Leading Italian sales agent and production company The Open Reel is at the Cannes Marché du Film selling its newly-acquired Spanish feature “Mía and Moi” (“Mia y Moi”) from director Borja de la Vega. There, the company has already closed sales on the feature to Dramarama in the U.S., Cinemien in Benelux and German-speaking territories and OUTtv in Israel, Spain and Scandinavia.
The Open Reel has also dealt Marius Gabriel Stancu’s “It’s Just in My Head” to Dramarama and Alberto Fuguet’s documentary “Everything at Once” to Tla for North America. Both also sold to popular Spanish streaming platform Filmin. Lithuanian feature “People We Know Are Confused” from Tomas Smulkis was picked up by Spi International.
“MÍa and Moi” stars Spanish Academy Goya Award winners Bruna Cusí (Best Actress “Summer 1993”) and Eneko Sagardoy (“Giant”) and Goya-nominee Ricardo Gómez (“1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines”). It...
The Open Reel has also dealt Marius Gabriel Stancu’s “It’s Just in My Head” to Dramarama and Alberto Fuguet’s documentary “Everything at Once” to Tla for North America. Both also sold to popular Spanish streaming platform Filmin. Lithuanian feature “People We Know Are Confused” from Tomas Smulkis was picked up by Spi International.
“MÍa and Moi” stars Spanish Academy Goya Award winners Bruna Cusí (Best Actress “Summer 1993”) and Eneko Sagardoy (“Giant”) and Goya-nominee Ricardo Gómez (“1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines”). It...
- 7/9/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Leading Italian sales agent and production company The Open Reel has acquired the rights to “15 Horas” from filmmaker Judith Colell (“Elisa K”), world premiering on Tuesday June 8 in the main competition at the Malaga Film Festival, with two more screenings scheduled for the following day.
Colell long ago established herself as an important voice in the Spanish film industry chorus when in 1996 she received a Spanish Academy Goya Award nomination for her short film “Escrito en la piel.” Since then, the auteur has been nominated for a handful of Catalan Academy Gaudí Awards and in 2010 won the Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian for her mother-daughter drama “Elisa K.”
With “15 Horas,” Colell disects the story of a perfect couple, Aura and Manuel. She, a first chair violinist and he, the orchestra’s suave conductor, are the envy of their peers and standouts on the local cultural scene. Of course, not...
Colell long ago established herself as an important voice in the Spanish film industry chorus when in 1996 she received a Spanish Academy Goya Award nomination for her short film “Escrito en la piel.” Since then, the auteur has been nominated for a handful of Catalan Academy Gaudí Awards and in 2010 won the Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian for her mother-daughter drama “Elisa K.”
With “15 Horas,” Colell disects the story of a perfect couple, Aura and Manuel. She, a first chair violinist and he, the orchestra’s suave conductor, are the envy of their peers and standouts on the local cultural scene. Of course, not...
- 6/7/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
At Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel with Cannes Acid premiere “Coalesce,” Torino-based The Open Reel has closed a raft of deals on its current sales titles, led by Chilean Alberto Fuguet’s “Everything at Once: Paco and Manolo’s Gaze.”
“Being specific titles, and referring to a specific audience, even if in constant expansion, LGBT titles – not only feature films but also documentaries and short films – respond to the constant demand of a slice of the market that is always very receptive to fruition,” said The Open Reel founder Cosimo Santoro. “Consequently, they represent a good guarantee of promotion and sales on a large scale, even in a complicated time like this,” he added.
‘Everything at Once: Paco and Manolo’s Gaze’
In its first deals, “Everything at Once,” a film essay, has been acquired by Paris-based Optimale Distribution for France and French-speaking territories, “Skinny Sister” distributor Matchbox Films for the U.
“Being specific titles, and referring to a specific audience, even if in constant expansion, LGBT titles – not only feature films but also documentaries and short films – respond to the constant demand of a slice of the market that is always very receptive to fruition,” said The Open Reel founder Cosimo Santoro. “Consequently, they represent a good guarantee of promotion and sales on a large scale, even in a complicated time like this,” he added.
