Documentary specialist Submarine Entertainment is aboard to co-produce and co-finance feature doc Kusama: A Life In Polka Dots about the titular Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The company will partner with Dogwoof on international sales. Heather Lenz is writing, directing and producing the story of Kusama’s turbulent quest to become a world famous artist. In the 1960s, she rivaled Warhol for press attention but hallucinations of polka dots and struggles against sexism and racism eventually led her to the Tokyo mental institution she has called home for over 30 years. After decades of working in obscurity she eventually became the first woman to represent Japan in the Venice Biennale in 1993. In 2008, her work broke an auction record at Christie’s for a living female artist, and in 2012, her Louis Vuitton clothing line launched. At Kusuma’s most recent show in Mexico City, it’s estimated 2.5M people attended and the museum...
- 2/11/2015
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Submarine has boarded the documentary Yayoi Kusama: A Life In Polka Dots.
The company will co-finance and partner with Dogwoof on international sales.
Heather Lenz will write, direct and produce the film about Kusama’s turbulent mission to become a world-renowned artist.
Karen Johnson also produces alongside Submarine’s David Koh and Dan Braun, while Stanley Buchthal, Submarine’s Josh Braun, Simone Haggiag and Alice Koh serve as executive producers.
Koh, Dan Braun and Buchthal negotiated the deal on with Chris L Perez of Donaldson + Callif on behalf of the film-makers and Anna Godas of Dogwoof Films.
The producers anticipate the film will be finished by the fourth quarter of this year.
The company will co-finance and partner with Dogwoof on international sales.
Heather Lenz will write, direct and produce the film about Kusama’s turbulent mission to become a world-renowned artist.
Karen Johnson also produces alongside Submarine’s David Koh and Dan Braun, while Stanley Buchthal, Submarine’s Josh Braun, Simone Haggiag and Alice Koh serve as executive producers.
Koh, Dan Braun and Buchthal negotiated the deal on with Chris L Perez of Donaldson + Callif on behalf of the film-makers and Anna Godas of Dogwoof Films.
The producers anticipate the film will be finished by the fourth quarter of this year.
- 2/10/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
On Oct. 2, 2006, the Amish were catapulted into the national spotlight when a non-Amish man entered a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Penn., and shot 10 young female students, killing five.
People had heard about the Amish before, of course. Many had seen "Witness," read about the Wisconsin v. Yoder Supreme Court case or watched "Devil’s Playground." But the Nickel Mines shooting offered outsiders one single event to latch on to, to study, dissect and report on what would come to define the Amish.
It wasn’t the event itself that helped define them, but what happened just hours after the shooting took place when an Amish man walked into the nearby home of the shooters’ parents and said, “We will forgive you.”
The non-Amish world was dumbfounded. Some saw it as a meaningless gesture -- an offering of words that the Amish surely couldn’t yet comprehend or truly believe.
People had heard about the Amish before, of course. Many had seen "Witness," read about the Wisconsin v. Yoder Supreme Court case or watched "Devil’s Playground." But the Nickel Mines shooting offered outsiders one single event to latch on to, to study, dissect and report on what would come to define the Amish.
It wasn’t the event itself that helped define them, but what happened just hours after the shooting took place when an Amish man walked into the nearby home of the shooters’ parents and said, “We will forgive you.”
The non-Amish world was dumbfounded. Some saw it as a meaningless gesture -- an offering of words that the Amish surely couldn’t yet comprehend or truly believe.
- 2/28/2012
- by Josh Fleet
- Aol TV.
Credit: Dominic/Lipinski/Getty Images Prince William spoke to his bride, Catherine, as she held the hand of her father as the ceremony began.
Speakeasy live-blogged the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The Wall Street Journal had reporters covering the event across London, and monitored reactions in the U.S., India, Australia, and elsewhere.
Among the members of the team: Cassell Bryan-Low and David Enrich outside Westminster Abbey; Paul Sonne and Sara Munoz on the parade route...
Speakeasy live-blogged the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The Wall Street Journal had reporters covering the event across London, and monitored reactions in the U.S., India, Australia, and elsewhere.
Among the members of the team: Cassell Bryan-Low and David Enrich outside Westminster Abbey; Paul Sonne and Sara Munoz on the parade route...
- 4/29/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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