Some 22 projects are receiving support from the Swedish fund.
The new Göteborg Film Fund has confirmed its second round of funding, including its first development grants.
The supported projects include the Iranian-Kurdish thriller Zalava, the feature debut of Arsalan Amiri, which is competing in Venice Critics’ Week; and Ukrainian drama Pamfir, by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk. The latter is now in post and selected for the Venice Gap Financing Market and is about a decent man who gives up his honest job to help his family.
In addition, Oleg Sentsov, who is premiering Rhino in Venice, is receiving development supportt for his fiction film Kai.
The new Göteborg Film Fund has confirmed its second round of funding, including its first development grants.
The supported projects include the Iranian-Kurdish thriller Zalava, the feature debut of Arsalan Amiri, which is competing in Venice Critics’ Week; and Ukrainian drama Pamfir, by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk. The latter is now in post and selected for the Venice Gap Financing Market and is about a decent man who gives up his honest job to help his family.
In addition, Oleg Sentsov, who is premiering Rhino in Venice, is receiving development supportt for his fiction film Kai.
- 9/6/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
“I have been hiding behind producing,” says “You Will Die at 20” director Amjad Abu Alala. “I wanted to do that. I remember, last year, after my film won the Lion of the Future Award for best debut film at the Venice Film Festival, I got on the plane to the Toronto Film Festival and the very first question a journalist asked was what are you doing next? I didn’t even have time to breathe.”
A week after the Toronto screening, Alala was at El Gouna Film Festival, where “You Will Die at 20” won the El Gouna Golden Star for best narrative film. “That helped spread the word a lot,” says Alala. “A lot of people in Sudan, they don’t know Venice, but they know about Egypt because they have been raised on Egyptian cinema and stars for 100 years.”
This year, Alala has returned wearing two hats.
A week after the Toronto screening, Alala was at El Gouna Film Festival, where “You Will Die at 20” won the El Gouna Golden Star for best narrative film. “That helped spread the word a lot,” says Alala. “A lot of people in Sudan, they don’t know Venice, but they know about Egypt because they have been raised on Egyptian cinema and stars for 100 years.”
This year, Alala has returned wearing two hats.
- 10/28/2020
- by Kaleem Aftab
- Variety Film + TV
Kuka, a well-known figure on the international festival circuit, was imprisoned on charges of causing a public nuisance while participating in a theatre workshop.
Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka and four other artists have been released from jail in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, two weeks after they were imprisoned on charges of causing a public nuisance while participating in a theatre workshop.
South African producer Steven Markovitz, who produced Kuka’s award-winning documentary Beats Of The Antonov and debut fiction film aKasha, announced the news on Twitter on Thursday evening.
“Great news! Hajooj and the four artists have just been released.
Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka and four other artists have been released from jail in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, two weeks after they were imprisoned on charges of causing a public nuisance while participating in a theatre workshop.
South African producer Steven Markovitz, who produced Kuka’s award-winning documentary Beats Of The Antonov and debut fiction film aKasha, announced the news on Twitter on Thursday evening.
“Great news! Hajooj and the four artists have just been released.
- 10/2/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Study confirms late director “contributed to the functioning, stabilisation and legitimation of the Nazi regime”.
The Berlin Film Festival has confirmed that founding director Alfred Bauer “contributed to the functioning, stabilisation and legitimation of the Nazi regime”, following an investigation into the late executive.
The Berlinale commissioned the report following allegations by German newspaper Die Zeit that Bauer had been “a high-ranking functionary in the Nazi film bureaucracy” during the Third Reich and subsequently renamed the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize ahead of its 70th edition in February.
The new study, compiled by the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, confirms...
The Berlin Film Festival has confirmed that founding director Alfred Bauer “contributed to the functioning, stabilisation and legitimation of the Nazi regime”, following an investigation into the late executive.
The Berlinale commissioned the report following allegations by German newspaper Die Zeit that Bauer had been “a high-ranking functionary in the Nazi film bureaucracy” during the Third Reich and subsequently renamed the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize ahead of its 70th edition in February.
The new study, compiled by the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, confirms...
- 9/30/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: aKasha.We've been alerted by the programming team at the Toronto International Film Festival that Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka (aKasha), along with five other artists, has been sentenced to two months in prison.Speaking of TIFF, Chloé Zhao's Nomadland won the disrupted festival's People's Choice Award. Other notable winners this year include Michelle Latimer's Inconvenient Indian, Chaitanya Tamhane's The Disciple, and Dea Kulumbegashvili's Beginning.The great French actor Michael Lonsdale has died at the age of 89. Lonsdale's career range was incredible, including Jacques Rivette's epic Out 1, the James Bond film Moonraker, Marguerite Duras's India Song, and Spielberg's Munich. His physically towering presence was one of the great connective tissues across international cinema.Recommended VIEWINGSpike Lee has been having a big year, first with Da 5 Bloods...
- 9/23/2020
- MUBI
AMPAS member Kuka’s works include aKasha and Beats Of The Antonov.
The Berlin Film Festival has joined growing calls from the international film community for the release of Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka who is currently being held alongside four other artists in a Khartoum jail.
“The Berlin International Film Festival joins the international protest against the arrest of Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka and four other artists. The group of artists has been randomly charged with causing a public nuisance. We call for their immediate release by the Sudanese authorities,” the festival said in a statement.
The festival joins similar...
The Berlin Film Festival has joined growing calls from the international film community for the release of Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka who is currently being held alongside four other artists in a Khartoum jail.
“The Berlin International Film Festival joins the international protest against the arrest of Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka and four other artists. The group of artists has been randomly charged with causing a public nuisance. We call for their immediate release by the Sudanese authorities,” the festival said in a statement.
The festival joins similar...
- 9/21/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente, the co-heads of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have called for the immediate release of documentary filmmaker hajooj kuka.
He, along with four other artists, have been jailed for two months in Khartoum following an attack on the Civic Lab, where they were creating art for community engagement.
“hajooj kuka is an exceptional filmmaker and TIFF has been proud to present his work,” said Vicente and Bailey. “His films Beats of the Antonov and aKasha revealed a singular view of life in Sudan through the eyes of a remarkable artist. hajooj, along with four other artists, is now in prison in Sudan and we need to bring attention to this urgent and troubling situation. When an artist is silenced, society as a whole suffers.”
According to the Sudanese organization Gisa,...
He, along with four other artists, have been jailed for two months in Khartoum following an attack on the Civic Lab, where they were creating art for community engagement.
