Talent Search
The TV Foundation, an umbrella charity of the Edinburgh TV Festival supported by YouTube and Screen Scotland, is partnering with Louis Theroux on Looking for Louis, a new talent search venture to seek out the next generation of investigative documentary filmmakers. The search is being executed at Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions in partnership with The TV Foundation and Amazon Prime Video and supported by The TriForce Creative Network. Those looking to apply will be required to submit a one-page pitch for a two-minute micro-doc, with a shortlist of 10 selected to make their film, shot on a mobile phone. Six finalists will then be selected to attend and screen their work at Edinburgh, where Theroux and his production company partners Nancy Strang and Arron Fellows will announce the winning film.
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Keshet International and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) have closed a scripted deal on a new police procedural,...
The TV Foundation, an umbrella charity of the Edinburgh TV Festival supported by YouTube and Screen Scotland, is partnering with Louis Theroux on Looking for Louis, a new talent search venture to seek out the next generation of investigative documentary filmmakers. The search is being executed at Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions in partnership with The TV Foundation and Amazon Prime Video and supported by The TriForce Creative Network. Those looking to apply will be required to submit a one-page pitch for a two-minute micro-doc, with a shortlist of 10 selected to make their film, shot on a mobile phone. Six finalists will then be selected to attend and screen their work at Edinburgh, where Theroux and his production company partners Nancy Strang and Arron Fellows will announce the winning film.
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Keshet International and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) have closed a scripted deal on a new police procedural,...
- 7/14/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired worldwide rights to the Marshall Burnette-directed Silo, the first-ever film about grain entrapment. The film is slated to be released later this year.
Inspired by true events and set in an American farm town, Silo is a dramatic thriller that follows Cody (Jack Difalco) who is a victim of a grain entrapment accident. Family, neighbors, and first responders must put aside their differences to rescue him from drowning in the 50-foot tall silo where corn quickly turns to quicksand. The film puts the spotlight on an issue that has a signficant impact on rural America, showing the dangers of modern farming.
“As someone who grew up in NYC loving arthouse cinema, I have admired Oscilloscope’s rich history and incredible taste for my entire producing career,” said Silo producer Samuel Goldberg. “Our goal has always been to use the power of storytelling to inspire empathy and unite people,...
Inspired by true events and set in an American farm town, Silo is a dramatic thriller that follows Cody (Jack Difalco) who is a victim of a grain entrapment accident. Family, neighbors, and first responders must put aside their differences to rescue him from drowning in the 50-foot tall silo where corn quickly turns to quicksand. The film puts the spotlight on an issue that has a signficant impact on rural America, showing the dangers of modern farming.
“As someone who grew up in NYC loving arthouse cinema, I have admired Oscilloscope’s rich history and incredible taste for my entire producing career,” said Silo producer Samuel Goldberg. “Our goal has always been to use the power of storytelling to inspire empathy and unite people,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with Deadline Tribeca Studio video. Exclusive: The genre-blending short film Mildred and the Dying Parlor, from Blood Orange Pictures and Rooster Films, presents an intricate, unsettlingly fun look at the business of providing a high quality of life at the end of life. Directed by Alex Gayner from a script by Ilan Ulmer, it’s based on the short story Red by Andrea Heimer and follows Mildred, a young woman who lives with her parents in an old house from which they…...
- 4/17/2016
- Deadline
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