Fellipe Barbosa Moves Out of Casa Grande
By Alex Simon
Brazilian cinema has traditionally been a mix of fantasies about the bourgeois class (Dona Flor and her Two Husbands) or dark tales of life in its slums, the flavelas (Pixote). Fellipe Barbosa delivers a debut feature that takes a serio-comic look at the changing face of the upper class in his country, with Casa Grande, winner of the Rio De Janiero International Film Festival’s Best Film prize, which opens November 15 at Cinema Village in New York and debuts online simultaneously via Fandor.
Casa Grande tells the story of a posh Rio family whose carefully-manicured façade is slowly crumbling as father Hugo (Marcello Novaes) runs out of money after a series of bad investments go south. Meanwhile, his teenage son Jean (Thales Cavalanti) attends a fancy prep school and is thinking about college, until finding love with a girl from...
By Alex Simon
Brazilian cinema has traditionally been a mix of fantasies about the bourgeois class (Dona Flor and her Two Husbands) or dark tales of life in its slums, the flavelas (Pixote). Fellipe Barbosa delivers a debut feature that takes a serio-comic look at the changing face of the upper class in his country, with Casa Grande, winner of the Rio De Janiero International Film Festival’s Best Film prize, which opens November 15 at Cinema Village in New York and debuts online simultaneously via Fandor.
Casa Grande tells the story of a posh Rio family whose carefully-manicured façade is slowly crumbling as father Hugo (Marcello Novaes) runs out of money after a series of bad investments go south. Meanwhile, his teenage son Jean (Thales Cavalanti) attends a fancy prep school and is thinking about college, until finding love with a girl from...
- 11/14/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
The 8th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is all set to run for ten days this Feb. 11-20 in Missoula, Montana. This year, the fest will have a whopping 140 film programs, a growth that necessitates an expansion from its regular home at the Historic Wilma Theatre — where it will occupy two screens — to also feature screenings at the former Pipestone Mountaineering store.
Special events at the fest include a free opening night screening of How to Die in Oregon sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. The film, directed by Peter D. Richardson, examines the impact the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has had on the state. (In 1994, Oregon was the first state to legalize the practice.)
Also, indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform their acclaimed live score of the films of pioneering French underwater documentary film director Jean Painlevé, something they have done for other film festivals all over the world.
Special events at the fest include a free opening night screening of How to Die in Oregon sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. The film, directed by Peter D. Richardson, examines the impact the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has had on the state. (In 1994, Oregon was the first state to legalize the practice.)
Also, indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform their acclaimed live score of the films of pioneering French underwater documentary film director Jean Painlevé, something they have done for other film festivals all over the world.
- 1/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
- One of my favorite films of the year was Fernando Eimbcke’s Lake Tahoe. The micro-budgeted, minimalist film came to life thanks to some coin in the form of an annual cash award that allows emerging filmmakers from four corners of the globe to fund their projects. For the past 13 years, the Sundance/Nhk International Filmmakers Awards has selected projects ranging from recent indie hits such as Miranda July’s Me And You And Everyone We Know and Oscar winning pics like Walter Salles’ Central Station. This year an international jury will award lucky winners during the Sundance film fest (January 22nd to be precise). Here are the twelve finalists which as usual, we’ll keep tabs on over the months/years to come.: Europe: Celia Galán Julve's Rosita GUZMÁN Is Alive (Spain) – When dangerous fugitive Rosita Guzmán disappears into the Mexican desert, criminologist Garcia Navarro, convinced that
- 11/11/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Twelve projects from emerging filmmakers from around the world have been selected as finalists for the 2009 Sundance/Nhk Filmmakers Award.
In its 13th year, the awards include an annual cash prize of $10,000 each to support new artists in international cinema. One recipient will be chosen from four global regions -- Europe, Latin America, the United States and Japan -- by an international jury and winners will be announced Jan. 22 at the Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 15-25.
The winning directors will also receive a guarantee from Japanese broadcaster Nhk to purchase the Japanese television
broadcast rights upon completion of their project. Additionally, each award recipient will receive ongoing support from Sundance Institute, providing mentorship and assistance in seeking opportunities to finance and distribute their projects.
The 12 finalists are:
Europe: Celia Galan Julve, "Rosita Guzman Is Alive," Spain;
Lucile Hadzihalilovic, "Evolution," France; and Marco Van Geffen, "Among Us," Netherlands.
Latin America: Fellipe Barbosa,...
In its 13th year, the awards include an annual cash prize of $10,000 each to support new artists in international cinema. One recipient will be chosen from four global regions -- Europe, Latin America, the United States and Japan -- by an international jury and winners will be announced Jan. 22 at the Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 15-25.
The winning directors will also receive a guarantee from Japanese broadcaster Nhk to purchase the Japanese television
broadcast rights upon completion of their project. Additionally, each award recipient will receive ongoing support from Sundance Institute, providing mentorship and assistance in seeking opportunities to finance and distribute their projects.
The 12 finalists are:
Europe: Celia Galan Julve, "Rosita Guzman Is Alive," Spain;
Lucile Hadzihalilovic, "Evolution," France; and Marco Van Geffen, "Among Us," Netherlands.
Latin America: Fellipe Barbosa,...
