Exclusive: Robert Schwartzman’s Los Angeles-based sales and distribution outfit Utopia has closed deals on a pair of documentaries.
The company has taken North American rights to Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall, a feature doc celebrating the life of the famed rock and roll photographer. The film is told through more than 850 iconic photos and interviews, with Marshall having captured the likes of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones over his career.
Utopia is releasing the movie to select theaters nationwide throughout October and on AppleTV and Altavod. Pic is directed by Alfred George Bailey and produced by Tatiana Kennedy.
The company has also picked up U.S. rights to Red Heaven, a feature that follows six young volunteers as they prepare for a yearlong NASA experiment designed to replicate the physical and psychological conditions of a mission to Mars.
The pic...
The company has taken North American rights to Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall, a feature doc celebrating the life of the famed rock and roll photographer. The film is told through more than 850 iconic photos and interviews, with Marshall having captured the likes of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones over his career.
Utopia is releasing the movie to select theaters nationwide throughout October and on AppleTV and Altavod. Pic is directed by Alfred George Bailey and produced by Tatiana Kennedy.
The company has also picked up U.S. rights to Red Heaven, a feature that follows six young volunteers as they prepare for a yearlong NASA experiment designed to replicate the physical and psychological conditions of a mission to Mars.
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- 10/14/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Nominations have been unveiled for the 48th edition of the Grierson Awards, the UK’s top documentary awards.
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
- 9/21/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Nominations for the 48th annual British Documentary Awards, known as the Griersons, include episode two of Netflix docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning “For Sama,” and a best presenter nod for David Olusoga for “The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files.”
The awards are given by The Grierson Trust. Of the 52 nominated films, 21 were broadcast on BBC channels. Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece while YouTube Originals, Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery have one each.
Lorraine Heggessey, chair of The Grierson Trust, said: “This has been a difficult year for the production community and particularly for freelancers, so it’s more important than ever to recognize and celebrate the excellence of so many talented filmmakers, whether they are newcomers or established global names. These nominations demonstrate the relevance and versatility of documentaries,...
The awards are given by The Grierson Trust. Of the 52 nominated films, 21 were broadcast on BBC channels. Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece while YouTube Originals, Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery have one each.
Lorraine Heggessey, chair of The Grierson Trust, said: “This has been a difficult year for the production community and particularly for freelancers, so it’s more important than ever to recognize and celebrate the excellence of so many talented filmmakers, whether they are newcomers or established global names. These nominations demonstrate the relevance and versatility of documentaries,...
- 9/21/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
This absorbing documentary traces the career of the photographer who captured memorable moments, from Johnny Cash in jail to the Beatles’ last gig
Jim Marshall is not a household name, but many of the photographs he took, especially of pop, rock and jazz musicians, are seared into our collective memory. The shot of Johnny Cash at San Quentin flipping off the camera with a sneer on his face? Marshall took that. Miles Davis in a boxing ring, his face uncharacteristically soft and mellow? That was Marshall, too. And so were the shots of the Beatles playing their last live concert together in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park – the only official photography that was permitted that day.
Alfred George Bailey’s absorbing documentary annoyingly skips back and forth to trace Marshall’s colourful career, but the imagery and the illuminating discussion that springs from close friends, lovers and collaborators and even...
Jim Marshall is not a household name, but many of the photographs he took, especially of pop, rock and jazz musicians, are seared into our collective memory. The shot of Johnny Cash at San Quentin flipping off the camera with a sneer on his face? Marshall took that. Miles Davis in a boxing ring, his face uncharacteristically soft and mellow? That was Marshall, too. And so were the shots of the Beatles playing their last live concert together in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park – the only official photography that was permitted that day.
Alfred George Bailey’s absorbing documentary annoyingly skips back and forth to trace Marshall’s colourful career, but the imagery and the illuminating discussion that springs from close friends, lovers and collaborators and even...
- 1/30/2020
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Company adds trio of titles to release slate for late 2019 / early 2020.
UK distribution outfit Modern Films has added three titles to its release slate, including Kim Longinotto’s 2019 Sundance hit Shooting The Mafia from Charades. The film follows photojournalist Letizia Battaglia’s documenting of the brutal atrocities committed by the Mafia in her native Palermo.
Shooting The Mafia’s UK premiere was unveiled today at the BFI London Film Festival, where director Longinotto will also be in attendance to deliver a Screen Talk. Modern Films has scheduled the UK theatrical release for November.
Modern has also picked up UK rights...
UK distribution outfit Modern Films has added three titles to its release slate, including Kim Longinotto’s 2019 Sundance hit Shooting The Mafia from Charades. The film follows photojournalist Letizia Battaglia’s documenting of the brutal atrocities committed by the Mafia in her native Palermo.
