The Loads‘ Ognjen Glavonic, Autobiography‘s Makbul Mubarak & Medusa‘s Anita Rocha da Silveira are among the selected filmmakers for TorinoFilmLab’s ScriptLab Participants. Glavonic will be at the lab with In The Shadow Of The Horns – his sophomore fiction feature. Indonesian filmmaker Mubarak comes with Watch It Burn – his sophomore feature while Brazilian filmmaker Anita Rocha da Silveira will be workshopping her third feature in I Can’t Dance. The 20 projects come from 20 writer-directors and eight co-writers, and have been selected from 550 submissions. Here are the ScriptLab 2023 projects and participants:
A Perfect Family – Writer: Adriano Valerio / Co-writer: Aude Py
All The Crows In The World – Writer: Yi Tang
Alma – Writer: Laura Herrero Garvin / Co-writer: Jorge Gil
Amari – Writer: Domien Huyghe, Co-writer: Wendy Huyghe
Blind Spots – Writer: Ely Chevillot
Brilliant Melody – Writer: Carlo Francisco / Co-writer: Jeremie Dubois
Counting Cards With My Father – Writer: Lydia Rui
Detour – Writer: Jakub Piatek / Co-writer:...
A Perfect Family – Writer: Adriano Valerio / Co-writer: Aude Py
All The Crows In The World – Writer: Yi Tang
Alma – Writer: Laura Herrero Garvin / Co-writer: Jorge Gil
Amari – Writer: Domien Huyghe, Co-writer: Wendy Huyghe
Blind Spots – Writer: Ely Chevillot
Brilliant Melody – Writer: Carlo Francisco / Co-writer: Jeremie Dubois
Counting Cards With My Father – Writer: Lydia Rui
Detour – Writer: Jakub Piatek / Co-writer:...
- 3/27/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
There is a particular focus on comedies.
TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 20 projects for its ScriptLab 2023, plus five story editors, in what it describes as the first ‘fully international’ iteration of the annual development scheme.
The 20 projects come from 20 writer-directors and eight co-writers, and have been selected from 550 submissions.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
Those selected will take part in three week-long residential modules in April, June and November; with two online modules in September and October. The participants will be divided into five groups, and tutored by script consultants Philippe Barriere, Severine Cornamusaz, Aleksandra Swierk, Marietta von Hausswolff and Gino Ventriglia.
TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 20 projects for its ScriptLab 2023, plus five story editors, in what it describes as the first ‘fully international’ iteration of the annual development scheme.
The 20 projects come from 20 writer-directors and eight co-writers, and have been selected from 550 submissions.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
Those selected will take part in three week-long residential modules in April, June and November; with two online modules in September and October. The participants will be divided into five groups, and tutored by script consultants Philippe Barriere, Severine Cornamusaz, Aleksandra Swierk, Marietta von Hausswolff and Gino Ventriglia.
- 3/27/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Five Israeli projects won Pitch Point awards at the ceremony.
Zetjune, the upcoming second feature from Luzzu director Alex Camilleri, has won the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Grand Prize on Saturday (July 23), at a joint ceremony in which Jerusalem Industry Days announced its Pitch Point winners.
Featuring real artists from the Maltese folk scene, musical Zejtune follows a 30-year-old woman whose life is reinvigorated by an encounter with an elderly troubadour.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The 50,000 award was given to Maltese-us filmmaker Camilleri and his producers Rebecca Anastasi from Malta and Ramin Bahrami from the US.
Zetjune, the upcoming second feature from Luzzu director Alex Camilleri, has won the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Grand Prize on Saturday (July 23), at a joint ceremony in which Jerusalem Industry Days announced its Pitch Point winners.
Featuring real artists from the Maltese folk scene, musical Zejtune follows a 30-year-old woman whose life is reinvigorated by an encounter with an elderly troubadour.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The 50,000 award was given to Maltese-us filmmaker Camilleri and his producers Rebecca Anastasi from Malta and Ramin Bahrami from the US.
- 7/25/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Asia Review — Asia (2020) Film Review, a movie directed by Ruthy Pribar, and starring Shira Haas, Alena Yiv, Tamir Mula, Ruth Farhi, Gera Sandler, Eden Halili, Liran David, Or Barak, Nadia Tichonova, Mirna Fridman, Tatiana Machlinovski, Evgeny Tarlatzky, Eran Ivanir, Matanya Bar-Shalom, and Andrey Bar. Asia, directed by Ruthy Pribar, showcases two fine [...]
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- 6/27/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
The movie “Asia,” written and directed by Ruthy Pribar, tells the story of a single mother named Asia (Alena Yiv) and her teenage daughter Vika (Shira Haas). They both must navigate their already distant relationship as Vika faces a terminal illness.
The 35-year old Asia, who is raising the 17-year old Vika on her own after emigrating to Israel from Russia, works as a nurse at a Jerusalem hospital and through the course of the film must face the reality of Vika’s rapidly deteriorating condition.
The film, shot primarily in Jerusalem, currently has 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. “Asia” premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won three awards, including the “Nora Ephron Prize” for Pribar and the “Best Actress” award for Haas. At the Ophir Awards, Israel’s version of the Academy Awards, “Asia” won nine awards out of 12 nominations.
I spoke with Haas and Pribar, who were both in Tel Aviv,...
The 35-year old Asia, who is raising the 17-year old Vika on her own after emigrating to Israel from Russia, works as a nurse at a Jerusalem hospital and through the course of the film must face the reality of Vika’s rapidly deteriorating condition.
The film, shot primarily in Jerusalem, currently has 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. “Asia” premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won three awards, including the “Nora Ephron Prize” for Pribar and the “Best Actress” award for Haas. At the Ophir Awards, Israel’s version of the Academy Awards, “Asia” won nine awards out of 12 nominations.
I spoke with Haas and Pribar, who were both in Tel Aviv,...
- 6/12/2021
- by Ayelet Raymond
- The Wrap
The Most Awarded Story of Women Ever!
Winner of 9 Israeli Academy Awards
An Unprecedented 8 Awards Won by Women
The family drama, which received the prestigious Nora Ephron-Award at Tribeca Film Festival, will premiere at New York City’s Film Forum on 11 June and will be released nationwide starting 25 June.
Here is what the press had to say about the film:
“This delicately crafted (film)… offers an exquisite portrayal of a mother’s devotion to her child. The film’s genesis was born out of director Ruthy Pribar’s traumatic personal experience when, 14 years ago, her own sister spent several months in the hospital while grievously ill. Their mother devoted herself day and night to be by her daughter’s bedside, somehow drawing on exceptional inner strength not to break, remaining steadfastly caring. This memory has enveloped Ruthy’s thinking, and Asia has allowed her to explore how and when a...
Winner of 9 Israeli Academy Awards
An Unprecedented 8 Awards Won by Women
The family drama, which received the prestigious Nora Ephron-Award at Tribeca Film Festival, will premiere at New York City’s Film Forum on 11 June and will be released nationwide starting 25 June.