“hajooj kuka is an exceptional filmmaker and TIFF has been proud to present his work,” said Vicente and Bailey. “His films Beats of the Antonov and aKasha revealed a singular view of life in Sudan through the eyes of a remarkable artist. hajooj, along with four other artists, is now in prison in Sudan and we need to bring attention to this urgent and troubling situation. When an artist is silenced, society as a whole suffers.”
According to the Sudanese organization Gisa,...
- 9/19/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Sudan documentary maker Hajooj Kuka, a new member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and one of five artists recently jailed in Khartoum, has received a call for an immediate release by the Toronto Film Festival.
“Hajooj Kuka is an exceptional filmmaker. His last two films, Beats of the Antonov and Akasha, played at our Festival. He was recently invited to join @TheAcademy. Now he’s been jailed in Sudan. We need to make some noise about this,” Cameron Bailey, artistic director and co-head of the Toronto Film Festival, said on his Twitter account.
Kuka’s documentary Beats of ...
“Hajooj Kuka is an exceptional filmmaker. His last two films, Beats of the Antonov and Akasha, played at our Festival. He was recently invited to join @TheAcademy. Now he’s been jailed in Sudan. We need to make some noise about this,” Cameron Bailey, artistic director and co-head of the Toronto Film Festival, said on his Twitter account.
Kuka’s documentary Beats of ...
- 9/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sudan documentary maker Hajooj Kuka, a new member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and one of five artists recently jailed in Khartoum, has received a call for an immediate release by the Toronto Film Festival.
“Hajooj Kuka is an exceptional filmmaker. His last two films, Beats of the Antonov and Akasha, played at our Festival. He was recently invited to join @TheAcademy. Now he’s been jailed in Sudan. We need to make some noise about this,” Cameron Bailey, artistic director and co-head of the Toronto Film Festival, said on his Twitter account.
Kuka’s documentary Beats of ...
“Hajooj Kuka is an exceptional filmmaker. His last two films, Beats of the Antonov and Akasha, played at our Festival. He was recently invited to join @TheAcademy. Now he’s been jailed in Sudan. We need to make some noise about this,” Cameron Bailey, artistic director and co-head of the Toronto Film Festival, said on his Twitter account.
Kuka’s documentary Beats of ...
- 9/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, the global film community calls for the release of Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka, Jana Bennett is announced as Congress ’20 closing speaker, PBS Masterpiece heads to Amazon in Canada, Leonine gets Oliver Vogel for W&b Television role, the Production Guild of Great Britain opens nominations for 2020 Innovation Awards and The Story Lab sells “Game of Clones” format in Brazil.
Call For Release
Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka, whose films “Beats of the Antonov” and “aKasha” have played the Venice and Toronto film festivals, was among five artists sentenced to two months in prison on Thursday on charges of “public annoyance.”
The artists were involved in an altercation in Khartoum in August, after authorities reportedly responded to noise complaints from neighbors during a theater rehearsal.
Steven Markovitz, who produced both of Kuka’s films, decried what he described as “trumped-up charges” against the director, who was admitted into...
Call For Release
Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka, whose films “Beats of the Antonov” and “aKasha” have played the Venice and Toronto film festivals, was among five artists sentenced to two months in prison on Thursday on charges of “public annoyance.”
The artists were involved in an altercation in Khartoum in August, after authorities reportedly responded to noise complaints from neighbors during a theater rehearsal.
Steven Markovitz, who produced both of Kuka’s films, decried what he described as “trumped-up charges” against the director, who was admitted into...
- 9/18/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
With the seventh edition of Final Cut in Venice, the Venice Production Bridge’s pics-in-post workshop for films from Africa and the Arab world, Final Cut head Alessandra Speciale points to sweeping cultural and technological changes that are transforming the means of production in those regions.
“The big changes that the African continent is currently experiencing are also driving cultural and artistic production, a kind of high-tech liberation triggered by the strong impetus of high-speed Internet,” said Speciale, fostering what she calls a “cinema without borders.”
Final Cut, which runs through Sept. 2, awards prizes and financial assistance to six selected projects, while offering African and Arab producers and directors one-on-one meetings with participants of the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market. The program’s growing reach — which has included works-in-progress from countries such as Lesotho, Libya and the Central African Republic — highlights the increasing capacity to produce films in countries without formal industries,...
“The big changes that the African continent is currently experiencing are also driving cultural and artistic production, a kind of high-tech liberation triggered by the strong impetus of high-speed Internet,” said Speciale, fostering what she calls a “cinema without borders.”
Final Cut, which runs through Sept. 2, awards prizes and financial assistance to six selected projects, while offering African and Arab producers and directors one-on-one meetings with participants of the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market. The program’s growing reach — which has included works-in-progress from countries such as Lesotho, Libya and the Central African Republic — highlights the increasing capacity to produce films in countries without formal industries,...
- 8/31/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Rungano Nyoni’s UK foreign-language Oscar submission I Am Not A Witch, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-nominated Poland-set drama Cold War, and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese Cannes Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters will screen in the Panama International Film Festival’s International Portal strand next month.
Rungano Nyoni’s UK foreign-language Oscar submission I Am Not A Witch, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-nominated Poland-set drama Cold War, and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese Cannes Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters will screen in the Panama International Film Festival’s International Portal strand next month.
The programme also features Nadine Labaki’s Oscar-nominated Lebanese drama Capernaum,...
Rungano Nyoni’s UK foreign-language Oscar submission I Am Not A Witch, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-nominated Poland-set drama Cold War, and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese Cannes Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters will screen in the Panama International Film Festival’s International Portal strand next month.
The programme also features Nadine Labaki’s Oscar-nominated Lebanese drama Capernaum,...
- 3/13/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Kent Jones’ “Diane,” Eva Trobisch’s “All Good” and Lila Aviles’ “The Chambermaid” are among the 14 features competing at the revamped Marrakech Film Festival, which opened Friday and runs to Dec. 8.
“Diane,” which world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won three awards, stars Mary Kay Place (“The Big Chill”) as a mother desperately trying to bond with her son, who suffers from drug addiction. The movie was executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
“All Good,” Trobisch’s debut, revolves around a young woman who is raped but refuses to be a victim. The movie was a standout at Locarno, where it won the first-feature competition.
“The Chambermaid,” from Mexican theater actress-turned-helmer Aviles, premiered in Toronto’s Discovery section and won two awards at the Morelia Film Festival. The movie portrays Eve, a young chambermaid working at Mexico City’s classy Hotel Presidente Internacional. Trobisch and Aviles’ pics are among...
“Diane,” which world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won three awards, stars Mary Kay Place (“The Big Chill”) as a mother desperately trying to bond with her son, who suffers from drug addiction. The movie was executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
“All Good,” Trobisch’s debut, revolves around a young woman who is raped but refuses to be a victim. The movie was a standout at Locarno, where it won the first-feature competition.
