Exclusive: UTA has signed Walter Woodman, Patrick Cederberg, Matthew Hornick and Sidney Leeder, the filmmakers behind the creative collective shy kids, for representation in all areas.
A group of multi-faceted creatives based out of Toronto, shy kids has recently become synonymous with the OpenAI Sora filmmaking movement, with projects like the viral short film Air Head. Known for their style blending technology, innovation, humor and rhythm, they create most of their projects from scratch and are proficient in various aspects such as writing, directing, producing, shooting, editing, animating, VFX, and composing music.
Currently, shy kids is involved in producing series for such major entertainment companies as Disney, HBO, AMC, and Netflix. Notable projects the collective has worked on includes Lionsgate’s Nerve and The CW’s The Originals, as well as Netflix’s Emmy-nominated The Great Hack and Emmy-winning Athlete A.
In 2022, shy kids premiered their Ethan Eng-directed feature...
A group of multi-faceted creatives based out of Toronto, shy kids has recently become synonymous with the OpenAI Sora filmmaking movement, with projects like the viral short film Air Head. Known for their style blending technology, innovation, humor and rhythm, they create most of their projects from scratch and are proficient in various aspects such as writing, directing, producing, shooting, editing, animating, VFX, and composing music.
Currently, shy kids is involved in producing series for such major entertainment companies as Disney, HBO, AMC, and Netflix. Notable projects the collective has worked on includes Lionsgate’s Nerve and The CW’s The Originals, as well as Netflix’s Emmy-nominated The Great Hack and Emmy-winning Athlete A.
In 2022, shy kids premiered their Ethan Eng-directed feature...
- 4/30/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
As generative artificial intelligence marches on the entertainment industry, Hollywood is taking stock of the tech and its potential to be incorporated into the filmmaking process. No tool has piqued the town’s interest more than OpenAI’s Sora, which was unveiled in February as capable of creating hyperrealistic clips in response to a text prompt of just a couple of sentences. In recent days, the Sam Altman-led firm released a series of videos from beta testers who are providing feedback to improve the tech. The Hollywood Reporter spoke with some of those Sora testers about what it can, and can’t, really do.
Sora was made available to the team at Shy Kids, a Toronto-based production company composed of Walter Woodman, Sidney Leeder and Patrick Cederberg, who’ve collaborated on projects with HBO, Disney and Netflix in feature films such as Blackberry, Therapy Dogs and Nerve. With the tool,...
Sora was made available to the team at Shy Kids, a Toronto-based production company composed of Walter Woodman, Sidney Leeder and Patrick Cederberg, who’ve collaborated on projects with HBO, Disney and Netflix in feature films such as Blackberry, Therapy Dogs and Nerve. With the tool,...
- 4/4/2024
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Charlotte Nicdao and Gemma Bird Matheson in ‘Content’ (Photo credit: ABC/Mia Forrest).
Ludo Studio’s vertical comedy Content and Endemol Shine Australia’s documentary Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds, both ABC commissions, will fly the flag for Australia at this year’s International Emmy Awards.
Produced by Meg O’Connell and written by Anna Barnes, the comedy starring Charlotte Nicdao as Lucy, an extrovert chasing Internet fame and Gemma Bird Matheson as her best friend Daisy, is nominated for Short-Form Series.
“I love this show so much and I’m so proud of the team,” Ludo Studio’s Daley Pearson said on social media. “This is Ludo’s 4th Emmy [nomination] and I’m so happy for everyone at the studio.”
In April, the Brisbane-based studio’s Bluey won the International Emmy Kids Award for best preschool program, following wins for interactive comedy #7DaysLater in 2015 and animated series Doodles in 2016.
The Esa documentary,...
Ludo Studio’s vertical comedy Content and Endemol Shine Australia’s documentary Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds, both ABC commissions, will fly the flag for Australia at this year’s International Emmy Awards.
Produced by Meg O’Connell and written by Anna Barnes, the comedy starring Charlotte Nicdao as Lucy, an extrovert chasing Internet fame and Gemma Bird Matheson as her best friend Daisy, is nominated for Short-Form Series.
“I love this show so much and I’m so proud of the team,” Ludo Studio’s Daley Pearson said on social media. “This is Ludo’s 4th Emmy [nomination] and I’m so happy for everyone at the studio.”
In April, the Brisbane-based studio’s Bluey won the International Emmy Kids Award for best preschool program, following wins for interactive comedy #7DaysLater in 2015 and animated series Doodles in 2016.
The Esa documentary,...
- 9/24/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘The Eyeslicer’: Cult Variety Streaming Series Shifts Offline With New Festival and More — Exclusive
Cult variety TV show “The Eyeslicer” is gearing up for its second season, one that will move the streaming series into the terrestrial world with a brand new mini film festival, taking place in Brooklyn from September 14 to 17. The brainchild of creators Dan Schoenbrun and Vanessa McDonnell, the episodic series invites some of independent film’s most exciting directors to embrace their weird and experimental side in making a variety of short content, which is then weaved into thematic episodes.
