About two families who meet for the first time, Wei Hu’s “What Tears Us Apart” is one of 12 finalists in TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival, as presented by IMAX. The catch about the short film is that both sets of parents share the same daughter. The film follows a young woman, Camille (Camille Debray), who was adopted by French parents after her Chinese parents gave her up as a baby. She was born when China had a one-child policy, and she already had an older sister. Also Read: ShortList 2017: 'No Other Way to Say It' Delivers a Voiceover Nightmare (Video) “As.
- 8/9/2017
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
Colcoa is keeping up with the times. Now in its twenty-first year, the lauded French film festival, sponsored by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, has added a pair of forward-thinking new categories for its newest edition. This year will include a virtual reality program and a web series competition, in addition to its Cinema, Television and Shorts competitions.
“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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- 4/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Best Supporting Actor Winner: Jk Simmons for Whiplash Robert Duvall for The Judge Ethan Hawke for Boyhood Edward Norton for Birdman Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher Achievement in Costume Design Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood Maleficent – Anna B Sheppard Mr Turner – Jacqueline Durran Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier Foxcatcher – Bill Corso, Dennis Liddiard Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White Best Foreign-Language Film Winner: Ida – Paweł Pawlikowski Tangerines – Zaza Urushadze Leviathan – Andrey Zvyagintsev Wild Tales – Damián Szifrón Timbuktu – Abderrahmane Sissako Best Live-Action Short Film Winner: The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby, James Lucas Aya – Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney Butter Lamp – Wei Hu, Julien Féret Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi, Stefan Eichenberger Best Documentary Short Subject Winner: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry...
- 2/23/2015
- ComicBookMovie.com
Butter Lamp
Written & Directed by Hu Wei
France & China, 2013
For the nomad yak herders who live in Tibet, iconic Chinese images like Tiananmen Square, a scene from the Beijing Olympics, and the cartoon faces at China’s Disneyland, are simply part of the “outside world” and seem to have little to do with their lives. “They are not familiar with those cultures at all,” said Chinese Director Wei Hu. “However it does not mean that the two are separated.”
In Wei’s short film Butter Lamp, these locals come face to face with these images, posing in family photographs in front of tourist trap locales while the glorious mountains of their home lay ignored in the background, captured in the film’s remarkable final shot.
Tibet’s culture is slowly vanishing, with “globalization and deterritorilization”, as Wei argues, gradually changing the nomadic lifestyle and the families who live in the region.
Written & Directed by Hu Wei
France & China, 2013
For the nomad yak herders who live in Tibet, iconic Chinese images like Tiananmen Square, a scene from the Beijing Olympics, and the cartoon faces at China’s Disneyland, are simply part of the “outside world” and seem to have little to do with their lives. “They are not familiar with those cultures at all,” said Chinese Director Wei Hu. “However it does not mean that the two are separated.”
In Wei’s short film Butter Lamp, these locals come face to face with these images, posing in family photographs in front of tourist trap locales while the glorious mountains of their home lay ignored in the background, captured in the film’s remarkable final shot.
Tibet’s culture is slowly vanishing, with “globalization and deterritorilization”, as Wei argues, gradually changing the nomadic lifestyle and the families who live in the region.
- 2/9/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Three of the five nominees are about women, and it’s hardly a surprise that their fresh perspective results in stories that are new and original. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
All the stories about women that are missing from the big screen? Some of them end up in short films — like three out of the five of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Live-Action Short — and it’s hardly a surprise that their fresh perspective results in stories that are new and original. My favorite among the nominees, and the one I suspect will win, is “Parvaneh” [IMDb], from Iranian-Swiss writer-director Talkhon Hamzavi. A lovely story about an unexpected friendship between an Afghani asylum seeker (Nissa Kashani) and a disaffected Zurich student (Cheryl Graf), its moments of great suspense are a poignant emotional...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
All the stories about women that are missing from the big screen? Some of them end up in short films — like three out of the five of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Live-Action Short — and it’s hardly a surprise that their fresh perspective results in stories that are new and original. My favorite among the nominees, and the one I suspect will win, is “Parvaneh” [IMDb], from Iranian-Swiss writer-director Talkhon Hamzavi. A lovely story about an unexpected friendship between an Afghani asylum seeker (Nissa Kashani) and a disaffected Zurich student (Cheryl Graf), its moments of great suspense are a poignant emotional...
- 2/4/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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