Anne Frank’s family did not hesitate to leave Germany. They didn’t linger in the hope that Adolf Hitler would prove to be less dangerous than they feared. In 1933, when the Third Reich rose to power, Otto Frank whisked his family — wife Edith, daughters Anne and Margot — off to Amsterdam, a place that appeared to provide relative safety. This act of temporary rescue, as well as Frank’s subsequent attempts to escape to the United States, provides the foundation for “No Asylum,” filmmaker Paula Fouce’s examination of the 20th century’s most well known refugee family. In 2005, a cache.
- 8/19/2016
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
There probably isn’t a person whose story has been told as many times as Anne Frank’s has. Her story is told every year in schools, in community theaters...
- 8/19/2016
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
San Francisco-based ro*co films has secured international rights to a slate of films including three Sundance selections that will launch at Mipdoc/Miptv.
“We’re bringing a collection of films that are very timely and entertaining stories, they either reveal a new voice or remind us of a powerful voice from the past,” said ro*co films ro*co films international managing director Cristine Platt Dewey.
The Park City trio are: Kirby Dick’s The Hunting Ground (pictured) about rape culture on Us college campuses; Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV’s Mexican drug cartel story Western; and Lyric R Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe’s Us counterterrorism film (T)Error.
David Holbrooke’s The Diplomat chronicles the work of the director’s father Us Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and his work on the Dayton Peace Accords that ended conflict in Bosnia 20 years ago.
Paula Fouce’s No Asylum uncovers a new chapter in the Anne Frank...
“We’re bringing a collection of films that are very timely and entertaining stories, they either reveal a new voice or remind us of a powerful voice from the past,” said ro*co films ro*co films international managing director Cristine Platt Dewey.
The Park City trio are: Kirby Dick’s The Hunting Ground (pictured) about rape culture on Us college campuses; Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV’s Mexican drug cartel story Western; and Lyric R Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe’s Us counterterrorism film (T)Error.
David Holbrooke’s The Diplomat chronicles the work of the director’s father Us Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and his work on the Dayton Peace Accords that ended conflict in Bosnia 20 years ago.
Paula Fouce’s No Asylum uncovers a new chapter in the Anne Frank...
- 4/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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