Next month’s Mubi lineup for the U.S. has been unveiled and a number of our recent festival favorites that were awaiting distribution will be coming to the service, including Mr. Bachmann and His Class, Ballad of a White Cow, Madalena, Taste, The Monopoly of Violence, and For Lucio.
One of last year’s great films, Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran, will also be arriving, alongside Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45, the Safdies’ Heaven Knows What, Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz, and Leo McCarey’s Love Affair, with the latter two pairing for a Valentine’s Day double feature.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
February 1 | The Monopoly of Violence | David Dufresne | From France with Love
February 2 | Looking for Venera | Norika Sefa | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
February 3 | Madalena | Madiano Marcheti | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
February 4 | Honey Cigar | Kamir Aïnouz | From France with Love
February 5 | …and...
One of last year’s great films, Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran, will also be arriving, alongside Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45, the Safdies’ Heaven Knows What, Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz, and Leo McCarey’s Love Affair, with the latter two pairing for a Valentine’s Day double feature.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
February 1 | The Monopoly of Violence | David Dufresne | From France with Love
February 2 | Looking for Venera | Norika Sefa | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
February 3 | Madalena | Madiano Marcheti | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
February 4 | Honey Cigar | Kamir Aïnouz | From France with Love
February 5 | …and...
- 1/20/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A young Black woman and man walk briskly through crowded streets, shops, and houses in a sunny urban center in Africa. They wear dark glasses, sharp clothes and at one point carry a blue suitcase. Sometimes they drive around the roads that cross or surround the city in a red car. Were it not for the sumptuousness of the images and the editing, reminiscent of the style used to represent Black characters in the works of the U.S. Blaxploitation movement of the 1970s, these scenes from Amansa Tiafi (Public Toilet Africa) by first time Ghanaian filmmaker Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah would coincide almost directly with scenes from the feature film Touki Bouki (1973), directed by iconic Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty.The cinematic references evident throughout Public Toilet Africa mean it is possible to see the film as an example of a brand new African cinema: one aware of and directly influenced...
- 8/31/2021
- MUBI
After unveiling the discs that will be arriving in April, including Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder, Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep, and more, Criterion has now announced what will be coming to their streaming channel next month.
Highlights include retrospectives dedicated to Guy Maddin, Ruby Dee, Lana Turner, and Gordon Parks, plus selections from Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg’s stellar box set. They will also present the exclusive streaming premieres of Bill Duke’s The Killing Floor, William Greaves’s Nationtime, Kevin Jerome Everson’s Park Lanes, and more.
Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which recently arrived on the collection, will be landing on the channel as well, along with a special “Lovers on the Run” series including film noir (They Live by Night) to New Hollywood (Badlands) to the French New Wave (Pierrot le fou) to Blaxploitation (Thomasine & Bushrod) and beyond. Also...
Highlights include retrospectives dedicated to Guy Maddin, Ruby Dee, Lana Turner, and Gordon Parks, plus selections from Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg’s stellar box set. They will also present the exclusive streaming premieres of Bill Duke’s The Killing Floor, William Greaves’s Nationtime, Kevin Jerome Everson’s Park Lanes, and more.
Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which recently arrived on the collection, will be landing on the channel as well, along with a special “Lovers on the Run” series including film noir (They Live by Night) to New Hollywood (Badlands) to the French New Wave (Pierrot le fou) to Blaxploitation (Thomasine & Bushrod) and beyond. Also...
- 1/26/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled its full festival lineup of 28 features and shorts for Doc Fortnight 2020, its annual showcase of the best of nonfiction film, on Monday. The list includes the latest works from the likes of Michael Almereyda, Terrence Nance, Denis Côté, Sky Hopinka, Lucretia Martel, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ben Rivers, Lynn Sachs, Kazuhiro Soda, Roger Ross Williams, Maya Khoury and the Abounaddara Collective.
Now in its 19th year, Doc Fortnight will run from February 5 to 19, 2020, and will include 12 world premieres, 17 North American premieres, and 14 Us premieres from 38 countries. Doc Fortnight 2020 opens with the New York premiere of “Crip Camp,” a portrait of Camp Jened—a camp for disabled teenagers near Woodstock, New York, that thrived in the late 1960s and ’70s—which established a close-knit community of campers who would become pioneering disability advocates. The film is co-directed and produced by Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht,...
Now in its 19th year, Doc Fortnight will run from February 5 to 19, 2020, and will include 12 world premieres, 17 North American premieres, and 14 Us premieres from 38 countries. Doc Fortnight 2020 opens with the New York premiere of “Crip Camp,” a portrait of Camp Jened—a camp for disabled teenagers near Woodstock, New York, that thrived in the late 1960s and ’70s—which established a close-knit community of campers who would become pioneering disability advocates. The film is co-directed and produced by Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht,...
- 1/6/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The Golden Leopard goes to Portugal for Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela.
