Prize is worth $45,000 (€40,000) in post-production services and distribution support.
Colombian, New York-based director Margarita Jimeno’s hybrid fiction feature Otto – My Life is a Soundtrack, about a renowned artist who undergoes a spiritual awakening after a failed show, has won the fifth edition of Us in Progress in Paris.
The prize includes a post-production and distribution package worth $45,000 (€40,000).
The Us in Progress event showcased six independent Us works looking for final post-production services and a sales agent.
It took place June 7-10 as part of the Industry Days programme of the French-us focused Champs-Elysées Film Festival, running June 7-14 and...
Colombian, New York-based director Margarita Jimeno’s hybrid fiction feature Otto – My Life is a Soundtrack, about a renowned artist who undergoes a spiritual awakening after a failed show, has won the fifth edition of Us in Progress in Paris.
The prize includes a post-production and distribution package worth $45,000 (€40,000).
The Us in Progress event showcased six independent Us works looking for final post-production services and a sales agent.
It took place June 7-10 as part of the Industry Days programme of the French-us focused Champs-Elysées Film Festival, running June 7-14 and...
- 6/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Quickcard Review – 46th Chicago International Film Festival
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Thunder Soul
Directed by: Mark Landsman
Cast: Conrad “Prof” Johnson Sr. and the Kashmere Stage Band
Running Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Rating: PG
Release Date: Tbd
Plot: Thunder Soul follows the origins of a legendary stage band in Texas. This documentary charts their successes and their failures as they prepare to reunite over 30 years later to pay tribute to their charismatic band leader.
Who’S It For? Music fans, particularly if you enjoy funk, will enjoy this, but also just fans of good storytelling and engaging people. If you were a fan of Standing in the Shadows of Motown or Young @ Heart you can’t afford to miss this one.
Overall
Every so often you come across that one movie that reminds you of all that film has to offer. There are...
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Thunder Soul
Directed by: Mark Landsman
Cast: Conrad “Prof” Johnson Sr. and the Kashmere Stage Band
Running Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Rating: PG
Release Date: Tbd
Plot: Thunder Soul follows the origins of a legendary stage band in Texas. This documentary charts their successes and their failures as they prepare to reunite over 30 years later to pay tribute to their charismatic band leader.
Who’S It For? Music fans, particularly if you enjoy funk, will enjoy this, but also just fans of good storytelling and engaging people. If you were a fan of Standing in the Shadows of Motown or Young @ Heart you can’t afford to miss this one.
Overall
Every so often you come across that one movie that reminds you of all that film has to offer. There are...
- 10/7/2010
- by Calhoun Kersten
- The Scorecard Review
Quickcard Review
Welcome
Directed by: Philippe Loiret
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana
Running Time: 2hrs 15 min
Rating: R
Complete Coverage – 33rd Portland International Film Festival
Plot: Bilal (Ayverdi), a seventeen-year-old Kurdish refugee, arrives in France. He needs to get to London, where the love of his life is now situated with her family, but the French government is not allowing refugees to leave the country. Bilal pays a swimming coach named Simon (Lindon) to train him to swim across the English Channel.
Who’S It For? I think everyone should see this movie. Not only to catch a glimpse of how people are treated in other countries, but we need to see our own shadow as well.
Overall
The Kurdish refugees who fled to Europe were regarded as criminals and interlopers and treated like human detritus. Welcome is unrelenting in its depiction of how these people were treated.
Welcome
Directed by: Philippe Loiret
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana
Running Time: 2hrs 15 min
Rating: R
Complete Coverage – 33rd Portland International Film Festival
Plot: Bilal (Ayverdi), a seventeen-year-old Kurdish refugee, arrives in France. He needs to get to London, where the love of his life is now situated with her family, but the French government is not allowing refugees to leave the country. Bilal pays a swimming coach named Simon (Lindon) to train him to swim across the English Channel.
Who’S It For? I think everyone should see this movie. Not only to catch a glimpse of how people are treated in other countries, but we need to see our own shadow as well.
