Tamara Lawrance & Sharon D. Clarke Board BBC’s ‘Mr Loverman’
The BBC has revealed first look images of Lennie James in its Mr Loverman adaptation, with the likes of Tamara Lawrance and Sharon D. Clarke boarding. Deadline revealed the series several months back and it is a TV adaptation of Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo’s seventh novel. Alongside the previously announced James (Save Me, Line of Duty) as the exuberant protagonist Barrington Jedidiah Walker will be three-time Olivier Award winner Clarke, Time star Lawrance, Ariyon Bakare, Morris De La Roux and Sharlene Whyte (Small Axe, Stephen). The series follows Barrington, Barry to his mates, a 74 year old, Antiguan born, exuberant Hackney personality, renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, senses that Barry has been cheating on her with other women. Little does she know what’s really going on: a secret, passionate...
The BBC has revealed first look images of Lennie James in its Mr Loverman adaptation, with the likes of Tamara Lawrance and Sharon D. Clarke boarding. Deadline revealed the series several months back and it is a TV adaptation of Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo’s seventh novel. Alongside the previously announced James (Save Me, Line of Duty) as the exuberant protagonist Barrington Jedidiah Walker will be three-time Olivier Award winner Clarke, Time star Lawrance, Ariyon Bakare, Morris De La Roux and Sharlene Whyte (Small Axe, Stephen). The series follows Barrington, Barry to his mates, a 74 year old, Antiguan born, exuberant Hackney personality, renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, senses that Barry has been cheating on her with other women. Little does she know what’s really going on: a secret, passionate...
- 4/16/2024
- by Hannah Abraham and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (Hkiffs) has unveiled 26 in-development projects for the 22nd Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), which will become part of the newly expanded Hkiff Industry Project Market.
The lineup features both veteran and rising filmmakers including Koji Fukada, Hong Khaou, Jang Kun-jae, Qiu Jiongjiong, Patiparn Boontarig, Wang Xiaoshuai, Teruhisa Yamamoto, and Zhang Lu. The projects cover comedy, horror, action, romance and family drama, including seven first features, two animations and a string of cross-country collaborations.
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“The selection is a testament to the resurgence of diversity and the revitalisation of international collaborations,...
The lineup features both veteran and rising filmmakers including Koji Fukada, Hong Khaou, Jang Kun-jae, Qiu Jiongjiong, Patiparn Boontarig, Wang Xiaoshuai, Teruhisa Yamamoto, and Zhang Lu. The projects cover comedy, horror, action, romance and family drama, including seven first features, two animations and a string of cross-country collaborations.
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“The selection is a testament to the resurgence of diversity and the revitalisation of international collaborations,...
- 1/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Andrea Riseborough takes on the pleasure and pain of love in Channel 4 series “Alice & Jack,” created by Victor Levin.
“This frustration of really appreciating someone and also not being able to understand them or be understood, that’s such a common connection we have in life,” she tells Variety ahead of the show’s MipCom premiere. She also serves as an executive producer.
“Also, it’s not just frustration – there is excitement as well. It can take you to your highest highs, it’s the most elated feeling in the world and it’s also brutally hard. There is nothing harder than true love.”
That’s what Alice and Jack (Domhnall Gleeson) are about to find out, as following a supposed one-night stand they realize they can’t be together. They also can’t be apart.
“When Vic sent me that first episode, it felt so… Awkwardly, heartbreakingly,...
“This frustration of really appreciating someone and also not being able to understand them or be understood, that’s such a common connection we have in life,” she tells Variety ahead of the show’s MipCom premiere. She also serves as an executive producer.
“Also, it’s not just frustration – there is excitement as well. It can take you to your highest highs, it’s the most elated feeling in the world and it’s also brutally hard. There is nothing harder than true love.”
That’s what Alice and Jack (Domhnall Gleeson) are about to find out, as following a supposed one-night stand they realize they can’t be together. They also can’t be apart.
“When Vic sent me that first episode, it felt so… Awkwardly, heartbreakingly,...
- 10/16/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Creatives behind Alice & Jack, which stars Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in the latter’s first role since the To Leslie controversy, have spotlighted how they wanted the Channel 4/Masterpiece TV series to feel like an indie film.
Speaking before Alice & Jack‘s TIFF premiere, Cannes Grand Prix-winning director Juho Kuosmanen and EP Richard Yee explained that the team behind the show, which is penned by Mad Men’s Victor Levin, virtually all came from the world of independent cinema.
The idea for the series was Levin’s and was a passion project of his for years. He developed it with Michael London (Groundswell Productions). Andrea and Domhnall came on board after the pilot script and last episode were written – it was at this point that they met with Levin to discuss the scripts and help develop the characters during the production.
“It was key to...
Speaking before Alice & Jack‘s TIFF premiere, Cannes Grand Prix-winning director Juho Kuosmanen and EP Richard Yee explained that the team behind the show, which is penned by Mad Men’s Victor Levin, virtually all came from the world of independent cinema.
The idea for the series was Levin’s and was a passion project of his for years. He developed it with Michael London (Groundswell Productions). Andrea and Domhnall came on board after the pilot script and last episode were written – it was at this point that they met with Levin to discuss the scripts and help develop the characters during the production.
“It was key to...
- 9/16/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Masterpiece has boarded Alice & Jack, the Channel 4 TV series starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson.
The PBS strand will air the show from Mad Men’s Victor Levin next year following a deal struck with distributor Fremantle. Lisa Honig and Lorenzo De Maio helped strike the deal.
Alice & Jack stars Riseborough and Gleeson as the titular characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a “love story for the ages.” Logline adds: “When they first meet they’re bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but will their path lead them to a place of happiness and togetherness? Or will life and their own emotional complexities get in the way.”
Alice & Jack has been in the offing for years but was only announced last month, and it will premiere at TIFF tomorrow.
Upon its announcement, Gleeson said “the only work I...
The PBS strand will air the show from Mad Men’s Victor Levin next year following a deal struck with distributor Fremantle. Lisa Honig and Lorenzo De Maio helped strike the deal.
Alice & Jack stars Riseborough and Gleeson as the titular characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a “love story for the ages.” Logline adds: “When they first meet they’re bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but will their path lead them to a place of happiness and togetherness? Or will life and their own emotional complexities get in the way.”
Alice & Jack has been in the offing for years but was only announced last month, and it will premiere at TIFF tomorrow.
Upon its announcement, Gleeson said “the only work I...
- 9/15/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled its Primetime program on Monday, which includes nine TV series that will be screening at the festival including new shows from filmmakers Lulu Wang, Shawn Levy and Steven Knight.
The Netflix limited series “All the Light We Cannot See,” directed and executive produced by Levy and written by Steven Knight based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will have its world premiere at TIFF. The festival will also host the world premiere of “The Farewell” filmmaker Lulu Wang’s new original series “Expats,” which is set to debut on Prime Video.
“This year’s Primetime programme is bigger than ever and gives audiences the exclusive and unmatched opportunity to celebrate the best new international series together, in cinema, on the big screen,” Anita Lee, TIFF Chief Programming Officer, said in a statement. “TIFF audiences will be the first to see the Prime Video series Expats...
The Netflix limited series “All the Light We Cannot See,” directed and executive produced by Levy and written by Steven Knight based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will have its world premiere at TIFF. The festival will also host the world premiere of “The Farewell” filmmaker Lulu Wang’s new original series “Expats,” which is set to debut on Prime Video.
“This year’s Primetime programme is bigger than ever and gives audiences the exclusive and unmatched opportunity to celebrate the best new international series together, in cinema, on the big screen,” Anita Lee, TIFF Chief Programming Officer, said in a statement. “TIFF audiences will be the first to see the Prime Video series Expats...
