Uwe Boll’s migrant crisis thriller “Run” is making its market debut in Cannes via Stuttgart-based sales company Kinostar.
Boll just wrapped shooting on his latest pic and unveiled the first images from the production. Shot entirely in the resort town of Baška on the Croatian island of Krk, which doubles for a coastal community in Italy, “Run” follows a group of desperate migrants as they make landfall after a perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea and the impact of their arrival on locals and tourists.
The cast includes Emmy and Tony award winner Amanda Plummer, James Russo, European Film Award winner Ulrich Thomsen, BAFTA winner Barkhad Abdi (“Captain Phillips”), Kristen Renton, Daniel Sauli, Marcus Henderson, Mohammed (Michel) Qissy, Sammy Sheik, Costas Mandylor, Daniela Piperno (“Ferrari”), Ezra Mabengeza, Hannah Balogun and Matteo Pasquini (“Return to Silent Hill”).
“It was a real pleasure to work with this extraordinary ensemble cast and the talented crew,...
Boll just wrapped shooting on his latest pic and unveiled the first images from the production. Shot entirely in the resort town of Baška on the Croatian island of Krk, which doubles for a coastal community in Italy, “Run” follows a group of desperate migrants as they make landfall after a perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea and the impact of their arrival on locals and tourists.
The cast includes Emmy and Tony award winner Amanda Plummer, James Russo, European Film Award winner Ulrich Thomsen, BAFTA winner Barkhad Abdi (“Captain Phillips”), Kristen Renton, Daniel Sauli, Marcus Henderson, Mohammed (Michel) Qissy, Sammy Sheik, Costas Mandylor, Daniela Piperno (“Ferrari”), Ezra Mabengeza, Hannah Balogun and Matteo Pasquini (“Return to Silent Hill”).
“It was a real pleasure to work with this extraordinary ensemble cast and the talented crew,...
- 5/14/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
New UK Sales Firm Strikes Slate Deal
Exclusive: New UK sales firm Mise En Scene has set a distribution deal with New York and European distributor Spi International which includes all six of the company’s first titles. Spi has picked up non-exclusive rights to What Lies Ahead, starring Rumer Willis and Emma Dumont; I Wrote This For You with Brennan Keel Cook; Eating Cars starring Lexi Pappas, Lauren Ashley Carter; Super November, starring Josie Long, Sean Biggerstaff and Heydon Prowse; Synchronicity, starring Sara Mitich and Ash Catherwood; and Reach, starring Garrett Clayton, Jordan Doww and Johnny James Fiore. London-based Mise En Scene was launched last March by Paul Yates and Netto Fernandes. Spi International and its aggregation service FilmBox operates a portfolio of 42 TV channels and digital services in multiple countries.
Crackle Plus Takes South African Feature
Exclusive: AVOD platform Crackle Plus has picked up rights to South African...
Exclusive: New UK sales firm Mise En Scene has set a distribution deal with New York and European distributor Spi International which includes all six of the company’s first titles. Spi has picked up non-exclusive rights to What Lies Ahead, starring Rumer Willis and Emma Dumont; I Wrote This For You with Brennan Keel Cook; Eating Cars starring Lexi Pappas, Lauren Ashley Carter; Super November, starring Josie Long, Sean Biggerstaff and Heydon Prowse; Synchronicity, starring Sara Mitich and Ash Catherwood; and Reach, starring Garrett Clayton, Jordan Doww and Johnny James Fiore. London-based Mise En Scene was launched last March by Paul Yates and Netto Fernandes. Spi International and its aggregation service FilmBox operates a portfolio of 42 TV channels and digital services in multiple countries.
Crackle Plus Takes South African Feature
Exclusive: AVOD platform Crackle Plus has picked up rights to South African...
- 1/27/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Juno Films have picked up rights in North America to South Africa's foreign-language Oscar contender Sew the Winter to my Skin from sales group Rushlake Media.
The film, directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, tells the true-life tale of the notorious outlaw John Kepe (Ezra Mabengeza), who achieved folk hero status in pre-apartheid South Africa.
Qubeka's poetic, nearly dialogue-free style, combining a Western manhunt thriller with a boldly experimental biopic, has been compared to that of Terrence Malick. Sew the Winter to my Skin premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year. South Africa selected the title to represent ...
The film, directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, tells the true-life tale of the notorious outlaw John Kepe (Ezra Mabengeza), who achieved folk hero status in pre-apartheid South Africa.
Qubeka's poetic, nearly dialogue-free style, combining a Western manhunt thriller with a boldly experimental biopic, has been compared to that of Terrence Malick. Sew the Winter to my Skin premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year. South Africa selected the title to represent ...
