Zagreb-based doc specialist Splitscreen has boarded Argentinian gaucho tale “Where the Trees Bear Meat” by Alexis Franco ahead of its world premiere at Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel. It is one of 15 films vying for the top prize in the main international competition.
Set in the Argentine Pampas, the film follows Omar, a farmer, whose cows are dying as a result of a prolonged drought. Other prominent characters include Omar’s ageing mother, who has started planning her own departure, and his four-year-old granddaughter, whom he takes care of in her father’s absence.
Omar is Franco’s uncle, and the world he portrays in every lovingly crafted shot is the one he grew up in. This intimacy gives the film an authenticity that transcends the stereotypes and clichés often associated with gaucho culture. The story it tells is one of a family’s resilience in the face of adversity.
Set in the Argentine Pampas, the film follows Omar, a farmer, whose cows are dying as a result of a prolonged drought. Other prominent characters include Omar’s ageing mother, who has started planning her own departure, and his four-year-old granddaughter, whom he takes care of in her father’s absence.
Omar is Franco’s uncle, and the world he portrays in every lovingly crafted shot is the one he grew up in. This intimacy gives the film an authenticity that transcends the stereotypes and clichés often associated with gaucho culture. The story it tells is one of a family’s resilience in the face of adversity.
- 4/12/2024
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Les Films du Losange has boarded Italian director Roberto Minervini’s The Damned ahead of the film’s world premiere in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Minervini is known for a long career in documentary and The Damned is his first fiction feature. Set during the American Civil War in the winter of 1862, it follows a troop of volunteer soldiers tasked with patrolling unchartered borderlands in western territories. As their mission ultimately changes course, the meaning behind their engagement begins to elude them.
The Damned is an Italian-American-Belgian co-production from Okta Film, Pulpa Film, Rai Cinema and Michigan Films. The cast includes rising talents Jeremiah Knupp,...
Minervini is known for a long career in documentary and The Damned is his first fiction feature. Set during the American Civil War in the winter of 1862, it follows a troop of volunteer soldiers tasked with patrolling unchartered borderlands in western territories. As their mission ultimately changes course, the meaning behind their engagement begins to elude them.
The Damned is an Italian-American-Belgian co-production from Okta Film, Pulpa Film, Rai Cinema and Michigan Films. The cast includes rising talents Jeremiah Knupp,...
- 4/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
German actress Nina Hoss (Phoenix, Tár, Barbara) has signed on to star in The Other Side, an upcoming adventure thriller from German director Mariko Minoguchi.
Hoss will play Hanna, a doctor who, during the midst of an epidemic, goes into self-isolation in the mountain wilderness to protect herself and others.
Best known for her many collaborations with German director Christian Petzold —including 2007’s Yella, 2012’s Barbara and 2014’s Phoenix — Hoss played Cate Blanchett’s wife in Todd Field’s Oscar-nominated Tár (2022) and had a recurring role as Astrid in seasons 5 and 6 of Showtime’s Emmy-winning series Homeland and in Amazon’s action series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. More recently, Hoss co-starred in Claire Burger’s coming-of-age romantic drama Langue Étrangère, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last month, and in Radu Jude’s freewheeling feminist satire Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, which...
Hoss will play Hanna, a doctor who, during the midst of an epidemic, goes into self-isolation in the mountain wilderness to protect herself and others.
Best known for her many collaborations with German director Christian Petzold —including 2007’s Yella, 2012’s Barbara and 2014’s Phoenix — Hoss played Cate Blanchett’s wife in Todd Field’s Oscar-nominated Tár (2022) and had a recurring role as Astrid in seasons 5 and 6 of Showtime’s Emmy-winning series Homeland and in Amazon’s action series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. More recently, Hoss co-starred in Claire Burger’s coming-of-age romantic drama Langue Étrangère, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last month, and in Radu Jude’s freewheeling feminist satire Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, which...
- 3/13/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson’s Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted isn’t the sort of “important” documentary that generally wins awards, but it’s a fine example of something even rarer: a documentary that draws its voice and aesthetic from the spirit of its subject, resulting in a tight 97 minutes that feel organic and satisfying and, as befits that subject, appealingly odd.
When it comes to Swamp Dogg, I’m not sure if there’s a middle ground between “Who?!?” and “Swamp Dogg is the Best!!!” though perhaps Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted will create an appreciative warmth in that space.
Swamp Dogg has acquired his position as a musical cult icon by virtue of an astonishing adjacency to fame that dates back to his first recorded song in 1954. In the subsequent 70 years, he’s been signed to, recorded for, and even been an executive at possibly dozens of labels.
When it comes to Swamp Dogg, I’m not sure if there’s a middle ground between “Who?!?” and “Swamp Dogg is the Best!!!” though perhaps Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted will create an appreciative warmth in that space.
Swamp Dogg has acquired his position as a musical cult icon by virtue of an astonishing adjacency to fame that dates back to his first recorded song in 1954. In the subsequent 70 years, he’s been signed to, recorded for, and even been an executive at possibly dozens of labels.
