‘Neutral,’ Asheville-made film, to be released on DVD

Press release here:

Neutral, an award winning feature film shot in Asheville, is being released on DVD by local production company, Papercookie. In celebration, on Thursday, May 21st, a DVD Release Show will be held at the Grey Eagle. 

The show will feature musical performances by the local bands Kovacs and the Polar Bear, The Neapolitan Children, and Night’s Bright Colors, as well magic, comedy, and video clips from the DVD, including exclusive footage from the brand new feature film, “Days of War, Nights of Love”.

Neutral, available for the first time on DVD, is a unique and frequently hilarious film that has captured the attention of various Southeast festivals (Indie Grits awarded it the best-of-fest Top Grit Award in 2008), film pundits (Mountain Xpress‘ Ken Hanke says it “mingles the mundane with the casually surreal and occasional flights of pure fantasy…Chang’s loopy narrative manages to catch something of the quirky quality of the place of its origin: Asheville”), as well as like-minded filmmakers like John Cameron Mitchell, (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus) who dubbed it “beautifully written and bursting with sweet sympathy for its whimsical characters.”

Told in a series of loosely-knit vignettes that range from quiet naturalism to absurdist extremes, Neutral is an absorbing cross-section of human connections lost and found through a shared artistic curiosity. The story’s ambition is matched by the scope of its production, casting over 70 Asheville-area residents, mostly non-actors, to take part in a constantly shifting focus, all inventively shot on beautiful 16mm by cinemafotographer Greg Hudgins, on a slim budget raised through a year of double full-time jobs, truck bed living, and peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

For inquiries, please contact Joe at 828.713.3000 or email Papercookies@yahoo.com.

For more information, please visit www.papercookie.net or www.thegreyeagle.com