In Orlando von Einsiedel’s new documentary short Lost and Found a young girl named Dokana, separated from her family, waits patiently in hopes her mother will soon appear. As the hours pass the only sign of her mounting anxiety is the tears that brim in her luminous eyes.
Dokana is one of tens of thousands of children living in the world’s largest refugee camp, located in Bangladesh across the border from Myanmar. The camp is a makeshift home to the Rohingya minority who have been chased from their native Myanmar in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing.
“In Myanmar, entire villages were burned to the ground, families were separated and killed, and women and girls were gang raped,” according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “Most of the people who escaped were severely traumatized after witnessing unspeakable atrocities.”
Despite the enormity of the refugee crisis,...
Dokana is one of tens of thousands of children living in the world’s largest refugee camp, located in Bangladesh across the border from Myanmar. The camp is a makeshift home to the Rohingya minority who have been chased from their native Myanmar in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing.
“In Myanmar, entire villages were burned to the ground, families were separated and killed, and women and girls were gang raped,” according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “Most of the people who escaped were severely traumatized after witnessing unspeakable atrocities.”
Despite the enormity of the refugee crisis,...
- 11/22/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
IndieWire hosted its first-ever Consider This Fyc Brunch in honor of the 2019-2020 film awards season Tuesday, where over two dozen filmmakers, craftspeople, and producers discussed their work on the year’s best films in front of an audience of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters and guild members.
The event at Liaison Restaurant + Lounge in Hollywood was hosted by comedian and actor Sasheer Zamata. IndieWire staff moderated six intimate conversations with the editors, designers, directors, and others behind such films as the Gotham Award-nominated “Marriage Story,” Marvel hit “Avengers: Endgame,” the soon-to-launch Apple TV+’s inaugural film projects “The Elephant Queen” and “The Banker,” four National Geographic documentaries, and more.
“We’re here to celebrate the best films of the year,” IndieWire Editor-in-Chief Dana Harris-Bridson said. “In particular to celebrate the people who make those films possible — and that is the crafts.”
A panel moderated by Toolkit...
The event at Liaison Restaurant + Lounge in Hollywood was hosted by comedian and actor Sasheer Zamata. IndieWire staff moderated six intimate conversations with the editors, designers, directors, and others behind such films as the Gotham Award-nominated “Marriage Story,” Marvel hit “Avengers: Endgame,” the soon-to-launch Apple TV+’s inaugural film projects “The Elephant Queen” and “The Banker,” four National Geographic documentaries, and more.
“We’re here to celebrate the best films of the year,” IndieWire Editor-in-Chief Dana Harris-Bridson said. “In particular to celebrate the people who make those films possible — and that is the crafts.”
A panel moderated by Toolkit...
- 11/6/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Hosted by comedian and actor Sasheer Zamata, IndieWire honored movie awards season with panel discussions featuring many of this year’s contenders on Tuesday, November 5 in Los Angeles with the first-ever IndieWire Consider This Fyc Brunch. IndieWire welcomed attendees comprised of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members, as well as guild members and select press, for a program that explored the art and craft of 2019’s finest filmmaking across fiction and nonfiction features.
With a focus on below-the-line filmmakers, the IndieWire Consider This Fyc Brunch program included: a craft panel discussion with the artists behind “Marriage Story,” “Missing Link,” “Knives Out,” and “The Irishman”; a National Geographic Documentaries panel featuring the filmmakers behind “The Cave,” “The Nightcrawlers,” “Sea of Shadows,” and “Lost and Found”; an Apple Originals panel discussion with the directors of the documentary “The Elephant Queen”; an Amazon Studios panel with craftspeople behind “Honey Boy,” “The Report,...
With a focus on below-the-line filmmakers, the IndieWire Consider This Fyc Brunch program included: a craft panel discussion with the artists behind “Marriage Story,” “Missing Link,” “Knives Out,” and “The Irishman”; a National Geographic Documentaries panel featuring the filmmakers behind “The Cave,” “The Nightcrawlers,” “Sea of Shadows,” and “Lost and Found”; an Apple Originals panel discussion with the directors of the documentary “The Elephant Queen”; an Amazon Studios panel with craftspeople behind “Honey Boy,” “The Report,...
