Göteborg-based Cinenic Film, headed by Annika Hellström and Erika Malmgren, has a flawless track record in backing debut directors with global breakthrough potential.
Their roster takes in Ísold Uggadóttir (“And Breathe Normally”), Gorki Glaser-Müller (“Children of the Enemy”) and most recently Christoffer Sandler, whose fiction debut “So Damn Easy Going” opened the last Göteborg Film Festival and is now heading off to the Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund (Aug. 20-26).
Cinenic will also be in Haugesund with its latest young filmmaking recruits, Angelika Abramovitch and Minka Jakerson and their respective feature debuts “The Braid” and “The Soft Skin,” to be pitched at the Nordic Co-production Market, part of Haugesund confab New Nordic Films (Aug. 23-26).
The Crimean-born Swede Abramovitch competed in Clermont Ferrand with her graduation film from Stockholm’s Academy of the Arts “Catcave Hysteria” and was picked for the Future Frames next generation showcase in Karlovy Vary in July.
Their roster takes in Ísold Uggadóttir (“And Breathe Normally”), Gorki Glaser-Müller (“Children of the Enemy”) and most recently Christoffer Sandler, whose fiction debut “So Damn Easy Going” opened the last Göteborg Film Festival and is now heading off to the Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund (Aug. 20-26).
Cinenic will also be in Haugesund with its latest young filmmaking recruits, Angelika Abramovitch and Minka Jakerson and their respective feature debuts “The Braid” and “The Soft Skin,” to be pitched at the Nordic Co-production Market, part of Haugesund confab New Nordic Films (Aug. 23-26).
The Crimean-born Swede Abramovitch competed in Clermont Ferrand with her graduation film from Stockholm’s Academy of the Arts “Catcave Hysteria” and was picked for the Future Frames next generation showcase in Karlovy Vary in July.
- 8/12/2022
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Directors Orri Jonsson and David Horgdal Stefansson and producer Anton Mani Svansson are in the research phase for the film, currently titled A Deal With Chaos.
A new documentary feature about the late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson was introduced at the Stockfish film festival’s industry days in Iceland.
Directors Orri Jonsson (Grandma Lo-Fi) and David Horgdal Stefansson and producer Anton Mani Svansson are in the research phase for the film, currently titled A Deal With Chaos, and have been gathering archive material for more than two years. The team hopes to begin shooting new interviews soon, and expects the...
A new documentary feature about the late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson was introduced at the Stockfish film festival’s industry days in Iceland.
Directors Orri Jonsson (Grandma Lo-Fi) and David Horgdal Stefansson and producer Anton Mani Svansson are in the research phase for the film, currently titled A Deal With Chaos, and have been gathering archive material for more than two years. The team hopes to begin shooting new interviews soon, and expects the...
- 4/4/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Drama
“Floodlights,” a feature-length single drama for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer tells the story of Andy Woodward, the former professional soccer player whose revelations about the sexual abuse he suffered as a youth player sent shockwaves throughout the industry. In 2016, Woodward went public about sexual abuse by his youth coach, Barry Bennell. After doing so, hundreds more men, many also victims of Bennell, found the courage to speak up about their experiences of abuse, lifting the lid on a national scandal in the U.K.’s most popular sport.
Gerard Kearns (“The Last Kingdom”) portrays Woodward and the cast also includes Jonas Armstrong (“Hollington Drive”), Morven Christie (“Lockwood & Co”) and Steve Edge (“Benidorm”).
“Floodlights,” made with the full cooperation of Woodward, is written by BAFTA-winning screenwriter, Matt Greenhalgh and directed by BAFTA-nominated Nick Rowland (“Calm With Horses”). It is produced by Expectation, part of BBC Studios’ portfolio of indies...
“Floodlights,” a feature-length single drama for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer tells the story of Andy Woodward, the former professional soccer player whose revelations about the sexual abuse he suffered as a youth player sent shockwaves throughout the industry. In 2016, Woodward went public about sexual abuse by his youth coach, Barry Bennell. After doing so, hundreds more men, many also victims of Bennell, found the courage to speak up about their experiences of abuse, lifting the lid on a national scandal in the U.K.’s most popular sport.