Here is what the press had to say about the film:
“This delicately crafted (film)… offers an exquisite portrayal of a mother’s devotion to her child. The film’s genesis was born out of director Ruthy Pribar’s traumatic personal experience when, 14 years ago, her own sister spent several months in the hospital while grievously ill. Their mother devoted herself day and night to be by her daughter’s bedside, somehow drawing on exceptional inner strength not to break, remaining steadfastly caring. This memory has enveloped Ruthy’s thinking, and Asia has allowed her to explore how and when a...
- 5/28/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Although this year’s Middle Eastern/North African Oscar submissions have yet to generate a strong buzz, there are titles among the 10 films that could be contenders for the international feature short list.
Chief among them is “Sun Children” from veteran Iranian helmer Majid Majidi, whose 1997 “Children of Heaven” landed a foreign-language film nomination. This gripping drama about exploited urban street kids is cast with charismatic, non-pro performers and earned an acting award at the Venice fest for its resilient young protagonist. Strand Films will release.
A possible dark horse is “Broken Keys,” the feature debut of Lebanese multi-hyphenate Jimmy Keyrouz. It marks an expansion of his 2016 Student Academy Award-winner “Nocturne in Black” about a musician in a Syrian town controlled by Isis. Sporting the Cannes Label, this tense drama, with a score by Keyrouz’s famous compatriot Gabriel Yared, shares the combination of real-life crisis and sweeping emotion that characterizes some past nominees.
Chief among them is “Sun Children” from veteran Iranian helmer Majid Majidi, whose 1997 “Children of Heaven” landed a foreign-language film nomination. This gripping drama about exploited urban street kids is cast with charismatic, non-pro performers and earned an acting award at the Venice fest for its resilient young protagonist. Strand Films will release.
A possible dark horse is “Broken Keys,” the feature debut of Lebanese multi-hyphenate Jimmy Keyrouz. It marks an expansion of his 2016 Student Academy Award-winner “Nocturne in Black” about a musician in a Syrian town controlled by Isis. Sporting the Cannes Label, this tense drama, with a score by Keyrouz’s famous compatriot Gabriel Yared, shares the combination of real-life crisis and sweeping emotion that characterizes some past nominees.
- 1/27/2021
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
While American audiences got to know Shira Haas for her breakout role in the Netflix limited series “Unorthodox,” Haas says she was truly moved to tears while reading the screenplay for her latest film “Asia,” which not only won Haas an Israeli Oscar but also a Best Actress prize from the Tribeca Film Festival.
In “Asia,” Haas plays a teenage girl slowly dying from a degenerative motor disease, and the film is named for her character’s mother as the two learn to grapple with death and acceptance. Haas described having an “urge” to tell the story and felt a “spiritual connection” with everyone involved.
“In real life I’m not such an easy crier, and I just couldn’t stop the tears. Also because I really felt a great honor to play such a great complex and amazing character,” Haas told Steve Pond for TheWrap’s Awards and International Screening Series.
In “Asia,” Haas plays a teenage girl slowly dying from a degenerative motor disease, and the film is named for her character’s mother as the two learn to grapple with death and acceptance. Haas described having an “urge” to tell the story and felt a “spiritual connection” with everyone involved.
“In real life I’m not such an easy crier, and I just couldn’t stop the tears. Also because I really felt a great honor to play such a great complex and amazing character,” Haas told Steve Pond for TheWrap’s Awards and International Screening Series.
- 1/26/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
This story about Shira Haas and “Asia” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
She has had a very unusual pandemic. At a time when Shira Haas has mostly been at her home in Tel Aviv, the 25-year-old Israeli actress has become an Emmy nominee and something of a star for her role in “Unorthodox,” the Netflix series that became a lockdown sensation. And while that was happening, she also won the best actress award at the Tribeca Film Festival — the festival didn’t take place but the jury still watched films and voted — for her role in Ruthy Pribar’s delicate but wrenching “Asia,” in which Haas plays a teenage girl trying desperately to have a normal adolescence despite a degenerative motor disease.
“Asia” swept Israel’s Ophir Awards to become that country’s Oscar entry, another happy 2020 event that Haas mostly enjoyed in isolation.
She has had a very unusual pandemic. At a time when Shira Haas has mostly been at her home in Tel Aviv, the 25-year-old Israeli actress has become an Emmy nominee and something of a star for her role in “Unorthodox,” the Netflix series that became a lockdown sensation. And while that was happening, she also won the best actress award at the Tribeca Film Festival — the festival didn’t take place but the jury still watched films and voted — for her role in Ruthy Pribar’s delicate but wrenching “Asia,” in which Haas plays a teenage girl trying desperately to have a normal adolescence despite a degenerative motor disease.
“Asia” swept Israel’s Ophir Awards to become that country’s Oscar entry, another happy 2020 event that Haas mostly enjoyed in isolation.
- 1/14/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 29th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) wrapped on Nov. 22, 2020, but Cinema St. Louis is providing cinephiles another opportunity to view the event’s award winners in the Best of Fest, which is available virtually from Jan. 22-31, 2021.
A few of Sliff’s honorees are already or imminently out in the world — “Transhood” is available on HBO Max, and “9to5: The Story of a Movement” premieres on PBS’s “Independent Lens” on Feb. 1 — but Best of Fest reprises the other 19 winners of the festival’s juried and audience-choice awards.
Like 2020’s Sliff, the Best of Fest is an online-only event and is again presented with our virtual-festival partner, Eventive. Nine features and a program of 10 shorts will be available to stream during all 10 days of the event, and several of the films will once more include recorded Q&As with filmmakers and documentary subjects. Geographic restrictions will apply to some films.
A few of Sliff’s honorees are already or imminently out in the world — “Transhood” is available on HBO Max, and “9to5: The Story of a Movement” premieres on PBS’s “Independent Lens” on Feb. 1 — but Best of Fest reprises the other 19 winners of the festival’s juried and audience-choice awards.
Like 2020’s Sliff, the Best of Fest is an online-only event and is again presented with our virtual-festival partner, Eventive. Nine features and a program of 10 shorts will be available to stream during all 10 days of the event, and several of the films will once more include recorded Q&As with filmmakers and documentary subjects. Geographic restrictions will apply to some films.
- 1/13/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Every year since its creation in 1956, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) invites the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue and that was released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2019 and 31 December 2020.
Here are the Asian Submissions for Best International Feature Film. There are some excellent movies in this bunch and we have seen and reviewed already some of them.
Armenia
“Songs of Solomon” by Arman Nshanian
Bangladesh
“Sincerely Yours, Dhaka” by eleven different directors
Bhutan
“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom“ by Pawo Choyning Dorji
Cambodia
“Fathers” by Huy Yaleng
China
“Leap” by Peter Chan
Georgia
“Beginnin” by Dea Kulumbegashvili
Hong Kong
“Better Days” by Derek Tsang
India
“Jallikattu...
Here are the Asian Submissions for Best International Feature Film. There are some excellent movies in this bunch and we have seen and reviewed already some of them.
