Honoring the best and brightest of the media industry, the 25th GLAAD Media Awards took over the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Saturday (May 3).
Emmy Rossum showed up at the fancy fete in a rose pink fit-and-flare dress with plenty of beads and sequins as she posed up a storm for the shutterbugs before heading inside to catch all the action.
Meanwhile, Naomi Watts also opted for a pink pastel ensemble including a strapless top with cropped trousers and black strappy sandals.
Providing plenty more eye candy were beautiful singing sirens such as Kacey Musgraves and Kylie Minogue.
The 25th GLAAD Media Awards handed out their first round of trophies at the NYC shindig, with another ceremony planned for the West Coast later this month.
And the winners are:
Outstanding Film - Wide Release: "Philomena"
Outstanding Film - Limited Release: "Concussion"
Outstanding Documentary: (tie) "Bridegroom," "Call Me Kuchu...
Emmy Rossum showed up at the fancy fete in a rose pink fit-and-flare dress with plenty of beads and sequins as she posed up a storm for the shutterbugs before heading inside to catch all the action.
Meanwhile, Naomi Watts also opted for a pink pastel ensemble including a strapless top with cropped trousers and black strappy sandals.
Providing plenty more eye candy were beautiful singing sirens such as Kacey Musgraves and Kylie Minogue.
The 25th GLAAD Media Awards handed out their first round of trophies at the NYC shindig, with another ceremony planned for the West Coast later this month.
And the winners are:
Outstanding Film - Wide Release: "Philomena"
Outstanding Film - Limited Release: "Concussion"
Outstanding Documentary: (tie) "Bridegroom," "Call Me Kuchu...
- 5/5/2014
- GossipCenter
Somewhat oddly, the GLAAD Media Awards split their awards across two ceremonies, three weeks apart, on opposite coasts. On Saturday, the second of these took place in New York, as a range of films, TV shows and media outlets were honored for commendable coverage of Lgbt issues. Included in the second ceremony were the two chief film awards. Best Picture Oscar nominee "Philomena" took the prize for best film in wide release, beating out the likes of "Blue is the Warmest Color" and three-time Oscar winner "Dallas Buyers Club." In the limited release section, I'm pleased to see that Stacie Passon's excellent but neglected lesbian drama "Concussion" was recognized. At the earlier ceremony, "Bridegroom" and "Call Me Kuchu" had tied for the documentary award, while "Behind the Candelabra," already lavishly rewarded, took the TV film/miniseries prize. On the TV front, Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" was named...
- 5/5/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Review by Dane Marti
Actress Paula Garcia literally becomes the title character in director Sebastian Lello’s fascinating and provocative new film, one of those exceptional films that could possibly become a big hit in the U.S. and around the cinematic globe, something that most foreign films do not accomplish.
The film takes place in modern Chili, an environment that this reviewer embarrassingly admits he doesn’t know much about. Although a character-driven film, enough of the city is shown to give the viewer a glimpse into a beautiful world. The film makes me want to learn more about this particular area of the world.
When we first meet Gloria, she is sitting at a bar, people dance and mill around her and loud music permeates the air like neon confetti. However, Gloria is in her own world. Gloria is divorced, trying to make the best of being single.
Actress Paula Garcia literally becomes the title character in director Sebastian Lello’s fascinating and provocative new film, one of those exceptional films that could possibly become a big hit in the U.S. and around the cinematic globe, something that most foreign films do not accomplish.
The film takes place in modern Chili, an environment that this reviewer embarrassingly admits he doesn’t know much about. Although a character-driven film, enough of the city is shown to give the viewer a glimpse into a beautiful world. The film makes me want to learn more about this particular area of the world.
When we first meet Gloria, she is sitting at a bar, people dance and mill around her and loud music permeates the air like neon confetti. However, Gloria is in her own world. Gloria is divorced, trying to make the best of being single.
- 1/31/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 2014 GLAAD Media Awards nominations have been announced, celebrating TV shows, movies, music artists and journalism that puts forth fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
The awards are given our in two ceremonies, April 12 in Los Angeles and May 3 in New York. The nominees are as follows:
Outstanding Drama Series
"The Fosters"
"Grey's Anatomy"
"Orphan Black"
"Pretty Little Liars"
"Shameless"
Outstanding Comedy Series
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
"Glee"
"Modern Family"
"Orange is the New Black"
"Please Like Me"
Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular Lgbt character)
"Bride and Prejudice," "The Soul Man"
"Larp and the Real Girl," "Supernatural"
"Secret Lives," "Drop Dead Diva"
"Snow Angels," "Elementary"
"There's the Door," "Necessary Roughness"
Outstanding TV Movie or Miniseries
"Behind the Candelabra"
"In the Flesh"
Outstanding Documentary
"Bridegroom"
"Call Me Kuchu"
"God Loves Uganda"
"The New Black"
"Valentine Road...
