Paris-based Reservoir Docs has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding Italy to “A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things,” a theatrical documentary by Scottish-Irish director Mark Cousins, featuring the voice of Tilda Swinton.
The film, described by the producers as “visually ravishing,” explores the art of the 20th century Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
Swinton will voice the artist’s innermost thoughts, reading from her private diaries and notebooks, which have never before been made public.
The film is in late post-production for release in 2024. It is produced by Mary Bell and Adam Dawtrey for BofA Productions, and co-funded by the National Lottery via Screen Scotland, with the support of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust. I Wonder Pictures has acquired Italian rights from the producers.
“A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things” is the story of an unusual creative brain, and a magnificent lifelong obsession. One day in May 1949, Barns-Graham, then 36 years old and an...
The film, described by the producers as “visually ravishing,” explores the art of the 20th century Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
Swinton will voice the artist’s innermost thoughts, reading from her private diaries and notebooks, which have never before been made public.
The film is in late post-production for release in 2024. It is produced by Mary Bell and Adam Dawtrey for BofA Productions, and co-funded by the National Lottery via Screen Scotland, with the support of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust. I Wonder Pictures has acquired Italian rights from the producers.
“A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things” is the story of an unusual creative brain, and a magnificent lifelong obsession. One day in May 1949, Barns-Graham, then 36 years old and an...
- 11/11/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The colorful world of Michel Gondry, the Oscar-winning writer-director of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” is the subject of an upcoming feature documentary represented worldwide by Reservoir Docs.
Directed by François Nemeta, “Michel Gondry: Do it Yourself” is an 80-minute documentary shedding light on Gondry’s “inventive and unusual creative process,” from his first video clips to the shooting of his latest movie “The Book of Solutions” which recently opened at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.
“Michel Gondry: Do it Yourself” is produced by Olivier de Bannes at O2B Films, and Robin Acard at The Red Ceiling, and is co-produced by Arte France.
“For the production of this documentary, we had the great opportunity to have Michel on board with us, as well as many of the international talents – musicians and actors – with whom he’s been working during his 30 years long lasting career,” said the producers. “It’s amazing to...
Directed by François Nemeta, “Michel Gondry: Do it Yourself” is an 80-minute documentary shedding light on Gondry’s “inventive and unusual creative process,” from his first video clips to the shooting of his latest movie “The Book of Solutions” which recently opened at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.
“Michel Gondry: Do it Yourself” is produced by Olivier de Bannes at O2B Films, and Robin Acard at The Red Ceiling, and is co-produced by Arte France.
“For the production of this documentary, we had the great opportunity to have Michel on board with us, as well as many of the international talents – musicians and actors – with whom he’s been working during his 30 years long lasting career,” said the producers. “It’s amazing to...
- 6/1/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
José Luis López Linares’ “Goya, Carrière and the Ghost of Buñuel,” a portrait of French film great Jean-Claude Carrière, captured breaking down the paintings and personality of painter Francisco de Goya, has been acquired for international sales by Reservoir Docs.
In its earliest sales, the doc feature has closed the two biggest markets in Europe with reputed distributors, licensing France to Epicentre and Germany and Austria to Weltkino. Syldavia Cinema will distribute in Spain, Version Digital in Italy and Outsider Films in Portugal.
Launched in 2020 by Anais Clanet, Reservoir Docs will bring the documentary feature onto the market at next month’s Cannes Festival.
“Reservoir Docs has always been a key sales agent for theatrical art & culture docs and Jose Luis’ work fits perfectly,” said Clanet. “To me, Goya painted European conflicts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries but he didn’t only chronicle his times: Somehow, he was a visionary,...
In its earliest sales, the doc feature has closed the two biggest markets in Europe with reputed distributors, licensing France to Epicentre and Germany and Austria to Weltkino. Syldavia Cinema will distribute in Spain, Version Digital in Italy and Outsider Films in Portugal.
Launched in 2020 by Anais Clanet, Reservoir Docs will bring the documentary feature onto the market at next month’s Cannes Festival.
“Reservoir Docs has always been a key sales agent for theatrical art & culture docs and Jose Luis’ work fits perfectly,” said Clanet. “To me, Goya painted European conflicts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries but he didn’t only chronicle his times: Somehow, he was a visionary,...
- 4/29/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Daniel Fahre directs the story of the world’s youngest rallycross driver.
Paris-based Wide House has boarded sales for Norwegian documentary Born 2 Drive.
