Exclusive: Producer and award-winning actress Veronica Ferres has signed with CAA and Fourward. Both entities will also represent Ferres’ film and TV production company, Construction Film, which she founded in 2013 as a female led label, and is dually based in Munich and Los Angeles.
The German-born Ferres can currently be seen opposite Anthony Hopkins in Zero Contact, the first feature film Nft, and has completed filming Paradise Highway opposite Morgan Freeman and Juliette Binoche for Lionsgate. Through her Construction Film banner, Ferres produced, alongside Sandra Bullock and Graham King, The Unforgivable, which stars Bullock and Viola Davis and premieres with a theatrical release in the US on November 24 and internationally on Netflix December 10.
She also recently produced Shattered for Lionsgate with John Malkovich, Lilly Krug and Frank Grillo, which will be released January 14, 2022.
Ferres began her career in the Academy Award and Golden-Globe nominated film Schtonk!, and went on to...
The German-born Ferres can currently be seen opposite Anthony Hopkins in Zero Contact, the first feature film Nft, and has completed filming Paradise Highway opposite Morgan Freeman and Juliette Binoche for Lionsgate. Through her Construction Film banner, Ferres produced, alongside Sandra Bullock and Graham King, The Unforgivable, which stars Bullock and Viola Davis and premieres with a theatrical release in the US on November 24 and internationally on Netflix December 10.
She also recently produced Shattered for Lionsgate with John Malkovich, Lilly Krug and Frank Grillo, which will be released January 14, 2022.
Ferres began her career in the Academy Award and Golden-Globe nominated film Schtonk!, and went on to...
- 11/2/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Greek producer Fenia Cossovitsa discusses new project from Jacqueline Lentzou and upcoming slate of titles
Prolific Greek producer Fenia Cossovitsa, co-founder of Athens-based production outfit Blonde Sa, has revealed further details of her current slate.
Cossovitsa took part this week in Sarajevo’s CineLink work in progress platform with Moon, 66 Questions, the first feature from Jacqueline Lentzou.
This continues a close collaboration with fast-rising talent Lentzou, which has seen the director and producer work on several shorts together, among them Fox; Cannes Critics’ Week award winner Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year; and The End Of Suffering (A...
Prolific Greek producer Fenia Cossovitsa, co-founder of Athens-based production outfit Blonde Sa, has revealed further details of her current slate.
Cossovitsa took part this week in Sarajevo’s CineLink work in progress platform with Moon, 66 Questions, the first feature from Jacqueline Lentzou.
This continues a close collaboration with fast-rising talent Lentzou, which has seen the director and producer work on several shorts together, among them Fox; Cannes Critics’ Week award winner Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year; and The End Of Suffering (A...
- 8/20/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Selene 66 Questions
Greece’s celebrated short filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou will be on hand with her feature debut Selene 66 Questions in 2020 (check out the set visit profile at Flix.gr). Produced by Fenia Cossovitsa and starring/reteaming with Sofia Kokkali, the project is lensed by Konstantinos Koukoulios. Lentzou’s 2016 short “Alepou” was programmed in Locarno, and her 2017 short “Hiwa” competed in Berlin. Her 2018 short “Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year” competed in Critics’ Week at Cannes.
Gist: Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and she must return home to Athens to care for him.…...
Greece’s celebrated short filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou will be on hand with her feature debut Selene 66 Questions in 2020 (check out the set visit profile at Flix.gr). Produced by Fenia Cossovitsa and starring/reteaming with Sofia Kokkali, the project is lensed by Konstantinos Koukoulios. Lentzou’s 2016 short “Alepou” was programmed in Locarno, and her 2017 short “Hiwa” competed in Berlin. Her 2018 short “Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year” competed in Critics’ Week at Cannes.
Gist: Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and she must return home to Athens to care for him.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
As much of an event as a new Quentin Tarantino film is also the arrival of a new soundtrack for said film. When it comes to his latest, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, it’s also one of his most well-curated albums. Immersing us deep into the 1960s, it features famous tracks from Deep Purple, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Seger, and more, as well as a few advertisements that are heard on the radio in the film and radio-friendly transitions to boot.
There are also three songs featured prominently in the trailers: Los Bravos’ Bring a Little Lovin’, Paul Revere & The Raiders’ Good Thing, and Neil Diamond’s Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show. One song in a trailer not on the soundtrack is The Mama’s and the Papa’s’ Straight Shooter, which we’ve included below. As far as my favorite track used in the film, it has...