- 8/14/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its Primetime programme for 2023 which includes the world premieres of Bad Boy and All the Light We Cannot See.
“This year’s Primetime programme is bigger than ever and gives audiences the exclusive and unmatched opportunity to celebrate the best new international series together, in cinema, on the big screen,” says Anita Lee, TIFF Chief Programming Officer.
“TIFF audiences will be the first to see the Prime Video series Expats – Lulu Wang’s highly anticipated follow up to The Farewell, starring Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yo., a Pulitzer-Prize winning adaptation from Shawn Levy and Steven Knight, a high-octane Korean thriller, a brand new vision from the creator of Euphoria, an atypical love story between Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough, a contemporary Scandinavian tragedy, and three powerful Canadian series, all spotlighting underrepresented voices from an exciting new wave of storytellers.”
Primetime Programme Alice & Jack
Victor Levin,...
“This year’s Primetime programme is bigger than ever and gives audiences the exclusive and unmatched opportunity to celebrate the best new international series together, in cinema, on the big screen,” says Anita Lee, TIFF Chief Programming Officer.
“TIFF audiences will be the first to see the Prime Video series Expats – Lulu Wang’s highly anticipated follow up to The Farewell, starring Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yo., a Pulitzer-Prize winning adaptation from Shawn Levy and Steven Knight, a high-octane Korean thriller, a brand new vision from the creator of Euphoria, an atypical love story between Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough, a contemporary Scandinavian tragedy, and three powerful Canadian series, all spotlighting underrepresented voices from an exciting new wave of storytellers.”
Primetime Programme Alice & Jack
Victor Levin,...
- 8/14/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Selections include Fremantle sales title Alice & Jack with Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson; Netflix series All The Light We Cannot See from Shawn Levy and Steven Knight.
TIFF brass have announced the Primetime section, a nine-strong roster of series which includes Expats, Lulu Wang’s follow-up to The Farewell for Prime Video starring Nicole Kidman in the saga of a close-knit group of Hong Kong expatriates.
The selection includes Fremantle sales title Alice & Jack (UK) a Channel 4 romance from Victor Levin starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson; and All The Light We Cannot See (USA) from Shawn Levy and Steven Knight,...
TIFF brass have announced the Primetime section, a nine-strong roster of series which includes Expats, Lulu Wang’s follow-up to The Farewell for Prime Video starring Nicole Kidman in the saga of a close-knit group of Hong Kong expatriates.
The selection includes Fremantle sales title Alice & Jack (UK) a Channel 4 romance from Victor Levin starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson; and All The Light We Cannot See (USA) from Shawn Levy and Steven Knight,...
- 8/14/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Andrea Riseborough and Domnhall Gleeson are to star in a Channel 4 drama series created by Mad Men’s Victor Levin.
The duo are leading Alice & Jack, the first major casting for Riseborough since the To Leslie Oscar controversy earlier this year.
The pair play the title characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a “love story for the ages.” Logline adds: “When they first meet they’re bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but will their path lead them to a place of happiness and togetherness? Or will life and their own emotional complexities get in the way.”
Alice & Jack brings together major production companies in Academy Award-nominated Groundswell Productions, De Maio Entertainment, I Am Ruth maker Me + You Productions and Fremantle. Fremantle is also handling global sales.
“The only work I’ve wanted to watch and do since the pandemic is work about connection and love,...
The duo are leading Alice & Jack, the first major casting for Riseborough since the To Leslie Oscar controversy earlier this year.
The pair play the title characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a “love story for the ages.” Logline adds: “When they first meet they’re bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but will their path lead them to a place of happiness and togetherness? Or will life and their own emotional complexities get in the way.”
Alice & Jack brings together major production companies in Academy Award-nominated Groundswell Productions, De Maio Entertainment, I Am Ruth maker Me + You Productions and Fremantle. Fremantle is also handling global sales.
“The only work I’ve wanted to watch and do since the pandemic is work about connection and love,...
- 8/9/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson are set to star in the romantic drama “Alice & Jack” for U.K. broadcaster Channel 4.
The series is lead directed by Juho Kuosmanen, helmer of the Golden Globe-nominated Cannes title “Compartment Number 6,” with a second block directed by BAFTA-nominated “Lilting” helmer Hong Khaou. The show is written by “Mad Men” scribe Victor Levin. It is a Fremantle production in partnership with BAFTA- and Emmy-winning Me + You Productions (“I Am Ruth”), Academy Award-nominated Groundswell Productions (“The Visitor”) and De Maio Entertainment. Fremantle is handling global sales on the project.
Rounding out the cast are Aisling Bea (“Greatest Days”), Aimee Lou Wood (“Sex Education”) and Sunil Patel (“This Time with Alan Partridge”).
Created and written by Levin, “Alice & Jack” is billed as “a love story for the ages.” An official synopsis for the show reads: When Alice (Riseborough) and Jack (Gleeson) first meet, they...
The series is lead directed by Juho Kuosmanen, helmer of the Golden Globe-nominated Cannes title “Compartment Number 6,” with a second block directed by BAFTA-nominated “Lilting” helmer Hong Khaou. The show is written by “Mad Men” scribe Victor Levin. It is a Fremantle production in partnership with BAFTA- and Emmy-winning Me + You Productions (“I Am Ruth”), Academy Award-nominated Groundswell Productions (“The Visitor”) and De Maio Entertainment. Fremantle is handling global sales on the project.
Rounding out the cast are Aisling Bea (“Greatest Days”), Aimee Lou Wood (“Sex Education”) and Sunil Patel (“This Time with Alan Partridge”).
Created and written by Levin, “Alice & Jack” is billed as “a love story for the ages.” An official synopsis for the show reads: When Alice (Riseborough) and Jack (Gleeson) first meet, they...
- 8/9/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Lennie James is leading and EPing a BBC adaptation of Girl, Woman, Other scribe Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman.
The Save Me star will play Barrington Jedidiah Walker, or Barry to his friends, a Caribbean-born life-and-soul personality living in Hackney who has been harboring a secret for years. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, knows Barry has been cheating on her, but when it emerges that the affair has been going on for decades with his male best friend, Morris, their marriage goes into meltdown. Now entering the next chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their own futures.
Noughts + Crosses and The Outlaws scribe Nathaniel Price is penning the eight-parter, director is Hong Khaou (Baptiste) and production outfit is Fable Pictures, the Sony-backed indie that made Sarah Gavron’s Rocks. Sony Pictures Television is distributing globlly. More...
The Save Me star will play Barrington Jedidiah Walker, or Barry to his friends, a Caribbean-born life-and-soul personality living in Hackney who has been harboring a secret for years. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, knows Barry has been cheating on her, but when it emerges that the affair has been going on for decades with his male best friend, Morris, their marriage goes into meltdown. Now entering the next chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their own futures.
Noughts + Crosses and The Outlaws scribe Nathaniel Price is penning the eight-parter, director is Hong Khaou (Baptiste) and production outfit is Fable Pictures, the Sony-backed indie that made Sarah Gavron’s Rocks. Sony Pictures Television is distributing globlly. More...
- 6/6/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Mubi’s U.S. lineup for next month has been unveiled, including some essential recent releases, notably James Vaughan’s Friends and Strangers, Radu Muntean’s Întregalde, Alice Diop’s We (Nous), the Isabel Sandoval-led short The Actress, Ougie Pak’s Clytaemnestra, and the new restoration of Hong Sangsoo’s Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors.
