Liam Neeson crime thriller In the Land of Saints and Sinners opens on 896 screens this weekend, joined by Sean Penn in Asphalt City — the Godzilla vs. Kong of the specialty market?
Neeson reunites with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz as a newly retired assassin in a remote Irish village who finds himself drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse with a trio of vengeful terrorists. Ciarán Hinds, Kerry Condon, Colm Meaney and Jack Gleeson also star in Land of Saints and Sinners, which premiered at Venice, and was shot in County Donegal, Ireland. Screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane. Samuel Goldwyn Films’ widest release post-pandemic sits at 80% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Penn stars with Tye Sheridan in Asphalt City, Vertical’s co-release with Roadside Attractions that opens on 297 screens, also with a national footprint. Young paramedic Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is paired with seasoned partner Gene...
Neeson reunites with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz as a newly retired assassin in a remote Irish village who finds himself drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse with a trio of vengeful terrorists. Ciarán Hinds, Kerry Condon, Colm Meaney and Jack Gleeson also star in Land of Saints and Sinners, which premiered at Venice, and was shot in County Donegal, Ireland. Screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane. Samuel Goldwyn Films’ widest release post-pandemic sits at 80% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Penn stars with Tye Sheridan in Asphalt City, Vertical’s co-release with Roadside Attractions that opens on 297 screens, also with a national footprint. Young paramedic Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is paired with seasoned partner Gene...
- 3/29/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Circle Collective is looking to tug at your heartstrings with their new science fiction romance With Love and a Major Organ, and we’re exclusively serving up the trailer to you today.
The film screened at a myriad of festivals, including SXSW, Fantasia, Cucalorus, and it will be released theatrically by Circle Collective in NYC on March 29th and in LA on 4/5.
From director Kim Albright, With Love and a Major Organ stars Anna Maguire as Anabel, a sensitive, empathetic young woman who lives in an alternate universe where self-care is manifested through suppressing emotion entirely. And hearts are readily [physically] removable.
“In a world where everyone’s heart is an object and there’s a strong societal pressure to dampen emotion, lonely Virtual Insurance broker Anabel always follows her heart. At odds with this overly pragmatic society, and after a series of devastating emotional blows, she rips her heart from...
The film screened at a myriad of festivals, including SXSW, Fantasia, Cucalorus, and it will be released theatrically by Circle Collective in NYC on March 29th and in LA on 4/5.
From director Kim Albright, With Love and a Major Organ stars Anna Maguire as Anabel, a sensitive, empathetic young woman who lives in an alternate universe where self-care is manifested through suppressing emotion entirely. And hearts are readily [physically] removable.
“In a world where everyone’s heart is an object and there’s a strong societal pressure to dampen emotion, lonely Virtual Insurance broker Anabel always follows her heart. At odds with this overly pragmatic society, and after a series of devastating emotional blows, she rips her heart from...
- 3/7/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Utopia’s arthouse distribution label Circle Collective has acquired U.S. rights to the dark comedy With Love and a Major Organ, which debuted in the experimental Visions program last year at SXSW.
Directed by Kim Albright and written by Julia Lederer, who adapted the screenplay from her play of the same name, Circle Collective is eyeing a Spring 2024 release for the title.
With Love and a Major Organ stars Anna Maguire as Anabel, a sensitive, empathetic young woman who lives in an alternate universe where self-care is manifested through suppressing emotion entirely. And hearts are readily removable. After a meaningful interaction with a stranger in the park George (Hamza Haq), Anabel takes a leap and literally gives her heart to him but does not expect for him to abscond with it.
The film was produced by Madeleine Davis (Freaks) and executive...
Directed by Kim Albright and written by Julia Lederer, who adapted the screenplay from her play of the same name, Circle Collective is eyeing a Spring 2024 release for the title.
With Love and a Major Organ stars Anna Maguire as Anabel, a sensitive, empathetic young woman who lives in an alternate universe where self-care is manifested through suppressing emotion entirely. And hearts are readily removable. After a meaningful interaction with a stranger in the park George (Hamza Haq), Anabel takes a leap and literally gives her heart to him but does not expect for him to abscond with it.
The film was produced by Madeleine Davis (Freaks) and executive...
- 1/12/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
“My mother used to tell me that her heart was a ball of yarn and it could get caught on other people,” says Anabel (Anna Maguire). We follow lines of red yarn stretched out through a forest, tangled around trees. They will lead us into the heart of a film quite unlike anything else at the 2023 Fantasia International Film Festival - a personal odyssey set in a parallel universe where the rules are subtly different but the stakes remain high.
Anabel is an office worker with little social life who feels cut off from the world around her. She’s an awkward soul who has never come to terms with a life centred around technology. Her colleagues worry about how she will find a relationship without using Life Zapp. She wants to do it the old fashioned way, by meeting someone in person. When she encounters George (Hamza Haq), who.
Anabel is an office worker with little social life who feels cut off from the world around her. She’s an awkward soul who has never come to terms with a life centred around technology. Her colleagues worry about how she will find a relationship without using Life Zapp. She wants to do it the old fashioned way, by meeting someone in person. When she encounters George (Hamza Haq), who.
