Long-time Academy Museum of Motion Pictures executive Amy Homma was promoted to Chief Audience Officer Nov. 28, Director and President of the Academy Museum Jacqueline Stewart announced.
“Amy has proven herself to be a skillful, forward-thinking, and inspiring leader since she began at the museum in 2019, and I look forward to seeing her and her teams thrive in this new capacity,” Stewart said. “As a seasoned programmer, educator, and administrator who brings a deep knowledge of audience engagement and museology, Amy is the ideal person to steer our museum’s next chapter of external relations.”
Prior to her new appointment, Homma worked as vice president of Education and Public Engagement at the Academy Museum. Under her leadership, the museum developed K-12 programming and public programs rooted in accessibility and activism.
Homma’s introduction to the Academy Museum was as the inaugural director — a position she acquired following the conclusion of her...
“Amy has proven herself to be a skillful, forward-thinking, and inspiring leader since she began at the museum in 2019, and I look forward to seeing her and her teams thrive in this new capacity,” Stewart said. “As a seasoned programmer, educator, and administrator who brings a deep knowledge of audience engagement and museology, Amy is the ideal person to steer our museum’s next chapter of external relations.”
Prior to her new appointment, Homma worked as vice president of Education and Public Engagement at the Academy Museum. Under her leadership, the museum developed K-12 programming and public programs rooted in accessibility and activism.
Homma’s introduction to the Academy Museum was as the inaugural director — a position she acquired following the conclusion of her...
- 11/29/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay, Michaela Zee and Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Long Rider’, an award-winning feature documentary by Canadian filmmaker Sean Cisterna, is to have its Indian premiere at the soon-to-start 17th Mumbai International Film Festival on June 2. The film documents the story of Filipe Masetti Leite, who left his home in Canada and set out on a thrilling 16,000-km journey from Calgary to […]...
- 5/28/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Titles include ambulance-set thriller ‘The Shift’ and home invasion drama ‘A Bunch Of Bastards’.
Italian sales firm Minerva Pictures has finalised deals on several genre titles at the recent European Film Market (EFM).
The sales are led by terrorist thriller The Shift, which has been picked up for France (Koba Films), Germany (The Lighthouse) and Japan (New Select).
The Italy-Belgium co-produced is directed by Alessandro Tonda and premiered at Rome Film Fest. Led by Suburra star Adamo Dionisi and Cesar award-winning actress Clotilde Hesme, it centres on two paramedics who unwittingly load a suicide bomber into their ambulance in the wake of a terrorist attack.
Italian sales firm Minerva Pictures has finalised deals on several genre titles at the recent European Film Market (EFM).
The sales are led by terrorist thriller The Shift, which has been picked up for France (Koba Films), Germany (The Lighthouse) and Japan (New Select).
The Italy-Belgium co-produced is directed by Alessandro Tonda and premiered at Rome Film Fest. Led by Suburra star Adamo Dionisi and Cesar award-winning actress Clotilde Hesme, it centres on two paramedics who unwittingly load a suicide bomber into their ambulance in the wake of a terrorist attack.
- 3/16/2021
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Teen horror ‘Shortcut’ proved a box office hit in the US.
Parkland Entertainment has secured UK and Ireland rights to a hat-trick of AFM titles.
The deals are led by teen horror Shortcut, sold by Italian genre specialist Minerva Pictures. The creature feature was released on nearly 700 US screens via by Gravitas Ventures in September and proved the distributor’s biggest box office success to date, ranking seventh on its opening weekend with $305,000.
Directed by Alessio Liguori, the film follows five teenagers who become trapped in their school bus on a deserted road, which has been blocked by a mysterious creature.
Parkland Entertainment has secured UK and Ireland rights to a hat-trick of AFM titles.
The deals are led by teen horror Shortcut, sold by Italian genre specialist Minerva Pictures. The creature feature was released on nearly 700 US screens via by Gravitas Ventures in September and proved the distributor’s biggest box office success to date, ranking seventh on its opening weekend with $305,000.
Directed by Alessio Liguori, the film follows five teenagers who become trapped in their school bus on a deserted road, which has been blocked by a mysterious creature.
- 11/11/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights Sean Cisterna’s dramatic feature From the Vine for a PVOD and digital release this fall. The movie, written by Willem Wennekers, and adapted from Ken Cancellara’s novel Finding Marco, follows Mark Gentile (Joe Pantoliano), an attorney and automotive company executive, who travels to Italy after a major humiliation in business. He returns to the tiny village of Acerenza, visiting the vineyard where he grew up and finds it in a state of disrepair. Mark gets an idea to bring the overgrown property back to life and start producing wine again. Mark convinces various denizens of Acerenza, each with their own comedic personality, to aid him in this seemingly impractical effort, promising everyone a share in the business if it is successful. Concerned about his sudden and lengthy trip, Mark is joined by his wife Marina, and his twenty-something daughter, Laura,...
