There are 27 features and documentaries amongst this year’s festival selection.
Haifa International Film Festival (Oct 15-24) has revealed the line-up of Israeli titles for its 32nd edition.
The programme will include 13 Israeli feature films, 14 Israeli documentary films, 48 shorts and animated films and 10 student and recent graduate films.
See the full list below, including synopses.
Full line-up of Israeli titles:
Israeli feature film competition:
(Synopses provided by festival)
Antenna, dir. Arik Rotstein (Wp)
On a bright morning, Joshua, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, discovers that a cellular communications antenna has been installed on the roof of his home. It turns out that his neighbor has leased his part of the roof to a cellular company. Joshua feels that a terrible injustice was done. The radiation must be the cause for all his aches and pains. There is nothing for it - Joshua declares war on the offending neighbor and drags his wife Sarah and three adult sons with...
Haifa International Film Festival (Oct 15-24) has revealed the line-up of Israeli titles for its 32nd edition.
The programme will include 13 Israeli feature films, 14 Israeli documentary films, 48 shorts and animated films and 10 student and recent graduate films.
See the full list below, including synopses.
Full line-up of Israeli titles:
Israeli feature film competition:
(Synopses provided by festival)
Antenna, dir. Arik Rotstein (Wp)
On a bright morning, Joshua, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, discovers that a cellular communications antenna has been installed on the roof of his home. It turns out that his neighbor has leased his part of the roof to a cellular company. Joshua feels that a terrible injustice was done. The radiation must be the cause for all his aches and pains. There is nothing for it - Joshua declares war on the offending neighbor and drags his wife Sarah and three adult sons with...
- 9/8/2016
- ScreenDaily
The novels of English author Nick Hornby have inspired such charming comedies as About A Boy, Fever Pitch and High Fidelity. Joining this list of lovely little films is A Long Way Down, a dark comedy about four people who meet and become friends at their lowest point. In the trailer above, you can see A Long Way Down stars Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots as four desperate strangers all drawn to the same spot on New Year's Eve with plans of committing suicide. Based on Hornby's novel of the same name, the film will follow how these very different people become life-changing friends who help each other through not just this critical night, but also the various highs and lows that follow it. The adapted screenplay was penned by Jack Thorne, an English television writer who has contributed to such series as Skins, Cast Offs,...
- 4/30/2014
- cinemablend.com
Entertainment One has pacted with Jamie Campbell and Joel Wilson’s Eleven Film to develop scripted projects for the UK and international markets. The company produces documentary, current affairs, comedy and drama programs and is currently in development on drama projects commissioned by the BBC, Channel4 and Sky, working with writers including Jack Thorne (This Is England, Skins) and Paul Andrew Williams (Wallander). Its first drama series, Cast Offs, was written by BAFTA winner Thorne with Oscar nominee Tony Roche. Under the deal, eOne will have exclusive first-look rights to all Eleven-produced scripted TV development, serve as deficit financier and will handle worldwide sales, excluding the UK, for all TV projects including the current development slate.
- 2/21/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Before the intriguing possibilities contained within Johnny Depp and Wally Pfister's collaboration on “Transcendence” come to fruition, there's still the matter of the iconic actor's more traditional roles: namely, that of the eccentric, whimsy-tinged adventurer on which he's plied his trade for quite some time, and now is eyeing a return to in the near future for a director well-versed in the type. Already taking on a producer role alongside his Infinitum Nihl label partner Christi Dembrowski, Depp is looking to possibly play the lead in Warner Bros. family fantasy “Mortimer Wintergreen,” loosely based off the 1987 novel written by Myron Levoy. Playwright and writer Jack Thorne (TV's “Skins,” “Cast Offs”) will pen the film, which follows a brother/sister pair who encounter the titular traveling magician after running away from home, and “Nanny McPhee Returns” director Susanna White is attached to...
- 1/14/2013
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
On the small screen, Aaron Paul has been enjoying a great amount of success on "Breaking Bad," but hasn't really had a huge role on the big screen. Later this year he'll show of some solid supporting chops alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead in Smashed (coming this October), and now he's landed a starring role in Long Way Down, an adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel of the same name. British TV writer Jack Thorne (of "Skins" and "Cast Offs") is adapting the book which follows four people who plan to commit suicide by jumping off a building on New Year's Eve, but become friends with each other before the jump. Paul joins Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette and Imogen Poots as the other people looking to leap to their death. Deadlin says Paul's character is a pizza delivery man while Brosnan is playing embattled television talk show host, Poots portrays a...
