Doc explores food science behind ‘cutivated meat’
London-based MetFilm Sales has picked up world sales excluding Canada to Hot Docs entry Meat The Future and will introduce to buyers at the virtual Cannes market later this month.
Liz Marshall directed Meat The Future, which explores ‘cultivated meat’, a food science that grows real meat from animal cells, free from disease and infection and without the need to breed, raise and slaughter animals.
The film follows cardiologist Uma Valeti, the co-founder and CEO of ‘cultivated meat’ start-up Memphis Meats, as he builds his company and production prices drop from 2016, when a meatball cost $18,000 per pound.
London-based MetFilm Sales has picked up world sales excluding Canada to Hot Docs entry Meat The Future and will introduce to buyers at the virtual Cannes market later this month.
Liz Marshall directed Meat The Future, which explores ‘cultivated meat’, a food science that grows real meat from animal cells, free from disease and infection and without the need to breed, raise and slaughter animals.
The film follows cardiologist Uma Valeti, the co-founder and CEO of ‘cultivated meat’ start-up Memphis Meats, as he builds his company and production prices drop from 2016, when a meatball cost $18,000 per pound.
- 6/2/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
This year, responding to the pushed-up Oscar calendar and competitive bookings, distributors opened more fall movies earlier than usual. Usually a major awards player like “Roma,” “Darkest Hour,” or “The Favourite” opens on the well-attended Thanksgiving weekend.
That’s why the weekend saw no new breakout limited opener, but rather Netflix’s fall festival hit “The Two Popes,” starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, which will hit streaming shortly. Its initial (estimated) grosses fell quite short.
Meantime, the latest edition of the long-running British documentary “63 Up” (BritBox) had a strong exclusive start.
The early release dates paid off though with a strong showing for expanding titles: four scored $1 million for the three days. Last year, the general release “Green Book” (in its initial expansion) and “Boy Erased” also reached that level.
Opening French Oscar entry “Les Miserables” as a one-week qualifier in New York and Los Angeles, Amazon did not report grosses.
That’s why the weekend saw no new breakout limited opener, but rather Netflix’s fall festival hit “The Two Popes,” starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, which will hit streaming shortly. Its initial (estimated) grosses fell quite short.
Meantime, the latest edition of the long-running British documentary “63 Up” (BritBox) had a strong exclusive start.
The early release dates paid off though with a strong showing for expanding titles: four scored $1 million for the three days. Last year, the general release “Green Book” (in its initial expansion) and “Boy Erased” also reached that level.
Opening French Oscar entry “Les Miserables” as a one-week qualifier in New York and Los Angeles, Amazon did not report grosses.
- 12/1/2019
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
The fall season has been strong for specialty films heading for Oscars, with “Harriet” (Focus), “Judy” (Roadside Attractions), “Parasite” (Neon), and “Jojo Rabbit” (Fox Searchlight) leading the way before the Thanksgiving holiday. With mainstream studio fare like “Ford v Ferrari” (20th Century Fox) and “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” (Universal) also pulling the same smart moviegoers, it’s harder for late openers to grab a foothold in this crowded market.
While Todd Haynes’ “Dark Waters,” like A24’s “Waves” last weekend, opened at lower levels than these earlier films, Focus is positioning the film right before the long holiday period, with a possible boost from positive word of mouth, and strong support. Both “Dark Waters” and “Waves” could gain some awards attention, but they are coming from behind.
Opening
Dark Waters (Focus) – Metacritic: 72
$110,000 in 4 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $27,500
Todd Haynes’ latest film starring the film’s driving force and producer,...
While Todd Haynes’ “Dark Waters,” like A24’s “Waves” last weekend, opened at lower levels than these earlier films, Focus is positioning the film right before the long holiday period, with a possible boost from positive word of mouth, and strong support. Both “Dark Waters” and “Waves” could gain some awards attention, but they are coming from behind.
Opening
Dark Waters (Focus) – Metacritic: 72
$110,000 in 4 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $27,500
Todd Haynes’ latest film starring the film’s driving force and producer,...