“The Chambermaid,” from Mexican theater actress-turned-helmer Aviles, premiered in Toronto’s Discovery section and won two awards at the Morelia Film Festival. The movie portrays Eve, a young chambermaid working at Mexico City’s classy Hotel Presidente Internacional. Trobisch and Aviles’ pics are among...
- 11/30/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Award-winning director Hajooj Kuka on the realities of life in a wartorn country, and the inspiration for aKasha, his first feature film
Sudan-based Hajooj Kuka set out to document life in refugee camps. His films include Beats of the Antonov – on war, music and the resilience of the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains – and Darfur’s Skeleton, which tells the stories of Sudanese people displaced by conflict. He co-founded the Refugee Club, bringing together artists with similar backgrounds to highlight the plight of displaced people in Sudan.
A new film, aKasha, is a comedy, despite being set in a conflict zone. “The revolution needs to be fun,” he explains. “You can’t achieve change with just one election – you need to go on and on, and the struggle must be creative, it must be hopeful.”...
Sudan-based Hajooj Kuka set out to document life in refugee camps. His films include Beats of the Antonov – on war, music and the resilience of the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains – and Darfur’s Skeleton, which tells the stories of Sudanese people displaced by conflict. He co-founded the Refugee Club, bringing together artists with similar backgrounds to highlight the plight of displaced people in Sudan.
A new film, aKasha, is a comedy, despite being set in a conflict zone. “The revolution needs to be fun,” he explains. “You can’t achieve change with just one election – you need to go on and on, and the struggle must be creative, it must be hopeful.”...
- 11/21/2018
- by Presented by Lucy Lamble and produced by Danielle Stephens
- The Guardian - Film News
Festival to kick off with Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate.
The Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov 30-Dec 8) has revealed its 2018 line-up, jury and honorary awards.
The Moroccan festival has been running since 2001, but took a year off in 2017 to “reflect on its editorial line”.
The competition line-up features 14 films from first or second-time directors. Six of the films competing for the Marrakech Etoile d’Or (or the Gold Star) are directed by women. Among the line-up is Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy, Kent Jones’ Diane and Eva Trobisch’s All Good.
The festival opens with a gala screening of...
The Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov 30-Dec 8) has revealed its 2018 line-up, jury and honorary awards.
The Moroccan festival has been running since 2001, but took a year off in 2017 to “reflect on its editorial line”.
The competition line-up features 14 films from first or second-time directors. Six of the films competing for the Marrakech Etoile d’Or (or the Gold Star) are directed by women. Among the line-up is Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy, Kent Jones’ Diane and Eva Trobisch’s All Good.
The festival opens with a gala screening of...
- 11/19/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The 17th Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov 30 – Dec 08) has set a jury comprising Suspiria star Dakota Johnson, Indian actress Ileana D’Cruz (Barfi!), Lebanese filmmaker and visual artist Joana Hadjithomas (I Want To See), Brit director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Moroccan director Tala Hadid (House In The Fields), French director Laurent Cantet (The Class), German actor Daniel Brühl (Rush) and Mexican director Michel Franco (April’s Daughter). As previously revealed, director James Gray will serve as jury president.
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
- 11/19/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Line-up includes The Chambermaid, Rafiki.
The Biggest Little Farm, Ray & Liz, and Dead Pigs are among the New Auteurs and American Independents sections unveiled on Thursday (4) by top brass AFI Fest presented by Audi.
New Auteurs comprises 18 films, 12 of which are directed by women, and include Lila Avilés’ The Chambermaid (La Camarista), Cathy Yan’s Dead Pigs, and Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki, Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz, and Hajooj Kuka’s Akasha.
The American Independents section champions 10 selections – half of which are directed by women – from new and returning filmmakers. The films include John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm,...
The Biggest Little Farm, Ray & Liz, and Dead Pigs are among the New Auteurs and American Independents sections unveiled on Thursday (4) by top brass AFI Fest presented by Audi.
New Auteurs comprises 18 films, 12 of which are directed by women, and include Lila Avilés’ The Chambermaid (La Camarista), Cathy Yan’s Dead Pigs, and Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki, Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz, and Hajooj Kuka’s Akasha.
The American Independents section champions 10 selections – half of which are directed by women – from new and returning filmmakers. The films include John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm,...
- 10/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Below you will find an index of our coverage from the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) in 2018, as well as our favorite films.Top Picksdaniel KASMANFeatures:1. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)2. High Life (Claire Denis)3. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)4. Green Book (Peter Farrelly)5. aKasha (hajooj kuka)6. Rojo (Benjamin Naishtat)7. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)8. Belmonte (Federico Veiroj)9. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)10. Hidden Man (Jiang Wen)Shorts:1. Blue (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)2. Arena (Björn Kämmerer)3. Polly One (Kevin Jerome Everson)4. Colophon (Nathaniel Dorsky)5. Please step out of the frame. (Karissa Hahn)6. Wall Unwalled (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)7. Ada Kaleh (Helena Wittmann)8. Alitplano (Malena Szlam)9. Norman Norman (Sophy Romvari)10. Hoarders without Borders, 1.0 (Jodie Mack)Kelley DONG1. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians" (Radu Jude)2. High Life (Claire Denis)3. Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)4. Our Body (Han Ka-Ram)5. A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper...
- 9/25/2018
- MUBI
As Al Gouna Film Festival opens its second year, as Dubai Film Festival and Market closes its doors, as Saudi Arabia purports to be entering the Western world of filmmaking, Dfi has stayed the course and presented 12 films in Tiff it had helped to fund.
Doha Film Institute continues its commitment to nurturing emerging filmmakers through its Grants Programme for Film, TV and Web Series.
First and second time filmmakers from around the world, alongside established directors from the Mena region, are all invited to apply for funding.
At Tiff 2018 their films include:
The Load (Teret) by Ognjen Glavoic — — Vlada works as a truck driver during the Nato bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need...
Doha Film Institute continues its commitment to nurturing emerging filmmakers through its Grants Programme for Film, TV and Web Series.
First and second time filmmakers from around the world, alongside established directors from the Mena region, are all invited to apply for funding.
At Tiff 2018 their films include:
The Load (Teret) by Ognjen Glavoic — — Vlada works as a truck driver during the Nato bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need...
- 9/17/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Moroccan villagers doing battle with a rapacious mining company, armed only with poems and songs. Four aging Sudanese filmmakers looking to inspire a love of cinema in their countrymen. A celebrated South African poet living out his final days on a mental journey into his own past after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Their stories of courage, determination and hope are among this year’s selections for Final Cut in Venice, the Venice Production Bridge workshop providing post-production support and networking opportunities to films from Africa and the Arab world.
