The Eva Longoria-directed Flamin’ Hot, Imran J. Khan’s Mustache and the upcoming ESPN bio-doc about NBA icon Bill Walton were among the audience award winners revealed Monday for the 31st SXSW Film & TV Festival.
Flamin’ Hot, which stars Jesse Garcia in the sometimes true tale of the man behind the “flamin’ hot”-branded chip revolution, was named the Audience Award winner in the festival’s Headliners section. The pic, from Searchlight Pictures, will debut June 9 on both Hulu and Disney+.
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Mustache, written and directed by Khan, won the Narrative Feature Competition honor, and Julio Quintana’s The Long Game won for Narrative Spotlight. The Documentary Feature...
Flamin’ Hot, which stars Jesse Garcia in the sometimes true tale of the man behind the “flamin’ hot”-branded chip revolution, was named the Audience Award winner in the festival’s Headliners section. The pic, from Searchlight Pictures, will debut June 9 on both Hulu and Disney+.
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Mustache, written and directed by Khan, won the Narrative Feature Competition honor, and Julio Quintana’s The Long Game won for Narrative Spotlight. The Documentary Feature...
- 3/20/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s over but it opened L.A.’s newest spring season of unlimited international film screenings all over the city throughout the month of April and into Cannes.
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) opened with “Lipstick Under My Burkha” and its impressive ensemble cast of Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur in a dramatic, but irreverent and vibrant film about women and faith. The film premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival 2016 and has been lighting up the festival circuit, including just winning the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. Director Alankrita Shrivastava is confirmed to attend and additional talent to be confirmed.
“Lipstick Under My Burkha”
Iffla concluded on April 9 with a red carpet and gala that featured the Los Angeles premiere of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s “Hotel Salvation” starring Adil Hussain who was in attendance, as well as the...
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) opened with “Lipstick Under My Burkha” and its impressive ensemble cast of Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur in a dramatic, but irreverent and vibrant film about women and faith. The film premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival 2016 and has been lighting up the festival circuit, including just winning the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. Director Alankrita Shrivastava is confirmed to attend and additional talent to be confirmed.
“Lipstick Under My Burkha”
Iffla concluded on April 9 with a red carpet and gala that featured the Los Angeles premiere of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s “Hotel Salvation” starring Adil Hussain who was in attendance, as well as the...
- 4/21/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Lineup Announcements
– Cardiff Animation Nights will be returning to run a dedicated animation strand at Cardiff Independent Film Festival (C.I.F.F.) for a second year this May. This year’s animation strand at C.I.F.F. will comprise three programs of animated short films in competition for the Best Animation Award, as well as an Animated Family Shorts program curated by renowned Cardiff-based studio Cloth Cat Animation, networking events, and an Animation Quiz run by the team at Skwigly Animation Magazine.
The competition program features animated short films from across Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Australia, including Mikey Hill’s The Orchestra, Anete Melece’s Analysis Paralysis, Chris Shepherd’s Johnno’s Dead, Ross Hogg’s Life Cycles and Alois Di Leo’s Way of Giants.
Lineup Announcements
– Cardiff Animation Nights will be returning to run a dedicated animation strand at Cardiff Independent Film Festival (C.I.F.F.) for a second year this May. This year’s animation strand at C.I.F.F. will comprise three programs of animated short films in competition for the Best Animation Award, as well as an Animated Family Shorts program curated by renowned Cardiff-based studio Cloth Cat Animation, networking events, and an Animation Quiz run by the team at Skwigly Animation Magazine.
The competition program features animated short films from across Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Australia, including Mikey Hill’s The Orchestra, Anete Melece’s Analysis Paralysis, Chris Shepherd’s Johnno’s Dead, Ross Hogg’s Life Cycles and Alois Di Leo’s Way of Giants.
- 4/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Some of the festival’s favorite alumni are filmmakers who first broke into the festival with a short and then shored up a couple of years later with their first feature film. After premiering Dol (First Birthday) at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the Institute lassoed the Korean-American Los Angeleno filmmaker for the June 2013 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. With stops at both the 2013 Film Independent Screenwriting Lab and 2014 Film Independent Directing Lab and some coin from Sundance Institute Cinereach Feature Film Fellow Grant, Andrew Ahn‘s feature debut successfully raised some coin and future fans via Kickstarter. Production began mid summer and unless there is a great deal of post work, logically this could be ready to go for the 2016 edition. A coming of age drama, Spa Night would celebrate the notion of identity in a double dosage: Lgbt and Korean communities are represented here.
Gist: David Cho is an 18-year-old Korean-American teenager,...