Armenia
“Songs of Solomon” by Arman Nshanian
Bangladesh
“Sincerely Yours, Dhaka” by eleven different directors
Bhutan
“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom“ by Pawo Choyning Dorji
Cambodia
“Fathers” by Huy Yaleng
China
“Leap” by Peter Chan
Georgia
“Beginnin” by Dea Kulumbegashvili
Hong Kong
“Better Days” by Derek Tsang
India
“Jallikattu...
- 1/6/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Certain films aren’t made for elevator pitches. “Arthouse ‘Gilmore Girls’ meets ‘The Fault in Our Stars'” would be one way to describe the array of familiar elements in “Asia,” while erasing any hint of the rare delicacy and emotional acuity with which Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar assembles them. In her unassumingly lovely debut feature, Pribar tackles thorny mother-daughter relations, terminal disease anguish and two generations of frustrated sexual yearning in a trim 85 minutes, without once shortcutting to easy sentimentality or high-pitched melodrama. She’s not alone on that balance beam, of course: A pair of exquisitely pitched, mutually reflective performances by Alena Yiv and Shira Haas (fresh from her Emmy-nominated breakout turn in Netflix’s “Unorthodox”) help this low-key, grownup family drama stick fast in the head and heart.
Having premiered in the spring courtesy of Tribeca’s virtual program — where it scooped three jury awards — “Asia” has since...
Having premiered in the spring courtesy of Tribeca’s virtual program — where it scooped three jury awards — “Asia” has since...
- 12/29/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science (AMPAS) will kick off the New Year celebrating emerging Israeli filmmakers and talent with a virtual film fest.
Set for Jan. 11 and Jan. 14, the Nfmla and AMPAS exhibition will feature a lineup of short films and features, and a conversation with Honey Boy director Alma Har’el moderated by Rotten Tomatoes’ Jacqueline Coley, and a panel with Euphoria writer Ron Leshem and others.
Among the stacked lineup is Israel’s pick for the 93rd Oscars International Feature Film race, Ruthy Pribar’s Asia featuring Unorthodox‘s Shira Haas. Featured titles will highlight a range of topics including identity and interpersonal relationships.
The program will also include a special line-up of accomplished Israeli producers, who will be presenting their slates to Industry Delegation Members including Allie Moore at AMC Studios, Maia Hollinger at HBO, John Orlando at Universal and more.
Set for Jan. 11 and Jan. 14, the Nfmla and AMPAS exhibition will feature a lineup of short films and features, and a conversation with Honey Boy director Alma Har’el moderated by Rotten Tomatoes’ Jacqueline Coley, and a panel with Euphoria writer Ron Leshem and others.
Among the stacked lineup is Israel’s pick for the 93rd Oscars International Feature Film race, Ruthy Pribar’s Asia featuring Unorthodox‘s Shira Haas. Featured titles will highlight a range of topics including identity and interpersonal relationships.
The program will also include a special line-up of accomplished Israeli producers, who will be presenting their slates to Industry Delegation Members including Allie Moore at AMC Studios, Maia Hollinger at HBO, John Orlando at Universal and more.
- 12/28/2020
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Since, for the past few years we have intensified our coverage of films that do not belong in the S/Se Asia or the Asean countries, we decided, for the first time, to have a list that deals with movies from outside these regions, essentially including movies from all Asian countries that do not belong in the aforementioned three. The list is probably the most diverse, as it includes films from Israel, Kazakhstan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Palaistine and Kurdistan, although, expectedly, being one of the largest film industries in Asia, Iran has the lion’s share.
Without further ado, here are the best West Asian films of 2020, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2019, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them.
*By clicking on the title, you can read the full review of the film
20. The Death of Cinema and my Father
“The Death...
Without further ado, here are the best West Asian films of 2020, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2019, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them.
*By clicking on the title, you can read the full review of the film
20. The Death of Cinema and my Father
“The Death...
- 12/22/2020
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
The festival unfolded mainly online with special socially distanced screenings for Israeli works.
Ukrainian producer and director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s drama Atlantis has won best film at the 37th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff), which is running as an online event December 10-20 due to Israel’s ongoing Covid-19 lockdown.
Set in war-torn eastern Ukraine in the near future, the film revolves around a former soldier suffering from Ptsd, who is trying to rebuild his life against the backdrop of his environmentally devastated homeland.
It is Vasyanovych’s third feature and Ukraine’s submission to the best international film category of the 2021 Oscars.
Ukrainian producer and director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s drama Atlantis has won best film at the 37th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff), which is running as an online event December 10-20 due to Israel’s ongoing Covid-19 lockdown.
Set in war-torn eastern Ukraine in the near future, the film revolves around a former soldier suffering from Ptsd, who is trying to rebuild his life against the backdrop of his environmentally devastated homeland.
It is Vasyanovych’s third feature and Ukraine’s submission to the best international film category of the 2021 Oscars.
- 12/16/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Italian sales company Intramovies has scored some fresh sales on Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar’s mother-daughter drama “Asia,” winner of the Nora Ephron award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and Israel’s candidate for the International Oscar.
The pic starring Shira Haas, who previously gained notice in Netflix mini-series “Unorthodox,” has been sold to Italy (Lucky Red), Eastern Europe (HBO Europe), Spain (Alfa Pictures) and Australia (Moving Story), on top of previously announced deals to Menemsha Films for North America and Curzon for U.K. where “Asia” was released online in November.
Further deals for Cis, Baltics and Latin America are being finalized during the Cannes-backed Ventana Sur market that is currently underway.
“Asia,” in which a single Russian immigrant mother, played by Alena Yiv, who works as a nurse in a Jerusalem hospital and her 17-year-old daughter Vika, played by Haas, are forced into an especially tight...
The pic starring Shira Haas, who previously gained notice in Netflix mini-series “Unorthodox,” has been sold to Italy (Lucky Red), Eastern Europe (HBO Europe), Spain (Alfa Pictures) and Australia (Moving Story), on top of previously announced deals to Menemsha Films for North America and Curzon for U.K. where “Asia” was released online in November.
Further deals for Cis, Baltics and Latin America are being finalized during the Cannes-backed Ventana Sur market that is currently underway.
“Asia,” in which a single Russian immigrant mother, played by Alena Yiv, who works as a nurse in a Jerusalem hospital and her 17-year-old daughter Vika, played by Haas, are forced into an especially tight...
- 12/2/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Monday, Nov. 30 Hiroyuki Sanada Rounds Out ‘Bullet Train’ Cast
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada will join Brad Pitt in Sony Pictures’ “Bullet Train,” based on the Japanese novel “Maria Beetle” in which a train in Tokyo is the setting for battles between criminals.
David Leitch is directing, with Kelly McCormick producing through 87North alongside Antoine Fuqua through Fuqua Films. Zak Olkewitz wrote the script. Michael Shannon, Mas Oka, Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry and Zazie Beetz are also starring. Brittany Morrissey is the executive overseeing the project for Sony Pictures.
