Olivia Rose Keegan, who will play Lily, was nominated twice for a Daytime Emmy Award for her role of Claire Brady on long-running soap opera, 'Days of our Lives,' Olivia Rose Keegan has been singing and acting since the tender age of seven. She is also known for her leading role in family film 'Salvation Street' and guest starring roles in Disney Channel's 'A.N.T. Farm,' Nickelodeon's 'Sam Cat' and 'The Thundermans' and feature film 'Decoding Annie Parker,' alongside Helen Hunt, Aaron Paul, Samantha Morton and Rashida Jones. Keegan plays Lily, an energetic and adorable East High freshman whose sweetness masks her insecurity and highly competitive nature.
- 3/12/2020
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Now in its fourth edition, the International Project Discovery Forum (Ipdf), Los Angeles Greek Film Festival’s Industry Section and development workshop will present six impressive new projects by filmmakers from the Balkans and the Middle East region.
Ipdf Director Araceli Lemos, in talking about this year’s selections remarks,"For this edition,we chose projects which are bold, diverse and thoughtprovoking. We are excited to meet all the filmmakers in person and work with them."
The 2016 Ipdf projects are from both new and established filmmakers. They are Alexis Alexiou's (“Wednesday 4:45”) third feature project "As Long As You Bleed." Vassilis Katsoupis and producer Giorgos Karnavas present "Inside," Katsoupis'debut fiction feature. His documentary “My Friends Larry Gus” is screening on Friday, June 3rd.Karnavas is a prominent Greek producer, whose previous work “The Eternal Paraskevas of Antonis Paraskevas” and “Boy Eating Bird’s Food” were worldwide festival favorites and screened in past editions of Lagff.
Sol Goodman,an American producer with projects in the Middle East and NorthAfrica, will present "The Taste of Apples is Red," a Syrian film by Ehab Tarabieh.
Three debut features will also be pitched: from Turkey, Nazlı Elif Durlu andand her producer Anna Maria Aslanoglu present
"Zuhal." From Greece's Harris Raftogiannis,comes "The River," and Serbia’s Stefan Malešević will offer up "Usud."
A four member jury of entertainment professionals will decide the winning project after hearing the final pitches on Sunday, June 5th. The 2016 Ipdf Jury member sare producer at Gunpowder & Sky, David Harris, Rebecca Katz from the Creative Producing Initiative of the Sundance Institute; Participant Media’s Ioanna Varikos, and producer and cofounder of Extraordinary Renditions, Kelly Thomas (“Spa Night”).
The winnersof the competition will receive the Aegean Award and a scholarship to attend the Mfi Script2Pitch Workshops during the Orpheus Award Ceremony on Closing Night, June 5th.
Before the Jury pitch, each filmmaker will receive group training and one-on-one meetingswith a diverse group of professionals sharing expertise in financing, directing, writing, producing, marketing and distribution. This year's experts include: K Street Pictures' president Charles Agron; writer/producer David Ariniello (“Arcadia Lost”), acclaimed director and cinematographer Steven Bernstein (“Decoding Annie Parker”), cofounder of L.A.based La Panda Productions Pau Brunet, director of creative initiatives for technology leader Bittorrent Missy Laney, film festival programmer and strategist Kathleen McInnis, manager for the feature film program’s international work at Sundance Institute Matthew Takata, and writer/Producer of the award-winning “Innocent Voices” (Voces Inocentes), Oscar Torres.
"We strive to change and grow every year, looking at what is happening in the independent film world around us, and pair our filmmakers with the best experts that can help them. Not only with these projects but for their careers as independent filmmakers," adds Ipdf ProducerGiulia Caruso.
The Ipdf Industry Events, free and open to the public, take place on Saturday, June 4.
At 12:30 p.m. the Writing for Diversity in TV panel will take place. During this group session esteemed television writers, and personalities discuss and share their experiences, challenges and efforts to promote diversity on TV – both within the writer’s room and the characters they create. Panelists are; writers Aida Croal ("Luke Cage"), Julia Fontana ("Lucifer"), Maikiko James from the newly launched Women In Film's Women Writing Lab, musician/ writer Our Lady J ("Transparent"), producer Benoni Tagoe ("Awkward Black Girl") and director/ producer Greg Yaitanes ("Banshee," "House M.D.").
At 3:00 p.m. How a Director Finds Her Characters presented by writer/director Athina Tsangari. Tsangari, one of the principal instigators of the New Greek Wave, offers a unique Masterclass on directing. Her latest awardwinning feature "Chevalier" is screening at the festival on Thursday, June 2. The masterclass will be moderated by film critic Carlos Aguilar, who has written for outlets such as Indiewire, MovieMaker Magazine, and Variety Latino.
"Every year we are amazed at the variety and quality of projects that filmmakers submit for consideration to Ipdf. It's a complicated selection process, and we always struggle to let some great projects go. To best serve the participants and their projects, we select only six films from the hundreds we receive each year.," notes Lemos.
For more information on the Ipdf projects and filmmakers go to http://lagff.org/festival/internationalprojectdiscoveryforum
The International Project Discovery Forum is the industry program of Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
The International Project Discovery Forum is a Los Angeles pioneer in the promotion of international independent film development and coproduction. Utilizing the innumerable resources that exist in Los Angeles, the festival aims to create a bridge between two very different worlds – the American Independent Film and the Greek/Balkan Independent Film.
They look for films that have an original approach, made by independent producers and filmmakers that have a unique voice. The stage of development of the selected projects varies from inspiring and promising scripts in an early stage, which they want to nurture through their journey, to more advanced projects in the financing stage that they connect with producers, distributors, sales agents and programmers that can actively support the film. The festival wants to create a circle of collaborators who share the same vision – a network of creative professionals from Greece, the Balkans and the Us that share the same idea of how they want to make films.
Besides their open call for entries, they look for projects in other industry forums in the Balkan region such as Thessaloniki Iff’s Crossroads, Sofia Meetings, Mfi Script Workshop.
The Forum includes a development lab only for Ipdf selected Filmmakers and a series of roundtables that are free and open to the public.
The goal is not only to promote Greek and Balkan filmmakers by helping strong, local stories with international appeal get told, but they also want to create an occasion for a true and lively exchange between European and American cinema. The forum provide a venue where dialogue is encouraged and creative collaborations are formed...
Ipdf Director Araceli Lemos, in talking about this year’s selections remarks,"For this edition,we chose projects which are bold, diverse and thoughtprovoking. We are excited to meet all the filmmakers in person and work with them."
The 2016 Ipdf projects are from both new and established filmmakers. They are Alexis Alexiou's (“Wednesday 4:45”) third feature project "As Long As You Bleed." Vassilis Katsoupis and producer Giorgos Karnavas present "Inside," Katsoupis'debut fiction feature. His documentary “My Friends Larry Gus” is screening on Friday, June 3rd.Karnavas is a prominent Greek producer, whose previous work “The Eternal Paraskevas of Antonis Paraskevas” and “Boy Eating Bird’s Food” were worldwide festival favorites and screened in past editions of Lagff.
