Jumper, Justin Anderson’s first short, opened on a naked man bathing in a pool. Conceived in 2014 for the tenth anniversary of British fashion designer Jonathan Saunders, the film was a riff on Pasolini’s Teorema; it followed a lunar stranger who shows up uninvited at a luscious Spanish villa and upends the frigid lives of its tenants. Ten years later, the same idea and shot survive more or less intact in Anderson’s feature debut, Swimming Home, based on a 2011 Man Booker-shortlisted novel by Deborah Levy. Except this time the setting is a summer home on an unidentified Greek island, the nude intruder a young woman, and her target is not a whole family but its taciturn, haunted patriarch.
His name his Josef (Christopher Abbott); hers is Kitti (Ariane Labed). He’s a poet and she’s a botanist––but this is his story, not hers, and for all...
His name his Josef (Christopher Abbott); hers is Kitti (Ariane Labed). He’s a poet and she’s a botanist––but this is his story, not hers, and for all...
- 2/12/2024
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
There’s a luxuriantly sensuous quality to the prose of British novelist Deborah Levy — a tactile grasp of land, weather and flesh — that feels intensely cinematic while reading it, as well as an elliptical, concentrated interior psychology that feels liable to trip up any potential adapters. Those rewards and risks hold true in “Swimming Home,” a seductive but opaque adaptation of Levy’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name, in which the author’s knack for epigrammatic character portraiture and hothouse emotional conflict yields more superficially enigmatic results on screen. In his feature directing debut, British video artist Justin Anderson carries over a chicly serrated, off-kilter audiovisual sense from his commercials and short-form work; his scripting is less assured, as is his command of a fine but under-tested ensemble led by Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis and Ariane Labed.
Recently premiered in competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival, “Swimming Home...
Recently premiered in competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival, “Swimming Home...
- 2/3/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Swimming Home is an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2011 novel, written and directed by debut UK flmmaker Justin Anderson.
The UK-Dutch co-production premiered in the Tiger competition of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The film centres around a war reporter played by Mackenzie Davis, on a family holiday with her husband (Christopher Abbott), a poet, and their teenage daughter. Returning home to their villa with a friend (Nadine Labaki) they find a naked stranger, Kitti (Ariane Labed) floating in the pool. Invited to stay, Kitti’s presence comes to emphasise the tensions within the family.
Anderson studied...
The UK-Dutch co-production premiered in the Tiger competition of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The film centres around a war reporter played by Mackenzie Davis, on a family holiday with her husband (Christopher Abbott), a poet, and their teenage daughter. Returning home to their villa with a friend (Nadine Labaki) they find a naked stranger, Kitti (Ariane Labed) floating in the pool. Invited to stay, Kitti’s presence comes to emphasise the tensions within the family.
Anderson studied...
- 2/2/2024
- ScreenDaily
Swimming Home is an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2011 novel, written and directed by debut UK flmmaker Justin Anderson.
The UK-Dutch co-production premiered in the Tiger competition of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The film centres around a war reporter played by Mackenzie Davis, on a family holiday with her husband (Christopher Abbott), a poet, and their teenage daughter. Returning home to their villa with a friend (Nadine Labaki) they find a naked stranger, Kitti (Ariane Labed) floating in the pool. Invited to stay, Kitti’s presence comes to emphasise the tensions within the family.
Anderson studied...
The UK-Dutch co-production premiered in the Tiger competition of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The film centres around a war reporter played by Mackenzie Davis, on a family holiday with her husband (Christopher Abbott), a poet, and their teenage daughter. Returning home to their villa with a friend (Nadine Labaki) they find a naked stranger, Kitti (Ariane Labed) floating in the pool. Invited to stay, Kitti’s presence comes to emphasise the tensions within the family.
Anderson studied...
- 2/2/2024
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The producers of hit Netflix movie Nowhere, the streamer’s most-watched Spanish-language film ever, have found their next movie in the shape of supernatural horror Tooth Fairy, which UK sales firm Architect is launching ahead of the EFM in Berlin.
The Spanish-language movie follows a series of child disappearances in a tight-knit rural community in Spain. As a social worker begins to dig into the village’s myths and legends, she discovers she has unwittingly reawakened a terrifying, vengeful spirit. Filming is due to get underway this summer with casting underway.
Producers Miguel Ruz and Jordi Roca have locked financing on the project from writer-director Tony Morales. The movie marks the feature film directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Morales, whose horror shorts include Abracitos, Black Eyed Child, Alicia, and Hada, on which Tooth Fairy is based.
Rock & Ruz are coming off their debut feature, the Netflix survival thriller Nowhere,...
The Spanish-language movie follows a series of child disappearances in a tight-knit rural community in Spain. As a social worker begins to dig into the village’s myths and legends, she discovers she has unwittingly reawakened a terrifying, vengeful spirit. Filming is due to get underway this summer with casting underway.