The 13-episode Season 2 of “The Eyeslicer” will feature work from over 70 filmmakers, offerings that the co-creators describe as “a deep-dive into the strange, dark heart of our contemporary American hellscape, while also being an optimistic celebration of independent art-making within said hellscape.”
Starting with this new season, the internet will no longer be the series’ principal platform, but it will instead use a unique, zine-inspired mini-festival in Brooklyn and the...
The 13-episode Season 2 of “The Eyeslicer” will feature work from over 70 filmmakers, offerings that the co-creators describe as “a deep-dive into the strange, dark heart of our contemporary American hellscape, while also being an optimistic celebration of independent art-making within said hellscape.”
Starting with this new season, the internet will no longer be the series’ principal platform, but it will instead use a unique, zine-inspired mini-festival in Brooklyn and the...
- 8/1/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
A Room with a Coconut ViewThe so-called ‘desktop movie,’ a film visually told predominantly or entirely through the setup of a computer screen, has had a couple of high-profile examples over the last few years. Among these are Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows (2014), Patrick Cederberg and Walter Woodman’s short Noah (2013), and, most notably in terms of mainstream success, Levan Gabriadze’s Unfriended (2014). 2018 would seem to be a major year for the genre, if you can call it a genre just yet, with the wide release of sequel Unfriended: Dark Web, Timur Bekmambetov’s Profile playing festivals, and now the release, through Sony, of Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching. It is worth noting that Bekmambetov also produced the two of those 2018 titles he didn’t direct, so there’s at least one benefactor devoted to making the form catch on. With the exception of something like Kevin B. Lee’s essay...
- 8/15/2018
- MUBI
After relentless online bullying, Laura Barns killed herself. She went out to the school yard, took a handgun, turned it on herself and that was it. Footage of the suicide remains on YouTube a year later as does the original video that started the whole thing, video of an inebriated Laura, passed out in the dirt with menstrual blood staining her shorts and legs. Tonight, a group of friends that knew Laura have gathered on Skype for a nightly chat. Unfriended is shot entirely from this perspective, capturing the desktop of one of Laura's friends, Blaire (Shelley Hennig), as she chats it up with her boyfriend (Moses Jacob Storm) and a growing group of friends and one unknown visitor. Seen only as an anonymous icon in their Skype chat, it soon becomes evident someone or -- dun, dun, dun -- something has hacked their chat and their malevolent motivations soon become clear.
- 4/16/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
“Noah” directors Patrick Cederberg and Walter Woodman set out to make a movie using a format that they hadn't seen been used well, which told an honest story about online relationships. What they ended up with was “Noah,” a short film that follows a young man who destroys his relationship with his girlfriend while pasting together the information available to him online. Cederberg and Woodman have jointly worked on many projects together, including movies and music, since meeting in 2010. “Noah” is the first short film they've produced together. Watch and Vote For TheWrap's ShortList Film Festival Finalists Here Starring Sam Kantor,...
- 8/21/2014
- by Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
The third annual ShortList Film Festival, which runs through August 27, 2014 just announced the 12 finalists.
The 12 finalists include shorts prize winners from the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, the La Film Festival, Tribeca, Aspen, Clermont-Ferrand and other prestigious festivals. The films and filmmakers come from the United States, Mexico, Mozambique, Germany, Brazil and elsewhere around the globe.
All films are available now through August 27 for online voting Here. The shorts will also air on the Epix network August 24 at 6pm Et/3pm Pt and again in Epix’s Drive-In on August 25 12midnight Et/August 24 9pm Pt.
Two winners will each receive $5,000 cash prizes, the Audience Prize sponsored by YouTube and the Industry Prize sponsored by Epix at an awards ceremony on August 28 at the YouTube Space Los Angeles.
The Industry Prize winner, chosen by a jury of independent film experts, will also receive a pitch meeting at Paramount Pictures, MGM or Lionsgate to pitch their next project. The Audience Prize winner determined by popular vote will also receive the use of the YouTube Space for their next project.
Each winner will receive the opportunity to consult with the independent movie studio Cinedigm.
The Shortlist is proudly sponsored by Cinedigm, Epix, MTV and YouTube. It is presented by The Wrap and programmed by Nancy Collet.
Here are the finalists in three categories:
Animation
"Eager"
Directed by: Allison Schulnik
USA, 8 Minutes
A rhythmic ritual is performed by a bizarre ensemble of macabre figures.
Special Jury Recognition, South by Southwest ’14
"Macropolis"
Directed by: Joel Simon
UK, 8 Minutes
Two discarded toys find a new lease of life in a big alien city full of humans.
