Crumbs director Miguel Llansó: 'On a concrete level, Crumbs is the story of an anti-Cinderella' The post-apocalyptic Ethiopian sci-fi Crumbs lands on UK shores this week courtesy of the East End Film Festival. We caught up with director Miguel Llansó when the film was presented at the D'A Festival in Barcelona. In the first part of our two-part interview, he discusses his anti-Cinderella's subversion of capitalist discourses, what the future can tell us about the present and Ethiopian light.
Rn: During the presentation of the film at the D'A Festival, programmer Carlos Losilla said Chigger Ale was a precursor of Crumbs - but what was the starting point for the narrative in the feature film?
Ml: The feature started from several points. Of course from Chigger Ale, this whole universe, this reflection on where we're going in this world of globalisation, of objects losing their meaning, the dislocation felt...
Rn: During the presentation of the film at the D'A Festival, programmer Carlos Losilla said Chigger Ale was a precursor of Crumbs - but what was the starting point for the narrative in the feature film?
Ml: The feature started from several points. Of course from Chigger Ale, this whole universe, this reflection on where we're going in this world of globalisation, of objects losing their meaning, the dislocation felt...
- 7/9/2015
- by Rebecca Naughten
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sales outfit secures sci-fi feature and a Berlinale Forum film ahead of next week’s Efm.
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outlet New Europe Film Sales has picked up Miguel Llansó’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi film Crumbs.
Produced by a Spanish-Ethiopian team Sergio Uguet de Resayre, Meseret Argaw, Daniel Taye Workou and Miguel Llansó, the film received its world premiere on Tuesday (Jan 27) at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) and will have its market premiere at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin next week.
Crumbs is the story of Candy, a strange-looking scrap collector, who embarks on a surreal epic journey through the post-apocalyptic Ethiopian landscape.
Llansó’s 2013 short film Chigger Ale about “Hitler´s Ethiopian clone”, also starring Daniel Tadesse Gagano, premiered at Locarno Film Festival and has been screened at Bafici, Tampere, Hamburg among others. Crumbs is his debut feature.
Naszewski described Llansó as having “a very distinctive voice… and we want...
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outlet New Europe Film Sales has picked up Miguel Llansó’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi film Crumbs.
Produced by a Spanish-Ethiopian team Sergio Uguet de Resayre, Meseret Argaw, Daniel Taye Workou and Miguel Llansó, the film received its world premiere on Tuesday (Jan 27) at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) and will have its market premiere at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin next week.
Crumbs is the story of Candy, a strange-looking scrap collector, who embarks on a surreal epic journey through the post-apocalyptic Ethiopian landscape.
Llansó’s 2013 short film Chigger Ale about “Hitler´s Ethiopian clone”, also starring Daniel Tadesse Gagano, premiered at Locarno Film Festival and has been screened at Bafici, Tampere, Hamburg among others. Crumbs is his debut feature.
Naszewski described Llansó as having “a very distinctive voice… and we want...
- 1/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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