I recently visited the set of Three Nights in The Desert, a small film co-produced by New Artists Alliance and Caliber Media, directed by Gabe Cowan and starring Wes Bentley (American Beauty), Amber Tamblyn (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and Vincent Piazza (Boardwalk Empire). The three friends and former band-mates reunite for a weekend in the desert, pushing each other to reflect on the different directions their lives have taken them in.
Look for full interviews as the film develops, but hit the jump for more info on the director’s rational approach to indie-film financing, and more details about how the project came together.
Here’s the logline for Three Nights in the Desert:
Tamblyn, Bentley and Piazza play three estranged friends and former bandmates who reunite to celebrate turning 30. They come together for a weekend in the desert and expose unresolved wounds as they struggle with who they have become and what might have been had they done things differently.
Cowan and his producing partner John Suits, both graduates of Cal-Arts, have made several indie features over the last four years on a business model of “one for them, one for us”, varying between more readily financed genre-films (Growth, Static) and more character driven, artistic endeavors. They aim to make four to five micro-budgeted indies a year, with priority on character-study type scripts that may attract better-name talent.
Tamblyn, who was hungry for an intensive indie project, recruited Piazza, with whom she worked on the Tilda Swinton film Stephanie Daley. She described reading ...
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