As part of Pride month and fitting as his latest film arrives, Andrew Ahn’s Spa Night is among the selections, alongside And Then We Danced, Being 17, and Lilting. Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, a pair of films by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Kim Bora’s House of Hummingbird are also in the lineup.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
June 1 – Wet Sand, directed by Elene Naveriani | Viewfinder | Pride
June 2 – And Then We Danced, directed by Levan Akin | Pride Unprejudiced: LGBTQ+ Cinema
June 3 – Friends and Strangers, directed by James Vaughan | Mubi Spotlight
June 4 – Final Set,...
As part of Pride month and fitting as his latest film arrives, Andrew Ahn’s Spa Night is among the selections, alongside And Then We Danced, Being 17, and Lilting. Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, a pair of films by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Kim Bora’s House of Hummingbird are also in the lineup.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
June 1 – Wet Sand, directed by Elene Naveriani | Viewfinder | Pride
June 2 – And Then We Danced, directed by Levan Akin | Pride Unprejudiced: LGBTQ+ Cinema
June 3 – Friends and Strangers, directed by James Vaughan | Mubi Spotlight
June 4 – Final Set,...
- 5/24/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Sometimes it’s like they read your mind—or just notice upcoming releases as you do. Whatever the case, I’m thrilled that the release of Terence Davies’ Benediction played (I assume!) some part in a full retro on the Criterion Channel this June, sad as I know that package will make me and anybody else who comes within ten feet of it. It’s among a handful of career retrospectives: they’ve also set a 12-film Judy Garland series populated by Berkeley and Minnelli, ten from Ulrike Ottinger, and four by Billy Wilder. But maybe their most adventurous idea in some time is a huge microbudget collection ranging from Ulmer’s Detour to Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard, fellow success stories—Nolan, Linklater, Jarmusch, Jia Zhangke—spread about.
Criterion Editions continue with Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight, Double Indemnity, and Seconds, while Chameleon Street, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time,...
Criterion Editions continue with Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight, Double Indemnity, and Seconds, while Chameleon Street, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
UK Agencies The Artists’ Partnership, Sayle Screen & Sara Putt Associates Form The Partnership Group
Exclusive: UK agencies The Artists Partnership, Sayle Screen and Sara Putt Associates are joining forces to create The Partnership Group.
The pact will see The Artists Partnership (which includes sister company The Development Partnership) investing in literary agency Sayle Screen and below the line agency Sara Putt Associates and taking a share in both companies. All three will sitt under the newly formed umbrella company.
Each company will retain their own current identity and brand name and we understand there won’t be any departures as a result of the investment. The move should give the firms more heft in an increasingly competitive UK agency landscape, and offer clients broader opportunities.
The Artists Partnership reps talent including Emily Blunt, Idris Elba, Regé-Jean Page, Joseph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, James Norton, Kim Cattrall, Matt Dillon, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, John Cleese, Alfie Allen and Catherine Tate.
Sayle Screen reps directors including Yorgos Lanthimos,...
The pact will see The Artists Partnership (which includes sister company The Development Partnership) investing in literary agency Sayle Screen and below the line agency Sara Putt Associates and taking a share in both companies. All three will sitt under the newly formed umbrella company.
Each company will retain their own current identity and brand name and we understand there won’t be any departures as a result of the investment. The move should give the firms more heft in an increasingly competitive UK agency landscape, and offer clients broader opportunities.
The Artists Partnership reps talent including Emily Blunt, Idris Elba, Regé-Jean Page, Joseph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, James Norton, Kim Cattrall, Matt Dillon, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, John Cleese, Alfie Allen and Catherine Tate.
Sayle Screen reps directors including Yorgos Lanthimos,...
- 7/9/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
To mark this year’s Pride, Queer East returns to cinemas across London with a diverse set of films from China, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK, exploring how culture, law, history, and social norms have shaped the current queer landscape in East and Southeast Asia.
The film screenings begin on Saturday 5 June at the Lexi Cinema with the Taiwanese award-winning blockbuster Gf*Bf (2012), exploring the relationship between sexuality and political activism. The programme also features Toshio Matsumoto’s kaleidoscopic masterpiece Funeral Parade of Roses, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s gay romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet, the UK premiere of Memories of My Body, As We Like It, Berlinale Teddy Jury Award-winner A Dog Barking at the Moon, BAFTA nominee Lilting, and documentary The Two Lives of Li Ermao.
The film screenings will be taking place throughout June and July, in the Barbican Centre, Catford Mews, Curzon Goldsmiths, Genesis Cinema and the Lexi Cinema.
The film screenings begin on Saturday 5 June at the Lexi Cinema with the Taiwanese award-winning blockbuster Gf*Bf (2012), exploring the relationship between sexuality and political activism. The programme also features Toshio Matsumoto’s kaleidoscopic masterpiece Funeral Parade of Roses, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s gay romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet, the UK premiere of Memories of My Body, As We Like It, Berlinale Teddy Jury Award-winner A Dog Barking at the Moon, BAFTA nominee Lilting, and documentary The Two Lives of Li Ermao.
The film screenings will be taking place throughout June and July, in the Barbican Centre, Catford Mews, Curzon Goldsmiths, Genesis Cinema and the Lexi Cinema.
- 6/3/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Henry Golding and his Long House Productions label have signed a two-year first-look film and TV development and production deal with Sk Global, the co-financiers and producers of Warner Bros.’ “Crazy Rich Asians.”
The deal will cover opportunities for Golding both in front of and behind the camera. The projects developed under the new partnership will include features and scripted and unscripted TV series for the global market. They will seek to appeal to both U.S. and local-language audiences abroad, the companies said, looking specifically at collaborations with partners in Japan, Southeast Asia and China.
Golding first linked up with Sk Global for the groundbreaking 2018 rom-com “Crazy Rich Asians,” whose sequel is set to begin shooting “imminently,” the firm said.
He launched Long House Productions in partnership with China’s deep-pocketed Starlight Cultural Entertainment Group in 2019 to develop content across all media that highlights Asian voices. Its first feature will be “The Inheritance,...
The deal will cover opportunities for Golding both in front of and behind the camera. The projects developed under the new partnership will include features and scripted and unscripted TV series for the global market. They will seek to appeal to both U.S. and local-language audiences abroad, the companies said, looking specifically at collaborations with partners in Japan, Southeast Asia and China.
Golding first linked up with Sk Global for the groundbreaking 2018 rom-com “Crazy Rich Asians,” whose sequel is set to begin shooting “imminently,” the firm said.
He launched Long House Productions in partnership with China’s deep-pocketed Starlight Cultural Entertainment Group in 2019 to develop content across all media that highlights Asian voices. Its first feature will be “The Inheritance,...
- 5/20/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The BFI has appointed Mia Bays as the new director of its Film Fund.
Joining for an initial three-year term, Bays will lead the strategic and cultural direction of the BFI’s investment of National Lottery funds into supporting U.K. feature film production. At approximately £30 million a year, it is the largest public fund in the UK for film and filmmakers, as well as new and emerging talent through BFI Network.
Bays is currently director-at-large for Birds’ Eye View, a U.K. charity that centres the female perspective in film and campaigns for gender equality in the industry. She will remain in a consultancy role with Birds’ Eye View and intends to return there at the end of her three-year contract with the BFI Film Fund.
Bays will take up her new role in October, based between London and Nottingham.
“I mark 30 years in film this year. What a...
Joining for an initial three-year term, Bays will lead the strategic and cultural direction of the BFI’s investment of National Lottery funds into supporting U.K. feature film production. At approximately £30 million a year, it is the largest public fund in the UK for film and filmmakers, as well as new and emerging talent through BFI Network.