Gerard Kearns (“The Last Kingdom”) portrays Woodward and the cast also includes Jonas Armstrong (“Hollington Drive”), Morven Christie (“Lockwood & Co”) and Steve Edge (“Benidorm”).
“Floodlights,” made with the full cooperation of Woodward, is written by BAFTA-winning screenwriter, Matt Greenhalgh and directed by BAFTA-nominated Nick Rowland (“Calm With Horses”). It is produced by Expectation, part of BBC Studios’ portfolio of indies...
- 3/29/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Energized by the second strong year in a row for Scandinavian cinema, a hybrid 45th Göteborg Film Festival will open with Christoffer Sandler’s “So Damn Easy Going” in main Nordic Competition, alongside Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” and Eskil Vogt’s “The Innocents.”
Despite new theater capacity controls announced by Swedish prime minister Magdalena Andersson on Monday, Göteborg, which had anticipated the tighter restrictions, is pressing ahead with its plans for an on-site festival with select online screenings of some 50 films for Sweden, festival artistic director Jonas Holmberg told Variety.
Luca Guadagnino will receive an Honorary Dragon Award, attending the festival and participating in an on-stage conversation after the screening of “Call Me By Your Name” on Feb. 3.
Playing Lady Jessica Atreides in “Dune,” Rebecca Ferguson (“Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”) will pick up a Nordic Honorary Dragon Award.
Produced by Sweden’s Cinenic Film, the company behind Sundance...
Despite new theater capacity controls announced by Swedish prime minister Magdalena Andersson on Monday, Göteborg, which had anticipated the tighter restrictions, is pressing ahead with its plans for an on-site festival with select online screenings of some 50 films for Sweden, festival artistic director Jonas Holmberg told Variety.
Luca Guadagnino will receive an Honorary Dragon Award, attending the festival and participating in an on-stage conversation after the screening of “Call Me By Your Name” on Feb. 3.
Playing Lady Jessica Atreides in “Dune,” Rebecca Ferguson (“Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”) will pick up a Nordic Honorary Dragon Award.
Produced by Sweden’s Cinenic Film, the company behind Sundance...
- 1/11/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
TrustNordisk is unveiling the trailer for Christoffer Sandler’s feature directing debut “So Damn Easy Going,” a teenage romantic dramedy.
The film is headlined by a Swedish cast of newcomers Nikki Hanseblad and Melina Paukkonen and Shanti Roney (“Nymphomaniac: Vol. II). Sandler penned the script with Lina Åström, Jessika Jankert and Linda-Maria Birbeck.
The heartwarming coming-of-age love story revolves about Joanna, an 18-year-old girl whose mind is like a flashing amusement park at peak season. She is 18 years old and needs Adhd meds to keep her buzzy brain in order. With a depressed father whose sick pay is barely covering the rent, money runs out and Joanna sets off to hunt for money to pay for her medication. In the midst of the chaos, she falls in love with the charming and confident Audrey.
“So Damn Easy Going” is produced by Annika Hellström and Erika Malmgren, the banner behind the...
The film is headlined by a Swedish cast of newcomers Nikki Hanseblad and Melina Paukkonen and Shanti Roney (“Nymphomaniac: Vol. II). Sandler penned the script with Lina Åström, Jessika Jankert and Linda-Maria Birbeck.
The heartwarming coming-of-age love story revolves about Joanna, an 18-year-old girl whose mind is like a flashing amusement park at peak season. She is 18 years old and needs Adhd meds to keep her buzzy brain in order. With a depressed father whose sick pay is barely covering the rent, money runs out and Joanna sets off to hunt for money to pay for her medication. In the midst of the chaos, she falls in love with the charming and confident Audrey.
“So Damn Easy Going” is produced by Annika Hellström and Erika Malmgren, the banner behind the...
- 12/15/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The latest in our series in which writers highlight lesser-known films available to stream is a forward-thinking social drama with a violent edge
For anyone seeking a primer on classic cinema in the digital media era, the so-called “big three” of streaming - Netflix, Amazon and Hulu - might not be the ideal place to start. Take Netflix as an example: of the roughly 6,000 titles currently available on the platform, fewer than 20 are feature films that were released before 1970. Netflix’s interest in auteurs, meanwhile, has so far largely been confined to contemporary Hollywood. As streaming services go, it’s the equivalent of a library with nothing but murder mystery novels – some good, some bad, but whodunnits all the same – and one dusty shelf at the back for everything else.