Taking place from Sep. 1-3, the program awards prizes and financial assistance to six selected projects, while offering an opportunity for producers and directors to pitch their films to foreign buyers, distributors, producers and festival programmers in order to facilitate the post-production process, promote possible co-production opportunities and access the international distribution market.
Established in 2013 to provide completion funds for selected films from Africa,...
Their stories of courage, determination and hope are among this year’s selections for Final Cut in Venice, the Venice Production Bridge workshop providing post-production support and networking opportunities to films from Africa and the Arab world.
Taking place from Sep. 1-3, the program awards prizes and financial assistance to six selected projects, while offering an opportunity for producers and directors to pitch their films to foreign buyers, distributors, producers and festival programmers in order to facilitate the post-production process, promote possible co-production opportunities and access the international distribution market.
Established in 2013 to provide completion funds for selected films from Africa,...
- 9/1/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Kamal Ramadan and Mohamed Chakado, the stars of Venice Critics’ Week entry aKasha, have been refused departure from Uganda and will be unable to attend the world premiere screening of the debut feature here today, and possibly not at Tiff on September 9. The Sudan nationals arrived in Kampala on April 30 and applied for refugee status on June 11, we are told by representatives of the movie, but have not been granted the necessary papers. We are also told the producer of the film, Steven Markovitz (Rafiki), has written to the United Nations’ Refugee Agency, Unhcr, and is waiting for a reply.
Sudanese director Hajooj Kuka is the founder of Refugee Club. His last film, 2014’s Beats Of The Antonov, won the Documentary People’s Choice Award in Toronto that year.
AKasha is described as an offbeat love story set in a time of civil war that explores life and ideology in rebel-held areas of Sudan.
Sudanese director Hajooj Kuka is the founder of Refugee Club. His last film, 2014’s Beats Of The Antonov, won the Documentary People’s Choice Award in Toronto that year.
AKasha is described as an offbeat love story set in a time of civil war that explores life and ideology in rebel-held areas of Sudan.
- 8/31/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Two stars of an offbeat Sudanese love story won’t be attending the movie’s world premiere in Venice Critics’ Week on Friday, with the duo stuck in Uganda awaiting word on their applications for refugee status.
Mohamed Chakado and Kamal Ramadan, who portray young conscripts on the run from the army in Hajooj Kuka’s feature debut “aKasha” (“The Roundup”), arrived in Uganda earlier this year after fleeing their native Sudan. They applied for refugee status in June, but their applications remain in limbo, and the two are unable to leave Uganda.
Producer Steven Markovitz has petitioned the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) on behalf of the actors but has yet to receive a response. “We don’t know how long it’s going to take…so we don’t have any timeline yet,” he said.
Chakado and Ramadan are from the Nuba Mountains, the volatile Sudanese region where “aKasha” was filmed.
Mohamed Chakado and Kamal Ramadan, who portray young conscripts on the run from the army in Hajooj Kuka’s feature debut “aKasha” (“The Roundup”), arrived in Uganda earlier this year after fleeing their native Sudan. They applied for refugee status in June, but their applications remain in limbo, and the two are unable to leave Uganda.
Producer Steven Markovitz has petitioned the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) on behalf of the actors but has yet to receive a response. “We don’t know how long it’s going to take…so we don’t have any timeline yet,” he said.
Chakado and Ramadan are from the Nuba Mountains, the volatile Sudanese region where “aKasha” was filmed.
- 8/29/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The Toronto International Film Festival has added Brady Corbet’s drama “Vox Lux,” starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law, and Neil Jordan’s “Greta,” with Chloe Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert.
The festival also announced Tuesday a total of 46 titles in its Discovery program, which is devoted to up-and-coming filmmakers. The festival will screen 255 features and 88 shorts with 138 being world premieres, including “Greta.” The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival will begin on Sept. 6.
“Vox Lux” and “Greta” have been added to the Special Presentations program. “Vox Lux,” which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival, is a musical drama about a woman who achieves success after a tragic childhood. The film also stars Jennifer Ehle, Stacy Martin and Raffey Cassidy. “Greta” stars Moretz as a young woman in New York who befriends a widow, played by Huppert, who has sinister intentions.
The Discovery program includes Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s ‘Girl,...
The festival also announced Tuesday a total of 46 titles in its Discovery program, which is devoted to up-and-coming filmmakers. The festival will screen 255 features and 88 shorts with 138 being world premieres, including “Greta.” The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival will begin on Sept. 6.
“Vox Lux” and “Greta” have been added to the Special Presentations program. “Vox Lux,” which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival, is a musical drama about a woman who achieves success after a tragic childhood. The film also stars Jennifer Ehle, Stacy Martin and Raffey Cassidy. “Greta” stars Moretz as a young woman in New York who befriends a widow, played by Huppert, who has sinister intentions.
The Discovery program includes Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s ‘Girl,...
- 8/21/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 6-16) has added a world premiere screening of Neil Jordan’s Greta and the North American premiere of Natalie Portman-starrer Vox Lux to its Special Presentations program, which now numbers 24 films.
Jordan’s Greta tells the story of a young New York woman named Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) who strikes up an unlikely friendship with an enigmatic widow named Greta (Isabelle Huppert). Co-written by Jordan and Ray Wright, pic also stars Colm Feore, Maika Monroe, and Stephen Rea.
In musical drama Vox Lux, Brady Corbet’s second feature as writer-director tracks its heroine’s path from childhood tragedy to a life of fame and fortune. Starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law, the film begins with teenage sisters Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) and Eleanor (Stacy Martin) who survive a violent incident that changes their lives.
Tiff has also revealed the 46 movies taking part in its Discovery lineup for emerging filmmakers.
Jordan’s Greta tells the story of a young New York woman named Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) who strikes up an unlikely friendship with an enigmatic widow named Greta (Isabelle Huppert). Co-written by Jordan and Ray Wright, pic also stars Colm Feore, Maika Monroe, and Stephen Rea.
In musical drama Vox Lux, Brady Corbet’s second feature as writer-director tracks its heroine’s path from childhood tragedy to a life of fame and fortune. Starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law, the film begins with teenage sisters Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) and Eleanor (Stacy Martin) who survive a violent incident that changes their lives.
Tiff has also revealed the 46 movies taking part in its Discovery lineup for emerging filmmakers.
- 8/21/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Brady Corbet’s “Vox Lux,” with Natalie Portman and Jude Law, and Neil Jordan’s “Greta,” with Chloe Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert, are among almost 50 films that have been added to the lineup of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, Tiff organizers announced on Tuesday.
