On Honey Boy, director Alma Har’el waded through “a burning mist of pain” to hit upon the raw truth she says she values most. Coming to her via Shia Labeouf—who began writing the script in court-ordered therapy—the film examines the turbulent coming of age of an actor estranged from his father. From the beginning, Har’el saw a story that could speak powerfully to the therapeutic value of art. But to tell it with emotional authenticity, she would have to convince her frequent collaborator to do the unthinkable: to revisit his traumatic past, from the perspective of his abuser.
Deadline: You stood by Shia Labeouf at a life in his life when no one else would. Why do you think that is?
Alma Har’El: I think that growing up with a lot of addiction around me—alcoholism, mental health issues, things like that—has given me the...
Deadline: You stood by Shia Labeouf at a life in his life when no one else would. Why do you think that is?
Alma Har’El: I think that growing up with a lot of addiction around me—alcoholism, mental health issues, things like that—has given me the...
- 12/27/2019
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the most positive aspects of an often-fraught awards season is the light it shines on the craft behind some of the year’s best films. It’s a time to learn more about the contribution of cinematographers, production designers, editors, and many more. Casting directors have a strange distinction in the awards world: It’s a guild with an Academy branch, but without its own Oscar category. Imagine for a moment that there was one. What are the best-cast films of 2019?
IndieWire reached out to a number of the film industry’s top casting directors to ask them to not only nominate one of their colleagues for their work this year, but to help us understand why their work was so skillful and vital to the films they worked on. What follows is not another end-of-the-year list, but insight into the craft of casting by its leading practitioners.
IndieWire reached out to a number of the film industry’s top casting directors to ask them to not only nominate one of their colleagues for their work this year, but to help us understand why their work was so skillful and vital to the films they worked on. What follows is not another end-of-the-year list, but insight into the craft of casting by its leading practitioners.
- 12/13/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
‘Frozen II’ will look for a third session at number one.
Shia Labeouf’s autobiographical Honey Boy and Edward Norton’s directorial debut Motherless Brooklyn are among the titles opening in a quiet weekend at the UK box office, which should see Frozen II hold the number one spot for a third week running.
Released through Sony, Honey Boy is directed by Alma Har’el, from a screenplay by Labeouf based on his childhood and relationship with his father.
The film debuted at Sundance 2019, where it won the special jury prize in the Us Dramatic section, and followed that up with...
Shia Labeouf’s autobiographical Honey Boy and Edward Norton’s directorial debut Motherless Brooklyn are among the titles opening in a quiet weekend at the UK box office, which should see Frozen II hold the number one spot for a third week running.
Released through Sony, Honey Boy is directed by Alma Har’el, from a screenplay by Labeouf based on his childhood and relationship with his father.
The film debuted at Sundance 2019, where it won the special jury prize in the Us Dramatic section, and followed that up with...
- 12/6/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Much has been made about the therapy-meets-art process of “Honey Boy,” which actor Shia Labeouf wrote while exploring his traumatic childhood in court-mandated therapy and rehab. The writer-actor even went so far as to play his father in the film’s flashbacks. Yet what’s fascinating about the making of “Honey Boy” is how those filmic connections made between Labeouf’s past and present evolved over the course of making the film.
When “Honey Boy” opens, we meet present-day Otis on the “Transformers” set, his emotions spiraling out of control as he hits rock bottom. Mirroring Labeouf’s own experiences, Otis is arrested and ends up in rehab. The film then weaves between present day Otis, doing the hard work of therapy and healing, with flashbacks of the past he is trying to reconcile — specifically a time when 12 year-old-Otis (Noah Jupe) was living with his abusive and alcoholic father (Labeouf).
Labeouf’s script was linear,...
When “Honey Boy” opens, we meet present-day Otis on the “Transformers” set, his emotions spiraling out of control as he hits rock bottom. Mirroring Labeouf’s own experiences, Otis is arrested and ends up in rehab. The film then weaves between present day Otis, doing the hard work of therapy and healing, with flashbacks of the past he is trying to reconcile — specifically a time when 12 year-old-Otis (Noah Jupe) was living with his abusive and alcoholic father (Labeouf).
Labeouf’s script was linear,...
