Chicago – One decade before the United States gave women the right to vote, it was Britain leading the way before World War One. Their techniques for convincing the staid patriarchy was a series of anarchistic actions, as depicted in the new film “Suffragette,” featuring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep, and directed by Sarah Gavron.
The movement began in the late 1890s for the British Isles, but gained steam in the early 20th Century due to the Women’s Social and Political Union, which is the focus in “Suffragette.” Carey Mulligan portrays a lower class working girl named Maud, who becomes part of the political process through fate and her own desire for change. Meryl Streep plays real-life British activist Emmeline Pankhurst, as the film combines true events with the composite journey of Maud.
Director Sarah Gavron on the Set of ‘Suffragette’
Photo credit: Focus Features
Sarah Gavron is a British film director,...
The movement began in the late 1890s for the British Isles, but gained steam in the early 20th Century due to the Women’s Social and Political Union, which is the focus in “Suffragette.” Carey Mulligan portrays a lower class working girl named Maud, who becomes part of the political process through fate and her own desire for change. Meryl Streep plays real-life British activist Emmeline Pankhurst, as the film combines true events with the composite journey of Maud.
Director Sarah Gavron on the Set of ‘Suffragette’
Photo credit: Focus Features
Sarah Gavron is a British film director,...
- 10/31/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Mike Myers’ Supermensch and fashion house doc Dior and I among sales.
Ahead of next week’s, UK-based sales agent Dogwoof has secured a string of TV deals for their current slate.
Dior and I has been sold to Canal+ (France). This recent Dogwoof acquisition is the latest fashion film from Frédéric Tcheng (Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel, Valentino: The Last Emperor) and tells the inside story of designer Raf Simons taking over the iconic fashion house.
Recently opened in the Us and the UK, Finding Fela from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney chronicles the life and death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti. It has been sold to Arte France, Vpro (Netherlands) and AMC Global (Mena, Cee).
Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia’s Web Junkie about China’s teen internet de-programming camps continues to sell, with sales to Arte France, Pts (Taiwan), Ebs (Korea), Trt (Turkey), Ruv (Iceland), Doc24 (Russia) and AMC Global (Iberia, Mena)
Further...
Ahead of next week’s, UK-based sales agent Dogwoof has secured a string of TV deals for their current slate.
Dior and I has been sold to Canal+ (France). This recent Dogwoof acquisition is the latest fashion film from Frédéric Tcheng (Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel, Valentino: The Last Emperor) and tells the inside story of designer Raf Simons taking over the iconic fashion house.
Recently opened in the Us and the UK, Finding Fela from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney chronicles the life and death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti. It has been sold to Arte France, Vpro (Netherlands) and AMC Global (Mena, Cee).
Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia’s Web Junkie about China’s teen internet de-programming camps continues to sell, with sales to Arte France, Pts (Taiwan), Ebs (Korea), Trt (Turkey), Ruv (Iceland), Doc24 (Russia) and AMC Global (Iberia, Mena)
Further...
- 10/9/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 37th Portland International Film Festival runs this year from February 6th to the 22nd. They’re screening 104 feature films and 24 shorts across those two weeks from countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Iceland, Nepal, and Taiwan. Check out the official site for tickets and/or more details. My third look at this year’s festival entries include a trio of documentaries from Netherlands and the UK. In addition to their basis in non-fiction though they also share a thematic concern with their focus on people who, for various reasons and with varied results, find themselves far away from civilization. The Galapagos Affair explores a decades old mystery from an island paradise involving Germans, the Swiss Family Robinson, a baroness, and the wisdom of giant land turtles. Maidentrip features a more recent sea-bound adventure as a teenage girl sets out to sail the world alone. And finally, Village at the End of the World visits with a tiny...
- 2/6/2014
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Dogwoof to handle pre-sales on Sour Grapes.
UK-based distributor Dogwoof has boarded pre-sales for Sour Grapes, currently in production, a documentary that tells the story of one of the greatest wine fraud cases in the Us.
Directed by Jerry Rothwell, who previously made documentaries Deep Water and Town of Runners, the film unfolds as a heist thriller in the vintage wine market, following the rise and fall of wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan.
The deal was brokered by Vesna Cudic, head of TV sales and acquisitions at Dogwoof with Met Film Production producer Al Morrow and Faites Un Voeu producer Catherine Simeon.
It marks the third third partnership between Dogwoof and Met Film Production following Town of Runners and Village at the End of the World.
Dogwoof came on board at the production stage after seeing an initial pitch at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Completion is set for late 2014.
UK-based distributor Dogwoof has boarded pre-sales for Sour Grapes, currently in production, a documentary that tells the story of one of the greatest wine fraud cases in the Us.
Directed by Jerry Rothwell, who previously made documentaries Deep Water and Town of Runners, the film unfolds as a heist thriller in the vintage wine market, following the rise and fall of wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan.
The deal was brokered by Vesna Cudic, head of TV sales and acquisitions at Dogwoof with Met Film Production producer Al Morrow and Faites Un Voeu producer Catherine Simeon.
It marks the third third partnership between Dogwoof and Met Film Production following Town of Runners and Village at the End of the World.
Dogwoof came on board at the production stage after seeing an initial pitch at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Completion is set for late 2014.
- 1/17/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Dogwoof has secured its first TV sales deal with Al Jazeera English for Village at the End of the World.
Sarah Gavron and David Katznelson’s documentary was released earlier this year in the UK and centres on a remote village in Greenland with a population of 58 and 1 teenager, all pulling together to save their village.
