“Dream Team,” the most recent film from directing duo Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn has been acquired by Yellow Veil Pictures ahead of its international sales launch at Marche du Film.
Yellow Veil has acquired worldwide sales rights and North American distribution rights to “Dream Team,” which just held its U.S. premiere at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies after world premiering at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The company plans to release the film domestically later this year.
According to its official synopsis, “Dream Team” is “an absurdist homage to ’90s basic cable TV thrillers, which follows the episodic escapades of two hot Interpol agents who uncover an international, interspecies mystery.”
“Dream Team” stars Esther Garrel (“Call Me by Your Name”) and Alex Zhang Hungtai (“I Was a Simple Man”). Executive producers include Sarah Winshall (“I Saw the TV Glow”), Pierce Varous (“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed...
Yellow Veil has acquired worldwide sales rights and North American distribution rights to “Dream Team,” which just held its U.S. premiere at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies after world premiering at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The company plans to release the film domestically later this year.
According to its official synopsis, “Dream Team” is “an absurdist homage to ’90s basic cable TV thrillers, which follows the episodic escapades of two hot Interpol agents who uncover an international, interspecies mystery.”
“Dream Team” stars Esther Garrel (“Call Me by Your Name”) and Alex Zhang Hungtai (“I Was a Simple Man”). Executive producers include Sarah Winshall (“I Saw the TV Glow”), Pierce Varous (“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed...
- 4/10/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
A new film festival is on the scene. Los Angeles Festival of Movies (Lafm), co-presented by Mubi and Mezzanine, has announced the full line-up for its inaugural run, taking place April 4-7, 2024. Boasting 11 titles––including one world premiere, three 4K restorations, a featured artist talk, documentary series, and curated shorts program––screenings will take place at three recently opened venues on the east side of Los Angeles: Vidiots in Eagle Rock, 2220 Arts + Archives in Historic Filipinotown, and Now Instant Image Hall in Chinatown.
Among the lineup are some of our recent festival favorites: Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow, India Donaldson’s Good One, the Ross brothers’ Gasoline Rainbow, and Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3. Closing the festival is the world premiere of Conner O’Malley and Danny Scharer’s Rap World.
“This lineup is a snapshot of the past and present landscape of independent cinema, and a group...
Among the lineup are some of our recent festival favorites: Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow, India Donaldson’s Good One, the Ross brothers’ Gasoline Rainbow, and Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3. Closing the festival is the world premiere of Conner O’Malley and Danny Scharer’s Rap World.
“This lineup is a snapshot of the past and present landscape of independent cinema, and a group...
- 3/7/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Dream Team, the third feature by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn, is another in the writer-director duo’s run of genre pastiches that double as sociopolitical parables. Here, the influence of ’90s basic cable TV thrillers is channeled into an episodic story about a pair of Interpol agents (Esther Garrel and Alex Zhang Hungtai) who travel to Mexico to investigate the mysterious death of a corral smuggler. Shot by Horn in characteristically textured 16mm, the film unfolds between a variety of West Coast locales stretching from Baja California to Vancouver. As the body count rises and rumors of a physic coral […]
The post Revisiting Silk Stalkings: Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn on IFFR 2024 Premiere Dream Team first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Revisiting Silk Stalkings: Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn on IFFR 2024 Premiere Dream Team first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/9/2024
- by Jordan Cronk
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Dream Team, the third feature by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn, is another in the writer-director duo’s run of genre pastiches that double as sociopolitical parables. Here, the influence of ’90s basic cable TV thrillers is channeled into an episodic story about a pair of Interpol agents (Esther Garrel and Alex Zhang Hungtai) who travel to Mexico to investigate the mysterious death of a corral smuggler. Shot by Horn in characteristically textured 16mm, the film unfolds between a variety of West Coast locales stretching from Baja California to Vancouver. As the body count rises and rumors of a physic coral […]
The post Revisiting Silk Stalkings: Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn on IFFR 2024 Premiere Dream Team first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Revisiting Silk Stalkings: Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn on IFFR 2024 Premiere Dream Team first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/9/2024
- by Jordan Cronk
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A few weeks ago, as The Sweet East started gracing theatres across the States, Reverse Shot ran a sprawling conversation between critic K. Austin Collins and critic-turned-screenwriter Nick Pinkerton. It’s a delightful exchange I can’t recommend enough, both for all it has to uncover about Sean Price Williams’ film––which Pinkerton wrote and which, in my book, was one of last year’s finest––but also for what it sponges of our depressingly shortsighted, quid-pro-quo relationship with the films we watch, what we expect to receive in return for the time we invest in them. “If I wanted to say something,” Pinkerton reflects on the okay-but-what’s-the-message response Sweet East routinely encountered in the months since its Cannes premiere, “I would open my mouth and the words would come out. That’s not what one makes a movie for. You make a movie to go beyond the expression of simple concepts.
