Brazil has selected Kleber Mendonça Filho’s documentary Pictures of Ghosts as its entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
Mixing archive and contemporary footage, the deeply personal work revisits the director’s hometown of Recife through the cinemas he once frequented.
The film world premiered as a Special Screening at Cannes in May and had its North American premiere September 9 in Toronto, before heading to New York.
Grasshopper Films acquired U.S. rights this summer. Paris-based Urban sales handles international sales.
The Brazilian Cinema Academy selected the film on Tuesday from a shortlist which also included Guto Parente’s A Strange Path, Sergio de Carvalho’s Alien Nights, Eduardo Albergaria’s Nosso Sonho, Carolina Markowicz’s Toll and Claudio Borrelli’s Vultures.
The selection was made by a 23-member committee, chaired by distributor and exhibitor Ilda Santiago.
Mendonça Filho thanked the academy for selecting the film in a media post,...
Mixing archive and contemporary footage, the deeply personal work revisits the director’s hometown of Recife through the cinemas he once frequented.
The film world premiered as a Special Screening at Cannes in May and had its North American premiere September 9 in Toronto, before heading to New York.
Grasshopper Films acquired U.S. rights this summer. Paris-based Urban sales handles international sales.
The Brazilian Cinema Academy selected the film on Tuesday from a shortlist which also included Guto Parente’s A Strange Path, Sergio de Carvalho’s Alien Nights, Eduardo Albergaria’s Nosso Sonho, Carolina Markowicz’s Toll and Claudio Borrelli’s Vultures.
The selection was made by a 23-member committee, chaired by distributor and exhibitor Ilda Santiago.
Mendonça Filho thanked the academy for selecting the film in a media post,...
- 9/12/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Rio Intl. Film Festival wrapped Monday amid political tension and with a strong local competition that awarded Marcelo Gomes’ “Paloma” the top film prize. It is based on the true story of a poor trans woman who struggled to marry her partner in a religious ceremony.
Following compact editions over the past three years, Rio Fest – traditionally Latin America’s main film fest – regained part of its original size and importance, as it premiered locally about 120 features selected from the top international film fests, resumed outdoor screenings and featured a hybrid market.
The highlight was Premiere Brasil, the competition of 86 features and shorts for the Redentor kudos.
Adirley Queiros’ and Joana Pimenta’s “Mato Seco em Chamas,” a Brazil/Portugal coproduction, received the jury special prize. The pic combines both fiction and doc elements to tell the story of two sisters who lead a gang that sells oil stolen from a pipeline.
Following compact editions over the past three years, Rio Fest – traditionally Latin America’s main film fest – regained part of its original size and importance, as it premiered locally about 120 features selected from the top international film fests, resumed outdoor screenings and featured a hybrid market.
The highlight was Premiere Brasil, the competition of 86 features and shorts for the Redentor kudos.
Adirley Queiros’ and Joana Pimenta’s “Mato Seco em Chamas,” a Brazil/Portugal coproduction, received the jury special prize. The pic combines both fiction and doc elements to tell the story of two sisters who lead a gang that sells oil stolen from a pipeline.
- 10/17/2022
- by Marcelo Cajueiro
- Variety Film + TV
Seventy-one Brazilian features and shorts as well as international awards contenders.
The Festival do Rio has launched a compact in-person 2021 edition after missing a year due to Covid and kicked off with the Brazilian premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers.
The 23rd edition runs through December 19 and includes 71 Brazilian features and shorts in Première Brasil with work by Julio Bressane, Karim Ainouz, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, among others.
A lively international component encompasses Joe Wright’s Cyrano, Julia Ducournau’s Titane, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, Andrea Arnold’s Cow, Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta, and...
The Festival do Rio has launched a compact in-person 2021 edition after missing a year due to Covid and kicked off with the Brazilian premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers.
The 23rd edition runs through December 19 and includes 71 Brazilian features and shorts in Première Brasil with work by Julio Bressane, Karim Ainouz, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, among others.
A lively international component encompasses Joe Wright’s Cyrano, Julia Ducournau’s Titane, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, Andrea Arnold’s Cow, Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta, and...
- 12/13/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Charades, the sales firm launched three years ago by former execs at Wild Bunch, Gaumont and Studiocanal, will roll into the Berlinale’s European Film Market with a raft of pre-sales on anticipated French projects, including “The Rosemaker” with Catherine Frot and Laurent Tirard’s “The Speech.”
