Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures will disburse $140,000 to three Philippines and one Indonesian film as part of its fall grants.
The Purin committee has chosen three fiction and one documentary projects for production support and one documentary project for post-production support.
“The Remotes” is John Torres’ first fiction film after two decades of making documentaries. “Filipinana” by Rafael Manuel is expanded from a short film and was recently awarded at the Asian Project Market in Busan. “Jaguar” by Dean Colin Marcial is an urban thriller that straddles the gap between independent and mainstream genre cinema. Rounding out the selection are two documentaries, “Bariles” by Sheryl Rose Andes and “Planet of Love” by Ika Wulandari, that examine marginalized livelihoods in the Philippines and Indonesia respectively.
Production Grants
“The Remotes.” Director: John Torres. Producer: John Torres. Production Company: Los Otros (Philippines). Two sisters with superpowers race against time to track a voice that controls human avatars,...
The Purin committee has chosen three fiction and one documentary projects for production support and one documentary project for post-production support.
“The Remotes” is John Torres’ first fiction film after two decades of making documentaries. “Filipinana” by Rafael Manuel is expanded from a short film and was recently awarded at the Asian Project Market in Busan. “Jaguar” by Dean Colin Marcial is an urban thriller that straddles the gap between independent and mainstream genre cinema. Rounding out the selection are two documentaries, “Bariles” by Sheryl Rose Andes and “Planet of Love” by Ika Wulandari, that examine marginalized livelihoods in the Philippines and Indonesia respectively.
Production Grants
“The Remotes.” Director: John Torres. Producer: John Torres. Production Company: Los Otros (Philippines). Two sisters with superpowers race against time to track a voice that controls human avatars,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The projects will receive a combined $140,000 in production and post-production grants.
The Philippines dominates the autumn 2023 selection of Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures, which will give a combined $140,000 in production grants to five upcoming projects.
The titles from Southeast Asia comprise John Torres’ The Remotes, Rafael Manuel’s Filipinana, Dean Colin Marcial’s Jaguar and documentaries Bariles by Sheryl Rose Andes and Planet Of Love by Ika Wulandari.
“This session, half of all the submissions we received were from the Philippines,” said Purin Pictures co-director Anocha Suwichakornpong. “Because of various local support schemes and a just-do-it mentality, Filipino filmmakers continue...
The Philippines dominates the autumn 2023 selection of Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures, which will give a combined $140,000 in production grants to five upcoming projects.
The titles from Southeast Asia comprise John Torres’ The Remotes, Rafael Manuel’s Filipinana, Dean Colin Marcial’s Jaguar and documentaries Bariles by Sheryl Rose Andes and Planet Of Love by Ika Wulandari.
“This session, half of all the submissions we received were from the Philippines,” said Purin Pictures co-director Anocha Suwichakornpong. “Because of various local support schemes and a just-do-it mentality, Filipino filmmakers continue...
- 11/1/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood, Alan Ball, is developing a new series for HBO! There’s no title for it yet, but it’s set to star Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter.
I’m a fan of the series that Ball has developed, and this new one definitely sounds interesting. Ball wrote all 10 episodes of the series, and according to Deadline, it’s a family drama that focuses on a multiracial family. This is what it’s about:
Philosophy professor Greg Bishop (Robbins), his lawyer wife Audrey (Hunter), their three adopted children from Somalia (Jerrika Hinton), Vietnam (Raymond Lee) and Colombia (Daniel Zovatto), and their sole biological child (Sosie Bacon). This seemingly perfect, progressive family is in actuality harboring deep rifts. Then, one of the children begins to see things others cannot. Is it mental illness? Or something else? The series is a tragicomic meditation on...
