Alejandro Landes has had a busy year. His survivalist saga Monos debuted at Sundance in January where it won a Special Jury Award and was acquired by Neon after its world premiere there. Landes was then signed by UTA and the film went on to play Berlin as well as a host of other festivals, scooping prizes along they way including in London and San Sebastian among others. In late August, Monos was selected as Colombia’s entry for the International Feature Oscar race.
Monos follows group of young soldiers and guerrillas training on a remote mountain in Latin America with an American hostage played by Julianne Nicholson. The teenage commandos, who have nicknames like Rambo, Smurg, Bigfoot, Wolf and Boom-Boom, perform military training exercises while watching over a prisoner and a conscripted dairy cow for a shadow force know only as The Organization. After an ambush drives the squadron into the jungle,...
Monos follows group of young soldiers and guerrillas training on a remote mountain in Latin America with an American hostage played by Julianne Nicholson. The teenage commandos, who have nicknames like Rambo, Smurg, Bigfoot, Wolf and Boom-Boom, perform military training exercises while watching over a prisoner and a conscripted dairy cow for a shadow force know only as The Organization. After an ambush drives the squadron into the jungle,...
- 11/18/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
UK box office preview: Can ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’, ‘The Addams Family’ challenge ‘Joker’ dominance?
Other new openers include ‘Monos’, ‘By The Grace Of God’.
Disney’s action franchise title Terminator: Dark Fate and Universal’s The Addams Family are the latest titles looking to challenge the box-office dominance of Warner Bros’ Joker this weekend at the UK box office.
Terminator: Dark Fate is the sixth film in the Terminator series. It takes place 27 years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgement Day when a new, modified liquid metal Terminator robot (Diego Luna) is sent from the future by Skynet to destroy a cyborg human (Mackenzie Davis). Sarah Connor and the original Terminator come to help them save the world.
Disney’s action franchise title Terminator: Dark Fate and Universal’s The Addams Family are the latest titles looking to challenge the box-office dominance of Warner Bros’ Joker this weekend at the UK box office.
Terminator: Dark Fate is the sixth film in the Terminator series. It takes place 27 years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgement Day when a new, modified liquid metal Terminator robot (Diego Luna) is sent from the future by Skynet to destroy a cyborg human (Mackenzie Davis). Sarah Connor and the original Terminator come to help them save the world.
- 10/25/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Mica Levi had only scored two feature films before “Monos,” but her work on Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin” and Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie” are among the most unique and celebrated pieces of film music from the past decade. Director Alejandro Landes said he wasn’t very confident he could land the popular composer for his film about a pack of Colombian child soldiers.
“I knew Mica doesn’t like to come onboard in the screenplay phase,” said Landes. “So her agent saw it, and I wasn’t sure I was going to get past the door-keeper there. He very much connected to it, sent it to her and she was in.”
Levi instantly connected to characters and the world, which starts above the clouds high atop the Andes, and moves down into the jungle. The composer told IndieWire that she could never create music for something without feeling...
“I knew Mica doesn’t like to come onboard in the screenplay phase,” said Landes. “So her agent saw it, and I wasn’t sure I was going to get past the door-keeper there. He very much connected to it, sent it to her and she was in.”
Levi instantly connected to characters and the world, which starts above the clouds high atop the Andes, and moves down into the jungle. The composer told IndieWire that she could never create music for something without feeling...
- 9/13/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Santiago, Chile French director Mikhael Hers’ “Amanda” scooped up the Best Int’l Film award Saturday (Aug. 24) at the 15th Santiago Int’l Film Fest (Sanfic), which reported a 20% audience uptick in the past two years and continues to grow its reputation as the most vibrant and prominent film festival in Latin America’s Southern cone.
Hailed by Variety critic Guy Lodge as a “nourishingly classical tear-jerker as well as a glowing valentine to Paris’s endurance in the age of modern terrorism,” Hers’ third feature has been collecting a raft of trophies since its world premiere at Venice last year, including Venice’s Golden Lantern Award as well as the Grand Prix and Best Screenplay awards at Tokyo.
Colombia’s Alejandro Landes, best known for his career-launching drama, “Porfirio,” snagged the best director prize for “Monos,” his apocalyptic vision of a rebel group of teenagers in the jungle, while...
Hailed by Variety critic Guy Lodge as a “nourishingly classical tear-jerker as well as a glowing valentine to Paris’s endurance in the age of modern terrorism,” Hers’ third feature has been collecting a raft of trophies since its world premiere at Venice last year, including Venice’s Golden Lantern Award as well as the Grand Prix and Best Screenplay awards at Tokyo.
Colombia’s Alejandro Landes, best known for his career-launching drama, “Porfirio,” snagged the best director prize for “Monos,” his apocalyptic vision of a rebel group of teenagers in the jungle, while...
- 8/25/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Frederico Veiroj’s “The Moneychanger,” Andrés Wood’s “Spider” and Gael García Bernal’s “Chicuarotes” will play in San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos, the Spanish Festival’s most important sidebar, along with its New Directors strand, and a virtual best of the fests titles of Latin American movies with standout at Sundance in particular, plus Berlin, Cannes, Venice and no doubt the upcoming Toronto.
“Spider” will have its European Premiere at San Sebastian.
Bookended by Patricio Guzman’s “The Cordillera of Dreams” and “La Llorona,” the latest from Jayro Bustamante, whose “Tremors” also makes the Horizontes Latinos cut, the section also captures key trends forging Latin America’s new landscape of Latin American movies.
