(A Ciambra is a 2017 Italian drama film directed by Jonas Carpignano. Following it’s debut at Cannes, the film screened at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival where our Matthew Delman got a chance to speak with Carpignano). Jonas Carpignano’s new film, A Ciambra, shifts its focus to one of the scene-stealing supporting characters from his […]...
- 9/11/2017
- by Matt Delman
- Hammer to Nail
IndieWire reached out to the cinematographers whose films are headlining the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival to find out which cameras they used and, more importantly, why they were the right tools to create their projects.
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Dir: Bille August, Dp: Filip Zumbrunn
Camera: Arri Alexa Mini and Amira
Lens: Cooke Panchros S2/3
Zumbrunn: “Because of the beautiful skin tones, the good latitude of the Arri-log and the reliability of the body — especially when shooting the entire movie handheld — it was clear, that we wanted to shoot on the Arri Alexa Mini. As a B-Camera body we were using an Arri Amira. We chose the vintage Cooke Panchros S2/3 together with the Tiffen Pearlescent filters to give the movie a warm, filmic and not too clean look to transport the feeling of the early eighties. And...
Read More:Cannes 2017: Here Are the Cameras Used To Shoot 29 of This Year’s Films “55 Steps”
Dir: Bille August, Dp: Filip Zumbrunn
Camera: Arri Alexa Mini and Amira
Lens: Cooke Panchros S2/3
Zumbrunn: “Because of the beautiful skin tones, the good latitude of the Arri-log and the reliability of the body — especially when shooting the entire movie handheld — it was clear, that we wanted to shoot on the Arri Alexa Mini. As a B-Camera body we were using an Arri Amira. We chose the vintage Cooke Panchros S2/3 together with the Tiffen Pearlescent filters to give the movie a warm, filmic and not too clean look to transport the feeling of the early eighties. And...
- 9/8/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Lineup and Pre-Festival Announcements and News
Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Tiff Announces Midnight Madness and Documentaries Slate, Including ‘The Disaster Artist,’ ‘Super Size Me’ Sequel, and More
Tiff Announces Platform Lineup, Including ‘The Death of Stalin,’ ‘Euphoria,’ and ‘Brad’s Status’
Tiff Reveals Full Canadian Lineup, Including ‘Alias Grace’ Series Premiere and Restored Classics
Tiff 2017 Does TV: Primetime Line-Up to Premiere ‘The Deuce’ and ‘The Girlfriend Experience’
Tiff Adds More Titles, Including ‘The Florida Project,’ ‘Molly’s Game,’ New Films From Brie Larson and Louis C.K., and Many More
Tiff Adds Lady Gaga Documentary & Performance to Special Events Slate
Pre-Festival Analysis
10 Toronto Film Festival Documentaries That Could Shake Up the Oscars
Tiff’s Platform Selection: How the Festival’s Buzziest Slate is Pivoting After Launching ‘Moonlight’
Tiff 2017: 12 Lgbtq Films We Can’t Wait to See...
Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Tiff Announces Midnight Madness and Documentaries Slate, Including ‘The Disaster Artist,’ ‘Super Size Me’ Sequel, and More
Tiff Announces Platform Lineup, Including ‘The Death of Stalin,’ ‘Euphoria,’ and ‘Brad’s Status’
Tiff Reveals Full Canadian Lineup, Including ‘Alias Grace’ Series Premiere and Restored Classics
Tiff 2017 Does TV: Primetime Line-Up to Premiere ‘The Deuce’ and ‘The Girlfriend Experience’
Tiff Adds More Titles, Including ‘The Florida Project,’ ‘Molly’s Game,’ New Films From Brie Larson and Louis C.K., and Many More
Tiff Adds Lady Gaga Documentary & Performance to Special Events Slate
Pre-Festival Analysis
10 Toronto Film Festival Documentaries That Could Shake Up the Oscars
Tiff’s Platform Selection: How the Festival’s Buzziest Slate is Pivoting After Launching ‘Moonlight’
Tiff 2017: 12 Lgbtq Films We Can’t Wait to See...
- 9/6/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
10 films selected for award announced at Karlovy Vary.
The films selected for the 11th edition of the European Parliament’s Lux Film Prize have been revealed at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff).
At an event hosted at Karlovy Vary’s Grandhotel Pupp on Sunday (July 2), the 10 films were unveiled by Helga Trüpel, vice chair of the committee on culture and education, Martina Dlabajova, vice chair of the committee on budgetary control, Bogdan Wenta, member of the committee on culture and education and Doris Pack, Lux Film Prize coordinator.
The films are:
The Last Family (Ostatnia Rodzina), Jan P. Matuszyński (Poland)Glory (Slava), Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria, Greece)Western, Valeska Grisebach (Germany, Bulgaria, Austria)King Of The Belgians, Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria)A Ciambra, Jonas Carpignano (Italy, Brazil, United States, France, Germany, Sweden)Bpm (Beats per Minute), Robin Campillo (France)Heartstone, Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (Iceland, Denmark)Sámi Blood...
The films selected for the 11th edition of the European Parliament’s Lux Film Prize have been revealed at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff).
At an event hosted at Karlovy Vary’s Grandhotel Pupp on Sunday (July 2), the 10 films were unveiled by Helga Trüpel, vice chair of the committee on culture and education, Martina Dlabajova, vice chair of the committee on budgetary control, Bogdan Wenta, member of the committee on culture and education and Doris Pack, Lux Film Prize coordinator.
The films are:
The Last Family (Ostatnia Rodzina), Jan P. Matuszyński (Poland)Glory (Slava), Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria, Greece)Western, Valeska Grisebach (Germany, Bulgaria, Austria)King Of The Belgians, Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria)A Ciambra, Jonas Carpignano (Italy, Brazil, United States, France, Germany, Sweden)Bpm (Beats per Minute), Robin Campillo (France)Heartstone, Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (Iceland, Denmark)Sámi Blood...
- 7/4/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
'Good Time' with Robert Pattinson: All but completely bypassed at the Cannes Film Festival, Ben and Joshua Safdie's crime thriller – co-written by Joshua Safdie and Ronald Bronstein – may turn out to be a key contender in various categories next awards season. Bypassed Palme d'Or contenders (See previous post re: Cannes winners Diane Kruger & Sofia Coppola's Oscar chances.) The Cannes Film Festival has historically been both U.S.- and eurocentric. In other words, filmmaking from other countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific tend to be ignored either at the awards ceremony or at the very outset – in other words, they don't even get the chance to compete for the Palme d'Or. This year was no different, with a mere two non-u.S., non-European productions (or co-productions) among the 19 films in the Official Competition: Naomi Kawase's Japanese romantic drama Radiance and Hong Sang-soo's South Korean romantic drama The Day After. Both came out empty-handed. Among the other movies that failed to win any of the Official Competition awards, several may have a shot in some category or other come Oscar time. Notably: The socially conscious family drama Happy End, produced by veteran Margaret Ménégoz (Pauline at the Beach, Europa Europa) and a Sony Pictures Classics release in North America. Dir.: Michael Haneke. Cast: Isabelle Huppert. Jean-Louis Trintignant. Mathieu Kassovitz. The mix of time-bending mystery and family drama Wonderstruck, a Roadside Attractions / Amazon Studios release (on Oct. 20) in the U.S. Dir.: Todd Haynes. Cast: Julianne Moore. Millicent Simmonds. Cory Michael Smith. The crime drama Good Time, an A24 release (on Aug. 11) in the U.S. Dir.: Ben and Joshua Safdie. Cast: Robert Pattinson. Jennifer Jason Leigh. Barkhad Abdi. Cannes non-win doesn't mean weaker Oscar chances It's good to remember that the lack of a Cannes Film Festival win doesn't necessarily reduce a film's, a director's, a screenwriter's, or a performer's Oscar chances. Case in point: last year's Cannes Best Actress “loser” Isabelle Huppert for Elle. Here are a few other recent examples of Cannes non-winners in specific categories that went on to receive Oscar nods: Carol (2015), Best Actress (Cate Blanchett) nominee. Two Days, One Night / Deux jours, une nuit (2014), Best Actress (Marion Cotillard) nominee. The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013), Best Foreign Language Film winner. The Hunt / Jagten (2012), Best Foreign Language Film nominee (at the 2013 Academy Awards). The Artist (2011), Best Picture and Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius) Oscar winner. And here's a special case: Amour leading lady and 2012 Best Actress Oscar nominee Emmanuelle Riva could not have won the Best Actress Award at Cannes, as current festival rules prevent Palme d'Or winners from taking home any other Official Competition awards. In other words, Isabelle Huppert (again), Julianne Moore, and Robert Pattinson – and their respective films – could theoretically remain strong Oscar contenders despite the absence of Cannes Film Festival Official Competition victories. Mohammad Rasoulof and Leslie Caron among other notable Cannes winners Besides those already mentioned in this article, notable winners at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival include: Mohammad Rasoulof's A Man of Integrity. Having infuriated Iran's theocracy, in 2010 Rasoulof was sentenced to a year in prison following accusations