The awards are given our in two ceremonies, April 12 in Los Angeles and May 3 in New York. The nominees are as follows:
Outstanding Drama Series
"The Fosters"
"Grey's Anatomy"
"Orphan Black"
"Pretty Little Liars"
"Shameless"
Outstanding Comedy Series
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
"Glee"
"Modern Family"
"Orange is the New Black"
"Please Like Me"
Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular Lgbt character)
"Bride and Prejudice," "The Soul Man"
"Larp and the Real Girl," "Supernatural"
"Secret Lives," "Drop Dead Diva"
"Snow Angels," "Elementary"
"There's the Door," "Necessary Roughness"
Outstanding TV Movie or Miniseries
"Behind the Candelabra"
"In the Flesh"
Outstanding Documentary
"Bridegroom"
"Call Me Kuchu"
"God Loves Uganda"
"The New Black"
"Valentine Road...
- 1/30/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
With two big ceremonies coming up (April 12th in Los Angeles and May 3rd in New York City), the 2014 GLAAD Media Awards has a ton of great nominees all vying for a trophy.
On the film end of things, “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Blue is the Warmest Color” both received nods, and “Orange is the New Black” and “Pretty Little Liars” lead the way for television.
The GLAAD Media Awards honors the biggest and brightest stars in entertainment, journalism and real-life Lgbt movements.
The nominees for the 2014 GLAAD Media Awards are:
Outstanding Film – Wide Release
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Sundance Selects)
Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Kill Your Darlings (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Philomena (The Weinstein Company)
Outstanding Film – Limited Release
Concussion (RADiUS-The Weinstein Company)
Geography Club (Breaking Glass Pictures)
Out in the Dark (Breaking Glass Pictures)
Reaching for the Moon...
On the film end of things, “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Blue is the Warmest Color” both received nods, and “Orange is the New Black” and “Pretty Little Liars” lead the way for television.
The GLAAD Media Awards honors the biggest and brightest stars in entertainment, journalism and real-life Lgbt movements.
The nominees for the 2014 GLAAD Media Awards are:
Outstanding Film – Wide Release
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Sundance Selects)
Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Kill Your Darlings (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Philomena (The Weinstein Company)
Outstanding Film – Limited Release
Concussion (RADiUS-The Weinstein Company)
Geography Club (Breaking Glass Pictures)
Out in the Dark (Breaking Glass Pictures)
Reaching for the Moon...
- 1/30/2014
- GossipCenter
This morning the national Lgbt media advocacy organization GLAAD announced nominees for the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. According to GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis, the year “has brought momentous progress for Lgbt people and families – and our nominees have created images and stories that continue to challenge misconceptions, shatter stereotypes, and change hearts and minds of millions all across the globe.”
There are 130 nominees in 29 categories but a few notable honorees include wide release films Dallas Buyers Club, Philomena and Kill Your Darlings, all of which were previously reviewed here on TheBacklot.
In the limited release category, Geography Club scored a nod. (The film is based on the classic Ya novel by AfterElton alum Brent Hartinger.)
In the outstanding TV drama category, ABC Family scored 2 nominees: The Fosters and Pretty Little Liars.
In the TV comedy category, perennial nominees Modern Family and Glee were joined by Brooklyn Nine-Nine and...
There are 130 nominees in 29 categories but a few notable honorees include wide release films Dallas Buyers Club, Philomena and Kill Your Darlings, all of which were previously reviewed here on TheBacklot.
In the limited release category, Geography Club scored a nod. (The film is based on the classic Ya novel by AfterElton alum Brent Hartinger.)
In the outstanding TV drama category, ABC Family scored 2 nominees: The Fosters and Pretty Little Liars.
In the TV comedy category, perennial nominees Modern Family and Glee were joined by Brooklyn Nine-Nine and...
- 1/30/2014
- by Dennis Ayers
- The Backlot
I haven't forgotten about The Film Bitch Awards, also known as "Nathaniel's Ballot" that once grand internet tradition (14 years now, Jesus!) that has been eroded by my time management problems. But no more. I'm turning over new leaves in 2014, you'll see, and so we begin now with the catch-ups.
And now 43 words it gives me great pleasure to type...
Elyes Aguis Kyle Chandler Bradley Cooper Chris Cooper Bruce Dern Leonardo DiCaprio Paul Eenhoorn Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Fassbender James Franco James Gandolfini Jake Gyllenhaal Tom Hanks Sergio Hernandez Oscar Isaac Hugh Jackman Jared Leto Matthew McConaughey Mads Mikkelsen Tye Sheridan and Keith Stanfield
And that's just the cream that rose to the top for yours truly when it came time to sort out my thoughts on the best performances by men this year at the cinema. Though supporting actor was lean, the leading men more than made up for it. It...