Mined and prized by major festivals, Latin America has yet to go off the boil. The big prizes are going ever more, however, to lesser-known talents. Alejandro Landes’ “Monos” won a Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award,...
“Spider” will have its European Premiere at San Sebastian.
Bookended by Patricio Guzman’s “The Cordillera of Dreams” and “La Llorona,” the latest from Jayro Bustamante, whose “Tremors” also makes the Horizontes Latinos cut, the section also captures key trends forging Latin America’s new landscape of Latin American movies.
Mined and prized by major festivals, Latin America has yet to go off the boil. The big prizes are going ever more, however, to lesser-known talents. Alejandro Landes’ “Monos” won a Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award,...
- 8/6/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
International premiere set for Sunday (10).
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK rights to Alejandro Landes’ buzzy Colombia-set survival thriller Monos ahead of its international premiere in Panorama on Sunday (10).
Monos recently premiered in Sundance where it earned a special jury award and Neon picked up Us rights. Moises Arias leads the mostly young cast in the story of a guerilla unit fleeing government forces through the jungle. Julianne Nicholson plays the feisty American hostage.
Landes, whose first film Porfirio screened in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2011, co-wrote the film with Alexis Dos Santos, and produced alongside Fernando Epstein, Santiago Zapata and Cristina Landes.
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK rights to Alejandro Landes’ buzzy Colombia-set survival thriller Monos ahead of its international premiere in Panorama on Sunday (10).
Monos recently premiered in Sundance where it earned a special jury award and Neon picked up Us rights. Moises Arias leads the mostly young cast in the story of a guerilla unit fleeing government forces through the jungle. Julianne Nicholson plays the feisty American hostage.
Landes, whose first film Porfirio screened in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2011, co-wrote the film with Alexis Dos Santos, and produced alongside Fernando Epstein, Santiago Zapata and Cristina Landes.
- 2/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
On the heels of the 39th edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival (Sept 4-14), Ifp’s Independent Film Week is where a plethora of fiction, non-fiction and new this year, web-based series from the likes of Desiree Akhavan and Calvin Reeder find future coin. Sectioned off as projects at the very beginning of financing to those that are nearing completion, there happens to be tons of Sundance alumni in the names below. Among those that caught our attention we have Medicine for Melancholy‘s Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature, produced by Bad Milo!‘s Adele Romanski, Moonlight is about “two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth”. Concussion‘s Stacie Passon digs into the thriller genre with Strange Things Started Happening. Produced by vet Mary Jane Skalski (Mysterious Skin), this is about “a woman who has...
- 7/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
[Editor's note: This interview was originally conducted by Blake Williams at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival - Magic Lantern released the film at MoMA Feb 8-14, 2013]
Every year, about a week after Cannes’ Competition and Un Certain Regard line-ups are unveiled, the Directors Fortnight throws down a list of another 20 to 25 films, and the world instantly meets and greets some of the biggest names of the next few decades. Alejandro Landes and his debut fiction film Porfirio had been on our radar ever since Sundance announced the film would be a part of their June 2009 Directors Lab slate, but we can’t say we were prepared for the level of mastery and finesse that the Colombian newcomer was going to unleash on the Croisette this past May.
The first film from Colombia ever shot in Cinemascope, Porfirio is a dramatization of an actual event that took place in 2005, in which wheelchair-bound Porfirio – playing himself in the film – hijacked an airplane in protest of the treatment he experienced from the state. The film itself focuses on the lead-up to the incident.
Every year, about a week after Cannes’ Competition and Un Certain Regard line-ups are unveiled, the Directors Fortnight throws down a list of another 20 to 25 films, and the world instantly meets and greets some of the biggest names of the next few decades. Alejandro Landes and his debut fiction film Porfirio had been on our radar ever since Sundance announced the film would be a part of their June 2009 Directors Lab slate, but we can’t say we were prepared for the level of mastery and finesse that the Colombian newcomer was going to unleash on the Croisette this past May.
The first film from Colombia ever shot in Cinemascope, Porfirio is a dramatization of an actual event that took place in 2005, in which wheelchair-bound Porfirio – playing himself in the film – hijacked an airplane in protest of the treatment he experienced from the state. The film itself focuses on the lead-up to the incident.
- 2/11/2013
- by Blake Williams
- IONCINEMA.com
(Porfirio world premiered at the 2011 Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. It opens theatrically in New York City at MoMA on Friday, February 8, 2013. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) Though his stylistic vision might superficially call to mind filmmakers like Carlos Reygadas, Lucrecia Martel, and Yorgos Lanthimos, with Porfirio, Alejandro Landes carves a unique path all his own. Based on a too-strange-to-be-true story concerning a Colombian man named Porfirio Ramírez that made headlines back in 2005, Porfirio stars none other than the real Porfirio Ramírez himself. From the very first second that you see …...
- 2/8/2013
- by Michael Tully
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
For the past couple of years the Cannes Film Festival has premiered highly acclaimed and anticipated Latin American films. This Friday two of these films, both having debuted during the Director’s Fortnight, will be released theatrically. From the late Chilean filmmaker, Raúl Ruiz, is Night Across the Street, the final film of his prolific career. Also opening this week is Alejandro Landes’ fiction film debut Porfirio based on the true life story of a paraplegic man who attempted to hijack a plane in Colombia. They are both stories of men trapped in their own existence and looking for a way out. Porfirio and Night Across the Street open this Friday, February 8 in New York.
