Sundance Institute has announced the 2024 Directors, Screenwriters, and Native Labs fellows.
The Native Lab takes place in person in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from April 29–May 4 and will support four fellows and two artists in residence. The Lab focuses on centring Indigeneity in the storytelling of participants from Native and Indigenous backgrounds and will work on feature film and episodic scripts through one-on-one feedback sections and roundtable discussions with advisors.
The fellows are: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan (writer-director) with Hum (Phil-usa); Ryland Walker Knight (writer-director) with The Lip Of The World (USA); Charine Pilar Gonzales (writer-director) with Ndn Time (USA...
The Native Lab takes place in person in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from April 29–May 4 and will support four fellows and two artists in residence. The Lab focuses on centring Indigeneity in the storytelling of participants from Native and Indigenous backgrounds and will work on feature film and episodic scripts through one-on-one feedback sections and roundtable discussions with advisors.
The fellows are: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan (writer-director) with Hum (Phil-usa); Ryland Walker Knight (writer-director) with The Lip Of The World (USA); Charine Pilar Gonzales (writer-director) with Ndn Time (USA...
- 4/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
New York University has revealed its 2024 picks for its Black List-inspired Purple List of the best production-ready screenplays from Tisch School of the Arts graduate film students and recent alumni.
The four screenplays, selected via a blind reading process by industry insiders, are Blue Comedy by Vincent Lee Accettola, Little Phnom Penh by Chheangkea, Rubber Hut by Hanna Gray Organschi and Satoshi by Sara Crow and David Rafailedes.
Blue Comedy follows a celebrity comedian who recently came out of the closet who returns to the Boston stand-up scene to mentor a straight comedian for whom he’s developed feelings. Little Phnom Penh explores a Cambodian woman’s personal desires and changing family roles over two decades in a story that spans across the U.S. and Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Rubber Hut centers around a former ex-Pam Am stewardess who opens a drive-thru condom shop...
The four screenplays, selected via a blind reading process by industry insiders, are Blue Comedy by Vincent Lee Accettola, Little Phnom Penh by Chheangkea, Rubber Hut by Hanna Gray Organschi and Satoshi by Sara Crow and David Rafailedes.
Blue Comedy follows a celebrity comedian who recently came out of the closet who returns to the Boston stand-up scene to mentor a straight comedian for whom he’s developed feelings. Little Phnom Penh explores a Cambodian woman’s personal desires and changing family roles over two decades in a story that spans across the U.S. and Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Rubber Hut centers around a former ex-Pam Am stewardess who opens a drive-thru condom shop...
- 4/17/2024
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On the day that this conversation took place, Sara Crow and David Rafailedes were on their way to a reception to accept one of the Sloan Development Fellowships—an artist grant supporting projects in development involving technology. However, as we spoke, it became apparent that while their upcoming project might delve into the tech world, particularly crypto, it’ll feature the unlikeliest of perspectives: that of a protagonist burdened by the weight of the world. Satoshi is unlike the usual set of films that fall into sector start-ups.
Sara Crow comes from a mostly docu world producing television work for others and a feature-length docu herself with Never Get Tired (2014).…...
Sara Crow comes from a mostly docu world producing television work for others and a feature-length docu herself with Never Get Tired (2014).…...
- 2/26/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The 2024 Super Bowl featured many celebrity spectators, from Taylor Swift rooting for her Kansas City Chiefs tight end boyfriend Travis Kelce, to Paul Rudd, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé and Jay-Z with the power couple seated near the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter (now known as X) Jack Dorsey.
On the social media platform Dorsey co-founded, it was his T-shirt that soon became the subject of chatter. The tee in question featured the Nirvana smiley face logo with text that read “Satoshi.”
Just In: Jack Dorsey spotted wearing a Satoshi #Bitcoin shirt at the #SuperBowl...
On the social media platform Dorsey co-founded, it was his T-shirt that soon became the subject of chatter. The tee in question featured the Nirvana smiley face logo with text that read “Satoshi.”
Just In: Jack Dorsey spotted wearing a Satoshi #Bitcoin shirt at the #SuperBowl...
- 2/12/2024
- by Tatiana Tenreyro
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Super Bowl Sunday, Bluesky showed off its signature feature. Days after leaving its invite-only period, the decentralized X alternative rolled out a special feed for users who wanted to follow the Big Game without hearing about Taylor Swift.
