The single-shot short is a tricky cinematic feat to nail. It shouldn’t operate as a gimmick, but rather as another tool in opening up the story you’re telling on screen. That’s what works in Roxy Rezvany’s short romantic comedy drama Photo Booth, the story of two immigrants in 70s London who sit down to take some photos. The locked-off, 16:9 frame allows Rezvany’s characters to unfold in front of us. They laugh, they bicker, they become whole. Rezvany’s film makes use of the way in which the single-shot format captures everything because that is precisely the point, we are being shown these people in all of their flaws and their strengths. It’s a gripping, empathetic film that Dn is delighted to share below alongside a conversation with Rezvany, where she breaks down the process of showing these characters through this lens, the production...
- 11/4/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
On Saturday during the BFI London Film Festival, Deadline hosted an industry party at The Twenty Two.
The Deadline Studio captured stars, creatives and executives from several films in the festival lineup including Ali Abbasi, Zar Amir Ebrahimi from Abbasi’s Holy Spider, the Utopia film and Denmark’s submission into this year’s Oscar race; Lukas Dhont the writer-director of Close, the Belgian Oscar entry; Mike Jackman, Scott Franklin, Elijah Rodriguez and Alex Jackman from Netflix’s The Good Nurse; and Volker Bertelmann, Ed Berger and James Field from another Netflix pic, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Also in attendance was Amsterdam composer Daniel Pemberton, Navalny producer Odessa Rae, director Gurinder Chadha, Marv CEO Zygi Kamasa, Endeavor Content SVP Film Negeen Yazdi, Beta Cinema’s EVP Acquisitions, Sales & Marketing, Thorsten Ritter, and Head Of Sales and Acquisitions Tassilo Hallbauer, casting director Lara Manwaring, Aitken Alexander Associates agent Emma Paterson,...
The Deadline Studio captured stars, creatives and executives from several films in the festival lineup including Ali Abbasi, Zar Amir Ebrahimi from Abbasi’s Holy Spider, the Utopia film and Denmark’s submission into this year’s Oscar race; Lukas Dhont the writer-director of Close, the Belgian Oscar entry; Mike Jackman, Scott Franklin, Elijah Rodriguez and Alex Jackman from Netflix’s The Good Nurse; and Volker Bertelmann, Ed Berger and James Field from another Netflix pic, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Also in attendance was Amsterdam composer Daniel Pemberton, Navalny producer Odessa Rae, director Gurinder Chadha, Marv CEO Zygi Kamasa, Endeavor Content SVP Film Negeen Yazdi, Beta Cinema’s EVP Acquisitions, Sales & Marketing, Thorsten Ritter, and Head Of Sales and Acquisitions Tassilo Hallbauer, casting director Lara Manwaring, Aitken Alexander Associates agent Emma Paterson,...
- 10/10/2022
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
The most exciting new actors, writers, directors, producers, and heads of department emerging across the UK and Ireland.
Screen International has revealed the 2022 edition of Stars of Tomorrow, our prestigious annual showcase of the UK and Ireland’s most exciting young actors, directors, writers, producers and heads of department.
The 2022 UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow are following in the footsteps of some of today’s biggest names in film and television, many of whom are now Bafta and Oscar winners and nominees.
From Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrea Arnold in the inaugural selection in 2004 to David Oyelowo, Ruth Negga, Abi Morgan (2005), Riz Ahmed,...
Screen International has revealed the 2022 edition of Stars of Tomorrow, our prestigious annual showcase of the UK and Ireland’s most exciting young actors, directors, writers, producers and heads of department.
The 2022 UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow are following in the footsteps of some of today’s biggest names in film and television, many of whom are now Bafta and Oscar winners and nominees.
From Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrea Arnold in the inaugural selection in 2004 to David Oyelowo, Ruth Negga, Abi Morgan (2005), Riz Ahmed,...
- 6/29/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
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