And now 43 words it gives me great pleasure to type...
Elyes Aguis Kyle Chandler Bradley Cooper Chris Cooper Bruce Dern Leonardo DiCaprio Paul Eenhoorn Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Fassbender James Franco James Gandolfini Jake Gyllenhaal Tom Hanks Sergio Hernandez Oscar Isaac Hugh Jackman Jared Leto Matthew McConaughey Mads Mikkelsen Tye Sheridan and Keith Stanfield
And that's just the cream that rose to the top for yours truly when it came time to sort out my thoughts on the best performances by men this year at the cinema. Though supporting actor was lean, the leading men more than made up for it. It...
- 1/14/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Gloria follows the story of 58-year-old divorcee Gloria (Chilean actress Paulina Garcia), who’s hitting the singles scene for the first time since her grown children left home. In the scene below, we see Gloria meeting the older man, Rodolfo (Sergio Hernandez) who will change her life.
Directed by Sebastian Lelio, the film, which opened to positive reception at the Berlin and Toronto Festivals, is Chile’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award.
Oscar nominations will be announced on Jan. 16; Roadside Attractions is distributing the film, which will open on Jan. 14, 2014 in the U.S.
Directed by Sebastian Lelio, the film, which opened to positive reception at the Berlin and Toronto Festivals, is Chile’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award.
Oscar nominations will be announced on Jan. 16; Roadside Attractions is distributing the film, which will open on Jan. 14, 2014 in the U.S.
- 12/13/2013
- by Laura Hertzfeld
- EW - Inside Movies
Back in February of this year Roadside Attractions picked up Sebastian Lelio's Gloria out of the Berlin Film Festival, fast forward eight months later and the studio has an Oscar contender on their hands as the festival favorite will serve as Chile's official submission for Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 2014 Oscars. Starring Paulina Garcia as the title character, a 58-year-old divorcee looking for love and adventure, the Santiago-set feature follows her as she doesn't give up on her lust for life as she eventually meets a charming former naval officer (Sergio Hernandez) in his 60s who sweeps her off her feet. Garcia ended up winning the Best Actress award in Berlin. I'm hoping Roadside sends out screeners before the end of the year so I can see it for myself sooner rather than later, but if not I guess I'll just wait until it hits theaters on January 17, 2014. Check out the trailer below.
- 10/17/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
"Gloria," Chile's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category of the upcoming 86th Academy Awards, has swiftly attracted widespread critical acclaim for offering an honest, comically-driven portrait of your not-so-typical 50-something year old single woman. When fun-loving Gloria (Paulina Garcia) steers her way through the trappings of loneliness and into Rodolfo's (Sergio Hernandez) arms, his limbo-like affair with his (ex)wife forces her to retreat from her sudden romantic glow. Gloria, however, drags herself heart break to happiness and shines brighter than ever as an emotionally reborn woman in her golden years. The trailer to Sebastian Lelio's "Gloria" is at first glance the antithesis to a conventional sorrowful break-up drama ripe with shouting matches and teary monologues. What is presented to us instead is a refreshingly optimistic "look on the bright side" tale of a character for whom age and relationship status could not be more irrelevant. Roadside.
- 10/17/2013
- by Ramzi De Coster
- Indiewire
The 51st New York Film Festival, running September 30th – October 13th, is coming up quickly and the full lineup is well under wraps. As Sound on Sight gets pumped up for the New York hospitality, here are our picks for the most anticipated films of the 51st Nyff, along with their official synopsis and trailer.
Captain Phillips
Paul Greengrass, 2013
USA | 134 minutes
“In April 2009, four Somali teenage pirates in a stolen Taiwanese fishing vessel seized the Maersk Alabama, a cargo ship bound for Mombasa. When the crew resisted, the pirates left with the Captain, Richard Phillips, and tried to make it ashore in the ship’s high speed lifeboat. What followed was a tense stand-off that was closely watched by the entire planet. Paul Greengrass, one of the incontestable masters of reality-based fictional filmmaking, and writer Billy Ray have crafted a film (based on Phillips’ account of the incident) that is...
Captain Phillips
Paul Greengrass, 2013
USA | 134 minutes
“In April 2009, four Somali teenage pirates in a stolen Taiwanese fishing vessel seized the Maersk Alabama, a cargo ship bound for Mombasa. When the crew resisted, the pirates left with the Captain, Richard Phillips, and tried to make it ashore in the ship’s high speed lifeboat. What followed was a tense stand-off that was closely watched by the entire planet. Paul Greengrass, one of the incontestable masters of reality-based fictional filmmaking, and writer Billy Ray have crafted a film (based on Phillips’ account of the incident) that is...
