Reagent Media has set Garrett Hedlund and Brady Jandreau for filmmaker Paxton Winters’ next feature, Outside the Wire, about an American soldier and an Iraqi insurgent who find themselves dependent on each other for their survival. The two are thrust together on a road trip through the perils of the new Iraq. What starts as a journey of hate, forces the men to face their fears and navigate each other to reach their final destination.
Outside the Wire is Winters’ second script, which was chosen to participate in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Lab.
Zahraa Ghandour is also attached to star. Paula Linhares and Marcos Tellechea (Pacified) of Reagent Media are producing with Rick Rosenthal and Cherien Dabis serving as EPs. .Film Constellation is handling international rights with UTA Independent handling North American. Sales will launch at the upcoming Marché du Film Online.
Outside the Wire is Winters’ second script, which was chosen to participate in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Lab.
Zahraa Ghandour is also attached to star. Paula Linhares and Marcos Tellechea (Pacified) of Reagent Media are producing with Rick Rosenthal and Cherien Dabis serving as EPs. .Film Constellation is handling international rights with UTA Independent handling North American. Sales will launch at the upcoming Marché du Film Online.
- 6/18/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Mudbound’s” Garrett Hedlund and “The Rider’s” Brady Jandreau have signed on to star in writer/director Paxton Winters’ “Outside the Wire,” alongside Zahraa Ghandour (“Baghdad in My Shadow”). Film Constellation is handling international rights with UTA Independent handling North American. Sales will launch at next week’s Marché du Film Online.
The story follows an American soldier and an Iraqi insurgent who find themselves dependent on each other for their survival, as they are thrust together on a road trip through the perils of the new Iraq. What starts as a journey of hate, will force the men to face their fears and navigate each other to reach their final destination. The movie is Winters’ second script, and was chosen to participate in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Lab.
Paula Linhares and Marcos Tellechea of Reagent Media will produce, following on from their collaboration with Winters on...
The story follows an American soldier and an Iraqi insurgent who find themselves dependent on each other for their survival, as they are thrust together on a road trip through the perils of the new Iraq. What starts as a journey of hate, will force the men to face their fears and navigate each other to reach their final destination. The movie is Winters’ second script, and was chosen to participate in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Lab.
Paula Linhares and Marcos Tellechea of Reagent Media will produce, following on from their collaboration with Winters on...
- 6/18/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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When it comes to actor Alia Shawkat's sexuality, the past few years have been a revelation. Perhaps not in private; when we spoke on the phone in early June, she told me she's been aware of her own queerness for a long time. "I had always found myself attracted to women, but didn't know how to really make a move, for lack of a better word," she told me with a laugh. But her identity as a bisexual woman has only recently become a part of her career and public persona.
Despite dozens upon dozens of acting credits that stretch nearly 20 years, the queer aspect of Shawkat's art is relatively new. She's best known for playing Maeby Fünke in Arrested Development, Lila on Transparent, and Dory Sief on TBS's critical darling Search Party. Her handful of sexually fluid roles on screen include Dalia...
When it comes to actor Alia Shawkat's sexuality, the past few years have been a revelation. Perhaps not in private; when we spoke on the phone in early June, she told me she's been aware of her own queerness for a long time. "I had always found myself attracted to women, but didn't know how to really make a move, for lack of a better word," she told me with a laugh. But her identity as a bisexual woman has only recently become a part of her career and public persona.
Despite dozens upon dozens of acting credits that stretch nearly 20 years, the queer aspect of Shawkat's art is relatively new. She's best known for playing Maeby Fünke in Arrested Development, Lila on Transparent, and Dory Sief on TBS's critical darling Search Party. Her handful of sexually fluid roles on screen include Dalia...
- 6/26/2018
- by Ryan Roschke
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive: Cherien Dabis, the writer-director behind such films as May in the Summer and Amreeka, has signed with CAA. The Palestinian-American filmmaker’s debut feature was Amreeka, which premiered at Sundance in 2009 and went on to win the Fipresci Prize at Cannes and a Humanitas Prize and earned three Indie Spirit Award nominations. Dabis returned to the Park City festival in 2013 with May in the Summer, which she wrote, directed and starred in alongside Alia Shawkat…...
