Local Film

Among the many offerings at this year’s Indianapolis International Film Festival (see our Feature story) will be Sugar Mountain, written and directed by Aaron Himelstein. Not only was the film about a teen-age recluse obsessed with childhood memories and a traumatic past shot in Indianapolis, it was produced by Kent Smith’s Sideshow Entertainment, a local production company.

Smith is an Emmy Award-winning producer with 16 years’ experience in the industry. He has been an assistant director, production supervisor, location manager and producer on several films, including Eight Men Out, Roommates, In Too Deep and Out of Exile. He recently won the Gold Lion at Cannes, advertising’s highest international honor, for Budweiser’s “Real Men of Genius” campaign.

You can check out Sugar Mountain (which, in addition to music by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Nick Drake and Elliot Smith, features a walk-on by NUVO’s own Matt Sledge) on April 27 and April 29. For times and locations, go to www.indyfilmfest.org.