- 11/24/2019
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Focus Features is looking to flood the specialty box office with their latest title Dark Waters from director Todd Haynes. The film, which stars Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, is based on a true story about attorney Rob Bilott (Ruffalo) who uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world’s largest corporations.
Dubbed a legal thriller, the film written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan, uses Nathaniel Rich’s 2016 New York Times Magazine article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” as a jumping-off point to tell the story about Bilott, who risks everything in his life to expose the truth about the contaminated water supply and the big company that is responsible — something that is still affecting the community today.
“It’s about what’s going on in the world and humanity in general — what people know and...
Dubbed a legal thriller, the film written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan, uses Nathaniel Rich’s 2016 New York Times Magazine article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” as a jumping-off point to tell the story about Bilott, who risks everything in his life to expose the truth about the contaminated water supply and the big company that is responsible — something that is still affecting the community today.
“It’s about what’s going on in the world and humanity in general — what people know and...
- 11/22/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
An elusive subject and a general lack of follow-up questions may frustrate viewers of “Shooting the Mafia,” a new documentary about Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia and her formative work in the 1970s on the Italian mob.
In the movie, directed by Kim Longinotto (“Shinjuku Boys”), Battaglia appears to be a colorful, but reluctant raconteur; she lets her photographs of the Sicilian mob speak for themselves, leaving a lot of room for basic questions like, “Who am I looking at in this photo, when was it taken, and what was going on when this was shot?”
Longinotto provides some context with archival clips of surrounding events; she also illustrates some of Battaglia’s more personal anecdotes with stock footage and black-and-white Italian movies that show life in small town Italy through fictional melodramas. Longinotto’s doc is, as a result, a frustratingly impersonal, though sometimes moving, portrait of an incredible artist...
In the movie, directed by Kim Longinotto (“Shinjuku Boys”), Battaglia appears to be a colorful, but reluctant raconteur; she lets her photographs of the Sicilian mob speak for themselves, leaving a lot of room for basic questions like, “Who am I looking at in this photo, when was it taken, and what was going on when this was shot?”
Longinotto provides some context with archival clips of surrounding events; she also illustrates some of Battaglia’s more personal anecdotes with stock footage and black-and-white Italian movies that show life in small town Italy through fictional melodramas. Longinotto’s doc is, as a result, a frustratingly impersonal, though sometimes moving, portrait of an incredible artist...
- 11/22/2019
- by Simon Abrams
- The Wrap
Feature will follow reality show star Dalton Harris.
UK documentary director Kim Longinotto is self-financing and shooting a feature about singer and reality star Dalton Harris
The film has the working title Dalton’s Dream and follows the Jamaican-British singer who won the UK edition of The X Factor in 2018.
Longinotto revealed details of the new project to Screen ahead of Idfa, which will screen her latest documentary, Shooting The Mafia, which debuted at Sundance.
The director describes Dalton’s Dream as an “antidote” to films like Amy, Whitney and Kurt & Courtney, which “celebrate people after they’re dead.”
“We...
UK documentary director Kim Longinotto is self-financing and shooting a feature about singer and reality star Dalton Harris
The film has the working title Dalton’s Dream and follows the Jamaican-British singer who won the UK edition of The X Factor in 2018.
Longinotto revealed details of the new project to Screen ahead of Idfa, which will screen her latest documentary, Shooting The Mafia, which debuted at Sundance.
The director describes Dalton’s Dream as an “antidote” to films like Amy, Whitney and Kurt & Courtney, which “celebrate people after they’re dead.”
“We...
- 11/22/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
"Imagine how they felt, being photographed." Cohen Media Group has unveiled an official Us trailer for the acclaimed documentary called Shooting the Mafia, which first premiered at both the Sundance & Berlin Film Festivals earlier this year. The doc film is a profile of famed Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia, the first woman to ever be employed as a photographer at a newspaper in Italy in the 1960s. She went on to take iconic photos of the Mafia and their many violent crimes during their worst era, receiving death threats and getting entangled in their world. She fought back by showing the public just how bad they were, never letting any pressure stop her from using her camera to tell the truth. This was one of my favorite films at the Berlin Film Festival this year, explaining that it's "a fantastic, powerful doc that is both about a remarkable woman, and also...