- 3/7/2018
- Deadline
The film industry’s gender divide is well known at this point, but action is often slow to follow knowledge. Fox took a step toward closing that gap with its Global Directors Initiative, which is “dedicated to cultivating emerging and established directors with diverse voices, backgrounds, life experiences and perspectives spanning episodic broadcast and cable television, filmed entertainment, sports and digital media.” The Fdi launched with an introductory video called simply “Fox Directors.” Watch below.
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Among the featured filmmakers are Hannah Fidell (“A Teacher”), Anja Marquardt (“She’s Lost Control”), Amanda Marsalis (“Echo Park”), Marta Cunningham (“Valentine Road”), and Cherien Dabis (“May in the Summer”), all of whom briefly discuss their work and their experiences within the industry. The video is directed by Jessica Sanders, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose documentary “After Innocence...
Read More: Adult Swim Creative Director on ‘Limiting Female Projects’: ‘Women Don’t Tend to Like Conflict’
Among the featured filmmakers are Hannah Fidell (“A Teacher”), Anja Marquardt (“She’s Lost Control”), Amanda Marsalis (“Echo Park”), Marta Cunningham (“Valentine Road”), and Cherien Dabis (“May in the Summer”), all of whom briefly discuss their work and their experiences within the industry. The video is directed by Jessica Sanders, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose documentary “After Innocence...
- 10/9/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Coming up on six years ago, writer/director Cherien Dabis charted the convoluted waters of her own mixed cultural heritage in festival darling Amreeka. The film followed a West Bank mother, specifically a Palestinian Christian, and her struggles to adjust after transplanting to Indiana, USA. With a win at Cannes and nominations around the world, including at Sundance and the Spirit Awards, Dabis announced to the cinematic world that she had a little-shared story to tell. And then nothing. Six years and only one short film later, she has reappeared with May in the Summer, a less effective portrait of the other half of her identity.
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- 3/15/2015
- by Kyle North
- JustPressPlay.net
Other new projects include prison drama Jailbirds (Taularde) starring Sophie Marceau.
Paris-based sales company Elle Driver has taken on world sales of Palestinian filmmakers Tarzan and Arab’s black comedy Dégradé capturing life on the Gaza Strip.
The film joins a strong Efm slate, which also includes Golden Bear contenders Nobody Wants the Night and Diary of a Chambermaid as well as Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall.
Twin brothers Tarzan and Arab’s short film Condom Lead, revolving around the complications of making love in a conflict zone, premiered at Cannes in 2013.
Their debut feature is set against the backdrop of the real-life liberation of a stolen lioness from the compound of the Hassanein family, one of Gaza’s most powerful clans.
“We’ll be showing first images of the film which is based on true events in Gaza in 2007,” said Elle Driver co-chief Adeline Fontan Tessaur, ahead of the European Film Market (Feb 5-13).
The film focuses...
Paris-based sales company Elle Driver has taken on world sales of Palestinian filmmakers Tarzan and Arab’s black comedy Dégradé capturing life on the Gaza Strip.
The film joins a strong Efm slate, which also includes Golden Bear contenders Nobody Wants the Night and Diary of a Chambermaid as well as Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall.
Twin brothers Tarzan and Arab’s short film Condom Lead, revolving around the complications of making love in a conflict zone, premiered at Cannes in 2013.
Their debut feature is set against the backdrop of the real-life liberation of a stolen lioness from the compound of the Hassanein family, one of Gaza’s most powerful clans.
“We’ll be showing first images of the film which is based on true events in Gaza in 2007,” said Elle Driver co-chief Adeline Fontan Tessaur, ahead of the European Film Market (Feb 5-13).
The film focuses...
- 2/2/2015
- ScreenDaily
As Netflix continues to assert itself as a major television company with such acclaimed series as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, Amazon Studios is racing to catch up by ordering series it hopes will be equally well-received. So far, Amazon has scored one big hit in the form of Jeffrey Tambor-led dramedy Transparent, and it hopes to find some more in the new lineup of pilots, which will be made available for viewing as part of the company’s first pilot season of 2015.
Enclosed are descriptions of all seven pilots, courtesy of Deadline. The talented involved on all of them is impressive, to say the least. Mad Dogs comes from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), while The Man In The High Castle hails from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) are behind Point Of Honor,...
Enclosed are descriptions of all seven pilots, courtesy of Deadline. The talented involved on all of them is impressive, to say the least. Mad Dogs comes from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), while The Man In The High Castle hails from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) are behind Point Of Honor,...