Bays is currently director-at-large for Birds’ Eye View, a U.K. charity that centres the female perspective in film and campaigns for gender equality in the industry. She will remain in a consultancy role with Birds’ Eye View and intends to return there at the end of her three-year contract with the BFI Film Fund.
Bays will take up her new role in October, based between London and Nottingham.
“I mark 30 years in film this year. What a...
- 4/21/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The BFI has announced Mia Bays as the new Director of BFI Film Fund for an initial three-year term.
Bays will lead the strategic and cultural direction of the BFI’s investment of National Lottery funds into supporting UK feature film production – which at about £30 million a year represents the largest public fund in the UK for film and filmmakers – as well as new and emerging talent through BFI Network. She will take up the position in October, based between London and Nottingham.
In other changes at the fund, BFI vets Natascha Wharton and Lizzie Francke, formerly Senior Production & Development Executives, are segueing to the new roles of Head of Editorial and Editor-at-Large, respectively. Farhana Bhula and Kristin Irving are promoted to Senior Production & Development Executives. Fiona Morham has taken on expanded responsibilities in her Head of Production role.
Bays said: “I mark 30 years in film this year. What a...
Bays will lead the strategic and cultural direction of the BFI’s investment of National Lottery funds into supporting UK feature film production – which at about £30 million a year represents the largest public fund in the UK for film and filmmakers – as well as new and emerging talent through BFI Network. She will take up the position in October, based between London and Nottingham.
In other changes at the fund, BFI vets Natascha Wharton and Lizzie Francke, formerly Senior Production & Development Executives, are segueing to the new roles of Head of Editorial and Editor-at-Large, respectively. Farhana Bhula and Kristin Irving are promoted to Senior Production & Development Executives. Fiona Morham has taken on expanded responsibilities in her Head of Production role.
Bays said: “I mark 30 years in film this year. What a...
- 4/21/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Crestone (Marnie Ellen Hertzler)
Exploring the bohemian lives of SoundCloud rappers who find their own oasis (or perhaps are living in a mirage of one) in the middle of the Colorado desert, Crestone is a brief, but complicated look at such a way of life. With a breezy Animal Collective score guiding the rather beautiful imagery, director Marnie Ellen Hertzler is also keen on showing the failures that come with such a life off the grid. Cuisines featuring terrible-looking bologna sandwiches and ketchup-infused ramen along with donation pleas for an $80K GoFundMe with $0 pledged show this escape from society may not be the luxurious, meditative experience as promoted on...
Crestone (Marnie Ellen Hertzler)
Exploring the bohemian lives of SoundCloud rappers who find their own oasis (or perhaps are living in a mirage of one) in the middle of the Colorado desert, Crestone is a brief, but complicated look at such a way of life. With a breezy Animal Collective score guiding the rather beautiful imagery, director Marnie Ellen Hertzler is also keen on showing the failures that come with such a life off the grid. Cuisines featuring terrible-looking bologna sandwiches and ketchup-infused ramen along with donation pleas for an $80K GoFundMe with $0 pledged show this escape from society may not be the luxurious, meditative experience as promoted on...
- 2/19/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Photo: ‘Monsoon/Peccadillo Pictures In ‘Monsoon’ (2019), a gay Vietnamese British man named Kit (Henry Golding) struggles to reconcile his national and cultural identities when he returns to Vietnam for the first time in 30 years to scatter his parents’ ashes. When Kit was a child, his family fled Vietnam in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and settled in England. Upon returning to the place of his birth, Kit struggles with processing the grief of his parents’ deaths, finding his place in a country he no longer recognizes and whose language he no longer speaks, and connecting to the various characters in the film. A great aspect of ‘Monsoon’ is that Kit’s sexuality is the one part of his identity that he is not struggling to comprehend, which allows for his soul searching to focus on understanding who he is regarding his national and cultural identities. Related article: One of...
- 2/16/2021
- by Claire L. Wong
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Netflix’s February 2021 slate is highlighted by a splashy trio of new releases: Oscar hopeful “Malcolm & Marie” (acquired for a cool $30 million during a Covid summer bidding war), frothy TIFF pick-up “I Care a Lot,” and “To All the Boys: Always and Forever,” the final installment of what has become one of the streaming giant’s most popular original franchises. But this month’s lineup is most exciting for the attention it calls to (a very small) handful of essential new and new-ish independent films that slipped under the radar and never received the attention they deserved.
Forget Valentine’s Day, this February is all about the ones that got away.
Hong Khaou’s “Monsoon” is one of the loveliest films that snuck out onto virtual screens last year, but its arrival on the world’s largest streaming platform will should allow it to make a much stronger impact.
Forget Valentine’s Day, this February is all about the ones that got away.
Hong Khaou’s “Monsoon” is one of the loveliest films that snuck out onto virtual screens last year, but its arrival on the world’s largest streaming platform will should allow it to make a much stronger impact.
- 2/5/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
“Minyan,” an acclaimed tale of sexual and spiritual identity directed by Eric Steel, has sold to Strand Releasing in North America.
The film, starring stage breakout Samuel H. Levine of Broadway and the West End’s “The Inheritance,” played in the official selection at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win Outfest’s grand jury prize for U.S. narrative feature.
In Judaism, a minyan refers to the minimum amount of celebrants required for certain religious traditions. Set in 1980s Brighton Beach, the film follows a young Russian Jewish immigrant who is caught up in the tight constraints of his community. He develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors — two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss. In the East Village, he finds a world teeming with the energy of youth,...
The film, starring stage breakout Samuel H. Levine of Broadway and the West End’s “The Inheritance,” played in the official selection at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win Outfest’s grand jury prize for U.S. narrative feature.
In Judaism, a minyan refers to the minimum amount of celebrants required for certain religious traditions. Set in 1980s Brighton Beach, the film follows a young Russian Jewish immigrant who is caught up in the tight constraints of his community. He develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors — two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss. In the East Village, he finds a world teeming with the energy of youth,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Agnieszka Holland’s critically acclaimed “Charlatan” from Berlin-based company Films Boutique.
“Charlatan” competed at the Berlin Film Festival this year in the Special Gala section, and was most recently selected at Telluride. “Charlatan” represents Czech Republic in the Oscar race for the best international feature film.
“Charlatan” is based on the true story of Czech healer Jan Mikolášek, who dedicated his life to treating the sick using medicinal plants. Holland has described “Charlatan” as a story about Mikolášek’s “moral fall and of his constant fight with the darkness inside him.”
“It is the story of the mystery of a man, of the mystery of his special gift, of the prize he was ready to pay for it; the story of the paradox of strength and weakness, of love and hate,” said Holland.
“We’re thrilled to be representing this film...
“Charlatan” competed at the Berlin Film Festival this year in the Special Gala section, and was most recently selected at Telluride. “Charlatan” represents Czech Republic in the Oscar race for the best international feature film.
“Charlatan” is based on the true story of Czech healer Jan Mikolášek, who dedicated his life to treating the sick using medicinal plants. Holland has described “Charlatan” as a story about Mikolášek’s “moral fall and of his constant fight with the darkness inside him.”
“It is the story of the mystery of a man, of the mystery of his special gift, of the prize he was ready to pay for it; the story of the paradox of strength and weakness, of love and hate,” said Holland.
“We’re thrilled to be representing this film...
- 12/10/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Weathering Heights: Khaou Searches for Solace in Stodgy Travelogue
The adage born from Thomas Wolfe’s sentiment notwithstanding, the act of revisiting one’s origins through a cultural identity from which one’s been estranged is another matter entirely. How does one ‘go home’ to a place one barely remembers? Stripped from nostalgia, the ruins of a life which could have been had it not been for a violent conflict are at the heart of Hong Khaou’s sophomore effort, Monsoon, a metaphorical title referring to a deluge as much as it signals nature’s cycle of rebirth.