Related: My streaming gem: why you should watch And Breathe Normally...
For anyone seeking a primer on classic cinema in the digital media era, the so-called “big three” of streaming - Netflix, Amazon and Hulu - might not be the ideal place to start. Take Netflix as an example: of the roughly 6,000 titles currently available on the platform, fewer than 20 are feature films that were released before 1970. Netflix’s interest in auteurs, meanwhile, has so far largely been confined to contemporary Hollywood. As streaming services go, it’s the equivalent of a library with nothing but murder mystery novels – some good, some bad, but whodunnits all the same – and one dusty shelf at the back for everything else.
Related: My streaming gem: why you should watch And Breathe Normally...
- 12/1/2020
- by Brogan Morris
- The Guardian - Film News
The film, written by the director herself, is based on a best-selling novel by Audur Jónsdóttir, one of the most accomplished writers in Iceland. The rough cut of Tinna Hrafnsdóttir's debut feature, a psychological drama with a touch of suspense entitled Quake, is almost ready. In recent years, Hrafnsdóttir has helmed two award-winning shorts, Munda (2017) and Helga (2016), and she worked as a casting director on Ísold Uggadóttir's And Breathe Normally (2018) as well as an actress on the police procedural TV show Valhalla Murders, the political tragicomedy series The Minister and Margrete, a historical epic drama shooting now in Prague. Quake is based on Audur Jónsdóttir's book Grand Mal, published in 2015. Since the late 1990s, Jónsdóttir's novels have aroused interest in Iceland as well as abroad on account of their rare blend of incisive candour and humour. In detail, the story follows Saga (Aníta Briem), a single...
The specialty box office took a downturn in the second weekend of the year, plunging lower than the usual lackluster early January numbers. Of the fifteen new openings reviewed in the New York and/or Los Angeles papers, none reported grosses. Is this the new normal?
Three new films opened wide. Of the remaining dozen, nine had parallel streaming debuts, including two boasting Oscar-winners, Vanessa Redgrave in “The Aspern Papers” (Cohen Media) and Richard Dreyfuss in “The Last Laugh” (Netflix). Iceland’s “And Breathe Normally” premiered a year ago at Sundance (Netflix). The last two were foreign-language titles, “Touch Me Not” (Kino Lorber) from Romania and “Perfect Strangers” (Pantelion) from Mexico, which yielded $425,000 in 132 theaters on the Spanish-language circuit. But new specialty titles meant to see much more theatrical play? Nada.
And this comes with the announcement that CBS Films, in recent years a provider of important specialized releases as well as more commercial fare,...
Three new films opened wide. Of the remaining dozen, nine had parallel streaming debuts, including two boasting Oscar-winners, Vanessa Redgrave in “The Aspern Papers” (Cohen Media) and Richard Dreyfuss in “The Last Laugh” (Netflix). Iceland’s “And Breathe Normally” premiered a year ago at Sundance (Netflix). The last two were foreign-language titles, “Touch Me Not” (Kino Lorber) from Romania and “Perfect Strangers” (Pantelion) from Mexico, which yielded $425,000 in 132 theaters on the Spanish-language circuit. But new specialty titles meant to see much more theatrical play? Nada.
And this comes with the announcement that CBS Films, in recent years a provider of important specialized releases as well as more commercial fare,...
- 1/13/2019
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Netflix has confirmed that 27 new original series, movies and specials will be debuting on the streaming service in January, including the red-hot Oscar contender “Incredibles 2.” Among the returning shows are season 3 of “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” season 5 of “Grace and Frankie” and the final episodes of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”
Available January 1
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 3 (Netflix original)
Across the Universe
Babel
Black Hawk Down
City of God
Comedians of the World (Netflix original)
Definitely, Maybe
Godzilla
Happy Feet
Hell or High Water
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Friends from College
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
It Takes Two
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jersey Boys
Mona Lisa Smile
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pinky Malinky...
