Ten years after the Athens Olympic Games, the Athens Olympic Village is a near-deserted place and harbors only a few working-class families who were offered free housing after the 2004 games. It’s the setting for Sofia Exarchou’s debut feature film “Park,” about a group of Athenian teenagers who come of age during a summertime idyll.
They wander around the ruins, playing versions of the Olympic games, and organizing dog mating for money. The eldest members of the group, retired athlete Anna (Dimitra Vlagkopoulou) and timid Dimitri (Dimitris Kitsos), court each other and eventually become a couple, but soon must confront their displacement and alienation in and outside the Village. Watch an exclusive trailer for the film below.
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They wander around the ruins, playing versions of the Olympic games, and organizing dog mating for money. The eldest members of the group, retired athlete Anna (Dimitra Vlagkopoulou) and timid Dimitri (Dimitris Kitsos), court each other and eventually become a couple, but soon must confront their displacement and alienation in and outside the Village. Watch an exclusive trailer for the film below.
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“Through the intersecting stories of the kids of the Olympic Village, ‘Park’ tries to...
- 9/7/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film selected Ryan Koo, The Summer of Flying Fish director Marcella Said (right ont pic above) and Jordana Spiro (who we sang the praises for with her short 2013 Sundance-preemed Skin) are among the twelve plus participants for the upcoming 2014 Feature Screenwriters Lab (which takes place one week before the actual festival).
At this point, the lab have probably easily broke the one hundred project count (with a good percentage of them panning out into an eventual feature film – see Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George, David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Andrew Renzi’s Franny as recent examples). The international class of January ’14 (read project descriptions and bios below) will be coached by no other than: Dustin Lance Black, Naomi Foner, John Gatins, Michael Goldenberg, Erik Jendresen, Patty Jenkins and Spaghetti Western fanboy and former lab attendee Quentin Tarantino.
At this point, the lab have probably easily broke the one hundred project count (with a good percentage of them panning out into an eventual feature film – see Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George, David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Andrew Renzi’s Franny as recent examples). The international class of January ’14 (read project descriptions and bios below) will be coached by no other than: Dustin Lance Black, Naomi Foner, John Gatins, Michael Goldenberg, Erik Jendresen, Patty Jenkins and Spaghetti Western fanboy and former lab attendee Quentin Tarantino.
- 12/17/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Oh man, how I hope this is more than just a one-time thing.
According to their blog, the artists formerly known as The Auteurs, Mubi, will be teaming with the people at Libertas in Croatia and will be showing 13 short films from the shorts program which will play at the upcoming Libertas Film Festival.
The films featured here will run from June 25 to July 6, and will all be free for the public to see at home.
This festival joins the likes of Sundance and SXSW who have teamed up with other outlets like YouTube to bring festival releases to the public. However, not quite in this quantity. Personally, one of the coolest things about film festivals is their respective shorts programs, which are often the breeding ground for filmmakers looking to make a splash in this industry. With the name of Mubi behind it, this is definitely a must see collection of films.
According to their blog, the artists formerly known as The Auteurs, Mubi, will be teaming with the people at Libertas in Croatia and will be showing 13 short films from the shorts program which will play at the upcoming Libertas Film Festival.
The films featured here will run from June 25 to July 6, and will all be free for the public to see at home.
This festival joins the likes of Sundance and SXSW who have teamed up with other outlets like YouTube to bring festival releases to the public. However, not quite in this quantity. Personally, one of the coolest things about film festivals is their respective shorts programs, which are often the breeding ground for filmmakers looking to make a splash in this industry. With the name of Mubi behind it, this is definitely a must see collection of films.
- 7/1/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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