- 9/26/2013
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Gloria, which just finished playing Tiff, directed by Sebastian Lelio and starring Paulina Garcia has been selected to represent Chile in the Foreign Language race for the 86th Academy Awards ®
Fresh off its highly successful North American premiere at The Telluride Film Festival, Gloria was Special Presentation at the Toronto Int'l Film Festival.
I was lucky to be able to spend an hour speaking with director Sebastián Lelio and
2013 Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award winner Paulina Garcia, the film’s star.
Paulina Garcia in real life barely resembled Gloria who is a seemingly comfortable “woman of a certain age” who still feels young…like me, and also like me, she enjoys dancing. Her children have lives of their own as does her former husband, she has a job and while comfortable, she is a bit at a loss for a place and for love. I had not realized that in fact those people I dance with are perhaps also looking for love – all I ever see them do is dance.
But like Gloria, though lonely, they are making the best of their situation. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives her all, leaves her vacillating between hope and despair - until she uncovers a new strength and realizes that, in her golden years, she can shine brighter than ever.
Speaking with Paulina Garcia, I was first struck with how unlike the character Gloria she was. Sophisticated and refined, speaking perfect English, we related on a different level from how I related to her in the film, and I had related intimately; I had identified completely with Gloria and I had thought I would, in fact, be meeting Gloria herself.
Paulina told me how unusual it is to be in every scene. Playing such a character focused so deeply into life forced her to move the center of herself to a different point. After the movie had been shot, she felt the pain in her very bones from the different positions and motions of Gloria’s person. When it was over, she felt like she had emerged from a very deep ocean dive. Acting is on the surface, but the character played is really more like an iceberg.
Sebastian added that the relationship between Gloria and everyone else is not the action but in the air around them. It is the anti-matter you experience in the film, not the plot. The spotlight was always upon her. There was not a single frame in which Gloria’s body was not present. Every single scene is about how she is feeling about people, things and the world. And she reflects the world, as it is today in Santiago, Chile – discontented and seeking ways to take action against the discontent.
The relationship built between Sebastian and Paulina prior to filming was not based on the film, but on aligning their minds. It was an unusual friendship that was built between the director and actress. He gave her things to read unrelated to the film, she read Cassavetes on Cassavetes, (the name Gloria was not spurious); he gave her quotes, information on vortexes and whatever else interested him in those days. He was very clear about how personal the film would be, creating layers of emotion and artistry. Once they began working together, they shared a sort of mindful shorthand. He might say, “Do your own vortex” and she would define the world in her own terms so she could do her part. Paulina/Gloria was the point of the film and everything had to go around her, as if she were the vortex.
The other character in the film – whom we did not discuss at all, but who was an extraordinary counterweight to Gloria, was Sergio Hernandez who played Rodolfo. Very sexy and very soulful, he is dogged in his pursuit of Gloria and is dogged by his “ex-wife” and daughters. He has played in Sebastian Lelio’s previous films La Sagrada Familia in 2006 which I caught during my first trip to Chile as an guest of the Valdivia Film Festival in ‘05 and in El Ano del Tigre, his third film which played Locarno in 2011. Both these were also “insistent observations of characters going through evolutionary crossroads: family as a sacred trap; the interest in the tension that exists between a person and character; and the conviction that film is a face-on battle”, to quote Sebastian.
La Sagrada Familia was shot in 3 days in 35mm, a true indie film. It was a sort of “punk” film and it met with great success and so Sebastian could access national funds to make his second film Navidad which along with some private investment was finally paid off two months ago. Navidad was about teenage runaways going through a sort of initiation into the carney world. He directed Year of the Tiger just after Chile’s major earthquake and Fabula put in the money ($100,000) for this urgent film. It is a testament to the Year Zero and was shot in 12 days. It went on to play Toronto and Locarno. These are all available along with interviews on Festival Scope.
The year 2005 was the year that a new generation of filmmakers was beginning to create Chilean cinema as we know it today. Not only Sebastian Lelio withLa Sagrada Familia, but the producer of Gloria and Year of the Tiger, Fabula’s Pablo Larrain (along with his brother Juan de Dios Larrain) was developing his breakout film, Tony Manero and had just finished Fuga. Pablo also wrote and directed Post Mortem , produced El año del tigre , produced and directed No and produced this year’s Sundance hit Crystal Fairy. It was Diego Izquierdo whose Sexo con Amor we were repping who brought us to Valdivia that year as he was working on El rey de los huevones . It was the year En la Cama by Matias Bizes ( La vida de los peces ) was the most popular film in Chile and films were finally breaking from the post-Pinochet trauma. The “other Sebastian”, Sebastian Silva, was the inspiration behind the writers of Mala Leche and La Sagrada Familia, and was writing the first film he would also direct, La vida me mata (Life Kills Me).
