Jealousy can never pave the path to success! All one has to do is work hard and keep waiting for the results, rather than being jealous about someone else’s success. The plot of the film, Crime Diaries: The Celebrity Stylist, revolves around a motive of jealousy that leads to a double murder. The murder mystery-thriller has been directed by Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Rebecca, the detective, efficiently deals with the case while dealing with her personal issues. Was the incident a case of suicide or a murder? What was Yhonier’s motive? Let’s find the answers to all these questions through a detailed analysis of the film!
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What Differences Did Mauricio And Yhonier Have?
Mauricio is well-known for being a celebrity hairstylist and an image consultant. He is also portrayed as having a very good relationship with his mother, Marleny. He is portrayed as the kind of...
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What Differences Did Mauricio And Yhonier Have?
Mauricio is well-known for being a celebrity hairstylist and an image consultant. He is also portrayed as having a very good relationship with his mother, Marleny. He is portrayed as the kind of...
- 11/22/2023
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
Chicago – One of the overriding characteristics in the movies, when it comes to drug traffickers, is the stereotypical image of a fat and corrupt cartel leader who usually have machine gun wielding henchmen and bikini clad groupies. “Birds of Passage” goes back to the business of the drug trade, but it is about the families that controlled the territorial borders during that key era, and the basis of that control in ancient tribalism.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
That era was the 1970s and early ‘80s, when marijuana was the game, and the thirst for this mainstreaming high was at its illegal peak … these were essentially the folks that controlled the drug trade before some powerful pot heads were able to get big money and legitimacy/legality into the game. The tribes that controlled the territories had their own issues, and was involved in a chess-like power play of their own. The film uses a different approach,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
That era was the 1970s and early ‘80s, when marijuana was the game, and the thirst for this mainstreaming high was at its illegal peak … these were essentially the folks that controlled the drug trade before some powerful pot heads were able to get big money and legitimacy/legality into the game. The tribes that controlled the territories had their own issues, and was involved in a chess-like power play of their own. The film uses a different approach,...
- 3/18/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Orchard announced on Sunday that it has acquired the North American distribution rights for “Birds of Passage,” the family drama from Oscar-nominated directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra that explores the impact of the Colombian drug trade on an indigenous village.
Premiering as the opening film at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, “Birds of Passage” takes place in the 1970s, following an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the very lucrative business of selling marijuana to American tourists. While it proves to be profitable, the trade soon tears the family apart, putting their traditions, relationships and very lives at stake.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 5: Salma Hayek Sounds Off, Gaspar Noé Redeemed
Gallego and Guerra broke into Hollywood’s arthouse scene with “Embrace of the Serpent,” a 2015 period drama set in the Amazon that became the first Colombian film to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language film. The screenplay was written by Maria Camila Arias and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal.
“This film was always conceived as a theatrical experience, and there’s really no better way to appreciate it than in the cinema,” said co-directors Gallego, Guerra and producer Katrin Pors. “We are very happy that audiences will have the opportunity to see it the way it was intended, and that we have found a passionate distributor that loves and defends the art of cinema as much as we do.”
Also Read: Cannes So Far: The Spotlight Belongs to the Women
“‘Birds of Passage’ swept us up immediately into an engrossing familial drama surrounded by a world bursting with stunning color and sound,” said Orchard’s Evp of Film and Television Paul Davidson. “Cristina and Ciro have delivered something altogether special and unique that we are honored to be a part of.”
The deal was negotiated by The Orchard‘s Danielle Digiacomo, and by Films Boutique’s Jean-Christophe Simon and Louis Balsan on behalf of the filmmakers.
Read original story The Orchard Picks Up Colombian Film ‘Birds of Passage’ At TheWrap...
Premiering as the opening film at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, “Birds of Passage” takes place in the 1970s, following an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the very lucrative business of selling marijuana to American tourists. While it proves to be profitable, the trade soon tears the family apart, putting their traditions, relationships and very lives at stake.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 5: Salma Hayek Sounds Off, Gaspar Noé Redeemed
Gallego and Guerra broke into Hollywood’s arthouse scene with “Embrace of the Serpent,” a 2015 period drama set in the Amazon that became the first Colombian film to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language film. The screenplay was written by Maria Camila Arias and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal.