Sol Goodman,an American producer with projects in the Middle East and NorthAfrica, will present "The Taste of Apples is Red," a Syrian film by Ehab Tarabieh.
Three debut features will also be pitched: from Turkey, Nazlı Elif Durlu andand her producer Anna Maria Aslanoglu present
"Zuhal." From Greece's Harris Raftogiannis,comes "The River," and Serbia’s Stefan Malešević will offer up "Usud."
A four member jury of entertainment professionals will decide the winning project after hearing the final pitches on Sunday, June 5th. The 2016 Ipdf Jury member sare producer at Gunpowder & Sky, David Harris, Rebecca Katz from the Creative Producing Initiative of the Sundance Institute; Participant Media’s Ioanna Varikos, and producer and cofounder of Extraordinary Renditions, Kelly Thomas (“Spa Night”).
The winnersof the competition will receive the Aegean Award and a scholarship to attend the Mfi Script2Pitch Workshops during the Orpheus Award Ceremony on Closing Night, June 5th.
Before the Jury pitch, each filmmaker will receive group training and one-on-one meetingswith a diverse group of professionals sharing expertise in financing, directing, writing, producing, marketing and distribution. This year's experts include: K Street Pictures' president Charles Agron; writer/producer David Ariniello (“Arcadia Lost”), acclaimed director and cinematographer Steven Bernstein (“Decoding Annie Parker”), cofounder of L.A.based La Panda Productions Pau Brunet, director of creative initiatives for technology leader Bittorrent Missy Laney, film festival programmer and strategist Kathleen McInnis, manager for the feature film program’s international work at Sundance Institute Matthew Takata, and writer/Producer of the award-winning “Innocent Voices” (Voces Inocentes), Oscar Torres.
"We strive to change and grow every year, looking at what is happening in the independent film world around us, and pair our filmmakers with the best experts that can help them. Not only with these projects but for their careers as independent filmmakers," adds Ipdf ProducerGiulia Caruso.
The Ipdf Industry Events, free and open to the public, take place on Saturday, June 4.
At 12:30 p.m. the Writing for Diversity in TV panel will take place. During this group session esteemed television writers, and personalities discuss and share their experiences, challenges and efforts to promote diversity on TV – both within the writer’s room and the characters they create. Panelists are; writers Aida Croal ("Luke Cage"), Julia Fontana ("Lucifer"), Maikiko James from the newly launched Women In Film's Women Writing Lab, musician/ writer Our Lady J ("Transparent"), producer Benoni Tagoe ("Awkward Black Girl") and director/ producer Greg Yaitanes ("Banshee," "House M.D.").
At 3:00 p.m. How a Director Finds Her Characters presented by writer/director Athina Tsangari. Tsangari, one of the principal instigators of the New Greek Wave, offers a unique Masterclass on directing. Her latest awardwinning feature "Chevalier" is screening at the festival on Thursday, June 2. The masterclass will be moderated by film critic Carlos Aguilar, who has written for outlets such as Indiewire, MovieMaker Magazine, and Variety Latino.
"Every year we are amazed at the variety and quality of projects that filmmakers submit for consideration to Ipdf. It's a complicated selection process, and we always struggle to let some great projects go. To best serve the participants and their projects, we select only six films from the hundreds we receive each year.," notes Lemos.
For more information on the Ipdf projects and filmmakers go to http://lagff.org/festival/internationalprojectdiscoveryforum
The International Project Discovery Forum is the industry program of Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
The International Project Discovery Forum is a Los Angeles pioneer in the promotion of international independent film development and coproduction. Utilizing the innumerable resources that exist in Los Angeles, the festival aims to create a bridge between two very different worlds – the American Independent Film and the Greek/Balkan Independent Film.
They look for films that have an original approach, made by independent producers and filmmakers that have a unique voice. The stage of development of the selected projects varies from inspiring and promising scripts in an early stage, which they want to nurture through their journey, to more advanced projects in the financing stage that they connect with producers, distributors, sales agents and programmers that can actively support the film. The festival wants to create a circle of collaborators who share the same vision – a network of creative professionals from Greece, the Balkans and the Us that share the same idea of how they want to make films.
Besides their open call for entries, they look for projects in other industry forums in the Balkan region such as Thessaloniki Iff’s Crossroads, Sofia Meetings, Mfi Script Workshop.
The Forum includes a development lab only for Ipdf selected Filmmakers and a series of roundtables that are free and open to the public.
The goal is not only to promote Greek and Balkan filmmakers by helping strong, local stories with international appeal get told, but they also want to create an occasion for a true and lively exchange between European and American cinema. The forum provide a venue where dialogue is encouraged and creative collaborations are formed...
- 5/24/2016
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
The initial results on films pitched to Australian moviegoers via cinema-on-demand platform Tugg, either as an exclusive offering or in combination with conventional distribution, have been encouraging. The co-venture between the Us-based Tugg and David Doepel.s Leap Frog Films has been holding screenings in Australia since March at Event Cinemas, Hoyts, Reading and independent cinemas around the country. Pinnacle will utilise the scheme, which enables moviegoers to select a title from a library and organise screenings at participating cinemas, for the release of Decoding Annie Parker.. Steven Bernstein.s drama is based on true events which chronicles two remarkable women: Annie Parker, a three time cancer survivor, and geneticist Mary-Claire King, whose discovery of the breast cancer Brca gene mutation was one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century. Louise Wadley.s All About E (formerly The Trouble With E), a lesbian love story/ road trip/ thriller that follows a beautiful,...
- 10/20/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Chef One of the best films of 2014 so far and a movie that, while I wish you had seen it in theaters (that is if you didn't), will play perfectly at home. I really hope all of you get a chance to check out Jon Favreau's Chef, not because it's Amazing, but because it's just a good, sweet, funny film. Here's my review if you're interested.
Transformers: Age of Extinction Now if you haven't seen Transformers: Age of Extinction, woe be to those of you that watch it for the first time at home. This is a film meant to be seen on a giant screen as it pummels you into submission. At home I just don't see the point. Here's my theatrical review and then an article I wrote examining Michael Bay and the movie if you're interested.
24: Live Another Day I've seen about two or three...
Transformers: Age of Extinction Now if you haven't seen Transformers: Age of Extinction, woe be to those of you that watch it for the first time at home. This is a film meant to be seen on a giant screen as it pummels you into submission. At home I just don't see the point. Here's my theatrical review and then an article I wrote examining Michael Bay and the movie if you're interested.
24: Live Another Day I've seen about two or three...
- 9/30/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Exclusive: Oscar winning director and festival favorite Danis Tanovic is set to helm Ports Of Call, based on the bestselling novel by Lebanese-French writer and Académie Française member, Amin Maalouf. The film will be produced by Ron Senkowski (Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Decoding Annie Parker) and Samira Kawas through their Dubai/La-based Symply Entertainment. Also producing is Paul-Gordon Chandler, a Cairo-based Episcopal priest who initially obtained the rights from Maalouf.