Gloria was such a fine work of art that it was developed in the Cannes Residency (Cinefondation) program and garnered national funds for its production. It was screened as a Work in Progress first in Chile’s Sanfic and then in San Sebastian in 2012 where it won the Cine in Construccion Award. Sebastian has recently received a Guggenheim fellowship and support of the Daad Berliner Kunstlerprogram for the development of his new projects.
To be witness to Chile’s spectacular growth in the international business gives me such a thrill. I can’t wait to see Sebastian’s next film which he is working on now in the Berlinale Residency (September – December), writing it with an eye toward co-production. The new film explores masculine emotions. Perhaps it will once again star Paulina Garcia.
Gloria
Directed by: Sebastián Lelio
Tiff 2013 - Special Presentation
Chile - 109 minutes - In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Starring: Paulina García
Producer: Fabula - Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín
Tiff 2013: Special Presentation
U.S. Distributor: Roadside Attractions
Canadian Distributor: Mongrel Media
The film will be released by Roadside Attractions and is being sold internationally by Funny Balloons, who has already sold it to
Australia
Rialto Distribution (Australia)
Austria
Thimfilm Gmbh
Brazil
Imovision
Canada
Métropole Films Distribution
Colombia
Babilla Cine
France
Funny Balloons
Germany
Alamode Film
Greece
Strada Films
Israel
New Cinema Ltd.
Italy
Lucky Red
Japan
Respect
Korea (South)
Pancinema
Netherlands
Wild Bunch Benelux
Portugal
Alambique
Sweden
Atlantic Film Ab
Switzerland
Filmcoopi Zurich Ag
Turkey
Bir Film
United Kingdom
Network
USA
Roadside Attractions...
Fresh off its highly successful North American premiere at The Telluride Film Festival, Gloria was Special Presentation at the Toronto Int'l Film Festival.
I was lucky to be able to spend an hour speaking with director Sebastián Lelio and
2013 Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award winner Paulina Garcia, the film’s star.
Paulina Garcia in real life barely resembled Gloria who is a seemingly comfortable “woman of a certain age” who still feels young…like me, and also like me, she enjoys dancing. Her children have lives of their own as does her former husband, she has a job and while comfortable, she is a bit at a loss for a place and for love. I had not realized that in fact those people I dance with are perhaps also looking for love – all I ever see them do is dance.
But like Gloria, though lonely, they are making the best of their situation. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives her all, leaves her vacillating between hope and despair - until she uncovers a new strength and realizes that, in her golden years, she can shine brighter than ever.
Speaking with Paulina Garcia, I was first struck with how unlike the character Gloria she was. Sophisticated and refined, speaking perfect English, we related on a different level from how I related to her in the film, and I had related intimately; I had identified completely with Gloria and I had thought I would, in fact, be meeting Gloria herself.
Paulina told me how unusual it is to be in every scene. Playing such a character focused so deeply into life forced her to move the center of herself to a different point. After the movie had been shot, she felt the pain in her very bones from the different positions and motions of Gloria’s person. When it was over, she felt like she had emerged from a very deep ocean dive. Acting is on the surface, but the character played is really more like an iceberg.
Sebastian added that the relationship between Gloria and everyone else is not the action but in the air around them. It is the anti-matter you experience in the film, not the plot. The spotlight was always upon her. There was not a single frame in which Gloria’s body was not present. Every single scene is about how she is feeling about people, things and the world. And she reflects the world, as it is today in Santiago, Chile – discontented and seeking ways to take action against the discontent.
The relationship built between Sebastian and Paulina prior to filming was not based on the film, but on aligning their minds. It was an unusual friendship that was built between the director and actress. He gave her things to read unrelated to the film, she read Cassavetes on Cassavetes, (the name Gloria was not spurious); he gave her quotes, information on vortexes and whatever else interested him in those days. He was very clear about how personal the film would be, creating layers of emotion and artistry. Once they began working together, they shared a sort of mindful shorthand. He might say, “Do your own vortex” and she would define the world in her own terms so she could do her part. Paulina/Gloria was the point of the film and everything had to go around her, as if she were the vortex.
The other character in the film – whom we did not discuss at all, but who was an extraordinary counterweight to Gloria, was Sergio Hernandez who played Rodolfo. Very sexy and very soulful, he is dogged in his pursuit of Gloria and is dogged by his “ex-wife” and daughters. He has played in Sebastian Lelio’s previous films La Sagrada Familia in 2006 which I caught during my first trip to Chile as an guest of the Valdivia Film Festival in ‘05 and in El Ano del Tigre, his third film which played Locarno in 2011. Both these were also “insistent observations of characters going through evolutionary crossroads: family as a sacred trap; the interest in the tension that exists between a person and character; and the conviction that film is a face-on battle”, to quote Sebastian.
