Colonials, Love In Kilnerry, World Ends At Camp Z entice buyers.
US-based OneTwoThree Media has reported a raft of deals on completed films on its Cannes genre roster of sci-fi, thriller and horror.
Colonials, Joe Bland and Andrew Bale’s film about a space colonist from Mars who crash-lands on Earth and joins the resistance, has sold to Movement Pictures in South Korea, Nikkatsu Corporation in Japan and Multivisionnaire in Taiwan.
Second World War sports drama The Match starring Franco Nero and Armand Assante has gone to Star Entertainment in India and centres on a scratch team of former footballers...
US-based OneTwoThree Media has reported a raft of deals on completed films on its Cannes genre roster of sci-fi, thriller and horror.
Colonials, Joe Bland and Andrew Bale’s film about a space colonist from Mars who crash-lands on Earth and joins the resistance, has sold to Movement Pictures in South Korea, Nikkatsu Corporation in Japan and Multivisionnaire in Taiwan.
Second World War sports drama The Match starring Franco Nero and Armand Assante has gone to Star Entertainment in India and centres on a scratch team of former footballers...
- 5/18/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
From Nowhere.
Matthew Newton's latest film as a director, his first since Three Blind Mice in 2008, has won an audience award at Austin's annual SXSW festival.
Three Blind Mice starred Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz and Newton himself as buddies on a night out in Sydney..
By contrast From Nowhere.takes place in a Bronx high school and stars relatively unknown actors..
Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree and Octavia Chavez-Richmond play students about to graduate who are also undocumented immigrants.
A clip from the film can be watched here.
The hot-button feature was praised by Variety's Joe Leydon as a "compelling indie drama".
"Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, .From Nowhere. feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments", Leydon said.
"Writer-director Matthew Newton neatly...
Matthew Newton's latest film as a director, his first since Three Blind Mice in 2008, has won an audience award at Austin's annual SXSW festival.
Three Blind Mice starred Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz and Newton himself as buddies on a night out in Sydney..
By contrast From Nowhere.takes place in a Bronx high school and stars relatively unknown actors..
Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree and Octavia Chavez-Richmond play students about to graduate who are also undocumented immigrants.
A clip from the film can be watched here.
The hot-button feature was praised by Variety's Joe Leydon as a "compelling indie drama".
"Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, .From Nowhere. feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments", Leydon said.
"Writer-director Matthew Newton neatly...
- 3/21/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
From Nowhere.
Matthew Newton's latest film as a director, his first since Three Blind Mice in 2008, has won an audience award at Austin's annual SXSW festival.
Three Blind Mice starred Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz and Newton himself as buddies on a night out in Sydney..
By contrast From Nowhere.takes place in a Bronx high school and stars relatively unknown actors..
Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree and Octavia Chavez-Richmond play students about to graduate who are also undocumented immigrants.
A clip from the film can be watched here.
The hot-button feature was praised by Variety's Joe Leydon as a "compelling indie drama".
"Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, .From Nowhere. feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments", Leydon said.
"Writer-director Matthew Newton neatly...
Matthew Newton's latest film as a director, his first since Three Blind Mice in 2008, has won an audience award at Austin's annual SXSW festival.
Three Blind Mice starred Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz and Newton himself as buddies on a night out in Sydney..
By contrast From Nowhere.takes place in a Bronx high school and stars relatively unknown actors..
Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree and Octavia Chavez-Richmond play students about to graduate who are also undocumented immigrants.
A clip from the film can be watched here.
The hot-button feature was praised by Variety's Joe Leydon as a "compelling indie drama".
"Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, .From Nowhere. feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments", Leydon said.
"Writer-director Matthew Newton neatly...
