Exclusive: Embankment Films is making Garbo: Leave Me Alone, a feature documentary about the enigmatic movie star who died in 1990. The doc will have previously unseen archive material including personal photographs of Garbo and letters written by the iconic actress, who is regarded as one of the all-time greats.
Production is underway and the film will have a theatrical release at the end of this year before bowing on Sky in the UK in 2025. It is being made in partnership With Non Stop Entertainment and co-produced with Mylla Films, the Scandi label founded by Patrik Andersson and Jakob Abrahamsson. Fremantle is on board for international sales.
Lorna Tucker, whose previous work includes Katharine Hepburn feature doc Call Me Kate, will direct. “This is a natural follow on to Call Me Kate in a way because it’s a similar era, but it is a very different story because here is...
Production is underway and the film will have a theatrical release at the end of this year before bowing on Sky in the UK in 2025. It is being made in partnership With Non Stop Entertainment and co-produced with Mylla Films, the Scandi label founded by Patrik Andersson and Jakob Abrahamsson. Fremantle is on board for international sales.
Lorna Tucker, whose previous work includes Katharine Hepburn feature doc Call Me Kate, will direct. “This is a natural follow on to Call Me Kate in a way because it’s a similar era, but it is a very different story because here is...
- 4/7/2024
- by Stewart Clarke
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Lorna Tucker brings her own experience to this documentary and works an empathy miracle in her interviews with people on the street
Homelessness could happen to anyone, they say. You’re only two pay cheques from the street. These things never felt more true than watching this documentary narrated by Colin Firth. Its director Lorna Tucker has her own story of homelessness: when she was 15, she ran away from home and ended up in London on the streets. There’s old home movie footage of her as a little girl; how did this sunny seven-year-old eating Hula Hoops from her fingers end up sleeping rough, addicted to heroin, just a few years later?
Tucker tells her story; she is honest and open, allowing herself to be extremely vulnerable, and interviews other people who’ve experienced homelessness. There’s Earl Charlton in the north-east, who was on and off the...
Homelessness could happen to anyone, they say. You’re only two pay cheques from the street. These things never felt more true than watching this documentary narrated by Colin Firth. Its director Lorna Tucker has her own story of homelessness: when she was 15, she ran away from home and ended up in London on the streets. There’s old home movie footage of her as a little girl; how did this sunny seven-year-old eating Hula Hoops from her fingers end up sleeping rough, addicted to heroin, just a few years later?
Tucker tells her story; she is honest and open, allowing herself to be extremely vulnerable, and interviews other people who’ve experienced homelessness. There’s Earl Charlton in the north-east, who was on and off the...
- 2/14/2024
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Lorna Tucker’s documentary about homelessness and ways to help end it will be heading to UK cinemas in February.
Director Lorna Tucker has turned her own experiences of homelessness into a touching, rousing documentary. Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son is heading to UK screens 16 February 2024 and arguably, it’s exactly the film we need right now as we face an unprecedented housing crisis. The film is narrated by Colin Firth.
But the future didn’t always look too bright for Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son. The team had to crowdfund in order to secure a theatrical release and they’ve now hit that milestone. Their Kickstarter campaign met the £30 000 goal just recently and Sam Fender, Adam Buxton and Bryan Adams, who wrote a song for the film, are among some of the project’s supporters.
There’s a trailer for Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son too,...
Director Lorna Tucker has turned her own experiences of homelessness into a touching, rousing documentary. Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son is heading to UK screens 16 February 2024 and arguably, it’s exactly the film we need right now as we face an unprecedented housing crisis. The film is narrated by Colin Firth.
But the future didn’t always look too bright for Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son. The team had to crowdfund in order to secure a theatrical release and they’ve now hit that milestone. Their Kickstarter campaign met the £30 000 goal just recently and Sam Fender, Adam Buxton and Bryan Adams, who wrote a song for the film, are among some of the project’s supporters.
There’s a trailer for Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son too,...
- 12/13/2023
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
Further producers include Nikki Parrott and Tom Wood.
Twelve UK producers including Damian Jones, Emily Morgan, Nikki Parrott and Tom Wood are heading to Paris later this month for a series of co-production meetings arranged through a partnership between the British Film Institute (BFI) and France’s national film centre, the Cnc.
The meetings will take place from April 20-21.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
“After a successful trip of French producers to the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) last October organised by the BFI with Institut francais in the UK and Unifrance, the BFI is delighted...
