The Cph:dox programme looks to integrate business strategies to innovative digital storytelling.
Denmark’s Cph:Dox has selected nine projects for the 2023 edition of Cph:lab, its talent development programme for screen documentary projects.
The lab has an expanded focus this year to include interactive and immersive technologies.
Projects include Echoes / Collateral Echoes, a VR installation from 2018 UK-Ireland Screen Star of Tomorrow Baff Akoto, former Sheffield Doc/Fest programme director Luke Moody and Lidz-Ama Appiah.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Using renderings of archival images, artifacts and spoken testimonies, the work represents the over 150 Black Britons who have...
Denmark’s Cph:Dox has selected nine projects for the 2023 edition of Cph:lab, its talent development programme for screen documentary projects.
The lab has an expanded focus this year to include interactive and immersive technologies.
Projects include Echoes / Collateral Echoes, a VR installation from 2018 UK-Ireland Screen Star of Tomorrow Baff Akoto, former Sheffield Doc/Fest programme director Luke Moody and Lidz-Ama Appiah.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Using renderings of archival images, artifacts and spoken testimonies, the work represents the over 150 Black Britons who have...
- 9/13/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American rights to a pair of coming-of-age dramas: writer-director Alana Waksman’s debut feature We Burn Like This, and writer-director Anna Matz’s first feature, Love You Anyway. The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group plans to release both titles across internet and satellite platforms on June 28.
Inspired by true events, the former film from Armian Pictures shows the inherited effects of historical trauma and the strength of survival and healing. When 22-year-old Rae (Madeleine Coghlan), a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is targeted by Neo-Nazis in Billings, Montana, her ancestors’ trauma becomes real. As antisemitism continues to rise in the community, we follow Rae on her journey to forgive herself, her mother and the broken world. We Burn Like This also stars Reservation Dogs‘ Devery Jacobs, as well as Kendra Mylnechuk, Angelo Rizzo, Casidee Riley and Megan Folsom.
Inspired by true events, the former film from Armian Pictures shows the inherited effects of historical trauma and the strength of survival and healing. When 22-year-old Rae (Madeleine Coghlan), a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is targeted by Neo-Nazis in Billings, Montana, her ancestors’ trauma becomes real. As antisemitism continues to rise in the community, we follow Rae on her journey to forgive herself, her mother and the broken world. We Burn Like This also stars Reservation Dogs‘ Devery Jacobs, as well as Kendra Mylnechuk, Angelo Rizzo, Casidee Riley and Megan Folsom.
- 6/3/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Despite having premiered in 2019 with some subsequent updates, Alexandra Dalsbaek’s documentary We Are Russia still feels as if it is a work-in-progress beyond its rough and ready look and abrupt jump cuts. Filmed by Dalsbaek, the project highlights the essential work of young activists fighting against Russia’s kleptocracy in a country without freedom of assembly. The work of these young organizers is often focused on creating social media moments, frequently counting down the seconds until security forces and cops arrive to ask for a permit or detain them. Although the rules are somewhat unclear and appear to vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, Dalsbaek often finds herself in the center of the action being asked to cease filming.
We Are Russia proves to be a rough work of defiance often leading to frustrations––the odds are insurmountable and Putin, in advance of his 2018 election, is immensely popular amongst those...
We Are Russia proves to be a rough work of defiance often leading to frustrations––the odds are insurmountable and Putin, in advance of his 2018 election, is immensely popular amongst those...
- 12/5/2021
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
The producers of the 2003 The Corporation documentary and the 2020 follow-up The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel have sued Twitter and the Canadian federal government for restricting political and social speech north of the border.
The legal action in the Ontario Superior Court follows Twitter rejecting “boosted” advertising posts featuring a trailer for The New Corporation, which is directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott and critiques corporations like Big Tech. That trailer includes a short voice-over clip by U.S. politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow U.S. Representative Tim Ryan speaking in a House floor speech, with Twitter deeming those appearances ...
The legal action in the Ontario Superior Court follows Twitter rejecting “boosted” advertising posts featuring a trailer for The New Corporation, which is directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott and critiques corporations like Big Tech. That trailer includes a short voice-over clip by U.S. politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow U.S. Representative Tim Ryan speaking in a House floor speech, with Twitter deeming those appearances ...