Porfirio
Director: Alejandro Landes
Colombia | 2011 | 106 min
In Spanish with English subtitles
A Magic Lantern Release
In 2005, Alejandro Landes came across a newspaper headline that sparked the idea for this film, “Paralyzed Man in Diapers Hijacks Plane to Bogotá.” Landes soon traveled to the man’s hometown and spent time with Porfirio, trying to figure out his motivation for the hijacking. He found a man frustrated by his surroundings, a man who was once a wealthy farmer and cattle rancher but was left paralyzed when hit by a stray police bullet. Landes became convinced that he wanted Porfirio to play himself and later cast his young son and Porfirio’s neighbor, all non-professional actors, to star in the film. What comes across in Landes’ film is that there were not many events that led up to the hijacking; it was the lack of action that ultimately put Porfirio on his path. Landes’ aesthetic choices put the audience inside Porfirio’s world, a claustrophobic, alienated existence. The low, horizontal angles center on Porfirio sitting in his wheelchair, often cutting off other characters at the waist. We see headless bodies; we see things from Porfirio’s point of view. The audience is given a peek into the intimate details of his daily life—love, sex, showering, going to the bathroom—and it becomes clear that the monotony, the pent of feelings of helplessness became the catalyst for his defiant act. As a man who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair he felt compelled to take control of something and that something ended up being a commercial jet filled with passengers.
Porfirio opens February 8, 2013 in New York at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, 11 West 53rd St) with a limited national release to follow.
La Noche de Enfrente (Night Across the Street)
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Chile, France | 2012 | 101 min
In Spanish and French with English Subtitles
A Cinema Guild Release
At the time of his death in August of 2011, Raúl Ruiz was seventy years old and had directed over 100 films. Night Across the Street is his final film, having premiered posthumously at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Not surprisingly, it is a rumination on death itself—Ruiz knew his own end was near and it is believed that he intended for the film to be screened after his passing. For his final film he chose to adapt two short stories. Ruiz wanted to immerse himself in the “poetic world” of Chilean writer Hernán del Solar in whose work, “daily life coexists with the dream world.” Only a master filmmaker like Ruiz could successfully transfer Solar’s “poetic world” to the screen. The result is a dreamscape of images that flip back and forth between the past, the present, and the future. Don Celso (Sergio Hernandez) is an elderly office worker who is being forced into early retirement. The dread that comes with his dull, humdrum life makes him acutely aware of the minutes that keep passing him by. It becomes clear that Ruiz has pieced together a meditation on death and the passage of time. It not only blurs the line between past and present but also fiction and reality. Shot in HD, it’s a surreal and often confusing experience that leaves the audience contemplating their own mortality (and maybe trying to figure out the story).
Night Across the Street opens February 8, 2013 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th St).
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
Porfirio
Director: Alejandro Landes
Colombia | 2011 | 106 min
In Spanish with English subtitles
A Magic Lantern Release
In 2005, Alejandro Landes came across a newspaper headline that sparked the idea for this film, “Paralyzed Man in Diapers Hijacks Plane to Bogotá.” Landes soon traveled to the man’s hometown and spent time with Porfirio, trying to figure out his motivation for the hijacking. He found a man frustrated by his surroundings, a man who was once a wealthy farmer and cattle rancher but was left paralyzed when hit by a stray police bullet. Landes became convinced that he wanted Porfirio to play himself and later cast his young son and Porfirio’s neighbor, all non-professional actors, to star in the film. What comes across in Landes’ film is that there were not many events that led up to the hijacking; it was the lack of action that ultimately put Porfirio on his path. Landes’ aesthetic choices put the audience inside Porfirio’s world, a claustrophobic, alienated existence. The low, horizontal angles center on Porfirio sitting in his wheelchair, often cutting off other characters at the waist. We see headless bodies; we see things from Porfirio’s point of view. The audience is given a peek into the intimate details of his daily life—love, sex, showering, going to the bathroom—and it becomes clear that the monotony, the pent of feelings of helplessness became the catalyst for his defiant act. As a man who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair he felt compelled to take control of something and that something ended up being a commercial jet filled with passengers.
Porfirio opens February 8, 2013 in New York at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, 11 West 53rd St) with a limited national release to follow.
La Noche de Enfrente (Night Across the Street)
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Chile, France | 2012 | 101 min
In Spanish and French with English Subtitles
A Cinema Guild Release
At the time of his death in August of 2011, Raúl Ruiz was seventy years old and had directed over 100 films. Night Across the Street is his final film, having premiered posthumously at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Not surprisingly, it is a rumination on death itself—Ruiz knew his own end was near and it is believed that he intended for the film to be screened after his passing. For his final film he chose to adapt two short stories. Ruiz wanted to immerse himself in the “poetic world” of Chilean writer Hernán del Solar in whose work, “daily life coexists with the dream world.” Only a master filmmaker like Ruiz could successfully transfer Solar’s “poetic world” to the screen. The result is a dreamscape of images that flip back and forth between the past, the present, and the future. Don Celso (Sergio Hernandez) is an elderly office worker who is being forced into early retirement. The dread that comes with his dull, humdrum life makes him acutely aware of the minutes that keep passing him by. It becomes clear that Ruiz has pieced together a meditation on death and the passage of time. It not only blurs the line between past and present but also fiction and reality. Shot in HD, it’s a surreal and often confusing experience that leaves the audience contemplating their own mortality (and maybe trying to figure out the story).
Night Across the Street opens February 8, 2013 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th St).
