Kate Bosworth teamed with husband and filmmaker Michael Polish for their self-financed film Nona, short for No Name, which tells the story of a girl from Honduras who meets a charming boy who promises her safety in America, only to be led into the world of sex trafficking.
The actress sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss the film's heavy subject matter and why it was important to tell this story.
"So much of the reason that we wanted to make this movie was to inform how this happens and why it happens, because so often we ...
The actress sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss the film's heavy subject matter and why it was important to tell this story.
"So much of the reason that we wanted to make this movie was to inform how this happens and why it happens, because so often we ...
Kate Bosworth teamed with husband and filmmaker Michael Polish for their self-financed film Nona, short for No Name, which tells the story of a girl from Honduras who meets a charming boy who promises her safety in America, only to be led into the world of sex trafficking.
The actress sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss the film's heavy subject matter and why it was important to tell this story.
"So much of the reason that we wanted to make this movie was to inform how this happens and why it happens, because so often we ...
The actress sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss the film's heavy subject matter and why it was important to tell this story.
"So much of the reason that we wanted to make this movie was to inform how this happens and why it happens, because so often we ...
Rock Salt Releasing has boarded Kate Bosworth-starrer “Nona.”
TriCoast Media launched arthouse-focused Rock Salt last year. It will present both films to buyers with screenings in Berlin.
Michael Polish’s “Nona” – also known as “No Fame” – follows two strangers who travel from Honduras to the U.S. border. Touching on issues surrounding illegal immigration and human trafficking, it stars Kate Bosworth, and Sulem Calderon as the titular Nona. Calderon will be seen next year in Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson movie “Jungle Cruise.”
Another title on Rock Salt’s slate is Guilhad Emilio Schenker’s “Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club,” which follows events at a secretive women-only society whose members lure in unwitting dates, before their fate is revealed. Alex Ansky, Ania Bukstein and Razia Israeli star.
“Films that feature women don’t have to be dramas, and the women don’t even have to be heroines,” said Daisy Hamilton,...
TriCoast Media launched arthouse-focused Rock Salt last year. It will present both films to buyers with screenings in Berlin.
Michael Polish’s “Nona” – also known as “No Fame” – follows two strangers who travel from Honduras to the U.S. border. Touching on issues surrounding illegal immigration and human trafficking, it stars Kate Bosworth, and Sulem Calderon as the titular Nona. Calderon will be seen next year in Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson movie “Jungle Cruise.”
Another title on Rock Salt’s slate is Guilhad Emilio Schenker’s “Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club,” which follows events at a secretive women-only society whose members lure in unwitting dates, before their fate is revealed. Alex Ansky, Ania Bukstein and Razia Israeli star.
“Films that feature women don’t have to be dramas, and the women don’t even have to be heroines,” said Daisy Hamilton,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Camila José Donoso’s fiction-fact hybrid, “Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them” vies for the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival (Iffr), bearing the distinction of being among two Chilean films out of five pics awarded development funding by Korea’s Jeonju Cinema Project (Jcp) last year. Alejandro Fernandez Almendras’ black and white drama, “The Play” (“Hra”), shot in the Czech Republic, is the second awardee.
Featuring her own eccentric grandmother and mother, “Nona” is Donoso’s most personal project to date. While it is inspired by events, it is comprised of mainly fictional elements. Shot in a diversity of formats including low-resolution video images, home videos and digital images, “Nona” follows a 66-year old retiree whose neighbors in the Chilean coastal town of Pichilemu are driven from their homes after a series of mysterious forest fires erupt not long after she settles there.
Featuring her own eccentric grandmother and mother, “Nona” is Donoso’s most personal project to date. While it is inspired by events, it is comprised of mainly fictional elements. Shot in a diversity of formats including low-resolution video images, home videos and digital images, “Nona” follows a 66-year old retiree whose neighbors in the Chilean coastal town of Pichilemu are driven from their homes after a series of mysterious forest fires erupt not long after she settles there.
