The 13th annual Sun Valley Film Festival, kicking off Feb. 28, will aim to once again to capture the spirit of storytelling by celebrating poignant films at the Idaho ski resort town.
This year’s festival kicks off with “Ezra,” directed by Tony Goldwyn and starring Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne and Robert De Niro, and concludes March 3 with a screening of “Sugarcane,” a documentary about missing children at a Native residential school that recently won a directing trophy for Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat at Sundance.
The programming team also chose multiple films from first-time feature filmmakers, including Sophia Sabello and Pablo Feldman’s “Edge of Everything,” Annie Baker’s “Janet Planet,” Marc Marriott’s “Tokyo Cowboy,” Caroline Lindy’s “Your Monster,” while the documentary line-up includes Maggie Contreras’ “Maestra” and Lisa D’Apolito’s “Shari & Lamb Chop.”
Panels and starry tributes are planned at the fest, with movies screening at...
This year’s festival kicks off with “Ezra,” directed by Tony Goldwyn and starring Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne and Robert De Niro, and concludes March 3 with a screening of “Sugarcane,” a documentary about missing children at a Native residential school that recently won a directing trophy for Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat at Sundance.
The programming team also chose multiple films from first-time feature filmmakers, including Sophia Sabello and Pablo Feldman’s “Edge of Everything,” Annie Baker’s “Janet Planet,” Marc Marriott’s “Tokyo Cowboy,” Caroline Lindy’s “Your Monster,” while the documentary line-up includes Maggie Contreras’ “Maestra” and Lisa D’Apolito’s “Shari & Lamb Chop.”
Panels and starry tributes are planned at the fest, with movies screening at...
- 2/28/2024
- by Nick Clement
- Variety Film + TV
Meredith Hama-Brown’s feature debut “Seagrass,” starring Ally Maki, will debut in U.S. theaters on Feb. 22, beginning with special screenings with the cast and director.
Q&a’s will be held at New York’s Roxy Cinema and Los Angeles’ Laemmle Royal on Feb. 22 and Las Vegas’ Regal Theatre on Feb. 23. Maki will be in Los Angeles, Hama-Brown and cinematographer Norm Li will be in New York, and actor Chris Pang will be in Las Vegas. The film will also have its U.S. festival premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, screening on Feb. 12 and Feb. 13.
The synopsis for “Seagrass” reads, “Set in the mid 1990’s, a Japanese Canadian woman (Maki) grappling with the recent death of her mother brings her family to a self-development retreat. When her distressed relationship with her husband begins to affect the children’s emotional security, the family is forever changed.”
In addition to Maki and Pang,...
Q&a’s will be held at New York’s Roxy Cinema and Los Angeles’ Laemmle Royal on Feb. 22 and Las Vegas’ Regal Theatre on Feb. 23. Maki will be in Los Angeles, Hama-Brown and cinematographer Norm Li will be in New York, and actor Chris Pang will be in Las Vegas. The film will also have its U.S. festival premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, screening on Feb. 12 and Feb. 13.
The synopsis for “Seagrass” reads, “Set in the mid 1990’s, a Japanese Canadian woman (Maki) grappling with the recent death of her mother brings her family to a self-development retreat. When her distressed relationship with her husband begins to affect the children’s emotional security, the family is forever changed.”
In addition to Maki and Pang,...
- 2/6/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The 12th annual Sun Valley Film Festival runs from March 29th to April 2nd and will feature 18 narrative and documentary titles, including opening night selection, “Fancy Dance,” which is the directorial debut of co-writer Erica Tremblay, and the world premiere of Anthony Mandler’s “Surrounded,” which will close the festival. Award honorees include Josh Brolin, who will receive the Vision Award, and Sophie Thatcher, who will be given the Rising Star Award. “Last year, people were dying to get out, and this year our ticket sales are outpacing 2022. Once again, there’s a strong appetite for live events,” says festival founder and executive director Teddy Grennan.
Svff was launched on the backs of celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper, and Marilyn Monroe, who took lavish vacations to America’s first destination ski resort. A train, called the Snowball Express, ran from Los Angeles to Sun Valley, and it was common...
Svff was launched on the backs of celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper, and Marilyn Monroe, who took lavish vacations to America’s first destination ski resort. A train, called the Snowball Express, ran from Los Angeles to Sun Valley, and it was common...
- 3/31/2023
- by Malina Saval and Nick Clement
- Variety Film + TV
The Sun Valley film festival announced Emilio Estevez is set to receive the Pioneer Award at the festival’s upcoming pioneer party.
Estevez joins previously announced Sun Valley film festival honorees including Variety‘s 10 Producers to Watch, Josh Brolin, Sophie Thatcher and Nina Yang Bongiovi, who are set to receive the Vision Award, the Rising Star Award and the Variety Creative Impact Award in Producing, respectively.
On March 31, Estevez will receive his Pioneer Award, and on April 1, will host a special screening of his 2011 feature, “The Way.”
After collaborations “The War at Home” and “Nightbreaker,” Estevez joined his father Martin Sheen once more for “The Way,” a feature that Estevez not only starred in, but also directed, produced and wrote. “The Way” follows Tom (Sheen) as he embarks on a pilgrimage throughout the El Camino de Santiago after his son Daniel (Estevez) died while traveling through that very path. Estevez...
