‘Dreamers,’ About Undocumented Immigrants in Chicago, Picked Up by Sales Agency Lightdox (Exclusive)
Documentary “Dreamers” has been acquired by Swiss sales agency Lightdox. The film has its international premiere on April 23 at the 54th Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, where it competes in the Burning Lights section.
The film centers on Carlos, who arrived in Chicago from Mexico in 1993, at the age of 9, with his parents and three brothers. For 30 years, he has never been able to leave the city where he went to school and now works, coaches a soccer team, and pays his taxes, because he is still undocumented. He leads a discreet life, trying never to make a mistake, out of fear of being deported.
“Even though I think of myself as an American, and consider America my country, I could get deported anytime because my country doesn’t think of me as one of its own,” he says in the film.
The film is the third...
The film centers on Carlos, who arrived in Chicago from Mexico in 1993, at the age of 9, with his parents and three brothers. For 30 years, he has never been able to leave the city where he went to school and now works, coaches a soccer team, and pays his taxes, because he is still undocumented. He leads a discreet life, trying never to make a mistake, out of fear of being deported.
“Even though I think of myself as an American, and consider America my country, I could get deported anytime because my country doesn’t think of me as one of its own,” he says in the film.
The film is the third...
- 4/23/2023
- by Trinidad Barleycorn
- Variety Film + TV
Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune,” with cinematography by Greig Fraser, Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” with cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman, and Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel,” with cinematography by Dariusz Wolski, are among the movies selected in the main competition section of EnergaCamerimage. The 29th edition of the festival, which focuses on the art of cinematography, runs Nov. 13-20 in Toruń, Poland.
Villeneuve will be the recipient of this year’s Special Camerimage Award for Outstanding Director, with the Oscar-nominated French-Canadian filmmaker attending in person to receive the award and present his film to the audience.
Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” will also play in competition and will open the festival, with Coen and cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel introducing the film in Toruń in person. Coen and Delbonnel previously worked together on “Tuileries”, “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
Other titles competing for the festival’s top prize,...
Villeneuve will be the recipient of this year’s Special Camerimage Award for Outstanding Director, with the Oscar-nominated French-Canadian filmmaker attending in person to receive the award and present his film to the audience.
Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” will also play in competition and will open the festival, with Coen and cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel introducing the film in Toruń in person. Coen and Delbonnel previously worked together on “Tuileries”, “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
Other titles competing for the festival’s top prize,...
- 10/26/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Also in Nyon: Gloria Films projects; Docs in Progress
Wide House is to handle international sales on veteran French director Claire Simon’s latest feature documentary The Village which she presented at the Pitching du Réel during the Doc Outlook - International Market (Docm) in Switzerland’s Nyon this week.
The €604,000 production by Petit à Petit Production centres on a documentary film festival held in the village of Lussas in South Ardeche that has created an internet TV platform and production studio for independent documentaries, and on the resistance to this from the local farming community.
Simon, whose previous feature documentary The Graduation (Le Concours) was also handled by Wide House and won the Documentary Award at last year’s Venice Film Festival, explained that The Village is being conceived as a double format with a documentary series and a feature film. France’s Ciné plus has already come onboard as a partner for the 7 x 26 minute...
Wide House is to handle international sales on veteran French director Claire Simon’s latest feature documentary The Village which she presented at the Pitching du Réel during the Doc Outlook - International Market (Docm) in Switzerland’s Nyon this week.
The €604,000 production by Petit à Petit Production centres on a documentary film festival held in the village of Lussas in South Ardeche that has created an internet TV platform and production studio for independent documentaries, and on the resistance to this from the local farming community.
Simon, whose previous feature documentary The Graduation (Le Concours) was also handled by Wide House and won the Documentary Award at last year’s Venice Film Festival, explained that The Village is being conceived as a double format with a documentary series and a feature film. France’s Ciné plus has already come onboard as a partner for the 7 x 26 minute...
- 4/27/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Written and Directed by Miranda July
Starring Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres, Joe Putterlik
It’s impossible to describe the plot of Miranda July’s latest movie without making it sound unbearably twee – and it’s anything but. Although it does include a talking cat, a hipster couple, YouTube bedroom dances, stopped time and the Moon as a character, The Future is never less than wry and intelligent, with an honest and compelling emotional core. July has a keen eye for moments of epiphany that are triggered by trivial things, and a masterful ability to construct these moments into a cohesive story, managing to weave a morality tale about the transience of life around a nondescript pair of Silverlake fauxhemians. The Future consists of many seemingly disparate elements fashioned into an extremely rewarding whole, one that reinforces our sense that the greatest truths are usually found in the smallest details.
Starring Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres, Joe Putterlik
It’s impossible to describe the plot of Miranda July’s latest movie without making it sound unbearably twee – and it’s anything but. Although it does include a talking cat, a hipster couple, YouTube bedroom dances, stopped time and the Moon as a character, The Future is never less than wry and intelligent, with an honest and compelling emotional core. July has a keen eye for moments of epiphany that are triggered by trivial things, and a masterful ability to construct these moments into a cohesive story, managing to weave a morality tale about the transience of life around a nondescript pair of Silverlake fauxhemians. The Future consists of many seemingly disparate elements fashioned into an extremely rewarding whole, one that reinforces our sense that the greatest truths are usually found in the smallest details.
- 6/21/2011
- by Karina
- Planet Fury
Ironically, The Playlist‘s report concerning the status of Miranda July‘s upcoming sophomore effort, The Future, comes right on the heels of my first viewing of Me and You and Everyone We Know, the artist’s feature debut, which won a special jury prize at Sundance. The report confirms the previous speculation that Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch Drunk Love, I Heart Huckabees) will write the music for the film.
For those that have seen July‘s debut, you’re surely aware of her unorthodox style. That being said, it doesn’t come as much surprise that the synopsis of The Future contains plenty of elements that would seem outright silly if they were in the hands of an unproven artist. Here it is, in full:
Sophie and Jason are a thirty something couple who have hit a bit of a brick wall in their lives.
For those that have seen July‘s debut, you’re surely aware of her unorthodox style. That being said, it doesn’t come as much surprise that the synopsis of The Future contains plenty of elements that would seem outright silly if they were in the hands of an unproven artist. Here it is, in full:
Sophie and Jason are a thirty something couple who have hit a bit of a brick wall in their lives.
- 12/14/2010
- by Danny King
- The Film Stage
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