- 11/7/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Movie stars’ vanity projects are more likely to fail than succeed, and the “Honey Boy” backstory would seem to play into those odds: an actor in lock-down rehab writes a screenplay about his deeply fraught relationship with his father, and finds himself playing his own parent. However, not only did Shia Labeouf find a director and financing, the film also sold to Amazon Studios at Sundance — and none of that could have happened without the deep trust between the star and Alma Har’el, his strong yet empathetic director who delicately steered a combustible movie toward safe harbor.
“Honey Boy” has received rave reviews in advance of its November 8 release (and a full 90-day theatrical window) during a competitive award season. Labeouf deserves consideration for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay. And he’s the first to admit that he couldn’t have done it without Har’el, making her fiction feature debut.
“Honey Boy” has received rave reviews in advance of its November 8 release (and a full 90-day theatrical window) during a competitive award season. Labeouf deserves consideration for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay. And he’s the first to admit that he couldn’t have done it without Har’el, making her fiction feature debut.
- 11/4/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Movie stars’ vanity projects are more likely to fail than succeed, and the “Honey Boy” backstory would seem to play into those odds: an actor in lock-down rehab writes a screenplay about his deeply fraught relationship with his father, and finds himself playing his own parent. However, not only did Shia Labeouf find a director and financing, the film also sold to Amazon Studios at Sundance — and none of that could have happened without the deep trust between the star and Alma Har’el, his strong yet empathetic director who delicately steered a combustible movie toward safe harbor.
“Honey Boy” has received rave reviews in advance of its November 8 release (and a full 90-day theatrical window) during a competitive award season. Labeouf deserves consideration for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. And he’s the first to admit that he couldn’t have done it without Har’el, making her fiction feature debut.
“Honey Boy” has received rave reviews in advance of its November 8 release (and a full 90-day theatrical window) during a competitive award season. Labeouf deserves consideration for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. And he’s the first to admit that he couldn’t have done it without Har’el, making her fiction feature debut.
- 11/4/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Natasha Braier is the cinematographer you call when you want a bold and visually ambitious look on an indie budget. From the fashion photography-meets-noir of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Neon Demon,” to the strong colors in Sebastián Lelio’s “Gloria Bell,” to the hypnotic black-and-white water imagery of Lynne Ramsay’s short “Swimmer,” Braier finds a way to paint with the kinds of stylized strokes associated with films at 10 times the budget.
Director Alma Har’el wanted that for “Honey Boy,” but she also wanted the freedom that she had when shooting her documentaries “Bombay Beach” and “LoveTrue.”
“Alma really wanted me to bring my lighting approach, which is always quite moody, and driven by emotion, and somewhat poetic,” said Braier. “She also wanted me [to light] for 360 degrees, so that they are free and they can do whatever. So she wanted the best of both worlds. She was like, ‘I want them to be free.
Director Alma Har’el wanted that for “Honey Boy,” but she also wanted the freedom that she had when shooting her documentaries “Bombay Beach” and “LoveTrue.”
“Alma really wanted me to bring my lighting approach, which is always quite moody, and driven by emotion, and somewhat poetic,” said Braier. “She also wanted me [to light] for 360 degrees, so that they are free and they can do whatever. So she wanted the best of both worlds. She was like, ‘I want them to be free.
- 11/1/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Hollywood, CA – The Hollywood Film Awards is proud to announce that multi-hyphenate, award-winning stars Shia Labeouf, Taron Egerton, Cynthia Erivo and Olivia Wilde will be honored for their standout contributions to film this year at the 23rd Annual “Hollywood Film Awards.” Labeouf (“Honey Boy”) will receive the “Hollywood Breakthrough Screenwriter Award,” for his revelatory telling of his own turbulent childhood. For his uncanny portrayal of the legendary Elton John, Egerton (“Rocketman”) will receive the “Hollywood Breakout Actor Award.” Erivo (“Harriet”), who stepped into the shoes of the heroic Harriet Tubman with unwavering strength and dedication, will receive the “Hollywood Breakout Actress Award.” And Wilde (“Booksmart”) will receive the “Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award” for her critically-acclaimed directorial debut of a film that is certain to become a classic for the ages. Actor and comedian Rob Riggle will host the ceremony, which will take place on Sunday, November 3, 2019 at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills,...
- 10/8/2019
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Shia Labeouf and Lucas Hedges will star in Alma Har'el's next film, Honey Boy, which follows child actor Otis Lort (Hedges) and his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father James (Labeouf) as they attempt to mend their contentious relationship over the course of a decade. Har’el’s known for the films LoveTrue and Bombay Beach. Producing is Automatik's Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Daniela Taplin Lundberg of Stay Gold Features and Christopher Leggett of Delirio Films. Automatik's…...