- 7/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The producers of the 2003 The Corporation documentary and the 2020 follow-up The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel have sued Twitter and the Canadian federal government for restricting political and social speech north of the border.
The legal action in the Ontario Superior Court follows Twitter rejecting “boosted” advertising posts featuring a trailer for The New Corporation, which is directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott and critiques corporations like Big Tech. That trailer includes a short voice-over clip by U.S. politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow U.S. Representative Tim Ryan speaking in a House floor speech, with Twitter deeming those appearances ...
The legal action in the Ontario Superior Court follows Twitter rejecting “boosted” advertising posts featuring a trailer for The New Corporation, which is directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott and critiques corporations like Big Tech. That trailer includes a short voice-over clip by U.S. politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow U.S. Representative Tim Ryan speaking in a House floor speech, with Twitter deeming those appearances ...
- 7/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel’s assisted dying documentary Laura‘s Choice and Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe’s sports biopic Phil Liggett: The Voice of Cycling will form part of the Australian International Documentary Conference’s (Aidc) public access program.
The Australian films will be shown alongside international titles such as 76 Days, Kirsten Johnson’s Dick Johnson is Dead, David France’s Welcome to Chechnya, and Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott’s The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel in this year’s new non-fiction section. Johnson and France, keynote speakers at this year’s conference, will participate in conversation following the screening of their films.
Running from February 28 until March 11 at Melbourne’s Acmi the schedule also includes screenings of Days Of Cannibalism, Collective, The Painter And The Thief, MLK/FBI, Cunningham 3D, The Mystery of D.B. Cooper, Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns...
The Australian films will be shown alongside international titles such as 76 Days, Kirsten Johnson’s Dick Johnson is Dead, David France’s Welcome to Chechnya, and Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott’s The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel in this year’s new non-fiction section. Johnson and France, keynote speakers at this year’s conference, will participate in conversation following the screening of their films.
Running from February 28 until March 11 at Melbourne’s Acmi the schedule also includes screenings of Days Of Cannibalism, Collective, The Painter And The Thief, MLK/FBI, Cunningham 3D, The Mystery of D.B. Cooper, Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns...
- 2/3/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Directors were beamed in from around the world to join artistic director Orwa Nyrabia in an Amsterdam cinema.
Documentary filmmakers from around the world digitally joined the opening of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) last night (November 18) for an emotionally charged ceremony. Their faces were projected in tiny squares on the big screen of the Tuschinski cinema in Amsterdam where artistic director Orwa Nyrabia launched the festival’s 33rd edition, in a near-empty auditorium.
Along with Nyrabia, some of the filmmakers made speeches as did Dutch Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven, who attended in person to announce support measures for the sector.
Documentary filmmakers from around the world digitally joined the opening of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) last night (November 18) for an emotionally charged ceremony. Their faces were projected in tiny squares on the big screen of the Tuschinski cinema in Amsterdam where artistic director Orwa Nyrabia launched the festival’s 33rd edition, in a near-empty auditorium.
Along with Nyrabia, some of the filmmakers made speeches as did Dutch Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven, who attended in person to announce support measures for the sector.
- 11/19/2020
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
In 2003, the Canadian documentary “The Corporation” offered what it took to be a bold new thesis about the way corporations work. The film seized on an enormous legal-cultural quirk: that corporations, in terms of how the government and financial sector deal with them, are in many technical ways treated as “individuals” — that is, they’re treated like people. And so the filmmakers posed the question, If a corporation is like a human being, how would a psychiatrist choose to characterize that person? Well, let’s see: Since corporations are ruled by the profit motive, they’re almost by definition greedy, selfish, ruthless, and ultimately indifferent to the well-being of others. The conclusion the film came to is that the corporation, if you really look at it, has the profile of a psychopath.
A lot of viewers seemed inordinately impressed with this thesis. I found it provocative and useful, and not...
A lot of viewers seemed inordinately impressed with this thesis. I found it provocative and useful, and not...
- 10/31/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Does corporate influence have an effect on the spread of diseases like Covid-19? Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott, the filmmakers behind 2003’s “The Corporation,” are back with a sequel, “The New Corporation,” in which they draw the connection between how corporations have reacted to the environment and how they have contributed to the spread of disease.