- 11/1/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
On the narrative side, the mob epic is in full force this year with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor. For a different side of a life of crime, arriving this month is a documentary that takes a unique, vivid perspective into the mafia world. Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia tells the story of Letizia Battaglia, a veteran photographer who was immersed in the Sicilian mob, including the brutal aftermath of the crimes, including nightly public murders in Palermo, Sicily.
Ahead of a November 22 release via Cohen Media Group, we’re pleased to present the exclusive trailer, which shows no shortage of striking photos and previews Battaglia’s reflective, revealing conversational tone in the film, which has played at Berlinale, Sundance, BFI London Film Festival, and more.
“The film is most effective in its more personal passages as Batteglia talks with Longinotto about her...
Ahead of a November 22 release via Cohen Media Group, we’re pleased to present the exclusive trailer, which shows no shortage of striking photos and previews Battaglia’s reflective, revealing conversational tone in the film, which has played at Berlinale, Sundance, BFI London Film Festival, and more.
“The film is most effective in its more personal passages as Batteglia talks with Longinotto about her...
- 11/1/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A total of 126 documentaries will be screening until Sunday in the Romanian city of Sibiu. The 26th edition of the Astra Film Festival, Romania's longest-running documentary gathering, kicks off today with Sergei Loznitsa's State Funeral (Netherlands/Lithuania). Another 125 films will be screened over the next few days, with the festival even making room in its programme for full-dome and Vr sidebars. Besides the four official competitions (see the news), the festival explores various topical and burning issues across 12 thematic sidebars. Europe 30: Inbetweening and Videograms-Romania 1989 take a look at the turbulent year of 1989 both in Europe and in Romania (read the news). Powerful female characters will be in the spotlight in the Power Is Feminine sidebar, with Kim Longinotto's Shooting the Mafia (Ireland/USA), Gulistan Mirzaei and Elizabeth Mirzaei's Laila at the Bridge (Canada/Afghanistan), Zosya Rodkevich and Evgeniya Ostanina's White Mama (Russia), and Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara.
- 10/14/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Slate deal includes ‘The Perfect Candidate’ and ‘Happy as Lazzaro’.
The UK’s Modern Films has struck a slate deal with Amazon Prime Video, comprising 10 female-led features and documentaries.
The films, which include Haifaa Al Mansour’s Venice Competition title The Perfect Candidate and Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes best screenplay winner Happy As Lazzaro, will be made available on the streaming platform following their theatrical release.
The Perfect Candidate, about a young Saudi doctor who becomes the first woman to run for office in her local city elections, is set for release in the UK and Ireland in spring 2020 and...
The UK’s Modern Films has struck a slate deal with Amazon Prime Video, comprising 10 female-led features and documentaries.
The films, which include Haifaa Al Mansour’s Venice Competition title The Perfect Candidate and Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes best screenplay winner Happy As Lazzaro, will be made available on the streaming platform following their theatrical release.
The Perfect Candidate, about a young Saudi doctor who becomes the first woman to run for office in her local city elections, is set for release in the UK and Ireland in spring 2020 and...
- 10/4/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK-based production and distribution outfit Modern Films has struck a slate deal with Amazon Prime Video for the latter to stream ten of its female-led features.
The films include Haifaa Al Mansour’s 2019 Venice Competition title The Perfect Candidate, which was recently submitted by Saudi Arabia to the 2020 International Oscar race, Sacha Polak’s gritty British drama Dirty God, which was a festival hit this year, and Kim Longinotto’s Sundance documentary Shooting The Mafia.
Amazon has licensed UK and Ireland steaming rights from Modern on the slate and will launch each title following its theatrical release in the territory. Some of the films included from the Modern Films library which have already been in UK cinemas are available on the platform this week.
The license on each title ranges from 12-24 months, with the deal set to run its course by October 1, 2021.
Also included are: Alice Rohrwacher’s...
The films include Haifaa Al Mansour’s 2019 Venice Competition title The Perfect Candidate, which was recently submitted by Saudi Arabia to the 2020 International Oscar race, Sacha Polak’s gritty British drama Dirty God, which was a festival hit this year, and Kim Longinotto’s Sundance documentary Shooting The Mafia.
