Exclusive: After finishing a year in which it backed awards bait films Roma, Green Book, Rbg and America To Me, and starting 2019 with American Factory and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind premiering here at Sundance, Participant Media has elevated three of its key executives. Christina Kounelias has been elevated to President of Worldwide Marketing; Krista Wegener has been upped to Executive Vice President and continues to lead Sales and Distribution for Participant; and Gabriel Brakin has been elevated to Chief Operating Officer. All three executives will continue to report to Participant CEO David Linde.
Brakin previously served as General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Business Affairs, and in his new role will oversee company-wide business operations, deal-making, as well as corporate and legal affairs for Participant’s overall long-term strategic plan. He will also be responsible for driving the overall integration and functionality of Participant’s mandate to...
Brakin previously served as General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Business Affairs, and in his new role will oversee company-wide business operations, deal-making, as well as corporate and legal affairs for Participant’s overall long-term strategic plan. He will also be responsible for driving the overall integration and functionality of Participant’s mandate to...
- 1/25/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
After seeing this movie, whenever you look at the cheap Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas decorations displayed in stores around the country, your perception of them will be forever changed.Directed by Doneen and produced by Oscar®-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim and Sarah Anthony, ‘The Price of Free’ (formerly titled ‘Kailash’) follows Nobel Prize winner Satyarthi and his team of leaders around the world through gripping secret raids and quests for missing children. They have rescued over 87,000 children and have created a global movement, resulting in legislation which helps protect young children.
Every time I see glitter-covered tzachkes to hang on a Christmas tree or put out with the pumpkins I will think of this movie. All those silly cheap pieces of junk littering the checkout counters at grocery stores and drug stores at holiday times are made by children enslaved and hidden inside overcrowded factories around the world. The Price...
Every time I see glitter-covered tzachkes to hang on a Christmas tree or put out with the pumpkins I will think of this movie. All those silly cheap pieces of junk littering the checkout counters at grocery stores and drug stores at holiday times are made by children enslaved and hidden inside overcrowded factories around the world. The Price...
- 11/15/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Featuring a bevy of films which first wowed audiences at Cannes, Turkey’s Antalya Film Festival wrapped on Friday Oct. 5 with a crowded awards ceremony and a closing screening of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” held at the Glass Pyramid.
Jafar Panahi’s “Three Faces” scooped top honors in a bittersweet win; the famed Iranian new wave filmmaker is currently serving a 20-year filmmaking and travel ban following a dispute which culminated in charges of “Colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”
Despite the ban the filmmaker’s output has not halted, and four films made since the ban’s implementation have screened at major festivals such as Cannes and Berlin. “Three Faces” follows three actresses from different generations at different stages of their careers and was described in a glowing Variety review as “empathetic and engaging.
Jafar Panahi’s “Three Faces” scooped top honors in a bittersweet win; the famed Iranian new wave filmmaker is currently serving a 20-year filmmaking and travel ban following a dispute which culminated in charges of “Colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”
Despite the ban the filmmaker’s output has not halted, and four films made since the ban’s implementation have screened at major festivals such as Cannes and Berlin. “Three Faces” follows three actresses from different generations at different stages of their careers and was described in a glowing Variety review as “empathetic and engaging.
- 10/9/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Participant Media has sealed deals for Endeavor and Lionsgate to handle U.S. and international sales, respectively, on high-profile ecological documentary “Aquarela,” which is world-premiering at the Venice Film Festival. The company also announced that documentary “The Price of Free “ (formerly titled “Kailash”), which won a prize at Sundance, has been acquired by YouTube.
The deals reflect the meticulous “collaboration and curation” aspect of Participant Media’s selective distribution strategy, which this year has encompassed working with IFC, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Netflix, HBO, Starz, YouTube and CNN, among other outlets, in an effort to “always find the right distributor for the movie in order to reach as wide an audience as possible and contribute to the greatest acceleration of positive social change,” said CEO David Linde.
“Distribution today is very much like curating the films for the audience,” Linde said. “It’s sort of the obligation of the producer to...
The deals reflect the meticulous “collaboration and curation” aspect of Participant Media’s selective distribution strategy, which this year has encompassed working with IFC, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Netflix, HBO, Starz, YouTube and CNN, among other outlets, in an effort to “always find the right distributor for the movie in order to reach as wide an audience as possible and contribute to the greatest acceleration of positive social change,” said CEO David Linde.
“Distribution today is very much like curating the films for the audience,” Linde said. “It’s sort of the obligation of the producer to...
- 9/1/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Aretha Franklin: Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, above) will portray legendary musical artist Aretha Franklin in an upcoming biopic. Music executive Clive Davis, who has long been aligned with the singer, made the announcement and said that Franklin handpicked Hudson for the role. [Deadline] Sundance Film Festival: Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post (above) won a Grand Jury Prize at the just-concluded 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Chloe Grace Moretz stars as a teenager who is forced to attend a gay conversion camp. Other Grand Jury Prizes were awarded to Derek Doneen’s documentary Kailash, Turkish director Tolga Karaçelik’s dramatic feature Butterflies and Talal Derki’s documentary Of Fathers and...
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- 1/29/2018
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Joshua Altman cut his first Sundance-bound documentary in 2009 with We Live in Public. The film – Altman’s first as an editor of documentary features – went on to win the Grand Jury Prize for documentary at the festival. Since then, Altman has cut five more docs to premiere at Sundance: The Tillman Story (2010), Bones Brigade: an Autobiography (2012), We Are The Giant (2014) and, in 2018 alone, both Kailash and Minding The Gap. The latter film he cut with film’s director, Bing Liu. Liu himself appears in the film among a trio of friends who bond over skateboarding in their Rust Belt town. Below, […]...
- 1/26/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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