Independent Film Festival Boston

Larry has had a  relationship with the Independent Film Festival Boston - Boston's biggest, best, and most independent film fest - for many years now.  They allow him to make new and very different festival opens  every year  - narrative, graphic, cinematic, wacky, what have you.  Below are a few of the festival opens Larry concepted,  wrote, directed,  AD'd, produced, shot, edited , and/or sang in. If Larry could make IFFBoston opens every day, he'd be an even happier man. 

For year round events as well as the spring festival, visit http://iffboston.org/

The 2019 Trailer featured a robot sculpture created by Boston artist Skunk, stop motion animation by Larry, with music by Rob Jaret and lyrics by Larry and Rob – a mash-up of film and fest terms. Good times!

These played before every film at The Independent Film Festival Boston 2018. Kudos to Rob Jaret for his original score, Mark Wong for his excellent sound design, and Judy Wong for creating the original illustrations from which here were. The animation was created in After Effects, so thanks to Adobe too.

Quiet, simple, and fun/challenging to animate. Thanks to illustrator Judy Wong, composer Robert Jaret, sound designer Mark Wong, and voiceover Frans Rijnbout.

The 2016 Independent Film Festival Trailer featured a graphic approach, based on the print design of Jodi Vautrin.  Robert Jaret used a live string section in his simple elegant original score.  Very nice.

For the 2015 Independent Film Festival Boston trailer, we again went with a quirky narrative piece starring Frans Rijnbout, but with an expanded cast featuring a surprise guest. The audience reactions were priceless, including a nice shout out from Jason Segel on opening night. 

This played before the 100-ish films at the Independent Film Festival Boston 2014. A testament to its popularity, Frans, our star, became a bit of sensation at the festival--imitators, people asking for selfies, recognized everywhere, etc. Here are the people who made it happen: Director: Larry Andersen Starring: Frans Rijnbout Writers: Larry Andersen, Frans Rijnbout...especially the Dutch.

INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON 2014 OPEN/TRAILER

I was writer, director, editor, producer, and singer on this, our most popular open. Courtney and Patrick Ryan were behind the lens. Actor Frans Rijnbout killed it. Thanks to the Nantucket Lightship Museum in Boston Harbor for the great location. 

These 2 IFF Boston 2012 pieces opened every movie of this year's film festival. They were concepted, shot, edited, and composited by Larry at Spot (spoteditorial.com)...Spot's fabulous Courtney did a few shots including the scooter and flower footage. Outside of the obvious archival shots, everything was shot on an iPhone 4S using Timelapse HD with an Olloclip fisheye/macro lens, and finished in After Effects with lots of help from Boris BCC filters. Brandon Shaefer designed the logo and started us off in the halftone print direction. * Disclaimer: The Videos look 1000% better on the big screen. The half-tone effect is a compression nightmare. Even Vimeo can't handle the necessary data rates.

INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON 2012 OPEN/TRAILER

This was shot all hand held time-lapse on my  iPhone. Courtney Ryan has a few shots in there too. 

INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON 2013

This open was shot by me, Courtney Ryan and Patrick Ryan over a couple nights wandering Boston and Cambridge with a Canon C300. No one knew they were being shot...except for me in my cameo. Fun to shoot. Fun to edit.

INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON 2011

We pulled a handful of actors and recreated famous movie scenes with a green screen. It needed lots of compositing work.