Family Choice Award, Ashland International Film Festival ‘ 14
"Me + Her"
Directed by: Joseph Oxford
USA, 13 Minutes
When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's untimely death, Jack goes on a journey to mend his (literally) broken heart.
Best Animated Short, Aspen Shortfest ’14
Narrative Fiction
"The Gunfighter"
Directed by: Eric Kissack
USA, 9 Minutes
A gunfighter in the old West starts off a chain reaction when the voiceover announcing his entrance to a saloon proceeds to give a laundry list of the town’s deepest secrets.
Audience Award, Los Angeles Film Festival ‘14
"My Friend Nietzsche"
Directed by: Fáuston da Silva
Brazil, 15 Minutes
The improbable meeting between Lucas and Nietzsche will be the beginning of a violent revolution.
Audience Award, Clermont-Ferrand Iff '14
"Noah"
Directed by: Patrick Cederberg; Walter Woodman
Canada, 18 Minutes
A relationship steeped in social media and told through the lens of Noah’s computer screen.
Best Short Film, Toronto International Film Festival ’13
"Off Ground"
Directed by: Boudewijn Koole
Germany, 13 Minutes
A dance film about a boy that says farewell to his mother.
Audience Awards, Netherlands International Film Festival ’14
"The Phone Call"
Directed by: Matt Kirby
UK, 19 Minutes
When a shy lady (Sally Hawkins) who works in a suicide helpline call center takes a phone call from a distraught man (Jim Broadbendt), she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.
Best Narrative Short, Tribeca ’14
"A Tropical Sunday"
Directed by: Fabian Ribezzo
Mozambique/Italy, 15 Minutes
It's Sunday and crowds of eager children line up for rides at the fairground. Among them are four street kids, who have spent the week begging and scavenging. Today all they want is to feel like children again.
Best Drama, Aspen Shortsfest ‘14
"Verbatim"
Directed by: Brett Weiner
USA, 7 Minutes
A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee has ever used a photocopier. All the dialogue comes from an actual legal deposition.
Best Short Film, Dallas International Film Festival ’14
"Not It (Zafo)"
Directed by: Pablo Orta
Mexico, 5 Minutes
An afternoon with a group of young boys who draw straws to see who will perform a grim task
Best Short Film, Guadalajara International Film Festival ’14
Documentary
"The Silly Bastard Next to the Bed"
Directed by: Scott Calonico
UK, 9 Minutes
JFK places a salty call to his staff, questioning a potentially embarrassing expenditure.
Audience Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ’14
The 2014 festival is programmed by Nancy Collet.
About The ShortList:
The ShortList (http://shortlistfilmfestival.com ) represents the best of the best of filmmaking in the format that young filmmakers and enthusiasts use most often: shorts. The ShortList showcases 12 award-winning short films hand-picked from world’s top film festivals of the past year. An Audience Award is chosen by viewers’ online votes and a Jury Prize is chosen by the Industry jury, a six-person panel of veteran independent film professionals. Winning films will be announced at a special live event on August 28 in Los Angeles and will air on the Epix network.
About The Wrap News Inc.:
The Wrap News Inc., founded by award-winning journalist Sharon Waxman in 2009, is the leading digital news organization covering the business of entertainment and media. As a multi-platform media company, The Wrap News Inc. is comprised of TheWrap.com, the award-winning, industry-leading outlet for high-profile newsbreaks, investigative stories and authoritative analysis; PowerGrid Pro, the most current, relevant film development database; and TheGrill, an executive leadership conference centered on the convergence of entertainment, media and technology. The Wrap News, Inc. is backed by Maveron, a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington and co-founded by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Dan Levitan.
The 12 finalists include shorts prize winners from the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, the La Film Festival, Tribeca, Aspen, Clermont-Ferrand and other prestigious festivals. The films and filmmakers come from the United States, Mexico, Mozambique, Germany, Brazil and elsewhere around the globe.
All films are available now through August 27 for online voting Here. The shorts will also air on the Epix network August 24 at 6pm Et/3pm Pt and again in Epix’s Drive-In on August 25 12midnight Et/August 24 9pm Pt.
Two winners will each receive $5,000 cash prizes, the Audience Prize sponsored by YouTube and the Industry Prize sponsored by Epix at an awards ceremony on August 28 at the YouTube Space Los Angeles.
The Industry Prize winner, chosen by a jury of independent film experts, will also receive a pitch meeting at Paramount Pictures, MGM or Lionsgate to pitch their next project. The Audience Prize winner determined by popular vote will also receive the use of the YouTube Space for their next project.
Each winner will receive the opportunity to consult with the independent movie studio Cinedigm.
The Shortlist is proudly sponsored by Cinedigm, Epix, MTV and YouTube. It is presented by The Wrap and programmed by Nancy Collet.
