Italy’s The Open Reel has closed several international theatrical and VOD rights deals, an increasingly popular combination as questions of theatrical exhibition linger during Covid-19, for a raft of titles ahead of and at this year’s Ventana Sur market, with designs on closing several more at the hybrid multi-city event.
Spanish filmmaker Daniel Sánchez Lopez’s debut feature “Boy Meets Boy” found a North American distributor in Ariztical Entertainment, as well as deals with Salzgeber for Germany and German-speaking countries, Tongariro Releasing for VOD rights in Poland and Portico Media in Southern and Southeast Asia.
In the film, Harry meets Johannes in a Berlin dance club after partying for 48 hours straight. With only 15 hours before his flight home, Johannes offers to help Harry print his plane ticket, a seemingly mundane task which unspools as a late-night odyssey in the streets of Berlin.
Portuguese feature “Guardian Angel” from director...
Spanish filmmaker Daniel Sánchez Lopez’s debut feature “Boy Meets Boy” found a North American distributor in Ariztical Entertainment, as well as deals with Salzgeber for Germany and German-speaking countries, Tongariro Releasing for VOD rights in Poland and Portico Media in Southern and Southeast Asia.
In the film, Harry meets Johannes in a Berlin dance club after partying for 48 hours straight. With only 15 hours before his flight home, Johannes offers to help Harry print his plane ticket, a seemingly mundane task which unspools as a late-night odyssey in the streets of Berlin.
Portuguese feature “Guardian Angel” from director...
- 12/2/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
by new contributor Claudio Alvez
a biopic on the queer 1980s singer António Variações could be Portugal's Oscar submission
In the history of the Best International Film Oscar (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film) no country has as many failed submissions as Portugal. It’s been submitting films every year since 1980 and yet, not one of them has managed to secure a nomination. As a Portuguese cinephile and Oscar buff this has always saddened me and I doubt this Awards season will change anything.
At the moment, there are four finalists for the Oscar submission. A special jury has selected Rage, Parque Mayer, Variações: Guardian Angel and The Domain. Following this, the Portuguese Academy of Cinema (Academia Portuguesa de Cinema) will vote on the eventual Oscar submission. The results should be known this month, perhaps around the time The Domain arrives at Portuguese cinemas. Right now, it’s the...
a biopic on the queer 1980s singer António Variações could be Portugal's Oscar submission
In the history of the Best International Film Oscar (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film) no country has as many failed submissions as Portugal. It’s been submitting films every year since 1980 and yet, not one of them has managed to secure a nomination. As a Portuguese cinephile and Oscar buff this has always saddened me and I doubt this Awards season will change anything.
At the moment, there are four finalists for the Oscar submission. A special jury has selected Rage, Parque Mayer, Variações: Guardian Angel and The Domain. Following this, the Portuguese Academy of Cinema (Academia Portuguesa de Cinema) will vote on the eventual Oscar submission. The results should be known this month, perhaps around the time The Domain arrives at Portuguese cinemas. Right now, it’s the...
- 9/6/2019
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of Film Comment and the Swiss Alliance of Film Journalists.
Audiences at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival got used to hearing a familiar statement: “I just saw a Portuguese film.” They were hard to ignore. Fourteen films of some 200 in the lineup were directed or produced by Portuguese people and were distributed across different sections of the festivals. Viewed together, they have a lot to say about the state of a country’s cinema and its ability to wrestle with broad historical concerns.
These included the so-called “blasphemous” biopic of a Lisbon patron saint in João Pedro Rodrigues’ “The Ornithologist” and “Correspondences,” directed by Rita Azevedo Gomes, which focuses on a letter...
Audiences at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival got used to hearing a familiar statement: “I just saw a Portuguese film.” They were hard to ignore. Fourteen films of some 200 in the lineup were directed or produced by Portuguese people and were distributed across different sections of the festivals. Viewed together, they have a lot to say about the state of a country’s cinema and its ability to wrestle with broad historical concerns.
These included the so-called “blasphemous” biopic of a Lisbon patron saint in João Pedro Rodrigues’ “The Ornithologist” and “Correspondences,” directed by Rita Azevedo Gomes, which focuses on a letter...
- 8/12/2016
- by Raquel Morais
- Indiewire
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