of “filming without a permit.” He has been out on bail. In 2011, Rasoulof won the Un Certain Regard sidebar's Best Director Award for Goodbye. Two years later, his Un Certain Regard entry Manuscripts Don't Burn won the International Film Critics' Fipresci Prize. Veteran Leslie Caron and her 17-year-old pet rescue dog Tchi Tchi shared the Palm DogManitarian Award for their work in the British television series The Durrells in Corfu / The Durrells. Caron, who will be turning 86 on July 1, made her film debut in Vincente Minnelli's 1951 musical An American in Paris – that year's Best Picture Academy Award winner. She would be shortlisted twice for the Best Actress Oscar: Lili (1953) and The L-Shaped Room (1963). Last year, she was the subject of Larry Weinstein's documentary Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star and will next be seen in Thomas Brunot's short The Perfect Age. Faces Places / Visages, villages, which offers a tour of the French countryside, won Cannes' Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary. The directors are veteran Agnès Varda (Cléo from 5 to 7, Vagabond), who turned 89 on May 30, and photographer/muralist Jr. Faces Places is supposed to be Varda's swan song, following a career spanning more than six decades. Her 2008 César-winning documentary The Beaches of Agnès was one of the 15 semi-finalists for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. See below a comprehensive list of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival winners. Leslie Caron in 'The Durrells in Corfu.' TV series a.k.a. 'The Durrells' earned the veteran two-time Best Actress Oscar nominee ('Lili,' 1953; 'The L-Shaped Room,' 1963) and her dog companion Tchi Tchi this year's Palm DogManitarian Award at the Cannes Film Festival. 2017 Cannes Film Festival winners Official Competition Palme d'Or: The Square (dir.: Ruben Östlund). Grand Prix: 120 Beats per Minute (dir.: Robin Campillo). Jury Prize: Loveless (dir.: Andrey Zvyagintsev). Best Screenplay (tie): The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou. You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay. Best Actress: Diane Kruger, In the Fade. Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here. Best Director: Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled. Best Short Film: A Gentle Night (dir.: Qiu Yang). Short Film Special Mention: Katto (dir.: Teppo Airaksinen). Un Certain Regard Un Certain Regard Award: A Man of Integrity (dir.: Mohammad Rasoulof). Jury Prize: April's Daughter / Las hijas de abril (dir.: Michel Franco). Best Director: Taylor Sheridan, Wind River. Best Actress / Best Performance: Jasmine Trinca, Fortunata. Prize for Best Poetic Narrative: Barbara (dir.: Mathieu Amalric). International Film Critics' Fipresci Prize Official Competition: 120 Beats per Minute. Un Certain Regard: Closeness (dir.: Kantemir Balagov). Directors' Fortnight: The Nothing Factory / A Fábrica de Nada (dir.: Pedro Pinho). Directors' Fortnight / Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Prix Sacd (Société des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques) (tie): Lover for a Day / L'amant d'un jour (dir.: Philippe Garrel). Let the Sunshine In / Un beau soleil intérieur (dir.: Claire Denis). C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema Award: The Rider (dir.: Chloe Zhao). Europa Cinemas Label: A Ciambra (dir.: Jonas Carpignano). Prix Illy for Best Short Film: Back to Genoa City / Retour à Genoa City (dir.: Benoît Grimalt). Critics' Week Grand Prize: Makala (dir.: Emmanuel Gras). Visionary Award: Gabriel and the Mountain / Gabriel e a Montanha (dir.: Fellipe Barbosa). Gan Foundation Award for Distribution: Version Originale Condor, French distributor of Gabriel and the Mountain. Sacd Award: Léa Mysius, Ava. Discovery Award for Best Short Film: Los desheredados (dir.: Laura Ferrés). Canal+ Award for Best Short Film: The Best Fireworks Ever / Najpienkniejsze Fajerwerki Ever (dir.: Aleksandra Terpinska). Other Cannes Film Festival 2017 Awards 70th Anniversary prize: Nicole Kidman. Caméra d'Or for Best First Film: Montparnasse Bienvenue / Jeune femme (dir.: Léonor Serraille). Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary: Faces Places / Visages, Villages (dir.: Agnès Varda, Jr). Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Radiance (dir.: Naomi Kawase). Queer Palm: 120 Beats per Minute. Queer Palm for Best Short Film: Islands / Les îles (dir.: Yann Gonzalez). Cannes Soundtrack Award for Best Composer: Daniel Lopatin, Good Time. Vulcan Prize for Artist Technicians: Josefin Åsberg, The Square. Kering Women in Motion Award: Isabelle Huppert. Palm Dog: Einstein the Dog for The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). Palm DogManitarian Award: Leslie Caron and the dog Tchi Tchi for The Durrells in Corfu. Chopard Trophy for Male/Female Revelation: George MacKay and Anya Taylor-Joy. This article was originally published at Alt Film Guide (http://www.altfg.com/).
- 6/21/2017
- by Steph Mont.
- Alt Film Guide
Cast of “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” on the Red Carpet
In Cannes this year, children played significant parts in Competition films by Todd Haynes (“Wonderstruck”), a grownup film about children, in Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” about a child’s best friend, a huge animal, who is to be used by a multinational company as food, and in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”.
Todd Haynes, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael and Roy Price at the Amazon “Wondesrstruck” Party in Cannes
In Directors’ Fortnight “The Florida Project” by Sean Baker, children played all the key roles, with an especially outstanding performance by the eight year old Brooklynn Prince who plays the lead as a precocious six year old who with her friends live carefree lives in stark contrast to the lives of their struggling parents.
He was 11 years old when Pio Amato from Calabria, Italy played his first role in...
In Cannes this year, children played significant parts in Competition films by Todd Haynes (“Wonderstruck”), a grownup film about children, in Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” about a child’s best friend, a huge animal, who is to be used by a multinational company as food, and in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”.
Todd Haynes, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael and Roy Price at the Amazon “Wondesrstruck” Party in Cannes
In Directors’ Fortnight “The Florida Project” by Sean Baker, children played all the key roles, with an especially outstanding performance by the eight year old Brooklynn Prince who plays the lead as a precocious six year old who with her friends live carefree lives in stark contrast to the lives of their struggling parents.
He was 11 years old when Pio Amato from Calabria, Italy played his first role in...
- 6/4/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes this year was enlivened by the fortuitous programming of a number of films about children channeling the bounding energy of their young protagonists, whether Sean Baker’s precocious “hidden homeless” scampering around cheap motels in Orlando in The Florida Project, Jonas Carpignano’s bracing faux-adults spitting slang and smoking cigs in a Romani community in Siciliy in A Ciambra, or the young Joan of Arc, singing and dancing in Bruno Dumont’s Jeannette.More passive than all these kids so willing to act out in difficult circumstances is Shula (Maggie Mulubwa), the young Zambian girl accused of witchcraft in Zambia-born, Wales-based director Rungano Nyoni’s bold debut feature, I Am Not a Witch. In fact, this young girl has no name and is nearly unable to speak up for herself. In the film’s opening scenes, she is accused of being a witch and, failing to deny it,...
- 5/31/2017
- MUBI
Cannes Ends with…Awards — 3rd of 3
The heightened security with machine gun armed soldiers and policemen constantly patrolling was intensified after the Manchester Massacre. With a pall over the festival, one minute of silence was observed for the 22 murdered and flags hung at half-mast. In addition to that, the sudden death at 57 of the Busan Film Festival deputy director Kim Ji-seok and that of the James Bond star Roger Moore brought the film world into a new perspective as we join the larger world to face the random indications of human mortality. High security vs. cinema as a sanctuary of freedom is highlighted this year like no other time that I can recall in my 31 years here.President of the jury, Pedro Almodovar
But life does go on, the jury judges, the stars get press attention on the red carpet and the rest of us continue to wait patiently in...
The heightened security with machine gun armed soldiers and policemen constantly patrolling was intensified after the Manchester Massacre. With a pall over the festival, one minute of silence was observed for the 22 murdered and flags hung at half-mast. In addition to that, the sudden death at 57 of the Busan Film Festival deputy director Kim Ji-seok and that of the James Bond star Roger Moore brought the film world into a new perspective as we join the larger world to face the random indications of human mortality. High security vs. cinema as a sanctuary of freedom is highlighted this year like no other time that I can recall in my 31 years here.President of the jury, Pedro Almodovar
But life does go on, the jury judges, the stars get press attention on the red carpet and the rest of us continue to wait patiently in...