- 8/3/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
What if when we talked about giving someone our heart, we actually meant it? First time feature filmmaker Kim Albright and writer Julia Lederer explore what happens when our innermost feelings, good and bad, manifest physically in With Love and a Major Organ. It’s a charming, playful, and at times painful look at the ways in which people often depend upon each other for their own self-worth, as well as examining generational trauma, and the ways we often close ourselves off to avoid complex emotions. The film opens with Anabel (Anna Maguire) witnessing a man ripping his heart from his chest and throwing it off a cliff and then walking away as if nothing had happened. Shocked and confused, she wonders what could possibly have...
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- 8/1/2023
- Screen Anarchy
With Love And A Major Organ Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival
Falling in love is always fraught with danger. Perhaps more so for Anabel (Anna Maguire) because she refuses to do it through the app that everyone else is using. She wants to go out and find somebody. When she meets George (Hamza Haq) she is immediately smitten, but he, having no heart, is unable to reciprocate her feelings – so she rips out her heart, puts it in a box and sends it to him. As he discovers a new world of emotion, she embarks on a life of feeling nothing.
Since it screened at South By Southwest earlier this year, Kim Albright’s quirky but heartfelt film With Love And A Major Organ has been generating great word of mouth. Iit’s funny, intelligent and full of striking imagery. When I met Kim and Anna in the run-up to...
Falling in love is always fraught with danger. Perhaps more so for Anabel (Anna Maguire) because she refuses to do it through the app that everyone else is using. She wants to go out and find somebody. When she meets George (Hamza Haq) she is immediately smitten, but he, having no heart, is unable to reciprocate her feelings – so she rips out her heart, puts it in a box and sends it to him. As he discovers a new world of emotion, she embarks on a life of feeling nothing.
Since it screened at South By Southwest earlier this year, Kim Albright’s quirky but heartfelt film With Love And A Major Organ has been generating great word of mouth. Iit’s funny, intelligent and full of striking imagery. When I met Kim and Anna in the run-up to...
- 7/28/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Set in an alternative world that at times seems like our own, With Love and a Major Organ can also feel as if someone asked ChatGPT to write a quirky postmodern romantic drama about technology in the style of Michel Gondry. The result, written by Julia Lederer (from her play) and directed by Kim Albright, is a film loaded with metaphors and similes where fragile hearts are made of paper and nothing is left to chance. Brains are scanned and uploaded to the cloud for a revolutionary new app LifeZap, emotions are explored in an experience that mimics escape rooms and nothing is left to chance. In short: a dreary hellhole in which human emotions are “disrupted” in favor of suppression.
While, of course, an interesting film could be made from that material, this one operates at a frequency that requires either an open mind, a few edibles––or both...
While, of course, an interesting film could be made from that material, this one operates at a frequency that requires either an open mind, a few edibles––or both...
- 3/13/2023
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
A scene from the WWI drama The War Below. Courtesy of Virtual
When you hear WWI, trenches and trench warfare often spring to mind. The War Below is based on a true story about World War I but instead of trenches, it is about some clever, skilled tunnelers seeking to sabotage German forces.
World War I, then called the Great War, and the “War to End All Wars,” was a earth-shattering conflict, changing the nature of warfare, remaking the political and physical landscape, and decimating a generation of young men. The War Below is based on the true story of a group of British sewer tunnelers from Yorkshire, nicknamed the “clay-kickers,” who were brought in by “Hellfire Jack” Col. John Norton-Griffiths to help break the stalemate with the German forces in the battle of Messines in 1917. The result of their near-miraculous efforts was a massive explosion under the enemy line,...
When you hear WWI, trenches and trench warfare often spring to mind. The War Below is based on a true story about World War I but instead of trenches, it is about some clever, skilled tunnelers seeking to sabotage German forces.
World War I, then called the Great War, and the “War to End All Wars,” was a earth-shattering conflict, changing the nature of warfare, remaking the political and physical landscape, and decimating a generation of young men. The War Below is based on the true story of a group of British sewer tunnelers from Yorkshire, nicknamed the “clay-kickers,” who were brought in by “Hellfire Jack” Col. John Norton-Griffiths to help break the stalemate with the German forces in the battle of Messines in 1917. The result of their near-miraculous efforts was a massive explosion under the enemy line,...
- 11/11/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, Violation fromShudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release Violation on Digital HD and Blu-ray on September 21, 2021.. Check out the trailer:
Now you can win the Win the DVD of Violation. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite horror movie that starts with the letter ‘V’ is (I’d say Vampire Circus. It’s so easy!)
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The feature screenwriting and directorial debut of Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, Violation stars Sims-Fewer along with Anna Maguire (Ever After: A Cinderella Story), Jesse Lavercombe...
Now you can win the Win the DVD of Violation. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite horror movie that starts with the letter ‘V’ is (I’d say Vampire Circus. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary
The feature screenwriting and directorial debut of Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, Violation stars Sims-Fewer along with Anna Maguire (Ever After: A Cinderella Story), Jesse Lavercombe...
- 9/17/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
2021 SXSW Violation Review — Violation (2020) Video Movie Review from the 28th Annual South By Southwest Film Festival, a movie directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer, and stars Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse Lavercombe, Obi Abili, Jasmin Geljo, and Cynthia Ashperger. Crew Andrea Boccadoro created the music for the film. Adam Crosby crafted the [...]
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Violation: A Dark, Self-serious Revenge Film that Benefits from its Heroine & Sequencing [SXSW 2021]...
