The BFI London Film Festival (Lff) 2024 will screen documentaries about “witches,” and zoos and animal rescue centers in Argentina, first features from directors of varied backgrounds, and Ali Abbas’ Donald Trump film The Apprentice in its gala lineup organizers said on Wednesday as they unveiled the full program for this year’s event.
Overall, Lff will screen 253 titles, including features films, shorts, series, and immersive works, that hail from 79 countries and feature 64 languages. Of the total, 112 works are made by female and non-binary filmmakers, or 44 percent of the program, the fest said.
The London doc lineup includes the likes of Elizabeth Sankey’s 90-minute goth-y Witches, which posits a connection between historical witchery and post-partum psychological suffering and debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Meanwhile, the first feature program at Lff includes Denise Fernandes’ Hanami, which recently world-premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and Neo Sora’s Happyend, which debuted...
Overall, Lff will screen 253 titles, including features films, shorts, series, and immersive works, that hail from 79 countries and feature 64 languages. Of the total, 112 works are made by female and non-binary filmmakers, or 44 percent of the program, the fest said.
The London doc lineup includes the likes of Elizabeth Sankey’s 90-minute goth-y Witches, which posits a connection between historical witchery and post-partum psychological suffering and debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Meanwhile, the first feature program at Lff includes Denise Fernandes’ Hanami, which recently world-premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and Neo Sora’s Happyend, which debuted...
- 9/4/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ahead of the programme release for the 2024 London Film Festival on Wednesday, the BFI have revealed which movies will be competing for the Best Film Award in this year's Official Competition line-up. Among the eleven hopefuls looking to scoop the prize taken last year by Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist, highlights include Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott's feuding farmer feature Bring Them Down, Adam Elliot's (Mary & Max) long-awaited stop-motion movie Memoir Of A Snail with Sarah Snook and Eric Bana, and Geraldine Flower documentary The Extraordinary Miss Flower, the latest from 20,000 Days On Earth directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
In a banner year for international representation at the London Film Festival (13 countries are represented across the Official Competition line-up), the rest of the buzzy films set to compete in competition are as follows: Rungano Nyoni's Cannes Un Certain Regard-winning Zambian drama On Becoming A Guinea Fowl...
In a banner year for international representation at the London Film Festival (13 countries are represented across the Official Competition line-up), the rest of the buzzy films set to compete in competition are as follows: Rungano Nyoni's Cannes Un Certain Regard-winning Zambian drama On Becoming A Guinea Fowl...
- 9/2/2024
- by Jordan King
- Empire - Movies
The 68th BFI London Film Festival has announced the films screening in the Official Competition and contending for the Best Film Award.
From a gripping Irish portrait of deep-rooted generational rivalry to a stop-motion animated tale of self-discovery; a moving portrait of living with deaf parents in Tokyo to a follow-up feature from one of Zambia’s most distinctive voices, the films selected for the Official Competition celebrate and recognize inspiring and inventive global filmmaking.
Established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for ‘A Prophet,’ recent winners of the Best Film Award include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage’ in 2022.
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The 11 films in Official Competition are:
April
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s probing exploration of rural life in Georgia centres on the experiences of a doctor whose moral...
From a gripping Irish portrait of deep-rooted generational rivalry to a stop-motion animated tale of self-discovery; a moving portrait of living with deaf parents in Tokyo to a follow-up feature from one of Zambia’s most distinctive voices, the films selected for the Official Competition celebrate and recognize inspiring and inventive global filmmaking.
Established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for ‘A Prophet,’ recent winners of the Best Film Award include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage’ in 2022.
Also in news – Asa Butterfield & Molly Windsor added to cast of series ‘Out of the Dust’
The 11 films in Official Competition are:
April
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s probing exploration of rural life in Georgia centres on the experiences of a doctor whose moral...
- 8/29/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Barry Keoghan, Nick Cave, and the voices of Sarah Snook and Eric Bana will feature in the competition lineup of the 68th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), held this fall in partnership with American Express. The Extraordinary Miss Flower, the new film from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, known for their Cave movie 20,000 Days on Earth, and the Luca Guadagnino-produced April from Georgia’s Dea Kulumbegashvili, whose feminist debut feature Beginning drew rave reviews, will be among the 11 movies competing for the best film award in London.