- 5/29/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Headed by Pedro Almodóvar, the 2017 Cannes Film Festival jury — also featuring Maren Ade, Jessica Chastain, Fan Bingbing, Agnès Jaoui, Park Chan-wook, Will Smith, Paolo Sorrentino, and Gabriel Yared — handed out their winners for the films in competition. Leading the pack is Ruben Östlund‘s Force Majeure follow-up The Square, which picked up the Palme d’Or, while Sofia Coppola earned Best Director — the first woman to do so since 1961, when Yuliya Solntseva won for Chronicle of Flaming Years, and only the second in Cannes history. Joaquin Phoenix and Diane Kruger picked up the top acting awards, while Nicole Kidman was given a special prize for the four projects she brought to Cannes.
Ahead of our picks for our favorite films (update: see them here), check out the complete list of winners below, along with other sections, as well as the jury’s discussion of their picks, as well as separate...
Ahead of our picks for our favorite films (update: see them here), check out the complete list of winners below, along with other sections, as well as the jury’s discussion of their picks, as well as separate...
- 5/29/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
With the 2017 Cannes Film Festival concluded, a few thoughts on what we learned at the festival’s 70th anniversary edition: Politics are never too far below the surface at Cannes. One of the biggest stories of the past several years has been the ongoing migrant crisis, but Vanessa Redgrave’s impassioned agit-doc “Sea Sorrow” was the only Cannes film to tackle the subject head-on. Though “Jupiter’s Moon” followed a Syrian refugee, the film was more interested in the religious allegory aspect and in crafting spectacular action set-pieces. African migrants popped up in Michael Haneke’s “Happy End” and Jonas Carpignano’s “A Ciambra,...
- 5/28/2017
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
Sponsor prizes also go to Claire Denis comedy and Philippe Garrel drama.
Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In were among Directors’ Fortnight films to pick up awards tonight.
Although the strand is a non-competitive, some sponsors hand out prizes.
The Art Cinema Award for a feature film went to Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, which was recently snapped up by Sony Classics for North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Eastern Europe.
The film tells the story of a cowboy (played by Brady Jandreau) who embarks on a road trip through America after a near death accident.
The Sacd Award for a French-speaking feature was given jointly to Philippe Garrel’s Lover For A Day and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In.
The latter, an unusual change of gear for Denis, is an eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, starring [link=nm...
Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In were among Directors’ Fortnight films to pick up awards tonight.
Although the strand is a non-competitive, some sponsors hand out prizes.
The Art Cinema Award for a feature film went to Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, which was recently snapped up by Sony Classics for North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Eastern Europe.
The film tells the story of a cowboy (played by Brady Jandreau) who embarks on a road trip through America after a near death accident.
The Sacd Award for a French-speaking feature was given jointly to Philippe Garrel’s Lover For A Day and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In.
The latter, an unusual change of gear for Denis, is an eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, starring [link=nm...
- 5/26/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Scene from The Rider which took top prize in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section Photo: Cannes Film Festival
A second feature by Chinese-American director Chloe Zhao, The Rider, took the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight selection. The cowboy drama received many approving reviews. Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me played in the sidebar section in 2015.
The Sacd prize from the French Writers and Directors Guild split the prize with both Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day (L’Amant D’Un Jour) and Claire Denis’s Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Interieur) being equally recompensed.
Juliette Binoche in Bright Sunshine In, a Directors’ Fortnight winner for director Claire Denis
Garrel’s Lover is the last in a trilogy exploring love, lust and fidelity. Denis’ Bright Sunshine In marks a change of tone for the director, a romantic comedy of...
A second feature by Chinese-American director Chloe Zhao, The Rider, took the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight selection. The cowboy drama received many approving reviews. Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me played in the sidebar section in 2015.
The Sacd prize from the French Writers and Directors Guild split the prize with both Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day (L’Amant D’Un Jour) and Claire Denis’s Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Interieur) being equally recompensed.
Juliette Binoche in Bright Sunshine In, a Directors’ Fortnight winner for director Claire Denis
Garrel’s Lover is the last in a trilogy exploring love, lust and fidelity. Denis’ Bright Sunshine In marks a change of tone for the director, a romantic comedy of...
- 5/26/2017
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Chloe Zhao’s drama about a rodeo competitor, “The Rider,” has won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. The film by Chinese-American director Zhao, which was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics on Tuesday, features several real-life rodeo figures, including Brady Jandreau, playing versions of themselves. Jonas Carpignano’s “A Ciambra,” which tells a migrant story that has connections to Carpignano’s previous film, “Mediterranea,” won the Europa Cinemas Label, a prize open to all European films in the competition. The film was executive produced by Martin Scorsese. The Scad Prize, which is handed out...
- 5/26/2017
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Though Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section is technically a non-competitive one, each year, various partners and sponsors of the slate give out awards to a number of films that screen in the well-regarded section. If you’re looking to catch up on the next big thing to come out of the festival, these awards offer a smart look at exactly that (with a few well-known names, too, just for good measure).
This year’s winners include a number of very buzzy titles, including Chloé Zhao’s “The Rider” (which was recently picked up by Sony Pictures Classics), Claire Denis’ Juliette Binoche-starring “Let the Sunshine In” (picked up at the festival by Sundance Selects), along with Philippe Garrel’s “Lover For a Day” and Jonas Carpignano’s “A Ciambra” (which was also bought by Sundance Selects at the fest).
Read More: Cannes 2017 Deals: The Complete List of Festival Purchases
Check out...
This year’s winners include a number of very buzzy titles, including Chloé Zhao’s “The Rider” (which was recently picked up by Sony Pictures Classics), Claire Denis’ Juliette Binoche-starring “Let the Sunshine In” (picked up at the festival by Sundance Selects), along with Philippe Garrel’s “Lover For a Day” and Jonas Carpignano’s “A Ciambra” (which was also bought by Sundance Selects at the fest).
Read More: Cannes 2017 Deals: The Complete List of Festival Purchases
Check out...
- 5/26/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
IFC Films has acquired the U.S. rights to Lars von Trier’s “The House That Jack Built,” a drama about a serial killer. The film stars Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Riley Keough and Siobhan Fallon Hogan.
Read More: Lars von Trier Wants You to Know ‘The House That Jack Built’ Will Be His Most Brutal Film Ever
Set in the U.S. in the 1970s, “The House That Jack Built” follows Jack (Dillon) through a series of murders that define his development as a serial killer. “We experience the story from Jack’s point of view,” IFC said in a statement. “He views each murder as an artwork in itself, even though his dysfunction gives him problems in the outside world.” The film marks von Trier’s first feature since 2013’s “Nymphomaniac.”
“Lars von Trier is an unparalleled cinematic provocateur and one of the world’s great auteurs,...
Read More: Lars von Trier Wants You to Know ‘The House That Jack Built’ Will Be His Most Brutal Film Ever
Set in the U.S. in the 1970s, “The House That Jack Built” follows Jack (Dillon) through a series of murders that define his development as a serial killer. “We experience the story from Jack’s point of view,” IFC said in a statement. “He views each murder as an artwork in itself, even though his dysfunction gives him problems in the outside world.” The film marks von Trier’s first feature since 2013’s “Nymphomaniac.”
“Lars von Trier is an unparalleled cinematic provocateur and one of the world’s great auteurs,...
- 5/25/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Watch: Screen caught up with New York Film Festival’s Kent Jones and director Jonas Carpignano in Cannes.
Screen sat down at Cannes Film Festival with Kent Jones (New York Film Festival) and Jonas Carpignano (director of Cannes title Director’s Fortnight A Ciambra) to ask - is the success of VoD platforms good news for the independent film industry?
Mobile users can watch the video on Youtube by clicking here.
The video was supported by Curzon Home Cinema and Under The Milky Way.
Screen sat down at Cannes Film Festival with Kent Jones (New York Film Festival) and Jonas Carpignano (director of Cannes title Director’s Fortnight A Ciambra) to ask - is the success of VoD platforms good news for the independent film industry?
Mobile users can watch the video on Youtube by clicking here.
The video was supported by Curzon Home Cinema and Under The Milky Way.
- 5/25/2017
- ScreenDaily
Watch: Screen caught up with Kent Jones and Jonas Carpignano in Cannes.
Screen sat down at Cannes Film Festival with Kent Jones (New York Film Festival) and Jonas Carpignano (director of Cannes title Director’s Fortnight A Ciambra) to ask - is the success of VoD platforms good news for the independent film industry?