- 3/17/2018
- Deadline
The Super Bowl is the biggest advertising event of the year, as brands spend over $5 million for 30 seconds of air time, and even more to produce the year’s biggest commercials. It’s a world that, until recently, was closed to director Alma Har’el, whose new Coke ad will premiere during the Super Bowl this Sunday and whose “Thank You, Mom” campaign for Proctor & Gamble — which will air throughout the upcoming Winter Olympics — made her only the third woman to be a solo nominee for a DGA award.
There are few film artists who better represent the freedom and possibilities of the digital era than Har’el, the self-taught, one-person filmmaking crew behind unorthodox, cinematic nonfiction films like “Bombay Beach” and “LoveTrue.” Over the last few years Har’el discovered, like most independent filmmakers do, that critical acclaim and festival accolades didn’t pay the bills and, unlike her male counterparts,...
There are few film artists who better represent the freedom and possibilities of the digital era than Har’el, the self-taught, one-person filmmaking crew behind unorthodox, cinematic nonfiction films like “Bombay Beach” and “LoveTrue.” Over the last few years Har’el discovered, like most independent filmmakers do, that critical acclaim and festival accolades didn’t pay the bills and, unlike her male counterparts,...
- 2/2/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
As an adult, documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm discovered that she was conceived via sperm donor. She’s spent years trying to track down her biological dad, using her skills as an investigator to dig ever deeper to uncover where half of her DNA comes from. It’s a fraught premise — and one that threatens to upset her seemingly very happy and loving family — but it’s one she embraces fully in her latest film, “Thank You For Coming.”
Lamm’s search forms the heart of the film, along with a few big twists, like meeting another woman who was conceived at the same clinic in the same year who looks an awful lot like her and wrestling with what her now-deceased mother did and did not know about the situation. The film builds together two years of work and discoveries, and ultimately finds Lamm traveling all the way to Hawaii...
Lamm’s search forms the heart of the film, along with a few big twists, like meeting another woman who was conceived at the same clinic in the same year who looks an awful lot like her and wrestling with what her now-deceased mother did and did not know about the situation. The film builds together two years of work and discoveries, and ultimately finds Lamm traveling all the way to Hawaii...
- 5/24/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Lauded filmmaker Alma Har’el has again brought her distinctive documentarian’s eye to her latest effort, the genre-bending feature “LoveTrue.” After winning Tribeca’s Best Documentary Feature Award in 2011 for her remarkable and similarly boundary-pushingdebut, “Bombay Beach,” the filmmaker screened work-in-progress selections from “LoveTrue” at Tff 2015. The film is now available — thanks to Netflix — and it’s a spell-binding wonder that compellingly explores some very big questions.
“Love is…never as it seems,” subject Will Hunt a.k.a Coconut Willie, opines in the opening of our exclusive clip, which might as well be the tagline for the entire film. The feature-length doc follows three very different love stories around the country — from Alaska to Hawaii all the way to New York City — to get to the heart of what it really means to love someone.
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“Love is…never as it seems,” subject Will Hunt a.k.a Coconut Willie, opines in the opening of our exclusive clip, which might as well be the tagline for the entire film. The feature-length doc follows three very different love stories around the country — from Alaska to Hawaii all the way to New York City — to get to the heart of what it really means to love someone.
Read More: Female Filmmakers Want to Direct Blockbusters; Here’s Why They Don...
- 5/23/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Deb Shoval’s strikingly intimate drama “Awol” was a standout at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and now the Lola Kirke- and Breeda Wool-starring feature is available to watch in the privacy of your very own home, thanks to an iTunes and On Demand release. And you might want that privacy, because the finely wrought love story is likely to wring a few tears out of even the most hardened of hearts.
Read More: How Deb Shoval Turned Her Sundance Short ‘Awol’ Into a Stirring New Feature
Based on her 2010 short of the same name — which also starred the immensely talented Wool as Rayna — Shoval’s film follows a shiftless Joey (Kirke) as she attempts to make the next steps in her young life. Initially intrigued by the idea of joining the Army, Joey’s plans are put on hold when she takes up with the vivacious Rayna.