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa received Locarno Film Festival’s top honour, the Golden Leopard, for his latest feature Vitalina Varela which had its world premiere in the Swiss festival’s international competition.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The international jury headed by French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat also presented the Leopard for best actress to the 55-year-old Cape Verde islander Vitalina Varela for her performance in the film named after herself.
This is the second time Costa had taken home one of the main awards...
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa received Locarno Film Festival’s top honour, the Golden Leopard, for his latest feature Vitalina Varela which had its world premiere in the Swiss festival’s international competition.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The international jury headed by French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat also presented the Leopard for best actress to the 55-year-old Cape Verde islander Vitalina Varela for her performance in the film named after herself.
This is the second time Costa had taken home one of the main awards...
- 8/17/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Binary StarsWhen I was in college, I learned a particular story about the concept of the aesthetic. It was a drama that featured a lot of now-familiar players: Kant, Hegel, and Marx; Nietzsche and Heidegger; Benjamin and Adorno; Jameson and Eagleton; Kristeva and Derrida. Despite the myriad ups and downs of the very concept of art, its relative or absolute autonomy, or its capacity or incapacity for social critique, there remained a general set of constants. One of them was the idea that art, as a space somewhat set apart from the needful things of daily life and especially the instrumentalist thinking of the marketplace, might offer, if not a possible glimpse of a future utopia, at least a clearing for contemplation. Today, an aesthetician is not necessarily a theorist. He or she is also someone who specializes in the treatment of skin. This may seem somehow frivolous, but the connection is real,...
- 1/5/2019
- MUBI
Award-winning filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu has secured her cast for her upcoming film adaptation of celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “On Monday of Last Week,” which Owusu optioned exclusive rights to earlier this year, via her Obibini Pictures LLC. Announced today, 2016 Lucille Lortel… Continue Reading →...
- 8/4/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
We have continued to follow the work of filmmaker and artist Akosua Adoma Owusu, whose films have screened worldwide in prestigious film festivals, museums, galleries, universities and microcinemas all over the world, in the past decade Recently named one of Indiewire’s "6 Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema," Owusu has exhibited her work worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Rotterdam, Centre Pompidou and London Film Festival. She is also a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Now her latest work, "Reluctantly Queer," will make its world premiere in the short film competition at the Berlinale...
- 1/19/2016
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The 2016 Berlinale Shorts program will include new films by Pham Ngoc Lan, Wu Linfeng, Leonor Teles, Esteban Arrangoiz, Diego Zon, Ronny Trocker, Gabriel Abrantes, Ben Russell, Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck, Christine Rebet, Chiang Wei Liang, Volker Schlecht and Alexander Lahl, Réka Bucsi, Mahdi Fleifel, Joanna Rytel, Rubén Gámez, Jonathan Vinel in collaboration with Caroline Poggi, Bentley Brown, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller, Pimpaka Towira, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ricky D’Ambrose, Rotem Murat, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann and Paul Spengemann, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, and Akihito Izuhara. » - David Hudson...
- 1/12/2016
- Keyframe
The 2016 Berlinale Shorts program will include new films by Pham Ngoc Lan, Wu Linfeng, Leonor Teles, Esteban Arrangoiz, Diego Zon, Ronny Trocker, Gabriel Abrantes, Ben Russell, Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck, Christine Rebet, Chiang Wei Liang, Volker Schlecht and Alexander Lahl, Réka Bucsi, Mahdi Fleifel, Joanna Rytel, Rubén Gámez, Jonathan Vinel in collaboration with Caroline Poggi, Bentley Brown, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller, Pimpaka Towira, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ricky D’Ambrose, Rotem Murat, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann and Paul Spengemann, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, and Akihito Izuhara. » - David Hudson...
- 1/12/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
A total of 25 films selected for competitive programme.
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has unveiled the 25 short films from 21 countries that will compete for the Golden and Silver Bear, a nomination for the European Film Awards and, for the second consecutive year, the Audi Short Film Award worth € 20,000.
The short film jury is comprised of the curator and director of the Sharjah Biennial in the UAE, Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi; Greek curator and writer Katerina Gregos; and Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi.
Among others, the competition will include films from Gabriel Abrantes, Pimpaka Towira, Réka Bucsi, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller, and Siegfried A. Fruhauf.
Ben Russell, who won plaudits at festivals around the world with A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, will present He Who Eats Children, described as “a speculative portrait of a Dutchman living in the Surinamese jungle fixing canoe motors, accused of eating the locals’ children”.
Also among the line-up is a new documentary by [link...
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has unveiled the 25 short films from 21 countries that will compete for the Golden and Silver Bear, a nomination for the European Film Awards and, for the second consecutive year, the Audi Short Film Award worth € 20,000.
The short film jury is comprised of the curator and director of the Sharjah Biennial in the UAE, Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi; Greek curator and writer Katerina Gregos; and Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi.
Among others, the competition will include films from Gabriel Abrantes, Pimpaka Towira, Réka Bucsi, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller, and Siegfried A. Fruhauf.