- 11/5/2019
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
IndieWire is pleased to announce its first-ever Consider This Fyc Brunch in honor of the 2019-2020 film awards season. Hosted by comedian and actor Sasheer Zamata, the invitation-only brunch will take place on Tuesday, November 5, in Los Angeles. IndieWire will welcome attendees comprised of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members, as well as guild members and select press, for a program that will present panels with this year’s awards-season contenders across both fiction and nonfiction films.
With additional panelists to be announced soon, the IndieWire Consider This Fyc Brunch program will present intimate conversations with the artists behind such films as the Gotham Award-nominated “Marriage Story,” Marvel hit “Avengers: Endgame,” the soon-to-launch Apple TV+’s inaugural film projects “The Elephant Queen” and “The Banker,” four National Geographic documentaries, and more.
Craft Panel Discussion
Jade Healy, production designer, Netflix’s “Marriage Story”
Deborah Cook, costume designer, United Artists Releasing...
With additional panelists to be announced soon, the IndieWire Consider This Fyc Brunch program will present intimate conversations with the artists behind such films as the Gotham Award-nominated “Marriage Story,” Marvel hit “Avengers: Endgame,” the soon-to-launch Apple TV+’s inaugural film projects “The Elephant Queen” and “The Banker,” four National Geographic documentaries, and more.
Craft Panel Discussion
Jade Healy, production designer, Netflix’s “Marriage Story”
Deborah Cook, costume designer, United Artists Releasing...
- 10/26/2019
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Headlining today's Horror Highlights are release details for Art of the Dead, which focuses on evil artwork that forces people to commit deadly deeds. Also: preview pages for Monster World: The Golden Age #4 and Blumhouse's Prey release details.
Art of the Dead Release Details: "Los Angeles, CA — October 13th, 2019 — ITN Distribution, Inc. is proud to, Inc. is proud to announce the North American release of Rolfe Kanefsky’s film Art Of The Dead, an engaging and entertaining supernatural horror film starring Tara Reid (American Pie series), Richard Grieco, Jessica Morris (“One Life to Live”), Lukas Hassel (The Black Room), Robert Donavan, Alex Rinehart (The Black Room), and Tania Fox (Puppet Master: Axis Termination).
The DVD release rolled out on October 1st, 2019, in stores nationwide, including Walmart, and online at Amazon.com. It’s currently available for purchase or rental through VOD channels, such as Amazon, Comcast Xfinity InDemand, Charter, Cox, TWC,...
Art of the Dead Release Details: "Los Angeles, CA — October 13th, 2019 — ITN Distribution, Inc. is proud to, Inc. is proud to announce the North American release of Rolfe Kanefsky’s film Art Of The Dead, an engaging and entertaining supernatural horror film starring Tara Reid (American Pie series), Richard Grieco, Jessica Morris (“One Life to Live”), Lukas Hassel (The Black Room), Robert Donavan, Alex Rinehart (The Black Room), and Tania Fox (Puppet Master: Axis Termination).
The DVD release rolled out on October 1st, 2019, in stores nationwide, including Walmart, and online at Amazon.com. It’s currently available for purchase or rental through VOD channels, such as Amazon, Comcast Xfinity InDemand, Charter, Cox, TWC,...
- 10/23/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Prey Synopsis
This horror-thriller Hyde Park Entertainment, ImageNation and Blumhouse Productions with Director Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening) follows Toby Burns (Logan Miller), a millennial coldly floating through life and disconnected from his family. After his father is tragically killed in a carjacking, Toby is left stricken with guilt. He is begrudgingly enrolled in a “Lost and Found” program, in which he will spend three days and three nights on a remote jungle island. Toby soon finds that this “uninhabited” island is not so lonely when he meets a mysterious girl named Madeleine (Kristine Froseth). It soon becomes clear that neither of them are safe here and time is running out. Someone or Something bloodthirsty lurks in the jungle, and Toby must find a way off this island before becoming its Prey…
Prey DVD
Type: DVD
Number of discs: 1
Running Time: 85 minutes
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Aspect Ratio: 16×9 2.39 (Letterbox)
Audio: English Dolby 5.1
Subtitles: English Cc,...