Twelve UK producers including Damian Jones, Emily Morgan, Nikki Parrott and Tom Wood are heading to Paris later this month for a series of co-production meetings arranged through a partnership between the British Film Institute (BFI) and France’s national film centre, the Cnc.
The meetings will take place from April 20-21.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
“After a successful trip of French producers to the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) last October organised by the BFI with Institut francais in the UK and Unifrance, the BFI is delighted...
- 4/5/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The feature documentary has been picked up by Netflix and Sky.
UK production outfit Salon Pictures has commenced principal photography on Lorna Tucker’s feature documentary Call Me Kate, chronicling the life of US actress Katharine ‘Kate’ Hepburn.
The documentary combines new and archive footage, with the shoot taking place in the US in Connecticut and New York, and in London.
London-based Abacus Media Rights is handling worldwide sales with financing from Head Gear Films. Abacus has taken over from Embankment, which initially boarded sales in 2020.
The film has pre-sold to Netflix for the US and Canada, Sky in the...
UK production outfit Salon Pictures has commenced principal photography on Lorna Tucker’s feature documentary Call Me Kate, chronicling the life of US actress Katharine ‘Kate’ Hepburn.
The documentary combines new and archive footage, with the shoot taking place in the US in Connecticut and New York, and in London.
London-based Abacus Media Rights is handling worldwide sales with financing from Head Gear Films. Abacus has taken over from Embankment, which initially boarded sales in 2020.
The film has pre-sold to Netflix for the US and Canada, Sky in the...
- 4/25/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The U.K.’s Embankment Films has launched worldwide sales ahead of the Toronto Film Festival on “Call Me Kate,” a feature documentary on Katharine ‘Kate’ Hepburn, the actor from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
The feature documentary is from director Lorna Tucker and produced by Salon Pictures, the producers of the BAFTA nominated “McQueen.”
Hepburn was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning a record four for best actress. Her distinctive defiance and enduring talent have made her an icon to generations of women. In her own words: “I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.”
Tucker said: “I’ve always admired Katharine Hepburn: her badass attitude, poise and dignity. How she felt, what kept her going, what private turmoil she faced? She never gave up, and kept moving forward, through her resilience and fight to live her dreams – that’s truly inspirational”.
Nick Taussig...
The feature documentary is from director Lorna Tucker and produced by Salon Pictures, the producers of the BAFTA nominated “McQueen.”
Hepburn was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning a record four for best actress. Her distinctive defiance and enduring talent have made her an icon to generations of women. In her own words: “I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.”
Tucker said: “I’ve always admired Katharine Hepburn: her badass attitude, poise and dignity. How she felt, what kept her going, what private turmoil she faced? She never gave up, and kept moving forward, through her resilience and fight to live her dreams – that’s truly inspirational”.
Nick Taussig...
- 9/4/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: London-based doc specialist Dogwoof, which has a pipeline deal with Nat Geo, is expanding further into production and financing as it eyes bigger plays in an increasingly crowded and lucrative factual market.
The film and TV distribution company, a regular at major European film and TV markets, has had a banner year with Oscar-winner Free Solo and Apollo 11 returning strong grosses at the UK box office, taking $2.7m and $1.8m, respectively.
The firm’s sales wing has also done good recent business on the likes of Cunningham, which went to Magnolia Pictures, and Maiden, which sold to Sony Pictures Classics.
Now, we can reveal the six titles that will comprise the outfit’s next wave of productions. (All working titles.) Below is also our interview with company bosses about growth.
The Lost Leonardo (in production): From director Andreas Koefoed, whose Ballroom Dancer played...
The film and TV distribution company, a regular at major European film and TV markets, has had a banner year with Oscar-winner Free Solo and Apollo 11 returning strong grosses at the UK box office, taking $2.7m and $1.8m, respectively.
The firm’s sales wing has also done good recent business on the likes of Cunningham, which went to Magnolia Pictures, and Maiden, which sold to Sony Pictures Classics.
Now, we can reveal the six titles that will comprise the outfit’s next wave of productions. (All working titles.) Below is also our interview with company bosses about growth.
The Lost Leonardo (in production): From director Andreas Koefoed, whose Ballroom Dancer played...
- 10/24/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The list recognises 50 innovative companies across film, games and digital media.
