Matt Walsh Wins Outstanding Achievement in Directing!!!
With his fantastic directorial debut High Road at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Matt Walsh takes home the Outstanding Achievement in Directing Award. Hopefully, this is one step closer to seeing High Road in theaters everywhere.
May 4, 2011 New Guys With Feelings podcast with Matt Walsh.
See his new movie “High Road.”
You can listen to this and read the review I wrote at Punchline the same time for a full multi-sensory Matt Walsh experience.
High Road Trailer
Here’s the movie trailer I’ve been working on this week. It’s for UCB co-founder Matt Walsh’s new comedy, High Road, a totally improvised and truly independent film. The movie does not have distribution yet and is premiering on Friday as part of the Newport Beach Film Festival (come down and see it, I’ll be there). It’s a funny, charming movie, and it’s got a great cast, including James Pumphrey (who helped edit this trailer with me), Abby Elliott, Zach Woods, Lizzy Caplan, Matt L. Jones, Rob Riggle, Joe LoTruglio, Ed Helms, Rich Fulcher, Brandon Johnson, Horatio Sanz, Andy Daly, Dylan O’Brien, and Kyle Gass. What a cast, right? So please see the movie. It’s also playing next month at the Seattle Film Festival. For more info go to the movie website. The excellent music in the trailer is by the band State Bird. Go buy their stuff, it’s great.
Things are now starting to come together for High Road with this 2nd trailer, despite some sites calling it “UCB fan porn”. With no regard to that label, I’m pretty damned hyped to see it, especially after interview writer/director Matt Walsh here.
Punchline Magazine: Matt Walsh: High on improv
Improvisation in cinema has been tried a few times over history. The films of auteur Robert Altman were noted to use a script as merely a blueprint from which the actors improvised from. As the sophistication of certain audiences has risen, improvisation on screen has become more…
I/we wrote this.