Producers Miguel Ruz and Jordi Roca have locked financing on the project from writer-director Tony Morales. The movie marks the feature film directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Morales, whose horror shorts include Abracitos, Black Eyed Child, Alicia, and Hada, on which Tooth Fairy is based.
Rock & Ruz are coming off their debut feature, the Netflix survival thriller Nowhere,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Rotterdam film festival: A self-conscious adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel makes glib reference to the Bosnian war while it focuses on unsexy erotic tension at a luxury villa
Lugubrious, laborious and ridiculous – this movie version of Deborah Levy’s celebrated novel Swimming Home is frankly uncomfortable in the most wrong way possible. Film-maker and artist Justin Anderson has established himself as a creative visual talent but for this feature debut he has somehow conjured awful, torpid performances from his excellent cast, perpetually crowding up to them with pedantic, over-determined closeups. His film insists on a bafflingly unsexy and uninteresting type of erotic tension and conflates the result with a supposed repressed agony from the Bosnian war – which is invoked in the most glib and perfunctory way.
Joe (Christopher Abbott) is a famous poet of Bosnian extraction arriving at a luxurious holiday villa in Greece with his American wife Isabel...
Lugubrious, laborious and ridiculous – this movie version of Deborah Levy’s celebrated novel Swimming Home is frankly uncomfortable in the most wrong way possible. Film-maker and artist Justin Anderson has established himself as a creative visual talent but for this feature debut he has somehow conjured awful, torpid performances from his excellent cast, perpetually crowding up to them with pedantic, over-determined closeups. His film insists on a bafflingly unsexy and uninteresting type of erotic tension and conflates the result with a supposed repressed agony from the Bosnian war – which is invoked in the most glib and perfunctory way.
Joe (Christopher Abbott) is a famous poet of Bosnian extraction arriving at a luxurious holiday villa in Greece with his American wife Isabel...
- 1/29/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut
A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin Anderson’s enervating feature debut Swimming Home. Stripping away the narrative thrust and many of the characters in his adaptation of Deborah Levy’s excellent acclaimed novella, the director attempts to grapple more directly with the enigmas at its haunted core. But saddled with deliberately alienating and obfuscating symbolism, the resulting effort is a tedious, overly earnest po-faced slow burn.
Vacationing in a luxe villa in the Greek countryside, Joseph (Christopher Abbott), his wife Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), and their teenage daughter Nina (Freya Hannan-Mills) have barely had time to welcome the arrival of family friend Laura (Nadine Labaki) when the mysterious Kitti (Ariane Labed) is found pleasantly floating naked in their swimming pool.…...
A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin Anderson’s enervating feature debut Swimming Home. Stripping away the narrative thrust and many of the characters in his adaptation of Deborah Levy’s excellent acclaimed novella, the director attempts to grapple more directly with the enigmas at its haunted core. But saddled with deliberately alienating and obfuscating symbolism, the resulting effort is a tedious, overly earnest po-faced slow burn.
Vacationing in a luxe villa in the Greek countryside, Joseph (Christopher Abbott), his wife Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), and their teenage daughter Nina (Freya Hannan-Mills) have barely had time to welcome the arrival of family friend Laura (Nadine Labaki) when the mysterious Kitti (Ariane Labed) is found pleasantly floating naked in their swimming pool.…...
- 1/29/2024
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- IONCINEMA.com
Award-winning artist Justin Anderson’s debut feature “Swimming Home” has its world premiere in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam. Variety has secured access to the first clip from the film.
The film, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, centers on poet Joe (Christopher Abbott) and war photographer Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), whose marriage is dying when Kitti (Ariane Labed), a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their sunny holiday villa in Greece, is invited to stay. Oscar nominated Lebanese actor-director Nadine Labaki plays a significant role in the film as does emerging actor Freya Hannan-Mills.
In 2014, Anderson directed “Jumper,” a short inspired by Pasolini’s “Teorema,” about a man emerging from a pool and standing naked in the window during a family dinner. A friend saw the film and suggested that he read Levy’s novel. The book resonated with Anderson and he contacted Levy.
The film, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, centers on poet Joe (Christopher Abbott) and war photographer Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), whose marriage is dying when Kitti (Ariane Labed), a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their sunny holiday villa in Greece, is invited to stay. Oscar nominated Lebanese actor-director Nadine Labaki plays a significant role in the film as does emerging actor Freya Hannan-Mills.
In 2014, Anderson directed “Jumper,” a short inspired by Pasolini’s “Teorema,” about a man emerging from a pool and standing naked in the window during a family dinner. A friend saw the film and suggested that he read Levy’s novel. The book resonated with Anderson and he contacted Levy.
- 1/26/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) opens this evening with New Zealand director Jonathan Olgilvie’s coming-of-age tale Head South set against the late 1970s, post-punk music culture of his home city of Christchurch.