So will a drama about Islamic inheritance laws and gender dynamics, as well as a film about a Ukrainian family that most cope with the Russian invasion of their home country while away on a beach holiday.
Organizers on Thursday also unveiled such competition titles as Chris Andrews’ Bring Them Down, starring Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,...
So will a drama about Islamic inheritance laws and gender dynamics, as well as a film about a Ukrainian family that most cope with the Russian invasion of their home country while away on a beach holiday.
Organizers on Thursday also unveiled such competition titles as Chris Andrews’ Bring Them Down, starring Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,...
- 8/29/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2024 BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its lineup for the films screening in Official Competition and competing for the coveted Best Film Award.
This year, selections include new features from “20,000 Days On Earth” filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Mipo O, and Rungano Nyoni. Actors Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott are among the casts in the curated program of 11 films.
The festival takes place from October 9 through October 20, with the winner being chosen by the Lff Awards Jury and announced on October 20. The Best Film Award was established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for “A Prophet.” Recent winners include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist” in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” in 2022.
The program includes “inspiring, inventive and distinctive international filmmaking,” with 13 countries represented across the selection, per the press release.
Highlights include “Bring Them Down,” directed by Christopher Andrews and starring Barry Keoghan and...
This year, selections include new features from “20,000 Days On Earth” filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Mipo O, and Rungano Nyoni. Actors Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott are among the casts in the curated program of 11 films.
The festival takes place from October 9 through October 20, with the winner being chosen by the Lff Awards Jury and announced on October 20. The Best Film Award was established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for “A Prophet.” Recent winners include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist” in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” in 2022.
The program includes “inspiring, inventive and distinctive international filmmaking,” with 13 countries represented across the selection, per the press release.
Highlights include “Bring Them Down,” directed by Christopher Andrews and starring Barry Keoghan and...
- 8/29/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Eleven films including Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili’s latest April and Bring Them Down, starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbot, will screen as part of the official competition at this year’s London Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list.
Established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for A Prophet, recent winners of the Lff Best Film Award include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage in 2022. This year’s crop of official competition films features projects from 13 different countries.
The competition titles will once again screen at BFI Southbank. The films shortlisted for the festival’s other competitive categories, the Grierson Award for Best Documentary, the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature and the Short Film Award will be revealed on September 4. Winners in all four categories will be chosen by the Lff awards jury. The BFI will announce jury members in the coming weeks.
Established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for A Prophet, recent winners of the Lff Best Film Award include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage in 2022. This year’s crop of official competition films features projects from 13 different countries.
The competition titles will once again screen at BFI Southbank. The films shortlisted for the festival’s other competitive categories, the Grierson Award for Best Documentary, the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature and the Short Film Award will be revealed on September 4. Winners in all four categories will be chosen by the Lff awards jury. The BFI will announce jury members in the coming weeks.
- 8/29/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Thank You For Banking With Us, Four Mothers and The Extraordinary Miss Flower are to world premiere at BFI London Film Festival (October 9-20) as part of the 11-strong competition line-up.
Scroll down for the full list of Lff 2024 competition titles
Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas’ feature debut, Thank You For Banking With Us, follows two sisters in a race against time to assure their inheritance as a patriarchal system attempts to get in their way.
Also world premiering is UK biographical film The Extraordinary Miss Flower, directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the team behind Sundance 2014 title 20,000 Days On Earth.
Scroll down for the full list of Lff 2024 competition titles
Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas’ feature debut, Thank You For Banking With Us, follows two sisters in a race against time to assure their inheritance as a patriarchal system attempts to get in their way.
Also world premiering is UK biographical film The Extraordinary Miss Flower, directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the team behind Sundance 2014 title 20,000 Days On Earth.
- 8/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Wavelength, the NYC and London-based film production and branded content studio has promoted two and hired one.
The studio’s UK Managing Director, Dan Bowen, will now take on the role of Senior Vice President of Branded Content while former Head of Studios, Mike Prall, now serves as Vice President of Productions. Wavelength is also bringing PR efforts in-house and has tapped film and entertainment publicist Lynsey Gray as Head of PR.
