UK film I Am Not A Witch will feature in the Spotlight section In a break from the usual bitesize announcements, Sundance Film Festival has released the names of all 110 feature film titles that will screen at this year's festival in Utah.
British names in the frame, include Idris Elba - whose directorial debut, crime drama Yardie will premiere - and Rupert Everett, who also makes his directorial debut with the tale of the last days of Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince.
Other British and Irish stars include Kelly Macdonald, Andrea Riseborough, Keira Knightley, Robert Pattinson and rising Dublin-born star Barry Keoghan. The festival will also see actor Paul Dano make his directorial debut with Wildlife and Ethan Hawke step behind the camera again with Blaze.
Other UK productions and co-production premieres to make the cut are Stephen Loveridge's Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., about the Sri Lankan artist,...
British names in the frame, include Idris Elba - whose directorial debut, crime drama Yardie will premiere - and Rupert Everett, who also makes his directorial debut with the tale of the last days of Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince.
Other British and Irish stars include Kelly Macdonald, Andrea Riseborough, Keira Knightley, Robert Pattinson and rising Dublin-born star Barry Keoghan. The festival will also see actor Paul Dano make his directorial debut with Wildlife and Ethan Hawke step behind the camera again with Blaze.
Other UK productions and co-production premieres to make the cut are Stephen Loveridge's Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., about the Sri Lankan artist,...
- 11/30/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ten months after the Sundance Film Festival debut of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” — which terrified and delighted festgoers at a secret screening last January, en route to a $250- million worldwide box office and growing award season haul — festival director John Cooper and head programmer Trevor Groth talked to IndieWire about their process for finding films for Sundance’s 39th installment (January 18-28) with similar breakout potential, even if the 2018 Sundance slate is less sprawling than its predecessor (104 films vs. 113, culled from 29 countries).
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Here’s our breakdown of this year’s thematic trends and hot buys.
African-American stories
“We saw a real increase in [stories told from] the unique perspective and experience of African-American males in American society right now,” said Cooper, citing four of the 16 films in 2018’s U.S. Dramatic Competition alone: “Monster,...
Read More:Sundance 2018 Competition Lineup Boasts New Films from Paul Dano, Reed Morano, Idris Elba, Ethan Hawke, and More
Here’s our breakdown of this year’s thematic trends and hot buys.
African-American stories
“We saw a real increase in [stories told from] the unique perspective and experience of African-American males in American society right now,” said Cooper, citing four of the 16 films in 2018’s U.S. Dramatic Competition alone: “Monster,...
- 11/29/2017
- by Anne Thompson and Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
British actor Rupert Everett says he believes that more than 100 years after his death, Oscar Wilde is today a "Christ figure" for the gay community worldwide.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter about his directorial debut, the $13 million biopic The Happy Prince, he says he hopes to premiere it later this year, possibly at the Venice Film Festival. Everett said the film, a co-production involving BBC Films, Lionsgate and backing from Eurimages, the Bavarian Film Fund and Belgium's Wallonia fund, as well as private equity, is "about Oscar Wilde in exile in France and Italy, a kind of 19th century...
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter about his directorial debut, the $13 million biopic The Happy Prince, he says he hopes to premiere it later this year, possibly at the Venice Film Festival. Everett said the film, a co-production involving BBC Films, Lionsgate and backing from Eurimages, the Bavarian Film Fund and Belgium's Wallonia fund, as well as private equity, is "about Oscar Wilde in exile in France and Italy, a kind of 19th century...
- 3/24/2017
- by Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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