- 11/12/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
As with the major releases, the specialty film box office this Labor Day holiday weekend is comparatively more tepid than last year’s. In 2013, Pantelion began a record-breaking run with Instructions Not Included, the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever in the U.S. This year, it hopes to replicate that success with a similar release blueprint for biopic Cantinflas, which opened in 382 theaters Friday, grossing $2.625 million and averaging $6,827 per screen. The estimated 4-day weekend cume is $3.275 million.
The results so far give Cantinflas the edge when compared to other newcomers this weekend, but it’s well behind last year’s Instructions debut. That film opened the holiday weekend in 347 theaters, grossing $10 million for a very robust $28,818 PTA. It went on to cume $44 million. Cantinflas has a lot of work to do if it hopes to follow suit. Still, Cantinflas has the second-highest PTA of any film currently in release and certainly...
The results so far give Cantinflas the edge when compared to other newcomers this weekend, but it’s well behind last year’s Instructions debut. That film opened the holiday weekend in 347 theaters, grossing $10 million for a very robust $28,818 PTA. It went on to cume $44 million. Cantinflas has a lot of work to do if it hopes to follow suit. Still, Cantinflas has the second-highest PTA of any film currently in release and certainly...
- 8/31/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Writer/director Cherien Dabis follows up her debut film Amreeka with the equally entrancing coming of age tale, May in the Summer. The film follows Dabis’s character, May, as she returns to Jordan and her cultural roots in preparation for her upcoming nuptials. Along the way, May discovers that her reservations about becoming a wife stem from her parents divorce almost a decade earlier. Once overseas, May is reunited with her two sisters and the siblings go on a journey together to better understand their personal hang-ups while struggling to find some common ground with their very traditional mother and their absentee father.
A few weeks ago in La I was lucky enough to sit down with Dabis at the film’s press day, where we picked her brain about the motivation behind May in the Summer, the challenges with filling so many roles in the production, and the relevance of the material.
A few weeks ago in La I was lucky enough to sit down with Dabis at the film’s press day, where we picked her brain about the motivation behind May in the Summer, the challenges with filling so many roles in the production, and the relevance of the material.
- 8/25/2014
- by Lindsay Sperling
- We Got This Covered
A second feature is often about risk. Cherien Dabis‘s first film, Amreeka, is an almost archetypal example of the debut America indie hit. It premiered at Sundance, gathered some excellent reviews and picked up three Independent Spirit Award nominations. The touching and occasionally quite funny story of an immigrant Palestinian Christian single mother living with her sister’s family in Illinois, it made for a charming arrival. Its success also challenges Dabis to do something different the second time around, to take a few risks and make the case that her style is versatile beyond the borders of light-hearted suburban social commentary. May in the Summer certainly tries to be a leap forward. Dabis’s most perilous choice was to cast herself in the lead role despite having no prior film acting experience. She plays May, the daughter of a devout Palestinian Christian woman (Hiam Abbass) and a somewhat flippant American diplomat (Bill Pullman). They’re...
- 8/21/2014
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Summer of Our Discontent: Dabis’ Sophomore Feature an Uneven Venture
Nebraska born filmmaker Cherien Dabis follows up her well received 2009 debut Amreeka with a cotton candy cross-cultural, romantically inclined melodrama, May in the Summer, this time casting herself in the lead. While the ravishingly beautiful Dabis proves to be an utterly engaging lead performance, her latest, while pleasant enough to sit through, seems tonally uneven, to say the least, and plays as if it’s quite undecided about whether it wants to be a socially aware comedy of cultural clashes or, unfortunately, a murky melodrama that pulls out all the subtle stops when it decides to stop spinning.
May (Dabis), basking in the glow of her recently successful first book, has traveled to Amman, Jordan to meet up with her mother, Nadine (Hiam Abbass) and her two younger sisters, Yasmine (Nadine Malouf) and Dalia (Alia Shawkat). She’s about to...
Nebraska born filmmaker Cherien Dabis follows up her well received 2009 debut Amreeka with a cotton candy cross-cultural, romantically inclined melodrama, May in the Summer, this time casting herself in the lead. While the ravishingly beautiful Dabis proves to be an utterly engaging lead performance, her latest, while pleasant enough to sit through, seems tonally uneven, to say the least, and plays as if it’s quite undecided about whether it wants to be a socially aware comedy of cultural clashes or, unfortunately, a murky melodrama that pulls out all the subtle stops when it decides to stop spinning.
