The place to be in Hollywood Wednesday night is Book Soup, at 8818 Sunset Boulevard. There, Good Men Project cofounder Tom Matlack and Matt Gannon, the producer/director of The Good Men Project film, will host a screening of excerpts from the film. The event starts at 7 pm.
The screening, which will be followed by a discussion about the film and the book, is part of the Projects tour of Los Angeles. The tour includes a reading and film screening at USC film School on Tuesday afternoon, a screening and panel discussion with Mad Men creator Matt Weiner and Obama/HOPE artist Shepard Fairey on Tuesday night at the Raleigh Theater in Hollywood, and a screening and panel discussion at Temple of Israel Hollywood on Thursday night.
Like The Good Men Project book, the film is an emotionally charged, highly personal and, at times, humorous look at how men are redefining their place in the world. Through a compelling mix of footage, photographs, and candid narration, ten men share their lives defining experiences as fathers, husbands, sons, and workers. Among the men profiled are Pulitzer Prizenominated war photographer Michael Kamber, who describes his perilous job and why he has sacrificed so much for it, and actor/writer/filmmaker Kent George, who shares how he coped with his mentally ill and emotionally abusive mother by adopting a means of survival that involved neither fighting nor fleeing. The films profiles are based on essays written for The Good Men Project book.
Gannon, the filmmaker, previously produced and directed the critically acclaimed hockey documentary In the Crease. He also has co-produced several films, including the Oscarnominated Girl with a Pearl Earring, and as a Fox Searchlight executive he oversaw the production of such films as Antwone Fisher and the Oscarnominated Quills.