- 1/28/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Around The World When You Were My AgeThe titles for the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam are being announced in anticipation of the event running January 23 – February 3, 2018. We will update the program as new films are revealed.Tiger COMPETITIONSons of Denmark (Ulaa Salim)Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević)Present.Perfect. (Shengze Zhu)Sheena667 (Grigory Dobrygin)Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (Camila José Donoso)Koko-di Koko-da (Johannes Nyholm)Els dies que vindran (Carlos Marqués-Marcet)Bright Future COMPETITIONAlva (Ico Costa)Chèche lavi (Sam Ellison)De nuevo otra vez (Romina Paula)Doozy (Richard Squires)Dreissig (Simona Kostova)Ende der Saison (Elmar Imanov)Fabiana (Brunna Laboissière)The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain (Ridham Janve)Heroes (Köken Ergun)Historia de mi nombre (Karin Cuyul)Last Night I Saw You Smiling (Kavich Neang)Lost Holiday (Michael Kerry Matthews/Thomas Matthews)Maggie (Yi Okseop)Mens (Isabelle Prim)No Data Plan (Miko Revereza...
- 1/9/2019
- MUBI
Twenty years and 12 features down the line, it’s still hard to peg the directorial sensibility of Michael Polish, with or without the presence of brother Mark as frequent co-writer and actor. His output has been all over the place, from early Lynchian quirkfests to the very middle-of-the-road inspirational dramedy “The Astronaut Farmer,” not to mention mediocre genre exercises, a B&W Parisian romance (“For Lovers Only”). a good movie about Jack Kerouac (“Big Sur”), and one about manure salesmen that’s about as good as that sounds (“The Smell of Success”). It remains a puzzle whether his thematic interests are more laudably diverse than they are simply arbitrary.
“Nona” is yet another departure, a primarily Spanish-language feature shot on location in Central America, touching on issues of illegal immigration and human trafficking. The narrative’s picaresque road-trip majority doesn’t properly set up a late turn towards seriousness, draining...
“Nona” is yet another departure, a primarily Spanish-language feature shot on location in Central America, touching on issues of illegal immigration and human trafficking. The narrative’s picaresque road-trip majority doesn’t properly set up a late turn towards seriousness, draining...
- 12/15/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Molly Shannon’s “Wild Nights with Emily” and Motke Dapp’s “Other Versions of You” get distribution, Robert Patrick is up for a role as an FBI agent and “Nutcracker” writer Ashleigh Powell signs with CAA.
Acquisitions
Greenwich Entertainment has bought “Wild Nights with Emily,’ a dramatic comedy about Emily Dickinson starring Molly Shannon.
The film, which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, was written and directed by Madeleine Olnek. Greenwich will release the film theatrically early next year.
Shannon’s role captures the vivacious, irreverent side of the poet that was covered up for years — most notably Emily’s lifelong romantic relationship with another woman, using Dickinson’s own words.
“Madeleine’s witty, madcap yet poignant and absolutely necessary version of Emily’s life is an Emily we’ve never seen before, but one that has been hiding in plain sight all along,...
Acquisitions
Greenwich Entertainment has bought “Wild Nights with Emily,’ a dramatic comedy about Emily Dickinson starring Molly Shannon.
The film, which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, was written and directed by Madeleine Olnek. Greenwich will release the film theatrically early next year.
Shannon’s role captures the vivacious, irreverent side of the poet that was covered up for years — most notably Emily’s lifelong romantic relationship with another woman, using Dickinson’s own words.
“Madeleine’s witty, madcap yet poignant and absolutely necessary version of Emily’s life is an Emily we’ve never seen before, but one that has been hiding in plain sight all along,...
- 11/27/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Updated with release date info: North of Two has set a December 7 release date for Nona, Kate Bosworth and Michael Polish’s feature film that the distributor acquired in May. The film, which puts a face to Central America’s sex trafficking industry, was produced under the couple’s Make Pictures Productions. It will be released beginning in Los Angeles and New York.
Nona tells the story of a girl from Honduras who meets a charming boy, Hecho who promises to get her safely to America to reunite with her mother. Instead, Nona faces a perilous journey when he doesn’t deliver on that promise. Nona — short for No Name — will deliver a message to change the way the world is dealing with sex trafficking.
“All of our North of Two filmmakers define the spirit, determination and grit that living North of Two means,” said CEO Mark Cartier. “Both Kate...
