It, mother!, Kingsman: The Golden Circle and more movies to see this SeptemberIt, mother!, Kingsman: The Golden Circle and more movies to see this SeptemberAdriana Floridia8/30/2017 11:01:00 Am
September is a month of new beginnings.
Summer fades into fall, school begins again, and the movie world is buzzing with the Toronto International Film Festival, which we're lucky to host here in Canada. However, even if you can't make it to Tiff, quite a few titles from the festival open in theatres across the country in September, so you can still be a part of the conversation.
Not only that, but there's plenty of highly-anticipated blockbusters opening this month, including the re-make of Stephen King's It, the sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service, and another Lego inspired animated adventure.
Check out our list of the movies you need to see this September!
It
Release Date: September 8th
See it with:...
September is a month of new beginnings.
Summer fades into fall, school begins again, and the movie world is buzzing with the Toronto International Film Festival, which we're lucky to host here in Canada. However, even if you can't make it to Tiff, quite a few titles from the festival open in theatres across the country in September, so you can still be a part of the conversation.
Not only that, but there's plenty of highly-anticipated blockbusters opening this month, including the re-make of Stephen King's It, the sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service, and another Lego inspired animated adventure.
Check out our list of the movies you need to see this September!
It
Release Date: September 8th
See it with:...
- 8/30/2017
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
Last year, Netflix premiered a bevy of new original programming, including shows like “Stranger Things,” “Love,” “The Crown,” “The Oa” and more. As of 2017, the streaming service has a vast backlog of programming, so much that someone could likely binge on it all for months and months. But in case you wanna take a break from simply watching shows to play a video game based on those shows, Netflix has something special just for you: an 8-bit side-scroller video game called “Netflix Infinity Runner” where you can play as characters from Netflix’s original series.
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In the game, you can play as Mike Wheeler from “Stranger Things” (played by Finn Wolfhard in the series), Piper Chapman from “Orange Is the New Black” (Taylor Schilling), Pablo Escobar from “Narcos” (Wagner Moura) and Marco Polo from...
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In the game, you can play as Mike Wheeler from “Stranger Things” (played by Finn Wolfhard in the series), Piper Chapman from “Orange Is the New Black” (Taylor Schilling), Pablo Escobar from “Narcos” (Wagner Moura) and Marco Polo from...
- 1/11/2017
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
The very slow build to “Arrested Development” Season 5 continues. While backstage at the Creative Arts Emmys last night following “Archer’s” win for Outstanding Animated Program, Bluth matriarch Jessica Walter assured press the show is fully expecting to return at some unspecified time in the future. “It’s looking real good,” Walter said about the upcoming fifth season of the acclaimed comedy series, which was cancelled in 2007 by Fox but revived in 2013 by Netflix. “I don’t have dates, but everybody is on board.”
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Walters’ statement continues the ambiguous road towards a new season of “Arrested Development.” Every cast member seems on board for more Bluth mayhem, though no start date has ever been released in the three years since Season 4. Earlier this summer at the TCAs, creator Mitch Hurwitz told press that production could begin as...
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Walters’ statement continues the ambiguous road towards a new season of “Arrested Development.” Every cast member seems on board for more Bluth mayhem, though no start date has ever been released in the three years since Season 4. Earlier this summer at the TCAs, creator Mitch Hurwitz told press that production could begin as...
- 9/12/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Netflix series “Narcos,” which chronicles the rise and fall of famed Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura), premiered its second season on September 2nd to generally positive reviews. However, not everyone is so thrilled with the series because they supposedly play fast and loose with the facts. One of the series’ harshest critics is none other than Escobar’s son Sebastián Marroquín, who has taken to Facebook to post a list of 28 inaccuracies in the second season.
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“Dear friends, here I share my personal reflection of the second season, so beware of the veracity of its content,” wrote Marroquin. “On behalf of my country and in honor of the real truth of the incidents which took place between the 80’s and 90’s I see [an] obligation to [correct] serious mistakes of a series that claims to be as truthful.
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“Dear friends, here I share my personal reflection of the second season, so beware of the veracity of its content,” wrote Marroquin. “On behalf of my country and in honor of the real truth of the incidents which took place between the 80’s and 90’s I see [an] obligation to [correct] serious mistakes of a series that claims to be as truthful.
- 9/10/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Theodore Bikel. Theodore Bikel dead at 91: Oscar-nominated actor and folk singer best known for stage musicals 'The Sound of Music,' 'Fiddler on the Roof' Folk singer, social and union activist, and stage, film, and television actor Theodore Bikel, best remembered for starring in the Broadway musical The Sound of Music and, throughout the U.S., in Fiddler on the Roof, died Monday morning (July 20, '15) of "natural causes" at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The Austrian-born Bikel – as Theodore Meir Bikel on May 2, 1924, in Vienna, to Yiddish-speaking Eastern European parents – was 91. Fled Hitler Thanks to his well-connected Zionist father, six months after the German annexation of Austria in March 1938 ("they were greeted with jubilation by the local populace," he would recall in 2012), the 14-year-old Bikel and his family fled to Palestine, at the time a British protectorate. While there, the teenager began acting on stage,...
- 7/23/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
This year at the 30th Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG30), the selection of projects in the 11th Coproduction Meeting was especially strong. With a broad mix of festival and “popular” type films, the jury chose the very films I would have chosen myself.
The Market focuses on writers and only chooses those with the strongest scripts. Prizes honor the best proposals and act to connect the producers with those who will become strong future collaborators. Among 295 projects submitted, 28 were selected. The selection is intended to give a new vision to the Latin American film scene.
Five out of the six winners are projects to be directed by women. Two are Cuban. Four others are Mexican, Colombian, Argentinean. And the winners are:
1. Meet Prize: Paid trip and entry to Meets, the Latin American Film Market of the International Film Festival de Panamá includes entry into the competition for Us$95,000 in cash
Winner: “1989," Directors: Sebastián and Rodrigo Barriuso (Canada, Cuba).
A standout project, even a possible future winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Rodrigo and Sebastian Barriuso’s “ 1989" won a paid trip and entry to Meets, the Latin American Film Market of the International Film Festival de Panamá whose competition for Us$95,000 in cash will be at stake.
Based on true events, the story is set three years after the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl, when the first patients to receive medical treatment for cancer arrived in Havana Cuba. Totally unprepared, forced to leave his family to do a job he is untrained to do, he finds storytelling a salvation when a child tells him the story of Chernobyl from his child’s point of view.
This character driven story of a father, forced to become a translator for the sick children and their mothers in hospitals throughout Havana tells how he copes with the separation from his family at the very time that the Russians have withdrawn all aid, the fall of the Berlin Wall and Cuba’s economic collapse, represents the sort of films the brothers Barriuso want to make about under-represented social issues.
The two Cuban-Canadian Barriuso brothers reside in Canada, a great place for coproductions as it has the most coproduction treaties in the world. They look like twins but are three years apart as are the two little boys (one year old and four years old) in their projected film whose father is suddenly torn from his academic post as a professor of Russian literature and told by the Cuban government to work nightshifts in the cancer ward of the victims of the Chernobyl (Ukraine) accident (which will be commemorating the 30th anniversary in 2016).
Rodrigo is art-oriented, curating a show of Cuban artists in Toronto while his brother is business-educated. Their work has premiered and screened at prestigious festivals like Berlinale, Tiff, Miami, Slamdance and Marrakesh. Their work has a strong social and existential appeal and is strongly influence by the art world. This project was developed at Norman Jewison’s Canadian Center and then at the Tiff Studio, programmed by Hayet Benkara. It has already received a quarter of the budget in funds and the brothers are beginning to speak with international sales agents.
2. Churubusco Prize (Mexico’s oldest studio, Churbusco gives Us$100,000 in post-production services.
Winner: “Restos de Viento” (“Wind Traces”), Director: Jimena Montemayor (México). ♀
A family tries to recover after the sudden death of the father. The mother, a victim of depression, is incapable of accepting the loss and tells her children that their father will return. For her seven-year-old son this means a cadaver will return to fulfill the role of his father. The eleven year old daughter experiences a profound rejection of adult life. The two children accompany each other as they try to understand and process what death has brought into their lives.
“Wind Traces” explores the collision of two worlds through death. A child and an adult’s perspective on death shape the portrait of a family that is recovering after a loss.
"Wind Traces" is a coproduction between Mexican production companies Varios Lobos Producciones, with 14% of investment, and Conejo Media with 6%. So far it is a 100% Mexican film, but the filmmakers are looking to find a coproduction partner from other countries, especially from Latin America.
In early 2014, development stage began between the two production houses. In July 2014 the project participated in the International Pitching Market of the Guanajuato International Film Festival where it won the Lci Award, which covers the film insurance of the movie.
The filmmakers are seeking other funds and workshops that allow them to continue developing the project and refine the script. Among those they will apply to are the BaqLab, at the Barranquilla Film Festival and Meets at the Panama Film Festival.
The final funding will be through the Fiscal Stimulus Eficine 189.
Director Jimena Montemayor says that, “with ‘Wind Traces’ I would like to explore the stages of grief as well as the thoughts on a loss that will not go away because it leaves us with an emptiness that in time we learn to inhabit, both physically and emotionally.
I am interested in narrating this process from the child’s perspective. We were all children once, but we tend to forget as we grow older that the world can be an incomprehensible place when we try to communicate with it. Maybe that’s why we are unaware of how children deal with loss.
Their resilience and their ability to overcome adverse situations during childhood [includes] Death as something that they take with them]. The absence of that person lingers like a shadow until you overcome the loss. That is how Daniel, the seven year old, materializes his grief, in the company of a dead man in the house; a man he fears at first but that gradually becomes a companion that finally fulfills his destiny: to part from his father.
Death is also an injection of life, an unparalleled chance to approach it with a much greater understanding and fulfillment. People will empathize and be touched by this story, and not just those who have suffered a loss.
Whoever remembers those formative years knows that there are moments where nostalgia overcomes us; we remember certain scars and despite the fact they can never be erased we will forget them little by little as we head into adulthood, leaving their importance buried in our subconscious.
In ‘Wind Traces’ each character deals with death in the same way they experience life.”
3. New Art Digital Prize (Complete postproduction for a value of Us$ 43,000)
Winner: “Estática Milagrosa” (“Static Miracle”), Directors: Noelia Lacayo ♀ and Gustavo Vinagre Alves (Cuba).
