The award-winning documentary about Hollywood’s hopeful outsiders, geek-hustlers, and the perpetual have-nots has launched on
PreScreen Video On Demand with a special Los Angeles Premiere event on Monday, April 30th 2012 as part of The United Film Festival.
On April 30th The Table premiered at the Los Feliz 3 Cinemas. The
screening was followed by a Q&A with the film‘s
Director/Producer/Editor Ana Barredo (A Real Job),
Producer/Cinematographer/Editor Roger Lay, Jr. (95 Miles to Go,
Chrysalis), and Table founder Marc Scott Zicree (The Twilight Zone
Companion). Also in attendance were long-time Table members, Playwright
James Metropole, Emmy Award-Winning writer Michael Reaves (Star Trek The
Next Generation, The Twilight Zone) and Television Director Michael
Nankin (Battlestar Galactica, CSI). The Q&A was moderated by Robert
Meyer Burnett (Director of Free Enterprise, Femme Fatales).
This special screening celebrated The Table’s Video On Demand release
two day later. The Table is one of the first films being offered as a
60-Day Exclusive Preview on the new video-on-demand platform: Prescreen.
Prescreen is a curated social discovery video- on-demand platform
designed to promote and showcase premium content. With only 60 movies to
choose from at any given time, Prescreen makes sure that quality indies
like The Table won’t get lost in the shuffle.
Once the 60-Day Exclusive Preview has ended The Table will then be
available on other digital platforms such as iTunes, Netflix, Amazon,
Hulu, and PlayStation Network.
The Table follows the lives of a group of Hollywood hopefuls for one
year. They are members of a network support group called The Table that
has been meeting together in the backrooms of restaurants every Thursday
for nearly 20 years. Entertainment professionals at every level mingle
with aspiring amateurs, creative castaways, the diligent and desperate
alike - offering whatever advice, support, networking opportunities, and
resources they have in hopes of at least maybe one day rising to the...
middle. Hollywood can be a lonesome, cruel place for an outsider trying
to get that first foot in the door. Even more so for waning stars,
struggling to reclaim their former glory. But at The Table, they have
built a thriving creative community. A community of talented individuals
who aren’t waiting around for chance luck, they’re banding together to
produce their own projects.
The Table was founded by a notable figure of the Sci-Fi community,
Author/Screenwriter Marc Scott Zicree (The Twilight Zone Companion,
Sliders). Every Thursday night for 20 years, Zicree has proven the power
of old school social networking. He’s the Grand Poobah of a gigantic
social network which includes such notable figures (also appearing in
the documentary) as: Guillermo Del Toro (Dir. Pan’s Labyrinth), George
Takei (Star Trek), Armin Shimerman (Deep Space Nine), and Chris Wyatt
(Prod. Napoleon Dynamite).
Enormously and genuinely compassionate, Zicree is also tirelessly and
comically self- aggrandizing, which makes him a lovable foil to his own
efforts time and again. As The Table continues to help build the careers
of others, will Zicree find the personal success he is looking for?
But one of the most compelling stories in The Table is of Jim Troesh, a
quadriplegic Writer/Actor/Director. In the 1980’s, Troesh had a
recurring role on Highway To Heaven co-starring alongside TV’s Michael
Landon. Troesh was also a scriptwriter for the show. But when it got
cancelled, the disabled actor endured a decades long dry spell. With
great humility and deadpan humor he recounts his tale of finding his way
back, by collaborating with members of The Table. It is a bittersweet
coda that only hours after The Table won Best Documentary at the 2011
SoCal Film Festival, Jim Troesh passed away from complications due to
his condition. A fan of dark comedy, he would have appreciated the
irony...
The Table is represented by United Films, a division of Connell
Creations (producers of Holy Rollers), and will be distributed digitally
by New Video Group (Best Worst Movie, Being Elmo).
The Table will also be screening in NYC on May 16th, 2012 at 7:00 PM at
the Cobble Hill Cinemas as part of The New York United Film Festival.
The Table will be available online as a 60-Day Exclusive Preview
starting May 2nd, 2012 - on the new video-on-demand platform: Prescreen.
For information, please visit: www.prescreen.com
For more info about the documentary The Table visit: http://www.thetable-movie.com/
Also visit
Slice of Sci-Fi for an exclusive interview with the filmmakers.