I’m a fan of the series that Ball has developed, and this new one definitely sounds interesting. Ball wrote all 10 episodes of the series, and according to Deadline, it’s a family drama that focuses on a multiracial family. This is what it’s about:
Philosophy professor Greg Bishop (Robbins), his lawyer wife Audrey (Hunter), their three adopted children from Somalia (Jerrika Hinton), Vietnam (Raymond Lee) and Colombia (Daniel Zovatto), and their sole biological child (Sosie Bacon). This seemingly perfect, progressive family is in actuality harboring deep rifts. Then, one of the children begins to see things others cannot. Is it mental illness? Or something else? The series is a tragicomic meditation on...
- 2/28/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Oscar winner Tim Robbins has closed a deal to play the male lead opposite Holly Hunter in Six Feet Under and True Blood creator Alan Ball's new drama series for HBO. Written by Ball, the yet-untitled 10-episode series focuses on a contemporary multi-racial family: philosophy professor Greg Bishop (Robbins), his lawyer wife Audrey (Hunter), their three adopted children from Somalia (Jerrika Hinton), Vietnam (Raymond Lee) and Colombia (Daniel Zovatto), and their sole…...
- 2/21/2017
- Deadline TV
Is Stephanie about to hang up her white coat at Grey’s Anatomy?
Jerrika Hinton has been cast in Alan Ball’s upcoming HBO series, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Ball’s tragicomic new drama follows the Bishops, a multi-racial family made up of a philosophy professor father, his lawyer wife (played by Holly Hunter), their three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia, and their sole biological child.
Hinton will play Ashley, one of the adopted children who is now the powerhouse behind an online fashion shopping site.
Jerrika Hinton has been cast in Alan Ball’s upcoming HBO series, our sister site Deadline reports.
PhotosGrey’s Anatomy Season 13: The 10 Most Heartbreaking Moments So Far
Ball’s tragicomic new drama follows the Bishops, a multi-racial family made up of a philosophy professor father, his lawyer wife (played by Holly Hunter), their three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia, and their sole biological child.
Hinton will play Ashley, one of the adopted children who is now the powerhouse behind an online fashion shopping site.
- 1/6/2017
- TVLine.com
Updated: Sosie Bacon (Scream), Daniel Zovatto (Fear the Walking Dead), Raymond Lee and Grey’s Anatomy co-star Jerrika Hinton will co-star opposite Holly Hunter in Six Feet Under and True Blood creator Alan Ball's new drama series for HBO. Written by Ball, the untitled series is described as a tragicomic meditation on the complicated forces at work on us all in America today. The show focuses on a contemporary multi-racial family and has now built a multi-racial cast…...
- 1/6/2017
- Deadline TV
Legendary’s upcoming adaptation of the John N. Maclean book, The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57, has found its director, in the form of Jim Mickle. Having successful helmed literary adaptation Cold In July, Mickle has been tapped to make Esperanza – the script for which has been adapted by relative newcomer Sean O’Keefe.
The source material provides an account of the very real arson fire that raged in Southern California in 2006, killing a Forest Service engine crew of five. The fire burned for four days in October of that year, before it was fully contained. In that time, it is estimated to have burned more than 61 square miles of land, destroying 34 homes, 20 outbuildings, and killing the five firefighters. The arsonist – whose conviction for murder was the first ever in a case of a wildfire arson attack – was found to be Raymond Lee Oyler. When convicted,...
The source material provides an account of the very real arson fire that raged in Southern California in 2006, killing a Forest Service engine crew of five. The fire burned for four days in October of that year, before it was fully contained. In that time, it is estimated to have burned more than 61 square miles of land, destroying 34 homes, 20 outbuildings, and killing the five firefighters. The arsonist – whose conviction for murder was the first ever in a case of a wildfire arson attack – was found to be Raymond Lee Oyler. When convicted,...
- 1/8/2015
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: UK distributor acquires rights to Lav Diaz’s Un Certain Regard entry.
UK distributor New Wave Films has acquired Lav Diaz’s epic drama Norte, the End of History.
The festival favourite, which debuted in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and has also played at Karlovy Vary, Locarno and Toronto among other festivals, begins as a riff on Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment but also alludes to Philippino class and politics, the country’s intelligentsia and its foreign-worker phenomenon.