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Violation: A Dark, Self-serious Revenge Film that Benefits from its Heroine & Sequencing [SXSW 2021]...
- 5/7/2021
- by Andrew Toy
- Film-Book
Violation — written, directed, and produced by ongoing collaborators Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli — is. Among those ostensible norms: the linear path from inciting assault to bloody revenge. It isn’t so much that the rules of rape-revenge haven’t been broken before; we’re currently in a moment for movies in which they’re being broken, troubled, and thrown back on themselves with relative frequency. What’s interesting to track are the ways that these attempts to subvert the genre — to be subversive, even — can often fall into some of the same,...
- 3/27/2021
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Madeleine Sims-Fewer stars and co-directs this rape-revenge movie that brilliantly and brutally reframes the trauma inflicted by male violence
In Violation’s closing stretch, Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) sits numbly in a rain-lashed car and watches a man harangue his wife in an eastern European language. Miriam has just done something unspeakable, in reaction to something unforgivable; preparing to finish the job at an anonymous motel, it is as if she has crossed a border into a foreign country. But the couple in front of her show the inescapable constant: male violence. Building to a remorseless climax, Sims-Fewer and co-writer/director Dusty Mancinelli brilliantly, and times almost unwatchably, overhaul the rape-revenge movie as something far more realistic, traumatised and noxious.
Miriam has come from London to visit her sister Greta (Anna Maguire) in the Canadian forest idyll she shares with husband Dylan (Jesse Lavercombe). But tension is in the air: in...
In Violation’s closing stretch, Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) sits numbly in a rain-lashed car and watches a man harangue his wife in an eastern European language. Miriam has just done something unspeakable, in reaction to something unforgivable; preparing to finish the job at an anonymous motel, it is as if she has crossed a border into a foreign country. But the couple in front of her show the inescapable constant: male violence. Building to a remorseless climax, Sims-Fewer and co-writer/director Dusty Mancinelli brilliantly, and times almost unwatchably, overhaul the rape-revenge movie as something far more realistic, traumatised and noxious.
Miriam has come from London to visit her sister Greta (Anna Maguire) in the Canadian forest idyll she shares with husband Dylan (Jesse Lavercombe). But tension is in the air: in...
- 3/24/2021
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Madeleine Sims-Fewer: 'We wanted to show kind of the brutal reality of what revenge in real life might look like' Photo: Shudder Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dustin Mancinelli’s intelligent and melancholic revenge horror Violation arrives on Shudder tomorrow (March 25) after being well-received at both Sundance and SXSW. Madeleine also stars in the film, as Miriam. Her story unfolds in fragments, involving a woodland getaway with her partner Caleb (Obi Abili) and her sister Greta (Anna Maguire) and her partner Dylan (Jesse Lavercombe) and a traumatic event that is the trigger for another. We caught up with the filmmakers ahead of their SXSW screenings to chat about the film, which although their debut feature, is the culmination of a collaboration that has already produced shorts including Chubby and Slap Happy.
We start by talking about their working relationship, which has the added dimension of acting for Madeleine – in a part which requires every ounce of emotions.
We start by talking about their working relationship, which has the added dimension of acting for Madeleine – in a part which requires every ounce of emotions.
- 3/24/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Less Is More (Lim), a European development scheme for limited-budget feature films, has unveiled its selection of 16 projects, a majority of which are from women filmmakers and talents coming from theater, visual arts or documentary.
In spite of the pandemic, the 7th edition received as many as 350 applications from more than 70 countries. The final roster includes projects from territories that were not represented in previous editions, such as Uganda, Vietnam and South Africa.
Among the projects selected are “I Love My Guodoheaddji,” set in the Arctic Circle within Norway’s Sámi community; “I Matter,” about a Romany community in Romania, and “A Song That Slays,” set in a Pokot tribe in Kenya. Other projects explore a cult in Czech Republic (“Goddess), sex addiction in Lithuania (Sofia’s World), and Celtic tales (“Birds of a Feather…).
Lim, which develops first, second and third feature projects, is organized by the Groupe Ouest,...
In spite of the pandemic, the 7th edition received as many as 350 applications from more than 70 countries. The final roster includes projects from territories that were not represented in previous editions, such as Uganda, Vietnam and South Africa.
Among the projects selected are “I Love My Guodoheaddji,” set in the Arctic Circle within Norway’s Sámi community; “I Matter,” about a Romany community in Romania, and “A Song That Slays,” set in a Pokot tribe in Kenya. Other projects explore a cult in Czech Republic (“Goddess), sex addiction in Lithuania (Sofia’s World), and Celtic tales (“Birds of a Feather…).
Lim, which develops first, second and third feature projects, is organized by the Groupe Ouest,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
A selection at TIFF, Sundance, and the forthcoming SXSW, Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s rape revenge thriller Violation is now arriving on Shudder next month. Starring Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse Lavercombe, and Obi Abili, the film weaves through multiple timelines to tell the story of fierce and deserved retribution after an unthinkable act. Ahead of the release, the first trailer has now arrived.
Jared Mobarak said in his TIFF review, “We’re often told growing up that every story has two sides so that we can learn how to put ourselves into another’s shoes and see whether actions we thought were harmless actually did cause harm. That doesn’t mean you can’t project the sentiments onto adult situations too, though. Especially when they deal with memory. Take Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) and Greta (Anna Maguire) for example—two sisters who used to do everything together in their youth.