“This film was always conceived as a theatrical experience, and there’s really no better way to appreciate it than in the cinema,” said co-directors Gallego, Guerra and producer Katrin Pors. “We are very happy that audiences will have the opportunity to see it the way it was intended, and that we have found a passionate distributor that loves and defends the art of cinema as much as we do.”
Also Read: Cannes So Far: The Spotlight Belongs to the Women
“‘Birds of Passage’ swept us up immediately into an engrossing familial drama surrounded by a world bursting with stunning color and sound,” said Orchard’s Evp of Film and Television Paul Davidson. “Cristina and Ciro have delivered something altogether special and unique that we are honored to be a part of.”
The deal was negotiated by The Orchard‘s Danielle Digiacomo, and by Films Boutique’s Jean-Christophe Simon and Louis Balsan on behalf of the filmmakers.
Read original story The Orchard Picks Up Colombian Film ‘Birds of Passage’ At TheWrap...
- 5/13/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Sundance 2016 is fast approaching. Last week we posted the movie lineup of Midnight and Competition film selections. We now have the complete lineup for the premieres in both the feature film and documentary categories. We also have their selections for the Spotlight and Kid films. I've also included a list of special events.
There are a lot of great films on this list that I'm excited about seeing because of the incredible talent involved. Viggo Mortensen and Frank Langella star in Captain Fantastic; Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams star in Certain Women; Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover star in Complete Unknown; Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez star in The Fundamentals of Caring; John Krasinski directed a film called The Hollars which he stars in with Anna Kendrick, Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley, and Charlie Day; Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has made a new...
There are a lot of great films on this list that I'm excited about seeing because of the incredible talent involved. Viggo Mortensen and Frank Langella star in Captain Fantastic; Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams star in Certain Women; Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover star in Complete Unknown; Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez star in The Fundamentals of Caring; John Krasinski directed a film called The Hollars which he stars in with Anna Kendrick, Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley, and Charlie Day; Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has made a new...
- 12/13/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Kate Plays ChristineThe lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, taking place between January 21 -31, has been announced.U.S. Dramatic COMPETITIONAs You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, USA): As You Are is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation. Cast: Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Amandla Stenberg, John Scurti, Scott Cohen, Mary Stuart Masterson. World Premiere The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, USA): Set against the antebellum South, this story follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. After witnessing countless atrocities against fellow slaves, Nat devises a plan to lead his people to freedom. Cast: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Mark Boone Jr. World PremiereChristine (Antonio Campos,...
- 12/7/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
From Latin America “Embrace of The Serpent” (“El Abrazo De La Serpiente”) is a coproduction of Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina.
This is a favorite film of mine and is the Colombian contender for Best Foreign Language Oscar nomination by Colombia’s Ciro Guerra whose past film “The Wind Journeys” also captured an existence far from our own reality. This film and the Venezuelan contender “Gone with the River” by Mario Crespo are the first shot in the Amazonian rainforest in over 30 years.
“Embrace of the Serpent” premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the top prize, the Ciace Art Cinema Award. It also screened at the Tiff this September.
It signals a new trend in world cinema, the stories of indigenous people from their particular points of view. While Sundance has been supporting Native Cinema for many years, now world festivals are also featuring them in greater numbers.
Both blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape. “Embrace Of The Serpent” is the third feature by Ciro Guerra.
Filmed in stunning black-and-white, the film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him.
