma
- ^ http://www.laemmle.com/viewmovie.php?mid=5319
- ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/460063/Creating-Karma/credits