Amazon has licensed UK and Ireland steaming rights from Modern on the slate and will launch each title following its theatrical release in the territory. Some of the films included from the Modern Films library which have already been in UK cinemas are available on the platform this week.
The license on each title ranges from 12-24 months, with the deal set to run its course by October 1, 2021.
Also included are: Alice Rohrwacher’s...
- 10/4/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Other winners include A Tale of Three Sisters, End of Season, Shooting the Mafia, Lovemobil, Forman vs. Forman and Reza Mirkarimi's Castle of Dreams. The 14th Batumi International Arthouse Film Festival (15-22 September) wrapped last night with a ceremony in the Black Sea city's State Musical Centre. Marko Škop's Karlovy Vary title Let There Be Light picked up the Grand Prix, just two days after winning the same, main award at the Almaty Film Festival. Iran's Reza Mirkarimi received the Best Director gong for Castle of Dreams, as well as the Award of the Georgian Film Critics’ Jury. Emin Alper's A Tale of Three Sisters won both accolades in the acting categories: Best Actress for Ece Yüksel and Best Actor for Kayhan Açikgöz. Finally, the Jury's Special Prize went to Elmar Imanov's Rotterdam title End of Season (Germany/Azerbaijan/Georgia). In the Documentary Competition, Kim Longinotto's...
Letizia Battaglia. Ollie Huddleston: 'We wanted it to be an emotional journey – that you feel like you’re going through someone’s life.' Photo: Shobha/Lunar Pictures Documentarian Kim Longinotto blends first-person testimony with archive in her latest film Shooting The Mafia – which premiered at Sundance before heading to Berlin last month. The film, edited by her long-time collaborator Ollie Huddleston, offers a profile of Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia at the same time as considering the impact of the Mafia on her community – the documenting of which has been octogenarian Battaglia’s life’s work. I caught up with Longinotto and Huddleston in Sundance to talk about the film – which they refer to as “The Beast” – talking about the unique challenges of making this blend of documentary and archive and Battaglia as a kindred spirit.
Amber Wilkinson: It is quite a departure for you to do an...
Amber Wilkinson: It is quite a departure for you to do an...
- 3/15/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Charades, the French sales company behind Mamoru Hosoda’s Oscar-nominated “Mirai,” has acquired “Grab,” an animated feature directed by Jeremy Clapin and produced by Xilam, one of France’s leading animation companies.
“Grab” is co-written by Clapin (“Skhizein”) and Guillaume Laurant, the high-profile screenwriter of “Amélie” and “A Very Long Engagement.”
Xilam Production was created by Marc du Pontavice and is listed on the Paris stock market. Its credits include “Space Goofs,” “Oggy and the Cockroaches” and Joann Sfar’s “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.” Du Pontavice also produces live-action films through his banner One World Films, including “Close Enemies,” with Matthias Schoenaerts and Reda Kateb, which competed at the Venice Film Festival.
“Grab” will be delivered in the fall. Set in Paris, it follows Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
“Grab” is co-written by Clapin (“Skhizein”) and Guillaume Laurant, the high-profile screenwriter of “Amélie” and “A Very Long Engagement.”
Xilam Production was created by Marc du Pontavice and is listed on the Paris stock market. Its credits include “Space Goofs,” “Oggy and the Cockroaches” and Joann Sfar’s “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.” Du Pontavice also produces live-action films through his banner One World Films, including “Close Enemies,” with Matthias Schoenaerts and Reda Kateb, which competed at the Venice Film Festival.
“Grab” will be delivered in the fall. Set in Paris, it follows Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
- 2/8/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Feature doc about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia.
Kim Longinotto’s documentary Shooting The Mafia – about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia - is drawing buyers ahead of its European premiere in Panorama Dokumente.
Joint sales agents Paris-based company Charades and the UK’s MetFilm Sales are reporting deals to France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (NonStop Entertainment), ex-Yugoslavia (2I) and Poland (Against Gravity).