The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Kock-Grünberg and Richard Evan Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
The film screens at AFI on November 6 at 6:30 Pm and on November 9 at 1:00 Pm
AFI programmer Landon Zakheim describes the film here:
The shaman Karamakate waits warily by the edge of the river as a German explorer approaches. The stranger seeks the Yakuna, a legendary rare flower that can cure the man of his mysterious sickness. Only the shaman knows its location, hidden deep within the recesses of the Colombian Amazon, but he is distrustful. It is white men who made him the last of his tribe. But the explorer knows of others of his kind, and so a perilous bargain is struck. Shifting between these events in 1909 and 40 years later, when an older Karamakate brings another foreigner on the same journey through a ravaged jungle… Ciro Guerra’s masterful use of monochromatic black-and-white, symbolic landscapes, overwhelming soundscapes and haunting, elliptical editing blend together to elevate ethnographic odyssey into a hypnotic and methodical work of pure cinema.
It will be released stateside by Oscilloscope in New York on Wednesday, February 17 and in Los Angeles on Friday, February 19, with a national rollout to follow.
International Sales Agent Films Boutique has sold to Natyls for Denmark, Diaphana for France, Magyarhangya for Hungary, trigon-film for Switzerland.
Director: Ciro Guerra
Screenwriter: Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal
Producer: Cristina Gallego
Executive Producer: Cristina Gallego, Raúl Bravo, Marcelo Céspedes, Horacio Mentasti, Esteban Mentasti
Director of Photography: David Gallego
Editor: Cristina Gallego, Etienne Boussac
Production Designer: Angélica Perea
Music: Nascuy Linares
Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Yauenkü Miguee
Colombia | Venezuela | Argentina, 2015
122 min.
Feature
World Cinema Section
A program of the American Film Institute, AFI Fest presented by Audi is a celebration of global cinema and today’s Hollywood. It is an opportunity for master filmmakers and emerging artists to come together with audiences in the movie capital of the world. AFI Fest is the only festival of its stature that is free to the public. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes AFI Fest as a qualifying festival for both Short Film categories for the annual Academy Awards®.
Connect with AFI Fest at facebook.com/Afifest, twitter.com/Afifest and youtube.com/Afifest.
Free tickets: http://afi.com/afifest/freetickets.aspx...
This is a favorite film of mine and is the Colombian contender for Best Foreign Language Oscar nomination by Colombia’s Ciro Guerra whose past film “The Wind Journeys” also captured an existence far from our own reality. This film and the Venezuelan contender “Gone with the River” by Mario Crespo are the first shot in the Amazonian rainforest in over 30 years.
“Embrace of the Serpent” premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the top prize, the Ciace Art Cinema Award. It also screened at the Tiff this September.
It signals a new trend in world cinema, the stories of indigenous people from their particular points of view. While Sundance has been supporting Native Cinema for many years, now world festivals are also featuring them in greater numbers.
Both blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape. “Embrace Of The Serpent” is the third feature by Ciro Guerra.
Filmed in stunning black-and-white, the film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him.
The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Kock-Grünberg and Richard Evan Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
The film screens at AFI on November 6 at 6:30 Pm and on November 9 at 1:00 Pm
AFI programmer Landon Zakheim describes the film here:
The shaman Karamakate waits warily by the edge of the river as a German explorer approaches. The stranger seeks the Yakuna, a legendary rare flower that can cure the man of his mysterious sickness. Only the shaman knows its location, hidden deep within the recesses of the Colombian Amazon, but he is distrustful. It is white men who made him the last of his tribe. But the explorer knows of others of his kind, and so a perilous bargain is struck. Shifting between these events in 1909 and 40 years later, when an older Karamakate brings another foreigner on the same journey through a ravaged jungle… Ciro Guerra’s masterful use of monochromatic black-and-white, symbolic landscapes, overwhelming soundscapes and haunting, elliptical editing blend together to elevate ethnographic odyssey into a hypnotic and methodical work of pure cinema.
It will be released stateside by Oscilloscope in New York on Wednesday, February 17 and in Los Angeles on Friday, February 19, with a national rollout to follow.
International Sales Agent Films Boutique has sold to Natyls for Denmark, Diaphana for France, Magyarhangya for Hungary, trigon-film for Switzerland.