- 7/28/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
WFF19 attracted a total of 12,339 attendees across our programming including 6,450 film-screening attendees and 2,180 special event attendees. On the Industry side, the Content Summit welcomed 2,655 attendees, 116 talent program attendees and 938 delegates.
The Whistler Film Festival’s Audience Award sponsored by Fisherman’s Friend went to the North American premiere of LIBERTÉ: A Call To Spy, an exciting true story about female spies during WWII. The film is an American title shot partly in Budapest and was produced, written by and stars Sarah Megan Thomas and was directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher. The Wff Audience Award runner-up was The Cuban directed by Sergio Navarretta, which had its world premiere at the festival. The Wff Audience Award for Most Popular Canadian Film went to Antigone, Canada’s official submission in this year’s international film Oscars category. Directed by Sophie Deraspe, the film won four of the five Borsos Competition Awards including Best Canadian Feature.
The Whistler Film Festival’s Audience Award sponsored by Fisherman’s Friend went to the North American premiere of LIBERTÉ: A Call To Spy, an exciting true story about female spies during WWII. The film is an American title shot partly in Budapest and was produced, written by and stars Sarah Megan Thomas and was directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher. The Wff Audience Award runner-up was The Cuban directed by Sergio Navarretta, which had its world premiere at the festival. The Wff Audience Award for Most Popular Canadian Film went to Antigone, Canada’s official submission in this year’s international film Oscars category. Directed by Sophie Deraspe, the film won four of the five Borsos Competition Awards including Best Canadian Feature.
- 12/25/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Joe Pantoliano will star in the whimsical Italian vineyard drama From the Vine Came the Grape, directed by Sean Cisterna (Kiss and Cry, Full Out).
Pantoliano, best known for his star turns on HBO's The Sopranos and in the film Memento, plays a downtrodden corporate executive who suffers a crisis of ethics, retreats to his family's hometown in southern Italy and discovers a vineyard on its last legs.
Alienated family members, played by Wendy Crewson and Paula Brancati (who is also producing the film), track him down to stop a vineyard-revitalization project before it spirals out of control.
Italian actor Marco Leonardi ...
Pantoliano, best known for his star turns on HBO's The Sopranos and in the film Memento, plays a downtrodden corporate executive who suffers a crisis of ethics, retreats to his family's hometown in southern Italy and discovers a vineyard on its last legs.
Alienated family members, played by Wendy Crewson and Paula Brancati (who is also producing the film), track him down to stop a vineyard-revitalization project before it spirals out of control.
Italian actor Marco Leonardi ...
- 11/15/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Joe Pantoliano will star in the whimsical Italian vineyard drama From the Vine Came the Grape, directed by Sean Cisterna (Kiss and Cry, Full Out).
Pantoliano, best known for his star turns on HBO's The Sopranos and in the film Memento, plays a downtrodden corporate executive who suffers a crisis of ethics, retreats to his family's hometown in southern Italy and discovers a vineyard on its last legs.
Alienated family members, played by Wendy Crewson and Paula Brancati (who is also producing the film), track him down to stop a vineyard-revitalization project before it spirals out of control.
Italian actor Marco Leonardi ...
Pantoliano, best known for his star turns on HBO's The Sopranos and in the film Memento, plays a downtrodden corporate executive who suffers a crisis of ethics, retreats to his family's hometown in southern Italy and discovers a vineyard on its last legs.
Alienated family members, played by Wendy Crewson and Paula Brancati (who is also producing the film), track him down to stop a vineyard-revitalization project before it spirals out of control.
Italian actor Marco Leonardi ...
- 11/15/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anchor Bay is releasing director Sean Cisterna's 2011 Canadian indie comedy "Moon Point", August 7, 2012 on DVD and Digital Download, starring Nick McKinlay, Paula Brancati, Kyle Mac and Kristen Gutoskie, with Jayne Eastwood, Jessica Holmes, Linda Kash and David Sparrow :
"...'Darryl Strozka' is a socially awkward and ambitionless 23-year old who seems destined to live forever with his mother. As his cousin Lars’ wedding approaches, Darryl decides the best way to prove to his family that he is not quite as worthless as they think he is, is to track down his elementary school crush, now an obscure B-movie actress shooting a horror film in 'Moon Point', and bring her to the wedding. Darryl enlists his best friend 'Femur' and travels hundreds of miles in a wagon hooked onto the back of Femur’s electric wheelchair. Along the way, Darryl and his friends get shot at, track a banana to an AA meeting,...
"...'Darryl Strozka' is a socially awkward and ambitionless 23-year old who seems destined to live forever with his mother. As his cousin Lars’ wedding approaches, Darryl decides the best way to prove to his family that he is not quite as worthless as they think he is, is to track down his elementary school crush, now an obscure B-movie actress shooting a horror film in 'Moon Point', and bring her to the wedding. Darryl enlists his best friend 'Femur' and travels hundreds of miles in a wagon hooked onto the back of Femur’s electric wheelchair. Along the way, Darryl and his friends get shot at, track a banana to an AA meeting,...
- 8/7/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
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