International feature film and commercial content group Iconoclast and Berlin-based StickUp Films have established a new joint venture to produce feature films and series for the domestic and international markets.
Represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the new shingle, Iconoclast Films Germany, is aiming to produce a minimum of three film or series projects annually within a five-year ramp-up period.
The company is headed by Luis Singer and Dennis Schanz of StickUp Films – the creators and co-producers of Netflix’s award-winning series “Skylines” — as well as Iconoclast executive producer Swantje Rummel.
Iconoclast sees the new venture as part of its international content strategy and a logical extension of its brand. In addition to producing recent works by the likes of Gus Van Sant, Julian Schnabel (“At Eternity’s Gate”), Harmony Korine (“The Beach Bum”) and Romain Gavras (“The World Is Yours”) through its companies in the U.S. and France, Iconoclast...
Represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the new shingle, Iconoclast Films Germany, is aiming to produce a minimum of three film or series projects annually within a five-year ramp-up period.
The company is headed by Luis Singer and Dennis Schanz of StickUp Films – the creators and co-producers of Netflix’s award-winning series “Skylines” — as well as Iconoclast executive producer Swantje Rummel.
Iconoclast sees the new venture as part of its international content strategy and a logical extension of its brand. In addition to producing recent works by the likes of Gus Van Sant, Julian Schnabel (“At Eternity’s Gate”), Harmony Korine (“The Beach Bum”) and Romain Gavras (“The World Is Yours”) through its companies in the U.S. and France, Iconoclast...
- 3/15/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Now in its 35th year, the Teddy Awards are among the Berlinale’s most affectionately regarded institutions. Presented annually to standout LGBTQ-themed titles across the festival’s entire lineup, they have a looser, hipper, more inclusive reputation than other Berlin prizes: fittingly, they’re annually presented not at an exclusive black-tie affair, but a publicly accessible ceremony followed by an almighty dance-’til-dawn party.
Yet the Teddys’ prestige survives their informality. Surveying their list of past winners, it’s notable how many defining queer works have been recognized along the way: from Pedro Almodóvar’s “Law of Desire” to Cheryl Dunye’s “The Watermelon Woman,” from Derek Jarman’s “The Last of England” to John Cameron Mitchell’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” from Sebastian Lelio’s eventual Oscar-winner “A Fantastic Woman” to last year’s vibrantly intersectional “No Hard Feelings.”
As for which new film is going to join their ranks this year,...
Yet the Teddys’ prestige survives their informality. Surveying their list of past winners, it’s notable how many defining queer works have been recognized along the way: from Pedro Almodóvar’s “Law of Desire” to Cheryl Dunye’s “The Watermelon Woman,” from Derek Jarman’s “The Last of England” to John Cameron Mitchell’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” from Sebastian Lelio’s eventual Oscar-winner “A Fantastic Woman” to last year’s vibrantly intersectional “No Hard Feelings.”
As for which new film is going to join their ranks this year,...
- 3/5/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Wolf Alice have announced new album, Blue Weekend. The follow-up to 2018’s Mercury Prize-winning Visions of a Life, the upcoming LP arrives on June 11th via Dirty Hit/RCA Records and is available for preorder.
The band also shared the video for the album’s first single, “The Last Man on Earth.” In the Jordan Hemingway-directed clip, vocalist-guitarist Ellie Rowsell is filmed in black-and-white as she delivers the song about “the arrogance of humans.”
“And every book you take and dust off from the shelf/Has lines between lines...
The band also shared the video for the album’s first single, “The Last Man on Earth.” In the Jordan Hemingway-directed clip, vocalist-guitarist Ellie Rowsell is filmed in black-and-white as she delivers the song about “the arrogance of humans.”
“And every book you take and dust off from the shelf/Has lines between lines...
- 2/25/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
The Inside Out LGBT Film Festival unveiled its juried winners today. The top accolades went to Faraz Shariat’s No Hard Feelings for Best First Feature and Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s No Ordinary Man for Best Canadian Feature. The winners were announced by Inside Out’s Executive Director Andria Wilson and the festival’s Director of Programming Andrew Murphy. The fest continues through October 11.