The kernels of an interesting character portrait are present in Khaou’s latest, which follows a similarly mournful cultural juxtaposition of two humans united by chance under circumstances (albeit distantly) informed by traumatic experiences.…...
The adage born from Thomas Wolfe’s sentiment notwithstanding, the act of revisiting one’s origins through a cultural identity from which one’s been estranged is another matter entirely. How does one ‘go home’ to a place one barely remembers? Stripped from nostalgia, the ruins of a life which could have been had it not been for a violent conflict are at the heart of Hong Khaou’s sophomore effort, Monsoon, a metaphorical title referring to a deluge as much as it signals nature’s cycle of rebirth.
The kernels of an interesting character portrait are present in Khaou’s latest, which follows a similarly mournful cultural juxtaposition of two humans united by chance under circumstances (albeit distantly) informed by traumatic experiences.…...
- 11/25/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
by Allen Nguyen
Henry Golding was eight years old when he and his family left Malaysia for England. Director Hong Khaou (Lilting) was an infant when his family fled the Khmer Rouge for Vietnam. That shared experience of displacement-fueled ambiguity and the concept of reconciling one’s national identity is the foundation on which the new film Monsoon is built.
Golding plays Kit, a British-Vietnamese man who returns to the country he and his family fled some thirty years prior. Kit cannot speak Vietnamese, has cloudy childhood memories of life in Vietnam, and is unable to process the unfamiliarity of the land he once called home...
Henry Golding was eight years old when he and his family left Malaysia for England. Director Hong Khaou (Lilting) was an infant when his family fled the Khmer Rouge for Vietnam. That shared experience of displacement-fueled ambiguity and the concept of reconciling one’s national identity is the foundation on which the new film Monsoon is built.
Golding plays Kit, a British-Vietnamese man who returns to the country he and his family fled some thirty years prior. Kit cannot speak Vietnamese, has cloudy childhood memories of life in Vietnam, and is unable to process the unfamiliarity of the land he once called home...
- 11/17/2020
- by Allen Nguyen
- FilmExperience
Neon will bring some passionate romance in Ammonite this weekend. The period pic starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan opened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September where it immediately garnered buzz as an Oscar favorite.
Written and directed by Francis Lee, Ammonite is set in the 1840s and follows once-acclaimed paleontologist Mary Anning (Winslet), who works alone on the Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. With the days of her fame behind her, she’s stern and doesn’t exactly like the company of others. She spends her time digging up common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother (Gemma Jones).
Enter geologist James McArdle (Roderick Murchison) who arrives in Lyme with his wife Charlotte (Ronan). He asks Mary to keep his wife company who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. The two are from totally different worlds Mary struggles while...
Written and directed by Francis Lee, Ammonite is set in the 1840s and follows once-acclaimed paleontologist Mary Anning (Winslet), who works alone on the Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. With the days of her fame behind her, she’s stern and doesn’t exactly like the company of others. She spends her time digging up common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother (Gemma Jones).
Enter geologist James McArdle (Roderick Murchison) who arrives in Lyme with his wife Charlotte (Ronan). He asks Mary to keep his wife company who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. The two are from totally different worlds Mary struggles while...
- 11/13/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Malaysian-born British actor Henry Golding has enjoyed something of a meteoric rise in the last few years, shedding his roots as a TV host, model, and a onetime hairdresser to become a modern-day matinee idol. His bonafides as a former journalist also mean he’s poised in an interview, made apparent in a recent Zoom conversation with IndieWire to discuss his career-best performance in Hontg Khaou’s delicate identity odyssey “Monsoon.”
“Monsoon” effectively washes away the debonair aura of Golding’s upstart Hollywood stardom as established in splashy films like “Crazy Rich Asians,” where he played the continent-hopping story’s moneyed groom-to-be, and comedies “A Simple Favor” and “Last Christmas” with director Paul Feig. He’s still a dashing leading man, but now proves himself as able to nimbly shoulder a small-scale indie like “Monsoon,” a wistful travelogue tracing his character’s journey through Vietnam to rediscover his family’s immigrant past.
“Monsoon” effectively washes away the debonair aura of Golding’s upstart Hollywood stardom as established in splashy films like “Crazy Rich Asians,” where he played the continent-hopping story’s moneyed groom-to-be, and comedies “A Simple Favor” and “Last Christmas” with director Paul Feig. He’s still a dashing leading man, but now proves himself as able to nimbly shoulder a small-scale indie like “Monsoon,” a wistful travelogue tracing his character’s journey through Vietnam to rediscover his family’s immigrant past.
- 11/13/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The title “Monsoon” implies a furious deluge of sorts, but there’s nothing overly dramatic on the face of writer-director Hong Khaou’s film of that name. The film feels like more of a gentle, melancholy rain, accompanied by a mist that makes things indistinct and foggy. Emotionally, the thunder may be there beneath the surface, but it’s well hidden by characters who’d rather quietly search than scream for answers.
And the film is elusive as well. Khaou, six years after his debut feature “Lilting,” has made another drama that crosses cultures and looks for home and family in the gentlest of ways. “Monsoon” is a lyrical, ambiguous reverie, maddening at times and beautifully resonant at others; it’s quietly disorienting, but deeply felt.
The film begins with an overhead shot of an intersection in Ho Chi Minh City, which was named Saigon when Kit lived there as a child.
And the film is elusive as well. Khaou, six years after his debut feature “Lilting,” has made another drama that crosses cultures and looks for home and family in the gentlest of ways. “Monsoon” is a lyrical, ambiguous reverie, maddening at times and beautifully resonant at others; it’s quietly disorienting, but deeply felt.
The film begins with an overhead shot of an intersection in Ho Chi Minh City, which was named Saigon when Kit lived there as a child.
- 11/13/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
British-Malaysian actor Henry Golding has carved a space in Hollywood as a debonair heartthrob who can bring old world charm to contemporary mainstream movies. From his turn as a moneyed groom-to-be in the 2018 smash “Crazy Rich Asians” to his Hitchcockian matinee idol in “A Simple Favor” that same year, Golding brings a measure of class to every project he graces. And, with just a handful of screen credits, there haven’t been many. It’s hard to take your eyes off him, and that’s not just because he’s in nearly every shot of this slice of gay soul searching as an expat returning to his roots in Vietnam.
Khaou’s film, the Chinese-British filmmaker’s first since 2014’s “Lilting,” unfolds in dulcet, almost Asmr-inducing tones, but that doesn’t mean “Monsoon” lacks for big emotional impact. Kit (Golding) is a British-Vietnamese man returning to his birth country for...
Khaou’s film, the Chinese-British filmmaker’s first since 2014’s “Lilting,” unfolds in dulcet, almost Asmr-inducing tones, but that doesn’t mean “Monsoon” lacks for big emotional impact. Kit (Golding) is a British-Vietnamese man returning to his birth country for...
- 11/11/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
To mark the release of Monsoon, out now, we’ve been given 2 copies to give away on DVD.
Directed by Hong Khaou (Lilting), Monsoon is a visual and emotional tour de force with a tender performance from Henry Golding. The film is a rich and poignant exploration of the struggle for identity in a place where the past weighs heavily on the present. Kit returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American war. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he s no longer familiar with, he embarks on a personal journey across the country that opens up the possibility for friendship, love and happiness.
