Exclusive: Matt Brodlie and Jonathan Kier’s Upgrade Productions has boarded world sales rights to Shoah feature Shttl, which played at the London and Rome Film Festivals (where it won the audience award) this fall.
The film was previously with Bron Releasing but is no longer on the slate after Bron needed to streamline its film business.
Black and white drama Shttl follows the inhabitants of a Yiddish Ukrainian village on the eve of the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barberossa.
Shot in Ukraine last year (with an almost entirely Ukrainian crew), the production fully reconstructed a traditional shtetl (or village) outside of Kiev to recreate life prior to the Nazi onslaught (as few traces of that life now remain), but it was subsequently destroyed by the Russian invasion earlier this year. Following the filming in 2021, the set (which included a synagogue which had been blessed and consecrated) had been...
The film was previously with Bron Releasing but is no longer on the slate after Bron needed to streamline its film business.
Black and white drama Shttl follows the inhabitants of a Yiddish Ukrainian village on the eve of the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barberossa.
Shot in Ukraine last year (with an almost entirely Ukrainian crew), the production fully reconstructed a traditional shtetl (or village) outside of Kiev to recreate life prior to the Nazi onslaught (as few traces of that life now remain), but it was subsequently destroyed by the Russian invasion earlier this year. Following the filming in 2021, the set (which included a synagogue which had been blessed and consecrated) had been...
- 12/16/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Growing up Jewish is a complicated thing, rife with joy, culture, fear, and confusion. There are so many beautiful family and cultural traditions that come with religion, but it's clear from an early age that you're different from everyone else, particularly at Christmastime. It's hard not feeling like the other when you're surrounded by kids looking forward to what Santa will put under the tree, when you know full well he's not coming to your house.
Another thing you learn growing up as a Jew is that since the beginning, people have tried to wipe us out. That's a very strange thing to grow up with -- knowing you're born into something that people have attempted to destroy time and time again. It's essential to learn about World War II, and specifically the Holocaust, a systematic, state-sponsored genocide of the Jewish people. Other minority groups were targeted too, but some...
Another thing you learn growing up as a Jew is that since the beginning, people have tried to wipe us out. That's a very strange thing to grow up with -- knowing you're born into something that people have attempted to destroy time and time again. It's essential to learn about World War II, and specifically the Holocaust, a systematic, state-sponsored genocide of the Jewish people. Other minority groups were targeted too, but some...
- 10/18/2022
- by Barry Levitt
- Slash Film
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The 66th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of world premieres at this year’s edition, including Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix stop-motion animation film Pinocchio.
The fest will also mark the debut of Creature, a collaboration between choreographer Akram Khan and Oscar winner Asif Kapadia, as well as family animation My Father’s Dragon from Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner) and Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon (Wolfwalkers, The Song of the Sea).
The London festival’s series and episodic selection, now in its second year, has “a thrilling range of stories for audiences to see on the big screen,” organizers said. They unveiled a “series special presentation” as the world premiere of The English, starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer, a tale of romance and revenge from television auteur Hugo Blick (An Honourable Woman, Black Earth Rising). Also premiering in the section are comedy-drama Mammals,...
The 66th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of world premieres at this year’s edition, including Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix stop-motion animation film Pinocchio.
The fest will also mark the debut of Creature, a collaboration between choreographer Akram Khan and Oscar winner Asif Kapadia, as well as family animation My Father’s Dragon from Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner) and Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon (Wolfwalkers, The Song of the Sea).
The London festival’s series and episodic selection, now in its second year, has “a thrilling range of stories for audiences to see on the big screen,” organizers said. They unveiled a “series special presentation” as the world premiere of The English, starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer, a tale of romance and revenge from television auteur Hugo Blick (An Honourable Woman, Black Earth Rising). Also premiering in the section are comedy-drama Mammals,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Shttl, an ambitious under-the-radar drama which is the feature helming debut of writer/director Ady Walter, has wrapped in Ukraine. The film is eyeing the 2022 festival circuit and tells the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany (aka the Barbarossa operation) which would take their lives.
A passion project for all involved, the film was made with an international cast of actors, including Saul Rubinek speaking Yiddish in a village built for the film which will now be transformed into an open-air museum. Eli Rosen, consultant on Netflix series Unorthodox, was on set throughout.
The project was developed and initiated by Forecast Pictures’ Jean-Charles Lévy (The Last Mercenary), who has been working for 15 years with Walter on documentaries and scripts for other directors.
Walter tells...
A passion project for all involved, the film was made with an international cast of actors, including Saul Rubinek speaking Yiddish in a village built for the film which will now be transformed into an open-air museum. Eli Rosen, consultant on Netflix series Unorthodox, was on set throughout.
The project was developed and initiated by Forecast Pictures’ Jean-Charles Lévy (The Last Mercenary), who has been working for 15 years with Walter on documentaries and scripts for other directors.
Walter tells...
- 9/1/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The Vigil Trailer — Keith Thomas‘ The Vigil (2019) movie trailer has been released by IFC Midnight. The Vigil Trailer stars Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Lynn Cohen, Malky Goldman, Fred Melamed, Nati Rabinowitz, Moshe Lobel, Lea Kalisch, Ethan Stone, Spencer Zender, Dun Laskey, and Rob Tunstall. Crew Keith Thomas wrote the screenplay for The Vigil. [...]
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- 2/12/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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