Phoebe Dynevor, star of Netflix’s global smash “Bridgerton,” plays the lead in Sky original “The Colour Room.”
The film charts the rise to fame of Stoke-on-Trent ceramic artist Clarice Cliff, played by Dynevor. Cliff, a determined, working class woman in the 1920s, broke the glass ceiling and revolutionized the workplace in the 20th century, while becoming one of the greatest Art Deco designers.
The cast also includes Matthew Goode (“The Imitation Game”), David Morrissey (“The Walking Dead”), Darci Shaw (“Judy”), Kerry Fox (“Rare Beasts”) and Luke Norris (“Poldark”).
The film will be directed by Claire McCarthy (“The Luminaries”) and is written by Claire Peate, winner of the BAFTA Rocliffe new writing showcase in 2016.
“The Colour Room” will start production later this month in Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham and will be released in cinemas and on Sky Cinema later this year.
“I am so excited to be joining the cast of ‘The Colour Room,...
The film charts the rise to fame of Stoke-on-Trent ceramic artist Clarice Cliff, played by Dynevor. Cliff, a determined, working class woman in the 1920s, broke the glass ceiling and revolutionized the workplace in the 20th century, while becoming one of the greatest Art Deco designers.
The cast also includes Matthew Goode (“The Imitation Game”), David Morrissey (“The Walking Dead”), Darci Shaw (“Judy”), Kerry Fox (“Rare Beasts”) and Luke Norris (“Poldark”).
The film will be directed by Claire McCarthy (“The Luminaries”) and is written by Claire Peate, winner of the BAFTA Rocliffe new writing showcase in 2016.
“The Colour Room” will start production later this month in Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham and will be released in cinemas and on Sky Cinema later this year.
“I am so excited to be joining the cast of ‘The Colour Room,...
- 3/17/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Apples
Christos Nikou makes his directorial debut with Apples, produced by Marius Wlodarski, Angelos Venetis and Iraklis Mavroidis and Aris Dagios. The title stars Aris Servetalis and Babis Makidris (the director of 2012’s L and 2018’s Pity). Nikou served as as assistant director on Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight (2013). His short debut Km was released in 2012.
Gist: Co-written by Stavros Raptis, Apples focuses on Aris, a thirty-something solitary man afflicted by an unexplained surge of amnesia which seems to be sweeping the city.…...
Christos Nikou makes his directorial debut with Apples, produced by Marius Wlodarski, Angelos Venetis and Iraklis Mavroidis and Aris Dagios. The title stars Aris Servetalis and Babis Makidris (the director of 2012’s L and 2018’s Pity). Nikou served as as assistant director on Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight (2013). His short debut Km was released in 2012.
Gist: Co-written by Stavros Raptis, Apples focuses on Aris, a thirty-something solitary man afflicted by an unexplained surge of amnesia which seems to be sweeping the city.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Sweat
Sweden’s Magnus von Horn is back after a five year hiatus with sophomore film Sweat, reuniting with his The Here After producer Mariusz Wlodarski (who also produced the forthcoming Apples from Christos Nikou and 2018’s The Harvesters). The title is lensed by Dp Michal Dymek (2019’s Dolce Fine Giornata – read review). Von Horn’s debut The Here After premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
Gist: Fitness instructor Sylwia is a social media celebrity with thousands of followers, admirers and loyal employees. But Sylwia begins to search for something real, something intimate.
Release Date/Prediction: The title was shot through November 2019.…...
Sweden’s Magnus von Horn is back after a five year hiatus with sophomore film Sweat, reuniting with his The Here After producer Mariusz Wlodarski (who also produced the forthcoming Apples from Christos Nikou and 2018’s The Harvesters). The title is lensed by Dp Michal Dymek (2019’s Dolce Fine Giornata – read review). Von Horn’s debut The Here After premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
Gist: Fitness instructor Sylwia is a social media celebrity with thousands of followers, admirers and loyal employees. But Sylwia begins to search for something real, something intimate.
Release Date/Prediction: The title was shot through November 2019.…...
- 12/30/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With the seventh edition of Final Cut in Venice, the Venice Production Bridge’s pics-in-post workshop for films from Africa and the Arab world, Final Cut head Alessandra Speciale points to sweeping cultural and technological changes that are transforming the means of production in those regions.