The second Cuban film to win and the second winning film to be directed by a woman deals with the “miracle” in Cuba of houses still standing, propped up by scaffolding and about to collapse while still inhabited with multiple families. Their beauty and their sad shape are analogous to the lives of many people in Cuba as well. “Static Miracle” is the official term for all buildings in danger of collapsing
This film deals with the people whose “static miracle” is that they continue their lives in the midst of imminent disintegration. Eight year old Marion has a collage of Fidel Castro on his bedroom wall but the images deteriorate with the humidity of every rainfall. Seventy-six year old Patria treis to maintina the rules of her aristocratic past, but her mansion is now a hostel for tourists. Eighteen year old Yuri prepares to shoot the video clip that will launch him into stardom but he has not left his room in two years. Twenty-nine year old Nicolas, a foreigner without visa or money, films houses in Havana that move as they resist the passage of time.
4. Equipment & Film Design Prize (Efd) (A package of 7 days of filming with a value of Us$ 23,000).
Winner: “Cuando se silencien los fusiles” (“When the Guns are Silenced”), Director: Nathalia Isabel Orozco Rojas (Colombia). ♀
This documentary will shoot in Havana and Colombia as it concerns the current ongoing negotiations of Farc, the Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia and the government of Colombia which are taking place now in Havana. After half a century of armed struggle, Farc, the oldest guerilla force in the world, is preparing to silence its weapons. This doc follows Farc’s military strategist and commander, Pablo Catatumbo, who has been part of the war for 40 years. His story and the complex relations with other commanders and rebels reveal the difficulties and challenges for the fighters in their final battle: the transition to democracy.
The Colombian filmmaker and independent news correspondent, Nathalia Isabel Orozco Rojas has won the Cpb Journalism Award 2014 for Best TV interview in 2013 and twice has won the Simon Bolivar National Journalism Award (in 2011 and 2010). Natalia has a B.A. in journalism, a Masters in political science and a Masters in international cooperation from the Sorbonne.
5. Lci Seguros Prize (Discounted Insurance of 50% up to Us$ 50 million).
Winner: “Julia Privada” (“Intimate Julia”), Directors: Karina Mirujin y Mariana Fonseca (Argentina). ♀
This Argentine fiction feature takes place in Buenos Aires in 1989. During the grave economic crisis of the time, the young woman Julia cleans and interfaces with the public for a reclusive boss. The comfort of silence between them from the first day makes her feel good although it is rather odd and mysterious. She is permitted full liberty except for entering his bedroom and writing studio. Curiosity about that makes this apartment, where she originally sought shelter and security, a possible cage.
Honorable Mention: (Support by Churubusco Studios of Equipment & Film Design, New Art Digital y Lci insurance).
Winner: “Donde se quedan las cosas” (“Where Things Remain”), Director: Daniela Silva Solórzano (México). ♀
This documentary is about Federico Solorzano, a paleontologist born in Guadalajara, Mexico. After a lifetime of collecting fossils, teaching and researching, opens the only science museum in the state of Jalisco. He shares his fossil collection, the largest in the country along with his memories through the eyes of his dranddaughter who goes through the more than 50 collections he has kept in perfect condition which creates a collective past of a city, a time period and a generation of more than 70 years.
Director Daniela Silva, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco is the granddaughter of the sculptor Federico Silva and niece of the famous cartoonist Jis. Twenty-two years of age, she has already produced “The Cloud Factory” last year and directed “Good Night, Lucy”.
The winners were selected by the following jury members:
Maru Farías (Director of New Projects at Equipment& Film Design with over 15 years working in the film industry). ♀
Javier Beltramino (Production Manager at Telefónica Studios in Argentina).
Bosco Arochi C. (Technical and Production Director at Estudios Churubusco S. A.).
Raymundo Osorio García (General Director at New Art Digital with 27 years work in publicity, television, and film in Mexico)
José Antonio Asencio (Adviser at Lci Seguros, producer, and Director of Photography of 150 documentaries, shorts, as well as 30 features).
The Market focuses on writers and only chooses those with the strongest scripts. Prizes honor the best proposals and act to connect the producers with those who will become strong future collaborators. Among 295 projects submitted, 28 were selected. The selection is intended to give a new vision to the Latin American film scene.
Five out of the six winners are projects to be directed by women. Two are Cuban. Four others are Mexican, Colombian, Argentinean. And the winners are:
1. Meet Prize: Paid trip and entry to Meets, the Latin American Film Market of the International Film Festival de Panamá includes entry into the competition for Us$95,000 in cash
Winner: “1989," Directors: Sebastián and Rodrigo Barriuso (Canada, Cuba).
A standout project, even a possible future winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Rodrigo and Sebastian Barriuso’s “ 1989" won a paid trip and entry to Meets, the Latin American Film Market of the International Film Festival de Panamá whose competition for Us$95,000 in cash will be at stake.
Based on true events, the story is set three years after the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl, when the first patients to receive medical treatment for cancer arrived in Havana Cuba. Totally unprepared, forced to leave his family to do a job he is untrained to do, he finds storytelling a salvation when a child tells him the story of Chernobyl from his child’s point of view.
This character driven story of a father, forced to become a translator for the sick children and their mothers in hospitals throughout Havana tells how he copes with the separation from his family at the very time that the Russians have withdrawn all aid, the fall of the Berlin Wall and Cuba’s economic collapse, represents the sort of films the brothers Barriuso want to make about under-represented social issues.
The two Cuban-Canadian Barriuso brothers reside in Canada, a great place for coproductions as it has the most coproduction treaties in the world. They look like twins but are three years apart as are the two little boys (one year old and four years old) in their projected film whose father is suddenly torn from his academic post as a professor of Russian literature and told by the Cuban government to work nightshifts in the cancer ward of the victims of the Chernobyl (Ukraine) accident (which will be commemorating the 30th anniversary in 2016).
Rodrigo is art-oriented, curating a show of Cuban artists in Toronto while his brother is business-educated. Their work has premiered and screened at prestigious festivals like Berlinale, Tiff, Miami, Slamdance and Marrakesh. Their work has a strong social and existential appeal and is strongly influence by the art world. This project was developed at Norman Jewison’s Canadian Center and then at the Tiff Studio, programmed by Hayet Benkara. It has already received a quarter of the budget in funds and the brothers are beginning to speak with international sales agents.
2. Churubusco Prize (Mexico’s oldest studio, Churbusco gives Us$100,000 in post-production services.
Winner: “Restos de Viento” (“Wind Traces”), Director: Jimena Montemayor (México). ♀
A family tries to recover after the sudden death of the father. The mother, a victim of depression, is incapable of accepting the loss and tells her children that their father will return. For her seven-year-old son this means a cadaver will return to fulfill the role of his father. The eleven year old daughter experiences a profound rejection of adult life. The two children accompany each other as they try to understand and process what death has brought into their lives.
“Wind Traces” explores the collision of two worlds through death. A child and an adult’s perspective on death shape the portrait of a family that is recovering after a loss.
"Wind Traces" is a coproduction between Mexican production companies Varios Lobos Producciones, with 14% of investment, and Conejo Media with 6%. So far it is a 100% Mexican film, but the filmmakers are looking to find a coproduction partner from other countries, especially from Latin America.
In early 2014, development stage began between the two production houses. In July 2014 the project participated in the International Pitching Market of the Guanajuato International Film Festival where it won the Lci Award, which covers the film insurance of the movie.
The filmmakers are seeking other funds and workshops that allow them to continue developing the project and refine the script. Among those they will apply to are the BaqLab, at the Barranquilla Film Festival and Meets at the Panama Film Festival.
The final funding will be through the Fiscal Stimulus Eficine 189.
Director Jimena Montemayor says that, “with ‘Wind Traces’ I would like to explore the stages of grief as well as the thoughts on a loss that will not go away because it leaves us with an emptiness that in time we learn to inhabit, both physically and emotionally.
I am interested in narrating this process from the child’s perspective. We were all children once, but we tend to forget as we grow older that the world can be an incomprehensible place when we try to communicate with it. Maybe that’s why we are unaware of how children deal with loss.
Their resilience and their ability to overcome adverse situations during childhood [includes] Death as something that they take with them]. The absence of that person lingers like a shadow until you overcome the loss. That is how Daniel, the seven year old, materializes his grief, in the company of a dead man in the house; a man he fears at first but that gradually becomes a companion that finally fulfills his destiny: to part from his father.
Death is also an injection of life, an unparalleled chance to approach it with a much greater understanding and fulfillment. People will empathize and be touched by this story, and not just those who have suffered a loss.
Whoever remembers those formative years knows that there are moments where nostalgia overcomes us; we remember certain scars and despite the fact they can never be erased we will forget them little by little as we head into adulthood, leaving their importance buried in our subconscious.
In ‘Wind Traces’ each character deals with death in the same way they experience life.”
3. New Art Digital Prize (Complete postproduction for a value of Us$ 43,000)
Winner: “Estática Milagrosa” (“Static Miracle”), Directors: Noelia Lacayo ♀ and Gustavo Vinagre Alves (Cuba).
The second Cuban film to win and the second winning film to be directed by a woman deals with the “miracle” in Cuba of houses still standing, propped up by scaffolding and about to collapse while still inhabited with multiple families. Their beauty and their sad shape are analogous to the lives of many people in Cuba as well. “Static Miracle” is the official term for all buildings in danger of collapsing
This film deals with the people whose “static miracle” is that they continue their lives in the midst of imminent disintegration. Eight year old Marion has a collage of Fidel Castro on his bedroom wall but the images deteriorate with the humidity of every rainfall. Seventy-six year old Patria treis to maintina the rules of her aristocratic past, but her mansion is now a hostel for tourists. Eighteen year old Yuri prepares to shoot the video clip that will launch him into stardom but he has not left his room in two years. Twenty-nine year old Nicolas, a foreigner without visa or money, films houses in Havana that move as they resist the passage of time.
4. Equipment & Film Design Prize (Efd) (A package of 7 days of filming with a value of Us$ 23,000).
Winner: “Cuando se silencien los fusiles” (“When the Guns are Silenced”), Director: Nathalia Isabel Orozco Rojas (Colombia). ♀
This documentary will shoot in Havana and Colombia as it concerns the current ongoing negotiations of Farc, the Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia and the government of Colombia which are taking place now in Havana. After half a century of armed struggle, Farc, the oldest guerilla force in the world, is preparing to silence its weapons. This doc follows Farc’s military strategist and commander, Pablo Catatumbo, who has been part of the war for 40 years. His story and the complex relations with other commanders and rebels reveal the difficulties and challenges for the fighters in their final battle: the transition to democracy.
