After making a big splash in the original film arena with the likes of "Beasts of No Nation," "The Ridiculous 6" and "Manson Family Vacation" last year, streaming giant Netflix has used the eve of the Sundance Film Festival to announce several more films it has on the way.
The company has come on board to finance and distribute five titles, along with acquiring the worldwide streaming rights to the Iranian horror movie "Under the Shadow" which premieres at the festival tomorrow night. Set during the bloodshed of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, Babak Anvari helms that Farsi-language story which follows a mother and daughter who start to believe their home is haunted by a djinn.
The five other films kick off with Ryan Koo's "Amateur" about a 14-year-old basketball phenom who struggles to fit in with his new team and new coach, and the sci-fi tale "Arq" which just...
The company has come on board to finance and distribute five titles, along with acquiring the worldwide streaming rights to the Iranian horror movie "Under the Shadow" which premieres at the festival tomorrow night. Set during the bloodshed of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, Babak Anvari helms that Farsi-language story which follows a mother and daughter who start to believe their home is haunted by a djinn.
The five other films kick off with Ryan Koo's "Amateur" about a 14-year-old basketball phenom who struggles to fit in with his new team and new coach, and the sci-fi tale "Arq" which just...
- 1/21/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: As the film world converges on Park City on the eve of Sundance, Netflix is expanding its global indie film strategy with a slate of new features to be financed and distributed by the Svod giant. The five features are Ryan Koo’s Amateur, Tony Elliott’s Arq, Alistair Legrand’s Clinical, Osgood Perkins‘ I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House and Gerard McMurray’s Underground. The move further cements Netflix’s strategy, first revealed by Deadline last…...
- 1/20/2016
- Deadline
Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film selected Ryan Koo, The Summer of Flying Fish director Marcella Said (right ont pic above) and Jordana Spiro (who we sang the praises for with her short 2013 Sundance-preemed Skin) are among the twelve plus participants for the upcoming 2014 Feature Screenwriters Lab (which takes place one week before the actual festival).
At this point, the lab have probably easily broke the one hundred project count (with a good percentage of them panning out into an eventual feature film – see Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George, David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Andrew Renzi’s Franny as recent examples). The international class of January ’14 (read project descriptions and bios below) will be coached by no other than: Dustin Lance Black, Naomi Foner, John Gatins, Michael Goldenberg, Erik Jendresen, Patty Jenkins and Spaghetti Western fanboy and former lab attendee Quentin Tarantino.
At this point, the lab have probably easily broke the one hundred project count (with a good percentage of them panning out into an eventual feature film – see Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George, David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Andrew Renzi’s Franny as recent examples). The international class of January ’14 (read project descriptions and bios below) will be coached by no other than: Dustin Lance Black, Naomi Foner, John Gatins, Michael Goldenberg, Erik Jendresen, Patty Jenkins and Spaghetti Western fanboy and former lab attendee Quentin Tarantino.
- 12/17/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Why make a short film? At Short Takes, a recent panel discussion co-presented by Ifp and Dctv, the answers varied with each pass of the microphone. The participating panelists — Terence Nance, Dustin Guy Defa, Lauren Wolkstein, Ryan Koo, and Jeremiah Zagar — reflected upon prior efforts to offer a unique, holistic picture into the business and practice of short filmmaking. Koo, who recently revealed Amateur, a short prequel to his debut feature Manchild, said that he viewed the format as a calling card, a means to entice both the industry and a larger audience. Nance and Wolkstein, on the …...
- 7/25/2013
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
A short shout from writer/director Ryan Koo, titled Amateur, which is a shortened version of Koo's forthcoming narrative feature Man-child, which follows a 13 year-old athlete through the competitive world of youth basketball. The feature project was selected in 2011 by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp), for their Emerging Visions initiative, which pairs 25 emerging directors and writers with established producers to mentor them through the current filmmaking landscape, advising them in the form of one-to-one meetings, workshops, and case studies.Like a number of feature documentaries we've profiled on...
- 6/17/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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