Nottingham-based Griffin Pictures and Bristol’s Early Day Films are among 50 selected for Creative England’s 2019 CE50 list, for ’innovative and disruptive’ companies and individuals across film, games and digital media from the regions.
The fifth edition of the annual list includes 19 entries for the film and TV industry.
Griffin Pictures is run by Anna Griffin, a 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow, and is currently working on Arash Ashtiani’s Calais refugee drama The Tunnel with BFI Network development funding.
Early Day produced Mark Jenkin’s fisherman drama Bait, which...
Nottingham-based Griffin Pictures and Bristol’s Early Day Films are among 50 selected for Creative England’s 2019 CE50 list, for ’innovative and disruptive’ companies and individuals across film, games and digital media from the regions.
The fifth edition of the annual list includes 19 entries for the film and TV industry.
Griffin Pictures is run by Anna Griffin, a 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow, and is currently working on Arash Ashtiani’s Calais refugee drama The Tunnel with BFI Network development funding.
Early Day produced Mark Jenkin’s fisherman drama Bait, which...
- 5/30/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 34th edition, which takes place from Jan. 30 to Feb. 9. Sixty-three world premieres will debut at the California fest, which is also hosting 59 U.S. premieres from 48 countries. “Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy” will open the festival, with “Spoons: A Santa Barbara Story” closing it.
Sbiff also serves as an awards-season stop, and this year’s honorees include Viggo Mortensen, Glenn Close, Melissa McCarthy, Yalitza Aparicio, Sam Elliott, Elsie Fisher, Claire Foy, Richard E. Grant, Thomasin McKenzie, John David Washington, Steven Yeun, and Michael B. Jordan.
Here’s the lineup:
Babysplitters, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Sam Friedlander
Better Together, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Isaac Hernández
The Bird Catcher, Norway, UK – World Premiere
Directed by Ross Clarke
Cemetery Park, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Brandon Alvis
Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy,...
Sbiff also serves as an awards-season stop, and this year’s honorees include Viggo Mortensen, Glenn Close, Melissa McCarthy, Yalitza Aparicio, Sam Elliott, Elsie Fisher, Claire Foy, Richard E. Grant, Thomasin McKenzie, John David Washington, Steven Yeun, and Michael B. Jordan.
Here’s the lineup:
Babysplitters, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Sam Friedlander
Better Together, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Isaac Hernández
The Bird Catcher, Norway, UK – World Premiere
Directed by Ross Clarke
Cemetery Park, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Brandon Alvis
Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy,...
- 1/12/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The 1960s and 70s Us government drive led to the eradication of a tribe – as revealed in Lorna Tucker’s moving follow-up to her Vivienne Westwood film
Having made a splashy debut with Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, a portrait of the flamboyant designer and salonista Vivienne Westwood, documentarian Lorna Tucker’s follow-up feature tacks in a much grittier, less glamorous direction, eschewing the high fashion boutiques of London and Paris for the flat plains and humble homes of some the western world’s poorest, most oppressed denizens. The multi-stranded story examines how the systematic programme of sterilisation of Native Americans in the 1960s and 70s, a policy that resulted in the eradication of a whole tribe – has affected several people’s lives.
Front and centre is Jean Whitehorse, a Navaho woman whose gentle eyes belie the streak of strength that’s help her to survive a lifetime of poverty, abuse...
Having made a splashy debut with Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, a portrait of the flamboyant designer and salonista Vivienne Westwood, documentarian Lorna Tucker’s follow-up feature tacks in a much grittier, less glamorous direction, eschewing the high fashion boutiques of London and Paris for the flat plains and humble homes of some the western world’s poorest, most oppressed denizens. The multi-stranded story examines how the systematic programme of sterilisation of Native Americans in the 1960s and 70s, a policy that resulted in the eradication of a whole tribe – has affected several people’s lives.
Front and centre is Jean Whitehorse, a Navaho woman whose gentle eyes belie the streak of strength that’s help her to survive a lifetime of poverty, abuse...
- 11/30/2018
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Distributor plans early 2019 theatrical release.
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired Us rights to the Emily Dickinson drama and SXSW selection Wild Nights With Emily starring Molly Shannon.
Madeleine Olnek wrote and directed the feature about the life and love of the celebrated 19th century American poet and depicts her lesser-known vivaciousness and irreverence, including her lifelong romance with another woman.
The filmmakers secured permission from Harvard University Press to use Dickisnon’s own words in the film, and received research support from the Guggenheim foundation.