Available January 1
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 3 (Netflix original)
Across the Universe
Babel
Black Hawk Down
City of God
Comedians of the World (Netflix original)
Definitely, Maybe
Godzilla
Happy Feet
Hell or High Water
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Friends from College
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
It Takes Two
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jersey Boys
Mona Lisa Smile
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pinky Malinky...
- 1/1/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
With a new year comes new titles to stream on Netflix.
The third season of the Netflix original A Series of Unfortunate Events will drop Jan. 1, while Grace and Frankie, Friends From College, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, Call My Agent! and Club de Cuervos will all return for new seasons in January. Additionally, part two of the fourth and final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will be released Jan. 25.
A number of original films will hit Netflix throughout the month, including Black Earth Rising, And Breathe Normally, Lionheart, Justice, The Last Laugh and When Heroes Fly.
Following the success of the true ...
The third season of the Netflix original A Series of Unfortunate Events will drop Jan. 1, while Grace and Frankie, Friends From College, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, Call My Agent! and Club de Cuervos will all return for new seasons in January. Additionally, part two of the fourth and final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will be released Jan. 25.
A number of original films will hit Netflix throughout the month, including Black Earth Rising, And Breathe Normally, Lionheart, Justice, The Last Laugh and When Heroes Fly.
Following the success of the true ...
- 12/28/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
With a new year comes new titles to stream on Netflix.
The third season of the Netflix original A Series of Unfortunate Events will drop Jan. 1, while Grace and Frankie, Friends From College, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, Call My Agent! and Club de Cuervos will all return for new seasons in January. Additionally, part two of the fourth and final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will be released Jan. 25.
A number of original films will hit Netflix throughout the month, including Black Earth Rising, And Breathe Normally, Lionheart, Justice, The Last Laugh and When Heroes Fly.
Following the success of the true ...
The third season of the Netflix original A Series of Unfortunate Events will drop Jan. 1, while Grace and Frankie, Friends From College, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, Call My Agent! and Club de Cuervos will all return for new seasons in January. Additionally, part two of the fourth and final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will be released Jan. 25.
A number of original films will hit Netflix throughout the month, including Black Earth Rising, And Breathe Normally, Lionheart, Justice, The Last Laugh and When Heroes Fly.
Following the success of the true ...
- 12/28/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Netflix heads into its first legitimate Oscar season, the streaming giant is hoping to pull out nominations and wins for “Roma,” “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” and “Girl.” Lest Netflix lose sight of its one true purpose, the platform will be streaming the entire “Indiana Jones” franchise beginning in January. The streamer announced today its full list of titles for the new year, and it’s the expected mix of cult hit indies and little-known original films.
Quentin Tarantino fans can rejoice in January: “Pulp Fiction” heads to Netflix in the beginning of the month, and the classic continues to be endlessly re-watchable. Guillermo del Toro fans can also peruse “Pan’s Labyrinth,” and relive a simpler time before the Mexican filmmaker’s polarizing “The Shape of Water” Oscar win. David Mackenzie and Taylor Sheridan’s 2016 crime drama “Hell or High Water” also becomes available on the same day.
Quentin Tarantino fans can rejoice in January: “Pulp Fiction” heads to Netflix in the beginning of the month, and the classic continues to be endlessly re-watchable. Guillermo del Toro fans can also peruse “Pan’s Labyrinth,” and relive a simpler time before the Mexican filmmaker’s polarizing “The Shape of Water” Oscar win. David Mackenzie and Taylor Sheridan’s 2016 crime drama “Hell or High Water” also becomes available on the same day.
- 12/13/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The Efp (European Film Promotion) has named its ten best up and coming talents to be honoured as European Shooting Stars during the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in 2019.
In its 22nd year, the European Shooting Stars has taken the best from Europe in the industry who they deem are ready to step out onto the international film scene by a jury of industry experts.
Elliott Crosset Hove from Denmark swayed the jury with his “raw ability to shift from transparent vulnerability to intimidation” in Winter Brothers, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Locarno and Vilinus Film Festivals, and a Robert, the Danish Academy Award.
Also in the news – Jodie Foster to take the helm on English language remake of ‘Woman at War’
Rea Lest-Liik from Estonia impressed with her “fierceness, forcefulness and passion” depicted in November.