- 8/13/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
The highly anticipated new supernatural drama, The Fades, from award-winning scriptwriter Jack Thorne (whose previous credits include This Is England '86, Skins, The Scouting Book For Boys, and Cast Offs), arrives on BBC3 on Wednesday 21st September at 9pm.
17-year-old geek Paul can see the spirits of the dead. Now a vengeful spirit - or Fade - has broken through to our world and Paul’s friends and family are in the eye of the storm.
The series stars Iain De Caestecker as Paul, and Daniel Kaluuya as Mac, with Lily Loveless (Skins) as Anna, Paul's twin sister.
The series also stars Tom Ellis (Miranda, Harley Street, Merlin), Johnny Harris (This is England '86, Spartacus), Daniela Nardini (This Life, A Street Car Named Desire), Claire Rushbrook (Ashes To Ashes), Theo Barklem-Biggs (Age Of Heroes, Miranda, EastEnders), Jenn Murray (Day Of The Triffids) and Sophie Wu (Kick-Ass, The Other Man).
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17-year-old geek Paul can see the spirits of the dead. Now a vengeful spirit - or Fade - has broken through to our world and Paul’s friends and family are in the eye of the storm.
The series stars Iain De Caestecker as Paul, and Daniel Kaluuya as Mac, with Lily Loveless (Skins) as Anna, Paul's twin sister.
The series also stars Tom Ellis (Miranda, Harley Street, Merlin), Johnny Harris (This is England '86, Spartacus), Daniela Nardini (This Life, A Street Car Named Desire), Claire Rushbrook (Ashes To Ashes), Theo Barklem-Biggs (Age Of Heroes, Miranda, EastEnders), Jenn Murray (Day Of The Triffids) and Sophie Wu (Kick-Ass, The Other Man).
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- 9/10/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Ex-T4 presenter Rick Edwards has been cast in a Comedy Labs satire about the world of TV presenting. Rick and Peter will star Edwards and Peter Mitchell (Hollyoaks, Cast Offs) as exaggerated forms of themselves. The half-hour one-off is based around Edwards's character being given a crash course in political correctness after making a gaff on T4. Written by Tom Basden (The Party), the show has been greenlit by Channel 4 comedy commissioning editor Nerys Evans. Other Comedy Labs specials airing this year include Kabadasses, (more)...
- 7/21/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Sometimes the geek world isn't even a tube ride away for me. I live within a stone's throw of a pretty cool-looking disused railway tunnel in London's Highgate, a location which, on average, receives a new film crew about every 4-5 months. Today they're filming the pilot of new BBC supernatural horror The Fades, written by Jack Thorne (This Is England '86, Skins, The Scouting Book For Boys, Cast Offs) and featuring Iain De Caestecker (River City, Coronation Street), Daniel Kaluuya (Skins, Psychoville, Sucker Punch), Claire Rushbrook (Ashes To Ashes), Johnny Harris (This is England '86, Spartacus), Lily Loveless (Skins), Theo Barklem-Biggs (Age Of Heroes, Miranda, EastEnders), Daniela Nardini (This Life, A Street Car Named Desire), Jenn Murray (Day Of The Triffids) and Sophie Wu (Kick-Ass, The Other Man).
I'm too busy to go and bother them much, and it's usually not appreciated anyway. The flyer we residents got say it'll be done by mid-evening,...
I'm too busy to go and bother them much, and it's usually not appreciated anyway. The flyer we residents got say it'll be done by mid-evening,...
- 4/20/2011
- Shadowlocked
BBC Three has ordered a supernatural drama series called The Fades. The show stars Lip Service and Coronation Street actor Iain De Caestecker as Paul, a young man who has "apocalyptic" nightmares. Paul begins to see 'the Fades' - the spirits of the dead - and one finds a way to breach the barrier between the living and dead. Paul and his best friend Mac soon realise that they will be responsible for keeping the world safe. The six-part series has been penned by award-winning writer Jack Thorne, who has previously worked on dramas including This Is England '86, Skins and Cast Offs. "The Fades was born from a trip into executive producer Sue Hogg's office," he said. "She asked me what drama of the last ten years I wished I'd written. I said the American (more)...
