Exclusive: Jamaican director’s new drama aimed to be ready by the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Some of the most famous Jamaican sprinters - and the fastest men in the world - are to feature in Jamaican director Storm Saulter’s new dramatic feature Sprinter.
“With Sprinter, I want to do for running films what Raging Bull did for the boxing film,” Saulter has commented of the film, which producer Don Ranvaud (Central Station, City Of God) has been introducing to the market in Cannes.
Saulter, who grew up in the Jamaican countryside, has extensive experience as a photographer and cinematographer on a number of TV commercials for Jamaican sprinting legend Usain Bolt.
The writer-director intends to use “track and field as a vehicle to explore the experiences of a modern Caribbean family in all of its complexity”.
“This is about the pressure that kids in Jamaica have to become athletes and obviously sprinters,” commented Don Ranvaud...
Some of the most famous Jamaican sprinters - and the fastest men in the world - are to feature in Jamaican director Storm Saulter’s new dramatic feature Sprinter.
“With Sprinter, I want to do for running films what Raging Bull did for the boxing film,” Saulter has commented of the film, which producer Don Ranvaud (Central Station, City Of God) has been introducing to the market in Cannes.
Saulter, who grew up in the Jamaican countryside, has extensive experience as a photographer and cinematographer on a number of TV commercials for Jamaican sprinting legend Usain Bolt.
The writer-director intends to use “track and field as a vehicle to explore the experiences of a modern Caribbean family in all of its complexity”.
“This is about the pressure that kids in Jamaica have to become athletes and obviously sprinters,” commented Don Ranvaud...
- 5/19/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Screenplay for the feature film is being written by the Us screenwriter Matthew Wilder
Berlin-based producer Sandor Söth of Intuit Pictures has secured the rights for a fiction feature film inspired by Marcus Vetter and Karin Steinberger’s documentary thriller The Forecaster about one of the world’s most famous economic forecasters, Martin Armstrong, who the FBI tried to silence
The screenplay for the feature film is being written by the Us screenwriter Matthew Wilder (Your Name Here) who has worked in the past for such filmmakers as Oliver Stone and Bryan Singer.
The Forecaster is currently screening on 52 screens throughout Germany and is being sold internationally by Autlook Film Sales who has posted sales to France (Jupiter), Canada (Blue Ice), Spain (P40), Poland (Against Gravity), Italy (iWonder) and USA (Random Media), among others.
In addition, TV sales have been concluded with Al Jazeera Balcan, Tvo Canada, Vrt Belgium, Yle Finland, Tvo, Dbs Israel...
Berlin-based producer Sandor Söth of Intuit Pictures has secured the rights for a fiction feature film inspired by Marcus Vetter and Karin Steinberger’s documentary thriller The Forecaster about one of the world’s most famous economic forecasters, Martin Armstrong, who the FBI tried to silence
The screenplay for the feature film is being written by the Us screenwriter Matthew Wilder (Your Name Here) who has worked in the past for such filmmakers as Oliver Stone and Bryan Singer.
The Forecaster is currently screening on 52 screens throughout Germany and is being sold internationally by Autlook Film Sales who has posted sales to France (Jupiter), Canada (Blue Ice), Spain (P40), Poland (Against Gravity), Italy (iWonder) and USA (Random Media), among others.
In addition, TV sales have been concluded with Al Jazeera Balcan, Tvo Canada, Vrt Belgium, Yle Finland, Tvo, Dbs Israel...
- 5/19/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Hungarian film Le Grand Cahier (A Nagy Füzet) directed by János Szász took the top prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this weekend (6/7July). The prize is worth 25,000 dollars, shared between the producer and the director of the film in which two teenage twin brothers are confronted with the horrors and realities of war.
Sandor Söth producer of the film Le Grand Cahier ((A Nagy Füzet) with the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe.
Other accolades bestowed by the jury head by Polish director Agnieszka Holland went to Ben Wheatley's low budget A Field In England (with a 15,000 dollar award) while the best director honour was awarded to Jan Hřebejk for Honeymoon / Líbánky from the Czech Republic. The best actress award was shared by Amy Morton for her role in Bluebird by Lance Edmands (a Us-Swedish co-production) with her co-actors Louisa Krause, Emily Meade and Margo Martindale.
Sandor Söth producer of the film Le Grand Cahier ((A Nagy Füzet) with the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe.
Other accolades bestowed by the jury head by Polish director Agnieszka Holland went to Ben Wheatley's low budget A Field In England (with a 15,000 dollar award) while the best director honour was awarded to Jan Hřebejk for Honeymoon / Líbánky from the Czech Republic. The best actress award was shared by Amy Morton for her role in Bluebird by Lance Edmands (a Us-Swedish co-production) with her co-actors Louisa Krause, Emily Meade and Margo Martindale.
- 7/6/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
#57. The Door Director: István SzabóWriter(s): Szabó and Andrea VészitsProducers: Jenõ Hábermann and Sándor Söth Distributor: Rights Available The Gist: Based on the novel by Magda Szabó, this is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid...(more) Cast: Helen Mirren and Martina Gedeck List Worthy Reasons...: Look no further than this Hungarian-German co-production for perhaps the under the radar acting performance of 2012. It could back to back years where the relationship with maid turns out to be material worth exploring (Andrei Zvyagintsev's Elena was gold) as veteran Oscar-winning Hungarian director István Szabó managed to lasso Helen Mirren in what will be known as her most unglamorous role to date. Release Date/Status?: Main Competition at Cannes appears likely as Szabo has been a frequent guest and winner at the fest (Mephisto). ...
- 1/6/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
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