Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has picked up North American rights to the sports documentary Big Crow from director Kris Kaczor, slating it for release on VOD platforms on August 1.
Premiering at last year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival, the film tells the story of how young Lakota basketball star SuAnne Big Crow became an activist, and how her message of hope continues to help her people reclaim their culture 30 years after her tragic death. Part biography and part social commentary, the doc is a tale about the power of hope in the most destitute place in America, South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Inila Wakan wrote the pic and Kevin Bayson produced, with Walter Matteson aboard as EP. Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the deal to acquire it with Alex Nohe of Blood Sweat and Honey. View a trailer for the film below.
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Premiering at last year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival, the film tells the story of how young Lakota basketball star SuAnne Big Crow became an activist, and how her message of hope continues to help her people reclaim their culture 30 years after her tragic death. Part biography and part social commentary, the doc is a tale about the power of hope in the most destitute place in America, South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Inila Wakan wrote the pic and Kevin Bayson produced, with Walter Matteson aboard as EP. Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the deal to acquire it with Alex Nohe of Blood Sweat and Honey. View a trailer for the film below.
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Adele and Keith Hanks in First Responders...
- 7/19/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Santa Barbara Film Festival on Thursday revealed the lineup for its 37th edition, which is set to run March 2-12 in-person in its customary spot in the heat of Oscar season.
The festival will kick off with The Phantom of the Open, the Sony Pictures Classics comedy directed by Craig Roberts and starring Mark Rylance in the true story of Maurice Fitcroft, who entered the 1976 British Open despite never having played a round of golf before. Sally Hawkins and Rhys Ifans also star in the BBC Films pic.
The documentary Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over is the closing-night film, with Warwick set to be in attendance.
Overall, the festival in the beach city just north of Los Angeles will present 48 world premieres and 95 U.S. premieres from 54 countries, with a lineup that features films from directors Neil Labute, Ramin Bahrani, François Ozon, Eva Husson and more.
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The festival will kick off with The Phantom of the Open, the Sony Pictures Classics comedy directed by Craig Roberts and starring Mark Rylance in the true story of Maurice Fitcroft, who entered the 1976 British Open despite never having played a round of golf before. Sally Hawkins and Rhys Ifans also star in the BBC Films pic.
The documentary Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over is the closing-night film, with Warwick set to be in attendance.
Overall, the festival in the beach city just north of Los Angeles will present 48 world premieres and 95 U.S. premieres from 54 countries, with a lineup that features films from directors Neil Labute, Ramin Bahrani, François Ozon, Eva Husson and more.
Also...
- 2/10/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Doc NYC Director of Programming Basil Tsiokos Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
What do Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's portrait of Sebastião Salgado in The Salt Of The Earth, Ben Cotner and Ryan White's The Case Against 8, Rory Kennedy's Last Days In Vietnam, Life Itself, based on Roger Ebert's memoir directed by Steve James, D.A. Pennebaker and William Ray's David on jazz trumpeter David Allen, Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo's Rich Hill and Divide In Concord directed by Kris Kaczor and Dave Regos have in common?
All of these documentaries and more are screening in the 2014 Doc NYC Film Festival.
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Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards, Citizenfour director Laura Poitras will receive the Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence and Dan Cogan the Leading Light Award which honours "an individual making a crucial...
What do Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's portrait of Sebastião Salgado in The Salt Of The Earth, Ben Cotner and Ryan White's The Case Against 8, Rory Kennedy's Last Days In Vietnam, Life Itself, based on Roger Ebert's memoir directed by Steve James, D.A. Pennebaker and William Ray's David on jazz trumpeter David Allen, Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo's Rich Hill and Divide In Concord directed by Kris Kaczor and Dave Regos have in common?
All of these documentaries and more are screening in the 2014 Doc NYC Film Festival.
David
Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards, Citizenfour director Laura Poitras will receive the Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence and Dan Cogan the Leading Light Award which honours "an individual making a crucial...
- 11/10/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Divide in Concord is a typical tale of a sweet old lady trying to make her small town a better place, except her small town was ground zero for the American Revolution and the new empire she’s fighting is bottled water.
Jean Hill of Concord, Mass. was on a mission. She wanted her town to ban bottled water, and the course of this documentary by Kris Kaczor follows her third attempt to make it happen. The film not only treats us to the enormous character that is Jean Hill, but reinforces the true struggle of grassroots politics and the idea that one person, no matter their age, can still make a difference.
Jean is quite and candid, but many of the people in Concord think she’s off her proverbial rocker. If her article passes, Concord will be the first town in the United States to ban bottled water.
Jean Hill of Concord, Mass. was on a mission. She wanted her town to ban bottled water, and the course of this documentary by Kris Kaczor follows her third attempt to make it happen. The film not only treats us to the enormous character that is Jean Hill, but reinforces the true struggle of grassroots politics and the idea that one person, no matter their age, can still make a difference.
Jean is quite and candid, but many of the people in Concord think she’s off her proverbial rocker. If her article passes, Concord will be the first town in the United States to ban bottled water.
- 4/26/2014
- by Adam A. Donaldson
- We Got This Covered
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