- 11/7/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Seven lucky receipients working on six projects are the 2008's Annenberg Film Fellows grants winners...or in other words, these folks got cash to keep the dream alive. Filmmakers Fellipe Barbosa, Frank Budgen, Daniel Casey, John Magary, Moon Molson, and Lara Foot Newton and Gerard Marx whom all were breathing fresh air and workshopping their projects in June at the Sundance Institute's Directors Lab will now plan the next steps in prepping for production. Here are the projects to keep an eye out for in 2010 and beyond...: Blood Abundance, Or The Half-life Of Antoinette/John Magary (writer/director): Set amidst poverty, with moments of both joy and upheaval, Blood Abundance, Or The Half-life Ofantoinette is a retelling of the chaotic life of Antoinette Dawson as she raises seven children in New Orleans. John Magary has written and directed several short films, including Site In Fishkill Creek, We Are All Guerrillas,
- 7/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- Submit a short film at Sundance. Get accepted. The relationship begins. A little more than 13 directors/screenwriters will be getting a helping hand via the likes of Robert Elswit, Stephen Gaghan, Atom Egoyan and Joan Tewkesbury this summer for the Sundance Institute's annual summer labs. Here are the following projects that will sweat it out in Utah this summer. The projects and participants selected for the June Directors Lab from May 26-June 21 are: Blood Abundance, Or The Half-life Of Antoinette/John Magary (writer/director), U.S.A.
Casa Grande/Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa (co-writer/director) & Karen Sztajnberg (co-writer), U.S.A./Brazil
MEADOWLANDZ/Moon Molson (writer/director), U.S.A.
Pariah/Dee Rees (writer/director), U.S.A.
Poletown/Daniel Casey (writer/director), U.S.A.
Return/Liza Johnson (writer/director), U.S.A.
Shockheaded Peter/Frank Budgen (writer/director), United Kingdom
TSHEPANG/Lara Foot Newton & Gerhard Marx (co-writers/co-directors), South Africa...
- 5/1/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- The Sundance Institute will workshop 13 projects at its January Screenwriters Lab, steered by a who's who of indie writers, including artistic director Scott Frank, Paul Attanasio, Kasi Lemmons, Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and Doug Wright.
Towelhead author Alicia Erian, whose novel was adapted for Alan Ball's upcoming Nothing Is Private, is developing a script about an American who faces repercussions after helping a Salvadoran immigrant in Hammer and Anvil.
The other projects include Liu Hao's Beijing romance Addicted to Love; John Magary's family drama "Blood Abundance, or the Half-Life of Antoinette"; Ryan Knighton's autobiographical blindness drama Cockeyed; and Hadar Friedlich's Israeli profile Hannah M.
Patrick Vala-Haynes' father-son drama The Henchman; Moon Molson's crime drama Meadowlandz; Daniel Casey's Polish-American boxing story Poletown; and Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa and Karen Sztajnberg's Brazilian coming-of-age drama Quotas also made the cut.
Rounding out the list are Liza Johnson's portrait of a military mother, Return; Hicham Ayouch's Moroccan Muslim drama Samba Do Maazouuz; Frank Budgen's adult U.K. fairy tale, Shockheaded Peter; and Darrell Dennis' study of a Native American woman in Canada, Tales of an Urban Indian.
Other Screenwriters Lab advisers include Rodrigo Garcia, Dan Kleinman, Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Malia Scotch Marmo, Christopher McQuarrie, Walter Mosley, Tom Rickman, Howard Rodman, Susan Shilliday, Zachary Sklar, Dana Stevens, Thomas Vinterberg and Tyger Williams.
Towelhead author Alicia Erian, whose novel was adapted for Alan Ball's upcoming Nothing Is Private, is developing a script about an American who faces repercussions after helping a Salvadoran immigrant in Hammer and Anvil.
The other projects include Liu Hao's Beijing romance Addicted to Love; John Magary's family drama "Blood Abundance, or the Half-Life of Antoinette"; Ryan Knighton's autobiographical blindness drama Cockeyed; and Hadar Friedlich's Israeli profile Hannah M.
Patrick Vala-Haynes' father-son drama The Henchman; Moon Molson's crime drama Meadowlandz; Daniel Casey's Polish-American boxing story Poletown; and Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa and Karen Sztajnberg's Brazilian coming-of-age drama Quotas also made the cut.
Rounding out the list are Liza Johnson's portrait of a military mother, Return; Hicham Ayouch's Moroccan Muslim drama Samba Do Maazouuz; Frank Budgen's adult U.K. fairy tale, Shockheaded Peter; and Darrell Dennis' study of a Native American woman in Canada, Tales of an Urban Indian.
Other Screenwriters Lab advisers include Rodrigo Garcia, Dan Kleinman, Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Malia Scotch Marmo, Christopher McQuarrie, Walter Mosley, Tom Rickman, Howard Rodman, Susan Shilliday, Zachary Sklar, Dana Stevens, Thomas Vinterberg and Tyger Williams.
- 12/14/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Water them, nourish them, provide sunlight and show em your love and they will produce yummy results. This is what the folks at Sundance Institute do year in and year out and before the circus comes to town in mid January there are 13 folks that will pack their bags for a working-vacation reserved to the new talents. I've got my ear to the ground and follow the trades so only a few of these names actually ring a bell, but for the most part these are unknowns and these film projects mean zilch: that is until the day the premiere at a major film festival and gain tons of accolades. The annual January Screenwriters Lab, (January 11-16, 2008) is a five-day writer’s workshop that gives independent screenwriters the opportunity to work intensively on their feature film scripts with the support of established writers in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-taking.
- 12/13/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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