Nona tells the story of a girl from Honduras who meets a charming boy, Hecho who promises to get her safely to America to reunite with her mother. Instead, Nona faces a perilous journey when he doesn’t deliver on that promise. Nona — short for No Name — will deliver a message to change the way the world is dealing with sex trafficking.
“All of our North of Two filmmakers define the spirit, determination and grit that living North of Two means,” said CEO Mark Cartier. “Both Kate...
- 11/26/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
19th edition of the South Korean event announces a record 246 films in its programme.
In South Korea, the 19th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) has announced a record 246 films in its selection, up from 229 last year.
Running May 3-12, the fest will open with the world premiere of Chong Wishing’s Japanese film Yakiniku Dragon, based on his award-winning stage play about Korean villagers in Japan around the time of the 1970 Osaka Expo with their shared trauma, love and strife.
The fest will close with Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs, which opened this year’s Berlinale and picked up...
In South Korea, the 19th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) has announced a record 246 films in its selection, up from 229 last year.
Running May 3-12, the fest will open with the world premiere of Chong Wishing’s Japanese film Yakiniku Dragon, based on his award-winning stage play about Korean villagers in Japan around the time of the 1970 Osaka Expo with their shared trauma, love and strife.
The fest will close with Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs, which opened this year’s Berlinale and picked up...
- 4/3/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Kate Bosworth has returned to CAA after six months at ICM Partners, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
She can currently be seen opposite Jason Ritter in National Geographic’s miniseries The Long Road Home, based on journalist Martha Raddatz’s account of the 2004 Iraq War incident known as “Black Sunday.” Next up is MGM’s post-apocalyptic survival thriller The Domestics, in which she stars alongside Tyler Hoechlin.
Earlier this year, Bosworth made the indie feature Nona alongside her husband, Michael Polish, who directed the drama about sex trafficking in Central America. The film was produced by the couple’s Make...
She can currently be seen opposite Jason Ritter in National Geographic’s miniseries The Long Road Home, based on journalist Martha Raddatz’s account of the 2004 Iraq War incident known as “Black Sunday.” Next up is MGM’s post-apocalyptic survival thriller The Domestics, in which she stars alongside Tyler Hoechlin.
Earlier this year, Bosworth made the indie feature Nona alongside her husband, Michael Polish, who directed the drama about sex trafficking in Central America. The film was produced by the couple’s Make...
- 12/12/2017
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When it comes to casting movies, Kate Bosworth says ladies don’t always come first.
The Domestics star, 34, opened up about battling sexism in Hollywood during a sit-down with People Now, saying that she’s found that filmmakers always seem to cast the male lead before locking down a star actress.
“The one thing I heard on every single film — and I’m telling you there isn’t an exception — whenever I’m up for a role, really no matter how big or small, the answer that I always get from anyone who’s casting me , ‘We have to cast the guy first.
The Domestics star, 34, opened up about battling sexism in Hollywood during a sit-down with People Now, saying that she’s found that filmmakers always seem to cast the male lead before locking down a star actress.
“The one thing I heard on every single film — and I’m telling you there isn’t an exception — whenever I’m up for a role, really no matter how big or small, the answer that I always get from anyone who’s casting me , ‘We have to cast the guy first.
- 9/14/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Even when your marriage is a non-stop “creative love-fest,” like Kate Bosworth’s is with director husband Michael Polish, there’s still room for personal growth.
“I need to be more patient,” The Domestics star, 34, conceded on the latest People Now. “That is something that I try to improve on every single day.”
But the actress, who worked with her husband, 46, on 2013’s Big Sur, and more recently on the upcoming film Nona, said the key to their four year marriage is hard work and good humor.
“Honestly, the laughter and creativity in my marriage is what is most important,...
“I need to be more patient,” The Domestics star, 34, conceded on the latest People Now. “That is something that I try to improve on every single day.”
But the actress, who worked with her husband, 46, on 2013’s Big Sur, and more recently on the upcoming film Nona, said the key to their four year marriage is hard work and good humor.
“Honestly, the laughter and creativity in my marriage is what is most important,...
- 9/8/2017
- by People Staff
- PEOPLE.com
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