NWFF
Local writer/director Lynn Shelton (You’re Sister’s Sister, Humpday, $5 Cover Seattle), will be at Northwest Film Forum tonight (November 28), presenting clips from her previous works and discussing her creative process. During this free conversation, Shelton will discuss her most recent film, Your Sister’s Sister, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is scheduled for theatrical debut next year.
LA Times
The press coverage for “$5 Cover: Seattle” just keeps on coming—this time it’s the L.A. Times’ Entertainment Blog, Pop & Hiss, that’s taken an interest in the locally-hewn web series. In the posted article, entertainment blogger Nate Jackson offers some pretty glowing insight: “Avoiding the urge to pander to any one genre, “$5 Cover: Seattle” showcases a mix of innovative indie pop, throat-shredding hard-core, hip-hop, and many aural intersections in between. [….]What emerges is an alchemy of musical diversity, amplified subcultures and endearing anecdotal storytelling.” To read the entire post, check out the link above.
$5 Cover: Seattle
In an amazing show of “Seattle solidarity,” local indie movie houses Central Cinema, the city’s only dine-in theater, and The Grand Illusion, Seattle’s oldest continuously running theater, will soon begin screening the trailer for “$5 Cover: Seattle” as part of their preview reels. For more information and showtimes for the theaters, check out the links above! Or, to get fired-up for the trailer’s silver-screen debut, you can web it again really quick below.
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Blackbook Magazine
BlackBook.com is singing the praises of newly-launched web series, “$5 Cover: Seattle” for getting right to the heart of what “music television” is all about. The 12-part docudrama, now streaming for free online, takes a close look at the current Seattle music scene featuring performances, interviews and backstage footage in a way BlackBook.com thinks is “really cool”: “5 Cover is a whole different beast,” says article author Adam Wilson,” and certainly worth more than $5.” To read the full article, follow the link. Also be sure to check out “$5 Cover: Seattle” for yourself here.
Elle Magazine
In a new Elle Magazine online feature, award-winning local filmmaker Lynn Shelton talks about the release of her latest brainchild, “$5 Cover: Seattle.” In the interview, Shelton reveals her close connection to “$5 Cover: Seattle”—which debuted yesterday on its official MTV website — and practically gushes over the series’ innovative cyber-launch: “The cool thing is it’s on the web, so you can screen it in an interactive way,” says Shelton. “ Links will come up on the side—if you’re watching an episode with a particular band, there’s a link and a map to where [they’re playing] in Seattle. If you go to all those links, you’ll find out all these things about the bands, about Seattle, about the venues, on and on. It allows you to experience it above and beyond what’s on screen.” To read the entire article, be sure to check out the above link.
$5 Cover: Seattle
MTV’s “$5 Cover: Seattle,” is now available to stream for free at fivedollarcover.com! Directed by renowned local filmmaker Lynn Shelton, the 12-part docudrama series takes place over one weekend using the artists’ real-life stories to paint a vivid portrait of Seattle’s intertwining film, music, and nightlife communities. Shot in over 20 locations and nightlife hotspots throughout the city, the production employed a local film crew of 30, as well as 60 Seattle-based cast members, including featured bands The Moondoggies, The Maldives, Champagne Champagne, THEESatisfaction, Whiskey Tango and more. If you’re as excited about this project as we are, you’ve probably already clicked over to watch. If not, what are you waiting for?!
Seattle Weekly
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“$5 Cover Seattle,” the Lynn Shelton-directed and MTV-produced docudrama, has released live footage of discordant local indie trio The Lights performing “Buttons vs Boulders.”
Shoreline Community College
Shoreline Community College’s film and video program is hosting a special preview screening of Lynn Shelton’s $5 Cover: Seattle. “We’re very lucky and excited to host this screening,” said Ruth Gregory, faculty member in the Digital Filmmaking and Performance Arts program. “Lynn wrote, directed, and acted in “Humpday,” which won a special jury award at the Sundance Film Festival.” In addition the screening, Shelton will be on hand that night to introduce her work, then conduct a question and answer session with the audience at the end. The event is hosted by Shoreline’s Sisterhood of Women in the Film Industry (SWIFI) group. Proceeds from the evening will go toward film scholarships overseen by the Shoreline Community College Foundation. The show is scheduled for 7:30 pm on Friday, April 16, at the Shoreline Community College’s Campus Theater.
Seattle PI
In conjunction with $5 Cover: Seattle, John Jeffcoat made 12 short documentaries each focusing on one the bands featured in the film series called the Amplified Docs. Check out this one on The Moondoggies below.
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Seattle PI
Last night’s screening of Lynn Shelton’s $5 Cover: Seattle ended with a standing ovation as Shelton stood among a room full of some of Seattle’s best up-and-coming artists and they all gave their full approval with endless clapping, some hoots and hollers and plenty of whistling. Humberto Martinez from the Seattle PI got a chance to speak to Shelton before the screening. “It’s not a documentary, it’s a work of art,” Shelton said. “They came to me and said ‘what if you wrote something that was inspired by real lives of others’ and that’s what it is, an amped up version of what I’ve experienced.” To read full coverage of last night’s event and see pictures from the red carpet, follow the above link.
