The Guanajuato International Film Festival 2014 came to an end last Sunday, August 3. Actors Ximena Ayala (The Amazing Catfish) and Gustavo Sánchez Parra (Amores Perros) conducted the closing ceremony the previous night (August 2) at the Auditorio del Estado, in which the festival awarded several films, both international and Mexican. During the gala, the director of the festival, Sarah Hoch, gave the first taste of the 2015 edition by announcing that Turkey is going to be the spotlight country. The top prize for a Mexican film went to Beatriz Sanchis' debut film Todos Están Muertos (They Are All Dead), while the festival circuit veteran Nicolás Pereda took home the Best Mexican Documentary award for El Palacio (The Palace). The Hamsters was cited for Best...
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- 8/5/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Variety reports that Peter Weir (pictured), director of Master And Commander, Witness and many more, will helm The Keep, based on Jennifer Egan’s modern Gothic novel. The story concerns two cousins whose lives were damaged by a childhood prank, and who reunite 20 years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. Isolated within its walls, the men fall victim to paranoia and terror as that past event comes back to haunt them. The movie will roll next year on location in the German state of Thuringia and possibly at Studio Babelsberg near Berlin; Alfred Huermer of that country’s Integral Film will produce with Said Ben Said’s Paris-based Sbs Productions. The two companies are also teaming on the upcoming David Cronenberg drama Maps To The Stars, toplining Rachel Weisz, Robert Pattinson and Viggo Mortensen, and Huermer is additionally involved with Beatriz Sanchis’ Todos Estan Muertos (All Are...
- 11/14/2012
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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