- 11/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Juno Films have picked up rights in North America to South Africa's foreign-language Oscar contender Sew the Winter to my Skin from sales group Rushlake Media.
The film, directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, tells the true-life tale of the notorious outlaw John Kepe (Ezra Mabengeza), who achieved folk hero status in pre-apartheid South Africa.
Qubeka's poetic, nearly dialogue-free style, combining a Western manhunt thriller with a boldly experimental biopic, has been compared to that of Terrence Malick. Sew the Winter to my Skin premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year. South Africa selected the title to represent ...
The film, directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, tells the true-life tale of the notorious outlaw John Kepe (Ezra Mabengeza), who achieved folk hero status in pre-apartheid South Africa.
Qubeka's poetic, nearly dialogue-free style, combining a Western manhunt thriller with a boldly experimental biopic, has been compared to that of Terrence Malick. Sew the Winter to my Skin premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year. South Africa selected the title to represent ...
- 11/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By depicting issues of racism and bigotry in pre-apartheid South Africa, “Sew Winter to My Skin” writer and director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka said he wants to portray everything that “make(s) us the same in humanity, rather than the things that set us apart.”
Following a screening of the 2018 film, South Africa’s Oscar foreign race entry, Qubeka participated in a Q&A moderated by TheWrap CEO and founder Sharon Waxman. Based on true events, “Sew Winter to My Skin” is a Western-style film that follows the violent and emotional last days leading up to South African outlaw John Kepe’s execution in June 1952. Kepe (Ezra Mabengeza), the self-proclaimed “Samson of Boschberg,” was hung for a string of crimes including theft and the murder of a farmworker.
“If you ask me what the film’s about, it’s a love letter to our history. The pain that we live through...
Following a screening of the 2018 film, South Africa’s Oscar foreign race entry, Qubeka participated in a Q&A moderated by TheWrap CEO and founder Sharon Waxman. Based on true events, “Sew Winter to My Skin” is a Western-style film that follows the violent and emotional last days leading up to South African outlaw John Kepe’s execution in June 1952. Kepe (Ezra Mabengeza), the self-proclaimed “Samson of Boschberg,” was hung for a string of crimes including theft and the murder of a farmworker.
“If you ask me what the film’s about, it’s a love letter to our history. The pain that we live through...
- 11/15/2018
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- The Wrap
The admirable ambition to frame the film with all the iconoclastic, outlaw verve of its rogue antihero is both the making and the unmaking of “Sew the Winter to my Skin,” the proto-Western sophomore feature from rising South African powerhouse Jahmil X.T. Qubeka. As shown in his well-received noir-indebted debut “Of Good Report,” Qubeka has filmmaking energy to burn, but this time it sparks and flares over much broadened horizons — often literally, in the form of returning Dp Jonathan Kovel’s striking landscape photography, featuring vistas so huge they have visibly different weather on one side than the other.
But the narrative enlargement is less successful: While the project of infusing a local legend with grandly cinematic, mythic status is a worthy one, the film can’t quite get out of its own way, and the result is incoherently at odds with itself, with two outsized personalities — the hero John...
But the narrative enlargement is less successful: While the project of infusing a local legend with grandly cinematic, mythic status is a worthy one, the film can’t quite get out of its own way, and the result is incoherently at odds with itself, with two outsized personalities — the hero John...
- 10/6/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s “Sew the Winter to My Skin,” about a real mid-century outlaw and his Robin Hood-style exploits, is South Africa’s submission for the foreign-language Oscar race. The movie, which world premiered in the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, was selected by the National Film & Video Foundation (Nfvf) on Friday.
Written and directed by Qubeka, “Winter” is an adventure epic inspired by the story of John Kepe, who eluded authorities in South Africa’s rugged Boschberg Mountains for 12 years as he stole from wealthy white landowners and gave to the black poor. His exploits made him a folk hero to his own people and a public enemy in the eyes of the apartheid government.
The selection committee lauded what it described as “an unmistakable, bold South African voice that tackles historical and contemporary issues, in both South Africa and the world.” Describing Qubeka’s cinematic technique as “visionary and bold,...
Written and directed by Qubeka, “Winter” is an adventure epic inspired by the story of John Kepe, who eluded authorities in South Africa’s rugged Boschberg Mountains for 12 years as he stole from wealthy white landowners and gave to the black poor. His exploits made him a folk hero to his own people and a public enemy in the eyes of the apartheid government.
The selection committee lauded what it described as “an unmistakable, bold South African voice that tackles historical and contemporary issues, in both South Africa and the world.” Describing Qubeka’s cinematic technique as “visionary and bold,...
- 9/21/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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