Originally published in 1996, Ports Of Call is the story of two ill-fated lovers who meet in Paris during Ww II. Ossyane, an Ottoman prince with a Muslim upbringing, and Clara, a Jewish freedom fighter from Vienna, are ultimately torn apart by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Tanovic, whose most recent film, Tigers, premiered in Toronto, won the 2002 Foreign Language Oscar for No Man’s Land, as well as the screenplay prize in Cannes. In 2013, he won the Jury Prize in Berlin...
Originally published in 1996, Ports Of Call is the story of two ill-fated lovers who meet in Paris during Ww II. Ossyane, an Ottoman prince with a Muslim upbringing, and Clara, a Jewish freedom fighter from Vienna, are ultimately torn apart by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Tanovic, whose most recent film, Tigers, premiered in Toronto, won the 2002 Foreign Language Oscar for No Man’s Land, as well as the screenplay prize in Cannes. In 2013, he won the Jury Prize in Berlin...
- 9/26/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Screen Media announced on Tuesday that it was going for a “Ride” with Oscar-winning actress and filmmaker Helen Hunt. The independent distributor has acquired her second movie as a director, which is a follow-up to 2007's “Then She Found Me.” See also: Aaron Paul, Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton Fight Breast Cancer in ‘Decoding Annie Parker’ Trailer (Video) The film is about “an editor from The New Yorker magazine (Helen Hunt) follows her son (Brenton Thwaites) to La after he drops out of college to surf and find himself, she ends up being the one thrust into a sea change of self-discovery.
- 9/9/2014
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Wrap
Mimi Steinbauer has shown first footage in Cannes.
Buyers have been flocking to Radiant International’s Take Down, which is set to start shooting on June 2.
The story of rich kids who fight back when their remote boot camp colony comes under siege has gone in the Middle East (Gulf) and Portugal (Lusomundo).
Square One is understood to have picked up German rights, although Steinbauer could not be reached to confirm. A Company picked up Cis and Eastern Europe before the market.
Ed Westwick [pictured], Dominic Sherwood, Jeremy Sumpter and Phoebe Tonkin star.
Steinbauer has been screening Rudderless, the hot seller from William H Macy that debuted in Sundance.
Unified Pictures and Bron Studios’ The Driftless Area commenced shooting in Vancouver on the first day or Cannes and stars Anton Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel and Frank Langella.
Also drawing heat is the Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti and Ezra Miller starrer Madame Bovary. Steinbauer has been...
Buyers have been flocking to Radiant International’s Take Down, which is set to start shooting on June 2.
The story of rich kids who fight back when their remote boot camp colony comes under siege has gone in the Middle East (Gulf) and Portugal (Lusomundo).
Square One is understood to have picked up German rights, although Steinbauer could not be reached to confirm. A Company picked up Cis and Eastern Europe before the market.
Ed Westwick [pictured], Dominic Sherwood, Jeremy Sumpter and Phoebe Tonkin star.
Steinbauer has been screening Rudderless, the hot seller from William H Macy that debuted in Sundance.
Unified Pictures and Bron Studios’ The Driftless Area commenced shooting in Vancouver on the first day or Cannes and stars Anton Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel and Frank Langella.
Also drawing heat is the Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti and Ezra Miller starrer Madame Bovary. Steinbauer has been...
- 5/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Aaron Paul has certainly been keeping busy since driving away from the chaos in Breaking Bad. You may have seen him a few months back in Need For Speed and you might even be looking forward to seeing him in the adaptation of Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down or Decoding Annie Parker later this year. You basically won't be able to miss him. Now we have the first trailer for writer/director Kat Candler's Hellion trailer starring Aaron (who also produced); he...
- 5/16/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- JoBlo.com
Sony's "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" soared over the weekend and is closing in on an estimated $92 million domestic box-office opening weekend, the second biggest of the year behind only "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" with $95 million.
It's a big step up from the $62 million debut of the first "The Amazing Spider-Man" two years ago, though that film opened on a Tuesday and over a holiday weekend.
ASM2 also beat out the opening of Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 2" which opened to $88 million in 2004, and garnered a nearly exact same per screen average - ASM2's $21,277 to SM2's $21,232.
The Spidey sequel is still going strong overseas, pulling a total of $277 million thus far outside the United States, bringing the film's global haul to $369 million so far.
Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" has now passed both the domestic and foreign box-office totals of "Thor: The Dark World". 'Winter' currently sits...
It's a big step up from the $62 million debut of the first "The Amazing Spider-Man" two years ago, though that film opened on a Tuesday and over a holiday weekend.
ASM2 also beat out the opening of Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 2" which opened to $88 million in 2004, and garnered a nearly exact same per screen average - ASM2's $21,277 to SM2's $21,232.
The Spidey sequel is still going strong overseas, pulling a total of $277 million thus far outside the United States, bringing the film's global haul to $369 million so far.
Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" has now passed both the domestic and foreign box-office totals of "Thor: The Dark World". 'Winter' currently sits...
- 5/4/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The top stories of the week from Toh! Awards:Tony Nominations Snub Hollywood, Cut Swath in Open YearWeinstein Release Calendar Reveals Awards Itinerary, But Don't Place Any Bets Just YetBox Office:Arthouse Audit: "Locke" Breaks Out, CBS Films Takes VOD Route for Diaz-starrer "Gambit," Written by CoensTop Ten: "Other Woman" Unseats "Captain America" in Top Spot Ahead of Upcoming Male-Centric TentpolesFeatures:Career Watch: Cameron Diaz Is Back as "The Other Woman," But What's Her Next Best Move?Tired of Tentpoles? Here Are Ten Great Indies to Catch This SummerFestivals:Alice Waters Throws Chez Panisse Feast for Sauper's Sfiff Film "We Come as Friends"San Francisco International Film Festival Opens with "Two Faces of January"Interviews:Dane DeHaan Talks "Amazing Spider-Man 2," Meteoric Career"Decoding Annie Parker" Is True Best Cancer QuestHow Does "Amazing Spider-Man 2" Composer Hans Zimmer Do It? Hack or Genius? (Video)How "The German Doctor" Director Lucia Puenzo Found a Film in the.
- 5/3/2014
- by TOH!
- Thompson on Hollywood
If you’ve never heard of Dr. Mary-Claire King, it’s good that there’s now a movie about her greatest achievement, which is the discovery of the gene responsible for hereditary cases of breast and ovarian cancers. Before finding the proof for her longtime theory, which came surprisingly only as recent as 1990, most other doctors explained away families with multiple cancer deaths as environmental, coincidental and just plain bad luck. At the end of this movie, which is titled Decoding Annie Parker, we’re told that the discovery is one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of all time. Of course, we should have gotten that point in the preceding 90 minutes (not to say we didn’t, but then we don’t need that title). We probably should have also gotten to know this obviously wonderful and important woman of history, but it’s not really a movie about her. It...
