"Mother of George" director Andrew Dosunmu will direct "Fela Kuti," the Fela Kuti biopic in development at Focus Features, Focus Features CEO James Schamus and co-ceo Andrew Karpen, announced today. The musical biopic will follow the life and times of Fela Kuti, the legendary king of Afrobeat who sought to harness the power of music to confront corruption in a politically unstable 1970s Nigeria. Dosunmu is himself a native of Nigeria. Dosunmu's latest feature "Mother of George" premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Oscilloscope on Friday to rave reviews. His documentary "Hot Irons," won the Reel Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and Best Documentary at Fespaco, Africa’s largest film festival. His fiction feature debut, "Restless City" premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by Screen Media Films in 2012. Dosunmu also has had a well-established career as a photographer and has directed music videos for.
- 9/16/2013
- by Ramzi De Coster
- Indiewire
Simply put. Nigerian photographer turned filmmaker Andrew Dosunmu (1999′s docu Hot Irons) is one of our favorite voices in American independent filmmaking. A member of the Sundance family, we were swooned by his lush Restless City (2011) and this past January, he made us melt with the meticulously detailed, family triage drama called Mother of George. which according to Nicholas (read review) come equipped with “breathtaking cinematography and the undeniably compelling and raw performance from the beautiful Danai Gurira.” Oscilloscope Laboratories release this gem next Friday, September 13th. Here’s an exclusive clip!
- 9/7/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
#5. Interior. Leather Bar
Who: While everyone may be familiar with actor/director James Franco, they not be as aware of the filmmaker he’s paired with to direct Interior. Leather Bar, Travis Mathews. With a background in documentary, Mathews professes to use this and his Masters in Counseling Psychology to make films that focus on gay men and intimacy. He already has a series of short films about gay men and bedrooms and a well received 2012 feature film, I Want Your Love to his name.
What: His pairing with Franco on a project aims to recreate the lost 40 minutes of footage that William Friedkin was forced to cut from his controversial 1980 film Cruising.
Where: Franco’s interview also features a clip, while Franco’s co-director posted the trailer on his vimeo channel.
When: Shot in Los Angeles, CA over the course of a day in July, 2012, produced by RabbitBandini Productions...
Who: While everyone may be familiar with actor/director James Franco, they not be as aware of the filmmaker he’s paired with to direct Interior. Leather Bar, Travis Mathews. With a background in documentary, Mathews professes to use this and his Masters in Counseling Psychology to make films that focus on gay men and intimacy. He already has a series of short films about gay men and bedrooms and a well received 2012 feature film, I Want Your Love to his name.
What: His pairing with Franco on a project aims to recreate the lost 40 minutes of footage that William Friedkin was forced to cut from his controversial 1980 film Cruising.
Where: Franco’s interview also features a clip, while Franco’s co-director posted the trailer on his vimeo channel.
When: Shot in Los Angeles, CA over the course of a day in July, 2012, produced by RabbitBandini Productions...
- 1/17/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A pair of titles in our Most Anticipated Films for 2012 in #39. Andrew Dosunmu (Ma George) and #30. Mark Jackson (Untitled Sicily Project) are two of the lucky fifteen filmmakers to have received coin in the shape of 2012 Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute grants. Recipients include a trio of titles that we caught in Park City back in January in Terence Nance’s An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Ira Sach’s Keep the Lights On, and Destin Daniel Cretton’s I Am Not a Hipster. Here’s the press release.
Post-Production Feature Film Grants
Keep the Lights On
Writer/director: Ira Sachs
The story of a tumultuous, decade-long relationship between two men in New York City. Keep the Lights On premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Ira Sachs is a writer and director based in New York City. His films include Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997) and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning Forty Shades of Blue.
Post-Production Feature Film Grants
Keep the Lights On
Writer/director: Ira Sachs
The story of a tumultuous, decade-long relationship between two men in New York City. Keep the Lights On premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Ira Sachs is a writer and director based in New York City. His films include Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997) and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning Forty Shades of Blue.
- 6/6/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
We were thrilled to see Andrew Dosunmu’s latest film, Restless City, his first film since his 1999, Hot Irons, show up as part of the 2011’s AFI New Auteurs Program. Originally premiering at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Dosunmu’s latest is a vibrant story about an African immigrant living in New York City following his passion in music. Falling in love with a girl in trouble, the trajectory of his fate becomes tinged with tragedy. Receiving extremely positive word of mouth for its amazing cinematography and excellent performances from some young newcomers, Restless City is really Dosunmu’s love letter to New York City, where good, the bad, and the grey resides side by side and frame by frame. I was able to sit down with Dosunmu after a screening of his film at the AFI Film Festival, where we discussed immigrant stories in cinema, New York, and the difficulties...
- 12/10/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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