Bluesky aims to provide a more customizable experience than X by letting users — not algorithms — determine the posts that show up on their feeds. The social network showed off that feature during Super Bowl Lviii, when it offered a pair of second-screen experiences catered to different cultural tastes. For the Swifties, Bluesky offered “Taylor’s Version” of the feed, which was filled with updates about Swift and her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
A separate feed eschewed Taylor Swift commentary altogether. “The real distinction is that some football fans have strong feelings about *not* seeing any Ts-related content in their football news, and the first feed can provide that for them,...
Bluesky aims to provide a more customizable experience than X by letting users — not algorithms — determine the posts that show up on their feeds. The social network showed off that feature during Super Bowl Lviii, when it offered a pair of second-screen experiences catered to different cultural tastes. For the Swifties, Bluesky offered “Taylor’s Version” of the feed, which was filled with updates about Swift and her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
A separate feed eschewed Taylor Swift commentary altogether. “The real distinction is that some football fans have strong feelings about *not* seeing any Ts-related content in their football news, and the first feed can provide that for them,...
- 2/12/2024
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Sundance Institute and Alfred Sloan Foundation honoured previously announced Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize winner Love Me at a reception in Park City on Monday.
Married filmmaker duo Sam and Andy Zuchero received a $25,000 cash award for Love Me, which stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun as a buoy and a satellite who fall in love after the end of humanity.
Three artists were awarded grants to support projects currently in development: Emily Everhard received the Sloan Episodic Fellowship for Tektite, Sara Crow and Daniel Rafailedes received the Sloan Development Fellowship for Satoshi, and Lizzi Oyebode received the Sloan Commissioning Grant for Inverses.
Married filmmaker duo Sam and Andy Zuchero received a $25,000 cash award for Love Me, which stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun as a buoy and a satellite who fall in love after the end of humanity.
Three artists were awarded grants to support projects currently in development: Emily Everhard received the Sloan Episodic Fellowship for Tektite, Sara Crow and Daniel Rafailedes received the Sloan Development Fellowship for Satoshi, and Lizzi Oyebode received the Sloan Commissioning Grant for Inverses.
- 1/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Sundance Institute and Alfred Sloan Foundation honoured previously announced Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize winner Love Me at a reception in Park City on Monday.
Married filmmaker duo Sam and Andy Zuchero received a $25,000 cash award for Love Me, which stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun as a buoy and a satellite who fall in love after the end of humanity.
Three artists were awarded grants to support projects currently in development: Emily Everhard received the Sloan Episodic Fellowship for Tektite, Sara Crow and Daniel Rafailedes received the Sloan Development Fellowship for Satoshi, and Lizzi Oyebode received the Sloan Commissioning Grant for Inverses.
Married filmmaker duo Sam and Andy Zuchero received a $25,000 cash award for Love Me, which stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun as a buoy and a satellite who fall in love after the end of humanity.
Three artists were awarded grants to support projects currently in development: Emily Everhard received the Sloan Episodic Fellowship for Tektite, Sara Crow and Daniel Rafailedes received the Sloan Development Fellowship for Satoshi, and Lizzi Oyebode received the Sloan Commissioning Grant for Inverses.
- 1/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today named the recipients of three artist grants aimed at supporting projects currently in development, as they officially bestowed their Feature Film Prize on Sam and Andy Zuchero’s Love Me, all through their joint Science-In-Film Initiative.
Emily Everhard received a $17,000 cash award under the Sloan Episodic Fellowship for her NASA aquanaut script Tektite, with writer-directors Sara Crow and David Rafailedes claiming the Sloan Development Fellowship for Satoshi, taking home $17,000 for their project about the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin. Filmmaker Lizzi Oyebode received a $25,000 cash award through the Sloan Commissioning Grant for her feature project Inverses, about the lone Jewish professor resisting a Nazi takeover of the world’s leading university math department.
The Zucheros’ debut feature Love Me had previously been announced as the recipients of the $25,000 Feature Film Prize, presented to an outstanding title focusing on science or technology as a theme,...
Emily Everhard received a $17,000 cash award under the Sloan Episodic Fellowship for her NASA aquanaut script Tektite, with writer-directors Sara Crow and David Rafailedes claiming the Sloan Development Fellowship for Satoshi, taking home $17,000 for their project about the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin. Filmmaker Lizzi Oyebode received a $25,000 cash award through the Sloan Commissioning Grant for her feature project Inverses, about the lone Jewish professor resisting a Nazi takeover of the world’s leading university math department.
The Zucheros’ debut feature Love Me had previously been announced as the recipients of the $25,000 Feature Film Prize, presented to an outstanding title focusing on science or technology as a theme,...