Mobile users can watch the video on Youtube by clicking here.
The video was supported by Curzon Home Cinema and Under The Milky Way.
Screen sat down at Cannes Film Festival with Kent Jones (New York Film Festival) and Jonas Carpignano (director of Cannes title Director’s Fortnight A Ciambra) to ask - is the success of VoD platforms good news for the independent film industry?
Mobile users can watch the video on Youtube by clicking here.
The video was supported by Curzon Home Cinema and Under The Milky Way.
- 5/25/2017
- ScreenDaily
For domestic buyers looking to snag a hot title, the Cannes Film Festival isn’t exactly the most hospitable environment — all told and including festival sidebars like Critics’ Week and Director’s Fortnight, there are more than 75 films at this year’s festival, and while the fest offers up plenty in the way of foreign-language titles, most of the heavy-hitting English-language features landed on the Croissette with distribution deals already in place.
Read More: The Cannes Film Festival Buyers Guide: Who’s Buying the Movies You’ll Watch
Netflix arrived with both Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja,” while Amazon has Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Focus Features has Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” And while A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, the company launched four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.
Read More: The Cannes Film Festival Buyers Guide: Who’s Buying the Movies You’ll Watch
Netflix arrived with both Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja,” while Amazon has Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Focus Features has Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” And while A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, the company launched four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.
- 5/24/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Director Jonas Carpignano returns with his first film since Mediterranea (which broke out from Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar two years ago) to remind us that alpha male pecking orders are unavoidable in some parts of the world and that life is still incredibly difficult for Italian Romani. Examined through the microcosm of a four-generation strong family in a small settlement in Calabria in Southern Italy, A Ciambra follows the compelling coming of age story of a young man named Pio (Pio Amato) who is thrust into adulthood when his father and brother are locked up.
It would be a stretch to say that Carpignano diverts in any major way from the gritty aesthetic that has become synonymous with post-Dardennes (and, in particular, post-Rosetta) social realist cinema — all overcast clouds above and gravel below — nor those films’ favored narrative arc. It does, however, pulsate with true authenticity, surely down to the...
It would be a stretch to say that Carpignano diverts in any major way from the gritty aesthetic that has become synonymous with post-Dardennes (and, in particular, post-Rosetta) social realist cinema — all overcast clouds above and gravel below — nor those films’ favored narrative arc. It does, however, pulsate with true authenticity, surely down to the...
- 5/23/2017
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Sundance Selects has acquired all North American rights to Jonas Carpignano's A Ciambra, which premiered this week in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight program and was executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
The gritty coming-of-age film is Carpignano's follow-up to Mediterranea, which Sundance Selects also distributed. The movie focuses on a small Romani community in Calabria where a 14-year-old tries to step into his brother's shoes when the brother disappears and things start to go wrong.
Arianna Bocco, executive vp acquisitions and production negotiated the deal with Wme on behalf of the filmmakers.
"Jonas Carpignano's A Ciambra is a compelling and accomplished film," said Scorsese. "The world...
The gritty coming-of-age film is Carpignano's follow-up to Mediterranea, which Sundance Selects also distributed. The movie focuses on a small Romani community in Calabria where a 14-year-old tries to step into his brother's shoes when the brother disappears and things start to go wrong.
Arianna Bocco, executive vp acquisitions and production negotiated the deal with Wme on behalf of the filmmakers.
"Jonas Carpignano's A Ciambra is a compelling and accomplished film," said Scorsese. "The world...
- 5/23/2017
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Jonas Carpignano’s coming of age film “A Ciambra,” which premiered in the Director’s Fortnight competition at the currently underway 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Martin Scorsese executive produced the drama. The films marks the follow-up to Carpignano’s “Mediterranea,” which Sundance Selects also distributed. Pio Amato, Kudos Seihon, Iolanda Amato and Damiano Amato star in the latest. “A Ciambra” takes place in small Romani community in Calabria, where Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the regions’ factions – the local Italians,...
- 5/23/2017
- by Nigel M. Smith
- The Wrap
Update, May 23, 6:15 Am Pst: What we broke earlier today has been officially announced: IFC’s Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Jonas Carpignano’s Italian-language film A Ciambra. IFC’s Evp Acquisitions and Productions Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with Wme on behalf of the filmmakers. A Ciambra premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. Sundance Selects also distributed Carpignano’s Mediterranea in 2015, which also played at Cannes. Exclusiv…...
- 5/23/2017
- Deadline
Sundance Selects, the division of IFC Films known for distributing critically acclaimed foreign-language films, has acquired Italian filmmaker Jonas Carpignano’s drama “A Ciambra.” The film premiered Friday in the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight section, and marks the first film to be produced under Martin Scorsese’s new fund to help emerging filmmakers.
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“A Ciambra” is set in a small Romani community in Calabria, Italy, where 14-year-old Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. He follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets, but when Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes.
“Shot with a vérité intimacy that physicalizes Pio’s ability to float between worlds — a trait...
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“A Ciambra” is set in a small Romani community in Calabria, Italy, where 14-year-old Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. He follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets, but when Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes.
“Shot with a vérité intimacy that physicalizes Pio’s ability to float between worlds — a trait...
- 5/23/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Oscilloscope has obtained U.S. rights to Kaouther Ben Hania’s Cannes Un Certain Regard entry “Beauty and the Dogs.” O-Scope plans a theatrical release for the film later in the year.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors. Employing impressive cinematic techniques, Kaouther Ben Hania’s ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ tells an urgent, unapologetic, and important story head-on.”
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O-Scope’s Dan Berger said of the acquisition, “Kaouther Ben Hania’s film is an auteurist achievement with a tour-de-force central performance from a sure to be future-star, Mariam Al Ferjani. Honestly, this is the real Wonder Woman...
Per the film’s official synopsis: “When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors. Employing impressive cinematic techniques, Kaouther Ben Hania’s ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ tells an urgent, unapologetic, and important story head-on.”
Read More: Cannes 2017: 9 Hot Acquisition Titles That Will Have Buyers Chasing Foreign Films
O-Scope’s Dan Berger said of the acquisition, “Kaouther Ben Hania’s film is an auteurist achievement with a tour-de-force central performance from a sure to be future-star, Mariam Al Ferjani. Honestly, this is the real Wonder Woman...
- 5/22/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Film i Vast launches title at Cannes slate presentation.
Christoffer Boe, who won the Cannes’ Camera d’Or in 2003 with Reconstruction, will direct Zentropa’s fourth and final instalment in the Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q thriller series.
The Purity Of Vengeance starts shooting in December and will again star Nikolai Lie Kass and Fares Fares as the mismatched detectives.
Nikolai Arcel, Bo Hr. Hansen and Mikkel Norgaard wrote the script. Nordisk will release theatrically in autumn 2018 and TrustNordisk handles sales.
The previous three films in the series – starting with The Keeper Of Lost Causes [pictured] – have been record-setting hits in Denmark. Producer Louise Vesth of Zentropa said, “there have been 2.2m million tickets sold for these films in Denmark, I hope the fourth one will be an ever greater success.”
The story centres on the discovery of a series of corpses connected to an old women’s institution that carried out medical experiments.
Boe, speaking...
Christoffer Boe, who won the Cannes’ Camera d’Or in 2003 with Reconstruction, will direct Zentropa’s fourth and final instalment in the Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q thriller series.
The Purity Of Vengeance starts shooting in December and will again star Nikolai Lie Kass and Fares Fares as the mismatched detectives.
Nikolai Arcel, Bo Hr. Hansen and Mikkel Norgaard wrote the script. Nordisk will release theatrically in autumn 2018 and TrustNordisk handles sales.
The previous three films in the series – starting with The Keeper Of Lost Causes [pictured] – have been record-setting hits in Denmark. Producer Louise Vesth of Zentropa said, “there have been 2.2m million tickets sold for these films in Denmark, I hope the fourth one will be an ever greater success.”
The story centres on the discovery of a series of corpses connected to an old women’s institution that carried out medical experiments.
Boe, speaking...
- 5/21/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
In the thickets of the art-house, a wonderful cinematic universe has blossomed, one that doesn’t involve Marvel superheroes. Expanding his 2014 award-winning short into a full-length feature, “A Ciambra” sees Jonas Carpignano continue to survey Romani life in the tiny Italian neighborhood of Gioia Tauro, through the eyes of Pio (portrayed by non-professional teen Pio Amato). We last saw Pio make a cameo (and almost steal the entire show) in Carpignano’s previous feature, “Mediterranea,” the story of Ayiva (Koudous Seihon), an immigrant from Burkina Faso who ends up in Italy and meets Pio for the first time.