Charades will unveil the promos of both films, as well as “Madeleine Collins,” Antoine Barraud’s psychological drama headlined by Virginie Efira, and will be hosting the market premieres of Sebastien Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet” which is generating strong box office returns in France, where it opened last week, and Bruno Merle’s “Felicita.”
A psychological drama, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Roschdy Zem, “The Girl With a Bracelet,” has already attracted 100,000 admissions in five days. The film follows a 16-year-old who stands trial for the murder of her best friend and begins to confess to a secret life that she kept from her parents.
Charades will unveil the promos of both films, as well as “Madeleine Collins,” Antoine Barraud’s psychological drama headlined by Virginie Efira, and will be hosting the market premieres of Sebastien Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet” which is generating strong box office returns in France, where it opened last week, and Bruno Merle’s “Felicita.”
A psychological drama, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Roschdy Zem, “The Girl With a Bracelet,” has already attracted 100,000 admissions in five days. The film follows a 16-year-old who stands trial for the murder of her best friend and begins to confess to a secret life that she kept from her parents.
- 2/18/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The first international festival to have signed the pledge for gender equality in 2018, the Cannes Film Festival now boasts a new selection committee including five women and five men.
The names of the committee members were unveiled by Thierry Fremaux, the director of Cannes Film Festival, and Christian Jeune, the head of the department and deputy director, as well as Stephanie Lanome, the artistic advisor of the film department who has also been a member of the selection committee for a decade.
The committee of the 2020 edition includes Virginie Apiou, a journalist who has directed TV documentaries about film, notably for Canal Plus and Arte; Johanna Nahon, a young script doctor and producer who previously worked with French producer Charles Gillibert, and industry veteran Hengameh Panahi at Celluloid Dreams, where Nahon headed up the acquisition department from 2016 to 2018; Guillemette Odicino, a journalist, critic and head of the film department at Télérama,...
The names of the committee members were unveiled by Thierry Fremaux, the director of Cannes Film Festival, and Christian Jeune, the head of the department and deputy director, as well as Stephanie Lanome, the artistic advisor of the film department who has also been a member of the selection committee for a decade.
The committee of the 2020 edition includes Virginie Apiou, a journalist who has directed TV documentaries about film, notably for Canal Plus and Arte; Johanna Nahon, a young script doctor and producer who previously worked with French producer Charles Gillibert, and industry veteran Hengameh Panahi at Celluloid Dreams, where Nahon headed up the acquisition department from 2016 to 2018; Guillemette Odicino, a journalist, critic and head of the film department at Télérama,...
- 2/18/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s committee includes Virginie Apiou, Paul Grandsard, Laurent Jacob and Johanna Nahon.
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its selection committee for its 72nd edition, which runs May 12-23.
The committee was selected by general delegate Thierry Frémaux, film department director Christian Jeune and artistic advisor of the film department Stéphanie Lamome ((a member of the selection committee for 10 years).
This year’s committee has nine members, up by one from last year. Seven of the members are the same; script doctor and producer Johanna Nahon and film journalist Caroline Veunac are the new members, with Marie Sauvion no longer a member.
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its selection committee for its 72nd edition, which runs May 12-23.
The committee was selected by general delegate Thierry Frémaux, film department director Christian Jeune and artistic advisor of the film department Stéphanie Lamome ((a member of the selection committee for 10 years).
This year’s committee has nine members, up by one from last year. Seven of the members are the same; script doctor and producer Johanna Nahon and film journalist Caroline Veunac are the new members, with Marie Sauvion no longer a member.
- 2/17/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Rio De Janeiro — The 21st Rio Intl. Film Fest opens Monday Dec. 9t with the screening of Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” in the Odeon landmark theater. The smaller than usual edition, which was almost cancelled due to the lack of municipal backing, reflects the crisis of Brazil’s film sector, involved in a battle with the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro.
The once largest film fest in Latin America will feature this year about 100 international features, down from some 350 in the last fully sponsored edition in 2016. The recession that hit Brazil in 2015 and mainly politics explain the downsizing. Rio’s mayor Marcelo Crivella, a “bishop” of the fundamentalist Universal Church of God’s Kingdom elected in 2016, withdrew City Hall’s long-standing sponsorship for the fest in the 2017 edition.
Federal government shifted from left to cut-spending right, and government bank Bndes cut the fest sponsorship as of the 2018 edition, while...
