The Little Red Truck opening in theatres!
June/15/2008 07:31 PM
The
Little Red Truck will open in select theatres
starting July 11th! Read
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Official Selection Spudfest 2008
May/18/2008 07:27 PM
This just
in, The Little Red Truck has been invited to screen
at Spudfest, 2008! Read
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Official Selection Maine International Film Festival
May/11/2008 07:24 PM
The
Little Red Truck has been chosen as an official
selection of the Maine International film
Festival!
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Hollywood Schoolhouse Featured in Documentary Film Set to Screen at International Family Film Festival in Hollywood 2/29 & 3/1
February/21/2008 02:58 PM
Hollywood’s very own Hollywood Schoolhouse—and 50 of
its students—is one of five North American
schools/communities featured in a new documentary
film titled “The Little Red Truck.”
The movie, which chronicles the world’s largest touring children’s theater and the youth it impacts, screens in Hollywood at the International Family Film Festival on Friday, February 29 at 4:15 p.m. and Saturday, March 1 at 2 p.m. Both showings will be held at Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Avenue. J.K. Simmons, of Spider-man and Juno fame and a participant in the film, plans to attend the Saturday screening. The Goodyear blimp, which makes an unexpected (and rather funny) appearance in the movie, is scheduled for a fly-over post-screening. The filmmakers will be on hand for interviews. Also expected to attend are many of the Hollywood Schoolhouse students (who are featured in the film) and their families. Read More...
The movie, which chronicles the world’s largest touring children’s theater and the youth it impacts, screens in Hollywood at the International Family Film Festival on Friday, February 29 at 4:15 p.m. and Saturday, March 1 at 2 p.m. Both showings will be held at Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Avenue. J.K. Simmons, of Spider-man and Juno fame and a participant in the film, plans to attend the Saturday screening. The Goodyear blimp, which makes an unexpected (and rather funny) appearance in the movie, is scheduled for a fly-over post-screening. The filmmakers will be on hand for interviews. Also expected to attend are many of the Hollywood Schoolhouse students (who are featured in the film) and their families. Read More...
World Premiere of The Little Red Truck a wild success!!! Photos from Premiere
February/17/2008 05:56 PM
The
Little Red Truck packed the house at the Wilma
Theatre during the world premiere at the Big Sky
Documentary Film Festival and received a rousing
standing ovation.
Media reviews of the film included
" a masterful tour de force... one that will end up on the top of your DVD collection."
and
" like SPELLBOUND meets WAITING FOR GUFFMAN!
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Media reviews of the film included
" a masterful tour de force... one that will end up on the top of your DVD collection."
and
" like SPELLBOUND meets WAITING FOR GUFFMAN!
Click Read More for photos from the Premiere Read More...
Theater that delivers - 'Little Red Truck’ will move and enlighten audiences
February/15/2008 07:55 PM
Theater
that delivers - 'Little Red Truck’ will move and
enlighten audiences
By
JAMIE KELLY of the Missoulian
From
the first shot of a little red truck motoring down a
hot, dusty road to the last images of toothy kid
grins, “The Little Red Truck” is a masterful,
emotional tour de force.
This
story of the Missoula Children’s Theatre, told in
less than 100 minutes, will be the most talked-about
film at this weekend’s Big Sky Documentary Film
Festival.
Certainly
among Missoulians, anyway.
And for good reason. Rob Whitehair and Pam Voth’s documentary sketches a picture of MCT’s national tours that no Missoulian has ever seen - and it’s a picture that will have you knee-deep in the magic and the mayhem of the tours, leaving you shaking your head in disbelief about the million miracles that happen around the world every year.
Whitehair and Voth take you into five North American towns over the period of a year, following the MCT’s trademark red trucks and the tour actor/directors (TADs) who set up shop, audition a cast of 60 kids and pull off a full musical production in six days.
“Six days!” screams one TAD as she stares into the camera.
That much we knew about MCT. But now, thanks to this film, we have a full appreciation of the work these miracle workers perform.
Whitehair and Voth manage, somehow, to get into these kids’ lives as if a fly on the wall, letting boys be boys and girls be girls, and little egos be little egos.
As the man said, kids say the darndest things. They also do the damnedest things, guided by these very - very, very, very - patient TADs, who, we learn, are also so very, very, very human.
They cry, scream, laugh, encourage, yell their way through each stop, doing “The Little Mermaid” in Hollywood, “The Frog Prince” in Americus, Ga., and three other productions in three other towns, including an Inuit village.
The film is ultimately about kids, but the snapshots of these TADs provide powerfully emotional portraits of their work and lives.
“I’ve had kids in casts who are crying after the show because neither mom nor dad showed up to watch the show,” says Kepler Correia. “The redemptive part of that is we get to make a difference, and we get to give these kids a chance, and ... ”
He stops, tears welling up in his eyes.
“... and if for one moment, that child feels that somebody believes in them, and somebody cares about them, then yeah, maybe they’re worth something, and they can accomplish something. That’s what it’s all about.”