IFFR previously selected Olgilvie’s sci-fi thriller Lone Wolf for its Big Screen Competition in 2021.
“It’s the first time we’re going to meet him in person because it was during Corona,” says IFFR Artistic Director Vanja Kaludjercic of the first selection.
“When you put the two films side by side, you ask how can one filmmaker make two such different films,” she adds. “We really admire his creativity and ingenuity.”
Over the course of the next 10 days, Rotterdam will screen some 440 works.
The Main Competition for this 53rd edition is characteristically diverse.
The 14 features in the running for the main Tiger Award include Brooklyn-based filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, exploring the life of the titular,...
IFFR previously selected Olgilvie’s sci-fi thriller Lone Wolf for its Big Screen Competition in 2021.
“It’s the first time we’re going to meet him in person because it was during Corona,” says IFFR Artistic Director Vanja Kaludjercic of the first selection.
“When you put the two films side by side, you ask how can one filmmaker make two such different films,” she adds. “We really admire his creativity and ingenuity.”
Over the course of the next 10 days, Rotterdam will screen some 440 works.
The Main Competition for this 53rd edition is characteristically diverse.
The 14 features in the running for the main Tiger Award include Brooklyn-based filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, exploring the life of the titular,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie, will be among those taking part in on-stage talks at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which runs Jan. 25 to Feb. 4.
Harry narrates the latest film by Amanda Kramer, “So Unreal,” an essay-documentary about the relationships between cinema, humanity and technology. On Jan. 27, the two will give an IFFR Talk discussing their work as artists with distinctive esthetics whose careers have developed across film and music.
As previously announced, other speakers in the IFFR Talk program include actor Sandra Hüller, and directors Anne Fontaine, Marco Bellocchio, Bill Plympton and Billy Woodberry.
Directors attending with their titles in the Limelight section, which is for films from established filmmakers, include Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante with “Lost in the Night,” Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland with “Green Border” and Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania with “Four Daughters,” which is shortlisted for an Oscar.
Fontaine will attend the world premiere of her 19th feature film,...
Harry narrates the latest film by Amanda Kramer, “So Unreal,” an essay-documentary about the relationships between cinema, humanity and technology. On Jan. 27, the two will give an IFFR Talk discussing their work as artists with distinctive esthetics whose careers have developed across film and music.
As previously announced, other speakers in the IFFR Talk program include actor Sandra Hüller, and directors Anne Fontaine, Marco Bellocchio, Bill Plympton and Billy Woodberry.
Directors attending with their titles in the Limelight section, which is for films from established filmmakers, include Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante with “Lost in the Night,” Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland with “Green Border” and Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania with “Four Daughters,” which is shortlisted for an Oscar.
Fontaine will attend the world premiere of her 19th feature film,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
M. Raihan Halim’s “La Luna” will close the 53rd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam, which has also revealed the lineup of its Tiger competition section, a platform for up-and-coming filmmakers, and Big Screen Competition, a program for more established talent.
“La Luna,” which has its European premiere at the festival, is a comedy about a conservative Malaysian village shaken by the arrival of a lingerie store.
Among the Tiger competition films is British director Justin Anderson’s “Swimming Home,” starring Mackenzie Davis, Christopher Abbott and Ariane Labed. Adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel, it centers on Joe and Isabel, whose marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their holiday villa, is invited to stay. Kitti collects and eats poisonous plants, and Nina their teenage daughter is enthralled by her. The film, which is being sold by Bankside Films, is described as...
“La Luna,” which has its European premiere at the festival, is a comedy about a conservative Malaysian village shaken by the arrival of a lingerie store.
Among the Tiger competition films is British director Justin Anderson’s “Swimming Home,” starring Mackenzie Davis, Christopher Abbott and Ariane Labed. Adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel, it centers on Joe and Isabel, whose marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their holiday villa, is invited to stay. Kitti collects and eats poisonous plants, and Nina their teenage daughter is enthralled by her. The film, which is being sold by Bankside Films, is described as...
- 12/18/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed its lineup for the Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions. The festival runs from January 25-February 4. Scroll down for the full lists.
Head South by Jonathan Ogilvie will open the proceedings with M. Raihan Halim’s comedy La Luna on closing duties. The Tiger Competition jury will be comprised of Marco Müller, Ena Sendijarević, Nadia Turincev, Herman Yau and Billy Woodberry.
Also confirmed are the first names for the Talks lineup including Marco Bellocchio, Anne Fontaine, Alexander Kluge and Rachel Maclean.
Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic said today, “For over half a century, IFFR has stood as a haven for diverse voices – a convergence where artists share perspectives. Our program celebrates the resilience and creativity of global filmmakers, a testament to cinema’s power to transcend borders. From Indian to Japanese epics, a Kazakh thriller, Finnish Freudian reinterpretations, Dominican sci-fi and underground Iranian cinema,...