The Colombian filmmaker and independent news correspondent, Nathalia Isabel Orozco Rojas has won the Cpb Journalism Award 2014 for Best TV interview in 2013 and twice has won the Simon Bolivar National Journalism Award (in 2011 and 2010). Natalia has a B.A. in journalism, a Masters in political science and a Masters in international cooperation from the Sorbonne.
5. Lci Seguros Prize (Discounted Insurance of 50% up to Us$ 50 million).
Winner: “Julia Privada” (“Intimate Julia”), Directors: Karina Mirujin y Mariana Fonseca (Argentina). ♀
This Argentine fiction feature takes place in Buenos Aires in 1989. During the grave economic crisis of the time, the young woman Julia cleans and interfaces with the public for a reclusive boss. The comfort of silence between them from the first day makes her feel good although it is rather odd and mysterious. She is permitted full liberty except for entering his bedroom and writing studio. Curiosity about that makes this apartment, where she originally sought shelter and security, a possible cage.
Honorable Mention: (Support by Churubusco Studios of Equipment & Film Design, New Art Digital y Lci insurance).
Winner: “Donde se quedan las cosas” (“Where Things Remain”), Director: Daniela Silva Solórzano (México). ♀
This documentary is about Federico Solorzano, a paleontologist born in Guadalajara, Mexico. After a lifetime of collecting fossils, teaching and researching, opens the only science museum in the state of Jalisco. He shares his fossil collection, the largest in the country along with his memories through the eyes of his dranddaughter who goes through the more than 50 collections he has kept in perfect condition which creates a collective past of a city, a time period and a generation of more than 70 years.
Director Daniela Silva, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco is the granddaughter of the sculptor Federico Silva and niece of the famous cartoonist Jis. Twenty-two years of age, she has already produced “The Cloud Factory” last year and directed “Good Night, Lucy”.
The winners were selected by the following jury members:
Maru Farías (Director of New Projects at Equipment& Film Design with over 15 years working in the film industry). ♀
Javier Beltramino (Production Manager at Telefónica Studios in Argentina).
Bosco Arochi C. (Technical and Production Director at Estudios Churubusco S. A.).
Raymundo Osorio García (General Director at New Art Digital with 27 years work in publicity, television, and film in Mexico)
José Antonio Asencio (Adviser at Lci Seguros, producer, and Director of Photography of 150 documentaries, shorts, as well as 30 features).
- 3/26/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
As we look in the rearview mirror of the summer blockbusters, September heralds the start of the fall movie season. Filled with Hollywood heavyweights and A-listers, here’s our Big list of the most anticipated movies coming to cinemas this autumn and during the holidays.
Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.
Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.
We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.
Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...
Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.
Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.
We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.
Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...
- 8/29/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Producer Pablo José Barroso has established the privately backed production and finance company based in Mexico City.
The goal is to produce two to four features in the $10-50m range and one to two television series budgeted at $5-10m a year.
All content will be English-language with “positive messaging” for a global audience.
The first two film projects are the animated feature Max & Me and Maccabees, a live-action feature about an ancient Jewish revolt led by Judah Maccabee.
“We are a company that puts material first and will develop and explore inspiring stories and find a way to bring them to the big screen,” said Barroso, who will run the company as CEO alongside producing collaborator Claudia Nemer as COO.
“We believe there is an underserved market for content touting strong values so our ambition is to help fill this void in the marketplace and deliver the highest quality movies and TV product to audiences...
The goal is to produce two to four features in the $10-50m range and one to two television series budgeted at $5-10m a year.
All content will be English-language with “positive messaging” for a global audience.
The first two film projects are the animated feature Max & Me and Maccabees, a live-action feature about an ancient Jewish revolt led by Judah Maccabee.
“We are a company that puts material first and will develop and explore inspiring stories and find a way to bring them to the big screen,” said Barroso, who will run the company as CEO alongside producing collaborator Claudia Nemer as COO.
“We believe there is an underserved market for content touting strong values so our ambition is to help fill this void in the marketplace and deliver the highest quality movies and TV product to audiences...
- 8/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Mexican producer Pablo José Barroso is broadening the scope of his Mexico City-based Dos Corazones Films. The finance and production outfit has worked in the faith- and family-oriented genre for about a decade with such films as For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada with Andy Garcia and Oscar Isaac and 3D animated pic The Greatest Miracle. It now is adding TV series to its roster and eyeing bigger relationships with studios and international indies. Backed by increased private equity sources out of Mexico, the company will work in the English language on commercial films and TV series that […]...
- 8/5/2014
- Deadline
Breaking Glass Pictures is releasing the DVD of Pablo tomorrow.
This documentary is an imaginatively told tribute and story of the respected film title designer, Pablo Ferro, who was this year's recipient of the Gabi Lifetime Achievement Award at the 16th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.
Pablo blends documentary and animation elements to tell the saga of "famous unknown" Pablo Ferro, a man with a personal journey that starts in Havana during the pre-Cuban revolution and spans to today in his current home, in the garage behind his son's house. The animation part of the film takes us through the dream-scape of Pablo's memories, while the documentary footage chronicles a very eccentric lifestyle of a 72 year old artist, once hailed by Stanley Kubrick as the father of the 60's look and the MTV aesthetics. Narrated by Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges.
When he lived in New York's infamous alphabet city in the '60s he hosted tout New York, from Andy Warhol to Jack Kerouac at his raucous parties. In spite of troubles in love, lots of drugs and his crazy life, his talent made him sought after as a precious talent. Today he can recall those wonderful days and show his talent in its many, many forms, enriching all listeners with his great story telling talents. Check out the DVD. Shoreline handles international rights to this fascinating documentary for those international distributors who like documentaries about art, movies, Latinos, Cubans or crazy menschen.
During his extensive career, over four decades, Mr. Ferro has worked on the title designs of over 80 films and television shows. Some his more notable works include classics like Dr. Strangelove and Thomas Crowne Affair, and more recent titles like Beetlejuice, Men in Black and Good Will Hunting.
“His immense contributions to the entertainment industry are a point of pride for the Hispanic filmmaking community,” said Marlene Dermer, Co-founder and Executive Director/Programmer of Laliff.
The prestigious Gabi Lifetime Achievement Award is named after legendary Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, who is best known for his work on the films Macario, Pedro Paramo and Luis Buñuel’s Simon Del Desierto. Pablo Ferro joined the ranks of other past recipients that represent the highest degree of talent in the Latino film industry, among them the celebrated Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, and cinematographer Guillermo Navarro.
To purchase the DVD of the documentary on the work of this remarkable artist please visit Here...
This documentary is an imaginatively told tribute and story of the respected film title designer, Pablo Ferro, who was this year's recipient of the Gabi Lifetime Achievement Award at the 16th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.
Pablo blends documentary and animation elements to tell the saga of "famous unknown" Pablo Ferro, a man with a personal journey that starts in Havana during the pre-Cuban revolution and spans to today in his current home, in the garage behind his son's house. The animation part of the film takes us through the dream-scape of Pablo's memories, while the documentary footage chronicles a very eccentric lifestyle of a 72 year old artist, once hailed by Stanley Kubrick as the father of the 60's look and the MTV aesthetics. Narrated by Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges.
When he lived in New York's infamous alphabet city in the '60s he hosted tout New York, from Andy Warhol to Jack Kerouac at his raucous parties. In spite of troubles in love, lots of drugs and his crazy life, his talent made him sought after as a precious talent. Today he can recall those wonderful days and show his talent in its many, many forms, enriching all listeners with his great story telling talents. Check out the DVD. Shoreline handles international rights to this fascinating documentary for those international distributors who like documentaries about art, movies, Latinos, Cubans or crazy menschen.
During his extensive career, over four decades, Mr. Ferro has worked on the title designs of over 80 films and television shows. Some his more notable works include classics like Dr. Strangelove and Thomas Crowne Affair, and more recent titles like Beetlejuice, Men in Black and Good Will Hunting.
“His immense contributions to the entertainment industry are a point of pride for the Hispanic filmmaking community,” said Marlene Dermer, Co-founder and Executive Director/Programmer of Laliff.
The prestigious Gabi Lifetime Achievement Award is named after legendary Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, who is best known for his work on the films Macario, Pedro Paramo and Luis Buñuel’s Simon Del Desierto. Pablo Ferro joined the ranks of other past recipients that represent the highest degree of talent in the Latino film industry, among them the celebrated Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, and cinematographer Guillermo Navarro.
To purchase the DVD of the documentary on the work of this remarkable artist please visit Here...
- 11/28/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
International Sales Agents are the core of the current international film market system – i.e., the buying and selling of films worldwide. Half of the approximately 450 worldwide ISAs are based in La, the rest spread around the globe, but it matters little in a business sense where they are based. They gather together during the upcoming American Film Market November 6 in Santa Monica, California, in Berlin at the European Film Market February 6, 2014, and at the Cannes Marche in May as well as other events around the world to license rights to their films to distributors coming from every corner of the world. Their films also originate from every corner of the world.
Shoreline has been selling to the international film market since 1992. Morris Ruskin sat down last week for a chat with me here in La. I sum up our discussion as follows, after I add that Morris’ friendship and professionalism (and good taste!), is in general one of the principal reasons we like this film business. When we travel, which is frequent, it is people like Morris who light up the distant locations for us and, while both of us are L.A. based, we often only see each other throughout the year at various film business related events in remote places such as Cannes, Berlin, Bahamas., etc.
Morris Ruskin was born in South Africa to anti-Apartheid parents. He left there, along with parents and three older sisters, at age 9, to move to Boston where his Dad went to Harvard Business School. Then they moved to Bermuda for 3 years. When Morris was 15 his mother attended graduate school at UCLA School of Theater. There he met Athol Fugard, the South African playwright about whom his mother did her dissertation.
Many years later, Morris Executive Produced Master Harold & the Boys and dedicated the movie to his mother. He fell in love with L.A. and the movies in high school in L.A. His best friend lured him into filmmaking through Super 8 films which they recreated --movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Blues Brothers. Attending UCLA he wrote screenplays, some of which were optioned and he became an intern at MTV, an experience he considered at that time to be “the new frontier” of entertainment.
He soon became employed at Zupnik Entertainment Enterprises, staying for 6 years. He began as a script reader, then moved up to become the Director of Development and finally became a Vice President. His high water mark there was as a Co-Producer for the high profile very successful film, Glengarry Glen Ross.
He began Shoreline in 1992 on his own with a financial partner. It started as a production company. He then had operating money to run the company but No income. Projects were set up at New Line, Warner Brothers and various sales companies but they all got stuck in development. He figured out that there were two viable ways to make money in the business – selling movies worldwide and managing talent. Because he worked very closely with the sales company, New Line, on Glengarry Glen Ross, he decided to start a sales company. In 1995 he hired sales people to sell films and within six months he had three films in play. Morris says this meant “we were off to the races”. He then began to pick up / or acquire other films to sell.
