Elliot Page, and Matt Jordan Smith and Tuck Dowrey of Page’s production company Pageboy Productions, have joined writer-director Ary Zara’s short “An Avocado Pit” as executive producers.
The film follows the meeting of Larissa, a trans woman and Claudio, a cis man. The two polar opposites come together to enjoy an evening side by side, dancing their differences away.
“An Avocado Pit” won Oscar-qualifying awards at Outfest and Guadalajara International Film Festival, the grand jury special mention for best lead acting at the AFI Festival and the best queer short award and the international student prize at Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont Ferrand, France.
The film is produced by Lisbon-based Take It Easy, with Andreia Nunes and Frederico Serra serving as producers. It stars Portuguese actor Ivo Canelas and trans actress Gaya de Medeiros.
Zara is a transgender person, activist, writer and director who studied cinema in...
The film follows the meeting of Larissa, a trans woman and Claudio, a cis man. The two polar opposites come together to enjoy an evening side by side, dancing their differences away.
“An Avocado Pit” won Oscar-qualifying awards at Outfest and Guadalajara International Film Festival, the grand jury special mention for best lead acting at the AFI Festival and the best queer short award and the international student prize at Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont Ferrand, France.
The film is produced by Lisbon-based Take It Easy, with Andreia Nunes and Frederico Serra serving as producers. It stars Portuguese actor Ivo Canelas and trans actress Gaya de Medeiros.
Zara is a transgender person, activist, writer and director who studied cinema in...
- 12/13/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Dda Spotlight awards for Sarah Polley, Ali Abbasi.
Finisterra, a series about the Nazi presence in Portugal during World War II, has won the ‘most promising project’ prize at the TV Beats co-financing market at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
The series receives a €3,000 prize, and was selected by a jury consisting of Morgane Bruna from Wild Bunch TV, Richard Pommerat from N9ne Studio and Joachim Friedman from the Internationale Filmschule Koln.
The jury noted a “visually strong and artistically challenging series” that “tells a universal, yet poetic story about the oppression of women, the abuse of power, and...
Finisterra, a series about the Nazi presence in Portugal during World War II, has won the ‘most promising project’ prize at the TV Beats co-financing market at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
The series receives a €3,000 prize, and was selected by a jury consisting of Morgane Bruna from Wild Bunch TV, Richard Pommerat from N9ne Studio and Joachim Friedman from the Internationale Filmschule Koln.
The jury noted a “visually strong and artistically challenging series” that “tells a universal, yet poetic story about the oppression of women, the abuse of power, and...
- 11/23/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Our friends at Motelx, Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, in Portugal are gearing up for this year's edition of their tremendous event. Today's announcement includes some of the titles playing at this year's festival, a book launch about Portuguese horror cinema, and their traditional warm-up events leading up to the festival. Argento's Dark Glasses leads an international charge of genre cinema. It will be joined by Michel Hazanavicius' Final Cut, Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi, Huesera by Michelle Garza Cervera, Hunt by Lee Jung-jae and Wolfskin by Jacques Molitor. On the local side there will be the world premiere of Criança Lobo by Frederico Serra, a folk horror about a legend in a scary Portuguese village, and Os Demónios do Meu Avô...
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- 7/22/2022
- Screen Anarchy
“Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope,” “Bffs! Best Friends Forever Stranded!” and “Sex Symbols” are among five new finalists selected to participate in La Liga, the animation umbrella created to promote the Ibero-American animation sector worldwide between Spain’s Quirino Awards, Argentina’s Animation! and Mexico’s Pixelatl Festival.
The eventual winning project will be chosen at the upcoming edition of the Quirino Awards in April and given the opportunity to pitch at La Liga in Focus at Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival’s Mifa market.
“Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope” is co-produced by Toni Marín at La Ballesta (Spain) and Marianne Mayer-Beckh at El Otro Film (Chile). Based on Laura Martel’s script from her graphic novel, “Winnipeg, Neruda’s Ship,” it tells the story of the ship that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda chartered to save more than 2,000 Spanish refugees in France after the Spanish Civil War. It’s directed by Elio Quiroga (“The Cold Hour”).
“Bffs!
The eventual winning project will be chosen at the upcoming edition of the Quirino Awards in April and given the opportunity to pitch at La Liga in Focus at Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival’s Mifa market.
“Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope” is co-produced by Toni Marín at La Ballesta (Spain) and Marianne Mayer-Beckh at El Otro Film (Chile). Based on Laura Martel’s script from her graphic novel, “Winnipeg, Neruda’s Ship,” it tells the story of the ship that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda chartered to save more than 2,000 Spanish refugees in France after the Spanish Civil War. It’s directed by Elio Quiroga (“The Cold Hour”).
“Bffs!
- 2/24/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
How unsettling can thirty nine seconds possibly be? In the hands of Jeronimo Rocha, the answer is 'very'.The Portuguese director first came to our attention here with his scifi / horror short Dedalo - now being developed into a feature film - and he returns with another incredibly polished bit of work, though this one drops the scifi bit and opts purely for horror. Coisa Ruim co-director Frederico Serra once again produces for Rocha and the results can be seen below. Turn the lights down and volume up for maximum effect with this one ......