This horror-thriller Hyde Park Entertainment, ImageNation and Blumhouse Productions with Director Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening) follows Toby Burns (Logan Miller), a millennial coldly floating through life and disconnected from his family. After his father is tragically killed in a carjacking, Toby is left stricken with guilt. He is begrudgingly enrolled in a “Lost and Found” program, in which he will spend three days and three nights on a remote jungle island. Toby soon finds that this “uninhabited” island is not so lonely when he meets a mysterious girl named Madeleine (Kristine Froseth). It soon becomes clear that neither of them are safe here and time is running out. Someone or Something bloodthirsty lurks in the jungle, and Toby must find a way off this island before becoming its Prey…
Prey DVD
Type: DVD
Number of discs: 1
Running Time: 85 minutes
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Aspect Ratio: 16×9 2.39 (Letterbox)
Audio: English Dolby 5.1
Subtitles: English Cc,...
- 10/16/2019
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Next year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature will go to “Apollo 11,” “The Cave,” “Diego Maradona,” “For Sama,” “Knock Down the House” or one of 10 other nonfiction films, if the track record for Doc NYC’s annual Short List proves to be as accurate as it has been in past years.
Those five films were included on the documentary festival’s 2019 list, along with “American Factory,” “The Apollo,” “Ask Dr. Ruth,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “The Edge of Democracy,” “The Elephant Queen,” “The Great Hack,” “Honeyland,” “The Kingmaker” and “One Child Nation.”
All of the films will screen at this year’s festival, which runs in New York City from Nov. 6 through Nov. 15, and will be eligible for juried awards in four categories for the first time.
Doc NYC has been compiling its Short List, which identifies the documentaries that its programming team considers to be the year’s strongest awards contenders,...
Those five films were included on the documentary festival’s 2019 list, along with “American Factory,” “The Apollo,” “Ask Dr. Ruth,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “The Edge of Democracy,” “The Elephant Queen,” “The Great Hack,” “Honeyland,” “The Kingmaker” and “One Child Nation.”
All of the films will screen at this year’s festival, which runs in New York City from Nov. 6 through Nov. 15, and will be eligible for juried awards in four categories for the first time.
Doc NYC has been compiling its Short List, which identifies the documentaries that its programming team considers to be the year’s strongest awards contenders,...
- 9/26/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Twenty-five years after Harry Nilsson died of a heart attack at the age of 52, his estate has announced a new album of unreleased material. Titled Losst and Founnd, the record will arrive on November 22nd via Omnivore Recordings.
Nilsson was working on the record at the time of his death, and fans have asked for its release ever since. It marks his first new material in nearly 40 years, following 1980’s Flash Harry. Two singles have been released — the dreamy “U.C.L.A.” and “Lost and Found” — which can be heard below.
Nilsson was working on the record at the time of his death, and fans have asked for its release ever since. It marks his first new material in nearly 40 years, following 1980’s Flash Harry. Two singles have been released — the dreamy “U.C.L.A.” and “Lost and Found” — which can be heard below.
- 9/25/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Grief-stricken and looking for a new start in life, a young man (Logan Miller) signs up to be secluded on an island for three days as part of a "Lost and Found" project, but he didn't anticipate finding a shipwreck and a new arrival to the island in Prey, a new horror movie from Hyde Park Entertainment, ImageNation, and Blumhouse Productions. Ahead of its theatrical and VOD release, we've been provided with an exclusive clip from Prey as a special treat for Daily Dead readers!
Discover an eerie shipwreck and a mysterious survivor in our exclusive clip below, and keep an eye out for Prey in theaters and on VOD beginning this Friday, September 27th.
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Cinedigm Corp (Nasdaq: Cidm) has officially announced that it will release Prey, directed by Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening), theatrically and on VOD September 27, 2019. From Hyde Park Entertainment, ImageNation and Blumhouse Productions,...
Discover an eerie shipwreck and a mysterious survivor in our exclusive clip below, and keep an eye out for Prey in theaters and on VOD beginning this Friday, September 27th.
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Cinedigm Corp (Nasdaq: Cidm) has officially announced that it will release Prey, directed by Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening), theatrically and on VOD September 27, 2019. From Hyde Park Entertainment, ImageNation and Blumhouse Productions,...