For the first time in the festival’s history, the awards were announced on opening weekend, allowing audiences the opportunity to view the films throughout the digital festival’s dates. Audience winners will be unveiled on October 12.
Read the full list of winners below.
Canadian Juried Awards
The jurors for the 2020 Canadian jury were Toronto-based Cinematographer Ashley Iris Gill, Canadian Screen Award-Winning actress Natasha Negovanlis, and writer, musician and educator Scott Jones.
Emerging Canadian Artist
Body So Fluorescent – Director, David Di Giovanni
Best Canadian Short
Swimmers – Director,...
For the first time in the festival’s history, the awards were announced on opening weekend, allowing audiences the opportunity to view the films throughout the digital festival’s dates. Audience winners will be unveiled on October 12.
Read the full list of winners below.
Canadian Juried Awards
The jurors for the 2020 Canadian jury were Toronto-based Cinematographer Ashley Iris Gill, Canadian Screen Award-Winning actress Natasha Negovanlis, and writer, musician and educator Scott Jones.
Emerging Canadian Artist
Body So Fluorescent – Director, David Di Giovanni
Best Canadian Short
Swimmers – Director,...
- 10/5/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinemas are looking to bounce back from a week of bad news.
France, opening Wednesday September 23
UFO Distribution and Potemkine Films joined forces this week for a rare general release of a medium-length film to launch Gaspar Noé’s 51-minute work Lux Æterna on 47 prints. Co-starring Beatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a director and actress locked in a hellish shoot, the work debuted Out of Competition in Cannes in 2019.
Noé’s cult status at home ensured plenty of press and according to France’s Cbo Box Office the picture came in fifth out of 15 new releases on its first day in cinemas,...
France, opening Wednesday September 23
UFO Distribution and Potemkine Films joined forces this week for a rare general release of a medium-length film to launch Gaspar Noé’s 51-minute work Lux Æterna on 47 prints. Co-starring Beatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a director and actress locked in a hellish shoot, the work debuted Out of Competition in Cannes in 2019.
Noé’s cult status at home ensured plenty of press and according to France’s Cbo Box Office the picture came in fifth out of 15 new releases on its first day in cinemas,...
- 9/25/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Martin Blaney¬Melanie Goodfellow¬Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
New York LGBTQ Film Festival to Open With Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite,’ Screen Alan Ball’s ‘Uncle Frank’
NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ film and media organization, has announced its program for the 32nd New York LGBTQ Film Festival. This year’s event will feature virtual events, as well as drive-in screenings at the Queens Drive-In at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
The festival will open on Oct. 16 with the New York City premiere of Francis Lee’s “Ammonite,” a romantic drama starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. Winslet will present Lee with the festival’s inaugural world queer visionary award ahead of the screening. On Oct. 27, the event will close with a virtual screening of Faraz Shariat’s German drama, “No Hard Feelings.”
“With the presidential election right around the corner and a Supreme Court seat now open, it is more urgent than ever that queer stories be told and celebrated,” said executive director David Hatkoff. “We have created an 11-day event that will meet and speak to this moment,...
The festival will open on Oct. 16 with the New York City premiere of Francis Lee’s “Ammonite,” a romantic drama starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. Winslet will present Lee with the festival’s inaugural world queer visionary award ahead of the screening. On Oct. 27, the event will close with a virtual screening of Faraz Shariat’s German drama, “No Hard Feelings.”
“With the presidential election right around the corner and a Supreme Court seat now open, it is more urgent than ever that queer stories be told and celebrated,” said executive director David Hatkoff. “We have created an 11-day event that will meet and speak to this moment,...
- 9/24/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
The 32nd annual NewFest — the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival — is headed online amid the coronavirus pandemic as it opens with Francis Lee’s Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet, and closes with Faraz Shariat’s Berlinale award-winning film No Hard Feelings.