“If we link corporate capitalism to the destruction of nature, which we can and do, then without question we can also link corporate capitalism to emerging diseases and there is ample evidence that this is the case,” Abbott told TheWrap’s Brian Welk during an interview for the remote Toronto Film Festival along with writer and co-director Joel Bakan.
Abbott provides an example about deforestation and how that puts human civilization in danger. “For example, if a forest is cut down and bats populated this forest, the bats have to go somewhere,” she said.
“If we link corporate capitalism to the destruction of nature, which we can and do, then without question we can also link corporate capitalism to emerging diseases and there is ample evidence that this is the case,” Abbott told TheWrap’s Brian Welk during an interview for the remote Toronto Film Festival along with writer and co-director Joel Bakan.
Abbott provides an example about deforestation and how that puts human civilization in danger. “For example, if a forest is cut down and bats populated this forest, the bats have to go somewhere,” she said.
- 10/4/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Much has changed in the 17 years since the release of Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott's The Corporation. Some corporations said they were sorry and appeared to turn a new leaf. Others continued trucking along until they were wiped out by the recession a few years later. Still others made it through the recession and pretended to change their ways only to remain exactly the same. Essentially, things seemed to change but the reality is that we're back to where we were in 2003 except this time, the corporations aren't being as blatant about their abuses instead, hiding behind the facade of responsibility, caring, and the promise to make a difference.
And so Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott are back with The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel which, yet again...
And so Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott are back with The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel which, yet again...
- 9/18/2020
- QuietEarth.us
Back in 2003 — a magical time when Amazon was basically still just a glorified book store, and Enron was the height of American malfeasance — filmmakers Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar made a sprawling but cogent documentary that addressed the insatiable chimeras that have come to dominate modern capitalism. Over the course of 145 minutes, “The Corporation” unpacked how business entities have come to assume a perverse degree of legal personhood (one that doesn’t square with the idea of public ownership), and ended by extrapolating that idea into a satirically damning thought exercise. If corporations were actually people, what kind of people would they be?
The conclusion that Abbott and Achbar reverse-engineered was convincing enough: Corporations are psychopaths. They don’t care about others, they’re incapable of feeling guilt, they often disregard the law out of their own insatiable self-interest, and they’re only getting worse. While the psychiatrist who Abbott...
The conclusion that Abbott and Achbar reverse-engineered was convincing enough: Corporations are psychopaths. They don’t care about others, they’re incapable of feeling guilt, they often disregard the law out of their own insatiable self-interest, and they’re only getting worse. While the psychiatrist who Abbott...
- 9/16/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
I can still recall my red pill moment while watching Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar’s 2003 documentary The Corporation with my best friend, at the (pre-financial crisis) time an analyst at a big bank. “Corporations are people? What the hell?” I practically shouted. “Yup,” he simply responded with a weary shrug. For many clueless progressives like myself, unaware that corporate power had been spreading like the coronavirus, silently hijacking all branches of our government for decades, The Corporation was both horror film and wakeup call. The real deep-state conspiracy. Since then we’ve endured the Great Recession and our current economic calamity/health catastrophe/racial injustice awakening. […]...
- 9/14/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
I can still recall my red pill moment while watching Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar’s 2003 documentary The Corporation with my best friend, at the (pre-financial crisis) time an analyst at a big bank. “Corporations are people? What the hell?” I practically shouted. “Yup,” he simply responded with a weary shrug. For many clueless progressives like myself, unaware that corporate power had been spreading like the coronavirus, silently hijacking all branches of our government for decades, The Corporation was both horror film and wakeup call. The real deep-state conspiracy. Since then we’ve endured the Great Recession and our current economic calamity/health catastrophe/racial injustice awakening. […]...
- 9/14/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Take one look at the state of the world in 2020 and you can understand why The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel exists, overexplanatory title and all. If you’re unaware of the original film, The Corporation came out in 2003 and provided a simple but effective message about the dangers of capitalism. It used the fact that the US legal system defines corporations as people, went over countless examples of the horrible things companies have done in pursuit of profit, and concluded that corporations are psychopaths. The film was a success but, as the “unfortunately necessary” part of the title implies, not successful enough.
