Brett Berns and Bob Sarles's Bang! The Bert Berns Story narrator Steven Van Zandt Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions' Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale and Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game; Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life and the making of Eraserhead; Claire Simon's Venezia Classici Award winner Le Concours; Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Food Evolution, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bang! The Bert Berns Story (featuring Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Cissy Houston, Andrew Loog Oldham, Jerry Ragovoy, Ronald Isley), and the voice of Steven Van Zandt come up in my conversation with Thom Powers.
Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale
Jimm Lasser and Biff Butler's Long Live Benjamin (about a Capuchin monkey and artist Allen Hirsch) and Markie Hancock's Feral Love (on Central...
Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions' Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale and Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game; Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life and the making of Eraserhead; Claire Simon's Venezia Classici Award winner Le Concours; Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Food Evolution, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bang! The Bert Berns Story (featuring Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Cissy Houston, Andrew Loog Oldham, Jerry Ragovoy, Ronald Isley), and the voice of Steven Van Zandt come up in my conversation with Thom Powers.
Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale
Jimm Lasser and Biff Butler's Long Live Benjamin (about a Capuchin monkey and artist Allen Hirsch) and Markie Hancock's Feral Love (on Central...
- 11/10/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Doc NYC Artistic Director Thom Powers at the IFC Center Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
This year's Doc NYC will open with Valentino: The Last Emperor director Matt Tyrnauer's latest, Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, and close with John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Thom Powers and I covered a wide range of films including Dawn Porter's Trapped, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Werner Herzog's Into The Inferno, Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated, Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale, Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life, Claire Simon's Le Concours, Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game, Tom Hanks, John Mayer and Sam Shepard in Doug Nichol's California Typewriter, Lara Stolman's Swim Team, Adam Irving's Off The Rails and scads more when I sat down with the...
This year's Doc NYC will open with Valentino: The Last Emperor director Matt Tyrnauer's latest, Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, and close with John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Thom Powers and I covered a wide range of films including Dawn Porter's Trapped, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Werner Herzog's Into The Inferno, Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated, Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale, Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life, Claire Simon's Le Concours, Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game, Tom Hanks, John Mayer and Sam Shepard in Doug Nichol's California Typewriter, Lara Stolman's Swim Team, Adam Irving's Off The Rails and scads more when I sat down with the...
- 11/3/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Documentary follows a baby elephant surviving in the wild after losing its mother.
Content Media is selling worldwide rights to documentary Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale after striking a deal with Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions
The feature, which tells the true story of a baby elephant and her fight to survive when she loses her mother, is being screened by Content for distributors here at the Marché.
Directed by Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck, the documentary is produced by Vulcan Productions, run by philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The film - part of Paul Allen’s ongoing elephant conservation and anti-poaching work - features an original score by Nick Urata (Paddington), and an exclusive recording by Dave Matthews and Vusi Mahlasela of the original song Mother of Africa.
Content’s international sales slate includes comedy An Actor Prepares, directed by Steve Clark and starring Jeremy Irons and Jack Huston; and action-thriller The Worker...
Content Media is selling worldwide rights to documentary Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale after striking a deal with Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions
The feature, which tells the true story of a baby elephant and her fight to survive when she loses her mother, is being screened by Content for distributors here at the Marché.
Directed by Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck, the documentary is produced by Vulcan Productions, run by philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The film - part of Paul Allen’s ongoing elephant conservation and anti-poaching work - features an original score by Nick Urata (Paddington), and an exclusive recording by Dave Matthews and Vusi Mahlasela of the original song Mother of Africa.
Content’s international sales slate includes comedy An Actor Prepares, directed by Steve Clark and starring Jeremy Irons and Jack Huston; and action-thriller The Worker...
- 5/14/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Lambert Wilson Set As Master Of Ceremonies At Cannes French actor Lambert Wilson has been tapped to launch the 67th Cannes Film Festival on May 14. He also will welcome the president Jane Campion and her jury to the stage at the Palais des Festivals and host the prize ceremony on May 24. The versatile actor’s credits range from humour to thrillers and from art house to romcoms, and he has worked with such French film greats as André Téchiné, Benoît Jacquot, Bertrand Tavernier and Alain Resnais. Wilson made his first appearance in Cannes in 1985, with Téchiné’s Rendez-vous and has returned several times both as an actor and as president of the Un Certain Regard jury in 1999. Darlow Smithson Productions Taps Emily Dalton As Managing Director Endemol UK said Friday that Emily Dalton has been appointed Managing Director of factual producer Dsp. Ben Bowie is stepping down from the post to pursue a new venture.
- 4/5/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Release of the week
The Kings of Summer
Film
Think ‘Stand by Me meets Lord of the Flies’ (with a sprinkle of Beasts of the Southern Wild, throw in for good measure). Then bake with a mixture of part early David Gordon Green, part Michel Gondry and you’re ready to feast upon the disarmingly surreal world of The Kings of Summer.
