I.E. Entertainment, the global distribution outfit founded and run by industry veterans Indra and Erlina Suharjono, has come on board to handle worldwide sales for Cathay Film Company’s “Coolie.”
The TV miniseries is inspired by the little-known history of enslaved Chinese ‘coolies’ in Cuba in the 1860s. It begins shooting this week in the Dominican Republic and will also include locations in Panama.
I.E. Entertainment will introduce “Coolie” to buyers for the first time at the Asia Television Forum & Market (Atf), which runs this week in Singapore.
The eight-episode English and Chinese language drama series is a global production from Meileen Choo’s Singapore-based Cathay Film Company and features a multinational ensemble cast from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cuba and Colombia.
Arvin Chen is directing. In-Ah Lee (“Land of Plenty,” “Don’t Come Knockin’” “The Way I Spent the End of the World”) is the series’ executive producer. Ed Buhr...
The TV miniseries is inspired by the little-known history of enslaved Chinese ‘coolies’ in Cuba in the 1860s. It begins shooting this week in the Dominican Republic and will also include locations in Panama.
I.E. Entertainment will introduce “Coolie” to buyers for the first time at the Asia Television Forum & Market (Atf), which runs this week in Singapore.
The eight-episode English and Chinese language drama series is a global production from Meileen Choo’s Singapore-based Cathay Film Company and features a multinational ensemble cast from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cuba and Colombia.
Arvin Chen is directing. In-Ah Lee (“Land of Plenty,” “Don’t Come Knockin’” “The Way I Spent the End of the World”) is the series’ executive producer. Ed Buhr...
- 12/4/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
You probably know that we’re big fans of foreign films here, and not just foreign films, but any indie gems, foreign or otherwise.
We’re also fans of streaming movies, which sets us apart from some of the “giant screen” purists out there, largely because we’re busy and mobile, and tablets can give you a hell of a picture these days.
That said, the streaming options today are legion, but the options to stream some titles are pretty limited. Popcornflix now has an amazing collection of films that have won prizes at Cannes, Sundance, and many other festivals. These are some of the most talked about foreign films in years, and you don’t want to miss out on them.
Popcornflix Top 10: Award-winning Foreign Films To Stream Immediately
There may be many different kinds of people living in this world, but we all share one grand passion for incredible stories.
We’re also fans of streaming movies, which sets us apart from some of the “giant screen” purists out there, largely because we’re busy and mobile, and tablets can give you a hell of a picture these days.
That said, the streaming options today are legion, but the options to stream some titles are pretty limited. Popcornflix now has an amazing collection of films that have won prizes at Cannes, Sundance, and many other festivals. These are some of the most talked about foreign films in years, and you don’t want to miss out on them.
Popcornflix Top 10: Award-winning Foreign Films To Stream Immediately
There may be many different kinds of people living in this world, but we all share one grand passion for incredible stories.
- 5/7/2015
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Selection includes award-winning foreign films from Cannes, Sundance and Berlin.
Popcornflix has acquired a slate of Film Movement releases.
The selection includes award-winning foreign films from thirty countries, including award-winners from the likes of Cannes, Sundance and Berlin. It includes A Screaming Man, Manito, The Way I Spent the End of the World, Only When I Dance and Men at Work.
David Fannon, executive vice president at Popcornflix, commented: “We are very excited to offer these quality films to our audience. The streaming revolution isn’t just about providing greater access to mega box office hits and standard Hollywood fare. Viewers are also looking for new ways to view outstanding international cinema – wherever and whenever they want to watch.”
Popcornflix is one of the most widely available free streaming film and TV programming services in the world.
Popcornflix has acquired a slate of Film Movement releases.
The selection includes award-winning foreign films from thirty countries, including award-winners from the likes of Cannes, Sundance and Berlin. It includes A Screaming Man, Manito, The Way I Spent the End of the World, Only When I Dance and Men at Work.
David Fannon, executive vice president at Popcornflix, commented: “We are very excited to offer these quality films to our audience. The streaming revolution isn’t just about providing greater access to mega box office hits and standard Hollywood fare. Viewers are also looking for new ways to view outstanding international cinema – wherever and whenever they want to watch.”
