Exclusive: Grasshopper Film and streaming platform Documentary+ have acquired North American rights to the Oscar-shortlisted feature Apolonia, Apolonia, a deal announced as the nomination voting window opens for the 96th Academy Awards.
Grasshopper will release the film theatrically Friday at Dctv’s Firehouse Cinema in New York, “with a launch on Documentary+ following all other traditional windows,” according to a release.
The film directed by Lea Glob documents the life of French painter Apolonia Sokol over a 13-year period, examining her attempt to maintain artistic integrity in an art world — and culture — where patriarchy privileges the male gaze over the female.
Apolonia Sokol
“The result is a moving meditation on friendship, personal and creative fulfillment, and both the liberation and limitations of the female body,” the release noted. “Over the years, both Sokol and Glob see again and again that the road to artistic achievement is not an easy or...
Grasshopper will release the film theatrically Friday at Dctv’s Firehouse Cinema in New York, “with a launch on Documentary+ following all other traditional windows,” according to a release.
The film directed by Lea Glob documents the life of French painter Apolonia Sokol over a 13-year period, examining her attempt to maintain artistic integrity in an art world — and culture — where patriarchy privileges the male gaze over the female.
Apolonia Sokol
“The result is a moving meditation on friendship, personal and creative fulfillment, and both the liberation and limitations of the female body,” the release noted. “Over the years, both Sokol and Glob see again and again that the road to artistic achievement is not an easy or...
- 1/11/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Danish documentary production company’s slate include Sundance-selected ‘The Territory’ and Eva Weber’s ‘Merkel’.
European production group Newen Studios and Oscar-nominated Danish producer Sigrid Dyekjaer have launched a new Denmark-based documentary production company, Real Lava.
Real Lava is owned by France-based Newen Studios (part of the TF1 group) and Dyekjaer, and will work on both documentary films and series for an international audience, “with a cinematic execution and high artistic value”.
The company’s first production, The Territory, has been confirmed for the world cinema documentary competition at Sundance. Alex Pritz’s film explores the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau community as...
European production group Newen Studios and Oscar-nominated Danish producer Sigrid Dyekjaer have launched a new Denmark-based documentary production company, Real Lava.
Real Lava is owned by France-based Newen Studios (part of the TF1 group) and Dyekjaer, and will work on both documentary films and series for an international audience, “with a cinematic execution and high artistic value”.
The company’s first production, The Territory, has been confirmed for the world cinema documentary competition at Sundance. Alex Pritz’s film explores the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau community as...
- 12/10/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Stefan Arsenijevic’s film received the Crystal Globe Grand Prix.
Serbian refugee drama As Far As I Can Walk scored five prizes including the main Grand Prix – Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival awards this evening.
Written and directed by Stefan Arsenijevic, the film also received the best actor award for Ibrahim Koma, and a special jury mention for Jelena Stankovic for cinematography, from the awards given out in the competition section.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The film also received two non-statutory awards, from the ecumenical jury, and the Europa Cinemas Label award...
Serbian refugee drama As Far As I Can Walk scored five prizes including the main Grand Prix – Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival awards this evening.
Written and directed by Stefan Arsenijevic, the film also received the best actor award for Ibrahim Koma, and a special jury mention for Jelena Stankovic for cinematography, from the awards given out in the competition section.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The film also received two non-statutory awards, from the ecumenical jury, and the Europa Cinemas Label award...
- 8/28/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival came to a close today with the awarding of its various prizes.
The Grand Prix Crystal Globe, the event’s main prize, went to Stefan Arsenijević’s As Far as I Can Walk. The award comes with a $25,000 grant split between the director and producer. The film also picked up the Best Actor award for star Ibrahim Koma.
As Far as I Can Walk follows Strahinja and his wife Ababuo, who left Ghana with a dream of a better life in Europe. Instead of reaching the western part of the continent, they were deported back to Serbia. Strahinja has started to build himself a career, while Ababuo is unable to fulfil her ambitions and she feels increasingly frustrated. When she disappears one day, Strahinja sets out to find her.
The Crystal Globe jury were: Eva Mulvad, Denmark, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Poland, Christos Nikou, Greece,...
The Grand Prix Crystal Globe, the event’s main prize, went to Stefan Arsenijević’s As Far as I Can Walk. The award comes with a $25,000 grant split between the director and producer. The film also picked up the Best Actor award for star Ibrahim Koma.
As Far as I Can Walk follows Strahinja and his wife Ababuo, who left Ghana with a dream of a better life in Europe. Instead of reaching the western part of the continent, they were deported back to Serbia. Strahinja has started to build himself a career, while Ababuo is unable to fulfil her ambitions and she feels increasingly frustrated. When she disappears one day, Strahinja sets out to find her.
The Crystal Globe jury were: Eva Mulvad, Denmark, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Poland, Christos Nikou, Greece,...
- 8/28/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
“As Far as I Can Walk,” a drama about African immigrants deported from Germany to Serbia, won the Grand Prize at the 2021 Karlovy International Film Festival on Saturday evening in the Czech Republic. The film by director Stefan Arsenijević, which was inspired by a medieval poem, dominated in a main competition of 12 films at the oldest film festival in Central Europe.
The audience award went to “Zatopek,” director David Ondricek’s biopic about famed Czech runner Emil Zatopek.
Dietrich Brüggemann was named best director in the main competition for “No,” while acting awards went to Ibrahim Koma for “As Far as I Can Walk” and Eleonore Loiselle for “Wars.”
For the first time, documentaries were placed in the competition sections rather than being restricted to their own section, with “Every Single Minute” winning a Special Jury Prize.
Special Jury Mentions went to “The Staffroom,” actress Vinette Robinson for “The Boiling...
The audience award went to “Zatopek,” director David Ondricek’s biopic about famed Czech runner Emil Zatopek.
Dietrich Brüggemann was named best director in the main competition for “No,” while acting awards went to Ibrahim Koma for “As Far as I Can Walk” and Eleonore Loiselle for “Wars.”
For the first time, documentaries were placed in the competition sections rather than being restricted to their own section, with “Every Single Minute” winning a Special Jury Prize.
Special Jury Mentions went to “The Staffroom,” actress Vinette Robinson for “The Boiling...
- 8/28/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival returned to life in a fully live format Friday after a year-long Covid-forced break, with its traditional rousing dance numbers and a lifetime achievement Crystal Globe for Michael Caine.
The versatile two-time Oscar winner prompted his third standing ovation from the audience packed into the fest’s Grand Hall at the Hotel Thermal when he raised his walking cane from the stage in thanks to his fans.
Saying he began his actor’s journey as “a nobody from nowhere who knew nothing,” Caine told the crowd, “You’ve given me an award for something I love doing.” Fest president Jiri Bartoska honored him with what the actor called the heaviest prize he’s ever tried to lift at an upbeat ceremony featuring elaborate choreography themed around the 1960s U.S. pop song “Popcorn,” with dancers whirling discs that riffed on...
