Bangladeshi filmmaker Nuhash Humayun’s “Pett Kata Shaw” won best international feature at the 31st Raindance Film Festival’s jury awards. British documentary filmmaker Kit Vincent won best U.K. feature for his debut feature “Red Herring.”
Some 75% of this year’s features are debuts and debut features swept the board at the jury awards with all eight award-winning films being debuts.
Michael Pitt won best performance for British actor Jack Huston‘s directorial debut “Day of the Fight.” Fisnik Maxville was named best director for his debut feature “The Land Within,” which previously won awards at Tallinn Black Nights, Galway Film Fleadh and PriFest. Catalan directors Alejandro Rojas and Sebastián Vasquez won the discovery award for their debut feature “Upon Entry.”
Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman and Edivan Guajajara’s “We Are Guardians” won best documentary while David Wyte won best cinematography for “All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White.
Some 75% of this year’s features are debuts and debut features swept the board at the jury awards with all eight award-winning films being debuts.
Michael Pitt won best performance for British actor Jack Huston‘s directorial debut “Day of the Fight.” Fisnik Maxville was named best director for his debut feature “The Land Within,” which previously won awards at Tallinn Black Nights, Galway Film Fleadh and PriFest. Catalan directors Alejandro Rojas and Sebastián Vasquez won the discovery award for their debut feature “Upon Entry.”
Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman and Edivan Guajajara’s “We Are Guardians” won best documentary while David Wyte won best cinematography for “All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White.
- 11/3/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The 31st edition of London’s Raindance Film Festival will open with the U.K. premiere of British actor Jack Huston’s directorial debut “Day of the Fight.”
The film comes to Raindance fresh off its Venice debut, where Huston was honored by Variety as a breakthrough director.
The story of a once-renowned boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present on the day of his first fight since he left prison stars Michael Pitt alongside a cast including Ron Perlman, Joe Pesci, and a cameo from Steve Buscemi.
The U.K. premiere of Isabel Coixet’s “Un Amor” will close the festival after it bows at San Sebastian. Based on Sara Mesa’s bestselling novel, Laia Costa plays a young woman who escapes her stressful life in the city and relocates to rural Spain. When she accepts a disturbing sexual proposal, it gives rise to an all-consuming and obsessive passion.
The film comes to Raindance fresh off its Venice debut, where Huston was honored by Variety as a breakthrough director.
The story of a once-renowned boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present on the day of his first fight since he left prison stars Michael Pitt alongside a cast including Ron Perlman, Joe Pesci, and a cameo from Steve Buscemi.
The U.K. premiere of Isabel Coixet’s “Un Amor” will close the festival after it bows at San Sebastian. Based on Sara Mesa’s bestselling novel, Laia Costa plays a young woman who escapes her stressful life in the city and relocates to rural Spain. When she accepts a disturbing sexual proposal, it gives rise to an all-consuming and obsessive passion.
- 9/13/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
“If you’re poor and have no money, and can’t get yourself a lawyer who really gives a shit about your case, you’re going to die,” a defense attorney ruefully notes at one point in “The Phantom,” a fascinating and ultimately infuriating documentary.
This isn’t an entirely fitting description of what befell Carlos DeLuna, a young Hispanic man who was executed in 1989 for a brutal 1983 murder in Corpus Christi that he almost certainly did not commit. Indeed, the film, skillfully and compellingly directed by Patrick Forbes (“Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies”), indicates that DeLuna’s defenders were not indifferent, or incompetent, but grievously (and maybe deliberately) misinformed about mitigating evidence. And yet: The deck was stacked against fringe-dwelling DeLuna, his alibi was never given serious credence, his guilt was all-too-easily assumed by police and prosecutors eager to wrap up what appeared to be an open-and-shut case — and, hey,...
This isn’t an entirely fitting description of what befell Carlos DeLuna, a young Hispanic man who was executed in 1989 for a brutal 1983 murder in Corpus Christi that he almost certainly did not commit. Indeed, the film, skillfully and compellingly directed by Patrick Forbes (“Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies”), indicates that DeLuna’s defenders were not indifferent, or incompetent, but grievously (and maybe deliberately) misinformed about mitigating evidence. And yet: The deck was stacked against fringe-dwelling DeLuna, his alibi was never given serious credence, his guilt was all-too-easily assumed by police and prosecutors eager to wrap up what appeared to be an open-and-shut case — and, hey,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
As with World War II veterans, there will soon come a time when we will lose the last of the Holocaust survivors and the chance to hear their stories. That inalterable fact lends an undeniable urgency to Claire Ferguson's Destination Unknown, which revolves around interviews with 12 elderly survivors. The film's producer, Llion Roberts, filmed them over a 13-year period, and some have since passed away. So, yes, there have been countless Holocaust-themed documentaries released in recent years. But Destination Unknown represents a worthy addition to the canon if only for its historical importance.
