"Two attractive twenty-somethings meet for the first time in a Manhattan restaurant and engage in obligatory small talk. What was intended to be a meeting between indie film director and potential star soon promises to be the beginning of a long and complex relationship that won’t end how either had planned.
So begins director Brian Ackley’s micro-budget bittersweet romance debut “Uptown,” shot guerrilla style with a skeleton crew in only nine days in various locations around New York City and New Jersey. The premise is familiar. Star-crossed romances makeup a large contingent of independent film. They’re cheap to shoot and just about everyone can relate to falling head over heels for that forbidden fruit. A new kind of hyper-realism, typified by the growing mumblecore movement, is also flooding the low-budget film world."
Read the full review HERE.
Uptown was released on DVD by C.V.D. on July 20th. DVDs available HERE.
