The Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea’s second most important generalist film festival, on Tuesday announced “The Major Tones” and “Time to Be Strong” as the Grand Prix winners of its two competition sections. The festival continues until Friday.
Directed by Argentina’s Ingrid Pokropek, “The Major Tones” is a mystery film about a youngster with a metal plate in her arm which begins to receive peculiar messages in Morse Code. It premiered at the Mar del Plata festival and also played in Berlin’s Generation KPlus section. In Jeonju it won the international section.
The Korean section was dominated by “Time to Be Strong,” the sophomore effort of director Namkoong Sun. In addition to the Korean competition’s Grand Prix, it also shared the best actor award and picked up the Watch award from a local streamer.
The film follows three former K-pop idol singers whose careers have...
Directed by Argentina’s Ingrid Pokropek, “The Major Tones” is a mystery film about a youngster with a metal plate in her arm which begins to receive peculiar messages in Morse Code. It premiered at the Mar del Plata festival and also played in Berlin’s Generation KPlus section. In Jeonju it won the international section.
The Korean section was dominated by “Time to Be Strong,” the sophomore effort of director Namkoong Sun. In addition to the Korean competition’s Grand Prix, it also shared the best actor award and picked up the Watch award from a local streamer.
The film follows three former K-pop idol singers whose careers have...
- 5/8/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Locarno might not be as well known to the general public as other European festivals, but their programming has been amazing for several years, leaning into the more experimental work of what might be called social realism, or documentary cinema - finding the quiet yet deep and profound stories. Factory25 recently announced the acquisition of one such title, Lucy Kerr's feature debut Family Portrait. Winning an award at that festival and several others besides, the film will have a launch in the USA starting next month, and hopefully in other countries soon. Set at the dawn of Covid, Family Portrait follows a sprawling family gathering to take a group picture as Katy searches for the matriarch that...
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- 5/7/2024
- Screen Anarchy
One of our favorites from last year’s Locarno Film Festival, where it picked up the Boccalino d’Oro for Best Director, Lucy Kerr’s directorial debut Family Portrait finds Deragh Campbell searching for the family matriarch in an elusive portrait that has drawn comparisons to the films of Antonioni. Now picked up by Factory 25 for a June 28 release beginning at Metrograph, the first trailer and poster have arrived.
Here’s the synopsis: “Set at the dawn of Covid, Family Portrait follows a sprawling family gathering to take a group picture as Katy searches for the matriarch that can’t be found, desperately weaving from one family member to the next. Beginning on an idealistic summer day, the film progressively descends into a realm where time and space lose their grip, transforming the family portrait into a solemn and enigmatic ritual of transition. The feature teases the line between non-fiction and narrative filmmaking,...
Here’s the synopsis: “Set at the dawn of Covid, Family Portrait follows a sprawling family gathering to take a group picture as Katy searches for the matriarch that can’t be found, desperately weaving from one family member to the next. Beginning on an idealistic summer day, the film progressively descends into a realm where time and space lose their grip, transforming the family portrait into a solemn and enigmatic ritual of transition. The feature teases the line between non-fiction and narrative filmmaking,...
- 4/15/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
One of the most acclaimed debuts at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival was writer/director Lucy Kerr’s debut “Family Portrait,” a disquieting drama about a family gathering where the matriarch goes missing. Kerr won the Boccalino d’Oro for Best Director at the Swiss festival. Now, Brooklyn-based indie distribution outfit Factory 25 has acquired worldwide rights to the film, with a theatrical run set to begin at New York City’s Metrograph on June 28. Further engagements and a digital release to follow. Watch the trailer, an IndieWire exclusive, below.
Set at the dawn of Covid, “Family Portrait” follows Katy as she searches for the mother who can’t be found, the film weaving from one member of the family to another. The idyllic summer day setting descends into a more surreal environment as everyone starts to lose their sense of time and place. Kerr uses intimate Steadicam cinematography to blur...
Set at the dawn of Covid, “Family Portrait” follows Katy as she searches for the mother who can’t be found, the film weaving from one member of the family to another. The idyllic summer day setting descends into a more surreal environment as everyone starts to lose their sense of time and place. Kerr uses intimate Steadicam cinematography to blur...
- 4/12/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Set in 1939 and told through the intertwining perspectives of characters enmeshed in a bizarre love triangle, writer-director Graham Swon’s sophomore feature An Evening Song (for three voices) is as visually robust as it is dramatically intimate. The story revolves around married couple Richard (Peter Vack) and Barbara (Hannah Gross)—a pulpy crime writer and a prodigious novelist, respectively—who move to a rural Midwestern town after years of city living. Shortly after arriving, they hire a local young woman named Martha (Deragh Campbell) who the couple find independently alluring despite (or perhaps largely due to) her striking innocence and pious nature. […]
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- 3/15/2024
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Set in 1939 and told through the intertwining perspectives of characters enmeshed in a bizarre love triangle, writer-director Graham Swon’s sophomore feature An Evening Song (for three voices) is as visually robust as it is dramatically intimate. The story revolves around married couple Richard (Peter Vack) and Barbara (Hannah Gross)—a pulpy crime writer and a prodigious novelist, respectively—who move to a rural Midwestern town after years of city living. Shortly after arriving, they hire a local young woman named Martha (Deragh Campbell) who the couple find independently alluring despite (or perhaps largely due to) her striking innocence and pious nature. […]
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The post “The Frame Is a Proscenium”: Graham Swon on An Evening Song (for three voices) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/15/2024
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Friends Forever: Radwanski Reteams With Deragh Campbell For Another Captivating Character Study In Close-Up
The tension between a friendship that’s too close for comfort and a marriage in stasis lies at the heart of Kazik Radwanski’s beautifully messy Matt and Mara. Reteaming with his Anne At 13,000 Ft. star Deragh Campbell, the pair have once again crafted a compelling and knotty character, this time studying a woman willingly running headlong into an unresolved past. Beneath its loose, breezy surface, the film explores what it means to be truly emotionally fulfilled and the compromises we make for a more settled life.…...
The tension between a friendship that’s too close for comfort and a marriage in stasis lies at the heart of Kazik Radwanski’s beautifully messy Matt and Mara. Reteaming with his Anne At 13,000 Ft. star Deragh Campbell, the pair have once again crafted a compelling and knotty character, this time studying a woman willingly running headlong into an unresolved past. Beneath its loose, breezy surface, the film explores what it means to be truly emotionally fulfilled and the compromises we make for a more settled life.…...