Head South by Jonathan Ogilvie will open the proceedings with M. Raihan Halim’s comedy La Luna on closing duties. The Tiger Competition jury will be comprised of Marco Müller, Ena Sendijarević, Nadia Turincev, Herman Yau and Billy Woodberry.
Also confirmed are the first names for the Talks lineup including Marco Bellocchio, Anne Fontaine, Alexander Kluge and Rachel Maclean.
Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic said today, “For over half a century, IFFR has stood as a haven for diverse voices – a convergence where artists share perspectives. Our program celebrates the resilience and creativity of global filmmakers, a testament to cinema’s power to transcend borders. From Indian to Japanese epics, a Kazakh thriller, Finnish Freudian reinterpretations, Dominican sci-fi and underground Iranian cinema,...
- 12/18/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Head South.International Film Festival Rotterdam have announced the lineup for their 53rd edition, which will take place between January 25 to February 4. Opening FILMHead South (Jonathan Ogilvie)The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire.Tiger COMPETITIONThe Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)Flathead (Jaydon Martin)Grey Bees (Dmytro Moiseiev)Kiss Wagon (Midhun Murali)Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others (Farshad Hashemi)MosesLa Parra (Alberto Gracia)Praia Formosa (Julia De Simone)Rei (Tanaka Toshihiko)Reise der Schatten (Yves Netzhammer)She Fell to Earth (Susie Au)sr (Lea Hartlaub)Swimming Home (Justin Anderson)Under a Blue Sun (Daniel Mann)Milk Teeth.Big Screen COMPETITIONAire: Just Breathe (Leticia Tonos Paniagua)Children of War and Peace (Ville Suhonen)Confidenza (Daniele Luchetti)Eternal (Ulaa Salim)Milk Teeth (Sophia Bösch)The Old Bachelor (Oktay Baraheni)Portrait of a Certain Orient (Marcelo Gomes)Seven Seas Seven Hills (Ram)Steppenwolf (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)TenementThe Worst Man in London (Rodrigo Areias...
- 12/18/2023
- MUBI
‘Swimming Home’ is directed by Justin Anderson and stars Mackenzie Davies, Christopher Abbott and Ariane Labed.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the Tiger and Big Screen programmes for the 3rd edition, taking place January 25 – February 4, 2024 in the Netherlands.
Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home, starring Mackenzie Davies, Christopher Abbott and Ariane Labed, is among the titles world premiering in the Tiger Competition.
Scroll down for full line-up
The drama is adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel about a woman who implores the help of a naked stranger found floating in her pool. It is produced by Emily Morgan’s UK outfit Quiddity Films,...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the Tiger and Big Screen programmes for the 3rd edition, taking place January 25 – February 4, 2024 in the Netherlands.
Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home, starring Mackenzie Davies, Christopher Abbott and Ariane Labed, is among the titles world premiering in the Tiger Competition.
Scroll down for full line-up
The drama is adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel about a woman who implores the help of a naked stranger found floating in her pool. It is produced by Emily Morgan’s UK outfit Quiddity Films,...
- 12/18/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Greek–Swiss co-production is feature debut of Harry Lagoussis
Greek production house Heretic has just wrapped filming on Harry Lagoussis’s feature debut Novak starring Zlatko Burić and Ella Rumpf.
The Greek–Swiss co-production follows an ageing Croatian neuroscientist who lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded paranoid for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. Decades later, when he is rediscovered by a group of young dreamers who are trying to change the world through his ideas, he decides to join them in their scientific commune, risking his sanity in pursuit of a higher goal.
Greek production house Heretic has just wrapped filming on Harry Lagoussis’s feature debut Novak starring Zlatko Burić and Ella Rumpf.
The Greek–Swiss co-production follows an ageing Croatian neuroscientist who lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded paranoid for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. Decades later, when he is rediscovered by a group of young dreamers who are trying to change the world through his ideas, he decides to join them in their scientific commune, risking his sanity in pursuit of a higher goal.
- 12/18/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it’ll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is big on debut films might lasso Justin Anderson‘s Swimming Home. The commercials director grabbed the rights to adapt the book by (Deborah Levy) a good decade ago and managed to land quite the producing team and quartet of indie-auteur-world-cinema vets Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis and Nadine Labaki for what is a vacation film in Greece that takes a turn for the best/worst? Production took place in October of last year.
Gist: This is a dark comedy about a troubled married couple and their teenage daughter whose holiday is transformed by the naked stranger they find floating in the pool of their villa.…...
Gist: This is a dark comedy about a troubled married couple and their teenage daughter whose holiday is transformed by the naked stranger they find floating in the pool of their villa.…...
- 11/17/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Sofia Coppola, Emerald Fennell, Yorgos Lanthimos, Pablo Larrain, Michel Franco and Bradley Cooper could all be on the Lido.
Alberto Barbera is closing in on his Venice Film Festival selection, with buzz around Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, Matteo Garrone’s migrant drama Io Capitano and Pablo Larrain’s dark comedy El Conde about Augusto Pinochet for the Competition.