Sanada recently starred in Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” for Netflix and just wrapped shooting the fantasy action film “Mortal Kombat.” He will next appear in Andrew Levitas’ “Minamata,” opposite Johnny Depp. His other credits include HBO’s “Westworld,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “The Twilight Samurai.” The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
Israel Film Festival...
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada will join Brad Pitt in Sony Pictures’ “Bullet Train,” based on the Japanese novel “Maria Beetle” in which a train in Tokyo is the setting for battles between criminals.
David Leitch is directing, with Kelly McCormick producing through 87North alongside Antoine Fuqua through Fuqua Films. Zak Olkewitz wrote the script. Michael Shannon, Mas Oka, Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry and Zazie Beetz are also starring. Brittany Morrissey is the executive overseeing the project for Sony Pictures.
Sanada recently starred in Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” for Netflix and just wrapped shooting the fantasy action film “Mortal Kombat.” He will next appear in Andrew Levitas’ “Minamata,” opposite Johnny Depp. His other credits include HBO’s “Westworld,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “The Twilight Samurai.” The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
Israel Film Festival...
- 11/30/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The 34th Israel Film Festival Los Angeles has confirmed its line-up for this year’s edition, which will be held entirely online for the first time.
Running December 13 – 27, the fest will screen 23 features, including two U.S. premieres, Israel’s Oscar submission this year, Asia, as well as a number of past Ophir award winners. The event will also host Q&As after each film with talent.
Asia opens the festival having recently won Best Film at this year’s Ophir Awards, Israel’s top film awards, which automatically makes it the Oscar contender for 2021. The film also won Ophirs for Best Actress, Supporting Actress and Cinematography.
The festival will present its 2020 Iff Lifetime Achievement Award to Meir Feningstein, the event’s founder and executive director. It will also screen concert documentary Poogy / Kaveret 2013 Reunion Concert, centered on the band for which Feningstein is the drummer.
“As the world faces enormous disruption and loss,...
Running December 13 – 27, the fest will screen 23 features, including two U.S. premieres, Israel’s Oscar submission this year, Asia, as well as a number of past Ophir award winners. The event will also host Q&As after each film with talent.
Asia opens the festival having recently won Best Film at this year’s Ophir Awards, Israel’s top film awards, which automatically makes it the Oscar contender for 2021. The film also won Ophirs for Best Actress, Supporting Actress and Cinematography.
The festival will present its 2020 Iff Lifetime Achievement Award to Meir Feningstein, the event’s founder and executive director. It will also screen concert documentary Poogy / Kaveret 2013 Reunion Concert, centered on the band for which Feningstein is the drummer.
“As the world faces enormous disruption and loss,...
- 11/30/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The 29th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival concluded its epic 18 day run last night, culminating with their annual awards presentation.
And here are some of the winners:
Best Film Award: Asia, directed by Ruthy Pribar
TV5Monde Award for Best International Film: Beasts Clawing at Straws, directed by Kim Yong-Hoon (read Jim Batts‘ Wamg review Here)
Leon Award for Best Documentary: God Save the Wings, directed by Adam Knapp & Kenneth Linn
Spotlight on Inspiration Award This juried competition awards a $5,000 prize to a feature documentary that focuses on people working to make the world a better place and that inspires audience members and leaves them with a sense of hope for the future. Sponsored by The Albrecht Family: The Road Up, directed by Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel
Nff Emerging Director Award: The Bobbie
The New Filmmakers Forum (Nff) annually presents the Emerging Director Award. Five works by...
And here are some of the winners:
Best Film Award: Asia, directed by Ruthy Pribar
TV5Monde Award for Best International Film: Beasts Clawing at Straws, directed by Kim Yong-Hoon (read Jim Batts‘ Wamg review Here)
Leon Award for Best Documentary: God Save the Wings, directed by Adam Knapp & Kenneth Linn
Spotlight on Inspiration Award This juried competition awards a $5,000 prize to a feature documentary that focuses on people working to make the world a better place and that inspires audience members and leaves them with a sense of hope for the future. Sponsored by The Albrecht Family: The Road Up, directed by Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel
Nff Emerging Director Award: The Bobbie
The New Filmmakers Forum (Nff) annually presents the Emerging Director Award. Five works by...
- 11/23/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In many dramas there is a certain notion to capture the development of a person who is weak, emotionally or physically, into someone who becomes stronger and eventually manages to leave behind whatever struggle it is that is holding them back. While this kind of tale is quite encouraging and will be the foundation of many productions in the future, it denies the paradoxical concept of the strength that lies in showing weakness and admitting helplessness since this is, after all, also a very human experience. It is precisely this idea which represents one of the core themes of Israeli director Ruthy Pribar’s feature debut Asia, which has already been honored with the Nora Ephron Award upon its screening at Tribeca Film Festival. Inspired by the director’s biography, the experience of her sister’s illness and ultimate passing, “Asia” tells a story about grief and loss, but also...
- 11/20/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
A winner at the Tribeca film festival, this intelligent and intimate drama traces how a teenager’s relationship with her mother intensifies after she falls ill
This is a candid, sober, well-acted debut by the first-time director Ruthy Pribar which won her the Nora Ephron award at this year’s Tribeca film festival – an admirable choice, though it’s up for discussion as to how exactly it “embodies the spirit” of Ephron as the winner is supposed to.
The setting is Jerusalem where Asia (Alena Yiv) is a Russian Jewish incomer to Israel. She is in her mid-30s, working as a nurse and looking after her teenage daughter, Victoria, or Vika, whom she had very young – excellent work from Shira Haas. Vika has never had a boyfriend; as for Asia, she has a kind of friends-with-benefits relationship with a doctor, Stas (Gera Sandler), who for unexplained reasons connected with...
This is a candid, sober, well-acted debut by the first-time director Ruthy Pribar which won her the Nora Ephron award at this year’s Tribeca film festival – an admirable choice, though it’s up for discussion as to how exactly it “embodies the spirit” of Ephron as the winner is supposed to.
The setting is Jerusalem where Asia (Alena Yiv) is a Russian Jewish incomer to Israel. She is in her mid-30s, working as a nurse and looking after her teenage daughter, Victoria, or Vika, whom she had very young – excellent work from Shira Haas. Vika has never had a boyfriend; as for Asia, she has a kind of friends-with-benefits relationship with a doctor, Stas (Gera Sandler), who for unexplained reasons connected with...
- 11/19/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Past participants have included ‘Son Of Saul’, ‘The Death Of Cinema and My Father Too’ and ‘Beginning’.
The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl) has unveiled the 12 projects selected for its 9th edition, which is running online for now due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Founded in 2011 under the auspices of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School (Jsfs), the lab traditionally selects six international and six Israeli projects.
The lab usually combines residential workshops and remote support but this year most of the programme is expected to take place online.
The first writing session will take place in December, followed...
The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl) has unveiled the 12 projects selected for its 9th edition, which is running online for now due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Founded in 2011 under the auspices of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School (Jsfs), the lab traditionally selects six international and six Israeli projects.
The lab usually combines residential workshops and remote support but this year most of the programme is expected to take place online.