- 3/12/2024
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The incontrovertible and immediate effect of muscular tax credits, entering in force in 2023, have powered to a new level the shoot scene in Bilbao and Bizkaia – the Basque city and surrounding province in Northern Spain.
Introduced on Jan. 1, 2023, the new incentives offer an up-to-60% tax deduction for national and international co-productions of film and TV projects.
Enticing studios such as Toboggan and production houses Buendía Estudios and Tornasol to set up in Bizkaia and streaming giant Netflix to invest in original productions, the territory is fast capitalizing on its breaks.
Over 2023, 151 shoots filmed in Bilbao-Bizkaia, 76 from the Basque Country, 47 from Spain and 28 from abroad, according to the Bilbao-Bizkaia 2023 Year Book.
Total shoot spend in 2023 came in at €58.5 million ($63.7 million), 324% up on 2019’s figure of €13.8 million, six times up on €23.5 million ($25.6 million) in 2021. In all, productions shot 1,026 days in Bilbao or in the rest of Bizkaia, 74% more than 2022. The fact that...
Introduced on Jan. 1, 2023, the new incentives offer an up-to-60% tax deduction for national and international co-productions of film and TV projects.
Enticing studios such as Toboggan and production houses Buendía Estudios and Tornasol to set up in Bizkaia and streaming giant Netflix to invest in original productions, the territory is fast capitalizing on its breaks.
Over 2023, 151 shoots filmed in Bilbao-Bizkaia, 76 from the Basque Country, 47 from Spain and 28 from abroad, according to the Bilbao-Bizkaia 2023 Year Book.
Total shoot spend in 2023 came in at €58.5 million ($63.7 million), 324% up on 2019’s figure of €13.8 million, six times up on €23.5 million ($25.6 million) in 2021. In all, productions shot 1,026 days in Bilbao or in the rest of Bizkaia, 74% more than 2022. The fact that...
- 3/5/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
While you’ve been waiting nearly two decades for a new T Bone Burnett album, he’s been “Waiting for You,” or so he sings on the lead single for his upcoming LP, The Other Side. “Waiting for you so long, I’ve been waiting for you,” he sings over acoustic guitar and sighing sounds that could be either steel guitar or vocalizations by the women of Lucius, who features on the song. It’s a melancholy song full of yearning, with a little Spanish guitar flare, setting a gentle tone for the record,...
- 2/28/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Meanstreak, the reunited all-female thrash metal band featuring the wives of three Dream Theater members, have announced a new EP titled Blood Moon. In advance of its February 2nd release, the band has unleashed the single “Giant Speaks.”
Slyly promoting themselves as “The Real Housewives of Heavy Metal” in a new press release, Meanstreak feature guitarist Marlene Portnoy (wife of Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy), guitarist Rena Sands Petrucci (wife of Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci), and bassist Martens Myung (wife of Dream Theater bassist John Myung). The lineup is rounded out by singer Bettina France and drummer Yael Rallis.
As one of the first all-female thrash bands ever, Meanstreak’s first run lasted from 1985 to 1994. They reunited in 2022 to support John Petrucci’s tour featuring Mike Portnoy.
Blood Moon will be the band’s first official release since their one-and-only full-length studio album, 1988’s Roadkill.
“The Meanstreak reunion has been nothing short of incredible,...
Slyly promoting themselves as “The Real Housewives of Heavy Metal” in a new press release, Meanstreak feature guitarist Marlene Portnoy (wife of Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy), guitarist Rena Sands Petrucci (wife of Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci), and bassist Martens Myung (wife of Dream Theater bassist John Myung). The lineup is rounded out by singer Bettina France and drummer Yael Rallis.
As one of the first all-female thrash bands ever, Meanstreak’s first run lasted from 1985 to 1994. They reunited in 2022 to support John Petrucci’s tour featuring Mike Portnoy.
Blood Moon will be the band’s first official release since their one-and-only full-length studio album, 1988’s Roadkill.
“The Meanstreak reunion has been nothing short of incredible,...
- 1/19/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
The Netflix series As the Crow Flies is a story driven by the two most significant characters in it. One is the protagonist, Lale Kiran, the renowned TV personality and news host for the broadcasting channel MON5, and the other is the antagonist of the story, Asli Tuna, a greedy student journalist who entered the network as an intern and began scheming to eventually replace Lale. Amid the major conflict, some other characters in the story became integral parts and changed the whole course of the story. Yusuf Tunca, a field reporter and informant working for MON5, was one of them. Yusuf was not a very important character in season 1 of As the Crow Flies, while in season 2, he eventually became the one to win the battle of power and claim the throne.
Spoilers Ahead
What Was Yusuf’s Relationship With Asli?
Doon after Asli Tuna joined the network as an intern,...
Spoilers Ahead
What Was Yusuf’s Relationship With Asli?
Doon after Asli Tuna joined the network as an intern,...
- 12/17/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
Turkish Netflix series As the Crow Flies came back with another season, shedding light on the aftermath of Lale Kiran’s resignation from her broadcasting channel MON5. Season 2 of As the Crow Flies is all about the constant competition going on between Asli and Lale Kiran, which takes a toll on both their professional and personal lives, but at the end of this unequal battle, Asli learns that karma is a terrible thing.