Also potentially Lido-bound are Michael Mann’s Ferrari with Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, David Michod’s comedy Wizards! with Pete Davidson, Naomi Scott and Orlando Bloom, and Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers starring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor.
Michel Franco,...
Alberto Barbera is closing in on his Venice Film Festival selection, with buzz around Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, Matteo Garrone’s migrant drama Io Capitano and Pablo Larrain’s dark comedy El Conde about Augusto Pinochet for the Competition.
Also potentially Lido-bound are Michael Mann’s Ferrari with Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, David Michod’s comedy Wizards! with Pete Davidson, Naomi Scott and Orlando Bloom, and Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers starring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor.
Michel Franco,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film is lined up for production later this year.
Distributors Curzon, Cineart and Madman have united on a multi-territory deal for post-Second World War film The Offing starring Helena Bonham Carter.
The trio have joined forces to acquire all rights for UK-Ireland, Benelux and Australia-New Zealand, from Germany-based sales company Beta Cinema.
Beta has reported “severe competition” on the title and says further deals in major territories will be confirmed shortly.
The Offing will go into production later this year. It will be the debut feature for New Zealand filmmaker Jessica Hobbs, who has directed extensively for television including seven episodes of The Crown,...
Distributors Curzon, Cineart and Madman have united on a multi-territory deal for post-Second World War film The Offing starring Helena Bonham Carter.
The trio have joined forces to acquire all rights for UK-Ireland, Benelux and Australia-New Zealand, from Germany-based sales company Beta Cinema.
Beta has reported “severe competition” on the title and says further deals in major territories will be confirmed shortly.
The Offing will go into production later this year. It will be the debut feature for New Zealand filmmaker Jessica Hobbs, who has directed extensively for television including seven episodes of The Crown,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Swimming Home
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year’s most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson lassoed the option for the novel back in 2014 so he has had close to a decade of thinking about the film before making the film. He made the move into fiction with the 2016 short The Idyll and moved into production back in October. Swimming Home sees Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis and Nadine Labaki star in a tale about a vaca that goes astray. Filmed in Greece, Lemming Film, Quiddity Films, Rook Films, Reagent Media and Heretic are all prod companies involved with the project.…...
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year’s most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson lassoed the option for the novel back in 2014 so he has had close to a decade of thinking about the film before making the film. He made the move into fiction with the 2016 short The Idyll and moved into production back in October. Swimming Home sees Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis and Nadine Labaki star in a tale about a vaca that goes astray. Filmed in Greece, Lemming Film, Quiddity Films, Rook Films, Reagent Media and Heretic are all prod companies involved with the project.…...
- 1/16/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Lebanese actress and director Nadine Labaki enjoyed breakout success with Oscar-nominated and Cannes Jury Prize-winning third feature Capernaum in 2018 and there is now anticipation over what will be her next directorial feature project
However, the star, who is currently at the Marrakech International Film Festival as a member of its jury, told Deadline this week that it could be a while before she gets behind the camera.
“I have to start writing the next feature film. There’s nothing tangible I can talk about yet,” she said.
The weight of Lebanon’s political and economic crisis since 2019, which was exacerbated by the pandemic, and the deadly and devastating August 2020 Beirut explosion had made it difficult for her to focus on a personal project, she said.
“It has been a very difficult three years. We’ve all been sort of living like zombies. We’re alive but not really and it...
However, the star, who is currently at the Marrakech International Film Festival as a member of its jury, told Deadline this week that it could be a while before she gets behind the camera.
“I have to start writing the next feature film. There’s nothing tangible I can talk about yet,” she said.
The weight of Lebanon’s political and economic crisis since 2019, which was exacerbated by the pandemic, and the deadly and devastating August 2020 Beirut explosion had made it difficult for her to focus on a personal project, she said.
“It has been a very difficult three years. We’ve all been sort of living like zombies. We’re alive but not really and it...
- 11/18/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Titles acquired include ‘Club Zero’, ‘Hyakka’ and ‘Blue Jean’.
Leading Benelux indie distributors have revealed their latest acquisitions, including Pim Hermeling’s September Film Distribution which has added several films to its release slate.
Among them are Jessica Hausner’s latest Club Zero, starring Mia Wasikowska and sold by Coproduction Office. The film recently finished shooting in the UK. September has also picked up Saim Sadiq’s Joyland, which screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes and is handled internationally by Film Constellation.
Also new on the September slate is Genki Kawamura’s San Sebastián best director winner Hyakka, sold...
Leading Benelux indie distributors have revealed their latest acquisitions, including Pim Hermeling’s September Film Distribution which has added several films to its release slate.
Among them are Jessica Hausner’s latest Club Zero, starring Mia Wasikowska and sold by Coproduction Office. The film recently finished shooting in the UK. September has also picked up Saim Sadiq’s Joyland, which screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes and is handled internationally by Film Constellation.