The first writing session will take place in December, followed...
- 11/16/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Past participants have included ‘Son Of Saul’, ‘The Death Of Cinema and My Father Too’ and ‘Beginning’.
The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl) has unveiled the 12 projects selected for its 9th edition, which is running online for now due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Founded in 2011 under the auspices of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School (Jsfs), the lab traditionally selects six international and six Israeli projects.
The lab usually combines residential workshops and remote support but this year most of the programme is expected to take place online.
Participants include UK director Claire Oakley with English Animals, her...
The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl) has unveiled the 12 projects selected for its 9th edition, which is running online for now due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Founded in 2011 under the auspices of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School (Jsfs), the lab traditionally selects six international and six Israeli projects.
The lab usually combines residential workshops and remote support but this year most of the programme is expected to take place online.
Participants include UK director Claire Oakley with English Animals, her...
- 11/16/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The Ophir Awards, Israel’s top film awards, have crowned Ruthy Pribar’s Asia as Best Picture, per The Jerusalem Post. The film now automatically becomes the country’s entry for the 2021 International Oscar race.
The year’s ceremony was held via a special broadcaster of the show Culture Agent, hosted by Kobi Meidan, replacing the traditional live event, which was cancelled due to pandemic disruption.
Asia was selected for Tribeca this year and won the virtual fest’s Best Actress Award for Shira Haas. It follows a young mother who lives with her now teenage daughter. When the daughter falls ill, her mother must step in and become the parent her daughter desperately needs.
The film also scooped the Ophirs for Best Actress (Alena Yiv), Best Supporting Actress (Shira Haas) and Best Cinematography (Daniella Nowitz).
Further winners at today’s ceremony included Nir Bergman’s Here We Are, which took Best Director,...
The year’s ceremony was held via a special broadcaster of the show Culture Agent, hosted by Kobi Meidan, replacing the traditional live event, which was cancelled due to pandemic disruption.
Asia was selected for Tribeca this year and won the virtual fest’s Best Actress Award for Shira Haas. It follows a young mother who lives with her now teenage daughter. When the daughter falls ill, her mother must step in and become the parent her daughter desperately needs.
The film also scooped the Ophirs for Best Actress (Alena Yiv), Best Supporting Actress (Shira Haas) and Best Cinematography (Daniella Nowitz).
Further winners at today’s ceremony included Nir Bergman’s Here We Are, which took Best Director,...
- 11/13/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Bookmark this page for all the latest international feature submissions.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
- 11/13/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Forced to revamp in the wake of Germany’s second coronavirus lockdown in November, the International Filmfest Mannheim-Heidelberg is taking place online this year as Iffmh Expanded with two-thirds of its original lineup accessible to virtual festgoers.
The 69th edition of the festival, which marks the debut of a new team headed by director Sascha Keilholz, includes new and revised sections, among them On the Rise, the international competition that showcases first to third works by outstanding directors.
Curated by head of program Frédéric Jaeger, this year’s On the Rise competition includes such pics as “Una Promessa,” Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio’s tale of nightmarish exploitation in southern Italy (pictured); Saskia Walker and Ralf Walker’s German free love drama “Come Closer,” in which the directing duo co-star with Devid Striesow (“I’m Off Then”); Igor Polevichko’s Russian thriller “Get it Right”; Sabrina Doyle’s U.S. relationship drama “Lorelei,...
The 69th edition of the festival, which marks the debut of a new team headed by director Sascha Keilholz, includes new and revised sections, among them On the Rise, the international competition that showcases first to third works by outstanding directors.
Curated by head of program Frédéric Jaeger, this year’s On the Rise competition includes such pics as “Una Promessa,” Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio’s tale of nightmarish exploitation in southern Italy (pictured); Saskia Walker and Ralf Walker’s German free love drama “Come Closer,” in which the directing duo co-star with Devid Striesow (“I’m Off Then”); Igor Polevichko’s Russian thriller “Get it Right”; Sabrina Doyle’s U.S. relationship drama “Lorelei,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The competition section of China’s Pingyao Intl. Film Festival on Friday awarded top prizes to Russia’s Philipp Yuryev, Serbia’s Ivan Ilkic, and Chinese directors Li Dongmei and Wang Jing. The films of the first three helmers debuted at the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section in September, where Yuryev’s “The Whaler Boy” won the top prize.
Screenings are still ongoing at the Chinese festival in the central Chinese province of Shanxi, co-founded by Chinese helmer Jia Zhangke and former Venice head Marco Muller, whose full line-up of 63 films runs from Oct. 10 to 19. Few international guests attended, as China continues to limit travel into the country and requires a 14-day quarantine period for new arrivals.
The Robert Rossellini Awards are a set of prizes given to the dozen international directorial debuts or second features in the “Crouching Tigers” section.
“The Whaler Boy” from Philipp...
Screenings are still ongoing at the Chinese festival in the central Chinese province of Shanxi, co-founded by Chinese helmer Jia Zhangke and former Venice head Marco Muller, whose full line-up of 63 films runs from Oct. 10 to 19. Few international guests attended, as China continues to limit travel into the country and requires a 14-day quarantine period for new arrivals.
The Robert Rossellini Awards are a set of prizes given to the dozen international directorial debuts or second features in the “Crouching Tigers” section.
“The Whaler Boy” from Philipp...
- 10/17/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The Pingyao International Film Festival, founded by Chinese helmer Jia Zhangke and former Venice head Marco Muller, has released its full lineup of global and local films. The selections in the two main sections focus on first or second features.
The festival is set to take place from Oct. 10-19 in the ancient city of Pingyao in central Shanxi province, not far from Jia’s own hometown. Few foreigners will be present, as China continues to maintain travel and quarantine restrictions for those entering the country, despite lifting some measures.
A dozen films are set to compete in the international “Crouching Tigers” section. They include a number of titles that first bowed at Venice: “Residue,” from American director Merawi Gerima, which debuted to a special mention earlier this month in the independent Venice Days section before being picked up by Ava DuVernay’s film company and released on Netflix; “The Book of Vision,...
The festival is set to take place from Oct. 10-19 in the ancient city of Pingyao in central Shanxi province, not far from Jia’s own hometown. Few foreigners will be present, as China continues to maintain travel and quarantine restrictions for those entering the country, despite lifting some measures.
A dozen films are set to compete in the international “Crouching Tigers” section. They include a number of titles that first bowed at Venice: “Residue,” from American director Merawi Gerima, which debuted to a special mention earlier this month in the independent Venice Days section before being picked up by Ava DuVernay’s film company and released on Netflix; “The Book of Vision,...
- 10/6/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The festival will open with Sun Hong’s This Is Life, while Zhang Yang’s So Far So Close will screen as the Special Presentation.
Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff) has unveiled the full line-up for its fourth edition (October 10-19), which like many Asian festivals during the Covid-19 pandemic is taking place as a physical event without international guests.
The festival’s opening film and Special Presentation are both world premieres of Chinese productions – Sun Hong’s This Is Life will open the festival, while Zhang Yang’s So Far So Close will screen as the Special Presentation title...
Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff) has unveiled the full line-up for its fourth edition (October 10-19), which like many Asian festivals during the Covid-19 pandemic is taking place as a physical event without international guests.
The festival’s opening film and Special Presentation are both world premieres of Chinese productions – Sun Hong’s This Is Life will open the festival, while Zhang Yang’s So Far So Close will screen as the Special Presentation title...
- 10/1/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
"Really, the only thing I ever got from a man is you." A promo trailer has been released for an Israeli drama titled Asia, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker / editor Ruthy Pribar, who has made a few shorts before this. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, where it won Three different prizes: Best Actress (Shira Haas), Best Cinematography, and the Nora Ephron Prize for director Ruthy Pribar. Asia is a young mother of a teen daughter. The two have a distant relationship, though living together they barely interact. While Asia is dedicated to her job as a nurse, the daughter Vika hangs out with her skateboard friends. Their routine is shaken when Vika's health deteriorates rapidly. Asia must step in and become the mother Vika so desperately needs. Starring Alena Yiv as Asia, and Shira Haas as Vika, along with Tamir Mula, Gera Sandler,...
- 8/21/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Tribeca winners secures Australia, Spain deals.
Screen can reveal the first English-language trailer for Ruthy Pribar’s feature debut Asia, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca film festival, winning best actress for Shira Haas, best cinematography and the Nora Ephon award.
Haas, who played the lead role in Netflix’s Unorthodox, stars alongside Alena Yiv.
Gum Films is producing, while handling world sales is Italian company Intramovies, which has just inked deals for Australia (Moving Story Entertainment) and Spain (Alfa Pictures). Sales of North American rights to Menemsha Films have already been announced.
Israeli director Pribar graduated from Sam...
Screen can reveal the first English-language trailer for Ruthy Pribar’s feature debut Asia, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca film festival, winning best actress for Shira Haas, best cinematography and the Nora Ephon award.
Haas, who played the lead role in Netflix’s Unorthodox, stars alongside Alena Yiv.
Gum Films is producing, while handling world sales is Italian company Intramovies, which has just inked deals for Australia (Moving Story Entertainment) and Spain (Alfa Pictures). Sales of North American rights to Menemsha Films have already been announced.
Israeli director Pribar graduated from Sam...
- 8/20/2020
- by 1101325¦Gabriele Niola¦35¦
- ScreenDaily
Absent (2017) by Sudarshan Suresh (16 min)
Zola can barely keep her head above water between the demands of a stressful job and the heavy burden of taking care of her invalid elderly mother. When she runs into an old fling, she sees a fleeting chance to escape the mundane treadmill of her life, and just for one night indulge in some romance, but things do not go exactly as expected.
Sudarshan Suresh presents a film that examines the balance between what someone wishes and what he is “obliged” to do, along with the difficulties modern life presents, particularly for people who have to take care off someone invalid and work at the same time. His take on the subject is quite obvious, since the night Zola spends is not as great as she imagined, with the ties that bond her with her mother eventually taking charge. On the other hand, the...
Zola can barely keep her head above water between the demands of a stressful job and the heavy burden of taking care of her invalid elderly mother. When she runs into an old fling, she sees a fleeting chance to escape the mundane treadmill of her life, and just for one night indulge in some romance, but things do not go exactly as expected.
Sudarshan Suresh presents a film that examines the balance between what someone wishes and what he is “obliged” to do, along with the difficulties modern life presents, particularly for people who have to take care off someone invalid and work at the same time. His take on the subject is quite obvious, since the night Zola spends is not as great as she imagined, with the ties that bond her with her mother eventually taking charge. On the other hand, the...
- 7/12/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Menemsha Films has picked up North American rights to Tribeca Film Festival entry Asia, starring Unorthodox actress Shira Haas.
The Israeli drama, directed by Ruthy Pribar and co-starring Alena Yiv, is a mother-daughter story of a young, free-spirited single mother named (Yiv) and her daughter (the fast-rising Haas), who is coming of age and living with physical disabilities. Producers are Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir.
Menemsha finalized the deal for the film this week from Italian international sales company IntraMovies. The distributor is planning a North American theatrical premiere at New York’s Film Forum in winter 2020-2021.
The Hebrew and Russian-language film premiered as part of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won awards for Best Actress in an International Narrative Feature (Haas), Best Cinematography (Daniella Nowitz) as well as the Nora Ephron Prize for Filmmaking (Pribar). The latter is a $25,000 prize awarded to a female writer or...
The Israeli drama, directed by Ruthy Pribar and co-starring Alena Yiv, is a mother-daughter story of a young, free-spirited single mother named (Yiv) and her daughter (the fast-rising Haas), who is coming of age and living with physical disabilities. Producers are Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir.
Menemsha finalized the deal for the film this week from Italian international sales company IntraMovies. The distributor is planning a North American theatrical premiere at New York’s Film Forum in winter 2020-2021.
The Hebrew and Russian-language film premiered as part of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won awards for Best Actress in an International Narrative Feature (Haas), Best Cinematography (Daniella Nowitz) as well as the Nora Ephron Prize for Filmmaking (Pribar). The latter is a $25,000 prize awarded to a female writer or...
- 6/24/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) – the premiere venue for the best annual showcase of independent cinema from India and its Diaspora – announced today a special virtual showcase, the first of its kind, Iffla Over the Years: 17 days celebrating 17 years of Indian cinema. Accessible via the Iffla website (www.indianfilmfestival.org) beginning on June 19 through July 5, 2020, this virtual showcase of over 120 narrative features, documentaries, and short films by festival alumni will be available online either freely or via popular streaming services. Many of these fascinating films have never seen a general release in the U.S.
Iffla Over the Years is the festival’s response to the ongoing uncertainty in the film festival world. To that end, the previously announced 2020 lineup will be moved to 2021 so that filmmakers and audiences can join together and share the festival experience in person.
“We are beyond thrilled to be presenting this online showcase of alumni films,...
Iffla Over the Years is the festival’s response to the ongoing uncertainty in the film festival world. To that end, the previously announced 2020 lineup will be moved to 2021 so that filmmakers and audiences can join together and share the festival experience in person.
“We are beyond thrilled to be presenting this online showcase of alumni films,...
- 6/20/2020
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
All the signs of a weepy incurable disease movie show themselves early in Asia, Israeli filmmaker Ruthy Pribar‘s tender debut film. But slowly, subtly, Asia sets itself apart from the rest of its sentimental cohorts and shows itself to be a moving and poignant mother-daughter drama of a different kind. Unorthodox breakout star Shira Haas […]
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- 6/5/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Avoiding the trappings of other melodramas about the short lives of terminally ill teens, Asia is a restrained and nuanced exploration of the relationship between a mother and daughter. Anchored by two knockout performances, Shira Haas (currently starring in Netflix’s Unorthodox) plays the 17-year-old Vika and Alena Yiv is Asia, her 35-year-old single mother who is a nurse working the night shift at a local hospital. Asia immigrated to Israel from Russia, taking her daughter away from an absentee father and, in doing so for reasons that become clear later in the picture, keeps her close to her side.