Gist: David Cho is an 18-year-old Korean-American teenager,...
- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
JuntoBox Films has announced the eights feature scripts and 18 filmmakers selected for the inaugural incubator initiative.
The JuntoBox Feature Film Incubator has begun its session and runs through December 15 under the supervision of vice-president Kelly Thomas.
The incubator makes a tailor-made accelerated development programme sets up a wide net of consultancy and advice for participants.
By the end, JuntoBox Films executives and co-chair Forest Whitaker (pictured) will greenlight at least one project to be financed and produced in the spring of 2015.
“We are thrilled to welcome this exceptional group of filmmakers with unique and captivating stories that all deserve to be made,” said Thomas. “We look forward to fostering community among filmmakers while facilitating their artistic development, honing their vision and supporting these filmmakers to drive their projects to the next level.”
The JuntoBox Films Feature Film Incubator filmmakers and projects are:
Die Like A Man, wrt-dir Eric Nazarian, pdr Javier Chapa (producer);
God Loves Stu, wrt-dir...
The JuntoBox Feature Film Incubator has begun its session and runs through December 15 under the supervision of vice-president Kelly Thomas.
The incubator makes a tailor-made accelerated development programme sets up a wide net of consultancy and advice for participants.
By the end, JuntoBox Films executives and co-chair Forest Whitaker (pictured) will greenlight at least one project to be financed and produced in the spring of 2015.
“We are thrilled to welcome this exceptional group of filmmakers with unique and captivating stories that all deserve to be made,” said Thomas. “We look forward to fostering community among filmmakers while facilitating their artistic development, honing their vision and supporting these filmmakers to drive their projects to the next level.”
The JuntoBox Films Feature Film Incubator filmmakers and projects are:
Die Like A Man, wrt-dir Eric Nazarian, pdr Javier Chapa (producer);
God Loves Stu, wrt-dir...
- 9/3/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Shout! Factory, The Film Collective, Dada Films, and Brainstorm Media will partner on the launch of EuropaCorp’s animated film Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart.
Virginie Besson-Silla and Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp produced the French film, which will open day-and-date in theatres and on VOD on September 24.
Shout! Factory has brought on The Film Collective and Dada Films to handle theatrical distribution and Brainstorm Media for VOD.
Mathias Malzieu co-directed the film with Stéphane Berla from Malzieu’s novel and album by his band Dionysos.
Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a story of love and acceptance of others set in a time of invention and adventure.
The English voice cast features Orlando Seale, Samantha Barks, Harry Sadeghi, Stéphane Cornicard, Sophia Ellis, Jessie Buckley, Barbara Scaff, Michelle Fairley and Richard Riddings.
JuntoBox Films announced at the Los Angeles Film festival its feature film incubator, a development and production tool for features budgeted at less than $2.5m. In addition...
Virginie Besson-Silla and Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp produced the French film, which will open day-and-date in theatres and on VOD on September 24.
Shout! Factory has brought on The Film Collective and Dada Films to handle theatrical distribution and Brainstorm Media for VOD.
Mathias Malzieu co-directed the film with Stéphane Berla from Malzieu’s novel and album by his band Dionysos.
Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a story of love and acceptance of others set in a time of invention and adventure.
The English voice cast features Orlando Seale, Samantha Barks, Harry Sadeghi, Stéphane Cornicard, Sophia Ellis, Jessie Buckley, Barbara Scaff, Michelle Fairley and Richard Riddings.
JuntoBox Films announced at the Los Angeles Film festival its feature film incubator, a development and production tool for features budgeted at less than $2.5m. In addition...
- 6/17/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The film studio led by actor Forest Whitaker announced Monday that it's accepting submissions for a new incubator program that will work on narrative feature film projects that can be produced for less than $2.5 million. Whitaker’s JuntoBox Films joins companies like Ron Perlman’s Wing and a Prayer Pictures, which announced in May it will finance and produce three indie dramas a year budgeted between $3 million and $10 million. The JuntoBox Films announcement, which came at the Los Angeles Film Festival, also included the unveiling of Kelly Thomas, who will serve as producer and vice president of the JuntoBox Feature Film Incubator. “Kelly is a valuable asset to the JuntoBox team and we look forward to tapping into her passion and long history of working with independent filmmakers to guide the Feature Film Incubator and help continue our mission of creating new opportunities for filmmakers,” Whitaker, who serves co-chairman of JuntoBox Films,...
- 6/16/2014
- backstage.com
The seven-week 2014 Documentary Lab is designed to help filmmakers who are in post-production.