- 2/20/2024
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- IONCINEMA.com
The films of Canadian director Kazik Radwanski are freedom in its purest form, or the purest this particular medium can contain. Being the opposite of prescriptive, they sculpt themselves according to interpersonal dynamics that can otherwise be invisible, and by doing so, give shape to parallel emotional worlds, extensions of a protagonist’s psyche. That goes for Derek (Derek Bogart), the impulsive lead in Tower (2012), sleep-deprived gamer dad Erwin (Erwin van Cotthem) from How Heavy This Hammer (2015), and for the chaotic Anne (Deragh Campbell) whose quarter-life crisis makes a delightful whirlpool out of Anne at 13,000 ft (2019). The second collaboration between Radwanski, Campbell, and Matt Johnson following Anne premieres at the Encounters section of this year’s Berlinale and it is humbly named Matt and Mara.
Just as Mara (Campbell) is about to welcome students to her poetry class, she spots her old friend Matt (Matt Johnson) in the corridor. Her...
Just as Mara (Campbell) is about to welcome students to her poetry class, she spots her old friend Matt (Matt Johnson) in the corridor. Her...
- 2/20/2024
- by Savina Petkova
- The Film Stage
Museum of the Moving Image is pleased to announce the complete lineup for the 13th edition of First Look, the Museum's festival of new and innovative international cinema, which will take place in person March 13–17, 2024. Each year, First Look offers a diverse slate of major New York premieres, work-in-progress screenings and sessions, gallery installations, and fresh perspectives on the art and process of filmmaking. This year's festival introduces New York audiences to more than three dozen works from around the world. The guiding ethos of First Look is openness, curiosity, and discovery, aiming to expose audiences to new art, artists to new audiences, and everyone to different methods, perspectives, interrogations, and encounters. For five consecutive days the festival takes over MoMI's two theaters, as well as other rooms and galleries throughout the Museum—with in-person appearances and dialogue integral to the experience. Each night concludes with one of five...
- 2/14/2024
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The 74th Berlin International Film Festival unveiled its full lineup Monday at its official press conference in the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Berlinale managing director Mariëtte Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian presented the films that will compete for this year’s Golden and Silver Bears both in the competition and encounters sections.
Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios, a Berlinale regular and two-time Silver Bear winner — for A Cop Movie in 2022 and Museo in 2018 — returns to Berlin competition with his English-language feature debut La Cocina. Rooney Mara and The Cop Movie alum Raúl Briones star in the drama set over the course of a single day in a bustling New York City restaurant. Briones plays an undocumented cook in a relationship with Julia (Mara), an American waitress who cannot commit to their relationship. Fifth Season and WME are selling North American rights to La Cocina with HanWay handling international sales.
Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios, a Berlinale regular and two-time Silver Bear winner — for A Cop Movie in 2022 and Museo in 2018 — returns to Berlin competition with his English-language feature debut La Cocina. Rooney Mara and The Cop Movie alum Raúl Briones star in the drama set over the course of a single day in a bustling New York City restaurant. Briones plays an undocumented cook in a relationship with Julia (Mara), an American waitress who cannot commit to their relationship. Fifth Season and WME are selling North American rights to La Cocina with HanWay handling international sales.
- 1/22/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Texas, late summer, a family in the dozen: with only a few simple building blocks, artist-filmmaker Lucy Kerr rearranges domesticity into eeriness in her feature debut, Family Portrait. It all begins with a ritual, the yearly “model family” Christmas card photo, the taking of which is already an ordeal. Katy (Deragh Campbell) is in a hurry to get it over with so she and her boyfriend Olek (Chris Galust) can depart. But suddenly the mother goes missing, her absence putting everything on hold. Over a seemingly endless day Katy asks after her mom, combing through all the places she could be at to no result. Throughout its slim runtime at 78 minutes the film shapeshifts again and again; its tone moves from jovial to unnerving to anxiously oneiric as we follow Katy deeper into herself in the hope to, paradoxically or not, meet her mother halfway.
Family Portrait deals with inexplicable loss,...
Family Portrait deals with inexplicable loss,...
- 8/16/2023
- by Savina Petkova
- The Film Stage
“Write about what you know,” the saying goes, and the same rule of thumb often applies to independent movies, with many a debuting filmmaker turning the camera on their own lives and families to create their first dramas. Such features as Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun and even Ari Aster’s Hereditary are prime examples of the genre, and there are surely countless others.
Writer-director Lucy Kerr’s Family Portrait could be added to that list, except there’s a catch: If there’s drama, it exists somewhere beneath the surface, in a movie that’s filled with anxiety and foreboding without ever showcasing much of a plot. There is, in fact, a bare-bones narrative about a family coming together for their annual group photo — per the press notes, this happens just before the start of the Covid pandemic — but Kerr is less...
Writer-director Lucy Kerr’s Family Portrait could be added to that list, except there’s a catch: If there’s drama, it exists somewhere beneath the surface, in a movie that’s filled with anxiety and foreboding without ever showcasing much of a plot. There is, in fact, a bare-bones narrative about a family coming together for their annual group photo — per the press notes, this happens just before the start of the Covid pandemic — but Kerr is less...
- 8/9/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Family Portrait,” written and directed by Lucy Kerr, has debuted its trailer ahead of its world premiere in Locarno Film Festival’s Cineasti Del Presente section. World sales are being handled by Flavio Armone at Lights On.
“Family Portrait” follows a sprawling family on a morning when they have planned a group picture. After the mother disappears and one of the daughters becomes increasingly anxious to find her and take the picture, the rest of the family appears to resist any attempt to gather.
“Initially presenting itself as a realistic portrayal of a family on an idle but hectic summer day, the film progressively descends into a realm where time and space lose their grip, transforming the family portrait into a solemn and enigmatic ritual of transition,” according to a press statement.
In a statement, the director said: “In ‘Family Portrait,’ the family denies the collective mourning experience, and thus,...
“Family Portrait” follows a sprawling family on a morning when they have planned a group picture. After the mother disappears and one of the daughters becomes increasingly anxious to find her and take the picture, the rest of the family appears to resist any attempt to gather.
“Initially presenting itself as a realistic portrayal of a family on an idle but hectic summer day, the film progressively descends into a realm where time and space lose their grip, transforming the family portrait into a solemn and enigmatic ritual of transition,” according to a press statement.
In a statement, the director said: “In ‘Family Portrait,’ the family denies the collective mourning experience, and thus,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Marks the feature directorial debut of Singapore’s Nelson Yeo.
Italian sales agent Lights On has picked up world rights for Singapore director Nelson Yeo’s feature debut Dreaming And Dying and US filmmaker Lucy Kerr’s Family Portrait, which will receive their world premieres in competition at Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
Both are set to play in Locarno’s competitive Cinema of the Present section, which spotlights new talent.
Fantasy drama Dreaming And Dying revolves around three middle-aged friends who reunite after years apart. But their vacation takes a surprising turn when the undercurrent of their past lives...