- 5/2/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Annie Parker lost her mother to cancer at the age of 13. Years later, in 1974, her older sister, Joanie, would be diagnosed with breast cancer. Parker would lose her too. And then, like clockwork, she was also diagnosed with breast cancer. Unlike her loved ones, Parker would beat breast cancer, and eventually, she’d beat two other forms of cancer as well. And that was the story that cinematographer Steven Bernstein wanted to tell in his directorial debut.
After working on 2003′s Monster, Bernstein went looking for another true story when he was contacted about a book manuscript that Annie Parker had submitted about her life.
After working on 2003′s Monster, Bernstein went looking for another true story when he was contacted about a book manuscript that Annie Parker had submitted about her life.
- 5/2/2014
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW - Inside Movies
True story "Decoding Annie Parker" is a low-budget crowdpleaser that is rough around the edges but sticks with you. It opens Friday. Rookie director Steven Bernstein's breast cancer saga stars Helen Hunt as famed geneticist Mary-Claire King, who painstakingly tracked down the Brca-1 genetic marker for breast cancer, and Samantha Morton in the title role of a woman who is convinced that breast cancer runs in families, which won her Best Actress at the last year's Seattle International Film Festival. "Every 12 minutes someone dies of breast cancer," says King in the movie. The real life Parker has so far survived three rounds fighting cancer, and finally met Dr. King onstage at the Seattle Film Festival. "They cried and I cried," says Bernstein. Bernstein left his career as a Hollywood cinematographer ("White Chicks," "Monster," "Like Water for Chocolate," "Scary Movie 2") and devoted seven years to financing, shooting and promoting the film,...
- 5/2/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
John Malkovich will also star in biopic about the New York death of hard-drinking Under Milk Wood writer
Rhys Ifans to star in adaptation of Under Milk Wood
Rhys Ifans will play Dylan Thomas in a biopic set during the days leading up to the death of the iconic Welsh poet, according to Variety.
Ifans, who is also appearing in a new film adaptation of Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood and is presenting a documentary about the poet, will join John Malkovich and Diego Luna in Dominion, which is being directed and written by Decoding Annie Parker's Steven Bernstein. Dominion will be set in 1953 in New York, where Thomas, who had alcoholism, died at the age of 39 after multiple visits to White Horse Tavern, in Greenwich Village. He'd also received from a local doctor a series of "injections" designed to help him complete public performances of Under Milk Wood.
Rhys Ifans to star in adaptation of Under Milk Wood
Rhys Ifans will play Dylan Thomas in a biopic set during the days leading up to the death of the iconic Welsh poet, according to Variety.
Ifans, who is also appearing in a new film adaptation of Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood and is presenting a documentary about the poet, will join John Malkovich and Diego Luna in Dominion, which is being directed and written by Decoding Annie Parker's Steven Bernstein. Dominion will be set in 1953 in New York, where Thomas, who had alcoholism, died at the age of 39 after multiple visits to White Horse Tavern, in Greenwich Village. He'd also received from a local doctor a series of "injections" designed to help him complete public performances of Under Milk Wood.
- 5/2/2014
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Decoding Annie Parker
Written by Adam Bernstein, Steven Bernstein, and Michael Moss
Directed by Steven Bernstein
USA, 2013
The new film Decoding Annie Parker was made with the most honorable intentions, and unfortunately, very little else. In many respects, the story could just as well have been a movie-of-the-week from the early 1990s on either one of the Big Three networks or Lifetime. It covers a hot-button issue, is female-centric, has a large cast full of actors who are mostly recognizable from various TV shows, and feels like a snapshot of life instead of an immersion. Tackling the topic of breast cancer by looking at its genetic background is, perhaps, an interesting avenue to pursue, but Decoding Annie Parker lacks depth throughout.
Samantha Morton stars as Annie, who defines her life in an opening quote as a joke, and in some dark way, she’s not wrong: when she’s a girl,...
Written by Adam Bernstein, Steven Bernstein, and Michael Moss
Directed by Steven Bernstein
USA, 2013
The new film Decoding Annie Parker was made with the most honorable intentions, and unfortunately, very little else. In many respects, the story could just as well have been a movie-of-the-week from the early 1990s on either one of the Big Three networks or Lifetime. It covers a hot-button issue, is female-centric, has a large cast full of actors who are mostly recognizable from various TV shows, and feels like a snapshot of life instead of an immersion. Tackling the topic of breast cancer by looking at its genetic background is, perhaps, an interesting avenue to pursue, but Decoding Annie Parker lacks depth throughout.
Samantha Morton stars as Annie, who defines her life in an opening quote as a joke, and in some dark way, she’s not wrong: when she’s a girl,...
- 5/2/2014
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
It's interesting to look at the number of upcoming films this month that I've already seen. Obviously I've already seen and reviewed The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (read my review here), which hits theaters this weekend, officially marking the start of the 2014 Summer movie season even though it seem Captain America: The Winter Soldier already did just that. I've already seen (and enjoyed), but have not reviewed Jon Favreau's Chef and the Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron comedy Neighbors, both of which hit theaters on May 9. Also opening that same weekend, only in limited theaters are Atom Egoyan's awful Devil's Knot as well as Richard Ayodae's nod to Terry Gilliam (admitted or not) The Double (read my review here) starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. Both of those films I've seen and didn't necessarily care for either, though Devil's Knot is a true waste of time. On...
- 5/1/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Decoding Annie Parker is a better living-with-disease drama than medical mystery.
Veteran cinematographer Steven Bernstein's directorial debut follows the paths of two real-life women who meet only once and briefly. Geneticist Dr. Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt) is the more famous and, in the film, anyway, less interesting. Her suspicion that some women may have a predisposition to breast cancer made her a crackpot in the '70s, when the film opens, until she was vindicated with the discovery of the Brca-1 gene in 1990.
Meanwhile, Annie Parker (a luminous Samantha Morton) -- who, as her pool-cleaner/aspiring rocker husband (Aaron Paul) never tires of reminding her, has only a high school education -- spends these long years engaged in her own Erin Brockovich-style ...
Veteran cinematographer Steven Bernstein's directorial debut follows the paths of two real-life women who meet only once and briefly. Geneticist Dr. Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt) is the more famous and, in the film, anyway, less interesting. Her suspicion that some women may have a predisposition to breast cancer made her a crackpot in the '70s, when the film opens, until she was vindicated with the discovery of the Brca-1 gene in 1990.
Meanwhile, Annie Parker (a luminous Samantha Morton) -- who, as her pool-cleaner/aspiring rocker husband (Aaron Paul) never tires of reminding her, has only a high school education -- spends these long years engaged in her own Erin Brockovich-style ...