The Corporation co-director Jennifer Abbott is back at the helm this time, pairing up with Joel Bakan (who wrote the book the first film is based on) to give viewers a quick summary of what’s happened over the last 17 years. And no amount of talking...
The Corporation co-director Jennifer Abbott is back at the helm this time, pairing up with Joel Bakan (who wrote the book the first film is based on) to give viewers a quick summary of what’s happened over the last 17 years. And no amount of talking...
- 9/12/2020
- by C.J. Prince
- The Film Stage
The 2003 documentary The Corporation was that rare political doc with the power to claw scales off eyes. Rather than simply asserting that big companies were destroying the world, it looked at the legal frameworks that created them and saw that, wittingly or not, the system all but guaranteed they would behave badly. It was required by law that they place profit-seeking above any social or ethical concerns.
According to Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott’s The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, that doc (along with some other world events) had a big impact — albeit a mostly performative one, in which ...
According to Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott’s The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, that doc (along with some other world events) had a big impact — albeit a mostly performative one, in which ...
- 9/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2003 documentary The Corporation was that rare political doc with the power to claw scales off eyes. Rather than simply asserting that big companies were destroying the world, it looked at the legal frameworks that created them and saw that, wittingly or not, the system all but guaranteed they would behave badly. It was required by law that they place profit-seeking above any social or ethical concerns.
According to Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott’s The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, that doc (along with some other world events) had a big impact — albeit a mostly performative one, in which ...
According to Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott’s The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, that doc (along with some other world events) had a big impact — albeit a mostly performative one, in which ...
- 9/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In this “is the cinema half-empty or half-full?” world, Canadian producers are focusing on the perks of a leaner, hybrid Toronto fest, rather than empty seats.
“There is so much happening in the world on social and political levels, I am curious how that influences the consciousness of the marketplace,” says Toronto vet Charles Officer, director and co-producer of gang drama “Akilla’s Escape,” starring poet-actor Saul Williams.
“Screening in a smaller pool of titles allows for more visibility,” says Officer. “It’s important the cast of talented Black actors receive exposure at a festival like Toronto, and it’s rare that Black filmmakers in Canada make features — we can’t afford to be passive about opportunities to participate.” XYZ Films is selling the film.
WaZabi Films’ “Beans,” Tracey Deer’s coming-of-ager set during the 1990 standoff between Mohawk communities and government forces in Oka, Quebec, is “relevant to the times we are living in,...
“There is so much happening in the world on social and political levels, I am curious how that influences the consciousness of the marketplace,” says Toronto vet Charles Officer, director and co-producer of gang drama “Akilla’s Escape,” starring poet-actor Saul Williams.
“Screening in a smaller pool of titles allows for more visibility,” says Officer. “It’s important the cast of talented Black actors receive exposure at a festival like Toronto, and it’s rare that Black filmmakers in Canada make features — we can’t afford to be passive about opportunities to participate.” XYZ Films is selling the film.
WaZabi Films’ “Beans,” Tracey Deer’s coming-of-ager set during the 1990 standoff between Mohawk communities and government forces in Oka, Quebec, is “relevant to the times we are living in,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
The 45th edition of the Toronto Film Festival is still very much a go, although made up of a reduced programme. After announcing that Spike Lee’s filmed version of the Broadway-acclaimed David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ will open the festival the full line-up has now been released.
Taking place between September 10 – 19, the festival will see the first 5 days made up of physical screenings. The program will also be made up of drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences, industry talks.
The highlights of this year’s festival will include ‘God’s Own Country’ helmer Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite,’Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland,’ Florian Zeller’s ‘The Father’ and Werner Herzog’s doco “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds as well as films directed by Regina King, Viggo Mortensen and Halle Berry.
Also in news – Netflix release first look images from Ryan Murphy’s ‘Ratched’
See the full line-up below;
“180 Degree...
Taking place between September 10 – 19, the festival will see the first 5 days made up of physical screenings. The program will also be made up of drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences, industry talks.
The highlights of this year’s festival will include ‘God’s Own Country’ helmer Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite,’Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland,’ Florian Zeller’s ‘The Father’ and Werner Herzog’s doco “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds as well as films directed by Regina King, Viggo Mortensen and Halle Berry.