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
- 2/6/2013
- by Vanessa Erazo
- Sydney's Buzz
Apart from some foreign items Lore (Music Box Films – 2/8/13) and Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love (Sundance Selects – 2/15/13), classic re-issue of Little Fugitive (Artists Public Domain – 2/1/13), a guilty pleasure in Soderbergh’s Side Effects (Open Road Films – 2/8/13) and experimental docu A Rubberband Is an Unlikely Instrument (Factory 25 – 2/8/13), it’ll once again slim pickings in the month of February. Here our this month’s top 3 Critic’s Picks.
Caesar Must Die – Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Lincoln Plaza Cinemas & Film Forum on Wednesday the 6th – Adopt Films
Festival Awards: Golden Berlin Bear & Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Berlin Film Festival – 2012)
What the critic’s are saying?: Screen Daily’s Lee Marshall appears to be much impressed stating “now into their eighties, the Taviani brothers show with this remarkable, fresh and moving drama-documentary they have lost none of that mix of observational rigour and sympathy for the underdog that marked early films like Padre Padrone,...
Caesar Must Die – Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Lincoln Plaza Cinemas & Film Forum on Wednesday the 6th – Adopt Films
Festival Awards: Golden Berlin Bear & Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Berlin Film Festival – 2012)
What the critic’s are saying?: Screen Daily’s Lee Marshall appears to be much impressed stating “now into their eighties, the Taviani brothers show with this remarkable, fresh and moving drama-documentary they have lost none of that mix of observational rigour and sympathy for the underdog that marked early films like Padre Padrone,...
- 1/31/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Institute has hired Paul Federbush to become International Director, Feature Film Program (Ffp), a highly sought-after job which Alesia Weston left open when she left in May to become Executive Director of the Jerusalem Film Centre and Fesival. Federbush began September 24 and is reporting to Michelle Satter, Founding Director, Feature Film Program.
Paul is already reaching out into new geographic areas searching for those filmmakers who have the greatest potential for making a brand new mark on the worldwide film business. His responsibility is the planning and execution of the international work of Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program which includes year round support for International artists through Labs, granting, and ongoing mentorship providing creative and tactical support. Federbush will oversee international Labs in collaboration with local partners in the Middle East and India, outreach and discover new international filmmakers and projects, steward programs such as the Sundance Institute|Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award and Sundance| Nhk Award, and support the international artists participating in the annual Sundance Labs in Utah. In addition he will develop opportunities to further advance and broaden the scope of the Ffp’s International initiative.
We congratulate Paul and are proud to be able to say that we have known him since his early days at Fine Line. Federbush is a seasoned production, acquisition, and distribution executive with eighteen years of experience in the entertainment industry. Most recently Federbush, along with partner Laura Kim, started a distribution company, Red Flag Releasing. Prior to forming Red Flag, Federbush served as Senior Vice President of Production and Acquisitions at Warner Independent Pictures where he oversaw the acquisition, production, and development of projects including Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, and Hany Abu Assad’s Paradise Now.
For nearly three decades, Sundance Institute has promoted independent storytelling to inform and inspire audiences across political, social, religious and cultural differences. Through Labs, direct artist granting, special projects with key partners and the Sundance Film Festival, the Institute serves as the leading advocate for independent artists worldwide. Sundance Institute Feature Film Program Over its 30-year history, the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program has supported an extensive list of award-winning and groundbreaking independent films.
Ffp films currently in the marketplace include Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival), Craig Zobel’s Compliance, Mike Birbiglia and Seth Barrish’s Sleepwalk With Me, Todd Louiso and Sarah Koskoff’s Hello I Must Be Going, and Ira Sachs’ Keep the Lights On. Recent international Ffp films include Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil, Andrei Zyvagintsev’s Elena, Edwin’s Postcards from the Zoo, Alejandro Landes’ Porfirio, and the festival films Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadjda and Ziad Douieri’s L’Attack.Additional notable films supported over the program’s history include Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Dee Rees’ Pariah, Maryam Keshavarz’s Circumstance, Cherien Dabis' Amreeka, Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre, Fernando Eimbcke's Lake Tahoe, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Half Nelson, Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know, Hany Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now, Debra Granik’s Down to the Bone, Josh Marston’s Maria Page 2 Full of Grace, Lisa Cholodenko’s Laurel Canyon, Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don't Cry, Lucrecia Martel’s La Cienaga, Walter Salles’ Central Station, Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie’s Smoke Signals, Nicole Holofcener’s Walking and Talking, Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight, Tamara Jenkins’ Slums of Beverly Hills, and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
Sundance Institute Sundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to inform, inspire, and unite diverse populations around the globe. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America, and through its New Frontier initiative, has brought the cinematic works of media artists including Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Matthew Barney . Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. # # #...
Paul is already reaching out into new geographic areas searching for those filmmakers who have the greatest potential for making a brand new mark on the worldwide film business. His responsibility is the planning and execution of the international work of Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program which includes year round support for International artists through Labs, granting, and ongoing mentorship providing creative and tactical support. Federbush will oversee international Labs in collaboration with local partners in the Middle East and India, outreach and discover new international filmmakers and projects, steward programs such as the Sundance Institute|Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award and Sundance| Nhk Award, and support the international artists participating in the annual Sundance Labs in Utah. In addition he will develop opportunities to further advance and broaden the scope of the Ffp’s International initiative.
We congratulate Paul and are proud to be able to say that we have known him since his early days at Fine Line. Federbush is a seasoned production, acquisition, and distribution executive with eighteen years of experience in the entertainment industry. Most recently Federbush, along with partner Laura Kim, started a distribution company, Red Flag Releasing. Prior to forming Red Flag, Federbush served as Senior Vice President of Production and Acquisitions at Warner Independent Pictures where he oversaw the acquisition, production, and development of projects including Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, and Hany Abu Assad’s Paradise Now.