“Madeleine’s witty, madcap yet poignant and absolutely necessary version of Emily’s life is an...
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired Us rights to the Emily Dickinson drama and SXSW selection Wild Nights With Emily starring Molly Shannon.
Madeleine Olnek wrote and directed the feature about the life and love of the celebrated 19th century American poet and depicts her lesser-known vivaciousness and irreverence, including her lifelong romance with another woman.
The filmmakers secured permission from Harvard University Press to use Dickisnon’s own words in the film, and received research support from the Guggenheim foundation.
“Madeleine’s witty, madcap yet poignant and absolutely necessary version of Emily’s life is an...
- 11/26/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Model turned director will draw on her own experiences as a teenage runaway for hard-hitting new film
The British director and former model Lorna Tucker has a knack for making controversial documentaries. First was her warts-and-all film about fashion doyenne Vivienne Westwood, and now, with Amá, which has its world premiere in London next month, she tackles the sterilisation programme that targeted native American women.
But Tucker’s next project will be more fearless still: a chronicle of her own remarkable journey from teenage homelessness and drug addiction to a flourishing creative career.
The British director and former model Lorna Tucker has a knack for making controversial documentaries. First was her warts-and-all film about fashion doyenne Vivienne Westwood, and now, with Amá, which has its world premiere in London next month, she tackles the sterilisation programme that targeted native American women.
But Tucker’s next project will be more fearless still: a chronicle of her own remarkable journey from teenage homelessness and drug addiction to a flourishing creative career.
- 11/25/2018
- by Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent
- The Guardian - Film News
‘A Star is Born.’ (Photo: Warner Bros)
While Hollywood films usually open day-and-date in Australia, staggering the release here can a smart tactic, and so it proved last weekend for A Star is Born.
Warner Bros’ musical romance took $42.9 million in its first weekend in the Us three weeks ago, an impressive figure that was dwarfed by Sony’s unforeseen blockbuster Venom, which grabbed $80 million.
Avoiding that head-to-head confrontation in Oz paid off handsomely as the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga movie had a stellar debut, WB’s biggest of the year so far.
Meanwhile romantic comedy Badaai Ho drew plenty of Bollywood fans and Lorna Tucker’s biopic Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist and Ukrainian dark comedy Donbass failed to cut through.
Stephen McCallum’s crime drama 1% had a modest start but is already a big success commercially, with sales to the Us and more than a dozen major markets,...
While Hollywood films usually open day-and-date in Australia, staggering the release here can a smart tactic, and so it proved last weekend for A Star is Born.
Warner Bros’ musical romance took $42.9 million in its first weekend in the Us three weeks ago, an impressive figure that was dwarfed by Sony’s unforeseen blockbuster Venom, which grabbed $80 million.
Avoiding that head-to-head confrontation in Oz paid off handsomely as the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga movie had a stellar debut, WB’s biggest of the year so far.
Meanwhile romantic comedy Badaai Ho drew plenty of Bollywood fans and Lorna Tucker’s biopic Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist and Ukrainian dark comedy Donbass failed to cut through.
Stephen McCallum’s crime drama 1% had a modest start but is already a big success commercially, with sales to the Us and more than a dozen major markets,...
- 10/22/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
MaryAnn’s quick take… There’s nothing fawning and plenty ironic about this essential first documentary to cover a major female fashion designer, a woman whose life is almost a perfect reflection of the trajectory of 20th-century feminism. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for movies about women
I’m “biast” (con): I’m not into fashion at all
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
She’s been a fixture of the counterculture since, well, she helped invent the punk aesthetic in London in the 1970s with her then-partner Malcolm McLaren, who dressed the band he managed — the Sex Pistols — in clothes she made, such as a T-shirt with straitjacket-esque too-long sleeves. Today, in her 70s, she remains an iconoclast in her artistic sense, her designs alive with funky prints and retro-futuristic shapes, as...
I’m “biast” (con): I’m not into fashion at all
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
She’s been a fixture of the counterculture since, well, she helped invent the punk aesthetic in London in the 1970s with her then-partner Malcolm McLaren, who dressed the band he managed — the Sex Pistols — in clothes she made, such as a T-shirt with straitjacket-esque too-long sleeves. Today, in her 70s, she remains an iconoclast in her artistic sense, her designs alive with funky prints and retro-futuristic shapes, as...
- 6/10/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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Ocean’s Eight [pictured]
Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Dakota Fanning, Awkwafina, and Sarah Paulson star in this crime caper comedy. Cowritten by Olivia Milch. (male director)
my review | find cinemas
Hotel Artemis
Jodie Foster stars as a nurse at a hospital for criminals in this futuristic crime thriller. Costarring Sofia Boutella and Jenny Slate. (male writer-director)
find cinemas
Hereditary
Toni Collette stars as a mother coping with a haunting of her family in this horror drama. Costarring Milly Shapiro and Ann Dowd. (male writer-director)
my review | find cinemas
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Half the Picture
Amy Adrion directs this documentary look at how women are excluded from the Hollywood’s directing chair, and undermined when they do rarely occupy it. Featuring Ava DuVernay, Jill Soloway, Lena Dunham, Miranda July, Catherine Hardwicke, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and others.
my review | find cinemas
Nancy
Andrea Riseborough stars in this...
Ocean’s Eight [pictured]
Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Dakota Fanning, Awkwafina, and Sarah Paulson star in this crime caper comedy. Cowritten by Olivia Milch. (male director)
my review | find cinemas
Hotel Artemis
Jodie Foster stars as a nurse at a hospital for criminals in this futuristic crime thriller. Costarring Sofia Boutella and Jenny Slate. (male writer-director)
find cinemas
Hereditary
Toni Collette stars as a mother coping with a haunting of her family in this horror drama. Costarring Milly Shapiro and Ann Dowd. (male writer-director)
my review | find cinemas
limited
Half the Picture
Amy Adrion directs this documentary look at how women are excluded from the Hollywood’s directing chair, and undermined when they do rarely occupy it. Featuring Ava DuVernay, Jill Soloway, Lena Dunham, Miranda July, Catherine Hardwicke, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and others.
my review | find cinemas
Nancy
Andrea Riseborough stars in this...
- 6/8/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The story of Martin Margiela will be traced in “Without Compromise,” a new feature doc that is being made with the cooperation of the influential Belgian fashion designer. Margiela changed the fashion world. He was part of the avante-garde Antwerp movement and founded the Maison Margiela fashion house.
Film-meets-fashion project “Without Compromise” is in production for a 2019 release. It will be the first doc on the complete career of Margiela, a man so elusive and private that no official photograph has ever been released and who has been dubbed “the fashion world’s answer to Banksy.”
The feature comes from Reiner Holzemer, whose previous work includes “Dries,” the film about designer Dries Van Noten. That was sold by Dogwoof, which has also boarded “Without Compromise.” It will present the project to buyers at Cannes.
Aminata Sambe is producing the Margiela film. “Dogwoof has an incomparable slate of world-class quality documentaries...
Film-meets-fashion project “Without Compromise” is in production for a 2019 release. It will be the first doc on the complete career of Margiela, a man so elusive and private that no official photograph has ever been released and who has been dubbed “the fashion world’s answer to Banksy.”
The feature comes from Reiner Holzemer, whose previous work includes “Dries,” the film about designer Dries Van Noten. That was sold by Dogwoof, which has also boarded “Without Compromise.” It will present the project to buyers at Cannes.
Aminata Sambe is producing the Margiela film. “Dogwoof has an incomparable slate of world-class quality documentaries...
- 5/2/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
The punk couturier is a grumpy delight in Lorna Tucker’s entertaining film
Vivienne Westwood, folded into an armchair, refuses to make eye contact with the camera. “It’s so boring,” she complains of her own punk past. The Sex Pistols? “No, can’t be bothered with them either.” But Westwood’s blunt candour – she peppers her conversation with sweary invective – and mardy demeanour suit her just as well as her slightly batty outfits. A gloriously eccentric one-off and a fashion original, she is an entertaining subject for this watchable documentary. And if it tiptoes around certain themes – she is not pressed on the contradictions between her eco-activism and the wastefulness of the fashion industry – the film still offers a glimpse into the controlled chaos of her creativity and her opinions on everything from hem lengths to capitalism to her third husband and collaborator Andreas Kronthaler. “I like living with...
Vivienne Westwood, folded into an armchair, refuses to make eye contact with the camera. “It’s so boring,” she complains of her own punk past. The Sex Pistols? “No, can’t be bothered with them either.” But Westwood’s blunt candour – she peppers her conversation with sweary invective – and mardy demeanour suit her just as well as her slightly batty outfits. A gloriously eccentric one-off and a fashion original, she is an entertaining subject for this watchable documentary. And if it tiptoes around certain themes – she is not pressed on the contradictions between her eco-activism and the wastefulness of the fashion industry – the film still offers a glimpse into the controlled chaos of her creativity and her opinions on everything from hem lengths to capitalism to her third husband and collaborator Andreas Kronthaler. “I like living with...
- 3/25/2018
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
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A Wrinkle in Time [IMDb]
Ava DuVernay directs and Jennifer Lee cowrites the tale of a girl (Storm Reid) who travels into space to find her missing father, with the help of three mysterious aliens (Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling).
Pacific Rim: Uprising [my review]
Emily Carmichael and Kira Snyder cowrite this science fiction action movie about soldiers in giant robots who fight monsters. Features a gender balanced cast including Cailee Spaeny, Tian Jing, Adria Arjona, Ivanna Sakhno, and Rinko Kikuchi. (male director)
Unsane [my review]
Claire Foy stars as a woman caught up in a bureaucratic snafu at a mental hospital. (male writers and director)
Proud Mary [IMDb]
Taraji P. Henson stars at a hitwoman for the Boston mob. (male writers and director)
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Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist [IMDb]
Lorna Tucker directs this documentary portrait of fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood.
Gholam [IMDb]
Mitra Tabrizian writes and directs this drama...
A Wrinkle in Time [IMDb]
Ava DuVernay directs and Jennifer Lee cowrites the tale of a girl (Storm Reid) who travels into space to find her missing father, with the help of three mysterious aliens (Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling).
Pacific Rim: Uprising [my review]
Emily Carmichael and Kira Snyder cowrite this science fiction action movie about soldiers in giant robots who fight monsters. Features a gender balanced cast including Cailee Spaeny, Tian Jing, Adria Arjona, Ivanna Sakhno, and Rinko Kikuchi. (male director)
Unsane [my review]
Claire Foy stars as a woman caught up in a bureaucratic snafu at a mental hospital. (male writers and director)
Proud Mary [IMDb]
Taraji P. Henson stars at a hitwoman for the Boston mob. (male writers and director)
limited
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist [IMDb]
Lorna Tucker directs this documentary portrait of fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood.
Gholam [IMDb]
Mitra Tabrizian writes and directs this drama...
- 3/23/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Outside of the fashion world, Vivienne Westwood isn’t necessarily a household name, but after Lorna Tucker’s documentary Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist is released, it very well might be. Greenwich Entertainment announced that it has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the first documentary that puts the spotlight on the British fashion design icon. Westwood premiered earlier this year at Sundance and follows the titular designer’s life, her fashion, her personality…...
- 2/18/2018
- Deadline
Lorna Tucker’s Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist premiered at Sundance in January.
Documentary specialist Dogwoof has secured a flurry of deals on two of its big sales titles at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
Lorna Tucker’s Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist – the feature doc about British fashion icon Vivienne Westwood – has sold to Us (Greenwich Entertainment), Canada (Films We Like), Scandinavia (Non Stop), Cis and Russia (Pioner), China TV rights (Dd Dream), Thailand (Movies Matter) and world inflight (Jaguar).
Previously announced territories were China (Tencent), Germany, Austria, Switzerland (Nfp), Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Switzerland (Nfp), Hong Kong (Edko), and Japan (Kadokawa).
The film premiered at Sundance in January, Dogwoof will release in the UK on March 23. Producers on the project were Eleanor Emptage, Shirine Best, Nicole Stott, and John Battsek. Executive producers were Anna Godas and Leo Haidar.
Dogwoof has also racked up deals on Kusama – Infinity, Heather Lenz’s portrait...
Documentary specialist Dogwoof has secured a flurry of deals on two of its big sales titles at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
Lorna Tucker’s Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist – the feature doc about British fashion icon Vivienne Westwood – has sold to Us (Greenwich Entertainment), Canada (Films We Like), Scandinavia (Non Stop), Cis and Russia (Pioner), China TV rights (Dd Dream), Thailand (Movies Matter) and world inflight (Jaguar).
Previously announced territories were China (Tencent), Germany, Austria, Switzerland (Nfp), Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Switzerland (Nfp), Hong Kong (Edko), and Japan (Kadokawa).
