It's the most wonderful time, of my year. In less than two weeks we return to Cdmx and Morbido Film Fest to celebrate their twelfth year, taking to the high seas with this year's water theme, bringing local and international genre cinema to Mexico. The festival announced their complete lineup yesterday and there is a terrific mix of local and international titles. Ant Timpson's Come To Daddy has been shredding up the festival circuit and we cannot see what the local audience makes of Lijo Jose Pellissery's Jallikattu. We guarantee that Edgar Nito's award winning flick The Gasoline Thieves will be a sell out show this year. The better question is how many viewers are going to leave the screening of Ping Lumpraploeng's The...
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- 10/17/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Rebecca Lundgren, Joshua Sobel produce gritty Us-Philippines drama.
Production has wrapped after 17 days around Metro Manila in the Philippines on the politically charged thriller A Violet Night, which the producers are shopping at Busan.
Ron Morales is directing from his screenplay about a foreign journalist who risks her life to expose the truth when she becomes entangled with the Filipino government’s brutal anti-drug crusade.
Imprint Pictures and Harriet Pictures from the Us are producing the film with production services provided by Outpost Visual Frontier and Epic Media, both from the Philippines.
Rebecca Lundgren (Graceland) and Joshua Sobel serve as producers,...
Production has wrapped after 17 days around Metro Manila in the Philippines on the politically charged thriller A Violet Night, which the producers are shopping at Busan.
Ron Morales is directing from his screenplay about a foreign journalist who risks her life to expose the truth when she becomes entangled with the Filipino government’s brutal anti-drug crusade.
Imprint Pictures and Harriet Pictures from the Us are producing the film with production services provided by Outpost Visual Frontier and Epic Media, both from the Philippines.
Rebecca Lundgren (Graceland) and Joshua Sobel serve as producers,...
- 10/7/2019
- ScreenDaily
Hugo Keiser’s “The Occupant” from the Netherlands, won the Bucheon prize, worth $12,800 (Krw 15 million) at Naff, the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival’s genre film project market.
Naff is part of BiFan’s B.I.G. industry support program. Prizes were awarded on Wednesday night.
Phan Linh’s sci fi comedy “Dogcow” won the Bound Entertainment award, which equally comes with a cash prize of $12,800. Boaz Armoni’s “Fingernail,” an Israeli horror project, took the Naff Award with a cash prize of $8,550. The Naff Korean Award was presented to Yu Eun-jeong’s “Lady the Ghost” and by Nakanish Mai’s “Hana” with cash prizes of $4,270 (Krw 5 million) given to each. Also worth $4,270, the Dhl award went to David Chang’s action fantasy “The Medium: The Flaming Exorcist Sinner” from Taiwan. Taiwan was the focus territory of the Naff’s Project Spotlight 2019.
Prizewinners were selected by a jury of veteran...
Naff is part of BiFan’s B.I.G. industry support program. Prizes were awarded on Wednesday night.
Phan Linh’s sci fi comedy “Dogcow” won the Bound Entertainment award, which equally comes with a cash prize of $12,800. Boaz Armoni’s “Fingernail,” an Israeli horror project, took the Naff Award with a cash prize of $8,550. The Naff Korean Award was presented to Yu Eun-jeong’s “Lady the Ghost” and by Nakanish Mai’s “Hana” with cash prizes of $4,270 (Krw 5 million) given to each. Also worth $4,270, the Dhl award went to David Chang’s action fantasy “The Medium: The Flaming Exorcist Sinner” from Taiwan. Taiwan was the focus territory of the Naff’s Project Spotlight 2019.
Prizewinners were selected by a jury of veteran...
- 7/4/2019
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
Sci-fi will be center stage at South Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Asia’s largest genre film event. The ten-day film festival will run from Jun. 27 through Jul. 7.
Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” inspired the festival’s official artwork this year. The film will also play in special program ‘Robots: Future Beyond the Human Race’ along with Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” and Fred M. Wilcox’s “Forbidden Planet.”
The festival opens, a few weeks earlier than its traditional mid-July slot, with the Asian premiere of Edgar Nito’s “The Gasoline Thieves.” Korean period mystery drama “The 12th Suspect” by Ko Myoung-sung will close the festival, which packs in 288 films from 49 countries.
“BiFan has decided to gear itself for the coming 100 years of Korean cinema, instead of looking back on the past 100 years. We will take the head in nurturing the next NaWoon-gyu, Kim Ki-young, Yu Hyun-mok,...
Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” inspired the festival’s official artwork this year. The film will also play in special program ‘Robots: Future Beyond the Human Race’ along with Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” and Fred M. Wilcox’s “Forbidden Planet.”