For nearly three decades, Sundance Institute has promoted independent storytelling to inform and inspire audiences across political, social, religious and cultural differences. Through Labs, direct artist granting, special projects with key partners and the Sundance Film Festival, the Institute serves as the leading advocate for independent artists worldwide. Sundance Institute Feature Film Program Over its 30-year history, the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program has supported an extensive list of award-winning and groundbreaking independent films.
Ffp films currently in the marketplace include Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival), Craig Zobel’s Compliance, Mike Birbiglia and Seth Barrish’s Sleepwalk With Me, Todd Louiso and Sarah Koskoff’s Hello I Must Be Going, and Ira Sachs’ Keep the Lights On. Recent international Ffp films include Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil, Andrei Zyvagintsev’s Elena, Edwin’s Postcards from the Zoo, Alejandro Landes’ Porfirio, and the festival films Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadjda and Ziad Douieri’s L’Attack.Additional notable films supported over the program’s history include Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Dee Rees’ Pariah, Maryam Keshavarz’s Circumstance, Cherien Dabis' Amreeka, Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre, Fernando Eimbcke's Lake Tahoe, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Half Nelson, Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know, Hany Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now, Debra Granik’s Down to the Bone, Josh Marston’s Maria Page 2 Full of Grace, Lisa Cholodenko’s Laurel Canyon, Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don't Cry, Lucrecia Martel’s La Cienaga, Walter Salles’ Central Station, Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie’s Smoke Signals, Nicole Holofcener’s Walking and Talking, Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight, Tamara Jenkins’ Slums of Beverly Hills, and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
Sundance Institute Sundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to inform, inspire, and unite diverse populations around the globe. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America, and through its New Frontier initiative, has brought the cinematic works of media artists including Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Matthew Barney . Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. # # #...
- 10/9/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
First, indieWIRE's Eric Kohn hosted a "Meet the New Directors" panel at the Film Society of Lincoln Center earlier this week and you can watch it here. It runs 63'12" and the guests are Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin (Now, Forager); Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi (5 Broken Cameras); Adam Leon (Gimme the Loot); Kleber Mendonça Filho (Neighboring Sounds); Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty); Joann Sfar (The Rabbi's Cat); Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st); and Clarissa Knoll (Street Vendor Cinema).
And the Fslc has posted separate Q&A sessions with Leon (Gimme), Pablo Giorgelli (Las Acacias) and Gareth Evans (The Raid: Redemption), all on one page.
Meantime, we've entered the home stretch. New Directors/New Films rolls on through the weekend and closes on Sunday night with a surprise — whatever it may be, it'll probably rank a roundup of its own. That aside, here's where we wrap it up.
And the Fslc has posted separate Q&A sessions with Leon (Gimme), Pablo Giorgelli (Las Acacias) and Gareth Evans (The Raid: Redemption), all on one page.
Meantime, we've entered the home stretch. New Directors/New Films rolls on through the weekend and closes on Sunday night with a surprise — whatever it may be, it'll probably rank a roundup of its own. That aside, here's where we wrap it up.
- 3/29/2012
- MUBI
Every year, about a week after Cannes' Competition and Un Certain Regard line-ups are unveiled, the Directors Fortnight throws down a list of another 20 to 25 films, and the world instantly meets and greets some of the biggest names of the next few decades. Alejandro Landes and his debut fiction film Porfirio had been on our radar ever since Sundance announced the film would be a part of their June 2009 Directors Lab slate, but we can't say we were prepared for the level of mastery and finesse that the Colombian newcomer was going to unleash on the Croisette this past May. The first film from Colombia ever shot in Cinemascope, Porfirio is a dramatization of an actual event that took place in 2005, in which wheelchair-bound Porfirio - playing himself in the film - hijacked an airplane in protest of the treatment he experienced from the state. The film itself focuses on the lead-up to the incident.
- 3/12/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have announced that they'll be presenting 29 features and 12 shorts in the 41st edition of New Directors/New Films, running March 21 through April 1). The series, dedicated to "the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent," opens with Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now? (see the Cannes roundup). A few notes on the other features:
The Ambassador (Mads Brügger). The La Weekly's Karina Longworth suggests that Brügger is "sort of the Vice magazine version of Sacha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars von Trier. His last film was The Red Chapel, an exercise in hidden camera comedy with unusual socio-political stakes, which I put on my top 10 list for 2010." In "his hilarious, troubling new film," Brügger poses as "a diplomat in Africa, a decadent Westerner plundering a third-world nation…. For a six-figure outlay, Brugger is promised a Liberian passport,...
The Ambassador (Mads Brügger). The La Weekly's Karina Longworth suggests that Brügger is "sort of the Vice magazine version of Sacha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars von Trier. His last film was The Red Chapel, an exercise in hidden camera comedy with unusual socio-political stakes, which I put on my top 10 list for 2010." In "his hilarious, troubling new film," Brügger poses as "a diplomat in Africa, a decadent Westerner plundering a third-world nation…. For a six-figure outlay, Brugger is promised a Liberian passport,...
- 2/26/2012
- MUBI
Breathing
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have announced the first seven titles lined up for the 2012 New Directors/New Films Festival, running March 21 through April 1. And, with descriptions from the Fslc and MoMA, they are:
Breathing (Atmen, 2011). "The remarkably assured directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics (The Counterfeiters) creates a slipstream between the perilousness of youth and the inevitability of death. Roman (Thomas Schubert) is an inmate at a juvenile detention center whose last hope of parole rests on his ability to hold down a job as a morgue assistant. Remorse, horror and ultimately a glimmer of illumination are cultivated through his work and his attempts to connect with a life hanging in the balance. Breathing is a Kino Lorber release." See the Cannes roundup.