Read More: How Deb Shoval Turned Her Sundance Short ‘Awol’ Into a Stirring New Feature
Based on her 2010 short of the same name — which also starred the immensely talented Wool as Rayna — Shoval’s film follows a shiftless Joey (Kirke) as she attempts to make the next steps in her young life. Initially intrigued by the idea of joining the Army, Joey’s plans are put on hold when she takes up with the vivacious Rayna.
- 5/23/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Shia Labeouf needs to press the reset button. The once-bright new face from 2007’s franchise-kickstarting “Transformers” reached a career lowlight over the weekend when “Man Down,” the drama in which he plays a former U.S. Marine suffering from Ptsd, sold exactly one ticket in the U.K. The film has since picked up two more patrons, bringing the total number of tickets sold to three.
It’s worth noting that “Man Down” is booked for just one showing per day in one theater in Burnley, England, and brought in a little more than $450,000 after opening in the U.S. last December, but the film’s dismal U.K. opening is illustrative of the precipitous decline Labeouf’s acting career has taken in recent years.
Read More: Shia Labeouf’s ‘Man Down’ Sold Only One Ticket During Its UK Opening Weekend
Since starring in Lars Von Trier’s two-part “Nymphomaniac...
It’s worth noting that “Man Down” is booked for just one showing per day in one theater in Burnley, England, and brought in a little more than $450,000 after opening in the U.S. last December, but the film’s dismal U.K. opening is illustrative of the precipitous decline Labeouf’s acting career has taken in recent years.
Read More: Shia Labeouf’s ‘Man Down’ Sold Only One Ticket During Its UK Opening Weekend
Since starring in Lars Von Trier’s two-part “Nymphomaniac...
- 4/5/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
A trifecta of badass female talent is on display in “Jellywolf,” a new short film from Alma Har’el for Chanel and iD’s new channel, The Fifth Sense. Known for her wildly inventive filmmaking techniques, Alma Har’el has garnered A-list collaborators, such as Shia Labeouf, who co-produced her forthcoming feature, “LoveTrue.” Har’el first made waves when her hybrid documentary, “Bombay Beach,” took home the top prize at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011.
In “Jellywolf,” Clemons plays a young girl seeking answers in a topsy turvy world where jellyfish fall from the sky, and electrifying visions are had with one gulp of a witch’s brew. Lisa Bonet plays a mysterious shop owner who guides her on her vision quest, directing her to follow her nose and wearing a shirt that proclaims, “Women Smell Better.”
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In “Jellywolf,” Clemons plays a young girl seeking answers in a topsy turvy world where jellyfish fall from the sky, and electrifying visions are had with one gulp of a witch’s brew. Lisa Bonet plays a mysterious shop owner who guides her on her vision quest, directing her to follow her nose and wearing a shirt that proclaims, “Women Smell Better.”
Read More: David Lynch Turns ‘La La Land’ Into a Twisted Drama in...
- 2/24/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Author: Guest
Despite the title making it sound like a lost Prince album, Alma Har’el’s LoveTrue, a follow-up to her award-winning Bombay Beach, is in fact an experimental documentary tracking the lives of three people as they negotiate difficult real-life relationships.
Blake is a Warhammer nerd and stripper dating Joel, a man with a disease that has given him extremely brittle bones. Coconut Willie is a Hawaiian coconut collector, dealing with finding out his son is not his biological child by surfing and saying bleak ‘Bill and Ted’-isms like “I thought about committing suicide, but that shit is gnarly.” Then we have Victory, a girl adapting to life following the separation of her parents in ambiguous circumstances. Their stories intercut each other, and are intercut themselves with dramatic reconstructions featuring non-actors playing older and younger versions of each character in dream-like sequences or in faux-home movies.
If this sounds a little complicated,...
Despite the title making it sound like a lost Prince album, Alma Har’el’s LoveTrue, a follow-up to her award-winning Bombay Beach, is in fact an experimental documentary tracking the lives of three people as they negotiate difficult real-life relationships.
Blake is a Warhammer nerd and stripper dating Joel, a man with a disease that has given him extremely brittle bones. Coconut Willie is a Hawaiian coconut collector, dealing with finding out his son is not his biological child by surfing and saying bleak ‘Bill and Ted’-isms like “I thought about committing suicide, but that shit is gnarly.” Then we have Victory, a girl adapting to life following the separation of her parents in ambiguous circumstances. Their stories intercut each other, and are intercut themselves with dramatic reconstructions featuring non-actors playing older and younger versions of each character in dream-like sequences or in faux-home movies.