He continues to branch out. In 2012 he formed a management company for directors, writers and writer / directors.
When we spoke he was intensely proud of a new film he served as Executive Producer on, Pablo, which was opening the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival this past October. This is a Spanish language feature documentary about graphic artist, trailer and title maker, Pablo Ferro, narrated by Jeff Bridges. Pablo was Kubrick’s title designer. Born in Cuba, he migrated as a teen to New York and had, as Morris expresses it, “a rags to riches and back to rags life”. The documentary is a representation for how difficult it can be to make it as an artist in the business. Perhaps it resonates with Morris as he has been able to successfully balance the art of filmmaking with the business side of selling movies.
For Morris Shoreline is a “purposely eclectic” company. His team acquires and sells feature narrative films and documentaries. They pick up “foreign language” (meaning – non English language) films and art house indies. On the commercial side they sell “genre” pictures, thrillers, horror.
Now that sales are successful, Morris now focuses his daily work on management, production, financing. He has produced approximately fifty films. Two of those films were directed by his high school friend who introduced him to filmmaking through Super 8 movies! Shoreline tends to be very loyal to the filmmakers it works with. If it picks up someone’s finished film, often Morris works with that filmmaker to produce the next film and perhaps even to manage him or her. As a producer Morris has had many award winning films and multiple films in Sundance and at The Toronto International Film Festival.
He has started a film financing company called Watermark. His partners here are the Swiss / London based Blue Pencil Investments. They will raise equity money for films, will give MGs (aka minimum guarantees) and sales advances. They will take all rights to world markets and license them to distributors through Shoreline.
A film he used to outline his way of working was the 2005 Sundance hit Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School, a romantic film about a couple meeting in a charm school, starring Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, John Goodman and a cameo from Danny DeVito. These elements gave it heat for sales – Sundance, good cast, mini majors involved and CAA. Lots of CAA talent were cast in film. CAA was also brought in to sell U.S. rights post and during Sundance. Goldwyn acquired the film for U.S. distribution. For this deal CAA was proof (to the market) that the film had “the best elements”.
Another successful film out of Sundance in 2007 was The Signal which had a Usd $50,000 budget and made over $3 million Usd from the U.S. alone.
Shoreline acquires and sells lots of Spanish language films now. Some recent titles are Rabbit Woman, The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas and 7 Boxes which has been to as many as seventy five film festivals.
Morris’ main philosophy for Shoreline films is, “get the films out in the biggest way possible”. Often these days this means going firstly to festivals as there is often no theatrical release. Festivals can lead to or even replace theatrical. Festivals spread the word, help marketing, get films seen and reviewed, and can even mean income when a festival will pay a screening fee.
Some recent titles he is proud of include A Perfect Man with Liev Schreiber which will be released theatrically in North America by IFC on November 1st, A Farewell To Fools with Harvey Keitel and Gerard Depardieu which will be released theatrically in North America by Monterey Media in the Spring. (About Liev Schreiber Morris says “a good name really helps” and he says that sometimes the films with known cast sell best). Also The Geography Club, which premiered at OutFest and will be released theatrically in North America by Breaking Glass on November 15th, the aforementioned 7 Boxes which will also be released theatrically in North America by Breaking Glass in February, and Baal Shem Tov, a Jewish film in clay animation which Morris says is a very rare film medium and because it belongs in a niche which has attracted much attention.
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Shoreline’s website says the following about Morris’ work and career.
During the course of producing more than fifty films, Morris has structured deals that incorporate deferments, soft money and international co-productions in order to create financially-viable motion pictures. These productions focus on bankable genre content and star-driven projects that can secure success in a sometimes-uneven marketplace.
Notable amongst such productions are the modern classic Glengarry Glen Ross (Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin) which led to an Academy Award Nomination for Al Pacino; The Man from Elysian Fields (Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Angelica Huston); The Visit (nominated for four Spirit Awards) and Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (John Goodman, Marisa Tomei, Octavia Spencer, Robert Carlyle, Danny DeVito).
Morris is no stranger to the festival circuit having films in the most distinguished festivals worldwide such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and Sundance, where The Signal was sold in a multi million dollar bidding war hours after the world premiere.
Morris’s productions have spanned a variety of genres and locations, from a stereoscopic RealD 3D-animated film based on a comic book being released by Anchor Bay (The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse) to a wartime dark comedy starring Harvey Keitel and Gérard Depardieu (A Farewell to Fools). A documentary narrated by Jeff Bridges (Pablo), a co-production shot on location in China ( Wushu Warrior) a comedy that was the opening night gala film at Slamdance (Weirdsville), an action thriller shot in India starring Harvey Keitel (Beeper), a heist crime caper starring
Timothy Olyphant that premiered in The Berlin International Film Festival (High Life) and a South African feature dedicated to Morris’s mother (Master Harold And the Boys).
By consistently developing and acquiring projects that are attractive to domestic and foreign markets alike, Morris has ensured for over twenty years that Shoreline remains a stable yet versatile and ever-evolving organization.
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The website describes Shoreline like this:
Established by Morris Ruskin in 1992, Shoreline Entertainment's Worldwide Sales, Production, and Management divisions comprise one of the longest-running and most-respected film companies in the industry.
Shoreline presents itself via its quality participation at more than 15 major media markets and festivals a year and positions itself to nourish continuous relationships with broadcasters, distributors and festival programmers.
Shoreline has represented numerous award-winning films that have premiered at high profile Festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca, Rotterdam and San Sebastian, as well as films nominated for Spirit Awards and Golden Globes.
Such films include: The Man From Elysian Fields, 7 Boxes, Father’s Chair, Un Mundo Secreto, Freaky Deaky, Zona Sur, Undertow, Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School, Weirdsville, High Life, The Signal, and The Maid.
Shoreline’s advertising presence includes a long-standing deal with the Hollywood Reporter for its back cover on the dailies during the Toronto International Film Festival, American Film Market, European Film Market (Berlinale), and Marche Du Film (Cannes).Moreover, Shoreline’s marketing efforts include sponsorship of the Buyers Lounge during the American Film Market. With more than 20 years of experience, Shoreline’s momentum is greater than ever.
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Lastly, some useful links to various that Shoreline supplied to us –
Here is a link to our website:
www.slefilms.com
Here is a link to an article Screen did on Watermark – which is the company we set up with Blue Pencil Investments to finance films -
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/Pdfs/screendaily-bluepencil.pdf
The number of festivals 7 Boxes has played in to date is 75. It will be released theatrically in North America by Breaking Glass in February. It all started for 7 Boxes in San Sebastian. This year we had Rabbit Woman there, so we hope for the same success. Tom Davia is our director of festivals and alternative theatrical.
Here is a link to all the markets we attend:
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/markets.html
Here is a link to the YouTube Baby Panda Sneezing that went viral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAcdvmnZ_GM
From this they made a family adventure film which we picked up. Here is a link to the film on our website:
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/SneezingBabyPanda.html
We’ve had success with family films and this is a title that is attracting a lot of interest from buyers.
Other hot Afm titles include:
A Perfect Man with Liev Schreiber who has heat from his new show Donavan.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/PerfectMan.html
A Farewell to Fools which stars Gerard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/Ipu.html
The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse which was bought by Anchor Bay for North America, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/Corpse.html
Sir Billi which is a family animated film with the voice of Sean Connery.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/SirBilli.html
Freaky Deaky which is based on the novel by Elmore Leonard and stars Billy Burke, Christian Slater, Michael Jai White and Crispin Glover.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/FreakyDeaky.html
The Geography Club which won the Audience Award at Outfest and will be released theatrically by Breaking Glass in November.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/GeographyClub.html
Hidden Moon which stars Wes Bentley
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/HiddenMoon.html
was nominated for Eight prestigious Silver Goddess Awards, given by the
Mexican Film Press and Critics / Pecime on their 42nd. edition in 2013. The Silver Goddess Award is the most prestigious film award in Mexico.
1) Best Film of the year: Producers Antonio Ruiz, Ray Diaz Gonzalez, Rodrigo Lobo & Pepe
Bojórquez.
2) Best Director: Pepe Bojórquez
3) Best Screenplay: Pepe Bojórquez / David Howard
4) Best Actress: Ana Serradilla Winner
5) Best Supporting Actress: Alejandra Ambrosi
6) Best Actor "Best upcoming Lead Actor": Osvaldo de León
7) Best Female Actress in a feature role: Angélica María
8) Best Original Song: Hidden Moon. Performed by Il Volo. Music by Luis Bacalov. Spanish Lyrics by
Edgar Cortázar / Tony Renis / Humberto Gatica / Massimo Guantini. Produced by Humberto Gatica /
Tony Renis / David Franco. Winner...
Shoreline has been selling to the international film market since 1992. Morris Ruskin sat down last week for a chat with me here in La. I sum up our discussion as follows, after I add that Morris’ friendship and professionalism (and good taste!), is in general one of the principal reasons we like this film business. When we travel, which is frequent, it is people like Morris who light up the distant locations for us and, while both of us are L.A. based, we often only see each other throughout the year at various film business related events in remote places such as Cannes, Berlin, Bahamas., etc.
Morris Ruskin was born in South Africa to anti-Apartheid parents. He left there, along with parents and three older sisters, at age 9, to move to Boston where his Dad went to Harvard Business School. Then they moved to Bermuda for 3 years. When Morris was 15 his mother attended graduate school at UCLA School of Theater. There he met Athol Fugard, the South African playwright about whom his mother did her dissertation.
Many years later, Morris Executive Produced Master Harold & the Boys and dedicated the movie to his mother. He fell in love with L.A. and the movies in high school in L.A. His best friend lured him into filmmaking through Super 8 films which they recreated --movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Blues Brothers. Attending UCLA he wrote screenplays, some of which were optioned and he became an intern at MTV, an experience he considered at that time to be “the new frontier” of entertainment.
He soon became employed at Zupnik Entertainment Enterprises, staying for 6 years. He began as a script reader, then moved up to become the Director of Development and finally became a Vice President. His high water mark there was as a Co-Producer for the high profile very successful film, Glengarry Glen Ross.
He began Shoreline in 1992 on his own with a financial partner. It started as a production company. He then had operating money to run the company but No income. Projects were set up at New Line, Warner Brothers and various sales companies but they all got stuck in development. He figured out that there were two viable ways to make money in the business – selling movies worldwide and managing talent. Because he worked very closely with the sales company, New Line, on Glengarry Glen Ross, he decided to start a sales company. In 1995 he hired sales people to sell films and within six months he had three films in play. Morris says this meant “we were off to the races”. He then began to pick up / or acquire other films to sell.