The two films have been added to the Special Presentations program, with “Greta” having its world premiere at Tiff and “Vox Lux” its Canadian premiere.
“Greta” features Moretz as a young woman in New York who befriends a widow who turns out to have sinister intentions; “Vox Lux” is a musical drama that encompasses the life of a woman who achieves success after a tragic childhood.
Also Read: Natalie Portman Is an Aspiring Pop Star in First-Look at Brady Corbet's 'Vox Lux' (Photo)
Toronto also announced its Discovery program, which is devoted to up-and-coming filmmakers. The 46 films in the lineup come from 37 different countries,...
The two films have been added to the Special Presentations program, with “Greta” having its world premiere at Tiff and “Vox Lux” its Canadian premiere.
“Greta” features Moretz as a young woman in New York who befriends a widow who turns out to have sinister intentions; “Vox Lux” is a musical drama that encompasses the life of a woman who achieves success after a tragic childhood.
Also Read: Natalie Portman Is an Aspiring Pop Star in First-Look at Brady Corbet's 'Vox Lux' (Photo)
Toronto also announced its Discovery program, which is devoted to up-and-coming filmmakers. The 46 films in the lineup come from 37 different countries,...
- 8/21/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Indian Film ‘Tumbbad’ to Open and Tunisian Film ‘Dachra’ to Close Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ WeekHorror-fantasy ‘Tumbbad’ has become the first Indian film to open the prestigious Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week on August 9. Horror film Dachra is the first Tunisian film to close.
The segment, which will run parallel to the 75th edition of the main festival, features nine films by first time directors from across the globe. The section’s artistic director, Giona Nazzaro, called the 19th-century-set film, co-directed by Rai Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad, “a thrilling rollercoster ride”.
Tumbbad the first Indian film ever to open the Venice International Film Critics’ Week, is a thrilling rollercoaster ride that questions the roots of human greed while providing entertainment of the purest kind.
“Fantasy, action, frights, and scares: Tumbbad has it all,” Nazzaro said in a statement, shared by the film’s producers.
Both Tumbbad and...
The segment, which will run parallel to the 75th edition of the main festival, features nine films by first time directors from across the globe. The section’s artistic director, Giona Nazzaro, called the 19th-century-set film, co-directed by Rai Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad, “a thrilling rollercoster ride”.
Tumbbad the first Indian film ever to open the Venice International Film Critics’ Week, is a thrilling rollercoaster ride that questions the roots of human greed while providing entertainment of the purest kind.
“Fantasy, action, frights, and scares: Tumbbad has it all,” Nazzaro said in a statement, shared by the film’s producers.
Both Tumbbad and...
- 7/30/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Non-FictionThe programme for the 2018 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Tsai Ming-liang, Frederick Wiseman, Sergei Loznitsa, Olivier Assayas, the Coen Brothers, and many more.COMPETITIONFirst Man (Damien Chazelle)The Mountain (Rick Alverson)Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard)The Ballad of Buster ScruggsVox Lux (Brady Corbet)Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)22 July (Paul Greengrass)Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)Werk ohne autor (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)Peterloo (Mike Leigh)Capri-revolution (Mario Martone)What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire? (Roberto Minervini)Sunset (László Nemes)Frères ennemis (David Oeloffen)Where Life is Born (Carlos Reygadas)At Eternity's Gate (Julian Schnabel)Acusada (Gonzalo Tobal)Killing (Shinya Tsukamoto)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesThe Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (Morgan Neville)L'amica geniale (Saverio Costanzo)Il diario di angela - noi...
- 7/25/2018
- MUBI
The National Union of Italian Film Critics has revealed its picks for the Venice Critics’ Week section it organizes parallel to the Venice Film Festival. Seven debut features have been set this year in competition for the Audience Award. Each will also be eligible for the Lion of the Future Luigi De Laurentiis Award that’s handed out at the main prize ceremony and goes to a first film from across all sections. It comes with a $100K purse.
Opening the section out of competition this year is Indian fantasy pic Tumbbad from Eros International and directors Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad, while closing duties belong to Tunisian horror movie Dachra from Abdelhamid Bouchnak. Other highlights include Sudanese comedy A Kasha; Syrian war documentary Still Recording; Montenegro’s first entry You Have The Night; and experimental horror pic M, the debut by Finnish pop star Anna Eriksson that’s...
Opening the section out of competition this year is Indian fantasy pic Tumbbad from Eros International and directors Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad, while closing duties belong to Tunisian horror movie Dachra from Abdelhamid Bouchnak. Other highlights include Sudanese comedy A Kasha; Syrian war documentary Still Recording; Montenegro’s first entry You Have The Night; and experimental horror pic M, the debut by Finnish pop star Anna Eriksson that’s...
- 7/23/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Indian fantasy film Tumbbad to kick off independent strand.
The line-up for the 2018 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent strand Critics’ Week (Aug 29 – Sept 8) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
This year’s opening film is Indian fantasy film Tumbbad, described by the festival as a “parable about greed that travels at the speed of an Emilio Salgari’s story shot...
The line-up for the 2018 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent strand Critics’ Week (Aug 29 – Sept 8) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
This year’s opening film is Indian fantasy film Tumbbad, described by the festival as a “parable about greed that travels at the speed of an Emilio Salgari’s story shot...
- 7/23/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The 33rd Venice International Critics' Week unveiled its lineup, featuring a selection of rich, young, global talent. The event is an independent section of the Venice Film Festival, organized by the Italian National Film Critics Union.
Critics' Week will open with Indian fantasy film Tumbbad by Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad.
Tunisian horror film Dachra by Abdelhamid Bouchnak will close out the week.
The competition will feature seven world premieres including The Roundup by Hajooj Kuka, where the Sudanese civil war is seen as a comedy of errors and disguise; and Still Recording, a documentary of the horrors of the ...
Critics' Week will open with Indian fantasy film Tumbbad by Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad.
Tunisian horror film Dachra by Abdelhamid Bouchnak will close out the week.
The competition will feature seven world premieres including The Roundup by Hajooj Kuka, where the Sudanese civil war is seen as a comedy of errors and disguise; and Still Recording, a documentary of the horrors of the ...
- 7/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 33rd Venice International Critics' Week unveiled its lineup, featuring a selection of rich, young, global talent. The event is an independent section of the Venice Film Festival, organized by the Italian National Film Critics Union.
Critics' Week will open with Indian fantasy film Tumbbad by Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad.
Tunisian horror film Dachra by Abdelhamid Bouchnak will close out the week.