‘Everything at Once: Paco and Manolo’s Gaze’
In its first deals, “Everything at Once,” a film essay, has been acquired by Paris-based Optimale Distribution for France and French-speaking territories, “Skinny Sister” distributor Matchbox Films for the U.
- 4/21/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
International sales agency The Open Reel has scored a number of sales at the Berlin European Film Market (EFM).
Daniel Sánchez López’s BFI Flare Lgbtiq+ Film Festival selection “Boy Meets Boy,” a German production, has sold to Peccadillo Pictures for the U.K. and Ireland and to Optimale to France and Francophone territories. The film, about a brief encounter in Berlin between two young men, previously sold to Salzgber for Germany and German-speaking territories, Gagaoolala for South and Southeast Asia and to Ariztical for North America.
Jessé Miceli’s Cambodia/France production “Coalesce” has been sold to Gagaoolala for South and Southeast Asia and to Ariztical for North America. The Phnom Penh-set film follows three disparate lives in the city.
Ariztical has also picked up David Moragas’ Spanish production “A Stormy Night” for North America. The film follows two boys who have to weather 12 hours of a New York storm together.
Daniel Sánchez López’s BFI Flare Lgbtiq+ Film Festival selection “Boy Meets Boy,” a German production, has sold to Peccadillo Pictures for the U.K. and Ireland and to Optimale to France and Francophone territories. The film, about a brief encounter in Berlin between two young men, previously sold to Salzgber for Germany and German-speaking territories, Gagaoolala for South and Southeast Asia and to Ariztical for North America.
Jessé Miceli’s Cambodia/France production “Coalesce” has been sold to Gagaoolala for South and Southeast Asia and to Ariztical for North America. The Phnom Penh-set film follows three disparate lives in the city.
Ariztical has also picked up David Moragas’ Spanish production “A Stormy Night” for North America. The film follows two boys who have to weather 12 hours of a New York storm together.
- 3/4/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Chilean author, journalist, filmmaker Alberto Fuguet has written a host of books, some of which have been translated into English and, in the case of “Tinta Roja,” made into a film by Peru’s Francisco Lombardi.
“Locations: Looking for Rusty James,” Fuguet’s docu about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Rumble Fish,” was presented at Telluride by Coppola and is included in the Criterion Collection.
Fugue’s sixth and latest film, “Cola de Mono,” made for roughly $10,000 via bank loans and personal investors, is his boldest yet and was among the buzz films at L.A.’s Outfest this year. He spoke to Variety on the eve of its Chilean debut at Sanfic on Tuesday:
You say that Cola de Mono – what’s the official title in English, if it has one?- is your first gay-themed film. Why has it taken you this long to make one?...
“Locations: Looking for Rusty James,” Fuguet’s docu about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Rumble Fish,” was presented at Telluride by Coppola and is included in the Criterion Collection.
Fugue’s sixth and latest film, “Cola de Mono,” made for roughly $10,000 via bank loans and personal investors, is his boldest yet and was among the buzz films at L.A.’s Outfest this year. He spoke to Variety on the eve of its Chilean debut at Sanfic on Tuesday:
You say that Cola de Mono – what’s the official title in English, if it has one?- is your first gay-themed film. Why has it taken you this long to make one?...
- 8/21/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
As far as gay film festivals go, Outfest takes the cake. Now in its 36th year, the Los Angeles-based festival is the country’s leading Lgtbq film festival, supporting independent queer film and filmmakers for over three decades. This year, two thirds of the program is directed by women, people of color, and/or trans filmmakers. “The reason we put on this festival is to encourage the Lgbtq community and the wider community — mainstream culture — to recognize the inherent value and infinite diversity,” said Outfest head programmer Lucy Mukerjee. “We have to continue to celebrate and showcase queer artists so they can get the same level of access and opportunity as white male directors.”
Outfest is celebrating its first year as an Academy Award-qualifying shorts festival, meaning any short that wins a grand jury prize will be eligible for an Oscar nomination. Following the examples set by Tribeca and Sundance festivals,...
Outfest is celebrating its first year as an Academy Award-qualifying shorts festival, meaning any short that wins a grand jury prize will be eligible for an Oscar nomination. Following the examples set by Tribeca and Sundance festivals,...