There are also three songs featured prominently in the trailers: Los Bravos’ Bring a Little Lovin’, Paul Revere & The Raiders’ Good Thing, and Neil Diamond’s Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show. One song in a trailer not on the soundtrack is The Mama’s and the Papa’s’ Straight Shooter, which we’ve included below. As far as my favorite track used in the film, it has...
- 7/26/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Deep Purple, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Bob Seger System and Vanilla Fudge highlight the upcoming soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s new film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. The filmmaker hand-curated the Sixties-centric album, out July 26th via Columbia Records, which collects 22 songs and nine era-specific radio advertisements.
The LP, available digitally and on CD and vinyl, also features rock, pop and soul tracks from Chad & Jeremy, Roy Head & the Traits, the Vintage Callers, Buchanan Brothers, the Box Tops, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels,...
The LP, available digitally and on CD and vinyl, also features rock, pop and soul tracks from Chad & Jeremy, Roy Head & the Traits, the Vintage Callers, Buchanan Brothers, the Box Tops, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels,...
- 7/25/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Being Human (1994) is really something. Bill Forsyth's Hollywood career was essentially ended by it, and I get the impression that this was not so much because the film died at the box office, but because the experience of having it taken away from him—a first for a director who had enjoyed very good relationships with his producers up to that point—was so dispiriting.Forsyth's star had risen steadily from "the first no-budget film," That Sinking Feeling, through the charming Gregory's Girl and the poetic Local Hero. If Housekeeping and Breaking In weren't hits, they were certainly admired. I recall reading that the studio recut the film (I believe the once-great Deedee Dede Allen had become the "film doctor" at Warners specializing in performing such disfiguring operations without anesthetic) and it performed just as dismally with test audiences as it had in the Forsyth cut, so they kindly released that.
- 6/13/2019
- MUBI
Hector Xtravaganza, “grandfather” of the House of Xtravaganza and consultant for Ryan Murphy’s “Pose,” has died.
The House of Xtravaganza announced his death in an Instagram post.
“It is with profound sadness the House of Xtravaganza family announce the passing of our beloved Grandfather Hector,” the post reads. “He was a friend to everyone he met, a source of inspiration for all who knew him, and a cornerstone of our House family.”
Steven Canals, co-creator and an executive producer of “Pose,” called Xtravaganza a “devoted friend & beloved member of the #PoseFX family.”
“He was a show consultant, but more than that, he was a loyal Abuelo to all.”
Hey @PoseOnFX fam, today Ballroom lost an Icon. #GrandfatherHectorXtravaganza was a devoted friend & a beloved member of the #PoseFX family. He was a show consultant, but more than that a loyal Abuelo to all. Keep him, his family, & friends in your prayers.
The House of Xtravaganza announced his death in an Instagram post.
“It is with profound sadness the House of Xtravaganza family announce the passing of our beloved Grandfather Hector,” the post reads. “He was a friend to everyone he met, a source of inspiration for all who knew him, and a cornerstone of our House family.”
Steven Canals, co-creator and an executive producer of “Pose,” called Xtravaganza a “devoted friend & beloved member of the #PoseFX family.”
“He was a show consultant, but more than that, he was a loyal Abuelo to all.”
Hey @PoseOnFX fam, today Ballroom lost an Icon. #GrandfatherHectorXtravaganza was a devoted friend & a beloved member of the #PoseFX family. He was a show consultant, but more than that a loyal Abuelo to all. Keep him, his family, & friends in your prayers.
- 12/31/2018
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
This week’s episode of “Westworld” finally took us to Shogun World, where Maeve discovered Akane, her geisha counterpart.
“We may have cribbed a little bit from Westworld,” admitted buffoonish programmer Lee Sizemore. “You try writing 300 stories in three weeks!”
Don’t worry, Lee: Westerns and samurai films did plenty of cribbing from each other, too. With Shogun World, “Westworld” creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan winked at decades of cultural crossover between Western directors like John Sturges and samurai auteurs like Akira Kurosawa.
Also Read: 'Westworld': Thandie Newton Tells Us Why Maeve's Superpower Went Into Overdrive in Shogun World
Some of the most famous Westerns ever made were adaptations of samurai films: Sturges’ “The Magnificent Seven” was Kurosawa’s “The Seven Samurai” with gunslingers instead of ronin. Clint Eastwood’s famous “Man With No Name” in Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars” is based on the...