If this sounds a little complicated,...
- 2/9/2017
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
More than a dozen people walked out of a screening of Flying Lotus’ “Kuso” at the Sundance Film Festival, Pitchfork reports. The feature debut for the musician, whose real name is Steve Ellison, “Kuso” is a psychedelic dream movie set in Los Angeles after a devastating earthquake. The film premiered last Saturday in Sundance’s Midnight section.
Read More: IFC Midnight Acquires ‘Killing Ground’ — Sundance 2017
“Kuso’s” grotesque humor and trippy animated sequences proved to be too much for certain audience members at Sundance. Still, Lotus tweeted that the amount of people who left the screening was not significant given how many people were in attendance.
It was only like 20 people out of like 400 who walked out. Wasn’t as dramatic as they make it out to be. I tried to warn folks. https://t.co/j3GTtO906o
— Flylo (@flyinglotus) January 26, 2017
“Kuso” stars Anders Holm, Hannibal Buress, Tim Heidecker and George Clinton.
Read More: IFC Midnight Acquires ‘Killing Ground’ — Sundance 2017
“Kuso’s” grotesque humor and trippy animated sequences proved to be too much for certain audience members at Sundance. Still, Lotus tweeted that the amount of people who left the screening was not significant given how many people were in attendance.
It was only like 20 people out of like 400 who walked out. Wasn’t as dramatic as they make it out to be. I tried to warn folks. https://t.co/j3GTtO906o
— Flylo (@flyinglotus) January 26, 2017
“Kuso” stars Anders Holm, Hannibal Buress, Tim Heidecker and George Clinton.
- 1/26/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Wme has signed Israeli-American director Alma Har'el, the filmmaker behind titles such as LoveTrue and Bombay Beach, to its books. Har’el is recognized for artistically blurring the lines between documentary and fiction and her first film, Bombay Beach, won best documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011, received a nomination for an Independent Spirit award and has been taught in several universities, including Harvard's Film Center. The doc takes place…...
- 10/25/2016
- Deadline
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Shia Labeouf recently made headlines for reportedly marrying girlfriend Mia Goth in a ceremony presided over by an Elvis impersonator. Though it was later reported that the event was just a “commitment ceremony,” nothing about this is surprising. In fact, it would have been more surprising for Labeouf to have a simple City Hall ceremony attended by friends and family, given his track record. Let’s take a look back at some of that track record now — it’ll be a pre-wedding scrapbook of sorts.
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Shia Labeouf recently made headlines for reportedly marrying girlfriend Mia Goth in a ceremony presided over by an Elvis impersonator. Though it was later reported that the event was just a “commitment ceremony,” nothing about this is surprising. In fact, it would have been more surprising for Labeouf to have a simple City Hall ceremony attended by friends and family, given his track record. Let’s take a look back at some of that track record now — it’ll be a pre-wedding scrapbook of sorts.
Hitchhiking Across the Country
#Takemeanywhere
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- 10/13/2016
- by alexheigl
- PEOPLE.com
Filmmaker Alma Har’el Launches Historic Initiative To ‘Free The Bid’ For Female Commercial Directors
Filmmaker Alma Har’el, the director behind award-winning documentaries “Bombay Beach” and “LoveTrue,” has long also worked in the commercial space, and now she’s setting out to enact change on a side of the industry that is plagued by sexism. With her new initiative, Free the Bid, Har’el is asking ad agencies, production companies and brands to take a simple pledge: For a woman director bid on every commercial. Yes, that’s every commercial.
Prior to its official launch, several of the world’s leading advertising agencies already pledged to #FreeTheBid, including Fcb Global, Dbb North America, Bbdo Global, McCann NY, J. Walter Thompson, Leo Burnett, Pereira&O’Dell, Mother, Joan, Phenomenon and 180La, all of whom have formally committed to get a woman bid on every job.
Read More: Female Filmmakers Want to Direct Blockbusters; Here’s Why They Don’t – Girl Talk
Of the new initiative,...
Prior to its official launch, several of the world’s leading advertising agencies already pledged to #FreeTheBid, including Fcb Global, Dbb North America, Bbdo Global, McCann NY, J. Walter Thompson, Leo Burnett, Pereira&O’Dell, Mother, Joan, Phenomenon and 180La, all of whom have formally committed to get a woman bid on every job.
