Short films from Kosovo, France, the Us and Switzerland are among the winners at the Palm Springs International ShortFest.
The Palm Springs International ShortFest has given its Best of Festival Award to Daniel Mulloly’s Home (pictured), from Kosovo, and its Grand Jury Award to Vincent Maury’s Minh Tâm, from France.
Nearly 20 other shorts from the 327 that screened at the event, which bills itself as the largest short film festival and only short film market in North America, also won awards.
The winner of the Best of Festival award gets a $5,000 cash prize and may be eligible to submit their film to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration. The Grand Jury award comes with a $2,000 cash prize.
The jury – comprising David Ansen, Jeremy Boxer, Zorianna Kit, Molly Parker, Rachel Samuels and Alison Willmore – gave ShortFest’s Panavision Best North American Short award to La Laguna, from Mexico...
The Palm Springs International ShortFest has given its Best of Festival Award to Daniel Mulloly’s Home (pictured), from Kosovo, and its Grand Jury Award to Vincent Maury’s Minh Tâm, from France.
Nearly 20 other shorts from the 327 that screened at the event, which bills itself as the largest short film festival and only short film market in North America, also won awards.
The winner of the Best of Festival award gets a $5,000 cash prize and may be eligible to submit their film to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration. The Grand Jury award comes with a $2,000 cash prize.
The jury – comprising David Ansen, Jeremy Boxer, Zorianna Kit, Molly Parker, Rachel Samuels and Alison Willmore – gave ShortFest’s Panavision Best North American Short award to La Laguna, from Mexico...
- 6/27/2016
- ScreenDaily
If you have a few minutes to kill, you might be interested in watching “Hail to the Trump,” Vanity Fair’s dark comedy giving us a glimpse of what a Donald Trump presidency might be like. Produced and directed by Condé Nast’s Rachel Samuels and written by longtime Vanity Fair editor Bruce Handy, the shorts are reminiscent of Team America and star marionettes operated by a fellow named Scott Land. The first episode debuted on YouTube on November 9th with the latest installment rolling out this week.
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- 11/24/2015
- by Ricky Fernandes
- SoundOnSight
Madrid -- Vic Sarin's "A Shine of Rainbows" and Nian Liu's "Li Tong" will have their world premieres in competition at the third Ibiza International Film Festival, festival director Xavier Benlloch announced Tuesday as he revealed the lineup of what organizers call the "Cannes after-hours."
Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs' "Humboldt County," Rachel Samuels' "Dark Streets," Uros Stoganovic's "Tears for Sale" and Leonardo Armas' "Radio Love" round out the official competition for the grand prize, called the Falco d'Or.
Scottish director Bill Forsyth, Spanish film critic Jose Eduardo Arenas and Indian producer Rohan Sippy comprise the official jury at the festival, which will showcase Terry Gilliam's work in sidebar.
None of the films in competition have screened in Spain yet, and Benlloch emphasized the festival's strategy.
"A good jury and good films make good festivals," Benlloch said. "Festivals aren't meant to be so Spielberg can premiere his latest film.
Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs' "Humboldt County," Rachel Samuels' "Dark Streets," Uros Stoganovic's "Tears for Sale" and Leonardo Armas' "Radio Love" round out the official competition for the grand prize, called the Falco d'Or.
Scottish director Bill Forsyth, Spanish film critic Jose Eduardo Arenas and Indian producer Rohan Sippy comprise the official jury at the festival, which will showcase Terry Gilliam's work in sidebar.
None of the films in competition have screened in Spain yet, and Benlloch emphasized the festival's strategy.
"A good jury and good films make good festivals," Benlloch said. "Festivals aren't meant to be so Spielberg can premiere his latest film.
- 5/19/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The noirish musical "Dark Streets" is supposed to take place in the 1930s, but its self-conscious details reminded me more of that weirdly nostalgic period in the mid-1970s when every third restaurant in America was named "Gatsby's."
The blues and jazz numbers aren't bad, but they're awkwardly shot and poorly integrated with a storyline that director Rachel Samuels ("The Suicide Club") presents in such an obfuscating manner that 86 minutes fly by like three hours.
The storyline? Club owner Chaz (Gabriel Mann) is trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of his father,...
The blues and jazz numbers aren't bad, but they're awkwardly shot and poorly integrated with a storyline that director Rachel Samuels ("The Suicide Club") presents in such an obfuscating manner that 86 minutes fly by like three hours.
The storyline? Club owner Chaz (Gabriel Mann) is trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of his father,...