In the previous season of As the Crow Flies, Lale had resigned from the network, and Asli secured her position as a new TV anchor for the network’s program “The Other Side”. However, the public didn’t appreciate Asli as much as they used to love Lale when she was the host of the show, so to make the show more captivating to the audience, Asli restructured the entire program while also changing the setup. But even after this,...
In the previous season of As the Crow Flies, Lale had resigned from the network, and Asli secured her position as a new TV anchor for the network’s program “The Other Side”. However, the public didn’t appreciate Asli as much as they used to love Lale when she was the host of the show, so to make the show more captivating to the audience, Asli restructured the entire program while also changing the setup. But even after this,...
- 12/15/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
All interpersonal relationships are complicated. But there’s just something classically (even banally) fraught in the complex negotiation of emotion between Male and Female, a knotty 50-foot Route 66 twine ball full of interwoven power dynamics, sexual dysfunction and societal expectation. The heat fractals thrown off by this ceaseless Xx/Xy friction have propelled 10,000 of human civilization and countless works of art and storytelling—from Bible stories to sexy Netflix originals like Fair Play and May December. Or, for that matter, the three projects in this month’s Fiscal Spotlight.
Each of these three short narrative films center female protagonists, unmoored in the midst of an existential crisis brought on by a male counterpart. In two of the films, the male in question is a romantic foil—or at least perceived to be. The third explores the dynamic between student and educator, placing its dynamic in the context of artistic potential...
Each of these three short narrative films center female protagonists, unmoored in the midst of an existential crisis brought on by a male counterpart. In two of the films, the male in question is a romantic foil—or at least perceived to be. The third explores the dynamic between student and educator, placing its dynamic in the context of artistic potential...
- 12/8/2023
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent News & More
Fresh off making history, becoming the first Latin American to win the best picture award at Sitges with highly acclaimed Shudder Original “When Evil Lurks,” Argentina’s Demián Rugna figures among writers of six finalist screenplays at Tinta Oscura 2023, presented by Blood Window and Argentine independent Del Toro Films.
Part of Ventana Sur, backed by Cannes Marché du Film and Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency, Blood Window unspools over Nov. 27-Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires.
Further finalists, chosen from some 300 submissions, take in Mexico’s extraordinarily prolific and multi-prized horror writer Sandra Becerril (“Desde tu infierno”) and the Dominican Republic’s Junior Rosales. co-writer of Isaac Ezban’s “Evil Eye,” a B.O. hit.
Screenplays must be original and unpublished fantastic genre works, either horror or sci-fi stories. The winning script will be announced at Blood Window on Dec. 1. It will receive a $10,000 cash prize from Del Toro Films which will produce the title,...
Part of Ventana Sur, backed by Cannes Marché du Film and Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency, Blood Window unspools over Nov. 27-Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires.
Further finalists, chosen from some 300 submissions, take in Mexico’s extraordinarily prolific and multi-prized horror writer Sandra Becerril (“Desde tu infierno”) and the Dominican Republic’s Junior Rosales. co-writer of Isaac Ezban’s “Evil Eye,” a B.O. hit.
Screenplays must be original and unpublished fantastic genre works, either horror or sci-fi stories. The winning script will be announced at Blood Window on Dec. 1. It will receive a $10,000 cash prize from Del Toro Films which will produce the title,...
- 11/17/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“Modestly speaking, we’ve tried to create a culture at Movistar Plus+ which attracts talent. We have a lot of respect for what creators want to tell and believe in them,” Domingo Corral, Movistar Plus+ director of fiction and entertainment, has said.
One case in point is Berto Romero, whose latest series, “The Other Side” (“El otro lado”), world premieres at Spain’s San Sebastian Festival on Sunday.
Romero broke out with star turns on Andreu Buenafuente’s “Buenafuente” and “Leit Motiv,” two late-night mainstays on Movistar Plus+ produced by El Terrat, owned by The Mediapro Studio from 2019. Over 2018-19, his first fiction series, the Terrat-produced “Look What You’ve Done,” a fresh comedic take on the tribulations of parenting, ran for three seasons on Movistar Plus+. Now “The Other Side” weighs in as a step-up in ambition for Romero.
The comedy remains. In early scenes, Nacho Nieto (Romero), once...
One case in point is Berto Romero, whose latest series, “The Other Side” (“El otro lado”), world premieres at Spain’s San Sebastian Festival on Sunday.
Romero broke out with star turns on Andreu Buenafuente’s “Buenafuente” and “Leit Motiv,” two late-night mainstays on Movistar Plus+ produced by El Terrat, owned by The Mediapro Studio from 2019. Over 2018-19, his first fiction series, the Terrat-produced “Look What You’ve Done,” a fresh comedic take on the tribulations of parenting, ran for three seasons on Movistar Plus+. Now “The Other Side” weighs in as a step-up in ambition for Romero.
The comedy remains. In early scenes, Nacho Nieto (Romero), once...
- 9/23/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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