Read More: Female Filmmakers Want to Direct Blockbusters; Here’s Why They Don’t – Girl Talk
Of the new initiative,...
- 9/16/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Szabolcs Hajdu receives Crystal Globe for It's Not The Time Of My Life. Photo: Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary The top prize of the Grand Prix Crystal Globe has been won by Szabolcs Hajdu's It's Not the Time of My Life (Ernelláék Farkaséknál) at the awards ceremony which concluded the 51st edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The film by the White Palms director, which also wins a $25,000 prize to be shared between the director and producer, is an intimate study of two families thrown together by circumstance who temporarily share an unusual apartment. It was a particularly good night for Hajdu who also took home the Best Actor award for his role in the film.
A Special Jury Price was given to Ivan I Tverdovskiy's Russian/French/German co-production Zoology (Zoologiya) about a woman who's life is thrown upside down when she discovers she has grown a tail.
The film by the White Palms director, which also wins a $25,000 prize to be shared between the director and producer, is an intimate study of two families thrown together by circumstance who temporarily share an unusual apartment. It was a particularly good night for Hajdu who also took home the Best Actor award for his role in the film.
A Special Jury Price was given to Ivan I Tverdovskiy's Russian/French/German co-production Zoology (Zoologiya) about a woman who's life is thrown upside down when she discovers she has grown a tail.
- 7/9/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Documentary about renowned photographer has gone to multiple territories.
UK documentary specialist Dogwoof has struck several deals on Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures as the Cannes Marché kicks off.
The documentary about the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe has gone to Germany and Australia (Kool Films), Switzerland (Cineworx), Hong Kong (Edko), South Korea (Aud) and Hungary (Cinefil).
The company previously closed deals at Efm for Scandinavia, Baltics and Iceland (Non Stop Entertainment) and Italy (Wanted).
Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein, the film coincides with two landmark retrospectives of Mapplethorpe’s work.
Also on Dogwoof’s Cannes slate are Louise Osmond’s Ken Loach doc Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach, and Alma Har’el’s fever-doc LoveTrue, which is executive produced by Shia Labeouf.
Read Screen’s Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures review.
UK documentary specialist Dogwoof has struck several deals on Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures as the Cannes Marché kicks off.
The documentary about the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe has gone to Germany and Australia (Kool Films), Switzerland (Cineworx), Hong Kong (Edko), South Korea (Aud) and Hungary (Cinefil).
The company previously closed deals at Efm for Scandinavia, Baltics and Iceland (Non Stop Entertainment) and Italy (Wanted).
Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein, the film coincides with two landmark retrospectives of Mapplethorpe’s work.
Also on Dogwoof’s Cannes slate are Louise Osmond’s Ken Loach doc Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach, and Alma Har’el’s fever-doc LoveTrue, which is executive produced by Shia Labeouf.
Read Screen’s Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures review.
- 5/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Shia Labeouf's been a blockbuster movie star, a performance artist, a paper bag enthusiast and now, he's a budding poet. In an email interview with Complex Magazine published on Tuesday, Labeouf, 29, gave his answers in poetic form as he discussed Alma Har'el's documentary LoveTrue. Labeouf served as executive producer on the film, which explores the various ways in which people understand the concept of "true love." Asked if he had ever met the subjects of the documentary, the actor responded with this poem: "we're all cut from the same cloth I've been watching them from afar for a...
- 4/26/2016
- by Mariah Haas
- PEOPLE.com
Shia Labeouf's been a blockbuster movie star, a performance artist, a paper bag enthusiast and now, he's a budding poet. In an email interview with Complex Magazine published on Tuesday, Labeouf, 29, gave his answers in poetic form as he discussed Alma Har'el's documentary LoveTrue. Labeouf served as executive producer on the film, which explores the various ways in which people understand the concept of "true love." Asked if he had ever met the subjects of the documentary, the actor responded with this poem: "we're all cut from the same cloth I've been watching them from afar for a...
- 4/26/2016
- by Mariah Haas
- PEOPLE.com
This Israeli director’s film, backed by Shia Labeouf, follows a pensive stripper, busker and surfer – but while well shot, their stories just aren’t that interesting
What is love? It’s a question that has vexed thinkers from Plato to Haddaway. Israeli director Alma Har’el, whose roots lie in music videos and art installations, makes no claim on knowing the answer, but is persistent in repeating the question. If the chatter at this year’s Tribeca film festival is to be believed LoveTrue, Har’el’s latest, was financed without the consultation of lawyers after the increasingly art-adjacent Shia Labeouf became a fan of the director since her last picture, the hallucinatory portrait of a California ghost town, Bombay Beach.