Popcornflix is one of the most widely available free streaming film and TV programming services in the world.
- 3/10/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Rumeno
Director: Catalin Mitulescu // Writer: Catalin Mitulescu
2015 is shaping up to be a big year for several of Romania’s most noted auteurs, and among them is the more obscure Catalin Mitulescu, whose first two features The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006) and Loverboy (2011) both premiered at Cannes, though the latter film never received Us distribution. His latest, Rumeno, stars Alexandru Potocean of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days and reunites him with Loverboy actress Ada Condeescu (who also starred in the Mitulescu produced If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle and Love Island). Deserving of equal acclaim as his peers, we’re hoping his third feature secures a wider audience. The film revolves around Radu, a young man who returns to his Romanian family after working for one year in Italy. He is warmly welcomed by his wife Monica and his small son, Luca, but both seem very different.
Director: Catalin Mitulescu // Writer: Catalin Mitulescu
2015 is shaping up to be a big year for several of Romania’s most noted auteurs, and among them is the more obscure Catalin Mitulescu, whose first two features The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006) and Loverboy (2011) both premiered at Cannes, though the latter film never received Us distribution. His latest, Rumeno, stars Alexandru Potocean of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days and reunites him with Loverboy actress Ada Condeescu (who also starred in the Mitulescu produced If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle and Love Island). Deserving of equal acclaim as his peers, we’re hoping his third feature secures a wider audience. The film revolves around Radu, a young man who returns to his Romanian family after working for one year in Italy. He is warmly welcomed by his wife Monica and his small son, Luca, but both seem very different.
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A subset of Romanian cinema remains deeply informed by Nicolae Ceaușescu's tenure as General Secretary of the nation's Communist Party, a 24-year reign that ended with his execution in 1989. The title of Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest refers to the exact moment at which the dictator attempted to flee the eponymous city, Radu Gabrea’s docudrama Three Days Till Christmas reenacts his last days alive, and Cătălin Mitulescu's The Way I Spent the End of the World tells of two siblings whose respective plans involve escaping the country and assassinating Ceaușescu. The most explicit example is Andrei Ujica's The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, a three-hour-long documentary composed entirely of archival footage that gives as clear a sense of the authoritarian ruler's public persona (and, given the many mass demonstrations he's shown attending, how the populace was meant to act in his presence) as any layman such as...
- 3/9/2013
- by Michael Nordine
- MUBI
Astute Austinites should avoid most of the major new releases this week (four words: Zac Efron, Steve Harvey) and stick with the arthouse fare and special screenings.
Among the antidotes to the horrors at your local multiplex is the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema "Seefest Austin: Films of Southeast Europe" series, which continues on Tuesday with a screening of The Way I Spent the End of the World. Set in 1989 Romania before the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu's Communist dictatorship, this 2006 film follows 7-year-old Lalalilu and his 17-year-old sister Eva, who is charged with a political crime and unjustly sent to a reform school. Vowing revenge, young Lalalilu decides to kill the country's "beloved leader."
The Violet Crown is screening the Dallas-made Wuss on Tuesday, presented by The Show! as part of the Austin Auteurs series. Wuss (pictured above) is the story of a high-school teacher whose students repeatedly beat him...
Among the antidotes to the horrors at your local multiplex is the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema "Seefest Austin: Films of Southeast Europe" series, which continues on Tuesday with a screening of The Way I Spent the End of the World. Set in 1989 Romania before the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu's Communist dictatorship, this 2006 film follows 7-year-old Lalalilu and his 17-year-old sister Eva, who is charged with a political crime and unjustly sent to a reform school. Vowing revenge, young Lalalilu decides to kill the country's "beloved leader."
The Violet Crown is screening the Dallas-made Wuss on Tuesday, presented by The Show! as part of the Austin Auteurs series. Wuss (pictured above) is the story of a high-school teacher whose students repeatedly beat him...
- 4/20/2012
- by Don Clinchy
- Slackerwood
High time to round up the films at this year's Cannes Film Festival that never saw entries of their own and send them on their way. Today: Un Certain Regard.
