“I hope they’re not scared off and think it’s like The Cove,” Jonathan Franzen said on Monday evening. He was referring to potential audiences for Emptying the Skies, Roger and Douglas Kass's new documentary based on his 2010 New Yorker essay about songbird poaching in the Mediterranean. “I never saw The Cove, because everyone said it’ll just depress the hell out of you,” he said, laughing. (The Cove concerns dolphin-hunting in Japan.) &...
- 4/22/2015
- Village Voice
Jonathan Franzen writes most convincingly about love when writing about birds. In 2010, his love for them inspired a New Yorker essay that followed a band of activists called the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) to trapping sites around the Mediterranean. Cabs's mission is to fight south-European poachers, who every year illegally slaughter millions of migrant songbirds for food, money, and sport. Franzen's essay, "Emptying the Skies," describes in stomach-churning detail the poachers' methods of capture, and now that essay has inspired Douglas and Roger Kass's poignant documentary.
Like the essay, the film takes the side of the activists. It introduces us to Andrea Rutigliano, th...
Like the essay, the film takes the side of the activists. It introduces us to Andrea Rutigliano, th...
- 4/22/2015
- Village Voice
Emptying The Skies Music Box Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Douglas Kass, Roger Kass Cast: Peter Berthold, Sergio Coen Tanugi, David Conlin, Jonathan Franzen, Martin Hellicar, Alex Heyd, Axel Hirschfeld, Piero Liberati, Andrea Rutigliano Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 4/15/15 Opens: April 22, 2015 Everyone should take an eco-vacation in Costa Rica where you can admire birds like the Toucan, the Tricolored Heron, the Pinnated Bitron, and a hundred other species. You’ll probably think: beautiful birds like these are lucky. They will never be eaten by human beings. That’s true in Costa Rica where environmental laws protecting the woodlands are strictly [ Read More ]
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- 4/17/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Read More: Music Box Films Swoops Down on Jonathan Franzen's 'Emptying the Skies' "Emptying the Skies" is confronting the issue of migratory bird poaching. The upcoming documentary, based on an essay from acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen, comes out of the revelation that songbird populations have been drastically declining for several decades. "Emptying the Skies" pays tribute to these tiny, globe-spanning songbirds, millions of which are inhumanely trapped and killed for a quick cash exchange on the black market. The film centers on an intrepid squad of pan-European bird-lovers, waging a secret war against poachers to disrupt illegal trapping and to free as many as possible. From directors Douglas Kass and Roger Kass, "Emptying the Skies" has already found acclaim with critics. Above, you can see the film's exclusive poster debut; a dreamlike, triumphant vision of birds freely in flight. It perfectly captures the film's great sense of hope,...
- 4/1/2015
- by David Canfield
- Indiewire
★★★☆☆Gabriela Cowperthwaite's expose of Orca captivity, Blackfish (2013), enjoyed enormous success, rallying people to its cause. Though pitched on a comparatively tiny scale, Douglas and Roger Kass' Emptying the Skies (2013), which DocHouse are screening tonight at Rich Mix Cinema, deals with similar subject matter. Based on novelist Jonathan Franzen's eponymous article of for The New Yorker, the film brings to light the mass killing of migratory birds as they traverse the Mediterranean on their unavoidable annual flightpath. Whilst lacking the polish and punch of its illustrious forbears, Emptying the Skies manages to presents cruelty in black and white, whilst illuminating the grey areas of activism.
- 11/13/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Submarine has sold all Us rights excluding TV to Douglas Kass’ documentary Emptying The Skies to Music Box Films and has licensed Canadian rights to Films We Like.
Java Films recently acquired international sales rights.
Music Box Films plans a theatrical release later this year on the story of the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds. The film is based on an essay by novelist Jonathan Franzen.
Emptying The Skies is a production of RingTheJing in association with Sustainable Films. The film was Directed by Douglas Kass. Roger Kass produced and co-directed while Franzen and Andrea van Beuren served as executive producers.
David Koh of Submarine and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers brokered the deal with Ed Arentz and William Schopf of Music Box Films and Films We Like president Ron Mann.
Java Films recently acquired international sales rights.
Music Box Films plans a theatrical release later this year on the story of the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds. The film is based on an essay by novelist Jonathan Franzen.
Emptying The Skies is a production of RingTheJing in association with Sustainable Films. The film was Directed by Douglas Kass. Roger Kass produced and co-directed while Franzen and Andrea van Beuren served as executive producers.
David Koh of Submarine and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers brokered the deal with Ed Arentz and William Schopf of Music Box Films and Films We Like president Ron Mann.
- 5/9/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Updated: Deals from Java Films, Zodiak, Raven Banner, Silver Sword, m-appeal, Slingshot Films, Rise and Shine, House of Film.
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Music Box acquires Watcher Of The Sky
Music Box Films has struck a deal with CAA and Submarine for Us rights to Propeller Films’ Watchers Of The Sky. Submarine licensed Canadian rights to Films We Like, Australia and New Zealand to Madman, pan-Scandinavia to NonStop Entertainment and worldwide airline rights to Jaguar Distribution. Edet Belzberg directed the story about Raphael Lemkin, who coined...
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Music Box acquires Watcher Of The Sky
Music Box Films has struck a deal with CAA and Submarine for Us rights to Propeller Films’ Watchers Of The Sky. Submarine licensed Canadian rights to Films We Like, Australia and New Zealand to Madman, pan-Scandinavia to NonStop Entertainment and worldwide airline rights to Jaguar Distribution. Edet Belzberg directed the story about Raphael Lemkin, who coined...
- 2/11/2014
- ScreenDaily
Updated: Deals from Java Films, Zodiak, Raven Banner, Silver Sword, m-appeal, Slingshot Films, Rise and Shine, House of Film.
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Raven Banner is Hooked Up
Raven Banner has acquired world sales rights to Pablo Larcuen’s feature debut Hooked Up, the world’s first feature film totally shot with an iPhone.
Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) and Juan Sola are executive producing through their Ombra Films banner. The story is about Americans on a wild trip to Barcelona, where they encounter...
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Raven Banner is Hooked Up
Raven Banner has acquired world sales rights to Pablo Larcuen’s feature debut Hooked Up, the world’s first feature film totally shot with an iPhone.
Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) and Juan Sola are executive producing through their Ombra Films banner. The story is about Americans on a wild trip to Barcelona, where they encounter...
- 2/11/2014
- ScreenDaily
Deals from Java Films, Raven Banner, Silver Sword, m-appeal, Rise and Shine, House of Film.
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Raven Banner is Hooked Up
Raven Banner has acquired world sales rights to Pablo Larcuen’s feature debut Hooked Up, the world’s first feature film totally shot with an iPhone.
Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) and Juan Sola are executive producing through their Ombra Films banner. The story is about Americans on a wild trip to Barcelona, where they encounter an evil force.
Zodiak scores...
Java flies with Emptying The Skies
Java Films has acquired world rights to Emptying The Skies, Douglass Kass’s feature documentary about migratory song birds. The deal was negotiated by David Koh of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of RingTheJing Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers and Kathryn Bonnici, Head of Acquisitions for Java Films. Submarine has also sold all rights in Canada to Films We Like and Worldwide Airline rights to Jaguar Distribution.
Raven Banner is Hooked Up
Raven Banner has acquired world sales rights to Pablo Larcuen’s feature debut Hooked Up, the world’s first feature film totally shot with an iPhone.
Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) and Juan Sola are executive producing through their Ombra Films banner. The story is about Americans on a wild trip to Barcelona, where they encounter an evil force.
Zodiak scores...
- 2/11/2014
- ScreenDaily
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