Estevez joins previously announced Sun Valley film festival honorees including Variety‘s 10 Producers to Watch, Josh Brolin, Sophie Thatcher and Nina Yang Bongiovi, who are set to receive the Vision Award, the Rising Star Award and the Variety Creative Impact Award in Producing, respectively.
On March 31, Estevez will receive his Pioneer Award, and on April 1, will host a special screening of his 2011 feature, “The Way.”
After collaborations “The War at Home” and “Nightbreaker,” Estevez joined his father Martin Sheen once more for “The Way,” a feature that Estevez not only starred in, but also directed, produced and wrote. “The Way” follows Tom (Sheen) as he embarks on a pilgrimage throughout the El Camino de Santiago after his son Daniel (Estevez) died while traveling through that very path. Estevez...
- 3/16/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
Actors Josh Brolin and Sophie Thatcher are set to receive top honors at the 2023 Sun Valley Film Festival amid a jam-packed slate of cinematic programming.
Brolin will take home the festival’s Vision Award, which is annually bestowed to industry gamechangers whose work has irrefutably shaped the entertainment sphere. The honor will be presented to Brolin during an April 1 ceremony, followed by a conversation on his career.
Most recently, Brolin starred in and executive produced the Prime Video series “Outer Range.” The actor scored an Academy Award nomination in 2008 for his performance in Gus Van Sant’s “Milk,” and has held key roles in other acclaimed films including “No Country for Old Men,” “American Gangster,” “Sicario” and “Oldboy.” The “Avengers” franchise star will join an elite group of past honorees such as Geena Davis, Clint Eastwood, Gal Gadot, Ethan Hawke and Amy Poehler.
Thatcher will take home the Rising Star...
Brolin will take home the festival’s Vision Award, which is annually bestowed to industry gamechangers whose work has irrefutably shaped the entertainment sphere. The honor will be presented to Brolin during an April 1 ceremony, followed by a conversation on his career.
Most recently, Brolin starred in and executive produced the Prime Video series “Outer Range.” The actor scored an Academy Award nomination in 2008 for his performance in Gus Van Sant’s “Milk,” and has held key roles in other acclaimed films including “No Country for Old Men,” “American Gangster,” “Sicario” and “Oldboy.” The “Avengers” franchise star will join an elite group of past honorees such as Geena Davis, Clint Eastwood, Gal Gadot, Ethan Hawke and Amy Poehler.
Thatcher will take home the Rising Star...
- 3/1/2023
- by Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
Variety is set to honor “Fruitvale Station” producer and Significant Productions co-founder Nina Yang Bongiovi with its Creative Impact in Producing Award at the Sun Valley Film Festival in Idaho in recognition of her many achievements.
At 10 a.m. March 31, she will participate in a Coffee Talk, which is the crown jewel of the festival, and a moderated conversation to discuss her career. The event is open to the public. The festival will also celebrate Variety’s 10 Producers to Watch event; they will be announced on March 15.
“Nina Yang Bongiovi is a compelling storyteller with an impressive filmography, and we are excited to celebrate her career achievement at the Sun Valley Film Festival,” said Steven Gaydos, Variety EVP global content and executive editor.
Working under the banner of Significant Productions with producing partner Forest Whitaker, Bongiovi’s credits include “Dope,” “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” “Roxanne Roxanne” and “Passing.” “Fruitvale Station...
At 10 a.m. March 31, she will participate in a Coffee Talk, which is the crown jewel of the festival, and a moderated conversation to discuss her career. The event is open to the public. The festival will also celebrate Variety’s 10 Producers to Watch event; they will be announced on March 15.
“Nina Yang Bongiovi is a compelling storyteller with an impressive filmography, and we are excited to celebrate her career achievement at the Sun Valley Film Festival,” said Steven Gaydos, Variety EVP global content and executive editor.
Working under the banner of Significant Productions with producing partner Forest Whitaker, Bongiovi’s credits include “Dope,” “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” “Roxanne Roxanne” and “Passing.” “Fruitvale Station...
- 2/17/2023
- by Julia MacCary
- Variety Film + TV
On the heels of a successful in-person event that welcomed such stars as Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, Liev Schreiber and “Dopesick” creator Danny Strong, the 2022 Sun Valley Film Festival, which ran from March 30 to April 3, announced its juried film award winners.
Best narrative feature film went to “Linoleum,” directed by Colin West. “Holy Emy,” helmed by Araceli Lemos, received a special mention. Ron Howard’s “We Feed People” netted the fest’s audience award.
The winners were announced during the Idaho fest’s annual awards bash, which took place at Whiskey Jacques on Ketchum’s main drag of town, and was hosted by filmmaker Bobby Farrelly and comedian Hayes MacArthur, with a musical performance by the Nude Party.
Voting jury members at the fest included Jo Addy (global film and entertainment director of Soho House), Eric Bress, Trevor Groth (film financier at 30West) and producer Heather Rae.
Other awards went to “Mama Bears,...
Best narrative feature film went to “Linoleum,” directed by Colin West. “Holy Emy,” helmed by Araceli Lemos, received a special mention. Ron Howard’s “We Feed People” netted the fest’s audience award.