Here are the finalists in three categories:
Animation
"Eager"
Directed by: Allison Schulnik
USA, 8 Minutes
A rhythmic ritual is performed by a bizarre ensemble of macabre figures.
Special Jury Recognition, South by Southwest ’14
"Macropolis"
Directed by: Joel Simon
UK, 8 Minutes
Two discarded toys find a new lease of life in a big alien city full of humans.
Family Choice Award, Ashland International Film Festival ‘ 14
"Me + Her"
Directed by: Joseph Oxford
USA, 13 Minutes
When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's untimely death, Jack goes on a journey to mend his (literally) broken heart.
Best Animated Short, Aspen Shortfest ’14
Narrative Fiction
"The Gunfighter"
Directed by: Eric Kissack
USA, 9 Minutes
A gunfighter in the old West starts off a chain reaction when the voiceover announcing his entrance to a saloon proceeds to give a laundry list of the town’s deepest secrets.
Audience Award, Los Angeles Film Festival ‘14
"My Friend Nietzsche"
Directed by: Fáuston da Silva
Brazil, 15 Minutes
The improbable meeting between Lucas and Nietzsche will be the beginning of a violent revolution.
Audience Award, Clermont-Ferrand Iff '14
"Noah"
Directed by: Patrick Cederberg; Walter Woodman
Canada, 18 Minutes
A relationship steeped in social media and told through the lens of Noah’s computer screen.
Best Short Film, Toronto International Film Festival ’13
"Off Ground"
Directed by: Boudewijn Koole
Germany, 13 Minutes
A dance film about a boy that says farewell to his mother.
Audience Awards, Netherlands International Film Festival ’14
"The Phone Call"
Directed by: Matt Kirby
UK, 19 Minutes
When a shy lady (Sally Hawkins) who works in a suicide helpline call center takes a phone call from a distraught man (Jim Broadbendt), she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.
Best Narrative Short, Tribeca ’14
"A Tropical Sunday"
Directed by: Fabian Ribezzo
Mozambique/Italy, 15 Minutes
It's Sunday and crowds of eager children line up for rides at the fairground. Among them are four street kids, who have spent the week begging and scavenging. Today all they want is to feel like children again.
Best Drama, Aspen Shortsfest ‘14
"Verbatim"
Directed by: Brett Weiner
USA, 7 Minutes
A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee has ever used a photocopier. All the dialogue comes from an actual legal deposition.
Best Short Film, Dallas International Film Festival ’14
"Not It (Zafo)"
Directed by: Pablo Orta
Mexico, 5 Minutes
An afternoon with a group of young boys who draw straws to see who will perform a grim task
Best Short Film, Guadalajara International Film Festival ’14
Documentary
"The Silly Bastard Next to the Bed"
Directed by: Scott Calonico
UK, 9 Minutes
JFK places a salty call to his staff, questioning a potentially embarrassing expenditure.
Audience Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ’14
The 2014 festival is programmed by Nancy Collet.
About The ShortList:
The ShortList (http://shortlistfilmfestival.com ) represents the best of the best of filmmaking in the format that young filmmakers and enthusiasts use most often: shorts. The ShortList showcases 12 award-winning short films hand-picked from world’s top film festivals of the past year. An Audience Award is chosen by viewers’ online votes and a Jury Prize is chosen by the Industry jury, a six-person panel of veteran independent film professionals. Winning films will be announced at a special live event on August 28 in Los Angeles and will air on the Epix network.
About The Wrap News Inc.:
The Wrap News Inc., founded by award-winning journalist Sharon Waxman in 2009, is the leading digital news organization covering the business of entertainment and media. As a multi-platform media company, The Wrap News Inc. is comprised of TheWrap.com, the award-winning, industry-leading outlet for high-profile newsbreaks, investigative stories and authoritative analysis; PowerGrid Pro, the most current, relevant film development database; and TheGrill, an executive leadership conference centered on the convergence of entertainment, media and technology. The Wrap News, Inc. is backed by Maveron, a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington and co-founded by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Dan Levitan.
- 8/19/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The following short film first started making the rounds online last year when it played at the Toronto International Film Festival, but I only saw it tonight thanks to a tweet from Darren Aronofsky, which I guess is ironically fitting since it's titled Noah, but this one doesn't have much to do with two of each species, a giant ark or flood, but it does have to do with a teen named Noah and a lot to do with today's social media-addicted way of life. Directed by Patrick Cederberg and Walter Woodman, the film centers on Noah (Sam Kantor) and picks up with him logging onto his computer, watching a little online porn, chatting with friends and a Skype back-and-forth with his girlfriend Amy (Caitlin McConkey-Pirie), which is when things begin to take a turn for the worse. Yes, it's just over 17 minutes long, but trust me, it's worth it,...
