Taking place September 1 through 11, the Venice Film Festival has now unveiled its lineup, after a few teases of what it contains (the opening night selection of Madres Paralelas by Pedro Almodovar and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune). Among the selections are Jane Campion’s The Power of a Dog, Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God, and Edgar Wright’s The Last Night in Soho will premiere there, along with new shorts by Radu Jude and Tsai Ming-liang.
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Venezia 78 – Competition
Madres Paralelas, dir: Pedro Almodovar
Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon, dir: Ana Lily Amirpour
Un Autre Monde, dir: Stéphane Brizé
The Power Of The Dog,...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God, and Edgar Wright’s The Last Night in Soho will premiere there, along with new shorts by Radu Jude and Tsai Ming-liang.
Check out the line below for the festival that will feature 50% capacity at screenings.
Venezia 78 – Competition
Madres Paralelas, dir: Pedro Almodovar
Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon, dir: Ana Lily Amirpour
Un Autre Monde, dir: Stéphane Brizé
The Power Of The Dog,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Transport yourself to another dimension with Sol, an independent science fiction feature film from writer/director Benjamin Carland. Independent science fiction films can be incredibly bad or incredibly awesome. In the case of Sol, I was pleasantly surprised to with the amount of thrills and tension from such a low budget film.
Imagine being stranded on a hostile alien planet with a group of other elite young adults as part of a prestigious competition called Sol Invictus. The goal of your team is to be able to pinpoint Earth's faraway sun - Sol to wine fame and glory. The teams face many perils along the way, including themselves. The story finds the competitors of this year's competition marooned on the wrong planet with most of their teammates and equipment missing. What starts as a game for glory soon descends into a race for survival as former enemies must band together...
Imagine being stranded on a hostile alien planet with a group of other elite young adults as part of a prestigious competition called Sol Invictus. The goal of your team is to be able to pinpoint Earth's faraway sun - Sol to wine fame and glory. The teams face many perils along the way, including themselves. The story finds the competitors of this year's competition marooned on the wrong planet with most of their teammates and equipment missing. What starts as a game for glory soon descends into a race for survival as former enemies must band together...
- 5/2/2012
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Director/screenwriter Benjamin Carland has crafted an interesting sci-fi debut. Sol focuses on “a group of ambitious young adults as they embark upon the prestigious Sol Invictus competition in a quest to win fame and glory. The rules of the game are simple but dire: each of Earth’s finest Academies sends their best and brightest to a remote planet in a race against the rest. The first team to pinpoint, out of all the stars in the sky, which one is Earth’s faraway sun — Sol — is the winner. But no one goes home until the games are won…
A glorious life awaits the lucky few who win, and many have died at the hands of their peers along the way with no questions asked.
But visions of victory crumble as the teams are marooned on the wrong planet with most of their teammates missing – along with all of their equipment.
A glorious life awaits the lucky few who win, and many have died at the hands of their peers along the way with no questions asked.
But visions of victory crumble as the teams are marooned on the wrong planet with most of their teammates missing – along with all of their equipment.
- 6/22/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
[1] There are a lot of crappy spots for films of every stripe, so it's always a pleasant surprise when you stumble across a cool one you weren't expecting. A trailer has just been released for Sol, the intriguing feature debut of young director/screenwriter Benjamin Carland. Carland's sci-fi tale centers around a group of young adults who travel to a remote planet in order to compete against in the prestigious and brutal Sol Invictus competition. However, when several of the participants find themselves stranded on the wrong planet with most of their teammates and equipment missing, rivals are forced to band together in order to cling on to any hope of survival. Check it out after the jump. [via First Showing [2] and Apple [3]] It's true that Sol doesn't seem as polished as some of the other films out there. Some of the dialogue sounds rather clunky, for one thing, and the acting doesn't...
- 6/21/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Here is a trailer a science fiction film titled Sol. The film was written and directed by Benjamin Carland and stars, Jake Brown, Caleb Courtney, Sky King, Aaron Kuban, Spenser Pollard, Tyler Thomas, and Jake White. The trailer does not really execite me, but it does remind me of Lord of the Flies.
Synopsis:
"Sol" is a sci-fi motion picture event set in the distant future on a hostile alien planet. It follows a group of ambitious young adults as they embark upon the prestigious Sol Invictus competition in a quest to win fame and glory. The rules of the game are simple but dire: each of Earth's finest Academies sends their best and brightest to a remote planet in a race against the rest. The first team to pinpoint, out of all the stars in the sky, which one is Earth's faraway sun -- Sol -- is the winner.