As part of the leadership team, the trio works closely with Wavelength’s Emmy-winning duo, Founder, CEO, and Executive Producer, Jenifer Westphal and President and Executive Producer, Joe Plummer to build on the company’s success and global strategy, which is driven by its mantra: We tell great f**king stories.
“We are thrilled to announce these strategic changes as we continue to evolve and expand our global footprint,” explains Jenifer Westphal. “Dan and Mike have been instrumental in shaping our success,...
The studio’s UK Managing Director, Dan Bowen, will now take on the role of Senior Vice President of Branded Content while former Head of Studios, Mike Prall, now serves as Vice President of Productions. Wavelength is also bringing PR efforts in-house and has tapped film and entertainment publicist Lynsey Gray as Head of PR.
As part of the leadership team, the trio works closely with Wavelength’s Emmy-winning duo, Founder, CEO, and Executive Producer, Jenifer Westphal and President and Executive Producer, Joe Plummer to build on the company’s success and global strategy, which is driven by its mantra: We tell great f**king stories.
“We are thrilled to announce these strategic changes as we continue to evolve and expand our global footprint,” explains Jenifer Westphal. “Dan and Mike have been instrumental in shaping our success,...
- 12/4/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Bowen produced Nick Cave documentary 20,000 Days On Earth.
Emmy-winning New York-based Wavelength, the company behind 2023 Andy Kaufman Venice documentary Thank You Very Much, has opened a London office and named former Pulse Films and Vice creative production executive Dan Bowen as UK managing director.
Bowen will work closely with Wavelength’s Emmy-winning duo Jenifer Westphal, founder, CEO and executive producer, and Joe Plummer, president and executive producer, to build on the company’s global strategy.
Bowen will lead the expansion of Wavelength’s burgeoning commercials and branded entertainment division into the UK market. To date, it has created campaigns for clients such as lululemon,...
Emmy-winning New York-based Wavelength, the company behind 2023 Andy Kaufman Venice documentary Thank You Very Much, has opened a London office and named former Pulse Films and Vice creative production executive Dan Bowen as UK managing director.
Bowen will work closely with Wavelength’s Emmy-winning duo Jenifer Westphal, founder, CEO and executive producer, and Joe Plummer, president and executive producer, to build on the company’s global strategy.
Bowen will lead the expansion of Wavelength’s burgeoning commercials and branded entertainment division into the UK market. To date, it has created campaigns for clients such as lululemon,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Drafthouse Films has acquired North American rights to the documentary Chop & Steele, about the creators of the Found Footage Festival, announcing plans to release the film in April at Alamo Drafthouse theaters as part of a double bill with another newly-acquired doc, A Life on the Farm.
Chop & Steele premiered at Tribeca in 2022 and went on to a robust North American festival run that encompassed Calgary, Philadelphia, Seattle, Denver, the Heartland International Film Festival in Indianapolis, the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, Ala., and the San Francisco Independent Film Festival.
In Chop & Steele, Found Footage Festival principals Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, “lifelong friends who tour the country with their popular VHS oddities festival, are slapped with a federal lawsuit after pranking a local news station as ‘strong men’ Chop and Steele. Many notables are featured in the doc, including David Cross, Bobcat Goldthwait, Reggie Watts, and Howie Mandel.
Chop & Steele premiered at Tribeca in 2022 and went on to a robust North American festival run that encompassed Calgary, Philadelphia, Seattle, Denver, the Heartland International Film Festival in Indianapolis, the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, Ala., and the San Francisco Independent Film Festival.
In Chop & Steele, Found Footage Festival principals Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, “lifelong friends who tour the country with their popular VHS oddities festival, are slapped with a federal lawsuit after pranking a local news station as ‘strong men’ Chop and Steele. Many notables are featured in the doc, including David Cross, Bobcat Goldthwait, Reggie Watts, and Howie Mandel.
- 3/11/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The musician holds the spotlight again in Andrew Dominik’s followup documentary, with star-quality input from Warren Ellis and Marianne Faithfull
There’s a sweet moment in this mostly music documentary about rock star Nick Cave, in which he talks about having always defined himself in the past as a musician or a performer, but now he thinks of himself increasingly as a father or a husband. He even jokes that recently he took the government’s advice to retrain during the pandemic and became a ceramicist, specialising in mock-Meissen figurines showing the devil at various stages of a melancholy life, several of which enigmatically involved sailors.