La Sagrada Familia was shot in 3 days in 35mm, a true indie film. It was a sort of “punk” film and it met with great success and so Sebastian could access national funds to make his second film Navidad which along with some private investment was finally paid off two months ago. Navidad was about teenage runaways going through a sort of initiation into the carney world. He directed Year of the Tiger just after Chile’s major earthquake and Fabula put in the money ($100,000) for this urgent film. It is a testament to the Year Zero and was shot in 12 days. It went on to play Toronto and Locarno. These are all available along with interviews on Festival Scope.
The year 2005 was the year that a new generation of filmmakers was beginning to create Chilean cinema as we know it today. Not only Sebastian Lelio withLa Sagrada Familia, but the producer of Gloria and Year of the Tiger, Fabula’s Pablo Larrain (along with his brother Juan de Dios Larrain) was developing his breakout film, Tony Manero and had just finished Fuga. Pablo also wrote and directed Post Mortem , produced El año del tigre , produced and directed No and produced this year’s Sundance hit Crystal Fairy. It was Diego Izquierdo whose Sexo con Amor we were repping who brought us to Valdivia that year as he was working on El rey de los huevones . It was the year En la Cama by Matias Bizes ( La vida de los peces ) was the most popular film in Chile and films were finally breaking from the post-Pinochet trauma. The “other Sebastian”, Sebastian Silva, was the inspiration behind the writers of Mala Leche and La Sagrada Familia, and was writing the first film he would also direct, La vida me mata (Life Kills Me).
Gloria was such a fine work of art that it was developed in the Cannes Residency (Cinefondation) program and garnered national funds for its production. It was screened as a Work in Progress first in Chile’s Sanfic and then in San Sebastian in 2012 where it won the Cine in Construccion Award. Sebastian has recently received a Guggenheim fellowship and support of the Daad Berliner Kunstlerprogram for the development of his new projects.
To be witness to Chile’s spectacular growth in the international business gives me such a thrill. I can’t wait to see Sebastian’s next film which he is working on now in the Berlinale Residency (September – December), writing it with an eye toward co-production. The new film explores masculine emotions. Perhaps it will once again star Paulina Garcia.
Gloria
Directed by: Sebastián Lelio
Tiff 2013 - Special Presentation
Chile - 109 minutes - In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Starring: Paulina García
Producer: Fabula - Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín
Tiff 2013: Special Presentation
U.S. Distributor: Roadside Attractions
Canadian Distributor: Mongrel Media
The film will be released by Roadside Attractions and is being sold internationally by Funny Balloons, who has already sold it to
Australia
Rialto Distribution (Australia)
Austria
Thimfilm Gmbh
Brazil
Imovision
Canada
Métropole Films Distribution
Colombia
Babilla Cine
France
Funny Balloons
Germany
Alamode Film
Greece
Strada Films
Israel
New Cinema Ltd.
Italy
Lucky Red
Japan
Respect
Korea (South)
Pancinema
Netherlands
Wild Bunch Benelux
Portugal
Alambique
Sweden
Atlantic Film Ab
Switzerland
Filmcoopi Zurich Ag
Turkey
Bir Film
United Kingdom
Network
USA
Roadside Attractions...
- 9/17/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Late blooming love for Paulina García and Sergio Hernandez in Gloria How did Chilean actress Paulina García come to grips with the omnipresent role of Gloria in Sebastián Lelio’s new film about a middle-aged woman who finds romance? She told a media gathering in Locarno that the only way was to "demonstrate complete commitment".
Locarno Film Festival star of Gloria, Paulina García - an acrobat on a thin line "I had to be ready to work continuously with the director: we had to become complementary. Gloria did not only need a characterisation; it was necessary to build a woman in all her aspects and complexity, especially showing what one tends to hide in life."
She did not think of her as a role model. "Women like her are here and all over the world, even if their independence and strength are often ignored. We wanted to describe a female...
Locarno Film Festival star of Gloria, Paulina García - an acrobat on a thin line "I had to be ready to work continuously with the director: we had to become complementary. Gloria did not only need a characterisation; it was necessary to build a woman in all her aspects and complexity, especially showing what one tends to hide in life."
She did not think of her as a role model. "Women like her are here and all over the world, even if their independence and strength are often ignored. We wanted to describe a female...
- 8/15/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The final installment of the First Time Fest… The First Time Fest’s closing night was held on March 4th. Hosted by Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist), the Players Club lit up with flashes of cameras and smiles of the first time filmmakers anxiously awaiting whose film will win the grand prize- the chance to have their film distributed by Cinema Libre Studios.
Johanna Bennett and Mandy founded the festival after noticing there wasn’t a venue for where new filmmakers can get their film viewed and appreciated. In attendance at the closing night ceremony were Tony Bennett and Jack Huston, as well as Martin Scorsese, who presented the First John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema to Darren Aronofsky, who was also in attendance. Anthony Rapp presented the awards as guests ate food from Chef Diane Dimeo and drank champagne by Nicolas Feuillatte. Also in attendance...