Italian sales agent Lights On has picked up world rights for Singapore director Nelson Yeo’s feature debut Dreaming And Dying and US filmmaker Lucy Kerr’s Family Portrait, which will receive their world premieres in competition at Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
Both are set to play in Locarno’s competitive Cinema of the Present section, which spotlights new talent.
Fantasy drama Dreaming And Dying revolves around three middle-aged friends who reunite after years apart. But their vacation takes a surprising turn when the undercurrent of their past lives...
- 7/5/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Lights On, the Turin-based world sales company, has made a double swoop on Locarno titles, taking international sales rights to Lucy Kerr’s “Family Portrait” and “Dreaming & Dying” (“Hao Jiu Bu Jian”), written and directed by Singapore’s Nelson Yeo.
Both play in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presenti Sierra, focused on new talent. Locarno’s 2023 lineup was announced July 5.
‘Family Portrait’
The first feature from Kerr, a Texas-born filmmaker and video and installation artist, “Family Portrait” turns on a sprawling Texas family that gets together on a morning to take a group picture.
The mother disappears; the rest of the family seem reluctant to take the photos; one of the daughters, Katy, sets off to find her. Doing so, the synopsis says, she loses herself and her family.
Written by Kerr, “Family Portrait’s” key cast includes Deragh Campbell, Chris Galust “Give Me Liberty”), Rachel Alig (“Girl Next”) and Katie Folger (“Day 5”). Insufficient Funds,...
Both play in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presenti Sierra, focused on new talent. Locarno’s 2023 lineup was announced July 5.
‘Family Portrait’
The first feature from Kerr, a Texas-born filmmaker and video and installation artist, “Family Portrait” turns on a sprawling Texas family that gets together on a morning to take a group picture.
The mother disappears; the rest of the family seem reluctant to take the photos; one of the daughters, Katy, sets off to find her. Doing so, the synopsis says, she loses herself and her family.
Written by Kerr, “Family Portrait’s” key cast includes Deragh Campbell, Chris Galust “Give Me Liberty”), Rachel Alig (“Girl Next”) and Katie Folger (“Day 5”). Insufficient Funds,...
- 7/5/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Two young women uneasily living in a religious community in Quebec embark on a secret affair
There’s some soap-operatic gusto to this story of two teenage gay women in a Jehovah’s Witness community in Quebec; it’s got something of Jeanette Winterson’s tenderness, if not exactly the wit, and the movie is interesting and even faintly subversive in its implied analogies concerning conversion and enclosed behaviour systems.
Anwen O’Driscoll brings some Anna Kendrick energy to the role of Jaime, a smart teen whose mum suffers a breakdown after the death of her dad from a heart attack. She has been sent away to live with her aunt Beth (Liane Balaban), who with her husband Jean-François (Antoine Yared), is a devout Jehovah’s Witness and expects Jaime to obey their rules and show up to their religious services wearing the very uncool Handmaid’s-Tale dress they’ve picked out for her.
There’s some soap-operatic gusto to this story of two teenage gay women in a Jehovah’s Witness community in Quebec; it’s got something of Jeanette Winterson’s tenderness, if not exactly the wit, and the movie is interesting and even faintly subversive in its implied analogies concerning conversion and enclosed behaviour systems.
Anwen O’Driscoll brings some Anna Kendrick energy to the role of Jaime, a smart teen whose mum suffers a breakdown after the death of her dad from a heart attack. She has been sent away to live with her aunt Beth (Liane Balaban), who with her husband Jean-François (Antoine Yared), is a devout Jehovah’s Witness and expects Jaime to obey their rules and show up to their religious services wearing the very uncool Handmaid’s-Tale dress they’ve picked out for her.
- 6/12/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Since Sofia Bohdanowicz introduced Deragh Campbell’s Audrey Brenac in Never Eat Alone, the eye-gravitating protagonist has always been on some inquiry, not unlike a non-criminal investigator. In A Woman Escapes, Audrey ventures into new territory for her fifth film, where she heals from losing her friend Juliane in Paris at her grandmother’s home. Along the path, Williams and Çevik play fictional versions of Audrey to help her in her grief through filmmaking while separated during the pandemic.
Containing dialogue and imagery recalling Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped, this explicit homage to the French auteur allows the three filmmakers to expand what experimental film could be. Throughout her work, Bohdanowicz seeds a bridge between fact and fiction to evoke the audience’s connection with their existing reality. She, Williams, and Çevik emit a patient, inquisitive approach to gazing at the world: Williams’ 3D layering of subtitles and physical...
Containing dialogue and imagery recalling Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped, this explicit homage to the French auteur allows the three filmmakers to expand what experimental film could be. Throughout her work, Bohdanowicz seeds a bridge between fact and fiction to evoke the audience’s connection with their existing reality. She, Williams, and Çevik emit a patient, inquisitive approach to gazing at the world: Williams’ 3D layering of subtitles and physical...
- 6/7/2023
- by Edward Frumkin
- The Film Stage
Following a number of disappointing blockbusters in May, there are a few promising ones this month (as glimpsed in our honorable mentions below), but it feels like we’ll have to wait until July for a trio of heavy hitters. In the meantime, June brings an eclectic mix of sturdy debuts, auteur-driven offerings, and accomplished documentaries.
15. Shadow Kingdom (Alma Har’el; June 6)
Technically released in limited capacity a couple years ago, the Bob Dylan concert film Shadow Kingdom is now getting proper distribution. As Nick Newman said in our summer movie preview, “Your local Bob Dylan obsessive has surely mentioned Shadow Kingdom, the 2021 concert film that saw him rework an assortment of earlier songs––some established, some deeper in the back catalogue. One case (‘To Be Alone with You’) marked an almost-total rewrite, and courtesy the end credits (which we now know is called ‘Sierra’s Theme’) an entirely new track.
15. Shadow Kingdom (Alma Har’el; June 6)
Technically released in limited capacity a couple years ago, the Bob Dylan concert film Shadow Kingdom is now getting proper distribution. As Nick Newman said in our summer movie preview, “Your local Bob Dylan obsessive has surely mentioned Shadow Kingdom, the 2021 concert film that saw him rework an assortment of earlier songs––some established, some deeper in the back catalogue. One case (‘To Be Alone with You’) marked an almost-total rewrite, and courtesy the end credits (which we now know is called ‘Sierra’s Theme’) an entirely new track.
- 6/2/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Thank you for choosing us to be your witnesses." Have a look at the official trailer for this indie LGBTQ drama from Canada titled You Can Live Forever, which originally premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival last year. When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives. When their attraction becomes too obvious to hide, the community moves to separate the two, forcing them each to make a terrible choice between faith and love. The film stars Anwen O'Driscoll & June Laporte as Jaime & Marike, Liane Balaban, Deragh Campbell, Tim Campbell, Antoine Yared, and Hasani Freeman. I just hope this film is properly critical of religion, because it doesn't help to hide the truth about how destructive & deadly these institutions often are towards freedom of expression.
