Berlin — Giant Brazilian TV network Globo has seen its bet on shorter-format series vindicated by the selection of two of their new series at this year’s Berlinale Series Market.
Distancing itself from the tradition telenovela narrative, one of Globo’s Berlinale players is ‘Unsoul’ a supernatural drama, rare in its nature as it allows its director, Carlos Manga Jr, to explore the narrative beats of the horror genre without loosing a certain melodrama flare so rooted in Latin American tradition.
The series follows the arrival of Giovana (Maria Ribeiro) and her two daughters at Brigida, a town of descendants of a large wave of Ukrainian immigration. She has decided to settle there and rebuild her life after the sudden suicide of her husband, who had deep family connections to the town. As Ivana Kupala, a folkloric Slavic celebration approaches, she is confronted by mysteries surrounding a crime of the...
Distancing itself from the tradition telenovela narrative, one of Globo’s Berlinale players is ‘Unsoul’ a supernatural drama, rare in its nature as it allows its director, Carlos Manga Jr, to explore the narrative beats of the horror genre without loosing a certain melodrama flare so rooted in Latin American tradition.
The series follows the arrival of Giovana (Maria Ribeiro) and her two daughters at Brigida, a town of descendants of a large wave of Ukrainian immigration. She has decided to settle there and rebuild her life after the sudden suicide of her husband, who had deep family connections to the town. As Ivana Kupala, a folkloric Slavic celebration approaches, she is confronted by mysteries surrounding a crime of the...
- 2/27/2020
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Partners just started production in New York on Tesla.
Passage Pictures has come on board to produce Ethan Hawke’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ 1953 play Camino Real, with Juliette Binoche attached to play a lead role.
Hawke adapted the screenplay with writer-composer Shelby Gaines, and starred in the play on stage at Williamstown Theater Festival. Camino Real takes place in a quasi-nihilistic, surreal isolated town in a tropical climate where the characters confront their existence amid a sensual, dream-like narrative of love and burlesque dancing.
Production is scheduled to begin in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 2020. Passage Pictures CEO Uri Singer...
Passage Pictures has come on board to produce Ethan Hawke’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ 1953 play Camino Real, with Juliette Binoche attached to play a lead role.
Hawke adapted the screenplay with writer-composer Shelby Gaines, and starred in the play on stage at Williamstown Theater Festival. Camino Real takes place in a quasi-nihilistic, surreal isolated town in a tropical climate where the characters confront their existence amid a sensual, dream-like narrative of love and burlesque dancing.
Production is scheduled to begin in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 2020. Passage Pictures CEO Uri Singer...
- 5/8/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Ethan Hawke will direct a film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ 1953 play “Camino Real,” starring Juliette Binoche.
Passage Pictures will produce. The film is expected to shoot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next year. John Sloss from Cinetic Media is also attached to produce alongside Passage Pictures CEO Uri Singer, Mario Peixoto (Singer’s Brazil-based partner at Passage Pictures) and Ryan Hawke from Under the Influence Productions.
Hawke, who previously starred in a stage production of “Camino Real” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, adapted the play with writer-composer Shelby Gaines. The play is set in a quasi-nihilistic, surreal, isolated town in a tropical climate. The characters confront their existence and purpose in a narrative of love and burlesque dancing. Hawke’s “Camino Real” will have a contemporary setting.
Passage is currently in production on Michael Almereyda’s “Tesla” in New York, in which Hawke plays Nikola Tesla opposite Eve Hewson and Kyle MacLachlan.
Passage Pictures will produce. The film is expected to shoot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next year. John Sloss from Cinetic Media is also attached to produce alongside Passage Pictures CEO Uri Singer, Mario Peixoto (Singer’s Brazil-based partner at Passage Pictures) and Ryan Hawke from Under the Influence Productions.
Hawke, who previously starred in a stage production of “Camino Real” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, adapted the play with writer-composer Shelby Gaines. The play is set in a quasi-nihilistic, surreal, isolated town in a tropical climate. The characters confront their existence and purpose in a narrative of love and burlesque dancing. Hawke’s “Camino Real” will have a contemporary setting.
Passage is currently in production on Michael Almereyda’s “Tesla” in New York, in which Hawke plays Nikola Tesla opposite Eve Hewson and Kyle MacLachlan.
- 5/8/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Ethan Hawke has signed on to direct a feature iteration of the 1953 Tennessee Williams play Camino Real, after having previously starred Kilroy in the stage production at the Williamstown Theater Festival in 1999. Passage Pictures is on board to produce the pic, which was co-written by Hawke and writer-composer Shelby Gaines.
Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche, known for roles in films such as Three Colours: Blue, The English Patient, and Let the Sunshine In, is attached to star in the adaptation. The play is centered in a quasi-nihilistic, surreal isolated town in a tropical climate, in which its characters’ confront their existence and purpose in a sensual, dream-like narrative of love and burlesque dancing.
Filming is slated to being next year in Brazil. Passage CEO Uri Singer will produce alongside John Sloss from Cinetic Media, Mario Peixoto, Singer’s Brazil-based partner at Passage, and Ryan Hawke from Under the Influence Productions.
Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche, known for roles in films such as Three Colours: Blue, The English Patient, and Let the Sunshine In, is attached to star in the adaptation. The play is centered in a quasi-nihilistic, surreal isolated town in a tropical climate, in which its characters’ confront their existence and purpose in a sensual, dream-like narrative of love and burlesque dancing.
Filming is slated to being next year in Brazil. Passage CEO Uri Singer will produce alongside John Sloss from Cinetic Media, Mario Peixoto, Singer’s Brazil-based partner at Passage, and Ryan Hawke from Under the Influence Productions.
- 5/8/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Passage Pictures head also lining up Nikola Tesla project to star Ethan Hawke.
Producer Uri Singer of Los Angeles-based Passage Pictures is in Berlin to talk up a potential TV series based on the life story of Carlos Gracie, one of the godfathers of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Singer, whose producer credits include Marjorie Prime and Experimenter, acquired rights to the book Carlos Gracie: The Creator Of A Fighting Dynasty by Gracie’s daughter, Reila Gracie. The book is regarded as the most important and accurate accounts of the Gracie family.
The tome recounts the story of the Brazilian martial arts dynasty...
Producer Uri Singer of Los Angeles-based Passage Pictures is in Berlin to talk up a potential TV series based on the life story of Carlos Gracie, one of the godfathers of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Singer, whose producer credits include Marjorie Prime and Experimenter, acquired rights to the book Carlos Gracie: The Creator Of A Fighting Dynasty by Gracie’s daughter, Reila Gracie. The book is regarded as the most important and accurate accounts of the Gracie family.
The tome recounts the story of the Brazilian martial arts dynasty...
- 2/9/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sao Paulo-based companies buy stake in Passage Pictures.
Brazilian producers Mario Peixoto and Mayra Auad have acquired a stake in Los Angeles-based Passage Pictures as the partners build a content stable.
Under the deal the Sao Paulo-based executives have established a fund with Passage to develop and finance its projects as CEO Uri Singer (pictured centre) focuses on elevated genre features for theatrical release, as well as TV series.
Peixoto (pictured at left) is the chairman and CEO of Delicatessen Films, which has produced TV shows for Brazil’s leading channels as well as Sony, and MTV. Auad (pictured at...
Brazilian producers Mario Peixoto and Mayra Auad have acquired a stake in Los Angeles-based Passage Pictures as the partners build a content stable.
Under the deal the Sao Paulo-based executives have established a fund with Passage to develop and finance its projects as CEO Uri Singer (pictured centre) focuses on elevated genre features for theatrical release, as well as TV series.
Peixoto (pictured at left) is the chairman and CEO of Delicatessen Films, which has produced TV shows for Brazil’s leading channels as well as Sony, and MTV. Auad (pictured at...
- 6/13/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sao Paulo-based companies buy stake in Passage Pictures.
Brazilian producers Delicatessen Films and YourMama Productions have acquired a stake in Los Angeles-based Passage Pictures as the partners build a content stable.
Under the deal the Sao Paulo-based companies have established a fund with Passage to develop and finance its projects as CEO Uri Singer (pictured centre) focuses on elevated genre features for theatrical release, as well as TV series.
Delicatessen, led by chairman and CEO Mario Peixoto (pictured at left), has produced TV shows for Brazil’s leading channels as well as Sony, and MTV. CEO Mayra Auad (pictured at...
Brazilian producers Delicatessen Films and YourMama Productions have acquired a stake in Los Angeles-based Passage Pictures as the partners build a content stable.
Under the deal the Sao Paulo-based companies have established a fund with Passage to develop and finance its projects as CEO Uri Singer (pictured centre) focuses on elevated genre features for theatrical release, as well as TV series.