The versatile two-time Oscar winner prompted his third standing ovation from the audience packed into the fest’s Grand Hall at the Hotel Thermal when he raised his walking cane from the stage in thanks to his fans.
Saying he began his actor’s journey as “a nobody from nowhere who knew nothing,” Caine told the crowd, “You’ve given me an award for something I love doing.” Fest president Jiri Bartoska honored him with what the actor called the heaviest prize he’s ever tried to lift at an upbeat ceremony featuring elaborate choreography themed around the 1960s U.S. pop song “Popcorn,” with dancers whirling discs that riffed on...
- 8/21/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Aug 20 -28) will honor actors Johnny Depp and Michael Caine, and director Jan Sverak.
Depp, who is also set to be feted at San Sebastian this year, is set to attend the Czech festival which “will recognize and pay tribute to the acclaimed actor’s extensive career and lasting legacy on the film industry globally”.
“We’re incredibly honored to welcome to the Festival an icon of the contemporary cinema,” said Kviff’s executive director Krystof Mucha and the Festival’s artistic director Karel Och. “We’ve admired Mr. Depp for such a long time and are thrilled to bestow this honor on him.”
The timing is interesting given that Depp has been caught up in an ongoing and very messy legal feud with former wife Amber Heard. The dispute and its lurid details have seen the star dropped from at least one major studio project.
Depp, who is also set to be feted at San Sebastian this year, is set to attend the Czech festival which “will recognize and pay tribute to the acclaimed actor’s extensive career and lasting legacy on the film industry globally”.
“We’re incredibly honored to welcome to the Festival an icon of the contemporary cinema,” said Kviff’s executive director Krystof Mucha and the Festival’s artistic director Karel Och. “We’ve admired Mr. Depp for such a long time and are thrilled to bestow this honor on him.”
The timing is interesting given that Depp has been caught up in an ongoing and very messy legal feud with former wife Amber Heard. The dispute and its lurid details have seen the star dropped from at least one major studio project.
- 8/10/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Second European event this week to announce it will honour Depp.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) is the second European event this week to announce it will honour Johnny Depp, paying tribute to the actor’s career at the 55th edition of the event (August 20-28).
The tribute follows an announcement from San Sebastian film festival yesterday that Depp will be awarded its highest prize, the Donostia award, in September.
It is expected that Depp will attend both events in person.
A statement from Karlovy Vary described the recognition as “a tribute to Depp’s significant contributions to film...
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) is the second European event this week to announce it will honour Johnny Depp, paying tribute to the actor’s career at the 55th edition of the event (August 20-28).
The tribute follows an announcement from San Sebastian film festival yesterday that Depp will be awarded its highest prize, the Donostia award, in September.
It is expected that Depp will attend both events in person.
A statement from Karlovy Vary described the recognition as “a tribute to Depp’s significant contributions to film...
- 8/10/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Second European event this week to announce it will honour Depp.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) is the second European event this week to announce it will honour Johnny Depp, paying tribute to the actor’s career at the 55th edition of the event (August 20-28).
The tribute follows an announcement from San Sebastian film festival yesterday that Depp will be awarded its highest prize, the Donostia award, in September.
It is expected that Depp will attend both events in person.
A statement from Karlovy Vary described the recognition as “a tribute to Depp’s significant contributions to film...
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) is the second European event this week to announce it will honour Johnny Depp, paying tribute to the actor’s career at the 55th edition of the event (August 20-28).
The tribute follows an announcement from San Sebastian film festival yesterday that Depp will be awarded its highest prize, the Donostia award, in September.
It is expected that Depp will attend both events in person.
A statement from Karlovy Vary described the recognition as “a tribute to Depp’s significant contributions to film...
- 8/10/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Michael Caine will receive the Crystal Globe Award for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the 2021 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Kviff organizers announced on Tuesday.
Caine will receive the award, the festival’s highest honor, at the Karlovy Vary’s opening ceremony on Aug. 20. He will also present the film “Best Sellers,” the directorial debut of Lina Roessler, in which he plays an author embarking on one final book tour.
Johnny Depp will also attend the festival to present screenings of two films he produced, the documentary “Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan” and the drama “Minamata,” in which he also plays a photographer who documented the effects of mercury poisoning in Japan.
The festival will also give the Kviff Presidents Award to veteran Czech director Jan Svěrák, whose film “The Ride” won the Crystal Globe for best film at Karlovy Vary in 1995.
Previously, Kviff announced that...
Caine will receive the award, the festival’s highest honor, at the Karlovy Vary’s opening ceremony on Aug. 20. He will also present the film “Best Sellers,” the directorial debut of Lina Roessler, in which he plays an author embarking on one final book tour.
Johnny Depp will also attend the festival to present screenings of two films he produced, the documentary “Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan” and the drama “Minamata,” in which he also plays a photographer who documented the effects of mercury poisoning in Japan.
The festival will also give the Kviff Presidents Award to veteran Czech director Jan Svěrák, whose film “The Ride” won the Crystal Globe for best film at Karlovy Vary in 1995.
Previously, Kviff announced that...
- 8/10/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The digital release of Love Child, Eva Mulvad’s extraordinary documentary about an Iranian couple in exile, prompts a look at the myriad ways of putting refugee lives on screen
The European refugee crisis has inspired so many films in recent years that the subject practically qualifies as a genre in itself, encompassing as broad a spectrum of originality and artistic value as any other. Some documentaries follow a familiar if heart-tugging template; others hit you squarely between the eyes with perspectives you haven’t previously seen or considered.
Danish director Eva Mulvad’s documentary Love Child (multiple VOD platforms), falls in the latter category. Its story is a simple one, but the patience and intimacy with which it is told give the film its unusual, building power. Over the course of six years it follows Iranian lovers Sahand and Leila as they flee their homeland and attempt to settle...
The European refugee crisis has inspired so many films in recent years that the subject practically qualifies as a genre in itself, encompassing as broad a spectrum of originality and artistic value as any other. Some documentaries follow a familiar if heart-tugging template; others hit you squarely between the eyes with perspectives you haven’t previously seen or considered.
Danish director Eva Mulvad’s documentary Love Child (multiple VOD platforms), falls in the latter category. Its story is a simple one, but the patience and intimacy with which it is told give the film its unusual, building power. Over the course of six years it follows Iranian lovers Sahand and Leila as they flee their homeland and attempt to settle...
- 11/7/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
Cinemas in Wales and Scotland and some islands remain open.
UK film distributors are quickly putting new release plans in place in response to the government’s new lockdown rules which will see cinemas close in England tomorrow (Thursday November 5) for four weeks.
