New films on Screenbase include Eran Riklis’ drama A Borrowed Identity, Tom Barman’s The Alcoholics and twin sisters Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth’s Olivia And Jim.Israeli-French drama A Borrowed Identity
Tawfeek Barhom, Yael Abecassis and Michael Moshonov star in the Palestinian-Israeli drama from Eran Rikils about a student dealing with identity issues.
Formerly known as Dancing Arabs, Konken Studios produce, while The Match Factory handles international sales.
Tom Barman’s second feature The Alcoholics
Cult Belgian filmmaker and musician Tom Barman’s next film is currently in development. Savage Film will produce, and the Flanders Audiovisual Fund will support.
This Belgian/Irish/Spanish co-production is to revolve around a Miami nightclub janitor turned drug smuggler.
Comedy drama Olivia And Jim
BFI has supported the Stray Bear and Equation Pictures production about a widow going on a roadtrip across the UK with her stepson in order to meet her late husband’s mistresses.
Indie comedy...
Tawfeek Barhom, Yael Abecassis and Michael Moshonov star in the Palestinian-Israeli drama from Eran Rikils about a student dealing with identity issues.
Formerly known as Dancing Arabs, Konken Studios produce, while The Match Factory handles international sales.
Tom Barman’s second feature The Alcoholics
Cult Belgian filmmaker and musician Tom Barman’s next film is currently in development. Savage Film will produce, and the Flanders Audiovisual Fund will support.
This Belgian/Irish/Spanish co-production is to revolve around a Miami nightclub janitor turned drug smuggler.
Comedy drama Olivia And Jim
BFI has supported the Stray Bear and Equation Pictures production about a widow going on a roadtrip across the UK with her stepson in order to meet her late husband’s mistresses.
Indie comedy...
- 1/27/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
Antwerp musician Tom Barman, founding member of cult rock band dEUS, is setting aside time to devote to his film work and has three film projects at early stages.
Barman is currently writing the screenplay for The Alcoholics. This will be his first feature as a director since his Antwerp-based debut feature Any Way The Wind Blows in 2003.
The film is being made through Savage Film. Barman hopes to shoot it next summer.
“The funny thing is that there is very little drinking in. Almost none apart from the first five minutes,” Barman said of Alcoholics. He is promising a film with “a very fast pace and a nervous energy”.
The Alcoholics will aim “to show the effects of addiction in an unambiguous way”.
The main character John Carrol (41) has had enough of being a janitor in a Miami nightclub. He takes a deal to act as a drugs mule to Spain but it goes horribly wrong and...
Barman is currently writing the screenplay for The Alcoholics. This will be his first feature as a director since his Antwerp-based debut feature Any Way The Wind Blows in 2003.
The film is being made through Savage Film. Barman hopes to shoot it next summer.
“The funny thing is that there is very little drinking in. Almost none apart from the first five minutes,” Barman said of Alcoholics. He is promising a film with “a very fast pace and a nervous energy”.
The Alcoholics will aim “to show the effects of addiction in an unambiguous way”.
The main character John Carrol (41) has had enough of being a janitor in a Miami nightclub. He takes a deal to act as a drugs mule to Spain but it goes horribly wrong and...
- 1/27/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Savage Films presents new projects at Rotterdam; Oscar-nominated Flemish director Michaël R. Roskam’s Belgian-set feature The Faithful planning shoot.
The Faithful, set in Brussels against the backdrop of the gang war in the city in the early 1990s, is expected to star Matthias Schoenaerts, who worked with Roskam on his debut feature Bullhead.
Production had originally been expected to begin in 2016 but the film’s producer, Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films, told Screen that the film could move into production much sooner.
“We’re looking to shoot later this year,” Van Langendonck said of the film, which Savage is making with Stone Angels in France.
Sales agents are clamouring around the project, which is likely to be packaged up and announced formally in Cannes.
Roskam’s most recent feature was Us drama The Drop, starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in his final role.
