Documentaries from Latin America were the big winners at this year’s Visions du Réel (April 25-May 3) in Switzerland’s Nyon.
The Sesterce d’Or for best feature length film in the international competition was awarded to Mexican filmmaker Hatuey Viveros Lavielle’s n, which also received a special mention from the interreligious jury.
The international jury of UK producer Simon Field, German director Nicolas Humbert and French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain said that it appreciated the “patient perspective” of “this extremely sensitive film [which] explores the relation between emancipation and tradition, proximity and separation at the heart of an indigenous family.”
Paraguay’s Arami Ullón received the Sesterce d’Argent prize in the Regard Neufs competition and a special mention from the C-Side Prize jury for his debut El Tiempo Nublado.
The Chilean Mafi collective picked up the George Foundation Jury award for the most innovative medium-length film for Propaganda, about the presidential election campaign of autumn 2013, while...
The Sesterce d’Or for best feature length film in the international competition was awarded to Mexican filmmaker Hatuey Viveros Lavielle’s n, which also received a special mention from the interreligious jury.
The international jury of UK producer Simon Field, German director Nicolas Humbert and French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain said that it appreciated the “patient perspective” of “this extremely sensitive film [which] explores the relation between emancipation and tradition, proximity and separation at the heart of an indigenous family.”
Paraguay’s Arami Ullón received the Sesterce d’Argent prize in the Regard Neufs competition and a special mention from the C-Side Prize jury for his debut El Tiempo Nublado.
The Chilean Mafi collective picked up the George Foundation Jury award for the most innovative medium-length film for Propaganda, about the presidential election campaign of autumn 2013, while...
- 5/5/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
At Idfa, Distrify and the Scottish Documentary Institute have announced today a new ‘film gifting’ scheme called Pay-It-Forward.
The new initiative kicks off with the online release of Maja Borg’s Future My Love (website here), about futurist Jacque Fresco’s new economic and social model.
This scheme is a continuation of the online distributor’s ‘portable fundraiser’ project – a collaboration with Scottish Documentary Institute with backing from Nesta.
People will be able to pay a small fee to send a link to a friend or stranger to watch a film for free.
Distrify noted: “Viewers may buy for one or more people, or even an open invitation for viewers around the world to see the film if the ‘giver’ feels it is a film that should be shared and seen by many.”
Peter Gerard, CEO of Distrify, said: “This is the first time the Pay-it-Forward concept has been used for film distribution. We are excited...
The new initiative kicks off with the online release of Maja Borg’s Future My Love (website here), about futurist Jacque Fresco’s new economic and social model.
This scheme is a continuation of the online distributor’s ‘portable fundraiser’ project – a collaboration with Scottish Documentary Institute with backing from Nesta.
People will be able to pay a small fee to send a link to a friend or stranger to watch a film for free.
Distrify noted: “Viewers may buy for one or more people, or even an open invitation for viewers around the world to see the film if the ‘giver’ feels it is a film that should be shared and seen by many.”
Peter Gerard, CEO of Distrify, said: “This is the first time the Pay-it-Forward concept has been used for film distribution. We are excited...
- 11/26/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Festival favourite For Those In Peril was named Best Film at last night's Scottish BAFTA award ceremony, beating off competition from The Wee Man, which took the Audience Award, and Fire in The Night, about the Piper Alpha disaster, which took Best Documentary. The awards were handed out at a ceremony in Glasgow which saw stars like Brian Cox and Peter Mullan on the red carpet.
"For a first-time director to win an award like this is a phenomenal achievement," said BAFTA Scotland's Alan de Pellette.
Best Director went to Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon for I Am Breathing, a documentary about a man with motor neurone disease, and Best Actor was won by For Those In Peril star George MacKay.
Visual effects supervisor Steven Begg received a special award for his lifetime achievements and for his contribution to recent James Bond films including Skyfall....
"For a first-time director to win an award like this is a phenomenal achievement," said BAFTA Scotland's Alan de Pellette.