- 3/29/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Screenterrier reported on the shooting of the pilot for BBC 3 supernatural drama The Fades back in June last year. The series is written by 2011 Rts Award-winning writer, Jack Thorne, whose previous credits include This Is England '86, Skins, The Scouting Book For Boys, and Cast Offs.
Filming on the series started last week with 24 year old Iain De Caestecke (best known for playing Adam Barlow in Coronation Street, and most recently seen in Lip Service) taking on the lead role of Paul (played by Olly Alexander in the pilot), a young man who is haunted by apocalyptic dreams that neither his therapist or best friend, Mac, can provide answers for. Worse still, Paul is starting to see the Fades – the spirits of the dead – all around him. Iain is represented by Hamilton Hodell.
Screenterrier favourite and multi-award winning actor Daniel Kaluuya joins the cast playing Paul's best friend Mac.
Skins...
Filming on the series started last week with 24 year old Iain De Caestecke (best known for playing Adam Barlow in Coronation Street, and most recently seen in Lip Service) taking on the lead role of Paul (played by Olly Alexander in the pilot), a young man who is haunted by apocalyptic dreams that neither his therapist or best friend, Mac, can provide answers for. Worse still, Paul is starting to see the Fades – the spirits of the dead – all around him. Iain is represented by Hamilton Hodell.
Screenterrier favourite and multi-award winning actor Daniel Kaluuya joins the cast playing Paul's best friend Mac.
Skins...
- 3/29/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Hollyoaks star Emmett Scanlan has confirmed that his character Brendan Brady has big reasons to be worried when newcomer Pete arrives in the village. Pete - played by former Cast Offs star Peter Mitchell - is the new headteacher of Hollyoaks High and takes up the position in next week's episodes after moving over from Ireland. However, the mysterious new arrival also has a history with Brendan and it seems that he has turned up in the village with a score to settle. Speaking in an interview with All About Soap, Scanlan explained that the situation is much worse than when Brendan's estranged wife Eileen and ex-lover Macca paid visits to Hollyoaks last year. "Brendan's never pleased to see anyone from his past and when Pete (more)...
- 2/16/2011
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
Shane Meadows confirmed at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards that there will be a feature length follow-up to This Is England '86.
The two-hour drama will be set during Christmas 1988 and is to be broadcast on Channel 4 over the festive period at the end of this year. It will begin filming in the spring.
Meadows first introduced his group of young people growing up in the Midlands in the 1980s in the 2006 Film4-backed movie This Is England, which starred Thomas Turgoose, and then followed it up with the four-part Channel 4 drama This Is England '86 last year.
"I've never done a follow-up to something I've made as a film but there was something about This Is England, meeting Thomas Turgoose and the whole cast. We got as close as I have ever got to a family in this film," he said at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards today.
The two-hour drama will be set during Christmas 1988 and is to be broadcast on Channel 4 over the festive period at the end of this year. It will begin filming in the spring.
Meadows first introduced his group of young people growing up in the Midlands in the 1980s in the 2006 Film4-backed movie This Is England, which starred Thomas Turgoose, and then followed it up with the four-part Channel 4 drama This Is England '86 last year.
"I've never done a follow-up to something I've made as a film but there was something about This Is England, meeting Thomas Turgoose and the whole cast. We got as close as I have ever got to a family in this film," he said at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards today.
- 1/25/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
BBC Three has confirmed that it has greenlit new six-part supernatural drama Touch. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, channel controller Danny Cohen confirmed that that the show will begin filming next year. The series will be written by Jack Thorne, whose past work includes Skins and Channel 4 mockumentary Cast Offs. It will follow Paul, an awkward young man who can interact with (more)...
- 8/31/2010
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Northern Irish actor and wheelchair user Peter Mitchell has been cast in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. The 26-year-old, who previously played the role of Dan in disability-themed mockumentary Cast Offs, is to play a yet-to-be-announced character in the teen show after being recruited by producer Paul Marquess. Mitchell has used a wheelchair since 2002, when he lost the ability to walk following a car crash. He landed his new TV part last week during a meeting with the Hollyoaks production team at the show's base in Liverpool. Speaking of his casting, Mitchell told the Derry Journal: "I thought getting a part in Cast Offs was fantastic and then came a part in Doctors - but this is really big. This is a long term acting job - they don't (more)...
- 8/10/2010
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
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