“We may have cribbed a little bit from Westworld,” admitted buffoonish programmer Lee Sizemore. “You try writing 300 stories in three weeks!”
Don’t worry, Lee: Westerns and samurai films did plenty of cribbing from each other, too. With Shogun World, “Westworld” creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan winked at decades of cultural crossover between Western directors like John Sturges and samurai auteurs like Akira Kurosawa.
Also Read: 'Westworld': Thandie Newton Tells Us Why Maeve's Superpower Went Into Overdrive in Shogun World
Some of the most famous Westerns ever made were adaptations of samurai films: Sturges’ “The Magnificent Seven” was Kurosawa’s “The Seven Samurai” with gunslingers instead of ronin. Clint Eastwood’s famous “Man With No Name” in Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars” is based on the...
- 5/22/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Heavy-hitter Hollywood talent agency UTA eschewed its typical glitzy Oscar party in favor of a Friday afternoon event — billed as the United Voices rally — in front of their offices in Beverly Hills. Members of the UTA family and other entertainment industry players joined together, they stated: “to express the creative community’s support for freedom of speech and artistic expression, and stand against policies of exclusion and division.”
The idea for the rally was sparked by the recent news that Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi — a UTA client — would likely be forced to skip the Oscars (where he is a nominee for his foreign-language contender “The Salesman”) due to the executive order travel ban that prohibited citizens from seven Muslim countries, including Iran, to enter the United States. Though the ban has been halted, Farhadi announced that he would still not attend the event.
Read More: Why Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The...
The idea for the rally was sparked by the recent news that Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi — a UTA client — would likely be forced to skip the Oscars (where he is a nominee for his foreign-language contender “The Salesman”) due to the executive order travel ban that prohibited citizens from seven Muslim countries, including Iran, to enter the United States. Though the ban has been halted, Farhadi announced that he would still not attend the event.
Read More: Why Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The...
- 2/25/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Backer of Burn Burn Burn, Tiger Raid and Broken spins off from accountancy firm Nlp.
UK film financier Goldfinch Entertainment has been bought out by its MD Kirsty Bell.
Goldfinch, backed by accountancy firm Nyman Libson Paul (Nlp), was launched in January 2014 as a single Eis company but it has subsequently grown to invest in tens of projects including Burn Burn Burn (pictured), Tiger Raid, My Feral Heart, Hector, Broken, The Carer and The Eichmann Show.
According to Bell and Nlp executives the two firms will maintain a close working relationship.
Goldfinch is now eyeing growth in the TV, animation, music, apps and games sectors.
Bell, a former partner at Nlp, said Goldfinch aims to manage investments of “£150m into somewhere between 100-150 projects” in the next three years.
“Our involvement will become more holistic offering production, editing and sales & distribution expertise and services along with financing and Ep,” she said.
Growth...
UK film financier Goldfinch Entertainment has been bought out by its MD Kirsty Bell.
Goldfinch, backed by accountancy firm Nyman Libson Paul (Nlp), was launched in January 2014 as a single Eis company but it has subsequently grown to invest in tens of projects including Burn Burn Burn (pictured), Tiger Raid, My Feral Heart, Hector, Broken, The Carer and The Eichmann Show.
According to Bell and Nlp executives the two firms will maintain a close working relationship.
Goldfinch is now eyeing growth in the TV, animation, music, apps and games sectors.
Bell, a former partner at Nlp, said Goldfinch aims to manage investments of “£150m into somewhere between 100-150 projects” in the next three years.
“Our involvement will become more holistic offering production, editing and sales & distribution expertise and services along with financing and Ep,” she said.
Growth...
- 12/12/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Peter Mullan plays golfer Tom Morris Photo: Courtesy of Edinburgh Film Festival Jason Connery's golf drama Tommy's Honour was named Best Feature Film at the BAFTA Scotland awards last night.
It was a good night for its co-star Peter Mullan - who plays Tom Morris Snr in the film, alongside Jack Lowden - as he was named Best Actor for his portrayal of the titular homeless character in Jake Gavin's Hector.