Best Director went to Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon for I Am Breathing, a documentary about a man with motor neurone disease, and Best Actor was won by For Those In Peril star George MacKay.
Visual effects supervisor Steven Begg received a special award for his lifetime achievements and for his contribution to recent James Bond films including Skyfall....
- 11/18/2013
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
For Those in Peril and Screen Star of Tomorrow George Mackay picked up top awards.Scroll down for full list of winners
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, did the double at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013 last night.
At a ceremony in Glasgow, honouring both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions, lead actor George Mackay picked up the coveted best actor/actress in film award.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, also won best film beating competition from documentary Fire in the Night and ganger feature The Wee Man.
However, both runners-up picked up separate awards with Fire In the Night winning best single documentary and The Wee Man picking up the BAFTA Scotland Cineworld Audience Award, voted for by the public.
Emma Davie and Morag Mckinnon both collected the best director award for...
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, did the double at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013 last night.
At a ceremony in Glasgow, honouring both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions, lead actor George Mackay picked up the coveted best actor/actress in film award.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, also won best film beating competition from documentary Fire in the Night and ganger feature The Wee Man.
However, both runners-up picked up separate awards with Fire In the Night winning best single documentary and The Wee Man picking up the BAFTA Scotland Cineworld Audience Award, voted for by the public.
Emma Davie and Morag Mckinnon both collected the best director award for...
- 11/18/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
For Those in Peril and Screen Star of Tomorrow George Mackay picked up top awards.Scroll down for full list of winners
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, did the double at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013 last night.
At a ceremony in Glasgow, honouring both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions, lead actor George Mackay picked up the coveted best actor/actress in film award.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, also won best film beating competition from documentary Fire in the Night and ganger feature The Wee Man.
However, both runners-up picked up separate awards with Fire In the Night winning best single documentary and The Wee Man picking up the BAFTA Scotland Cineworld Audience Award, voted for by the public.
Emma Davie and Morag Mckinnon both collected the best director award for...
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, did the double at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013 last night.
At a ceremony in Glasgow, honouring both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions, lead actor George Mackay picked up the coveted best actor/actress in film award.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, also won best film beating competition from documentary Fire in the Night and ganger feature The Wee Man.
However, both runners-up picked up separate awards with Fire In the Night winning best single documentary and The Wee Man picking up the BAFTA Scotland Cineworld Audience Award, voted for by the public.
Emma Davie and Morag Mckinnon both collected the best director award for...
- 11/18/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Other film nominees include The Wee Man and Fire In The Night.Scroll down for full list of nominees
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, leads the film nominees for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, has four nominations: best actor (George MacKay), writer (Wright), director (Wright) and best film.
Documentaries Fire In The Night and I Am Breathing each got two nominations, as did feature film The Wee Man.
The awards will be held in Glasgow on Nov 17. They honour both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions.
Full list of nominees
Film Actor/Actress
Iain De Caestecker Not Another Happy Ending
Martin Compston The Wee Man
George MacKay For Those in Peril
TV Actor/Actress
Ford Kiernan The Field of Blood: The Dead Hour
Peter Mullan [link...
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, leads the film nominees for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, has four nominations: best actor (George MacKay), writer (Wright), director (Wright) and best film.
Documentaries Fire In The Night and I Am Breathing each got two nominations, as did feature film The Wee Man.
The awards will be held in Glasgow on Nov 17. They honour both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions.
Full list of nominees
Film Actor/Actress
Iain De Caestecker Not Another Happy Ending
Martin Compston The Wee Man
George MacKay For Those in Peril
TV Actor/Actress
Ford Kiernan The Field of Blood: The Dead Hour
Peter Mullan [link...
- 10/30/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Other film nominees include The Wee Man and Fire In The Night.
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, leads the film nominees for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, has four nominations: best actor (George MacKay), writer (Wright), director (Wright) and best film.