Asia spends her nights away from Vika working and later we discover picking up on where she may have left off as a young woman: going to bars and having sex with a regular acquaintance on his car on the top of a wooded hill. Vika also experiments with drinking down at a skatepark,...
Asia spends her nights away from Vika working and later we discover picking up on where she may have left off as a young woman: going to bars and having sex with a regular acquaintance on his car on the top of a wooded hill. Vika also experiments with drinking down at a skatepark,...
- 5/7/2020
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Chicago – “The show must go on … “ That became the rallying cry of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, which was physically postponed because of the Covid pandemic (it was originally scheduled from April 15-26). Despite that unexpected turn, the Festival went online, named juries and awarded honors to films on April 29th.
The top prizes went to “The Half of It,” directed by Alice Wu (Best U.S. Narrative), “The Hater,” directed by Jan Komasa (Best International Narrative) and “Socks on Fire,” directed by Bo McGuire (Best Documentary).
Best U.S. Narrative Feature is ‘The Half of It,’ directed by Alice Wu
Photo credit: Tribeca Film Festival
Awards were distributed in the following feature film competition categories – U.S. Narrative, International Narrative, Documentary, New Narrative Director, and the Nora Ephron Prize, honoring a woman writer or director. Awards were also given in the short film categories – Narrative, Documentary, Student Visionary and Animation.
The top prizes went to “The Half of It,” directed by Alice Wu (Best U.S. Narrative), “The Hater,” directed by Jan Komasa (Best International Narrative) and “Socks on Fire,” directed by Bo McGuire (Best Documentary).
Best U.S. Narrative Feature is ‘The Half of It,’ directed by Alice Wu
Photo credit: Tribeca Film Festival
Awards were distributed in the following feature film competition categories – U.S. Narrative, International Narrative, Documentary, New Narrative Director, and the Nora Ephron Prize, honoring a woman writer or director. Awards were also given in the short film categories – Narrative, Documentary, Student Visionary and Animation.
- 4/30/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
This evening, Tribeca Film Festival revealed the Jury-selected winning titles from the 19th annual confab, which was forced to postpone its originally scheduled April gathering in response to the global health crisis. Top honors went to Alice Wu’s Netflix coming-of-age dramedy The Half of It, which picked up The Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, while The Hater was named Best International Narrative Feature, and Socks On Fire nabbed Best Documentary Feature.
In addition, Best U.S narrative feature screenplay went to Anna Kerrigan for Cowboys, a film that also earned a best actor nod for its star Steve Zahn. Assol Abdullina was awarded best actress for her performance in Materna. Also announced were the winners in the shorts program.
Soon after announcing the delay of its 2020 edition, Tribeca Enterprises and Tribeca Film Festival Co-Founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal told Deadline that the org was looking into...
In addition, Best U.S narrative feature screenplay went to Anna Kerrigan for Cowboys, a film that also earned a best actor nod for its star Steve Zahn. Assol Abdullina was awarded best actress for her performance in Materna. Also announced were the winners in the shorts program.
Soon after announcing the delay of its 2020 edition, Tribeca Enterprises and Tribeca Film Festival Co-Founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal told Deadline that the org was looking into...
- 4/29/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Half of It,” a coming-of-age drama written and directed by Alice Wu, and actors Steve Zahn and Assol Abdullina were among the winners of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival’s slate of juried awards.
“The Half of It,” which will be released on Netflix on May 1, follows a shy, straight-a student named Ellie Chu who makes some extra money by writing papers for her high school peers. She reluctantly agrees to write a love letter for a lovesick jock to his crush, a girl Ellie also secretly loves. All three students go on a journey of complicated friendship and self-discovery in the drama-comedy film.
The Polish film “The Hater” by Jan Komasa won for best international narrative feature and “Socks on Fire” directed by Bo McGuire won for best documentary feature.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic halting most in-person award shows, this year’s Tribeca winners were announced on Instagram.
“The Half of It,” which will be released on Netflix on May 1, follows a shy, straight-a student named Ellie Chu who makes some extra money by writing papers for her high school peers. She reluctantly agrees to write a love letter for a lovesick jock to his crush, a girl Ellie also secretly loves. All three students go on a journey of complicated friendship and self-discovery in the drama-comedy film.
The Polish film “The Hater” by Jan Komasa won for best international narrative feature and “Socks on Fire” directed by Bo McGuire won for best documentary feature.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic halting most in-person award shows, this year’s Tribeca winners were announced on Instagram.
- 4/29/2020
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled its awards in the jury competition for the movies that were to show at the postponed festival, recognizing Alice Wu’s “The Half of It” with the top prize in the narrative competition and Steve Zahn with the Best Actor prize for his work in “Cowboys.”
The New York festival was meant to take place April 15-26 for its 19th edition, and while the festival still plans on screening the accepted films in some form in 2020, no details have been set.
“The Half of It” was honored with The Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature. “The Hater” won Best International Narrative Feature, and “Socks On Fire” won Best Documentary Feature.
Also Read: Tribeca Film Festival to Debut Select Programming Online
Shorts awards went to “No More Wings” for Best Narrative Short, “My Father The Mover” for Best Documentary Short, “Friends” for Best Animated...
The New York festival was meant to take place April 15-26 for its 19th edition, and while the festival still plans on screening the accepted films in some form in 2020, no details have been set.
“The Half of It” was honored with The Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature. “The Hater” won Best International Narrative Feature, and “Socks On Fire” won Best Documentary Feature.
Also Read: Tribeca Film Festival to Debut Select Programming Online
Shorts awards went to “No More Wings” for Best Narrative Short, “My Father The Mover” for Best Documentary Short, “Friends” for Best Animated...
- 4/29/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Alice Wu’s The Half of It, Bo McGuire’s Socks On Fire also honoured.
The Hater, Polish filmmaker Jan Komasa’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi, was among Tribeca Film Festival jury prize winners announced on Wednesday (April 29).
Festival heads announced winners despite postponing this year’s event, which was originally scheduled to run from April 15-26 in New York and may take place later this year in some physical form.
Alice Wu’s The Half of It was honoured with The Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, while Bo McGuire’s Socks On Fire took the best documentary feature award.
The Hater, Polish filmmaker Jan Komasa’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi, was among Tribeca Film Festival jury prize winners announced on Wednesday (April 29).
Festival heads announced winners despite postponing this year’s event, which was originally scheduled to run from April 15-26 in New York and may take place later this year in some physical form.
Alice Wu’s The Half of It was honoured with The Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, while Bo McGuire’s Socks On Fire took the best documentary feature award.
- 4/29/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Alice Wu’s The Half of It, Bo McGuire’s Socks On Fire also honoured.
The Hater, Polish filmmaker Jan Kamasa’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi, was among Tribeca Film Festival jury prize winners announced on Wednesday (April 29).