Director: Ciro Guerra
Screenwriter: Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal
Producer: Cristina Gallego
Executive Producer: Cristina Gallego, Raúl Bravo, Marcelo Céspedes, Horacio Mentasti, Esteban Mentasti
Director of Photography: David Gallego
Editor: Cristina Gallego, Etienne Boussac
Production Designer: Angélica Perea
Music: Nascuy Linares
Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Yauenkü Miguee
Colombia | Venezuela | Argentina, 2015
122 min.
Feature
World Cinema Section
A program of the American Film Institute, AFI Fest presented by Audi is a celebration of global cinema and today’s Hollywood. It is an opportunity for master filmmakers and emerging artists to come together with audiences in the movie capital of the world. AFI Fest is the only festival of its stature that is free to the public. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes AFI Fest as a qualifying festival for both Short Film categories for the annual Academy Awards®.
Connect with AFI Fest at facebook.com/Afifest, twitter.com/Afifest and youtube.com/Afifest.
Free tickets: http://afi.com/afifest/freetickets.aspx...
- 10/30/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The first ever Tridens First Features competition will include 14 titles, alongside two out of competition.Scroll down for the full list
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has revealead the line-up for the inaugural edition of its new programme: the Tridens First Features competition.
In total, there will be 14 world and international premieres shown, all helmed by debut directors, selected from diverse regions including Colombia, Australia and Iran.
The Colombian title be the world premiere of Delivery, the first feature from director Martin Mejira Rugeles. The film, shot on 16mm, follows a pregnant woman who lives in a remote village in a forest.
The Australian title is the international premiere of Pawno. Set in Melbourne, director Paul Ireland’s debut looks at an eclectic selection of the city’s inhabitants, all of whom are desperately looking for love.
The Iranian film, Two, is the directorial debut of actress Soheila Golestani. The feature...
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has revealead the line-up for the inaugural edition of its new programme: the Tridens First Features competition.
In total, there will be 14 world and international premieres shown, all helmed by debut directors, selected from diverse regions including Colombia, Australia and Iran.
The Colombian title be the world premiere of Delivery, the first feature from director Martin Mejira Rugeles. The film, shot on 16mm, follows a pregnant woman who lives in a remote village in a forest.
The Australian title is the international premiere of Pawno. Set in Melbourne, director Paul Ireland’s debut looks at an eclectic selection of the city’s inhabitants, all of whom are desperately looking for love.
The Iranian film, Two, is the directorial debut of actress Soheila Golestani. The feature...
- 10/16/2015
- ScreenDaily
The first ever Tridens First Feature competition will include 14 titles, alongside two out of competition.Scroll down for the full list
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has revealead the line-up for the inaugural edition of its new programme: the Tridens First Feature competition.
In total, there will be 14 world and international premieres shown, all helmed by debut directors, selected from diverse regions including Colombia, Australia and Iran.
The Colombian title be the world premiere of Delivery, the first feature from director Martin Mejira Rugeles. The film, shot on 16mm, follows a pregnant woman who lives in a remote village in a forest.
The Australian title is the international premiere of Pawno. Set in Melbourne, director Paul Ireland’s debut looks at an eclectic selection of the city’s inhabitants, all of whom are desperately looking for love.
The Iranian film, Two, is the directorial debut of actress Soheila Golestani. The feature...
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has revealead the line-up for the inaugural edition of its new programme: the Tridens First Feature competition.
In total, there will be 14 world and international premieres shown, all helmed by debut directors, selected from diverse regions including Colombia, Australia and Iran.
The Colombian title be the world premiere of Delivery, the first feature from director Martin Mejira Rugeles. The film, shot on 16mm, follows a pregnant woman who lives in a remote village in a forest.
The Australian title is the international premiere of Pawno. Set in Melbourne, director Paul Ireland’s debut looks at an eclectic selection of the city’s inhabitants, all of whom are desperately looking for love.
The Iranian film, Two, is the directorial debut of actress Soheila Golestani. The feature...
- 10/16/2015
- ScreenDaily
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