- 3/21/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Here’s an exclusive first-look at Anne Frank: Then And Now, which explores the lives of Anne Frank and the eight Palestinian girls cast to play her in a retelling of Frank’s famous diary. Part drama and part documentary, it was shot in Arabic with English subtitles. The film was shooting in Gaza in July when the Israel-Gaza war broke out, sending cast and crew scrambling for cover from incoming Israeli airstrikes. More than 500 Palestinian children and one Israeli child were killed during the seven-week conflict. The film, which is seeking distribution, was directed by Jakov Sedlar and produced by Auschwitz survivor and two-time Oscar-winning producer Branko Lustig (Schindler’s List, Gladiator). Anne Frank was written and co-directed by Sedlar’s son, Dominik Sedlar.
- 11/24/2014
- by David Robb
- Deadline
During a pause in the missile attacks, the cameras roll and a young Palestinian girl playing the role of Anne Frank speaks her lines against the backdrop of a bombed-out school in Gaza. “Why is a nation spending more money on war than on medicine, education and art?” she asks, her words both weary and wise. It is a question for the ages, one that could be asked of any war. But in this case, it’s being asked in the middle of a war zone during production of What Does Anne Frank Mean Today?
Two days later, cameras are rolling again. There have been more missiles, more destruction, and more death. The young actress takes her mark in front of a new set of ruins and begins to talk about Anne’s hopes and dreams for a future that will never be. As she speaks her lines, two men...
Two days later, cameras are rolling again. There have been more missiles, more destruction, and more death. The young actress takes her mark in front of a new set of ruins and begins to talk about Anne’s hopes and dreams for a future that will never be. As she speaks her lines, two men...
- 8/18/2014
- by David Robb, Special To Deadline
- Deadline
AFI Fest
Apparently we are entering a season of Orson Welles discoveries. Two major biographies have hit bookstores, Joseph McBride's "What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?" and Simon Callow's second volume of his three-book work on Welles. At AFI Fest in Los Angeles, Peter Bogdanovich is reprising his Sacred Monsters monologue about his legendary Hollywood friends including Welles. Also at AFI is the world premiere of "Searching for Orson", a documentary by Croatian filmmakers Jakov and Dominik Sedlar.
The Croatian connection is no surprise to Welles scholars and admirers who know that Welles spent his declining years -- despite being married to another woman -- with a beautiful, exotic and much younger Croatian actress-sculptress-writer, Oja Kodar, who helped write many of his scripts and appeared in his films.
Naturally, Kodar gave her fellow countrymen access to her Welles film archives and herself for an interview. The Sedlars return the favor by never mentioning Welles' wife or the battles Kodar has had with one of Welles' surviving daughters over the ownership of his most legendary unfinished film, "The Other Side of the Wind".
"Orson" devotes much of its running time to this love affair, ignoring nearly all of Welles' early life and career. By default then, this is a film about Welles' late life and the saga of "Other Side". In an interview, Bogdanovich insists that "Other Side" is the one film of Welles' many unfinished projects that could be completed without the master and indeed that Welles once asked him to do so after his death. (Bogdanovich plays dual roles in this film as its narrator and an interviewer, which confuses the issue of the film's point of view.)
At the first screening Thursday night, Dominik Sedlar claimed that Showtime is poised to sign documents to fund completion of the film by Bogdanovich but was vague about the ownership of the footage. But hope springs eternal. "Orson" contains much tantalizing footage from "Other Side", originally shot about 36 years ago, but it appears in a disjointed manner, making any critical judgment impossible.
The film's other "revelation" is that Welles had a grandson he never knew existed. Daughter Rebecca Welles Manning, who died in 2004, apparently had an illegitimate son, Marc, she gave up for adoption. This fact actually does appear in McBride's book but isn't given as much weight as it is in this film. Marc appears onscreen, his face unmistakably reminiscent of his grandfather's. Tragically, a car crash has impaired his mental facilities.
Of the talking heads, Steven Spielberg offers the most cogent and articulate assessment of Welles' greatness and his influence on current image-makers. Paul Mazursky and cameraman Gary Graver, among others, supply amusing anecdotes but never fully put their finger on what made him great.