Shooting The Mafia’s UK premiere was unveiled today at the BFI London Film Festival, where director Longinotto will also be in attendance to deliver a Screen Talk. Modern Films has scheduled the UK theatrical release for November.
Modern has also picked up UK rights...
- 8/29/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
London-based sales house Film Constellation has boarded Oscar-winning director Werner Herzog’s Japanese-language narrative film “Family Romance,” which will have its world premiere in the special screenings section at the Cannes Film Festival.
Written and directed by Herzog, the movie was shot last spring and summer in Tokyo and Aomori, Japan, with non-professional actors. It follows a man who is hired to impersonate the missing father of a 12-year-old girl. Herzog is keeping the plot details under wraps.
As with Herzog’s other works, “Family Romance” explores the recurring theme of individuals chasing impossible dreams, said Fabien Westerhoff, the CEO of Film Constellation.
“This is a project Werner Herzog has kept secret for the last year, and when Werner Herzog asks if you want to work with him, you say ‘Yes, where do I sign,'” Westerhoff said. “Not only because he is one of the greatest living filmmakers, but...
Written and directed by Herzog, the movie was shot last spring and summer in Tokyo and Aomori, Japan, with non-professional actors. It follows a man who is hired to impersonate the missing father of a 12-year-old girl. Herzog is keeping the plot details under wraps.
As with Herzog’s other works, “Family Romance” explores the recurring theme of individuals chasing impossible dreams, said Fabien Westerhoff, the CEO of Film Constellation.
“This is a project Werner Herzog has kept secret for the last year, and when Werner Herzog asks if you want to work with him, you say ‘Yes, where do I sign,'” Westerhoff said. “Not only because he is one of the greatest living filmmakers, but...
- 4/23/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The rock ‘n’ roll excesses of the ’60s and ’70s are etched into legend. We’re now living through a moment when it seems as if we might one day, you know, be pulling Led Zeppelin tracks from streaming sites because of the scandalous nature of the group’s offstage bacchanals. Yet I somehow doubt it. The burst of wild-dog incandescence that defined the original rock-idol era now looms larger than life; that’s true even more as time goes by. And Jim Marshall, the virtuoso photographer who, as much as any rock shutterbug, was in the ecstatic thick of it all, is one of the reasons why.
“Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall” is, before anything else, a celebration of Marshall’s indelible images of the rock gods and goddesses who changed the world. The experience the film offers isn’t all that different, really, from...
“Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall” is, before anything else, a celebration of Marshall’s indelible images of the rock gods and goddesses who changed the world. The experience the film offers isn’t all that different, really, from...
- 3/16/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Jim Marshall, the artist behind some of classic rock’s most legendary images, including Jimi Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire at Monterey in 1967 and Johnny Cash flipping the bird at San Quentin in 1969, is the subject of a new documentary film. “Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall,” directed by Alfred George Bailey (“Gregory Porter Don’t Forget Your Music”), holds its South By Southwest (SXSW) premiere on Friday, March 15.
In advance of the Austin screening, Variety reveals some rare and never-before-seen photos of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and a proof sheet from 1969’s Woodstock.
The photographer had a front row seat for some of the biggest moments in musical history. He was in there when Bob Dylan went electric and spent a lot of time in San Francisco documenting the psychedelic era befriending The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company.
In advance of the Austin screening, Variety reveals some rare and never-before-seen photos of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and a proof sheet from 1969’s Woodstock.
The photographer had a front row seat for some of the biggest moments in musical history. He was in there when Bob Dylan went electric and spent a lot of time in San Francisco documenting the psychedelic era befriending The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company.
- 3/13/2019
- by Jeff Cornell
- Variety Film + TV
London-based sales and financing house Film Constellation has added Alfred George Bailey’s feature documentary “Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall” to its Berlin market slate, ahead of the film’s SXSW premiere. Submarine Entertainment is handling distribution in North America.
The film charts the life of American photographer James Joseph Marshall, whose work documented jazz and rock culture in the ’60s and ’70s. Despite battling inner demons, Marshall established himself as a trusted and talented lenser, capturing the leading musicians of the era, including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix.
“Jim Marshall was a maverick with a camera, who captured the raw intimacy of creative geniuses,” said Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff. “His unlimited access to musicians allowed him to create some of the most iconic images in music history.”
Film Constellation boarded the project at an early production stage in Berlin last year,...
The film charts the life of American photographer James Joseph Marshall, whose work documented jazz and rock culture in the ’60s and ’70s. Despite battling inner demons, Marshall established himself as a trusted and talented lenser, capturing the leading musicians of the era, including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix.
“Jim Marshall was a maverick with a camera, who captured the raw intimacy of creative geniuses,” said Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff. “His unlimited access to musicians allowed him to create some of the most iconic images in music history.”
Film Constellation boarded the project at an early production stage in Berlin last year,...
- 1/23/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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