- 3/31/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Matt and Mara
A project that was shot a little bit under the radar, Torontonian Kazik Radwanski moved into production on his fourth feature this past late summer reteaming with actress Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson (who is also featured in our most anticipated list at the #104 spot with BlackBerry). A project that was workshopped at the Oxbelly Screenwriters/Directors Labs and received some Canadian coin from Telefilm, Radwanski also reteams with producing partner Dan Montgomery (The Maiden). We’re expecting the usual social realism but with a tinge more of unsettling presence. Radwanski’s 2012’s Tower premiered in Locarno, 2015’s How Heavy This Hammer premiered at TIFF and Berlinale, and Anne at 13,000 ft followed in the same pathway premiering in TIFF’s Platform section followed by the international preem in Berlin.…...
A project that was shot a little bit under the radar, Torontonian Kazik Radwanski moved into production on his fourth feature this past late summer reteaming with actress Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson (who is also featured in our most anticipated list at the #104 spot with BlackBerry). A project that was workshopped at the Oxbelly Screenwriters/Directors Labs and received some Canadian coin from Telefilm, Radwanski also reteams with producing partner Dan Montgomery (The Maiden). We’re expecting the usual social realism but with a tinge more of unsettling presence. Radwanski’s 2012’s Tower premiered in Locarno, 2015’s How Heavy This Hammer premiered at TIFF and Berlinale, and Anne at 13,000 ft followed in the same pathway premiering in TIFF’s Platform section followed by the international preem in Berlin.…...
- 1/13/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Deadline has an exclusive trailer and poster for the horror-comedy Sorry About the Demon, written and directed by Emily Hagins (V/H/S), which is slated to premiere on Shudder on January 19.
The film world premiering at FrightFest 2022 follows the brokenhearted Will (Jon Michael Simpson), who after being dumped by his girlfriend Amy (Paige Evans), is offered a massive house at a very low rent. The catch is that the restless spirit haunting the place needs a human sacrifice and the prior owners must find one or else their young daughter is toast. So, Will must figure out how to make things right with his ex-girlfriend And banish the sacrifice-seeking demon residing in his house. Jeff McQuitty and Sarah Cleveland also star.
Pic is produced by Cameron Burns, Emily Gotto, Ben Hanks, Aaron B. Koontz, Pasha Patriki and Ashleigh Snead. Exec producers are Craig Engler, James Fler, Andrew Thomas Hunt,...
The film world premiering at FrightFest 2022 follows the brokenhearted Will (Jon Michael Simpson), who after being dumped by his girlfriend Amy (Paige Evans), is offered a massive house at a very low rent. The catch is that the restless spirit haunting the place needs a human sacrifice and the prior owners must find one or else their young daughter is toast. So, Will must figure out how to make things right with his ex-girlfriend And banish the sacrifice-seeking demon residing in his house. Jeff McQuitty and Sarah Cleveland also star.
Pic is produced by Cameron Burns, Emily Gotto, Ben Hanks, Aaron B. Koontz, Pasha Patriki and Ashleigh Snead. Exec producers are Craig Engler, James Fler, Andrew Thomas Hunt,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Next month, the American Film Festival in Wroclaw will hold its 13th edition and an integral part of the fest is the annual U.S. in Progress. The programmers have selected a total of eight projects for the co-production forum. As we already know, some of these completed films will move onto the likes of Sundance, SXSW et al. Especially encouraging, this year they curated from a record number of submissions. Lucy Kerr‘s feature debut The Christmas Card (featuring Deragh Campbell) is among the lucky eight projects selected. It was also among the dozen projects selected for the FIDLab showcase this summer.…...
- 10/2/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Cinematography retrospectives are the way to go—more than a thorough display of talent, it exposes the vast expanse a Dp will travel, like an education in form and business all the same. Accordingly I’m happy to see the Criterion Channel give a 25-film tribute to James Wong Howe, whose career spanned silent cinema to the ’70s, populated with work by Howard Hawks, Michael Curtz, Samuel Fuller, Alexander Mackendrick, Sydney Pollack, John Frankenheimer, and Raoul Walsh.
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Turkey-Canada co-production directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Cevik and Blake Williams.
Vienna-based sales agent Square Eyes has acquired world rights to A Woman Escapes, directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Cevik and Blake Williams, ahead of its world premiere at France’s FIDMarseille (July 5-11).
The Turkish-Canadian co-production will play in the international competition of the festival.
The feature was shot in a variety of formats by the three directors with Canada’s Bohdanowicz filming in 16mm, fellow Torontonian Williams shooting in 3D and Turkey’s Cevik using 4K video.
The story centres on a woman who moves to Paris to...
Vienna-based sales agent Square Eyes has acquired world rights to A Woman Escapes, directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Cevik and Blake Williams, ahead of its world premiere at France’s FIDMarseille (July 5-11).
The Turkish-Canadian co-production will play in the international competition of the festival.
The feature was shot in a variety of formats by the three directors with Canada’s Bohdanowicz filming in 16mm, fellow Torontonian Williams shooting in 3D and Turkey’s Cevik using 4K video.
The story centres on a woman who moves to Paris to...
- 6/20/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
All My Friends Hate Me (Andrew Gaynord)
Pete (Tom Stourton) hasn’t seen his university mates in years. Ten years to be exact. It happens. Life happens. We reach adulthood, mature, and set goals for ourselves that the people who were closest to us during that formidable period simply cannot follow—their own ambitions lie upon different forks in the road. So resentment shouldn’t factor in. Nor should jealousy. Yet Pete can’t help wondering about both. A little voice in the back of his head wonders if a decade was too long to pretend things could pick up where they left off. Would their very posh upbringing think he abandoned them to work with refugees? Do they think he thinks...
All My Friends Hate Me (Andrew Gaynord)
Pete (Tom Stourton) hasn’t seen his university mates in years. Ten years to be exact. It happens. Life happens. We reach adulthood, mature, and set goals for ourselves that the people who were closest to us during that formidable period simply cannot follow—their own ambitions lie upon different forks in the road. So resentment shouldn’t factor in. Nor should jealousy. Yet Pete can’t help wondering about both. A little voice in the back of his head wonders if a decade was too long to pretend things could pick up where they left off. Would their very posh upbringing think he abandoned them to work with refugees? Do they think he thinks...
- 3/25/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A Woman Escapes
Cinema birthed a new Antoine Doinel and her name is…Audrey Benac. Voyage to the center of Audrey via actress Deragh Campbell includes Never Eat Alone (2016), Veslemøy’s Song (2018), Ms Slavic 7 (2019), and 2020’s Point and Line to Plane and it would appear that filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz (who also has a new feature called A Portrait in the works) has has moved the process out of its container with limitless dimensions, surfaces, film stocks and two new creative collaborators. Entering the fray we have Burak Çevik and (a former contributor here on the site) in Prototype filmmaker Blake Williams.…...
