Exclusive: Partners behind Breathe Umphefumlo reteaming on new slate of films.
The partners behind Berlinale Special world premiere Breathe Umphefumlo – Cape Town, South Africa-based Isango Ensemble, Advantage Entertainment, and the UK’s Film & Music Entertainment (F&Me) – are reteaming on a slate of new films starting with an adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to shoot in Cape Town in August.
Isango will transport Gay’s 1728 satire/morality play to the jazzy underworld of 1950s Cape Town. Mark Dornford-May, who won the Golden Bear with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, is again directing.
Dornford-May said, “The Beggar’s Opera is a savagely funny satire on money, morals and marriage — as relevant and biting today as it was when first written. Setting the film in post war colonial Cape Town will give it a visual style and a music flair that will inform the original – and take it further.”
“We have a number of other film ideas in development...
The partners behind Berlinale Special world premiere Breathe Umphefumlo – Cape Town, South Africa-based Isango Ensemble, Advantage Entertainment, and the UK’s Film & Music Entertainment (F&Me) – are reteaming on a slate of new films starting with an adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to shoot in Cape Town in August.
Isango will transport Gay’s 1728 satire/morality play to the jazzy underworld of 1950s Cape Town. Mark Dornford-May, who won the Golden Bear with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, is again directing.
Dornford-May said, “The Beggar’s Opera is a savagely funny satire on money, morals and marriage — as relevant and biting today as it was when first written. Setting the film in post war colonial Cape Town will give it a visual style and a music flair that will inform the original – and take it further.”
“We have a number of other film ideas in development...
- 2/7/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Simon Curtis’ Woman in Gold is to receive its world premiere at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb. 5-15). The film, starring Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren, will play in the festival’s special galas line-up.
Also announced today are Anton Corbijn’s Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan; Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain; Ava DuVernay’s Selma; and the European premiere of Bill Pohland’s Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack.
Woman in Gold tells the true story of an octogenarian Jewish refugee, who takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. The film is is produced by Origin Pictures, BBC Films and The Weinstein Company.
Corbijn’s Life, also receiving its world premiere, is inspired by the true story of a friendship that developed between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson) and actor James Dean (DeHaan) when Stock was commissioned to photograph...
Also announced today are Anton Corbijn’s Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan; Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain; Ava DuVernay’s Selma; and the European premiere of Bill Pohland’s Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack.
Woman in Gold tells the true story of an octogenarian Jewish refugee, who takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. The film is is produced by Origin Pictures, BBC Films and The Weinstein Company.
Corbijn’s Life, also receiving its world premiere, is inspired by the true story of a friendship that developed between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson) and actor James Dean (DeHaan) when Stock was commissioned to photograph...
- 1/15/2015
- by Ali Jaafar
- Deadline
The Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren, and Anton Corbijn’s Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan, to world premiere at Berlinale.
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) is to host the world premieres of Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren; Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan; and Dagur Kári’s Virgin Mountain.
The films form part of the Berlinale Special Galas line-up, which will also include the international premiere of awards contender Selma and the European premiere of Bill Pohland’s Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack
Based on a true story, Woman In Gold is directed by Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) and stars Mirren as Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, who takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
The UK-us co-production, which also stars Ryan Reynolds (Captives) and Daniel Brühl (Rush), is produced by Origin Pictures, BBC Films and The...
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) is to host the world premieres of Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren; Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan; and Dagur Kári’s Virgin Mountain.
The films form part of the Berlinale Special Galas line-up, which will also include the international premiere of awards contender Selma and the European premiere of Bill Pohland’s Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack
Based on a true story, Woman In Gold is directed by Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) and stars Mirren as Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, who takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
The UK-us co-production, which also stars Ryan Reynolds (Captives) and Daniel Brühl (Rush), is produced by Origin Pictures, BBC Films and The...
- 1/15/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
South African adaptation of Puccini’s opera directed by Berlinale Golden Bear winner Mark Dornford May.
Shooting has wrapped in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
The film is a partnership between South Africa’s Isango Advantage, the UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) and Germany’s Arte/Propeller Film. Support comes from Desmond and Leah Tutu’s Legacy Foundation
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
Dornford May adapted this new approach to La Boheme with Pauline Malefane, who also handled the musical direction with Mandisi Dyantis. The score will be played by an orchestra of marimbas and steel...
Shooting has wrapped in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
The film is a partnership between South Africa’s Isango Advantage, the UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) and Germany’s Arte/Propeller Film. Support comes from Desmond and Leah Tutu’s Legacy Foundation
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
Dornford May adapted this new approach to La Boheme with Pauline Malefane, who also handled the musical direction with Mandisi Dyantis. The score will be played by an orchestra of marimbas and steel...