May (Dabis), basking in the glow of her recently successful first book, has traveled to Amman, Jordan to meet up with her mother, Nadine (Hiam Abbass) and her two younger sisters, Yasmine (Nadine Malouf) and Dalia (Alia Shawkat). She’s about to...
- 8/20/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Director Cherien Dabis grew up spending summers in Jordan with her mother's side of the family. Her second feature fictionalizes her experience and translates it into indie-dramedy banalities: May (played by Dabis herself) is a writer spending three weeks in Jordan to plan her upcoming wedding, a pilgrimage that predictably leads to self-discovery, as May, confronted by past and family, begins to question her choices.
Still, Dabis's film is sneakily radical in its portrayal of female bonds, and of May's complex relationship to her family's traditional values: She upsets them by getting engaged to a Muslim but overjoys them by publishing a book on Middle Eastern proverbs. May in the Summer's biggest obstacle is Dabis, who isn't a strong enough actress to sell the subtle h...
Still, Dabis's film is sneakily radical in its portrayal of female bonds, and of May's complex relationship to her family's traditional values: She upsets them by getting engaged to a Muslim but overjoys them by publishing a book on Middle Eastern proverbs. May in the Summer's biggest obstacle is Dabis, who isn't a strong enough actress to sell the subtle h...
- 8/20/2014
- Village Voice
May is a celebrated author with a lovely New York life and a wedding in the works to the prominent scholar of her dreams (Alexander Siddig). But everything goes haywire as tradition and modernity collide when she reunites with her family weeks before the impending nuptials in Jordan.
Her estranged father (Bill Pullman) decides to show up and start dispensing advice. Her sisters (including Nadine Malouf and Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat) have morphed back into party-happy teens. She begins a flirtation with a handsome local. And her mother, a born-again Christian, threatens to boycott the wedding because May’s intended is a Muslim man.
Her estranged father (Bill Pullman) decides to show up and start dispensing advice. Her sisters (including Nadine Malouf and Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat) have morphed back into party-happy teens. She begins a flirtation with a handsome local. And her mother, a born-again Christian, threatens to boycott the wedding because May’s intended is a Muslim man.
- 6/30/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Today's bulletin includes a new PG-13 rating for the extended version of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and a pair of R ratings for Luc Besson's Lucy and the Jeremy Renner-led thriller Kill The Messenger. Finally, for whatever reason, Relativity has decided to surrender the R rating for The November Man starring Pierce Brosnan and Olga Kurylenko which was "for strong violence including a sexual assault, language, sexuality/nudity and brief drug use", and go unrated... for now. I have to assume something will change before the August 29 release date. I have included the complete bulletin directly below. Adventure Planet Rated PG For thematic material, action and peril, and some language. Fort McCoy Rated R For some violence. The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug Extended Cut Rated PG-13 For extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images. Note: Edited Version. Content Is Different From PG-13 Rated Version,...
- 6/3/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The director of the upcoming film Ad Inexplorata gains creative and strategic support from the Sundance Institute.
The annual Sundance Institute/Nhk Award was presented to Rosenberg at a private ceremony in Park City.
The award was created in 1996 to recognise visionary filmmakers and pledges development, financial and production support.
Previous Sundance Institute/Nhk Award recipients include Beasts Of The Southern Wild and May In The Summer, which premiered at Sundance last year.
Ad Inexplorata follows the story of Captain Stanaforth, an astronaut on an endless mission into the cosmic abyss.
The annual Sundance Institute/Nhk Award was presented to Rosenberg at a private ceremony in Park City.
The award was created in 1996 to recognise visionary filmmakers and pledges development, financial and production support.
Previous Sundance Institute/Nhk Award recipients include Beasts Of The Southern Wild and May In The Summer, which premiered at Sundance last year.
Ad Inexplorata follows the story of Captain Stanaforth, an astronaut on an endless mission into the cosmic abyss.
- 1/24/2014
- ScreenDaily
The director of the upcoming film Ad Inexplorata gains creative and strategic support from the Sundance Institute.
The annual Sundance Institute/Nhk Award was presented to Rosenberg at a private ceremony in Park City.
The award was created in 1996 to recognise visionary filmmakers and pledges development, financial and production support.