Cinema birthed a new Antoine Doinel and her name is…Audrey Benac. Voyage to the center of Audrey via actress Deragh Campbell includes Never Eat Alone (2016), Veslemøy’s Song (2018), Ms Slavic 7 (2019), and 2020’s Point and Line to Plane and it would appear that filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz (who also has a new feature called A Portrait in the works) has has moved the process out of its container with limitless dimensions, surfaces, film stocks and two new creative collaborators. Entering the fray we have Burak Çevik and (a former contributor here on the site) in Prototype filmmaker Blake Williams.…...
- 1/8/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
In a year marked by a recovering box office and distributors experimenting with a wide variety of types of releases, what does an overlooked film constitute? While there are fewer means than in years past to quantify such a metric, there are still plenty of films that didn’t get their due throughout 2021 and deserve more attention in the weeks, months, years to come.
Sadly, many documentaries would qualify for this list, but we stuck strictly to narrative efforts; one can instead read our rundown of the top docs here. Check out the list below, as presented in alphabetical order. A great deal of the below titles are also available to stream, so check out our feature here to catch up.
Anne at 13,000 Ft (Kazik Radwanski)
There’s a neat metaphor established at the outset of Anne at 13,000 ft, with its protagonist’s professional and personal life mirroring the freefall...
Sadly, many documentaries would qualify for this list, but we stuck strictly to narrative efforts; one can instead read our rundown of the top docs here. Check out the list below, as presented in alphabetical order. A great deal of the below titles are also available to stream, so check out our feature here to catch up.
Anne at 13,000 Ft (Kazik Radwanski)
There’s a neat metaphor established at the outset of Anne at 13,000 ft, with its protagonist’s professional and personal life mirroring the freefall...
- 12/20/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Movie theaters are reopening and audiences are creeping back, but that’s only part of the story. As with last year’s shocking changes to the media landscape, no amount of shutdowns and shifting distribution paradigms could stop movies from getting out there, whether they came to small VOD entities or the biggest streaming platforms. And while the “movies versus TV” debate rages on, the cinema one hasn’t.
This year’s release calendar has been so loaded with feature-length wonders, many of which push the boundaries of art form, that even as we head straight into the belly of the “awards season” beast, our usual edict remains intact: Anyone who thinks this has been a bad year for movies simply hasn’t seen enough of them. And there are only more goodies to come.
Our list of the best movies of the year so far follows the same basic rules: In order to qualify,...
This year’s release calendar has been so loaded with feature-length wonders, many of which push the boundaries of art form, that even as we head straight into the belly of the “awards season” beast, our usual edict remains intact: Anyone who thinks this has been a bad year for movies simply hasn’t seen enough of them. And there are only more goodies to come.
Our list of the best movies of the year so far follows the same basic rules: In order to qualify,...
- 11/2/2021
- by Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich and Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Kazik Radwanski's Anne at 13,000 ft. is exclusively showing on Mubi in many countries starting September 29, 2021 in the series The New Auteurs.I’ve always written films about the places and people I know. Initially it came from a practical and pragmatic approach to filmmaking. In my early films, I wrote scripts that could be set and shot in a friend’s apartment, or an uncle’s house, somewhere I could have easy access. It was a necessity! It was all I could afford, and all I had access to. Anne at 13,000 ft is set at a daycare that my mother had run for the past 40 years. She joined me on set when we shot a staff meeting scene. There were about 15 actors in the scene. Deragh Campbell, the lead of the film, was in the scene and we had cast someone to play a supervisor that leads the meeting.
- 9/28/2021
- MUBI
Confident microbudget feature zones in on one woman’s unhappiness, and how skydiving provides an unlikely but dramatic release
Deragh Campbell is an award-winning Canadian actor and film-maker whose recent movie Ms Slavic 7 I have to confess to finding weirdly inert and indulgent. She has a starring role in this movie, which is a confident, intimate microbudget feature shot almost entirely in searching closeup, directed by Campbell’s longtime collaborator Kazik Radwanski. It is a more approachable piece of work and Campbell’s performance is unsettlingly real.
She plays Anne, an unhappy young woman with a job in a children’s daycare centre and an undiagnosed anxiety disorder, whose life is turned upside down when she tastes the ecstatic thrill of skydiving. Anne gets on pretty badly with her grumpy, humourless colleagues – who may nevertheless have a point about her unprofessional, casual and derisive attitude – and argues with her mother.
Deragh Campbell is an award-winning Canadian actor and film-maker whose recent movie Ms Slavic 7 I have to confess to finding weirdly inert and indulgent. She has a starring role in this movie, which is a confident, intimate microbudget feature shot almost entirely in searching closeup, directed by Campbell’s longtime collaborator Kazik Radwanski. It is a more approachable piece of work and Campbell’s performance is unsettlingly real.
She plays Anne, an unhappy young woman with a job in a children’s daycare centre and an undiagnosed anxiety disorder, whose life is turned upside down when she tastes the ecstatic thrill of skydiving. Anne gets on pretty badly with her grumpy, humourless colleagues – who may nevertheless have a point about her unprofessional, casual and derisive attitude – and argues with her mother.
- 9/27/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Another Chicago cinema gem is reopening after 18 long months in pandemic shutdown. Facets is a multimedia gem co-founded by legendary film influencer Milos Stehlik, which has resided on Fullerton Avenue west of the DePaul neighborhood for nearly 50 years. During the shutdown its theater and physical structure was renovated, and it reopens on Friday, September 17th, 2021, with a two-for-one ticket offer on the screening of “Anne at 13,000 Feet,” a Canadian film by Kazik Raswanski. For more info and tickets, click here.
’Anne at 13,000 Feet’ Reopens Facets of Chicago
Photo credit: Facets.org
“Anne at 13,000 Feet” stars Deragh Campbell as the title character, a shy and socially awkward daycare worker whose attitude to her life and work is radically transformed after she skydives for the first time. In the meantime, Anne goes through the motions of life as a 20-something woman in Toronto, clashes with her co-workers, goes on an awkward Tinder date,...
’Anne at 13,000 Feet’ Reopens Facets of Chicago
Photo credit: Facets.org
“Anne at 13,000 Feet” stars Deragh Campbell as the title character, a shy and socially awkward daycare worker whose attitude to her life and work is radically transformed after she skydives for the first time. In the meantime, Anne goes through the motions of life as a 20-something woman in Toronto, clashes with her co-workers, goes on an awkward Tinder date,...