Ben Russell, who won plaudits at festivals around the world with A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, will present He Who Eats Children, described as “a speculative portrait of a Dutchman living in the Surinamese jungle fixing canoe motors, accused of eating the locals’ children”.
Also among the line-up is a new documentary by [link...
- 1/12/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
We have been keeping tabs on the career and projects of the extraordinary international filmmaker and contemporary artist Akosua Adoma Owusu, whose films are in the permanent collections in the Whitney Museum in New York, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Yale University Film Study Center, and the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work has has been showcased worldwide in museums, galleries, theaters and film festivals, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, Rotterdam, Centre Pompidou Paris and the London Film Festival to name a few (most recently, the filmmaker was involved in a project in Vietnam). She has also been awarded with several honors, including, earlier...
- 12/14/2015
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
We have been keeping tabs on the career and projects of the extraordinary international filmmaker and contemporary artist Akosua Adoma Owusu, whose films are in the permanent collections in the Whitney Museum in New York, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Yale University Film Study Center, and the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work has has been showcased worldwide in museums, galleries, theaters and film festivals, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, Rotterdam, Centre Pompidou Paris and the London Film Festival to name a few (most recently, the filmmaker was involved in a project in Vietnam). She has also been awarded with several honors, including, earlier...
- 12/10/2015
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Akosua Adoma Owusu's latest work, "Kwaku Ananse," is an intensely personal project for the filmmaker, drawing upon rich Ghanaian mythology, combining semi-autobiographical elements with the tale of Kwaku Ananse, a trickster popular in West African tales who appears as both spider and man. Ananse teaches us that there are two sides to everything and everyone. To explore this theme of doubleness, director Owusu combines the Kwaku Ananse fable with the story of a young outsider named Nan Kronhwea as she attends her estranged father's funeral. Nan's father led 2 separate lives with 2 wives and 2 families - one in Ghana, and the other in the United States. Nan's contradictory...
- 6/10/2015
- by Rissa Papillion
- ShadowAndAct
Durban FilmMart, which runs in Durban, South Africa from July 17-20, has announced its project selection for this year.
The 6th Durban FilmMart has selected the 19 docs and features from more than 120 submissions from African filmmakers.
Dfm is a joint initiative between the Durban Film Office and the Durban International Film Festival (July 16-26).
“This year, we are pleased to welcome projects from a diverse range of countries on the continent, including Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa,” said Toni Monty of the Durban Film Office.
“The Dfm has become an important springboard for projects that have been conceptualized by African filmmakers, to support them as the projects move from the idea to exhibition.
“Over the last five years we have seen many projects go on to be awarded further opportunities to develop at various other markets, and eventually be screened in cinemas and festivals around the globe.
“In previous...
The 6th Durban FilmMart has selected the 19 docs and features from more than 120 submissions from African filmmakers.
Dfm is a joint initiative between the Durban Film Office and the Durban International Film Festival (July 16-26).
“This year, we are pleased to welcome projects from a diverse range of countries on the continent, including Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa,” said Toni Monty of the Durban Film Office.
“The Dfm has become an important springboard for projects that have been conceptualized by African filmmakers, to support them as the projects move from the idea to exhibition.
“Over the last five years we have seen many projects go on to be awarded further opportunities to develop at various other markets, and eventually be screened in cinemas and festivals around the globe.
“In previous...
- 5/22/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
We have been following, for quite a while now, the career of the extraordinary filmmaker and artist Akosua Adoma Owusu, who films are in the permanent collections of both the Whitney Museum in New York and the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Last summer, for example, Tambay reported (Here) on her experimental feature film, “Black Sunshine,” when it was selected as one of four films to receive production financing from the World Cinema Fund, which is an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Goethe-Institut-Film. And as I've said before about Ms. Owusu, her goal, is to use her work to "... open audiences up...
- 4/21/2015
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Maris Curran’s "Five Nights in Maine," which stars David Oyelowo, as well as projects from familiar names like Terence Nance, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Roger Ross Williams, and Redelia Shaw are all among 15 total participants selected for the 12th edition of the Tribeca Film Institute's annual Tribeca All Access (Taa) program, which supports filmmakers from statistically underrepresented communities, and will grant support for each of the projects, as well as offer year-round support, guidance and resources to help the filmmakers complete them. Taa filmmakers are also welcomed into the Taa Alumni program which supports their present and future...
- 3/20/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Award winning avant garde Akosua Adoma Owusu has a mission. Her mission, in her own words, is to "through my filmmaking… open audiences up to a new dialogue between the continents of Africa and America; one that incorporates more than just stereotypes, but includes both conventionalized and un-conventionalized discourses of race in its service. By creating complex contradictions." But that's not all; she also hopes that, through her films, "a new meaning can emerge and be deposited into the universal consciousness. If I can do this by creating an experience for the audience that enables them to experience what it is like to find oneself, while being foreign...