- 4/30/2014
- Village Voice
ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at a new clip from Decoding Annie Parker , the May 2 release starring Samantha Morton, Helen Hunt, Aaron Paul, Bradley Whitford, Rashida Jones, Richard Schiff, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Marley Shelton, Chris Mulkey and Corey Stoll. Based on true events, Decoding Annie Parker is the hopeful and touching story of two remarkable women and their 15-year battle against a cruel and insidious illness, breast cancer. Waged on both scientific and emotional fronts, they are drawn together not just by the disease but by their shared determination and unconventional approaches to their research and to their lives. Annie Parker (Samantha Morton) has a personal relationship with breast cancer. Her mother and her sister died of the disease and...
- 4/24/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Loosely based on a true story, Decoding Annie Parker follows one family’s history of breast cancer — and the woman who teamed up with scientists to find out if the disease has a genetic link. The film, directed by Steven Bernstein, stars Samantha Morton as Annie Parker and Helen Hunt as the lead researcher on her case.
And in an exclusive clip from the film, we are taken back to 1974, when a food fight goes horribly wrong after Annie’s sister Joan (played by Marley Shelton) admits she’s found a lump in her breast.
Watch the clip below:
Decoding Annie Parker...
And in an exclusive clip from the film, we are taken back to 1974, when a food fight goes horribly wrong after Annie’s sister Joan (played by Marley Shelton) admits she’s found a lump in her breast.
Watch the clip below:
Decoding Annie Parker...
- 4/21/2014
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW - Inside Movies
Here is the first trailer for Steven Bernstein’s drama Decoding Annie Parker, which stars Samantha Morton as Parker, a woman stricken with breast cancer who works with oncologist Dr. Mary-Claire King played by Helen Hunt to explore the theory of a genetic inheritance of cancer.
Aaron Paul’s character seems like the insensitive and unknowing man in the otherwise lighthearted take on breast cancer; but check out his dancing below, only a genius could pull that off right?
The movie also stars Rashida Jones, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Corey Stoll, and Ben McKenzie.
Decoding Annie Parker opens in limited release on May 2nd, watch the trailer below and a bonus clip of Aaron Paul showing off his dance moves:...
Aaron Paul’s character seems like the insensitive and unknowing man in the otherwise lighthearted take on breast cancer; but check out his dancing below, only a genius could pull that off right?
The movie also stars Rashida Jones, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Corey Stoll, and Ben McKenzie.
Decoding Annie Parker opens in limited release on May 2nd, watch the trailer below and a bonus clip of Aaron Paul showing off his dance moves:...
- 4/18/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
One in every nine women will be stricken with breast cancer in their life, or in other words, approximately two million women across the next twenty years. You would think that would be enough to make people sit up and take notice, but geneticist Mary-Claire King had to fight to get anyone to pay attention. The upcoming "Decoding Annie Parker" is based on the true story of King's work, and she follows Annie Parker, a woman with breast cancer who has seen both her mother and sister die from the disease. For King, Parker confirms what she's long suspected, that there's a genetic pattern to breast cancer. And in this exclusive clip we see King, played by Helen Hunt, try and convince someone of her seemingly wild idea, with lives on the line if she isn't able to see her theory through. Co-starring Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Alice Eve, Rashida Jones,...
- 4/18/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
The first trailer for Steven Bernstein’s Decoding Annie Parker gave us a lot to think about, from one woman’s journey to discover the genetic components of breast cancer to what Aaron Paul looks like with long hair. And now we have the exclusive reveal of the film’s first poster.
Decoding Annie Parker, which is loosely based on a true story, follows Annie Parker (played by Samantha Morton) as she finds out that she has breast cancer. But after a family history of the same diagnosis, Parker turns to a team of researchers, led by Helen Hunt, to...
Decoding Annie Parker, which is loosely based on a true story, follows Annie Parker (played by Samantha Morton) as she finds out that she has breast cancer. But after a family history of the same diagnosis, Parker turns to a team of researchers, led by Helen Hunt, to...
- 4/14/2014
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW - Inside Movies
For those who don't check in enough, don't miss these highlights from the week. It was a slow week, I know, but next week will be madness: the Podcast returns, the Smackdown (finally), The Letter (1940) for "Best Shot" (join us!), a cool behind the scenes interview and more for Easter Week including the beginning of the Tribeca Film Festival.
• "Poor Ivy" Andrew on August: Osage County's Mvp
• April Showers wanna shower with young Josh Brolin? Patricia Arquette does
• Home on the Range Tim on the death of traditional animation
• Decoding Annie Parker Samantha Morton is back
• Colin Firth has six movies out this year. 40+ before that; How many have you seen?
• 1963 Oscar Flashbacks to Tom Jones and Oscar night glamour
• TCM Festival Anne Marie & Diana hit the opening night premiere
...and the previous week's highlights...
• "Poor Ivy" Andrew on August: Osage County's Mvp
• April Showers wanna shower with young Josh Brolin? Patricia Arquette does
• Home on the Range Tim on the death of traditional animation
• Decoding Annie Parker Samantha Morton is back
• Colin Firth has six movies out this year. 40+ before that; How many have you seen?
• 1963 Oscar Flashbacks to Tom Jones and Oscar night glamour
• TCM Festival Anne Marie & Diana hit the opening night premiere
...and the previous week's highlights...
- 4/13/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Counter-programming in the summer. Love it! Decoding Annie Parker, a movie about early strides in Breast Cancer Research arrives on May 2nd. Samantha Morton plays the title character, a young mother who is diagnosed with breast cancer. She seeks answers as her husband (Aaron Paul, who sure is working a lot) struggles to understand/deal. A pioneering doctor (Helen Hunt) is also on the case in this true story.
We'll break down the trailer after the jump.
We'll break down the trailer after the jump.
- 4/11/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Uncover the secrets behind mortality in the new exclusive online trailer for the upcoming film, ‘Decoding Annie Parker.’ The drama was directed by Steven Bernstein, who also co-wrote the script with Adam Bernstein and Michael Moss. The movie, which is set to be released by eOne in theaters and on VOD on May 2, stars Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones and Maggie Grace. The following synopsis for ‘Decoding Annie Parker’ has been released by eOne: Based on true events, Decoding Annie Parker is the hopeful and touching story of two remarkable women and their 15-year battle against a cruel and insidious illness, breast cancer. Waged on both [ Read More ]
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- 4/11/2014
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Months after the end of "Breaking Bad," Aaron Paul is dealing with cancer again, but this time there won't be any meth, guns or chemistry. But there will be plenty of hair care products. With Paul starring alongside Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton, "Decoding Annie Parker" looks to be an eccentric, inspirational true story about conquering disease. Morton plays a free spirit diagnosed with breast cancer, who works with a radical geneticist (Hunt) to prove that the disease can be inherited. But, honestly, the plot takes a backseat to Paul's luscious locks. Throughout the video, he sports several different 'dos, including a very long, very soft-looking hippie hair. In another scene, Paul models a short, punky coiffure that looks borrowed from Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong. Watch the trailer here: "Annie" also stars Rashida Jones, Bradley Whitford, Alice Eve, Richard Schiff, Maggie Grace, Chris Mulkey and Corey Stoll. It...