- 6/21/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Despite not being nominated for Best Director, Louise Archambault’s Gabrielle managed to pull off what we thought was the impossible (our Leora Heilbronn has pegged the drama as the film that should win, but favored Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy as the best bet) winning Best Motion Picture at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards (a.k.a Canadian Oscars). If the out of synch supposed “live” telecast wasn’t bad enough (all awards including the winning film were announced almost one hour prior to on twittersphere), the show’s producers gave Gabrielle winning producers Luc Déry and Kim McCraw the equivalent of end of toilette paper roll in terms of time.
The voters also choose Gabrielle‘s Gabrielle Marion-Rivard as Best Actress in a Leading Role, while the heavily favored Enemy grabbed five awards, Best Direction for Villeneuve, Best Original Score for the excellent Danny Bensi/Saunder Jurriaans pairing , Best Editing,...
The voters also choose Gabrielle‘s Gabrielle Marion-Rivard as Best Actress in a Leading Role, while the heavily favored Enemy grabbed five awards, Best Direction for Villeneuve, Best Original Score for the excellent Danny Bensi/Saunder Jurriaans pairing , Best Editing,...
- 3/10/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Prizes to Bulgaria, China and Canada as Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival draws to a close.Scroll down for full list of winners
This year’s Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival has wrapped with an outlook that juxtaposes the gloomy with the optimistic.
During the closing night ceremony of the world’s biggest shorts festival, Jean-Claude Saurel - the president of organiser Sauve qui peut le Court Métrage - took the opportunity to lament the continuing cuts in budgets for French culture and cultural organisations and urged people to help protest against the current policies of the French administration.
However, with audiences for the festival at approximately 160,000 (up more than 5,000 from the previous year), there was still a sense of cautious celebration for the state of short film in France and beyond.
The festival’s International Grand Prix went to Bulgarian/German co-production Pride, Pavel Vesnakov’s powerfully acted story about a retired grandfather who finds...
This year’s Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival has wrapped with an outlook that juxtaposes the gloomy with the optimistic.
During the closing night ceremony of the world’s biggest shorts festival, Jean-Claude Saurel - the president of organiser Sauve qui peut le Court Métrage - took the opportunity to lament the continuing cuts in budgets for French culture and cultural organisations and urged people to help protest against the current policies of the French administration.
However, with audiences for the festival at approximately 160,000 (up more than 5,000 from the previous year), there was still a sense of cautious celebration for the state of short film in France and beyond.
The festival’s International Grand Prix went to Bulgarian/German co-production Pride, Pavel Vesnakov’s powerfully acted story about a retired grandfather who finds...
- 2/12/2014
- ScreenDaily
Here’s the new Viewfinder List, the entertainment industry survey which polls studio executives, producers and creatives for their top 10 short films, commercials and/or music videos. This is similar to The Black List, as the Viewfinder List honors short form content and the directors who made them. The list was created by producer Jeff Schroeder, Aaron Schmidt (Langley Park Pictures) and Patrick Chu (FilmNation). In recent years, some of the shorts have been optioned and some of their directors have gotten jobs — and hey, the attention never hurts. This year’s top vote-getter, Fool’s Day, was directed by Cody Blue Snider, the son of Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider. Here is the website where it is possible to watch the shorts: Related: Viewfinder List 2012 Viewfinder List 2011 Votes: 17 Fool’s Day, directed by Cody Blue Snider Agents: Wme – Roger Green, Solco Schuit Managers: Circle of Confusion – Zach Cox Votes: 15 Noah,...
- 12/18/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Last night in a packed theatre at the Tiff Bell Lightbox an eclectic group of film critics, the who’s who of top local film producers and filmmakers, and Tiff executives gathered to hear the unveiling of the 13th annual Canada’s Top Ten films of the year. The room buzzed with excitement with many discussing the Nyfcc winners, predicting the Board of Review winners and, of course, noting which filmmakers were in attendance (assuming that was a clear cut sign of who made the list).
A hushed silence came over the crowd when Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Tiff, took to the podium on stage to introduce the evening’s host, beloved local comedian Steve Patterson. “As a 15 year veteran of comedy, I know what it’s like not to be recognized”, Patterson cracked, making light of Canadian gems often going overlooked on the world stage. This year, however,...
A hushed silence came over the crowd when Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Tiff, took to the podium on stage to introduce the evening’s host, beloved local comedian Steve Patterson. “As a 15 year veteran of comedy, I know what it’s like not to be recognized”, Patterson cracked, making light of Canadian gems often going overlooked on the world stage. This year, however,...
- 12/4/2013
- by Leora Heilbronn
- IONCINEMA.com
Enemy, The F-Word, Sarah Prefers To Run make it on to annual list.
Enemy, The F-Word, Sarah Prefers To Run have made it on to Tiff’s annual list.
The Tiff hierarchy announced on December 3 its feature and short film selections for the 13th annual Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival.
The 10-day festival is scheduled to run from January 3-12 2014 at Tiff Bell Lightbox and features public screenings of selected films accompanied by introductions and Q&A sessions with film-makers.
