The documentary All You Need Is Love does a nice job of showing how, when it comes to children's lives, the ordinary is inescapable, even in extraordinary circumstances. The Mae Sot district in Thailand is home to thousands of stateless Burmese whose situation stymies them in finding work, housing, and education. The film, narrated sonorously but undramatically by Sigourney Weaver, focuses on the Good Morning School (which would have been a superior title), founded by a Burmese woman who fervently values her own education. Despite living in huts without running water or electricity, and facing the danger of kidnapping by sex-trafficking thugs, these toddlers, tweens, and adolescents nevertheless play together pretty much as their privileged American counterparts ...
- 10/29/2014
- Village Voice
Tribeca Film has acquired North American rights to Gerard Johnson’s Hyena following its recent screening in Toronto. In separate deals, Amplify and Starz Digital Media take Champs and Dada Films will release All You Need Is Love.
The thriller opened this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival and Tribeca plans a theatrical 2015 launch after brokering the deal with Independent Film Sales.
Johnson directed from his screenplay about a corrupt police officer in London who must adapt to an influx of Albanian organised crime. Peter Ferdinando stars.
Film4 and the BFI present Hyena, a Number 9 Films Production in association with Riggins Productions Limited and Lipsync. Stephen Woolley, Joanna Laurie and Elizabeth Karlsen are the producers.
The thriller can access funding through the BFI’s Us Distribution Fund, the pilot scheme that helps UK films premiering at Toronto attract theatrical distribution and reach wider audiences in the Us.
Amplify and Starz Digital Media have jointly acquired North American...
The thriller opened this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival and Tribeca plans a theatrical 2015 launch after brokering the deal with Independent Film Sales.
Johnson directed from his screenplay about a corrupt police officer in London who must adapt to an influx of Albanian organised crime. Peter Ferdinando stars.
Film4 and the BFI present Hyena, a Number 9 Films Production in association with Riggins Productions Limited and Lipsync. Stephen Woolley, Joanna Laurie and Elizabeth Karlsen are the producers.
The thriller can access funding through the BFI’s Us Distribution Fund, the pilot scheme that helps UK films premiering at Toronto attract theatrical distribution and reach wider audiences in the Us.
Amplify and Starz Digital Media have jointly acquired North American...
- 9/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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