Global Digital Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to Midnight Runner, the edgy coming-of-age drama from writing/directing duo John Mathis and Jared Sprouse. The film centers around Ian (Ben Weinswig), a quiet loner who can't seem to escape his mysterious and violent past. Soon after moving in with his Aunt (Dawn O'Donoghue), he encounters Kurdt (Mekhai Lee), the leader of a local high school gang. Kurdt has deep ties to Officer Wilson (Tavis L. Baker), a corrupt cop who secretly controls Kurdt from the shadows. Ian soon finds himself in the middle of a murder cover up. But, he finds a friend in Terry (Noah Crandell), a trustworthy dealer in the group with a dark secret and a soft spot for Ian. However, it's Ian's relationship...
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- 6/7/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Global Digital Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to Midnight Runner from writer directors John Mathis and Jared Sprouse.
An edgy coming-of-age drama, Midnight Runner centers around Ian (Ben Weinswig), a quiet loner who can’t seem to escape his mysterious and violent past. Soon after moving in with his Aunt (Dawn O’Donoghue), he encounters Kurdt (Mekhai Lee), the leader of a local high school gang.
Kurdt has deep ties to Officer Wilson (Tavis L. Baker), a corrupt cop who secretly controls Kurdt from the shadows. Ian soon finds himself in the middle of a murder cover up. But, he finds a friend in Terry (Noah Crandell), a trustworthy dealer in the group with a dark secret and a soft spot for Ian. However, it’s Ian’s relationship with Anna (J...
An edgy coming-of-age drama, Midnight Runner centers around Ian (Ben Weinswig), a quiet loner who can’t seem to escape his mysterious and violent past. Soon after moving in with his Aunt (Dawn O’Donoghue), he encounters Kurdt (Mekhai Lee), the leader of a local high school gang.
Kurdt has deep ties to Officer Wilson (Tavis L. Baker), a corrupt cop who secretly controls Kurdt from the shadows. Ian soon finds himself in the middle of a murder cover up. But, he finds a friend in Terry (Noah Crandell), a trustworthy dealer in the group with a dark secret and a soft spot for Ian. However, it’s Ian’s relationship with Anna (J...
- 6/7/2019
- QuietEarth.us
Midnight Runner is a co-directed film from John Mathis and Jared Sprouse. Together, they have created a coming-of-age drama, in which Ian is surrounded by a violent, criminal world. To be released by Global Digital Releasing, Midnight Runner stars: Ben Weinswig (Polo Rainbow), Dawn O'Donoghue, Mekhai Lee, Tavis L. Baker and Noah Crandell. This film is slated for a run, on Digital platforms, next week. The story focuses on Ian (Weinswig). He moves into a new neighbourhood, with his Aunt (O'Donoghue). Here, he meets a local gang leader, Kurdt (Lee). As Ian and Kurdt's lives collide, they both become intertwined with a local murder. Now, Ian has left one violent past, only to be caught up in a more dangerous present. Ian's relationship with Anna might be his only way out, of this criminal underworld. Global Digital Releasing with release Midnight Runner on several platforms. On June 14th, this dramatic...
- 6/7/2019
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
$4.7m Swiss-German co-production is directed by Oliver Rihs.
Switzerland’s Contrast Film has started production on its most ambitious feature film to date, Storm directed by Oliver Rihs.
Screen can reveal an exclusive first look image from the film, above.
Storm started shooting on April 1 in Switzerland, Germany and Spain. The nine-week shoot will wrap on June 12. In Switzerland, the production shoots in Zurich and in eastern and central Switzerland; in Germany it shoots in the Black Forest and in the studio at Ludwigsburg; and in Spain, in Almeria in Andalusia.
The film has a budget of €4.2m ($4.7m) and...
Switzerland’s Contrast Film has started production on its most ambitious feature film to date, Storm directed by Oliver Rihs.
Screen can reveal an exclusive first look image from the film, above.
Storm started shooting on April 1 in Switzerland, Germany and Spain. The nine-week shoot will wrap on June 12. In Switzerland, the production shoots in Zurich and in eastern and central Switzerland; in Germany it shoots in the Black Forest and in the studio at Ludwigsburg; and in Spain, in Almeria in Andalusia.
The film has a budget of €4.2m ($4.7m) and...
- 5/2/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Titles include documentary ‘Caveman’ and crime story ’Storm’.