Synopsis:
"Sol" is a sci-fi motion picture event set in the distant future on a hostile alien planet. It follows a group of ambitious young adults as they embark upon the prestigious Sol Invictus competition in a quest to win fame and glory. The rules of the game are simple but dire: each of Earth's finest Academies sends their best and brightest to a remote planet in a race against the rest. The first team to pinpoint, out of all the stars in the sky, which one is Earth's faraway sun -- Sol -- is the winner.
- 6/16/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
"We have no idea where we are... Nobody does." Sol is a sci-fi motion picture event set in the distant future on a hostile alien planet. It follows a group of ambitious young adults as they embark upon the prestigious Sol Invictus competition in a quest to win fame and glory. Unfortunately, they got lost. This is a trailer for an odd, but fascinating indie sci-fi flick, debuted recently over on Apple. I love the score, it has an intriguing premise, but honestly, it still looks/sounds a bit too student-filmy. One of the young actors in this is Caleb Courtney, older brother of Joel Courtney, the lead kid from Super 8. I'm intrigued, at least. Check this out! Watch the official trailer for Benjamin Carland's sci-fi film Sol: You can also watch the Sol trailer in High Definition on Apple Far in the future, a group of...
- 6/16/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The first trailer for Ben Carland's sci-fi drama Sol left us thinking that a group of kids were lost on some mysterious island with no way of getting home. I loved the visuals and music of the trailer and the fact that the story seemed to focus almost exclusively on the human drama.
It's been nearly a year since that trailer made its way online and since then, work has wrapped on the production and the search for distribution has started bringing with it a new trailer for the film which adds some new layers to the story, namely that this is some sort of competition that has gone horribly wrong. The new trailer features mostly new material and is much more straightforward than the teaser and like a good trailer, leaves many more questions than answers; I certainly want to know what "those things" are and what they do.
It's been nearly a year since that trailer made its way online and since then, work has wrapped on the production and the search for distribution has started bringing with it a new trailer for the film which adds some new layers to the story, namely that this is some sort of competition that has gone horribly wrong. The new trailer features mostly new material and is much more straightforward than the teaser and like a good trailer, leaves many more questions than answers; I certainly want to know what "those things" are and what they do.
- 5/30/2011
- QuietEarth.us
What is Benjamin Carland’s “Sol”? I don’t know, but from the looks of the teaser trailer below, it sure looks and sounds like a mixture of “Stargate” (humans travel to another planet by way of a “gate”) and “Lord of the Flies” (the characters are all teenager-ish and struggles to survive). It certainly looks interesting. Sol tells the harrowing tale of five young adults that find themselves stranded further from home than they ever thought possible. Everything goes wrong for the children as the comforts of home grow increasingly distant and the technologies they rely so heavily upon fail just as painfully as their hopes of ever getting back. Sol is a character story about camaraderie overcoming adversity, sacrifice, having to grow up quickly, and finding happiness in the worst of situations. It’s a universal and relatable look at young people trying to find their place in...
- 7/19/2010
- by Nix
- SciFiCool.com
A group of young explorers wakes up on an island far from home. The gate through which they’ve travelled seems to have broken and the other teams haven’t arrived. They’re on their own with little technology and no idea where they are or how to get home.
This tale of survival is at the heart of director Ben Carland and The Obsidian Collective’s first full length feature Sol. A character driven story about teens coming together to overcome and survive in an environment that appears to offer nothing more than gorgeous views, the actors have quite a bit to work up to and from the looks of the first teaser, they seem to be holding their own.
Gorgeous music, beautiful visuals and a sense that this is very much a slow-burn, character based sort of sci-fi (I love how the trailer focuses on the people and...
This tale of survival is at the heart of director Ben Carland and The Obsidian Collective’s first full length feature Sol. A character driven story about teens coming together to overcome and survive in an environment that appears to offer nothing more than gorgeous views, the actors have quite a bit to work up to and from the looks of the first teaser, they seem to be holding their own.
Gorgeous music, beautiful visuals and a sense that this is very much a slow-burn, character based sort of sci-fi (I love how the trailer focuses on the people and...
- 7/12/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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