Tax Day | Lock It Up
Join us as we share with you the world premier of a new short film "Lock It Up" by Providence filmmaker Laura Colella. The film will be featured alongside the world premier of a newly restored digital print of "Tax Day" directed by Laura Colella. This restoration was made possible by the Sundance Institute and the Brown Arts Institutes.
Lock it Up
On a film set with a troubled director, ripples become waves that throw the whole crew off course. Will they find their way, or is individualism the enemy of collective action? Witness action-packed inaction in action!
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TAX DAY (1998, color 16mm), Laura Colella's first indie feature, was filmed in exterior locations all around Providence twenty-seven years ago, with a cast of over 200 actors, musicians, dancers and performers of all kinds. It's a true time capsule that won over many critics upon its release:
“This shining work… is hands-down one of the best independent features ever made in New England. Tax Day takes the filmmaker’s private Providence through the looking glass and into a gentle surrealist realm, where it glistens and glows like an MGM emerald city… Magical! Colella makes this soul-life palpable, and in the most appealingly continental way.” – The Boston Phoenix
“With its feature length sustained by gracefully associative transitions and a pleasurably erratic tone that’s never satirical, this movie, which is realistic and hyperrealistic at the same time, reminds us of the potential richness of both life and filmmaking.” – The Chicago Reader
“When they accept a ride upriver with a couple of canoe-paddling guys, it seems as if the friends enter an urban oasis and cross over into a supercharged reality of colorful characters, strange interludes and marvelous tangents… This leisurely amble has the quick-witted cleverness of the best road movies… In the sunny ending, as in the entire movie, the strongest asset is Colella’s humanism. She presents a bittersweet world in which the characters are so engaged with their surroundings that they bring out the best in each other. The result is a truly genuine feel-good movie.” – The Boston Herald
“Tax Day shows that rare example of a regional indie voice whose quirks are genuinely fresh, and whose comedy seems to come from a very human place.” – Filmmaker Magazine
“An unassuming movie that delivers a walloping punch.” – The Jackson Clarion-Ledger
“A rich, unpredictable look at city life... clever and funny and original.” – The Providence Journal
“Laura Colella’s new film reveals the potential for vaudeville in any ordinary day, anywhere you live. The film follows two women friends who take a roundabout path on one magical spring day. Colella’s cozy, charming movie shows the city as a multicultural mosaic and a fertile center of drama and comedy.” – Art New England Magazine
Filmmaker Bio:
Filmmaker Laura Colella has written and directed three features: the Independent Spirit Award-winner Breakfast with Curtis, Stay Until Tomorrow, and Tax Day. Her short films include Statuary, The Flying Electric, and Chryskylodon Blues, filmed behind-the-scenes on the set of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice. Breakfast with Curtis was named one of the top ten films of the last decade by Barbara Scharres on RogerEbert.com. Laura's three features have been on Netflix, Fandor, and other platforms, and Breakfast with Curtis was released theatrically in several cities. She has been a Sundance Directing and Screenwriting Fellow, a Film Independent Fellow, a Bogliasco Fellow, and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces in Independent Film. She was born in and lives in Providence.