He continues to branch out. In 2012 he formed a management company for directors, writers and writer / directors.
When we spoke he was intensely proud of a new film he served as Executive Producer on, Pablo, which was opening the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival this past October. This is a Spanish language feature documentary about graphic artist, trailer and title maker, Pablo Ferro, narrated by Jeff Bridges. Pablo was Kubrick’s title designer. Born in Cuba, he migrated as a teen to New York and had, as Morris expresses it, “a rags to riches and back to rags life”. The documentary is a representation for how difficult it can be to make it as an artist in the business. Perhaps it resonates with Morris as he has been able to successfully balance the art of filmmaking with the business side of selling movies.
For Morris Shoreline is a “purposely eclectic” company. His team acquires and sells feature narrative films and documentaries. They pick up “foreign language” (meaning – non English language) films and art house indies. On the commercial side they sell “genre” pictures, thrillers, horror.
Now that sales are successful, Morris now focuses his daily work on management, production, financing. He has produced approximately fifty films. Two of those films were directed by his high school friend who introduced him to filmmaking through Super 8 movies! Shoreline tends to be very loyal to the filmmakers it works with. If it picks up someone’s finished film, often Morris works with that filmmaker to produce the next film and perhaps even to manage him or her. As a producer Morris has had many award winning films and multiple films in Sundance and at The Toronto International Film Festival.
He has started a film financing company called Watermark. His partners here are the Swiss / London based Blue Pencil Investments. They will raise equity money for films, will give MGs (aka minimum guarantees) and sales advances. They will take all rights to world markets and license them to distributors through Shoreline.
A film he used to outline his way of working was the 2005 Sundance hit Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School, a romantic film about a couple meeting in a charm school, starring Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, John Goodman and a cameo from Danny DeVito. These elements gave it heat for sales – Sundance, good cast, mini majors involved and CAA. Lots of CAA talent were cast in film. CAA was also brought in to sell U.S. rights post and during Sundance. Goldwyn acquired the film for U.S. distribution. For this deal CAA was proof (to the market) that the film had “the best elements”.
Another successful film out of Sundance in 2007 was The Signal which had a Usd $50,000 budget and made over $3 million Usd from the U.S. alone.
Shoreline acquires and sells lots of Spanish language films now. Some recent titles are Rabbit Woman, The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas and 7 Boxes which has been to as many as seventy five film festivals.
Morris’ main philosophy for Shoreline films is, “get the films out in the biggest way possible”. Often these days this means going firstly to festivals as there is often no theatrical release. Festivals can lead to or even replace theatrical. Festivals spread the word, help marketing, get films seen and reviewed, and can even mean income when a festival will pay a screening fee.
Some recent titles he is proud of include A Perfect Man with Liev Schreiber which will be released theatrically in North America by IFC on November 1st, A Farewell To Fools with Harvey Keitel and Gerard Depardieu which will be released theatrically in North America by Monterey Media in the Spring. (About Liev Schreiber Morris says “a good name really helps” and he says that sometimes the films with known cast sell best). Also The Geography Club, which premiered at OutFest and will be released theatrically in North America by Breaking Glass on November 15th, the aforementioned 7 Boxes which will also be released theatrically in North America by Breaking Glass in February, and Baal Shem Tov, a Jewish film in clay animation which Morris says is a very rare film medium and because it belongs in a niche which has attracted much attention.
+++++++++++++
Shoreline’s website says the following about Morris’ work and career.
During the course of producing more than fifty films, Morris has structured deals that incorporate deferments, soft money and international co-productions in order to create financially-viable motion pictures. These productions focus on bankable genre content and star-driven projects that can secure success in a sometimes-uneven marketplace.
Notable amongst such productions are the modern classic Glengarry Glen Ross (Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin) which led to an Academy Award Nomination for Al Pacino; The Man from Elysian Fields (Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Angelica Huston); The Visit (nominated for four Spirit Awards) and Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (John Goodman, Marisa Tomei, Octavia Spencer, Robert Carlyle, Danny DeVito).
Morris is no stranger to the festival circuit having films in the most distinguished festivals worldwide such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and Sundance, where The Signal was sold in a multi million dollar bidding war hours after the world premiere.
Morris’s productions have spanned a variety of genres and locations, from a stereoscopic RealD 3D-animated film based on a comic book being released by Anchor Bay (The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse) to a wartime dark comedy starring Harvey Keitel and Gérard Depardieu (A Farewell to Fools). A documentary narrated by Jeff Bridges (Pablo), a co-production shot on location in China ( Wushu Warrior) a comedy that was the opening night gala film at Slamdance (Weirdsville), an action thriller shot in India starring Harvey Keitel (Beeper), a heist crime caper starring
Timothy Olyphant that premiered in The Berlin International Film Festival (High Life) and a South African feature dedicated to Morris’s mother (Master Harold And the Boys).
By consistently developing and acquiring projects that are attractive to domestic and foreign markets alike, Morris has ensured for over twenty years that Shoreline remains a stable yet versatile and ever-evolving organization.
+++++++++++
The website describes Shoreline like this:
Established by Morris Ruskin in 1992, Shoreline Entertainment's Worldwide Sales, Production, and Management divisions comprise one of the longest-running and most-respected film companies in the industry.
Shoreline presents itself via its quality participation at more than 15 major media markets and festivals a year and positions itself to nourish continuous relationships with broadcasters, distributors and festival programmers.
Shoreline has represented numerous award-winning films that have premiered at high profile Festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca, Rotterdam and San Sebastian, as well as films nominated for Spirit Awards and Golden Globes.
Such films include: The Man From Elysian Fields, 7 Boxes, Father’s Chair, Un Mundo Secreto, Freaky Deaky, Zona Sur, Undertow, Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School, Weirdsville, High Life, The Signal, and The Maid.
Shoreline’s advertising presence includes a long-standing deal with the Hollywood Reporter for its back cover on the dailies during the Toronto International Film Festival, American Film Market, European Film Market (Berlinale), and Marche Du Film (Cannes).Moreover, Shoreline’s marketing efforts include sponsorship of the Buyers Lounge during the American Film Market. With more than 20 years of experience, Shoreline’s momentum is greater than ever.
++++++++++++
Lastly, some useful links to various that Shoreline supplied to us –
Here is a link to our website:
www.slefilms.com
Here is a link to an article Screen did on Watermark – which is the company we set up with Blue Pencil Investments to finance films -
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/Pdfs/screendaily-bluepencil.pdf
The number of festivals 7 Boxes has played in to date is 75. It will be released theatrically in North America by Breaking Glass in February. It all started for 7 Boxes in San Sebastian. This year we had Rabbit Woman there, so we hope for the same success. Tom Davia is our director of festivals and alternative theatrical.
Here is a link to all the markets we attend:
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/markets.html
Here is a link to the YouTube Baby Panda Sneezing that went viral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAcdvmnZ_GM
From this they made a family adventure film which we picked up. Here is a link to the film on our website:
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/SneezingBabyPanda.html
We’ve had success with family films and this is a title that is attracting a lot of interest from buyers.
Other hot Afm titles include:
A Perfect Man with Liev Schreiber who has heat from his new show Donavan.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/PerfectMan.html
A Farewell to Fools which stars Gerard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/Ipu.html
The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse which was bought by Anchor Bay for North America, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/Corpse.html
Sir Billi which is a family animated film with the voice of Sean Connery.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/SirBilli.html
Freaky Deaky which is based on the novel by Elmore Leonard and stars Billy Burke, Christian Slater, Michael Jai White and Crispin Glover.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/FreakyDeaky.html
The Geography Club which won the Audience Award at Outfest and will be released theatrically by Breaking Glass in November.
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/GeographyClub.html
Hidden Moon which stars Wes Bentley
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/movies/HiddenMoon.html
was nominated for Eight prestigious Silver Goddess Awards, given by the
Mexican Film Press and Critics / Pecime on their 42nd. edition in 2013. The Silver Goddess Award is the most prestigious film award in Mexico.
1) Best Film of the year: Producers Antonio Ruiz, Ray Diaz Gonzalez, Rodrigo Lobo & Pepe
Bojórquez.
2) Best Director: Pepe Bojórquez
3) Best Screenplay: Pepe Bojórquez / David Howard
4) Best Actress: Ana Serradilla Winner
5) Best Supporting Actress: Alejandra Ambrosi
6) Best Actor "Best upcoming Lead Actor": Osvaldo de León
7) Best Female Actress in a feature role: Angélica María
8) Best Original Song: Hidden Moon. Performed by Il Volo. Music by Luis Bacalov. Spanish Lyrics by
Edgar Cortázar / Tony Renis / Humberto Gatica / Massimo Guantini. Produced by Humberto Gatica /
Tony Renis / David Franco. Winner...
- 11/5/2013
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
After being cancelled last year, sadly, for lack of funding, the Latino International Film Festival (Laliff) returns stronger than ever to treat audiences to some of the best cinematic works, of all lengths and genres, created by Latino American filmmakers in their native countries or by Latino creators here in the U.S. This 16th edition of the festival will run from Thursday October 10th to Monday October 14th, and showcases a varied compilation of films from 14 Latin filmmaking countries.
"We are very excited and honored to have this record breaking number of Premieres presented at Laliff," said Marlene Dermer, Co-founder/Executive Director/Programmer of Laliff. "16 years and it keeps getting better because of the films." added co-founder Edward James Olmos.
This year's diverse selection of 62 works includes 28 features, 11 documentaries, and 23 shorts, which represent an eclectic mosaic of styles, subject matters, and experiences. The festival will close with the special presentation of the Mexican box-office smash hit Nosotros los Nobles, directed by Gary Alazraki, followed by an after party sponsored by Cine Latino. The list of films include the Guatemalan feature Polvo by Julio Hernandez or the Argentinian La Paz by Santiago Loza Directorial debuts like Water & Power by Richard Montoya, based off his acclaimed play by the same name, compelling documentaries like Narco Cultura and Gimme the Power, among many others.