Documentaries Fire In The Night and I Am Breathing each got two nominations, as did feature film The Wee Man.
The awards will be held in Glasgow on Nov 17. They honour both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions.
The nominees are:
Film Actor/Actress
Iain De Caestecker Not Another Happy Ending
Martin Compston The Wee Man
George MacKay For Those in Peril
TV Actor/Actress
Ford Kiernan The Field of Blood: The Dead Hour
Peter Mullan The Fear
Sharon Rooney My Mad Fat Diary
Animation...
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, leads the film nominees for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, has four nominations: best actor (George MacKay), writer (Wright), director (Wright) and best film.
Documentaries Fire In The Night and I Am Breathing each got two nominations, as did feature film The Wee Man.
The awards will be held in Glasgow on Nov 17. They honour both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions.
The nominees are:
Film Actor/Actress
Iain De Caestecker Not Another Happy Ending
Martin Compston The Wee Man
George MacKay For Those in Peril
TV Actor/Actress
Ford Kiernan The Field of Blood: The Dead Hour
Peter Mullan The Fear
Sharon Rooney My Mad Fat Diary
Animation...
- 10/30/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Ahead of the British Academy Scotland Awards next month, BAFTA Scotland has once more joined forces with Cineworld to launch this year’s Audience Award category.
The award category is designed to promote emerging home-grown talent, bringing a set of eight films this year back to the big screen later this month, and the nominations have now been announced.
Blackbird The Devil’s Plantation Fire In The Night The Happy Lands I Am Breathing Sawney: Flesh Of Man We Are Northern Lights The Wee Man
Cineworld cinemas in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee will be screening the films again from Sunday 20th October to Tuesday 29th October, and from that Sunday 20th, audiences can vote for their favourite of the octet by going to www.cineworld.co.uk/baftascotland.
Carter Ferguson’s Fast Romance won the award two years back, with David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense, Mackenzie’s You, Instead,...
The award category is designed to promote emerging home-grown talent, bringing a set of eight films this year back to the big screen later this month, and the nominations have now been announced.
Blackbird The Devil’s Plantation Fire In The Night The Happy Lands I Am Breathing Sawney: Flesh Of Man We Are Northern Lights The Wee Man
Cineworld cinemas in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee will be screening the films again from Sunday 20th October to Tuesday 29th October, and from that Sunday 20th, audiences can vote for their favourite of the octet by going to www.cineworld.co.uk/baftascotland.
Carter Ferguson’s Fast Romance won the award two years back, with David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense, Mackenzie’s You, Instead,...
- 10/8/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The terminally ill Neil Platt, certain that Motor Neuron Disease will kill him within the year, is determined to preserve something of himself for his toddling son Oscar. He records a daily blog of his thoughts, encourages his family to videotape him, and exploits every possible method he can think of in order to ensure that his personality will be transmitted from beyond the grave. I Am Breathing is a synthesis of these efforts, and its unevenness is an example of why the reality of death confounds any attempt to present it in a straightforward manner. Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon's documentary doesn't have any artistic pretensions of explicating the 'grand theme' of the death of the father. The subtext is there, but the style...
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- 9/8/2013
- Screen Anarchy
A documentary that navigates the profound nature of a fatal diagnosis, I Am Breathing is full of spirit when it could just as easily rest on real life pathos. Neil Platt, a 34 year old diagnosed with motor neuron disease and now living out his final few months, is forced into new perspectives to combat his physical paralysis, speeding up his own understanding of the world to offer to his young son. The film does the opposite of dragging along morbidly — it elevates the viewer with Neil’s lightheartedness even as he moves towards an all-too-certain end. Filmmaker spoke with […]...
- 9/6/2013
- by Nadia Ismail
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
A documentary that navigates the profound nature of a fatal diagnosis, I Am Breathing is full of spirit when it could just as easily rest on real life pathos. Neil Platt, a 34 year old diagnosed with motor neuron disease and now living out his final few months, is forced into new perspectives to combat his physical paralysis, speeding up his own understanding of the world to offer to his young son. The film does the opposite of dragging along morbidly — it elevates the viewer with Neil’s lightheartedness even as he moves towards an all-too-certain end. Filmmaker spoke with […]...
