Exclusive: Two-time Tony and Emmy Award-nominated actor Arian Moayed (Succession) and Oscar-winning filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi (Period. End of Sentence.) have boarded Liam LoPinto’s Oscar-qualifying live-action short The Old Young Crow as executive producers.
The news comes amidst a recent run on the festival circuit that has just seen the short screen at both Scad Savannah Film Festival and AFI, winning Best Narrative Short at the former after picking up the prize for best of the festival at Palm Springs ShortFest. It also follows the announcement that Moayed will exec produce Joonam, an Oscar-contending short on the Iranian-American experience from Sierra Urich.
Also now aboard The Old Young Crow‘s team of EPs is Scott Aharoni, the multi-award-winning director and producer who co-founded the indie entertainment company Curious Gremlin. Additional EPs include Mamak Shahbazi and Bill LoPinto. Pic’s associate producers are Keisuke Sakuma, Keiko Yamashita (who also stars), Byron Gould,...
The news comes amidst a recent run on the festival circuit that has just seen the short screen at both Scad Savannah Film Festival and AFI, winning Best Narrative Short at the former after picking up the prize for best of the festival at Palm Springs ShortFest. It also follows the announcement that Moayed will exec produce Joonam, an Oscar-contending short on the Iranian-American experience from Sierra Urich.
Also now aboard The Old Young Crow‘s team of EPs is Scott Aharoni, the multi-award-winning director and producer who co-founded the indie entertainment company Curious Gremlin. Additional EPs include Mamak Shahbazi and Bill LoPinto. Pic’s associate producers are Keisuke Sakuma, Keiko Yamashita (who also stars), Byron Gould,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Production has officially begun on Tolga Karacelik‘s fourth feature film. Following 2018’s Sundance/Rotterdam preemed Butterflies – winner of the Grand Jury Prize (Ruben Östlund was part of the trio), the Turkish filmmaker (and Sundance habitual) is ow venturing onto the streets of New York City with Steve Buscemi as either the lead or supporting player who is possibly in the writer’s seat. Originally titled The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer, the dramedy received some Co-Production Development Fund coin back in 2020. The film is produced by a team that consists of Wren Arthur, Scott Aharoni, Mustafa Kaymak, Sinan Eczacibasi and Özge Bulut Marasli.…...
- 6/10/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Golda” director Guy Nattiv has joined the Oscar-shortlisted short film “The Criminals” as executive producer.
Written and directed by Serhat Karaaslan, a Kurdish director from Turkey, the film centers on a young couple in a small Turkish town looking for privacy. Shortlisted in the live-action short category for the 2022 awards, the film uses genre to discuss the way an oppressive society pushes its civilians to police each other, ultimately turning sex into a subversive act.
“The Criminals” is produced by Laure Dahout through her French production company Tiresias Films. The film world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, where it won the Short Film Special Jury Award. Since then, it has garnered over 90 selections and more than 40 awards. It was nominated for a César award on Wednesday.
Nattiv, the director of the upcoming Helen Mirren-led biopic about Golda Meir, is now lending his bona fides to the film.
Written and directed by Serhat Karaaslan, a Kurdish director from Turkey, the film centers on a young couple in a small Turkish town looking for privacy. Shortlisted in the live-action short category for the 2022 awards, the film uses genre to discuss the way an oppressive society pushes its civilians to police each other, ultimately turning sex into a subversive act.
“The Criminals” is produced by Laure Dahout through her French production company Tiresias Films. The film world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, where it won the Short Film Special Jury Award. Since then, it has garnered over 90 selections and more than 40 awards. It was nominated for a César award on Wednesday.
Nattiv, the director of the upcoming Helen Mirren-led biopic about Golda Meir, is now lending his bona fides to the film.
- 1/26/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Festival
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (Nfmla) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), with presenting partners The Arab Film and Media Institute and Dutch Culture USA are partnering for a short film festival that runs across the Dec. 10 and 11 weekend.
The annual event, titled Nfmla Film Festival InFocus: Middle Eastern, Arab & Dutch Cinema, will feature virtual screenings of films followed by live Q&As. The films are by emerging filmmakers from the Netherlands, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, France, Belgium and the U.S.
The program includes the U.S. premiere of “Nervosa,” the latest work by Nfmla alum Thessa Meijer and the Tribeca award-winning short “Leylak,” by co-directors Scott Aharoni and Dennis Latos.
Festival panels will feature conversations with Palestinian director-writer Hany Abu-Assad (“Omar”), whose upcoming feature “Huda’s Salon” will be distributed by IFC Films, and Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour...
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (Nfmla) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), with presenting partners The Arab Film and Media Institute and Dutch Culture USA are partnering for a short film festival that runs across the Dec. 10 and 11 weekend.
The annual event, titled Nfmla Film Festival InFocus: Middle Eastern, Arab & Dutch Cinema, will feature virtual screenings of films followed by live Q&As. The films are by emerging filmmakers from the Netherlands, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, France, Belgium and the U.S.
The program includes the U.S. premiere of “Nervosa,” the latest work by Nfmla alum Thessa Meijer and the Tribeca award-winning short “Leylak,” by co-directors Scott Aharoni and Dennis Latos.
Festival panels will feature conversations with Palestinian director-writer Hany Abu-Assad (“Omar”), whose upcoming feature “Huda’s Salon” will be distributed by IFC Films, and Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour...
- 12/8/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Colman Domingo is executive producing Scott Aharoni and Dennis Latos’ short Leylak.
The short, shot during the pandemic, follows an immigrant gravedigger, a frontline worker, who buries his pain in order to shelter his daughter from an unspeakable loss but learns that the only way forward is together.
Also joining The Candyman and Fear the Walking Dead actor as EP is is Oscar nominated filmmaker Doug Roland, whose film Feeling Through was nominated for Best Live Action Short at the 93rd Academy Awards.
Leylak made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize, going on to garner top awards at such international film festivals as Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Port Townsend Film Festival, Leiden International Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, New York Shorts International Film Festival, and many more.
Domingo said,...
The short, shot during the pandemic, follows an immigrant gravedigger, a frontline worker, who buries his pain in order to shelter his daughter from an unspeakable loss but learns that the only way forward is together.
Also joining The Candyman and Fear the Walking Dead actor as EP is is Oscar nominated filmmaker Doug Roland, whose film Feeling Through was nominated for Best Live Action Short at the 93rd Academy Awards.
Leylak made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize, going on to garner top awards at such international film festivals as Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Port Townsend Film Festival, Leiden International Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, New York Shorts International Film Festival, and many more.
Domingo said,...
- 11/29/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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