Outsourced Interview (German /English)

Check out the Prost Amerika website for the latest Outsourced interview with director / co-writer John Jeffcoat in English and German!

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Outsourced Opens Bollywood and Beyond

Guten Tag!

Last night we screened as the opening night film for the Bollywood and Beyond Film Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. We had a fantastic screening and a wonderful reception from the German audience who reassured us that it would be a big hit in Germany.

I'm here with Josh hamilton who plays Todd and Ayesha Dharker who plays Asha. It's the first time in Germany for all three of us and it's been fantastic so far. This is also the first time that we've been together since we finished the film. Great to be together again. This is also Josh's first festival experience since he has been tied up with Coast of Utopia in New York.

We had a nice walk down the red carpet which led to a bar stocked with premium single malt scotch, a nice welcome indeed! We'll be frolicking in Stuttgart for the next several days and I'll try to continue posting pictures of our adventures. The Bombay Dub Orchestra will be performing a concert here tomorrow night which should be great. I've also heard the pretzels are not to be missed. We shall see...

I met our German distributor who is keen on getting the film out to an audience very soon and I'm hoping that it will happen parallel to our US theatrical release which begins September 26th.

-john

"A film to which you could safely take your mother, and I mean that as a compliment."

"It's a pleasing, modestly executed version of what Hollywood usually ruins with big stars, bloated budgets, and endless rewriting. The Indian locations are real, and actress Ayesha Dharker is particularly winning—put that woman on The Office already! The movie is a refreshing alternative to what might be called the local-auteur-with-head-up-his-artsy-butt syndrome (see Zoo). It's a film to which you could safely take your mother, and I mean that as a compliment."

Read the whole article by Brian Miller:

The Seattle Weekly Blog

India West Article on Director John Jeffcoat

Jeffcoat's fascination with South Asia dates back to 1993 when he visited Nepal during a study abroad program, the filmmaker told India-West in an earlier interview at his hotel. "I was looking for a cultural experience that was different," he recalled.

Arriving in a remote village several miles down a dirt road from Kathmandu, the first question he was asked by a village elder was, "Do you plow with oxen?"
READ COPMPLETE ARTICLE

Audience Award for Best Feature at Cinemquest!

OUTSOURCED has just won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose!

OUTSOURCED opens the Palm Springs Festival

OUTSOURCED to Premiere at Festival

PALM SPRINGS: "Outsourced" is called a "feel-good" movie to open the 12-day event.
(link to article)

U.S. Premiere Announced

Outsourced will make it's U.S. premiere as the opnening film at the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival.

"A pitch-perfect comedy on a hot-button issue, John Jeffcoat’s feature debut signals a bright new talent in the ranks of American independent filmmakers."
Link to complete Palm Springs Write-up

Gala Screening
Opening Night Gala
Thursday, January 04, 6:30 PM

Outsourced Premieres in Toronto

Director John Jeffcoat being interviewed as OUTSOURCED makes it's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12th, 2006.
Toronto Festival write-up

John Jeffcoat & George Wing

Co-writers of OUTSOURCED, working out the end of their script at Wing's writing space in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle.