Anatomy Of A Fall’s Swann Arlaud will star in Sukkwan Island, a psychological thriller from French director Vladimir de Fontenay that mk2 Films has boarded for sales.
Woody Norman, best known for C’mon C’mon, co-stars in the film about a father and son on a quest for survival deep in the Norwegian fjords. Production started in Norway in February and is being shot in three parts to follow the rhythm of the seasons, with further filming between Glasgow and Norway set for May.
France’s Haut et Court produces and will release Sukkwan Island in France. Co-producers include Norway’s Maipo Film,...
Woody Norman, best known for C’mon C’mon, co-stars in the film about a father and son on a quest for survival deep in the Norwegian fjords. Production started in Norway in February and is being shot in three parts to follow the rhythm of the seasons, with further filming between Glasgow and Norway set for May.
France’s Haut et Court produces and will release Sukkwan Island in France. Co-producers include Norway’s Maipo Film,...
- 5/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Swann Arlaud, recently seen as Sandra Hüller’s lawyer in “Anatomy of a Fall,” and Woody Norman, who appeared alongside Joaquin Phoenix in 2021 crowdpleaser “C’mon C’mon,” are set to lead the cast of “Sukkwan Island.”
Ruaridh Mollica, who turned heads in this year’s Sundance following his lead turn in “Sebastian,” and Alma Pöysti, who was recently Golden Globe-nominated for Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” will also star in the film, being directed by Vladimir de Fontenay, marking the French filmmaker’s first feature since his Cannes-bowing “Mobile Homes” in 2017.
Set to start shooting in Norway in the coming weeks, “Sukkwan Island” is based on the semi-autobiographical novella by American author David Vann, part of his 2010 collection “Legend of a Suicide.” The story follows a haunted young man’s travels to a wild and secluded Island to reconnect with his father. Ten years before, they shared a harrowing and life...
Ruaridh Mollica, who turned heads in this year’s Sundance following his lead turn in “Sebastian,” and Alma Pöysti, who was recently Golden Globe-nominated for Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” will also star in the film, being directed by Vladimir de Fontenay, marking the French filmmaker’s first feature since his Cannes-bowing “Mobile Homes” in 2017.
Set to start shooting in Norway in the coming weeks, “Sukkwan Island” is based on the semi-autobiographical novella by American author David Vann, part of his 2010 collection “Legend of a Suicide.” The story follows a haunted young man’s travels to a wild and secluded Island to reconnect with his father. Ten years before, they shared a harrowing and life...
- 1/31/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Ariane Labed’s ’Sisters’ and Uberto Pasolini’s ’The Return’, starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, have also received backing.
Documentaries Barbie Uncovered, Justice For Magdalenes and Beast are among the nine titles to receive funding from the British Film Institute (BFI) through the UK Global Screen Fund, via the fund’s international co-production strand.
It is financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms). This round, the awards allocate over £1.2m to support UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions. To date the strand has now awarded over £5m to 33 co-productions.
The awards,...
Documentaries Barbie Uncovered, Justice For Magdalenes and Beast are among the nine titles to receive funding from the British Film Institute (BFI) through the UK Global Screen Fund, via the fund’s international co-production strand.
It is financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms). This round, the awards allocate over £1.2m to support UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions. To date the strand has now awarded over £5m to 33 co-productions.
The awards,...
- 7/25/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
TV documentary “Barbie Uncovered” and an adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche are among the latest projects awarded by the U.K. Global Screen Fund.
On “Barbie Uncovered,” an unofficial majority U.K. co-production with New Zealand, the U.K. producers are Ross Wilson from Rw Productions and Alan Clements from Two Media Rivers who will co-produce with New Zealand’s Daniel Story and Cass Avery from Augusto. It will be directed by Eddie Hutton-Mills and focuses on the unknown history of the global icon Barbie and the dramatic and dark story behind the creation of the world’s most famous doll.
On “The Odyssey” adaptation “The Return,” a minority U.K. co-production with Italy, Greece and France made under the European Convention, the U.K. producers are James Clayton and Uberto Pasolini from Red Wave Films who will co‐produce with Italy’s...
On “Barbie Uncovered,” an unofficial majority U.K. co-production with New Zealand, the U.K. producers are Ross Wilson from Rw Productions and Alan Clements from Two Media Rivers who will co-produce with New Zealand’s Daniel Story and Cass Avery from Augusto. It will be directed by Eddie Hutton-Mills and focuses on the unknown history of the global icon Barbie and the dramatic and dark story behind the creation of the world’s most famous doll.
On “The Odyssey” adaptation “The Return,” a minority U.K. co-production with Italy, Greece and France made under the European Convention, the U.K. producers are James Clayton and Uberto Pasolini from Red Wave Films who will co‐produce with Italy’s...
- 7/25/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
After focusing on the rift between single mother and young child in his Directors’ Fortnight selected sophomore feature Mobile Homes (2017), Vladimir de Fontenay might be returning to some of the same of the thematics ideas and relationship dynamics in his third fiction feature film offering in the book to film adaptation of Sukkwan Island. Anders Danielsen Lie and Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon) will topline the project – housed with the Mk2 folks.
In semi-autobiographical stories set largely in David Vann’s native Alaska, this is set on a wild island in southern Alaska, accessible only by boat or seaplane, all in wet forests and steep mountains.…...
In semi-autobiographical stories set largely in David Vann’s native Alaska, this is set on a wild island in southern Alaska, accessible only by boat or seaplane, all in wet forests and steep mountains.…...
- 6/7/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
In “Port Authority,” a gritty New York-set coming of age drama with a tender romance at its heart, for once it’s not the trans character who is hiding something. Wye (Leyna Bloom) has never made a secret of her gender identity; instead, as she points out to her paramour Paul (Fionn Whitehead), it is he who made an assumption about who she was. “You gotta look around you,” she tells him. The rest of the film, which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section to raves, is more interested in what Paul is hiding, and whether he could ever be accepted into Wye’s world of queer balls and familial houses. When she challenges him to name which ball category he would walk, he answers: “White boy realness.”
The phrase is a challenge, both to Paul and the viewer. Ball categories are aspirational and performative by their very nature.
The phrase is a challenge, both to Paul and the viewer. Ball categories are aspirational and performative by their very nature.
- 5/22/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
"I guess this is not really my idea of a 'home.'" Darkstar Pictures & Uncork'd Entertainment have debuted an official Us trailer for an indie drama titled Mobile Homes, which premiered in Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival last year (not this year). From writer & director Vladimir de Fontenay, the film will finally be released in Us theaters this November. The story follows a young mother named Ali, played by Imogen Poots, who drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicated boyfriend, and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers a better life. The cast includes Callum Turner, Callum Keith Rennie, with Frank Oulton. This is one of those films that actually looks way better than it sounds, and this trailer is definitely worth a watch. Here's the official Us trailer (+ posters...
- 10/8/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Rodrigo Teixeira’s Rt Features and Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Prods. are re-teaming to produce and finance a pair of feature debuts: Danielle Lessovitz’s “Port Authority” and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s “Murina.”
Rt Features launched a joint venture in 2014 with Scorsese’s Sikelia Prods. in order to discover emerging talents from around the world and produce their
Rt and Sikelia Prods. had “A Ciambra” in Directors’ Fortnight last year. Other recent Rt credits include Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-winning “Call Me By Your Name” among its recent credits.
“Port Authority” is a love story set in New York’s underground ballroom culture. The film follows Paul, a midwestern teenager, who arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches feelings for Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. When he discovers Wye is trans, crisis occurs and he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.
Rt Features launched a joint venture in 2014 with Scorsese’s Sikelia Prods. in order to discover emerging talents from around the world and produce their
Rt and Sikelia Prods. had “A Ciambra” in Directors’ Fortnight last year. Other recent Rt credits include Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-winning “Call Me By Your Name” among its recent credits.
“Port Authority” is a love story set in New York’s underground ballroom culture. The film follows Paul, a midwestern teenager, who arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches feelings for Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. When he discovers Wye is trans, crisis occurs and he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.
- 5/9/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Imogen Poots’ drama Mobile Homes is heading to the U.S. after Dark Star Pictures acquired North American rights and set up a summer theatrical debut. The firm struck a deal with Mongrel International at Efm in Berlin for the border thriller, which is directed by Vladimir de Fontenay, based on his short film of the same name. The film, which also stars Callum Turner, Callum Keith Rennie and Frank Oulton, is filmed in Niagra Falls and tells the story of the forgotten towns…...
- 2/18/2018
- Deadline
Dark Star Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to the Imogen Poots-starring drama Mobile Homes.
The Canada-France co-production was written and directed by Vladimir de Fontenay, and features Poots as Ali, a young woman drifting from one motel to the next with her boyfriend and 8-year-old son. After a crisis rips their lives apart, Ali lands in a mobile home community and must reassess her sense of motherhood.
Callum Turner, Callum Keith Rennie and Frank Oulton also star in the indie. Mobile Homes is based on an earlier short film of the same name by French director de Fontenay.
"We are...
The Canada-France co-production was written and directed by Vladimir de Fontenay, and features Poots as Ali, a young woman drifting from one motel to the next with her boyfriend and 8-year-old son. After a crisis rips their lives apart, Ali lands in a mobile home community and must reassess her sense of motherhood.
Callum Turner, Callum Keith Rennie and Frank Oulton also star in the indie. Mobile Homes is based on an earlier short film of the same name by French director de Fontenay.
"We are...
- 2/18/2018
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Thunderbird picks up project; sets spring 2018 release.
Mobiles Homes, which played in the Directors’ Fortnight strand at the Cannes Film Festival, has been picked up for UK distribution by Thunderbird Releasing.
The debut feature from Vladimir de Fontenay, it stars Imogen Poots, Callum Turner and newcomer Frank Oulton and follows a young mother as she drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8- year-old son.
The deal was negotiated by Edward Fletcher, managing director of Thunderbird Releasing, and Charlotte Mickie, former president of Mongrel International.
Mobile Homes is slated for a UK release in early spring, 2018.
Fletcher said the film was a “fantastic debut; one of those Cannes moments where initial expectations were blown away by the gripping story- and a totally absorbing and heartfelt performance by Imogen Poots.”
This year Thunderbird have already picked up another Cannes title; Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable, which premiered...
Mobiles Homes, which played in the Directors’ Fortnight strand at the Cannes Film Festival, has been picked up for UK distribution by Thunderbird Releasing.
The debut feature from Vladimir de Fontenay, it stars Imogen Poots, Callum Turner and newcomer Frank Oulton and follows a young mother as she drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8- year-old son.
The deal was negotiated by Edward Fletcher, managing director of Thunderbird Releasing, and Charlotte Mickie, former president of Mongrel International.
Mobile Homes is slated for a UK release in early spring, 2018.
Fletcher said the film was a “fantastic debut; one of those Cannes moments where initial expectations were blown away by the gripping story- and a totally absorbing and heartfelt performance by Imogen Poots.”
This year Thunderbird have already picked up another Cannes title; Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable, which premiered...
- 6/16/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Danielle Lessovitz was a “key artistic collaborator” on Directors’ Fortnight title Mobile Homes.
Paris-based mk2 has acquired world sales rights on Danielle Lessovitz’s debut feature Port Authority, a tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Bronx which is due to shoot this autumn.
The $2m production will be the debut feature of San Francisco-born, New York-based Lessovitz, who is described as a “key artistic collaborator” on Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Home, which premieres at Directors’ Fortnight this year.
The deal was struck between mk2 films and the film’s lead producer Virginie Lacombe of Madeleine Films. Netherlands production house Keplerfilm is co-producing.
The story revolves around Paul, a teenager living in a youth shelter in NYC, who meets Wye who belongs to the “ball community” and expresses herself through “voguing” - a queer dance style inspired by the poses struck by fashion models.
When Paul realizes Wye was born a boy he...
Paris-based mk2 has acquired world sales rights on Danielle Lessovitz’s debut feature Port Authority, a tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Bronx which is due to shoot this autumn.
The $2m production will be the debut feature of San Francisco-born, New York-based Lessovitz, who is described as a “key artistic collaborator” on Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Home, which premieres at Directors’ Fortnight this year.
The deal was struck between mk2 films and the film’s lead producer Virginie Lacombe of Madeleine Films. Netherlands production house Keplerfilm is co-producing.
The story revolves around Paul, a teenager living in a youth shelter in NYC, who meets Wye who belongs to the “ball community” and expresses herself through “voguing” - a queer dance style inspired by the poses struck by fashion models.
When Paul realizes Wye was born a boy he...
- 5/24/2017
- ScreenDaily
A dysfunctional family of drifters inflict fifty shades of emotional abuse on each other in Mobile Homes, a low-voltage exercise in gritty realism from writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay. World premiering in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar in Cannes, this unflinching yet compassionate depiction of marginalized misfits boasts a few pleasingly poetic flourishes, but it suffers from some common first-time director flaws, notably a listless narrative, thinly developed characters and a relentlessly somber mood. Beyond the festival circuit, where masochistic misery-porn is still held in bafflingly high regard, this Canadian-French co-production will most likely struggle to find a theatrical home.
Still in...
Still in...
- 5/21/2017
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay was inspired to make his Directors’ Fortnight selection Mobile Homes, a dark drama about rootlessness and dislocation, by a sight that took him by surprise: a massive mobile home towed by a truck on an upstate New York highway.
“I was dizzy and tired and all I could see was a floating house, and it was so weird and incredible at the same time,” says the French filmmaker, who made his feature debut with 2015’s Memoria, starring James Franco.
The ungrounded home led de Fontenay to first write and direct a 2013 short film, also named Mobile...
“I was dizzy and tired and all I could see was a floating house, and it was so weird and incredible at the same time,” says the French filmmaker, who made his feature debut with 2015’s Memoria, starring James Franco.
The ungrounded home led de Fontenay to first write and direct a 2013 short film, also named Mobile...
- 5/19/2017
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Film set to premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
Mongrel Media has acquired Canadian rights to Directors’ Fortnight entry Mobile Homes starring Imogen Poots ahead of the film’s world premiere on Sunday (May 21).
Vladimir de Fontenay’s second feature centres on a young woman who takes refuge in a trailer park with her eight-year-old son as she tries to escape her life of drifting from motel to motel.
Callum Turner and Callum Keith Rennie also star in de Fontenay’s adaptation of his short film that screened at SXSW and Clermont-Ferrand in 2013.
Frédéric de Goldschmidt of Madeleine Films produced with Eric Dupont of Incognito Films and Mike MacMillan from Lithium Studios Productions. Mongrel Media acquired rights from the producers.
Charlotte Mickie’s Mongrel International handles international sales.
Mongrel Media has acquired Canadian rights to Directors’ Fortnight entry Mobile Homes starring Imogen Poots ahead of the film’s world premiere on Sunday (May 21).
Vladimir de Fontenay’s second feature centres on a young woman who takes refuge in a trailer park with her eight-year-old son as she tries to escape her life of drifting from motel to motel.
Callum Turner and Callum Keith Rennie also star in de Fontenay’s adaptation of his short film that screened at SXSW and Clermont-Ferrand in 2013.
Frédéric de Goldschmidt of Madeleine Films produced with Eric Dupont of Incognito Films and Mike MacMillan from Lithium Studios Productions. Mongrel Media acquired rights from the producers.
Charlotte Mickie’s Mongrel International handles international sales.
- 5/18/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Official Lineup Announcements
2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup: Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, ‘Twin Peaks’ and More
2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Short Film Lineup
Cannes 2017 Unveils Official Schedule, Adds Masterclasses With Clint Eastwood and Alfonso Cuarón
Cannes 2017 Announces Directors Fortnight Lineup, Including Sean Baker’s ‘The Florida Project’ and ‘Patti Cake$’
Cannes Classics 2017 Lineup Includes ‘Belle de Jour’ Restoration, Stanley Kubrick Doc and More
2017 Cannes Critics’ Week Announces Lineup, Including ‘Brigsby Bear’ and Animation From Iran
Cannes Adds Roman Polanski Film to Lineup
Cannes Doc Day to Explore ‘Fake News,’ Women’s Voices and New Work From Amos Gitaï
Cannes American Pavilion 2017 Lineup: Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Screen Talk Live and More
Pre-Festival Announcements and News
Cannes 2017: Pedro Almodóvar Is Jury President
Cannes: Barry Jenkins, Cristian Mungiu and More Are Set for Jury Duty
Cannes Addresses Netflix Controversy By Forcing Competition Films to Receive Theatrical Distribution In France
Todd Haynes...
2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup: Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, ‘Twin Peaks’ and More
2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Short Film Lineup
Cannes 2017 Unveils Official Schedule, Adds Masterclasses With Clint Eastwood and Alfonso Cuarón
Cannes 2017 Announces Directors Fortnight Lineup, Including Sean Baker’s ‘The Florida Project’ and ‘Patti Cake$’
Cannes Classics 2017 Lineup Includes ‘Belle de Jour’ Restoration, Stanley Kubrick Doc and More
2017 Cannes Critics’ Week Announces Lineup, Including ‘Brigsby Bear’ and Animation From Iran
Cannes Adds Roman Polanski Film to Lineup
Cannes Doc Day to Explore ‘Fake News,’ Women’s Voices and New Work From Amos Gitaï
Cannes American Pavilion 2017 Lineup: Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Screen Talk Live and More
Pre-Festival Announcements and News
Cannes 2017: Pedro Almodóvar Is Jury President
Cannes: Barry Jenkins, Cristian Mungiu and More Are Set for Jury Duty
Cannes Addresses Netflix Controversy By Forcing Competition Films to Receive Theatrical Distribution In France
Todd Haynes...
- 5/17/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
If you’re a buyer, the Cannes Film Festival isn’t where you go to catch a break. Including festival sidebars like Critics’ Week and Director’s Fortnight, there are more than 75 films at Cannes from all over the world — but when it comes to English-language movies, most are already spoken for.
Read More: The Cannes Film Festival Buyers Guide: Who’s Buying the Movies You’ll Watch
Netflix took the rights to Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories,” while Amazon has both Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, but the company is launching four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.”
What’s left are mainly foreign-language films from some of the most respected indie auteurs in world. Most of these filmmakers are...
Read More: The Cannes Film Festival Buyers Guide: Who’s Buying the Movies You’ll Watch
Netflix took the rights to Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories,” while Amazon has both Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, but the company is launching four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.”
What’s left are mainly foreign-language films from some of the most respected indie auteurs in world. Most of these filmmakers are...
- 5/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
While the Cannes Film Festival is the showboat film festival to end all festivals, all of that is a springboard for the talking. Talking about the movies, talking about the movie industry, talking about the talking. Last year, the talking points were the persistence of Kristen Stewart, Woody Allen and Ronan Farrow, auteurs like Jim Jarmusch and Nicolas Winding Refn, and women (or the lack thereof). This year, we’ve read the Croisette crystal ball for the conversations likely to dominate the festival in the days to come. This isn’t necessarily about must-see titles (we’ve got those covered here); these are the stories most likely to be heard beyond the Cannes bubble. Here’s a look at the news cycle to come.
Read More: The Potential Oscar Contenders at Cannes 2017: A Rundown
Nicole Kidman Takes Charge
If last year’s Cannes It Girl was brainy “Personal Shopper...
Read More: The Potential Oscar Contenders at Cannes 2017: A Rundown
Nicole Kidman Takes Charge
If last year’s Cannes It Girl was brainy “Personal Shopper...
- 5/16/2017
- by Anne Thompson and Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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Throughout its 70 year history, the Cannes Film Festival has been at the forefront of game-changing cinema. New directorial voices and international film movements have all used the festival as a launch pad to global recognition. If a film or artist has shaped cinema over the last seven decades, chances are they’ve been the toast of Cannes at least once. Many of these historic Cannes titles are streaming exclusively on FilmStruck, and we gathered up 10 of our favorites you need to watch below.
“Rome, Open City”
The first Cannes Film Festival was originally set for September 1939, but World War II caused a seven-year delay.
Throughout its 70 year history, the Cannes Film Festival has been at the forefront of game-changing cinema. New directorial voices and international film movements have all used the festival as a launch pad to global recognition. If a film or artist has shaped cinema over the last seven decades, chances are they’ve been the toast of Cannes at least once. Many of these historic Cannes titles are streaming exclusively on FilmStruck, and we gathered up 10 of our favorites you need to watch below.
“Rome, Open City”
The first Cannes Film Festival was originally set for September 1939, but World War II caused a seven-year delay.
- 5/16/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Four years in the making, French filmmaker Vladimir de Fontenay is finally ready to bring the full force of his award-winning vision to the big screen, thanks to the Directors’ Fortnight premiere of his “Mobile Homes.” Based on his lauded short of the same name (which screened at both the SXSW Film Festival and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival in 2013, later going on to receive first prize at the Wasserman Awards, Nyu Graduate Film School’s top honor, as well as a National Board of Review award), de Fonetnay’s film will bow later this week at Cannes.
Per the film’s official synopsis, “In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
Per the film’s official synopsis, “In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
- 5/16/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
There is nothing quite like a movie about a sadsack gambler, struggling to find personal connection and success at the tail end of a losing hand — which makes Colombian director Natalia Santa’s first film, “The Dragon Defense,” all the more striking, as it follows not one, not two, but three such characters.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “This is the story of three old friends downtown Bogota. A chess player and small-time gambler, a watch maker who refuses to close down his shop, and a Spanish homeopath obsessed with poker. They spend their days between the legendary chess club Lasker, The Caribbean Casino, and La Normanda, a coffee shop. Finding comfort in the confines of their routines, they avoid failure at all costs. When this comfort is put at risk however, each man will have to figure out that in life, as in love, it’s never too late to take a chance.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “This is the story of three old friends downtown Bogota. A chess player and small-time gambler, a watch maker who refuses to close down his shop, and a Spanish homeopath obsessed with poker. They spend their days between the legendary chess club Lasker, The Caribbean Casino, and La Normanda, a coffee shop. Finding comfort in the confines of their routines, they avoid failure at all costs. When this comfort is put at risk however, each man will have to figure out that in life, as in love, it’s never too late to take a chance.
- 5/16/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
When lauded Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke uses the word “happy” — especially when he uses it in the title of a film — it’s okay to not take it at face value. After all, this is the director behind such films as “The White Ribbon,” “Amour,” and “Funny Games.” He’s not really into “happy.” So buckle up for “Happy End”!
Haneke’s latest star-packed film — featuring new and returning talents like Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowski, and Laura Verlinden — is bound for Cannes, where it will likely only continue to elevate his stature at a festival that has long adored his work.
Read More: Cannes 2017: 22 Films We Can’t Wait to See at This Year’s Festival
While we don’t know much about the film itself, Huppert (who previously starred in his “The Piano Teacher” and “Time of the Wolf”) did give THR...
Haneke’s latest star-packed film — featuring new and returning talents like Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowski, and Laura Verlinden — is bound for Cannes, where it will likely only continue to elevate his stature at a festival that has long adored his work.
Read More: Cannes 2017: 22 Films We Can’t Wait to See at This Year’s Festival
While we don’t know much about the film itself, Huppert (who previously starred in his “The Piano Teacher” and “Time of the Wolf”) did give THR...
- 5/16/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Thanks to features like “Daddy Longlegs” and “Heaven Knows What,” the Safdie Brothers have emerged as two of the most formidable New York indie filmmakers working today. This month they’re heading to Cannes to compete for the Palme d’Or for the first time with “Good Time”, and now we finally have our first look at their contender in the trailer below.
Read More: Before ‘Good Time,’ the Safdie Brothers’ ‘Daddy Longlegs’ Reinvented the New York Movie
The official synopsis reads: “After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine “Connie” Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city’s underworld in an increasingly desperate — and dangerous — attempt to get his brother Nick (Benny Safdie) out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night, Connie finds himself racing against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing both their lives hang in the balance.
Read More: Before ‘Good Time,’ the Safdie Brothers’ ‘Daddy Longlegs’ Reinvented the New York Movie
The official synopsis reads: “After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine “Connie” Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city’s underworld in an increasingly desperate — and dangerous — attempt to get his brother Nick (Benny Safdie) out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night, Connie finds himself racing against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing both their lives hang in the balance.
- 5/16/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The lineup for the 2017 Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) at Cannes has been announced:Opening Film: Un beau soleil interieur (Claire Denis)Closing Film:Patti Cake$ (Geremy Jasper)Feature Films A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano)Alive in France (Abel Ferrara)L'amant d'un jour (Philippe Garrel)Bushwick (Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott) Cuori Puri (Roberto de Paolis)The Florida Project (Sean Baker)Frost (Sharunas Bartas)I'm Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni) Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne D'Arc (Bruno Dumont)L'intrusa (Leonardo di Constanzo)La Defensa del Dragón (Natalia Santa)Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Mouly Surya) Mobile Homes (Vladimir de Fontenay)Nothingwood (Sonia Kronlund) Ôtez-moi d'un doute (Carine Tardieu) The Rider (Chloe Zhao)West of the Jordan River (Field Day Revisited) (Amos Gitai)SHORTSÁgua Mole (Laura Goncalves & Alexandra Ramires)La bouche (Camilo Restrepo)Copa-loca (Christos Massalas)Crème de menthe (David Philippe Gagne & Jean-Marc E. Roy)Farpões, Baldios (Marta Matheus)Min Börda (Niki Lindroth von Bahr...
- 4/24/2017
- MUBI
Following the main line-up at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the first sidebar has been unveiled. Directors’ Fortnight has revealed their enticing slate, including the opening film, Claire Denis‘ Juliette Binoche-led Un Beau Soleil Interieur (formerly Dark Glasses).
Also in the line-up is Abel Ferrara‘s Alive in France, Sean Baker‘s Tangerine follow-up The Florida Project, Philippe Garrel‘s L’Amant D’Un Jour, Bruno Dumont‘s Jeannette, L’Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc, and Jonas Carpignano‘s A Ciambra. Peculiarly, there’s also two previous festival films we were quite mixed/negative on, Patti Cake$ and Bushwick. Check out the full line-up below.
Feature Films
Un Beau Soleil Interieur, dir. Claire Denis – Opening Night Film
A Ciambra, dir. Jonas Carpignano
Alive in France, dir. Abel Ferrara (pictured below)
L’Amant D’Un Jour, dir. Philippe Garrel
Bushwick, dir. Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott
Cuori Puri, dir. Roberto De Paolis
The Florida Project,...
Also in the line-up is Abel Ferrara‘s Alive in France, Sean Baker‘s Tangerine follow-up The Florida Project, Philippe Garrel‘s L’Amant D’Un Jour, Bruno Dumont‘s Jeannette, L’Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc, and Jonas Carpignano‘s A Ciambra. Peculiarly, there’s also two previous festival films we were quite mixed/negative on, Patti Cake$ and Bushwick. Check out the full line-up below.
Feature Films
Un Beau Soleil Interieur, dir. Claire Denis – Opening Night Film
A Ciambra, dir. Jonas Carpignano
Alive in France, dir. Abel Ferrara (pictured below)
L’Amant D’Un Jour, dir. Philippe Garrel
Bushwick, dir. Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott
Cuori Puri, dir. Roberto De Paolis
The Florida Project,...
- 4/20/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Baker, Nyoni, Jasper and Carpignano join Cannes veterans Denis, Ferrara, Dumont, Garrel and Gitai.Scroll Down For Full List
Tangerine director Sean Baker, the UK’s Rungano Nyoni and Italo-American film-maker Jonas Carpignano will be among the buzzed-about names premiering new works at the 49th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year (18-28 May).
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop unveiled the eclectic selection, comprising 19 feature-length films and another 11 shorts, at a press conference at the Cinéma Le Grand Action in Paris on Thursday (20 April).
Read more: Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
Opening And Closing Films
Claire Denis will open the 49th edition – running May 18-28 - with Un Beau Soleil Intérieur starring Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu and Xavier Beauvois.
Us director Geremy Jasper’s debut feature Patti Cake$ - which world premiered at Sundance this year has been selected as the closing film.
Us Presence
It is one of two Sundance titles in this year’s selection...
Tangerine director Sean Baker, the UK’s Rungano Nyoni and Italo-American film-maker Jonas Carpignano will be among the buzzed-about names premiering new works at the 49th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year (18-28 May).
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop unveiled the eclectic selection, comprising 19 feature-length films and another 11 shorts, at a press conference at the Cinéma Le Grand Action in Paris on Thursday (20 April).
Read more: Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
Opening And Closing Films
Claire Denis will open the 49th edition – running May 18-28 - with Un Beau Soleil Intérieur starring Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu and Xavier Beauvois.
Us director Geremy Jasper’s debut feature Patti Cake$ - which world premiered at Sundance this year has been selected as the closing film.
Us Presence
It is one of two Sundance titles in this year’s selection...
- 4/20/2017
- ScreenDaily
The 49th annual edition of the Cannes Film Festival’s lauded Directors’ Fortnight section announced its picks this morning. The section is a non-competitive sidebar, but members of the Société des Réalisateurs Français, which organizes the event, do dole out honors.
Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop announced the titles in a roughly 40 minute presentation Thursday. The section opens with the latest film from Claire Denis, “Un Beau Soleil Interieur,” an adaptation of Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments,” which stars Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu. Major auteurs in the lineup include Bruno Dumont, with his musical “Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” and Bael Ferrara, who will return to Cannes after several years with “Alive In France,” a documentary that follows Ferrara and his band as they tour France.
Other notable titles include “The Florida Project,” Sean Baker’s follow-up to “Tangerine,” and “A Ciambra,” from “Mediterranea” director Jonas Carpignano.
Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop announced the titles in a roughly 40 minute presentation Thursday. The section opens with the latest film from Claire Denis, “Un Beau Soleil Interieur,” an adaptation of Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments,” which stars Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu. Major auteurs in the lineup include Bruno Dumont, with his musical “Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” and Bael Ferrara, who will return to Cannes after several years with “Alive In France,” a documentary that follows Ferrara and his band as they tour France.
