Redmayne lauded for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for Best Director to Kyrgyzstan’s Marat Sarulu for Move...
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for Best Director to Kyrgyzstan’s Marat Sarulu for Move...
- 12/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Other prizes included a Best Actor prize for Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for...
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for...
- 12/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Screen previews the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry events, which includes a UK focus, the annual Regional Forum and highlights of the Work in Progress and CineLink projects.
Over the last ten years, Southeast Europe’s most important film event Sarajevo Film Festival has also become its main industry hub.
What started in 2003 with CineLink, a co-production market initially modeled after Rotterdam’s CineMart, has developed into an increasingly wide array of industry events, simultaneously expanding from the region towards Caucasus countries, and in recent years aiming to spread its activities and networking overseas, in partnerships with the Doha Film Institute, the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, and from this year, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine).
While the Industry Days peak in the final part of the festival, from August 20-23, its activities started on Sunday [17], with the presentation of the newly established Sarajevo City of Film Fund.
In addition to CineLink, the heart of...
Over the last ten years, Southeast Europe’s most important film event Sarajevo Film Festival has also become its main industry hub.
What started in 2003 with CineLink, a co-production market initially modeled after Rotterdam’s CineMart, has developed into an increasingly wide array of industry events, simultaneously expanding from the region towards Caucasus countries, and in recent years aiming to spread its activities and networking overseas, in partnerships with the Doha Film Institute, the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, and from this year, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine).
While the Industry Days peak in the final part of the festival, from August 20-23, its activities started on Sunday [17], with the presentation of the newly established Sarajevo City of Film Fund.
In addition to CineLink, the heart of...
- 8/18/2014
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
On the opening day of the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto (24), Film Sales Company has picked up North American sales rights to Advanced Style. Separately, FilmBuff will release festival premiere Love Hotel.
Ari Seth Cohen’s film is set to receive its world premiere next week and follows Cohen as he brings characters to life from his blog and new book of the same name.
Advanced Style celebrates grande dames and focuses on the lives of three women over 75 as they are pursued by network television for a reality show.
Fsc chief Andrew Herwitz described the film as “Bill Cunningham New York meets Best Marigold Hotel with a little dose of Project Runway.”
The sales slate includes new pick-up Meet The Patels, The Overnighters, Beyond Clueless and Doc Of The Dead.
Fsc also handles sales on Marshall Currry’s Point And Shoot and An Honest Liar, both of which premiered this week at Tribeca are said...
Ari Seth Cohen’s film is set to receive its world premiere next week and follows Cohen as he brings characters to life from his blog and new book of the same name.
Advanced Style celebrates grande dames and focuses on the lives of three women over 75 as they are pursued by network television for a reality show.
Fsc chief Andrew Herwitz described the film as “Bill Cunningham New York meets Best Marigold Hotel with a little dose of Project Runway.”
The sales slate includes new pick-up Meet The Patels, The Overnighters, Beyond Clueless and Doc Of The Dead.
Fsc also handles sales on Marshall Currry’s Point And Shoot and An Honest Liar, both of which premiered this week at Tribeca are said...
- 4/24/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Anyone who thinks a rendezvous at a seedy hotel for an evening of sultry fun sounds intriguing may want to check out "Love Hotel," a documentary feature by British filmmaker Phil Cox ("The Bengali Detective") and co-directed by Japanese filmmaker Hikaru Toda. In advance of its world premiere at the 2014 Hot Docs Film Festival, which starts today, the film has just been acquired by FilmBuff for theatrical and VOD release with a television release to follow. "Love Hotel" gives an intimate look into the goings-on of the Japanese "love hotel" industry which consists of underground private establishments where people can escape their lives and delve into the sexual fantasies that would be deemed inappropriate by an increasingly conservative society that attempts to shut these establishments down. “We are thrilled to be partnering with the filmmakers and their producers to release 'Love Hotel' throughout the world," said FilmBuff's Head of Content Steven Beckman.
- 4/24/2014
- by Ziyad Saadi
- Indiewire
Mira Nair ("Amelia," "Monsoon Wedding") is set to direct the crime drama "Bengali Detective" for Fox Searchlight and Scott Free.
The story focuses on an an intrepid private eye in Calcutta’s criminal underworld whose dream is to dance on Indian TV.
Sabrina Dhawan penned the script, based on Phil Cox's 2011 Sundance documentary of the same name. Michael Costigan is producing.
Source: Variety...