LoveTrue is a portrait of three individuals who share no connection other than being unhappy. Blake is a big-hearted young stripper in Alaska, who finds tremendous empowerment and gratification in her job,...
What is love? It’s a question that has vexed thinkers from Plato to Haddaway. Israeli director Alma Har’el, whose roots lie in music videos and art installations, makes no claim on knowing the answer, but is persistent in repeating the question. If the chatter at this year’s Tribeca film festival is to be believed LoveTrue, Har’el’s latest, was financed without the consultation of lawyers after the increasingly art-adjacent Shia Labeouf became a fan of the director since her last picture, the hallucinatory portrait of a California ghost town, Bombay Beach.
LoveTrue is a portrait of three individuals who share no connection other than being unhappy. Blake is a big-hearted young stripper in Alaska, who finds tremendous empowerment and gratification in her job,...
- 4/22/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2011, Alma Har’el won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival for her doc Bombay Beach. Now just five years later, Har’el is back with another documentary at Tribeca, called Love True. Grammatically it may incorrect but visually, it astounds the audience’s eyes with amazing aesthetics of the past, present, and future of three characters.
What makes the film remarkably poignant is not only the subject matter, but rather the story between Har’el and executive producer Shia Labeouf. At the time of filming, Har’el was going through a bitter divorce with her filmmaker husband, and she talks about the struggle between what the film showed and her actual life.
But how did Labeouf come to work together with Har’el? After going through a bad relationship of his own, he was searching through movies and found Har’el’s Bombay Beach in...
What makes the film remarkably poignant is not only the subject matter, but rather the story between Har’el and executive producer Shia Labeouf. At the time of filming, Har’el was going through a bitter divorce with her filmmaker husband, and she talks about the struggle between what the film showed and her actual life.
But how did Labeouf come to work together with Har’el? After going through a bad relationship of his own, he was searching through movies and found Har’el’s Bombay Beach in...
- 4/18/2016
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
The 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival announced its lineup for the Tribeca Talk series, which will run from April 13-24. The talking head sit-downs are never a snooze and are always a lot of fun with something pungent always in store. Last year, Shia Labeouf, who was sitting on a panel for the documentary he produced, Love True, took plenty of time to knock Al Pacino’s acting, Hollywood and his Transformers co-star Bumblebee. George Lucas bluntly told Stephen Colbert that …...
- 3/21/2016
- Deadline
A packed house gathered today at the Sva Theatre for the Tribeca Film Festival’s A Conversation With Harvey Weinstein, in which the The Weinstein Co. film chief canvassed an array of topics including the Sony hacking, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and Oscar campaigns. While Shia Labeouf’s discussion on his doc production Love True only drew a half-filled house on Thursday afternoon at the Sva, ushers today were pulling out extra folding chairs to accommodate…...
- 4/18/2015
- Deadline
Earlier this week, the 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival welcomed none other than noted performance artist and rattail enthusiast Shia Labeouf, executive producer for Alma Har'el's new documentary Love True. Labeouf previously worked with Ha'rel on Sigur Rós's video for the song "Fjögur pianó," for which he was completely nude. More recently, he appeared as a mostly-naked, cage-fighting character in Sia's video for "Elastic Heart" — a performance that garnered a hefty amount of controversy. At a Q&A for Love True, Labeouf talked about the differences between his work with Sia and Ha'rel:i think the Sia one is more about aesthetics. It's performance gymnastics, the big crying scene, dance moves. It's cool but it's like Scarface, Al Pacino acting. Nothing against him, but there's a big difference between something that's presentational and representational. I think even Pacino would agree that his work is representational, whereas somebody like Joaquin Phoenix...
- 4/18/2015
- by Brooke Marine
- Vulture
After an enigmatic, teary-eyed piece of performance art last year and an incident at Broadway’s Cabaret that wasn’t so artsy, Shia Labeouf made an appearance today at the Tribeca Film Festival to show that he has turned a page in his career. The actor, whose filmography collectively has amassed $3.9B at the worldwide box office, appeared onstage at the Sva Theater as the executive producer/financier of a work-in-progress documentary Love True from director Alma Har'el. …...
- 4/17/2015
- Deadline
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