Other notable titles include “The Florida Project,” Sean Baker’s follow-up to “Tangerine,” and “A Ciambra,” from “Mediterranea” director Jonas Carpignano.
- 4/20/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Imogen Poots stars in the drama based on Vladimir de Fontenay’s short film of the same name.
Mongrel International has acquired world sales rights excluding Canada, the Us and France to Mobile Homes starring Imogen Poots, Callum Turner and Callum Keith Rennie.
Writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay has begun production in Ontario on the official Canada-France co-production.
The drama based on his short film of the same name follows a young drifter and her dangerous boyfriend and young son who reappraises her role as a mother when she lands in a mobile home community.
Frédéric de Goldschmidt of Madeleine Films produces with Eric Dupont of Incognito Films and Mike MacMillan from Lithium Studios Productions. The producers anticipate completion by early 2017.
Mongrel International president Charlotte Mickie said: “I immediately loved the short and the script – it was very clear to us what Vladimir wanted to do and I thought it was very brave.
“Mothers are tied...
Mongrel International has acquired world sales rights excluding Canada, the Us and France to Mobile Homes starring Imogen Poots, Callum Turner and Callum Keith Rennie.
Writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay has begun production in Ontario on the official Canada-France co-production.
The drama based on his short film of the same name follows a young drifter and her dangerous boyfriend and young son who reappraises her role as a mother when she lands in a mobile home community.
Frédéric de Goldschmidt of Madeleine Films produces with Eric Dupont of Incognito Films and Mike MacMillan from Lithium Studios Productions. The producers anticipate completion by early 2017.
Mongrel International president Charlotte Mickie said: “I immediately loved the short and the script – it was very clear to us what Vladimir wanted to do and I thought it was very brave.
“Mothers are tied...
- 5/13/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Founder and CEO Matt McCombs and his sales team at Spotlight Pictures head into Cannes with a roster led by Aaron Eckhart starrer Courage.
The film gets its market premiere screening today [May 11] and is based on Jim Dent’s novel Courage Beyond The Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story.
Angelo Pizzo, a sports specialist whose screenwriting credits include Hoosiers and Rudy, directed from his adapted screenplay.
Eckhart stars as the coach of the University Of Texas American Football team whose star player is diagnosed with bone cancer.
The film opened in the Us last November through Clarius Entertainment under the title My All American and Universal handles ancillary rights.
Spotlight is also talking up Bitter Harvest, an epic romance set against the backdrop of the Holodomor – Stalin’s persecution of Ukrainians during the 1930s – that stars Max Irons and Samantha Barks.
The film screens today [May 11] and on Tuesday [16] in Cannes and the producers are in talks for a Us...
The film gets its market premiere screening today [May 11] and is based on Jim Dent’s novel Courage Beyond The Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story.
Angelo Pizzo, a sports specialist whose screenwriting credits include Hoosiers and Rudy, directed from his adapted screenplay.
Eckhart stars as the coach of the University Of Texas American Football team whose star player is diagnosed with bone cancer.
The film opened in the Us last November through Clarius Entertainment under the title My All American and Universal handles ancillary rights.
Spotlight is also talking up Bitter Harvest, an epic romance set against the backdrop of the Holodomor – Stalin’s persecution of Ukrainians during the 1930s – that stars Max Irons and Samantha Barks.
The film screens today [May 11] and on Tuesday [16] in Cannes and the producers are in talks for a Us...
- 5/11/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Patriots Day
Kevin Bacon is the latest name to join the cast of Peter Berg's 2013 Boston marathon bombing drama "Patriots Day" which is currently filming.
Bacon will play Richard DesLauriers, the FBI's special agent in charge of the investigation who was one of the law-enforcement figures during the manhunt for the bombers. John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Jimmy O. Yang, Vince Curatola and James Colby also star in the film which opens December 21st. [Source: Deadline]
Man-Witch
"The Big Bang Theory" star Jim Parsons is in talks to star in and produce the long-gestating comedy "Man-Witch" at Warner Bros. Pictures. Neal Moritz would also produce.
The story tells of a schoolteacher (Parsons) who abruptly discovers he's got witchlike powers. A coven of real witches takes him in, promptly sending him to 'witch school,' where he is the lone adult, surrounded by little girl witches-in-training. [Source: Heat Vision]
The Ashram
Melissa Leo, Sam Keeley, Kal Penn,...
Kevin Bacon is the latest name to join the cast of Peter Berg's 2013 Boston marathon bombing drama "Patriots Day" which is currently filming.
Bacon will play Richard DesLauriers, the FBI's special agent in charge of the investigation who was one of the law-enforcement figures during the manhunt for the bombers. John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Jimmy O. Yang, Vince Curatola and James Colby also star in the film which opens December 21st. [Source: Deadline]
Man-Witch
"The Big Bang Theory" star Jim Parsons is in talks to star in and produce the long-gestating comedy "Man-Witch" at Warner Bros. Pictures. Neal Moritz would also produce.
The story tells of a schoolteacher (Parsons) who abruptly discovers he's got witchlike powers. A coven of real witches takes him in, promptly sending him to 'witch school,' where he is the lone adult, surrounded by little girl witches-in-training. [Source: Heat Vision]
The Ashram
Melissa Leo, Sam Keeley, Kal Penn,...
- 3/31/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Plus: Tribeca Interactive roster unveiled; Ifp Film Week moves to Brooklyn; Cinema Libre to distribute Vaxxed; and more…
Disney/Pixar have announced that Idris Elba, Bill Hader and Diane Keaton are among the voice cast on Finding Dory, which is scheduled to open on June 17.
Ellen DeGeneres returns as Dory, Albert Brooks plays Marlin, and Hayden Rolence Nemo, while Keaton and Eugene Levy play Dory’s parents,
Elba and Dominic West portray sea lions Fluke and Rudder, Stanton and Bennett Dammann are the turtles Crush and his son Squirt, and Hader and Kate McKinnon play a fish couple whom Dory meets on her adventure.
Bob Peterson is the reef teacher Mr. Ray, Torbin Bullock plays Becky, Ed O’Neill is the octopus Hank, Kaitlin Olson plays whale shark Destiny, and Ty Burrell is beluga whale Bailey.