New projects
The Savage Film boss was speaking during this year...
The Faithful, set in Brussels against the backdrop of the gang war in the city in the early 1990s, is expected to star Matthias Schoenaerts, who worked with Roskam on his debut feature Bullhead.
Production had originally been expected to begin in 2016 but the film’s producer, Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films, told Screen that the film could move into production much sooner.
“We’re looking to shoot later this year,” Van Langendonck said of the film, which Savage is making with Stone Angels in France.
Sales agents are clamouring around the project, which is likely to be packaged up and announced formally in Cannes.
Roskam’s most recent feature was Us drama The Drop, starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in his final role.
New projects
The Savage Film boss was speaking during this year...
- 1/24/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-nominated Flemish director Michaël R. Roskam’s Belgian-set feature The Faithful may shoot as soon as this summer; Savage Films presents new projects at Rotterdam.
The film, set in Brussels against the backcloth of the gang war in the city in the early 1990s, is expected to star Matthias Schoenaerts, who worked with Roskam on his debut feature Bullhead.
Production had originally been expected to begin in 2016 but the film’s producer, Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films, told Screen that the film could move into production much sooner.
“We’re looking at summer of 2015 to shoot,” Van Langendonck said of the film, which Savage is making with Stone Angels in France.
Sales agents are clamouring around the project, which is likely to be packaged up and announced formally in Cannes.
Roskam’s most recent feature was Us drama The Drop, starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in his final role.
New projects...
The film, set in Brussels against the backcloth of the gang war in the city in the early 1990s, is expected to star Matthias Schoenaerts, who worked with Roskam on his debut feature Bullhead.
Production had originally been expected to begin in 2016 but the film’s producer, Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films, told Screen that the film could move into production much sooner.
“We’re looking at summer of 2015 to shoot,” Van Langendonck said of the film, which Savage is making with Stone Angels in France.
Sales agents are clamouring around the project, which is likely to be packaged up and announced formally in Cannes.
Roskam’s most recent feature was Us drama The Drop, starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in his final role.
New projects...
- 1/24/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Russian punk rock protest group to preview latest film and take to the stage at Iffr.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 21 – Feb 1) is to host Russian political activists Pussy Riot next week.
Two members of the punk rock group, Nadya Tolokonikova and Masha Alyokhina, will talk to Iffr Late Night host Tom Barman about their ideals, action and future plans. Translator and Pussy Riot member Petya Verzilov will join the conversation, which will take place at 1pm on Jan 28 at the Oude Luxor Theatre.
Tolokonikova and Alyokhina were two out of three members of Pussy Riot who were imprisoned in 2012 after staging a performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, protesting the re-election of President Putin and the links between church and state in Russia. Sentenced to two years in a prison camp, they were released in December 2013.
In Rotterdam, Iffr will screen the first part of documentary Pussy Versus Putin, about the battle...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 21 – Feb 1) is to host Russian political activists Pussy Riot next week.
Two members of the punk rock group, Nadya Tolokonikova and Masha Alyokhina, will talk to Iffr Late Night host Tom Barman about their ideals, action and future plans. Translator and Pussy Riot member Petya Verzilov will join the conversation, which will take place at 1pm on Jan 28 at the Oude Luxor Theatre.
Tolokonikova and Alyokhina were two out of three members of Pussy Riot who were imprisoned in 2012 after staging a performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, protesting the re-election of President Putin and the links between church and state in Russia. Sentenced to two years in a prison camp, they were released in December 2013.
In Rotterdam, Iffr will screen the first part of documentary Pussy Versus Putin, about the battle...