Previous Sundance Institute/Nhk Award recipients include Beasts Of The Southern Wild and May In The Summer, which premiered at Sundance last year.
Ad Inexplorata follows the story of Captain Stanaforth, an astronaut on an endless mission into the cosmic abyss.
The annual Sundance Institute/Nhk Award was presented to Rosenberg at a private ceremony in Park City.
The award was created in 1996 to recognise visionary filmmakers and pledges development, financial and production support.
Previous Sundance Institute/Nhk Award recipients include Beasts Of The Southern Wild and May In The Summer, which premiered at Sundance last year.
Ad Inexplorata follows the story of Captain Stanaforth, an astronaut on an endless mission into the cosmic abyss.
- 1/24/2014
- ScreenDaily
Mark Elijah Rosenberg, director of the upcoming film "Ad Inexplorata", has been named the winner of the 2014 Sundance Institute/Nhk Award. The award, which was presented at a private ceremony at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, was created in 1996 by the Sundance Institute and Nhk (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) to celebrate 100 years of cinema. The award supports a visionary filmmaker on his or her next film. The Sundance Institute staff work closely with the winner throughout the year, providing creative and strategic support through the development, financing and production of their films. Films previously supported by this award include Cherien Dabis's "May in the Summer," the opening film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild," which went on to win the Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at Sundance, the Camera D'Or (or Best First Film Award) at the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for...
- 1/24/2014
- by Max O'Connell
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Palestinian American filmmaker Cherien Dabis is set to adapt Suad Amiry’s Sharon And My Mother-in-Law, a humorous account of life in Ramallah during the Second Intifada. It will be her first feature set in the West Bank and in Arabic.
“It’s a book based on emails she sent friends about the absurdities of life under occupation,” said Palestinian American Dabis, who is competing in Diff’s Muhr Arab Competition with May In The Summer.
The book spans seven years but Dabis will focus on ten days when Ramallah was under a strict curfew during the 2002 Israeli re-occupation of the city.
“During this time the main character is stuck in her house with her mother-in-law. It’s a very funny look at family dysfunction under the extreme conditions of the occupation. She’s a very, very funny writer,” said Dabis.
“It’s a great story and one of the things I like to do in my...
“It’s a book based on emails she sent friends about the absurdities of life under occupation,” said Palestinian American Dabis, who is competing in Diff’s Muhr Arab Competition with May In The Summer.
The book spans seven years but Dabis will focus on ten days when Ramallah was under a strict curfew during the 2002 Israeli re-occupation of the city.
“During this time the main character is stuck in her house with her mother-in-law. It’s a very funny look at family dysfunction under the extreme conditions of the occupation. She’s a very, very funny writer,” said Dabis.
“It’s a great story and one of the things I like to do in my...
- 12/10/2013
- ScreenDaily
Live. From New York. It’s…Craig Johnson. Another product from the Duplass factory, after breaking out with the micro-budgeted SXSW preemed True Adolescents, Johnson remains in similar dramedy curriculum (read the descriptive journey here) with the help of lead off hitters in SNL’s Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader (they were a delicious combo in Adventureland) alongside thesps Ty Burrell, Luke Wilson and Boyd Holbrook. Round two behind the director’s chair began in November of 2012 with cinematographer Reed Morano (Kill Your Darlings) and Prod. Designer Ola Maslik (May in the Summer) in the Sundance alumni tech crew deck.
Gist: Written by Mark Heyman and Johnson, Wiig and Hader play estranged twins Maggie and Milo, who coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront how their lives went so wrong. For Maggie, that means re-examining her marriage to sweet “nature frat boy” Lance (Wilson...
Gist: Written by Mark Heyman and Johnson, Wiig and Hader play estranged twins Maggie and Milo, who coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront how their lives went so wrong. For Maggie, that means re-examining her marriage to sweet “nature frat boy” Lance (Wilson...
- 11/21/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Laila Marrakchi's family drama "Rock the Casbah," starring screen legend Omar Sharif, is among the titles picked to compete for the festival's Muhr Arab competition plaudit.
London -- Laila Marrakchi's family drama Rock the Casbah, the follow-up to the filmmaker's Marock, is one of a slew of titles to be scheduled to unspool as part of the 10th edition the Muhr Arab competition strand at the upcoming Dubai International Film Festival (Diff).