- 4/10/2014
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
With just a few weeks until its release date, eOne Films unleashed the trailer for “Decoding Annie Parker” on Thursday (April 10).
Directed by “Erin Brockovich’s” Steven Bernstein, is based on the true story of Annie Parker and how she almost discovered a cure for cancer.
Starring Aaron Paul, Maggie Grace, Alice Eve, Rashida Jones, Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton and Corey Stoll, “Decoding Annie Parker” is slated to hit select theaters May 2nd.
Check out the trailer in the player above!
Directed by “Erin Brockovich’s” Steven Bernstein, is based on the true story of Annie Parker and how she almost discovered a cure for cancer.
Starring Aaron Paul, Maggie Grace, Alice Eve, Rashida Jones, Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton and Corey Stoll, “Decoding Annie Parker” is slated to hit select theaters May 2nd.
Check out the trailer in the player above!
- 4/10/2014
- GossipCenter
With just a few weeks until its release date, eOne Films unleashed the trailer for “Decoding Annie Parker” on Thursday (April 10).
Directed by “Erin Brockovich’s” Steven Bernstein, is based on the true story of Annie Parker and how she almost discovered a cure for cancer.
Starring Aaron Paul, Maggie Grace, Alice Eve, Rashida Jones, Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton and Corey Stoll, “Decoding Annie Parker” is slated to hit select theaters May 2nd.
Check out the trailer below!
Directed by “Erin Brockovich’s” Steven Bernstein, is based on the true story of Annie Parker and how she almost discovered a cure for cancer.
Starring Aaron Paul, Maggie Grace, Alice Eve, Rashida Jones, Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton and Corey Stoll, “Decoding Annie Parker” is slated to hit select theaters May 2nd.
Check out the trailer below!
- 4/10/2014
- GossipCenter
Aaron Paul‘s first big post-Breaking Bad outing had him playing a race car driver with a score to settle. His second has him playing the supportive husband to a woman suffering from breast cancer. Yet there’s something kind of Jesse Pinkman-ish about both of them; Paul seems to have cornered the market on lovable screwups. […]
The post ‘Decoding Annie Parker’ Trailer: Starring Samantha Morton and Aaron Paul appeared first on /Film.
The post ‘Decoding Annie Parker’ Trailer: Starring Samantha Morton and Aaron Paul appeared first on /Film.
- 4/10/2014
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Following the end of "Breaking Bad," actor Aaron Paul isn't faring too well on the big screen since Need for Speed was an absolute mess of nonsense and poor action. But maybe a lower profile drama will show his talents better in Decoding Annie Parker. The film follows two women, Samantha Morton and Helen Hunt, whose lives intersect as one deals with loss and heartbreak and the other has a breakthrough in the area of treating breast cancer. Morton adds some darker humor into the mix, and this look pretty charming and even amusing despite the depressing true story material. And there's Aaron Paul looking like a real 70s hippie (along with some great wardrobe for the whole cast) Might be worth checking out. Watch below! Here's the first trailer for Steven Bernstein's Decoding Annie Parker, originally from Yahoo: Decoding Annie Parker marks the feature directorial debut of Steven Bernstein...
- 4/10/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Before Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after learning she had the BRCA1 gene mutation known to cause breast and ovarian cancer, a woman named Annie Parker paved the way for that theoretical research to become scientific fact. The cancer survivor is played by Samantha Morton in the upcoming drama, “Decoding Annie Parker,” which co-stars Aaron Paul as her husband, and Helent Hunt as the doctor struggling to convince her colleagues that certain breast cancers are inherited. “I'm the Angelina Jolie of 30 years ago,” Parker, the real life 63-year-old cancer survivor,...
- 4/10/2014
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
Not every tearjerker earns its sentimentalism, but even well-trod territory can work with the right cast, and "Decoding Annie Parker" has enough good people involved to warrant a look at the latest trailer. The film stars Samantha Morton as Annie Parker, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer, which killed her mother and sister. While Annie struggles to overcome her disease, Dr. Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt) looks for proof that breast and ovarian cancer is hereditary. Morton and Hunt show some definite promise, but the supporting cast looks strong as well: Rashida Jones, Bradley Whitford, Corey Stoll, Marley Shelton, Maggie Grace -- and Aaron Paul, sporting a hairdo that looks like he's making up for his mop so short on "Breaking Bad." Entertainment One Films will release "Decoding Annie Parker" in theaters and On Demand on May 2. Watch the trailer below.
- 4/10/2014
- by Max O'Connell
- Indiewire
Decoding Annie Parker has debuted a new trailer.
Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul and Helen Hunt star in writer-director Steven Bernstein's breast cancer drama.
The film is based on the true story of geneticist Mary Claire King (Hunt), who discovered a genetic link to breast cancer.
Morton plays cancer survivor Parker, who becomes involved in the attempt to better understand the disease.
Bradley Whitford, Rashida Jones, Richard Schiff, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Marley Shelton, Chris Mulkey and Corey Stoll also feature in the film.
The movie is cinematographer Bernstein's feature directorial debut.
Decoding Annie Parker will arrive in Us cinemas on May 2. A UK release date is yet to be confirmed.
Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul and Helen Hunt star in writer-director Steven Bernstein's breast cancer drama.
The film is based on the true story of geneticist Mary Claire King (Hunt), who discovered a genetic link to breast cancer.
Morton plays cancer survivor Parker, who becomes involved in the attempt to better understand the disease.
Bradley Whitford, Rashida Jones, Richard Schiff, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Marley Shelton, Chris Mulkey and Corey Stoll also feature in the film.
The movie is cinematographer Bernstein's feature directorial debut.
Decoding Annie Parker will arrive in Us cinemas on May 2. A UK release date is yet to be confirmed.
- 4/10/2014
- Digital Spy
Could breast cancer be genetic? That’s the question at the center of Steven Bernstein’s Decoding Annie Parker.
Loosely based on a true story, the film follows Annie Parker, played by Samantha Morton, as she discovers that, much like her mother and her sister, she also has breast cancer. Helen Hunt, who plays a researcher, then teams up with Annie and a group of scientists to try and find a genetic link to the disease.
Putting aside the medical stuff, Aaron Paul also plays a Canadian pool man — so there’s that. And let’s not forget the film...
Loosely based on a true story, the film follows Annie Parker, played by Samantha Morton, as she discovers that, much like her mother and her sister, she also has breast cancer. Helen Hunt, who plays a researcher, then teams up with Annie and a group of scientists to try and find a genetic link to the disease.
Putting aside the medical stuff, Aaron Paul also plays a Canadian pool man — so there’s that. And let’s not forget the film...