The story focuses on an an intrepid private eye in Calcutta’s criminal underworld whose dream is to dance on Indian TV.
Sabrina Dhawan penned the script, based on Phil Cox's 2011 Sundance documentary of the same name. Michael Costigan is producing.
Source: Variety...
- 8/9/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sundance seems a little incomplete for me without Jamie Stuart, who is shooting this year for Cinelan and Ge’s new Focus Forward initiative. Led by Cinelan co-founders Morgan Spurlock and Karol Martesko-Fenster (Filmmaker‘s founding publsiher), the program brings 30 new three-minute short films to festivals internationally.
So, to get my Stuart Sundance fix I’ll post this piece he shot for the organization, which is premiering its first five films here at the festival. Jamie may be lensing for this new short-form doc producer, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a photo gallery of snow-capped peaks, shuttle busses lumbering down Park, and silhouetted ski lifts appears in my in box this week. If so, look for it here.
Focus Forward – Short Films, Big Ideas Trailer from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.
And here’s the press release about Cinelan and these films.
Cinelan and Vimeo announced today the...
So, to get my Stuart Sundance fix I’ll post this piece he shot for the organization, which is premiering its first five films here at the festival. Jamie may be lensing for this new short-form doc producer, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a photo gallery of snow-capped peaks, shuttle busses lumbering down Park, and silhouetted ski lifts appears in my in box this week. If so, look for it here.
Focus Forward – Short Films, Big Ideas Trailer from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.
And here’s the press release about Cinelan and these films.
Cinelan and Vimeo announced today the...
- 1/21/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival to be held from February 9-19, 2012 announced the list of films to be screened in Panorama section. The lineup includes renowned names such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Volker Schlöndorff, Cao Hamburger, Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Teona Strugar Mitevska.
No Indian film has yet found a place in Berlinale Panorama 2012. Last year Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective were presented in this section.
Feature films to date:
10+10 by Hou Hsiao-hsien,Taiwan
Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi, France
Die Wand (The Wall) by Julian Roman Pölsler, Austria/Germany
Dollhouse by Kirsten Sheridan, Ireland
Elles by Malgoska Szumowska, France/Poland/Germany
Fon Tok Kuen Fah (Headshot) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/France
From Seoul To Varanasi by Kyuhwan Jeon, Republic of Korea
Hot boy noi loan – cau chuyen ve thang cuoi, co gai diem va con vit...
No Indian film has yet found a place in Berlinale Panorama 2012. Last year Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective were presented in this section.
Feature films to date:
10+10 by Hou Hsiao-hsien,Taiwan
Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi, France
Die Wand (The Wall) by Julian Roman Pölsler, Austria/Germany
Dollhouse by Kirsten Sheridan, Ireland
Elles by Malgoska Szumowska, France/Poland/Germany
Fon Tok Kuen Fah (Headshot) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/France
From Seoul To Varanasi by Kyuhwan Jeon, Republic of Korea
Hot boy noi loan – cau chuyen ve thang cuoi, co gai diem va con vit...
- 1/4/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Cinelan and Ge have announced additional filmmakers set to join their Focus Forward documentary initiative. Filmmakers Lucy Walker (“Waste Land”), Eddie Schmidt (Producer, “Twist of Faith”), Phil Cox (“The Bengali Detective”), Leslie Iwerks (“The Pixar Story”) and Stanley Nelson (“Freedom Riders”) have joined previously announced filmmakers in the effort. Spearheaded by Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”) and Cinelan’s Karol Martesko-Fenster, the program was announced at the most recent Toronto Film ...
- 10/26/2011
- Indiewire
Cinelan, the video publisher that syndicates three-minute documentary films, has announced today an open invitation to non-North American filmmakers to contribute to its Focus Forward series.
Teaming with Ge, it’s an initiative of three-minute docs that focuses on innovation and ideas that change the world.
In addition to Oscar and award-winning filmmakers who have signed on to produce the 30 three-minute films such as Joe Berlinger, Lixin Fan, Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Ross Kauffman, Cinelan co-founded Morgan Spurlock, Jessica Yu and newly announced filmmakers Lucy Walker, Stanley Nelson, Phil Cox and Leslie Iwerks, Cinelan is accepting brief treatments for three-minute stories around the Focus Forward “ideas and invention” theme. Those interested should write to focusforward@cinelan.com for more information.
The Focus Forward series will premiere in 2012 as curated collections at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals and at major festivals in Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa,...