For more information, single tickets, and festival passes click Here
This year's Laliff films are as follows (in alphabetical order):
Amor Cronico , Jorge Perugorria, 83 min
Country: Cuba
Premiere: West Coast
A Puerta FRÍA , Xavi Puebla, 80 min
Country: Spain
Premiere: USA
A Truth In Silence , Jonathan Salemi, 4:23 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Bordando La Frontera (Embroidering The Border) , Rene Rhi, 27 min
Country: Mexico/ USA
Captive Radio , Lauren Rosenfeld, 23 min
Country: USA/ Colombia
Premiere: Los Angeles
Carne De Perro (Dog's Flesh) , Fernando Guzzoni, 81min
Country: Chile
Premiere: Los Angeles
Catch , David Henrie, 10 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Cement Suitcase , Rick Castañeda, 94 min
Country: USA
Close Your Eyes , Sonia Malfa, 14:32 min
Country: USA
Con La Pata Quebrada (Barefoot In The Kitchen) , Diego Galán, 83 min
Country: Spain
Premiere: U.S.
Defectuosos (Defective) , Gabriela Martínez Garza & Jon Fernández López, 8 min
Country: Mexico
Dentro De Uno (Inside Oneself) , Salvador Aguirre, 8 min
Country: Mexico
Desert Road Kill , Michael Carreño, 16:57 min
Country: USA
Detained In The Desert , Iliana Sosa, 80 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Dragon Day , Jeffrey Travis, 95 min
Country:usa/Mexico
Premiere: World
Dreamer , Jesse Salmeron, 93 min
Country: USA
El Alcalde (The Mayor) , Emiliano Altuna, 80 min
Country: Mexico
Premiere: Los Angeles
El Cocodrillo , Steve Acevedo, 15 min
Country: USA
El Doctor , Heather de Michele, 11:24 min
Country: USA
El Jazz (Jazz) , Andrés Peralta, 10:30 min
Country: Mexico
Esther En Alguna Parte (Esther Somewhere) , Gerardo Chijona, 95 min
Country: Cuba
Premiere: World
Gimme The Power , Olallo Rubio, 101min
Country: Mexico
Greencard Warriors , Miriam Kruishoop, 91min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Homebound , Fanny Veliz, 105 min
Country: USA
¡Huelga! (Strike) , Skeets McGrew, 57:32 min
Country: USA
Interstate , Camille Stochitch, 19:56 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
JARDĺN De Amapolas (Field Of Amapolas) , Juan Carlos Melo Guevara, 86min
Country: Colombia
Premiere: World
Justice For My Sister , Kimberly Bautista, 69 min
Country: USA
Premiere: Los Angeles
Kill The Dictator (El Teniente Amado) , Félix Limardo, 90 min
Country: Dominican Republic
Premiere: West Coast
La Calle Estereo (The Stereo Street) , Santiago León Cuellar, 30min
Country: Colombia
La Paz , Santiago Loza, 73 min
Country: Argentina
Premiere: Los Angeles
La Piscina (The Swimming Pool) , Carlos Machado Quintela, 66 min
Country: Cuba
Premiere: Los Angeles
Las Tardes De Tintico (Tintico's Afternoons) , Alejandro García Caballero, 8:30 min
Country: Mexico
Llegar A Ti (To Reach You) , Alejandro Torres Rezzio, 8 min
Country: USA
Lo Azul Del Cielo , Juan Alfredo Uribe, 112min La
Country: Colombia
Premiere: Los Angeles
Maestra , Catherine Murphy, 33 min
Country: USA/ Cuba
Meu Pais (My Country) , André Ristum, 84min
Country: Brazil
Premiere: Los Angeles
Miradas MÚLTIPLES (La MÁQUINA Loca) / (Multiple Perspectives (The Crazy Machine) , Emilio Maillé, 90 min
Country: France/ Mexico
Muerte De Una Ama De Casa (Death Of A Housewife) , Marisé Samitier, 27 min
Country: Spain
Narco Cultura , Shaul Schwarz, 102 min
Country: USA
Premiere: West Coast
Ni Un Hombre MÁS (Iguana Stew) , Martin Salinas, 83 min
Country: Argentina
Premiere: West Coast
Nosotros Los Nobles (The Noble Family) , Gaz Alazraki, 95 min
Country: Mexico
Premiere: Los Angeles
O Afinador (The Tuner) , Fernando Camargo & Matheus Parizi, 15 min
Country: Brazil
Premiere: Los Angeles
Our Boys , Leonardo Ricagni, 88 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Pablo , Richard Goldgewicht, 93 min
Country: USA / Brazil
Premiere: Los Angeles
Phoenix , Stefano Capuzzi Lapietra, 13 min
Country: Brazil
Premiere: West Coast
Polvo (Dust) , Julio Hernández Cordón, 80 min
Country: Guatemala/Spain/Chile/Germany
Premiere: Los Angeles
Ponchao , Josh Crook, 85 min
Country: Dominican Republic
Premiere: World
POTOSÍ , Alfredo Castruita, 120min
Country: Mexico
Premiere: USA
Princesas Rojas (Red Princesses) , Laura Astorga Carrera, 100 min
Country: Costa Ria/ Venezuela/ Nicaragua
Premiere: Los Angeles
Rebel , Maria Agui Carter, 75 min
Country: USA
Premiere: Los Angeles
Sleeping With The Fishes , Nicole Gómez Fisher, 101 min
Country: USA
Stand & Deliver , Ramón Menéndez, 102 min Special Screening - 25Th Anniversary
Tanta Agua , Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge, 102 min
Country: Urugua/ Mexico/ Netherlands/ Germany
Premiere: West Coast
Tierra De Sangre , James Katz, 106 min
Country: Chile
Premiere: North American
The Graduates (Los Graduados) , Bernardo Ruiz, 60 minYOUTH Program
Country: USA
The Price We Pay , Jesse Garcia, 7:24 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World Premiere
The Shooting Star Salesman , Kico Velarde, 20 min
Country: USA
Water & Power , Richard Montoya, 87 minOpera Prima
Country: USA
We Women Warriors (Tejiendo Sabiduria) , Nicole Karsin, 82 min
Country:usa/Colombia
Your Father's Daughter , Carlos Bernard, 15:20 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Zero Hour , Dan Carillo Levy, 7:20 min
Country: USA/Mexico...
"We are very excited and honored to have this record breaking number of Premieres presented at Laliff," said Marlene Dermer, Co-founder/Executive Director/Programmer of Laliff. "16 years and it keeps getting better because of the films." added co-founder Edward James Olmos.
This year's diverse selection of 62 works includes 28 features, 11 documentaries, and 23 shorts, which represent an eclectic mosaic of styles, subject matters, and experiences. The festival will close with the special presentation of the Mexican box-office smash hit Nosotros los Nobles, directed by Gary Alazraki, followed by an after party sponsored by Cine Latino. The list of films include the Guatemalan feature Polvo by Julio Hernandez or the Argentinian La Paz by Santiago Loza Directorial debuts like Water & Power by Richard Montoya, based off his acclaimed play by the same name, compelling documentaries like Narco Cultura and Gimme the Power, among many others.
For more information, single tickets, and festival passes click Here
This year's Laliff films are as follows (in alphabetical order):
Amor Cronico , Jorge Perugorria, 83 min
Country: Cuba
Premiere: West Coast
A Puerta FRÍA , Xavi Puebla, 80 min
Country: Spain
Premiere: USA
A Truth In Silence , Jonathan Salemi, 4:23 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Bordando La Frontera (Embroidering The Border) , Rene Rhi, 27 min
Country: Mexico/ USA
Captive Radio , Lauren Rosenfeld, 23 min
Country: USA/ Colombia
Premiere: Los Angeles
Carne De Perro (Dog's Flesh) , Fernando Guzzoni, 81min
Country: Chile
Premiere: Los Angeles
Catch , David Henrie, 10 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Cement Suitcase , Rick Castañeda, 94 min
Country: USA
Close Your Eyes , Sonia Malfa, 14:32 min
Country: USA
Con La Pata Quebrada (Barefoot In The Kitchen) , Diego Galán, 83 min
Country: Spain
Premiere: U.S.
Defectuosos (Defective) , Gabriela Martínez Garza & Jon Fernández López, 8 min
Country: Mexico
Dentro De Uno (Inside Oneself) , Salvador Aguirre, 8 min
Country: Mexico
Desert Road Kill , Michael Carreño, 16:57 min
Country: USA
Detained In The Desert , Iliana Sosa, 80 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Dragon Day , Jeffrey Travis, 95 min
Country:usa/Mexico
Premiere: World
Dreamer , Jesse Salmeron, 93 min
Country: USA
El Alcalde (The Mayor) , Emiliano Altuna, 80 min
Country: Mexico
Premiere: Los Angeles
El Cocodrillo , Steve Acevedo, 15 min
Country: USA
El Doctor , Heather de Michele, 11:24 min
Country: USA
El Jazz (Jazz) , Andrés Peralta, 10:30 min
Country: Mexico
Esther En Alguna Parte (Esther Somewhere) , Gerardo Chijona, 95 min
Country: Cuba
Premiere: World
Gimme The Power , Olallo Rubio, 101min
Country: Mexico
Greencard Warriors , Miriam Kruishoop, 91min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Homebound , Fanny Veliz, 105 min
Country: USA
¡Huelga! (Strike) , Skeets McGrew, 57:32 min
Country: USA
Interstate , Camille Stochitch, 19:56 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
JARDĺN De Amapolas (Field Of Amapolas) , Juan Carlos Melo Guevara, 86min
Country: Colombia
Premiere: World
Justice For My Sister , Kimberly Bautista, 69 min
Country: USA
Premiere: Los Angeles
Kill The Dictator (El Teniente Amado) , Félix Limardo, 90 min
Country: Dominican Republic
Premiere: West Coast
La Calle Estereo (The Stereo Street) , Santiago León Cuellar, 30min
Country: Colombia
La Paz , Santiago Loza, 73 min
Country: Argentina
Premiere: Los Angeles
La Piscina (The Swimming Pool) , Carlos Machado Quintela, 66 min
Country: Cuba
Premiere: Los Angeles
Las Tardes De Tintico (Tintico's Afternoons) , Alejandro García Caballero, 8:30 min
Country: Mexico
Llegar A Ti (To Reach You) , Alejandro Torres Rezzio, 8 min
Country: USA
Lo Azul Del Cielo , Juan Alfredo Uribe, 112min La
Country: Colombia
Premiere: Los Angeles
Maestra , Catherine Murphy, 33 min
Country: USA/ Cuba
Meu Pais (My Country) , André Ristum, 84min
Country: Brazil
Premiere: Los Angeles
Miradas MÚLTIPLES (La MÁQUINA Loca) / (Multiple Perspectives (The Crazy Machine) , Emilio Maillé, 90 min
Country: France/ Mexico
Muerte De Una Ama De Casa (Death Of A Housewife) , Marisé Samitier, 27 min
Country: Spain
Narco Cultura , Shaul Schwarz, 102 min
Country: USA
Premiere: West Coast
Ni Un Hombre MÁS (Iguana Stew) , Martin Salinas, 83 min
Country: Argentina
Premiere: West Coast
Nosotros Los Nobles (The Noble Family) , Gaz Alazraki, 95 min
Country: Mexico
Premiere: Los Angeles
O Afinador (The Tuner) , Fernando Camargo & Matheus Parizi, 15 min
Country: Brazil
Premiere: Los Angeles
Our Boys , Leonardo Ricagni, 88 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Pablo , Richard Goldgewicht, 93 min
Country: USA / Brazil
Premiere: Los Angeles
Phoenix , Stefano Capuzzi Lapietra, 13 min
Country: Brazil
Premiere: West Coast
Polvo (Dust) , Julio Hernández Cordón, 80 min
Country: Guatemala/Spain/Chile/Germany
Premiere: Los Angeles
Ponchao , Josh Crook, 85 min
Country: Dominican Republic
Premiere: World
POTOSÍ , Alfredo Castruita, 120min
Country: Mexico
Premiere: USA
Princesas Rojas (Red Princesses) , Laura Astorga Carrera, 100 min
Country: Costa Ria/ Venezuela/ Nicaragua
Premiere: Los Angeles
Rebel , Maria Agui Carter, 75 min
Country: USA
Premiere: Los Angeles
Sleeping With The Fishes , Nicole Gómez Fisher, 101 min
Country: USA
Stand & Deliver , Ramón Menéndez, 102 min Special Screening - 25Th Anniversary
Tanta Agua , Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge, 102 min
Country: Urugua/ Mexico/ Netherlands/ Germany
Premiere: West Coast
Tierra De Sangre , James Katz, 106 min
Country: Chile
Premiere: North American
The Graduates (Los Graduados) , Bernardo Ruiz, 60 minYOUTH Program
Country: USA
The Price We Pay , Jesse Garcia, 7:24 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World Premiere
The Shooting Star Salesman , Kico Velarde, 20 min
Country: USA
Water & Power , Richard Montoya, 87 minOpera Prima
Country: USA
We Women Warriors (Tejiendo Sabiduria) , Nicole Karsin, 82 min
Country:usa/Colombia
Your Father's Daughter , Carlos Bernard, 15:20 min
Country: USA
Premiere: World
Zero Hour , Dan Carillo Levy, 7:20 min
Country: USA/Mexico...