The once largest film fest in Latin America will feature this year about 100 international features, down from some 350 in the last fully sponsored edition in 2016. The recession that hit Brazil in 2015 and mainly politics explain the downsizing. Rio’s mayor Marcelo Crivella, a “bishop” of the fundamentalist Universal Church of God’s Kingdom elected in 2016, withdrew City Hall’s long-standing sponsorship for the fest in the 2017 edition.
Federal government shifted from left to cut-spending right, and government bank Bndes cut the fest sponsorship as of the 2018 edition, while...
- 12/7/2019
- by Marcelo Cajueiro
- Variety Film + TV
Festival organizers from around the world Tuesday discussed the challenges of remaining relevant in a digital era at a Shanghai International Film Festival forum.
The Festival do Rio’s executive director, Ilda Santiago, noted that online platforms are now an unavoidable part of the film business and creative process, and that “of course not all of them are so keen on physical festivals.” Her festival in Rio de Janeiro has tried to work in a limited way with online streaming, and she will continue to explore such avenues as long as online services were “expanding the possibilities of the films… and what we do,” she said.
“We can’t have 1,000 films in the festival, but I’m sure there are 1,000 good films to be screened. I’m old school in that I still think the big screen is the thing, but… I don’t want the audience to be imprisoned,...
The Festival do Rio’s executive director, Ilda Santiago, noted that online platforms are now an unavoidable part of the film business and creative process, and that “of course not all of them are so keen on physical festivals.” Her festival in Rio de Janeiro has tried to work in a limited way with online streaming, and she will continue to explore such avenues as long as online services were “expanding the possibilities of the films… and what we do,” she said.
“We can’t have 1,000 films in the festival, but I’m sure there are 1,000 good films to be screened. I’m old school in that I still think the big screen is the thing, but… I don’t want the audience to be imprisoned,...
- 6/18/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Ambitious Finnish drama The White Wall is to travel globally after distributor Drg boarded the series for international sales. The eight-part sci-fi drama is about a mysterious white wall found deep underground at the mining site of the world’s largest nuclear waste depository and is produced by Finland’s Fire Monkey and Sweden’s Nice Drama for Yle and Sweden’s Svt. Drg will distribute the series, which co-created by Angry Birds writer Mikko Pöllä and A Man’s Job’s Aleksi Salmenperä, starting at Natpe. Dave Clarke, Drg’s Evp of content, said, “The White Wall is set to be one of the most exciting and ambitious scripted series to come out of Scandinavia in recent years. Its unique storyline, containing universal themes about relationships and human curiosity, high production values and superb cast will definitely get the series noticed. It will also surprise those who assume that...
- 1/16/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman and Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Stéphanie Lamome appointed as artistic advisor of the film department.
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the composition of its selection committee for its 71st edition running May 14-25 this year.
The festival also announced that general delegate Thierry Frémaux and film department director Christian Jeune had appointed Stéphanie Lamome as artistic advisor of the film department.
Lamome was already a member of the eight-person selection committee. In her new role, she joins the festival’s organising team, while continuing to work on the selection, particularly around young French cinema.
The festival noted that as well as the selection committee,...
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the composition of its selection committee for its 71st edition running May 14-25 this year.
The festival also announced that general delegate Thierry Frémaux and film department director Christian Jeune had appointed Stéphanie Lamome as artistic advisor of the film department.
Lamome was already a member of the eight-person selection committee. In her new role, she joins the festival’s organising team, while continuing to work on the selection, particularly around young French cinema.
The festival noted that as well as the selection committee,...
- 1/15/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Panelists also discussed the volume of film content submitted to festivals.
This year’s Think Fest - Jerusalem Film Festival’s platform to discuss the future of film festivals - kicked off with a discussion about how filmmakers can implement an effective festival strategy.
Gordon Spragg, a partner at publicity and marketing film Wolf Consultants, said that filmmakers should be thinking about festivals as early as the production stage. However, Anna Purkrabkova, program coordinator at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, cautioned that applying to festivals too early is a misstep. “Programmers don’t want to see the film twice,” she said.
This year’s Think Fest - Jerusalem Film Festival’s platform to discuss the future of film festivals - kicked off with a discussion about how filmmakers can implement an effective festival strategy.
Gordon Spragg, a partner at publicity and marketing film Wolf Consultants, said that filmmakers should be thinking about festivals as early as the production stage. However, Anna Purkrabkova, program coordinator at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, cautioned that applying to festivals too early is a misstep. “Programmers don’t want to see the film twice,” she said.