Jared Mobarak said in his TIFF review, “We’re often told growing up that every story has two sides so that we can learn how to put ourselves into another’s shoes and see whether actions we thought were harmless actually did cause harm. That doesn’t mean you can’t project the sentiments onto adult situations too, though. Especially when they deal with memory. Take Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) and Greta (Anna Maguire) for example—two sisters who used to do everything together in their youth.
- 2/12/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
"It haunts your waking dreams..." Shudder has unveiled the first official trailer for a brutally dark thriller titled Violation, one of the big breakout's from last year's Toronto Film Festival in the Midnight Madness category. "The bold and unflinching thriller world premiered to critical and audience acclaim at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where Sims-Fewer was a recipient of the TIFF Rising Star Award, and was also an official selection for both the 2021 Sundance and SXSW Film Festivals." It just hit Sundance and is streaming on Shudder in March. A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge. This stars Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse Lavercombe, and Obi Abili. If you haven't heard about this, critics have been raving about it for a while. Looks like it gets intense.
- 2/11/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Following the recent screening of Violation at Sundance and ahead of its release on Shudder on March 25th, the official trailer for the film has been released.
Written, produced, and directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli, Violation stars Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse Lavercombe, and Obi Abili.
You can watch the new trailer below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's Sundance review of the film.
Synopsis: "With her marriage about to implode, Miriam returns to her hometown to seek solace in the comfort of her younger sister and brother-in-law. But one evening a tiny slip in judgement leads to a catastrophic betrayal, leaving Miriam shocked, reeling, and furious. Believing her only recourse is to exact revenge, Miriam takes extreme action, but the price of retribution is high, and she is not prepared for the toll it takes as she begins to emotionally and psychologically unravel."
The...
Written, produced, and directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli, Violation stars Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse Lavercombe, and Obi Abili.
You can watch the new trailer below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's Sundance review of the film.
Synopsis: "With her marriage about to implode, Miriam returns to her hometown to seek solace in the comfort of her younger sister and brother-in-law. But one evening a tiny slip in judgement leads to a catastrophic betrayal, leaving Miriam shocked, reeling, and furious. Believing her only recourse is to exact revenge, Miriam takes extreme action, but the price of retribution is high, and she is not prepared for the toll it takes as she begins to emotionally and psychologically unravel."
The...
- 2/11/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Shudder has released the first official trailer for “Violation,” a disturbing revenge thriller that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, recently screened at Sundance, and will play SXSW next month ahead of its March 25 streaming release. The film is a haunting psychological drama about a country retreat gone awry when two sisters and their partners hunker down for the weekend. It’s the feature filmmaking debut of Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, with Sims-Fewer delivering a wallop of a performance as the unraveling protagonist.
Here’s the official synopsis, lest we don’t give too much away: “With her marriage about to implode, Miriam returns to her hometown to seek solace in the comfort of her younger sister and brother-in-law. But one evening a tiny slip in judgement leads to a catastrophic betrayal, leaving Miriam shocked, reeling, and furious. Believing her only recourse is to exact revenge, Miriam takes extreme action,...
Here’s the official synopsis, lest we don’t give too much away: “With her marriage about to implode, Miriam returns to her hometown to seek solace in the comfort of her younger sister and brother-in-law. But one evening a tiny slip in judgement leads to a catastrophic betrayal, leaving Miriam shocked, reeling, and furious. Believing her only recourse is to exact revenge, Miriam takes extreme action,...
- 2/11/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
With the 2021 Sundance Film Festival now officially in the books, here’s a look at three different female-centric films that I had the opportunity to screen during the festival: Frida Kempff’s Knocking, Violation from Madeleine Sims-Frewer and Dusty Macinelli, and Karen Cinorre’s girl power fantasy Mayday.
Knocking: In Knocking, filmmaker Frida Kempff has crafted a timely and effective thriller that explores mental health in a very thoughtful and thought-provoking way. The story is centered around Molly (Cecilia Milocco), a woman who has recently been released from a psychiatric facility after experiencing a traumatic event and is looking to start her life over. As she settles into her new apartment during an oppressive heatwave, Molly begins to hear a mysterious knocking through the wall. What could it be? Is it someone fixing something, or is there something more sinister than that going on? As Molly begins to investigate the strange noises,...
Knocking: In Knocking, filmmaker Frida Kempff has crafted a timely and effective thriller that explores mental health in a very thoughtful and thought-provoking way. The story is centered around Molly (Cecilia Milocco), a woman who has recently been released from a psychiatric facility after experiencing a traumatic event and is looking to start her life over. As she settles into her new apartment during an oppressive heatwave, Molly begins to hear a mysterious knocking through the wall. What could it be? Is it someone fixing something, or is there something more sinister than that going on? As Molly begins to investigate the strange noises,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Revenge is a dish best served cold in Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer's feature debut and they also run this psychological horror through with a swirl of inescapable melancholy.
The moment Sims-Fewer's Miriam utters the words "don't" and "stop" they hang in the air, full of ambiguity. Her interpretation differs strongly from that of Dylan (Jesse Lavercombe), although we meet them at an earlier point in this fragmented narrative, as they go for a woodland break with their respective partners. Dylan's relationship with Miriam's sister Greta (Anna Maguire) is full of bouncy flirtation, a stark contrast to Miriam's rockier situation with her other half Caleb (Obi Abili). Disorientingly, we move to a point in the future, where Greta and Miriam seem to be on much frostier terms, animosity prickling between them.