- 9/17/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A glum arthouse market may be entering a gateway weekend into happier days after months of distributors — with rare exceptions — pulling out their hair at dismal per-screens averages. That’s because festival buzz is mounting for film after film – from Card Counter, Dune and Spencer, to King Richard and Cyrano.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Dear Evan Hansen open in theaters on Sept, 17 and Sept. 24 after Toronto premieres. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch from Cannes rolls out Oct. 22. Warner Bros’ Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark has an Oct. 1 release date. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast has a Nov. 12 theatrical date after a world premiere in Toronto (and a glimpse at Telluride.)
It’s like the Marvel Cinematic Universe of arthouses, films set to give a bump to a specialty...
The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Dear Evan Hansen open in theaters on Sept, 17 and Sept. 24 after Toronto premieres. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch from Cannes rolls out Oct. 22. Warner Bros’ Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark has an Oct. 1 release date. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast has a Nov. 12 theatrical date after a world premiere in Toronto (and a glimpse at Telluride.)
It’s like the Marvel Cinematic Universe of arthouses, films set to give a bump to a specialty...
- 9/3/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
What does it take to work successfully with young children? It helps to be able to get into their mindset, to understand how they see the world. Sharing that mindset on a full time basis is not so helpful.
Anne (Deragh Campbell) has jumped out of a plane. Is that in the past or the present? At first it’s unclear. Gradually we come to register that the scene we should perceive as now is the one where she is crouching down, surrounded by a group of kids, carefully showing them a butterfly. The parachute jump was some time previously, at her friend Sarah’s hen party. But in her mind, Anne is still falling.
That somebody this wildly unstable would be caring for kids is something that many viewers will find terrifying. She comes into work late or drunk, she frequently seems to forget that they’re there, and...
Anne (Deragh Campbell) has jumped out of a plane. Is that in the past or the present? At first it’s unclear. Gradually we come to register that the scene we should perceive as now is the one where she is crouching down, surrounded by a group of kids, carefully showing them a butterfly. The parachute jump was some time previously, at her friend Sarah’s hen party. But in her mind, Anne is still falling.
That somebody this wildly unstable would be caring for kids is something that many viewers will find terrifying. She comes into work late or drunk, she frequently seems to forget that they’re there, and...
- 9/2/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
While our massive, 50-film fall preview will give you an overview of what we’re looking forward to for the next four months, we’ll still be diving deeper in our monthly previews. While much of September is dedicated to coverage from Venice, TIFF, and NYFF, there’s still plenty of worthwhile new releases to check––including a few from the aforementioned festivals.
14. The Mad Women’s Ball (Mélanie Laurent; Sept. 17 on Amazon Prime)
Along with her impressive acting career, Mélanie Laurent has proven to be a formidable force behind the camera, particularly with Breathe. She’s now back with two features over the next two years and first up is this TIFF premiere. Set in Paris at the end of the 1800s, it concerns an independent woman who is deemed mentally unwell and institutionalized. Once inside, she desperately attempts to escape. The title refers to a year-end ball in...
14. The Mad Women’s Ball (Mélanie Laurent; Sept. 17 on Amazon Prime)
Along with her impressive acting career, Mélanie Laurent has proven to be a formidable force behind the camera, particularly with Breathe. She’s now back with two features over the next two years and first up is this TIFF premiere. Set in Paris at the end of the 1800s, it concerns an independent woman who is deemed mentally unwell and institutionalized. Once inside, she desperately attempts to escape. The title refers to a year-end ball in...
- 9/1/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Making friends can be easy…unless you happen to be the central character in Radwanskian cinema. In Toronto-based filmmaker Kazik Radwanski‘s third feature film, we find that social woes and discomfort often leads to more engagement and further change for its titular character. Anne’s unprovoked and unannounced meltdowns come accompanied with a sort of languid insular deftness — here Anne (played with magnetism by filmmaker-actress Deragh Campbell) meets the uncharted future dead on and sans censorship, shame or perhaps a parachute. A third feature (following 2012’s Tower (2012) and 2015’s How Heavy This Hammer) in less a decade, Anne at 13,000 had its world premiere at TIFF and competed in the Platform section and is currently riding the film festival circuit (Cinema Guild just landed U.S…...
- 8/31/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Cyclo Maladroit: Social Safety Nets Deployed in Radwanski’s Latest
A Canadian agit dramaturgist whose portraits can be described as deeply humanist, in his third feature film, Kazik Radwanski once again explores interdependency, while in the same, sometimes disorienting sans parachute motion, offers a supportive and honest psychological look at the socially dysfunctional, and the functions of society. Featuring filmmaker-actress Deragh Campbell in a memorably lackadaisical and lethargic titular protagonist who stumbles and picks herself up in equal measure; Anne at 13,000 Ft. is a fast-paced yet contemplative portrait that maintains a kinetic Cassavetes docu verve making for a kinder probe into neurosis.…...
A Canadian agit dramaturgist whose portraits can be described as deeply humanist, in his third feature film, Kazik Radwanski once again explores interdependency, while in the same, sometimes disorienting sans parachute motion, offers a supportive and honest psychological look at the socially dysfunctional, and the functions of society. Featuring filmmaker-actress Deragh Campbell in a memorably lackadaisical and lethargic titular protagonist who stumbles and picks herself up in equal measure; Anne at 13,000 Ft. is a fast-paced yet contemplative portrait that maintains a kinetic Cassavetes docu verve making for a kinder probe into neurosis.…...
- 8/31/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Her riveting and revelatory performance in Kazik Radwanski’s Anne At 13,000 Ft. is the latest in a run of risky work by the Canadian indie phenom Deragh Campbell. In this hour, she talks about the process of sinking into Anne as the production went on and the great benefits and humorous backfires of immersing with non-professional actors in some scenes. Blending non-fiction into her performances is something she does often, particularly in collaboration with director Sofia Bohdanowicz. She talks about the character they created together, Audrey Benac, and the interesting ways performing as her has evolved over five projects. Plus […]
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- 8/31/2021
- by Peter Rinaldi
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Her riveting and revelatory performance in Kazik Radwanski’s Anne At 13,000 Ft. is the latest in a run of risky work by the Canadian indie phenom Deragh Campbell. In this hour, she talks about the process of sinking into Anne as the production went on and the great benefits and humorous backfires of immersing with non-professional actors in some scenes. Blending non-fiction into her performances is something she does often, particularly in collaboration with director Sofia Bohdanowicz. She talks about the character they created together, Audrey Benac, and the interesting ways performing as her has evolved over five projects. Plus […]
The post Back To One Episode 167: Deragh Campbell first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Back To One Episode 167: Deragh Campbell first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/31/2021
- by Peter Rinaldi
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
When we first meet Anne (Deragh Campbell), she’s in two places at once. Gently cupping a butterfly in her hands, she ushers it onto a young girl’s shoulder as other children look on, mesmerized by her ability to capture the elusive creature. Without warning, the camera cuts from a moment of calm to one of exhilaration — Anne is preparing to jump out of a moving plane for her best friend’s bachelorette party. The two scenes are interwoven to the point where we don’t know where one ends and one begins, like someone trying to piece together formless fragments of distant memories.