As the soliloquy says, one man in his time plays many parts, and in Cave’s case one of those roles could be described as semi-professional documentary subject, as there have already been quite a few films about him – most notably Iain Forsyth...
There’s a sweet moment in this mostly music documentary about rock star Nick Cave, in which he talks about having always defined himself in the past as a musician or a performer, but now he thinks of himself increasingly as a father or a husband. He even jokes that recently he took the government’s advice to retrain during the pandemic and became a ceramicist, specialising in mock-Meissen figurines showing the devil at various stages of a melancholy life, several of which enigmatically involved sailors.
As the soliloquy says, one man in his time plays many parts, and in Cave’s case one of those roles could be described as semi-professional documentary subject, as there have already been quite a few films about him – most notably Iain Forsyth...
- 5/10/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Following its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, Trafalgar Releasing has set a May worldwide cinema release for Andrew Dominik’s “This Much I Know to Be True.”
Shot on location in London and Brighton, the film captures the creative relationship of revered musicians Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ as they bring to life the songs from their last two studio albums, “Ghosteen” (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and “Carnage” (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis). The film serves as a document of their first ever performances of these albums, filmed in spring 2021 ahead of their U.K. tour, as the two musicians, accompanied by singers and string quartet, nurture each song into existence. The film also features a special appearance by their close friend and long-term collaborator, Marianne Faithfull.
The deep friendship and personal relationship between Nick Cave and Warren Ellis was glimpsed in Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s...
Shot on location in London and Brighton, the film captures the creative relationship of revered musicians Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ as they bring to life the songs from their last two studio albums, “Ghosteen” (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and “Carnage” (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis). The film serves as a document of their first ever performances of these albums, filmed in spring 2021 ahead of their U.K. tour, as the two musicians, accompanied by singers and string quartet, nurture each song into existence. The film also features a special appearance by their close friend and long-term collaborator, Marianne Faithfull.
The deep friendship and personal relationship between Nick Cave and Warren Ellis was glimpsed in Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s...
- 3/2/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Two cameras orbit a grand piano on a circular track. Sometimes one will catch sight of the other, passing behind the black-haired singer at the keyboard, flashing between the session violinists or gliding beyond the bearded man crouched low over his synthesizer. Though this visible stagecraft draws attention to the fabrication — stage lights pop; grips wander through, adjusting the wiring — somehow the effect of Andrew Dominik’s “This Much I Know to Be True” is floaty, disembodied, hypnotic. Illuminating tracks from the superb 2019 Bad Seeds album “Ghosteen” and Cave’s 2021 collaboration with Warren Ellis, “Carnage,” .
In a ballroom clad in crumbling plasterwork (actually a disused Bristol factory space) Dominik stages the musical sections that make up most of the film, each one a bouquet of barbed wire, sung by Cave — with his ever-witchy charisma — like it’s the last song anyone will ever hear. In between are occasional off-the-cuff interviews,...
In a ballroom clad in crumbling plasterwork (actually a disused Bristol factory space) Dominik stages the musical sections that make up most of the film, each one a bouquet of barbed wire, sung by Cave — with his ever-witchy charisma — like it’s the last song anyone will ever hear. In between are occasional off-the-cuff interviews,...
- 2/25/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: While the film world eagerly awaits the release of Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, scored by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, we can reveal details about the latest collaboration between the filmmaker and musicians: documentary This Much I Know To Be True.
Oz filmmaker Dominik previously teamed up with Cave and Ellis to powerful effect on the stunning western The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. They followed that up with 2016 music documentary One More Time With Feeling, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
This Much I Know To Be True is a companion piece to the latter film, exploring the creative relationship and songs from Cave and Ellis’s last two studio albums, Ghosteen (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Carnage (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis). Above is a first look image from the film.
Shot on location in London and Brighton last year,...
Oz filmmaker Dominik previously teamed up with Cave and Ellis to powerful effect on the stunning western The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. They followed that up with 2016 music documentary One More Time With Feeling, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
This Much I Know To Be True is a companion piece to the latter film, exploring the creative relationship and songs from Cave and Ellis’s last two studio albums, Ghosteen (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Carnage (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis). Above is a first look image from the film.
