SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our FILMMAKER Q&A series! Saturday, June 25, 2022

SPECIAL NOTE: Writer/director Jim Cummings will be in attendance for all three of his movies.

We’ll be conducting Q&As after each screening then taking a short break.

This is a great chance to talk to a current moviemaker who has found a way to get their low budget movies made and retain their authorial voice. If you’re an independent moviemaker or looking to make your first feature, this is a great chance to learn how to get it done!

LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021

*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate.

4:30pm THUNDER ROAD (2018, written & directed by Jim Cummings, 92mns)

7:30pm THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW (2020, written & directed by Jim Cummings, United Artists, 84mns)

9:45pm THE BETA TEST (2021, written & directed by Jim Cummings, IFC, 93mns)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***As of April 1, 2022, masks are now optional for indoor theater events if you're fully vaccinated. Anyone without proof of vaccination will be required to wear a mask for their own safety. We will continue to update our protocols with the dynamic situation. We are working to make sure we make the theater going experience the most enjoyable and safest possible.

HOW TO:

1)PLEASE BRING YOUR VACCINATION CARD (digital cards accepted).

2)PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANYONE EXHIBITING COVID OR FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE DOOR, WILL BE OFFERED COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO A FUTURE SHOW AND ASKED TO RETURN WHEN HEALTHY. So please, if you’re feeling sick, just write us at community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. (Disclaimer under “REFUNDS” applies)

One of the most fascinating voices to come out of the last five years in independent cinema has been that of Jim Cummings, who has found a way to write, direct, and act in three tremendous movies.

Working at an incredible pace of almost one film a year.

Tonight, we’re honored to have Mr. Cummings at the Secret Movie Club Theater to take us through how he has been able to make a career as a filmmaker during one of the most transitional and difficult times in moviemaking ever. So bring your questions and your notepad. This is a night for moviemakers everywhere.

We start off with Mr. Cummings’ South by Southwest Grand Jury prize winner Thunder Road. Adapted from a single take short film, Thunder Road tells the story of small town police officer Jim (Cummings) and his day-to-day struggles with his job, his family, his children, and his substance abuse issues. Here Cummings shows his incredible ability to weave together insight, an understanding of the current crisis of the heartland, and comedy to express why so many folks in the country feel adrift and angry.

We follow this up with Cummings’ ambitious, hilarious horror comedy The Wolf of Snow Hollow. It co-stars the great Robert Forester (Jackie Brown, Twin Peaks, The Descendants) in his final film role. Here, Cummings’ slyly seems to bring over his Jim character to John, an alcoholic police officer who refuses to believe that his town is being terrorized by werewolf attacks.

Cummings combines humor, metaphor, tension & horror to again examine how resentment, anger, mistrust & substance abuse issues are roiling small towns across the country.

Finally we wrap up with Cummings’ most recent feature The Beta Test, just released last year. Here Cummings trades in the small town Midwest for the vicious, selfish & narcissistic belly of the beast: Hollywood.

Cummings plays Jordan Hines, a self-absorbed talent agent, who engages in a secret sex rendezvous by invitation where both parties are blindfolded, only to watch everything unravel from those actions around him.

Again Cummings builds on his strengths while tackling something new: here a kind of sexual-comedy-thriller-drama on self-destructive personalities in the current moment.

One of the few moviemakers to successfully move between several of the most contentious currents in American society, Jim Cummings is staking a part of filmmaking both as a moviemaker with something to say and as a moviemaker who has found a way to say it and get his movies done.

Join us for a great night, bring your questions, and let’s learn from someone on the journey how we can start our own.

Craig Hammill

Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR OUR IN-DOOR THEATER SCREENINGS

REFUNDS:

We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.

However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write to us before showtime: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening. (Disclaimer: Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)

HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:

We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.

There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.

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