Former Dogwoof executive joins the documentary festival taking over from Anna Parker.
Patrick Hurley has been appointed head of marketplace at Sheffield Doc/Fest, taking over from Anna Parker beginning January 2017.
Karolina Lidin remains executive producer of the documentary festival.
As the current distribution manager at Dogwoof, Hurley has worked on documentary releases The Act Of Killing, Blackfish, Ken Loach’s The Spirit Of ’45 and Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next.
“I have no doubt Patrick will build on this terrific track record,” said Liz McIntyre, CEO and festival director. She added, “His significant experience in distribution, sales, marketing, his nurturing of new and emerging filmmakers and their ideas, along with audience engagement and a deep knowledge of the international non-fiction film market makes Patrick brilliantly equipped to lead on Doc/Fest’s industry activities.”
Hurley cites the programming of the Sheffield Doc/Fest as one of the factors that originally drew him to the UK...
Patrick Hurley has been appointed head of marketplace at Sheffield Doc/Fest, taking over from Anna Parker beginning January 2017.
Karolina Lidin remains executive producer of the documentary festival.
As the current distribution manager at Dogwoof, Hurley has worked on documentary releases The Act Of Killing, Blackfish, Ken Loach’s The Spirit Of ’45 and Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next.
“I have no doubt Patrick will build on this terrific track record,” said Liz McIntyre, CEO and festival director. She added, “His significant experience in distribution, sales, marketing, his nurturing of new and emerging filmmakers and their ideas, along with audience engagement and a deep knowledge of the international non-fiction film market makes Patrick brilliantly equipped to lead on Doc/Fest’s industry activities.”
Hurley cites the programming of the Sheffield Doc/Fest as one of the factors that originally drew him to the UK...
- 11/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
Writer-director Derek Cianfrance is anticipating a great response to his latest film, The Light Between Oceans. That literary adaptation is fast gathering positive word of mouth and, in promoting the film, Cianfrance has explained that his next adaptation, Empire Of The Summer Moon (co-written with Darius Marder), will be an epic re-telling of the tale of Quanah Parker.
The source material is Empire Of The Summer Moon: Quanah Parker And The Rise And Fall Of The Comanches, The Most Powerful Indian Tribe In American History, by S.C. Gwynne. Quanah Parker was a Comanche-English American who became one of the last Comanche chiefs (by U.S appointment), and who helped to settle the Comanche nation on the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation. His fascinating career within the nation was very much defined by his parentage, being the son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona, and English-American woman Cynthia Ann Parker.
Cynthia Ann Parker was...
The source material is Empire Of The Summer Moon: Quanah Parker And The Rise And Fall Of The Comanches, The Most Powerful Indian Tribe In American History, by S.C. Gwynne. Quanah Parker was a Comanche-English American who became one of the last Comanche chiefs (by U.S appointment), and who helped to settle the Comanche nation on the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation. His fascinating career within the nation was very much defined by his parentage, being the son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona, and English-American woman Cynthia Ann Parker.
Cynthia Ann Parker was...
- 9/2/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
May your 19th be beautiful.
On this day in history as it relates to the movies...
1536 Anne Boleyn is beheaded. Her tragedy is later reenacted by hundreds of actresses on tv, stage and film including Natalie Portman, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, and Genevieve Bujold (Oscar nomination).
1836 Cynthia Ann Parker is kidnapped in Texas during an Indian raid after her family is slaughtered. That's a tough break but not many people get to live on in history through multiple classics albeit under pseudonyms like "Debbie Edwards" (Natalie Wood in The Searchers) and "Stands With Fist" (Mary McDonnell in Dances With Wolves).
1925 Malcolm X is born. 67 years later Denzel Washington wins his second Oscar playing him (Shut up! This is our preferred version of history because Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. Ugh, really?)
1941 Nora Ephron is born spewing witticisms.
1958 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is released in movie theaters.
On this day in history as it relates to the movies...
1536 Anne Boleyn is beheaded. Her tragedy is later reenacted by hundreds of actresses on tv, stage and film including Natalie Portman, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, and Genevieve Bujold (Oscar nomination).
1836 Cynthia Ann Parker is kidnapped in Texas during an Indian raid after her family is slaughtered. That's a tough break but not many people get to live on in history through multiple classics albeit under pseudonyms like "Debbie Edwards" (Natalie Wood in The Searchers) and "Stands With Fist" (Mary McDonnell in Dances With Wolves).
1925 Malcolm X is born. 67 years later Denzel Washington wins his second Oscar playing him (Shut up! This is our preferred version of history because Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. Ugh, really?)
1941 Nora Ephron is born spewing witticisms.
1958 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is released in movie theaters.
- 5/19/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Feeling wide awake while asleep, she can't move... and she's not alone. Anna Parker's sleep paralysis strikes with a supernatural slant in Echoes, the feature film writing and directing debut of Nils Timm. With Echoes now available on Blu-ray and DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment, we had a chance to talk with Timm, who discussed taking a unique approach to the haunted house sub-genre, portraying the different social masks people wear in real life, his personal brush with sleep paralysis during filming, and much more.
