Top brass at the 2015 trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) announced on Tuesday that the Oscar-nominated short film writer will serve as facilitator for this year’s Rbc Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion in September.
The fifth Rbc Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion will champion ten emerging filmmakers from the Caribbean and its diaspora and their feature film concepts.
Participants will be expected to develop a detailed treatment during the course and will pitch to a jury. The person adjudged to have presented the best project and pitch will win a cash prize of Tt$20,000, roughly equivalent to Usd $3,055.
Festival top brass will soon unveil the filmmakers selected for the Rbc Focus, which takes place from September 22-25.
Lazaridi was nominated for an Academy Award for her work on the 2001 WWII short drama One Day Crossing. Her 2011 feature Coming Up Roses starred Bernadette Peters and Peter Friedman and was directed by Lisa Albright.
She has consulted on projects for New Line and...
The fifth Rbc Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion will champion ten emerging filmmakers from the Caribbean and its diaspora and their feature film concepts.
Participants will be expected to develop a detailed treatment during the course and will pitch to a jury. The person adjudged to have presented the best project and pitch will win a cash prize of Tt$20,000, roughly equivalent to Usd $3,055.
Festival top brass will soon unveil the filmmakers selected for the Rbc Focus, which takes place from September 22-25.
Lazaridi was nominated for an Academy Award for her work on the 2001 WWII short drama One Day Crossing. Her 2011 feature Coming Up Roses starred Bernadette Peters and Peter Friedman and was directed by Lisa Albright.
She has consulted on projects for New Line and...
- 7/21/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to John Krasinski's directorial debut "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men." Krasinski also wrote and stars in the dark comedy, based on the book by David Foster Wallace.
"Interviews," which premiered at Sundance in January, stars Julianne Nicholson as a graduate student interviewing a series of men for her thesis project. Krasinski plays one of the interview subjects, alongside Will Arnett, Dominic Cooper, Bobby Cannavale, Timothy Hutton, Christopher Meloni, Max Minghella and Ben Shenkman. The film was produced by Krasinski, Eva Kolodner, Yael Melamede and James Suskin and exec produced by Kevin Connors.
IFC will release "Hideous Men" theatrically Sept. 25 day-and-date with its VOD bow. The film also will go through IFC's exclusive deal with Blockbuster.
The acquisition deal was negotiated by CAA and Arianna Bocco, vp acquisitions and co-productions at IFC.
"Interviews," which premiered at Sundance in January, stars Julianne Nicholson as a graduate student interviewing a series of men for her thesis project. Krasinski plays one of the interview subjects, alongside Will Arnett, Dominic Cooper, Bobby Cannavale, Timothy Hutton, Christopher Meloni, Max Minghella and Ben Shenkman. The film was produced by Krasinski, Eva Kolodner, Yael Melamede and James Suskin and exec produced by Kevin Connors.
IFC will release "Hideous Men" theatrically Sept. 25 day-and-date with its VOD bow. The film also will go through IFC's exclusive deal with Blockbuster.
The acquisition deal was negotiated by CAA and Arianna Bocco, vp acquisitions and co-productions at IFC.
- 7/14/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMC Entertainment Inc. has pacted with the producers behind Evergreen to release the indie drama Sept. 10 in 27 major U.S. markets. The unique partnership will see AMC Theatres carry the film digitally at 115 locations on its top-performing screens using AMC's proprietary Digital Theatre Distribution System. Written and directed by freshman filmmaker Enid Zentelis, Evergreen centers on Henri, a poor teenage girl who goes to great lengths to become part of her boyfriend's affluent family. Mary Kay Place, Cara Seymour, Bruce Davison and Addie Land star. Norma Jean Straw, Zentelis, Yael Melamede and Eva Kolodner produced the film, which was developed by the Sundance Institute and screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
- 8/27/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Former Madstone Films production executives Eva Kolodner and Yael Melamede have teamed to launch New York-based production outfit Salty Features, with projects in the works by comedian Margaret Cho and Pulitzer Prize winner Don DeLillo. Kolodner was a development director at Killer Films and produced the Oscar-winning Boys Don't Cry. Melamede has worked on such projects as Wayne Wang's Center of the World and Paul Schrader's Forever Mine. Already in development at Salty is Cho's script Bam Bam and Celeste, with Lorene Machado attached to direct and Cho slated to topline the road-trip picture. Cho will play Celeste, who sets out for New York with her best friend Bam Bam, taking on sexism, racism and homophobia along the way.
- 4/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Adapting a chilling story previously explored in a feature-length documentary and a John Gregory Dune New Yorker article, Kimberly Peirce's debut film "Boys Don't Cry" never sensationalizes material that could easily be rendered strange or perverse. Working with a strong cast and gifted collaborators, Peirce transcends the story's tabloid nature to investigate fully its emotional, sexual and class underpinnings.
Premiering in the Venice Film Festival's Cinema of the Present sidebar, preceding festival showings in Toronto and New York, Fox Searchlight's well-acted, exceedingly well-made film should strike a chord among young filmgoers eager to search out substantial, difficult works.