Also new on the September slate is Genki Kawamura’s San Sebastián best director winner Hyakka, sold...
- 11/4/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
After spending two years as the Senior Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs at Blumhouse Productions and producing such films as Country Gold, Vengeance, The Voyeurs, and the poorly received 2019 version of Black Christmas, Zac Locke has now made his feature writing and directing debut with the supernatural slasher #Float, and Deadline reports that XYZ Films has acquired the North American distribution rights to the film. They’re planning to release it on December 8th.
#Float follows the young, beautiful, and full-of-life vlogger Kali and her pals, who are heading to the river for their annual lazy river float, the first one since their friend Chuy overdosed and drowned a year earlier. But their partying suddenly takes a dark turn when a mysterious force plunges them into a life-and-death struggle, forcing them to face their own fears as they turn on each other – and proceed to die one by one.
#Float follows the young, beautiful, and full-of-life vlogger Kali and her pals, who are heading to the river for their annual lazy river float, the first one since their friend Chuy overdosed and drowned a year earlier. But their partying suddenly takes a dark turn when a mysterious force plunges them into a life-and-death struggle, forcing them to face their own fears as they turn on each other – and proceed to die one by one.
- 11/3/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: XYZ Films has picked up the North American distribution rights to the supernatural slasher #Float, written and directed by Zac Locke (Black Christmas) and starring newcomer Kate Mayhew.
The deal was negotiated by XYZ’s Executive VP of U.S. Distribution, James Emanuel Shapiro. XYZ Films will release the film domestically on December 8.
The film follows the young, beautiful, and full-of-life vlogger Kali (Mayhew) and her pals who are heading to the river for their annual lazy river float, the first one since their friend Chuy overdosed and drowned a year earlier. But their partying suddenly takes a dark turn when a mysterious force plunges them into a life-and-death struggle, forcing them to face their own fears as they turn on each other – and proceed to die one by one.
The flick is the first from Locke’s genre micro-studio Rotting Press and it recently had its festival premiere...
The deal was negotiated by XYZ’s Executive VP of U.S. Distribution, James Emanuel Shapiro. XYZ Films will release the film domestically on December 8.
The film follows the young, beautiful, and full-of-life vlogger Kali (Mayhew) and her pals who are heading to the river for their annual lazy river float, the first one since their friend Chuy overdosed and drowned a year earlier. But their partying suddenly takes a dark turn when a mysterious force plunges them into a life-and-death struggle, forcing them to face their own fears as they turn on each other – and proceed to die one by one.
The flick is the first from Locke’s genre micro-studio Rotting Press and it recently had its festival premiere...
- 11/3/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Melissa Gorga is addressing the heated interaction that occurred between her and her “Real Housewives of New Jersey” co-star Jennifer Aydin last weekend during BravoCon.
On this week’s episode of Gorga’s “On Display” podcast from PodcastOne featuring celebrity hair stylist Justin Anderson, the reality star explained what went down in the New York hotel lobby, where she was staying for the weekend’s festivities, that caused Aydin to throw her drink at her husband Joe Gorga, as seen in the now-viral video.
The TV personality began by noting that throughout the entire first two days at the convention, she had fans come up to her telling her that Aydin “was basically bashing [Melissa] the whole day,” saying “Melissa’s hanging on by a thread. I don’t even know why she’s on the show.”
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On this week’s episode of Gorga’s “On Display” podcast from PodcastOne featuring celebrity hair stylist Justin Anderson, the reality star explained what went down in the New York hotel lobby, where she was staying for the weekend’s festivities, that caused Aydin to throw her drink at her husband Joe Gorga, as seen in the now-viral video.
The TV personality began by noting that throughout the entire first two days at the convention, she had fans come up to her telling her that Aydin “was basically bashing [Melissa] the whole day,” saying “Melissa’s hanging on by a thread. I don’t even know why she’s on the show.”
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- 10/20/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Kristin Cavallari smiles in earrings. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/ImagePressAgency/XavierCollin
Kristin Cavallari is living it up in Sin City and having the time of her life as she stuns in a new look.
The reality star and Uncommon James founder has ditched her Tennessee base for some fun in Las Vegas, and she made sure to invite her social media followers along for the ride.
Posting to her Instagram Stories ahead of the weekend, Kristin shared footage of herself partying and enjoying a shot as she sizzled in a braless and killer evening outfit.
The mom of three let her hair down as she downed a shot with pal Justin Anderson.
Footage showed Kristin at a bar and with her friend. The jewelry designer and new podcast host looked incredible in a barely-there and dark evening dress just about held together by very fine straps.
Rocking the braless trend,...
Kristin Cavallari is living it up in Sin City and having the time of her life as she stuns in a new look.
The reality star and Uncommon James founder has ditched her Tennessee base for some fun in Las Vegas, and she made sure to invite her social media followers along for the ride.