Director Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal will appear at Tiff Bell Lightbox on January 5 to discuss their recent collaborations on Prisoners and Enemy (pictured).
The festival will conclude on January 12 with an on-stage conversation between Canadian film-maker John Greyson and Toronto International Film Festival artistic director Cameron Bailey.
“Canadian movies are global movies now, and Tiff’s Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival is the best opportunity to see our country’s creativity on the big...
Enemy, The F-Word, Sarah Prefers To Run have made it on to Tiff’s annual list.
The Tiff hierarchy announced on December 3 its feature and short film selections for the 13th annual Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival.
The 10-day festival is scheduled to run from January 3-12 2014 at Tiff Bell Lightbox and features public screenings of selected films accompanied by introductions and Q&A sessions with film-makers.
Director Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal will appear at Tiff Bell Lightbox on January 5 to discuss their recent collaborations on Prisoners and Enemy (pictured).
The festival will conclude on January 12 with an on-stage conversation between Canadian film-maker John Greyson and Toronto International Film Festival artistic director Cameron Bailey.
“Canadian movies are global movies now, and Tiff’s Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival is the best opportunity to see our country’s creativity on the big...
- 12/3/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Paul Potts movie ‘One Chance’ wins 2013 Starz Denver Film Festival Audience Award (photo: James Corden as ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ hit Paul Potts looking at Brad Pitt photo in ‘One Chance’) Among the winners at the 2013 Starz Denver Film Festival (Sdff), which ran November 6-17, was David Frankel’s One Chance, the story of Paul Potts, a timid shop assistant and amateur opera singer who eventually topped "Britain’s Got Talent." James Corden plays Potts, while Julie Walters and Colm Meaney are his parents. Director Frankel’s best-known movies are The Devil Wears Prada (2006), which earned Meryl Streep a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing Anne Hathaway’s style-conscious boss and nemesis, and the sentimental blockbuster Marley & Me (2008), toplining Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. A 2012 reunion with Meryl Streep in Hope Springs, also featuring Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell, did only moderate business. This year’s Starz Denver...
- 11/21/2013
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Mubi is proud to partner with the 33rd Munich International Festival of Film Schools, presenting films of the official selection online, for free, and only on Mubi. You don't have to come to Munich to see some of the freshest film school productions from around the world—we bring them to your screen!
The Munich International Festival of Film Schools has been presenting work by film students since 1981, bringing together young filmmakers from all over the world to share their films and experiences with each other.
Get a taste of the latest film school triumphs at the same time that they are screened in Munich. It's free for a whole week through November 23rd, right here at Mubi. Prost!
The Films:
Who We Are (Maxime Michaud, Canada) One Man Loved Me (Ana Urushadze, Georgia) Octopus (Paul Villanova, USA) Lovers So Entwined (Coco Wertheim, Australia) Four Hours Barefoot (Ico Costa, Portugal...
The Munich International Festival of Film Schools has been presenting work by film students since 1981, bringing together young filmmakers from all over the world to share their films and experiences with each other.
Get a taste of the latest film school triumphs at the same time that they are screened in Munich. It's free for a whole week through November 23rd, right here at Mubi. Prost!
The Films:
Who We Are (Maxime Michaud, Canada) One Man Loved Me (Ana Urushadze, Georgia) Octopus (Paul Villanova, USA) Lovers So Entwined (Coco Wertheim, Australia) Four Hours Barefoot (Ico Costa, Portugal...
- 11/18/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave won the Toronto International Film Festival’s (Tiff) Blackberry People’s Choice Award in a significant development that places the hard-hitting drama among an elite club.
While McQueen’s film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender includes brutal sequences that may upset Academy voters, the imminent Fox Searchlight release (Oct 18) is already among the vanguard of what is shaping up to be a season of rare quality.
Gravity, Prisoners, Rush, Dallas Buyers Club and Philomena have all drawn strong to exceptional reviews and two of these films — Philomena and Prisoners — were runners-up in this year’s category.
Captain Phillips has also excited passions in advance of its Sept 27 world premiere screening as opening night film of the New York Film Festival, yet few will overlook the significance of the Tiff prize.
The festival’s recent audience award winners that have gone on to claim the best picture Oscar include The King...
While McQueen’s film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender includes brutal sequences that may upset Academy voters, the imminent Fox Searchlight release (Oct 18) is already among the vanguard of what is shaping up to be a season of rare quality.
Gravity, Prisoners, Rush, Dallas Buyers Club and Philomena have all drawn strong to exceptional reviews and two of these films — Philomena and Prisoners — were runners-up in this year’s category.
Captain Phillips has also excited passions in advance of its Sept 27 world premiere screening as opening night film of the New York Film Festival, yet few will overlook the significance of the Tiff prize.
