Rhythm Thief [SEP] narrative location
Rhythm Thief
Rhythm Thief is a 1994 low budget independent feature film made in New York City’s Lower East Side that was awarded a Special Jury Recognition for Directing at the Sundance Film Festival and was called “Inventive, exciting, original” by director Martin Scorsese.
Director Matthew Harrison's second feature film, the standard 16mm black-and-white feature was made for $36,000 US. When his first feature film "Spare Me" won the Kodak Prix Tournage at the Avignon Film Festival, Harrison used the
, Philadelphia Film Festival and screened at the Walter Reade Theater by the Film Society of Lincoln Center on November 10, 1994.
Controversy at the Sundance Film Festival.
Selected for the narrative competition, “Rhythm Thief was justaboutthisclose to winning the big prize at the (1995) Sundance Film Festival.” “When juror Samuel L. Jackson announced the Grand Jury Prize winner in the dramatic category, his endorsement was less than ecstatic.” “The judges at Sundance were split over which film should walk off with the grand