The Best Actress award went to Kate Dickie for her role in Tom Geens' Couple In A Hole. The animation prize was won by Cat Bruce, for No Place Like Home, while the short film prize went to Duncan Cowles and writer Ross Hogg for their study of memory and identity, Isabella - it was a particular moment of triumph for Hogg, as it is his first BAFTA win after being nominated four times in the past four years.
It was a good night for its co-star Peter Mullan - who plays Tom Morris Snr in the film, alongside Jack Lowden - as he was named Best Actor for his portrayal of the titular homeless character in Jake Gavin's Hector.
The Best Actress award went to Kate Dickie for her role in Tom Geens' Couple In A Hole. The animation prize was won by Cat Bruce, for No Place Like Home, while the short film prize went to Duncan Cowles and writer Ross Hogg for their study of memory and identity, Isabella - it was a particular moment of triumph for Hogg, as it is his first BAFTA win after being nominated four times in the past four years.
- 11/7/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
★★★★☆ Hector, a heartfelt road movie driven by a tremendous performance from Ken Loach regular Peter Mullan, is an assured debut feature from writer-director Jake Gavin. The photojournalist turned filmmaker lovingly constructs the tale of homeless nomad 'Hec' who, estranged from his family in Glasgow, has roamed the UK’s highways and byways for nearly fifteen years. A methodical, gently simmering family drama, it serves up a bittersweet realist alternative to standard festive fare.
- 1/2/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Peter Mullan plays a vagrant searching for his sister in a naturalistic tale that’s indebted to Ken Loach
The spirit of Ken Loach hangs over this surprisingly warm and rewardingly aware tale of homelessness at Christmas. Peter Mullan is very much in his element as the itinerant Hector with whom we travel to Glasgow for an ominous-sounding hospital appointment (“just some test results”), to Newcastle in search of his sister, and thence to London for a sojourn in the shelter that has become his regular Yuletide home. En route, he encounters kindness, aggression, bereavement and bewilderment, his desire to reconnect with his family tempered by the omnipresent suggestion that he is still running away from something – perhaps everything.
From Hardeep Singh Kohli’s bat-wielding shopkeeper to Sarah Solemani’s shelter manager, debut writer/director Jake Gavin paves Hector’s odyssey with encounters that prove kind hearts are indeed more than coronets.
The spirit of Ken Loach hangs over this surprisingly warm and rewardingly aware tale of homelessness at Christmas. Peter Mullan is very much in his element as the itinerant Hector with whom we travel to Glasgow for an ominous-sounding hospital appointment (“just some test results”), to Newcastle in search of his sister, and thence to London for a sojourn in the shelter that has become his regular Yuletide home. En route, he encounters kindness, aggression, bereavement and bewilderment, his desire to reconnect with his family tempered by the omnipresent suggestion that he is still running away from something – perhaps everything.
From Hardeep Singh Kohli’s bat-wielding shopkeeper to Sarah Solemani’s shelter manager, debut writer/director Jake Gavin paves Hector’s odyssey with encounters that prove kind hearts are indeed more than coronets.
- 12/13/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
First-time writer-director Jake Gavin’s sweet portrait of homelessness is far removed from Ken Loach’s gritty, desperate dramas
Down the M6 goes Hector, hitch-hiking to London to spend Christmas in a favourite shelter. Fifteen years on the street, Hector (Peter Mullan) knows how dangerous homelessness can be, but it’s not clear if first-time writer-director Jake Gavin does too. Bar an icy blast of tragedy in the opening act, Hector’s life is pretty sweet. The shelter’s wonderful: the staff are saintly and there’s seconds on the cooked breakfast. It’s refreshing that not every film need be so desperate about homelessness, but Hector is social realism that often feels unrelated to reality. “Hunger is being used as a weapon,” said director Ken Loach recently, citing the “conscious cruelty” of Tory cuts. Fiction has offered Hector a warm cuddly shield.
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Down the M6 goes Hector, hitch-hiking to London to spend Christmas in a favourite shelter. Fifteen years on the street, Hector (Peter Mullan) knows how dangerous homelessness can be, but it’s not clear if first-time writer-director Jake Gavin does too. Bar an icy blast of tragedy in the opening act, Hector’s life is pretty sweet. The shelter’s wonderful: the staff are saintly and there’s seconds on the cooked breakfast. It’s refreshing that not every film need be so desperate about homelessness, but Hector is social realism that often feels unrelated to reality. “Hunger is being used as a weapon,” said director Ken Loach recently, citing the “conscious cruelty” of Tory cuts. Fiction has offered Hector a warm cuddly shield.
