Doc to get Academy-qualifying limited release in San Francisco in November.
Icarus Films has acquired Natalia Almada’s 2021 Sundance award winner Users and has additionally signed a deal to represent the Mexican filmmaker’s back catalogue.
Users will get an Academy-qualifying limited release in San Francisco on November 25 and is a cinematic meditation on technology and parenthood.
The film earned California-based Almada the Sundance documentary directing award, the same prize she won at the festival in 2009 for The General (El General), her account of the life of her great-grandfather and former Mexican president, General Plutarco Elías Calles.
Both the Users...
Icarus Films has acquired Natalia Almada’s 2021 Sundance award winner Users and has additionally signed a deal to represent the Mexican filmmaker’s back catalogue.
Users will get an Academy-qualifying limited release in San Francisco on November 25 and is a cinematic meditation on technology and parenthood.
The film earned California-based Almada the Sundance documentary directing award, the same prize she won at the festival in 2009 for The General (El General), her account of the life of her great-grandfather and former Mexican president, General Plutarco Elías Calles.
Both the Users...
- 9/22/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
“Pov,” the Emmy-winning PBS documentary series, has announced the acquisition of environmental thriller “Delikado” as part of its upcoming 35th season.
The film, which premiered April 29 at the Hot Docs Canadian Intl. Documentary Festival, is the directorial debut of award-winning journalist Karl Malakunas. “Delikado” is produced by two-time Emmy nominees Marty Syjuco and Michael Collins, as well as Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala.
“Delikado” takes place in the Philippines on the island of Palawan, a Unesco World Heritage site with one of the oldest, largest and most diverse rainforests in the world. It is also the country’s “last ecological frontier” and one of the deadliest places for land defenders in the world, next to Brazil, the Congo and Colombia. The film follows three inspirational leaders – a charismatic lawyer, an ex-illegal logger and a fearless politician – as they work with indigenous communities trying to save their increasingly valuable natural resources from being plundered.
The film, which premiered April 29 at the Hot Docs Canadian Intl. Documentary Festival, is the directorial debut of award-winning journalist Karl Malakunas. “Delikado” is produced by two-time Emmy nominees Marty Syjuco and Michael Collins, as well as Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala.
“Delikado” takes place in the Philippines on the island of Palawan, a Unesco World Heritage site with one of the oldest, largest and most diverse rainforests in the world. It is also the country’s “last ecological frontier” and one of the deadliest places for land defenders in the world, next to Brazil, the Congo and Colombia. The film follows three inspirational leaders – a charismatic lawyer, an ex-illegal logger and a fearless politician – as they work with indigenous communities trying to save their increasingly valuable natural resources from being plundered.
- 5/3/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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