The youngest up-and-coming star is Emma Drogunova from Germany.
In its 22nd year, the European Shooting Stars has taken the best from Europe in the industry who they deem are ready to step out onto the international film scene by a jury of industry experts.
Elliott Crosset Hove from Denmark swayed the jury with his “raw ability to shift from transparent vulnerability to intimidation” in Winter Brothers, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Locarno and Vilinus Film Festivals, and a Robert, the Danish Academy Award.
Also in the news – Jodie Foster to take the helm on English language remake of ‘Woman at War’
Rea Lest-Liik from Estonia impressed with her “fierceness, forcefulness and passion” depicted in November.
The youngest up-and-coming star is Emma Drogunova from Germany.
- 12/12/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Film support agency European Film Promotion has selected this year’s ten European Shooting Stars, the emerging talent roster celebrated during the Berlin Film Festival. Making the grade were Elliott Crosset Hove from Denmark, star of Winter Brothers; Estonian actress Lest-Liik, star of feature November; Emma Drogunova from Germany, star of The Tobacconist; and Kristín Thora
Haraldsdóttir from Iceland, star of And Breathe Normally. Also chosen were Aisling Franciosi from Ireland, whose credits include Games Of Thrones and The Nightingale; Macedonian actor Blagoj Veselinov of Secret Ingredient; Dawid Ogrodnik from Poland, star of Silent Night; Norwegian actress Ine Marie Wilmann, known for Sonja: The White Swan; Serbian actor Milan Marić from Dovlatov, which screened this year in competition in Berlin; and The
Charmer star Ardalan Esmaili from Sweden. Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Domhnall Gleeson and Baltasar Kormákur. The 2019 jury included U.S. casting director Avy Kaufman,...
Haraldsdóttir from Iceland, star of And Breathe Normally. Also chosen were Aisling Franciosi from Ireland, whose credits include Games Of Thrones and The Nightingale; Macedonian actor Blagoj Veselinov of Secret Ingredient; Dawid Ogrodnik from Poland, star of Silent Night; Norwegian actress Ine Marie Wilmann, known for Sonja: The White Swan; Serbian actor Milan Marić from Dovlatov, which screened this year in competition in Berlin; and The
Charmer star Ardalan Esmaili from Sweden. Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Domhnall Gleeson and Baltasar Kormákur. The 2019 jury included U.S. casting director Avy Kaufman,...
- 12/11/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman and Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Aisling Franciosi (“The Nightingale”), Ardalan Esmaili (“The Charmer”) and Elliott Crosset Hove (“Winter Brothers”) are among the 10 actors and actresses who have been named as the European Film Promotion’s Shooting Stars.
Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Pilou Asbæk and Baltasar Kormákur. The new crop of up-and-coming talent for the 22nd edition of the program will be honored during the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.
Crosset Hove from Denmark won the best actor award at Locarno and a Robert prize (Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars) for his performance in Hlynur Palmason’s “Winter Brothers.” The jury praised the actor for his “raw ability to shift from transparent vulnerability to intimidation.”
Franciosi, an Italian-born Irish actress, has been acclaimed for her performance in Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale,” which won two nods at the Venice Film Festival, including the Special Jury Prize. The jury said Franciosi, whose other...
Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Pilou Asbæk and Baltasar Kormákur. The new crop of up-and-coming talent for the 22nd edition of the program will be honored during the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.
Crosset Hove from Denmark won the best actor award at Locarno and a Robert prize (Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars) for his performance in Hlynur Palmason’s “Winter Brothers.” The jury praised the actor for his “raw ability to shift from transparent vulnerability to intimidation.”
Franciosi, an Italian-born Irish actress, has been acclaimed for her performance in Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale,” which won two nods at the Venice Film Festival, including the Special Jury Prize. The jury said Franciosi, whose other...
- 12/11/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“Let Me Fall” is a harrowing look at addiction that stands out amid an autumn filled with films about junkies and their families. Again touching a domestic nerve as he did with “Life in a Fishbowl,” Icelandic auteur Baldvin Z’s drama tells the story of two teenage girls and their descent into the hellish depths of substance abuse. Like Z’s two previous features, it is strongly acted and sensitively directed. It is also remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the abuses the protagonists suffer to satisfy their habits, and for its compelling cinematic style. “Fall” opened in Reykjavik on Sept. 7, far out-grossing “The Nun” in its first week, and is still going strong.