Marrakchi's movie features some of the Arab world’s most acclaimed actors including Hiam Abbass, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal, Morjana Alaoui and icon Omar Sharif.
The film is set over three days in Tangiers, Morocco and revolves around the revelations and reconciliations between three sisters during a family gathering for the funeral of patriarch, Moulay Hassan (Sharif).
Story: Sean Gullette's Directorial Debut to Premiere at Dubai International Film Festival
Festival organizers also said award-winning Moroccan filmmaker Hicham...
London -- Laila Marrakchi's family drama Rock the Casbah, the follow-up to the filmmaker's Marock, is one of a slew of titles to be scheduled to unspool as part of the 10th edition the Muhr Arab competition strand at the upcoming Dubai International Film Festival (Diff).
Marrakchi's movie features some of the Arab world’s most acclaimed actors including Hiam Abbass, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal, Morjana Alaoui and icon Omar Sharif.
The film is set over three days in Tangiers, Morocco and revolves around the revelations and reconciliations between three sisters during a family gathering for the funeral of patriarch, Moulay Hassan (Sharif).
Story: Sean Gullette's Directorial Debut to Premiere at Dubai International Film Festival
Festival organizers also said award-winning Moroccan filmmaker Hicham...
- 11/13/2013
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Browse all the sections of the 57th London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) including the galas, competition titles and individual sections.
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
- 9/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
The 10th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival's independent Venice Days sidebar announced their program, which will be nestled inside the 70th anniversary of Venice itself. Over the past decade the program has offered up many notable premieres, including Sarah Polley's "Stories We Tell" last year, as well as Ramin Bahrani's "Man Push Cart," Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies," Jean-Marc Vallee's "C.R.A.Z.Y." and Hubert Sauper's "Darwin's Nightmare." This year, 12 films will follow in their footsteps in a lineup that's unusually American-centric, which is partly due to a partnership the program made with the Tribeca Film Festival for this year. That partnership saw Tribeca choose a U.S. title to screen at the event (and then Venice will do the same at Tribeca). That film was Josh and Benny Safdie’s documentary "Lenny Cooke," which joins U.S. entries like Sean Gullette’s “Traitors,” John Krokidas's "Kill Your Darlings,...
- 7/24/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
The tenth edition of Venice Days has announced its lineup of 12 films in the official selection, three special events, two shorts in Women’s Tales and two special screenings (pre-opening and closing night).
Venice Days is presided over by Roberto Barzanti and directed by Giorgio Gosetti.
Official Selection
Alienation by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria), world premiere, first film
A dialogue-light contemporary fairytale about a lost generation, seen through a middle aged man crossing the border between Greece and Bulgaria, collecting a child for illegal adoption.
La Belle Vie by Jean Denizot (France) world premiere, first film
Based on the true story of a French father who takes his two sons on the run.
Bethlehem by Yuval Adler (Israel) world premiere, first film
A political thriller about an Israeli secret service officer and a Palestinian informant.
Gerontophilia by Bruce Labruce (Canada) world premiere
A modern romantic comedy about an 18 year old who bonds with an 82 year old.
Kill Your Darlings by [link...
Venice Days is presided over by Roberto Barzanti and directed by Giorgio Gosetti.
Official Selection
Alienation by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria), world premiere, first film
A dialogue-light contemporary fairytale about a lost generation, seen through a middle aged man crossing the border between Greece and Bulgaria, collecting a child for illegal adoption.
La Belle Vie by Jean Denizot (France) world premiere, first film
Based on the true story of a French father who takes his two sons on the run.
Bethlehem by Yuval Adler (Israel) world premiere, first film
A political thriller about an Israeli secret service officer and a Palestinian informant.
Gerontophilia by Bruce Labruce (Canada) world premiere
A modern romantic comedy about an 18 year old who bonds with an 82 year old.
Kill Your Darlings by [link...
- 7/23/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The tenth edition of Venice Days has announced its lineup of 12 films in the official selection, three special events, two shorts in Women’s Tales and two special screenings (pre-opening and closing night).
Venice Days is presided over by Roberto Barzanti and directed by Giorgio Gosetti.
Official Selection
Alienation by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria), world premiere, first film
A dialogue-light contemporary fairytale about a lost generation, seen through a middle aged man crossing the border between Greece and Bulgaria, collecting a child for illegal adoption.