- 9/6/2013
- by Nadia Ismail
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Actor Josh Gad recently called the Ashton Kutcher-starring Steve Jobs biopic “inspirational,” and why wouldn’t he? There is no doubt Steve Jobs the man continues to inspire, but that word—“inspirational”—is thrown around by actors, filmmakers, and even critics with reckless abandon. (My favorite came from a review of “Kick-Ass 2” that seriously stated: “[A] a sequel … that is both emotionally engaging and ambitiously inspirational.”) Calling “Jobs”—and “Argo,” “The King’s Speech,” and most other pleasant bits of Oscar bait, for that matter—“inspirational” is an insult to “I Am Breathing,” a stunning, profoundly moving Scottish documentary by filmmakers Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon. It is the story of Neil Platt, a 34-year-old father in the U.K. diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease (M.N.D.), also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (A.L.S.) or Lou Gehrig's Disease. It is no spoiler to say that we...
- 9/5/2013
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Playlist
104 Films has won the contract to deliver The Accelerator, a training and development programme for Welsh creativetalents.
The scheme is run by Creative Skillset Cymru as part of its Skills for the Digital Economy Programme.
The Accelerator initative will run for 7 months (starting in October 2013) and include 15 Welsh talents to help them fast track their projects and understand wider markets and raise strategic and business skills.
Alex Usborne [pictured], 104 Films MD, said: “This programme builds on the training and development programmes we have been designing and delivering over the past years and establishes 104 Films as the UK’s leading company in the field of creative business development… The Accelerator is about real projects going through real development and finding real finance. Our aim is that the Accelerator will make a tectonic difference to the vision and ambition of our participants and enable them to finance, market and distribute projects at an international level.”
Producers Usborne...
The scheme is run by Creative Skillset Cymru as part of its Skills for the Digital Economy Programme.
The Accelerator initative will run for 7 months (starting in October 2013) and include 15 Welsh talents to help them fast track their projects and understand wider markets and raise strategic and business skills.
Alex Usborne [pictured], 104 Films MD, said: “This programme builds on the training and development programmes we have been designing and delivering over the past years and establishes 104 Films as the UK’s leading company in the field of creative business development… The Accelerator is about real projects going through real development and finding real finance. Our aim is that the Accelerator will make a tectonic difference to the vision and ambition of our participants and enable them to finance, market and distribute projects at an international level.”
Producers Usborne...
- 8/6/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
First Saudi Arabian film to be shot by a woman wins alongside the previously banned and controversial Of Good Report.Scroll down for full list of awards
Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadjda has picked up the best first feature award at the 34th Durban International Film Festival in South Africa.
The film, about a young girl who enters a Qur’an-reading competition to raise the money to buy a bike, is the first to be shot by a woman in Saudi Arabian.
The best feature film award went to Japanese drama The Land of Hope, including a cash prize of $5,100 (R50,000).
The International Jury commended director Sion Sono for a film that “masterfully and humbly draws together an array of cinematic means of expression to engage us in a story”.
Best direction went to Xavier Dolan for Laurence Anyways, a film that also saw Suzanne Clement share the best actress award with Gloria’s Paulina Garcia.
In the...
Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadjda has picked up the best first feature award at the 34th Durban International Film Festival in South Africa.
The film, about a young girl who enters a Qur’an-reading competition to raise the money to buy a bike, is the first to be shot by a woman in Saudi Arabian.
The best feature film award went to Japanese drama The Land of Hope, including a cash prize of $5,100 (R50,000).
The International Jury commended director Sion Sono for a film that “masterfully and humbly draws together an array of cinematic means of expression to engage us in a story”.