Continue reading Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Ciambra’ Is A Coming-of-Age Tale You Won’t Soon Forget [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Ciambra’ Is A Coming-of-Age Tale You Won’t Soon Forget [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
- 5/21/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
One of the more memorable peripheral characters lifted from reality in Jonas Carpignano's humanistic and timely plunge into the European refugee crisis, Mediterranea, was Pio Amato, a crafty preteen operator from a Romani family on the edges of a Calabrian town called Gioia Tauro. Already the subject of an identically titled short film, this magnetic Dickensian hustler now gets a richly contextualized feature portrait in A Ciambra, a coming-of-age drama with a stealthy emotional charge that further enhances the writer-director's reputation as a gifted practitioner of Italian neo-neorealism.
Executive producer Martin Scorsese's name should help the film secure distribution, but...
Executive producer Martin Scorsese's name should help the film secure distribution, but...
- 5/19/2017
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jonas Carpignano has made two features; both are hyper-specific character studies about people living in the Southern Italian city of Gioia Tauro. And despite the limited scope of his work, the young writer-director might be one of the world’s most vital filmmakers. Isolating a minor character from 2015’s “Mediterranea” and recasting him as the heart and soul of an unusually volatile coming-of-age story, “A Ciambra” further articulates why Gioia Tauro is such a vivid microcosm of the seismic cultural realignments that are defining the 21st century.
More than that, it also underlines why Carpignano is uniquely capable of capturing the city on camera; having earned the trust of the local population, he makes movies shaped by the people who live there. They are stories of pride, not pity — stories that respect the burden of identity and know that kindness isn’t always enough to bridge the divides that separate us from each other.
More than that, it also underlines why Carpignano is uniquely capable of capturing the city on camera; having earned the trust of the local population, he makes movies shaped by the people who live there. They are stories of pride, not pity — stories that respect the burden of identity and know that kindness isn’t always enough to bridge the divides that separate us from each other.
- 5/19/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Nobody makes entertaining movies with purpose better than Korean director Bong Joon Ho. Both the dystopian train ride of “Snowpiercer” and the environmentally-conscious “The Host” combine outrageous, effects-driven showdowns with real ideas. The charming “Okja” continues that welcome trend, following the peculiar exploits of a mutant pig and the girl who loves her, while using that blatantly silly premise to assemble a savvy anti-corporate screed.
The director’s sixth feature takes place in an alternate present in which the bioengineering entity known as the Mirando Corporation has figured out a technology for growing animals in laboratories for food. In the snazzy, over-the-top opening sequence, CEO Lucy Miranda (Tilda Swinton with a sinister grin, revisiting the role of zany villain after a similar turn in Bong’s “Snowpiercer”) unveils a new challenge: The company will disseminate its baby pigs to farmers around the world, then recollect them in a decade for a beauty pageant.
The director’s sixth feature takes place in an alternate present in which the bioengineering entity known as the Mirando Corporation has figured out a technology for growing animals in laboratories for food. In the snazzy, over-the-top opening sequence, CEO Lucy Miranda (Tilda Swinton with a sinister grin, revisiting the role of zany villain after a similar turn in Bong’s “Snowpiercer”) unveils a new challenge: The company will disseminate its baby pigs to farmers around the world, then recollect them in a decade for a beauty pageant.
- 5/19/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Rising Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s staggeringly well-shot but painfully strained new film is the first since his staggeringly well-shot but painfully strained “White God.” It opens with a title card informing us that Jupiter has 67 moons, but Europa is the only one that might be capable of supporting life. At the time, such information seems like it could be a helpful bit of context for the adventure to come. But “Jupiter’s Moon” is not set in outer space. In fact, neither Europa nor any of the gas giant’s other 66 moons are mentioned again. It turns out that the factoid is only the first salvo of a senseless metaphor that’s stretched across two hours of the visually dazzling movie that follows.
“Jupiter’s Moon” — like so many other films at Cannes this year — centers on Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis. It begins in the dead of night,...
“Jupiter’s Moon” — like so many other films at Cannes this year — centers on Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis. It begins in the dead of night,...
- 5/18/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The celluloid comeback continues. Less than three years ago, Kodak was faced with the prospect of closing its film manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York, which also would have closed the doors on filmmakers’ ability to shoot on film. Now they’re back from the dead, and a number of Hollywood biggest blockbusters are being shot on film (hello, “Dunkirk”), and going analog has become a mark of prestige for award contenders and first-rate TV.
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To highlight how integral shooting on film is to the top filmmakers, 15 films premiering at the Cannes Film Festival shot on Kodak stock, according to the company.
Seven of the 15 films are in competition, and among the most highly anticipated of the year:
“The Beguiled,” directed by Sofia Coppola, Dp Philippe Le Sourd, stars Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst
“Wonderstruck,...
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To highlight how integral shooting on film is to the top filmmakers, 15 films premiering at the Cannes Film Festival shot on Kodak stock, according to the company.
Seven of the 15 films are in competition, and among the most highly anticipated of the year:
“The Beguiled,” directed by Sofia Coppola, Dp Philippe Le Sourd, stars Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst
“Wonderstruck,...
- 5/17/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Official Lineup Announcements
2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup: Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, ‘Twin Peaks’ and More
2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Short Film Lineup
Cannes 2017 Unveils Official Schedule, Adds Masterclasses With Clint Eastwood and Alfonso Cuarón
Cannes 2017 Announces Directors Fortnight Lineup, Including Sean Baker’s ‘The Florida Project’ and ‘Patti Cake$’
Cannes Classics 2017 Lineup Includes ‘Belle de Jour’ Restoration, Stanley Kubrick Doc and More
2017 Cannes Critics’ Week Announces Lineup, Including ‘Brigsby Bear’ and Animation From Iran
Cannes Adds Roman Polanski Film to Lineup
Cannes Doc Day to Explore ‘Fake News,’ Women’s Voices and New Work From Amos Gitaï
Cannes American Pavilion 2017 Lineup: Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Screen Talk Live and More
Pre-Festival Announcements and News
Cannes 2017: Pedro Almodóvar Is Jury President
Cannes: Barry Jenkins, Cristian Mungiu and More Are Set for Jury Duty
Cannes Addresses Netflix Controversy By Forcing Competition Films to Receive Theatrical Distribution In France
Todd Haynes...
2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup: Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, ‘Twin Peaks’ and More
2017 Cannes Film Festival Announces Short Film Lineup
Cannes 2017 Unveils Official Schedule, Adds Masterclasses With Clint Eastwood and Alfonso Cuarón
Cannes 2017 Announces Directors Fortnight Lineup, Including Sean Baker’s ‘The Florida Project’ and ‘Patti Cake$’
Cannes Classics 2017 Lineup Includes ‘Belle de Jour’ Restoration, Stanley Kubrick Doc and More
2017 Cannes Critics’ Week Announces Lineup, Including ‘Brigsby Bear’ and Animation From Iran
Cannes Adds Roman Polanski Film to Lineup
Cannes Doc Day to Explore ‘Fake News,’ Women’s Voices and New Work From Amos Gitaï
Cannes American Pavilion 2017 Lineup: Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Screen Talk Live and More
Pre-Festival Announcements and News
Cannes 2017: Pedro Almodóvar Is Jury President
Cannes: Barry Jenkins, Cristian Mungiu and More Are Set for Jury Duty
Cannes Addresses Netflix Controversy By Forcing Competition Films to Receive Theatrical Distribution In France
Todd Haynes...
- 5/17/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
If you’re a buyer, the Cannes Film Festival isn’t where you go to catch a break. Including festival sidebars like Critics’ Week and Director’s Fortnight, there are more than 75 films at Cannes from all over the world — but when it comes to English-language movies, most are already spoken for.
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Netflix took the rights to Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories,” while Amazon has both Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, but the company is launching four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.”
What’s left are mainly foreign-language films from some of the most respected indie auteurs in world. Most of these filmmakers are...
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Netflix took the rights to Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories,” while Amazon has both Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, but the company is launching four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.”
What’s left are mainly foreign-language films from some of the most respected indie auteurs in world. Most of these filmmakers are...
- 5/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Four years in the making, French filmmaker Vladimir de Fontenay is finally ready to bring the full force of his award-winning vision to the big screen, thanks to the Directors’ Fortnight premiere of his “Mobile Homes.” Based on his lauded short of the same name (which screened at both the SXSW Film Festival and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival in 2013, later going on to receive first prize at the Wasserman Awards, Nyu Graduate Film School’s top honor, as well as a National Board of Review award), de Fonetnay’s film will bow later this week at Cannes.
