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Photos available/Katrina is available for interviews
Press contact: Ashley Evens
www.myspace.com/katrinadelmar
UNDERGROUND FILM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN NYC
"Del Mar, known for her amazing photographs of Lower East Side freaks and rockers, builds on decades of traditional James Dean archetypes and comes out with a girl rebel vision that is truly uniqueÉ" - Sarah Jacobson, IFC Rant
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Katrina del Mar's Movie Mayhem! In NYC
"Gang Girls 2000" is everything you could want in an indie flick and more". - Chris Parcellin, Film Threat
July 20, 2009 (New York, NY) - New York City filmmaker, photographer, artist and producer of massive collisions of talent and beauty, Katrina del Mar, triumphs in the underground, revels in the grit and lathers on the beauty in a number of short films and music videos that will be presented at The Gene Frankel Theatre in New York City Thursday, August 27 in two screenings at 7pm and at 9pm. The screenings are presented by Gail Thacker. Katrina will be on-hand for the screenings and a Q&A after the films.
Films presented include the highly anticipated latest work, Hell On Wheels, Gang Girls Forever. Also SURF GANG (Awarded Best Experimental Film, Planet Out Short Movie Awards and the NYFA Fellowship in Video), Gang Girls 2000, A Beautiful Death (Official Selection, Frameline Film Festival).
As an artist, Katrina del Mar has shown her work at The Museum for Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, France, Deitch Projects, American Fine Arts Company, Binz 39 in Switzerland, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, the Miami Light Project, P.S. 122 in New York City, and the University of Cardiff in Wales.
As a freelance photographer, Katrina del Mar's client list includes Sony Music, Island Records, Polygram, V2 Records, London Records, Time Out New York, People Magazine, Alternative Press, Mademoiselle, and the NYPost.
In late 2006 Katrina del Mar landed a dream job serving as studio manager for legendary art photographer Nan Goldin, who has described Katrina's work as "radical" and "ground-breaking. " Katrina's work with Nan included coordinating and assisting the artist on creating new versions of "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" slide show for the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
The work of Katrina del Mar, & Other NYC Filmmakers TBA*
To dowload a PDF of the tentative festival program that includes images, click Here.
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"...del Mar has a wide vision and a natural eye for beauty that shines through in every 8x10." - New York Press
"...her photos are unique because of what she brings to the shoot - an uncanny ability to capture a moment and make it look beautiful, no matter what the subject matter" - Carbon 14 "Photogenic local celebrities filling up frames with unique personality is nothing unusual, but here they exude an intimate chemistry that only del Mar seems to draw out" -Lola Rephann, NYPress
"...she's such a major league cutie...she could easily take over Bunny [Yeager]'s former claim as the 'world's prettiest photographer.'" - Carbon 14
TIME OUT New York
LOTL magazine: The Eyes of Katrina del Mar
NEW YORK PRESS "BEST OF MANHATTAN" BEST BAND PHOTOS "...When I get bored I do something. Instead of getting stoned, I make a film." HX for Her "SHOOTING STARS" "...Del Mar, a longtime New York photographer and filmmaker, turned her sights -- and her camera -- on surfing two years ago." San Diego Reader NEW YORK PRESS "SEVEN DAY ITCH" by Queen Itchie
Girlfriends Magazine"Annie Leibovitz, look out."
HATE comics HX TIME OUT New York
"...Far more fun was East Village photographer Katrina del Mar's S-8 to video short GANG GIRLS 2000, a vivid, sexy and pretty witty account of the causes and effects of a Coney Island grrrl rumble." - Peter Hall, New York Film & Video Monitor
"...powerful" - Chicago Reader
"...a genius movie"-Dany Johnson, Dyxploitation
"It appears Ms. Del Mar is the lesbian stepchild of Kenneth Anger." - Aaron Krach, LGNY Film
"...IHR KÉNIGIN BITCH SEID DIE TOUGHSTE HIER noch ein ABER DIE OLLE, DIE DA DRAUSSEN GERADE DURCH EUER GEBIET LÛUFT, IST NOCH TAUSENDMAL BITCHIGER ALS IHR bereit h?lt, ist mal sauber schluss mit lustig..."-Real Music (Germany)
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FILM PREMIERE: Hell On Wheels Gang Girls Forever
Directed by Katrina del Mar
Saturday, October 3rd 2009
Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, NYC 10003 Telephone: (212) 505-5181
two screenings: 7pm & 9pm $12
The third in a series of three girl gang films, called "Hell on Wheels-Gang Girls Forever" will be screening one night only; Saturday October 3rd at Anthology Film Archives in NYC. We'll also be screening the other two films "Gang Girls 2000" & "SURF GANG" "I hope you can come to this one-night-only Underground Art Film Event Experience! This "No Budget" movie has got great performances, a rockin' soundtrack and really beautiful women & tough chicks doing crazy things.. All the details are below including a snazzy flyer and a link to the facebook event. I hope you'll come to the movies! thanks very much for taking a look at this! " -Katrina del Mar
Also showing! GANG GIRLS 2000 (25 min) and SURF GANG (25 min)
RSVP here via Facebook
Photos available/Katrina is available for interviews
Press contact: Ashley Evens
www.myspace.com/katrinadelmar
A Tuff Chick Film Night at The Gene Frankel Theater presented by Gail Thacker
A Tuff Chick Film Night at The Gene Frankel Theater
Thursday August 27. two Screenings: 7pm & 9pm
24 Bond Street New York, NY
Train info: F Broadway Lafayette, 6 to Bleecker St
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KATRINA DEL MAR PRESS
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Press Tearsheets (14 page PDF File)
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Del Mar pays homage to girls with an edge.
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"..go to Katrina del Mar at once and let her shoot you. Because she's the best, and she'll make you look cool."
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-Katrina as quoted by the Miami Hurricane
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"This is filth of the highest quality, folks!" -Peter Bagge
"Photographer Katrina del Mar isn't here to make nice-She's here to make art."
"Photographer Katrina del Mar delves into genuine family values. While these folks may not be bound by blood, their interdependence is no less strong."
(Four + 1/2 stars) "...everything you could want in an indie flick and more"-Film Threat
BME.freeq.com "Soft Toy Department" 
"... it is barely possible to describe The Soft Toy Department's
sense of synchronicity a week later in encountering the mythic
Kembra Pfahler in person -- at the Greenwich Village nightclub
Life, to witness the unveiling of photo phenom Katrina del
Mar's latest exhibit American Toughie. Here, del Mar's
probing lens and lovingly manipulated prints pay unflinching
homage to the polymorphic preversity of today's rough-trade
urban youth." -Mark Kramer
XXX Zine"Dr. Ducky DooLittle and Katrina del Mar are back with one of their sauciest books to date. Who Touched My Monkey? is a tale of heart wringing deceit, steamy wheelchair bondage, spankable ruffled panties and stolen sock monkeys."
