The United Kingdom has picked My Pure Land, an Urdu-language feature from first-time director Sarmad Masud, to be its contender for the 2018 Oscars in the foreign language category.
This marks the first time Britain has submitted an Urdu-language title to be its Oscar hopeful. The U.K. has only twice been nominated in the foreign language category: in 1993 for Paul Turner's Hedd Wyn and in 1999 with Paul Morrison's Solomon and Gaenor, both films shot in the Welsh language. The United Kingdom has yet to win a foreign language Oscar.
Masud's drama, described as a “feminist Western” is based...
This marks the first time Britain has submitted an Urdu-language title to be its Oscar hopeful. The U.K. has only twice been nominated in the foreign language category: in 1993 for Paul Turner's Hedd Wyn and in 1999 with Paul Morrison's Solomon and Gaenor, both films shot in the Welsh language. The United Kingdom has yet to win a foreign language Oscar.
Masud's drama, described as a “feminist Western” is based...
- 9/14/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Philippines-set crime thriller, made by British filmmaker Sean Ellis, submitted by the UK for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Metro Manila, by British filmmaker Sean Ellis, has been selected as the UK’s official submission in the Best Foreign Language Film Award category for the Oscars 2014.
A selection committee from BAFTA chose the crime thriller, shot in the Philippine capital in the Tagalog language with a local cast and crew.
The crime drama follows Oscar Ramirez and his family, who escape their impoverished life in the rice fields north of the Philippines for the capital city of Metro Manila. Oscar lands a job for an armored truck company and is taken under the wing of senior officer Ong. But he is soon exposed to the reality of the job’s mortality rate and the shady motives of his new partner.
Metro Manila won the audience award for world cinema at this year’s Sundance...
Metro Manila, by British filmmaker Sean Ellis, has been selected as the UK’s official submission in the Best Foreign Language Film Award category for the Oscars 2014.
A selection committee from BAFTA chose the crime thriller, shot in the Philippine capital in the Tagalog language with a local cast and crew.
The crime drama follows Oscar Ramirez and his family, who escape their impoverished life in the rice fields north of the Philippines for the capital city of Metro Manila. Oscar lands a job for an armored truck company and is taken under the wing of senior officer Ong. But he is soon exposed to the reality of the job’s mortality rate and the shady motives of his new partner.
Metro Manila won the audience award for world cinema at this year’s Sundance...
- 9/19/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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