Per the film’s official synopsis, “In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
Per the film’s official synopsis, “In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
- 5/16/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Cannes 2017: Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Ciambra’ Gets a Dazzling Poster for Directors’ Fortnight Premiere
Independent filmmaker Jonas Carpignano will soon bow his next feature — “A Ciambra,” inspired by his short of the same name — at the festival that helped explode his very promising career. Carpignano’s ambitious “Mediterranea” premiered at Cannes in 2015 as part of the Critics’ Week lineup, where the intimate look at the refugee situation in Italy earned him major accolades and made it clear he was one to watch.
Carpignano returns to the festival with another feature that explores misunderstood and complex communities by blending fact and fiction — this time around, the Romani people of Europe. Spinning off his 2014 short, the film follows young Pio Amato (who also starred in the short and appeared in “Mediterranea”) as he comes off age through a series of upheavals.
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Carpignano returns to the festival with another feature that explores misunderstood and complex communities by blending fact and fiction — this time around, the Romani people of Europe. Spinning off his 2014 short, the film follows young Pio Amato (who also starred in the short and appeared in “Mediterranea”) as he comes off age through a series of upheavals.
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- 5/12/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Scorsese’s producing partner Emma Tillinger Koskoff talks to Screen about the venture.
The first project from Martin Scorsese’s as-yet-unnamed fund to help emerging filmmakers will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May).
The Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano is the first film to be produced under the fund, which is a partnership between Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff’s Sikelia Productions and Rodrigo Teixeira’s Brazil-based Rt Features.
The idea was first floated in 2013, with the fund launching in 2014. It has taken until now for the first film to come to fruition.
For the first time filmmakers will be able to submit projects for consideration by the fund, taking it beyond the scouting network.
Development process
Sikelia president of production Koskoff spoke to Screen about the venture at the Nettia Off Camera Film Festival in Krakow, where she was on the main feature film competition jury.
She...
The first project from Martin Scorsese’s as-yet-unnamed fund to help emerging filmmakers will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May).
The Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano is the first film to be produced under the fund, which is a partnership between Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff’s Sikelia Productions and Rodrigo Teixeira’s Brazil-based Rt Features.
The idea was first floated in 2013, with the fund launching in 2014. It has taken until now for the first film to come to fruition.
For the first time filmmakers will be able to submit projects for consideration by the fund, taking it beyond the scouting network.
Development process
Sikelia president of production Koskoff spoke to Screen about the venture at the Nettia Off Camera Film Festival in Krakow, where she was on the main feature film competition jury.
She...
- 5/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The director is scouting for projects from first and second-time directors.
Martin Scorsese’s as-yet-unnamed fund to help emerging filmmakers will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May).
The Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano is the first film to be produced under the fund, which is a partnership between Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff’s Sikelia Productions and Brazil-based Rt Features.
The fund will have an official launch at Cannes to coincide with the screening of A Ciambra.
An idea first floated between the companies in 2014, it has taken three years for the fund to come to fruition, as a model for choosing projects and a submissions process has been devised.
For the first time filmmakers will be able to submit projects for consideration by the fund, taking it beyond the scouting network.
Development process
Sikelia president of production Koskoff spoke to Screen about the venture at the...
Martin Scorsese’s as-yet-unnamed fund to help emerging filmmakers will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May).
The Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano is the first film to be produced under the fund, which is a partnership between Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff’s Sikelia Productions and Brazil-based Rt Features.
The fund will have an official launch at Cannes to coincide with the screening of A Ciambra.
An idea first floated between the companies in 2014, it has taken three years for the fund to come to fruition, as a model for choosing projects and a submissions process has been devised.
For the first time filmmakers will be able to submit projects for consideration by the fund, taking it beyond the scouting network.
Development process
Sikelia president of production Koskoff spoke to Screen about the venture at the...
- 5/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
Cannes 2017 is already a notable edition thanks to the festival’s inclusion of auteur helmed television entries, and (to the chagrin of some traditional minds) the appearance of Netflix properties in the main competition. But beyond these unavoidable progressions, the same kinds of regular maneuvering continues. While some auteurs locked out of the comp in 2015 have been invited back to the fold (Desplechin, Kawase) of Fremaux’s loving arms, the usual trend of displacement has crafted an unusually exciting crop of titles in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, as well as miscellaneous groupings of designated Special Screenings and Out of Competition slots specifically designed for auteurs who will remain part of the official program but away from the glaring inspection of competition pressures.
Edouard Waintrop scored a formidable coup with his opening film this year, Claire Denis‘ Let the Sunshine In (previously known as “Dark Sunglasses”). Denis, one of France’s finest auteurs, has been consistently overlooked by Fremaux and usually appears in competition at Venice. Alongside Denis, Waintrop snagged some Sundance titles (Bushwick, Patti Cake$) and a number of new projects from noted auteurs, like Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel, Sharunas Bartas, and Amos Gitai. The lineup also features a number of anticipated titles from new directors, including the sophomore film from Jonas Carpignano (A Ciambra), and some eclectic art-house genre titles (like the delicious sounding Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts from Indonesia’s Mouly Surya). Here’s our top three most anticipated from the Quinzaine:
Top 3 Quinzaine:
3. Jeannette – Dir. Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont, who was in the main comp last year with cannibal slapstick comedy Slack Bay, returns with an electro-pop musical on Joan of Arc set during the young girl’s developmental years, as based in part on a work by Charles Peguy.
2. The Florida Project – Sean Baker
Sean Baker returns to 35mm after 2015’s phenomenal Tangerine (famously shot on an iPhone). The American auteur’s latest stars Willem Dafoe alongside a group of newcomers in a film focusing on a six-year-old girl and her group of friends one Floridian summer as they embark on adventures while the adults contend with hard times.
1. Let the Sunshine In – Claire Denis
Inexplicably, Denis unites Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu in this adaptation of Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse. And this is a comedy. Sacré bleu!
Bonus:
For this year’s select out-of-competition titles, Fremaux amassed some glittery new titles from renowned auteurs.
Top 3 Ooc:
3. Ismael’s Ghosts – Dir. Arnaud Desplechin
Desplechin is back, this time opening up the festival with Ismael’s Ghosts, starring his regular muse Mathieu Amalric as a man caught between his current wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and the ghost of his former lover (Marion Cotillard, who previously had a small role in 1996’s My Sex Life…).
2. Based on a True Story – Dir. Roman Polanski
Polanski returns with this intriguing sounding film written by Olivier Assayas and starring Eva Green and Emmanuelle Seigner, which details a writer who gets all wrapped up with an obsessive fan.
1. How to Talk to Girls at Parties – Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
The long awaited sci-fi film from John Cameron Mitchell stars Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman (in one of four new projects at the festival) as aliens infiltrating London, based on a story by Neil Gaiman.
Special Events and Special Screenings:
Some of the auteurs standing out in the Special Events and Special Screenings are Abbas Kiarostami, Jane Campion, and a Virtual Reality project from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Flesh and Sand), making these mini-sidebars some of the most formidable programming of the fest in years.
3. Golden Years – Andre Techine
Techine was last in Cannes with an out-of-competition screening with 2014’s In the Name of My Daughter. This year he gets a Special Screening with Golden Years, scripted alongside Cedric Anger and starring Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake) as a Wwi deserter who goes into hiding by posing as a woman…but after the war ends, he can’t bring himself to revert to his former identity.
2. Claire’s Camera – Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Cannes 2017 will deliver a double dose of Hong Sangsoo, who returns to the competition with The Day After, who then gets to debut Claire’s Camera as a Special Screening, which reunites him with Isabelle Huppert (who headlined his 2012 In Another Country). Sangsoo filmed this project at Cannes while the festival transpired in 2016.
1. Twin Peaks – David Lynch
And then, there’s the return of the master. David Lynch will be premiering the first two episodes of Twin Peaks, the hotly anticipated reunion of the iconic television show twenty-five years after the end of Season 2. Along with Campion’s unveiling of her second season of Top of the Lake, this will be a rare opportunity to see (at least partially) these new works in the cinema.
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Edouard Waintrop scored a formidable coup with his opening film this year, Claire Denis‘ Let the Sunshine In (previously known as “Dark Sunglasses”). Denis, one of France’s finest auteurs, has been consistently overlooked by Fremaux and usually appears in competition at Venice. Alongside Denis, Waintrop snagged some Sundance titles (Bushwick, Patti Cake$) and a number of new projects from noted auteurs, like Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel, Sharunas Bartas, and Amos Gitai. The lineup also features a number of anticipated titles from new directors, including the sophomore film from Jonas Carpignano (A Ciambra), and some eclectic art-house genre titles (like the delicious sounding Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts from Indonesia’s Mouly Surya). Here’s our top three most anticipated from the Quinzaine:
Top 3 Quinzaine:
3. Jeannette – Dir. Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont, who was in the main comp last year with cannibal slapstick comedy Slack Bay, returns with an electro-pop musical on Joan of Arc set during the young girl’s developmental years, as based in part on a work by Charles Peguy.