- 9/23/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Netflix’s Oscar season clout exploded in early 2019, when the streaming platform scored its first Best Picture nomination for “Roma,” but the company actually won its first Oscar two years earlier. When “The White Helmets,” Orlando von Einsiedel’s harrowing portrait of bomb relief activists in Syria, won Best Documentary Short Subject, it marked a turning point for the company. For the filmmaker, however, it was a different story.
“The win was immensely flattering, but I don’t know if it led to loads of offers,” Einsiedel said in a recent interview. Instead, the 39-year-old British filmmaker found that he gained far more currency when his 2015 feature “Virunga,” about the plight of Congolese park rangers fending off poachers, scored a Best Documentary nomination. “I went from a very unknown filmmaker to a little better known,” he said. “That was a big shift.”
A former snowboarder who found his niche in riveting social issue documentaries,...
“The win was immensely flattering, but I don’t know if it led to loads of offers,” Einsiedel said in a recent interview. Instead, the 39-year-old British filmmaker found that he gained far more currency when his 2015 feature “Virunga,” about the plight of Congolese park rangers fending off poachers, scored a Best Documentary nomination. “I went from a very unknown filmmaker to a little better known,” he said. “That was a big shift.”
A former snowboarder who found his niche in riveting social issue documentaries,...
- 9/20/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It's been more than two years since British director Orlando von Einsiedel won the Oscar for documentary short The White Helmets, a harrowing look at the daily heroisms of volunteer rescue workers in the Syria Civil Defense.
The award would prove to be Netflix's first taste of Academy success (he'd already landed them a nomination in 2015 for Virunga), and while the streamer has since added several more gold statuettes to its collection, Einsiedel hasn't sat still. Last year he turned the camera on his own family for the emotionally raw Evelyn, which explored the death of his ...
The award would prove to be Netflix's first taste of Academy success (he'd already landed them a nomination in 2015 for Virunga), and while the streamer has since added several more gold statuettes to its collection, Einsiedel hasn't sat still. Last year he turned the camera on his own family for the emotionally raw Evelyn, which explored the death of his ...
- 9/17/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The world premieres of James Mangold’s “Ford v Ferrari,” the Safdie brothers’ “Uncut Gems,” Edward Norton’s “Motherless Brooklyn,” Tom Harper’s “The Aeronauts,” Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow” and Rupert Goold’s “Judy” will highlight the lineup of the 2019 Telluride Film Festival. The festival announced its slate of films on Thursday, one day before the three-day event will kick off in the Colorado mountain town.
Stars headed to the Colorado mountain town should include Matt Damon and Christian Bale for the auto-racing drama “Ford v Ferrari,” Adam Sandler for “Uncut Gems,” Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones for the period piece “The Aeronauts” and Renee Zellweger for the Judy Garland story “Judy.”...
Stars headed to the Colorado mountain town should include Matt Damon and Christian Bale for the auto-racing drama “Ford v Ferrari,” Adam Sandler for “Uncut Gems,” Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones for the period piece “The Aeronauts” and Renee Zellweger for the Judy Garland story “Judy.”...
- 8/29/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
After playing home to such Oscar-winning documentary features as recent winner “Free Solo” and other awards season favorites like “Jane” and “La 92,” National Geographic Documentary Films is turning its attention to another vibrant side of the doc world: short films. The debut slate will include the documentary shorts “Lost and Found,” from Academy Award-winning director Orlando von Einsiedel, and “The Nightcrawlers” from Academy Award-winning producer Joanna Natasegara and first-time director Alexander A. Mora.
“We have seen incredible momentum and critical acclaim since the launch of National Geographic Documentary Films two-and-a-half years ago. It feels like the logical next step to expand our presence in the documentary film landscape with documentary shorts” said Carolyn Bernstein, Evp, global scripted content and documentary films, National Geographic in an official statement.
She added, “National Geographic has always been committed to telling globally relevant and engaging stories that deepen audiences’ understanding of the world and their role in it.
“We have seen incredible momentum and critical acclaim since the launch of National Geographic Documentary Films two-and-a-half years ago. It feels like the logical next step to expand our presence in the documentary film landscape with documentary shorts” said Carolyn Bernstein, Evp, global scripted content and documentary films, National Geographic in an official statement.
She added, “National Geographic has always been committed to telling globally relevant and engaging stories that deepen audiences’ understanding of the world and their role in it.
- 8/20/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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