Posting to her Instagram Stories ahead of the weekend, Kristin shared footage of herself partying and enjoying a shot as she sizzled in a braless and killer evening outfit.
The mom of three let her hair down as she downed a shot with pal Justin Anderson.
Footage showed Kristin at a bar and with her friend. The jewelry designer and new podcast host looked incredible in a barely-there and dark evening dress just about held together by very fine straps.
Rocking the braless trend,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Angela Perry
- Monsters and Critics
The deals include on titles ‘Talk To Me’, ‘Swimming Home’ and ‘Raised Eyebrows’
London-based sales agent Bankside Films has closed numerous deals off the back of Cannes, on titles including Talk To Me, Swimming Home and Raised Eyebrows.
Horror Talk To Me is directed by Australian YouTube sensations Danny and Michael Philppou (aka RackaRacka), and is in post-production.
It has sold to Altitude (UK-Ireland), the Gp Cinema (Baltics), Premiere Distribution (Benelux), McF (Former Yugoslavia), Alba Films (France), Capelight (Germany), Vertigo Media (Hungary), Koch (Italy), The Coup (Korea), M2 (Poland), Scanbox (Scandinavia), Praesens (Switzerland), A Really Good Film Company (Taiwan and...
London-based sales agent Bankside Films has closed numerous deals off the back of Cannes, on titles including Talk To Me, Swimming Home and Raised Eyebrows.
Horror Talk To Me is directed by Australian YouTube sensations Danny and Michael Philppou (aka RackaRacka), and is in post-production.
It has sold to Altitude (UK-Ireland), the Gp Cinema (Baltics), Premiere Distribution (Benelux), McF (Former Yugoslavia), Alba Films (France), Capelight (Germany), Vertigo Media (Hungary), Koch (Italy), The Coup (Korea), M2 (Poland), Scanbox (Scandinavia), Praesens (Switzerland), A Really Good Film Company (Taiwan and...
- 7/5/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Screen is rounding up the key packages launched before and during this year’s Cannes Marche du Film (which runs May 17-25).
Screen is rounding up the key packages launched before and during this year’s Cannes Marche du Film (which runs May 17-25).
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May 18 Stone Mattress
Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh have signed on to star in Lynne Ramsey’s new thriller. The project is based on a short story by Margaret Atwood and is produced by John Lesher and JoAnne Sellar. Amazon are handling domestic rights. Studiocanal and Film4 are in final negotiations to board the project.
Screen is rounding up the key packages launched before and during this year’s Cannes Marche du Film (which runs May 17-25).
Refresh the page for latest updates.
May 18 Stone Mattress
Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh have signed on to star in Lynne Ramsey’s new thriller. The project is based on a short story by Margaret Atwood and is produced by John Lesher and JoAnne Sellar. Amazon are handling domestic rights. Studiocanal and Film4 are in final negotiations to board the project.
- 5/18/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Following the tragic passing of Gaspard Ulliel, one of the projects he was attached to has found a new actor. 1917 star George MacKay will now lead Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast alongside Léa Seydoux, Variety reports. Set to begin in August, the decades-spanning dystopian romance thriller is set in both Paris and California and will film in French and English. “Set in the near future where emotions have become a threat,” the synopsis reads, “Seydoux stars as Gabrielle, a woman who has finally decided to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. But when she meets Louis (Mackay) and although he seems dangerous she feels a powerful connection to him as if she’d known him forever.”
After news broke earlier this year that Bong Joon-ho’s next film would be an adaptation of Edward Ashton...
After news broke earlier this year that Bong Joon-ho’s next film would be an adaptation of Edward Ashton...
- 5/16/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel will be directed by Justin Anderson.
Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott and Mackenzie Davis have signed to star in Justin Anderson’s directorial debut Swimming Home, which Bankside Films is introducing to international buyers at Cannes. US rights are being co-repped by UTA Independent Film Group and WME Independent.
The film is an adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by Deborah Levy and is a dark comedy about a troubled married couple and their teenage daughter whose holiday is transformed by the naked stranger they find floating in the pool of their villa.
Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott and Mackenzie Davis have signed to star in Justin Anderson’s directorial debut Swimming Home, which Bankside Films is introducing to international buyers at Cannes. US rights are being co-repped by UTA Independent Film Group and WME Independent.
The film is an adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by Deborah Levy and is a dark comedy about a troubled married couple and their teenage daughter whose holiday is transformed by the naked stranger they find floating in the pool of their villa.
- 5/13/2022
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
Kristin Cavallari's future husband may be competing with Justin Anderson for her heart. The Laguna Beach alum, 35, shared photos of herself April 17 enjoying a day at the beach in the Bahamas with her Bff. Though the photos showed the two friends laughing and having fun, Kristin used the Instagram post as a chance to give her future husband advice. "Not to be too sappy but this guy has been my rock," Kristin, who was previously married to Jay Cutler, wrote. "My future husband has some big ass shoes to fill." And will Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron be the man to do so? Well, not so fast… Just four days after the duo were seen...