Overall
The Kurdish refugees who fled to Europe were regarded as criminals and interlopers and treated like human detritus. Welcome is unrelenting in its depiction of how these people were treated.
- 2/13/2010
- by Morrow McLaughlin
- The Scorecard Review
We Live in Public
Directed by: Ondi Timoner
Cast: Josh Harris, Tanya Corrin
Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Rating: Unrated
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Plot: Josh Harris starts out as a dot com entrepreneur and becomes a video artist/demagogue in pursuit of fame.
Who’S It For? Adults, though unrated, this isn’t a film for kids. This film requires an open-minded audience.
Expectations: I’m familiar with filmmaker Timoner through her film Dig! but I knew nothing about Harris or his projects before this film.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Josh Harris as himself: Harris describes himself as someone raised by TV, but that can’t explain all his weirdness. The film is really his story, showing how he built a company valued at $80 million then lost it/spent it on a series of increasingly bizarre social experiments. Seen in a mixture of archival footage and interviews, Harris develops from a geeky...
Directed by: Ondi Timoner
Cast: Josh Harris, Tanya Corrin
Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Rating: Unrated
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Plot: Josh Harris starts out as a dot com entrepreneur and becomes a video artist/demagogue in pursuit of fame.
Who’S It For? Adults, though unrated, this isn’t a film for kids. This film requires an open-minded audience.
Expectations: I’m familiar with filmmaker Timoner through her film Dig! but I knew nothing about Harris or his projects before this film.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Josh Harris as himself: Harris describes himself as someone raised by TV, but that can’t explain all his weirdness. The film is really his story, showing how he built a company valued at $80 million then lost it/spent it on a series of increasingly bizarre social experiments. Seen in a mixture of archival footage and interviews, Harris develops from a geeky...
- 1/8/2010
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
Gogol Bordello Non-Stop
Directed by: Margarita Jimeno
Cast: Eugene Hutz
Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: November 27, 2009
Plot: Eugene Hutz forms a band to combine the aesthetic of gypsy folk music with the passion of punk. Filmmaker Jimeno documents the creation of the band in New York through it’s ascendance in popularity.
Who’S It For? Fans of Gogol Bordello or people interested in finding out what Gypsy Punk is.
Expectations: I’m a fan of the band and was hoping for a film that could rival the excitement and passion of a live Gogol Bordello performance.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Eugene Hutz as himself: Though Gogol Bordello is a band and I wouldn’t want to suggest that each member doesn’t make a contribution, the heart and soul of this film and the group is Hutz. The film shows home video of Hutz as a kid in the former Ussr,...
Directed by: Margarita Jimeno
Cast: Eugene Hutz
Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: November 27, 2009
Plot: Eugene Hutz forms a band to combine the aesthetic of gypsy folk music with the passion of punk. Filmmaker Jimeno documents the creation of the band in New York through it’s ascendance in popularity.
Who’S It For? Fans of Gogol Bordello or people interested in finding out what Gypsy Punk is.
Expectations: I’m a fan of the band and was hoping for a film that could rival the excitement and passion of a live Gogol Bordello performance.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Eugene Hutz as himself: Though Gogol Bordello is a band and I wouldn’t want to suggest that each member doesn’t make a contribution, the heart and soul of this film and the group is Hutz. The film shows home video of Hutz as a kid in the former Ussr,...
- 11/27/2009
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
As the super-serious prestige season begins to gear up in Telluride, Toronto and Venice, an odd blend of matters spiritual, ecological, supernatural, and extraterrestrial are coming to a theater near you this week.
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"9"
After his Oscar-nominated short turned the heads of producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, former Weta artist Shane Acker delivers a full-length version of his terrifying vision of the future with this dark, dystopic animated fantasy. Boasting an all-star line-up of voices including Elijah Wood, Martin Landau, Jennifer Connelly, and John C. Reilly, "9" follows a group of sentient dolls, created during the final days of a devastating war against machines, who lead a post-apocalyptic search for a mystical life-giving device that will restore the spark of humanity to our otherwise decimated world.
Opens wide.
"9.9.09"
After more than 25 years of lugging the...