Teaming with Ge, it’s an initiative of three-minute docs that focuses on innovation and ideas that change the world.
In addition to Oscar and award-winning filmmakers who have signed on to produce the 30 three-minute films such as Joe Berlinger, Lixin Fan, Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Ross Kauffman, Cinelan co-founded Morgan Spurlock, Jessica Yu and newly announced filmmakers Lucy Walker, Stanley Nelson, Phil Cox and Leslie Iwerks, Cinelan is accepting brief treatments for three-minute stories around the Focus Forward “ideas and invention” theme. Those interested should write to focusforward@cinelan.com for more information.
The Focus Forward series will premiere in 2012 as curated collections at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals and at major festivals in Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa,...
- 10/26/2011
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Ge and Cinelan announce from The Doha Tribeca Film Festival that the following award-winning filmmakers will join Focus Forward, a global documentary initiative that looks at the human power of ideas and innovation through three-minute films that can educate and inspire: Lucy Walker (director, Waste Land), Eddie Schmidt (producer, Twist of Faith), Phil Cox (director, The Bengali Detective), Leslie Iwerks (director, The Pixar Story) and Stanley Nelson (director, Freedom Riders). More information below: Cinelan also invites non–North American filmmakers to explore contributing to the Focus Forward effort. Cinelan's co-fournder, Karol Martesko-Fenster, says of the enthusiastic response to their program: "Focus Forward is a truly global initiative and we are encouraged that the universal appeal of its message ensures it will have a global face.” ...
- 10/26/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Each year the Sitges Film Festival commercial spot is almost as eagerly awaited by the general public as its lineup, and Rafa Antón, creative director of the China agency and the man responsible for its campaigns over the last ten years, has presented this year’s commercial, entitled "Alter Ego". In addition, the preliminary lineup for the Festival has been revealed, but it's not complete by any means. More will be announced throughout the month.
Antón presented the commercial at the Velodrome, property of the brand, along with Festival director Angel Sala and one of Sitges 2011’s partners Moritz Beer.
As explained at the presentation of the Sitges 2011 posters, artificial intelligence is this year’s central theme, represented through the geminoids created by professor Ishiguro in Japan. For the commercials, Rafa Antón stated that he’d “continued with the same commemorative leitmotif of the tenth anniversary of Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg...
Antón presented the commercial at the Velodrome, property of the brand, along with Festival director Angel Sala and one of Sitges 2011’s partners Moritz Beer.
As explained at the presentation of the Sitges 2011 posters, artificial intelligence is this year’s central theme, represented through the geminoids created by professor Ishiguro in Japan. For the commercials, Rafa Antón stated that he’d “continued with the same commemorative leitmotif of the tenth anniversary of Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg...
- 9/16/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Do Dooni Chaar directed by Habib Faisal, starring Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh will open the 11th New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff). The festival will take place from May 4-8, 2011 in Manhattan. A total of 25 feature films will be screened in the festival which is presented by The Indo-American Arts Council (Iaac).
Rituparno Ghosh’s Nauka Dubi will be presented as the Closing Night selection, while Aparna Sen’s Iti Mrinalini (An Unfinished Letter) will screen as the Centerpiece selection.
Film personalities like Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Habib Faisal, Rituparno Ghosh, and Aparna Sen will be present at the festival.
The complete lineup:
The Bengali Detective (Documentary), directed by Phil Cox
Bhopali (Documentary), directed by Max Carlson
Daayen Ya Baayen, directed by Bela Negi
A Decent Arrangement, directed by Sarovar Banka
Do Dooni Chaar, directed by Habib Faisal
Geeta in Paradise, directed by Benny Mathews
Geeta in Paradise, directed...
Rituparno Ghosh’s Nauka Dubi will be presented as the Closing Night selection, while Aparna Sen’s Iti Mrinalini (An Unfinished Letter) will screen as the Centerpiece selection.
Film personalities like Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Habib Faisal, Rituparno Ghosh, and Aparna Sen will be present at the festival.
The complete lineup:
The Bengali Detective (Documentary), directed by Phil Cox
Bhopali (Documentary), directed by Max Carlson
Daayen Ya Baayen, directed by Bela Negi
A Decent Arrangement, directed by Sarovar Banka
Do Dooni Chaar, directed by Habib Faisal
Geeta in Paradise, directed by Benny Mathews
Geeta in Paradise, directed...