"Bakur Bakuradze's The Hunter seems like a ficticious version of Raymond Depardon's Modern Life, a trilogy on farming that was screened in Cannes in 2008," finds Moritz Pfeifer, who also interviews the director for the East European Film Bulletin. "With no soundtrack, no professional actors, little dialogue and a minimalist plot, the film depicts the daily life of Ivan (Mikhail Barskovich) as he peacefully runs his pig farm in one of the less populous areas of northwestern Russia…. Clearly, Bakuradze wants to depict an alternative world, and the spirit of his film is more utopian than its hyper-realistic images suggest."
Grumbles the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt: "There is maybe 10 to 15 minutes of actual story located within this 124 minute slog,...
"Bakur Bakuradze's The Hunter seems like a ficticious version of Raymond Depardon's Modern Life, a trilogy on farming that was screened in Cannes in 2008," finds Moritz Pfeifer, who also interviews the director for the East European Film Bulletin. "With no soundtrack, no professional actors, little dialogue and a minimalist plot, the film depicts the daily life of Ivan (Mikhail Barskovich) as he peacefully runs his pig farm in one of the less populous areas of northwestern Russia…. Clearly, Bakuradze wants to depict an alternative world, and the spirit of his film is more utopian than its hyper-realistic images suggest."
Grumbles the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt: "There is maybe 10 to 15 minutes of actual story located within this 124 minute slog,...
- 5/31/2011
- MUBI
Bogdan Mustata is in preparation mode for Wolf and a major push forward might come from the Croisette this may - he was selected to attend L'Atelier program of Cinefondation - now in it's 6th edition from the folks at Cannes. Each year, L'Atelier selects about 15 feature length projects from around the world and invites their directors to the Festival de Cannes in order to put them in contact with film professionals. Mustață’s Lupu (Wolf) tells the story of a 16-year-old guy whose father died when he was a child. The film deals with the overwhelming responsibilities that the young-man Lupu has to bear: protecting his little brother, Darius and his mother which has a new lover. He’s also in love with a girl named Clara. Lupu is not a teenager who talks much. He’s an uncommunicatively person who tries ceaselessly to hide his emotions. One day,...
- 3/14/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- The award-winning Romanian drama The Way I Spent The End of the World from exec producers Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders has been acquired for North American distribution by Film Movement.
Director Catalin Mitulescu's film won the 2005 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award and Un Certain Regard best actress award for star Doroteea Petre at the 2006 Festival de Cannes.
Petre plays Eva, a teenager who accidentally breaks a statue of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu with her 7-year-old brother during the last year of the leader's rule. After being prosecuted for the incident, she escapes the country, and her brother hatches a plan to assassinate the leader with his school friends.
Film Movement will distribute World exclusively to its DVD club members in July, followed by a first-quarter 2008 limited theatrical platform release and a home video release to retail and online outlets several months later.
The deal was negotiated by Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein with Valentina Merli from Pyramide International.
Director Catalin Mitulescu's film won the 2005 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award and Un Certain Regard best actress award for star Doroteea Petre at the 2006 Festival de Cannes.
Petre plays Eva, a teenager who accidentally breaks a statue of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu with her 7-year-old brother during the last year of the leader's rule. After being prosecuted for the incident, she escapes the country, and her brother hatches a plan to assassinate the leader with his school friends.
Film Movement will distribute World exclusively to its DVD club members in July, followed by a first-quarter 2008 limited theatrical platform release and a home video release to retail and online outlets several months later.
The deal was negotiated by Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein with Valentina Merli from Pyramide International.
- 6/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Strada Film/Les Films Pelleas
PALM SPRINGS -- Romania's Academy Award submission, "The Way I Spent the End of the World," is a child's-eye-view memory piece about the last months of Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. Full of warmth but ultimately suffering from a surfeit of incident, the debut feature by Catalin Mitulescu is one of three films on this year's Palm Springs festival schedule by young Romanian directors addressing the 1989 uprising.