Shot on location in London and Brighton last year,...
- 1/14/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Studiocanal and Amazon Studios have unveiled the first clip and still of “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” Will Sharpe’s anticipated film about the eccentric British artist played by Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Imitation Game”), ahead of the movie’s world premiere at Telluride. Film4, Shoebox, SunnyMarch back the film along with Studiocanal and Amazon Studios.
Spanning the late 1800s through to the 1930s, the movie tells the true story of Wain, who was famous for his distinctive paintings of cats, and portrays his close relationship with his wife Emily Richardson, played by Claire Foy, the BAFTA-nominated actor of “The Crown.”
The clip debut gives audiences a first glimpse of Cumberbatch as Wain, “whose fascination with the mysteries of the world is both complicated and deepened when he meets the love of his life Emily,” says Sharpe. Wain’s wife was a driving force behind his art as...
Spanning the late 1800s through to the 1930s, the movie tells the true story of Wain, who was famous for his distinctive paintings of cats, and portrays his close relationship with his wife Emily Richardson, played by Claire Foy, the BAFTA-nominated actor of “The Crown.”
The clip debut gives audiences a first glimpse of Cumberbatch as Wain, “whose fascination with the mysteries of the world is both complicated and deepened when he meets the love of his life Emily,” says Sharpe. Wain’s wife was a driving force behind his art as...
- 9/2/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Closing out the summer, Mubi has unveiled their August 2021 lineup, kicking off most fittingly with Brett Story’s acclaimed recent documentary The Hottest August. Also among the lineup is Akira Kurosawa’s epic Ran, Fritz Lang’s hugely entertaining two-parter The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb. As his latest films arrive, Pablo Larraín’s The Club is also part of the lineup.
Xinyuan Zheng Lu’s Rotterdam winner The Cloud in Her Room is coming to Mubi in August, plus a “late film” special featuring Manoel de Olviera’s Gebo and the Shadow and The Last Sentence by Jan Troell. There will also be a canine double feature of Heddy Honigmann’s Buddy and Los Reyes by Bettina Perut and Ivan Osnovikoff.
See the lineup below and get 30 days of Mubi free here.
August 1 | The Hottest August | Brett Story
August 2 | Gebo and the Shadow | Manoel de Oliveria | Twilight...
Xinyuan Zheng Lu’s Rotterdam winner The Cloud in Her Room is coming to Mubi in August, plus a “late film” special featuring Manoel de Olviera’s Gebo and the Shadow and The Last Sentence by Jan Troell. There will also be a canine double feature of Heddy Honigmann’s Buddy and Los Reyes by Bettina Perut and Ivan Osnovikoff.
See the lineup below and get 30 days of Mubi free here.
August 1 | The Hottest August | Brett Story
August 2 | Gebo and the Shadow | Manoel de Oliveria | Twilight...
- 7/19/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
MK2 Films has come on board “Silver Star,” a timely crime drama headlined by “Euphoria” star Sydney Sweeney and directed by Ruben Amar (“Swim Little Fish Swim”).
MK2 Films has acquired international sales to the indie road movie, and will introduce the project to buyers at the virtual American Film Market this week. Filming is scheduled to begin in early 2021 in the U.S.
“Silver Star” tells the story of a Bonnie-and-Clyde-type couple, Buddy, a 20-year-old Civil War re-enactor who’s fresh out of jail and struggling to root himself in today’s world, and Franny (Sydney Sweeney), an impulsive, pregnant 19-year-old with nothing to lose. Buddy is determined to reconnect with his estranged parents by saving their home from foreclosure, whatever it takes. During a botched bank robbery, Buddy takes Franny as his hostage and together they embark on an unexpected road trip across America.
Sweeney’s credits include “Euphoria,...
MK2 Films has acquired international sales to the indie road movie, and will introduce the project to buyers at the virtual American Film Market this week. Filming is scheduled to begin in early 2021 in the U.S.