Like Amazon’s awards-buzz title “Beautiful Boy,” “Let Me Fall” is also based on true stories and considerable research in the addict community. And like “Beautiful Boy,” it unfolds in a nonlinear fashion, cutting between...
Like Amazon’s awards-buzz title “Beautiful Boy,” “Let Me Fall” is also based on true stories and considerable research in the addict community. And like “Beautiful Boy,” it unfolds in a nonlinear fashion, cutting between...
- 10/8/2018
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Dano’s directorial debut “Wildlife,” which has had considerable festival play including Sundance, Cannes and Toronto is among the titles in the international competition at the 20th Mumbai film festival.
The festival runs Oct. 25 to Nov. 1, 2018. U.S. director, Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”) will give a masterclass.
Other international competition titles include deceased Chinese director Hu Bo’s “An Elephant Sitting Still” which won awards at Berlin and Hong Kong; “And Breathe Normally” which won Isold Uggadottir the directing award at Sundance; Tiago Melo’s “Azougue Nazare,” which won at Rotterdam; Gabrielle Brady’s “Island of the Hungry Ghosts,” which won prizes at Edinburgh and Tribeca; Dominic Sangma’s “Ma-Ama”; Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s “Manta Ray” which won an award at Venice; Christina Coe’s “Nancy” which won the screenwriting prize at Sundance; Alireza Motamedi’s “Reza”; Etienne Kallos’ “The Harvesters”; Marcello Martinessi’s “The Heiresses,” which won awards at Berlin,...
The festival runs Oct. 25 to Nov. 1, 2018. U.S. director, Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”) will give a masterclass.
Other international competition titles include deceased Chinese director Hu Bo’s “An Elephant Sitting Still” which won awards at Berlin and Hong Kong; “And Breathe Normally” which won Isold Uggadottir the directing award at Sundance; Tiago Melo’s “Azougue Nazare,” which won at Rotterdam; Gabrielle Brady’s “Island of the Hungry Ghosts,” which won prizes at Edinburgh and Tribeca; Dominic Sangma’s “Ma-Ama”; Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s “Manta Ray” which won an award at Venice; Christina Coe’s “Nancy” which won the screenwriting prize at Sundance; Alireza Motamedi’s “Reza”; Etienne Kallos’ “The Harvesters”; Marcello Martinessi’s “The Heiresses,” which won awards at Berlin,...
- 10/2/2018
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Dano's Wildlife is among the titles in the lineup in the Mumbai Film Festival's international competition section, which honors films by debut directors.
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Dano's critically acclaimed family drama bowed at Sundance and traveled to Cannes and Toronto.
The Mumbai festival's other competition titles vying for the Golden Gateway award include Adina Pintilie's Romanian drama Touch Me Not, which won the Golden Bear at Berlin; Sundance directing award winner And Breathe Normally, by Isold Uggadottir from Iceland; Sundance screenwriting award winner Nancy, by Christine Coe; and Thai cinematographer turned director ...
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Dano's critically acclaimed family drama bowed at Sundance and traveled to Cannes and Toronto.
The Mumbai festival's other competition titles vying for the Golden Gateway award include Adina Pintilie's Romanian drama Touch Me Not, which won the Golden Bear at Berlin; Sundance directing award winner And Breathe Normally, by Isold Uggadottir from Iceland; Sundance screenwriting award winner Nancy, by Christine Coe; and Thai cinematographer turned director ...
- 10/2/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Paul Dano's Wildlife is among the titles in the lineup in the Mumbai Film Festival's international competition section, which honors films by debut directors.
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Dano's critically acclaimed family drama bowed at Sundance and traveled to Cannes and Toronto.
The Mumbai festival's other competition titles vying for the Golden Gateway award include Adina Pintilie's Romanian drama Touch Me Not, which won the Golden Bear at Berlin; Sundance directing award winner And Breathe Normally, by Isold Uggadottir from Iceland; Sundance screenwriting award winner Nancy, by Christine Coe; and Thai cinematographer turned director ...