The film mentions things like Welles' belief that he was Jewish despite all evidence to the contrary but never follows up. Nor does it get to the heart of why so many projects were left unrealized. Nevertheless, "Orson" is often fascinating. Nothing about Welles was ordinary, and this film does capture the love and admiration so many people still maintain for this Renaissance man, who was so adept in radio, stage, film, art and the art of living.
SEARCHING FOR ORSON
Dominik Sedlar
Credits:
Directors: Jakov Sedlar, Dominik Sedlar
Screenwriter: Dominik Sedlar
Producer: Jakov Sedlar
Executive producers: Richard Weiner, Stephen Ollendorff
Directors of photography: Gary Graver, Zeljko Gubervic, Igor Sunara
Editor: Zdravko Borko
Running time -- 79 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Apparently we are entering a season of Orson Welles discoveries. Two major biographies have hit bookstores, Joseph McBride's "What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?" and Simon Callow's second volume of his three-book work on Welles. At AFI Fest in Los Angeles, Peter Bogdanovich is reprising his Sacred Monsters monologue about his legendary Hollywood friends including Welles. Also at AFI is the world premiere of "Searching for Orson", a documentary by Croatian filmmakers Jakov and Dominik Sedlar.
The Croatian connection is no surprise to Welles scholars and admirers who know that Welles spent his declining years -- despite being married to another woman -- with a beautiful, exotic and much younger Croatian actress-sculptress-writer, Oja Kodar, who helped write many of his scripts and appeared in his films.
Naturally, Kodar gave her fellow countrymen access to her Welles film archives and herself for an interview. The Sedlars return the favor by never mentioning Welles' wife or the battles Kodar has had with one of Welles' surviving daughters over the ownership of his most legendary unfinished film, "The Other Side of the Wind".
"Orson" devotes much of its running time to this love affair, ignoring nearly all of Welles' early life and career. By default then, this is a film about Welles' late life and the saga of "Other Side". In an interview, Bogdanovich insists that "Other Side" is the one film of Welles' many unfinished projects that could be completed without the master and indeed that Welles once asked him to do so after his death. (Bogdanovich plays dual roles in this film as its narrator and an interviewer, which confuses the issue of the film's point of view.)
At the first screening Thursday night, Dominik Sedlar claimed that Showtime is poised to sign documents to fund completion of the film by Bogdanovich but was vague about the ownership of the footage. But hope springs eternal. "Orson" contains much tantalizing footage from "Other Side", originally shot about 36 years ago, but it appears in a disjointed manner, making any critical judgment impossible.
The film's other "revelation" is that Welles had a grandson he never knew existed. Daughter Rebecca Welles Manning, who died in 2004, apparently had an illegitimate son, Marc, she gave up for adoption. This fact actually does appear in McBride's book but isn't given as much weight as it is in this film. Marc appears onscreen, his face unmistakably reminiscent of his grandfather's. Tragically, a car crash has impaired his mental facilities.
Of the talking heads, Steven Spielberg offers the most cogent and articulate assessment of Welles' greatness and his influence on current image-makers. Paul Mazursky and cameraman Gary Graver, among others, supply amusing anecdotes but never fully put their finger on what made him great.
The film mentions things like Welles' belief that he was Jewish despite all evidence to the contrary but never follows up. Nor does it get to the heart of why so many projects were left unrealized. Nevertheless, "Orson" is often fascinating. Nothing about Welles was ordinary, and this film does capture the love and admiration so many people still maintain for this Renaissance man, who was so adept in radio, stage, film, art and the art of living.
SEARCHING FOR ORSON
Dominik Sedlar
Credits:
Directors: Jakov Sedlar, Dominik Sedlar
Screenwriter: Dominik Sedlar
Producer: Jakov Sedlar
Executive producers: Richard Weiner, Stephen Ollendorff
Directors of photography: Gary Graver, Zeljko Gubervic, Igor Sunara
Editor: Zdravko Borko
Running time -- 79 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/6/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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