But not all films are being postponed – and some are even proceeding with theatrical release, since cinemas remain open in parts of Scotland and on islands such as Guernsey and Isle Of Man. Wales is set to emerge from its “firebreak” next week, and cinemas in the nation are accepting bookings. Nothern Ireland’s cinemas may also...
UK film distributors are quickly putting new release plans in place in response to the government’s new lockdown rules which will see cinemas close in England tomorrow (Thursday November 5) for four weeks.
But not all films are being postponed – and some are even proceeding with theatrical release, since cinemas remain open in parts of Scotland and on islands such as Guernsey and Isle Of Man. Wales is set to emerge from its “firebreak” next week, and cinemas in the nation are accepting bookings. Nothern Ireland’s cinemas may also...
- 11/4/2020
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
Love Child PBS Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Eva Mulvad Writer: Eva Mulvad Cast: Sahand, Mani, Leila Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/14/20 Opens: September 14, 2020 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, his people asked him how it went. The good news is “I got […]
The post Love Child Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
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- 9/25/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The Al Jazeera Balkans Film Festival, dedicated to TV documentaries, will take place 11-15 September online and on location in Sarajevo. Ajb Doc Film Festival, organised by TV broadcaster Al Jazeera Balkans, in cooperation with Al Jazeera Media Network (Ajmn) and Al Jazeera Media Institute, is set to take place for the third time from 11-15 September, on locations in Sarajevo and online at www.online.ajbdoc.ba. The competition programme will present 12 documentaries adapted for TV broadcasting, while six regional films will be screened in the Ajb Screening programme and soon thereafter broadcast on Ajb television. Another three famous international titles in the Last Minute Cinema section complete the programme. The competition line-up includes Vít Klusák and Barbora Chalupová's Czech box office hit Caught in the Net (Czech Republic/Slovakia), Jonas Bruun's Nordisk Panorama audience award winner Humanity on Trial (Denmark), Eva Mulvad's Toronto entry Love Child...
The film follows an Iranian couple who are forced to flee their country when their affair and child become public.
Zak Brilliant’s Republic Film Distribution has set a UK and Ireland theatrical release date of Noember 6, 2020 for Eva Mulvad’s Iranian refugee documentary Love Child in the latest positive news for the market’s devasated distribution sector.
Love Child premiered in TIFF Docs at Toronto 2019, and has since toured the festival circuit at Idfa and Chicago, where it won best documentary. Since the coronavirus shutdown, it has played at online versions of Cph:dox and the Human Rights Watch Film...
Zak Brilliant’s Republic Film Distribution has set a UK and Ireland theatrical release date of Noember 6, 2020 for Eva Mulvad’s Iranian refugee documentary Love Child in the latest positive news for the market’s devasated distribution sector.
Love Child premiered in TIFF Docs at Toronto 2019, and has since toured the festival circuit at Idfa and Chicago, where it won best documentary. Since the coronavirus shutdown, it has played at online versions of Cph:dox and the Human Rights Watch Film...
- 8/27/2020
- by 88¦Louise Tutt¦115¦
- ScreenDaily
Has played festival circuit at Toronto, Idfa, Cph:dox.
Republic Film Distribution has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Eva Mulvad’s Love Child, a Danish documentary about Iranian refugees from Autlook Film Sales.
It will release the film theatrically in the UK and Ireland later in the year. ”We plan to release in theatres this autumn, at which point we dearly hope UK and Irish independent cinemas will be firing again on all cylinders,” Republic founder Zak Brilliant told Screen.
Love Child premiered in Tiff Docs at Toronto 2019, and has since toured the festival circuit at Idfa and Chicago,...
Republic Film Distribution has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Eva Mulvad’s Love Child, a Danish documentary about Iranian refugees from Autlook Film Sales.
It will release the film theatrically in the UK and Ireland later in the year. ”We plan to release in theatres this autumn, at which point we dearly hope UK and Irish independent cinemas will be firing again on all cylinders,” Republic founder Zak Brilliant told Screen.
Love Child premiered in Tiff Docs at Toronto 2019, and has since toured the festival circuit at Idfa and Chicago,...
- 6/25/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Right now, every film festival shares the same ambition: Get smarter about how to connect with audiences online. In the coming weeks, Hot Docs, Human Rights Watch, and AFI Docs will present online lineups; at Doc NYC, where I’m the artistic director, we are busily adapting to new realities for our November festival.
We’ve also seen online festivals inspire pessimism from some sales agents and programmers — but we don’t have time for that kind of thinking. Many filmmakers can’t hold back their work until next year, when competition will only increase for premiere slots and buyer attention, and many festivals can’t wait because they will cease to exist without revenue. We all need to keep getting smarter, faster.
While we all want to get back into theaters, the public is swiftly adapting to watch online content non-stop. Everyone from health care workers to dancers are...
We’ve also seen online festivals inspire pessimism from some sales agents and programmers — but we don’t have time for that kind of thinking. Many filmmakers can’t hold back their work until next year, when competition will only increase for premiere slots and buyer attention, and many festivals can’t wait because they will cease to exist without revenue. We all need to keep getting smarter, faster.
While we all want to get back into theaters, the public is swiftly adapting to watch online content non-stop. Everyone from health care workers to dancers are...
- 5/16/2020
- by Thom Powers
- Indiewire
Juries will watch online and deliberate remotely.
Copenhagen’s Cph:dox is launching its first digital festival today (March 16), after the physical festival was cancelled on March 11 due to the Danish government’s Covid-19 national shutdown.
Festival organisers are working with digital platform Festival Scope and will offer at least 40 films for public viewing. The films, of which nearly all will have a director pre-recorded Q&a at the end of them, are being offered only to viewers with a Danish IP address.
Tine Fischer, director of Cph:dox, told Screen that the films will be on offer for 10 days, and the...
Copenhagen’s Cph:dox is launching its first digital festival today (March 16), after the physical festival was cancelled on March 11 due to the Danish government’s Covid-19 national shutdown.
Festival organisers are working with digital platform Festival Scope and will offer at least 40 films for public viewing. The films, of which nearly all will have a director pre-recorded Q&a at the end of them, are being offered only to viewers with a Danish IP address.
Tine Fischer, director of Cph:dox, told Screen that the films will be on offer for 10 days, and the...
- 3/16/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The tendency to apply the label “narrative film” to non-documentary cinema is a convenience, but also a misnomer: Documentaries can be as narratively driven as any fiction feature, as “Love Child” proves in entirely engrossing fashion. Spanning six years in the lives of two Iranian refugees — and their out-of-wedlock son — as they seek permanent sanctuary from a homeland where they face the death penalty for their love, Eva Mulvad’s film is remarkable for its intimate, extended access, its subtle political acuity and its personal window into a global crisis. But it’s first and foremost a feat of captivating storytelling, rich in character detail, vivid temporal awareness and high-stakes tension: a relationship drama in which more rides on its central couple staying the course than most.