Ifp Film Week is moving to Brooklyn after 37 years in Manhattan. The event will set up shop in Dumbo anchored in its...
Disney/Pixar have announced that Idris Elba, Bill Hader and Diane Keaton are among the voice cast on Finding Dory, which is scheduled to open on June 17.
Ellen DeGeneres returns as Dory, Albert Brooks plays Marlin, and Hayden Rolence Nemo, while Keaton and Eugene Levy play Dory’s parents,
Elba and Dominic West portray sea lions Fluke and Rudder, Stanton and Bennett Dammann are the turtles Crush and his son Squirt, and Hader and Kate McKinnon play a fish couple whom Dory meets on her adventure.
Bob Peterson is the reef teacher Mr. Ray, Torbin Bullock plays Becky, Ed O’Neill is the octopus Hank, Kaitlin Olson plays whale shark Destiny, and Ty Burrell is beluga whale Bailey.
Ifp Film Week is moving to Brooklyn after 37 years in Manhattan. The event will set up shop in Dumbo anchored in its...
- 3/30/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Watch: James Franco Seduces Emma Roberts in Stylish 'Palo Alto' Trailer James Franco's childhood contuse to be a bountiful source of inspiration for him as a writer, director and actor. He first recounted various anecdotes from his youth in the short story collection "Palo Alto Stories," which was later turned into a feature film by Gia Coppola. His subsequent memoir, "A California Childhood," was the starting off point for this year's "Yosemite," also starring Franco, and now the upcoming "Memoria," directed by Nina Ljeti and Vladimir de Fontenay, is the latest movie to be born out of his roots. Indiewire has an exclusive poster for the coming-of-age drama, which you can check out below. Based on both "Palo Alto" and "A California Childhood," "Memoria" follows the day-to-day struggles of teenager Ivan Cohen (played by Sam Dillon of "Boyhood"). The viewer follows...
- 2/2/2016
- by Mike Lown
- Indiewire
Read More: James Franco's Movie Column: Guy Maddin's 'The Forbidden Room' is Crazy With Purpose Monterey Media has acquired distribution rights for indie drama "Memoria," based on a short story by James Franco. The film, which had its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival, stars Sam Dillon, Thomas Mann and Franco and is directed by Nina Ljeti and Vladimir de Fontenay. Franco is also serves as co-producer on the film. The official synopsis for the film reads, "'Memoria' tells the story of Ivan Cohen, an anti-social, self-conscious boy living in the suburbs of Palo Alto, CA. Unable to get along with his dysfunctional mother and stepfather, he retreats to a world of military combat in the confines of his bedroom, struggling to find his place in the world and dreaming of his father who left before he was born." "Memoria" will be released...
- 11/2/2015
- by Ryan Anielski
- Indiewire
Monterey Media has acquired North American distribution rights to indie drama Memoria starring Sam Dillon, Thomas Mann, and James Franco. The film, written and directed by Nina Ljeti and Vladimir de Fontenay and based on a short story by Franco, had its world premiere today at the Austin Film Festival, with Franco in attendance. Monterey will release the film, produced by Rabbit Bandini Productions and Burn Later Productions with The Art of Elysium, next year in theaters…...
- 11/1/2015
- Deadline
Following the recent announcement of their full film lineup that includes Trainwreck, Get Hard, and Spy, South by Southwest has revealed their lineup of Midnight movies and short films to screen during the festival. Chief among them is the Sundance 2015 hit Turbo Kid (read our review here) and the Sundance ’15 winner of the Short Film Prize World of Tomorrow. SXSW runs from March 13-21. View the full Midnighters and Shorts lineup below via the SXSW website.
****
Midnighters
The Corpse of Anna Fritz (Spain)
Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens, Screenwriters: Hèctor Hernándes Vicens, Isaac P. Creus
Anna Fritz, a famous and beautiful actress, has died recently. Three young men sneak into the morgue to see her naked. Fascinated by her beauty, they decide to become the last people to have sex with her. Cast: Alba Ribas, Cristian Valencia, Bernat Saumell, Albert Carbó. (World Premiere)
Deathgasm (New Zealand)
Director/Screenwriter: Jason Lei Howden...
****
Midnighters
The Corpse of Anna Fritz (Spain)
Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens, Screenwriters: Hèctor Hernándes Vicens, Isaac P. Creus
Anna Fritz, a famous and beautiful actress, has died recently. Three young men sneak into the morgue to see her naked. Fascinated by her beauty, they decide to become the last people to have sex with her. Cast: Alba Ribas, Cristian Valencia, Bernat Saumell, Albert Carbó. (World Premiere)
Deathgasm (New Zealand)
Director/Screenwriter: Jason Lei Howden...
- 2/10/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Exclusive: The Kings Of Summer actor Moises Arias has joined the cast of Ben-Hur, the historical epic Timur Bekmambetov is directing for MGM and Paramount Pictures. Arias will play Gestas, a teenage Jewish zealot whose family has been murdered by the Romans, who is desperate to fight for his people’s freedom. Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, and Toby Kebbell star in the production which will lens in Europe ahead of a February 26, 2016 release. Arias is an alumnus of Hannah Montana and The Wizards of Waverly Place who starred in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated The Kings Of Summer. He also lent his voice recently to Despicable Me 2 and appeared in Summit’s sci-fier Ender’s Game. Next up is a role in the Sundance 2015 drama Stanford Prison Experiment opposite Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, and Billy Crudup, in which Arias plays one of several university students tapped for the...
- 1/21/2015
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
• Warner Bros. and Pearl Street Films have set video game writer Will Staples (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) to pen the script for an Africa-set geopolitical thriller for Oscar-winner Ben Affleck to star in and direct. The story is about a group of mercenaries hired to kill a warlord. Affleck is currently shooting the big screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl where he plays lead Nick Dunne. After that he’ll direct and star in Live By Night and then tackle his role as Batman in the Man of Steel follow-up. [Deadline]
• Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) is in talks...
• Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) is in talks...