- 4/17/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
It isn’t easy to make a documentary that is as dramatic and riveting as a feature-drama, a narrative film. Too often, that form has been caught in its own heritage of simplistic camera compositions and a droll pace that maintains interest only because the viewer is committed to subject matter. But the form has matured now. To many, this is an age of the renewal of documentary form. Coming from a weighty heritage of didactic and propaganda, the documentary form has pushed the limits of drama, reality, poetics and incisiveness.
Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective (2011) claims a simple territory of portraying an unusual dimension of the subject, a detective in Kolkata that runs a small firm to solve problems of its clients. He has a severely ill diabetic wife and a young son. A dedicated father and a husband, he also nurtures a small team at work as a “family.
Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective (2011) claims a simple territory of portraying an unusual dimension of the subject, a detective in Kolkata that runs a small firm to solve problems of its clients. He has a severely ill diabetic wife and a young son. A dedicated father and a husband, he also nurtures a small team at work as a “family.
- 4/16/2011
- by Shekhar Deshpande
- DearCinema.com
Ida Proud To Present The Bengali Detective
The International Documentary Association presents The Bengali Detective at the 9th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles! Iffla runs April 12-17 at Arclight Hollywood. The onsite box office opens April 8th at the Cinerama Dome 6360 W. Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028. Also check out special festival events like Industry Leadership Awards, Seminars panels ("Trends In The Indian Entertainment Industry"), and live music & dance performances.
The Bengali Detective, directed by Phil Cox, is a documentary about Rajesh and his Always Detective ...
The International Documentary Association presents The Bengali Detective at the 9th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles! Iffla runs April 12-17 at Arclight Hollywood. The onsite box office opens April 8th at the Cinerama Dome 6360 W. Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028. Also check out special festival events like Industry Leadership Awards, Seminars panels ("Trends In The Indian Entertainment Industry"), and live music & dance performances.
The Bengali Detective, directed by Phil Cox, is a documentary about Rajesh and his Always Detective ...
- 4/4/2011
- by IDA Editorial Staff
- International Documentary Association
The Bengali Detective, directed by Phil Cox will screen at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2011. The festival will take place from April 28-May 7, 2011.
“Perhaps what may be one of the most intriguing factors of The Bengali Detective is its set-up of a personal documentary, brimming with one man’s personal journey with an unfiltered, non-Hollywood-dramatized India as its backdrop”, writes the official website of the festival.
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival began in 1983 to promote Asian and Asian Pacific American cinema.
“Perhaps what may be one of the most intriguing factors of The Bengali Detective is its set-up of a personal documentary, brimming with one man’s personal journey with an unfiltered, non-Hollywood-dramatized India as its backdrop”, writes the official website of the festival.
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival began in 1983 to promote Asian and Asian Pacific American cinema.
- 4/3/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Nader And Simin, A Separation by Asghar Farhadi won the Golden Bear for the Best Film at the 61st Berlinale. The Silver Bear went to The Turin Horse by Béla Tarr. Ulrich Köhler won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness).
The festival concluded on Saturday evening. Indian actor-producer Aamir Khan served on the main Jury of the festival. Patang (The Kite) by Prashant Bhargava was screened in the 41st Berlinale Forum. Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective were presented in the Panorama section.
List of Main Awards at Berlinale:
Golden Bear For The Best Film
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Nader And Simin, A Separation
by Asghar Farhadi
Jury Grand Prix-silver Bear
A torinói ló
The Turin Horse
by Béla Tarr
Silver Bear For Best Director
Ulrich Köhler for
Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness)
Silver Bear For Best Actress...
The festival concluded on Saturday evening. Indian actor-producer Aamir Khan served on the main Jury of the festival. Patang (The Kite) by Prashant Bhargava was screened in the 41st Berlinale Forum. Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective were presented in the Panorama section.
List of Main Awards at Berlinale:
Golden Bear For The Best Film
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Nader And Simin, A Separation
by Asghar Farhadi
Jury Grand Prix-silver Bear
A torinói ló
The Turin Horse
by Béla Tarr
Silver Bear For Best Director
Ulrich Köhler for
Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness)
Silver Bear For Best Actress...
- 2/19/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 61st Berlin International Festival will open on February 10. Joel and Ethan Coen’s Western True Grit will be presented as the opening film. The film that has been nominated for 10 Academy awards will be presented by the directors and leading actors Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Brolin.
Patang (The Kite) by Prashant Bhargava will be screened in the 41st Berlinale Forum. Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective will be presented in the Panorama section. Aamir Khan will serve on the Jury of the 61st edition of the Berlinale.
