In the interest of full disclosure, there is not a single swimsuit contained within the following newsletter. But you already knew that, right?
News & Announcements
Joseph Genua’s new short film DEATH’S DICE enters production this weekend, and Steve Autore’s COOKIE X-CHANGE enters production later this month! There’s still time to donate to each film’s crowdfunding campaign and secure your place in Nice Hog! history.
Anyone who donates $25 to each campaign (totaling $50 minimum donation) will qualify for THE NICE HOG! COMBO PACK, including private digital downloads of 5 award-winning (or soon to be award-winning) Nice Hog! Shorts:
☠️🎲 DEATH’S DICE*
🍪🪳 COOKIE X-CHANGE*
💾🛜 GOOD BOY*
🦸🏼♂️🎬 THE ADVENTURES OF GRIP GAFFER
🍔👸SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT
*Delivered upon completion of final cut.
If you’re interested in getting involved behind the scenes on these or other Nice Hog! productions, please reach out to us at info@nice-hog.com!
Screenings & Shows
In celebration of one year since we wrapped production, SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT is playing THURSDAY, JULY 25 at the SONY PICTURES STUDIO LOT in Los Angeles in a private screening for the Elon in LA Summer 2024 program.
SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT is playing MONDAY, AUGUST 5 at THE SLIPPER ROOM in NEW YORK CITY as part of THE IRON MULE SHORT COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL! Tickets are on sale now!
SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT is playing SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 at O CINEMA SOUTH BEACH in MIAMI, FLORIDA as part of THE CITRUS CIRCUIT FILM FESTIVAL! Tickets are on sale now!
SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT is playing WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 at AMC BURBANK 16 in LOS ANGELES as part of the BURBANK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Tickets are on sale now!
Steve Autore whipped up this trailer for SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT. Check it out, let us know what you think and come on down to one of our screenings!
This Week at the Movies
Go see LONGLEGS. It’s more SILENCE OF THE LAMBS than HEREDITARY, despite the marketing, but it’s a lot of fun. Everyone is firing on all cylinders.
And then when you need to decompress, catch THE LION KING 30th Anniversary re-release. Yes, it’s the original classic animated film, not the boring CGI “live action” movie, even though, with apologies to Jon Favreau, that one does feel like it came out thirty years ago.
Circling back to recommend folks catch KINDS OF KINDNESS while they still can. It’s arguably scarier and more fucked up than LONGLEGS. Yorgos Lanthimos takes the anxiety-inducing energy of KILLING OF A SACRED DEER’s first act and sustains it three times over for 2 hours and 45 minutes. Goddamn.
Mixtape
“And you never took the ski mask off; when I asked you to, you turned away and reappeared with new tattoos. The timbre of your voice had changed…”
MIXTAPE #013 - How Do You Know?
Curated by Dope Francis
There’s probably a word for people who feel this way, but I don’t know it.
“Please Don’t Tell My Father That I Used His 1996 Honda Accord to Destroy the Town of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania in 2002” - Pet Symmetry
“Rare Thing” - Frances Quinlan
“All at Once” - Versio Curs
“Old Friends Like Lost Teeth” - The Wonder Years
“3D Country” - Geese
“I Don’t Live Here Anymore” - The War on Drugs
“Both All the Time” - Faye Webster
“Blank // Worker” - The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
“Glass Coughs” - Foxing
“Red Dust” -Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
Submit your own 10 track mixtapes to mixtapes@nice-hog.com for a chance to be featured in a future newsletter.
Comicz Corner
Roamin’ with Jordan Roman
This week, Friend of the Hog Jordan Roman has some timely advice for anyone out there looking to crowdfund a short film of their very own!
Socials
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We’ll see you next Friday. Until then, may all your hogs be nice.