- 10/31/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
On the heels of the 39th edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival (Sept 4-14), Ifp’s Independent Film Week is where a plethora of fiction, non-fiction and new this year, web-based series from the likes of Desiree Akhavan and Calvin Reeder find future coin. Sectioned off as projects at the very beginning of financing to those that are nearing completion, there happens to be tons of Sundance alumni in the names below. Among those that caught our attention we have Medicine for Melancholy‘s Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature, produced by Bad Milo!‘s Adele Romanski, Moonlight is about “two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth”. Concussion‘s Stacie Passon digs into the thriller genre with Strange Things Started Happening. Produced by vet Mary Jane Skalski (Mysterious Skin), this is about “a woman who has...
- 7/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The jury of the World Cinema Fund (Wcf) - an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Goethe-Institut - has announced that it's selected 4 new film projects for production funding, and one work for distribution funding. The Wcf jury made their selection based on 126 submissions from a total of 43 countries, awarding funding amounting to 145,000 euros (close to $200,000). The 4 projects include Akosua Adoma Owusu's "Black Sunshine," which received funding totaling 40,000 euros ($or about $55,000). Here's a description of the feature-length experimental film - a project previously...
- 7/10/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest feature among those to receive funding from World Cinema Fund.
At the 20th jury session, the World Cinema Fund (Wcf) has backed four new features for production funding and one for distribution funding.
The Wcf jury made their selection from 126 submissions and have awarded a total funding of €145,000.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Kings, Min Bahadur Bham’s Kalo Pothi, Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Black Sunshine and Alejandro Landes & Alexis Dos Santos’ Monos all received production funding, while Claudia Sainte-Luce’s The Amazing Catfish was awarded distribution funding.
Since Oct 2004, the Wcf has awarded funding to a total of 119 projects and all films produced to date have screened in cinemas or in the programmes of international film festivals.
Two Wcf-funded films premiered at this year’s Cannes: Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja and Diego Lerman’s Refugiado.
Full details of the latest funding round are as follows:
Production funding
Cemetery of Kings, director: [link=nm...
At the 20th jury session, the World Cinema Fund (Wcf) has backed four new features for production funding and one for distribution funding.
The Wcf jury made their selection from 126 submissions and have awarded a total funding of €145,000.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Kings, Min Bahadur Bham’s Kalo Pothi, Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Black Sunshine and Alejandro Landes & Alexis Dos Santos’ Monos all received production funding, while Claudia Sainte-Luce’s The Amazing Catfish was awarded distribution funding.
Since Oct 2004, the Wcf has awarded funding to a total of 119 projects and all films produced to date have screened in cinemas or in the programmes of international film festivals.
Two Wcf-funded films premiered at this year’s Cannes: Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja and Diego Lerman’s Refugiado.
Full details of the latest funding round are as follows:
Production funding
Cemetery of Kings, director: [link=nm...
- 7/9/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Dear Backers, I am Akosua Adoma Owusu, director of the short film Kwaku Ananse, and I have an exciting new project to share with you! The Rex Cinema was built by Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, who had a vision of creating a Ghanaian cinema industry that could be shared with the world. The Rex, located in Accra, is just one of many cinemas built throughout Ghana, and like so many of the others, it’s in trouble. Even though Ghana’s film industry has been incredibly successful, its early cinemas are on the verge of extinction, and could be sold for redevelopment. The Rex Cinema hasn’t been used for the arts for years and is also at risk of being sold. Here’s what I’m...
- 11/11/2013
- by Akosua Adoma Owusu
- ShadowAndAct
Dear Backers, I am Akosua Adoma Owusu, director of the short film Kwaku Ananse, and I have an exciting new project to share with you! The Rex Cinema was built by Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, who had a vision of creating a Ghanaian cinema industry that could be shared with the world. The Rex, located in Accra, is just one of many cinemas built throughout Ghana, and like so many of the others, it’s in trouble. Even though Ghana’s film industry has been incredibly successful, its early cinemas are on the verge of extinction, and could be sold for redevelopment. The Rex Cinema hasn’t been used for the arts for years and is also at risk of being sold. Here’s what I’m...
- 10/23/2013
- by Akosua Adoma Owusu
- ShadowAndAct
Dear Backers, I am Akosua Adoma Owusu, director of the short film Kwaku Ananse, and I have an exciting new project to share with you! The Rex Cinema was built by Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, who had a vision of creating a Ghanaian cinema industry that could be shared with the world. The Rex, located in Accra, is just one of many cinemas built throughout Ghana, and like so many of the others, it’s in trouble.Rex Cinema - Accra, Ghana (Today) Even though Ghana’s film industry has been incredibly successful, its early cinemas are on the verge of extinction, and could be sold for redevelopment. The Rex Cinema hasn’t been used for the arts for years and is also at risk of...