The competition will feature seven world premieres including The Roundup by Hajooj Kuka, where the Sudanese civil war is seen as a comedy of errors and disguise; and Still Recording, a documentary of the horrors of the ...
Critics' Week will open with Indian fantasy film Tumbbad by Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad.
Tunisian horror film Dachra by Abdelhamid Bouchnak will close out the week.
The competition will feature seven world premieres including The Roundup by Hajooj Kuka, where the Sudanese civil war is seen as a comedy of errors and disguise; and Still Recording, a documentary of the horrors of the ...
- 7/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Indian fantasy “Tumbbad” will open the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week, which unveiled its lineup Monday of nine first works by international filmmakers, all of them world premieres.
The section’s artistic director, Giona Nazzaro, described the 19th-century-set “Tumbbad,” co-directed by Rai Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad, as a fast-paced parable about greed and “a visionary fantasy film, rich in visual inventions, special effects and blood.” The Hindi-language epic, produced by Mumbai-based Little Town Films, is being screened out of competition, and is sold internationally by Eros International.
The films in the competition lineup include Sudanese director’s Hajooj Kuka’s “A Kasha” (“The Roundup”), a comedy of errors set during Sudan’s civil war, which has been a standout on the co-production platforms circuit; German director Andreas Goldstein’s “Adam & Evelyn,” a coming-of-age story set in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall; Franco-Swiss directorial...
The section’s artistic director, Giona Nazzaro, described the 19th-century-set “Tumbbad,” co-directed by Rai Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad, as a fast-paced parable about greed and “a visionary fantasy film, rich in visual inventions, special effects and blood.” The Hindi-language epic, produced by Mumbai-based Little Town Films, is being screened out of competition, and is sold internationally by Eros International.
The films in the competition lineup include Sudanese director’s Hajooj Kuka’s “A Kasha” (“The Roundup”), a comedy of errors set during Sudan’s civil war, which has been a standout on the co-production platforms circuit; German director Andreas Goldstein’s “Adam & Evelyn,” a coming-of-age story set in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall; Franco-Swiss directorial...
- 7/23/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Documentary festival announces winners.
Matthew Heineman’s City Of Ghosts has won the grand jury award at Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 9-14).
The award, supported by Screen International and Broadcast, comes with a cash prize of £2,000 ($2,800).
The film covers covert citizen journalist group Rbss (Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently), who are exposing the horrors of life under Isis rule via the media. Amazon have picked up worldwide rights to the film.
On behalf of the jury, Paul Mason said, “City of Ghosts is a passionate portrayal of people who took their lives in their hands to fight an evil that looms over the world. In our discussions we wanted the film makers to answer: who created Isis and who sustains it today? A compelling and vital film.”
The jury also included Andrea Arnold and Anand Pathwardan.
There was also special mentions for The Death And The Life of Marsha P. Johnson, [link...
Matthew Heineman’s City Of Ghosts has won the grand jury award at Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 9-14).
The award, supported by Screen International and Broadcast, comes with a cash prize of £2,000 ($2,800).
The film covers covert citizen journalist group Rbss (Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently), who are exposing the horrors of life under Isis rule via the media. Amazon have picked up worldwide rights to the film.
On behalf of the jury, Paul Mason said, “City of Ghosts is a passionate portrayal of people who took their lives in their hands to fight an evil that looms over the world. In our discussions we wanted the film makers to answer: who created Isis and who sustains it today? A compelling and vital film.”
The jury also included Andrea Arnold and Anand Pathwardan.
There was also special mentions for The Death And The Life of Marsha P. Johnson, [link...
- 6/13/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute (Dfi) backs 32 projects in autumn funding round.
Moroccan filmmaker Narjiss Nejjar (Cry No More), Lebanon’s Bassem Breish and Palestinian director Suha Arraf (Villa Touma, pictured) are among the latest recipients of the Doha Film Institute’s grants programme aimed at first and second-time film-makers in the Middle East and Africa region.
The Qatari organization backed a total 32 projects from 27 countries in its autumn funding round.
Nejjar received support for upcoming film Stateless about a girl who will do anything to re-connect with her mother, including marry an aging, blind man.
Breish is working on The Maiden’s Pond, about two woman connected to the same man who need to find a way of living side by side in the same village.
Arraf, whose last film was Villa Touma, is currently working on The Poster, about a Palestinian village situated within Israeli borders which is stirred up when a controversial poster appears...
Moroccan filmmaker Narjiss Nejjar (Cry No More), Lebanon’s Bassem Breish and Palestinian director Suha Arraf (Villa Touma, pictured) are among the latest recipients of the Doha Film Institute’s grants programme aimed at first and second-time film-makers in the Middle East and Africa region.
The Qatari organization backed a total 32 projects from 27 countries in its autumn funding round.
Nejjar received support for upcoming film Stateless about a girl who will do anything to re-connect with her mother, including marry an aging, blind man.
Breish is working on The Maiden’s Pond, about two woman connected to the same man who need to find a way of living side by side in the same village.
Arraf, whose last film was Villa Touma, is currently working on The Poster, about a Palestinian village situated within Israeli borders which is stirred up when a controversial poster appears...
- 12/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
“Beats of the Antonov” succeeds where other documentaries and narrative films about war and suffering on the African continent often fail, in that it finds a new, genuinely interesting perspective from which to explore a complex situation. The directorial debut of Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka, the film is a portrait of refugees of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains affected by the the civil war in Sudan, using their strong cultural ties to music and dance as a way of telling their stories. The title refers to the Russian-manufactured Antonov planes used by the Sudanese government, which rain down bombs targeted towards rebels but in the process destroy the homes and lives of Sudanese...
- 7/22/2015
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is on in New York and the Voice's Alan Scherstuhl recommends Joey Boink's Burden of Peace, Andreas Dalsgaard's Life Is Sacred, Hajooj Kuka's Beats of the Antonov, François Verster's The Dream of Shahrazad, Ayat Najafi's No Land's Song, Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe's (T)Error and Laurent Bécue-Renard's Of Men and War. Also: Joe Dante in Los Angeles, New Filipino Cinema in San Francisco, the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Masters of Iranian Cinema in Bristol, John Huston's The Misfits in London and Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway in Berlin. » - David Hudson...
- 6/12/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is on in New York and the Voice's Alan Scherstuhl recommends Joey Boink's Burden of Peace, Andreas Dalsgaard's Life Is Sacred, Hajooj Kuka's Beats of the Antonov, François Verster's The Dream of Shahrazad, Ayat Najafi's No Land's Song, Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe's (T)Error and Laurent Bécue-Renard's Of Men and War. Also: Joe Dante in Los Angeles, New Filipino Cinema in San Francisco, the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Masters of Iranian Cinema in Bristol, John Huston's The Misfits in London and Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway in Berlin. » - David Hudson...
