The director’s debut feature will mix live action with animated sequences. Bulgarian director Theodore Ushev, who received an Academy Award nomination for his animated short Blind Vaysha in 2017, is currently in post-production with his feature debut, Phi 1.618, which will blend live-action footage with animation. The feature is being staged by Bulgarian production company Peripeteia Films, represented by Orlin Ruevski and Vladislav Todorov. The screenplay, written by Todorov and based on his own novel, The Spinning Top, explores a dystopian future where science conquers death, and a nation of bio-titans, a breed of asexual, immortal men, has been created. The female sex and procreation have become obsolete. As the Earth turns toxic, the bio-titans are eager to colonise the cosmos on board a colossal spaceship, taking with them only one female body kept barely alive as a reminder of the troubled past. But everything changes when the immortal calligrapher...
- A slow news day for the indie circuit and foreign film scene, but plenty of film festival items, some father and daughter Coppola news and Day 1 for Anne Thompson at IndieWIRE and the new reboot of David Hudson at The Auteurs.com. Here is a look at eight and 1/2 news items that we didn't have enough time to cover but are worth mentioning here for August the 3rd. 1. No Moore DocsThe documentary filmmaker will go back to Canadian Bacon territory. (Via Firstshowing.net) 2. Moore News Moore's own Traverse City Film Festival comes to a close. Food, Inc. and The Cove among the winners. (See Complete Winner's List). 3. Focus Features' 2010 slate. See you in 2010: Sofia Coppola's Somewhere and Noah Baumbach's Greenburg. 4. Nowhere Near HereSam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy will close London Film Festival. Doesn't look like we'll be seeing it this year over here. (Via Screen Daily
- 8/4/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
SXSW is one of my favorite festivals of the year as it showcases some of the best and most innovative real independent films, and with this host of world premiers, it's also playing alot of Sundance material as well as genre fare from all over the world, many of which we've covered heavily in these pages.
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
- 2/2/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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