- 10/21/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Dear Backers, I am Akosua Adoma Owusu, director of the short film Kwaku Ananse, and I have an exciting new project to share with you! The Rex Cinema was built by Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, who had a vision of creating a Ghanaian cinema industry that could be shared with the world. The Rex, located in Accra, is just one of many cinemas built throughout Ghana, and like so many of the others, it’s in trouble.Rex Cinema - Accra, Ghana (Today) Even though Ghana’s film industry has been incredibly successful, its early cinemas are on the verge of extinction, and could be sold for redevelopment. The Rex Cinema hasn’t been used for the arts for years and is also at risk of...
- 10/18/2013
- by Akosua Adoma Owusu
- ShadowAndAct
From the same folks who brought you The Future Weird last month (which included a screening of Cameroonian director Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s satirical sci-fi vampire film Les Saignantes), comes another screening series event titled The Future Weird: Black Atlantis, which will include the U.S. premiere of Simon Rittmeier's Burkina Faso-shot, 30-minute 16mm sci-fi film Drexciya, as well as shorts from Akosua Adoma Owusu, Nikyatu Jusu, Barry Jenkins, Kibwe Tavares + more. All names I'm sure you're familiar with.The event will take place on Monday, August 26 at 8pm, also at Spectacle Theater (like the last screening series),...
- 8/26/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
At the Toronto International Film Festival next month... all films we've profiled on this blog, making their North American and international premieres - a treat for those who'll be attending the celebrated festival this year. Full details via press release below: “To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales From The African Continent”Showcases Five Short Films At Toronto International Film Festival Short Films: African Metropolis: Berea / South Africa / Director: Vincent Moloi African Metropolis: Homecoming / Kenya / Director: Jim Chuchu African Metropolis: To Repel Ghosts / Ivory Coast / Director: Philippe Lacôte Kwaku Ananse / Ghana / Director: Akosua Adoma Owusu Noye's Fludde...
- 8/22/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The 38th Toronto International Film Festival has released an incredible guest list of celebrated talent from around the globe. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Catherine Breillat, Nicole Garcia, Pawel Pawlikowski, Bertrand Tavernier, Steve McQueen, Godfrey Reggio, Denis Villeneuve, Bill Condon, Jean-Marc Vallée, John Wells, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Ayoade, Atom Egoyan, Matthew Weiner, John Carney, Jason Reitman, Jason Bateman, Yorgos Servetas, Liza Johnson, Megan Griffiths, Fernando Eimbcke, Alexey Uchitel, Johnny Ma, Biyi Bandele, Rashid Masharawi, Paul Haggis, Ron Howard, Eli Roth, Álex de la Iglesia, Bruce McDonald, Jennifer Baichwal, John Ridley, and Justin Chadwick.
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Final batch of Tiff titles were announced today and among the international hodgepodge of items trickling we find Berlin (Golden Bear winner Child’s Pose), Cannes (The Selfish Giant – Europa Cinemas Label winner and Stranger by the Lake by Alain Guiraudie), Karlovy Vary (Crystal Globe winner Le Grand Cahier ) and Locarno (Corneliu Porumboiu’s When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism) Film Fest items added to the Toronto Int. Film Festival’s Contemporary World Cinema lineup. Alongside those that have already premiered elsewhere, the titles that have got our attention are world premiere offerings from the likes of award-winning Icelandic helmer Ragnar Bragason (Metalhead), Revanche‘s Götz Spielmann (October November – see pic above) and Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke’s Club Sandwich. Here’s the added titles to the section which already includes: Catherine Martin’s A Journey (Une Jeune Fille), Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project, Terry Miles’ Cinemanovels, Bruce Sweeney...
- 8/13/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
World premieres of Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, Fred Schepisi’s Words And Pictures and John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo are among the Tiff line-up of galas and special presentations.
The Contemporary World Cinema strand includes first views of Jan Hrebejk’s Honeymoon, Donovan Marsh’s iNumber Number and Fernando Coimbra’s A Wolf At The Door.
The Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
GALASBlood Ties Guillaume Canet (France-us) NAPBright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) Marion Vernoux (France) NAPWords & Pictures Fred Schepisi (Us) Wpspecial Presentationsa Promise (Une Promesse) Patrice Leconte (Belgium-France) NAPThe Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney (Us) NAPBlind Detective Johnnie To (Hong Kong) NAPChild Of God James Franco (Us) NAPThe Face Of Love Arie Posin (Us) WPFading Gigolo John Turturro (Us) WPThe Finishers Nils Tavernier (Belgium-France) WPHow I Live Now Kevin Macdonald (UK) WPThe...
The Contemporary World Cinema strand includes first views of Jan Hrebejk’s Honeymoon, Donovan Marsh’s iNumber Number and Fernando Coimbra’s A Wolf At The Door.
The Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
GALASBlood Ties Guillaume Canet (France-us) NAPBright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) Marion Vernoux (France) NAPWords & Pictures Fred Schepisi (Us) Wpspecial Presentationsa Promise (Une Promesse) Patrice Leconte (Belgium-France) NAPThe Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney (Us) NAPBlind Detective Johnnie To (Hong Kong) NAPChild Of God James Franco (Us) NAPThe Face Of Love Arie Posin (Us) WPFading Gigolo John Turturro (Us) WPThe Finishers Nils Tavernier (Belgium-France) WPHow I Live Now Kevin Macdonald (UK) WPThe...