- 6/12/2015
- Keyframe
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The world is upside down, or as David Lynch puts it: "The world is wild at heart and weird on top." The countries that are peace keepers are also the biggest manufacturers of weapons and the most profitable industries are the ones that are destroying this planet. One percent of the population owns more than the other ninety-nine together. Our system is fundamentally unjust. That is a fact and many of today's urgent problems are obliging us to examine the very framework of our society.When you scroll through the programme of this year's Human Rights Watch Film Festival (Hrwff), you cannot but notice that most of the 16 films, except for John Stewart's directing debut Rosewater, a film about the life of the Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, are documentaries. They are bringing us unknown stories from all over the world and they point to issues concerning violations of human rights.
- 3/18/2015
- by Ana Sturm
- MUBI
Films will be competing for nearly $40,000 in total prizes in various narrative and documentary categories.
San Francisco Film Society has unveiled the films in competition for this year’s Golden Gate Awards (Gga).
Films from 20 countries will compete for nearly $40,000 in total prizes at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival, running April 23-May 7.
The winners of the Gga New Directors Prize and the Gga Documentary Feature will each receive $10,000, while the Gga Bay Area Documentary Feature winner will receive $5,000. Independent juries will select the winners in all categories with the winners announced on May 6.
In addition, the Gga will include competitors in six short film categories. These films will be announced on March 31.
The full list of nominees is as follows:
2015 Gga New Directors Prize (Narrative Feature) COMPETITIONBota, Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci, Albania/Italy/Kosovo – North American PremiereEl Cordero, Juan Francisco Olea, ChileCourt, Chaitanya Tamhane, India A Few Cubic Meters of Love, Jamshid Mahmoudi, Iran/AfghanistanFlapping...
San Francisco Film Society has unveiled the films in competition for this year’s Golden Gate Awards (Gga).
Films from 20 countries will compete for nearly $40,000 in total prizes at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival, running April 23-May 7.
The winners of the Gga New Directors Prize and the Gga Documentary Feature will each receive $10,000, while the Gga Bay Area Documentary Feature winner will receive $5,000. Independent juries will select the winners in all categories with the winners announced on May 6.
In addition, the Gga will include competitors in six short film categories. These films will be announced on March 31.
The full list of nominees is as follows:
2015 Gga New Directors Prize (Narrative Feature) COMPETITIONBota, Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci, Albania/Italy/Kosovo – North American PremiereEl Cordero, Juan Francisco Olea, ChileCourt, Chaitanya Tamhane, India A Few Cubic Meters of Love, Jamshid Mahmoudi, Iran/AfghanistanFlapping...
- 3/11/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Celebrating Individual and Community Efforts to Effect Change
18-27 March 2015, London
Barbican, British Museum, Curzon Soho, Ritzy Picturehouse
(London, February 12, 2015) – The 19th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London will be presented from 18 to 27 March, 2015 with a programme of 16 award-winning documentary and feature films, Human Rights Watch said today.
The festival will include live music performances following screenings of Beats of the Antonov and No Land’s Song and a Guardian Masterclass focusing on human rights reporting and digital storytelling. The festival will take place at the Barbican, British Museum, Curzon Soho, and Ritzy Brixton.
“This year’s festival features many determined, brave individuals – such as Colombia’s philosopher-politician-teacher Antanas Mockus, the Afghan school founder Razia Jan, and Guatemala’s first female attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz – who have made huge personal sacrifices to bring about change”, said John Biaggi, director...
Celebrating Individual and Community Efforts to Effect Change
18-27 March 2015, London
Barbican, British Museum, Curzon Soho, Ritzy Picturehouse
(London, February 12, 2015) – The 19th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London will be presented from 18 to 27 March, 2015 with a programme of 16 award-winning documentary and feature films, Human Rights Watch said today.
The festival will include live music performances following screenings of Beats of the Antonov and No Land’s Song and a Guardian Masterclass focusing on human rights reporting and digital storytelling. The festival will take place at the Barbican, British Museum, Curzon Soho, and Ritzy Brixton.
“This year’s festival features many determined, brave individuals – such as Colombia’s philosopher-politician-teacher Antanas Mockus, the Afghan school founder Razia Jan, and Guatemala’s first female attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz – who have made huge personal sacrifices to bring about change”, said John Biaggi, director...
- 2/19/2015
- by John
- SoundOnSight
The 39th Annual Toronto International Film Festival has come to a close, announcing its 2014 festival winners. Of interest to this site, French rapper Abd Al Malik's autobiographical "May Allah Bless France" and Hajooj Kuka's Sudanese documentary 'Beats of the Antonov' both received honors. Find the full list of winners via the press release below: The short film awards below were selected by a jury comprised of Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List; Beth Sá Freire, deputy- director of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival; and visual artist Floria Sigismondi. Vimeo Award For Best Canadian Short Film The winner of the Vimeo Award for Best...
- 9/15/2014
- by Press Release
- ShadowAndAct
“Beats of the Antonov” succeeds where other documentaries and narrative films about war and suffering on the African continent often fail, in that it finds a new, genuinely interesting perspective from which to explore a complex situation. The directorial debut of Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka, the film is a portrait of refugees of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains affected by the the civil war in Sudan, using their strong cultural ties to music and dance as a way of telling their stories. The title refers to the Russian-manufactured Antonov planes used by the Sudanese government, which rain down bombs targeted towards rebels but in the process destroy the homes and lives...
- 9/15/2014
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
The 2014 Toronto Film Festival has come to a close and the awards have been announced with little surprise at the top as it seemed it would either be James Marsh's The Theory of Everything my review and Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game my review, at least based on the movies I saw and the reaction I'd heard walking around the fest. And lo and behold, it was Imitation Game taking hom the People's Choice Award, but it appears Theory of Everything wasn't a close second. The first runner up was Isabel Coixet's Learning to Drive and the second was Theodore Melfi's St. Vincent starring Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy. The People's Choice Documentary award went to Hajooj Kuka for Beats of the Antonov with David Thorpe's Do I Sound Gayc taking first runner-up in which Thorpe confronts his anxiety about "sounding gay" while the second...
- 9/15/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Today marked the end of the 39th Toronto International Film Festival, which closed out as usual with the announcement of the festival's audience choice awards. In addition to its star receiving the unofficial title of most "yummy," Benedict Cumberbatch’s Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game took home the biggest prize, the Grolsch People’s Choice Award, with Patricia Clarkson’s Learning to Drive and Bill Murray’s St. Vincent coming in as first and second runners up, respectively. Meanwhile, Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's vampire flick What We Do in the Shadows took home the audience award in the midnight madness category (which we discussed with him this morning), while the audience award for best documentary went to Hajooj Kuka's documentary about Sudan, Beats of The Antonov. Ladies and gentlemen, start your Oscar buzzing!