The festival’s recent audience award winners that have gone on to claim the best picture Oscar include The King...
- 9/16/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Anup Singh’s Qissa won the Netpac (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival that concluded recently.
The Netpac jury included Jay Jeon (Korea), Intishal Al Timimi (Abu Dhabi) and Freddie Wong (Hong Kong).
The jury remarked: “The Netpac Award for the best Asian film at Festival 2013 goes to Qissa, directed by Anup Singh, for its sensitive portrayal of the issues of identity and displacement that affect people not only in India, but in all parts of the world and for brilliance of cinematic craft and the choice of metaphor that has been employed to tell a moving story that is bound to provoke thoughts, spark debate and give its viewers an intense experience.”
Qissa, a co-production between India/Germany/The Netherlands/France, is represented by sales agent The Match Factory.
Set in post-colonial India,...
The Netpac jury included Jay Jeon (Korea), Intishal Al Timimi (Abu Dhabi) and Freddie Wong (Hong Kong).
The jury remarked: “The Netpac Award for the best Asian film at Festival 2013 goes to Qissa, directed by Anup Singh, for its sensitive portrayal of the issues of identity and displacement that affect people not only in India, but in all parts of the world and for brilliance of cinematic craft and the choice of metaphor that has been employed to tell a moving story that is bound to provoke thoughts, spark debate and give its viewers an intense experience.”
Qissa, a co-production between India/Germany/The Netherlands/France, is represented by sales agent The Match Factory.
Set in post-colonial India,...
- 9/16/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
As the 2013 Toronto Film Festival comes to close, it's one of your last chances to catch some of the short films playing at the fest. As part of a deal with Tiff, YouTube has been hosting 22 shorts online for free viewing. One of them has already been making the rounds, a short called Noah about a teenage kid's failing relationship told entirely through video of his computer screen - it just won the festival's big shorts award. There's also the short titled Method, directed by "Rookie Blue" star Gregory Smith about an actor playing a police officer, and a short called Young Wonder, a fun outdoor fantasy action-adventure film. These will only be online for a limited amount of time, and they're all worth watching, so hurry up and check them out. Here are four of the short films, with 18 more of them showing on Tiff's YouTube playlist. Start with...
- 9/16/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
’12 Years a Slave’: 2013 Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award winner (photo: Chiwetel Ejiofor in ’12 Years a Slave’) 12 Years a Slave, already touted as a top contender for the 2014 Best Picture Academy Award, was the not unexpected People’s Choice Award winner at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival. Steve McQueen’s biopic tells the story of Solomon Northup, a freeborn 19th-century black man from Upstate New York who is kidnapped and sold as a slave in the American South. Twelve years later, he succeeds in regaining his freedom. Fox Searchlight will be releasing 12 Years a Slave, surely to be plugged as a people- and Oscar-friendly Triumph of the Human Spirit tale, on October 18 in North America. The prestigious 12 Years a Slave cast features Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, in addition to Michael Fassbender (Steve McQueen’s lead in both Hunger and Shame), Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Paulson, Paul Dano,...
- 9/15/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the most high-profile events on the festival circuit, with numerous anticipated films making their World and North American debut in the festival’s 10 days. Thus, the awards given out at the festival are often seen as an early indicator of critical favourites, with movies such as Slumdog Millionaire and Silver Linings Playbook getting their initial accolades at Tiff, and going on to win big at the Academy Awards in their respective years. The Film Festival has now announced the 2013 winners.
The Blackberry People’s Choice Award for most popular film at the festival goes to Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave.
The Blackberry People’s Choice Documentary Award for most popular documentary at the festival goes to Jehane Noujaim’s The Square.
The Blackberry People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award for most popular film at the Midnight Madness Programme goes to Sion...
The Blackberry People’s Choice Award for most popular film at the festival goes to Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave.
The Blackberry People’s Choice Documentary Award for most popular documentary at the festival goes to Jehane Noujaim’s The Square.
The Blackberry People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award for most popular film at the Midnight Madness Programme goes to Sion...
- 9/15/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Apparently Toronto audiences agree that 12 Years a Slave is the one to watch this awards season: The Steve McQueen-directed film, starring Brad Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor, won the People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
After seeing 12 Years in Toronto, EW film critic Owen Glieberman called it a “landmark of cruelty and transcendence,” while our awards expert Anthony Breznican declared Oscar nominations a “certainty.” The movie hits theaters Oct. 18.
Among the other Tiff awards:
• The People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award went to Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
• Jehane Noujaim won...
After seeing 12 Years in Toronto, EW film critic Owen Glieberman called it a “landmark of cruelty and transcendence,” while our awards expert Anthony Breznican declared Oscar nominations a “certainty.” The movie hits theaters Oct. 18.
Among the other Tiff awards:
• The People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award went to Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
• Jehane Noujaim won...