The film interweaves the survivors' accounts...
The film interweaves the survivors' accounts...
- 11/9/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Destination Unknown Seventh Art Releasing Director: Claire Ferguson Written by: Jonathan Key Cast: Cesia Mosberg, Ed Mosberg, Mietek Pemper and others Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 10/18/17 Opens: November 10, 2017 Amon Göth went beyond the call of duty but hardly in the way that we’d approve. As commandant of the Kraków-Plaszów concentration camp, Göth […]
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- 11/6/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
7 th Art Releasing has acquired and will release filmmaker Claire Ferguson's documentary Destination Unknown about survivors of the Holocaust. In their own words, the film traces the survivors’ journeys from the outbreak of war, through the misery of the ghettos, to the horrors of the concentration camps and how the survivors find light in the darkness as they survived the captivity and fear and began turning their lives around. 7th Art Releasing will release the film…...
- 8/23/2017
- Deadline
Author: Linda Marric
Baring witness to some of the most atrocious events in the history of humanity, 12 Holocaust survivors, mostly in their eighties and nineties, share some of their most harrowing experiences in Claire Ferguson’s hugely affecting documentary feature Destination Unknown. Using unique and intimate testimonies, the film manages to approach this delicate subject in the most respectful and truthful fashion by allowing only those who went through this ordeal to be heard. Ferguson attempts to retrace these brave survivors’ journeys from the outbreak of war, to the misery of the ghettos, all the way through to the unimaginable horrors of the death camps where millions of innocent people perished in the gas chambers or from starvation and disease.
Amongst the survivors being interviewed are those who lost every member of their families in the camps, and those who were lucky enough to be saved by Oskar Schindler, like Mietek Pemper,...
Baring witness to some of the most atrocious events in the history of humanity, 12 Holocaust survivors, mostly in their eighties and nineties, share some of their most harrowing experiences in Claire Ferguson’s hugely affecting documentary feature Destination Unknown. Using unique and intimate testimonies, the film manages to approach this delicate subject in the most respectful and truthful fashion by allowing only those who went through this ordeal to be heard. Ferguson attempts to retrace these brave survivors’ journeys from the outbreak of war, to the misery of the ghettos, all the way through to the unimaginable horrors of the death camps where millions of innocent people perished in the gas chambers or from starvation and disease.
Amongst the survivors being interviewed are those who lost every member of their families in the camps, and those who were lucky enough to be saved by Oskar Schindler, like Mietek Pemper,...
- 6/15/2017
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
I know Rupert Murray’s The End of the Line means well – I could hardly accuse the film of pandering on a renowned topic – it doesn’t. The End of the Line focuses on the growing problem of over-fishing, the ecological damage wrought by the practice, and the far reaching effects of a natural resource once deemed permanently inexhaustible – the ocean. The End of the Line is based on the book of the same name by Charles Clover, and his investigation forms the crux of a series of interviews that stretches to global proportions. Director Murray and narrator Ted Danson (most recently a regular on FX’s Damages) probe into the harrowing consequences of this practice – one that shows no signs on stopping.
Like I said, The End of the Line earns its stripes – it’s a well-meaning documentary, crafted with a steady and skillful hand. Rupert Murray, who also lensed the film,...
Like I said, The End of the Line earns its stripes – it’s a well-meaning documentary, crafted with a steady and skillful hand. Rupert Murray, who also lensed the film,...
- 2/25/2010
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
I know Rupert Murray’s The End of the Line means well – I could hardly accuse the film of pandering on a renowned topic – it doesn’t. The End of the Line focuses on the growing problem of over-fishing, the ecological damage wrought by the practice, and the far reaching effects of a natural resource once deemed permanently inexhaustible – the ocean. The End of the Line is based on the book of the same name by Charles Clover, and his investigation forms the crux of a series of interviews that stretches to global proportions. Director Murray and narrator Ted Danson (most recently a regular on FX’s Damages) probe into the harrowing consequences of this practice – one that shows no signs on stopping.
Like I said, The End of the Line earns its stripes – it’s a well-meaning documentary, crafted with a steady and skillful hand. Rupert Murray, who also lensed the film,...
Like I said, The End of the Line earns its stripes – it’s a well-meaning documentary, crafted with a steady and skillful hand. Rupert Murray, who also lensed the film,...
- 2/25/2010
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
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