The fest opener Ammonite, also starring Saoirse Ronan, will receive a drive-in screening at the Queens Drive-In at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. NewFest also plans a special sneak drive-in preview of Oscar winner Alan Ball’s road trip comedy Uncle Frank.
Elsewhere, the festival’s lineup of around 120 films will be available virtually to ticket holders ...
The fest opener Ammonite, also starring Saoirse Ronan, will receive a drive-in screening at the Queens Drive-In at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. NewFest also plans a special sneak drive-in preview of Oscar winner Alan Ball’s road trip comedy Uncle Frank.
Elsewhere, the festival’s lineup of around 120 films will be available virtually to ticket holders ...
- 9/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The 32nd annual NewFest — the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival — is headed online amid the coronavirus pandemic as it opens with Francis Lee’s Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet, and closes with Faraz Shariat’s Berlinale award-winning film No Hard Feelings.
The fest opener Ammonite, also starring Saoirse Ronan, will receive a drive-in screening at the Queens Drive-In at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. NewFest also plans a special sneak drive-in preview of Oscar winner Alan Ball’s road trip comedy Uncle Frank.
Elsewhere, the festival’s lineup of around 120 films will be available virtually to ticket holders ...
The fest opener Ammonite, also starring Saoirse Ronan, will receive a drive-in screening at the Queens Drive-In at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. NewFest also plans a special sneak drive-in preview of Oscar winner Alan Ball’s road trip comedy Uncle Frank.
Elsewhere, the festival’s lineup of around 120 films will be available virtually to ticket holders ...
- 9/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Maya Sarfaty's film won in the Israeli competition while Collective was crowned Best International Film. Other winners include Tokyo Ride, Aswang, The War of Raya Sinitsina and No Hard Feelings. The 22nd edition of the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival Docaviv, which is taking place online and in the Israeli capital 3-12 September, announced its awards on Wednesday night. Love It Was Not by Maya Sarfaty, which had its world premiere at the festival, was awarded the festival’s top award, the Frank Lowy Award for the Best Israeli Film, worth €17,400. On top of that, because Docaviv is an Academy Award-qualifying festival, the film will also receive a marketing grant of €24,900 for its Oscar campaign. The Yossi Kaufmann Award for Best Director, worth €6,200 and provided by the Makor Foundation for Israeli Films, went to Efim Graboy for The War of Raya Sinitsina, as well as...
While independent filmmakers have taken a hit with all the festival postponements, cancelations, and re-imaginings, there is a silver lining to upending business as usual. In the past, LGBTQ cinephiles hungry for quality films that represent the breadth and depth of queer life would have to go to a queer film festival to see the international titles or small comedies that may never make their way to Netflix. This year, they can stream some of the freshest films from all across the globe at home.
Which is why the 2020 Outfest Film Festival is more exciting than ever, with drive-ins, a streaming platform, and plenty of world premieres. In this year’s lineup, 70 percent of the films are directed by women or filmmakers of color. Beginning August 20 and lasting for 11 days, the films will be available to stream via Vimeo’s Ott platform. In addition, the festival will host six nights...
Which is why the 2020 Outfest Film Festival is more exciting than ever, with drive-ins, a streaming platform, and plenty of world premieres. In this year’s lineup, 70 percent of the films are directed by women or filmmakers of color. Beginning August 20 and lasting for 11 days, the films will be available to stream via Vimeo’s Ott platform. In addition, the festival will host six nights...
- 8/21/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The Israeli Competition titles have been announced for this year’s event.
Israeli documentary festival Docaviv will run a “hybrid” format for this year’s festival, which will now take place from September 3-12 in Tel Aviv.
The event was postponed from its usual May dates due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It will now use both online and physical screenings, all complying with social distancing guidelines.
Audience-attended events will take place both indoors and outdoors throughout the city as well as on the festival’s website. The entire industry strand will take place online.
Israel’s cinemas are still closed as of Monday,...
Israeli documentary festival Docaviv will run a “hybrid” format for this year’s festival, which will now take place from September 3-12 in Tel Aviv.