“The big changes that the African continent is currently experiencing are also driving cultural and artistic production, a kind of high-tech liberation triggered by the strong impetus of high-speed Internet,” said Speciale, fostering what she calls a “cinema without borders.”
Final Cut, which runs through Sept. 2, awards prizes and financial assistance to six selected projects, while offering African and Arab producers and directors one-on-one meetings with participants of the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market. The program’s growing reach — which has included works-in-progress from countries such as Lesotho, Libya and the Central African Republic — highlights the increasing capacity to produce films in countries without formal industries,...
“The big changes that the African continent is currently experiencing are also driving cultural and artistic production, a kind of high-tech liberation triggered by the strong impetus of high-speed Internet,” said Speciale, fostering what she calls a “cinema without borders.”
Final Cut, which runs through Sept. 2, awards prizes and financial assistance to six selected projects, while offering African and Arab producers and directors one-on-one meetings with participants of the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market. The program’s growing reach — which has included works-in-progress from countries such as Lesotho, Libya and the Central African Republic — highlights the increasing capacity to produce films in countries without formal industries,...
- 8/31/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
"When the real world comes knocking, you won't last two minutes, bro." Altered Innocence has debuted an official Us trailer for a South African drama titled The Harvesters, also known as Die Stropers (which translates directly to The Poachers) in Afrikaans. This premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and is getting a small theatrical release this fall. Brent Vermeulen plays a boy named Janno. He is "different, secretive, emotionally frail." One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two start a fight for power, heritage and parental love. The cast includes Alex van Dyk, Juliana Venter, and Morné Visser. From Cannes' Un Certain Regard, "Kallos' debut feature film explores teenage angst and family dynamics set against a harsh yet stunning South African backdrop." Reminds me of God's Own Country in many ways.
- 7/26/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Our new friends at Altered Innocence caught our attention last year when they acquired the homoerotic giallo film Knife + Heart. While they were preparing for that theatrical relase (3/15/19) they picked the Us rights for the South African drama The Harvesters (Die Stropers). The feature film from South African filmmaker Etienne Kallos managed to find its way into the Un Certain Regard program at Cannes, not bad for your first feature film. Altered Innocence is planning a Summer theatrical run for The Harvesters. We have included a trailer below. Altered Innocence has picked up the U.S. rights to Etienne Kallos' debut feature film “The Harvesters.” The film, which debuted in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival explores...
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- 2/26/2019
- Screen Anarchy
In today’s film news roundup, “Trial by Fire” and “The Harvesters” get U.S. distribution deals and the Ford vs. Ferrari movie, starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon, gets an awards season release.
Acquisitions
Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to true-crime drama “Trial By Fire,” starring Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern.
Roadside, which announced the deal Monday, will release the film on May 17. The film is directed by Edward Zwick and adapted by Geoffrey Fletcher, who won an Academy award for “Precious,” from David Grann’s article originally published in The New Yorker in 2009.
“Trial by Fire” had its world premiere at the 2018 Telluride Film Festival, and is produced by Zwick, Allyn Stewart, Kipp Nelson and Alex Soros. Executive producers are Kathryn Dean and Marshall Herskovitz. Soros, the son of billionaire George Soros, financed the project.
“Trial by Fire” centers on the unlikely bond between an...
Acquisitions
Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to true-crime drama “Trial By Fire,” starring Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern.
Roadside, which announced the deal Monday, will release the film on May 17. The film is directed by Edward Zwick and adapted by Geoffrey Fletcher, who won an Academy award for “Precious,” from David Grann’s article originally published in The New Yorker in 2009.
“Trial by Fire” had its world premiere at the 2018 Telluride Film Festival, and is produced by Zwick, Allyn Stewart, Kipp Nelson and Alex Soros. Executive producers are Kathryn Dean and Marshall Herskovitz. Soros, the son of billionaire George Soros, financed the project.
“Trial by Fire” centers on the unlikely bond between an...
- 2/25/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Greek producers Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas, whose credits include Wasted Youth, The Harvesters and Son of Sofia, are the winners of this year's Eurimages Co-Production Award.
Kontovrakis and Karnavas first came together on the sleeper success Wasted Youth, from directors Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel, which opened the 2011 Rotterdam film festival and went on to become a cross-over arthouse hit.