- 7/12/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Tla Releasing has acquired worldwide rights (excluding Chile) to Alberto Fuguet’s Lgbt film “Cola De Mono.”
The Chilean film will have its world premiere at Galway Film Fleadh this month, and Outfest will host the pic’s U.S. premiere, also in July. “Cola De Mono” will be released through Tla Releasing in North America and the U.K. later this year. Optimale, a sister company, will be releasing the film in French-language territories. It will be released in Chile early next year.
The film is set on Christmas Eve, 1986. Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his extended family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. “This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways...
The Chilean film will have its world premiere at Galway Film Fleadh this month, and Outfest will host the pic’s U.S. premiere, also in July. “Cola De Mono” will be released through Tla Releasing in North America and the U.K. later this year. Optimale, a sister company, will be releasing the film in French-language territories. It will be released in Chile early next year.
The film is set on Christmas Eve, 1986. Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his extended family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. “This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways...
- 7/9/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Rumble Fish
Blu-ray
Criterion
1940 / B&W / 1:85 / Street Date April 25, 2017
Starring: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane.
Cinematography: Stephen Burum
Film Editor: Barry Malkin
Written by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s Young Adult tone poem, unspools in a black and white never-never land of sullen teens, pool tables and pompadours. It may take a moment for the audience to suss out that we’re not in the Eisenhower era with Chuck Berry, Marilyn Monroe and the Cold War but squarely in Reagan’s domain of MTV, Madonna and the Cold War.
Set in a destitute Oklahoma town with the ghost of The Last Picture Show whistling through its empty streets, Matt Dillon plays Rusty, an inveterate gang-banger growing up in the shadow of his older brother played by Mickey Rourke, a reformed juvenile...
Blu-ray
Criterion
1940 / B&W / 1:85 / Street Date April 25, 2017
Starring: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane.
Cinematography: Stephen Burum
Film Editor: Barry Malkin
Written by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s Young Adult tone poem, unspools in a black and white never-never land of sullen teens, pool tables and pompadours. It may take a moment for the audience to suss out that we’re not in the Eisenhower era with Chuck Berry, Marilyn Monroe and the Cold War but squarely in Reagan’s domain of MTV, Madonna and the Cold War.
Set in a destitute Oklahoma town with the ghost of The Last Picture Show whistling through its empty streets, Matt Dillon plays Rusty, an inveterate gang-banger growing up in the shadow of his older brother played by Mickey Rourke, a reformed juvenile...
- 4/25/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
After nine days, with over 300 films being screened and various other activities, the Lima Film Festival ended its 18th birthday in style, with a grand ceremony held at the city's National Theatre.The night kicked off with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Peruvian filmmaker Francisco J. Lombardi, arguably one of the most important directors in the country. His career spans over 18 films, many of them classics of Peruvian cinema: among them, 1988's La Boca del Lobo ("The Lion's Den"), one of the best movies ever made about the country's "inner war" with the Shining Path terrorist group; 1996's film noir-influenced Bajo La Piel ("Under The Skin"); and 2000's Tinta Roja ("Red Ink") adapted from Chilean author Alberto Fuguet's novel of the same name.Love him...
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- 8/18/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Apart from the three sneak screening titles that will stir up the buzz in the coming days, Julie Huntsinger and Tom Luddy’s 40th edition of the Telluride Film Festival excels in bringing a concentration of solid docus from the likes of Errol Morris and Werner Herzog who this year cuts the ribbon on a theatre going by his name and introduces Death Row, a pinch of Berlin Film Fest items (Gloria, Slow Food Story, Fifi Howls from Happiness) Palme d’Or winner (this year Abdellatif Kechiche will be celebrated), upcoming Sony Pictures Classics items (Tim’s Vermeer, The Lunchbox), Venice to Telluride to Tiff titles (Bethlehem, Tracks and Under the Skin), the latest Jason Reitman film (Labor Day) and the barely known docu-home-movie whodunit (by helmers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine) The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden which features narration from the likes of Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger and Connie Nielsen.
- 8/28/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Cannes is now over which means it’s time to move to Britain as the Edinburgh Film Festival kicks off!