The film premiered at Sundance in January, Dogwoof will release in the UK on March 23. Producers on the project were Eleanor Emptage, Shirine Best, Nicole Stott, and John Battsek. Executive producers were Anna Godas and Leo Haidar.
Dogwoof has also racked up deals on Kusama – Infinity, Heather Lenz’s portrait...
- 2/18/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Premiering in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance, Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist chronicles the life of 76-year-old fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood. The film is the first documentary feature from UK-based filmmaker Lorna Tucker. Tucker hired doc and fiction editor Paul Carlin to cut the film. Below, Carlin discusses how the project took shape, his fondness for Walter Murch and capturing Westwood’s essence “from punk to haute couture.” Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the editor of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to your being hired for this job? Carlin: I think it was […]...
- 1/26/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
I Am Not A Witch among titles supported.
Source: Kinology
I Am Not A Witch
European Film Promotion (Efp) is backing nine European features that are travelling to this month’s Sundance Film Festival (January 18-28).
Through its Film Sales Support programme, the organisation is giving a €35,000 boost to the marketing of the selected titles.
Four of the titles are screening in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition: Isold Uggadottir’s And Breathe Normally (The Match Factory), Gustav Möller’s The Guilty (TrustNordisk), Isabella Eklöf’s Holiday (Heretic Outreach), and Babis Makridis’ Pity (New European Film Sales).
A further four are in the World Cinema Documentary Competition: Christian Frei’s Genesis 2.0 (Rise and Shine World Sales), Talal Derki’s Of Fathers And Sons (Autlook Filmsales), Samuel Collardey’s A Polar Year (Kinology), and Lorna Tucker’s Westwood (Dogwoof).
Finally, in Sundance’s Spotlight section, Rungano Nyoni’s Bafta-nominated I Am Not A Witch (Kinology) will also receive...
Source: Kinology
I Am Not A Witch
European Film Promotion (Efp) is backing nine European features that are travelling to this month’s Sundance Film Festival (January 18-28).
Through its Film Sales Support programme, the organisation is giving a €35,000 boost to the marketing of the selected titles.
Four of the titles are screening in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition: Isold Uggadottir’s And Breathe Normally (The Match Factory), Gustav Möller’s The Guilty (TrustNordisk), Isabella Eklöf’s Holiday (Heretic Outreach), and Babis Makridis’ Pity (New European Film Sales).
A further four are in the World Cinema Documentary Competition: Christian Frei’s Genesis 2.0 (Rise and Shine World Sales), Talal Derki’s Of Fathers And Sons (Autlook Filmsales), Samuel Collardey’s A Polar Year (Kinology), and Lorna Tucker’s Westwood (Dogwoof).
Finally, in Sundance’s Spotlight section, Rungano Nyoni’s Bafta-nominated I Am Not A Witch (Kinology) will also receive...
- 1/11/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
UK film I Am Not A Witch will feature in the Spotlight section In a break from the usual bitesize announcements, Sundance Film Festival has released the names of all 110 feature film titles that will screen at this year's festival in Utah.
British names in the frame, include Idris Elba - whose directorial debut, crime drama Yardie will premiere - and Rupert Everett, who also makes his directorial debut with the tale of the last days of Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince.
Other British and Irish stars include Kelly Macdonald, Andrea Riseborough, Keira Knightley, Robert Pattinson and rising Dublin-born star Barry Keoghan. The festival will also see actor Paul Dano make his directorial debut with Wildlife and Ethan Hawke step behind the camera again with Blaze.
Other UK productions and co-production premieres to make the cut are Stephen Loveridge's Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., about the Sri Lankan artist,...
British names in the frame, include Idris Elba - whose directorial debut, crime drama Yardie will premiere - and Rupert Everett, who also makes his directorial debut with the tale of the last days of Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince.
Other British and Irish stars include Kelly Macdonald, Andrea Riseborough, Keira Knightley, Robert Pattinson and rising Dublin-born star Barry Keoghan. The festival will also see actor Paul Dano make his directorial debut with Wildlife and Ethan Hawke step behind the camera again with Blaze.
Other UK productions and co-production premieres to make the cut are Stephen Loveridge's Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., about the Sri Lankan artist,...
- 11/30/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Company wracks up deals on Cannes slate.
UK documentary specialist Dogwoof has inked a series of deals on its sales slate.