Crulic: The Path to Beyond (2011). "When Claudiu Crulic, a young Romanian in Poland, is arrested for...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have announced the first seven titles lined up for the 2012 New Directors/New Films Festival, running March 21 through April 1. And, with descriptions from the Fslc and MoMA, they are:
Breathing (Atmen, 2011). "The remarkably assured directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics (The Counterfeiters) creates a slipstream between the perilousness of youth and the inevitability of death. Roman (Thomas Schubert) is an inmate at a juvenile detention center whose last hope of parole rests on his ability to hold down a job as a morgue assistant. Remorse, horror and ultimately a glimmer of illumination are cultivated through his work and his attempts to connect with a life hanging in the balance. Breathing is a Kino Lorber release." See the Cannes roundup.
Crulic: The Path to Beyond (2011). "When Claudiu Crulic, a young Romanian in Poland, is arrested for...
- 1/18/2012
- MUBI
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have announced the first seven film selections for the 41st edition of New/Directors/New Films. The selections include Karl Markovic's "Breathing," Anca Damian's "Crulic: The Path to Beyond," Julia Murat's "Found Memories," Pablo Giorgelli's "Las Acacias," Joachim Trier's "Oslo, August 31st," Alejandro Landes's "Porfirio," and Angelina Nikonova's "Twilight Portrait." "Oslo, August 31st" will premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. “Even with the lion's share of films still to be selected, the year's first crop for Nd/Nf introduces a group of filmmakers both exceptionally accomplished in their storytelling as well as adventurous in their approach to filmmaking," said Film Society of Lincoln Center Program Director Richard Pena. Full press release below: The Film Society...
- 1/18/2012
- Indiewire
The Columbian film ‘Porfirio’ directed by Alejandro Landes and produced by Franciso Aljure has bagged the coveted Golden Peacock Award for the Best Film at the 42nd International Film Festival of India 2011, while the Silver Peacock Award for the Best Director went to Asghar Farhadi for his film ‘Nader and Simin-a Seperation’.
The Indian film ‘Adaminte Makan Abu’ won the Special Jury Award. Director of the film Salim Ahamed received the award which consists of a Silver Peacock, Certificate and a Cash Prize of Rs. 15 Lakhs.
The Best Actor award of Rs. 10 lakh went to the Israeli actor Sasson Gabay for his role in the film ‘Restoration’ whereas the Best Actress Award was won by Nadezhda Markina for her role in ‘Elena’.
The Iffi competition jury comprised of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Laurence Kardish, Lee Yong Kwan, Tahmineh Milani and Dan Wolman. The festival concluded today with the screening of the English...
The Indian film ‘Adaminte Makan Abu’ won the Special Jury Award. Director of the film Salim Ahamed received the award which consists of a Silver Peacock, Certificate and a Cash Prize of Rs. 15 Lakhs.
The Best Actor award of Rs. 10 lakh went to the Israeli actor Sasson Gabay for his role in the film ‘Restoration’ whereas the Best Actress Award was won by Nadezhda Markina for her role in ‘Elena’.
The Iffi competition jury comprised of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Laurence Kardish, Lee Yong Kwan, Tahmineh Milani and Dan Wolman. The festival concluded today with the screening of the English...
- 12/3/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Two of my favorite films from days three and four of the Toronto Film Festival were experiments in duration. The less acclaimed of the two, Karim Aïnouz's The Silver Cliff, which premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, takes a never-fully-explained family breakdown as a pretext to follow a husband and wife as they pace out their anguish through thirty-six hours. The film has no big revelations up its sleeve, and at times one is forced to observe that people may not be at their most interesting and differentiated at moments of crisis. But if one has to watch 84 minutes of tracking shots through Rio de Janeiro, Aïnouz is the man for the job, with his superb eye and his knack for balancing documentation of the environment with a focus on the individual. Eventually the beleagued couple fight through the worst of their blue funk and start to throw us a few surprises,...
- 9/13/2011
- MUBI
The Toronto International Film Festival, running from September 9 through 18, has released some of its most anticipated lineups today: Wavelengths, Visions, Contemporary World Cinema, Future Projections, Galas and Special Presentations. We're taking them one at a time, first posting them program by program with descriptions provided by the festival — and then returning over the coming hours and days to add links and further notes. First up: Visions.
Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr's Fable of the Fish. A couple, Lina and Miguel, move into a dumpsite in Catmon, Malabon. As they adjust to their new abode and surroundings, Lina's longing to have a child intensifies. One day, Lina learns that she is pregnant. She gives birth in the middle of a storm, and those who witness the birth are shocked – her son is a fish. While Miguel cannot accept it, Lina embraces what has happened and treats the fish as her son. What...
Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr's Fable of the Fish. A couple, Lina and Miguel, move into a dumpsite in Catmon, Malabon. As they adjust to their new abode and surroundings, Lina's longing to have a child intensifies. One day, Lina learns that she is pregnant. She gives birth in the middle of a storm, and those who witness the birth are shocked – her son is a fish. While Miguel cannot accept it, Lina embraces what has happened and treats the fish as her son. What...
- 8/16/2011
- MUBI
Alright now here is the program everyone should be keeping a close eye on. Yorgos Lanthimos, Bertrand Bonello, Shinya Tsukamoto and Toshiaki Toyoda all have films lined up for the Toronto International Film Festival this year. The fest has announced the complete lineup for Visions programme and it is pretty awesome. We also recently posted the complete line-up for the gala, special presentations and the World Cinema programs as well. Here is the press release:
Toronto – The 36th Toronto International Film Festival® announces a strong line-up of 18 films in this year’s Visions programme. Works presented under the Visions banner are films from around the world by filmmakers who challenge audiences’ notions of mainstream cinema.