The festival opens, a few weeks earlier than its traditional mid-July slot, with the Asian premiere of Edgar Nito’s “The Gasoline Thieves.” Korean period mystery drama “The 12th Suspect” by Ko Myoung-sung will close the festival, which packs in 288 films from 49 countries.
“BiFan has decided to gear itself for the coming 100 years of Korean cinema, instead of looking back on the past 100 years. We will take the head in nurturing the next NaWoon-gyu, Kim Ki-young, Yu Hyun-mok,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
Genre festival will close with Ko Myoungsung’s first narrative feature The 12th Suspect.
Edgar Nito’s debut feature The Gasoline Thieves will open this year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, while Ko Myoungsung’s The 12th Suspect will close the event.
The Gasoline Thieves, which is a co-production between Mexico, Spain, the Us and the UK, won best new narrative director at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Set in central Mexico, it tells the story of an innocent high school student who gets mixed up with a gang of theives who steal gasoline from underground pipes.
The first narrative feature from Ko,...
Edgar Nito’s debut feature The Gasoline Thieves will open this year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, while Ko Myoungsung’s The 12th Suspect will close the event.
The Gasoline Thieves, which is a co-production between Mexico, Spain, the Us and the UK, won best new narrative director at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Set in central Mexico, it tells the story of an innocent high school student who gets mixed up with a gang of theives who steal gasoline from underground pipes.
The first narrative feature from Ko,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
We're now just four weeks away from the crown jewel on the calendar for genre film fans in Asia, as the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) has just unveiled the program for its 23rd edition. The main theme will be sci-fi, with a program devoted to science fiction classics, including Blade Runner, which is serving as the main inspiration for this year's artwork and trailer. BiFan opens on June 27, a few weeks earlier than usual, with Edgar Nito's The Gasoline Thieves. This Mexico-set story of a band of thieves, who illegally siphon gasoline from an underground pipe, will have its Asian premiere in Bucheon after winning the Best New Narrative Director Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. Closing this year's event will be...
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- 5/30/2019
- Screen Anarchy
“The Gasoline Thieves,” (‘Huachicolero’), the debut film from Mexican director Edgar Nito Arrache, explores modern social realities in a very traditional narrative, an extremely pure distillation of a crime story that hearkens back to 1930s Warner Bros. gangster films or a more action-packed work of Italian neorealism. The unadorned narrative might not hold many surprises for seasoned filmgoers, but conveys its themes with heartbreaking clarity, aided by a keen visual sense and a relentless pace.
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- 5/9/2019
- by Joe Blessing
- The Playlist
We’ve all heard the warning, “If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.” Well, that’s nothing compared to the consequences if you steal gasoline straight from the source — an extremely high-risk practice now on the rise in Mexico, where the combustibility of extracting raw fuel from open fields is amplified by the dangers of dealing with the cartels who control this emerging black market.
However volatile, these activities have become widespread enough that the locals now have a word for such outlaws: “Huachicolero” — the original Spanish-language title of director Edgar Nito’s attention-grabbing, ignition-ready debut, “The Gasoline Thieves,” which earned its talented helmer the “best new narrative filmmaker” title at the Tribeca Film Festival. For complicated reasons, Mexican crime stories generally don’t translate well across borders: Those that play well at home tend to feel exaggerated and over-the-top compared to the cold-blooded ruthlessness of movies like “Sicario,...
However volatile, these activities have become widespread enough that the locals now have a word for such outlaws: “Huachicolero” — the original Spanish-language title of director Edgar Nito’s attention-grabbing, ignition-ready debut, “The Gasoline Thieves,” which earned its talented helmer the “best new narrative filmmaker” title at the Tribeca Film Festival. For complicated reasons, Mexican crime stories generally don’t translate well across borders: Those that play well at home tend to feel exaggerated and over-the-top compared to the cold-blooded ruthlessness of movies like “Sicario,...
- 5/9/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Last night in New York at the 18th Tribeca Film Festival, the winners were announced in the competition categories. The top honours went to Burning Cane which took the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) which won Best International Narrative Feature and Scheme Birds which was named Best Documentary Feature. Here’s a full list of Tribeca 2019 competition winners:
U.S. Narrative Competition Categories
Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – Burning Cane, directed by Phillip Youmans. The award was given by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal on behalf of the jury.
Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Haley Bennett in Swallow.
Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Wendell Pierce in Burning Cane.
Best International Narrative Feature – House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) directed and written by Bora Kim.
Best Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Phillip Youmans for Burning Cane.
U.S. Narrative Competition Categories
Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – Burning Cane, directed by Phillip Youmans. The award was given by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal on behalf of the jury.
Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Haley Bennett in Swallow.
Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Wendell Pierce in Burning Cane.
Best International Narrative Feature – House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) directed and written by Bora Kim.
Best Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Phillip Youmans for Burning Cane.
- 5/3/2019
- by James Kleinmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Phillip Youmans’ “Burning Cane” took home the Founders Award for best narrative feature at the 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, with star Wendell Pierce earning Best Actor.
Youmans, a 19-year-old freshman at NYU, is the first African-American director to win the Founders Award and the youngest director to have a feature in Tribeca — he was just 17 when he wrote, directed and shot the film, about the fractious relationship between a mother and son in rural Louisiana.
Korean director Bora Kim’s “House of Hummingbird” won for best international narrative feature, and Ji-hu Park won best international actress.
In addition, Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin won for their documentary feature “Scheme Birds.”
Here’s the complete list of winners.
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U.S. Narrative Competition Categories:
The jurors for the 2019 U.S. Narrative Competition were Lucy Alibar,...
Youmans, a 19-year-old freshman at NYU, is the first African-American director to win the Founders Award and the youngest director to have a feature in Tribeca — he was just 17 when he wrote, directed and shot the film, about the fractious relationship between a mother and son in rural Louisiana.
Korean director Bora Kim’s “House of Hummingbird” won for best international narrative feature, and Ji-hu Park won best international actress.
In addition, Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin won for their documentary feature “Scheme Birds.”
Here’s the complete list of winners.
Also Read: 'Xy Chelsea' Film Review: Doc Tackles Chelsea Manning's Very In-Progress Story
U.S. Narrative Competition Categories:
The jurors for the 2019 U.S. Narrative Competition were Lucy Alibar,...
- 5/2/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
“Burning Cane” has won the Founders Award for best U.S. narrative feature and star Wendell Pierce has been awarded the top actor in the category for the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival.
Haley Bennett won the festival’s award for best actress in a narrative feature for her performance in “Swallow.” “House of Hummingbird” (Beol-sae) took the prize for best international narrative feature, and “Scheme Birds” won for top documentary feature.
The awards were announced Thursday. Rania Attieh won the Nora Ephron Award and a $25,000 prize for Initials S.G. (“Iniciales S.G.”). The award honors excellence in storytelling by a female writer or director embodying the spirit and boldness of the late filmmaker. Tribeca’s Storyscapes Award went to “The Key,” created by Celine Tricart.
“Burning Cane,” set in the Louisiana swamplands, is directed by Phillip Youmans, who wrote, directed and shot the film at the age of 17. He...
Haley Bennett won the festival’s award for best actress in a narrative feature for her performance in “Swallow.” “House of Hummingbird” (Beol-sae) took the prize for best international narrative feature, and “Scheme Birds” won for top documentary feature.
The awards were announced Thursday. Rania Attieh won the Nora Ephron Award and a $25,000 prize for Initials S.G. (“Iniciales S.G.”). The award honors excellence in storytelling by a female writer or director embodying the spirit and boldness of the late filmmaker. Tribeca’s Storyscapes Award went to “The Key,” created by Celine Tricart.
“Burning Cane,” set in the Louisiana swamplands, is directed by Phillip Youmans, who wrote, directed and shot the film at the age of 17. He...
- 5/2/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The Gasoline Thieves (aka Huachicolero), the first feature-lenght film by Mexican director Edgar Nito, begins as a crime thriller, with a captivating nocturnal scene with little dialogue in which a pair of huachicoleros (one of them played by Pascacio López) scare away other gasoline thieves from "their territory”, taking the life of one of them and leaving the corpse out in the open, with all the cold blood that characterizes the pawns of organized crime. Set in Guanajuato, where Nito is originally from, The Gasoline Thieves is another portrait of violence in Mexico by the director of Masacre in San José, the 2015 short film that was inspired by the real-life story of Don Alejo. He was the old man who, in 2010, defended to...
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- 4/26/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Fantastic cinema aficionados started to notice Edgar Nito back in 2014, when the young Mexican director made one of the segments of the horror anthology México Bárbaro. A year later, his short film Masacre en San José quickly took him to other territories, as it was based on the true story of Don Alejo, a man who in 2010 defended his ranch to the death from several members of organized crime. Evidently, Nito is interested in portraying the violent reality of Mexico. In that tenor, his first feature-length film, The Gasoline Thieves (aka Huachicolero), explores one of the most notorious criminal activities in recent memory: the so-called huachicol, or fuel theft. Nito comes from Irapuato, Guanajuato, the Mexican town with more clandestine taps used for gasoline...
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- 4/24/2019
- Screen Anarchy
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