New Wave, which acquired the film from producer is Raymond Lee after its screening at the London Film Festival, plans a spring 2014 release.
Cinema Guild had already acquired Us rights.
Screenplay is from Lav Diaz and Rody Vera. Cast includes Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Archie Alemania, Angelina Kanapi and Soliman Cruz.
Philippine New Wave director Diaz won Venice’s Orrizonti Award in 2008 for drama Melancholia.
UK distributor New Wave Films has acquired Lav Diaz’s epic drama Norte, the End of History.
The festival favourite, which debuted in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and has also played at Karlovy Vary, Locarno and Toronto among other festivals, begins as a riff on Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment but also alludes to Philippino class and politics, the country’s intelligentsia and its foreign-worker phenomenon.
New Wave, which acquired the film from producer is Raymond Lee after its screening at the London Film Festival, plans a spring 2014 release.
Cinema Guild had already acquired Us rights.
Screenplay is from Lav Diaz and Rody Vera. Cast includes Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Archie Alemania, Angelina Kanapi and Soliman Cruz.
Philippine New Wave director Diaz won Venice’s Orrizonti Award in 2008 for drama Melancholia.
- 11/28/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Legendary Pictures has picked up the rights to a nonfiction book called The Esperanza Fire written by John Maclean. It sounds like it will be a pretty intense film.
The story tells the real-life account of "a tightly-knit forest service engine crew which perished battling the perfect storm of wildland fires in 2006 near Cabazon, Calif. The blaze and resulting deaths resulted in the first-ever conviction of a wildland arsonist for first degree murder. Arsonist Raymond Lee Oyler was given the death penalty."
Maclean was an investigative journalist with the Chicago Tribune for many years, and his other books include Fire and Ashes and The Thirtymile Fire.
Legendary Pictures has a great year of films ahead of them; they've got Jack the Giant Slayer, Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, and The Hangover Part III all set to be released later this year.
Source: Variety (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118065851/?cmpid...
The story tells the real-life account of "a tightly-knit forest service engine crew which perished battling the perfect storm of wildland fires in 2006 near Cabazon, Calif. The blaze and resulting deaths resulted in the first-ever conviction of a wildland arsonist for first degree murder. Arsonist Raymond Lee Oyler was given the death penalty."
Maclean was an investigative journalist with the Chicago Tribune for many years, and his other books include Fire and Ashes and The Thirtymile Fire.
Legendary Pictures has a great year of films ahead of them; they've got Jack the Giant Slayer, Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, and The Hangover Part III all set to be released later this year.
Source: Variety (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118065851/?cmpid...
- 2/8/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Legendary Pictures has picked up the film rights to John Maclean's non-fiction novel "The Esperanza Fire."
The story is a real-life account of a tightly-knit forest service engine crew that perished battling "the perfect storm" of wildland fires in 2006 in California.
The blaze and resulting deaths resulted in the first-ever conviction of a wildland arsonist for first degree murder. Arsonist Raymond Lee Oyler was given the death penalty.
Maclean's father Norman wrote the famed novel "A River Runs Through It." John Maclean himself was an investigative journalist with the Chicago Tribune for many years.
Source: Variety...
The story is a real-life account of a tightly-knit forest service engine crew that perished battling "the perfect storm" of wildland fires in 2006 in California.
The blaze and resulting deaths resulted in the first-ever conviction of a wildland arsonist for first degree murder. Arsonist Raymond Lee Oyler was given the death penalty.
Maclean's father Norman wrote the famed novel "A River Runs Through It." John Maclean himself was an investigative journalist with the Chicago Tribune for many years.
Source: Variety...
- 2/8/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
John Maclean's non fiction work The Esperanza Fire will be adapted for film by Legendary Pictures Variety reports that the book is being released on Tuesday via Counterpoint publishers and is a real-life account of members of a close service engine crew who, in 2006, died while battling wildland fires near Cabazon, California. These deaths resulted in the first-ever conviction of first degree murder for of a wildland arsonist - Raymond Lee Oyler was handed the death penalty.