Daniel Fahre directs the story of 15-year-old Oliver Solberg, the world’s youngest rallycross driver, who has to live up to the legacy of his father, the three-time world champion Petter Solberg.
Both father and son will be at a presentation of clips from the film at Norway House in Berlin on Tuesday (February 12) at 1600. The film is produced by Storyline, alongside Fenomen Studios.
Anais Clanet of Wide House said the acquisition is unusual for the company,...
Paris-based Wide House has boarded sales for Norwegian documentary Born 2 Drive.
Daniel Fahre directs the story of 15-year-old Oliver Solberg, the world’s youngest rallycross driver, who has to live up to the legacy of his father, the three-time world champion Petter Solberg.
Both father and son will be at a presentation of clips from the film at Norway House in Berlin on Tuesday (February 12) at 1600. The film is produced by Storyline, alongside Fenomen Studios.
Anais Clanet of Wide House said the acquisition is unusual for the company,...
- 2/11/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Documentary champions ground-breaking work of four major female architects.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.
“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.
“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...
- 1/30/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Documentary champions ground-breaking work of four major female architects.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.
“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.
“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...
- 1/30/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
UK distributor and production outfit takes Venice documentary.
Source: Wide House
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
Eve Gabereau, the long-time head of UK distributor Soda Pictures (now Thunderbird Releasing) who left the company last year, has officially launched her new outfit Modern Films.
The London-based distribution and production company has made its first acquisition with The Rape Of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski’s documentary that premiered at Venice last year.
Modern has UK and Ireland rights to the feature, which tells the story of 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper Recy Taylor, who was gang-raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite being at serious risk, she decided to speak up and identify her attackers, with the civil rights organisation the NAACP sending its chief rape investigator, and activist Rosa Parks, to support the young women.
The story was one of the era-defining civil rights moments and still has a legacy today. In Oprah Winfrey’s celebrated...
Source: Wide House
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
Eve Gabereau, the long-time head of UK distributor Soda Pictures (now Thunderbird Releasing) who left the company last year, has officially launched her new outfit Modern Films.
The London-based distribution and production company has made its first acquisition with The Rape Of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski’s documentary that premiered at Venice last year.
Modern has UK and Ireland rights to the feature, which tells the story of 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper Recy Taylor, who was gang-raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite being at serious risk, she decided to speak up and identify her attackers, with the civil rights organisation the NAACP sending its chief rape investigator, and activist Rosa Parks, to support the young women.
The story was one of the era-defining civil rights moments and still has a legacy today. In Oprah Winfrey’s celebrated...
- 1/31/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paris-based documentary specialist kicking off European sales on arms trade exposé at Cannes.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has closed North American rights on Johan Grimonprez’s arms trade exposé Shadow World following its premiere at Tribeca in April.
TriCoast has taken Us rights while Kinosmith will release the documentary in Canada.
I Wonder Pictures has acquired the film for Italy and other European territories are expected to follow suit in Cannes.
Wide House chief Anais Clanet is also reporting strong interest on Harold And Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story about the romantic and creative partnership between storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his wife Lillian.
Japan’s Digital Works Entertainment Inc. acquired it in Cannes and Canal+ has also taken rights for Spain.
Other titles on Wide House’s slate include Claire Simon’s The Graduation and The Last Resort which premieres in a Special Screening at Cannes.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has closed North American rights on Johan Grimonprez’s arms trade exposé Shadow World following its premiere at Tribeca in April.
TriCoast has taken Us rights while Kinosmith will release the documentary in Canada.
I Wonder Pictures has acquired the film for Italy and other European territories are expected to follow suit in Cannes.
Wide House chief Anais Clanet is also reporting strong interest on Harold And Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story about the romantic and creative partnership between storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his wife Lillian.
Japan’s Digital Works Entertainment Inc. acquired it in Cannes and Canal+ has also taken rights for Spain.
Other titles on Wide House’s slate include Claire Simon’s The Graduation and The Last Resort which premieres in a Special Screening at Cannes.
- 5/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
Picture about Danish artist Per Kirkeby opened Cph:dox.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide house has picked up world rights to Anne Wivel’s Man Falling, about renowned Danish artist Per Kirkeby’s struggle to paint again after a debilitating accident, which opened Cph:dox at the beginning of November.
Wide House chief Anais Clanet said she acquired the film at the Toronto International Film Festival but launched sales at Idfa.
Following its Cph:dox premiere, the work has been playing in Idfa’s Sounds Real section, devoted to the use of sound in documentary.