- 4/10/2014
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW - Inside Movies
A serious subject deserves serious treatment, and you'd think that "Decoding Annie Parker"—based on the true story of Mary Claire King, a geneticist who discovered a gene linked to breast cancer—would perhaps play things with a bit of gravitas. Instead, the music alone in this trailer seems like it belongs in an ad for frozen yogurt. Starring Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul (in a series of ever-changing haircuts), Corey Stoll, Alice Eve, Ben McKenzie, Rashida Jones, Maggie Grace... The cast is pretty solid, so good on co-writer and director Steven Bernstein for that. But the trailer showcases a movie that where cancer is just another opportunity for some quick one liners, with inspirational people doing inspirational things, and a soundtrack that lets you know that in the end, everything will be okay. In short, it looks pretty safe, but maybe the film itself will have a bit more edge to it.
- 4/10/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Here's one for the Erin Brockovich fans: the trailer for Steven Bernstein’s Decoding Annie Parker, which comes out in theaters and VOD on May 2. Loosely based on a true story, the film stars Samantha Morton in the title role as a woman diagnosed with breast cancer after it kills both her mother and sister. Helen Hunt plays the researcher hoping to uncover the genetic roots of the disease. Presumably they meet and teach one another inspirational life lessons about friendship, perseverance, and hereditary gene mutations. Sounds like a tearjerker, but there is some inadvertent comic relief: namely, Aaron Paul, who has traded in his Jesse Pinkman buzz cut for long, flowing locks. Seriously, he looks like a young Joni Mitchell.
- 4/10/2014
- by Anna Silman
- Vulture
Entertainment One Films Us has released, via Yahoo! Movies , the trailer for director Steven Bernstein's Decoding Annie Parker , the upcoming drama starring Samantha Morton, Helen Hunt and Aaron Paul. Check it out in the player below! The May 2 release also stars Bradley Whitford, Rashida Jones, Richard Schiff, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Marley Shelton, Chris Mulkey and Corey Stoll. The film is cinematographer Steven Bernstein.s feature directorial debut from a script he wrote with Adam Bernstein and Michael Moss. Loosely based on the life of cancer survivor Annie Parker and the groundbreaking career of geneticist Mary-Claire King, the film tells the dramatic story of two women whose force of spirit defies the odds. Armed with a wicked sense of humor, Parker (Morton) faces...
- 4/9/2014
- Comingsoon.net
We've got a solid list of updates today and we'll begin with my most anticipated film of 2014, Richard Linklater's, 12-years-in-the-works, latest movie Boyhood, which I think IFC is targeting for a release some time in May, though at this point it seems like a solid candidate for an Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Film Festival. Next is one of Paul Walker's last features, Brick Mansions and then Captain America: The Winter Soldier, both of which scored the expected PG-13 rating. Then we come to Decoding Annie Parker, which played a wide array of film festivals last year, was picked up by eOne, but no date has been set for a domestic release just yet. It's got an impressive cast, but the delay in releasing it isn't promising. Darren Aronofsky's Noah will start hitting international theaters this weekend, March 21, and will arrive domestically on March 28 and...
- 3/19/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Belle
The 2014 Athena Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of narrative, documentary and short films.
The New York Premiere of Belle, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and directed by Amma Asante, is the Athena Film Festival’s Opening Film, screening on Thursday evening. Decoding Annie Parker, starring Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton and directed by Steven Bernstein, is the festival’s Centerpiece Film, and will be screened on Friday evening. Geraldine Ferraro: Paving The Way, directed by her daughter, Donna Zaccaro, is the festival’s Closing Film, screening on Sunday evening.
The festival honors extraordinary women in the film industry and showcases films that address women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. Now in its fourth year, the festival runs from Thursday, February 6 through Sunday, February 9 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights. Artemis Rising Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Festival.
The Book Thief
Among...
The 2014 Athena Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of narrative, documentary and short films.
The New York Premiere of Belle, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and directed by Amma Asante, is the Athena Film Festival’s Opening Film, screening on Thursday evening. Decoding Annie Parker, starring Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton and directed by Steven Bernstein, is the festival’s Centerpiece Film, and will be screened on Friday evening. Geraldine Ferraro: Paving The Way, directed by her daughter, Donna Zaccaro, is the festival’s Closing Film, screening on Sunday evening.
The festival honors extraordinary women in the film industry and showcases films that address women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. Now in its fourth year, the festival runs from Thursday, February 6 through Sunday, February 9 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights. Artemis Rising Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Festival.
The Book Thief
Among...
- 1/7/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Entertainment One Films has acquired domestic distribution rights to “Decoding Annie Parker,” a film based on the eponymous cancer survivor and geneticist Mary-Claire King. The movie stars Oscar nominee Samantha Morton as Parker and Oscar winner Helen Hunt as King. Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff and Alice Eve also appear in the film, which marks the directorial debut of esteemed cinematographer Steven Bernstein. Also read: eOne Inks Exclusive Distribution Deal With AMC Networks, Three New Series Announced eOne will release the movie in theaters and via VOD simultaneously next summer. “Steven has created a gripping, poignant and inspiring film that.
- 12/5/2013
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Entertainment One Films Us has secured Us rights to Decoding Annie Parker starring Samantha Morton and Helen Hunt and has set a theatrical and VOD release for summer 2014.
Steven Bernstein’s feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Adam Bernstein and Michael Moss follows a woman with breast cancer and the doctor who conducts ground-braking research in the area.
Bernstein produced with Keith Kjarval, Clark Peterson and Stuart W Ross produced. Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International handles international rights.
eOne brokered the deal with UTA Independent Film Group and executive producer Sidney Powell of Dallas-based Fawkes Partners.
Steven Bernstein’s feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Adam Bernstein and Michael Moss follows a woman with breast cancer and the doctor who conducts ground-braking research in the area.
Bernstein produced with Keith Kjarval, Clark Peterson and Stuart W Ross produced. Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International handles international rights.
eOne brokered the deal with UTA Independent Film Group and executive producer Sidney Powell of Dallas-based Fawkes Partners.
- 12/4/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Entertainment One Films Us has secured the domestic distribution rights to Decoding Annie Parker , the upcoming drama starring Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton, Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy winner Helen Hunt and Emmy winner Aaron Paul. The film is slated for a day-and-date release in theaters and via VOD next summer. Decoding Annie Parker also stars Bradley Whitford, Rashida Jones, Richard Schiff, Alice Eve, Maggie Grace, Marley Shelton, Chris Mulkey and Corey Stoll. The film is cinematographer Steven Bernstein.s feature directorial debut from a script he wrote with Adam Bernstein and Michael Moss. Loosely based on the life of cancer survivor Annie Parker and the groundbreaking career of geneticist Mary-Claire King, the film tells the dramatic story of two...
- 12/4/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Mike Dougherty has joined Radiant Films International as acquisitions and distribution executive with immediate effect.
Dougherty most recently served as creative executive at Hyde Park Entertainment and is associate programmer at AFI Fest and director of pgogramming at the 2014 Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles.