The Berlin International Film Festival will close on February 20.
Patang (The Kite) by Prashant Bhargava will be screened in the 41st Berlinale Forum. Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective will be presented in the Panorama section. Aamir Khan will serve on the Jury of the 61st edition of the Berlinale.
The Berlin International Film Festival will close on February 20.
- 2/9/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Here at the Sundance Film Festival the people at Fox Searchlight have had a pretty big week. Not only did they debut their hilarious comedy Cedar Rapids, but they've also already acquired the indies Homework and Martha Marcy May Marlene. Now the distributor has made another Sundance deal, but this one is a little different. Fox Searchlight announced that they have picked up the rights worldwide feature remake rights to the documentary The Bengali Detective. The original film follows intrepid private eye Rajesh Ji as he investigates Calcutta's criminal underworld and pursues his dream of dancing on Indian television. Fox Searchlight's President of Production, Claudia Lewis, said, "We adored this film and are delighted to have the chance to work with such entertaining, funny material. We were charmed by this story of a dedicated husband and self-made detective who dreams big," The film's director, Phil Cox, added, "We are thrilled...
- 1/25/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Fox Searchlight is really on a roll at Sundance. The company has snapped up Homework and Martha Marcy May Marlene, and has now announced that it has bought remake rights to the Indian documentary The Bengali Detective. Wait, a remake of a documentary? How does that work? First up, the film is described on the Sundance programming site [1] as follows: In response to police corruption, the private detective business has become increasingly common in India. The Bengali Detective follows the life of detective Rajesh Ji, who, along with his ragtag team of assistants, investigates cases ranging from counterfeit hair products to a brutal triple murder. When Rajesh is not sleuthing, he has big dreams of competing on a televised national talent show, so he and his detective gang form a dance troupe—which must be seen to be believed—and rehearse for their big audition. Set in chaotic Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta,...
- 1/25/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
HollywoodNews.com: Fox Searchlight Pictures President of Production Claudia Lewis announced today that the company has acquired worldwide remake rights from Native Voice Films to the entertaining original feature documentary, The Bengali Detective, directed by Philip Cox and produced by Giovanna Stopponi, Annie Sundberg and Himesh Kar.
?We adored this film and are delighted to have the chance to work with such entertaining, funny material. We were charmed by this story of a dedicated husband and self-made detective who dreams big,? said Lewis.
?We are thrilled that Fox Searchlight has fallen in love with our leading man Rajesh and his wild adventures as a detective in Kolkata. Fox Searchlight has an amazing track record of bringing stories set in India to a worldwide audience, and we are excited to be sharing this journey with them,” said director Phil Cox and The Bengali Detective team.
In The Bengali Detective, Calcutta’s...
?We adored this film and are delighted to have the chance to work with such entertaining, funny material. We were charmed by this story of a dedicated husband and self-made detective who dreams big,? said Lewis.
?We are thrilled that Fox Searchlight has fallen in love with our leading man Rajesh and his wild adventures as a detective in Kolkata. Fox Searchlight has an amazing track record of bringing stories set in India to a worldwide audience, and we are excited to be sharing this journey with them,” said director Phil Cox and The Bengali Detective team.
In The Bengali Detective, Calcutta’s...
- 1/25/2011
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Park City, Ut January 24, 2011 – Fox Searchlight Pictures President of Production Claudia Lewis announced today that the company has acquired worldwide remake rights from Native Voice Films to the entertaining original feature documentary, The Bengali Detective, directed by Philip Cox and produced by Giovanna Stopponi, Annie Sundberg and Himesh Kar. “We adored this film and are delighted to have the chance to work with such entertaining, funny material. We were charmed by this story of a dedicated husband and self-made detective who dreams big,” said Lewis. “We are thrilled that Fox Searchlight has fallen in love with our leading man Rajesh and his wild adventures as a detective in Kolkata. Fox Searchlight has an amazing track record of bringing stories set in India to a worldwide audience, and we are excited to be sharing this journey with them," said director Phil Cox and The Bengali Detective team. In The Bengali Detective,...
- 1/25/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
7 Khoon Maaf
Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective will be presented in the 2011 Panorama at the 61st Berlinale.
These are films with “innovative narrative styles and unusually critical images of society”. “ Vishal Bhardwaj tells of an intimidating female character who moves between the religions and their male proponents in 7 Khoon Maaf (7 Sins Forgiven), while young director Q has angry young men set out – unfiltered and raw – to find a place for themselves in the world in his film debut Gandu (Asshole)”, as stated in a press release.