Johanna Bennett and Mandy founded the festival after noticing there wasn’t a venue for where new filmmakers can get their film viewed and appreciated. In attendance at the closing night ceremony were Tony Bennett and Jack Huston, as well as Martin Scorsese, who presented the First John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema to Darren Aronofsky, who was also in attendance. Anthony Rapp presented the awards as guests ate food from Chef Diane Dimeo and drank champagne by Nicolas Feuillatte. Also in attendance...
- 4/5/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
The First Time Fest was created by Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward as a way to showcase new upcoming filmmakers and their works, and to get them a head start in their industry. The festival occurred on March 1st to 4th at The Players Club in New York, which was a club started by some well-known writers and actors, including Edwin Booth (John Wilkes Booth’s brother), Mark Twain, and more.
While the festival does support new filmmakers in their journey, it also awards previous filmmakers who have made names for themselves. Being that this is the first year of the festival, the first ever John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema went to Darren Aronofsky. The award is named in honor of John Huston as he was a esteemed member of The Players Club, as well as considered to be one of the most influential writer, actor, director and producers of all times.
While the festival does support new filmmakers in their journey, it also awards previous filmmakers who have made names for themselves. Being that this is the first year of the festival, the first ever John Huston Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema went to Darren Aronofsky. The award is named in honor of John Huston as he was a esteemed member of The Players Club, as well as considered to be one of the most influential writer, actor, director and producers of all times.
- 3/16/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
For the past couple of years the Cannes Film Festival has premiered highly acclaimed and anticipated Latin American films. This Friday two of these films, both having debuted during the Director’s Fortnight, will be released theatrically. From the late Chilean filmmaker, Raúl Ruiz, is Night Across the Street, the final film of his prolific career. Also opening this week is Alejandro Landes’ fiction film debut Porfirio based on the true life story of a paraplegic man who attempted to hijack a plane in Colombia. They are both stories of men trapped in their own existence and looking for a way out. Porfirio and Night Across the Street open this Friday, February 8 in New York.
Porfirio
Director: Alejandro Landes
Colombia | 2011 | 106 min
In Spanish with English subtitles
A Magic Lantern Release
In 2005, Alejandro Landes came across a newspaper headline that sparked the idea for this film, “Paralyzed Man in Diapers Hijacks Plane to Bogotá.” Landes soon traveled to the man’s hometown and spent time with Porfirio, trying to figure out his motivation for the hijacking. He found a man frustrated by his surroundings, a man who was once a wealthy farmer and cattle rancher but was left paralyzed when hit by a stray police bullet. Landes became convinced that he wanted Porfirio to play himself and later cast his young son and Porfirio’s neighbor, all non-professional actors, to star in the film. What comes across in Landes’ film is that there were not many events that led up to the hijacking; it was the lack of action that ultimately put Porfirio on his path. Landes’ aesthetic choices put the audience inside Porfirio’s world, a claustrophobic, alienated existence. The low, horizontal angles center on Porfirio sitting in his wheelchair, often cutting off other characters at the waist. We see headless bodies; we see things from Porfirio’s point of view. The audience is given a peek into the intimate details of his daily life—love, sex, showering, going to the bathroom—and it becomes clear that the monotony, the pent of feelings of helplessness became the catalyst for his defiant act. As a man who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair he felt compelled to take control of something and that something ended up being a commercial jet filled with passengers.
Porfirio opens February 8, 2013 in New York at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, 11 West 53rd St) with a limited national release to follow.
La Noche de Enfrente (Night Across the Street)
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Chile, France | 2012 | 101 min
In Spanish and French with English Subtitles
A Cinema Guild Release
At the time of his death in August of 2011, Raúl Ruiz was seventy years old and had directed over 100 films. Night Across the Street is his final film, having premiered posthumously at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Not surprisingly, it is a rumination on death itself—Ruiz knew his own end was near and it is believed that he intended for the film to be screened after his passing. For his final film he chose to adapt two short stories. Ruiz wanted to immerse himself in the “poetic world” of Chilean writer Hernán del Solar in whose work, “daily life coexists with the dream world.” Only a master filmmaker like Ruiz could successfully transfer Solar’s “poetic world” to the screen. The result is a dreamscape of images that flip back and forth between the past, the present, and the future. Don Celso (Sergio Hernandez) is an elderly office worker who is being forced into early retirement. The dread that comes with his dull, humdrum life makes him acutely aware of the minutes that keep passing him by. It becomes clear that Ruiz has pieced together a meditation on death and the passage of time. It not only blurs the line between past and present but also fiction and reality. Shot in HD, it’s a surreal and often confusing experience that leaves the audience contemplating their own mortality (and maybe trying to figure out the story).