The new hire will oversee acquisition of third-party titles for international sales and provide distribution support to Radiant’s global partners.
The slate includes Mia Wasikowska starrer Madame Bovary, which has just gone into production in France, as well as Rudderless, Trust Me, Lullaby and Decoding Annie Parker.
“Mike has a well established reputation in the industry and brings an extensive amount of knowledge and experience to the position,” said president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer.
Dougherty most recently served as creative executive at Hyde Park Entertainment and is associate programmer at AFI Fest and director of pgogramming at the 2014 Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles.
The new hire will oversee acquisition of third-party titles for international sales and provide distribution support to Radiant’s global partners.
The slate includes Mia Wasikowska starrer Madame Bovary, which has just gone into production in France, as well as Rudderless, Trust Me, Lullaby and Decoding Annie Parker.
“Mike has a well established reputation in the industry and brings an extensive amount of knowledge and experience to the position,” said president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer.
- 10/3/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
2014 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. Mike Dougherty has joined Radiant Films International as acquisitions and distribution executive with immediate effect.Dougherty most recently served as creative executive at Hyde Park Entertainment and is associate programmer at AFI Fest and director of pgogramming at the 2014 Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles.The new hire will oversee acquisition of third-party titles for international sales and provide distribution sup
2014 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
Mike Dougherty has joined Radiant Films International as acquisitions and distribution executive with immediate effect.
Dougherty most recently served as creative executive at Hyde Park Entertainment and is associate programmer at AFI Fest and director of pgogramming at the 2014 Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles.
The new hire will oversee acquisition of third-party titles for international sales and provide distribution support to Radiant’s global partners.
The slate includes Mia Wasikowska starrer Madame Bovary, which has just gone into production in France, as well as...
2014 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
Mike Dougherty has joined Radiant Films International as acquisitions and distribution executive with immediate effect.
Dougherty most recently served as creative executive at Hyde Park Entertainment and is associate programmer at AFI Fest and director of pgogramming at the 2014 Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles.
The new hire will oversee acquisition of third-party titles for international sales and provide distribution support to Radiant’s global partners.
The slate includes Mia Wasikowska starrer Madame Bovary, which has just gone into production in France, as well as...
- 10/3/2013
- ScreenDaily
The 21st annual Hamptons International Film Festival (October 10-14) has announced this year's lineup of signature programs set to include Helena Bonham Carter and Bruce Dern in its featured "A Conversation With..." section. Hiff has awarded the Alfred P. Sloan film prize to Steven Bernstein for "Decoding Annie Parker" about a young woman's struggle to overcome the familial and hereditary tragedies imposed on her by breast cancer. The festival has also awarded the Conflict & Resolution Award to Carlos Agullo and Mandy Jacobson's Nelson Mandela-based documentary "Plot for Peace." The festival, which has long celebrated and emphasized uniquely thought-provoking international films and filmmakers, has included in its program a variety of films from Egypt, Lebanon, Israel and South Africa, among others. Executive Director Anne Chaisson praised the festival's commitment to elevating globalized storytelling by remarking, "Fourteen years ago, Hiff created signature...
- 9/23/2013
- by Ramzi De Coster
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Some two years after she first put the film together, Helen Hunt has locked financing and cast for Ride, her directing followup to her 2007 debut Then She Found Me. Hunt, who’s coming off an Oscar-nominated performance in The Sessions, wrote the film, produces and stars as well. Ride begins production in Los Angeles on August 5, and Hunt stars with Luke Wilson Dexter‘s David Zayas, Mike White, Richard Kind, Leonor Varela, Elizabeth Jayne and Brenton Thwaites. The latter plays a 20-year old Nyu student who moves from New York to California for the summer. He leaves behind his strong-willed magazine editor mother (Hunt) and when she hears he’s chucking school for surfing, she follows him. There, he pursues his dream and she pursues him. Along the way she meets a surf teacher (Wilson) who brings her to life in every way. Both mother and son find their own version of love,...
- 7/30/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
There was a time when, not so long ago, where if breast cancer reoccurred within a family, doctors would simply call it bad luck. It happened to a woman named Annie Parker, who lost her mother and sister to the disease – yet as dramatized in the film Decoding Annie Parker, doctors didn’t think any kind of genetic link was possible. Well, we know there is now. We know about the Brca-1 gene, which has gotten considerable attention after Angelina Jolie announced she had it and that she’d taken a surgical option to prevent getting cancer. Now, from another part of Hollywood, director Steven Bernstein is hoping his film will keep the discussion going. It was through Annie Parker’s family history that researchers discovered Brca-1 in the first place.
- 6/30/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Actor James Tupper has signed with UTA. He was at ICM Partners. Tupper played the male lead on the ABC series Men In Trees. He recurs on ABC’s Revenge as Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke’s (Emily VanCamp) dad David Clarke, and co-starred in the NBC/Jerry Bruckheimer pilot The Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives this past season. His series credits also include Grey’s Anatomy, Samantha Who and Mercy. On the feature side, Tupper recently co-starred in Decoding Annie Parker and Playing For Keeps. He continues to be represented by Untitled Entertainment and Jackoway Tyerman.
- 6/24/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Us in Progress initiative to showcase five features by independent Us filmmakers.
Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Michael Tully’s [pictured] coming-of-age-vacation comedy Ping Pong Summer kicks off the latest edition of Us in Progress on Thursday.
The Us in Progress initiative, hosted by the Champs Elysées Film Festival, will showcase five features by independent Us filmmakers over the coming two days to some 30 European buyers.
Set against the Maryland beach resort of Ocean City, Ping Pong Summer combines a cast of unknown adolescent actors with established big screen stars Susan Sarandon and John Hannah.
The picture was among six recipients last year of a $300,000 grant from the San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Other projects in that selection included Fruitvale and Short Term 12.
Tully’s previous films include Cocaine Angel, Silver Jew and Septien.
Also screening on Thursday is New York director Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns about a teenager who runs...
Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Michael Tully’s [pictured] coming-of-age-vacation comedy Ping Pong Summer kicks off the latest edition of Us in Progress on Thursday.
The Us in Progress initiative, hosted by the Champs Elysées Film Festival, will showcase five features by independent Us filmmakers over the coming two days to some 30 European buyers.
Set against the Maryland beach resort of Ocean City, Ping Pong Summer combines a cast of unknown adolescent actors with established big screen stars Susan Sarandon and John Hannah.
The picture was among six recipients last year of a $300,000 grant from the San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Other projects in that selection included Fruitvale and Short Term 12.
Tully’s previous films include Cocaine Angel, Silver Jew and Septien.
Also screening on Thursday is New York director Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns about a teenager who runs...
- 6/13/2013
- ScreenDaily
Emir Baigazin’s Harmony Lessons won the 39th Seattle International Film Festival’s Best New Director grand jury prize on Sunday [9] as top brass handed out jury and audience awards.Scroll down for full list of winners
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
- 6/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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