What has happened is not immediately obvious, and ambiguity is the name of the game as the writer/directors take us back and.
The moment Sims-Fewer's Miriam utters the words "don't" and "stop" they hang in the air, full of ambiguity. Her interpretation differs strongly from that of Dylan (Jesse Lavercombe), although we meet them at an earlier point in this fragmented narrative, as they go for a woodland break with their respective partners. Dylan's relationship with Miriam's sister Greta (Anna Maguire) is full of bouncy flirtation, a stark contrast to Miriam's rockier situation with her other half Caleb (Obi Abili). Disorientingly, we move to a point in the future, where Greta and Miriam seem to be on much frostier terms, animosity prickling between them.
What has happened is not immediately obvious, and ambiguity is the name of the game as the writer/directors take us back and.
- 2/8/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, whose feature film debut Violation premiered in the Midnight Madness section at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, have signed with WME. The duo co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced the revenge thriller, which also earned Sims-Fewer a TIFF Rising Star award for her starring role.
Canada-born pair Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli had been making short films since meeting at the 2015 TIFF Talent Lab. The pair’s latest, Chubby, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Their previous shorts include their first, 2017’s Slap Happy, and Woman in Stall.
In Violation, Sims-Fewer plays a woman in an unhappy marriage on a weekend trip with her sister and their husbands at lakeside estate, where unspoken fractures, bottled-up resentments and a violent act are revealed.
The pic, which co-stars Anna Maguire, Obi Abili and Jesse Lavercombe, won awards at both the Calgary and Vancouver film festivals.
Sims-Fewer...
Canada-born pair Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli had been making short films since meeting at the 2015 TIFF Talent Lab. The pair’s latest, Chubby, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Their previous shorts include their first, 2017’s Slap Happy, and Woman in Stall.
In Violation, Sims-Fewer plays a woman in an unhappy marriage on a weekend trip with her sister and their husbands at lakeside estate, where unspoken fractures, bottled-up resentments and a violent act are revealed.
The pic, which co-stars Anna Maguire, Obi Abili and Jesse Lavercombe, won awards at both the Calgary and Vancouver film festivals.
Sims-Fewer...
- 10/19/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Editor’s note: The following review contains spoilers for the ending of “Violation.”
In their Master Class during 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, “Transparent” creator Joey Soloway posits that the female gaze, a term originated by film theorist Laura Mulvey, should not strive to be the direct inverse of the male gaze. While women, trans, and non-binary filmmakers are well within their rights to subvert conventional norms around nudity, sexuality, and the framing of bodies, a truly “other gaze” (Soloway’s inclusive amendment of the term) should aim to create new imagery outside of established cinematic tropes. That brings us to Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s unflinchingly grotesque “Violation,” which hammers the bluntest of female gazes into the rape-revenge thriller. Rich in sumptuous visuals that portend its nasty undercurrent,
A resolutely disturbing genre thriller, it opens with the ominous image of a pitch black wolf feasting on a rabbit carcass...
In their Master Class during 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, “Transparent” creator Joey Soloway posits that the female gaze, a term originated by film theorist Laura Mulvey, should not strive to be the direct inverse of the male gaze. While women, trans, and non-binary filmmakers are well within their rights to subvert conventional norms around nudity, sexuality, and the framing of bodies, a truly “other gaze” (Soloway’s inclusive amendment of the term) should aim to create new imagery outside of established cinematic tropes. That brings us to Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s unflinchingly grotesque “Violation,” which hammers the bluntest of female gazes into the rape-revenge thriller. Rich in sumptuous visuals that portend its nasty undercurrent,
A resolutely disturbing genre thriller, it opens with the ominous image of a pitch black wolf feasting on a rabbit carcass...
- 9/16/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
(L-r) Samantha Collins, Jessie Mangum and Laura Scrivano.
While she was studying at the UK’s National Film and Television School six years ago, Australian-British screenwriter Samantha Collins wrote a screenplay about an Australian woman who goes to London in search of her missing sister.
Collins began developing the psychological drama a couple of years ago with another UK-based Aussie expat, producer Jessie Mangum.
Both women admired the works of London-based Italian-Australian filmmaker Laura Scrivano, particularly her short film Alice which starred Sarah Snook, and invited her to join the project.
Now entitled My Sister Ellie, it’s among 13 projects selected for Attagirl, the feature film development lab for female and non-binary creative teams.
Collins’ screenplay follows an Australian woman who abandons her life for a British winter, determined to bring home her pregnant sister, the surrogate of her unborn child. Clutching at clues trailing from London to the Kent coast,...
While she was studying at the UK’s National Film and Television School six years ago, Australian-British screenwriter Samantha Collins wrote a screenplay about an Australian woman who goes to London in search of her missing sister.
Collins began developing the psychological drama a couple of years ago with another UK-based Aussie expat, producer Jessie Mangum.
Both women admired the works of London-based Italian-Australian filmmaker Laura Scrivano, particularly her short film Alice which starred Sarah Snook, and invited her to join the project.
Now entitled My Sister Ellie, it’s among 13 projects selected for Attagirl, the feature film development lab for female and non-binary creative teams.