Night Across the Street opens February 8, 2013 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th St).
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
Porfirio
Director: Alejandro Landes
Colombia | 2011 | 106 min
In Spanish with English subtitles
A Magic Lantern Release
In 2005, Alejandro Landes came across a newspaper headline that sparked the idea for this film, “Paralyzed Man in Diapers Hijacks Plane to Bogotá.” Landes soon traveled to the man’s hometown and spent time with Porfirio, trying to figure out his motivation for the hijacking. He found a man frustrated by his surroundings, a man who was once a wealthy farmer and cattle rancher but was left paralyzed when hit by a stray police bullet. Landes became convinced that he wanted Porfirio to play himself and later cast his young son and Porfirio’s neighbor, all non-professional actors, to star in the film. What comes across in Landes’ film is that there were not many events that led up to the hijacking; it was the lack of action that ultimately put Porfirio on his path. Landes’ aesthetic choices put the audience inside Porfirio’s world, a claustrophobic, alienated existence. The low, horizontal angles center on Porfirio sitting in his wheelchair, often cutting off other characters at the waist. We see headless bodies; we see things from Porfirio’s point of view. The audience is given a peek into the intimate details of his daily life—love, sex, showering, going to the bathroom—and it becomes clear that the monotony, the pent of feelings of helplessness became the catalyst for his defiant act. As a man who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair he felt compelled to take control of something and that something ended up being a commercial jet filled with passengers.
Porfirio opens February 8, 2013 in New York at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, 11 West 53rd St) with a limited national release to follow.
La Noche de Enfrente (Night Across the Street)
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Chile, France | 2012 | 101 min
In Spanish and French with English Subtitles
A Cinema Guild Release
At the time of his death in August of 2011, Raúl Ruiz was seventy years old and had directed over 100 films. Night Across the Street is his final film, having premiered posthumously at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Not surprisingly, it is a rumination on death itself—Ruiz knew his own end was near and it is believed that he intended for the film to be screened after his passing. For his final film he chose to adapt two short stories. Ruiz wanted to immerse himself in the “poetic world” of Chilean writer Hernán del Solar in whose work, “daily life coexists with the dream world.” Only a master filmmaker like Ruiz could successfully transfer Solar’s “poetic world” to the screen. The result is a dreamscape of images that flip back and forth between the past, the present, and the future. Don Celso (Sergio Hernandez) is an elderly office worker who is being forced into early retirement. The dread that comes with his dull, humdrum life makes him acutely aware of the minutes that keep passing him by. It becomes clear that Ruiz has pieced together a meditation on death and the passage of time. It not only blurs the line between past and present but also fiction and reality. Shot in HD, it’s a surreal and often confusing experience that leaves the audience contemplating their own mortality (and maybe trying to figure out the story).
Night Across the Street opens February 8, 2013 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th St).
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
- 2/6/2013
- by Vanessa Erazo
- Sydney's Buzz
Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, Shannyn Sossamon, Dominic Monaghan and Cory Hardrict in The Day
Photo: Content Media The 2011 Toronto International Film Festival announced 56 more movies added to its festival line-up this year with selections in the Vanguard, Midnight Madness, Documentaries, City to City and Tiff Kids programs. And to be honest, the line-up is filled with titles, most of which are absolutely new to me.
I have seen one of the films under the Vanguard banner, a selection of young and cutting edge features and I've heard of Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31, Ben Wheatley's Kill List (watch the trailer to the right) was a hit at South by Southwest earlier this year and the documentary selections include familiar names such as Werner Herzog, Morgan Spurlock, Jonathan Demme, Alex Gibney and Wim Wenders, the latter of which is delivering a 3D documentary centered on the dance world of Pina Bausch and her company.
Photo: Content Media The 2011 Toronto International Film Festival announced 56 more movies added to its festival line-up this year with selections in the Vanguard, Midnight Madness, Documentaries, City to City and Tiff Kids programs. And to be honest, the line-up is filled with titles, most of which are absolutely new to me.
I have seen one of the films under the Vanguard banner, a selection of young and cutting edge features and I've heard of Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31, Ben Wheatley's Kill List (watch the trailer to the right) was a hit at South by Southwest earlier this year and the documentary selections include familiar names such as Werner Herzog, Morgan Spurlock, Jonathan Demme, Alex Gibney and Wim Wenders, the latter of which is delivering a 3D documentary centered on the dance world of Pina Bausch and her company.
- 8/3/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Us Border Patrol has come under fire for shooting and killing a Mexican teen, but not for trying to cross the border-- 15-year-old Sergio Hernandez was throwing rocks at the agents, a practice that has become a real threat for agents walking the border. On last night's show, Bill O'Reilly and his guest, Sara Carter of the Washington Examiner, debated the diplomatic consequences of the incident and greater tensions along the border.
- 6/11/2010
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
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