- 7/28/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The Hollywood Film Awards® was founded in 1997 and honors excellence in filmmaking and traditionally signals the Official Launch of the Award Season®. The HFAs showcase to the public at large previews of quality films released during the calendar year. The first-ever Hollywood Film Awards® gala took place in October 1997 in the historic Blossom Room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in Hollywood. Kirk Douglas took home the inaugural “Hollywood Lifetime Achievement Award.” The Hollywood Film Awards launch the awards season. Over the past 18 years, prior honorees have gone on to garner many Oscar nominations and wins. With participating Hollywood insiders, our Advisory Team identifies and selects the recipients of our honors. Our winners are pre-selected to receive our awards. Our selection is based on their outstanding achievement and contribution to the art of cinema. They are not “nominees.” 2014 honorees included some of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Keira Knightley,...
- 10/2/2015
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Hollywood Film Awards honor established Hollywood artists. The criteria for these awards is based on the recipient’s body of work and/or a film that they have coming out this year. These awards are bestowed in all disciplines of filmmaking*: Career, Leadership, Producer, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Editor, Film Composer, Production Designer, Costume Designer, Animation, and Visual Effects. Our award/tribute recipients are selected by our Advisory Team which is comprised of a cross section of Hollywood professionals. To read more about the Hollywood Film Awards The selection process for our honorees takes multiple elements into consideration and involves attending pre-press private industry screenings, press screenings, festival screenings, and research. It also includes the support and participation of established entertainment industry executives, from agents, critics, directors, managers, producers, publicists, screenwriters and studio execs to members of the craft guilds. With participating Hollywood insiders,...
- 10/2/2015
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
A big congrats to Lenny Abrahamson's "Room" for winning the Grolsch's People's Choice Awards at the recently concluded 40th Toronto International Film Festival! It's safe to say that "Room" will see a future at the Academy Awards. Previous winners that went on to grab the Best Picture Oscar were "Slumdog Millionaire," "The King's Speech," and "12 Years A Slave."
Here's the complete winners and press release from Tiff:
The Toronto International Film Festival® today announced award winners from the 40th Festival, which wraps up this evening. See a free screening of Room, the winner of the Grolsch People's Choice Award, Sunday, September 20 at 8pm.
The short film awards below were selected by a jury comprised of the head of the shorts program and creations unit at Canal+ France, Pascale Faure, film writer John Anderson (The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times), and actor Rizwan Manji (Outsourced, The Wolf of Wall Street...
Here's the complete winners and press release from Tiff:
The Toronto International Film Festival® today announced award winners from the 40th Festival, which wraps up this evening. See a free screening of Room, the winner of the Grolsch People's Choice Award, Sunday, September 20 at 8pm.
The short film awards below were selected by a jury comprised of the head of the shorts program and creations unit at Canal+ France, Pascale Faure, film writer John Anderson (The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times), and actor Rizwan Manji (Outsourced, The Wolf of Wall Street...
- 9/21/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
World premieres for Patricia Rozema, Guy Édoin and Stephen Dunn are among the selection scheduled to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).
”The festival is excited to showcase these distinctively Canadian voices,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock.
“From compelling documentaries on pressing social issues and complex, affecting dramas to political satires, we are proud to share the impressive range and talent of Canada’s directors.”
“This year’s filmmakers represent the depth and diversity of Canadian storytelling,” said the festival’s film programmes manager Magali Simard.
“By presenting the strong perspectives of the best and brightest in the film industry from across the country, we share with audiences the unique ways Canadians view the world.”
The films will compete for the Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, while the City Of Toronto Award For Best Canadian First Feature Film is also up for grabs.
This year’s Canadian awards jurors are director...
”The festival is excited to showcase these distinctively Canadian voices,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock.
“From compelling documentaries on pressing social issues and complex, affecting dramas to political satires, we are proud to share the impressive range and talent of Canada’s directors.”
“This year’s filmmakers represent the depth and diversity of Canadian storytelling,” said the festival’s film programmes manager Magali Simard.
“By presenting the strong perspectives of the best and brightest in the film industry from across the country, we share with audiences the unique ways Canadians view the world.”
The films will compete for the Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, while the City Of Toronto Award For Best Canadian First Feature Film is also up for grabs.
This year’s Canadian awards jurors are director...
- 8/5/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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