The winners were announced during the Idaho fest’s annual awards bash, which took place at Whiskey Jacques on Ketchum’s main drag of town, and was hosted by filmmaker Bobby Farrelly and comedian Hayes MacArthur, with a musical performance by the Nude Party.
Voting jury members at the fest included Jo Addy (global film and entertainment director of Soho House), Eric Bress, Trevor Groth (film financier at 30West) and producer Heather Rae.
Other awards went to “Mama Bears,...
- 4/4/2022
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
On the eve of the 11th annual Sun Valley Film Festival, Vision Award honorees Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler are both experiencing a bit of déjà vu.
For three-time Oscar nominee Harrelson, it’s because he has just learned that his role in the reboot of his 1992 big-screen breakthrough, “White Men Can’t Jump,” will be played by rapper Jack Harlow.
“I don’t know him, but it’s fine with me,” Harrelson says. “I’ll look him up now. I don’t see [myself] being in it, but I feel great about them doing a remake. I just hope he’s a better ball player!”
For Poehler, talking about the fest, which takes place March 20-April 3 in Sun Valley and Ketchum, Idaho, makes her feel a bit like history is repeating. The Emmy-winning “SNL” co-host and “Parks and Recreation” alumna was set to receive the Vision Award in March 2020, but Covid...
For three-time Oscar nominee Harrelson, it’s because he has just learned that his role in the reboot of his 1992 big-screen breakthrough, “White Men Can’t Jump,” will be played by rapper Jack Harlow.
“I don’t know him, but it’s fine with me,” Harrelson says. “I’ll look him up now. I don’t see [myself] being in it, but I feel great about them doing a remake. I just hope he’s a better ball player!”
For Poehler, talking about the fest, which takes place March 20-April 3 in Sun Valley and Ketchum, Idaho, makes her feel a bit like history is repeating. The Emmy-winning “SNL” co-host and “Parks and Recreation” alumna was set to receive the Vision Award in March 2020, but Covid...
- 3/28/2022
- by Gregg Goldstein
- Variety Film + TV
Ernest Hemingway’s 1950 best-selling novel “Across the River and Into the Trees” gets the bigscreen treatment and its world premiere in the final resting place of Papa Hemingway himself at this year’s Sun Valley Film Festival. Star Liev Shrieber will be in attendence at the fest’s opening night special screening, March 30, to participate in a post-screening Q&a moderated by Variety Feature Editor Malina Saval.
The Sun Valley fest runs through April 3 and, in addition to showcasing Shrieber, will honor Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler and “Dopesick” showrunner Danny Strong. Robert MacLean, producer of “Across the River and Into The Trees,” is also expected to attend.
“Across the River and Into the Trees,” directed by Spanish director Paula Ortiz, is a film that resonates with the area’s rich cultural history in a way that cannot be understated. Hemingway’s gravesite in Ketchum, a short mile from the Sun Valley Lodge,...
The Sun Valley fest runs through April 3 and, in addition to showcasing Shrieber, will honor Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler and “Dopesick” showrunner Danny Strong. Robert MacLean, producer of “Across the River and Into The Trees,” is also expected to attend.
“Across the River and Into the Trees,” directed by Spanish director Paula Ortiz, is a film that resonates with the area’s rich cultural history in a way that cannot be understated. Hemingway’s gravesite in Ketchum, a short mile from the Sun Valley Lodge,...
- 3/23/2022
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Sales company Vim Worldwide has picked up global rights to Teddy Grennan’s thriller Wicked Games.
Starring in the pic are Christine Spang (Succession), Conner Ann Waterman (Chicago Fire), Michael Shenefelt (Postal), Markus Silbiger (The Violent Heart).
The logline is as following: when Harley (Spang) joins her new boyfriend for a long Halloween weekend at his country estate, they’re invaded by a band of masked freaks and forced to play a Wicked Game. To the intruders’ unpleasant surprise, Harley’s hard-boiled history has endowed her with a bag of tricks which give the game a surprise ending.
Here’s a debut trailer for the project:
Written and directed by Teddy Grennan (Ravage), the film has screened to date at genre festival including NYC Horror, Atlanta Horror and Sleepy Hollow Film Festival.
Starring in the pic are Christine Spang (Succession), Conner Ann Waterman (Chicago Fire), Michael Shenefelt (Postal), Markus Silbiger (The Violent Heart).
The logline is as following: when Harley (Spang) joins her new boyfriend for a long Halloween weekend at his country estate, they’re invaded by a band of masked freaks and forced to play a Wicked Game. To the intruders’ unpleasant surprise, Harley’s hard-boiled history has endowed her with a bag of tricks which give the game a surprise ending.
Here’s a debut trailer for the project:
Written and directed by Teddy Grennan (Ravage), the film has screened to date at genre festival including NYC Horror, Atlanta Horror and Sleepy Hollow Film Festival.
- 2/15/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
“I’m just not used to be chased around a mall in the middle of the night by killer robots.”
Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival Brings Frightfully Fun Feature And Short Films To You On Filmocracy.Com October 15-17, 2021. Visit www.SleepyHollowFilmFest.com For Programming & Tickets. Tickets On-sale .
“Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in continual reverie.” —Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
After its thrilling inaugural year in 2019, the Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival (Shiff) returns this October 15-17, 2021, in the comfort of your very own hollow, virtually bringing you a provocative and exhilaratingly eclectic selection of noteworthy feature films and short films via Filmocracy.com !
In the creative spirit of Washington Irving’s classic tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the actual town that inspired it,...
Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival Brings Frightfully Fun Feature And Short Films To You On Filmocracy.Com October 15-17, 2021. Visit www.SleepyHollowFilmFest.com For Programming & Tickets. Tickets On-sale .
“Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in continual reverie.” —Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
After its thrilling inaugural year in 2019, the Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival (Shiff) returns this October 15-17, 2021, in the comfort of your very own hollow, virtually bringing you a provocative and exhilaratingly eclectic selection of noteworthy feature films and short films via Filmocracy.com !
In the creative spirit of Washington Irving’s classic tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the actual town that inspired it,...
- 10/11/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Smoke And Mirrors : The Story Of Tom Savini: "Special Makeup Effects legend, Actor, Director, Stuntman. Tom Savini has redefined the horror genre with his arsenal on talents. But who is the man behind the "King of Splatter?" From his his childhood in Pittsburgh, Pa; to his tour of duty during Vietnam, to his beginnings with George A. Romero and beyond. Smoke And Mirrors is the defining documentary on the life and career of horror icon Tom Savini.
Featuring Tom Savini, Danny McBride, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo, Alice Cooper, Greg Nicotero, Tom Atkins, Corey Feldman, Doug Bradley, Bill Moseley, and more!
From Wild Eye Releasing, director Jason Baker's Smoke And Mirrors on Digital October 19."
Wide On Demand And Digital Release : October 19
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And Then! He Kissed Me: "A small bump on an otherwise smooth date sends Nastya on a gory journey of self actualization. "
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Screamfest® Horror Film...
Featuring Tom Savini, Danny McBride, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo, Alice Cooper, Greg Nicotero, Tom Atkins, Corey Feldman, Doug Bradley, Bill Moseley, and more!
From Wild Eye Releasing, director Jason Baker's Smoke And Mirrors on Digital October 19."
Wide On Demand And Digital Release : October 19
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And Then! He Kissed Me: "A small bump on an otherwise smooth date sends Nastya on a gory journey of self actualization. "
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Screamfest® Horror Film...
- 9/27/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
“The evolution of art is in constant flux,” says Ethan Hawke. “I don’t know what the future will bring.”
Hawke, one of this year’s Vision Award recipients at the 10th iteration of the Sun Valley Film Festival, has been championing independent cinema since he first emerged on the big screen as a teenager in such films as “Explorers” and the Oscar-winning “Dead Poets Society.” By the time he starred as intellectual slacker extraordinaire Troy Dyer in Ben Stiller’s now-cult classic “Reality Bites,” Hawke was the pop cultural embodiment of Generation X and the epitome of 1990s 20-something, post-collegiate ennui.
A four-time Oscar nominee — most recently for his 2014 turn in Richard Linklater’s experimental drama “Boyhood” — Hawke’s debut small-screen project, the Showtime pre-Civil War miniseries “The Good Lord Bird,” comes to the Sun Valley fest as not only a rousing example of American historical fiction, but Hawke’s unwavering commitment to high-quality,...
Hawke, one of this year’s Vision Award recipients at the 10th iteration of the Sun Valley Film Festival, has been championing independent cinema since he first emerged on the big screen as a teenager in such films as “Explorers” and the Oscar-winning “Dead Poets Society.” By the time he starred as intellectual slacker extraordinaire Troy Dyer in Ben Stiller’s now-cult classic “Reality Bites,” Hawke was the pop cultural embodiment of Generation X and the epitome of 1990s 20-something, post-collegiate ennui.
A four-time Oscar nominee — most recently for his 2014 turn in Richard Linklater’s experimental drama “Boyhood” — Hawke’s debut small-screen project, the Showtime pre-Civil War miniseries “The Good Lord Bird,” comes to the Sun Valley fest as not only a rousing example of American historical fiction, but Hawke’s unwavering commitment to high-quality,...
- 4/14/2021
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
— — Ravage (2019) Film Review, a movie directed by Teddy Grennan, and starring Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Robert Longstreet, Bruce Dern, Michael Weaver, Ross Partridge, Chris Pinkalla, Eric Nelsen, Drake Shannon, Joshua Brady, and Bennett Krishock. It’s not uncommon for survivalist revenge thrillers to peddle depictions of sadistic violence [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Ravage (2019): A Bare-Bones Revenge Thriller That Succumbs to Its Own Emptiness...
Continue reading: Film Review: Ravage (2019): A Bare-Bones Revenge Thriller That Succumbs to Its Own Emptiness...
- 1/14/2021
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Genre festival to open with ‘Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula’.
South Korean zombie thriller Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula will open UK genre festival FrightFest on October 22 ahead of its UK release by Studiocanal on November 6.
The festival will host 34 features in central London from October 22-25 and has secured seven world premieres and two European premieres.
It will close with the world premiere of US horror Held, directed by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, the filmmaking duo behind The Gallows franchise.
Further world premieres include Will Jewell’s Concrete Plans; Leroy Kincaide’s The Last Rite; and Dune Drifter from Marc Price,...