Joe (Nick Robinson) is forever battling his stern, widowed father Frank (Nick Offerman, giving a wondrously droll performance) that he decides to make a break from his family and brave the suburban wilderness with best friend, Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and bizarre tag-along Biaggio (Moisés Arias). The trio take building a den to the next, altogether fantastical level, and construct a two-storey house in which they plan to make their permanent domicile. So far, so idyllic and carefree, until Joe invites his dream girl to view the property, unbeknownst...
The Kings of Summer
Film
Think ‘Stand by Me meets Lord of the Flies’ (with a sprinkle of Beasts of the Southern Wild, throw in for good measure). Then bake with a mixture of part early David Gordon Green, part Michel Gondry and you’re ready to feast upon the disarmingly surreal world of The Kings of Summer.
Joe (Nick Robinson) is forever battling his stern, widowed father Frank (Nick Offerman, giving a wondrously droll performance) that he decides to make a break from his family and brave the suburban wilderness with best friend, Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and bizarre tag-along Biaggio (Moisés Arias). The trio take building a den to the next, altogether fantastical level, and construct a two-storey house in which they plan to make their permanent domicile. So far, so idyllic and carefree, until Joe invites his dream girl to view the property, unbeknownst...
- 10/3/2013
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Professor Stephen Hawking helped launch the Cambridge Film Festival with a Q&A broadcast to 70 cinemas nationwide and messages from Sir Richard Branson, Morgan Freeman and the cast of The Big Bang Theory.
The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Cff) opened last night [Sept 19] with a special gala screening of Hawking presented by the documentary’s subject, Professor Stephen Hawking.
The gala Q&A was broadcast live by Vertigo Films to 70 Picturehouse, Everyman, Empire, Vue and independent cinemas across the UK and Ireland after the screening of the film, making it the first Cff event to have a live Q&A broadcast nationwide.
The film about the life and work of the world’s most famous living scientist is told in Hawking’s own words and by those closest to him.
Special guests at the opening night gala included his sister Dr. Mary Hawking: physicist Kip Thorne; Walt Woltosz, the founder of Word+ who developed the computer software...
The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Cff) opened last night [Sept 19] with a special gala screening of Hawking presented by the documentary’s subject, Professor Stephen Hawking.
The gala Q&A was broadcast live by Vertigo Films to 70 Picturehouse, Everyman, Empire, Vue and independent cinemas across the UK and Ireland after the screening of the film, making it the first Cff event to have a live Q&A broadcast nationwide.
The film about the life and work of the world’s most famous living scientist is told in Hawking’s own words and by those closest to him.
Special guests at the opening night gala included his sister Dr. Mary Hawking: physicist Kip Thorne; Walt Woltosz, the founder of Word+ who developed the computer software...
- 9/20/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Professor Stephen Hawking helped launch the Cambridge Film Festival with a Q&A broadcast to 70 cinemas nationwide and messages from Sir Richard Branson, Morgan Freeman and the cast of The Big Bang Theory.
The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Cff) opened last night [Sept 19] with a special gala screening of Hawking presented by the documentary’s subject, Professor Stephen Hawking.
The gala Q&A was broadcast live by Vertigo Films to 70 Picturehouse, Everyman, Empire, Vue and independent cinemas across the UK and Ireland after the screening of the film, making it the first Cff event to have a live Q&A broadcast nationwide.
The film about the life and work of the world’s most famous living scientist is told in Hawking’s own words and by those closest to him.
Special guests at the opening night gala included his sister Dr. Mary Hawking: physicist Kip Thorne; Walt Woltosz, the founder of Word+ who developed the computer software...
The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Cff) opened last night [Sept 19] with a special gala screening of Hawking presented by the documentary’s subject, Professor Stephen Hawking.
The gala Q&A was broadcast live by Vertigo Films to 70 Picturehouse, Everyman, Empire, Vue and independent cinemas across the UK and Ireland after the screening of the film, making it the first Cff event to have a live Q&A broadcast nationwide.
The film about the life and work of the world’s most famous living scientist is told in Hawking’s own words and by those closest to him.
Special guests at the opening night gala included his sister Dr. Mary Hawking: physicist Kip Thorne; Walt Woltosz, the founder of Word+ who developed the computer software...
- 9/20/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
They may share the same first name, but director Stephen Finnigan heartily admits that that’s where the similarities between he and renowned subject of his upcoming documentary Stephen Hawking end. “I got a C grade in Maths and Physics. I didn’t even get an O-Level!”
Whilst Hawking’s achievements are touched upon, Finnigan’s documentary concerns itself with the life of the infamous scientist, painting a vivid portrait of the icon in the process. HeyUGuys caught up with the director to discuss how and why he came to the project, the difficulties he encountered during filming, and his filmmaking process.
How did you come to be involved in this project?
The idea for the film came from the executive producer Ben Bowie. He had worked with Stephen for about three or four years previously making TV series for the Discovery channel and channel 4 about Stephen’s science. Ben...
