Teaser Trailer for The Ten

Things are progressing apace with David Wain's Dekalog spoof The Ten. The teaser trailer is now available to view on YouTube and MySpace. It's unusual trailer for a comedy film in that it doesn't really have any jokes (most comedy trailers these days save you the price of admission by giving away all the best jokes). In fact, were it not for this shot of Winona Ryder with a ventriloquist's dummy you might not even get that this is a comedy at all.

One moment I particularly liked is the shot of the birds which combines the Egyptian plagues with a touch of Hitchcockian menace. And, for a comedy trailer, viewed on YouTube, the photography looks impressive as well.

In other news, the release date is now set, it seems, at 3rd August, but the film will be showing at a number of film festivals beforehand kicking off with a screening plus questions session in Texas. Given the likely hostility to the film in that area, they certainly don't seem to be flinching from their earlier position that as someone is bound to get upset they may as well just get on with it. Anyway the festival dates are:

South By Southwest, Austin - March 10 & 11 (Meet David Wain, Paul Rudd & Ken Marino)
Cleveland Film Festival - March 24 & 25 (David Wain in person)
AFI Dallas - March 31 (Ken Marino in person)
Philadelphia Film Festival - April 5 (David Wain in person)
Sonoma Valley Film Festival - April 11-15
Sarasota Film Festival - April 13-22
Independent Film Festival of Boston- April 25-30
Indianapolis Film Festival - April 25-May 4
Berkshire Int'l Film Fest - May 17
Nantucket Film Festival - June 13-17