The pair founded Athens-based production company Heretic, whose credits include Elina Psykou's Son of Sofia, which premiered in Tribeca last year, and Etienne Kallos' South African drama The Harvesters, which bowed in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section this year. The two also run ...
Kontovrakis and Karnavas first came together on the sleeper success Wasted Youth, from directors Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel, which opened the 2011 Rotterdam film festival and went on to become a cross-over arthouse hit.
The pair founded Athens-based production company Heretic, whose credits include Elina Psykou's Son of Sofia, which premiered in Tribeca last year, and Etienne Kallos' South African drama The Harvesters, which bowed in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section this year. The two also run ...
- 11/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Greek producers Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas, whose credits include Wasted Youth, The Harvesters and Son of Sofia, are the winners of this year's Eurimages Co-Production Award.
Kontovrakis and Karnavas first came together on the sleeper success Wasted Youth, from directors Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel, which opened the 2011 Rotterdam film festival and went on to become a cross-over arthouse hit.
The pair founded Athens-based production company Heretic, whose credits include Elina Psykou's Son of Sofia, which premiered in Tribeca last year, and Etienne Kallos' South African drama The Harvesters, which bowed in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section this year. The two also run ...
Kontovrakis and Karnavas first came together on the sleeper success Wasted Youth, from directors Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel, which opened the 2011 Rotterdam film festival and went on to become a cross-over arthouse hit.
The pair founded Athens-based production company Heretic, whose credits include Elina Psykou's Son of Sofia, which premiered in Tribeca last year, and Etienne Kallos' South African drama The Harvesters, which bowed in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section this year. The two also run ...
- 11/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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
Moroccan villagers doing battle with a rapacious mining company, armed only with poems and songs. Four aging Sudanese filmmakers looking to inspire a love of cinema in their countrymen. A celebrated South African poet living out his final days on a mental journey into his own past after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Their stories of courage, determination and hope are among this year’s selections for Final Cut in Venice, the Venice Production Bridge workshop providing post-production support and networking opportunities to films from Africa and the Arab world.
Taking place from Sep. 1-3, the program awards prizes and financial assistance to six selected projects, while offering an opportunity for producers and directors to pitch their films to foreign buyers, distributors, producers and festival programmers in order to facilitate the post-production process, promote possible co-production opportunities and access the international distribution market.
Established in 2013 to provide completion funds for selected films from Africa,...
Their stories of courage, determination and hope are among this year’s selections for Final Cut in Venice, the Venice Production Bridge workshop providing post-production support and networking opportunities to films from Africa and the Arab world.
Taking place from Sep. 1-3, the program awards prizes and financial assistance to six selected projects, while offering an opportunity for producers and directors to pitch their films to foreign buyers, distributors, producers and festival programmers in order to facilitate the post-production process, promote possible co-production opportunities and access the international distribution market.
Established in 2013 to provide completion funds for selected films from Africa,...
- 9/1/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Durban — Financing African films has always required equal parts imagination and hustle, and as the global movie industry weathers its own seismic upheaval from new financing and distribution challenges, filmmakers on the continent are learning to adapt on the fly.
That was the takeaway of a Durban FilmMart panel July 21, where Dayo Ogunyemi, an investor and founder of 234 Media; Chioma Onyenwe, a producer and the director of the Africa Int’l. Film Festival; Todd Brown, head of international acquisitions at Xyz Films; and Michael Auret, a producer with Spier Films, reckoned with the transformation in how filmmakers today are forced to do business.
“The pre-sales market is becoming progressively harder and harder,” said Brown, whose company was the North American sales agent for recent South African fest hits “Five Fingers for Marseilles” and “Number 37,” and is developing an adaptation of South African sci-fi novel “Apocalypse Now Now.” “That model...
That was the takeaway of a Durban FilmMart panel July 21, where Dayo Ogunyemi, an investor and founder of 234 Media; Chioma Onyenwe, a producer and the director of the Africa Int’l. Film Festival; Todd Brown, head of international acquisitions at Xyz Films; and Michael Auret, a producer with Spier Films, reckoned with the transformation in how filmmakers today are forced to do business.