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- 12/10/2015
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
The Scottish actor is best known for playing abusive drunks in Tyrannosaur, Neds and, most recently, Sunset Song. In his new film, Hector, we see a softer side. He reveals how sleeping rough in his youth was ideal preparation for the role – and why he campaigned for independence
Peter Mullan is known for playing pushers and punishers; men who drink and destroy. There are buckets of booze and abuse in his back catalogue, the cocktail strongest in Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine’s bleak redemption tale, which opens with Mullan’s character, a raging drunk, kicking his dog to death.
In Sunset Song, Terence Davies’s lush but brutal Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation, Mullan plays the patriarch of a Scottish farming family, the Guthrie clan. Gruff, resentful and controlling, he’s at his lowest after a stroke leaves him bedridden and in the care of his teenage daughter (Agyness Deyn). He rings a bell.
Peter Mullan is known for playing pushers and punishers; men who drink and destroy. There are buckets of booze and abuse in his back catalogue, the cocktail strongest in Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine’s bleak redemption tale, which opens with Mullan’s character, a raging drunk, kicking his dog to death.
In Sunset Song, Terence Davies’s lush but brutal Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation, Mullan plays the patriarch of a Scottish farming family, the Guthrie clan. Gruff, resentful and controlling, he’s at his lowest after a stroke leaves him bedridden and in the care of his teenage daughter (Agyness Deyn). He rings a bell.
- 12/10/2015
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Mullan as Hector: 'I don't think any first-time director making a film with Peter Mullan in the lead role could deny being very, very nervous for the first couple of days' Many of the Christmas movies served up at this time of year are as heavily seasoned as Christmas dinner, complete with sugar-overload, but there are nearly always one or two little gems to look out for that celebrate the humanism and warmth of the season in less in-your-face ways. In the States, Christmas, Again is offering offbeat thoughtfulness and, here in the UK, Jake Gavin's debut film Hector explores what it means to be homeless in a season synonymous with hearth and family, without descending into misery.
Jake Gavin on the red carpet at Edinburgh Film Festival. Photo: Rob O'Donnell, Eiff, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved Gavin's film is a portrait of the eponymous Hector - a homeless pensioner,...
Jake Gavin on the red carpet at Edinburgh Film Festival. Photo: Rob O'Donnell, Eiff, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved Gavin's film is a portrait of the eponymous Hector - a homeless pensioner,...
- 12/10/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When the real issues in society are addressed in cinema there is often a fine line between presenting a true portrayal of problems and missing the mark by quite a bit. Jake Gavin’s Hector is the former of the two, which becomes painfully clear pretty quick. With Peter Mullan in the title role it comes as no
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- 12/10/2015
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
From performances in Trainspotting, Top of the Lake, Tyrannosaur, Red Riding, War Horse, Boy A, Children of Men, and more to directorial work like Neds and The Magdalene Sisters, Peter Mullan has crafted out a distinct career with a distinct voice. As a fitting birthday present for the actor (who turns 56 today), we have the first trailer for his next feature, Hector.
The directorial debut of Jake Gavin, it follows Mullan’s character as a homeless man who embarks on a journey from Scotland to London and reconnects to those in his storied life along the way. While there’s no U.S. distribution set yet, it’ll arrive next month in the U.K. and looks to have another great performance from Mullan.
Check out the the trailer below (with a hat tip to Screen Relish) for the film also starring Sarah Solemani, Keith Allen, Stephen Tompkinson, Natalie Gavin and Sharon Rooney.
The directorial debut of Jake Gavin, it follows Mullan’s character as a homeless man who embarks on a journey from Scotland to London and reconnects to those in his storied life along the way. While there’s no U.S. distribution set yet, it’ll arrive next month in the U.K. and looks to have another great performance from Mullan.
Check out the the trailer below (with a hat tip to Screen Relish) for the film also starring Sarah Solemani, Keith Allen, Stephen Tompkinson, Natalie Gavin and Sharon Rooney.