This year’s Lab Fellows are Esteban Arguello and Xuan Jiang, Jamie Sisley and Mayuran Tiruchelvam, Suzanne Joe Kai, Robyn Symon, Nick Spark, Andrew James, Jonathan Matthews, and Jen Heck.
“We are delighted to kick off the fourth year of our Documentary Lab with such an talented group of filmmakers and esteemed mentors,” said Kelly Thomas, producer-in-residence and interim director of artist development.
Documentary filmmakers Doug Blush, Laura Gabbert, Caroline Libresco, Linda Goldstein-Knowlton, Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen are this year’s Documentary Lab mentors.
This year’s Lab Fellows are Esteban Arguello and Xuan Jiang, Jamie Sisley and Mayuran Tiruchelvam, Suzanne Joe Kai, Robyn Symon, Nick Spark, Andrew James, Jonathan Matthews, and Jen Heck.
“We are delighted to kick off the fourth year of our Documentary Lab with such an talented group of filmmakers and esteemed mentors,” said Kelly Thomas, producer-in-residence and interim director of artist development.
Documentary filmmakers Doug Blush, Laura Gabbert, Caroline Libresco, Linda Goldstein-Knowlton, Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen are this year’s Documentary Lab mentors.
- 3/17/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Second feature from Forest Whitaker’s digital studio JuntoBox Films was greenlit last year at Afm.
Romantic comedy Sharon 1.2.3., written and directed by Mark Brown, has commenced principal photography in Los Angeles.
The second feature from Forest Whitaker’s digital studio JuntoBox Films stars Matt Bush as Jonah, a 22-year old technology geek who’s having casual sex with two women coincidentally named Sharon who then meets a third Sharon who he falls in love with. The three Sharons will be played by Skylar Samuels, Nadine Velasquez and Erinn Hayes.
Based on a story by Wesley Mills, Sharon 1.2.3. was greenlit at last year’s Afm and is a result of JuntoBox Film’s crowdsourcing model. This allows filmmakers to upload projects directly to the JuntoBox site and then rate and vote on projects to be selected.
The film is produced by Nina Yang Bongiovi and Kelly Thomas.
Romantic comedy Sharon 1.2.3., written and directed by Mark Brown, has commenced principal photography in Los Angeles.
The second feature from Forest Whitaker’s digital studio JuntoBox Films stars Matt Bush as Jonah, a 22-year old technology geek who’s having casual sex with two women coincidentally named Sharon who then meets a third Sharon who he falls in love with. The three Sharons will be played by Skylar Samuels, Nadine Velasquez and Erinn Hayes.
Based on a story by Wesley Mills, Sharon 1.2.3. was greenlit at last year’s Afm and is a result of JuntoBox Film’s crowdsourcing model. This allows filmmakers to upload projects directly to the JuntoBox site and then rate and vote on projects to be selected.
The film is produced by Nina Yang Bongiovi and Kelly Thomas.
- 11/13/2013
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
New York -- Nick Nolte, Haley Bennett and Carter Jenkins face a Greek holiday tragedy in the indie coming-of-age-drama "Arcadia Lost."
Bennett and Jenkins play step-siblings whose first family trip is cut short by a car crash. With their parents dead, the stunned teens roam the Greek countryside and befriend an expatriate vagabond (Nolte) who leads them to a mysterious spiritual ceremony.
Director Phedon Papamichael, best known as the cinematographer of "Sideways" and "Walk the Line," is filming David Ariniello's screenplay in his home country with producer Kelly Thomas. The shoot can be tracked by Facebook members in the site's "Follow a Film" section.
The Gersh/Untitled Entertainment-repped Bennett can be seen next month opposite Chace Crawford in the title role of "The Haunting of Molly Hartley." Endeavor/In Momentum-repped Jenkins will next be seen in Fox's "They Came From Upstairs." Two-time Oscar nominee Nolte, repped by CAA and Kingsgate Films,...
Bennett and Jenkins play step-siblings whose first family trip is cut short by a car crash. With their parents dead, the stunned teens roam the Greek countryside and befriend an expatriate vagabond (Nolte) who leads them to a mysterious spiritual ceremony.
Director Phedon Papamichael, best known as the cinematographer of "Sideways" and "Walk the Line," is filming David Ariniello's screenplay in his home country with producer Kelly Thomas. The shoot can be tracked by Facebook members in the site's "Follow a Film" section.
The Gersh/Untitled Entertainment-repped Bennett can be seen next month opposite Chace Crawford in the title role of "The Haunting of Molly Hartley." Endeavor/In Momentum-repped Jenkins will next be seen in Fox's "They Came From Upstairs." Two-time Oscar nominee Nolte, repped by CAA and Kingsgate Films,...
- 9/26/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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