The event was postponed from its usual May dates due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It will now use both online and physical screenings, all complying with social distancing guidelines.
Audience-attended events will take place both indoors and outdoors throughout the city as well as on the festival’s website. The entire industry strand will take place online.
Israel’s cinemas are still closed as of Monday,...
- 6/15/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Futur Drei (No Hard Feelings), the feature debut of German director Faraz Shariat, won the Teddy Award as best queer film at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.
Shariat's partly autobiographical drama centers on Parvis (Benjamin Radjaipour), a German-born son of Iranian exiles who is also out and proud, living a life of Grindr hookups and near-constant partying. But when Parvis is sentenced to community service for a minor infraction and put to work at a nearby refugee detention center, he meets Amon (Eidin Jalali), a new arrival from Iran. It's love at first sight. The film screened ...
Shariat's partly autobiographical drama centers on Parvis (Benjamin Radjaipour), a German-born son of Iranian exiles who is also out and proud, living a life of Grindr hookups and near-constant partying. But when Parvis is sentenced to community service for a minor infraction and put to work at a nearby refugee detention center, he meets Amon (Eidin Jalali), a new arrival from Iran. It's love at first sight. The film screened ...
Futur Drei (No Hard Feelings), the feature debut of German director Faraz Shariat, won the Teddy Award as best queer film at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.
Shariat's partly autobiographical drama centers on Parvis (Benjamin Radjaipour), a German-born son of Iranian exiles who is also out and proud, living a life of Grindr hookups and near-constant partying. But when Parvis is sentenced to community service for a minor infraction and put to work at a nearby refugee detention center, he meets Amon (Eidin Jalali), a new arrival from Iran. It's love at first sight. The film screened ...
Shariat's partly autobiographical drama centers on Parvis (Benjamin Radjaipour), a German-born son of Iranian exiles who is also out and proud, living a life of Grindr hookups and near-constant partying. But when Parvis is sentenced to community service for a minor infraction and put to work at a nearby refugee detention center, he meets Amon (Eidin Jalali), a new arrival from Iran. It's love at first sight. The film screened ...
Berlinale 2020: Father and Welcome to Chechnya got the Audience Awards in the Panorama section, while Digger received the Cicae Art Cinema Award. The parallel juries have handed out their trophies ahead of the awards ceremony of the 70th Berlin Film Festival. The Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film in the Panorama section was given to Hope by Norwegian filmmaker Maria Sødahl, while the Cicae Art Cinema Award went to by Digger, the first feature by Greek director Georgis Grigorakis, in the Panorama section, and to Chinese film Ping jing (The Calming) by Song Fang, in the Forum section. The Audience Awards in the Panorama section went to the new film by Serbian director Srdan Golubović, Father, and to Us documentary Welcome to Chechnya, directed by David France, in the documentaries section. Lastly, the Teddy Award went to German title No Hard Feelings, directed by Faraz Shariat, selected in.
At dawn in an orderly, middle-class suburb in regional Germany, three young people — a girl and two guys — stagger home from a night out. Two of them are siblings, two of them friends and two of them are falling in love. One of them is very drunk and tripping over the long blond wig he wore all night, but in the flat light of early morning, it all seems somehow hilarious and easy because this is how it is to be young, even when there are asylum applications, cultural misunderstandings and language barriers hanging over your head.
The characters in Faraz Shariat’s buzzy, bright-eyed “No Hard Feelings” may grapple with overlapping aspects of their sexual and ethnic identities in their search for somewhere to belong — legally, socially, culturally and emotionally — but the vibrant, observant film they’re in, by contrast, knows exactly what it is: an immigrant love song...
The characters in Faraz Shariat’s buzzy, bright-eyed “No Hard Feelings” may grapple with overlapping aspects of their sexual and ethnic identities in their search for somewhere to belong — legally, socially, culturally and emotionally — but the vibrant, observant film they’re in, by contrast, knows exactly what it is: an immigrant love song...
- 2/24/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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