- 12/12/2008
- by By LOU LUMENICK
- NYPost.com
The main pitfall of modern noirs is that filmmakers get so caught up in the chiaroscuro lighting schemes and florid twists of dialogue and voiceover that they forget noir was about expressing more than just attitude and style. Rachel Samuels' thin, affected jazz-age noir Dark Streets is worse than most, grafting an indifferent series of twists and double-crosses onto a blues-nightclub backdrop that overwhelms the foreground. Featuring songs by Etta James, Aaron Neville, Chaka Khan, and Natalie Cole, and an original score with an assist by B.B. King, the film so lavishly fetishizes the period's glittering costumes and leggy chanteuses that it can barely work up the interest to tend to its junior-league Chinatown plotting. The imbalance proves distracting on both ends: Working from a screenplay by Wallace King (based on a play by Glenn Stewart), Samuels treats the overwritten dialogue as another layer of set-dressing, while leaning on blurry.
- 12/11/2008
- by Scott Tobias
- avclub.com
by Eric Hynes (December 10, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]
What do noir, Busby Berkeley, the blues, and funhouse fantasy have in common? As "Dark Streets" ultimately proves, not much. Aiming for the inspired style warp of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" but landing somewhere in the territory of Cirque du Soleil or Disney's House of Blues, director Rachel Samuels mashes up genre and chronology while showing little understanding or interest in the integrity of any of her sources. What motivated noir's high contrast, its cynicism and misanthropy? What motivated the blues' lament, its horny, smoky suicidal heartbreak? "Dark Streets" couldn't care less, grafting together tropes despite cultural and aesthetic incompatibility, proud to wear them as layers of shabby chic fashion.
What do noir, Busby Berkeley, the blues, and funhouse fantasy have in common? As "Dark Streets" ultimately proves, not much. Aiming for the inspired style warp of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" but landing somewhere in the territory of Cirque du Soleil or Disney's House of Blues, director Rachel Samuels mashes up genre and chronology while showing little understanding or interest in the integrity of any of her sources. What motivated noir's high contrast, its cynicism and misanthropy? What motivated the blues' lament, its horny, smoky suicidal heartbreak? "Dark Streets" couldn't care less, grafting together tropes despite cultural and aesthetic incompatibility, proud to wear them as layers of shabby chic fashion.
- 12/10/2008
- by peter
- Indiewire
by indieWIRE (December 9, 2008) Rachel Samuels' third feature, "Dark Streets," is a film noir set against a 1930s story of booze, blues and jazz. Based on the play by Glenn Stewart, "Streets" follows nightclub owner Chaz Davenport (Gabriel Mann), whose life becomes complicated when he find a note sent by his recently deceased father to a female acquaintance. The film won a special jury prize at the 2008 CineVegas International Film Festival. Samuel Goldwyn is releasing the film theatrically this Friday, December 12.
- 12/9/2008
- by peter
- indieWIRE - People
By Neil Pedley
Things really shift into high gear this week when a bumper crop of award season heavy-hitters and indies stream into theaters, as well as a cadre of movie stars doing what they do best - whether that's Keanu Reeves acting alien, Clint Eastwood brandishing his trademark scowl, or Benicio Del Toro doing his own brand of mumblecore while waging war against fascists.
"Adam Resurrected"
It's been a long, strange directorial career for Paul Schrader, who followed his work as
the unsung hero of some of Martin Scorsese's most celebrated masterpieces with successes like "American Gigolo" and oddities like "Dominion: The Prequel to the Exorcist." Yet the always daring Schrader is taking on the Holocaust in his latest film, an adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk's story about Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum), a former circus entertainer who grudgingly succumbs to the role of grim court jester to a...
Things really shift into high gear this week when a bumper crop of award season heavy-hitters and indies stream into theaters, as well as a cadre of movie stars doing what they do best - whether that's Keanu Reeves acting alien, Clint Eastwood brandishing his trademark scowl, or Benicio Del Toro doing his own brand of mumblecore while waging war against fascists.
"Adam Resurrected"
It's been a long, strange directorial career for Paul Schrader, who followed his work as
the unsung hero of some of Martin Scorsese's most celebrated masterpieces with successes like "American Gigolo" and oddities like "Dominion: The Prequel to the Exorcist." Yet the always daring Schrader is taking on the Holocaust in his latest film, an adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk's story about Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum), a former circus entertainer who grudgingly succumbs to the role of grim court jester to a...
- 12/8/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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