Westwood, Lorna Tucker’s film about fashion icon Vivienne Westwood, has sold to Japan (Kadokawa), Germany, Austria, Switzerland (Nfp), Australia and Nz (Madman), China (Tencent), and Hong Kong (Edko).
Currently in post-production ahead of delivery in autumn 2017, the film is being produced by John Battsek of Passion Pictures.
78/52, Alexandre O.Philippe’s feature which explores the iconic shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, has gone to Australia and New Zealand (Monster), Italy (Koch Media), China (Huanxi Media), Spain (A Contracorriente), France (Films Distribution). The film premiered at Sundance and played SXSW. Watch a clip below.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Alexandra Dean’s film about the Hollywood career and life of Hedy Lamarr, has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Madman). The film was produced by Susan Sarandon and narrated by Diane Kruger. Previously...
UK documentary specialist Dogwoof has inked a series of deals on its sales slate.
Westwood, Lorna Tucker’s film about fashion icon Vivienne Westwood, has sold to Japan (Kadokawa), Germany, Austria, Switzerland (Nfp), Australia and Nz (Madman), China (Tencent), and Hong Kong (Edko).
Currently in post-production ahead of delivery in autumn 2017, the film is being produced by John Battsek of Passion Pictures.
78/52, Alexandre O.Philippe’s feature which explores the iconic shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, has gone to Australia and New Zealand (Monster), Italy (Koch Media), China (Huanxi Media), Spain (A Contracorriente), France (Films Distribution). The film premiered at Sundance and played SXSW. Watch a clip below.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Alexandra Dean’s film about the Hollywood career and life of Hedy Lamarr, has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Madman). The film was produced by Susan Sarandon and narrated by Diane Kruger. Previously...
- 5/20/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ken Loach biographical doc has sold to five territories.
UK-based documentary specialists Dogwoof has inked a series of sales on three of its titles at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18).
Louise Osmond’s biographical film Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach [pictured] has gone to Australia and New Zealand (Transmission), Portugal (Mida Films), Turkey (Filmarti), Hong Kong (Edko) and Captive (airlines).
Produced by long-term Loach collaborator Rebecca O’Brien, the film chronicles Loach’s 50-year career in the film industry.
Lorna Tucker’s portrait of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, Vivienne Westwood: Get A Life, has sold to Germany, Australia and Switzerland (Nfp) and Japan (Kadokawa). Dogwoof is also in discussions with buyers for the Us, Australia and New Zealand on the title.
The company has also scored sales on Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas’s wine-fraud doc Sour Grapes, which has gone to Blue Ice Docs (Canada) and Rialto (Australia and New Zealand).
UK-based documentary specialists Dogwoof has inked a series of sales on three of its titles at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18).
Louise Osmond’s biographical film Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach [pictured] has gone to Australia and New Zealand (Transmission), Portugal (Mida Films), Turkey (Filmarti), Hong Kong (Edko) and Captive (airlines).
Produced by long-term Loach collaborator Rebecca O’Brien, the film chronicles Loach’s 50-year career in the film industry.
Lorna Tucker’s portrait of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, Vivienne Westwood: Get A Life, has sold to Germany, Australia and Switzerland (Nfp) and Japan (Kadokawa). Dogwoof is also in discussions with buyers for the Us, Australia and New Zealand on the title.
The company has also scored sales on Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas’s wine-fraud doc Sour Grapes, which has gone to Blue Ice Docs (Canada) and Rialto (Australia and New Zealand).
- 9/10/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
It’s been a couple months since the last edition of What’s Up Doc? placed Michael Moore’s surprise world premiere of Where To Invade Next at the top of this list and in the meantime much shuffling has taken place and much time has been spent on various new endeavors (namely my Buffalo-based film series, Cultivate Cinema Circle). Finally taking its rightful place at the top, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hagedus’ Unlocking the Cage is in the midst of being scored by composer James Lavino, according to Lavino’s own personal site. Though the project has been taking shape at its own leisurely pace, I’d expect to see the film making its festival debut in early 2016.
Right behind, the American direct cinema masters is a Texan soon to make his non-fiction debut with Voyage of Time. Just two weeks ago indieWIRE reported that Ennio Morricone, who scored...
Right behind, the American direct cinema masters is a Texan soon to make his non-fiction debut with Voyage of Time. Just two weeks ago indieWIRE reported that Ennio Morricone, who scored...
- 11/5/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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