Since its September premiere in Toronto’s documentary strand, this mostly Turkish-set Danish production has unsurprisingly been racking up high-profile festival berths, including...
Since its September premiere in Toronto’s documentary strand, this mostly Turkish-set Danish production has unsurprisingly been racking up high-profile festival berths, including...
- 11/27/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Mark Deeble, co-director with Victoria Stone for The Elephant Queen, won the Short List Feature Cinematography Award
The tenth anniversary Doc NYC Viewfinders, Metropolis, Shorts, and Short List juried award winners were announced on Tuesday night at the Flatiron Room. Petra Costa’s The Edge of Democracy, producers Steven Bognar, Julie Parker Benello, Jeff Reichert and Julia Reichert for American Factory, Todd Douglas Miller for Apollo 11, Mark Deeble for The Elephant Queen, and Waad al-Kateab for For Sama received honours in the new Short List Features award section.
Apollo 11 director Todd Douglas Miller was honoured with the Short List Feature Editing Award
Viewfinders Competition:
Grand Jury Prize Winner: City Dream, directed by Weijun Chen
Special Mention: Love Child, directed by Eva Mulvad
Jurors’ statement: “City Dream is an incisive and compassionate look at the disconnect between authority and democracy and its impact on the day to day lives of ordinary civilians.
The tenth anniversary Doc NYC Viewfinders, Metropolis, Shorts, and Short List juried award winners were announced on Tuesday night at the Flatiron Room. Petra Costa’s The Edge of Democracy, producers Steven Bognar, Julie Parker Benello, Jeff Reichert and Julia Reichert for American Factory, Todd Douglas Miller for Apollo 11, Mark Deeble for The Elephant Queen, and Waad al-Kateab for For Sama received honours in the new Short List Features award section.
Apollo 11 director Todd Douglas Miller was honoured with the Short List Feature Editing Award
Viewfinders Competition:
Grand Jury Prize Winner: City Dream, directed by Weijun Chen
Special Mention: Love Child, directed by Eva Mulvad
Jurors’ statement: “City Dream is an incisive and compassionate look at the disconnect between authority and democracy and its impact on the day to day lives of ordinary civilians.
- 11/13/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Updated with Doc NYC winners, 6:30 Pm: CNN Films has acquired the documentary feature Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice and set its television premiere for New Year’s Day on CNN.
Ronstadt was 21 when she first hit the national charts with the Stone Poneys’ “Different Drum,” and her plaintive vocal leapt off the radio from the opening line. By the mid-’70s, she was cranking out smash singles and multiplatinum albums as fast as the public could consume them. Three of her LPs hit No. 1 en route to her becoming the most successful female singer of the decade.
Two-time Oscar winner Rob Epstein and Oscar nominee Jeffrey Friedman directed the docu from Greenwich Entertainment, 1091 and CNN Films and also produce alongside James Keach and Michele Farinola. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice premieres at 9 p.m. Wednesday, January 1.
‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice...
Ronstadt was 21 when she first hit the national charts with the Stone Poneys’ “Different Drum,” and her plaintive vocal leapt off the radio from the opening line. By the mid-’70s, she was cranking out smash singles and multiplatinum albums as fast as the public could consume them. Three of her LPs hit No. 1 en route to her becoming the most successful female singer of the decade.
Two-time Oscar winner Rob Epstein and Oscar nominee Jeffrey Friedman directed the docu from Greenwich Entertainment, 1091 and CNN Films and also produce alongside James Keach and Michele Farinola. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice premieres at 9 p.m. Wednesday, January 1.
‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice...
- 11/13/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Sahand and Leila weren’t asking for much when they fled their native Iran in 2012. As Leila explains during one of many interviews during Eva Mulvad’s aching and intimate documentary “Love Child,” the couple wasn’t looking for “a good life” elsewhere; they just wanted the chance for a normal one, where their relationship and the very existence of their son Mani wasn’t a death sentence. And they were right to be afraid.
Nearly a decade ago, the couple (plus Mani) left behind everything and everyone they knew to escape to Turkey, convinced that their adulterous relationship (and the physical manifestation of it) was going to get them killed. As Sahand explains during his own interviews, he can still remember incidents during his childhood when people guilty of his same apparent crimes were stoned or hung in public, murdered by the government for their life choices. Yes, they were right to run,...
Nearly a decade ago, the couple (plus Mani) left behind everything and everyone they knew to escape to Turkey, convinced that their adulterous relationship (and the physical manifestation of it) was going to get them killed. As Sahand explains during his own interviews, he can still remember incidents during his childhood when people guilty of his same apparent crimes were stoned or hung in public, murdered by the government for their life choices. Yes, they were right to run,...
- 11/9/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Pictured: Louise Detlefsen and Louise Kjeldsen’s “Fat Front,” about a rebellious movement started by plus-sized women in Scandinavia, world premieres at Idfa.
Danish documentarian Jørgen Leth, whose 1967 short “The Perfect Human” inspired fellow countryman Lars Von Trier as a film student, will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at Idfa this year. The prolific 82-year-old, based in Haiti, is just one of a number of non-fiction heavyweights to be celebrated at the Amsterdam festival, which will also offer posthumous tributes to Agnes Varda and D.A. Pennebaker, who passed away this year.
Under festival director Orwa Nyrabia, in his second year, Idfa continues to focus on directors from emerging territories as well as films dealing with pressing contemporary issues. In the Frontlight section, Claudia Sparrow’s “Maxima” deals with a Peruvian farmer forced to defend her land against the gold-mining industry; Jia Yuchuan’s “The Two Lives of Li Ermao...
Danish documentarian Jørgen Leth, whose 1967 short “The Perfect Human” inspired fellow countryman Lars Von Trier as a film student, will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at Idfa this year. The prolific 82-year-old, based in Haiti, is just one of a number of non-fiction heavyweights to be celebrated at the Amsterdam festival, which will also offer posthumous tributes to Agnes Varda and D.A. Pennebaker, who passed away this year.
Under festival director Orwa Nyrabia, in his second year, Idfa continues to focus on directors from emerging territories as well as films dealing with pressing contemporary issues. In the Frontlight section, Claudia Sparrow’s “Maxima” deals with a Peruvian farmer forced to defend her land against the gold-mining industry; Jia Yuchuan’s “The Two Lives of Li Ermao...
- 10/8/2019
- by Damon Wise
- Variety Film + TV
The year “2012” doesn’t appear at the beginning of Eva Mulvad’s documentary Love Child because it’s an era-specific story. No well-known international news headline is about to arrive as motivation for why Sahand and Leila fled Iran for the hope of sanctuary far, far away. The real reason for that date is perhaps even more heartbreaking when proven to be a simple case of timeline logistics. This is when the couple’s story starts, and we’ll eventually see more demarcations as it continues forward. What they believed would be a few months of exile in Turkey before the Un could review their case and send them somewhere “safe” quickly morphs into years. And the country threatening their lives remains a border away.