Alps Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece/France (North American Premiere)
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast, and her coach have formed a secret, illegal company. The service they provide is to act as stand-ins for the recently deceased,...
Toronto – The 36th Toronto International Film Festival® announces a strong line-up of 18 films in this year’s Visions programme. Works presented under the Visions banner are films from around the world by filmmakers who challenge audiences’ notions of mainstream cinema.
Alps Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece/France (North American Premiere)
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast, and her coach have formed a secret, illegal company. The service they provide is to act as stand-ins for the recently deceased,...
- 8/16/2011
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
After three separate announcements (here, here and here), the Toronto International Film Festival has announced the final line-up for their Galas and Special Presentations, as well as a few other categories. Most notable is Andrea Arnold‘s Fish Tank follow-up Wuthering Heights, the next film from Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo, as well as Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Alps.
We also get Whit Stillman‘s Damsels in Distress starring Greta Gerwig and Geoffrey Fletcher’s Violet & Daisy starring Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini. In what should be a little fun we have Gary McKendry‘s Killer Elite starring Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham. We also get Owen’s horror flick Intruders and Joel Schumacher‘s Trespass starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage. Check out the full line-ups below.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Page Eight David Hare, United Kingdom
International Premiere
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer.
We also get Whit Stillman‘s Damsels in Distress starring Greta Gerwig and Geoffrey Fletcher’s Violet & Daisy starring Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini. In what should be a little fun we have Gary McKendry‘s Killer Elite starring Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham. We also get Owen’s horror flick Intruders and Joel Schumacher‘s Trespass starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage. Check out the full line-ups below.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Page Eight David Hare, United Kingdom
International Premiere
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer.
- 8/16/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
To follow up on yesterday's roundup of Un Certain Regard remainders...
"The Tati-inspired dance trio of Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy are at it again, crafting an awfully similar follow-up to their previous feature, Rumba." Blake Williams for Ioncinema: "The Fairy is light on magic and the supernatural, but flutters breezily along with joke-a-minute fluff…. As in their other films, the 'plot' — this one involving a wish-granting fairy — is only really a conceit by which to give the illusion of continuity to what is essentially a string of short films." Screen's Fionnuala Halligan's enjoyed it, though: "Theirs is an old-fashioned, almost silent, routine (their first feature L'Iceberg was virtually wordless) blended beautifully with an arresting dance element." In the Hollywood Reporter, Jordan Mintzer notes that "Tati's hand is evident in the exceptionally precise art direction and camerawork by regulars Nicholas Girault and Claire Childeric."
"The Silver Cliff was...
"The Tati-inspired dance trio of Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy are at it again, crafting an awfully similar follow-up to their previous feature, Rumba." Blake Williams for Ioncinema: "The Fairy is light on magic and the supernatural, but flutters breezily along with joke-a-minute fluff…. As in their other films, the 'plot' — this one involving a wish-granting fairy — is only really a conceit by which to give the illusion of continuity to what is essentially a string of short films." Screen's Fionnuala Halligan's enjoyed it, though: "Theirs is an old-fashioned, almost silent, routine (their first feature L'Iceberg was virtually wordless) blended beautifully with an arresting dance element." In the Hollywood Reporter, Jordan Mintzer notes that "Tati's hand is evident in the exceptionally precise art direction and camerawork by regulars Nicholas Girault and Claire Childeric."
"The Silver Cliff was...
- 6/1/2011
- MUBI
Cannes Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury President Michel Gondry, Copyright C. Fitte/Getty Images
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
- 5/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Cannes Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury President Michel Gondry, Copyright C. Fitte/Getty Images
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
- 5/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy's La Fee (The Fairy) will open this year's Directors' Fortnight on May 12 and Bouli Lanners's Les Géants (The Giants) will close it on May 22. Here's how the full lineup of 25 films pans out.
The Fairy. From MK2: "Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true, then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who by then has fallen in love with Fiona searches for her everywhere and eventually finds her. In the psychiatric hospital where she has been interned. The filmmakers behind the critically acclaimed Iceberg and Rumba are back to enchant the world."
Karim Ainouz's O abismo prateado.
Urszula Antoniak's Code Blue.
The Fairy. From MK2: "Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true, then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who by then has fallen in love with Fiona searches for her everywhere and eventually finds her. In the psychiatric hospital where she has been interned. The filmmakers behind the critically acclaimed Iceberg and Rumba are back to enchant the world."
Karim Ainouz's O abismo prateado.
Urszula Antoniak's Code Blue.
- 4/21/2011
- MUBI
It was announced that the film “Porfirio”, directed by Alejandro Landes, has been selected for the Quinzaine de Réalisateurs (Directors' Fortnight) at this year Cannes Film Festival. The co-production between Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Spain and France, tells the true story of a Colombian man, crippled in a wheelchair after being injured in a crossfire with the police, that after more than a decade asking for a disability allowance decides to hijack a plane with the help of his teen son in order to attract attention from the country's president about his situation. Although this is a fiction debut film for Landes, (he directed the acclaimed documentary “Cocalero” ), “Porfirio” has already a history in film festivals where the project has been gestating since its conception. The screenplay was selected for the Screenwriters and Directors Labs ar the Sundance Institute and the Cannes Cinefondation Residency. During its postproduction it also gathered quite...