The movie has dead spots, and Peirce can't always shape the narrative. (It feels a bit extended at nearly two hours.) But Peirce's nonjudgmental feel for character and social milieu creates depth and completeness.
Like Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam", the film examines the social and emotional hysteria resulting from unconventional sexual role-playing. Set in 1993, mostly in the forlorn, stripped-down landscapes of Falls City, Neb., the film unwinds the incredible story of "Brandon Teena", a physically frail though sexually confident 21-year-old who casually falls in with a group of disaffected outsiders and thrill seekers -- finding excitement, romance and a stronger, more-assured identity. But once the facade and self-invention are revealed, the story ends tragically.
What Peirce never attempts to hide is that the young Lothario's actual identity is that of Teena Brandon, a sexually distraught, emotionally fractured 19-year-old woman. Her ability to change, projecting an entirely different personality as Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank), draws her into a relationship with Lana (Chloe Sevigny), a beautiful though equally confused, emotionally needy young woman.
Peirce is particularly strong revealing how the characters' urges for emotional stability are expressed through physical action, including a dangerous stunt on the back of a truck, outracing a cop car and singing at a karaoke bar.
As evidence of Brandon's identity accumulates, Lana refuses to acknowledge the obvious. Then reality intrudes in a bleak way.
The cast is remarkable. Swank loses herself in the knotted role of Brandon and conveys her pain wonderfully. Sevigny is an extraordinarily vivid presence. Peter Sarsgaard and, in a smaller role, Brendan Sexton III, are impressive.
Jim Denault's sharp photography and Peirce's free-associative imagery capture the quiet desperation entrapping the characters.
BOYS DON'T CRY
Fox Searchlight
Producers: Jeffrey Sharp, John Hart, Eva Kolodner, Christine Vachon
Director-screenwriter: Kimberly Peirce
Screenwriter: Andy Bienen
Director of photography: Jim Denault
Editors: Lee Percy, Tracy Granger
Production designer: Michael Shaw
Costume designer: Victoria Farrell
Music: Nathan Larsen
Color/stereo
Cast:
Brandon Teena: Hilary Swank
Lana: Chloe Sevigny
John: Peter Sarsgaard
Tom: Brendan Sexton III
Kate: Alison Folland
Candace: Alicia Goranson
Lana's mom: Jeannetta Arnette
Running time -- 114 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Premiering in the Venice Film Festival's Cinema of the Present sidebar, preceding festival showings in Toronto and New York, Fox Searchlight's well-acted, exceedingly well-made film should strike a chord among young filmgoers eager to search out substantial, difficult works.
The movie has dead spots, and Peirce can't always shape the narrative. (It feels a bit extended at nearly two hours.) But Peirce's nonjudgmental feel for character and social milieu creates depth and completeness.
Like Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam", the film examines the social and emotional hysteria resulting from unconventional sexual role-playing. Set in 1993, mostly in the forlorn, stripped-down landscapes of Falls City, Neb., the film unwinds the incredible story of "Brandon Teena", a physically frail though sexually confident 21-year-old who casually falls in with a group of disaffected outsiders and thrill seekers -- finding excitement, romance and a stronger, more-assured identity. But once the facade and self-invention are revealed, the story ends tragically.
What Peirce never attempts to hide is that the young Lothario's actual identity is that of Teena Brandon, a sexually distraught, emotionally fractured 19-year-old woman. Her ability to change, projecting an entirely different personality as Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank), draws her into a relationship with Lana (Chloe Sevigny), a beautiful though equally confused, emotionally needy young woman.
Peirce is particularly strong revealing how the characters' urges for emotional stability are expressed through physical action, including a dangerous stunt on the back of a truck, outracing a cop car and singing at a karaoke bar.
As evidence of Brandon's identity accumulates, Lana refuses to acknowledge the obvious. Then reality intrudes in a bleak way.
The cast is remarkable. Swank loses herself in the knotted role of Brandon and conveys her pain wonderfully. Sevigny is an extraordinarily vivid presence. Peter Sarsgaard and, in a smaller role, Brendan Sexton III, are impressive.
Jim Denault's sharp photography and Peirce's free-associative imagery capture the quiet desperation entrapping the characters.
BOYS DON'T CRY
Fox Searchlight
Producers: Jeffrey Sharp, John Hart, Eva Kolodner, Christine Vachon
Director-screenwriter: Kimberly Peirce
Screenwriter: Andy Bienen
Director of photography: Jim Denault
Editors: Lee Percy, Tracy Granger
Production designer: Michael Shaw
Costume designer: Victoria Farrell
Music: Nathan Larsen
Color/stereo
Cast:
Brandon Teena: Hilary Swank
Lana: Chloe Sevigny
John: Peter Sarsgaard
Tom: Brendan Sexton III
Kate: Alison Folland
Candace: Alicia Goranson
Lana's mom: Jeannetta Arnette
Running time -- 114 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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