Switzerland’s Contrast Film, which is currently enjoying a buzzy response to it San Sebastian and Zurich Film Festival competition title Midnight Runner, has a busy slate ahead of more button-pushing projects.
Stefan Eichenberger and Ivan Madeo, who both produce Midnight Runner, run Zurich- and Bern-based Contrast with filmmaker Urs Frey.
In production now is documentary Caveman, by Italy’s Tommaso Landucci (lead produced by DocLab Rome). The story is about a 50-year-old Italian sculptor working for 30 years on one work of art underground in a cave. “It’s the question of...
Switzerland’s Contrast Film, which is currently enjoying a buzzy response to it San Sebastian and Zurich Film Festival competition title Midnight Runner, has a busy slate ahead of more button-pushing projects.
Stefan Eichenberger and Ivan Madeo, who both produce Midnight Runner, run Zurich- and Bern-based Contrast with filmmaker Urs Frey.
In production now is documentary Caveman, by Italy’s Tommaso Landucci (lead produced by DocLab Rome). The story is about a 50-year-old Italian sculptor working for 30 years on one work of art underground in a cave. “It’s the question of...
- 10/4/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
In an era of reckoning that is rapidly running out of new ways to describe the evil men do, “toxic masculinity” has become all too familiar a buzz term. But it could hardly be more aptly applied to the simmering psychopath at the center of “Midnight Runner”: A clean-cut champion athlete who leads an escalating parallel life as a serial assaulter of women, he appears to be incrementally poisoned from the inside out by his most violent impulses, turning from dysfunctional to dangerous as the sepsis spreads. Fictionalizing and updating events that made Swiss headlines in the 1990s, Hannes Baumgartner’s stern, glass-gazed debut feature courts debate by assuming his point of view for much of its short, sharp running time — achieving a clinical kind of empathy in its attempt to penetrate the male predator’s psychology.
Unspooling in San Sebastián’s New Directors showcase before a home-turf premiere in Zurich,...
Unspooling in San Sebastián’s New Directors showcase before a home-turf premiere in Zurich,...
- 9/24/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian — Swiss filmmaker Hannes Baumgartner’s debut feature “Midnight Runner” headed into its San Sebastian’s New Directors world premiere on Saturday afternoon buzzing off a series of international press screenings held the week prior.
The film’s protagonist, Jonas Widmer, seems to have it all together. He’s his country’s most impressive young distance runner and Olympic hopeful; he works as a chef in a high-end restaurant; and he and his girlfriend are looking to buy their first place together.
Beneath that shiny venire, however, is an emotionally damaged, immature young man, still reeling from the recent loss of his brother. He has abandonment issues stemming back to his birth-mother and complicated relationships with women, always putting himself in impossible positions in regards to personal relationships.
As his insecurities accumulate, his training schedule amps up, and he begins experiencing insomnia bordering on night terrors, Jonas turns to...
The film’s protagonist, Jonas Widmer, seems to have it all together. He’s his country’s most impressive young distance runner and Olympic hopeful; he works as a chef in a high-end restaurant; and he and his girlfriend are looking to buy their first place together.
Beneath that shiny venire, however, is an emotionally damaged, immature young man, still reeling from the recent loss of his brother. He has abandonment issues stemming back to his birth-mother and complicated relationships with women, always putting himself in impossible positions in regards to personal relationships.
As his insecurities accumulate, his training schedule amps up, and he begins experiencing insomnia bordering on night terrors, Jonas turns to...
- 9/22/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The winning director and Spanish distributor in the section will receive €50,000.
Update: French Production Meteorites directed by Romain Laguna and China’s Breeze by Kun Yang have been added to the line-up.
Meteorites focusses on a 16 year-old girl who is spending the summer in a town in the South of France and works in a theme park. Breeze revolves around a man’s homecoming journey from Yunnan to the town of his birth.
Original story: The 2018 San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 21-29) has revealed 13 of the first and second films by European, Asian and Latin American filmmakers set to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award.
Update: French Production Meteorites directed by Romain Laguna and China’s Breeze by Kun Yang have been added to the line-up.
Meteorites focusses on a 16 year-old girl who is spending the summer in a town in the South of France and works in a theme park. Breeze revolves around a man’s homecoming journey from Yunnan to the town of his birth.
Original story: The 2018 San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 21-29) has revealed 13 of the first and second films by European, Asian and Latin American filmmakers set to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award.
- 8/23/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
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