- 4/18/2022
- E! Online
Producers of ‘Supernova’, ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Spencer’ among those with projects to receive investment.
The first three projects to benefit from a £1.2m investment fund, created by UK distributor Curzon, Australian outfit Madman Entertainment and Benelux firm Cineart, have been revealed.
The Curzon Cm Development Fund is backing Justin Anderson’s feature debut Swimming Home, whose producers include Andy Starke and Emily Morgan; Brady Hood’s Sweet Maddie Stone, produced by Laura Jackson and Paul Webster; and The Ballad Of A Small Player, written by Rowan Joffe. No director is attached yet to the latter.
Curzon, Madman and Cineart each have...
The first three projects to benefit from a £1.2m investment fund, created by UK distributor Curzon, Australian outfit Madman Entertainment and Benelux firm Cineart, have been revealed.
The Curzon Cm Development Fund is backing Justin Anderson’s feature debut Swimming Home, whose producers include Andy Starke and Emily Morgan; Brady Hood’s Sweet Maddie Stone, produced by Laura Jackson and Paul Webster; and The Ballad Of A Small Player, written by Rowan Joffe. No director is attached yet to the latter.
Curzon, Madman and Cineart each have...
- 3/18/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Kristin Cavallari's lips are definitely not sealed. The Laguna Beach alum didn't hold back during an Instagram question and answer sesh on Thursday night, Nov. 26, even when her fans started to ask about the likes of Stephen Colletti, Brody Jenner, Justin Bobby Brescia, and yes, Lauren Conrad. The reality star's Bff Justin Anderson actually started the Q&a, telling Kristin's followers, "Now that the kids are asleep and we're just doing work stuff, ask me a question here about anything Uncommon James related. I'll answer it for you!" While some of the questions were indeed about Kristin's jewelry brand, they quickly took a...
- 11/27/2020
- E! Online
Exclusive: Apple TV+ has discovered its next natural history series – a project that uses the latest audio technology to tell wildlife stories.
The streamer has ordered 12-part series Earthsound from British production company Offspring Films.
The half-hour series uses audio technology and cinematic 360 sound design to reveal the unexpected, unfamiliar and untold natural stories on every continent of the planet.
Earthsound will be exec produced by Offspring Film’s founder and creative director Alex Williamson and with Sam Hodgson as series producer. Justin Anderson (Planet Earth II), Joe Stevens (Blue Planet II) and Tom Payne (Big Blue: Live) will serve as producers for Offspring Films.
Based in the natural history hub of Bristol, UK, Offspring Films was set up in 2014 by Williamson, who was previously head of development at the BBC’s Natural History Unit, where oversaw the creation of series including Planet Earth II.
It produced Apple’s Earth at Night in Color,...
The streamer has ordered 12-part series Earthsound from British production company Offspring Films.
The half-hour series uses audio technology and cinematic 360 sound design to reveal the unexpected, unfamiliar and untold natural stories on every continent of the planet.
Earthsound will be exec produced by Offspring Film’s founder and creative director Alex Williamson and with Sam Hodgson as series producer. Justin Anderson (Planet Earth II), Joe Stevens (Blue Planet II) and Tom Payne (Big Blue: Live) will serve as producers for Offspring Films.
Based in the natural history hub of Bristol, UK, Offspring Films was set up in 2014 by Williamson, who was previously head of development at the BBC’s Natural History Unit, where oversaw the creation of series including Planet Earth II.
It produced Apple’s Earth at Night in Color,...
- 10/7/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Kristin Cavallari hasn't lost her wit. Case in point? The Very Cavallari alum took to social media to post a cheeky caption on Friday, Sept. 4. "Longest relationship of my life," Kristin shared on Instagram. The reality TV personality uploaded a photo of her posing with her best friend and celebrity hairstylist, Justin Anderson. The BFFs appeared to be enjoying a poolside or oceanside day, as they each had on their swimwear. It didn't take long for the 33-year-old star's millions of followers and friends to comment on her post. "And the [fire emoji] keeps burning. Holy hotness I'm ketoing with you next," former co-star and Uncommon James employee,...
- 9/5/2020
- E! Online
Best friends forever! Justin Anderson isn't just Kristin Cavallari's go-to hairstylist—he's also one of her closest friends! Very Cavallari fans have gotten to know Justin since he joined the show, following his relationship with Austin Rhodes, his career as a celebrity hair guru and of course, the various hijinks he and Kristin get into! But in addition to all the fun the two have together, Justin has also been there for Kristin through a multitude of tough times. It's definitely safe to say that they're the ultimate Bff goals! In honor of Kristin and Justin's incredible friendship, we've rounded up some of the duo's most adorable photos. Check them out in the...
- 5/18/2020
- E! Online
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