Festival heads announced winners despite postponing this year’s event, which was originally scheduled to run from April 15-26 in New York and may take place later this year in some physical form.
Alice Wu’s The Half of It was honoured with The Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, while Bo McGuire’s Socks On Fire took the best documentary feature award.
The Hater, Polish filmmaker Jan Kamasa’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi, was among Tribeca Film Festival jury prize winners announced on Wednesday (April 29).
Festival heads announced winners despite postponing this year’s event, which was originally scheduled to run from April 15-26 in New York and may take place later this year in some physical form.
Alice Wu’s The Half of It was honoured with The Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, while Bo McGuire’s Socks On Fire took the best documentary feature award.
- 4/29/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The teen death drama has been done and redone so many times that it’s practically an algorithm. The most rewarding aspect of “Asia” is the way it acknowledges those boundaries without playing into clichés. A modest, intimate mother-daughter drama with one of the most wrenching finales in recent memory, writer-director Ruthy Pribar’s first feature scrutinizes the psychological processes of a young woman coming to terms with her short life, and what happens when others project their own expectations onto that scenario. Before you can say “The Fault in Our Stars,” Pribar’s subtle movie , mining familiar territory and rejuvenating it with emotional impact that worms its way into the material from unexpected places.
Much of its power comes from a hypnotizing performance by Shira Haas, most recently seen as the young Hasidic community escapee on Netflix’s riveting “Unorthodox,” here playing another forlorn woman incapable of meshing with ordinary life.
Much of its power comes from a hypnotizing performance by Shira Haas, most recently seen as the young Hasidic community escapee on Netflix’s riveting “Unorthodox,” here playing another forlorn woman incapable of meshing with ordinary life.
- 4/24/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Asia Tribeca International Film Festival 2020 Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ruthy Pribar Screenwriter: Ruthy Pribar Cast: Alena Yiv, Shira Haas, Tamir Mulla, Gera Sandler Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/17/20 Opens: Tbd Israel has been academy-award nominated more times than any other country in the Middle […]
The post Asia Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
The post Asia Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 4/24/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
[Note: In the wake of the Tribeca festival's postponement this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select entries that elected to premiere digitally.]
An alumna of the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence program who has earned attention with her short films, Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar makes an assured feature debut, balancing sobriety with emotional intensity in Asia. Named for the Russian immigrant mother played by Alena Yiv with hard edges that don't conceal the yearning underneath, the movie is actually a twin character study paralleling Asia's loneliness, exhaustion and melancholy with the cruelly interrupted adolescence of her daughter ...
An alumna of the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence program who has earned attention with her short films, Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar makes an assured feature debut, balancing sobriety with emotional intensity in Asia. Named for the Russian immigrant mother played by Alena Yiv with hard edges that don't conceal the yearning underneath, the movie is actually a twin character study paralleling Asia's loneliness, exhaustion and melancholy with the cruelly interrupted adolescence of her daughter ...
- 4/20/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[Note: In the wake of the Tribeca festival's postponement this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select entries that elected to premiere digitally.]
An alumna of the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence program who has earned attention with her short films, Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar makes an assured feature debut, balancing sobriety with emotional intensity in Asia. Named for the Russian immigrant mother played by Alena Yiv with hard edges that don't conceal the yearning underneath, the movie is actually a twin character study paralleling Asia's loneliness, exhaustion and melancholy with the cruelly interrupted adolescence of her daughter ...
An alumna of the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence program who has earned attention with her short films, Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar makes an assured feature debut, balancing sobriety with emotional intensity in Asia. Named for the Russian immigrant mother played by Alena Yiv with hard edges that don't conceal the yearning underneath, the movie is actually a twin character study paralleling Asia's loneliness, exhaustion and melancholy with the cruelly interrupted adolescence of her daughter ...
- 4/20/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President to open festival as previously announced.
The world premieres of The Trip To Greece and a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti, as well as the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Greece reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon and marks the fourth feature entry in the comedy series. It screens in Spotlight Narrative.
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
The world premieres of The Trip To Greece and a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti, as well as the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Greece reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon and marks the fourth feature entry in the comedy series. It screens in Spotlight Narrative.
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
- 3/3/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President to open festival as previously announced.
The world premiere of a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti and the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
The Us premiere of HBO’s Toronto dark comedy pick-up Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman screens in Spotlight Narrative, the same section that will show the New York premiere of...
The world premiere of a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti and the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
The Us premiere of HBO’s Toronto dark comedy pick-up Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman screens in Spotlight Narrative, the same section that will show the New York premiere of...
- 3/3/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Zamir, who is a producer and graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School, replaces Renen Schorr.
Producer Aurit Zamir has been named as the new director of the Jerusalem-based Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl), replacing Renen Schorr who created the lab in 2011 under the auspices of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School (Jsfs) which he also spearheaded.
Zamir is a graduate of the school and has been head of the entrepreneurial producing programme since 2018. She is also the co-founder of Tel Aviv-based Gum Films alongside Yoav Roeh, which she launched shortly after she graduated in 2008.
Its credits include Amichai Greenberg’s The Testament,...
Producer Aurit Zamir has been named as the new director of the Jerusalem-based Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl), replacing Renen Schorr who created the lab in 2011 under the auspices of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School (Jsfs) which he also spearheaded.
Zamir is a graduate of the school and has been head of the entrepreneurial producing programme since 2018. She is also the co-founder of Tel Aviv-based Gum Films alongside Yoav Roeh, which she launched shortly after she graduated in 2008.
Its credits include Amichai Greenberg’s The Testament,...
- 2/12/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
“Village Rockstars” and “Lovesick” were among the films that took home top prizes at the 2018 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles on Sunday.
The 16th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles featured a Los Angeles and official Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. premiere screening of “Village Rockstars,” directed by Rima Das, which won the Grand Jury Award for best feature film. “Lovesick,” directed by Priya Giri Desai was presented the Audience Choice Award for documentary.
Other winners from the evening were Mahesh Narayanan’s “Take Off,” which the audience chose as their favorite narrative feature, and Ruthy Pribar’s “The Caregiver,” the grand jury’s choice for short film. The event took place from April 11-15 at Regal L.A. Live: A Barco Innovation Center in Los Angeles.
Film critic Carlos Aguilar, director Haifaa Al Mansour and actor Sujata Day served as members of the narrative jury, while the shorts...
The 16th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles featured a Los Angeles and official Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. premiere screening of “Village Rockstars,” directed by Rima Das, which won the Grand Jury Award for best feature film. “Lovesick,” directed by Priya Giri Desai was presented the Audience Choice Award for documentary.
Other winners from the evening were Mahesh Narayanan’s “Take Off,” which the audience chose as their favorite narrative feature, and Ruthy Pribar’s “The Caregiver,” the grand jury’s choice for short film. The event took place from April 11-15 at Regal L.A. Live: A Barco Innovation Center in Los Angeles.
Film critic Carlos Aguilar, director Haifaa Al Mansour and actor Sujata Day served as members of the narrative jury, while the shorts...
- 4/17/2018
- by Ariana Brockington
- Variety Film + TV
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