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Directed by Hong Khaou (Lilting), Monsoon is a visual and emotional tour de force with a tender performance from Henry Golding. The film is a rich and poignant exploration of the struggle for identity in a place where the past weighs heavily on the present. Kit returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American war. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he s no longer familiar with, he embarks on a personal journey across the country that opens up the possibility for friendship, love and happiness.
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- 11/4/2020
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This strange year is now winding down, and while for much of the month all eyes will be turned towards the U.S. election and its aftermath, as we take a glance at the film offerings, there’s no shortage of worthwhile releases.
From the first batch of five new Steve McQueen films to David Fincher’s first feature in six years to new work by Werner Herzog, Clea DuVall, Gabriel Mascaro, Francis Lee, and more, it’s a stellar line-up as we enter into the final stretch of 2020.
We should also note that some theatrical-only releases earlier this fall are making their digital debuts, such as The Nest and Possessor, so be sure to follow our streaming column for weekly updates.
15. The Giant (David Raboy; Nov. 13)
A highlight at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, David Raboy’s directorial debut The Giant––which follows a young woman who...
From the first batch of five new Steve McQueen films to David Fincher’s first feature in six years to new work by Werner Herzog, Clea DuVall, Gabriel Mascaro, Francis Lee, and more, it’s a stellar line-up as we enter into the final stretch of 2020.
We should also note that some theatrical-only releases earlier this fall are making their digital debuts, such as The Nest and Possessor, so be sure to follow our streaming column for weekly updates.
15. The Giant (David Raboy; Nov. 13)
A highlight at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, David Raboy’s directorial debut The Giant––which follows a young woman who...
- 11/2/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
BBC Film and the BFI today announce a new season of British films beginning on BBC Two on Saturday 24 October with Daniel Kokotajlo’s BAFTA-nominated ‘Apostasy.’
British Film Premiere: New Films from New Voices will present a brand new premiere every Saturday night, celebrating a new wave of British filmmakers who are offering fresh perspectives on UK life and experiences.
Each film will be available on BBC iPlayer after its transmission on BBC Two, and all will be accompanied by a short introduction from a UK film critic. Most of the films will also be available for free on BFI Player.
The films premiering in the British Film Premiere season are all backed by BBC Film and the BFI, which awards National Lottery funding. They are all critically acclaimed feature films which premiered at top tier international film festivals, with many nominated for or winning major awards.
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British Film Premiere: New Films from New Voices will present a brand new premiere every Saturday night, celebrating a new wave of British filmmakers who are offering fresh perspectives on UK life and experiences.
Each film will be available on BBC iPlayer after its transmission on BBC Two, and all will be accompanied by a short introduction from a UK film critic. Most of the films will also be available for free on BFI Player.
The films premiering in the British Film Premiere season are all backed by BBC Film and the BFI, which awards National Lottery funding. They are all critically acclaimed feature films which premiered at top tier international film festivals, with many nominated for or winning major awards.
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- 10/22/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The previously postponed Queer East Film Festival returns to cinemas across the UK with an additional seven films added to the original programme this October. Reimagined as a season-long showcase, the festival’s in-person cinema screenings will now go beyond London to include Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol, as well as offer UK-wide virtual screenings for audiences to enjoy at home.
Queer East is a celebration of queer storytelling and activism in East and Southeast Asia and aims to uplift and amplify the voices of those marginalised in the LGBTQ+ community. Spanning over 50 years of filmmaking, the first edition of Queer East is a mix of classic retrospectives and new releases, to explore how culture, law, history, and social norms have affected and built the current queer Asian landscape.
Festival Director and Programmer of Queer East, Yi Wang says:
“Global events this year have yet again reminded us of the importance of reflecting on equalities.
Queer East is a celebration of queer storytelling and activism in East and Southeast Asia and aims to uplift and amplify the voices of those marginalised in the LGBTQ+ community. Spanning over 50 years of filmmaking, the first edition of Queer East is a mix of classic retrospectives and new releases, to explore how culture, law, history, and social norms have affected and built the current queer Asian landscape.
Festival Director and Programmer of Queer East, Yi Wang says:
“Global events this year have yet again reminded us of the importance of reflecting on equalities.
- 10/7/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Khaou’s thoughtful film speaks to those of us who were forced to move from our homeland but are now finding a haven in other spaces, from food to family
‘Go home!” or “Go back to where you came from!” are words that people of colour hear and swallow all the time. Having grown up in the UK, such jeers ignite both confusion and anger – as my sense of a community is diminished by the insults of people who are no more British than I am.
Related: Monsoon review – sweet times and scented tea in Saigon...
‘Go home!” or “Go back to where you came from!” are words that people of colour hear and swallow all the time. Having grown up in the UK, such jeers ignite both confusion and anger – as my sense of a community is diminished by the insults of people who are no more British than I am.
Related: Monsoon review – sweet times and scented tea in Saigon...
- 9/29/2020
- by Georgina Quach
- The Guardian - Film News
Ah, when we could meet people in person. This interview is from London Film Festival 2019, and we sat down – in person – with Monsoon director Hong Khaou to discuss his latest project.
We speak to Khaou about the film’s semi-autobiographical edge, and on his own childhood memories of Cambodia. He also looks back on his preceding endeavour Lilting, starring Ben Whishaw, and talks about the exploration of duality on screen, as the film was shown in close proximity to other movies The Last Tree and The Farewell, which also tackled a similar area. And of course we speak in length about his leading man Henry Golding, as Khaou comments on rumours linking the actor with the soon-to-be vacant James Bond post…
Watch the full interview with Hong Khaou below:
Synopsis
Kit returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family...
We speak to Khaou about the film’s semi-autobiographical edge, and on his own childhood memories of Cambodia. He also looks back on his preceding endeavour Lilting, starring Ben Whishaw, and talks about the exploration of duality on screen, as the film was shown in close proximity to other movies The Last Tree and The Farewell, which also tackled a similar area. And of course we speak in length about his leading man Henry Golding, as Khaou comments on rumours linking the actor with the soon-to-be vacant James Bond post…
Watch the full interview with Hong Khaou below:
Synopsis
Kit returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family...
- 9/24/2020
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In this smart, deeply felt drama, a British Vietnamese man returns to the old country to make sense of his family history
The rains only come at the end of this film, but there is no drenching emotional release to go with them; the weather is more complicated. Cambodian-British film-maker Hong Khaou, who directed the gentle tale of love and loss Lilting, has created a thoughtful, deeply felt movie of great sweetness, unfolding at an unhurried pace. It is about a homecoming that isn’t quite a homecoming, a reckoning with something not exactly there, an attempted reconciliation with people and places that can’t really be negotiated with.
Related: Henry Golding: 'Moving from Malaysia to Surrey was a slap in the face'...
The rains only come at the end of this film, but there is no drenching emotional release to go with them; the weather is more complicated. Cambodian-British film-maker Hong Khaou, who directed the gentle tale of love and loss Lilting, has created a thoughtful, deeply felt movie of great sweetness, unfolding at an unhurried pace. It is about a homecoming that isn’t quite a homecoming, a reckoning with something not exactly there, an attempted reconciliation with people and places that can’t really be negotiated with.
Related: Henry Golding: 'Moving from Malaysia to Surrey was a slap in the face'...
- 9/24/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The firm will focus on under-represented creatives.
UK producers Dominic Buchanan, whose credits include The End Of The F***ing World, and Bennett McGhee, who produced Mogul Mowgli, have launched Home Team, a new production company focusing on under-represented creative voices.
The company has recieved backing from the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the BFI to help generate a new wave of investors in the UK screen industries. Finance specialists Stargrove Pictures acts as adviser to the fund, and sourced the Home Team investment opportunity.