What attracted you to the subject of sleep paralysis?
Nils Timm: Before I wrote Echoes, I was researching a lot of stories about lucid dreaming. I was experimenting with that a little bit myself, read everything about it, and interviewed several people in circles of friends and colleagues about this. At least one out of every six or seven people would say, ‘Yes,...
What attracted you to the subject of sleep paralysis?
Nils Timm: Before I wrote Echoes, I was researching a lot of stories about lucid dreaming. I was experimenting with that a little bit myself, read everything about it, and interviewed several people in circles of friends and colleagues about this. At least one out of every six or seven people would say, ‘Yes,...
- 4/15/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In the indie horror game, narrative storytelling is everything. Even on the tightest budget, with the most inexperienced actors, a filmmaker can still pump out the next big genre “thing” as long as it’s a story worth telling. Granted, the other aspects can’t equate to kindergarten bullshit and film school inexperience, but when a story is That tasty, so indulgently succulent and juicy, it’s hard to keep from scarfing it down.
With that said, Echoes is not horror’s next smash hit. It lacks the creative ingenuity of It Follows, the charm of Turbo Kid, and the practical goriness of Stitches, but it’s interesting enough to keep viewers at attention for a brisk hour and a half. I know that doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement, but compared to the heap of sloppy continuity-inept nightmares I’ve been forced to sit through recently, Nils Timm...
With that said, Echoes is not horror’s next smash hit. It lacks the creative ingenuity of It Follows, the charm of Turbo Kid, and the practical goriness of Stitches, but it’s interesting enough to keep viewers at attention for a brisk hour and a half. I know that doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement, but compared to the heap of sloppy continuity-inept nightmares I’ve been forced to sit through recently, Nils Timm...
- 4/14/2015
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Anna Parker's sleep paralysis strikes with a supernatural slant in Nils Timm's Echoes, due out on Blu-ray and DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment on April 14th, and we've been provided with a pair of Blu-rays to give away to a couple of lucky Daily Dead readers.
"An official selection of the New York City International Film Festival and FilmQuest Film Festival, winning Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Director honors, the highly anticipated supernatural thriller Echoes arrives on Blu-ray™ and DVD April 14th from Anchor Bay Entertainment. The feature directorial debut of Nils Timm (who also wrote the screenplay), Echoes explores the murky realm between reality and dreams, and what could happen when these worlds collide. With a stellar cast including Steven Brand (“Teen Wolf,” The Scorpion King), Kate French (Channeling, “Gossip Girl,” “One Tree Hill”), Billy Wirth (“Chicago P.D.”, The Lost Boys) and Steve Hanks (12/12/12, Hold Your Breath...
"An official selection of the New York City International Film Festival and FilmQuest Film Festival, winning Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Director honors, the highly anticipated supernatural thriller Echoes arrives on Blu-ray™ and DVD April 14th from Anchor Bay Entertainment. The feature directorial debut of Nils Timm (who also wrote the screenplay), Echoes explores the murky realm between reality and dreams, and what could happen when these worlds collide. With a stellar cast including Steven Brand (“Teen Wolf,” The Scorpion King), Kate French (Channeling, “Gossip Girl,” “One Tree Hill”), Billy Wirth (“Chicago P.D.”, The Lost Boys) and Steve Hanks (12/12/12, Hold Your Breath...
- 4/7/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Charlie Phillips to leave after seven years, replaced by the director of the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. Sheffield Doc/Fest director of programming Hussain Currimbhoy is also set to step down.
Sheffield Doc/Fest deputy director Charlie Phillips is to step down after seven years to take up a newly created position as head of documentaries at the Guardian, as part of its video team, from Oct 20.
Reporting to the Guardian’s executive editor of multimedia, Merope Mills, Phillips will be responsible for overseeing the acquisition and production of international documentaries of all lengths and genres.
Melanie Iredale will replace Phillips at the documentary festival from November and joins from Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, which she has directed since 2009.
Iredale has also been development consultant for Sheffield Doc/Fest since 2010, raising funds for new festival strands as well as arts and public-facing projects.
It has also been confirmed that director of programming Hussain Currimbhoy is leaving...
Sheffield Doc/Fest deputy director Charlie Phillips is to step down after seven years to take up a newly created position as head of documentaries at the Guardian, as part of its video team, from Oct 20.
Reporting to the Guardian’s executive editor of multimedia, Merope Mills, Phillips will be responsible for overseeing the acquisition and production of international documentaries of all lengths and genres.
Melanie Iredale will replace Phillips at the documentary festival from November and joins from Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, which she has directed since 2009.
Iredale has also been development consultant for Sheffield Doc/Fest since 2010, raising funds for new festival strands as well as arts and public-facing projects.
It has also been confirmed that director of programming Hussain Currimbhoy is leaving...
- 9/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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