2. The Florida Project – Sean Baker
Sean Baker returns to 35mm after 2015’s phenomenal Tangerine (famously shot on an iPhone). The American auteur’s latest stars Willem Dafoe alongside a group of newcomers in a film focusing on a six-year-old girl and her group of friends one Floridian summer as they embark on adventures while the adults contend with hard times.
1. Let the Sunshine In – Claire Denis
Inexplicably, Denis unites Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu in this adaptation of Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse. And this is a comedy. Sacré bleu!
Bonus:
For this year’s select out-of-competition titles, Fremaux amassed some glittery new titles from renowned auteurs.
Top 3 Ooc:
3. Ismael’s Ghosts – Dir. Arnaud Desplechin
Desplechin is back, this time opening up the festival with Ismael’s Ghosts, starring his regular muse Mathieu Amalric as a man caught between his current wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and the ghost of his former lover (Marion Cotillard, who previously had a small role in 1996’s My Sex Life…).
2. Based on a True Story – Dir. Roman Polanski
Polanski returns with this intriguing sounding film written by Olivier Assayas and starring Eva Green and Emmanuelle Seigner, which details a writer who gets all wrapped up with an obsessive fan.
1. How to Talk to Girls at Parties – Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
The long awaited sci-fi film from John Cameron Mitchell stars Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman (in one of four new projects at the festival) as aliens infiltrating London, based on a story by Neil Gaiman.
Special Events and Special Screenings:
Some of the auteurs standing out in the Special Events and Special Screenings are Abbas Kiarostami, Jane Campion, and a Virtual Reality project from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Flesh and Sand), making these mini-sidebars some of the most formidable programming of the fest in years.
3. Golden Years – Andre Techine
Techine was last in Cannes with an out-of-competition screening with 2014’s In the Name of My Daughter. This year he gets a Special Screening with Golden Years, scripted alongside Cedric Anger and starring Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake) as a Wwi deserter who goes into hiding by posing as a woman…but after the war ends, he can’t bring himself to revert to his former identity.
2. Claire’s Camera – Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Cannes 2017 will deliver a double dose of Hong Sangsoo, who returns to the competition with The Day After, who then gets to debut Claire’s Camera as a Special Screening, which reunites him with Isabelle Huppert (who headlined his 2012 In Another Country). Sangsoo filmed this project at Cannes while the festival transpired in 2016.
1. Twin Peaks – David Lynch
And then, there’s the return of the master. David Lynch will be premiering the first two episodes of Twin Peaks, the hotly anticipated reunion of the iconic television show twenty-five years after the end of Season 2. Along with Campion’s unveiling of her second season of Top of the Lake, this will be a rare opportunity to see (at least partially) these new works in the cinema.
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- 5/2/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The lineup for the 2017 Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) at Cannes has been announced:Opening Film: Un beau soleil interieur (Claire Denis)Closing Film:Patti Cake$ (Geremy Jasper)Feature Films A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano)Alive in France (Abel Ferrara)L'amant d'un jour (Philippe Garrel)Bushwick (Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott) Cuori Puri (Roberto de Paolis)The Florida Project (Sean Baker)Frost (Sharunas Bartas)I'm Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni) Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne D'Arc (Bruno Dumont)L'intrusa (Leonardo di Constanzo)La Defensa del Dragón (Natalia Santa)Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Mouly Surya) Mobile Homes (Vladimir de Fontenay)Nothingwood (Sonia Kronlund) Ôtez-moi d'un doute (Carine Tardieu) The Rider (Chloe Zhao)West of the Jordan River (Field Day Revisited) (Amos Gitai)SHORTSÁgua Mole (Laura Goncalves & Alexandra Ramires)La bouche (Camilo Restrepo)Copa-loca (Christos Massalas)Crème de menthe (David Philippe Gagne & Jean-Marc E. Roy)Farpões, Baldios (Marta Matheus)Min Börda (Niki Lindroth von Bahr...
- 4/24/2017
- MUBI
Following the main line-up at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the first sidebar has been unveiled. Directors’ Fortnight has revealed their enticing slate, including the opening film, Claire Denis‘ Juliette Binoche-led Un Beau Soleil Interieur (formerly Dark Glasses).
Also in the line-up is Abel Ferrara‘s Alive in France, Sean Baker‘s Tangerine follow-up The Florida Project, Philippe Garrel‘s L’Amant D’Un Jour, Bruno Dumont‘s Jeannette, L’Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc, and Jonas Carpignano‘s A Ciambra. Peculiarly, there’s also two previous festival films we were quite mixed/negative on, Patti Cake$ and Bushwick. Check out the full line-up below.
Feature Films
Un Beau Soleil Interieur, dir. Claire Denis – Opening Night Film
A Ciambra, dir. Jonas Carpignano
Alive in France, dir. Abel Ferrara (pictured below)
L’Amant D’Un Jour, dir. Philippe Garrel
Bushwick, dir. Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott
Cuori Puri, dir. Roberto De Paolis
The Florida Project,...
Also in the line-up is Abel Ferrara‘s Alive in France, Sean Baker‘s Tangerine follow-up The Florida Project, Philippe Garrel‘s L’Amant D’Un Jour, Bruno Dumont‘s Jeannette, L’Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc, and Jonas Carpignano‘s A Ciambra. Peculiarly, there’s also two previous festival films we were quite mixed/negative on, Patti Cake$ and Bushwick. Check out the full line-up below.
Feature Films
Un Beau Soleil Interieur, dir. Claire Denis – Opening Night Film
A Ciambra, dir. Jonas Carpignano
Alive in France, dir. Abel Ferrara (pictured below)
L’Amant D’Un Jour, dir. Philippe Garrel
Bushwick, dir. Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott
Cuori Puri, dir. Roberto De Paolis
The Florida Project,...
- 4/20/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Baker, Nyoni, Jasper and Carpignano join Cannes veterans Denis, Ferrara, Dumont, Garrel and Gitai.Scroll Down For Full List
Tangerine director Sean Baker, the UK’s Rungano Nyoni and Italo-American film-maker Jonas Carpignano will be among the buzzed-about names premiering new works at the 49th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year (18-28 May).
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop unveiled the eclectic selection, comprising 19 feature-length films and another 11 shorts, at a press conference at the Cinéma Le Grand Action in Paris on Thursday (20 April).
Read more: Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
Opening And Closing Films
Claire Denis will open the 49th edition – running May 18-28 - with Un Beau Soleil Intérieur starring Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu and Xavier Beauvois.
Us director Geremy Jasper’s debut feature Patti Cake$ - which world premiered at Sundance this year has been selected as the closing film.
Us Presence
It is one of two Sundance titles in this year’s selection...
Tangerine director Sean Baker, the UK’s Rungano Nyoni and Italo-American film-maker Jonas Carpignano will be among the buzzed-about names premiering new works at the 49th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year (18-28 May).
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop unveiled the eclectic selection, comprising 19 feature-length films and another 11 shorts, at a press conference at the Cinéma Le Grand Action in Paris on Thursday (20 April).
Read more: Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
Opening And Closing Films
Claire Denis will open the 49th edition – running May 18-28 - with Un Beau Soleil Intérieur starring Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu and Xavier Beauvois.
Us director Geremy Jasper’s debut feature Patti Cake$ - which world premiered at Sundance this year has been selected as the closing film.
Us Presence
It is one of two Sundance titles in this year’s selection...
- 4/20/2017
- ScreenDaily
The 49th annual edition of the Cannes Film Festival’s lauded Directors’ Fortnight section announced its picks this morning. The section is a non-competitive sidebar, but members of the Société des Réalisateurs Français, which organizes the event, do dole out honors.
Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop announced the titles in a roughly 40 minute presentation Thursday. The section opens with the latest film from Claire Denis, “Un Beau Soleil Interieur,” an adaptation of Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments,” which stars Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu. Major auteurs in the lineup include Bruno Dumont, with his musical “Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” and Bael Ferrara, who will return to Cannes after several years with “Alive In France,” a documentary that follows Ferrara and his band as they tour France.
Other notable titles include “The Florida Project,” Sean Baker’s follow-up to “Tangerine,” and “A Ciambra,” from “Mediterranea” director Jonas Carpignano.
Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop announced the titles in a roughly 40 minute presentation Thursday. The section opens with the latest film from Claire Denis, “Un Beau Soleil Interieur,” an adaptation of Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments,” which stars Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu. Major auteurs in the lineup include Bruno Dumont, with his musical “Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” and Bael Ferrara, who will return to Cannes after several years with “Alive In France,” a documentary that follows Ferrara and his band as they tour France.