La Belle Vie by Jean Denizot (France) world premiere, first film
Based on the true story of a French father who takes his two sons on the run.
Bethlehem by Yuval Adler (Israel) world premiere, first film
A political thriller about brothers in the West Bank.
Gerontophilia by Bruce Labruce (Canada) world premiere
A modern romantic comedy about an 18 year old who bonds with an 82 year old.
Kill Your Darlings by [link...
Venice Days is presided over by Roberto Barzanti and directed by Giorgio Gosetti.
Official Selection
Alienation by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria), world premiere, first film
A dialogue-light contemporary fairytale about a lost generation, seen through a middle aged man crossing the border between Greece and Bulgaria, collecting a child for illegal adoption.
La Belle Vie by Jean Denizot (France) world premiere, first film
Based on the true story of a French father who takes his two sons on the run.
Bethlehem by Yuval Adler (Israel) world premiere, first film
A political thriller about brothers in the West Bank.
Gerontophilia by Bruce Labruce (Canada) world premiere
A modern romantic comedy about an 18 year old who bonds with an 82 year old.
Kill Your Darlings by [link...
- 7/23/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The tenth edition of Venice Days has announced its lineup of 12 films in the official selection, three special events, two shorts in Women’s Tales and two special screenings (pre-opening and closing night).
Venice Days is presided over by Roberto Barzanti and directed by Giorgio Gosetti.
Official Selection
Alienation by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria), world premiere, first film
A dialogue-light contemporary fairytale about a lost generation, seen through a middle aged man crossing the border between Greece and Bulgaria, collecting a child for illegal adoption.
La Belle Vie by Jean Denizot (France) world premiere, first film
Based on the true story of a French father who takes his two sons on the run.
Bethlehem by Yuval Adler (Israel) world premiere, first film
A political thriller about brothers in the West Bank.
Gerontophilia by Bruce Labruce (Canada) world premiere
A modern romantic comedy about an 18 year old who bonds with an 82 year old.
Kill Your Darlings by [link...
Venice Days is presided over by Roberto Barzanti and directed by Giorgio Gosetti.
Official Selection
Alienation by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria), world premiere, first film
A dialogue-light contemporary fairytale about a lost generation, seen through a middle aged man crossing the border between Greece and Bulgaria, collecting a child for illegal adoption.
La Belle Vie by Jean Denizot (France) world premiere, first film
Based on the true story of a French father who takes his two sons on the run.
Bethlehem by Yuval Adler (Israel) world premiere, first film
A political thriller about brothers in the West Bank.
Gerontophilia by Bruce Labruce (Canada) world premiere
A modern romantic comedy about an 18 year old who bonds with an 82 year old.
Kill Your Darlings by [link...
- 7/23/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Moments before the Toronto Int. Film Festival makes their first wave announcement of 70 plus titles, Venice Days (which several in the industry equate to Venice’s answer to Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight) have announced their line-up of twelve competing films with a slew of special screenings. Among the familiar items we find a pair from Sundance in John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings and Cherien Dabis’ May In The Summer seemingly receiving their international premieres. The North American strong section also includes the world preems in Bruce Labruce’s Montreal-shot (see pic above) Gerontophilia, Sean Gullette’s (expanded short into feature length film) Traitors, and the India-Canadian co-production of Richie Mehta’s Siddharth (the tale of a chain-wallah who travels across India in search of his missing son) which on papers comes across as a more potent version of fantasy film Slumdog Millionaire. Also from the U.S. and part of the growing trend of festival-pairing,...
- 7/23/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Here is a complete listing of the films that were shown/covered by the Ioncinema.com team comprised of Nicholas Bell (Nb), Jordan M. Smith (Js) and Eric Lavallee (El). We’ll be populating this page up until March.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
- 1/29/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Our Sundance Film Festival adventure began by immediately setting a high bar with the sophomore film and acting debut (as leading lady, no less) of Cherien Dabis (Amreeka), May in the Summer.
May (Cherien Dabis), a successful and ambitious writer living in New York with her fiancée Ziad (Alexander Siddig), has come home to Amman, Jordan in order to complete the preparations for her wedding that takes place in a month’s time. In the absence of her fiancée, under the judgmental watch of her born-again-times-ten mother (Hiam Abbass) and the newfound presence of her usually absent father (Bill Pullman) and his new wife Anu (Ritu Singh Pande), May begins to discover that her once structured and well planned future just might be the wrong one for her.