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Dano's critically acclaimed family drama bowed at Sundance and traveled to Cannes and Toronto.
The Mumbai festival's other competition titles vying for the Golden Gateway award include Adina Pintilie's Romanian drama Touch Me Not, which won the Golden Bear at Berlin; Sundance directing award winner And Breathe Normally, by Isold Uggadottir from Iceland; Sundance screenwriting award winner Nancy, by Christine Coe; and Thai cinematographer turned director ...
- 10/2/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Other winners included Museo (Museum), In den Gangen (In the Aisles) and Andid Edlilega (And Breathe Normally).
The Heiresses (Las herederas) by Marcelo Martinessi has won the best film award (Golden Athena) at the 24th Athens International Film Festival (September 19-30).
The film, an international coproduction by Paraguay, Uruguay, Germany, Brazil, Norway and France, is a socially charged drama placing a loving couple of two mid aged women in a stressful situation of intense imbalance. It is sold worldwide by French outfit Luxbox.
Paraguayan Martinessi’s debut premiered in Berlinale last February where it won the Alfred Bauer award for best first film,...
The Heiresses (Las herederas) by Marcelo Martinessi has won the best film award (Golden Athena) at the 24th Athens International Film Festival (September 19-30).
The film, an international coproduction by Paraguay, Uruguay, Germany, Brazil, Norway and France, is a socially charged drama placing a loving couple of two mid aged women in a stressful situation of intense imbalance. It is sold worldwide by French outfit Luxbox.
Paraguayan Martinessi’s debut premiered in Berlinale last February where it won the Alfred Bauer award for best first film,...
- 10/1/2018
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Kindergarten Teacher” will open the 26th Hamptons International Film Festival on Oct. 4.
Gyllenhaal portrays a kindergarten teacher uses questionable methods to cultivate the poetic talents of one of her students.
Sara Colangelo directed the film, which also stars Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, and Gael García Bernal. Colangelo is a 2013 alumna of the festival’s annual screenwriters lab. She and Gyllenhaal will both attend the festival.
“The Kindergarten Teacher” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and will also be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It is scheduled to be released Oct. 12 on Netflix.
The festival will also feature works from two other alums of its screenwriters lab: 2015 participant Ísold Uggadóttir’s “And Breathe Normally,” about the blossoming relationship of two women in Iceland — one an airport worker, the other a detained refugee; and 2016 participant Cathy Yan’s “Dead Pigs,” about the...
Gyllenhaal portrays a kindergarten teacher uses questionable methods to cultivate the poetic talents of one of her students.
Sara Colangelo directed the film, which also stars Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, and Gael García Bernal. Colangelo is a 2013 alumna of the festival’s annual screenwriters lab. She and Gyllenhaal will both attend the festival.
“The Kindergarten Teacher” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and will also be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It is scheduled to be released Oct. 12 on Netflix.
The festival will also feature works from two other alums of its screenwriters lab: 2015 participant Ísold Uggadóttir’s “And Breathe Normally,” about the blossoming relationship of two women in Iceland — one an airport worker, the other a detained refugee; and 2016 participant Cathy Yan’s “Dead Pigs,” about the...
- 8/15/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the annual event broke some of its own barriers, doling out each of its four directing awards to female filmmakers. For the first time in the festival’s 34-year history, directing prizes went only to women, spanning all four major categories — narrative and documentary, U.S. and world cinema: Sara Colangelo (“The Kindergarten Teacher”), Alexandria Bombach (“On Her Shoulders”), Sandi Tan (“Shirkers”), and Isold Uggadottir (“And Breathe Normally”). The festival’s juries also awarded Desiree Akhavan’s “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” the Grand Jury Prize, the festival’s highest honor; Sundance’s sole dedicated screenplay honor, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, went to Christina Choe for “Nancy.”
In short, it was a big festival for women. But what does winning an award at Sundance actually mean for female filmmakers? How does it impact future projects? Does it guarantee further success in the industry?...
In short, it was a big festival for women. But what does winning an award at Sundance actually mean for female filmmakers? How does it impact future projects? Does it guarantee further success in the industry?...
- 1/29/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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