At the center of the tale is Eva (Doroteea Petre), a beautiful and spirited 17-year-old whose boyfriend, Alex (Ionut Becheru), is the son of a cop. Sneaking out of class for a bit of canoodling, they end up on the wrong side of the Communist Youth Union after his boyish show of bravado leaves a bust of Ceausescu in shards. Alex, predictably, is remorseful and cooperative with authorities, but Eva's recalcitrance gets her transferred to a less prestigious -- and less dogmatic -- school. In the most telling story strand, Eva's parents urge her to reconcile with Alex, whose Party-member father can be of more than a little help. But at the surprisingly nurturing reformatory, the defiant girl befriends oddball Andrei Cristian Vararu), whose unseen father is a dissident, and together they hatch a plan to swim across the Danube to freedom.
Eva's adoring 7-year-old brother, Lalalilu (Timotei Duma), has his own dreams of travel by water, but they involve a submarine and paying passengers. A couple of sequences of the boy's escape fantasies play nicely against the earthy small-town milieu. Mitulescu, whose boosters include Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders, has a strong feel for the community's traditions and the often messy relationships within families and among neighbors. He draws affecting performances from his cast, especially the two young leads. But he also betrays a first-film tendency to clutter the narrative with episodes. The screenplay, which he wrote with Andreea Valean, drifts in and out of focus, muting the impact of this otherwise engaging film.
PALM SPRINGS -- Romania's Academy Award submission, "The Way I Spent the End of the World," is a child's-eye-view memory piece about the last months of Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. Full of warmth but ultimately suffering from a surfeit of incident, the debut feature by Catalin Mitulescu is one of three films on this year's Palm Springs festival schedule by young Romanian directors addressing the 1989 uprising.
At the center of the tale is Eva (Doroteea Petre), a beautiful and spirited 17-year-old whose boyfriend, Alex (Ionut Becheru), is the son of a cop. Sneaking out of class for a bit of canoodling, they end up on the wrong side of the Communist Youth Union after his boyish show of bravado leaves a bust of Ceausescu in shards. Alex, predictably, is remorseful and cooperative with authorities, but Eva's recalcitrance gets her transferred to a less prestigious -- and less dogmatic -- school. In the most telling story strand, Eva's parents urge her to reconcile with Alex, whose Party-member father can be of more than a little help. But at the surprisingly nurturing reformatory, the defiant girl befriends oddball Andrei Cristian Vararu), whose unseen father is a dissident, and together they hatch a plan to swim across the Danube to freedom.
Eva's adoring 7-year-old brother, Lalalilu (Timotei Duma), has his own dreams of travel by water, but they involve a submarine and paying passengers. A couple of sequences of the boy's escape fantasies play nicely against the earthy small-town milieu. Mitulescu, whose boosters include Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders, has a strong feel for the community's traditions and the often messy relationships within families and among neighbors. He draws affecting performances from his cast, especially the two young leads. But he also betrays a first-film tendency to clutter the narrative with episodes. The screenplay, which he wrote with Andreea Valean, drifts in and out of focus, muting the impact of this otherwise engaging film.
- 1/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Chinese director Wang Chao scooped the Prix Un Certain Regard here Sunday, the top prize in the Festival de Cannes' sidebar, for his film Luxury Car. The film follows the journey of an aging country teacher who goes to the city to find his missing son, and finds his daughter is working there as a prostitute. The Certain Regard special jury prize went to Rolf de Heer's ancient Aborigine tale Ten Canoes. Best actor honors in the sidebar were shared by Dorothea Petre for her performance in How I Celebrated the End of the World from Romanian helmer Catalin Mitulescu and Don Angel Tavira for his role in The Violin by Mexico's Francisco Vargas.
- 5/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Well the Palmes are given out and it seems political correctness has won again. Everybody got something with the big prizes going to small films The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and Flanders that would have otherwise died at the box office. Volver got two Palmes for directing and acting but should have gotten the Golden one. Also "Babel" got the directing one which I knew it would get but it will collect many awards later this year along with "Volver".As Ken Loach said we live in political times and it didn't escape the jury, specially with China banning the controversial "Summer Place". Next year will be the 60th year of the festival and you can be sure, it will be a nice anniversary. A bientot.The AwardsPalme d'Or: "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" by Ken LoachGrand Prix (runner-up): "Flanders" by Bruno DumontPrix de la Mise
- 5/28/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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