The Coney Island Film Festival premiered October 8 to a sold out, packed house. To view pictures from the event and read commentary click here!
Follow in the footsteps of Karma. Visit Kaka’s Poet Cafe and compete in a Creating Karma poetry slam. That’s where the world discovered her and now it’s your turn to write a poem and pass the puppet! Just click here!
Coney Island
festival premiere!
Gem City
Palatka, FL
2007
LA Brilliant Light
2007
AWARD WINNER
2007 BRILLIANT LIGHT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES!
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE COMEDY: ABOUT WOMEN BY WOMEN
Read more about Brilliant Light, Cannes Market and Cape May NJ State Film Fest: Just click here!
Jennifer Corinna/Fest Director
with Jeremy Ebenstein who plays Kevin Kingston in CK
Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo
Right: Audience at Brilliant Light International Fest
Cape May NJ State
2007
Portobello Film Festival
Notting Hill, UK
2008
London Film Makers
Convention 2007
TOMI Film Festival
New Orleans
2008
WINNER
Best comedy feature
Category:
About Women By Women
S.N.O.B.
Concord, New Hampshire
2008
SEE INFO AND PICTURES FROM OUR NEW ORLEANS SCREENING IN FEBRUARY ON OUR MYSPACE FANSITE!!!
TOMI FILM FESTIVAL - The 'Other' Movie Industry was held at the Ashe Cultural Center in New Orleans, Louisiana during the NBA All Star Weekend February 14-16 2008.
TOMI Film Festival - The 'Other' Movie Industry was founded in 2007 by Ephraim Benton and Tonisha Johnson in an effort to build relationships between the filmmaker and the business of entertainment.
STATUS OF CREATING KARMA UPDATE OCTOBER 26, 2009
from Jill Wisoff: Producer/Director
CREATING KARMA is coming to the East Coast! Though it is possible we may open in a NY theater prior, it's not so probable with this time frame so as soon as I let you know next week you can announce it as our EAST COAST THEATRICAL PREMIERE in the meantime send this info on (check out the entire LASplash review!)
Where: Bethel Cinemas
When: November 13-19, 5 screenings a day check theater website
Website: http://www.bethelcinema.com
ADDRESS OF THEATER:
269 GREENWOOD AVE.
BETHEL, CT 06081
Phone: (203) 778 - 3100 or by email: info@bethelcinema.com
Transportation from NYC if you don't drive (IF YOU DO DRIVE THE WEBSITE HAS ALL DIRECTIONS):
Metro North New Haven Line (East of the Hudson) to Bethel (check the schedule on their site as you may have to transfer at South Norwalk or Stamford) Trains run weekends as well as weekdays.
Long walk to theater from train you can call yellow cab in advance of your visit at: (203) 744-7492
CREATING KARMA PRESS RELEASE:
Karma, uptight fashion editor, becomes a poet after losing her job and moving in with her wacky new-age therapist sister in this first time feature by Jill Wisoff. While the film gives a nod to the sixties Peter Sellars screwball farces “The Party” and “I love you Alice B. Toklas”, it's to be enjoyed for its corny borscht belt humor and New York locales familiar in the works of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen.
Creating Karma is a truly indie film with a screenplay by and co-starring Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo, a cast of over one hundred including top billed dancing diva co-star of "Saturday Night Fever" fame Karen Lynn Gorney, esteemed character actor Joe Grifasi and talented newcomers. Catchy songs by Jill Wisoff ("Welcome to the Dollhouse" songs/score, co-star in Todd Solondz's "Fear, Anxiety & Depression") and music by Joel Diamond (Sundance Winner “The Believer”, “Milarepa”).
Winner of two best comedy feature awards including the 2008 Best Feature Award at the Broad Humor Film Festival. Comedy
Publicity quote by the 2008 Broad Humor Festival:
"This manic Bollywood-style romp from the 60's era of free love to contemporary pseudo-spiritual philosophy is big-screen farce full of fun!"
Official LA Splash Review:
“Farce is a genre where, if you do it right, your movie ebbs and flows comfortably between the ridiculous and the outrageous. And farce in full force is what you will get with the comedy feature Creating Karma. The montage cross dissolving motif employed in the film serves well to toy with time and add a healthy touch of the dreamscape surreal. Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo are co-writers and co-stars in this “boobs to the wall” comedy with Wisoff also tackling director duties. CREATING KARMA was awarded BEST FEATURE in the 2008 Broad Humor Film Festival.”
"Kudos to Rahad Coulter-Stevenson for his noteworthy performance. The role of Vincent features a sock puppet as a co-star. Stevenson gives a lovely, balanced, eccentric performance in a role that could have very easily fallen prey to mere "impression of insanity" with less capable actor."
Neil Pedly for ifctv.com:
“With the rancid taste of the unmitigated comedy disaster that was "The Love Guru" still fresh in viewer's mouths, it's a brave person (or in this case, two) that would bring campy sitar players and kooky New Age therapy back to the big screen so soon. A directorial bow for musician and composer Jill Wisoff, this quirky comedy finds a well-to-do fashion magazine editor (co-writer Carol Lee Sirugo) undergoing a radical transformation into a poet when she moves in with her hippie half-sister (Wisoff)”.
FIND YOUR INNER HIPPIE! Be prepared to sing along!
CREATING KARMA
(Verse 1) Let me take you on a journey to a real hip place
Where the mandrake grows
And a daisie bends in the wind
Rest beside the nurturing water and reincarnate
You are Karma creating karma
(chorus) And whatever you may choose, Girl (Creating Karma)
And whatever you may lose, Dude
Don’t worry about it
You are Karma!!!!
PASS THE PUPPET
(chorus) Pass the puppet, pass the puppet
Pass the puppet to the left, to the right
Pass the puppet, pass the puppet
Pass the puppet with a hey, with a ho!
It’s pass the puppet night!
CREATING KARMA, PASS THE PUPPET © Fantasy Creature Productions 2009
The final theatrical release version of CREATING KARMA is just under 89 minutes.Total time to get this finished edit done...well, 6 months to sell every stick of furniture in my living room and build an editing studio, then 7 months to picture lock. After picture lock, I spent over a month just fine tuning the sound and tweaking. Here is what’s changed: nifty transitions, tighter pacing, cool opening credits, additional music, condensing of scenes for the overall beginning, middle and end story flow, outtakes, broadcast safe. For you actors in the film, fear not, all your performances are intact, if not expanded.