- 10/26/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Up-and-coming actor Sam Dillon has been cast alongside James Franco and Thomas Mann in the indie drama “Memoria,” TheWrap has learned. Vladimir de Fontenay and Nina Ljeti are writing and directing the movie, which Franco is executive producing under his RabbitBandini Productions banner. Franco met the filmmakers while enrolled at New York University. Dillon and Franco recently worked together on Gia Coppola’s “Palo Alto,” which was based on Franco’s book of short stories. “Memoria” is one of three feature films being adapted from Franco’s short stories, along with “Killing Animals” and “Yosemite.” It is specifically based on the short stories “Memoria,...
- 10/25/2013
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and this October we see a couple of items that we could certainly circle as potential Cannes 2014 bait. Thanks to our friends at Production Weekly for the helping hand in curating our list of future must see items.
Among the top foreign film productions, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover‘s Peter Greenaway is looking at a late October, possible November start to begin filming a fragment of the great Soviet master filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s bio timeline. Eisenstein In Guanajuato will cover the portion of the filmmaker’s post Battleship Potemkin career, with Eisenstein landing in Mexico after Hollywood studios balked at the idea of working with him and in its place finds romance. The Girl Who Played with Fire‘s Daniel Alfredson...
Among the top foreign film productions, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover‘s Peter Greenaway is looking at a late October, possible November start to begin filming a fragment of the great Soviet master filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s bio timeline. Eisenstein In Guanajuato will cover the portion of the filmmaker’s post Battleship Potemkin career, with Eisenstein landing in Mexico after Hollywood studios balked at the idea of working with him and in its place finds romance. The Girl Who Played with Fire‘s Daniel Alfredson...
- 10/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
New York -- Following crowd-funding campaigns from "Veronica Mars" and Zach Braff, James Franco is trying to raise $500,000 to bankroll a trilogy of movies.
Franco on Monday night started a campaign on Indiegogo, a crowd-funding alternative to Kickstarter that allows people to keep the money they raise even if the project doesn't come to fruition. Franco isn't trying to direct the films; he's raising money so that a collection of young filmmakers can adapt his 2011 short story collection, "Palo Alto."
"Because of who I am, people often believe that it is easy to find investors and distributors for my films," wrote Franco. "Unfortunately, things aren't that easy. More times than not, I have put in my own money to produce my films and my student's films. However, this time it's different. We need more funding, I will still fund part of it but I need of your help, filming three...
Franco on Monday night started a campaign on Indiegogo, a crowd-funding alternative to Kickstarter that allows people to keep the money they raise even if the project doesn't come to fruition. Franco isn't trying to direct the films; he's raising money so that a collection of young filmmakers can adapt his 2011 short story collection, "Palo Alto."
"Because of who I am, people often believe that it is easy to find investors and distributors for my films," wrote Franco. "Unfortunately, things aren't that easy. More times than not, I have put in my own money to produce my films and my student's films. However, this time it's different. We need more funding, I will still fund part of it but I need of your help, filming three...
- 6/18/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The subject of celebrities crowdsourcing to get their movie projects funded has been debated constantly throughout the year. The “Veronica Mars” movie and Zach Braff’s “Wish I Was Here” both managed to have successful Kickstarter campaigns despite many complaints and negative feedback the projects may have gotten. Now James Franco looks to get in the mix, this time using Indiegogo to crowdsource his project. Franco has become quite prolific, and as he mentions on the Indiegogo page, has directed six films in the last three years. For this particular project, Franco looks to finance three more movies and he’s asking for $500,000 to fund all of them. The films are all based on Franco’s book “Palo Alto,” which is a collection of short stories that were inspired by his high school experiences growing up in Palo Alto, California. He’s enlisting four directors to helm the projects. Nina Ljeti...
- 6/18/2013
- by Ken Guidry
- The Playlist
James Franco has launched a $500,000 (£318,240) Indiegogo campaign to fund a three-part movie adaptation of his short story compilation Palo Alto Stories.
The actor said that he is using the project to support young directors, all of whom have previously worked with him. Proceeds from the sale of the films will also raise money for Art of Elysium, a non-profit organisation that Franco has been volunteering for.
"Art of Elysium is a non-profit organisation that encourages working actors, artists and musicians to voluntarily dedicate their time and talent to children who are battling serious medical conditions," Franco wrote.
"They have recently created a programme called Elysium Industry that supports first-time feature film directors [who] have been volunteering their time with children in need.
"Working with Art of Elysium has given me the opportunity to share my creativity with hospitalised children and give them the gift of creativity. These children have inspired me...
The actor said that he is using the project to support young directors, all of whom have previously worked with him. Proceeds from the sale of the films will also raise money for Art of Elysium, a non-profit organisation that Franco has been volunteering for.
"Art of Elysium is a non-profit organisation that encourages working actors, artists and musicians to voluntarily dedicate their time and talent to children who are battling serious medical conditions," Franco wrote.
"They have recently created a programme called Elysium Industry that supports first-time feature film directors [who] have been volunteering their time with children in need.
"Working with Art of Elysium has given me the opportunity to share my creativity with hospitalised children and give them the gift of creativity. These children have inspired me...
- 6/18/2013
- Digital Spy
Emir Baigazin’s Harmony Lessons won the 39th Seattle International Film Festival’s Best New Director grand jury prize on Sunday [9] as top brass handed out jury and audience awards.Scroll down for full list of winners
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
- 6/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The 39th Seattle International Film Festival, currently running through June 9, has selected the winners for the ShortsFest Competition in the live-action, animation and documentary categories. Full list below. Each ShortsFest Grand Jury winner will receive $1,000, and winners in the three categories are eligible for Academy Award qualification. Siff 2013 Shortsfest Award Winners: Live Actiongrand Jury PRIZEMy Right Eye (The Apple of My Eye), directed by Josecho de Linares (Spain) Jury Statement: For its beautifully crafted and profound exploration of love and loss told through touching performances that depict a young man's authentic journey of rediscovery, the jury awards Best Narrative Short to My Right Eye (The Apple of My Eye), written and directed by Josecho de Linares. Special Jury PRIZESPenny Dreadful, directed by Shane Atkinson (USA)Mobile Homes, directed by Vladimir de Fontenay (USA/France)Decimation, directed by Wade Jackson (USA) Jury Statement:...
- 5/29/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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