- 9/15/2014
- by Anna Silman
- Vulture
The Toronto International Film Festival today announced award winners from the 39th Festival which wraps up this evening.
This year marked the 37th year that Toronto audiences were able to cast a ballot for their favorite Festival film, with the GrolschPeople’s Choice Award.
This year’s award goes to Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game. The award offers a $15,000 cash prize and custom award, sponsored by Grolsch.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts which the country deemed illegal.
The Imitation Game is the type of film the awards season was made for. Look for it...
This year marked the 37th year that Toronto audiences were able to cast a ballot for their favorite Festival film, with the GrolschPeople’s Choice Award.
This year’s award goes to Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game. The award offers a $15,000 cash prize and custom award, sponsored by Grolsch.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts which the country deemed illegal.
The Imitation Game is the type of film the awards season was made for. Look for it...
- 9/14/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Bang Bang Baby
Over the years, the Toronto International Film Festival has grown into one of the top destinations for film fans and one of the biggest stops on the festival circuit, with numerous films making their World Premiere and North American Premiere at the event before going on to commercial and critical acclaim. This has given Tiff’s awards a level of prestige, as previous winners include 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, and Slumdog Millionaire. The committee has now announced the winners for the 2014 incarnation of the festival, and they are as follows:
The Grolsch People’s Choice Award for most popular film at the festival goes to Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game.
Runners up for the prize included Isabel Coixet’s Learning to Drive and Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent
The Grolsch People’s Choice Documentary Award for most popular documentary at the festival goes...
Over the years, the Toronto International Film Festival has grown into one of the top destinations for film fans and one of the biggest stops on the festival circuit, with numerous films making their World Premiere and North American Premiere at the event before going on to commercial and critical acclaim. This has given Tiff’s awards a level of prestige, as previous winners include 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, and Slumdog Millionaire. The committee has now announced the winners for the 2014 incarnation of the festival, and they are as follows:
The Grolsch People’s Choice Award for most popular film at the festival goes to Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game.
Runners up for the prize included Isabel Coixet’s Learning to Drive and Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent
The Grolsch People’s Choice Documentary Award for most popular documentary at the festival goes...
- 9/14/2014
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
The Imitation Game leads this year's winners at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch won the People's Choice Award, which was announced at the Festival's annual awards brunch on Sunday (September 14).
Many films that won the People's Choice Award have gone on to win Best Picture Oscar, with Slumdog Millionaire, The King's Speech and 12 Years A Slave all taking both honours.
The Imitation Game stars Cumberbatch alongside Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode and Rory Kinnear.
Other winners at this year's awards include Beats of the Antonov and What We Do in the Shadows.
The full list of this year's Toronto International Film Festival winners is as follows:
People's Choice Award - The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum
People's Choice Award For Documentary - Beats of the Antonov, directed by Hajooj Kuka
People's Choice Midnight Madness Award - What We Do in the Shadows, directed by Jemaine Clement,...
The thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch won the People's Choice Award, which was announced at the Festival's annual awards brunch on Sunday (September 14).
Many films that won the People's Choice Award have gone on to win Best Picture Oscar, with Slumdog Millionaire, The King's Speech and 12 Years A Slave all taking both honours.
The Imitation Game stars Cumberbatch alongside Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode and Rory Kinnear.
Other winners at this year's awards include Beats of the Antonov and What We Do in the Shadows.
The full list of this year's Toronto International Film Festival winners is as follows:
People's Choice Award - The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum
People's Choice Award For Documentary - Beats of the Antonov, directed by Hajooj Kuka
People's Choice Midnight Madness Award - What We Do in the Shadows, directed by Jemaine Clement,...
- 9/14/2014
- Digital Spy
The Toronto International Film Festival leadership announced the juried and audience award winners as the 39th annual event wrapped on Sunday (September 14).
The festival ran from September 4-14 and was due to climax on Sunday evening with a free screening of Morten Tylden’s The Imitation Game, winner of the $15,000 Grolsch People’s Choice Awards Festival Film.
The award confirms the film’s status as a leading awards contender, however a significant number of potential rivals are yet to be seen.
Organisers also claimed the event generated record delegate attendance – up 7% on 2013 with more than 5,000 delegates from 80 countries, powered in part by a 217% year-on-year rise in the number of Chinese industry attendees, 59% in South Africa and 16% in the Us. Industry delegates included 1,900 buyers.
In a departure from the leadership’s traditional policy of not emphasising the business side of events, top brass on Sunday trumpeted the second-week avalanche of acquisitions, including the record...
The festival ran from September 4-14 and was due to climax on Sunday evening with a free screening of Morten Tylden’s The Imitation Game, winner of the $15,000 Grolsch People’s Choice Awards Festival Film.
The award confirms the film’s status as a leading awards contender, however a significant number of potential rivals are yet to be seen.
Organisers also claimed the event generated record delegate attendance – up 7% on 2013 with more than 5,000 delegates from 80 countries, powered in part by a 217% year-on-year rise in the number of Chinese industry attendees, 59% in South Africa and 16% in the Us. Industry delegates included 1,900 buyers.
In a departure from the leadership’s traditional policy of not emphasising the business side of events, top brass on Sunday trumpeted the second-week avalanche of acquisitions, including the record...
- 9/14/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Imitation Game will open London Film Festival 2014 Benedict Cumberbatch starrer The Imitation Game won the People's Choice Award at Toronto Film Festival. The film, directed by Morten Tyldum - which had its premiere at Telluride - tells the story of mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing, who led the team who cracked the Enigma code in the Second World War. It will open London Film Festival next month.
The People's Choice Documentary Award was won by Beats Of The Anatoy, directed by Hajooj Kuka, which recounts the lives of Sudanese farmers and rebels.
Mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, directed by and starring Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement and which premiered at Sundance back in January, took home the People's Choice Midnight Madness Award.
Taika Waititi in What We Do In The Shadows Photo: Kane Skennar The Fipresci award from the jury of international critics, was won by...
The People's Choice Documentary Award was won by Beats Of The Anatoy, directed by Hajooj Kuka, which recounts the lives of Sudanese farmers and rebels.
Mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, directed by and starring Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement and which premiered at Sundance back in January, took home the People's Choice Midnight Madness Award.
Taika Waititi in What We Do In The Shadows Photo: Kane Skennar The Fipresci award from the jury of international critics, was won by...
- 9/14/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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