The film, which world premiered at Sundance, intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs capturing Mafia brutality with rare archival footage, classic Italian films and her personal memories.
It was funded by Impact Partners, Screen Ireland, private investors and Irish tax incentives.
Kim Longinotto’s documentary Shooting The Mafia – about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia - is drawing buyers ahead of its European premiere in Panorama Dokumente.
Joint sales agents Paris-based company Charades and the UK’s MetFilm Sales are reporting deals to France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (NonStop Entertainment), ex-Yugoslavia (2I) and Poland (Against Gravity).
The film, which world premiered at Sundance, intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs capturing Mafia brutality with rare archival footage, classic Italian films and her personal memories.
It was funded by Impact Partners, Screen Ireland, private investors and Irish tax incentives.
- 2/8/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Feature doc about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia.
Kim Longinotto’s documentary Shooting The Mafia – about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia - is drawing buyers ahead of its European premiere in Panorama Dokumente.
Joint sales agents Paris-based company Charades and the UK’s MetFilm Sales are reporting deals to France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (NonStop Entertainment), ex-Yugoslavia (2I) and Poland (Against Gravity).
The film, which world premiered at Sundance, intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs capturing Mafia brutality with rare archival footage, classic Italian films and her personal memories.
It was funded by Impact Partners, Screen Ireland, private investors and Irish tax incentives.
Kim Longinotto’s documentary Shooting The Mafia – about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia - is drawing buyers ahead of its European premiere in Panorama Dokumente.
Joint sales agents Paris-based company Charades and the UK’s MetFilm Sales are reporting deals to France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (NonStop Entertainment), ex-Yugoslavia (2I) and Poland (Against Gravity).
The film, which world premiered at Sundance, intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs capturing Mafia brutality with rare archival footage, classic Italian films and her personal memories.
It was funded by Impact Partners, Screen Ireland, private investors and Irish tax incentives.
- 2/8/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
“I wasn’t a real person,” Letizia Battaglia says of the days before she took to photography. As an unhappily married housewife stifled and abused by Italy’s dominant patriarchy, picking up a camera opened up her life to realms she’d never otherwise have accessed; as a photojournalist specializing in the crimes and rituals of the Cosa Nostra in her hometown of Palermo, she turned her personal vocation into boundary-breaking activism. It’s easy to see why Kim Longinotto, herself one of Britain’s trailblazing female documentarians, would warm to Battaglia’s story. Palpable affection for her subject permeates the otherwise plain, brisk framework of “Shooting the Mafia,” a potted chronicle of Battaglia’s life and career.
Oddly, that apparent artistic empathy hasn’t made for one of Longinotto’s more essential works. Hampered by an interviewee who seems genial but unwilling to give much of herself away, it...
Oddly, that apparent artistic empathy hasn’t made for one of Longinotto’s more essential works. Hampered by an interviewee who seems genial but unwilling to give much of herself away, it...
- 2/6/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Compelling if messily constructed, Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia tells the story of 83-year-old photographer Letizia Batteglia who took on the Sicilian mafia in graphic detail thanks to brave editors at her left-wing leaning newspaper L’Ora. Spending much of her professional life focused on the sheer brutality, including nightly public murders in Palermo, Sicily–an otherwise beautiful city–she no longer decides she can stand by as a neutral documentarian and later enters politics.
Confronting the costs of the mafia’s operations from the 1970s to the present day, she perseveres with a long memory as the world eventually comes crashing down on the mafia and its internal war becomes external. On screen, she heartbreakingly details her graphic works and a crisis of faith after the mafia enjoys a brief win following the assassination of Giovanni Falcone, a judge whom Batteglia was fond of. He was the one...
Confronting the costs of the mafia’s operations from the 1970s to the present day, she perseveres with a long memory as the world eventually comes crashing down on the mafia and its internal war becomes external. On screen, she heartbreakingly details her graphic works and a crisis of faith after the mafia enjoys a brief win following the assassination of Giovanni Falcone, a judge whom Batteglia was fond of. He was the one...