South Korean zombie thriller Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula will open UK genre festival FrightFest on October 22 ahead of its UK release by Studiocanal on November 6.
The festival will host 34 features in central London from October 22-25 and has secured seven world premieres and two European premieres.
It will close with the world premiere of US horror Held, directed by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, the filmmaking duo behind The Gallows franchise.
Further world premieres include Will Jewell’s Concrete Plans; Leroy Kincaide’s The Last Rite; and Dune Drifter from Marc Price,...
- 9/17/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
It’s not always necessary for horror genre protagonists to play by the rules in order to survive their harrowing ordeals; in fact, it’s often more exciting for audiences to experience the heroes’ frightful journeys when they break the standard precedents that cinema presents in other genre. In the new thriller, ‘Ravage,’ actress Annabelle Dexter-Jones’ heroine, […]
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- 8/23/2020
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Grindhouse type fare is a lost art. Whether it’s a horror effort or a thriller, being grim, gritty, and even gross is something that small scale filmmakers used to pursue to a far greater extent. Obviously, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino tried to recapture the glory with the literal titled Grindhouse, but there hasn’t been a real resurgence. To be sure, it’s hard to do this well, as multiple attempts to remake something like I Spit On Your Grave has proven. Ravage, however, manages to do more right than it does wrong. Unyieldingly intense, it somehow also reminds one of something like Kevin Smith’s Tusk (you’ll understand if/when you see it), which is a rare achievement. This won’t be for most, but if you go in for this kind of genre fare, it’s an interesting new offering. The film is a thriller,...
- 8/21/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
"They're watiing for you." Brainstorm Media has debuted the first trailer for an indie horror titled Ravage, which seems to be inspired by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. This first premiered at the GenreBlast Film Festival last year and hit a number of other genre festivals including Screamfest, Horrible Imaginings, and Dead by Dawn. The last old growth forest on the Eastern Seaboard - a place far removed from civilization. Harper Sykes finds herself a witness to something she doesn't understand. Now they want to kill her. Will she become like them in order to survive? Or become something even worse? Starring Annabelle Dexter-Jones as a nature photographer who fights her way out of the woods when strange culprits capture her. The cast includes Bruce Dern, Eric Nelsen, Joshua Brady, and Robert Longstreet. This looks terrifying. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Teddy Grennan's Ravage, direct from B-d's YouTube: In the film,...
- 7/9/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Brainstorm Media has acquired U.S. rights to horror film Ravage from Vmi, which is selling the pic at the virtual Cannes market.
Brit actress Annabelle Dexter-Jones (Succession), two-time Oscar-nominee Bruce Dern, and Robert Longstreet (The Old Man And The Gun) star in the film about a nature photographer (Dexter-Jones) who witnesses a violent crime while alone in the woods. After being captured by the culprits, she uses her survival skills to take them out one by one.
Brainstorm Media is planning to release the film in select theaters and VOD on August 21. The deal was negotiated by Michelle Shwarzstein and Steve Break for Brainstorm Media with J.D. Beaufils for Vmi, on behalf of the filmmakers.
Written and directed by Teddy Grennan, the film had its world premiere at the 2019 Genre Blast Film Festival and went on to win Best Feature at the New York City Horror Film Festival in 2019. Producers are Marsha Oglesby,...
Brit actress Annabelle Dexter-Jones (Succession), two-time Oscar-nominee Bruce Dern, and Robert Longstreet (The Old Man And The Gun) star in the film about a nature photographer (Dexter-Jones) who witnesses a violent crime while alone in the woods. After being captured by the culprits, she uses her survival skills to take them out one by one.
Brainstorm Media is planning to release the film in select theaters and VOD on August 21. The deal was negotiated by Michelle Shwarzstein and Steve Break for Brainstorm Media with J.D. Beaufils for Vmi, on behalf of the filmmakers.
Written and directed by Teddy Grennan, the film had its world premiere at the 2019 Genre Blast Film Festival and went on to win Best Feature at the New York City Horror Film Festival in 2019. Producers are Marsha Oglesby,...
- 6/25/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Ravage is a film from Teddy Grennan. Set in an old growth forest, Harper is a photographer on assignment. In the woods, she witnesses a crime and is then chased by the criminals. An indie thriller, Ravage was previously titled Swing Low. This title has shown at a number of film festivals, throughout 2019 and into 2020. Now, this terrifying title is ready for a wide release, later in 2020. Starring Annabelle Dexter-Jones (Under the Silver Lake), Bruce Dern and Robert Longstreet, a few early details for Ravage are here. Ravage has played at a number of horror film festivals. In the Summer of 2019, this title was at GenreBlast and Horrible Imaginings. At GenreBlast, Ravage won "Best Overall Feature," with another "Best Feature" win at the New York City Horror Film Festival. Future Stops include the Dead by Dawn Film Festival and the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival. There will be lots of...
- 3/30/2020
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
The Sun Valley Film Festival, which was scheduled to kick off Wednesday and run through March 22, has been canceled, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
"We are actively supporting the global and local effort to combat this pandemic by canceling this year's festival," Svff executive director Teddy Grennan tells THR. "The health and safety of our community and all of our participants is our top priority and we know this is the right and responsible decision."