- 8/13/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
World premieres of Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, Fred Schepisi’s Words And Pictures and John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo are among the TIFF line-up of galas and special presentations announced on Tuesday [13].
The Contemporary World Cinema strand includes first views of Jan Hrebejk’s Honeymoon, Donovan Marsh’s iNumber Number and Fernando Coimbra’s A Wolf At The Door.
The Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
GALASBlood Ties Guillaume Canet (France-us) NAPBright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) Marion Vernoux (France) NAPWords & Pictures Fred Schepisi (Us) Wpspecial Presentationsa Promise (Une Promesse) Patrice Leconte (Belgium-France) NAPThe Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney (Us) NAPBlind Detective Johnnie To (Hong Kong) NAPChild Of God James Franco (Us) NAPThe Face Of Love Arie Posin (Us) WPFading Gigolo John Turturro (Us) WPThe Finishers Nils Tavernier (Belgium-France) WPHow I Live Now [link...
The Contemporary World Cinema strand includes first views of Jan Hrebejk’s Honeymoon, Donovan Marsh’s iNumber Number and Fernando Coimbra’s A Wolf At The Door.
The Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
GALASBlood Ties Guillaume Canet (France-us) NAPBright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) Marion Vernoux (France) NAPWords & Pictures Fred Schepisi (Us) Wpspecial Presentationsa Promise (Une Promesse) Patrice Leconte (Belgium-France) NAPThe Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney (Us) NAPBlind Detective Johnnie To (Hong Kong) NAPChild Of God James Franco (Us) NAPThe Face Of Love Arie Posin (Us) WPFading Gigolo John Turturro (Us) WPThe Finishers Nils Tavernier (Belgium-France) WPHow I Live Now [link...
- 8/13/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Durban FilmMart (Dfm) 2013, a film financing co-production program that takes place during the Durban International Film Festival (Diff) - July 19 to 22 - announced its award winners toda in Durban, South Africa. You'll recognize the names some of the award recipients that follow below, like Akosua Adoma Owusu and Rungano Nyoni (information courtesy of Screen Africa): - International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (Idfa) gave an award for Most Promising Documentary Project to Blindness (Kom Haal My) directed by Sarah Ping Nie Jones and produced Jean Meeran (South Africa). - Arte France’s Arte International Award (valued at €6,000 (almost $8,000) went to...
- 7/24/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
I'm a few days late on this, but better late than never! It's what happens when you're behind on emails. The full press release follows below, but let me say congrats to all those who were selected, including a few names you should already be familiar with, since they've shown up a number of times on this blog - Nikyatu Jusu, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Rungano Nyoni and Sara Blecher, notably! I'm certainly looking forward to each success some time down the road. Of course, we'll be watching as each progresses! Look for profiles of those projects/filmmakers we haven't already covered. The 4th edition of the Durban FilmMart takes place from July 19-22, 2013, during the 34th...
- 6/7/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival, held back on March 19-24, gave out 20 awards to 28 films, as selected by the three-panel jury of filmmakers Kevin Jerome Everson, Laida Lertxundi and Marcin Gizycki.
The big winner was Penny Lane’s documentary Our Nixon, which took home the Best of the Fest Award. The film, assembled from “home” movies taken by Richard Nixon’s staff has quickly become one of the most talked about indie films of the year so far.
Other winners include Michael Almereyda’s short profile of a Northern England fishing village, Skinningrove, won for Best Documentary Film; Yuri Ancarani’s surgical film Da Vinci won for the Most Technically Innovative Film; and Frédéric Moffet’s meditation on Montgomery Clift, Postface, won for Best Experimental Film.
The full list of winners is below and you can check out the entire lineup of 2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival here.
Ken Burns...
The big winner was Penny Lane’s documentary Our Nixon, which took home the Best of the Fest Award. The film, assembled from “home” movies taken by Richard Nixon’s staff has quickly become one of the most talked about indie films of the year so far.
Other winners include Michael Almereyda’s short profile of a Northern England fishing village, Skinningrove, won for Best Documentary Film; Yuri Ancarani’s surgical film Da Vinci won for the Most Technically Innovative Film; and Frédéric Moffet’s meditation on Montgomery Clift, Postface, won for Best Experimental Film.
The full list of winners is below and you can check out the entire lineup of 2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival here.
Ken Burns...
- 4/1/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Ann Arbor Film Festival, having survived their half-a-century blowout in 2012, is back with another rip-roarin’ 51st edition in 2013, which will run from March 19-24, screening a mind-boggling amount of experimental short films and a few features.