- 2/4/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
This is the second year in a row I’ve seen a Sundance documentary about a female photographer who revisits her old work and attempts to put it in a proper historical context. But unlike last year’s Generation Wealth, which traced society’s obsession with money and fame, Kim Longinotto‘s Shooting the Mafia is all about power: the oppressive […]
The post ‘Shooting the Mafia’ Review: A Grim Look at Murder Through a Brave Photographer’s Lens [Sundance] appeared first on /Film.
The post ‘Shooting the Mafia’ Review: A Grim Look at Murder Through a Brave Photographer’s Lens [Sundance] appeared first on /Film.
- 1/27/2019
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
“Shooting the Mafia” is the latest in a career’s worth of socially conscious, politically charged documentaries from director Kim Longinotto. Having previously explored issues ranging from sex trafficking (“Dreamcatcher”) to genital mutilation (“The Day I Will Never Forget),” “Shooting the Mafia” finds Longinotto documenting the life of courageous Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia. Battaglia’s shocking crime scene photojournalism, graphic work which frequently depicted slain corpses and sobbing mothers, appeared in the left-wing newspaper L’Ora and directly confronted the Sicilian mafia in a way that few others dared.
Continue reading ‘Shooting The Mafia’: A Photographer Takes On The Sicilian Mob [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Shooting The Mafia’: A Photographer Takes On The Sicilian Mob [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
- 1/27/2019
- by Ted Pillow
- The Playlist
Kea (Mony Ros), Chakra (Sarm Heng) and Rom Ran (Thanawut Kasro) in ‘Buoyancy’ © 2019 Causeway Films, photo credit: Rafael Winer.
Writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy, a drama set in rural Cambodia that follows Chakra, a 14-year-old boy enslaved on a fishing trawler, will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Produced by Causeway Films’ Sam Jennings, Kristina Ceyton and Rita Walsh in association with Cambodia’s Anupheap Productions and Melbourne-based Definition Films, the film will screen in the Panorama section among 45 titles from 38 countries.
It is said to be the first feature film to shine a light on the crisis of trafficking and slavery in the fishing industries of South-East Asia.
As If reported, Damon Gameau’s feature doc 2040 will have its world premiere in Berlin’s Generation Kplus section.
Showcasing 29 features, 16 documentary formats and 19 directorial debuts, Panorama 2019 will present a controversial, political, and provocative program,...
Writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy, a drama set in rural Cambodia that follows Chakra, a 14-year-old boy enslaved on a fishing trawler, will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Produced by Causeway Films’ Sam Jennings, Kristina Ceyton and Rita Walsh in association with Cambodia’s Anupheap Productions and Melbourne-based Definition Films, the film will screen in the Panorama section among 45 titles from 38 countries.
It is said to be the first feature film to shine a light on the crisis of trafficking and slavery in the fishing industries of South-East Asia.
As If reported, Damon Gameau’s feature doc 2040 will have its world premiere in Berlin’s Generation Kplus section.
Showcasing 29 features, 16 documentary formats and 19 directorial debuts, Panorama 2019 will present a controversial, political, and provocative program,...
- 1/21/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Casey Affleck-directed drama Light Of My Life, starring Affleck, Elisabeth Moss and newcomer Anna Pniowsky, will get its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. The dystopian drama, about a father and his young daughter who are trapped in the woods, is one of a raft of additions to the Panorama lineup. Scroll down for the lineup in full.
A total of 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres, will screen in the section. Panorama’s opening film will be Flatland by Jenna Bass, in which a bride and her pregnant friend make a liberating getaway across South Africa.
Among the strand’s highlights are Affleck’s first narrative feature as director, which is produced by The Imitation Game outfit Black Bear Pictures; Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul follow-up Tremblores (Tremors), about a father who tries to break free from his past after breaking the silence about...
A total of 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres, will screen in the section. Panorama’s opening film will be Flatland by Jenna Bass, in which a bride and her pregnant friend make a liberating getaway across South Africa.
Among the strand’s highlights are Affleck’s first narrative feature as director, which is produced by The Imitation Game outfit Black Bear Pictures; Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul follow-up Tremblores (Tremors), about a father who tries to break free from his past after breaking the silence about...
- 1/21/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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