Whilst Hawking’s achievements are touched upon, Finnigan’s documentary concerns itself with the life of the infamous scientist, painting a vivid portrait of the icon in the process. HeyUGuys caught up with the director to discuss how and why he came to the project, the difficulties he encountered during filming, and his filmmaking process.
How did you come to be involved in this project?
The idea for the film came from the executive producer Ben Bowie. He had worked with Stephen for about three or four years previously making TV series for the Discovery channel and channel 4 about Stephen’s science. Ben...
- 9/18/2013
- by Amon Warmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Director: Stephen Finnigan; Screenwriter Ben Bowie, Stephen Finnigan, Stephen Hawking; Starring: Stephen Hawking, Jane Wilde; Running time: 94 mins; Certificate: PG
Conventional though the structure of Stephen Finnigan's scrupulous documentary is, offering a linear walkthrough of Stephen Hawking's life from childhood to the present day, there's an unexpected autobiographical angle that imbues it with immediacy. Hawking himself – in the familiar synthesised voice that he has opted to retain in lieu of more lifelike offerings – co-wrote and narrates the doc, which is described as "a personal journey told in his own words". The results are compelling and touching if only intermittently illuminating.
Hawking has been described as ambivalent towards the idea of being a disability rights champion, and early on here he expresses the understandable fear that he is as famous for his disability as he is for his discoveries. It's perhaps curious, then, that Finnigan focuses at least as...
Conventional though the structure of Stephen Finnigan's scrupulous documentary is, offering a linear walkthrough of Stephen Hawking's life from childhood to the present day, there's an unexpected autobiographical angle that imbues it with immediacy. Hawking himself – in the familiar synthesised voice that he has opted to retain in lieu of more lifelike offerings – co-wrote and narrates the doc, which is described as "a personal journey told in his own words". The results are compelling and touching if only intermittently illuminating.
Hawking has been described as ambivalent towards the idea of being a disability rights champion, and early on here he expresses the understandable fear that he is as famous for his disability as he is for his discoveries. It's perhaps curious, then, that Finnigan focuses at least as...
- 9/16/2013
- Digital Spy
★★★★☆ Stephen Hawking's first wife, Jane, once explained that as the years passed and her husband made new discoveries, their relationship evolved two faces. The public image was that of Stephen travelling around from lecture to lecture, picking up science awards and honours all over the place. But internally, their home life was being damaged. Hawking's reluctance to be cared for by nurses, coupled with his determination to work and travel, started to suffocate the life out of their marriage. Now, Ben Bowie and Stephen Finnigan's enlightening documentary Hawking (2013) travels deep into the psyche of the revered British physicist.
Written by Hawking himself, the film uses photos and videos as well as reconstructed scenes to timeline his brilliant and boundless mind. Born to academic parents, Hawking quickly showed signs of a fierce intellect, constantly questioning how things worked - a trait that would continue through his Oxford years.
Written by Hawking himself, the film uses photos and videos as well as reconstructed scenes to timeline his brilliant and boundless mind. Born to academic parents, Hawking quickly showed signs of a fierce intellect, constantly questioning how things worked - a trait that would continue through his Oxford years.
- 7/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Photo by Chris Breeze
Sometimeswe can really relate to Carl Fredricksen in Up’sdesire to strap balloons onto his house and float away to an exotic island. Butwe never imaged the technology would work.
Good newsfor anyone who’d do anything to escape. A group of engineers from the NationalGeographic series How Hard Can It Be?just went to great lengths to prove that Carl’s animated experiment couldactually work.
The gang,led by series’ Producer Ian White and Executive Producer Ben Bowie, spent twoweeks designing, building and launching a home in the California desert. Thestructure was actually a light weight 16 x 16 foot house that weighed about2,000 pounds.
The nightbefore lift off, staff gathered in the middle of nowhere and filled 300, eightfeet tall balloons with a tank of helium each. The house not only made it offthe ground, it soared to heights of 10,000 feet. The structure’s unmannedvoyage lasted for...
Sometimeswe can really relate to Carl Fredricksen in Up’sdesire to strap balloons onto his house and float away to an exotic island. Butwe never imaged the technology would work.
Good newsfor anyone who’d do anything to escape. A group of engineers from the NationalGeographic series How Hard Can It Be?just went to great lengths to prove that Carl’s animated experiment couldactually work.
The gang,led by series’ Producer Ian White and Executive Producer Ben Bowie, spent twoweeks designing, building and launching a home in the California desert. Thestructure was actually a light weight 16 x 16 foot house that weighed about2,000 pounds.
The nightbefore lift off, staff gathered in the middle of nowhere and filled 300, eightfeet tall balloons with a tank of helium each. The house not only made it offthe ground, it soared to heights of 10,000 feet. The structure’s unmannedvoyage lasted for...
- 3/23/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
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