Outsourced Poster

Outsourced Poster, originally uploaded by bollywoodandme.

Thanks for all of your comments on the posters, and we do have a final version with a new tagline.

We will be using the version with clouds for the black and white ads and we may use the color version for releases outside of the US.

Next up is our soundtrack. Stay tuned for a sample of the tracks. Also our movie trailer is currently playing in theaters across the country.

- john

Outsourced Screening Update

There's been a lot of activity at the Outsourced camp and there will be a host of announcements coming soon. What I can tell you now is that we're on target to launch the film theatrically in the US on September 28th. We will be having a red carpet Gala in Seattle on the 26th.

Here are a list of Theaters that will be screening Outsourced in the coming months:

Wednesday, September 26
SEATTLE PREMIERE
Majestic Bay

Thursday, September 27
SEATTLE PROMOTION Kane Hall (U of Washington)

Friday, September 28
SEATTLE, WA Majestic Bay
TACOMA, WA Grand Cinemas
BELLEVUE, WA Galleria
PORTLAND, OR Hollywood 3
EUGENE, OR Bijou 2
SAN FRANCISCO, CA Opera Plaza
AUSTIN, TX Dobie
NEW YORK, NY Quad

Friday, October 5
FRIDAY HARBOR, WA Palace
LOS ANGELES, CA Sunset 5
WEST HILLS, CA Fallbrook 7
BERKELEY, CA Shattuck
SAN JOSE, CA Camera 3

Friday, October 12
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA Lynwood Theater

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This list may change as we move closer to the dates. If the film opens well, there is also the hope that we'll be able to expand the release to more cities. We have also just been notified that Germany is ramping up their theatrical release and I should have more news on that soon.

If you know anyone in these cities, be sure to tell them not to miss it!

-john

Seattle Magazine Jeffcoat Interview

Datebook: A Passage to India
By Paula Nechak

This past June, writer, director and Magnolia resident John Jeffcoat took home SIFF’s Golden Space Needle Award (which goes to the festival’s most popular movie) for his first feature film, Outsourced—a colorful, cross-cultural romantic comedy that lampoons the trend of outsourcing U.S. jobs to India. Local distributor ShadowCatcher Entertainment is prepping Outsourced, which was filmed in Seattle, for national release at the end of September, so we figured we’d pester its director with our not-so-Bernard Piveau-ian questionnaire before he becomes too famous to speak to us. For more info, visit outsourcedthemovie.com.

READ THE Seattle Magazine Interview

A Win at the Hardacre Film Festival

Last weekend we screened at the Hardacre Film & Cinema Festival in Tipton, Iowa and walked away with the Audience Award!

The theatrical release is heating up and I'll be posting the dates and the cities we'll be screening in very soon.

-john

Choosing Posters.

We are currently working on designing a new poster for Outsourced. Feel free to voice your opinions and leave a comment on this page.

Do you prefer the Sky? (Below)

The Yellow/Gold? (left)

Or the original poster shown on the homepage of this blog??? (Right)

Stuttgart film fest connects art with commerce

he 4th Bollywood And Beyond Film Festival got off to an excellent start on July 11 with the enthusiastic audience response to its opening film Outsourced. Director John Jeffcoat and lead actor Josh Hamilton from the US and Ayesha Dharker from the UK, who arrived in Stuttgart hours earlier, had to bow on stage repeatedly at the protracted applause. The film has already been sold in Germany to Concorde Home Entertainment. It will release in the US towards late September in nine cities.

Read the entire article by Uma Da Cunha

A win in Germany!

Last night at the closing party for the Bollywood and Beyond film festival it was announced that OUTSOURCED won the Audience Award for Best Film! That is the fifth award in a row for Outsourced!

India in Stuttgart

Last night we were entertained by the Bhangra Brothers and Juggy D at the Bollywood Boogie Night until 5am. Great fun at another day of the Bollywood and Beyond Festival of Stuttgart, Germany. The night before we had the pleasure of a live performance by the Bombay Dub Orchestra. These guys are tremendous musicians who bring a modern vibe to great classical Indian music. If you enjoyed the music from our film you should check out their album, and if you have a chance to see them live -don't miss out!

We've had some time to explore Stuttgart and even had a chance to visit the Schmuck Basar! This is a great walking city and supposedly one of the safest in Germany. I have to wonder if the town in 'Hot Fuzz' was modeled after it...
Ayesha had to leave a few days ago for an audition in London but Josh and I have one more night before we head home tomorrow.

Tonight is the Awards dinner and the closing night film Vanaja, a great film if you haven't seen it already. The sun is out again and the heat is back with a vengeance. Josh and I will be off shortly in search of a fresh Stuttgart pretzel.

Bye und auf Wiedersehen!

-john

Proskar Award Winner!

We've just been notified that we have won a Proskar Award for Outsourced.

I am delighted to officially inform you that Outsourced has won the Top PROSKAR in the category of Best Film at the the Seattle International Film Festival

The PROSKARS are the Awards given out by PROST AMERIKA!, the Seattle German Language Website who produced the largest non English coverage of the Festival, the largest in North America.

You can see the full list of winners, runners up and nominees by clicking on www.prostamerika.com.

Steve Clare

Editor

PROST AMERIKA!

www.prostamerika.com

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