The film contains interviews with actor J.K. Simmons (“Juno,” the “Spider-Man” movies), MCT executive director Michael McGill, and the man who started this whole impossible project 38 years ago - MCT founder Jim Caron.
Caron talks about what the kids learn in those six short days.
“I have to have heart with whatever I do, and I have to do whatever I do with my whole heart.”
That is a lesson, by the way, that Rob Whitehair and Pam Voth have obviously learned themselves.
A beautiful movie, timeless, one that will end up on top of your DVD collection.
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Watching the joy of accomplishment smeared all
over kids’ faces is one of the magical aspects of
“The Little Red Truck.”
Still photo from “The Little Red Truck.” |
And for good reason. Rob Whitehair and Pam Voth’s documentary sketches a picture of MCT’s national tours that no Missoulian has ever seen - and it’s a picture that will have you knee-deep in the magic and the mayhem of the tours, leaving you shaking your head in disbelief about the million miracles that happen around the world every year.
Whitehair and Voth take you into five North American towns over the period of a year, following the MCT’s trademark red trucks and the tour actor/directors (TADs) who set up shop, audition a cast of 60 kids and pull off a full musical production in six days.
“Six days!” screams one TAD as she stares into the camera.
That much we knew about MCT. But now, thanks to this film, we have a full appreciation of the work these miracle workers perform.
Whitehair and Voth manage, somehow, to get into these kids’ lives as if a fly on the wall, letting boys be boys and girls be girls, and little egos be little egos.
As the man said, kids say the darndest things. They also do the damnedest things, guided by these very - very, very, very - patient TADs, who, we learn, are also so very, very, very human.
They cry, scream, laugh, encourage, yell their way through each stop, doing “The Little Mermaid” in Hollywood, “The Frog Prince” in Americus, Ga., and three other productions in three other towns, including an Inuit village.
The film is ultimately about kids, but the snapshots of these TADs provide powerfully emotional portraits of their work and lives.
“I’ve had kids in casts who are crying after the show because neither mom nor dad showed up to watch the show,” says Kepler Correia. “The redemptive part of that is we get to make a difference, and we get to give these kids a chance, and ... ”
He stops, tears welling up in his eyes.
“... and if for one moment, that child feels that somebody believes in them, and somebody cares about them, then yeah, maybe they’re worth something, and they can accomplish something. That’s what it’s all about.”
The film contains interviews with actor J.K. Simmons (“Juno,” the “Spider-Man” movies), MCT executive director Michael McGill, and the man who started this whole impossible project 38 years ago - MCT founder Jim Caron.
Caron talks about what the kids learn in those six short days.
“I have to have heart with whatever I do, and I have to do whatever I do with my whole heart.”
That is a lesson, by the way, that Rob Whitehair and Pam Voth have obviously learned themselves.
A beautiful movie, timeless, one that will end up on top of your DVD collection.
The Little Red Truck is an official selection at the 2008 International Family Film Festival
February/07/2008 04:52 PM
We are happy
to announce that The Little Red Truck has been chosen
as an official selection at the 2008 International
Family Film Festival in Hollywood, California.
The festival runs from February 28th - March 2nd at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. The screening times are as follows: February 29th @ 4:15PM and on March 1st @ 2PM
For more information visit www.iffilmfest.org
The festival runs from February 28th - March 2nd at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. The screening times are as follows: February 29th @ 4:15PM and on March 1st @ 2PM
For more information visit www.iffilmfest.org
The Little Red Truck World Premiere screening time and date announced
January/16/2008 02:51 PM
The Little
Red Truck will enjoy it's World Premier screening at
the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on Saturday,
February 16th, 2008 at 2:30PM at the historic Wilma
Theatre in downtown Missoula, Montana.
Official Selection 2008 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
January/10/2008 09:50 PM
We are so
excited to announce that The Little Red Truck has
been chosen as an official selection at the 2008 San
Luis Obispo International Film Festival in
California. The festival runs from March 7 - 16th in
beautiful San Luis Obispo, CA. Yahoo!
It's Showtime: Filmmakers ready to release documentary on MCT's tours around the world.
January/09/2008 11:49 PM
Right now,
“The Little Red Truck” is getting its final
tune-up.
Belt
yourselves in, because the documentary about Missoula
Children's Theatre's epic yearly tours around the
globe will debut in Missoula at next month's Big Sky
Documentary Film Festival.
Filmmaker
Rob Whitehair and wife Pam Voth, who have spent the
last two years on the 98-minute film, are making some
small, last-minute changes and expect the movie to be
theater-ready any day.
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The Little Red Truck is an official selection at the 2008 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
January/05/2008 02:47 PM
We are proud
to announce that we have received word that The
Little Red Truck will have it's World Premiere
at the 2008 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. This prestigious festival runs from February 14th - February 20th
in Missoula, Montana at the historic Wilma Theatre. Yahoo!!!!
at the 2008 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. This prestigious festival runs from February 14th - February 20th
in Missoula, Montana at the historic Wilma Theatre. Yahoo!!!!