Collins’ screenplay follows an Australian woman who abandons her life for a British winter, determined to bring home her pregnant sister, the surrogate of her unborn child. Clutching at clues trailing from London to the Kent coast,...
- 9/13/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
You know something terrible is going to happen when the early moments of a film greets you with an obvious reference to “The Shining” — in the case of the time-and-memory-twisting psychological horror “Violation,” the bird’s-eye view of a lone car, creeping ahead on a narrow road through dense trees, accompanied by a screechy score. What you won’t realize in the hair-raising feature debut by filmmaking duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli is just how much worse things will turn out to be than what this signposting might prepare you for.
A chamber piece with the existential mood of Lars von Trier, as well as a trope-defying revenge thriller with a mounting sense of terror, the dismembering, blood-draining frights of “Violation” — from tense familial grudges to an awful case of sexual assault and gaslighting that leads to brutal vengeance — aren’t easy to shake or describe. Suffice it to...
A chamber piece with the existential mood of Lars von Trier, as well as a trope-defying revenge thriller with a mounting sense of terror, the dismembering, blood-draining frights of “Violation” — from tense familial grudges to an awful case of sexual assault and gaslighting that leads to brutal vengeance — aren’t easy to shake or describe. Suffice it to...
- 9/13/2020
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
We’re often told growing up that every story has two sides so that we can learn how to put ourselves into another’s shoes and see whether actions we thought were harmless actually did cause harm. That doesn’t mean you can’t project the sentiments onto adult situations too, though. Especially when they deal with memory. Take Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) and Greta (Anna Maguire) for example—two sisters who used to do everything together in their youth. When the topic of teenage injustice first arrives in conversation, their anecdote is colored as Big Sis defending the honor of Little Sis. When it comes up a second time, however, Greta reminds Miriam that she specifically asked her not to do what she did because of the consequences that did ultimately arise.
There are probably many reasons for the difference. The former instance was in a moment of revelry while...
There are probably many reasons for the difference. The former instance was in a moment of revelry while...
- 9/13/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Canadian filmmakers Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli will be making their feature film debut at TIFF on Monday with their dramatic horror film Violation. Screen Anarchy has an exclusive image from the film to share with you this morning. From left to right is Anna Maguire and Sims-Fewer. Sims-Fewer herself achingly portrays the film’s principal psyche, Miriam, a woman treading water in an unhappy marriage who hopes to find solace in a weekend reunion with her estranged younger sister, Greta (Anna Maguire), at a secluded cottage estate. Along with their respective husbands, Miriam’s brooding partner Caleb (Obi Abili) and Greta’s affable Dylan (Jesse Lavercombe), they find themselves navigating a minefield of one another’s sensitivies and histories, culminating in a traumatic series of betrayals —...
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- 9/11/2020
- Screen Anarchy
New work from Idris Elba, Halle Berry, Mark Wahlberg, Vanessa Kirby.
It is a slimline Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year but there are still plenty of acquisition titles on offer for distributors looking to fill 2021 and 2022 slots.
Here we take a look at some of the available films that are likely to be among the more sought after prospects.
TIFF runs from September 10-19 and opens on Thursday with David Byrne’s American Utopia directed by Spike Lee. Click here for Screen’s report on the line-up, and here for the TIFF Industry Selects roster.
Good Joe Bell...
It is a slimline Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year but there are still plenty of acquisition titles on offer for distributors looking to fill 2021 and 2022 slots.
Here we take a look at some of the available films that are likely to be among the more sought after prospects.
TIFF runs from September 10-19 and opens on Thursday with David Byrne’s American Utopia directed by Spike Lee. Click here for Screen’s report on the line-up, and here for the TIFF Industry Selects roster.
Good Joe Bell...
- 9/8/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Feminist revenge tale screens at TIFF on September 14.
In the run-up to Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Altitude has boarded international sales rights to festival selection Violation and XYZ will handle US sales.
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli co-directed the Midnight Madness selection about Miriam, a troubled woman on the edge of divorce who returns home to her younger sister, Greta, after several years apart.
After an error of judgment results in a betrayal, Miriam embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge. The feminist revenge tale screens at TIFF on September 14.
Sims-Fewer (Operation Avalanche), Jesse Lavercombe (American Gods), Anna Maguire...
In the run-up to Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Altitude has boarded international sales rights to festival selection Violation and XYZ will handle US sales.
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli co-directed the Midnight Madness selection about Miriam, a troubled woman on the edge of divorce who returns home to her younger sister, Greta, after several years apart.
After an error of judgment results in a betrayal, Miriam embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge. The feminist revenge tale screens at TIFF on September 14.
Sims-Fewer (Operation Avalanche), Jesse Lavercombe (American Gods), Anna Maguire...
- 8/31/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Former CAA agent and Imagine Artist Management partner-manager Raj Raghavan is joining Echo Lake Entertainment as a talent manager, where he’ll continue to rep a roster of accomplished actors, playwrights, comedians and novelists.
Raghavan’s clients include Golden Globe Nominee Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), four-time Filmfare Award winner and Bollywood superstar Alia Bhatt (Gully Boy), British Independent Film Award winner Ashley Walters (Top Boy), BAFTA nominee Suraj Sharma, Ryan J. Haddad (The Politician), Brandon Scott Jones (The Good Place), Daria Berenato (WWE Superstar Sonya Deville), Sebastián Zurita (Cómo Sobrevivir Soltero), Niv Nissim (Sublet), Gibran Saleem (Better Things), Amanda Shechtman (Sunnyside), Thomas Beaudoin (Shameless), Anna Maguire (The Hummingbird Project), Gil Cates, Jr., and Sameer Pandya.