It’s a manic introduction to “Anne at 13,000 Ft.,” Canadian director Kazik Radwanski’s portrait of an unsteady woman struggling to navigate her everyday life, and it sets us up for 75 minutes of fits and starts as we are jerked from one episode to the next.
It’s a manic introduction to “Anne at 13,000 Ft.,” Canadian director Kazik Radwanski’s portrait of an unsteady woman struggling to navigate her everyday life, and it sets us up for 75 minutes of fits and starts as we are jerked from one episode to the next.
- 8/31/2021
- by Susannah Gruder
- Indiewire
While the theatrical calendar is still very much up in the air, distributors are dating films as long as cinemas remain in business—thus we have a fairly comprehensive fall preview. As we do each year, after highlighting the best films offered thus far, we’ve set out to provide of an overview of the titles that should be on your radar this upcoming season––and while some dates will certainly shift, it’s quite a promising lineup of films.
Featuring 50 films, the below preview includes both the best we’ve already seen (with full reviews where available) and the anticipated with (mostly) confirmed release dates over the next four months. A good amount will premiere over the next few weeks at Telluride, Venice, TIFF, and NYFF, so check back for our reviews.
Faya Dayi (Jessica Beshir; Sept. 3 in theaters)
“Look how far God has brought us. We can only...
Featuring 50 films, the below preview includes both the best we’ve already seen (with full reviews where available) and the anticipated with (mostly) confirmed release dates over the next four months. A good amount will premiere over the next few weeks at Telluride, Venice, TIFF, and NYFF, so check back for our reviews.
Faya Dayi (Jessica Beshir; Sept. 3 in theaters)
“Look how far God has brought us. We can only...
- 8/26/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
We don’t want to overwhelm you, but while you’re catching up with our top 50 films of 2020, more cinematic greatness awaits in 2021. Ahead of our 100 most-anticipated films (all of which have yet to premiere), we’re highlighting 40 titles we’ve enjoyed on the festival circuit this last year (and beyond) that either have confirmed 2020 release dates or are awaiting a debut date from its distributor. There’s also a handful of films seeking distribution that we hope will arrive in the next 12 months, which can be seen here.
As an additional note, a number of 2020 films that had one-week qualifying runs will also get expanded releases in 2021, including Nomadland, Gunda, Minari, Dear Comrades!, I Carry You With Me, The Truffle Hunters, Night of the Kings, One Night in Miami, Pieces of a Woman, and Herself.
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
“What should I do now that I have lost my faith?...
As an additional note, a number of 2020 films that had one-week qualifying runs will also get expanded releases in 2021, including Nomadland, Gunda, Minari, Dear Comrades!, I Carry You With Me, The Truffle Hunters, Night of the Kings, One Night in Miami, Pieces of a Woman, and Herself.
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
“What should I do now that I have lost my faith?...
- 1/6/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
Alex Wheatle, the fourth entry in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, offers a modest take on the process of unlearning cultural attitudes and biases through the eyes of a naïve teenager. In 1980, Alex Wheatle moves to a social services hostel in Brixton after spending his childhood in a group home, where he was subject to constant abuse from his white peers and caretaker. In Brixton, however, Wheatle finds himself immersed in the Black British community, from which he was displaced growing up in all-white Surrey, where he slowly but surely assimilates the patois, fashion, and most importantly, music of his culture. He quickly witnesses...
Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
Alex Wheatle, the fourth entry in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, offers a modest take on the process of unlearning cultural attitudes and biases through the eyes of a naïve teenager. In 1980, Alex Wheatle moves to a social services hostel in Brixton after spending his childhood in a group home, where he was subject to constant abuse from his white peers and caretaker. In Brixton, however, Wheatle finds himself immersed in the Black British community, from which he was displaced growing up in all-white Surrey, where he slowly but surely assimilates the patois, fashion, and most importantly, music of his culture. He quickly witnesses...
- 12/11/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
For 49 years, Moma and Film at Lincoln Center have joined forces to celebrate some of the most exciting movies from emerging filmmaking talent with New Directors/New Films, and even 2020 couldn’t change that. While the original March date for Nd/Nf was postponed as pandemic shutdowns took hold, the series has gone virtual this year and launches this week with a diverse set of options accessible to anyone in the United States.
As usual, Nd/Nf selections qualify for filmmakers who have made up to three features. That means, rather than purely celebrating debuts, the festival serves to highlight active talent that may have already proven their worth but deserves more attention. That’s certainly the case in these highlights from the 2020 offering, which includes a couple of awards contenders and festival highlights worthy of wider attention. Together they prove that the future of cinema is in promising hands...
As usual, Nd/Nf selections qualify for filmmakers who have made up to three features. That means, rather than purely celebrating debuts, the festival serves to highlight active talent that may have already proven their worth but deserves more attention. That’s certainly the case in these highlights from the 2020 offering, which includes a couple of awards contenders and festival highlights worthy of wider attention. Together they prove that the future of cinema is in promising hands...
- 12/9/2020
- by Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art Thursday announced a virtual return of the 49th annual New Directors/New Films festival rescheduled from last March to December 9-20.
The 50-year old fest’s 2020 lineup of 24 features and 10 shorts will be available to audiences nationwide for the first time, screening exclusively in the Flc Virtual Cinema.
The lineup, drawing heavily from the international film festival circuit with award-winners from Sundance, Venice, Rotterdam and Locarno, was initially announced in February before Covid-19 hit. Amanda McBain and Jesse Moss’ Boys State (Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize for documentary), Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent, and Collective by Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau will have opened before the festival’s new dates and be presented as special screenings with details to be announced. Babyteeth, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, and Surge were part of the original Nd/Nf lineup but are...
The 50-year old fest’s 2020 lineup of 24 features and 10 shorts will be available to audiences nationwide for the first time, screening exclusively in the Flc Virtual Cinema.
The lineup, drawing heavily from the international film festival circuit with award-winners from Sundance, Venice, Rotterdam and Locarno, was initially announced in February before Covid-19 hit. Amanda McBain and Jesse Moss’ Boys State (Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize for documentary), Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent, and Collective by Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau will have opened before the festival’s new dates and be presented as special screenings with details to be announced. Babyteeth, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, and Surge were part of the original Nd/Nf lineup but are...
- 11/12/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: This year’s Oxbelly Labs has set creative advisors including directors Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann), Mati Diop (Atlantics), Ulrich Köhler (In My Room) and Lulu Wang (The Farewell), as well as producer-seller Michael Weber, founder of The Match Factory.