- 2/8/2024
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Filled with the brutal wonder of nature – both topographical and psychological – Hlynur Pálmason’s impressive period drama “Godland” drops us into the harshly beautiful terrain of Iceland for an austerely mesmerizing tale of mad conceit and errant conquest in the late nineteenth century. A sumptuous travelogue it is not; a visually stunning, soul-clenching examination of the curious push/pull between humans and the environment it most certainly is.
With its landscape of volcanos, lowlands, and ice, and hubristic treks marked by doomed clashes and solemn grace, “Godland” – its majestic Academy-ratio cinematography ideally maximized if seen in a theater – is the kind of bold work about which one could imagine Werner Herzog, upon viewing, feeling very seen. And yet with his third feature, Pálmason’s stylized mix of viscerality and mystery is decidedly his own, heralding a talent fully aware of how to achieve ambitious storytelling with memorable execution.
Our protagonist...
With its landscape of volcanos, lowlands, and ice, and hubristic treks marked by doomed clashes and solemn grace, “Godland” – its majestic Academy-ratio cinematography ideally maximized if seen in a theater – is the kind of bold work about which one could imagine Werner Herzog, upon viewing, feeling very seen. And yet with his third feature, Pálmason’s stylized mix of viscerality and mystery is decidedly his own, heralding a talent fully aware of how to achieve ambitious storytelling with memorable execution.
Our protagonist...
- 2/3/2023
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Hylnur Pálmason’s impressive third feature is a bleak and beautiful look at one man’s mission to conquer a hostile and unforgiving land. Set in the late nineteenth century, this Icelandic saga is a story of a young Danish priest Lucas (Crosset Hove) sent on a mission to conquer the hearts of the Icelandic people. He is to build a church and see that the natives attend it. But if cinema has taught us anything, we know that this task will inevitably end in failure. From The Mission to Silence, religious men and their hubris have been portrayed on the big screen, with Godland now joining their ranks. But if 143 minutes in the company of a granite-faced parson and a booming smoking volcano that smells ‘like the Earth has shat its pants’ doesn’t sound appetising, you would be missing out on a wonderful feast.
Godland has two titles:...
Godland has two titles:...
- 11/21/2022
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Featuring onscreen text explaining how the film was inspired by left-behind photos taken by a Danish priest while visiting Iceland in the late 1800s (as opposed to how it was actually suburban American child Andy’s favorite movie in 1995), Godland takes on the heavy weight of a historical object. But though this is really a film fighting a battle between formalism and compelling dramaturgy, the questions it asks will actually be much simpler.
Our stand-in for the unnamed priest of historical record is the young Lutheran Lucas (Elliot Crosset Hove), assigned to help build a church in rural Iceland by his rather bored-looking superior in the ministry. Yet this is no easy task: Iceland is wild country and Lucas’ trek will take him into the so-to-speak heart of darkness.
Frankly, this writer was expecting Godland to be a slightly tougher sit, but the surprising brevity of its first third carried interest for a long time.
Our stand-in for the unnamed priest of historical record is the young Lutheran Lucas (Elliot Crosset Hove), assigned to help build a church in rural Iceland by his rather bored-looking superior in the ministry. Yet this is no easy task: Iceland is wild country and Lucas’ trek will take him into the so-to-speak heart of darkness.
Frankly, this writer was expecting Godland to be a slightly tougher sit, but the surprising brevity of its first third carried interest for a long time.
- 9/9/2022
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
In filmmaker Andrew Balasia’s comedy drama Souvenirs a friend-for-hire balances his time with his peculiar clientele as he prepares for his most challenging assignment to date, becoming a father. Balasia tells his story across a series of scenes in which his protagonist plays out the different roles required of him with clients, who vary in their degrees of being wonderfully weird. During these scenes, Balasia is able to narratively break down the fundamentals of human interactions whilst stylistically managing to highlight each encounter through a hazy, dreamlike atmosphere comprised of a vivid colour palette and serene cinematography. Dn had the pleasure of speaking with Balasia about his desire to explore the basis of human interactions, the real-world story his film is based on, and the technical production behind his almost-psychedelic aesthetic.
What did the beginning of Souvenirs as a project look like?
I read an article in The Atlantic...
What did the beginning of Souvenirs as a project look like?
I read an article in The Atlantic...
- 8/25/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
First Song From Lim Giong + Alex Zhang Hungtai Out Now
Celebrated Taiwanese musician, DJ, composer and actor Lim Giong asks — what does it mean to be a pure person?