- 10/10/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"No"
What's It About? When the citizens of Chili must vote on the future presidency of military dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1988, leaders of the No vote recruit an advertising exec to help fuel their campaign. Pablo Larrain's tense and comedic political drama features a subtle, yet inspiring performance from Gael Garcia Bernal.
Why We're In: Anything with Bernal is always memorable, but it is Larrain's potent mix of humor and history that create a noteworthy film which satirizes the power of the media. "No" undoubtedly deserved it's Oscars Best Foreign Film nod this year.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Help!"
What's It About? In The Beatles' second feature film, featuring the music from their album of the same name, the band must save Ringo from a human sacrifice by an evil religious cult pursing his ring. The goofy adventure comedy is as ridiculous as it sounds.
"No"
What's It About? When the citizens of Chili must vote on the future presidency of military dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1988, leaders of the No vote recruit an advertising exec to help fuel their campaign. Pablo Larrain's tense and comedic political drama features a subtle, yet inspiring performance from Gael Garcia Bernal.
Why We're In: Anything with Bernal is always memorable, but it is Larrain's potent mix of humor and history that create a noteworthy film which satirizes the power of the media. "No" undoubtedly deserved it's Oscars Best Foreign Film nod this year.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Help!"
What's It About? In The Beatles' second feature film, featuring the music from their album of the same name, the band must save Ringo from a human sacrifice by an evil religious cult pursing his ring. The goofy adventure comedy is as ridiculous as it sounds.
- 6/24/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
Film In The Dominican Republic
Here in Guadalajara where we are participating in the Industry events, we spoke at length with Ellis Perez, the Director of DGCine, the government cinema industry organization for the Dominican Republic. Their new law on international and domestic production is so favorable that whereas for the last 15 years, there has been an average of 2 productions a year, in 2012 there will be 12-15 productions completed.
Six months ago priority #1 was how to get films to shoot in the Dominican Republic. Now the #1 priority is how to train Dr youth for industry jobs – mainly in production, especially crew, to provide the basics for international producers going there to shoot.
They are looking for serious small filmmakers to make the $1-3 million films there to use their local people.
Indomina, the same company as the new U.S. distribution and international sales company whose acquisitions VP Rob Williams recently acquired the Sundance titles Luv (Isa: Hollywood Studios International), Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (Isa: Indomina) and The Imposter (Isa: Protagonist) (and parenthetically an offshoot of the sugar company Domino) in partnership with Pinewood Studios in the U.K. is one of two organizations involved in the training And is one of two companies building a studio with soundstages there.
In Cuba this December, Perez and Rafael Rosal Paz, the new Director General of Eictv (Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV, the international film school founded by Gabriel Garcia Marques with his Nobel Prize money) made the first agreement of its kind to certify the training. Eictv will help with training by sending 4 of its professors to Dr to train 24 high level students in an intensive 3 week program in shooting, sound, lighting, etc. This will take place in April and again in the summer to prepare professionals for work on Dr productions in the year 2013.
The Dr markets for production are diversified. At least 3 Spanish productions will shoot there in the coming 12 months. Now prepping is The Life of Julio Iglesias (the singer who lives in Dr). It will shoot in 6 weeks using Indomina as the local producer.
In addition 3 to 4 French movies will be completed soon. The first was completed January 2012 by producer Sergio Gobbi (Dracula 3D) who is completing his second film there.
Studio 37 from Paris is doing film on Pablo Escobar in April. Studio 37 is related to the telecom Orange which is based in Paris but has operations in Dr as well.
Another production, The Truth, now in post is a film produced by Andy Garcia starring Eva Longoria and Forrest Whittaker and directed by Damian Lee from Canada who may return with a second film this year.
An additional 4 – 5 films from North America, to be produced by Indomina and 4 -5 Dominican films will round out the 12-15 feature productions for the year.
The new law which is enticing all these productions provides support for Dominican local production as well as for foreign productions.
For Dr local movies, a 25% income tax return is provided to local businesses for investment in movies. For example, a company that owes $5 million in taxes can invest $1.5 million (25%) in a film rather than paying the same in taxes.
The Dr President, Leonel Fernandez, sees this as a way to increase production, generate new jobs, and open the door to opportunities to young Dominican talents of all sorts entering the movie industry. It will also bring in foreign investment as well as promote tourism by making Dr a destination. It is already #1 in tourism among the Caribbean nations with 4 million visitors a year who generate $4 billion income to the Dr.
For foreign film production, for 25% of the local spend in the Dr, with a minimum spend of $500,000, whether or not the entire production or only part of it is done in the Dr the government will provide a transferable tax credit certificate which is buyable by local Dr banks and financial institutions, including Indomina and Palmera Pictures which is owned by Capcanna, a tourist company. In other words, while the government will not give 25% in cash, that amount can be paid to the producer in a buyout.
And in addition to this 25% transferable tax credit certificate, there will be an exemption from paying the normal Vat of 16% usually charged for most items and services for films. (Some items will not be exempt)
Like Indomina, Dr real estate investor Cap Cana is also building a studio there which will be completed by the end of 2013. The two studios will be the first studios built in the Caribbean. Cap Cana also participates in the Dr Global Film Festival (whose programming consultant is our own Nicole Guillemet), hosting “Movies Under the Stars”.
I asked if all these wonderful incentives, plus Dr’s lower infrastructure prices (hotels, etc) were subject to changes in the government. Ellis allowed for the possibility and states he will be ready to leave this government appointed post on August 16 when the new government takes office (after the May election), but it seems doubtful to him that this will occur. Of the two candidates for President, the incumbent has the leading edge. If President Fernandez wins re-election, the status quo will prevail. His opposition was President two terms ago and Ellis Perez was his Minister of Tourism. Furthermore, both candidates favor the current law. Ellis himself is not political, belongs to no party and was appointed to this post in June 2011. While he is prepared to leave August 16 if need by, he really is aiming to stay for the next five years.
Here in Guadalajara where we are participating in the Industry events, we spoke at length with Ellis Perez, the Director of DGCine, the government cinema industry organization for the Dominican Republic. Their new law on international and domestic production is so favorable that whereas for the last 15 years, there has been an average of 2 productions a year, in 2012 there will be 12-15 productions completed.
Six months ago priority #1 was how to get films to shoot in the Dominican Republic. Now the #1 priority is how to train Dr youth for industry jobs – mainly in production, especially crew, to provide the basics for international producers going there to shoot.
They are looking for serious small filmmakers to make the $1-3 million films there to use their local people.
Indomina, the same company as the new U.S. distribution and international sales company whose acquisitions VP Rob Williams recently acquired the Sundance titles Luv (Isa: Hollywood Studios International), Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (Isa: Indomina) and The Imposter (Isa: Protagonist) (and parenthetically an offshoot of the sugar company Domino) in partnership with Pinewood Studios in the U.K. is one of two organizations involved in the training And is one of two companies building a studio with soundstages there.
In Cuba this December, Perez and Rafael Rosal Paz, the new Director General of Eictv (Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV, the international film school founded by Gabriel Garcia Marques with his Nobel Prize money) made the first agreement of its kind to certify the training. Eictv will help with training by sending 4 of its professors to Dr to train 24 high level students in an intensive 3 week program in shooting, sound, lighting, etc. This will take place in April and again in the summer to prepare professionals for work on Dr productions in the year 2013.
The Dr markets for production are diversified. At least 3 Spanish productions will shoot there in the coming 12 months. Now prepping is The Life of Julio Iglesias (the singer who lives in Dr). It will shoot in 6 weeks using Indomina as the local producer.
In addition 3 to 4 French movies will be completed soon. The first was completed January 2012 by producer Sergio Gobbi (Dracula 3D) who is completing his second film there.
Studio 37 from Paris is doing film on Pablo Escobar in April. Studio 37 is related to the telecom Orange which is based in Paris but has operations in Dr as well.
Another production, The Truth, now in post is a film produced by Andy Garcia starring Eva Longoria and Forrest Whittaker and directed by Damian Lee from Canada who may return with a second film this year.
An additional 4 – 5 films from North America, to be produced by Indomina and 4 -5 Dominican films will round out the 12-15 feature productions for the year.
The new law which is enticing all these productions provides support for Dominican local production as well as for foreign productions.