- 4/20/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
This year Korean writer and director Bong Joon-Ho will preside over the jury that hands out the Camera d'Or (Golden Camera) award - the only cross-section award on the Croisette that is given to the best first feature. This year's winner will join the ranks of Michael Rowe (Leap Year, 2010), Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah, 2009), Steve McQueen (Hunger, 2008), Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen (Jellyfish, 2007), Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest, 2006) who all won the prestigious prize in the last five years. There are 19 first features contenders are spread out in all the competition sections including a pair in the official Main Comp, Un Certain Regard, Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight. It's anybody's guess at this point what Joon-Ho and jury will pick but the winner will join the ranks of auteurs (Jim Jarmusch, Tran Anh Hung and Naomi Kawase) that were discovered and crowned at the world's greatest festival. Here are the...
- 4/20/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The lineup for the Cannes film festival has been finalized with the announcement of the Directors’ Fortnight lineup, which includes Guilty of Romance by one of my personal favourite directors, Sion Sono. The Directors’ Fortnight is an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The section was created in 1969 after the events of May 1968, in which the Cannes festival was canceled in solidarity with striking workers.
The Directors’ Fortnight showcases a programme of shorts and feature films as well as documentaries from all over the world.
Here’s the complete list of titles:
Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
“Apres le sud,” France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret
“Blue Bird,” Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe
“Breathing,” Austria, Karl Markovics
“Code Blue,” Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak
“Corpo celeste,” Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher
“End of Silence,” France-Austria, Roland Edzard
“La Fee,” Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)
“Les Geants,” Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)
“Impardonnables,...
The Directors’ Fortnight showcases a programme of shorts and feature films as well as documentaries from all over the world.
Here’s the complete list of titles:
Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
“Apres le sud,” France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret
“Blue Bird,” Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe
“Breathing,” Austria, Karl Markovics
“Code Blue,” Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak
“Corpo celeste,” Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher
“End of Silence,” France-Austria, Roland Edzard
“La Fee,” Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)
“Les Geants,” Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)
“Impardonnables,...
- 4/19/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Cannes unveiled 25 films that will screen as part of its annual Directors Fortnight, a sidebar to its in-competition offerings. As usual, the movies featured in the lineup are for more experimental fare such as Karl Markovics "Breathing," an Austrian drama about a man searching for his mother, and Alejandro Landes' "Porfirio," about a wheelchair bound man who dreams of flying. What it is not heavy on is American films. The only entrant from the United States is Liza Johnson's "Return," starring Lisa Cardellini, Michael Shannon and Tim Blake Nelson. The film centers on a...
- 4/19/2011
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
We got the first round of Cannes Film Festival line-up last week, then the Critics’ Week contenders yesterday. Today, the line-up for Director’s Fortnight and Short Film competition has been released. Check out the line-ups below via Deadline and Twitch. Twitch also provides images for Irish director Rebecca Daly‘s debut in the Director’s Fortnight film The Other Side Of Sleep.
It’s worth noting that jury president Michel Gondry will award the Short Film Palme d’Or on the last day of the fest, May 22nd. Bright Star director Jane Campion and Lynne Ramsay, who directed this year’s competition title We Need To Talk About Kevin, both got their start in this competition. Check out the line-ups below and come back for our coverage straight from the fest.
Short Film:
Completing the list of the Official Selection of the 64th Festival de Cannes, and composed this...
It’s worth noting that jury president Michel Gondry will award the Short Film Palme d’Or on the last day of the fest, May 22nd. Bright Star director Jane Campion and Lynne Ramsay, who directed this year’s competition title We Need To Talk About Kevin, both got their start in this competition. Check out the line-ups below and come back for our coverage straight from the fest.
Short Film:
Completing the list of the Official Selection of the 64th Festival de Cannes, and composed this...
- 4/19/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Vimukthi Jayasundara
An Indo-France co-production, Chhatrak (Mushrooms) directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara is a part of the official lineup of Cannes Directors Fortnight.
Co-produced by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay from India, Mushrooms is Vimukthi Jayasundara’s third feature film. His debut film The Forsaken Land had won the Camera d’Or for best debut feature at Cannes in 2005.
The complete lineup for Directors Fortnight includes 25 films out of which 6 are first films making them eligible to compete for Camera d’Or.
Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
Apres le sud, France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret
Blue Bird, Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe
Breathing, Austria, Karl Markovics
Code Blue, Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak
Corpo celeste, Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher
End of Silence, France-Austria, Roland Edzard
La Fee, Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)
Les Geants, Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)
Impardonnables, France, Andre Techine
The Island, Bulgaria-Sweden, Kamen Kalev
Iris in Bloom, France, Valerie Mrejen
Joan Captive,...
An Indo-France co-production, Chhatrak (Mushrooms) directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara is a part of the official lineup of Cannes Directors Fortnight.
Co-produced by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay from India, Mushrooms is Vimukthi Jayasundara’s third feature film. His debut film The Forsaken Land had won the Camera d’Or for best debut feature at Cannes in 2005.
The complete lineup for Directors Fortnight includes 25 films out of which 6 are first films making them eligible to compete for Camera d’Or.
Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
Apres le sud, France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret
Blue Bird, Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe
Breathing, Austria, Karl Markovics
Code Blue, Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak
Corpo celeste, Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher
End of Silence, France-Austria, Roland Edzard
La Fee, Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)
Les Geants, Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)
Impardonnables, France, Andre Techine
The Island, Bulgaria-Sweden, Kamen Kalev
Iris in Bloom, France, Valerie Mrejen
Joan Captive,...
- 4/19/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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