The question was originally posed in 2001 when Giong composed the score for Hou Hsiao Hsien’s film Millenium Mambo. In the iconic opening scene, Giong’s “A Pure Person” begins to play as actress Shu Qi glides through a tunnel.
19 years later, Giong is joined by five contemporary Taiwanese-based and diaspora musicians to reflect on the question. Through new melodic and philosophical interpretations of “A Pure Person,” the compilation contains the past, present and future of Taiwan.
Today, Alex Zhang Hungtai unveils his version. Formerly known as Dirty Beaches, Hungtai currently works as a composer for film soundtracks, along with acting in independent films.
A Pure Person features contributions from jazz pianist YuYing Hsu, Jieh, electronic duo Non-Confined Space and Taiwanese...
Celebrated Taiwanese musician, DJ, composer and actor Lim Giong asks — what does it mean to be a pure person?
The question was originally posed in 2001 when Giong composed the score for Hou Hsiao Hsien’s film Millenium Mambo. In the iconic opening scene, Giong’s “A Pure Person” begins to play as actress Shu Qi glides through a tunnel.
19 years later, Giong is joined by five contemporary Taiwanese-based and diaspora musicians to reflect on the question. Through new melodic and philosophical interpretations of “A Pure Person,” the compilation contains the past, present and future of Taiwan.
Today, Alex Zhang Hungtai unveils his version. Formerly known as Dirty Beaches, Hungtai currently works as a composer for film soundtracks, along with acting in independent films.
A Pure Person features contributions from jazz pianist YuYing Hsu, Jieh, electronic duo Non-Confined Space and Taiwanese...
- 10/6/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
As Martin Scorsese once said, “Music and cinema fit together naturally. Because there’s a kind of intrinsic musicality to the way moving images work when they’re put together. It’s been said that cinema and music are very close as art forms, and I think that’s true.” Indeed, the right piece of music–whether it’s an original score or a carefully selected song–can do wonders for a sequence, and today we’re looking at the 20 films that best expressed this notion this year.
From seasoned composers to accomplished musicians, as well as a smattering of soundtracks, each musical example perfectly transported us to the world of the film. Check out our rundown of the top 20, which includes streams to each soundtrack in full where available.
20. Climax (Various Artists)
19. August at Akiko’s (Alex Zhang Hungtai)
18. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Emile Mosseri)
17. An Elephant Sitting Still...
From seasoned composers to accomplished musicians, as well as a smattering of soundtracks, each musical example perfectly transported us to the world of the film. Check out our rundown of the top 20, which includes streams to each soundtrack in full where available.
20. Climax (Various Artists)
19. August at Akiko’s (Alex Zhang Hungtai)
18. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Emile Mosseri)
17. An Elephant Sitting Still...
- 12/30/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Akiko’s Buddhist hostel has a message for its visitors, a laminated card sitting on a window sill: “Leave no trace, no face. In fact, leave only a presence, a feeling that for a moment you loved a place so deeply that both you and the place were transformed, and both became more beautiful, more natural and inseparably one.” Christopher Makoto Yogi’s engrossing debut feature August at Akiko’s heeds the call, and conjures up engrossing and delicate rumination on belonging. It is a film of presences in the twofold sense that it both zeroes in on a young man coming to terms with the impermanence of his own existence, and it unfurls as a whimsical reverie seemingly shot from the perspective of people who may have become presences already–the spirits of the late inhabitants of a Hawaiian locale luckily spared from the asphyxiating postcard looks of so many other island-set Hollywood blockbusters.
- 5/18/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Florence + The Machine open up old wounds (and stick to old sounds) on High As Hope, while both Gorillaz’s The Now Now and what should be Teyana Taylor’s breakout moment, K.T.S.E., feel unfocused and undercooked. These, plus Panic At The Disco, Jim James, and Dirty Beaches’ Alex Zhang Hungtai in this week’s notable…
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- 6/29/2018
- by Katie Rife, Clayton Purdom, David Brusie, Sean O'Neal, Matt Williams, and Gwen Ihnat on Music, shared by Katie Rife to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Christopher Makoto Yogi's feature debut August at Akiko's debuted this past winter at Rotterdam and received rave reviews. Next up is a stop at the La Asian Pacific Film Fest this weekend and we've got the world premiere of the trailer for you ahead of that. The film stars musican/artist Alex Zhang Hungtai. This hybrid documentary/fiction film follows Alex Zhang Hungtai, an internationally known, globetrotting musician who spent his formative years in Hawai'i. Having lived abroad for close to a decade, Alex decides that it is time to return home to reconnect with roots and a family history he never took the time to understand. Looks great!...