He added, "With over $5 million dollars of economic impact to the community, this was not a decision that was made ...
"We are actively supporting the global and local effort to combat this pandemic by canceling this year's festival," Svff executive director Teddy Grennan tells THR. "The health and safety of our community and all of our participants is our top priority and we know this is the right and responsible decision."
He added, "With over $5 million dollars of economic impact to the community, this was not a decision that was made ...
- 3/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Sun Valley Film Festival, which was scheduled to kick off Wednesday and run through March 22, has been canceled, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
"We are actively supporting the global and local effort to combat this pandemic by canceling this year's festival," Svff executive director Teddy Grennan tells THR. "The health and safety of our community and all of our participants is our top priority and we know this is the right and responsible decision."
He added, "With over $5 million dollars of economic impact to the community, this was not a decision that was made ...
"We are actively supporting the global and local effort to combat this pandemic by canceling this year's festival," Svff executive director Teddy Grennan tells THR. "The health and safety of our community and all of our participants is our top priority and we know this is the right and responsible decision."
He added, "With over $5 million dollars of economic impact to the community, this was not a decision that was made ...
- 3/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sun Valley, Idaho has been a holiday haven for members of the entertainment industry since the golden era of Hollywood, when the likes of Gary Cooper and Clark Gable flocked to the affluent ski resort. Today, the area remains a favored vacation getaway for such actors and filmmakers as Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood and Chelsea Handler.
With a bounty of fir trees bedecked with twinkling lights and a blanket of pristine powdery snow, Sun Valley also marked the perfect spot for Variety and Sun Valley Film Festival’s Screening Series on Dec. 27 and 29, where more than 200 voting members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gathered at the Argyros Performing Arts Center for each of the two screenings—Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” and “The Cave,” the latest documentary from Oscar-nominated Syriran filmmaker Feras Fayyad.
Teddy Grennan, founder of the Sun Valley Film Festival, and Candice Pate, the fest’s director,...
With a bounty of fir trees bedecked with twinkling lights and a blanket of pristine powdery snow, Sun Valley also marked the perfect spot for Variety and Sun Valley Film Festival’s Screening Series on Dec. 27 and 29, where more than 200 voting members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gathered at the Argyros Performing Arts Center for each of the two screenings—Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” and “The Cave,” the latest documentary from Oscar-nominated Syriran filmmaker Feras Fayyad.
Teddy Grennan, founder of the Sun Valley Film Festival, and Candice Pate, the fest’s director,...
- 12/31/2019
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Sun Valley Film Festival founder Teddy Grennan was driving through central Virginia near his home in Charlottesville when he stumbled upon a feature news segment on NPR in which a rancher was discussing the use of pesticides and GMOs in cattle.
“The reporter from NPR was trying to get this rancher to talk about how pesticides and GMOs were bad for cows,” says Grennan, “and the rancher let the [reporter] finish and then says, ‘let me tell you something. The inside of a cow is one of the most toxic environments in the world. You put anything in the world in there and it’s going to digest it.’ And I thought, what if you stuff a person in it?”
That one thought — dark and twisted as it may be — formed the basis of what would become Grennan’s directorial debut, “Swing Low,” an indie slasher movie that he wrote with...
“The reporter from NPR was trying to get this rancher to talk about how pesticides and GMOs were bad for cows,” says Grennan, “and the rancher let the [reporter] finish and then says, ‘let me tell you something. The inside of a cow is one of the most toxic environments in the world. You put anything in the world in there and it’s going to digest it.’ And I thought, what if you stuff a person in it?”
That one thought — dark and twisted as it may be — formed the basis of what would become Grennan’s directorial debut, “Swing Low,” an indie slasher movie that he wrote with...
- 10/31/2019
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The 2019 Screamfest Horror Film Festival has taken a bite out of Eat, Brains, Love, setting the Rodman Flender-directed zombie romantic comedy as its opening-night film. The annual genre fest will run October 8-17 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood.
Eat, Brains, Love, which world premiered last month at the UK’s Frighfest, is about Jake (Jake Cannavale) and his dream girl Amanda (Angelique Rivera). The good news is she finally knows his name — but the bad news is both contracted a mysterious sexually transmitted zombie virus and devoured the brains of half their senior class. A teen psychic (Sarah Yarkin) sent by the government’s top-secret Necrotic Control Division is sent to track them down. Patrick Fabian also stars.
Mike Herro and David Strauss wrote the script based on the novel by Jeff Hart. The pic is produced by Tommy Coriale, Tony Disanto, Brian Hoff, Van Toffler and Cody Weig.
Eat, Brains, Love, which world premiered last month at the UK’s Frighfest, is about Jake (Jake Cannavale) and his dream girl Amanda (Angelique Rivera). The good news is she finally knows his name — but the bad news is both contracted a mysterious sexually transmitted zombie virus and devoured the brains of half their senior class. A teen psychic (Sarah Yarkin) sent by the government’s top-secret Necrotic Control Division is sent to track them down. Patrick Fabian also stars.
Mike Herro and David Strauss wrote the script based on the novel by Jeff Hart. The pic is produced by Tommy Coriale, Tony Disanto, Brian Hoff, Van Toffler and Cody Weig.