Delicatessen, led by chairman and CEO Mario Peixoto (pictured at left), has produced TV shows for Brazil’s leading channels as well as Sony, and MTV. CEO Mayra Auad (pictured at...
- 6/13/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In those circles traveled by fans and collectors of anything home video, few things are more hallowed than The Criterion Collection’s first volume of their World Cinema Project DVD/Blu-ray series. One of the company’s most lauded and adored releases in recent memory, Volume 1 of Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project included six new restorations of six legendary films spanning the history of world cinema. From a foundational work in African cinema to a tale of sexual obsession that changed the history of Korean filmmaking, the first in this series has become one of the most important and exciting releases in recent Criterion Collection memory.
And finally, they’re back for a second round.
Again bringing to light six superlative films from across the world, “No. 2” as it’s billed on their website features a treasure trove of world cinema that in many ways rivals if not exceeds its predecessor.
And finally, they’re back for a second round.
Again bringing to light six superlative films from across the world, “No. 2” as it’s billed on their website features a treasure trove of world cinema that in many ways rivals if not exceeds its predecessor.
- 6/16/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
After four years Martin Scorsese is back with another six filmic gems from all corners of the Earth. Love struggles in the slums of Thailand and the economic boom town of Taipei; underdog heroes undertake troubled missions in Turkey and Kazakhstan, a Malay storyteller plays cinematic games with basic narrative, and a vintage Brazilian art film is pure visual poetry. They’ve all been rescued by the World Cinema Project.
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2
Blu-ray + DVD
The Criterion Collection 873-879
1931 – 2000 / Color + B&W / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 30, 2017 / 124.95
Directed by Lino Brocka, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ermek Shinarbaev, Mário Peixoto, Lütfi Ö. Akad, Edward Yang
I readily confess that in my patchy history of film festival attendance, I gravitated not toward the really obscure foreign films, unless they promise to be as entertaining as things I’m more familiar with. Based on the results, one of...
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2
Blu-ray + DVD
The Criterion Collection 873-879
1931 – 2000 / Color + B&W / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 30, 2017 / 124.95
Directed by Lino Brocka, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ermek Shinarbaev, Mário Peixoto, Lütfi Ö. Akad, Edward Yang
I readily confess that in my patchy history of film festival attendance, I gravitated not toward the really obscure foreign films, unless they promise to be as entertaining as things I’m more familiar with. Based on the results, one of...
- 5/23/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Museum of Modern Art’s festival of film preservation, To Save and Project, "feels like a yearly miracle," writes R. Emmet Sweeney in an overview of this year's edition for Film Comment. Among the highlights: Otto Rippert's Homunculus, Norman Foster's Woman on the Run, Ewald André Dupont's Verieté, Michel Brault's Les Ordres, Helma Sanders-Brahm's Germany, Pale Mother, Mário Peixoto's Limite, William K. Howard's The Trial of Vivienne Ware, Chantal Akerman's I, You, He, She, Ebrahim Golestan's The Brick and the Mirror, Orson Welles's The Deep and Ahmed El Maanouni's Oh the Days!. » - David Hudson...
- 11/5/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Museum of Modern Art’s festival of film preservation, To Save and Project, "feels like a yearly miracle," writes R. Emmet Sweeney in an overview of this year's edition for Film Comment. Among the highlights: Otto Rippert's Homunculus, Norman Foster's Woman on the Run, Ewald André Dupont's Verieté, Michel Brault's Les Ordres, Helma Sanders-Brahm's Germany, Pale Mother, Mário Peixoto's Limite, William K. Howard's The Trial of Vivienne Ware, Chantal Akerman's I, You, He, She, Ebrahim Golestan's The Brick and the Mirror, Orson Welles's The Deep and Ahmed El Maanouni's Oh the Days!. » - David Hudson...
- 11/5/2015
- Keyframe
Alejandro González Iñárritu was the "surprise guest" interviewer for Walter Salles who was presented with this year's the Founder's Directing Award at the Sfiff. For the most part, the Mexican filmmaker asked the Brazilian questions on the film's in his filmography and working with non-professional actors, but they managed to get into Salles' own background and the reasons why he turned to film. Always far from home, Salles' father was a diplomat and this lead him to watch a lot films in order to escape. The notion of the "traveling" cinema has become Salles' signature - his films feature characters who make life-altering road trips as cited in Central Station & The Motorcycle Diaries. As far as non-professionals are concerned, it depends on the roles. It took a year to cast the boy in Central Station because he was one of the main characters, where in MD it was mostly improvisation...
- 4/30/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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