“A gem of a film...utterly delightful!” -Woodstock Film Festival
“The perfect date movie” -GENART
"EXQUISITE, right down to the poetic cinematography and an intoxicating musical soundtrack". —JB - CHRONOGRAM OCT 2006
“Stunning cinematography and the year’s best musical soundtrack”- GreenCINE Daily
“A gem of a film...utterly delightful!” -Woodstock Film Festival
“The perfect date movie” -GENART
"EXQUISITE, right down to the poetic cinematography and an intoxicating musical soundtrack". —JB - CHRONOGRAM OCT 2006
“Stunning cinematography and the year’s best musical soundtrack”- GreenCINE Daily
The title The Orange Thief suggests de Sica neorealism, but this comedy's tone recalls Wertmuller's brutal send-up of the Italian social order. The eponymous fruitpoacher (played by Andrea Calabres) steals as a way to thumb his nose at the wealthy. He always ends up bloody, unbowed, and incarcerated. During one prison stay, a cellmate offers him a new life as landed gentry if he can accomplish a mission when he's sprung. This shaggy-dog tale was shot on location in Lucca-Sicula, Italy, by three Brooklyn directors—Boogie Dean, Vinnie Angel, and Arthur Wilinski—in an exquisite-corpse style. And the results are indeed exquisite, right down to the poetic cinematography and an intoxicating musical soundtrack. —JB - CHRONOGRAM OCT 2006
"Woodstock Film Festival has just taken its bow. This year's winner was one of Gen Art's favorites: "The Orange Thief." Our hero in this revamped fable is a cocky, penniless young man whose dreams of owning a piece of Sicilian land is waylaid by his trips to jail. Love and magic abound from the colors, to the supporting characters and the delicate Italian spoken throughout the film. In other words, it's the perfect date movie. What's surprising about the film isn't it lovely little plot, which stands in bold opposition so some of the more gruesome or err... realistic movies playing the festival, but that it was directed by three people Boogie Dean, Vinnie Angel and Artie Wilinski. How they created such a seamless gem with six hands on the camera we'll never know." - Gen Art Film Festival
So many awards....
Winners in 6 of the 7 festivals entered. Beating out million dollar Hollywood pictures left and right. THE ORANGE THIEF HAS WON A BIG AWARD AT EVERY FESTIVAL SO FAR!
Winner: BEST IN SHOW Special Screening Award- Woodstock Film Festival Oct 2006: BEST IN SHOW Special Screening – Mill Valley Film Festival Oct 2006
BEST EDITING for a Feature Narrative- Woodstock Film Festival Oct 2006 - 2nd PLACE FEATURE- PAH FEST Juried by Francis Ford Coppola Oct 2006
And we've given up posting all the new information...but we've won even more festivals
including Philadelphia, SanTelmo, etc
All shows have SOLD OUT and new screenings added by demand!
PAH FILM FESTIVAL
WINNER SECOND PRIZE NARRATIVE FEATURE
Judged by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
Winner BEST OF SHOW screening
SOLD OUT all three screenings
Mill Valley Web Site
"The Orange Thief is a film that sparkles with the effervescence of life." -The Mill Valley Film Festi!!
WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL
Winner BEST OF SHOW screening
Winner BEST EDITING
Woodstock Web Site
"Maverick Award for Best Editing Feature Narrative: Boogie Dean, Vinnie Angel and Arthur Wilinski for "The Orange Thief"Arguably the hottest film at the festival, "The Orange Thief" played to two sold-out screenings and a specially added "Best in Show" screening Sunday night. The recipients accepted the award in bright orange bowling shirts promoting their movie." Germain Lussier - Times Herald Oct 16 2006
MILWAUKEE FILM FESTIVAL
Winner BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Winner BEST OF SHOW AUDIENCE AWARD
Friday, October 27th 4:45 pm Oriental Theatre
Sunday, October 29th 2:15 pm Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee Film Fest Web Site
“This funny and charming tale follows a young man alone in the world seeking adventure and freedom in Sicily. A uniquely independent film, created from scratch in two months with Italian and Sicilian amateur actors. The results are truly enjoyable."Milwaukee Film Fest
$10,000 dollar film beats out all films of the year and gets bought by Warner Brothers
Mikwaukee Chronicle
"The Orange Thief," a penniless young man dreams of owning a piece of his beloved Sicilian land. "It's a feature film in Italian made by Americans," Goldbeck says. "It's a romp, it's just delightful."