- 9/9/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Sun Valley Film Festival has set “Green Book” director Peter Farrelly as the judge for the sixth annual Film Lab competition.
The program, sponsored by Tito’s Handmade Vodka, which is in its sixth year, selects one team of filmmakers to work with the festival to complete their film projects. The director and producer of the winning film will receive travel, lodging and the chance to screen their rough cut during a work-in-progress event in Austin, Texas on Oct. 10. Additionally, filmmakers will gather critiques from an audience of filmmakers.
“The Film Lab is the embodiment of Svff’s core mission to provide practical support to filmmakers and to deliver industry access and unique opportunities,” the film festival’s executive director Teddy Grennan.
Filmmakers, upon receiving feedback, will finish their film with post-production company the Farm La, which will provide up to $185,000 in services and will screen as part of the official 2020 Sun Valley Film Festival,...
The program, sponsored by Tito’s Handmade Vodka, which is in its sixth year, selects one team of filmmakers to work with the festival to complete their film projects. The director and producer of the winning film will receive travel, lodging and the chance to screen their rough cut during a work-in-progress event in Austin, Texas on Oct. 10. Additionally, filmmakers will gather critiques from an audience of filmmakers.
“The Film Lab is the embodiment of Svff’s core mission to provide practical support to filmmakers and to deliver industry access and unique opportunities,” the film festival’s executive director Teddy Grennan.
Filmmakers, upon receiving feedback, will finish their film with post-production company the Farm La, which will provide up to $185,000 in services and will screen as part of the official 2020 Sun Valley Film Festival,...
- 7/22/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Aaron Paul is an Idaho boy at heart. The three-time Emmy winning star of “Breaking Bad” and producer and actor on Nickelodeon’s bawdy, subversive animated series “Bojack Horseman” currently makes his home in Los Angeles, but Paul was born in Emmett, a sleepy city about 30 miles outside of Boise, and escapes to the spud state to unwind and visit with family every chance he gets.
“I’ve lived in California for most of my life,” Paul told a packed crowd gathered at the Argyros Performing Arts Center in Ketchum, Idaho on March 15. “I love California. But Hollywood can be crazy. Coming back to Idaho is like a sanctuary for me.”
Paul’s Coffee Talk was one several standout events at the eighth annual Sun Valley Film Festival, which ran March 13-17 in the snowy playground for skiers and snowboarding aficionados. Paul, whom Variety honored at the fest with the Svff 2019 Pioneer Award,...
“I’ve lived in California for most of my life,” Paul told a packed crowd gathered at the Argyros Performing Arts Center in Ketchum, Idaho on March 15. “I love California. But Hollywood can be crazy. Coming back to Idaho is like a sanctuary for me.”
Paul’s Coffee Talk was one several standout events at the eighth annual Sun Valley Film Festival, which ran March 13-17 in the snowy playground for skiers and snowboarding aficionados. Paul, whom Variety honored at the fest with the Svff 2019 Pioneer Award,...
- 3/18/2019
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Eight years in, the Sun Valley Film Festival, running March 13-17, has established itself as a laid-back, picturesque event, where you’re as likely to be struck by the beauty of the setting — in the shadow of Idaho’s Bald Mountain — as by the films on screen.
Per executive director Teddy Grennan, this Idaho resort town, a three-hour drive from Boise, already has a rich cinematic history.
“Averell Harriman, who owned Union Pacific, wanted to start a ski town in the mountains, and he didn’t know how to launch it. So he hired this wunderkind, one of the original Mad Men who launched Miami Beach in the early 1900s. And the guy said, ‘Look, you own a rail line. Invite up all the Marilyn Monroes, all the hangers-on, and put it on the house.’ And they did just that. The only thing they asked for was to own the pictures of them — Hemingway,...
Per executive director Teddy Grennan, this Idaho resort town, a three-hour drive from Boise, already has a rich cinematic history.
“Averell Harriman, who owned Union Pacific, wanted to start a ski town in the mountains, and he didn’t know how to launch it. So he hired this wunderkind, one of the original Mad Men who launched Miami Beach in the early 1900s. And the guy said, ‘Look, you own a rail line. Invite up all the Marilyn Monroes, all the hangers-on, and put it on the house.’ And they did just that. The only thing they asked for was to own the pictures of them — Hemingway,...
- 3/4/2019
- by Akiva Gottlieb
- Variety Film + TV
The Sun Valley Film Festival will kick off its eighth edition March 13-17 in the Idaho ski resort town. More than 60 films will be screened at the festival, which also includes Coffee Talks (Gwyneth Paltrow was a guest speaker last year), a screenwriters lab and awards bash.
Variety is a media partner of the fest’s competitive Film Lab, now in its sixth year, with Emmy-winning producer and filmmaker Jay Duplass serving as judge of the competition, in which filmmakers of films-in-progress compete. The director and producer of the winning work-in-progress film will receive travel, lodging and insider access during the fest, where their film will be screen-tested for Svff audiences. After receiving festival audience feedback, the filmmakers will screen-test the film in front of select audiences before locking and completing the picture with Los Angeles-based post-production company The Farm Group, who will provide up to $185,000 in services. Tito’s...