Sahand and Leila have become refugees because of the boy alluded to in the title: Mani. As they explain to the psychologist working their asylum case,...
Sahand and Leila have become refugees because of the boy alluded to in the title: Mani. As they explain to the psychologist working their asylum case,...
- 9/13/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Having committed adultery and conceived a child out of wedlock, a couple is forced to choose between keeping secrets and family ties — or being true to love and residing in exile. Though that could be the plot of an old-fashioned romance novel (or modern-day soap opera), it’s actually the all-too-real situation the protagonists at the heart of Eva Mulvad’s documentary Love Child are forced to reckon with. Over the course of six years Mulvad (the Danish documentarian behind lighter dramatic fare such as the Grey Gardens-in-Portugal standout The Good Life, and more recently, A Cherry Tale and A Modern […]...
- 9/12/2019
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Having committed adultery and conceived a child out of wedlock, a couple is forced to choose between keeping secrets and family ties — or being true to love and residing in exile. Though that could be the plot of an old-fashioned romance novel (or modern-day soap opera), it’s actually the all-too-real situation the protagonists at the heart of Eva Mulvad’s documentary Love Child are forced to reckon with. Over the course of six years Mulvad (the Danish documentarian behind lighter dramatic fare such as the Grey Gardens-in-Portugal standout The Good Life, and more recently, A Cherry Tale and A Modern […]...
- 9/12/2019
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The film will world premiere in Toronto.
Dogwoof has swooped to take international sales rights and UK distribution to Oscar-nominated Feras Fayyad’s latest feature, The Cave.
The film will premiere as the opening night film of Tiff Docs next month, and as a Documentary Special Presentation at the London Film Festival.
The film tells the story of an underground Syrian hospital and the staff who work against enormous odds to keep it going despite the ongoing conflict.
Dogwoof will be beginning sales efforts in Toronto and is planning a UK theatrical release for December 6, placing it in good position for the 2020 awards season.
Dogwoof has swooped to take international sales rights and UK distribution to Oscar-nominated Feras Fayyad’s latest feature, The Cave.
The film will premiere as the opening night film of Tiff Docs next month, and as a Documentary Special Presentation at the London Film Festival.
The film tells the story of an underground Syrian hospital and the staff who work against enormous odds to keep it going despite the ongoing conflict.
Dogwoof will be beginning sales efforts in Toronto and is planning a UK theatrical release for December 6, placing it in good position for the 2020 awards season.
- 8/30/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Yorgos Lanthimos short joins the line-up and Antonio Banderas is among conversation guests.
The Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) has revealed an In Conversation With…. line-up that includes Antonio Banderas and the selection of Mati Diop as the inaugural recipient of the festival’s Mary Pickford Award.
The In Conversation programme at this year’s festival (September 5-15) will comprise sessions with Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx from Just Mercy, Banderas from Pain and Glory and The Laundromat, Allison Janney from Bad Education and Kerry Washington from American Son.
The inaugural Mary Pickford Award, which recognises an emerging female...
The Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) has revealed an In Conversation With…. line-up that includes Antonio Banderas and the selection of Mati Diop as the inaugural recipient of the festival’s Mary Pickford Award.
The In Conversation programme at this year’s festival (September 5-15) will comprise sessions with Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx from Just Mercy, Banderas from Pain and Glory and The Laundromat, Allison Janney from Bad Education and Kerry Washington from American Son.
The inaugural Mary Pickford Award, which recognises an emerging female...
- 8/20/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto Film Festival has revealed this year’s lineups for its documentary, Midnight Madness, Discovery and retro Cinematheque sections, adding movies from Alex Gibney, Barbara Kopple, Bryce Dallas Howard, Richard Stanley and Ali LeRoi to the 2019 fest that kicks off next month.
Tiff Docs’ 25 pics kicks off with the world premiere of Feras Fayyad’s The Cave, about an underground hospital led by a female doctor in war-torn Syria. Also in the mix is Kopple’s Desert One, chronicling a perilous mission to rescue hostages in Iran, and Gibney’s Citizen K, profiling the Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Meanwhile, the genre lineup of Midnight Madness includes Richard Stanley’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space, which stars Nicolas Cage and brings the director back to the section after 29 years, and Takashi Miike’s Japanese action-comedy First Love.
The Discovery section will open with Chiara Malta’s Simple Women,...
Tiff Docs’ 25 pics kicks off with the world premiere of Feras Fayyad’s The Cave, about an underground hospital led by a female doctor in war-torn Syria. Also in the mix is Kopple’s Desert One, chronicling a perilous mission to rescue hostages in Iran, and Gibney’s Citizen K, profiling the Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Meanwhile, the genre lineup of Midnight Madness includes Richard Stanley’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space, which stars Nicolas Cage and brings the director back to the section after 29 years, and Takashi Miike’s Japanese action-comedy First Love.
The Discovery section will open with Chiara Malta’s Simple Women,...
- 8/8/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
New works from celebrated documentary filmmakers Alex Gibney, Barbara Kopple, Lauren Greenfield, Alan Berliner, Feras Fayyad, Patricio Guzman, Fisher Stevens and Mark Cousins will be showcased in the Tiff Docs section of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, Tiff organizers announced on Thursday.
In addition to the 25 documentaries, the festival also revealed more than 50 additional films in the Midnight Madness, Tiff Discovery and Tiff Cinematheque sections.
The documentary section will open with “The Cave” from Feras Fayyad, director of the Oscar-nominated “Last Men in Aleppo.” The film is set in an underground hospital led by a female doctor in Syria. Other former Oscar nominees and winners showing films at Tiff include Gibney with “Citizen K,” his portrait of Russian oligarch-turned-Putin-critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky; Kopple, with “Desert One,” about an Iranian hostage rescue mission; and Stevens, co-director with Malcolm Venville of “And We Go Green,” a Leonardo DiCaprio-produced film about the Formula...
In addition to the 25 documentaries, the festival also revealed more than 50 additional films in the Midnight Madness, Tiff Discovery and Tiff Cinematheque sections.
The documentary section will open with “The Cave” from Feras Fayyad, director of the Oscar-nominated “Last Men in Aleppo.” The film is set in an underground hospital led by a female doctor in Syria. Other former Oscar nominees and winners showing films at Tiff include Gibney with “Citizen K,” his portrait of Russian oligarch-turned-Putin-critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky; Kopple, with “Desert One,” about an Iranian hostage rescue mission; and Stevens, co-director with Malcolm Venville of “And We Go Green,” a Leonardo DiCaprio-produced film about the Formula...
- 8/8/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its documentary, discovery, and midnight programs.