Clanet was also at Idfa with Danish Lea Glob’s upcoming solo feature documentary Apolonia, Apolonia which was presented at the festival’s co-financing event, the Forum.
It is described in the Forum catalogue as “a coming of age story and existential voyage into the mind of a young woman’s thoughts on sexuality, art, idealism and love”, revolving around the figure of Apolonia who has...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide house has picked up world rights to Anne Wivel’s Man Falling, about renowned Danish artist Per Kirkeby’s struggle to paint again after a debilitating accident, which opened Cph:dox at the beginning of November.
Wide House chief Anais Clanet said she acquired the film at the Toronto International Film Festival but launched sales at Idfa.
Following its Cph:dox premiere, the work has been playing in Idfa’s Sounds Real section, devoted to the use of sound in documentary.
Clanet was also at Idfa with Danish Lea Glob’s upcoming solo feature documentary Apolonia, Apolonia which was presented at the festival’s co-financing event, the Forum.
It is described in the Forum catalogue as “a coming of age story and existential voyage into the mind of a young woman’s thoughts on sexuality, art, idealism and love”, revolving around the figure of Apolonia who has...
- 11/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
Sales agent Wide House is to be reunited with German filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland on his next documentary Hitler’s Hollywood for delivery next year.
Wide House’s Anais Clanet confirmed at this week’s Dok Leipzig that she will be handling sales on Suchland’s new project after selling his first documentary, From Caligari To Hitler [pictured], which premiered at Venice 2014 in the Classics sidebar.
Speaking to ScreenDaily in Leipzig, Suchsland revealed that his second collaboration with the Berlin-based Looks Film & TV and Wiesbaden’s Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation has already received backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, HessenInvestFilm, and broadcasters Zdf/Arte.
“Hollywood was always something that the Nazis wanted to emulate,” he explained with reference to the film’s title.
“Speeches and documents provide evidence that there was a clear plan by the Nazis, and particularly Goebbels and Hitler, to establish a kind of alternative Hollywood, to copy Hollywood’s international success and to use it for Nazi...
Wide House’s Anais Clanet confirmed at this week’s Dok Leipzig that she will be handling sales on Suchland’s new project after selling his first documentary, From Caligari To Hitler [pictured], which premiered at Venice 2014 in the Classics sidebar.
Speaking to ScreenDaily in Leipzig, Suchsland revealed that his second collaboration with the Berlin-based Looks Film & TV and Wiesbaden’s Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation has already received backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, HessenInvestFilm, and broadcasters Zdf/Arte.
“Hollywood was always something that the Nazis wanted to emulate,” he explained with reference to the film’s title.
“Speeches and documents provide evidence that there was a clear plan by the Nazis, and particularly Goebbels and Hitler, to establish a kind of alternative Hollywood, to copy Hollywood’s international success and to use it for Nazi...
- 10/30/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paris-based documentary specialist has sealed several deals on Argentine filmmaker German Kral’s Our Last Tango.
It has sold for theatrical release in Taiwan (Swallow Wings) and in Greece (Rosebud). As previously announced Japanese New Select Co at the beginning of the market.
Deals are currently under negotiation in South Korea, Hong Kong, France and the Us.
The Buena Vista Social Club-style work charts the passionate and complicated relationship between Argentine tango stars María Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes.
The company also sold Ulyana Lopatkina, A Russian star, about celebrated Russian ballerina, to Swallow Wings for Taiwan.
Wide House chief Anais Clanet also announced the imminent completion of international arms trade documentary Shadow World.
“We’re expecting it to premiere this autumn,” she said.
It has sold for theatrical release in Taiwan (Swallow Wings) and in Greece (Rosebud). As previously announced Japanese New Select Co at the beginning of the market.
Deals are currently under negotiation in South Korea, Hong Kong, France and the Us.
The Buena Vista Social Club-style work charts the passionate and complicated relationship between Argentine tango stars María Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes.
The company also sold Ulyana Lopatkina, A Russian star, about celebrated Russian ballerina, to Swallow Wings for Taiwan.
Wide House chief Anais Clanet also announced the imminent completion of international arms trade documentary Shadow World.
“We’re expecting it to premiere this autumn,” she said.
- 5/18/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Deals with Wild Bunch, Memento, Submarine include doc The Seventh Fire, presented by Terrence Malick.
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s TV and new media manager Ella Field and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo...
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s TV and new media manager Ella Field and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo...