The Lab is designer to offer promising international filmmakers the opportunity to work on their first or second feature script, as well as workshop and direct one scene from it, with guidance from industry mentors.
Led by Oxbelly’s artistic director and Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg), the Lab is being hosted online this year.
Returning creative advisors include Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Michael Almereyda (Tesla), Ritesh Batra (Photograph), Lisa Cholodenko (Olive Kitteridge), Willem Dafoe (Tommaso), Naomi Foner (Running On Empty), Nick Kroll (Big Mouth), Jeff Nichols (Loving), Olivier Père and Eva Stefani (Manuscript).
The Labs were established...
The Lab is designer to offer promising international filmmakers the opportunity to work on their first or second feature script, as well as workshop and direct one scene from it, with guidance from industry mentors.
Led by Oxbelly’s artistic director and Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg), the Lab is being hosted online this year.
Returning creative advisors include Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Michael Almereyda (Tesla), Ritesh Batra (Photograph), Lisa Cholodenko (Olive Kitteridge), Willem Dafoe (Tommaso), Naomi Foner (Running On Empty), Nick Kroll (Big Mouth), Jeff Nichols (Loving), Olivier Père and Eva Stefani (Manuscript).
The Labs were established...
- 11/12/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Rising Canadian star Deragh Campbell has been cast in two indie dramas ahead of the Toronto Film Festival.
Campbell will appear in Kazi Radwanski’s latest character drama Matt and Mara, alongside Matt Johnson. She and Johnson starred in Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 Ft., with Campbell playing a troubled young woman trying to navigate daily life in an indie that debuted TIFF in 2019.
Campbell in Radwanski’s latest movie project will play the role of Mara, a young professor struggling through marriage, only to meet Matt (Johnson), a man from her past who wanders onto her university campus....
Campbell will appear in Kazi Radwanski’s latest character drama Matt and Mara, alongside Matt Johnson. She and Johnson starred in Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 Ft., with Campbell playing a troubled young woman trying to navigate daily life in an indie that debuted TIFF in 2019.
Campbell in Radwanski’s latest movie project will play the role of Mara, a young professor struggling through marriage, only to meet Matt (Johnson), a man from her past who wanders onto her university campus....
- 9/10/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Rising Canadian star Deragh Campbell has been cast in two indie dramas ahead of the Toronto Film Festival.
Campbell will appear in Kazi Radwanski’s latest character drama Matt and Mara, alongside Matt Johnson. She and Johnson starred in Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 Ft., with Campbell playing a troubled young woman trying to navigate daily life in an indie that debuted TIFF in 2019.
Campbell in Radwanski’s latest movie project will play the role of Mara, a young professor struggling through marriage, only to meet Matt (Johnson), a man from her past who wanders onto her university campus....
Campbell will appear in Kazi Radwanski’s latest character drama Matt and Mara, alongside Matt Johnson. She and Johnson starred in Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 Ft., with Campbell playing a troubled young woman trying to navigate daily life in an indie that debuted TIFF in 2019.
Campbell in Radwanski’s latest movie project will play the role of Mara, a young professor struggling through marriage, only to meet Matt (Johnson), a man from her past who wanders onto her university campus....
- 9/10/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With the coronavirus pandemic causing TIFF to go online and reduce their line-up, this year’s Short Cuts programme has been whittled down to 35 films across 5 programmes, a reduction of more than a third compared to last year’s 55 films and 8 programmes. Despite these limitations, programmers Jason Anderson and Lisa Haller have put together a strong lineup for 2020 that should hold more than a few surprises for those willing to check out this year’s lineup.
Having seen most of what this year has to offer, here are 10 films that stand out in a slim but competitive field of short filmmaking. For more coverage from the festival, check out our preview of the most-anticipated features and read our forthcoming reviews here.
4 North A (Jordan Canning, Howie Shia)
(Screening in TIFF Short Cuts Programme 01)
A collaboration between filmmakers Jordan Canning and Howie Shia, 4 North A shows a woman consumed by memories...
Having seen most of what this year has to offer, here are 10 films that stand out in a slim but competitive field of short filmmaking. For more coverage from the festival, check out our preview of the most-anticipated features and read our forthcoming reviews here.
4 North A (Jordan Canning, Howie Shia)
(Screening in TIFF Short Cuts Programme 01)
A collaboration between filmmakers Jordan Canning and Howie Shia, 4 North A shows a woman consumed by memories...
- 9/9/2020
- by C.J. Prince
- The Film Stage
Curzon’s eclectic season of recent Canadian cinema ranges from Atom Egoyan’s latest to one of the finest films of 2020…
When the major national cinemas are rounded up, Canada rarely gets much of a look-in: sometimes blurred with American cinema, sometimes with French, too rarely appreciated on its own. If younger auteurs such as Xavier Dolan – whose work was spotlit in this column earlier this year – are taking it to a brasher place, Canadian cinema retains a reputation for being, certainly relative to its noisy southern neighbour, rather Canadian: quiet, thoughtful, progressive in subtle, unassuming ways. That’s reflected in a season of new Canadian cinema on Curzon Home Cinema: the six-film Canada Now selection spans multiple generations and subcultures of Canuck film-making, forming a national snapshot more interestingly diverse than what tends to filter through to British cinemas.
The selections are being staggered on the Curzon platform through the rest of July,...
When the major national cinemas are rounded up, Canada rarely gets much of a look-in: sometimes blurred with American cinema, sometimes with French, too rarely appreciated on its own. If younger auteurs such as Xavier Dolan – whose work was spotlit in this column earlier this year – are taking it to a brasher place, Canadian cinema retains a reputation for being, certainly relative to its noisy southern neighbour, rather Canadian: quiet, thoughtful, progressive in subtle, unassuming ways. That’s reflected in a season of new Canadian cinema on Curzon Home Cinema: the six-film Canada Now selection spans multiple generations and subcultures of Canuck film-making, forming a national snapshot more interestingly diverse than what tends to filter through to British cinemas.
The selections are being staggered on the Curzon platform through the rest of July,...
- 7/4/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell's Ms Slavic 7, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from June 4 - July 4, 2020 in Mubi's The New Auteurs series.Above: The above image and those throughout this article are a selection of pages from the notebook Deragh Campbell kept as the character Audrey Benac, toward the creation of the monologues in Ms Slavic 7.Considering Sharon Lockhart’s collaboration with Noa Eshkol, in which she retranslates the deceased artist’s elaborate system of choreographic notation into movement, Daniela Zyman negates the perception of a filmed subject as a singular identity and defines it instead as a figure of two, an encounter between the artist and the protagonist. She applies this to Lockhart’s greater body of work, describing Lockhart’s particular ability to allow the coexistence of the subject’s inherent right to self-representation and the artist’s formal impositions,...
- 6/24/2020
- MUBI
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