- 11/2/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Cinema on-demand platform Tugg Australia is growing month-by-month, delivering tidy sums to the producers of hot-button documentaries and incremental revenues for narrative features. The top-grossing title so far is Frackman, Richard Todd.s profile of environmental activist Dayne Pratzky, which has generated $160,000 from 90 screenings. Among other films in demand are Maya Newell.s Gayby Baby; Joao Dujon Pereira.s Black Hole, which chronicles the battle against Whitehaven Coal to save a woodland forest from being cleared to make way for an open cut coal mine; and Avi Lewis. This Changes Everything, an attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change filmed in nine countries and five continents over four years. Last week was a milestone as the platform had its biggest week ever since its soft launch in 2013, with 26 screenings and 3,000 ticket sales. .With 27 confirmed screenings through the end of the month, October will deliver more than 80 screenings and...
- 10/27/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Edinburgh International Film Festival unveils juries and guests for 2015 edition.
The 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) (June 17-28) has revealed the juries that will judge its five award categories - The Michael Powell Award for Best British Film; Best Performance in a British Feature; Best International Feature; Best Documentary; and Best Short Film.
Jurors include:
Karen Gillan, actressNatascha McElhone, actressKenneth Turan, film criticAmy Berg, directorArchie Panjabi, actressKyle Patrick Alvarez, directorJessica Hynes, actressDenis Lawson, actorJacqueline Lyanga, AFI film festival directorDolly Wells, actress.
Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy star Gillan will see her dirctorial debut - short film Coward - screened at the Festival.
Us director Berg’s films Prophet’s Prey and Every Secret Thing will screen at Eiff while Alverez will see his feature, The Stanford Prison Experiment, shown at the Festival.
Wells stars in Black Mountain Poets, 45 Years and Doll & Em 2, all showing at this year’s festival.
Other awards...
The 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) (June 17-28) has revealed the juries that will judge its five award categories - The Michael Powell Award for Best British Film; Best Performance in a British Feature; Best International Feature; Best Documentary; and Best Short Film.
Jurors include:
Karen Gillan, actressNatascha McElhone, actressKenneth Turan, film criticAmy Berg, directorArchie Panjabi, actressKyle Patrick Alvarez, directorJessica Hynes, actressDenis Lawson, actorJacqueline Lyanga, AFI film festival directorDolly Wells, actress.
Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy star Gillan will see her dirctorial debut - short film Coward - screened at the Festival.
Us director Berg’s films Prophet’s Prey and Every Secret Thing will screen at Eiff while Alverez will see his feature, The Stanford Prison Experiment, shown at the Festival.
Wells stars in Black Mountain Poets, 45 Years and Doll & Em 2, all showing at this year’s festival.
Other awards...
- 6/5/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
New additions to programme include Karen Gillan’s directorial short debut Coward, Hector starring Peter Mullan and music documentary Big Gold Dream.
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has announced a number of Scottish titles for its upcoming edition, running June 17-28.
Alongside the previously announced Opening and Closing Galas of The Legend of Barney Thomson and Iona, this year’s festival will also screen Jake Gavin’s Hector, starring Peter Mullan, Karen Gillan’s directorial short debut Coward and the world premiere of music documentary Big Gold Dream, which will be followed by an exclusive live gig from singer/songwriter Vic Godard and friends.
Other Scottish titles include The Shammasian Brothers’ Pyramid Texts, Colin Kennedy’s directorial debut feature Swung, Martin Radich’s Norfolk, Talulah Riley’s writer/directorial debut feature Scottish Mussel, Karen Guthrie’s The Closer We Get and Vicky Matthews’ documentary Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace.
Joining Gillan...
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has announced a number of Scottish titles for its upcoming edition, running June 17-28.
Alongside the previously announced Opening and Closing Galas of The Legend of Barney Thomson and Iona, this year’s festival will also screen Jake Gavin’s Hector, starring Peter Mullan, Karen Gillan’s directorial short debut Coward and the world premiere of music documentary Big Gold Dream, which will be followed by an exclusive live gig from singer/songwriter Vic Godard and friends.
Other Scottish titles include The Shammasian Brothers’ Pyramid Texts, Colin Kennedy’s directorial debut feature Swung, Martin Radich’s Norfolk, Talulah Riley’s writer/directorial debut feature Scottish Mussel, Karen Guthrie’s The Closer We Get and Vicky Matthews’ documentary Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace.
Joining Gillan...
- 5/19/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Peter Mullan in Hector and Graeme Obree in Battle Mountain Photo: Courtesy of Eiff The Edinburgh International Film Festival - which has already looked to Scotland for its opening and closing night films The Legend Of Barney Thomson and Iona - has announced a number of additional homegrown titles that will screen.