Best direction went to Xavier Dolan for Laurence Anyways, a film that also saw Suzanne Clement share the best actress award with Gloria’s Paulina Garcia.
In the...
- 7/30/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The bold and experimental documentary Leviathan scooped the Michael Powell Award at the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival, beating out eleven other UK independent features to the prestigious title. The awards ceremony, which was held at the Filmhouse earlier this afternoon, was presented by Grant Lauchlan, who hosts and produces Stv’s dedicated film series Moviejuice.
Leviathan, co-directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, is a striking and deeply immersive study of the commercial fishing industry that’s filled with skilful cinematography that plungers the audience head first into the fisherman’s dangerous lives. Castaing-Taylor, who was on hand to collect the award, said he was “totally bowled over by the news of this award.”
The jury of the Michael Powell Award also commended director Paul Wright for his feature debut For Those In Peril, which centers on the lone surviver of a freak fishing accident who struggles to cope...
Leviathan, co-directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, is a striking and deeply immersive study of the commercial fishing industry that’s filled with skilful cinematography that plungers the audience head first into the fisherman’s dangerous lives. Castaing-Taylor, who was on hand to collect the award, said he was “totally bowled over by the news of this award.”
The jury of the Michael Powell Award also commended director Paul Wright for his feature debut For Those In Peril, which centers on the lone surviver of a freak fishing accident who struggles to cope...
- 6/28/2013
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Keeping the walking dead off the top spot and dominating the box office for a second week? That looks like a job for Superman
The winner
Topping the chart for a second week in a row, Man of Steel is only the second film this year to reach £20m after just two weekends of play. Les Miserables, the top-grosser for the year with £40.65m, stood at £17.36 at this stage of its run. Iron Man 3 reached £24.57m after two weekends, an 11-day figure. Man of Steel is behind the pace of the summer's top earner, with £21.33m so far. That's already nearly £5m ahead of the lifetime total for Superman Returns, which maxed out here with £16.4m. It's a similar amount ahead of Man of Steel producer Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, which reached £16.6m in total.
Man of Steel suffered a second-weekend drop of 55%, which compares unfavorably with the...
The winner
Topping the chart for a second week in a row, Man of Steel is only the second film this year to reach £20m after just two weekends of play. Les Miserables, the top-grosser for the year with £40.65m, stood at £17.36 at this stage of its run. Iron Man 3 reached £24.57m after two weekends, an 11-day figure. Man of Steel is behind the pace of the summer's top earner, with £21.33m so far. That's already nearly £5m ahead of the lifetime total for Superman Returns, which maxed out here with £16.4m. It's a similar amount ahead of Man of Steel producer Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, which reached £16.6m in total.
Man of Steel suffered a second-weekend drop of 55%, which compares unfavorably with the...
- 6/26/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ A documentary every bit as humorous and uplifting as it is tragic and melancholic, Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon's I Am Breathing (2013) - which screens at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival ahead of a limited theatrical release - follows the final few months and weeks in the life of 34-year-old Neil Platt, who succumbed to Motor Neurone Disease in 2009. An undoubted 'glass is half-full' sort of guy, Platt busies himself with a popular online blog and compiling a keep-sake for his infant son Oscar, whilst he and his wife are inevitably forced to face up to the reality of Neil's impending death at the hands of his affliction.
Witty, erudite and contemplative, Platt comes across as an extremely affable individual, pouring his last ounces of energy into raising public awareness of his debilitating condition. Blending captured footage of Platt with nostalgic home videos from his past, Davie and McKinnon...
Witty, erudite and contemplative, Platt comes across as an extremely affable individual, pouring his last ounces of energy into raising public awareness of his debilitating condition. Blending captured footage of Platt with nostalgic home videos from his past, Davie and McKinnon...