We’ve just been sent the full line-up for the 2012 Edinburgh Film Festival which is now in it’s 66th year. We have our people (Jamie, Steven and Emma) on the ground at the event right now ready to catch as many films as they possible can throughout the next wee or two as we get to see 121 new features and 19 world premieres.
I’ll let the full press release below do the talking but let us know what you’re looking forward to in the comments section below.
World Premieres:
Berberian Sound Studio Borrowed Time Day Of The Flowers Exit Elena Flying Blind Fred Future My Love Guinea Pigs Here, Then Leave It On The Track The Life And Times Of Paul The Psychic Octopus Life Just Is Mnl...
We’ve just been sent the full line-up for the 2012 Edinburgh Film Festival which is now in it’s 66th year. We have our people (Jamie, Steven and Emma) on the ground at the event right now ready to catch as many films as they possible can throughout the next wee or two as we get to see 121 new features and 19 world premieres.
I’ll let the full press release below do the talking but let us know what you’re looking forward to in the comments section below.
World Premieres:
Berberian Sound Studio Borrowed Time Day Of The Flowers Exit Elena Flying Blind Fred Future My Love Guinea Pigs Here, Then Leave It On The Track The Life And Times Of Paul The Psychic Octopus Life Just Is Mnl...
- 5/30/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The full programme for the 66th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), which runs from 20 June to 1 July, has been officially announced and will feature nineteen World premieres and thirteen International premieres.
The Festival will showcase one hundred and twenty-one new features from fifty-two countries, including eleven European premieres and seventy-six UK premieres in addition to the World and International premieres. Highlights include the World premieres of Richard Ledes’ Fred; Nathan Silver’s Exit Elena and Benjamin Pascoe’s Leave It On The Track and European premieres of Lu Sheng’s Here, There and Yang Jung-ho’s Mirage in the maiden New Perspectives section; and the International premiere of Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabio and Laurent Cantet’s 7 Days In Havana and the European premiere of Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America in the Directors’ Showcase. In addition to the new features presented,...
The Festival will showcase one hundred and twenty-one new features from fifty-two countries, including eleven European premieres and seventy-six UK premieres in addition to the World and International premieres. Highlights include the World premieres of Richard Ledes’ Fred; Nathan Silver’s Exit Elena and Benjamin Pascoe’s Leave It On The Track and European premieres of Lu Sheng’s Here, There and Yang Jung-ho’s Mirage in the maiden New Perspectives section; and the International premiere of Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabio and Laurent Cantet’s 7 Days In Havana and the European premiere of Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America in the Directors’ Showcase. In addition to the new features presented,...
- 5/30/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
by Steve Dollar
Can you hear that lonesome whistle blow? Alejandro does. Rolling into Nashville on a Greyhound bus, he wanders the streets like a dog that's been kicked in the ribs, and shacks up in a cheap motel, nursing an apparent if nameless sorrow with a bottle of Jack Daniels and studying American television, whose endlessly chattering talking heads are only half-comprehensible to him. A lean, lanky Chilean with mutton chops that could serve an Elvis impersonator and a shy, sly way with the ladies, this stranger in a strange land doesn't say much at first. The camera takes the measure of the moment, declining to fill in the obvious blanks in favor of a heightened awareness: the awkwardness of communicating with a desk clerk on the phone in a few snatches of broken English, the swoosh of cars past fast-food joints, the pleasure of stretching out on a bed useful for gathering thoughts.
Can you hear that lonesome whistle blow? Alejandro does. Rolling into Nashville on a Greyhound bus, he wanders the streets like a dog that's been kicked in the ribs, and shacks up in a cheap motel, nursing an apparent if nameless sorrow with a bottle of Jack Daniels and studying American television, whose endlessly chattering talking heads are only half-comprehensible to him. A lean, lanky Chilean with mutton chops that could serve an Elvis impersonator and a shy, sly way with the ladies, this stranger in a strange land doesn't say much at first. The camera takes the measure of the moment, declining to fill in the obvious blanks in favor of a heightened awareness: the awkwardness of communicating with a desk clerk on the phone in a few snatches of broken English, the swoosh of cars past fast-food joints, the pleasure of stretching out on a bed useful for gathering thoughts.
- 8/12/2011
- GreenCine Daily
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