Also in news – Netflix release first look images from Ryan Murphy’s ‘Ratched’
See the full line-up below;
“180 Degree...
- 7/31/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Naomi Watts in ‘Penguin Bloom’ (Photo credit: Hugh Stewart.)
Glendyn Ivin’s Penguin Bloom, the adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom’s novel starring Naomi Watts, The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The drama produced by Emma Cooper, Watts and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky is among 50 features in the line-up.
The festival’s 45th edition will run from September 10–19, a combination of physical, socially-distanced screenings, drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences and industry talks.
Penguin Bloom’s selection is another welcome boost for Australian cinema after the news that Roderick MacKay’s The Furnace will have its world premiere in the Horizons section of the Venice International Film Festival.
Scripted by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps, the film follows Watts as Sam Bloom, a young Sydney...
Glendyn Ivin’s Penguin Bloom, the adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom’s novel starring Naomi Watts, The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The drama produced by Emma Cooper, Watts and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky is among 50 features in the line-up.
The festival’s 45th edition will run from September 10–19, a combination of physical, socially-distanced screenings, drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences and industry talks.
Penguin Bloom’s selection is another welcome boost for Australian cinema after the news that Roderick MacKay’s The Furnace will have its world premiere in the Horizons section of the Venice International Film Festival.
Scripted by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps, the film follows Watts as Sam Bloom, a young Sydney...
- 7/30/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Nicolás Pereda's FaunaToronto International Film Festival have unveiled a dramatically reduced selection of films from their upcoming 2020 edition, including new films by Spike Lee, Nicolás Pereda, Naomi Kawase, and Werner Herzog. The festival's tailored lineup of 50 features, plus five programs of to-be-announced shorts, will screen both physically (for the festival's first five days) and virtually (for the festival's full 10 days.) As previously announced, selected films—such as Chloé Zhao's Nomadland—will premiere in a non-competitive alliance with other major fall festivals in Venice, Telluride, and New York.Opening Night FILMDavid Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)Closing Night Filma Suitable Boy (Mira Nair)Official SELECTION180 Degree Rule (Farnoosh Samadi)76 Days (Hao Wu, Anonymous, Weixi Chen)Ammonite (Francis Lee)Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)Bandar Band (Manijeh Hekmat)Beans (Tracey Deer)Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)The Best Is Yet To Come (Wang Jing)Bruised (Halle Berry)City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)Concrete Cowboy...
- 7/30/2020
- MUBI
As announced last month, the Toronto International Film Festival will look quite different this year in the era of Covid-19. Featuring a drastically reduced lineup, physical screenings for only the first half of the festivals, and more changes, the festival has now unveiled their complete feature film lineup.
Along with previously announced films like the opener, Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia, Francis Lee’s Ammonite, and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, the festival also includes directorial debuts by Halle Berry and Regina King as well as new work by Werner Herzog, Mira Nair, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Frederick Wiseman, and more.
“We began this year planning for a 45th Festival much like our previous editions,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of TIFF, “but along the way we had to rethink just about everything. This year’s lineup reflects that tumult. The names you already...
Along with previously announced films like the opener, Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia, Francis Lee’s Ammonite, and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, the festival also includes directorial debuts by Halle Berry and Regina King as well as new work by Werner Herzog, Mira Nair, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Frederick Wiseman, and more.
“We began this year planning for a 45th Festival much like our previous editions,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of TIFF, “but along the way we had to rethink just about everything. This year’s lineup reflects that tumult. The names you already...
- 7/30/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Toronto Film Festival (September 10-19) has revealed the lineup for its hybrid 2020 edition, which has had to be pared back due to the impact of coronavirus.
Joining movies previously announced for the festival are new projects by the likes of Werner Herzog, Regina King, Francois Ozon and Naomi Kawase. Mira Nair’s BBC-Netflix TV series A Suitable Boy has been set as the festival’s closing night event. Scroll down for the list in full.
As revealed earlier this month, the slimmed down festival will open with Spike Lee’s concert movie version of David Byrne show American Utopia. Movies previously announced for Sundance and Venice which are also heading to Toronto include Viggo Mortensen’s Falling, Olivia Colman-Anthony Hopkins starrer The Father, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces Of A Woman and Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall. Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland will debut at Toronto and Venice simultaneously.