The lineup of 25 nonfiction works in the documentary category cover an array of topics and subjects — ranging from immigration to corruption in politics to Truman Capote’s rarefied social circle. The announcement comes as documentaries have become one of the most reliable sources of box office revenues for indie studios. Films such as “Free Solo” and “Rbg” were among the biggest arthouse hits of 2018 and there’s a lot of interest among buyers in the films in this section. Thom Powers, Tiff Docs programmer, attributes the rising commercial prospects of these films to the ubiquity of non-fiction works on Netflix and other streaming services.
“People have developed a real appetite for documentary films similar to the way they once developed an appetite for serial television,” says Powers. “Once they started sampling, they just wanted more. With Netflix...
The lineup of 25 nonfiction works in the documentary category cover an array of topics and subjects — ranging from immigration to corruption in politics to Truman Capote’s rarefied social circle. The announcement comes as documentaries have become one of the most reliable sources of box office revenues for indie studios. Films such as “Free Solo” and “Rbg” were among the biggest arthouse hits of 2018 and there’s a lot of interest among buyers in the films in this section. Thom Powers, Tiff Docs programmer, attributes the rising commercial prospects of these films to the ubiquity of non-fiction works on Netflix and other streaming services.
“People have developed a real appetite for documentary films similar to the way they once developed an appetite for serial television,” says Powers. “Once they started sampling, they just wanted more. With Netflix...
- 8/8/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Two of the Toronto International Film Festival’s signature programs have today unveiled their full slates, including both the genre-bending Midnight Madness program and the wide-ranging Tiff Docs section. Both slates will feature a number of highly anticipated premieres, with the lauded documentary section playing home to films like Feras Fayyad’s “The Cave” (which will open Tiff Docs), Mark Cousins’ 14-hour “Women Make Film,” Bryce Dallas Howard making her feature directorial debut with the documentary “Dads,” along with new films from Barbara Kopple, Alex Gibney, and Lauren Greenfield.
The Tiff Docs lineup includes 25 non-fiction works, including 18 world premieres with representation from 18 countries. The films cover many high-profile figures, both famous and infamous — including Truman Capote, Merce Cunningham, Ron Howard, Bikram Choudhury, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Imelda Marcos — and a broad range of themes, including artistic achievement, the power of journalism, immigration, global politics, and resistance against corrupt leaders.
“This year...
The Tiff Docs lineup includes 25 non-fiction works, including 18 world premieres with representation from 18 countries. The films cover many high-profile figures, both famous and infamous — including Truman Capote, Merce Cunningham, Ron Howard, Bikram Choudhury, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Imelda Marcos — and a broad range of themes, including artistic achievement, the power of journalism, immigration, global politics, and resistance against corrupt leaders.
“This year...
- 8/8/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Canadian zombie film Blood Quantum, Ugandan gonzo action film Crazy World bookend Midnight Madness.
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass on Thursday (8) unveiled selections in the Midnight Madness, Discovery, Tiff Docs, and Cinematheque programmes set to screen next month.
The 10-strong Midnight Madness programme includes world premieres of Rose Glass’s psychological thriller Saint Maud, Joko Anwar’s Indonesian superhero adaptation Gundala, and Richard Stanley’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out Of Space starring Nicolas Cage. Jeff Barnaby’s previously announced zombie outbreak thriller Blood Quantum from Canada and Isaac Nabwana’s Ugandan gonzo action film Crazy World bookend the section.
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass on Thursday (8) unveiled selections in the Midnight Madness, Discovery, Tiff Docs, and Cinematheque programmes set to screen next month.
The 10-strong Midnight Madness programme includes world premieres of Rose Glass’s psychological thriller Saint Maud, Joko Anwar’s Indonesian superhero adaptation Gundala, and Richard Stanley’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out Of Space starring Nicolas Cage. Jeff Barnaby’s previously announced zombie outbreak thriller Blood Quantum from Canada and Isaac Nabwana’s Ugandan gonzo action film Crazy World bookend the section.
- 8/8/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In today’s International Newswire, Variety asks if high-end drama is the new content king in Europe; Nordic Film & TV Fund announce new round of top-up financing; Turner/Warner Bros. FilmStruck launches in France and Spain; Natpe Budapest International announces a participation hike – a sign of vitality of some regional markets.
Is Drama the New Soccer of Europe?
Are drama series the new soccer? And, of all countries, in soccer loco Spain? On Thursday, via a tweeted video, a man in a “La Casa de Papel” garb – Dali mask, lush Bordeaux red overalls, who turned out, once he took off the mask, to be Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, announced with Telefonica’s executive CEO José María Alvarez Pallete that Netflix would be made available to Telefonica’s Movistar + pay TV subscribers in Spain and Latin America.
More than daylight robbery, however, that’s a win-win play for both companies. This is a union between Netflix,...
Is Drama the New Soccer of Europe?
Are drama series the new soccer? And, of all countries, in soccer loco Spain? On Thursday, via a tweeted video, a man in a “La Casa de Papel” garb – Dali mask, lush Bordeaux red overalls, who turned out, once he took off the mask, to be Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, announced with Telefonica’s executive CEO José María Alvarez Pallete that Netflix would be made available to Telefonica’s Movistar + pay TV subscribers in Spain and Latin America.
More than daylight robbery, however, that’s a win-win play for both companies. This is a union between Netflix,...
- 5/25/2018
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Fond also backs two TV serires and Lisa Langseth’s new feature.
In its June round of funding, Nordisk Film & TV Fond supported seven new projects, including its largest ever production grant for a documentary, $118,000 (Nok 1m), to Mads Brügger’s [pictured] Cold Case Dag Hammerskjöld.
The Danish documentary is produced by Peter Engel of Wingman Media, in co-production with Norway’s Piraya Film, Sweden’s Laika Film and Belgium’s Associate Producers. Again with his unique style also on camera The Ambassador director Brugger reopens the case of legendary former Un Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld who died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia in 1961.
Dr handles world sales on the film, which will be delivered in 2017.
The Fond also supported these projects in its latest round:
A Modern Man (documentary) $56,000 $231,000 (Nok 500,000) Produced by Danish Documentary and directed by Eva Mulvad, this film is an existential journey with violinist and model Charlie Siem. Rides Upon the...
In its June round of funding, Nordisk Film & TV Fond supported seven new projects, including its largest ever production grant for a documentary, $118,000 (Nok 1m), to Mads Brügger’s [pictured] Cold Case Dag Hammerskjöld.
The Danish documentary is produced by Peter Engel of Wingman Media, in co-production with Norway’s Piraya Film, Sweden’s Laika Film and Belgium’s Associate Producers. Again with his unique style also on camera The Ambassador director Brugger reopens the case of legendary former Un Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld who died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia in 1961.
Dr handles world sales on the film, which will be delivered in 2017.
The Fond also supported these projects in its latest round:
A Modern Man (documentary) $56,000 $231,000 (Nok 500,000) Produced by Danish Documentary and directed by Eva Mulvad, this film is an existential journey with violinist and model Charlie Siem. Rides Upon the...