For Dr local movies, a 25% income tax return is provided to local businesses for investment in movies. For example, a company that owes $5 million in taxes can invest $1.5 million (25%) in a film rather than paying the same in taxes.
The Dr President, Leonel Fernandez, sees this as a way to increase production, generate new jobs, and open the door to opportunities to young Dominican talents of all sorts entering the movie industry. It will also bring in foreign investment as well as promote tourism by making Dr a destination. It is already #1 in tourism among the Caribbean nations with 4 million visitors a year who generate $4 billion income to the Dr.
For foreign film production, for 25% of the local spend in the Dr, with a minimum spend of $500,000, whether or not the entire production or only part of it is done in the Dr the government will provide a transferable tax credit certificate which is buyable by local Dr banks and financial institutions, including Indomina and Palmera Pictures which is owned by Capcanna, a tourist company. In other words, while the government will not give 25% in cash, that amount can be paid to the producer in a buyout.
And in addition to this 25% transferable tax credit certificate, there will be an exemption from paying the normal Vat of 16% usually charged for most items and services for films. (Some items will not be exempt)
Like Indomina, Dr real estate investor Cap Cana is also building a studio there which will be completed by the end of 2013. The two studios will be the first studios built in the Caribbean. Cap Cana also participates in the Dr Global Film Festival (whose programming consultant is our own Nicole Guillemet), hosting “Movies Under the Stars”.
I asked if all these wonderful incentives, plus Dr’s lower infrastructure prices (hotels, etc) were subject to changes in the government. Ellis allowed for the possibility and states he will be ready to leave this government appointed post on August 16 when the new government takes office (after the May election), but it seems doubtful to him that this will occur. Of the two candidates for President, the incumbent has the leading edge. If President Fernandez wins re-election, the status quo will prevail. His opposition was President two terms ago and Ellis Perez was his Minister of Tourism. Furthermore, both candidates favor the current law. Ellis himself is not political, belongs to no party and was appointed to this post in June 2011. While he is prepared to leave August 16 if need by, he really is aiming to stay for the next five years.
- 3/5/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
For almost two decades I’ve been traveling to the International Film Festival Rotterdam immediately following Sundance, struggling to keep my jet lag at bay while I attend a few Cinemart meetings, hit the informal but productive Cinemart cocktail hours, and delve into the fest’s always excellent and eclectic program. This year several fellower Sundancers made the trip as well, including sales agent Ryan Kampe, producer Adele Romanski, the Ifp’s Amy Dotson, the Sundance Institute’s Anne Lai, and director Terrence Nance, whose An Oversimplification of Her Beauty was programmed here and was one of the Park City’s true discoveries. Above is Nance, at right, pictured on the ground floor of the Doelen with Festival Director Rutger Wolfson.
“Rotterdam is the only festival with a 24-hour deejay,” Nance quipped to me. While I haven’t stumbled into the Doelen at 5:00 Am, Nance is not far from the truth.
“Rotterdam is the only festival with a 24-hour deejay,” Nance quipped to me. While I haven’t stumbled into the Doelen at 5:00 Am, Nance is not far from the truth.
- 2/3/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced the lineup for Regained, a "renewed" section of the Signals program devoted to what it calls "the memory of film." This year's edition promises a broader ranges of genres and "will consist not only of film projections, but also exhibitions, presentations and events."
To mark the 150th anniversary of Georges Méliès's birth, Regained will present Martin Scorsese's Hugo, the newly restored Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) and Serge Bromberg's documentary on the restoration, Le Voyage extraordinaire. "In addition, under the title Retour de Flamme, Bromberg will be opening up his box of tricks for us with a live presentation of a series of unique cartoons illustrating how the 3D-effect has been stimulating animators’ imaginations for decades."
The world premiere of Martina Kudlácek's Fragments of Kubelka will be accompanied by screenings of seven of Peter Kubelka's shorts made between 1955 and 2003.
Richard Goldgewicht's Pablo,...
To mark the 150th anniversary of Georges Méliès's birth, Regained will present Martin Scorsese's Hugo, the newly restored Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) and Serge Bromberg's documentary on the restoration, Le Voyage extraordinaire. "In addition, under the title Retour de Flamme, Bromberg will be opening up his box of tricks for us with a live presentation of a series of unique cartoons illustrating how the 3D-effect has been stimulating animators’ imaginations for decades."
The world premiere of Martina Kudlácek's Fragments of Kubelka will be accompanied by screenings of seven of Peter Kubelka's shorts made between 1955 and 2003.
Richard Goldgewicht's Pablo,...
- 1/9/2012
- MUBI
Pablo Ferro is "more popularly known for his work as a master title sequence designer (Dr Strangelove and The Thomas Crown Affair among countless others) and occasionally an actor as well (Greaser's Palace)," writes Marcus Herring in an entry punctuated with clips and exclamations, "but Pablo also crafted a number of the most memorable trailers of all time…. The Cinefamily is devoting an entire evening to showcasing the genius of Pablo Ferro on Tuesday September 27th, with Pablo himself in attendance! He'll bring loads of unavailable commercials (Beachnut Gum!), rare 35mm trailers (the Japanese version of A Clockwork Orange!), lost animations, and of course, his famous title sequences. We'll finish everything off with an ultra-rare presentation of Pablo's 1969 short The Inflatable Doll, starring one of our favorite on-screen strangemen, Don Calfa!" More on Pablo Ferro from Holly Willis; plus, three sites dedicated to his work: 1, 2 and 3.
"Greece, of course,...
"Greece, of course,...
- 9/24/2011
- MUBI
Jeff Bridges has been watching this project for years and now he is sixty-one years old, just enough to see himself in the lead role. Oscar winner for his turn in Crazy Heart and nominated for the Coen brothers’ remake of classic western True Grit has also optioned the rights to Lois Lowry’s 1993 futuristic classic The Giver.
Bridges has been looking at this sci-fi novel since the 1990s, when his daughter read it in high school. Therefore, he said:
I originally thought of the role of the Giver as a vehicle for my father, the late Lloyd Bridges; however, at 61 years old, I feel the time is right for me to do it.”
Bridges and his long-time producing partner Nikki Silver (and veteran John Heyman) have finally secured the rights and have plans to move forward with Vadim Perelman, the writer/director behind House of Sand and Fog, to...
Bridges has been looking at this sci-fi novel since the 1990s, when his daughter read it in high school. Therefore, he said:
I originally thought of the role of the Giver as a vehicle for my father, the late Lloyd Bridges; however, at 61 years old, I feel the time is right for me to do it.”
Bridges and his long-time producing partner Nikki Silver (and veteran John Heyman) have finally secured the rights and have plans to move forward with Vadim Perelman, the writer/director behind House of Sand and Fog, to...
- 6/28/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
The 2011 edition of a movie critic's dream unreels again this week. In my own home town, I'll be able to show the films of my choice in a classic movie palace, flawlessly projected on a giant screen before a movie-loving audience. To paraphrase Orson Welles when he was given the run of Rko Radio Pictures to make his own movie, it's the biggest train set a boy could ever want.
Ebertfest 2011 runs April 27-May 1. The passes have been sold but we've always been able to find room for everyone in line inside the 1,600-seat Virginia Theater. Its long-term renovation continued this year with work on the lobby, the concession stand and the upstairs lobby. The marquee is a work in progress.
The preservation of theaters like this is invaluable; such buildings will never again be constructed, and most of our filmmakers will never have seen their films with such a large audience.
Ebertfest 2011 runs April 27-May 1. The passes have been sold but we've always been able to find room for everyone in line inside the 1,600-seat Virginia Theater. Its long-term renovation continued this year with work on the lobby, the concession stand and the upstairs lobby. The marquee is a work in progress.
The preservation of theaters like this is invaluable; such buildings will never again be constructed, and most of our filmmakers will never have seen their films with such a large audience.
- 5/5/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Jeff Bridges, living screen legend, is about to dive into the world of the living dead. There, he'll meet the Sexiest Man Alive. Who is dead, but then alive. Confused?
The Oscar-winner is in talks to join Reynolds in the upcoming film adaptation of "R.I.P.D.," a graphic novel by writer Peter Lenkov. Deadline reports the talks, in the early stages, would place Bridges in a role abandoned by Zach Galifianakis when Reynolds was unsure if he'd be able to do the film.
"R.I.P.D." features the story of a police officer, who, slain in the prime of his career, is recruited to join the Rest In Police Department, the ghost world police force. He signs up for 100 years duty in exchange for the chance to find his killer. Bridges would play his ghost police partner, an old pro who's been on the beat since the 1800's. Coincidentally, Bridges' most recent role...
The Oscar-winner is in talks to join Reynolds in the upcoming film adaptation of "R.I.P.D.," a graphic novel by writer Peter Lenkov. Deadline reports the talks, in the early stages, would place Bridges in a role abandoned by Zach Galifianakis when Reynolds was unsure if he'd be able to do the film.
"R.I.P.D." features the story of a police officer, who, slain in the prime of his career, is recruited to join the Rest In Police Department, the ghost world police force. He signs up for 100 years duty in exchange for the chance to find his killer. Bridges would play his ghost police partner, an old pro who's been on the beat since the 1800's. Coincidentally, Bridges' most recent role...
- 4/29/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Buried"
Directed by Rodrigo Cortes
Released by Lionsgate
"Paper Man"
Directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney
Released by Mpi Home Video
While one can't feel too badly for the future "Green Lantern" star and People's sexiest man alive, Ryan Reynolds' two stabs at glory outside the beaten path went largely unseen, which is particularly a shame in the case of Rodrigo Cortes' "Buried," the thriller where Reynolds has no acting partner but a cell phone as a military contractor who finds himself trapped in a coffin with no knowledge of how or why he got there. A success at Sundance, Lionsgate scrapped expansion plans for the film when it didn't do well in limited release, so home video will be the first chance for many to catch it. Still, that was a considerably bigger success than "Paper Man," which snuck in...
"Buried"
Directed by Rodrigo Cortes
Released by Lionsgate
"Paper Man"
Directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney
Released by Mpi Home Video
While one can't feel too badly for the future "Green Lantern" star and People's sexiest man alive, Ryan Reynolds' two stabs at glory outside the beaten path went largely unseen, which is particularly a shame in the case of Rodrigo Cortes' "Buried," the thriller where Reynolds has no acting partner but a cell phone as a military contractor who finds himself trapped in a coffin with no knowledge of how or why he got there. A success at Sundance, Lionsgate scrapped expansion plans for the film when it didn't do well in limited release, so home video will be the first chance for many to catch it. Still, that was a considerably bigger success than "Paper Man," which snuck in...
- 1/18/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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