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- 5/1/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Hearing Françoise Hardy’s magnificent “Voilà” in Netflix’s The End Of The Fucking World got me thinking about Dirty Beaches, the former moniker of Alex Zhang Hungtai, who sampled the song in “Lord Knows Best,” a highlight of his breakout album Badlands. It’s an LP I was obsessed with back in the day, and while its…
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- 1/25/2018
- by Clayton Purdom, Josh Modell, and Matt Gerardi
- avclub.com
With “The Bad Batch” firmly in the rear-view mirror and her next feature film yet to be announced, Ana Lily Amirpour has just directed her latest project: “Yo! My Saint,” a collaboration with Kenzo. Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs composed original music for the nine-minute piece, which is somewhere between a music video and a short film. Watch below.
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Described as “a three-pronged artistic endeavor incorporating music, film, and fashion,” it’s the fashion brand’s latest collaboration with a respected filmmaker; Spike Jonze previously directed one starring Margaret Qualley (“The Leftovers,” “Death Note”). Alex Zhang Hungtai, Jessica Henwick, and Kiko Mizuhara star in “Yo!”
Read More:‘Music Is My Mistress’: Kenzo Launches Short Film Directed by ‘Lemonade’ Helmer Kahlil Joseph — Watch
“Humberto [Leon] and I are technically the producers,” says Carol Lim,...
Read More:Spike Jonze Had Margaret Qualley Dance Like a Tree During Kenzo Commercial Audition
Described as “a three-pronged artistic endeavor incorporating music, film, and fashion,” it’s the fashion brand’s latest collaboration with a respected filmmaker; Spike Jonze previously directed one starring Margaret Qualley (“The Leftovers,” “Death Note”). Alex Zhang Hungtai, Jessica Henwick, and Kiko Mizuhara star in “Yo!”
Read More:‘Music Is My Mistress’: Kenzo Launches Short Film Directed by ‘Lemonade’ Helmer Kahlil Joseph — Watch
“Humberto [Leon] and I are technically the producers,” says Carol Lim,...
- 1/11/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Eighteen debut films eligible for award, worth Bright Future Award, worth €10,000.
Source: Iffr
Impermanence
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), which runs 24 Jan to 4 Feb, has announced the full line-up of its Bright Future programme, including the titles that will compete for the Bright Future Award.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The competition for the Bright Future Award 2018, worth €10,000, consists of eighteen debut films, including Impermanence by young Chinese filmmaker Zeng Zeng, German film Ella Und Nell by Aline Chukwuedo and Counting Tiles by Lebanese filmmaker Cynthia Choucair.
Other world premieres include Christopher Makoto Yogi’s debut August At Akiko, The Heart by Swedish filmmaker Fanni Metelius and Egyptian film Poisonous Roses by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh, and La Estrella Errante by Spanish filmmaker Alberto Gracia, who won the Fipresci Award with his feature debut The Fifth Gospel Of Kaspar Hauser at Iffr 2013.
Read more: ’Jimmie’, ‘The Death Of Stalin’ to bookend Rotterdam film festival
The jury for the...
Source: Iffr
Impermanence
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), which runs 24 Jan to 4 Feb, has announced the full line-up of its Bright Future programme, including the titles that will compete for the Bright Future Award.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The competition for the Bright Future Award 2018, worth €10,000, consists of eighteen debut films, including Impermanence by young Chinese filmmaker Zeng Zeng, German film Ella Und Nell by Aline Chukwuedo and Counting Tiles by Lebanese filmmaker Cynthia Choucair.
Other world premieres include Christopher Makoto Yogi’s debut August At Akiko, The Heart by Swedish filmmaker Fanni Metelius and Egyptian film Poisonous Roses by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh, and La Estrella Errante by Spanish filmmaker Alberto Gracia, who won the Fipresci Award with his feature debut The Fifth Gospel Of Kaspar Hauser at Iffr 2013.
Read more: ’Jimmie’, ‘The Death Of Stalin’ to bookend Rotterdam film festival
The jury for the...
- 1/5/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Best known in music circles as the lead - and only constant, really - in Canadian music act Dirty Beaches, Alex Zhang Hungtai takes the lead in Mitchell Stafiej's indie drama A. Hungtai plays musician Konrad in the midst of a vicious bender as he attempts to finish a new record. Says Stafiej about his latest effort: Through all of my films, I work tirelessly to portray a very specific truth that I understand and care about deeply. This truth is usually related to suburbia, youth issues and mental health. There have been so few works that accurately depict what it feels like to be in an alcoholic bender; the fear, the chaos, and the complete lack of control. I wanted to create a piece that truly...
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- 3/8/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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