The company will develop and produce feature films and high-end television series,...
UK producers Dominic Buchanan, whose credits include The End Of The F***ing World, and Bennett McGhee, who produced Mogul Mowgli, have launched Home Team, a new production company focusing on under-represented creative voices.
The company has recieved backing from the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the BFI to help generate a new wave of investors in the UK screen industries. Finance specialists Stargrove Pictures acts as adviser to the fund, and sourced the Home Team investment opportunity.
The company will develop and produce feature films and high-end television series,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Two of the U.K.’s top producers, Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee (left), have teamed up to launch a new film and TV production company.
Home Team will focus on high-end, inclusive projects that champion underrepresented creatives and new voices, including filmmakers of color and female filmmakers from all backgrounds.
Buchanan is executive producer on Netflix/Channel 4 drama “The End of the F***ing World,” while McGhee’s recent film “Mogul Mowgli,” starring Riz Ahmed, recently picked up the 2020 Fipresci prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and will soon play the London Film Festival. The film was recently acquired by BFI Distribution.
The company’s development slate includes a collaboration with BBC Films on Shola Amoo’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed “The Last Tree”; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny Ekaragha (“The End of the F***ing World”) and Danielle Ward (“In the Long Run”); and Nadia Latif...
Home Team will focus on high-end, inclusive projects that champion underrepresented creatives and new voices, including filmmakers of color and female filmmakers from all backgrounds.
Buchanan is executive producer on Netflix/Channel 4 drama “The End of the F***ing World,” while McGhee’s recent film “Mogul Mowgli,” starring Riz Ahmed, recently picked up the 2020 Fipresci prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and will soon play the London Film Festival. The film was recently acquired by BFI Distribution.
The company’s development slate includes a collaboration with BBC Films on Shola Amoo’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed “The Last Tree”; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny Ekaragha (“The End of the F***ing World”) and Danielle Ward (“In the Long Run”); and Nadia Latif...
- 9/9/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Outfest Los Angeles is going virtual this year and they have unveiled their stacked lineup for the 11-day festival which kicks off August 20.
The LGBTQ film fest fest will include over 160 films with 35 world premieres, 10 North American premieres and 4 U.S. premieres to Los Angeles for 2020. The fest will live on http://www.outfestla2020.com and there will also be “Outfest LA Under the Stars”, a drive-in experience will take place at the stunning Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, where for two extended weekends the Festival will be hosting a series of drive-in screenings across six-nights on two lots, including both kick-off and closing events. The drive-in screenings will start with the Sundance pic The Nowhere Inn starring musicians Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein. Other screenings will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
Over 70% of films at Outfest LA directed by female, trans, and Poc filmmakers. The Breakthrough Centerpiece will be...
The LGBTQ film fest fest will include over 160 films with 35 world premieres, 10 North American premieres and 4 U.S. premieres to Los Angeles for 2020. The fest will live on http://www.outfestla2020.com and there will also be “Outfest LA Under the Stars”, a drive-in experience will take place at the stunning Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, where for two extended weekends the Festival will be hosting a series of drive-in screenings across six-nights on two lots, including both kick-off and closing events. The drive-in screenings will start with the Sundance pic The Nowhere Inn starring musicians Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein. Other screenings will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
Over 70% of films at Outfest LA directed by female, trans, and Poc filmmakers. The Breakthrough Centerpiece will be...
- 8/11/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to Ray Yeung’s “Twilight’s Kiss” (“Suk Suk”) which world premiered at Busan and played at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Sold by Films Boutique, “Twilight’s Kiss” tells the story of two closeted married men in their twilight years, Pak, a 70 year-old taxi driver who refuses to retire, and Hoi, a 65 year-old retired single father. Despite years of societal and personal pressure, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet, when they meet, something that had been suppressed for so many years is unleashed in them.
Strand Releasing, whose roster is packed with renowned world auteurs, previously handled Yeung’s film “Front Cover” with Jake Choi (“Single Parents”). “The delicate and beautiful story of two older men finding love later in life is a refreshing and realistic story and although uniquely Asian, is universal,...
Sold by Films Boutique, “Twilight’s Kiss” tells the story of two closeted married men in their twilight years, Pak, a 70 year-old taxi driver who refuses to retire, and Hoi, a 65 year-old retired single father. Despite years of societal and personal pressure, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet, when they meet, something that had been suppressed for so many years is unleashed in them.
Strand Releasing, whose roster is packed with renowned world auteurs, previously handled Yeung’s film “Front Cover” with Jake Choi (“Single Parents”). “The delicate and beautiful story of two older men finding love later in life is a refreshing and realistic story and although uniquely Asian, is universal,...
- 6/4/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to “Monsoon,” a drama in the English and Vietnamese language that stars Henry Golding, the distributor announced Thursday.
“Monsoon” comes from director Hong Khaou and Protagonist Pictures and made its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival last June. Strand Releasing is planning a fall release for the film. Peccadillo will release the film in the UK later this year.
“Monsoon” stars Golding as Kit, a young British man of Vietnamese descent who returns to Saigon to scatter his mother’s ashes. Along the journey, Kit meets estranged family members who help him recall his past, and he later falls for an American man named Lewis (Parker Sawyers), whose father fought in the Vietnam War.
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“We’re so thrilled to be working with Protagonist Pictures again,...
“Monsoon” comes from director Hong Khaou and Protagonist Pictures and made its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival last June. Strand Releasing is planning a fall release for the film. Peccadillo will release the film in the UK later this year.
“Monsoon” stars Golding as Kit, a young British man of Vietnamese descent who returns to Saigon to scatter his mother’s ashes. Along the journey, Kit meets estranged family members who help him recall his past, and he later falls for an American man named Lewis (Parker Sawyers), whose father fought in the Vietnam War.
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“We’re so thrilled to be working with Protagonist Pictures again,...
- 4/9/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to British-Cambodian filmmaker Hong Khaou’s “Monsoon,” a drama headlined by “Crazy Rich Asians” star Henry Golding and Parker Sawyers.
Sold by Protagonist Pictures, “Monsoon” had its world premiere at Karlovy Vary last year and stars Golding as Kit, a young British man of Vietnamese decent who returns to Saigon to scatter his mother’s ashes. Along the journey, Kit meets estranged family members, and falls for an American man Lewis (Sawyers), whose father fought in the Vietnam War.
“Monsoon” marks Khaou’s second feature, following his critically acclaimed directorial debut “Lifting” with Ben Whishaw which was also distributed by Strand Releasing in the U.S.
“We’re so thrilled to be working with Protagonist Pictures again, and especially to follow up with Hong’s latest effort which is such a beautifully crafted and personal film for Hong,” said Marcus Hu, co-president of Strand Releasing.
Sold by Protagonist Pictures, “Monsoon” had its world premiere at Karlovy Vary last year and stars Golding as Kit, a young British man of Vietnamese decent who returns to Saigon to scatter his mother’s ashes. Along the journey, Kit meets estranged family members, and falls for an American man Lewis (Sawyers), whose father fought in the Vietnam War.
“Monsoon” marks Khaou’s second feature, following his critically acclaimed directorial debut “Lifting” with Ben Whishaw which was also distributed by Strand Releasing in the U.S.
“We’re so thrilled to be working with Protagonist Pictures again, and especially to follow up with Hong’s latest effort which is such a beautifully crafted and personal film for Hong,” said Marcus Hu, co-president of Strand Releasing.
- 4/9/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
One of our favorites on the festival circuit last year, playing at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, and more, was Monsoon, a new drama from Lilting director Hong Khaou. Led by Henry Golding, whose character returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six, the drama finds him reflecting on his identity in this new location. While a May 1 release was in the cards for the U.K., we imagine that’s up in the air now due to the worldwide pandemic, but the first trailer has still arrived.