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"9"
After his Oscar-nominated short turned the heads of producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, former Weta artist Shane Acker delivers a full-length version of his terrifying vision of the future with this dark, dystopic animated fantasy. Boasting an all-star line-up of voices including Elijah Wood, Martin Landau, Jennifer Connelly, and John C. Reilly, "9" follows a group of sentient dolls, created during the final days of a devastating war against machines, who lead a post-apocalyptic search for a mystical life-giving device that will restore the spark of humanity to our otherwise decimated world.
Opens wide.
"9.9.09"
After more than 25 years of lugging the...
- 9/7/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Danny Ledonne’s documentary “Playing Columbine” is one of 15 films screening at this year’s AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, according to Variety.
“Columbine” chronicles the history of the game “Super Columbine Massacre RPG!” through the 2006 shooting at Dawson College, in which it was mentioned as a major influence on the shooter.
Also premiering at the festival are Fernando Eimbcke’s “Lake Tahoe,” Margarita Jimeno’s “Gogol Bordello Non-Stop” and Rodrigo Pla’s “The Desert Within.”
Here are some other films you’ll be able to catch at the AFI Fest: Paul Schrader’s “Adam Resurrected;” Arnaud Desplechin’s “A Christmas Tale;” Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah;” and Anthony Fabian’s “Skin.”
The AFI Los Angeles Film Festival runs Oct. 30 – Nov. 9, 2008. Click here to check out the official Web site.
“Columbine” chronicles the history of the game “Super Columbine Massacre RPG!” through the 2006 shooting at Dawson College, in which it was mentioned as a major influence on the shooter.
Also premiering at the festival are Fernando Eimbcke’s “Lake Tahoe,” Margarita Jimeno’s “Gogol Bordello Non-Stop” and Rodrigo Pla’s “The Desert Within.”
Here are some other films you’ll be able to catch at the AFI Fest: Paul Schrader’s “Adam Resurrected;” Arnaud Desplechin’s “A Christmas Tale;” Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah;” and Anthony Fabian’s “Skin.”
The AFI Los Angeles Film Festival runs Oct. 30 – Nov. 9, 2008. Click here to check out the official Web site.
- 9/4/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Danny Ledonne's "Playing Columbine," a documentary about the video game "Super Columbine Massacre RPG!" will have its world premiere at AFI Fest 2008.
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles film fest, a program of the American Film Festival, began rolling out its lineup for its next edition, which runs Oct. 30-Nov. 9 at the ArcLight Cinemas in hollywood.
The schedule also includes the North American premieres of Rodrigo Pla's "The Desert Within," Fernando Eimbcke's "Lake Tahoe" and Margarita Jimeno's documentary "Gogol Bordello Non-Stop."
AFI Fest will also screen 10 films that will play at the Toronto International Film Festival. They include: Paul Schrader's "Adam Ressected"; Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale" (Un conte de Noel); Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah"; Kim Jee Woon's "The Good, the Bad, the Weird"; Pablo Trapero's "Lion's Den"; Lisandro Alonso's "Liverpool"; Yulene Olaizola's "Shakespeare and Victor Hugo's Intimacies"; Anthony Fabian's "Skin"; Ari Folman...
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles film fest, a program of the American Film Festival, began rolling out its lineup for its next edition, which runs Oct. 30-Nov. 9 at the ArcLight Cinemas in hollywood.
The schedule also includes the North American premieres of Rodrigo Pla's "The Desert Within," Fernando Eimbcke's "Lake Tahoe" and Margarita Jimeno's documentary "Gogol Bordello Non-Stop."
AFI Fest will also screen 10 films that will play at the Toronto International Film Festival. They include: Paul Schrader's "Adam Ressected"; Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale" (Un conte de Noel); Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah"; Kim Jee Woon's "The Good, the Bad, the Weird"; Pablo Trapero's "Lion's Den"; Lisandro Alonso's "Liverpool"; Yulene Olaizola's "Shakespeare and Victor Hugo's Intimacies"; Anthony Fabian's "Skin"; Ari Folman...
- 9/3/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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