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
- 3/19/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
It's exciting that we're starting to see our first glimpses at the films from the 5 filmmakers selected for the 2011 class of the Focus Features Africa First program. A few months ago, we got a first tease of Ghanaian American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu's Kwaku Ananse. Today, a new, final trailer has been released, and is embedded below. Here's how the project is described: “Kwaku Ananse” is an intensely personal project which draws upon the rich mythology of Ghana. The short film combines semi-autobiographical elements with the tale of Kwaku Ananse, a trickster in West African stories who appears as both spider...
- 2/12/2013
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Filmmaker and programmer in residence Amir George of Chicago's Black Cinema House, which I previously profiled Here, and Los Angeles based curator Erin Christovale, are jointly presenting a screening of short films they call Black Radical Imagination: A Futurist Film Showcase next week in Los Angeles. The screening will consist of screenings by various filmmakers, including George himself, along with films by Akosua Adoma Owusu, Adebukola Bodurin, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Anansi Knowbody. And, as you might be saying, what is a Black Radical Imagination Futurist Film Showcase? Well, according to George and Christovale, it is designed to "invoke a futurist...
- 2/5/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The works of 3 filmmakers we've highlighted on this site - Akosua Adoma Owusu, Zina Saro-Wiwa, and Terence Nance - make up part of a Kampala, Uganda exhibit titled Video Slink Uganda. The details... Video Halls (bibanda) are often no more than small huts where viewers pay a few cents to watch pirated DVDs on diesel-powered television screens. In the majority of villages and towns, they are the only form of popular visual entertainment, reaching millions of Ugandans every month. VJs are local performer/pirates who translate Hollywood action movies, Nollywood dramas, Bollywood musicals, and pornography into the primary local language of Luganda, acting as both...
- 1/11/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
If you - like me - first became aware of African trickster spirit Ananse through Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, here's your chance for something a little bit more authentic.Akosua Adoma Owusu's Ghanaian short film Kwaku Ananse comes supported by the Focus Features Africa First program, a program which supports the best and brightest African talents. Owusu certainly seems to qualify on that front, the story blending traditional folk tales with contemporary social reality and the camera work looking simply gorgeous. Here's how the creator describes it:"Kwaku Ananse" is an intensely personal project which draws upon the rich mythology of Ghana. The short film combines semi-autobiographical elements with the tale of Kwaku Ananse, a trickster in West African stories who appears as both spider and man....
- 12/5/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Continuing on with the series... but first, as always, a recap, for those just joining us. You can obviously skip this part and jump right into the interview below. Announced last fall, the 5 filmmakers selected for the next class (2011) of Focus Features' Africa First program were Oshosheni Hiveluah (from Namibia); Cedric Ido (from Burkina Faso); Mark Middlewick (from South Africa); Akosua Adoma Owusu (from Ghana); and Zelalem Woldemariam (from Ethiopia). For those unfamiliar with the program... launched in 2009, Africa First was created "to foster and develop long-term relationships with some of the most...
- 5/23/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Continuing on with the series... but first, as always, a recap, for those just joining us. You can obviously skip this part and jump right into the interview below. Announced last fall, the 5 filmmakers selected for the next class (2011) of Focus Features' Africa First program were Oshosheni Hiveluah (from Namibia); Cedric Ido (from Burkina Faso); Mark Middlewick (from South Africa); Akosua Adoma Owusu (from Ghana); and Zelalem Woldemariam (from Ethiopia). For those unfamiliar with the program... launched in 2009, Africa First was created "to foster and develop long-term relationships with some of the most...
- 5/21/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Continuing with the series... but first, for those just joining us, or new to the program, a recap as always. Announced last fall, the 5 filmmakers selected for the next class (2011) of Focus Features' Africa First program were Oshosheni Hiveluah (from Namibia); Cedric Ido (from Burkina Faso); Mark Middlewick (from South Africa); Akosua Adoma Owusu (from Ghana); and Zelalem Woldemariam (from Ethiopia). For those unfamiliar with the program... launched in 2009, Africa First was created "to foster and develop long-term relationships with some of the most promising up-and-coming filmmakers from continental...
- 5/17/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Toronto’s Images Festival celebrates it’s 25th anniversary on April 12-21 at theaters, galleries and other venues all over the city. They are celebrating with a massive event with films and videos, live performances, installations, artist talks and other events.
Below is the lineup for Images’ specific film screening events and some live performances. The fest’s Opening Night film is John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, which takes a poetic look at the immigrant experience, particularly through using images of Caribbean and African migrants in the 1950s and ’60s.
The fest will close with a live score by alt-rock band Yo La Tengo accompanying the avant-garde scientific underwater films by French documentary filmmaker Jean Painlevé. Yo La Tengo has been performing “Sounds of Science” since they were commissioned for the project by the San Francisco Film Festival in 2001.
In between these two events is a lineup of feature-length experimental works,...
Below is the lineup for Images’ specific film screening events and some live performances. The fest’s Opening Night film is John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, which takes a poetic look at the immigrant experience, particularly through using images of Caribbean and African migrants in the 1950s and ’60s.