Logan Kenny said in our review, “Monsoon, the latest film from director Hong Khaou, grapples with lost identity, being trapped between two worlds and cultures. Khaou’s previous work Lilting is a character study about a gay man trying to connect with the Chinese mother of his dead partner in order to cope with his grief.
Logan Kenny said in our review, “Monsoon, the latest film from director Hong Khaou, grapples with lost identity, being trapped between two worlds and cultures. Khaou’s previous work Lilting is a character study about a gay man trying to connect with the Chinese mother of his dead partner in order to cope with his grief.
- 3/31/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Piccadillo Pictures has launched the first trailer for ‘Monsoon’ featuring Henry Golding.
Kit (Henry Golding) returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American war. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he’s no longer familiar with, he embarks on a personal journey across the country that opens up the possibility for friendship, love and happiness.
Directed by Hong Khaou (Lilting), the film features Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers (Southside With You)
and Molly Harris & David Tran.
Also in trailers – Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult star in teaser trailer for ‘The Great’
The film will be released in late 2020.
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Kit (Henry Golding) returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American war. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he’s no longer familiar with, he embarks on a personal journey across the country that opens up the possibility for friendship, love and happiness.
Directed by Hong Khaou (Lilting), the film features Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers (Southside With You)
and Molly Harris & David Tran.
Also in trailers – Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult star in teaser trailer for ‘The Great’
The film will be released in late 2020.
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- 3/24/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"I hardly recognize this country anymore..." Peccadillo Pictures has unveiled the first official trailer for an indie drama titled Monsoon, the latest feature from Cambodian-British filmmaker Hong Khaou (also of Lilting previously). This premiered at last year's Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and also played at the Athens and London Film Festivals. Henry Golding stars as Kit, a British-Vietnamese man, who returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years, after fleeing during the Vietnam-American War. Monsoon is described as "a rich and poignant reflection on the struggle for identity in a place where the past weighs heavily on the present." The cast also includes Parker Sawyers, David Tran, and Molly Harris. This looks absolutely gorgeous, not only visually but also as deeply intimate storytelling about finding your place in this big world. Here's the first official UK trailer for Hong Khaou's Monsoon, direct from Peccadillo's YouTube: Kit (Henry Golding...
- 3/20/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: BBC One’s gripping missing persons drama Baptiste is to return for a second, and potentially final season, with Killing Eve star Fiona Shaw joining the cast.
The six-part series, made by Fleabag producer Two Brothers Pictures, follows retired detective Julien Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo) as he delves into Budapest’s corrupt underworld in an attempt to find a British Ambassador’s family, who go missing on a skiing holiday in the Hungarian mountains.
Ambassador Emma Chambers is played by Shaw, a character who is thrust into the crosshairs of Baptiste’s most complex case to date, as the detective navigates an untrustworthy Hungarian police force and international media interest as he hunts for her husband and two sons.
Harry and Jack Williams, writers and managing directors of Two Brothers Pictures, said the second season will pay homage to The Missing, the BBC drama from which the character of Baptiste originated,...
The six-part series, made by Fleabag producer Two Brothers Pictures, follows retired detective Julien Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo) as he delves into Budapest’s corrupt underworld in an attempt to find a British Ambassador’s family, who go missing on a skiing holiday in the Hungarian mountains.
Ambassador Emma Chambers is played by Shaw, a character who is thrust into the crosshairs of Baptiste’s most complex case to date, as the detective navigates an untrustworthy Hungarian police force and international media interest as he hunts for her husband and two sons.
Harry and Jack Williams, writers and managing directors of Two Brothers Pictures, said the second season will pay homage to The Missing, the BBC drama from which the character of Baptiste originated,...
- 1/22/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Monsoon, the latest film from director Hong Khaou, grapples with lost identity, being trapped between two worlds and cultures. Khaou’s previous work Lilting is a character study about a gay man trying to connect with the Chinese mother of his dead partner in order to cope with his grief. Their communication takes place without language as neither can speak the other’s, their bonding relayed through the translations of others but primarily through each other’s physical presence. They engage by acting around one another, simply existing in spaces that their lost loved one is not there to wander through. She did not know her son was gay as he never had the chance to celebrate with her while his lover was alive. Lilting attempted to blend the mutual cultural understanding with a story of untimely loss and living as a queer person in a traditionally heteronormative environment.
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- 12/2/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Protagonist Pictures handles international sales on psychological horror from first-time director.
Rose Glass, whose psychological horror feature debut Saint Maud earned an enthusiastic critical reception at its world premiere in Toronto, has won the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with BFI.
Glass collected the prize at Tuesday night’s (October 1) BFI Luminous, the biennial fundraising gala at Roundhouse presented by Iwc Schaffhausen and BFI. The Nfts graduate and 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow was one of three nominees whose first or second film is screening at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The other two filmmakers are Hong Khaou...
Rose Glass, whose psychological horror feature debut Saint Maud earned an enthusiastic critical reception at its world premiere in Toronto, has won the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with BFI.
Glass collected the prize at Tuesday night’s (October 1) BFI Luminous, the biennial fundraising gala at Roundhouse presented by Iwc Schaffhausen and BFI. The Nfts graduate and 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow was one of three nominees whose first or second film is screening at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The other two filmmakers are Hong Khaou...
- 10/2/2019
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Protagonist Pictures handles international sales on psychological horror from first-time director.
Rose Glass, whose psychological horror feature debut Saint Maud earned an enthusiastic critical reception at its world premiere in Toronto, has won the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with BFI.
Glass collected the prize at Tuesday night’s (October 1) BFI Luminous, the biennial fundraising gala at Roundhouse presented by Iwc Schaffhausen and BFI. The Nfts graduate and 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow was one of three nominees whose first or second film is screening at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The other two filmmakers are Hong Khaou...
Rose Glass, whose psychological horror feature debut Saint Maud earned an enthusiastic critical reception at its world premiere in Toronto, has won the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with BFI.
Glass collected the prize at Tuesday night’s (October 1) BFI Luminous, the biennial fundraising gala at Roundhouse presented by Iwc Schaffhausen and BFI. The Nfts graduate and 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow was one of three nominees whose first or second film is screening at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The other two filmmakers are Hong Khaou...
- 10/1/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The intitative supports UK actors from under-represented backgrounds.
UK actors and Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2019 Himesh Patel and Viveik Kalra are among the jurors for the 2019 Bafta Elevate scheme, which this year is supporting actors from underrepresented backgrounds.
As well as Patel and Kalra, who starred in music-themed box office hits Yesterday and Blinded By The Light respectively this summer, the jury includes This Is England star Chanel Cresswell, Channel 4 head of comedy Fiona McDermott, ITV head of screen diversity Ade Rawcliffe, and former Screen Stars Ashley Walters (2004), Mahalia Belo (2012), and Hong Khaou (2013).
The full list of jurors is available below.
UK actors and Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2019 Himesh Patel and Viveik Kalra are among the jurors for the 2019 Bafta Elevate scheme, which this year is supporting actors from underrepresented backgrounds.
As well as Patel and Kalra, who starred in music-themed box office hits Yesterday and Blinded By The Light respectively this summer, the jury includes This Is England star Chanel Cresswell, Channel 4 head of comedy Fiona McDermott, ITV head of screen diversity Ade Rawcliffe, and former Screen Stars Ashley Walters (2004), Mahalia Belo (2012), and Hong Khaou (2013).
The full list of jurors is available below.
- 9/27/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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