- 2/27/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Deals with Wild Bunch, Memento, Submarine include doc The Seventh Fire, presented by Terrence Malick.
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo strange...
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo strange...
- 2/27/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Doc specialist has also taken on sales of Before You Know It about group of trailblazing gay seniors.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has acquired international sales rights to Magicarena, capturing behind-the-scenes of a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida at the world famous Arena of Verona in Italy.
The work, by Andrea Prandstraller and Niccolò Bruna, revolves around a 2013 performance of Verdi’s Egypt-set masterpiece, featuring stage design by avant-garde Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus.
Both the performance and the documentary were commissioned to mark the centenary of Verona’s Opera Festival and the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth in 2013.
Rather than following the famous singers and directors, Magicarena recounts the stories of the men and women who have worked behind the scenes at the festival year after year, contributing in their own individual ways to its renown.
Andrea Prandstraller’s previous work includes the 2013 fiction No one is ever to blame, which...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has acquired international sales rights to Magicarena, capturing behind-the-scenes of a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida at the world famous Arena of Verona in Italy.
The work, by Andrea Prandstraller and Niccolò Bruna, revolves around a 2013 performance of Verdi’s Egypt-set masterpiece, featuring stage design by avant-garde Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus.
Both the performance and the documentary were commissioned to mark the centenary of Verona’s Opera Festival and the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth in 2013.
Rather than following the famous singers and directors, Magicarena recounts the stories of the men and women who have worked behind the scenes at the festival year after year, contributing in their own individual ways to its renown.
Andrea Prandstraller’s previous work includes the 2013 fiction No one is ever to blame, which...
- 5/1/2014
- ScreenDaily
Doc specialist has also taken on sales of Before You Know It about group of trailblazing gay seniors.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has acquired international sales rights to Magicarena, capturing behind-the-scenes of a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida at the world famous Arena of Verona in Italy.
The work, by Andrea Prandstraller and Niccolò Bruna, revolves around a 2013 performance of Verdi’s Egypt-set masterpiece, featuring stage design by avant-garde Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus.
Both the performance and the documentary were commissioned to mark the centenary of Verona’s Opera Festival and the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth in 2013.
Rather than following the famous singers and directors, Magicarena recounts the stories of the men and women who have worked behind the scenes at the festival year after year, contributing in their own individual ways to its renown.
Andrea Prandstraller’s previous work includes the 2013 fiction No one is ever to blame, which...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has acquired international sales rights to Magicarena, capturing behind-the-scenes of a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida at the world famous Arena of Verona in Italy.
The work, by Andrea Prandstraller and Niccolò Bruna, revolves around a 2013 performance of Verdi’s Egypt-set masterpiece, featuring stage design by avant-garde Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus.
Both the performance and the documentary were commissioned to mark the centenary of Verona’s Opera Festival and the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth in 2013.
Rather than following the famous singers and directors, Magicarena recounts the stories of the men and women who have worked behind the scenes at the festival year after year, contributing in their own individual ways to its renown.
Andrea Prandstraller’s previous work includes the 2013 fiction No one is ever to blame, which...
- 5/1/2014
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales company Wide House has picked up international rights to Mahmoud Kaabour’s Champ Of The Camp, a musical documentary capturing life in the UAE’s labour camps, which premieres at Diff tomorrow (Dec 7).
The film explores life in the camps, housing thousands of South Asian labourers on the outskirts of the city, through the Bollywood singing and trivia competitions they run for entertainment. These X-Factor style contests have been running for seven years in the camps, drawing some 10,000 entrants this year.
The world premiere of the film will be held in the shadow of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper, which one of the protagonists of the film helped to build, in a free open-air screening tomorrow evening.
“It’s great the film is getting this sort of recognition in Mena before heading to other international festivals and markets in 2014,” said Wide House chief Anais Clanet.
She said Wide House had been approached by Kaabour’s Dubai-based...
The film explores life in the camps, housing thousands of South Asian labourers on the outskirts of the city, through the Bollywood singing and trivia competitions they run for entertainment. These X-Factor style contests have been running for seven years in the camps, drawing some 10,000 entrants this year.
The world premiere of the film will be held in the shadow of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper, which one of the protagonists of the film helped to build, in a free open-air screening tomorrow evening.
“It’s great the film is getting this sort of recognition in Mena before heading to other international festivals and markets in 2014,” said Wide House chief Anais Clanet.
She said Wide House had been approached by Kaabour’s Dubai-based...
- 12/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
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