Joining movies previously announced for the festival are new projects by the likes of Werner Herzog, Regina King, Francois Ozon and Naomi Kawase. Mira Nair’s BBC-Netflix TV series A Suitable Boy has been set as the festival’s closing night event. Scroll down for the list in full.
As revealed earlier this month, the slimmed down festival will open with Spike Lee’s concert movie version of David Byrne show American Utopia. Movies previously announced for Sundance and Venice which are also heading to Toronto include Viggo Mortensen’s Falling, Olivia Colman-Anthony Hopkins starrer The Father, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces Of A Woman and Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall. Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland will debut at Toronto and Venice simultaneously.
- 7/30/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Films include ’Ammonite’, ’Notturno’, ’New Order’ and ’Penguin Bloom’.
New work from Francis Lee, Werner Herzog, François Ozon, Gianfranco Rosi, Regina King and Mira Nair are among the line-up for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
As previously announced, Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia will open this year’s edition, which runs from September 10-19.
The festival will close with Nair’s A Suitable Boy (pictured), a six-part TV drama that debuted on the BBC in the UK last Sunday (July 26). Netflix has online global rights, excluding North America and China.
Scroll down for full line-up...
New work from Francis Lee, Werner Herzog, François Ozon, Gianfranco Rosi, Regina King and Mira Nair are among the line-up for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
As previously announced, Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia will open this year’s edition, which runs from September 10-19.
The festival will close with Nair’s A Suitable Boy (pictured), a six-part TV drama that debuted on the BBC in the UK last Sunday (July 26). Netflix has online global rights, excluding North America and China.
Scroll down for full line-up...
- 7/30/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
It's not often that something as dry as tax theory can result in an engrossing night at the movies, but credit Harold Crooks and his team for providing an exceptional articulation about the vagaries of "off shoring" in an accessible, engaging way with The Price We Pay. Crooks co-wrote the narration for Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott's 2003 Sundance winning doc The Corporation, and with his own film he manages to better that, maintaining a level of even-handedness when required, while allowing a streak of advocacy to run through but never overwhelm the storytelling. In many ways, The Price We Pay is even more balanced in its presentation, giving many voices from the world of finance a chance to dispassionately (but eloquently and engagingly)...
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- 3/15/2015
- Screen Anarchy
It's not often that something as dry as tax theory can result in an engrossing night at the movies, but credit Harold Crooks and his team for providing an exceptional articulation about the vagaries of "off shoring" in an accessible, engaging way with The Price We Pay. Crooks co-wrote the narration for Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott's 2003 Sundance winning doc The Corporation, and with his own film he manages to better that doc, maintain a level of even handedness when required while allowing a streak of advocacy to run through but never overwhelm the storytelling. In many ways, The Price We Pay is even more balanced in its presentation, giving many voices from the world of finance a chance to dispassionately (but eloquently...
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- 9/6/2014
- Screen Anarchy
"Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at Occupy Wall Street, writer-director Jc Chandor's lifeless Margin Call depicts roughly 36 hours at an unnamed Manhattan investment firm at the dawn of the 2008 financial freak-out," begins Melissa Anderson in the Voice. "Chandor's debut feature audaciously asks us to empathize with obscenely overpaid risk analysts and their bosses, a gambit that fails not only because of what's happening at Zuccotti Park, but largely because his characters are little more than mouthpieces for blunt speechifying and Mamet-like outbursts."
Salon's Andrew O'Hehir isn't so quick to dispatch Margin Call to the disc-pile of history. For one thing, he notes that it "features one of Kevin Spacey's best screen performances as the firm's middle-aged ace salesman, trapped between his longtime loyalty and his waning sense of ethics. But explaining how these guys justified their rapacious and immoral behavior to themselves is not...
Salon's Andrew O'Hehir isn't so quick to dispatch Margin Call to the disc-pile of history. For one thing, he notes that it "features one of Kevin Spacey's best screen performances as the firm's middle-aged ace salesman, trapped between his longtime loyalty and his waning sense of ethics. But explaining how these guys justified their rapacious and immoral behavior to themselves is not...
- 10/24/2011
- MUBI
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