Mike Myers’ Supermensch and fashion house doc Dior and I among sales.
Ahead of next week’s, UK-based sales agent Dogwoof has secured a string of TV deals for their current slate.
Dior and I has been sold to Canal+ (France). This recent Dogwoof acquisition is the latest fashion film from Frédéric Tcheng (Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel, Valentino: The Last Emperor) and tells the inside story of designer Raf Simons taking over the iconic fashion house.
Recently opened in the Us and the UK, Finding Fela from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney chronicles the life and death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti. It has been sold to Arte France, Vpro (Netherlands) and AMC Global (Mena, Cee).
Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia’s Web Junkie about China’s teen internet de-programming camps continues to sell, with sales to Arte France, Pts (Taiwan), Ebs (Korea), Trt (Turkey), Ruv (Iceland), Doc24 (Russia) and AMC Global (Iberia, Mena)
Further...
Ahead of next week’s, UK-based sales agent Dogwoof has secured a string of TV deals for their current slate.
Dior and I has been sold to Canal+ (France). This recent Dogwoof acquisition is the latest fashion film from Frédéric Tcheng (Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel, Valentino: The Last Emperor) and tells the inside story of designer Raf Simons taking over the iconic fashion house.
Recently opened in the Us and the UK, Finding Fela from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney chronicles the life and death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti. It has been sold to Arte France, Vpro (Netherlands) and AMC Global (Mena, Cee).
Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia’s Web Junkie about China’s teen internet de-programming camps continues to sell, with sales to Arte France, Pts (Taiwan), Ebs (Korea), Trt (Turkey), Ruv (Iceland), Doc24 (Russia) and AMC Global (Iberia, Mena)
Further...
- 10/9/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
With last year's Channel 4 (UK) TV documentary that questioned why African American and Caribbean sprinters tend to excel, and whether answers to that question are rooted in slavery, comes this other documentary that seems to ask a similar question - but instead of looking at sprinters, its focus is on long-distance ruuners, and why numerous world-class long-distance runners come from Ethiopia. Titled Town Of Runners, the feature doc is directed by Jerry Rothwell, and its full synopsis reads: Town Of Runners follows young Ethiopian athletes as they move from school track to national competition and from childhood to adulthood. In Bekoji, Ethiopia, running is a...
- 2/19/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Tribeca Episode One: Fact in fiction
Chatting to Town Of Runners director Jerry Rothwell on the eve of Tribeca Film Festival (read that interview here), he says he has always thought of documentary subjects being all around us and my first couple of days at this year's New York extravaganza certainly bear that out, with even two of the narrative features I catch having a strong documentary vibe.
Of those dedicated to factual storytelling, Planet Of Snail proves the most...
Chatting to Town Of Runners director Jerry Rothwell on the eve of Tribeca Film Festival (read that interview here), he says he has always thought of documentary subjects being all around us and my first couple of days at this year's New York extravaganza certainly bear that out, with even two of the narrative features I catch having a strong documentary vibe.
Of those dedicated to factual storytelling, Planet Of Snail proves the most...
- 4/22/2012
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Tribeca Episode One: Fact in fiction
Chatting to Town Of Runners director Jerry Rothwell on the eve of Tribeca Film Festival (read that interview here), he says he has always thought of documentary subjects being all around us and my first couple of days at this year's New York extravaganza certainly bear that out, with even two of the narrative features I catch having a strong documentary vibe.
Of those dedicated to factual storytelling, Planet Of Snail proves the most winning. This moving film - which took home the top...
Chatting to Town Of Runners director Jerry Rothwell on the eve of Tribeca Film Festival (read that interview here), he says he has always thought of documentary subjects being all around us and my first couple of days at this year's New York extravaganza certainly bear that out, with even two of the narrative features I catch having a strong documentary vibe.
Of those dedicated to factual storytelling, Planet Of Snail proves the most winning. This moving film - which took home the top...
- 4/22/2012
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Making the running
With expectation of the London Olympics beginning to bubble up, Jerry Rothwell's inspirational Town Of Runners is trotting into cinemas at the perfect time. I caught up with him on the eve of its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival to chat about the origins of the film and his career as a documentarian.
Rothwell says there were two things that drew him to the idea of charting youngsters in the small Ethiopian town of Bekoji, which has been the birthplace of a string of world-beating athletes.
"The...
With expectation of the London Olympics beginning to bubble up, Jerry Rothwell's inspirational Town Of Runners is trotting into cinemas at the perfect time. I caught up with him on the eve of its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival to chat about the origins of the film and his career as a documentarian.
Rothwell says there were two things that drew him to the idea of charting youngsters in the small Ethiopian town of Bekoji, which has been the birthplace of a string of world-beating athletes.
"The...
- 4/21/2012
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Marley (15)
(Kevin Macdonald, 2012, Us/UK) 145 mins
Authoritative to the point of exhausting, Macdonald's documentary compiles an awesome amount of footage, photos, interviews, etc – but then it's a big subject. Whether you really get to the man beyond the legend is debatable (this was made with Marley family backing), but there's much here you've never seen, from Bob's Rasta roots to his kick-around in London's Battersea Park.
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (12A)
(Lasse Hallström, 2012, UK) Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt. 106 mins
An incongruous setting for a mushy fish-out-of-water romcom, with Blunt and her sheikh boss lured by McGregor's tackle.
Elles (18)
(Malgorzata Szumowska, 2011, Fra/Pol/Ger) Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier. 99 mins
Empowerment and eroticism mix uneasily when Binoche's enquiries into student prostitution affect her own life.
Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (18)
(Rob Heydon, 2011, Can) Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd. 99 mins
Rave-era yarn that's 15 years too late to be the Trainspotting of Mdma it wants to be.
(Kevin Macdonald, 2012, Us/UK) 145 mins
Authoritative to the point of exhausting, Macdonald's documentary compiles an awesome amount of footage, photos, interviews, etc – but then it's a big subject. Whether you really get to the man beyond the legend is debatable (this was made with Marley family backing), but there's much here you've never seen, from Bob's Rasta roots to his kick-around in London's Battersea Park.
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (12A)
(Lasse Hallström, 2012, UK) Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt. 106 mins
An incongruous setting for a mushy fish-out-of-water romcom, with Blunt and her sheikh boss lured by McGregor's tackle.
Elles (18)
(Malgorzata Szumowska, 2011, Fra/Pol/Ger) Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier. 99 mins
Empowerment and eroticism mix uneasily when Binoche's enquiries into student prostitution affect her own life.
Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (18)
(Rob Heydon, 2011, Can) Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd. 99 mins
Rave-era yarn that's 15 years too late to be the Trainspotting of Mdma it wants to be.
- 4/20/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Out-of-competition Viewpoints also announced
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its competition films and out-of-competition Viewpoints slate - 46 of the festival's total compliment this year.
There are two UK films among the line-up - Jerry Rothwell's follow-up to his Tribeca award-winning Donor Unknown, Town Of Runners, which takes a look at the Ethiopean town that has spawned a seemingly endless supply of Olympians; and Lucy Mulloy's Una Noche, a tale of restless Cuban teens in...
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its competition films and out-of-competition Viewpoints slate - 46 of the festival's total compliment this year.
There are two UK films among the line-up - Jerry Rothwell's follow-up to his Tribeca award-winning Donor Unknown, Town Of Runners, which takes a look at the Ethiopean town that has spawned a seemingly endless supply of Olympians; and Lucy Mulloy's Una Noche, a tale of restless Cuban teens in...
- 3/7/2012
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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