“British filmmaker Phil Cox lets viewers experience the city of Calcutta up close in The Bengali Detective: it takes you to the darkest corners of the metropolis with private detectives whose businesses are booming because the police can no longer be trusted.”
7 Khoon Maaf will have its World Premiere at the Berlinale with Priyanka Chopra,...
Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective will be presented in the 2011 Panorama at the 61st Berlinale.
These are films with “innovative narrative styles and unusually critical images of society”. “ Vishal Bhardwaj tells of an intimidating female character who moves between the religions and their male proponents in 7 Khoon Maaf (7 Sins Forgiven), while young director Q has angry young men set out – unfiltered and raw – to find a place for themselves in the world in his film debut Gandu (Asshole)”, as stated in a press release.
“British filmmaker Phil Cox lets viewers experience the city of Calcutta up close in The Bengali Detective: it takes you to the darkest corners of the metropolis with private detectives whose businesses are booming because the police can no longer be trusted.”
7 Khoon Maaf will have its World Premiere at the Berlinale with Priyanka Chopra,...
- 1/19/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Translated, Jangaweed means "devil on horseback." The Jangaweed burn, shoot, rape, slaughter and pillage the western part of Sudan, Darfur. They are the Arab militia supported by the Arab-dominated Sudanese government and bent on wiping out the African and Christian population of Sudan.
In this scorching documentary, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg document the genocide perpetrated in that African nation, where more than 400,000 non-Arab people have been slaughtered. Nearly 3 million have been forced from their homes.
Filtered through the eyes of a gallant ex-Marine, Capt. Brian Steidle, who served as a military observer with the African Union in the western part of Sudan, the docu is an unnervingly powerful picture of atrocity. Steidle documented the unspeakable cruelty in more than 1,000 pictures that inspired a New York Times expose.
The Devil on Horseback is a cinematic salvo of heart-breaking interviews, onsite footage and pictures of unimaginable carnage. It is a powerful warning of another Rwanda in the making -- another one that world powers have not acted on. The U.N. Security Council has issued nine resolutions condemning the atrocities, all with abstentions from China, which has massive oil interests in the region. Sudan thumbs its nose, and the U.N. backs off.
Perhaps this powerful docu, to air this year on HBO, will spur action from more effective entities. Meanwhile, famished Darfur citizens pour into poverty-stricken, barren eastern Chad, living in refugee camps and searching for family members.
THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK
A Break Thru Films production in association withGlobal Grassroots & Three Generations
Credits:
Producers: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg, Gretchen Wallace, Jane Wells
Screenwriters-directors: Anne Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Directors of photography: Jerry Risius, Phil Cox, Tim Hetherington, William Rexer II, Anne Sundberg, John Keith Wasson
Editor: Joey Grossfield
Music: Paul Brill
Cast:
Brian Steidle: Brian Steidle
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
In this scorching documentary, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg document the genocide perpetrated in that African nation, where more than 400,000 non-Arab people have been slaughtered. Nearly 3 million have been forced from their homes.
Filtered through the eyes of a gallant ex-Marine, Capt. Brian Steidle, who served as a military observer with the African Union in the western part of Sudan, the docu is an unnervingly powerful picture of atrocity. Steidle documented the unspeakable cruelty in more than 1,000 pictures that inspired a New York Times expose.
The Devil on Horseback is a cinematic salvo of heart-breaking interviews, onsite footage and pictures of unimaginable carnage. It is a powerful warning of another Rwanda in the making -- another one that world powers have not acted on. The U.N. Security Council has issued nine resolutions condemning the atrocities, all with abstentions from China, which has massive oil interests in the region. Sudan thumbs its nose, and the U.N. backs off.
Perhaps this powerful docu, to air this year on HBO, will spur action from more effective entities. Meanwhile, famished Darfur citizens pour into poverty-stricken, barren eastern Chad, living in refugee camps and searching for family members.
THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK
A Break Thru Films production in association withGlobal Grassroots & Three Generations
Credits:
Producers: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg, Gretchen Wallace, Jane Wells
Screenwriters-directors: Anne Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Directors of photography: Jerry Risius, Phil Cox, Tim Hetherington, William Rexer II, Anne Sundberg, John Keith Wasson
Editor: Joey Grossfield
Music: Paul Brill
Cast:
Brian Steidle: Brian Steidle
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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