- 2/7/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
John Maclean's non fiction work The Esperanza Fire will be adapted for film by Legendary Pictures Variety reports that the book is being released on Tuesday via Counterpoint publishers and is a real-life account of members of a close service engine crew who, in 2006, died while battling wildland fires near Cabazon, California. These deaths resulted in the first-ever conviction of first degree murder for of a wildland arsonist - Raymond Lee Oyler was handed the death penalty.
- 2/7/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Director: Tsui Hark. Review: Stan Glick. Tsui Hark’s Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (China, 2011) recently was released in the U.S. as a single disc DVD and as a two-disc Blu-ray containing both 2D and 3D versions of the film. I was fortunate to receive the Blu-ray release to review, and since I don’t have a 3D TV, my comments will pertain largely to the 2D version. FSoDG takes place three years after the ending of Dragon Inn, the 1992 film directed by Raymond Lee and produced by Tsui, which in turn was a revisiting of King Hu’s classic Dragon Inn (1967). Once again there are evil eunuchs at work, doing dastardly things to upright officials and others. Jet Li, who starred in the first three Once Upon a Time in China films which were both produced and directed by Tsui, here plays Zhao Huai’an, a righteous swordsman...
- 10/11/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
The actor Chad Everett—best remembered as the star of the ‘70s hospital drama Medical Center and a memorable scene in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive—has died at 76, after a long battle with lung cancer. As one of the last contract players during the dying days of the studio system, Everett (né Raymond Lee Cramton) spent eight years doing journeyman work on TV, with guest shots on such series as Maverick, Lawman, Bronco, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Combat, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and Ironside, as well as tiny roles in such movies as ...
- 7/25/2012
- avclub.com
...Or: The Inventiveness of Filmcraft: How to Slide a Camera Down a Dune.
The finale of William Wellman's Beau Geste (1939), featuring Ray Milland and Robert Preston; cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl and Archie Stout:
The finale of Raymond Lee's Dragon Inn (1992), featuring Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Maggie Cheung and Donnie Yen; cinematography by Lau Moon-tong and Chow Gam-wing:
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The finale of William Wellman's Beau Geste (1939), featuring Ray Milland and Robert Preston; cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl and Archie Stout:
The finale of Raymond Lee's Dragon Inn (1992), featuring Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Maggie Cheung and Donnie Yen; cinematography by Lau Moon-tong and Chow Gam-wing:
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- 3/5/2012
- MUBI
The 16th Busan International Film Festival selected Tsui Hark as the ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year.’
Hark is known to have pioneered the Hong Kong New Wave in the 80s. He came into the spotlight with Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1982/ producer), which opened new SFX era in Hong Kong cinema.
Hark produced A Better Tomorrow (1986/producer), and The Killer (1989/producer), representative films of Hong Kong noir. He directed and produced, Once Upon A Time In China (1991) which made numerous series.
In 2011, he made his first 3D production, and the sequel of Dragon Inn (1992/director: Raymond Lee), The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate which will premiere in December.
The ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year’ award has been presented annually since the 8th Busan International Film Festival in 2003, to Asian Filmmakers who contribute to the advancement of Asian cinema. Indian director-producer Yash Chopra received this award in 2009.
Hark is known to have pioneered the Hong Kong New Wave in the 80s. He came into the spotlight with Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1982/ producer), which opened new SFX era in Hong Kong cinema.
Hark produced A Better Tomorrow (1986/producer), and The Killer (1989/producer), representative films of Hong Kong noir. He directed and produced, Once Upon A Time In China (1991) which made numerous series.
In 2011, he made his first 3D production, and the sequel of Dragon Inn (1992/director: Raymond Lee), The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate which will premiere in December.
The ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year’ award has been presented annually since the 8th Busan International Film Festival in 2003, to Asian Filmmakers who contribute to the advancement of Asian cinema. Indian director-producer Yash Chopra received this award in 2009.
- 9/2/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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