“The pre-sales market is becoming progressively harder and harder,” said Brown, whose company was the North American sales agent for recent South African fest hits “Five Fingers for Marseilles” and “Number 37,” and is developing an adaptation of South African sci-fi novel “Apocalypse Now Now.” “That model...
- 7/22/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
A slow-burning and increasingly suffocating variation on the myth of Cain and Abel, The Harvesters (Die Stropers) is the impressive feature debut from Greek-South African filmmaker Etienne Kallos. Set on the flat farmlands of central Free State province, this moody, boiling-beneath-the-surface drama, largely in Afrikaans, is yet another incisive exploration of one of the numerous and complex facets of masculinity in South African culture after such critical hits as Oliver Hermanus’ Beauty (Skoonheid) and John Trengove’s The Wound. This Cannes Un Certain Regard title, which interweaves coming-of-age tropes and latent homosexual desire in a remote and largely unforgiving ...
- 5/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Afrikaners is plesierig, dit can julle glo,” runs the chorus of the rustiest chestnut in Afrikaans folk music. It isn’t heard, much less proven, in “The Harvesters,” South African writer-director Etienne Kallos’ muscular, mood-rich debut feature. Unusual within the annals of its national cinema for its searching examination of the country’s once-dominant, now-dwindling white Afrikaner population, this sternly moving, vividly shot rural drama draws quasi-Biblical resonance from its tale of teenage foster brothers locked in a familial and cultural power struggle on a remote farmstead. That a low-key queer undercurrent courses through the conflict somewhat broadens the festival and distribution prospects of the film, the fine social divisions of which will nonetheless be unfamiliar to many outside viewers; in a Cannes edition heavy on auspicious debuts, this is among the most excitingly complete.
It says much about the out-of-time nature of life in the Bible belt of South...
It says much about the out-of-time nature of life in the Bible belt of South...
- 5/15/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
In an isolated stronghold of South Africa’s Afrikaaner community, a religious housewife welcomes a hardened street orphan into her home, upsetting a tight-knit family dynamic and setting off a power struggle for a father’s love.
In Etienne Kallos’ feature debut, “The Harvesters,” which premieres in Un Certain Regard, the generational rift at the heart of one conservative household raises broader questions about the role South Africa’s white ethnic minority played in the country’s brutal past, and the place it has in the young nation’s future.
Says Kallos, “There is a wordless legacy that needs to be addressed.”
Born and raised in South Africa, Kallos left the country for the U.S. nearly two decades ago, returning over the course of a career that’s seen him produce two U.S.-lensed shorts that screened in Venice and Cannes. For his feature debut, Kallos saw a...
In Etienne Kallos’ feature debut, “The Harvesters,” which premieres in Un Certain Regard, the generational rift at the heart of one conservative household raises broader questions about the role South Africa’s white ethnic minority played in the country’s brutal past, and the place it has in the young nation’s future.
Says Kallos, “There is a wordless legacy that needs to be addressed.”
Born and raised in South Africa, Kallos left the country for the U.S. nearly two decades ago, returning over the course of a career that’s seen him produce two U.S.-lensed shorts that screened in Venice and Cannes. For his feature debut, Kallos saw a...
- 5/14/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
‘Phantom Thread’ actress Krieps will play an academic who falls in love with a married diplomat.
Paris-based Pyramide International has boarded sales on Danielle Arbid’s new film Passion Simple, starring Vicky Krieps as a French academic who falls passionately in love with a married Russian diplomat.
Russian stage and screen star Danila Kozlovsky, recently seen in Aleksey German’s drama Dovlatov and BBC series McMafia, co-stars as the elusive Russian lover.
Multilingual Luxembourgish actress Krieps, who shot to stardom internationally on the back of her performance opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread, plays a 42-year-old lecturer and researcher who...
Paris-based Pyramide International has boarded sales on Danielle Arbid’s new film Passion Simple, starring Vicky Krieps as a French academic who falls passionately in love with a married Russian diplomat.
Russian stage and screen star Danila Kozlovsky, recently seen in Aleksey German’s drama Dovlatov and BBC series McMafia, co-stars as the elusive Russian lover.
Multilingual Luxembourgish actress Krieps, who shot to stardom internationally on the back of her performance opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread, plays a 42-year-old lecturer and researcher who...
- 5/10/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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