A remarkably audacious debut, Director Jessica Morris has created a surreal and dark tragicomedy with her short Round Robin, which depicts the awkward realities of a family gathering where the yearly Christmas card photo is due to be taken. Morris uses this routine familial outing as the basis from which to interrogate what it truly means to be part of a ‘happy family’ and how the build up of tensions, on a particularly hot day, can quickly lay waste to that once-strong facade. Now, as the film is due to kick off its run on the festival circuit, Dn joins Morris for an extensive discussion about the making of Round Robin, talking through the plethora of creative influences that make up the short’s style and tone, the notions of family she wanted to thematically deconstruct and the challenge of nailing the rapid-fire editing needed to bring her vision to life.
- 7/26/2023
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
“My Greatest Shot,” a six-part series that reveals the stories behind some of the world’s most iconic photographs, will be the first ad-funded program on the Sky Arts channel.
Produced by Zinc Communicate, Zinc Media Group’s branded content division, and Zinc’s factual producer Tern Television, “My Greatest Shot” was developed in partnership with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It is Adobe’s first ad-funded program out of the U.K.
The program takes the audience behind the lens to meet the people who created the photographs, including Martin Parr, Emily Garthwaite, Harry Borden, Hayley Benoit, Charlie Waite and Alexandra Robins. The photographers reveal their personal journeys as well as the story, planning and vision behind the photograph in question. In each half-hour episode, the series explores two celebrated photos from one classic theme: travel, street, portrait, landscape, food and animals.
Phil Edgar-Jones, director of Sky Arts, said: “Photography is...
Produced by Zinc Communicate, Zinc Media Group’s branded content division, and Zinc’s factual producer Tern Television, “My Greatest Shot” was developed in partnership with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It is Adobe’s first ad-funded program out of the U.K.
The program takes the audience behind the lens to meet the people who created the photographs, including Martin Parr, Emily Garthwaite, Harry Borden, Hayley Benoit, Charlie Waite and Alexandra Robins. The photographers reveal their personal journeys as well as the story, planning and vision behind the photograph in question. In each half-hour episode, the series explores two celebrated photos from one classic theme: travel, street, portrait, landscape, food and animals.
Phil Edgar-Jones, director of Sky Arts, said: “Photography is...
- 11/1/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
October Country follows a year in the life of the Moshers, residents of New York State's economically depressed Herkimer Valley. Co-director Donal Mosher escaped the region to pursue a career in photography, though one of his most notable projects documents the travails of his family back home. In the original photo series "October Country," Mosher's images of modestly decorated households, empty factory lots, turning foliage and Colonial graveyards convey a post-rural, post-industrial landscape endowed with a eerily gothic splendor. Co-director Michael Palmieri brought his background in experimental and music video to coax Mosher's work into a cinematic dimension. The result, a breathtaking work, offers new aesthetic possibilities in depicting working class American reality. The film endows more empathy and dignity than could ever be found in white trash reality TV, while bringing touches of stylization (i.e. Halloween party scenes shot in ghostly slow-motion) not found in more vanilla strains of social observation documentary.
- 2/13/2010
- MUBI
Mother and Child
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...
- 12/29/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Mother and Child
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...
- 12/29/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
- 8/21/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
- 8/21/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
- 8/21/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
- 8/21/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
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