Lionsgate has signed a multi-year deal with unscripted TV producer and director Jonathan Karsh, the studio announced Wednesday. Karsh, a four-time Emmy winner behind hits like MTV’s “Catfish: The TV Show” and HBO’s “My Flesh And Blood,” will develop and produce alternative programming through his new Shiny Objects Entertainment banner. In his previous role as senior vice president of creative affairs at Relativity Television, Karsh helped build the company from its inception in 2008 into a business with over 70 network projects. He developed and executive produced the pilot for “Policewomen” and “My Five Wives” for TLC, “My Extreme Animal Phobia” for Animal Planet,...
- 1/6/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
While the 2013 Sundance Film Festival is in full swing this weekend, we thought it would be fun to look back a decade and remember the best films of the 2003 event. The award winners that year include American Splendor, Capturing the Friedmans, All the Real Girls, My Flesh and Blood, The Station Agent, Stevie, Thirteen, A Certain Death and Whale Rider. And other major movies premiering at the fest include The Cooler, The Shape of Things, Tupac: Resurrection, Pieces of April, The Weather Underground, Northfork and the Bob Dylan disaster Masked and Anonymous. The U.S. also got its first look at 28 Days Later, In America, Bus 174, Bend It Like Beckham, Laurel Canyon, The Secret Lives of Dentists and Irreversible. To commemorate such a great Sundance (which spotlighted some filmmakers returning this year, like David Gordon Green and Michael Polish), we’re spotlighting some of our favorite scenes from some of the movies listed above. Not...
- 1/21/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
9. The Cove: Psihoyos and Barry assemble a crack team like some sort of Clooney to infiltrate and record the goings-on. They gather world champion free divers to plant underwater cameras and microphones. They get Industrial Light and Magic to craft hidden HD cameras in realistic boulders and shrubbery. They get high-tech night vision and heat-sensitive cameras to scope out for guards and danger as they go all Spy Tech on the fishermen. It's a tense and dangerous operation because they're going espionage on a multi-million dollar industry. Water park dolphins sell for a minimum $150,000. But their efforts work. We see the butchery first-hand, and it's unnerving. Essentially, the dolphins are harpooned to death, as the cove fills with blood. By the finish, they're hooking carcasses out of the water, and the cove itself is drenched with sanguine waters.
8. Grizzly Man: Your view on whether Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man...
8. Grizzly Man: Your view on whether Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man...
- 8/15/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
NEW YORK -- The Devil Came on Horseback, U.S. Marine Brian Steidle's harrowing Darfur memoir that served as the basis for a 2007 documentary, will hit the big screen again as a narrative feature.
In a pre-strike deal, 72 Prods.' Jen Chaiken (My Flesh and Blood) and Sebastian Dungan (Transamerica) acquired rights to the nonfiction book and hired journalist David Freed to adapt the screenplay.
The 2007 memoir, co-written by Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace, follows the former U.S. Marine Captain during his assignment as an official observer in Sudan. After being prevented from saving lives in the region, Steidle risked his life to smuggle photographs of the Darfur genocide to the New York Times.
Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's eponymous 2007 docu based on the book, which premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival, was voted onto this year's documentary feature Oscar shortlist.
Dean Schramm of the Schramm Group repped Steidle, Steidle Wallace and Freed in their deals with 72 Prods.
In a pre-strike deal, 72 Prods.' Jen Chaiken (My Flesh and Blood) and Sebastian Dungan (Transamerica) acquired rights to the nonfiction book and hired journalist David Freed to adapt the screenplay.
The 2007 memoir, co-written by Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace, follows the former U.S. Marine Captain during his assignment as an official observer in Sudan. After being prevented from saving lives in the region, Steidle risked his life to smuggle photographs of the Darfur genocide to the New York Times.
Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's eponymous 2007 docu based on the book, which premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival, was voted onto this year's documentary feature Oscar shortlist.
Dean Schramm of the Schramm Group repped Steidle, Steidle Wallace and Freed in their deals with 72 Prods.
- 1/11/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- U.S. filmmaker Jonathan Karsh's My Flesh and Blood, which recently reaped honors at Sundance, will open the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on April 25 in Toronto. Karsh's directorial debut, which centers on Susan Tom and the 11 special-needs children she adopted, grabbed the trophies for best documentary feature and best documentary director at the January festival. Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival, will close May 4 with the world premiere of The Last Round, Joseph Blasioli's recounting of local boxer George Chuvalo's match with Muhammad Ali in March 1966 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. Hot Docs will unspool 122 documentaries from Canada and abroad.
Director Ben Coccio's Zero Day took the Grand Jury prize for best narrative feature, worth $100,000 in goods and services, at the Orlando-based Florida Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. The audience award for best narrative feature went to Never Get Outta the Boat, directed by Paul Quinn. The Grand Jury prize for best documentary was presented to Paul Devlin's Power Trip, while Elaine Epstein's State of Deniel took home the audience award for best documentary. Among narrative shorts, Paul Gutrecht's The Vest won both the Grand Jury award and the Audience Award. Vance Malone's Ocularist earned the Grand Jury award for best documentary short, while Alex Budovsky's Bathtime in Clerkenwell won the Grand Jury award for animated short. Special jury awards were also presented to Greg Pak's Robot Stories, Jonathan Karsh's My Flesh and Blood, PES's Roofsex, and Shane Sauer's Voyage of the Kitty Kuku. The narrative features jury was comprised of Raymond De Felitta, Dave Karger, and Diana Williams. The documentary competition jurors were Alan Berliner, Mary Litkovich, and Kelly M. DeVine. The shorts jury was comprised of Michael Ellenbogen, Laura Levine, and Stephen Schaefer. The student works jurors were Tracy Frenkel, Leslie Halpern, and Katrinka VanDeventer.
- 3/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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