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Jan - Sept 2007

IFC licenses Fritz's short
July 10th to Dec 31, 2007 at IFC.com, see it here
screening FINANCIAL ADVICE

Hi/Lo 10 year Retrospective Shorts Program
Apr 14th, 2007 9:15pm at Brava Theater in San Francisco
Apr 15th, 2007 5pm at Parkway Cinema in Oakland
screening FINANCIAL ADVICE

Sengal dance company benefit
Mar 11th, 2007 at 7pm in Park Slope
screening CLONE WAR III

Action Movies Sneak Preview
Feb 28th, 2007 at 8pm at NYU in Manhattan, New York
screening How to Fight N Win, Taki Robot, and much more...

T-10 Group Show at 21Grand
Jan 6th & 7th, 2006 at 8pm at 21Grand Art Gallery in Oakland, California
screening DOUBLE MASTERMIND

"Select Artist" Award
curated by The Fall Collection and Crown Point Film Festival
Dec 15 WED 8pm at Pianos, Lower Eastside Manhattan
screening DOUBLE MASTERMIND

SMUT night at Galapagos
Dec 11th, 2006 at 8pm
screening PARTEE, WRENCHED, STRAPPED, etc.

			film screenings & series Brown Alumni Screening at Anthology Film Archive April 24th, 2006 from 7-10 pm 32 2nd Avenue @2nd Avenue NYC to RSVP email Katriona, kfmaciver-at-hotmail.com comments Hi/Lo Film Festival screening MILK (an awkward social situation film from To the Hills 2) April 2006 in San Francisco CA April Fools Day DVD RELEASE tothehills 2 DVD available on Amazon To the Hills 2 Sneak Preview with free drinks Thursday, March 16, 2006, 7:30pm RSVP: Heather Rae Hatton acutewit@gmail.com The Green Room 151 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY To the Hills 2 Clone-themed Party Awkward social situations and financial advice compete with finger pistol waving clones who spend their hundred lives shooting each other and falling down in the snow while desperately trying to build a new social order. Eyal Marcovici supplies an amazingly rich soundtrack influenced by Ennio Morricone (The Good Bad and the Ugly) and Outkast. Hope you can make it. 7:15pm - Dec. 16, 2005 - Friday Galapagos Art Space - 70 North 6th St betwn Kent & Wythe FilmCartel Movie Night at Glass House Gallery from March through June of 2005 To the Hills films screened every other week at the Glass House Gallery in Brooklyn NY. The event was written up in a downtown Manhattan journal and was attended by a few thousand people. The screenings were followed by music from bands like Awesome Color, Dragons of Zinth, Cameron and friends, the Castanettes, and more. At each event Fritz Donnelly screened a few of his new films, many of the movies that make up TO THE HILLS 2 were first shown here in rough form. Other filmmakers invited included Tatia Rosenthal, Yuval, Stefan Gruber, Ben Coonley, and others. Rooftop Films Since it's founding in the mid 90s, rooftop films has shown Fritz's films. At the end of the Summer 2005 season, of the 220 shorts that were shown, *Financial Advice* was selected to show with 18 other films in Rooftops curator's selection of the year's best films. Other films shown include: Yoga-Dance, Boardroom (both from To the Hills), The Money Was There Then, Get a Job (both from Blue Lobster). Hi/Lo Film Festival The first festival to pick up on Fritz's work, the Hi/Lo film Festival is run by a comedy troupe based out of San Francisco. The group, Killing my Lobster, is zanny and started their festival in the late 90s with a movie about a pizza or piece of chocolate flying through outerspace as a spaceship. Since these early beginnings the festival has been written up by the San Francisco Chronicle and other national papers. To the Hills films have shown for 6 of the past 4 years including: Instructor and Yoga-Dance (2002), Boardroom (2003), Financial Advice (2005) and now MILK (2006). Anthology Film Archives in New York's East Village Many of Fritz's films have shown in this venue as a part of festivals and events, including: Financial Advice (2006), To the Hills 2001 to Present (2003),and Blue Lobster (2001). Other Festivals the Fall Collecion (Volotrons in 2004, at left), Red Eye Cinema (Instructor and Yoga-Dance in 2003), the first person Film Festival (To the Hills: 24 Independent Short Films in 2002) Satellites (Chulp: Fritz Donnelly will Not Submit to the Festival in 2001), Independent Exposure (Blue Lobster), Black Ball Radio and others. on TV sept 2001 - dec 2004 To the Hills started as a 30 min. television show airing on late-night public access television. The first episode aired shortly after Sept 11 and included *Yoga-Dance, (pictured at left), Surprise Birthday, and others.What had been originally conceived of as "short films about strange characters" was changed after the radical political takeover following Sept 11th, to "live reports from Foreign Correspondents." After a few months of "live" foreign correspondents in Afghanistan, the show dipped back into the strange characters. The show acted as an incubator for new film ideas, and by putting a phone number and playing messages back on air, the films were critiqued and lambasted, e.g. "why are you staring at me?"- in response to Staring Contest* (pictured at left) "I think you should stop worrying about money and write a script, I'd like to see a script that you write" in response to Financial Advice "I'm a doorman on East 93rd and I think you're hot. The way you do the martial arts drives me crazy." and, right afterwards, "This is Wendy--and Carrie. We're visiting from Australia. We'd like to teach you some martial arts." both in response to Design Your Own Martial Arts

			Performances Chinese Rap Sensation with Powdered Wigs & Chariots of fire Artworks, Seattle WA (9/2006) with Rolyn Hu and Che Chen Royal Oak, No Gallery, Glass House Gallery (11/2004) on New York city subways (10/2000 - 2/2001) listen to Chinese rap song "stupid melon" on feelits myspace avante-garde standup Comedy in Asia Istana Hotel Ballroom, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (6/2006) condensed performance 5 min. "We'd like some funny jokes, some song and dance, maybe a magic trick...." - the Dental Association To the Hills: Live from New York City in Malaysia The Actors Studio, Bangsar S.C. in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (4/2006) the flyer - watch the 90 min. show condensed to 5 min. "Fritz Donnelly is joining us from New York City for a pioneering one-man (and a few women) show. Watch a multimedia extravaganza with (finger) acrobatics, video screens and scintillating lights, all coordinated by Fritz Donnelly's wiry and sardonic sense of humor. You will go on a journey through the cunning stock playing of the Financial Advisor, past the overly-long eye contact of the Awkward Socialite, through the tasty streets of Penang, and if that's not enough there is a western-style showdown with a lucky member from the audience.... As you may have already guessed, some of these characters speak Chinese. With enchanting musical accompaniment by THE Eyal Marcovici." 3 characters for 3 minutes each curated by Jill McDermid, Glass House Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (9/2005) one awkward, one in the desert, one generated by the audience special performance one night only Chashama, Times Square, New York City curated by Willie (2/2003) with Abigail Childs Lectures / Speaking Engagements Lecturer - "how to cut a trailer for the utube universe" joint class betwee Chengdu University, China, and Indiana State, Illinois, USA (10/2006) see the webcast - "do your wierd" lecture at Multimedia University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia reviewed - watch (4/2006) - "writing is doing" Harvard Square Script Writers Association read - listen - (12/2005) Guest Lecturer on Chinese Film - New York University for Professor Brown's Movies 101 films reviewed include Zhang Yimou's BEIJING BICYCLE, Stephen Chow's KUNGFU HUSTLE (2/2001-06) - Yale, Brown, U Penn- translator for Chinese filmmakers such as Huang Shuqin WOMAN HUMAN DEMON and Lu Wei screenwriter TO LIVE (2001)