Raghavan comes to Echo Lake from Imagine. Prior to Imagine, he was an agent at CAA from 2005-2019 in the Los Angeles office.
Raghavan’s clients include Golden Globe Nominee Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), four-time Filmfare Award winner and Bollywood superstar Alia Bhatt (Gully Boy), British Independent Film Award winner Ashley Walters (Top Boy), BAFTA nominee Suraj Sharma, Ryan J. Haddad (The Politician), Brandon Scott Jones (The Good Place), Daria Berenato (WWE Superstar Sonya Deville), Sebastián Zurita (Cómo Sobrevivir Soltero), Niv Nissim (Sublet), Gibran Saleem (Better Things), Amanda Shechtman (Sunnyside), Thomas Beaudoin (Shameless), Anna Maguire (The Hummingbird Project), Gil Cates, Jr., and Sameer Pandya.
Raghavan comes to Echo Lake from Imagine. Prior to Imagine, he was an agent at CAA from 2005-2019 in the Los Angeles office.
- 7/15/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Tom Goodman Hill, Anna Maguire, Sonny Ashbourne Serkis also among cast.
Peaky Blinders actor Sam Hazeldine will lead the cast of 100 Feet Below Hell, Jp Watts’s First World War drama which starts shooting in the UK this week.
The film will tell the true story of ‘Hellfire’ Jack Norton Griffiths who conceived of a plan to dig a tunnel under no man’s land and plant a bomb to break the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines. With tens of thousands already dead from the battle, the mission falls to a group of civilian miners with no military training.
Peaky Blinders actor Sam Hazeldine will lead the cast of 100 Feet Below Hell, Jp Watts’s First World War drama which starts shooting in the UK this week.
The film will tell the true story of ‘Hellfire’ Jack Norton Griffiths who conceived of a plan to dig a tunnel under no man’s land and plant a bomb to break the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines. With tens of thousands already dead from the battle, the mission falls to a group of civilian miners with no military training.
- 5/15/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Author: Jon Lyus
This evening we were on the red carpet of The 2018 Critics Circle Awards held at the MayFair Hotel in London to speak to the great and good of modern cinema society. The 38th annual awards were hosted once again by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram at which Kate Winslet received the critics’ highest honour, The Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film.
Attending the awards ceremony were Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Hugh Grant, Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Lesley Manville, Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu and Jessica Barden, Florence Pugh, Emily Beecham, Paul King, Fionn Whitehead, Harris Dickinson, and Noah Jupe.
A full list of nominations and winners are below.
Our crack team of Colin Hart and Scott Davis were on the carpet to chat with the assembled luminaries of the big screen. Here’s how they got on…
Full List of Nominations – Winners in Bold.
Film Of...
This evening we were on the red carpet of The 2018 Critics Circle Awards held at the MayFair Hotel in London to speak to the great and good of modern cinema society. The 38th annual awards were hosted once again by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram at which Kate Winslet received the critics’ highest honour, The Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film.
Attending the awards ceremony were Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Hugh Grant, Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Lesley Manville, Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu and Jessica Barden, Florence Pugh, Emily Beecham, Paul King, Fionn Whitehead, Harris Dickinson, and Noah Jupe.
A full list of nominations and winners are below.
Our crack team of Colin Hart and Scott Davis were on the carpet to chat with the assembled luminaries of the big screen. Here’s how they got on…
Full List of Nominations – Winners in Bold.
Film Of...
- 1/28/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A heavyweight roster of world premieres from the leading lights of Canada’s film industry will grace the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
New work from Deepa Mehta, Bruce McDonald and Chloé Robichaud are among the Canadian features set to receive their world premieres, while Xavier Dolan and Kim Nguyen earn North American premieres for their latest films following their Cannes debuts.
Wednesday’s announcement included the slate of Canadian short films, the festival’s four Rising Stars, and participants in the Talent Lab and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! programmes.
Talent Lab alumnus Andrew Cividino is named the 2016 Len Blum Resident. The film-maker will take up residency at the Festival Tower for three months later this year and receive one-on-one script consultations with screenwriter Blum, mentoring from Tiff’s industry and programming teams, and support from Tiff partners.
Cividino will work on his screenplay, We Ate the Children Last, a feature...
New work from Deepa Mehta, Bruce McDonald and Chloé Robichaud are among the Canadian features set to receive their world premieres, while Xavier Dolan and Kim Nguyen earn North American premieres for their latest films following their Cannes debuts.
Wednesday’s announcement included the slate of Canadian short films, the festival’s four Rising Stars, and participants in the Talent Lab and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! programmes.
Talent Lab alumnus Andrew Cividino is named the 2016 Len Blum Resident. The film-maker will take up residency at the Festival Tower for three months later this year and receive one-on-one script consultations with screenwriter Blum, mentoring from Tiff’s industry and programming teams, and support from Tiff partners.
Cividino will work on his screenplay, We Ate the Children Last, a feature...