“Silver Star” tells the story of a Bonnie-and-Clyde-type couple, Buddy, a 20-year-old Civil War re-enactor who’s fresh out of jail and struggling to root himself in today’s world, and Franny (Sydney Sweeney), an impulsive, pregnant 19-year-old with nothing to lose. Buddy is determined to reconnect with his estranged parents by saving their home from foreclosure, whatever it takes. During a botched bank robbery, Buddy takes Franny as his hostage and together they embark on an unexpected road trip across America.
Sweeney’s credits include “Euphoria,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Nick Cave has shared a new trailer for Idiot Prayer: Alone at Alexandria Palace, a live solo performance filmed during the Covid-19 pandemic that’s set to premiere July 23rd.
The clip, released Monday, offers a glimpse at Cave’s isolated set at the iconic London venue. It also features him reading a poem in voiceover as we see him striding into the theater’s main atrium and sitting at a piano.
“Idiot Prayer evolved from my Conversations With… events, performed over the last year or so,” Cave said in a statement.
The clip, released Monday, offers a glimpse at Cave’s isolated set at the iconic London venue. It also features him reading a poem in voiceover as we see him striding into the theater’s main atrium and sitting at a piano.
“Idiot Prayer evolved from my Conversations With… events, performed over the last year or so,” Cave said in a statement.
- 7/13/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
LevelK has boarded Anna Hildur’s directorial debut “A Song Called Hate,” a documentary revolving around Hatari, the performance art group which made headlines at last year’s Eurovision Song Contest. LevelK is handling world sales excluding Iceland.
Executive produced by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the documentary follows the journey of Hatari, a controversial Bdsm techno band which represented Iceland at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. The band notoriously flagged the Palestine banners when the contest results were announced, going against the rules of the European Broadcasting Union which organizes the show and wants it to be a non-political event.
“A Song Called Hate” tracks the band’s voyage from Reykjavik to Tel Aviv and Palestine, and examines how these young artists coped with criticism coming from all sides, as well as explores freedom of expression and the role of artists in engaging in contemporary issues.
“Making...
Executive produced by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the documentary follows the journey of Hatari, a controversial Bdsm techno band which represented Iceland at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. The band notoriously flagged the Palestine banners when the contest results were announced, going against the rules of the European Broadcasting Union which organizes the show and wants it to be a non-political event.
“A Song Called Hate” tracks the band’s voyage from Reykjavik to Tel Aviv and Palestine, and examines how these young artists coped with criticism coming from all sides, as well as explores freedom of expression and the role of artists in engaging in contemporary issues.
“Making...
- 5/4/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
After nine days of films, episodics, events, premieres and snow, Sundance is winding down and its ending with huge news as the Park City fest has announced Tabitha Jackson as the new Director of the Sundance Film Festival.
Jackson, who joined the Sundance Institute as the Director of the Documentary Film Program in 2013, will take the torch from John Cooper, who announced he was stepping down from the post last June. Sundance 2020 was Cooper’s last fest as director. Jackson will oversee the Festival’s overall vision and strategy while leading a senior team in close collaboration with Director of Programming, Kim Yutani. Cooper will take on the newly-created role of Emeritus Director. He will oversee special projects including preparations for the Institute’s 40th anniversary in 2021.
“I founded Sundance Institute with the clear mission of celebrating and supporting independent artists, said Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford in a statement,...
Jackson, who joined the Sundance Institute as the Director of the Documentary Film Program in 2013, will take the torch from John Cooper, who announced he was stepping down from the post last June. Sundance 2020 was Cooper’s last fest as director. Jackson will oversee the Festival’s overall vision and strategy while leading a senior team in close collaboration with Director of Programming, Kim Yutani. Cooper will take on the newly-created role of Emeritus Director. He will oversee special projects including preparations for the Institute’s 40th anniversary in 2021.
“I founded Sundance Institute with the clear mission of celebrating and supporting independent artists, said Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford in a statement,...
- 2/2/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Drafthouse Films has acquired North American rights to semi-fictional film 20,000 Days on Earth, starring Nick Cave, from Hanway Films. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s directorial debut premiered January at Sundance, where it won the best directing and best editing awards in the World Cinema Documentary category. The pic will have its European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is planning a theatrical release for the film this year. Set to an original score by Cave and Warren Ellis, 20,000 Days on Earth is an intimate look
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- 2/10/2014
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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