Add her two younger siblings, one permanently sarcastic and the other a big-mouth princess (Alia Shawkat & Nadine Malouf), as well as just...
May (Cherien Dabis), a successful and ambitious writer living in New York with her fiancée Ziad (Alexander Siddig), has come home to Amman, Jordan in order to complete the preparations for her wedding that takes place in a month’s time. In the absence of her fiancée, under the judgmental watch of her born-again-times-ten mother (Hiam Abbass) and the newfound presence of her usually absent father (Bill Pullman) and his new wife Anu (Ritu Singh Pande), May begins to discover that her once structured and well planned future just might be the wrong one for her.
Add her two younger siblings, one permanently sarcastic and the other a big-mouth princess (Alia Shawkat & Nadine Malouf), as well as just...
- 1/21/2013
- by Micah Phillips
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Title: May in the Summer Director: Cherien Dabis Starring: Cherien Dabis, Hiam Abbass, Bill Pullman, Alia Shawkat, Nadine Malouf, Alexander Siddig, Ritu Singh Pande This cleverly-titled film follows May (Cherien Dabis) as she comes from New York to Amman, Jordan with her sisters as her wedding date approaches. May’s success as an intellectual and an author in the U.S. makes her popular among her mother’s Jordanian friends, but she encounters much greater difficulty dealing with her family and deciding whether or not to go through the wedding. Dabis pulls quadruple duty as star, writer, director, and producer, creating a thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking look at an American family in a [ Read More ]
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- 1/20/2013
- by abe
- ShockYa
Park City, Utah — Film festivals can get off to a slow start. All that planning, all that travel booking for stars coming to pillage the gift suites, then everyone stands around waiting for a single movie, that big opening-night premiere, to get things rolling.
It's a lot to ask of one movie to set a tone for scores of films to follow over a week and a half. The Cannes Film Festival practically put itself on suicide watch in 2008 by opening with the bleak plague drama "Blindness." A year later, Cannes organizers lightened up and started with the warm-hearted animated tale "Up."
The Sundance Film Festival, which begins Thursday, used to face a similar dilemma. How do you pick that one film to stand as torchbearer for the 120 movies to come?
Three years ago, Sundance founder Robert Redford and festival director John Cooper scrapped the glitzy opening-night premiere and jumped right into the competition lineup,...
It's a lot to ask of one movie to set a tone for scores of films to follow over a week and a half. The Cannes Film Festival practically put itself on suicide watch in 2008 by opening with the bleak plague drama "Blindness." A year later, Cannes organizers lightened up and started with the warm-hearted animated tale "Up."
The Sundance Film Festival, which begins Thursday, used to face a similar dilemma. How do you pick that one film to stand as torchbearer for the 120 movies to come?
Three years ago, Sundance founder Robert Redford and festival director John Cooper scrapped the glitzy opening-night premiere and jumped right into the competition lineup,...
- 1/17/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Her immigrant dramedy debut film Amreeka (’09 Sundance) blasted helmer Cherien Dabis into movie culture consciousness and her highly anticipated follow-up with players such as Alexander Siddig and Hiam Abbass has been in post-production since late summer. A Screenwriters Lab project at Sundance in 2010, May in the Summer not only sees Dabis wear the writer/director/producer hat, but she stars in the pic as well – all signs are pointing towards a second Park City visit.
Gist: Written by Dabis, high off the success of her first book and planning to marry Ziad (Alexander Siddig), her sensible, stable and studious fiance, May Brennan (Dabis) has it all. At least that’s what she’d like people to believe. Reunited with her family in Amman, she’s thrust back into the chaos of her former existence. Her headstrong mother Nadine (Abbass), a born-again Christian disapproves of her Muslim fiance so thoroughly she plans to boycott the wedding.
Gist: Written by Dabis, high off the success of her first book and planning to marry Ziad (Alexander Siddig), her sensible, stable and studious fiance, May Brennan (Dabis) has it all. At least that’s what she’d like people to believe. Reunited with her family in Amman, she’s thrust back into the chaos of her former existence. Her headstrong mother Nadine (Abbass), a born-again Christian disapproves of her Muslim fiance so thoroughly she plans to boycott the wedding.
- 11/21/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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