- 8/3/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A heavyweight roster of world premieres from the leading lights of Canada’s film industry will grace the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
New work from Deepa Mehta, Bruce McDonald and Chloé Robichaud are among the Canadian features set to receive their world premieres, while Xavier Dolan and Kim Nguyen earn North American premieres for their latest films following their Cannes debuts.
Wednesday’s announcement included the slate of Canadian short films, the festival’s four Rising Stars, and participants in the Talent Lab and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! programmes.
Talent Lab alumnus Andrew Cividino is named the 2016 Len Blum Resident. The film-maker will take up residency at the Festival Tower for three months later this year and receive one-on-one script consultations with screenwriter Blum, mentoring from Tiff’s industry and programming teams, and support from Tiff partners.
Cividino will work on his screenplay, We Ate the Children Last, a feature...
New work from Deepa Mehta, Bruce McDonald and Chloé Robichaud are among the Canadian features set to receive their world premieres, while Xavier Dolan and Kim Nguyen earn North American premieres for their latest films following their Cannes debuts.
Wednesday’s announcement included the slate of Canadian short films, the festival’s four Rising Stars, and participants in the Talent Lab and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! programmes.
Talent Lab alumnus Andrew Cividino is named the 2016 Len Blum Resident. The film-maker will take up residency at the Festival Tower for three months later this year and receive one-on-one script consultations with screenwriter Blum, mentoring from Tiff’s industry and programming teams, and support from Tiff partners.
Cividino will work on his screenplay, We Ate the Children Last, a feature...
- 8/3/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Indiegogo campaign for Your Mother And I is already at the half way point, both in days and in money raised. Because this short film involves two things that we love, nachos and llamas, we are making sure everyone else knows about it so they can help out. That, and this is sort of an extended TwitchFilm family affair. One time writer Peter Kuplowsky is still very much a part of our lives for TwitchFilm writers here in Toronto with his continued involvement in the local cinema scene by curating and programming and has since moved into producing (The Void, Manborg, Bio-Cop and The Interior). He is producing this short film adaptation of the David Eggers' short story for filmmaker Anna Maguire. Johnna's dad is a hero...
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- 10/26/2015
- Screen Anarchy
by Seth Metoyer
MoreHorror.com
The first round of horror films have been announced for the Colorado based horror festival Telluride Horror Show. This years lineup looks sweet and includes premieres and a special screening of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with director Q&A! Check the list of films below.
From The Press Release
The first wave of films is now live for the 2015 Telluride Horror Show, October 16-18 in picturesque Telluride, Colorado (elevation 8,750 ft.).
Most of the films will make their Colorado premieres at this year's festival or will screen fresh off their Fantastic Fest debuts. The festival will also feature a special screening of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas followed by a director Q&A.
Here's the complete lineup, which can also be found at http://telluridehorrorshow.com/films.html
Guests
Henry Selick
Guest Director
Henry Selick is an American stop-motion director, producer and writer...
MoreHorror.com
The first round of horror films have been announced for the Colorado based horror festival Telluride Horror Show. This years lineup looks sweet and includes premieres and a special screening of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with director Q&A! Check the list of films below.
From The Press Release
The first wave of films is now live for the 2015 Telluride Horror Show, October 16-18 in picturesque Telluride, Colorado (elevation 8,750 ft.).
Most of the films will make their Colorado premieres at this year's festival or will screen fresh off their Fantastic Fest debuts. The festival will also feature a special screening of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas followed by a director Q&A.
Here's the complete lineup, which can also be found at http://telluridehorrorshow.com/films.html
Guests
Henry Selick
Guest Director
Henry Selick is an American stop-motion director, producer and writer...
- 9/8/2015
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Halloween is in less than two months, and Cavity Colors wants to help you get an early start on the festivities. Also: the lineup at the 2015 Telluride Horror Show and four posters from American Backwoods: Slew Hampshire.
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Designed by Hillary White. Pre-order...
Cavity Colors' Halloween Celebration Shirts: "'The Girl Who Dreams Of Halloween' Limited Edition Print ($30.00)
Lucy found herself constantly daydreaming about candy corn, jack-o-lanterns, and paper skeletons... 1 day a year was not enough.... The giant pumpkin hovered over her head constantly... There was no escape.
Limited Edition of 100 Signed and numbered by Aaron Cavitycolors 17 x 22 inches (will fit any 18 x 24 frame) Printed with Archival inks on Velvet Cotton Paper Please allow 1 - 2 days for shipping (each print is made to order)
"Xenofloss" T-Shirt / Tanktop ($25.00)
In space, no one can hear you eat Halloween candy. But if you're an alien, you should always floss! There's no time for cavities!
Designed by Hillary White. Pre-order...
- 9/4/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
If you don’t have a strong stomach, then you might want to pass on this short film. If you like the idea of a romantic film that tells the story of a man who takes his skin off for his girlfriend, then this is right up your alley! It’s probably not the best idea for anyone to take his or her skin off, but that's just how the guy in this story rolls. This short is kind of hard to watch because it’s pretty disgusting, but it’s a great and really well-made film. One of the things that makes it stand out is the fact that there were no CGI effects used to make it.
The movie was directed by Ben Aston, and here’s some information that came along with it:
He Took His Skin Off For Me is a practical SFX fairytale. No CGI whatsoever.
The movie was directed by Ben Aston, and here’s some information that came along with it:
He Took His Skin Off For Me is a practical SFX fairytale. No CGI whatsoever.
- 1/14/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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