- 1/22/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Sixteen fellows with a dozen projects will be headed to the mythic bunk beds and cabin life of Utah just prior to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. Here their words on paper will be tested, tried and nurtured with valuable input from the likes of Michelle Satter, Ilyse McKimmie, Jessie Nelson and creative advisors Ritesh Batra, Linda Yvette Chávez, Scott Frank, Phil Hay, Marielle Heller, Walter Mosley, Nicole Perlman, Kemp Powers, Dee Rees, Howard Rodman, Dana Stevens, Joan Tewkesbury, Bill Wheeler, Tyger Williams, Virgil Williams, and Doug Wright. This year’s Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab folks include: Nikesh Shukla & Himesh Patel (Brown Baby), Kaitlin Fontana & Franchesca Ramsey (Cover Girl), Sylvia Khoury (Heather), Jane Casey Modderno (Here for the Weekend), Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (High Steel), Kristine Gerolaga (Lamok), Francesca Canepa & Miguel Ángel Papalini (La Otra Orilla), Diana Peralta (No Love Lost), Christian Moldes (Quince Kings), Hanna Gray Organschi (Rubber Hut), Sara Crow...
- 1/12/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Satoshi Fukushima was born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1962. He lost sight in both by the age of 9 and his hearing at the age of 18. In 1983, he gained entry to Tokyo Metropolitan University, becoming the first deafblind person in Japan to study at the university level. He became an associate professor at Kanazawa University, and has been a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology since 2008, the first deafblind person in the world to become a full-time university professor. Junpei Matsumoto directs a movie based on the first years of his life, and particularly the role his mother played in the way he grew up.
My Mother’s Touch is screening at Camera Japan
In that regard, the movie starts with him as an infant, the youngest of three boys in his family of five, when the first issue with his eyes was diagnosed.
My Mother’s Touch is screening at Camera Japan
In that regard, the movie starts with him as an infant, the youngest of three boys in his family of five, when the first issue with his eyes was diagnosed.
- 9/24/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Takeshi Kushida's debut, “Woman of the Photographs” was one of the best films of 2020. Three years later, the director returns with “My Mother's Eyes” , a film that also deals with the concept of ‘seeing', but on a whole different level.
My Mother's Eyes is screening at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists. The two seem to have a rather loving relationship, to the point of codependency on occasion. As the latter, however, seems to become more rebellious, a certain level of tension arises between them. One fateful night, after a magnificent duet at Eri's school concert, they are involved in a major car accident (?), from which they emerge badly injured. Hitomi loses her eyesight and Eri is paralyzed from the neck down. In her desperation, Hitomi stumbles upon a new, still experimental contact lens device invented by Dr. Tomio Miike, which will restore her vision,...
My Mother's Eyes is screening at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists. The two seem to have a rather loving relationship, to the point of codependency on occasion. As the latter, however, seems to become more rebellious, a certain level of tension arises between them. One fateful night, after a magnificent duet at Eri's school concert, they are involved in a major car accident (?), from which they emerge badly injured. Hitomi loses her eyesight and Eri is paralyzed from the neck down. In her desperation, Hitomi stumbles upon a new, still experimental contact lens device invented by Dr. Tomio Miike, which will restore her vision,...
- 7/20/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Following the success of “Confessions”, a plethora of Kanae Minato's works have been adapted in both TV and cinema, with “Homecoming”, “ A Chorus of Angels”, “Penance” and “The Snow White Murder Case” being some of the most renowned. The latest one, “Motherhood” comes from 2012 novel “Bosei” and explores the theme of motherhood through the stories of three generations of women.
Motherhood is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Sayaka, a highschool student, kills herself for reasons that are initially unknown, since she seems to have been living a pretty normal life until that point, having been raised with love by her mother, Rumiko. The narrative then switches to the past, starting with the story of the latter, before it presents Sayaka's own version of their life story. In that fashion, Rumiko was an art enthusiast who enrolled in art school, where she met Satoshi, with the two eventually getting married,...
Motherhood is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Sayaka, a highschool student, kills herself for reasons that are initially unknown, since she seems to have been living a pretty normal life until that point, having been raised with love by her mother, Rumiko. The narrative then switches to the past, starting with the story of the latter, before it presents Sayaka's own version of their life story. In that fashion, Rumiko was an art enthusiast who enrolled in art school, where she met Satoshi, with the two eventually getting married,...
