Jury included Thandie Newton, Jodie Whittaker and Alice Winocour.
UK director Myriam Raja’s The Third Sorrow, the story of a Nigerian immigrant and single mother who is preparing for her daughter’s “cutting” ceremony, has won the 16 Days 16 Films short film initative run by UK producer and distributor Modern Films and the France-based Kering Foundation.
16 Days 16 Films is aimed at filmmakers identifying as women, addressing issues around gender, inequality and discriminatin with a particular focus on the subject of gender-based abuse.
Nearly 150 submissions were received from France, Italy and the UK, all 25 minutes or under.
Raja wins a cash...
UK director Myriam Raja’s The Third Sorrow, the story of a Nigerian immigrant and single mother who is preparing for her daughter’s “cutting” ceremony, has won the 16 Days 16 Films short film initative run by UK producer and distributor Modern Films and the France-based Kering Foundation.
16 Days 16 Films is aimed at filmmakers identifying as women, addressing issues around gender, inequality and discriminatin with a particular focus on the subject of gender-based abuse.
Nearly 150 submissions were received from France, Italy and the UK, all 25 minutes or under.
Raja wins a cash...
- 12/16/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Jury and finalists selected for 16 Days 16 Films initiative.
The jury and finalists have been revealed for 16 Days 16 Films, the European short film initiative aimed at addressing issues around gender, equality and discrimination.
Bafta-winning actress Thandie Newton, Mustang writer-director Alice Winocour and Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker are among the jury members who will award one winner and two runners-up with cash and filmmaking support prizes.
The 16 selected films (see below) will each stream for one day from November 25 to December 10 through the social channels of Modern Films and the Kering Foundation, the corporate foundation of the Kering group, chaired...
The jury and finalists have been revealed for 16 Days 16 Films, the European short film initiative aimed at addressing issues around gender, equality and discrimination.
Bafta-winning actress Thandie Newton, Mustang writer-director Alice Winocour and Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker are among the jury members who will award one winner and two runners-up with cash and filmmaking support prizes.
The 16 selected films (see below) will each stream for one day from November 25 to December 10 through the social channels of Modern Films and the Kering Foundation, the corporate foundation of the Kering group, chaired...
- 11/25/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
UK distributor and production outfit takes Venice documentary.
Source: Wide House
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
Eve Gabereau, the long-time head of UK distributor Soda Pictures (now Thunderbird Releasing) who left the company last year, has officially launched her new outfit Modern Films.
The London-based distribution and production company has made its first acquisition with The Rape Of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski’s documentary that premiered at Venice last year.
Modern has UK and Ireland rights to the feature, which tells the story of 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper Recy Taylor, who was gang-raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite being at serious risk, she decided to speak up and identify her attackers, with the civil rights organisation the NAACP sending its chief rape investigator, and activist Rosa Parks, to support the young women.
The story was one of the era-defining civil rights moments and still has a legacy today. In Oprah Winfrey’s celebrated...
Source: Wide House
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
Eve Gabereau, the long-time head of UK distributor Soda Pictures (now Thunderbird Releasing) who left the company last year, has officially launched her new outfit Modern Films.
The London-based distribution and production company has made its first acquisition with The Rape Of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski’s documentary that premiered at Venice last year.
Modern has UK and Ireland rights to the feature, which tells the story of 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper Recy Taylor, who was gang-raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite being at serious risk, she decided to speak up and identify her attackers, with the civil rights organisation the NAACP sending its chief rape investigator, and activist Rosa Parks, to support the young women.
The story was one of the era-defining civil rights moments and still has a legacy today. In Oprah Winfrey’s celebrated...
- 1/31/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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