Films screening will include Dr Who star Karen Gillan's directorial short debut Coward - about a girl pressured by a her mother to become a star - and the world premiere of music documentary Big Gold Dream, which celebrates the rise of Scottish post-punk and indie artists from the late 70s to mid-80s. Directed by Grant McPhee (Sarah's Room), the film takes a look at Bob Last and Hilary Morrison’s independent record label Fast Product in the late 1970s, which quickly became the hub for an eclectic group of musicians and will be elligible for the audience award.
Films screening will include Dr Who star Karen Gillan's directorial short debut Coward - about a girl pressured by a her mother to become a star - and the world premiere of music documentary Big Gold Dream, which celebrates the rise of Scottish post-punk and indie artists from the late 70s to mid-80s. Directed by Grant McPhee (Sarah's Room), the film takes a look at Bob Last and Hilary Morrison’s independent record label Fast Product in the late 1970s, which quickly became the hub for an eclectic group of musicians and will be elligible for the audience award.
- 5/19/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Road trip comedy to co-star Laura Carmichael and Chloe Pirrie.
Paris-based Urban Distribution International (Udi) has picked up sales on Chanya Button’s upcoming road-trip comedy Burn, Burn, Burn on the eve of its shoot.
Downton Abbey actress Laura Carmichael and Chloe Pirrie (Shell), a Screen Star of Tomorrow and Bafta Breakthrough Brit in 2013, are set to co-star as two friends who travel across Britain to scatter the ashes of their late best friend Dan.
Other cast members include Alison Steadman and Nigel Planer.
The women take turns driving with Dan in the glove compartment, in a tupperware container, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
“Burn Burn Burn is the perfect feelgood movie - the one you want to see after a hard day’s work with your best friend, or again on TV and VOD with your mum,” said Udi chief Frederic Corvez.
“It’s funny, insolent, tender, smart...
Paris-based Urban Distribution International (Udi) has picked up sales on Chanya Button’s upcoming road-trip comedy Burn, Burn, Burn on the eve of its shoot.
Downton Abbey actress Laura Carmichael and Chloe Pirrie (Shell), a Screen Star of Tomorrow and Bafta Breakthrough Brit in 2013, are set to co-star as two friends who travel across Britain to scatter the ashes of their late best friend Dan.
Other cast members include Alison Steadman and Nigel Planer.
The women take turns driving with Dan in the glove compartment, in a tupperware container, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
“Burn Burn Burn is the perfect feelgood movie - the one you want to see after a hard day’s work with your best friend, or again on TV and VOD with your mum,” said Udi chief Frederic Corvez.
“It’s funny, insolent, tender, smart...
- 10/14/2014
- ScreenDaily
Company also handling Ognjen Svilicic’s These Are The Rules, which world premieres in Venice’s Orizzonti.
Paris-based Urban Distribution International (Udi) is heading to the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14) with a packed slate this year.
The company has four films in the festival and will unveil new footage on upcoming pictures including the Peter Mullan-starrer Hec McAdam and animation Long Way North, about a young girl who sets out to conquer the North Pole, in the market.
Ahead of Toronto, Udi is also representing Croatian director Ognjen Svilicic’s gritty drama These Are The Rules, about a couple coming to terms with the death of their only son in a street attack, which premieres in Venice’s Orizzonti section today (Aug 29).
“It’s a powerful film around a difficult subject capturing the life of a couple, how they cope, and life in contemporary Croatian as they battle with bureaucracy and administrative injustice,” said...
Paris-based Urban Distribution International (Udi) is heading to the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14) with a packed slate this year.
The company has four films in the festival and will unveil new footage on upcoming pictures including the Peter Mullan-starrer Hec McAdam and animation Long Way North, about a young girl who sets out to conquer the North Pole, in the market.
Ahead of Toronto, Udi is also representing Croatian director Ognjen Svilicic’s gritty drama These Are The Rules, about a couple coming to terms with the death of their only son in a street attack, which premieres in Venice’s Orizzonti section today (Aug 29).
“It’s a powerful film around a difficult subject capturing the life of a couple, how they cope, and life in contemporary Croatian as they battle with bureaucracy and administrative injustice,” said...
- 8/29/2014
- ScreenDaily
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