- 6/22/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
World War Z | Before Midnight | Spike Island | Fire In The Night | Like Someone In Love | Snitch | I Am Nasrine | The Seasoning House | Shun Li and The Poet | Black Rock | I Am Breathing | A Haunted House
World War Z (15)
(Marc Forster, 2013, Us/Mal) Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale. 116 mins
In the end, the much-reported delays, reshoots and overspend have at least resulted in a watchable disaster epic, even if this brings little to the zombie apocalypse party save for a huge guest list. Forster's film finds Pitt pitted against insect-like hordes of the sprinting dead, as his Un agent trots round the globe trying to trace the source of the epidemic, save his family and avoid getting chomped. Mild spoiler alert: blame Wales.
Before Midnight (15)
(Richard Linklater, 2013, Us) Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Walter Lassally. 109 mins
A satisfying return for the comfortable screen couple, now together but burdened by history,...
World War Z (15)
(Marc Forster, 2013, Us/Mal) Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale. 116 mins
In the end, the much-reported delays, reshoots and overspend have at least resulted in a watchable disaster epic, even if this brings little to the zombie apocalypse party save for a huge guest list. Forster's film finds Pitt pitted against insect-like hordes of the sprinting dead, as his Un agent trots round the globe trying to trace the source of the epidemic, save his family and avoid getting chomped. Mild spoiler alert: blame Wales.
Before Midnight (15)
(Richard Linklater, 2013, Us) Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Walter Lassally. 109 mins
A satisfying return for the comfortable screen couple, now together but burdened by history,...
- 6/22/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The Scottish Documentary Institute (Sdi) has partnered with UK VoD service Distrify to boost viewing and fundraising around documentary I Am Breathing.
The film follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neurone disease, and premieres on Thursday (June 20) at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The festival premiere will act as a focus for a “global screening day” on June 21, with more than 130 screenings planned in over 30 countries.
A “portable fundraiser”, backed by Sdi and Distrify, will allow consumers to organise and promote their own screenings of the Sdi-produced documentary anywhere in the world.
It allows anyone who views the trailer to share the video and book their own local screening of the film. The technology allows the host of a screening to choose the size of the audience as well as purchase a screening license direct from the video player. Screening times and locations are also displayed in the...
The film follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neurone disease, and premieres on Thursday (June 20) at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The festival premiere will act as a focus for a “global screening day” on June 21, with more than 130 screenings planned in over 30 countries.
A “portable fundraiser”, backed by Sdi and Distrify, will allow consumers to organise and promote their own screenings of the Sdi-produced documentary anywhere in the world.
It allows anyone who views the trailer to share the video and book their own local screening of the film. The technology allows the host of a screening to choose the size of the audience as well as purchase a screening license direct from the video player. Screening times and locations are also displayed in the...
- 6/18/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
I Am Breathing will screen on June 20 as part of the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival, kicking off a Global Screening Day on June 21 to raise awareness of Motor Neurone Disease.
The Scottish Documentary Institute and the Motor Neurone Disease Association will collaborate to promote awareness and raise funds with cinema and community screenings of the film all over the world on 21st June 2013. Participating so far are the Balkans, Australia, USA, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Russia and New Zealand.
I Am Breathing is the hard-hitting story of Neil Platt – a 33-year-old Yorkshireman who contracted Motor Neurone’s Disease. Paralysed from the neck down with only months to live, he tells his story to help raise awareness around his devastating disease and dedicates the film to his one-year-old son Oscar. Collaborating with filmmakers Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon, he used his remaining months to communicate about his...
The Scottish Documentary Institute and the Motor Neurone Disease Association will collaborate to promote awareness and raise funds with cinema and community screenings of the film all over the world on 21st June 2013. Participating so far are the Balkans, Australia, USA, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Russia and New Zealand.
I Am Breathing is the hard-hitting story of Neil Platt – a 33-year-old Yorkshireman who contracted Motor Neurone’s Disease. Paralysed from the neck down with only months to live, he tells his story to help raise awareness around his devastating disease and dedicates the film to his one-year-old son Oscar. Collaborating with filmmakers Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon, he used his remaining months to communicate about his...
- 3/15/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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