Jackie Murray picked up the title for Al Jazeera English, where it will screen on Oct 2. It will also be shown on Al Jazeera America later this year.
Flora Gregory, editor of Witness, Al Jazeera English’s flagship documentary strand, said: “This story is perfect for our viewers and communities all around the world.”
Village at the End of the World was produced by Met Film and is the second collaboration between the two companies following Town of Runners, released by Dogwoof in 2012.
Sarah Gavron and David Katznelson’s documentary was released earlier this year in the UK and centres on a remote village in Greenland with a population of 58 and 1 teenager, all pulling together to save their village.
Jackie Murray picked up the title for Al Jazeera English, where it will screen on Oct 2. It will also be shown on Al Jazeera America later this year.
Flora Gregory, editor of Witness, Al Jazeera English’s flagship documentary strand, said: “This story is perfect for our viewers and communities all around the world.”
Village at the End of the World was produced by Met Film and is the second collaboration between the two companies following Town of Runners, released by Dogwoof in 2012.
- 9/3/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Rocket was voted most popular feature and The Crash Reel as most popular documentary at the 62nd Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff).
The 17-day festival screened 320 films from 63 countries in 45 different languages, including 23 world premieres and 52 Australian films. .2013 has been a very successful festival boasting more than 170 sold out sessions,. said Miff artistic director Michelle Carey. .It.s very heartening to see audiences embracing the program and engaging with our guests both through Q&As and the Talking Pictures program.. The Age critics (Philippa Hawker, Jake Wilson and Craig Matheison) presented the Miff Premiere Fund-supported These Final Hours with a $5,000 cash prize and the title of best Australian feature while fellow Miff Premiere Fund title In Bob We Trust was hailed by Wilson as .one of the best Australian films of any kind in years.. Highlights of the 2013 Festival included:
- The world premiere of the Miff Premiere Fund-supported Tim Winton.s The Turning,...
The 17-day festival screened 320 films from 63 countries in 45 different languages, including 23 world premieres and 52 Australian films. .2013 has been a very successful festival boasting more than 170 sold out sessions,. said Miff artistic director Michelle Carey. .It.s very heartening to see audiences embracing the program and engaging with our guests both through Q&As and the Talking Pictures program.. The Age critics (Philippa Hawker, Jake Wilson and Craig Matheison) presented the Miff Premiere Fund-supported These Final Hours with a $5,000 cash prize and the title of best Australian feature while fellow Miff Premiere Fund title In Bob We Trust was hailed by Wilson as .one of the best Australian films of any kind in years.. Highlights of the 2013 Festival included:
- The world premiere of the Miff Premiere Fund-supported Tim Winton.s The Turning,...
- 8/13/2013
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
★★★☆☆ "If there's a bright centre to the universe you're on the planet it's farthest from," says the Star Wars Saga's Luke Skywalker, and in so doing instantly becomes the patron saint for every teenager growing up in some remote suburban nowhere. Still, even Tatooine begins to look impressive compared to Niaqornat, a tiny village in the remote north-west of Greenland, and the subject of Sarah Gavron's intimate slice-of-life documentary Village at the End of the World (2012). Boasting a rapidly shrinking population of just 59 windswept souls, the film unobtrusively follows the villagers through the course of a year.
As the sun goes down, the ice encroaches and the darkness descends, the villagers of Niaqornat also have to contend with the loss of another family for the town, the continued closure of the ageing fish factory and the possibility that their own village could become unsustainable. The inhabitants themselves are a mixed bunch.
As the sun goes down, the ice encroaches and the darkness descends, the villagers of Niaqornat also have to contend with the loss of another family for the town, the continued closure of the ageing fish factory and the possibility that their own village could become unsustainable. The inhabitants themselves are a mixed bunch.
- 7/9/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Star Trek Into Darkness | Mud | A Hijacking | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Our Children | Deadfall | Vehicle 19 | Village At The End Of The World | Journey To Italy
Star Trek Into Darkness (12A)
(Jj Abrams, 2013, Us) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg. 132 mins
Those cinemagoers won over by Abrams's first Star Trek movie (even if they can barely remember it now) won't be disappointed with this finely tuned follow-up, which deftly balances action crises, sci-fi repartee and the ongoing Kirk/Spock bromance, but adds enough surprises to keep things interesting, largely by way of Cumberbatch's shifty supervillain.
Mud (12A)
(Jeff Nichols, 2012, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Reese Witherspoon. 130 mins
Another distinctive, beguiling southern parable from Nichols, this time tracking the friendship between two boys and the mysterious fugitive they find down by the river. It's like a mix of Stand By Me, Night Of The Hunter and Terrence Malick.
Star Trek Into Darkness (12A)
(Jj Abrams, 2013, Us) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg. 132 mins
Those cinemagoers won over by Abrams's first Star Trek movie (even if they can barely remember it now) won't be disappointed with this finely tuned follow-up, which deftly balances action crises, sci-fi repartee and the ongoing Kirk/Spock bromance, but adds enough surprises to keep things interesting, largely by way of Cumberbatch's shifty supervillain.
Mud (12A)
(Jeff Nichols, 2012, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Reese Witherspoon. 130 mins
Another distinctive, beguiling southern parable from Nichols, this time tracking the friendship between two boys and the mysterious fugitive they find down by the river. It's like a mix of Stand By Me, Night Of The Hunter and Terrence Malick.
- 5/11/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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