Variety is a media partner of the fest’s competitive Film Lab, now in its sixth year, with Emmy-winning producer and filmmaker Jay Duplass serving as judge of the competition, in which filmmakers of films-in-progress compete. The director and producer of the winning work-in-progress film will receive travel, lodging and insider access during the fest, where their film will be screen-tested for Svff audiences. After receiving festival audience feedback, the filmmakers will screen-test the film in front of select audiences before locking and completing the picture with Los Angeles-based post-production company The Farm Group, who will provide up to $185,000 in services. Tito’s...
- 12/20/2018
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Los Angeles-based production and sales outfit has picked up international sales rights to James Sadwith’s coming-of-age story starring Alex Wolff and Chris Cooper.
Bleiberg will introduce Coming Through The Rye at Mipcom and Afm.
Eammon Films will distribute theatrically in the Us on October 14, with Samuel Goldwyn Films handling ancillary rights.
The film is set in 1969 as a misfit boarding school student sets off to find author Jd Salinger and embarks on an odyssey of sexual awakening and meaning. Cooper plays Salinger (pictured).
Stefania Owen and Adrian Pasdar also star. Sadwith makers his feature directorial debut from his screenplay and produced with Stan Erdreich and Teddy Grennan.
Jeff Steen and Alexandra Woodward are executive producers.
Wolff will next be seen opposite Mark Wahlberg in CBS Films’ Patriots Day and was has just joined Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black in Sony’s upcoming Jumanji sequel.
Cooper won the Oscar for Adaptation and his...
Bleiberg will introduce Coming Through The Rye at Mipcom and Afm.
Eammon Films will distribute theatrically in the Us on October 14, with Samuel Goldwyn Films handling ancillary rights.
The film is set in 1969 as a misfit boarding school student sets off to find author Jd Salinger and embarks on an odyssey of sexual awakening and meaning. Cooper plays Salinger (pictured).
Stefania Owen and Adrian Pasdar also star. Sadwith makers his feature directorial debut from his screenplay and produced with Stan Erdreich and Teddy Grennan.
Jeff Steen and Alexandra Woodward are executive producers.
Wolff will next be seen opposite Mark Wahlberg in CBS Films’ Patriots Day and was has just joined Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black in Sony’s upcoming Jumanji sequel.
Cooper won the Oscar for Adaptation and his...
- 10/6/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures has added boxing crime thriller Glass Chin to its Afm roster for all worldwide sales outside the U.S. House of Cards‘ Corey Stoll stars in the neo-noir Tribeca Film Festival entry as an ex-pugilist desperate to get back in the game who starts training a young fighter and gets involved in crooked dealings with a local restaurateur (Billy Crudup). Yul Vazquez (Kill the Messenger, Captain Phillips), Marin Ireland (I Am Legend, Hope Springs), and Kelly Lynch (The Jacket, Charlie’s Angels) also star. Noah Buschel (The Missing Person) wrote and directed the film which is produced by Louise Runge and Samantha Housman of Onezero Films, Susan Stover, and Sara Woodhatch. Lois J. Drabkin is exec producer. Myriad’s Audrey Delaney, Svp of Marketing & Acquisition, negotiated the deal with Cinetic on behalf of the filmmakers.
Oscar winner Chris Cooper is set to play J.D. Salinger in Coming Through The Rye,...
Oscar winner Chris Cooper is set to play J.D. Salinger in Coming Through The Rye,...
- 11/6/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Chris Cooper will play the reclusive author in Angel Grace Productions’ Coming Through The Rye.
Jim Sadwith makes his feature directorial debut on the coming-of-age drama set in 1969 about two teenagers on a quest to find Salinger.
The story is based on Sadwith’s actual quest. Stan Erdreich, Teddy Grennan and Sadwith produce.
Angel Grace Productions plans to launch official sales at the Efm in Berlin in February.
Jim Sadwith makes his feature directorial debut on the coming-of-age drama set in 1969 about two teenagers on a quest to find Salinger.
The story is based on Sadwith’s actual quest. Stan Erdreich, Teddy Grennan and Sadwith produce.
Angel Grace Productions plans to launch official sales at the Efm in Berlin in February.
- 11/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The distributor has acquired North American rights to Russell Friedenberg and Randy Redroad’s dramedy starring Johnny Sequoyah, Amy Smart and Victoria Smurfit.
Joshua Leonard, Natalie Imbruglia, Christian Campbell, Will McCormack and Friedenberg round out the cast.
Among Ravens will open theatrically and on VOD day-and-date on July 18 following its world premiere at the Nantucket Film Festival and as opening night at Galway.
Inspired by real events, the film follows events at a combustible July Fourth family get-together as seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old girl.
The Ass Backwards trio of Heather Rae, Teddy Grennan and Dori Sperko produced. Rae brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Melanie Miller for Gravitas...
Joshua Leonard, Natalie Imbruglia, Christian Campbell, Will McCormack and Friedenberg round out the cast.
Among Ravens will open theatrically and on VOD day-and-date on July 18 following its world premiere at the Nantucket Film Festival and as opening night at Galway.
Inspired by real events, the film follows events at a combustible July Fourth family get-together as seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old girl.
The Ass Backwards trio of Heather Rae, Teddy Grennan and Dori Sperko produced. Rae brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Melanie Miller for Gravitas...
- 6/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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