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- 8/6/2015
- Screen Anarchy
In my opinion, Portuguese horror picture Coisa Ruim marked directors Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra as major talents to watch, that film an elegantly constructed piece of work that relies on character and mood for effect rather than cheap jumps and hard edits. That the slow burner never really found an audience on the festival circuit has always kind of confused me but I’ve kept watching and now they’re back with their latest - a straight drama titled Entre Os Dedos.
Paulo looses his job after denouncing an accident at the construction site where he works. His relationship with his wife is getting worse, day by day. Bela, Paulo’s sister, lives with their father that suffers from post-war syndrome. She is a nurse and the only comfort for a terminal patient.
Modern families barely surviving the destiny that has entangle them. Some in defiance fight back; others...
Paulo looses his job after denouncing an accident at the construction site where he works. His relationship with his wife is getting worse, day by day. Bela, Paulo’s sister, lives with their father that suffers from post-war syndrome. She is a nurse and the only comfort for a terminal patient.
Modern families barely surviving the destiny that has entangle them. Some in defiance fight back; others...
- 2/13/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
London -- In a country that loves a movie with political content, Oliver Stone's "W." is sure to ignite healthy debate when today's Italian premiere kicks off the nine-day Turin Film Festival.
The timing certainly couldn't be better, coming little more than two weeks after a U.S. presidential election that still has Europe buzzing.
But Barack Obama's election to the White House was arguably less surprising -- and certainly less controversial -- than this year's lineup, which is completely void of Italian films.
Arguably the country's third most prominent film festival, after Venice and Rome, the Northern Italian film jamboree will come to a close with "The Edge of Love," directed by John Maybury.
Under the watchful eye of filmmaker Nanni Moretti, now in his second year as artistic director, the festival has no Italian films because, according to Moretti, there simply weren't any titles that were up to snuff.
The timing certainly couldn't be better, coming little more than two weeks after a U.S. presidential election that still has Europe buzzing.
But Barack Obama's election to the White House was arguably less surprising -- and certainly less controversial -- than this year's lineup, which is completely void of Italian films.
Arguably the country's third most prominent film festival, after Venice and Rome, the Northern Italian film jamboree will come to a close with "The Edge of Love," directed by John Maybury.
Under the watchful eye of filmmaker Nanni Moretti, now in his second year as artistic director, the festival has no Italian films because, according to Moretti, there simply weren't any titles that were up to snuff.
- 11/20/2008
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rome -- The 26th Turin Film Festival on Friday released a lineup completely void of Italian films but heavy on U.S. and European productions.
Second-year artistic director Nanni Moretti -- who revealed the lineup to a packed house at the Nuovo Sacher, the Rome cinema he owns -- did his best to avoid comparisons to the just-completed Rome International Film Festival, but the Italian press is sure to highlight the differences.
The Rome event was criticized for a lineup that in many ways was a photo negative of the program Moretti released Friday, with six Italian films featured and just one from the U.S.
Moretti said that the U.S. writers' strike, which had an impact on the lineups in Venice, Rome and elsewhere, also played a role in shaping Turin's lineup. Though three of the 15 films in the lineup have American DNA, all are low-budget affairs: Azazel Jacobs' "Momma's Man,...
Second-year artistic director Nanni Moretti -- who revealed the lineup to a packed house at the Nuovo Sacher, the Rome cinema he owns -- did his best to avoid comparisons to the just-completed Rome International Film Festival, but the Italian press is sure to highlight the differences.
The Rome event was criticized for a lineup that in many ways was a photo negative of the program Moretti released Friday, with six Italian films featured and just one from the U.S.
Moretti said that the U.S. writers' strike, which had an impact on the lineups in Venice, Rome and elsewhere, also played a role in shaping Turin's lineup. Though three of the 15 films in the lineup have American DNA, all are low-budget affairs: Azazel Jacobs' "Momma's Man,...
- 11/7/2008
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- 39: A Film By Carroll McKane USA, Dir: Gary Sherman, 2006 World Premiere, hosted by director Gary Sherman + Carroll McKane, having already killed 17 couples, sets up eight Dv cameras on reticulated arms in a warehouse to document his crimes and kidnaps a celebrated psychologist in the hopes that he will write his biography. Told entirely from the perspective of Mc Kaneâ.s unblinking cameras, 39 is a disturbing slice of verite filmmaking from Gary Sherman, director of Dead And Buried and Raw Meat, making his return to the genre after over a decadeâ.s absence. Make no mistake, this is a graphic and unsettling work, but it doesnâ.t rely on abject depravity or exploitative gore to disturb. No, this oneâ.s by Carroll McKane, whoâ.s far too obsessed with himself to let his victims take centre stage. Bad Blood Portugal, Dirs: Tiago Guedes, Frederico Serra, 2006 Montreal Premiere + A respected
- 7/4/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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