- 9/15/2013
- by Katie Atkinson
- EW - Inside Movies
As the Torontoist has pointed out, the Toronto International Film Festival has created a new audience for its short films on YouTube this year. For the first time, shorts from the fest premiered on YouTube. With Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg's screencasted film "Noah" receiving over half a million views already, the festival must feel affirmed about its decision. The film, told completely through a computer and an iPhone screen, follows Noah Lennox react to what he feels is his girlfriend's waning interest in a relationship with him. Though it's told exclusively through two screens, it's imaginative and compellingly edited. In an interview with the New Yorker titled "How a Relationship Dies on Facebook," the filmmaking pair, recent Ryerson graduates, explained that the film came about because they're both skeptical of social media, having both rid themselves of Facebook about a year ago. Check out the film below:...
- 9/15/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
The 38th Toronto International Film Festival® today announced its award recipients at a reception at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto. Tiff is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, Tiff projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; Tiff Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. For more information, visit tiff.net. Youtube Award For Best Canadian Short Film The winner of the YouTube Award for Best Canadian Short Film goes to Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg for Noah. The jury, comprised of writer Rafael Katigbak,...
- 9/15/2013
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
I absolutely loved this short film! At first I wasn't sure if I would like it or not, but the more I watched, the more I was pulled in. It's a very different and original concept that was executed perfectly. The movie is called Noah, it was co-directed by Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg, and it recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Here's the synopsis:
In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager's computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behaviour (and romance) in the digital age.
I'm not sure I could see this as a feature length film, but it works great for a short like this. I hope you all enjoy it!
(Nsfw due to some nudity)...
In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager's computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behaviour (and romance) in the digital age.
I'm not sure I could see this as a feature length film, but it works great for a short like this. I hope you all enjoy it!
(Nsfw due to some nudity)...
- 9/13/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Noah Short Film. Walter Woodman, Patrick Cederberg‘s Noah (2013) short film stars Caitlin McConkey-Pirie, Nina Iordanova, and Sam Kantor. Noah‘s plot synopsis: “In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager’s computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behaviour [...]
Continue reading: Noah (2013) Short Film: Generation X’s Online Life for the Romantic...
Continue reading: Noah (2013) Short Film: Generation X’s Online Life for the Romantic...
- 9/13/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Why Watch? An excellent example of art imitating online life, this short film from Patrick Cederberg and Walter Woodman hits a narrative sweet spot without ever leaving a teenager’s computer screen. Romance, jealousy, lust, joy, boredom and random Chatroulette dongs are all channeled through the two-dimensional space. Noah (Sam Kantor) blithely jumps between browser tabs, music and Skype while his girlfriend Amy (Caitlin McConkey-Pirie) intimates that she wants to break up before college does it for them. His paranoia leads him down a rabbit hole even as his multi-tasking A.D.D. keeps him humming around familiar internet haunts. Put together with crisp, frantic precision, what works best here is the disconnection. We mostly get to see Noah’s reactions through how fast his mouse flies, which creates a fantastic sense that the high drama playing out doesn’t really matter even as hovering over the “Send” button makes us cringe. It...
- 9/11/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The 38th Toronto International Film Festival has released an incredible guest list of celebrated talent from around the globe. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Catherine Breillat, Nicole Garcia, Pawel Pawlikowski, Bertrand Tavernier, Steve McQueen, Godfrey Reggio, Denis Villeneuve, Bill Condon, Jean-Marc Vallée, John Wells, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Ayoade, Atom Egoyan, Matthew Weiner, John Carney, Jason Reitman, Jason Bateman, Yorgos Servetas, Liza Johnson, Megan Griffiths, Fernando Eimbcke, Alexey Uchitel, Johnny Ma, Biyi Bandele, Rashid Masharawi, Paul Haggis, Ron Howard, Eli Roth, Álex de la Iglesia, Bruce McDonald, Jennifer Baichwal, John Ridley, and Justin Chadwick.
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
This afternoon, with poutine and local wine to mark the occasion, the Toronto International Film Festival announced their Canadian film selections. Programmers Steve Gravestock and Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo proudly pronounced that this year both new and seasoned filmmakers had the “curiosity and courage to show troubling issues occurring in our country in new and exciting ways.” Past festival favorite (and one of my personal own as well) Xavier Dolan, the always controversial Bruce Labruce and Jennifer Baichwal’s films garnered applause from the crowd at the majestic Royal York ballroom. Titles sure to draw headlines and attention in the Canadian slate are Denis Villeneuve’s locally filmed ‘Enemy‘ which has Jake Gyllenhall playing a man with two identities, torn between a mistress and a wife. Villeneuve’s other recent feature ‘Prisoners‘ was previously announced as a festival title. It’s worth mentioning that two feature films being presented at...
- 8/7/2013
- by Leora Heilbronn
- IONCINEMA.com
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