Other notable titles include “The Florida Project,” Sean Baker’s follow-up to “Tangerine,” and “A Ciambra,” from “Mediterranea” director Jonas Carpignano.
- 4/20/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
In order to make accurate predictions about the potential Cannes Film Festival lineup, it’s first important to explore which films definitely won’t make the cut. The glamorous French gathering is notorious for waiting until the last minute before locking in every slot for its Official Selection. That includes competition titles, out of competition titles, a small midnight section and the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Cannes announces the bulk of its selections in Paris on April 13, but until then, there are plenty of ways to make educated guesses. Much of the reporting surrounding the upcoming festival selection is simply lists of films expected to come out this year. However, certain movies are definitely not going to the festival for various reasons.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
- 3/31/2017
- by Chris O'Falt, Eric Kohn, Jude Dry, Kate Erbland, Steve Greene and Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
A Ciambra
Director: Jonas Carpignano
Writer: Jonas Carpignano
Italian-American filmmaker made waves with his 2015 debut Mediterranea (which took home a Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director after it premiered in Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival).
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Director: Jonas Carpignano
Writer: Jonas Carpignano
Italian-American filmmaker made waves with his 2015 debut Mediterranea (which took home a Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director after it premiered in Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival).
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- 1/4/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A slate of 12 upcoming features seeking French and European co-producers and sales representation were presented at the event running within the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris.
Ghanaian New York-based director Frances Bodomo’s upcoming feature Afronauts, based on the real-life tale of a Zambian bid to enter the space race shortly after the country gained independence in 1964, was one of the projects drawing strong buzz at the Paris Coproduction Village running June 8-10.
“On the basis of the number meetings booked this was one of the most popular projects on the table although of course a lot will happen behind...
Ghanaian New York-based director Frances Bodomo’s upcoming feature Afronauts, based on the real-life tale of a Zambian bid to enter the space race shortly after the country gained independence in 1964, was one of the projects drawing strong buzz at the Paris Coproduction Village running June 8-10.
“On the basis of the number meetings booked this was one of the most popular projects on the table although of course a lot will happen behind...
- 6/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Paris Co-pro Village buzz titles include 'Afronauts', 'Blood-Drenched Beard', 'Dark Lies The Island'
A slate of 12 upcoming features seeking French and European co-producers and sales representation were presented at the event running within the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris.
Ghanaian New York-based director Frances Bodomo’s upcoming feature Afronauts, based on the real-life tale of a Zambian bid to enter the space race shortly after the country gained independence in 1964, was one of the projects drawing strong buzz at the Paris Coproduction Village running June 8-10.
“On the basis of the number meetings booked this was one of the most popular projects on the table although of course a lot will happen behind...
Ghanaian New York-based director Frances Bodomo’s upcoming feature Afronauts, based on the real-life tale of a Zambian bid to enter the space race shortly after the country gained independence in 1964, was one of the projects drawing strong buzz at the Paris Coproduction Village running June 8-10.
“On the basis of the number meetings booked this was one of the most popular projects on the table although of course a lot will happen behind...
- 6/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
TorinoFilmLab awards more than $460,000 to several upcoming projects.
Laszlo Nemes’ Sunset was among several titles to win funding at this week’s 8th TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event (Nov 25-27).
The coming-of-age thriller, centred on a young woman in Budapest before the First World War, was awarded a grant of €50,000 ($53,000).
The film marks the second feature from Nemes, whose debut Son Of Saul won the Grand Jury Prize and Fipresci Prize when it premiered at Cannes in May and is tipped for Oscar success.
Sunset will be produced by Gabor Sipos of Hungary’s Laokoon Cinema, the production company behind Son Of Saul.
Speaking to ScreenDaily in June, Nemes said Sunset will be set in Budapest in 1910, when the city was cosmopolitan, tolerant and full of inhabitants from different cultural and religious backgrounds.
“[The Nazis] killed all of that. The 20th century transformed Hungary into an ethnically pure country in a way,” said Nemes.
“It’s a coming-of-age...
Laszlo Nemes’ Sunset was among several titles to win funding at this week’s 8th TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event (Nov 25-27).
The coming-of-age thriller, centred on a young woman in Budapest before the First World War, was awarded a grant of €50,000 ($53,000).
The film marks the second feature from Nemes, whose debut Son Of Saul won the Grand Jury Prize and Fipresci Prize when it premiered at Cannes in May and is tipped for Oscar success.
Sunset will be produced by Gabor Sipos of Hungary’s Laokoon Cinema, the production company behind Son Of Saul.
Speaking to ScreenDaily in June, Nemes said Sunset will be set in Budapest in 1910, when the city was cosmopolitan, tolerant and full of inhabitants from different cultural and religious backgrounds.
“[The Nazis] killed all of that. The 20th century transformed Hungary into an ethnically pure country in a way,” said Nemes.
“It’s a coming-of-age...
- 11/27/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 14 finalists for the latest round San Francisco Film Society / Kenneth Ranin Foundation Filmmaking Grants include "A Ciambra," writer/director Jonas Carpignano's follow-up to Cannes sensation and AFI Fest selection "Mediterranea," and "As I Lay Dying" editor Ian Olds' portrait of an Afghan journalist in Northern California, "The Fixer." Winners will be announced in November. Read More: "Introducing the New Auteurs and American Independents of AFI Fest 2015" Up to $300,000 will be awarded to one or more of the finalists, part of more than $3 million awarded through the grant program since its inception in 2009. Winners also receive customized benefits through Filmmaker360, the San Francisco Film Society’s filmmaker services program, including one-on-one project consultations, project feedback, fundraising assistance, resource and service recommendations, and networking opportunities. Awarded twice annually to narrative features...
- 10/20/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Award-winning Italian immigration film struggling to find distribution on director’s home turf.
Since its premiere in Cannes, Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea has won plaudits and awards almost everywhere it has been seen - and yet the film has yet to secure distribution in the director’s native Italy.
The film, picked up for the Us earlier this month by IFC/Sundance Selects, is in contention for the prestigious European Parliament Lux Prize.
It screened in Venice Days today (Sept 11) as one of the three finalists for the Lux prize alongside Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang and Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov’s The Lesson.
Mediterranea tells the story of two friends from Burkina Faso who travel across the Mediterranean to start a new life in southern Italy. The local community is hostile to immigrants and they face a very tough time in establishing a foothold in the new country.
Worldwide sales
Mexican-based Ndm, the sales arm...
Since its premiere in Cannes, Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea has won plaudits and awards almost everywhere it has been seen - and yet the film has yet to secure distribution in the director’s native Italy.
The film, picked up for the Us earlier this month by IFC/Sundance Selects, is in contention for the prestigious European Parliament Lux Prize.
It screened in Venice Days today (Sept 11) as one of the three finalists for the Lux prize alongside Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang and Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov’s The Lesson.
Mediterranea tells the story of two friends from Burkina Faso who travel across the Mediterranean to start a new life in southern Italy. The local community is hostile to immigrants and they face a very tough time in establishing a foothold in the new country.
Worldwide sales
Mexican-based Ndm, the sales arm...
- 9/11/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Italian-language film could shoot this autumn in Southern Italy.
Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf unveiled first details of her upcoming film Single Mother at the Paris Coproduction Village (June 10-12) last week.
The inter-generational drama revolves around a young single mother who leaves her six-year-old daughter in the care of an older woman when she leaves her small town in southern Italy to look for work in the north of the country.
“Although the synopsis says it’s about a 22-year girl living in Italy, this story could happen anywhere in the world,” said Makhmalbaf on the fringes of the coproduction event. “I wanted to capture the situation of three generations of women in the world today.”
The new project is her first film since Green Days, about an Iranian playwright struggling with creative block against the backdrop of the political clashes that broke out after the contested presidential elections in 2009.
It premiered out of competition at Venice...
Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf unveiled first details of her upcoming film Single Mother at the Paris Coproduction Village (June 10-12) last week.
The inter-generational drama revolves around a young single mother who leaves her six-year-old daughter in the care of an older woman when she leaves her small town in southern Italy to look for work in the north of the country.
“Although the synopsis says it’s about a 22-year girl living in Italy, this story could happen anywhere in the world,” said Makhmalbaf on the fringes of the coproduction event. “I wanted to capture the situation of three generations of women in the world today.”
The new project is her first film since Green Days, about an Iranian playwright struggling with creative block against the backdrop of the political clashes that broke out after the contested presidential elections in 2009.
It premiered out of competition at Venice...
- 6/17/2015
- ScreenDaily
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