- 6/28/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Netflix to launch Us-Danish documentary Knox in autumn; Screen speaks to key doc companies about their lineups.
The Danish documentary world has been going from strength to strength – and not just Joshua Oppenheimer’s Danish productions The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.
Screen spoke to three of Denmark’s most prominent documentary production companies last week in Copenhagen, to talk about their slates, which include a new Netflix title with exclusive access to Amanda Knox, two Syrian documentaries, and a Tribeca premiere about insects as a sustainable food source.
All the companies said Danish documentaries were booming thanks in part to generous support systems from the Danish Film Institute, which has specialist documentary funding consultants, to help them create such a range of work now.
As Signe Byrge Sorensen of Final Cut For Real says: “There is a long tradition here for documentary, and its also very diverse. People do all...
The Danish documentary world has been going from strength to strength – and not just Joshua Oppenheimer’s Danish productions The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.
Screen spoke to three of Denmark’s most prominent documentary production companies last week in Copenhagen, to talk about their slates, which include a new Netflix title with exclusive access to Amanda Knox, two Syrian documentaries, and a Tribeca premiere about insects as a sustainable food source.
All the companies said Danish documentaries were booming thanks in part to generous support systems from the Danish Film Institute, which has specialist documentary funding consultants, to help them create such a range of work now.
As Signe Byrge Sorensen of Final Cut For Real says: “There is a long tradition here for documentary, and its also very diverse. People do all...
- 4/13/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Varèse Sarabande will release the Sicario – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally and on CD September 18, 2015, the same day that the Lionsgate film premieres in limited release, before opening wide on September 25.
The album features original music by Academy Award nominated composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory Of Everything, Prisoners).
Sicario debuted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, earning rave reviews for both the film and the score. Vanity Fair Magazine called the score “rumbling, evocative” and “he (Jóhannsson) has a wonderful knack for balancing eye-popping technical flourishes with more organic texture and mood.”
Sicario is Jóhannsson’s second collaboration with director Denis Villeneuve, for whom he scored the 2013 film Prisoners.
“Denis didn’t use temp music while editing, so I began writing the music with a completely blank slate. This was both daunting and exhilarating,” said Jóhannsson. “Like Prisoners, it’s quite tense and has a certain sense of dread,...
The album features original music by Academy Award nominated composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory Of Everything, Prisoners).
Sicario debuted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, earning rave reviews for both the film and the score. Vanity Fair Magazine called the score “rumbling, evocative” and “he (Jóhannsson) has a wonderful knack for balancing eye-popping technical flourishes with more organic texture and mood.”
Sicario is Jóhannsson’s second collaboration with director Denis Villeneuve, for whom he scored the 2013 film Prisoners.
“Denis didn’t use temp music while editing, so I began writing the music with a completely blank slate. This was both daunting and exhilarating,” said Jóhannsson. “Like Prisoners, it’s quite tense and has a certain sense of dread,...
- 8/6/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
From Focus Features comes the inspirational drama The Theory Of Everything. Starring Eddie Redmayne & Felicity Jones, the opens in select cities this Friday, November 7th.
Starring Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”) and Felicity Jones (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″), this is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.
Based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, director James Marsh went with Icelandic composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson...
Starring Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”) and Felicity Jones (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″), this is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.
Based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, director James Marsh went with Icelandic composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson...
- 11/7/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Idfa’s international co-finance and production market will run Nov 25-27 in Amsterdam.
During the Idfa Forum, filmmakers and producers will present documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other providers of finance, with the aim of completing the finance for their documentary projects.
In total, 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including the latest projects by Femke and Ilse van Velzen, Eva Mulvad and Marcus Vetter.
The Idfa 2013 screening program includes 18 documentaries presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
The 50 projects selected for the Idfa Forum 2013 will be pitched in various different settings: the central pitches in the Compagnietheater’s main hall; the round table pitches in the small hall; and one-on-one discussions with potential financiers.
For the second year in succession, the Idfa Forum includes the Work in Progress Screening category, aimed at stimulating sales and distribution.
While most of the projects at the Idfa Forum...
During the Idfa Forum, filmmakers and producers will present documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other providers of finance, with the aim of completing the finance for their documentary projects.
In total, 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including the latest projects by Femke and Ilse van Velzen, Eva Mulvad and Marcus Vetter.
The Idfa 2013 screening program includes 18 documentaries presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
The 50 projects selected for the Idfa Forum 2013 will be pitched in various different settings: the central pitches in the Compagnietheater’s main hall; the round table pitches in the small hall; and one-on-one discussions with potential financiers.
For the second year in succession, the Idfa Forum includes the Work in Progress Screening category, aimed at stimulating sales and distribution.
While most of the projects at the Idfa Forum...
- 10/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
"Bigger and here to stay, Doc NYC returns for its second year to spread the gospel of nonfiction, showcasing 52 features in what's becoming the city's mainstream fall complement to Moma's more international and experimental Documentary Fortnight," writes Nicolas Rapold in the Voice. "Boldface names Werner Herzog, Barbara Kopple, and Jonathan Demme come bearing new work; anticipated favorites such as The Island President and an Eames doc will be rolled out; a memorial tribute to the late Richard Leacock burnishes another vérité legend; and a host of often issue-oriented other films await presumably sympathetic perusal."
The festival opens this evening with Into the Abyss, "Herzog's best documentary in many years," at least for Amy Taubin, writing for Artforum. "Herzog's subject is state-mandated execution, which he addresses via a case of triple homicide that took place in Conroe, Texas…. The movie is all the more haunting for being so straightforward in its narrative organization,...
The festival opens this evening with Into the Abyss, "Herzog's best documentary in many years," at least for Amy Taubin, writing for Artforum. "Herzog's subject is state-mandated execution, which he addresses via a case of triple homicide that took place in Conroe, Texas…. The movie is all the more haunting for being so straightforward in its narrative organization,...
- 11/4/2011
- MUBI
Henry David, Sasson Gabai, Sarah Adler in Yossi Madmoni's Restoration Judi Dench, John Turturro, Goran Bregovic: Karlovy Vary 2011 Honorees Grand Prix – Crystal Globe Restoration / Boker Tov, Adon Fidelman Directed by: Yossi Madmoni Israel, 2010 Special Jury Prize Gypsy / Cigán Director: Martin Šulík Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, 2011 Best Director Award Pascal Rabaté for the film Holidays by the Sea France, 2011 Best Actress Award Stine Fischer Christensen for her role in the film Cracks in the Shell / Die Unsichtbare Directed by: Christian Schwochow Germany, 2011 Best Actor Award David Morse for his role in the film Collaborator Directed by: Martin Donovan Canada, USA, 2010 Special Mention Ján Mizigár for his role in the film Gypsy / Cigán Directed by: Martin Šulík Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, 2011 Jocelyn Pook for the music of the film Room 304 / Værelse 304 Directed by: Birgitte Stærmose Denmark, Croatia, 2011 East Of The West – Films In Competition East of the West Award...