- 7/18/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Daigo Matsui has been fascinated with making pictures about youth and adolescence since his debut effort “Afro Tanaka” (2012), but the native of Fukuoka departs from his usual track and takes us into a day of a life of a few kooky people working in the storied Funabashi Grand Sauna which at the current moment, sees it singing its final swan song.
Aufguss is screening at Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia
Funabashi Grand Sauna is closing its doors after 50 long years in the business. But Toji (Satoshi Motoori) powers on like a steam engine. His boss discovers the hardworking Toji-san and chases him out of the laundry room, to enjoy the sauna for the last time. As patrons flood into the establishment, the erstwhile floor-mopper instead prepares for the final performance of his pièce de resistance amid an air of mystery surrounding the mist.
Right off the cuff, Matsui's short...
Aufguss is screening at Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia
Funabashi Grand Sauna is closing its doors after 50 long years in the business. But Toji (Satoshi Motoori) powers on like a steam engine. His boss discovers the hardworking Toji-san and chases him out of the laundry room, to enjoy the sauna for the last time. As patrons flood into the establishment, the erstwhile floor-mopper instead prepares for the final performance of his pièce de resistance amid an air of mystery surrounding the mist.
Right off the cuff, Matsui's short...
- 6/17/2023
- by Leon Overee
- AsianMoviePulse
Winner of the Fipresci Prize in last year's Biff, Nao Kubota's “Thousand and One Nights” takes on a subject that has been dealt with in the Japanese cinema of the past, as in Shohei Imamura's “ A Man Vanishes” for example, but not so much in recent productions, regarding the sudden disappearances of men throughout Japan.
“Thousand and One Nights” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
Tomiko Wakamatsu, a woman in her 60s, is working in the fish industry in the island of Sado, located in the Sea of Japan not far from Niigata. Her life, however, has been on hold for more than three decades now, since her husband Satoshi disappeared. Not being able to move forward, Tomiko is still searching and waiting, although a local man, Haruo, is quite keen on marrying her, something that both his mother, and a number of other people from the island insist on,...
“Thousand and One Nights” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
Tomiko Wakamatsu, a woman in her 60s, is working in the fish industry in the island of Sado, located in the Sea of Japan not far from Niigata. Her life, however, has been on hold for more than three decades now, since her husband Satoshi disappeared. Not being able to move forward, Tomiko is still searching and waiting, although a local man, Haruo, is quite keen on marrying her, something that both his mother, and a number of other people from the island insist on,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
He's been 10 years old for 25 years, but Ash Ketchum is finally the very best, like no one ever was. After 25 years of heartbreak after heartbreak, the latest episode of "Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series" that aired in Japan today, titled "The Finals IV: Partner," finally showed Ash emerge victorious in the Masters Eight Tournament of the Pokémon World Coronation Series.
Anime is full of underdog stories, whether in sports shows like "Hajime no Ippo" where the thrill is watching a newcomer rise to the top, or in action shows where we follow a young boy hone his skills, gain huge power, and take on the world despite insurmountable odds. When it comes to "Pokémon," however, the 25-year-old franchise has not followed traditional underdog tropes. Instead, the anime has properly prepared kids for the disappointments of the real world. The show teaches that no matter how much you train or how much you want to succeed,...
Anime is full of underdog stories, whether in sports shows like "Hajime no Ippo" where the thrill is watching a newcomer rise to the top, or in action shows where we follow a young boy hone his skills, gain huge power, and take on the world despite insurmountable odds. When it comes to "Pokémon," however, the 25-year-old franchise has not followed traditional underdog tropes. Instead, the anime has properly prepared kids for the disappointments of the real world. The show teaches that no matter how much you train or how much you want to succeed,...
- 11/11/2022
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
A successful thriller starts with a good story and ideally should take the viewer through various stages of excitement, astonishment, and anxiety — extra points if a film marketed as a thriller succeeds at being genre-defying. South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is known and loved for making movies that hit all these marks and more, so it’s interesting that one of the most gifted, up-and-coming directors in Japan has been referred to as Joon-ho’s protégé. Before making his feature film debut with Siblings of the Cape in 2018, filmmaker Shinzô Katayama served as assistant director to Bong Joon-ho on his acclaimed film Mother in 2009. Katayama’s second feature film, Missing (Sagasu), screened at Busan International Film Festival in 2021 and is premiering at this year’s Fantastic Fest. Written by Shinzô Katayama, Kazuhisa Kotera, and Ryô Takada, and directed by Katayama, Missing is a twisty thriller and a heart-wrenching story with an amazing cast,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Michelle Swope
- DailyDead
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