- 1/20/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
With Ex Drummer, Koen Mortier (22 Mei) followed the path that Tom Barman's Any Way The Wind Blows cleared a couple of years earlier. Mortier merely confirmed it was possible to make challenging, unique films in Flanders, films that holds international appeal and aren't just local products build on the national fame of some or other second-rate actor. Ex Drummer is not for the faint of heart, but if you possess a very dark sense of humor this is definitely one of the best comedies you will encounter.The DVD cover links this film to Trainspotting, and while I can appreciate the similarities between both movies you need a much darker and nihilistic sense of humor to sit through Mortier's masterpiece. Ex Drummer descends to the...
- 4/18/2012
- Screen Anarchy
A Corridor Production
Montreal International Film Festival
MONTREAL -- "Any Way the Wind Blows" is an ambitious debut from Belgian rock star Tom Barman, who fronts the band dEUS. Barman introduced the movie as a film with "no story line, no drama and a lot of characters" at the Montreal World Film Festival, where it had its North American premiere. Although narrative is certainly dispersed, this likable movie had more to offer than that.
The film tracks eight characters and situations as they interact one Friday in Belgium's Antwerp. Protagonists include a couple of streetwise youths who make a living by sticking up posters, a disillusioned fiftysomething teacher, a strange loner who can seemingly invoke the power of the wind and a plethora of supporting players. Their small stories play out to an energetic backdrop of chatter and gossip, held together by the obvious enthusiasm of the director and a noisy, invigorating soundtrack that -- like dEUS -- mixes and matches musical styles.
It did good business in Barman's native Belgium, and the hip look and sounds should arouse some interest in Northern Europe. But the characters' exploits and humor may be too alien to connect with a young U.S. crowd.
Narrative is dispersed and editing is (perhaps intentionally) chaotic, but the characters are appealing enough to give the film a pull. So what could have been a pretentious, abstract experiment instead winds up having a lot of heart and soul. Cinematographer Renaat Lambeets works hard to keep the visuals interesting, working hard to find some off-kilter angles.
"Any Way the Wind Blows" falters occasionally when it slips into rock video mode. These scenes rely too much on a loud score and slow motion to wrack up the emotion. It's also too long. A cut of about 15 minutes -- doable because of the film's loose structure -- would help focus viewer attention. But overall, Barman has delivered an easygoing and adventurous debut.
The title has a dual musical connection, being both a Frank Zappa album and the last words of the Queen classic "Bohemian Rhapsody".
Montreal International Film Festival
MONTREAL -- "Any Way the Wind Blows" is an ambitious debut from Belgian rock star Tom Barman, who fronts the band dEUS. Barman introduced the movie as a film with "no story line, no drama and a lot of characters" at the Montreal World Film Festival, where it had its North American premiere. Although narrative is certainly dispersed, this likable movie had more to offer than that.
The film tracks eight characters and situations as they interact one Friday in Belgium's Antwerp. Protagonists include a couple of streetwise youths who make a living by sticking up posters, a disillusioned fiftysomething teacher, a strange loner who can seemingly invoke the power of the wind and a plethora of supporting players. Their small stories play out to an energetic backdrop of chatter and gossip, held together by the obvious enthusiasm of the director and a noisy, invigorating soundtrack that -- like dEUS -- mixes and matches musical styles.
It did good business in Barman's native Belgium, and the hip look and sounds should arouse some interest in Northern Europe. But the characters' exploits and humor may be too alien to connect with a young U.S. crowd.
Narrative is dispersed and editing is (perhaps intentionally) chaotic, but the characters are appealing enough to give the film a pull. So what could have been a pretentious, abstract experiment instead winds up having a lot of heart and soul. Cinematographer Renaat Lambeets works hard to keep the visuals interesting, working hard to find some off-kilter angles.
"Any Way the Wind Blows" falters occasionally when it slips into rock video mode. These scenes rely too much on a loud score and slow motion to wrack up the emotion. It's also too long. A cut of about 15 minutes -- doable because of the film's loose structure -- would help focus viewer attention. But overall, Barman has delivered an easygoing and adventurous debut.
The title has a dual musical connection, being both a Frank Zappa album and the last words of the Queen classic "Bohemian Rhapsody".
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