- 7/12/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The Good Life is not about the good life, but the bad life. Mother Mette and daughter Anne lived a life of wealth and privilege, and then the husband-father died and the inherence dwindled, and finally the money ran out. Today the two survive on the mother’s minuscule pension in a small apartment in Portugal. While the mother seems resigned to her impoverished fate, the daughter is anything but resigned. She views life without wealth and servants as terribly unfair to her.
At the age of 56, daughter Anne has never held a job — not one! “Work is still taboo for me,” she says. “I will not allow myself to be demeaned by work.” Although not the first person reared in luxury and convinced being rich is her entitlement for life, she may very well be the funniest.
Danish director Eva Mulvad has crafted an extraordinary film capturing two complex...
At the age of 56, daughter Anne has never held a job — not one! “Work is still taboo for me,” she says. “I will not allow myself to be demeaned by work.” Although not the first person reared in luxury and convinced being rich is her entitlement for life, she may very well be the funniest.
Danish director Eva Mulvad has crafted an extraordinary film capturing two complex...
- 5/2/2011
- by Stewart Nusbaumer
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Updated through 4/30.
"At first it was about neighborhood," begins Eric Hynes in the Voice. "Then it was about stars, parties, and supersizing. But finally, for its 10th incarnation, the Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) seems to be about movies. Gone are the superfluous, attention-sucking Hollywood premieres (Tom Cruise on a Jet Ski, anyone?), and few are the big-name, low-quality vanity projects. Several years into a vital slimming of the slate — the fest topped out at 176 films in 2005; this year, it's a manageable 93 — Tff remains New York's largest film survey."
To celebrate Tribeca's 10th, we're running a retrospective of some of the best films the festival's shown over the past decade here at Mubi. Happy viewing.
"A notoriously uneven assemblage of titles, Tribeca aspires toward something like a mini Toronto, but despite, in recent years, bringing such important films as Jia Zhangke's Still Life and Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows...
"At first it was about neighborhood," begins Eric Hynes in the Voice. "Then it was about stars, parties, and supersizing. But finally, for its 10th incarnation, the Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) seems to be about movies. Gone are the superfluous, attention-sucking Hollywood premieres (Tom Cruise on a Jet Ski, anyone?), and few are the big-name, low-quality vanity projects. Several years into a vital slimming of the slate — the fest topped out at 176 films in 2005; this year, it's a manageable 93 — Tff remains New York's largest film survey."
To celebrate Tribeca's 10th, we're running a retrospective of some of the best films the festival's shown over the past decade here at Mubi. Happy viewing.
"A notoriously uneven assemblage of titles, Tribeca aspires toward something like a mini Toronto, but despite, in recent years, bringing such important films as Jia Zhangke's Still Life and Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows...
- 4/30/2011
- MUBI
The Good Life Review [Sfiff]
Sfiff has done a good job of selecting worthy documentaries, and Eva Mulvad's The Good Life seems to be one of the better ones. It's being described as a new Gray Gardens but it's important to note that the impoverished mother and daughter in The Good Life are not mentally ill. They are completely sane.
Thanks for reading We Got This Covered...
Sfiff has done a good job of selecting worthy documentaries, and Eva Mulvad's The Good Life seems to be one of the better ones. It's being described as a new Gray Gardens but it's important to note that the impoverished mother and daughter in The Good Life are not mentally ill. They are completely sane.
Thanks for reading We Got This Covered...
- 4/28/2011
- by Blake Griffin
- We Got This Covered
With the start of the 10th Tribeca Film Festival, indieWIRE is again spotlighting emerging (and some veteran) filmmakers screening new work at this year's event. Friday's new director interviews include profiles of Brady Kiernan ("Stuck Between Stations," Viewpoints), Eva Mulvad ("The Good Life," Viewpoints), Adam Pesce ("Splinters," Viewpoints) and Hesham Issawi ("Cairo Exit," World Narrative Competition). indieWIRE is focusing on directors with work in Tff's Narrative Feature Competition, World Documentary ...
- 4/22/2011
- indieWIRE - People
With the start of the 10th Tribeca Film Festival, indieWIRE is again spotlighting emerging (and some veteran) filmmakers screening new work at this year's event. Friday's new director interviews include profiles of Brady Kiernan ("Stuck Between Stations," Viewpoints), Eva Mulvad ("The Good Life," Viewpoints), Adam Pesce ("Splinters," Viewpoints) and Hesham Issawi ("Cairo Exit," World Narrative Competition). indieWIRE is focusing on directors with work in Tff's Narrative Feature Competition, World Documentary ...
- 4/22/2011
- indieWIRE - People
With the start of the 10th Tribeca Film Festival, indieWIRE is again spotlighting emerging (and some veteran) filmmakers screening new work at this year's event. Friday's new director interviews include profiles of Brady Kiernan ("Stuck Between Stations," Viewpoints), Eva Mulvad ("The Good Life," Viewpoints), Adam Pesce ("Splinters," Viewpoints) and Hesham Issawi ("Cairo Exit," World Narrative Competition). indieWIRE is focusing on directors with work in Tff's Narrative Feature Competition, World Documentary ...
- 4/22/2011
- indieWIRE - People
A riches to rags story, "The Good Life" will inevitably remind many of the Maysles Brothers' "Grey Gardens." Focusing on Danish mother and daughter Mette and Anne Beckmann, director Eva Mulvad references the iconoclastic film but shows the Beckmanns in their own light with their own special relationship. Hailing from a well-to-do background, having lived in Paris and Copenhagen, the two have settled in Portugal, now living a meager life ...
- 4/22/2011
- Indiewire
A riches to rags story, "The Good Life" will inevitably remind many of the Maysles Brothers' "Grey Gardens." Focusing on Danish mother and daughter Mette and Anne Beckmann, director Eva Mulvad references the iconoclastic film but shows the Beckmanns in their own light with their own special relationship. Hailing from a well-to-do background, having lived in Paris and Copenhagen, the two have settled in Portugal, now living a meager life ...
- 4/22/2011
- indieWIRE - People
Tribeca: Tell us a little about The Good Life. Eva Mulvad: It is a sad comedy about a mother and a daughter who used to be well off, but spent all their inherited money and are now hopelessly bad at being poor. They live together in a small seaside town in Portugal. The daughter is 56 years old, and has lived all her life with her parents. The mother is 83. No one in the family had to work to make a living, but now the daughter has to step into the world and try to find a job. Tribeca: What inspired you to tell this story? Did you have a connection to this family? Eva Mulvad: I was looking for a fairytale kind of story after making a more political film - Enemies of Happiness - about a young woman fighting for change in Afghanistan. One day I was driving in my car,...
- 3/31/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
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