The fest will close with a live score by alt-rock band Yo La Tengo accompanying the avant-garde scientific underwater films by French documentary filmmaker Jean Painlevé. Yo La Tengo has been performing “Sounds of Science” since they were commissioned for the project by the San Francisco Film Festival in 2001.
In between these two events is a lineup of feature-length experimental works,...
- 4/9/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Today, Creative Capital announced its 2012 grant recipients. The grantees will receive up to $50,000 in direct funding and advisory services valued at more than $40,000. New projects from Cam Archer ("Shit Year"), Jake Yuzna ("Open"), Nina Menkes ("Dissolution") Matt Porterfield ("Putty Hill"), Yance Ford (Pov), Mark Elijah Rosenberg (Rooftop Films), and archivist Rick Prelinger are all amongst this year's grantees. The complete list of film and video grant recipients are: Cam Archer, Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo, Amy Belk and Matt Porterfield, Brad Butler, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, Eric Dyer, Daniel Eisenberg, Yance Ford, Brian L. Frye and Penny Lane, Sonali Gulati, Kenneth Jacobs, Nina Menkes, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Brian Pera, Rick Prelinger, Michael Robinson, Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Norbert Shieh, Stacey Steers, Deborah Stratman, Jesse Sugarmann, Christopher...
- 1/12/2012
- Indiewire
$10,000 In Financing Goes To Five
New Moviemakers For Their Short Films
New York, October 6th, 2011 . For a fourth consecutive year, Focus Features. Africa First program for short films, the worldwide film company.s initiative earmarked exclusively for emerging filmmakers of African nationality and residence, has awarded five filmmakers $10,000 apiece, Focus CEO James Schamus announced today.
The uniquely conceived initiative offers eligible and participating filmmakers the chance to be awarded the $10,000 in financing for pre-production, production, and/or post-production on their narrative short film made in continental Africa and tapping into the resources of the film industry there. Of equal importance, the program brings the filmmakers together with each other and with a renowned group of advisors, major figures in the African film world, for support and mentorship. The short films coming out of the program have been showcased at the Sundance, Toronto, and Berlin Film Festivals; the Film Society of...
New Moviemakers For Their Short Films
New York, October 6th, 2011 . For a fourth consecutive year, Focus Features. Africa First program for short films, the worldwide film company.s initiative earmarked exclusively for emerging filmmakers of African nationality and residence, has awarded five filmmakers $10,000 apiece, Focus CEO James Schamus announced today.
The uniquely conceived initiative offers eligible and participating filmmakers the chance to be awarded the $10,000 in financing for pre-production, production, and/or post-production on their narrative short film made in continental Africa and tapping into the resources of the film industry there. Of equal importance, the program brings the filmmakers together with each other and with a renowned group of advisors, major figures in the African film world, for support and mentorship. The short films coming out of the program have been showcased at the Sundance, Toronto, and Berlin Film Festivals; the Film Society of...
- 10/6/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Focus Features' Africa First short film program announces fourth set of winners. Each filmmaker--of African nationality and residence--will receive $10,000 and will be networked with and mentored by leaders of the African film community. Here are more details on the program. Program director Kisha Cameron-Dingle says: "I’m continually impressed by the range of great young artists we meet through Africa First – each filmmaker has a distinctive vision and voice, and I look forward to learning from them at our summit.” Winners and brief descriptions are below. The winners are: Ms. Oshosheni Hiveluah (from Namibia; 100 Bucks); Mr. Cedric Ido (Burkina Faso; Twaaga [Invincible]); Mr. Mark Middlewick (South Africa; Late Night Security); Ms. Akosua Adoma Owusu (Ghana; Kwaku Anase); and Mr. Zelalem Woldemariam (Ethiopia; Adamet [Listen]). 100 Bucks: an ...
- 10/6/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
First, literally… if you haven’t seen it yet, the below news report has been circulating the web today… a Nigerian couple and their newborn white baby (though not albino). Watch it, and then continue on underneath for the metaphorical:
And second, metaphorically… I received an email about a short documentary titled Me Broni Ba, which translates as My White Baby - a film from Ghanaian-American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu. “Me Broni Ba” is a phrase of endearment used in parts of Ghana, as in when a mother refers to her beloved child, or even a husband referring to his cherished wife; in either situation, the adorer will refer to the adored as “Me Broni Ba,” or, “My White Baby;” essentially, it speaks to that age-old idea that, for blacks, “whiteness” is the ideal.
More specifically, its synopsis reads: “The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through...
And second, metaphorically… I received an email about a short documentary titled Me Broni Ba, which translates as My White Baby - a film from Ghanaian-American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu. “Me Broni Ba” is a phrase of endearment used in parts of Ghana, as in when a mother refers to her beloved child, or even a husband referring to his cherished wife; in either situation, the adorer will refer to the adored as “Me Broni Ba,” or, “My White Baby;” essentially, it speaks to that age-old idea that, for blacks, “whiteness” is the ideal.
More specifically, its synopsis reads: “The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through...
- 7/21/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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