- 10/9/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: South African adaptation of La Boheme to be directed by Berlinale Golden Bear winner Mark Dornford May and supported by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Shooting has begun this week in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
The director said: “La Boheme is a glittering piece of musical history but it also contains a searing emotional cry for understanding and action about the brutal realities of the everyday life of the poor and their struggle for shelter, food and medicine. This is what we want to bring to the screen in Breathe – Umphefumlo.”
Dornford May has...
Shooting has begun this week in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
The director said: “La Boheme is a glittering piece of musical history but it also contains a searing emotional cry for understanding and action about the brutal realities of the everyday life of the poor and their struggle for shelter, food and medicine. This is what we want to bring to the screen in Breathe – Umphefumlo.”
Dornford May has...
- 8/20/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Millennium Entertainment has picked up 3D family animation feature, Khumba, which they will release in North America in summer 2013. The project comes from the South African production company behind the animation feature Adventures in Zambezia, which we also covered on this blog. Spier Films (who have also funded other South African films we've highlighted, like U-Carmen eKhayelitsha and Master Harold and the Boys) is backing Triggerfish Animation Studios' Khumba, which tells the story of a half-striped zebra who leaves his home in search of the magic waterhole where, legend has it, the first zebras got their stripes. Teaming up with an overprotective, sassy wildebeest...
- 6/10/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The South African production company behind the animation feature Adventures in Zambezia, which we highlighted on this blog, is set to debut its follow-up to that international hit, with a new project titled Khumba. Spier Films (who have also funded other South African films we've highlighted, like U-Carmen eKhayelitsha and Master Harold and the Boys) is backing Triggerfish Animation Studios' Khumba, which tells the story of a half-striped zebra who leaves his home in search of the magic waterhole where, legend has it, the first zebras got their stripes. Teaming up with an overprotective, sassy wildebeest and a self-obsessed ostrich, the plucky young zebra meets an array of wacky...
- 4/24/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The South African production company behind the animation feature Adventures in Zambezia, which we highlighted on this blog, says that they've secured financing for their latest project, titled Khumba. Spier Films (who have also funded other South African films we've highlighted, like U-Carmen eKhayelitsha and Master Harold and the Boys) will back Triggerfish Animation Studios' Khumba, which tells the story of a half-striped zebra who leaves his home in search of the magic waterhole where, legend has it, the first zebras got their stripes. Teaming up with an overprotective, sassy wildebeest and a self-obsessed ostrich, the plucky young zebra meets an array of wacky...
- 2/11/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
BERLIN -- The 55th Berlin International Film Festival ended -- literally -- on a high note. The closing evening saw opera singer Pauline Malefane, the star of the Berlin's Golden Bear winner U-Carmen eKayelitsha, hold up the golden statuette and belt out an impromptu aria in her native Xhosa language. That Berlin's jury, headed by director Roland Emmerich, picked Mark Dornford-May's ambitious opera adaptation for the Festival's top honor came as a complete surprise to critics and handicappers at this year's event. In fact, Hany Abu-Assad's controversial Paradise Now, which tracks the final 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian suicide bombers, was so heavily tipped to win that one major German wire service erroneously announced early Saturday that Paradise Now had taken the top prize. But in retrospect, it is easy to see the appeal of U-Carmen eKayelitsha. Set in South Africa's poor Kayelitsha township, the film combines fast-paced editing and camera tricks with a story and score based on Georges Bizet's classic Carmen, adapted and sung entirely in Xhosa.
- 2/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, Mark Dornford-May's adaptation of Georges Bizet's Carmen opera set in a modern-day South African township, was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin Jury president Roland Emmerich announced Saturday. The ambitious musical, which is performed entirely in the local Xhosa language, flew under the radar of both film critics and industry execs at this year's Berlin Festival. But it won over the jury. Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl -- The Last Days was another big winner at Berlin, taking two Silver Bears for best directing and best actress for German up-and-comer Julia Jentsch as the Munich resistance fighter Sophie Scholl, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943.
- 2/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, Mark Dornford-May's adaptation of Georges Bizet's Carmen opera set in a modern-day South African township, was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin Jury president Roland Emmerich announced Saturday. The ambitious musical, which is performed entirely in the local Xhosa language, flew under the radar of both film critics and industry execs at this year's Berlin Festival. But it won over the jury. Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl -- The Last Days was another big winner at Berlin, taking two Silver Bears for best directing and best actress for German up-and-comer Julia Jentsch as the Munich resistance fighter Sophie Scholl, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943.
- 2/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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