Exclusive: Deadline has your first look at Six Days to Die, the second film in a sci-fi western trilogy series by Matt Campagna, which he wrote, directed, shot and edited.
The film brought to life through virtual environments, comprised of elaborate 360-degree digital matte paintings, centers on a desperate gambler wrongfully accused of murder who flees through a post-apocalyptic frontier, with a vengeful Marshal doggedly hunting him down, on a bloody quest to bring order to the chaos.
The Umbrella Academy’s Colm Feore stars alongside Darryl Hinds, Melissa D’Agostino, Ari Millen and Kyra Harper. Breann Smordin and Elizabeth Frase produced the pic, which is eyeing a festival premiere next year, and is being sold worldwide by Forward Motion Entertainment. The third film in the trilogy series, Six Guns For Hire, is currently in post-production.
Check out the first still from Campagna’s latest, along with several character portraits, below.
The film brought to life through virtual environments, comprised of elaborate 360-degree digital matte paintings, centers on a desperate gambler wrongfully accused of murder who flees through a post-apocalyptic frontier, with a vengeful Marshal doggedly hunting him down, on a bloody quest to bring order to the chaos.
The Umbrella Academy’s Colm Feore stars alongside Darryl Hinds, Melissa D’Agostino, Ari Millen and Kyra Harper. Breann Smordin and Elizabeth Frase produced the pic, which is eyeing a festival premiere next year, and is being sold worldwide by Forward Motion Entertainment. The third film in the trilogy series, Six Guns For Hire, is currently in post-production.
Check out the first still from Campagna’s latest, along with several character portraits, below.
- 11/19/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – In the landscape of life, not many have experienced a journey like Jian Ping. Raised in China, she was a child during the political reign of Chairman Mao Zedong. Eventually ending up in Chicago, she wrote her 2008 memoir “Mulberry Child” about her childhood, which was made into a documentary and directed by Susan Morgan Cooper. The doc is now on Amazon Prime.
The film, along with the book, takes its name from the resilient tree that thrives even in harshest winter conditions, which symbolically defined Jian’s resolve. The story depicts her family’s fight for survival during China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and ‘70s, that destroyed the lives and reputations of millions. Although she found the freedom she sought in the United States, Jian Ping deals with the painful reality of raising her only child as an American who had no interest in connecting to her roots.
The film, along with the book, takes its name from the resilient tree that thrives even in harshest winter conditions, which symbolically defined Jian’s resolve. The story depicts her family’s fight for survival during China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and ‘70s, that destroyed the lives and reputations of millions. Although she found the freedom she sought in the United States, Jian Ping deals with the painful reality of raising her only child as an American who had no interest in connecting to her roots.
- 8/12/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Susan Morgan Cooper is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer. After she had spent her childhood and youth in Wales she went to the USA where she became interested in film editing. In the 90s she spent time in Croatia which resulted in the making of her first documentary “Mirjana – One Girl’s Journey” which was inspired by a 16-year-old girl she met there, her life story and the how she and her family had been affected by the Balkan War. Over the years Cooper has helmed many documentaries, such as the highly acclaimed “An Unlikely Weapon” about Eddie Adams, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, as well as “Hopper: In His Own Words” which tells the story of actor Dennis Hopper.
Cooper also directed “Mulberry Child“, a documentary based on a memoir written by Jian Ping which deals with the relationship with her daughter, her times in China during the Cultural...
Cooper also directed “Mulberry Child“, a documentary based on a memoir written by Jian Ping which deals with the relationship with her daughter, her times in China during the Cultural...
- 6/27/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Passing the proverbial torch from one generation to the next is a challenging task to begin with, but one which becomes quite taxing when it also involves two very different set of cultural ideal and ways of life. As a family staying within the family unit, keeping it intact and resilient in times of great turmoil and change is a universal tale which has been told many times before in various types of media. However, with so many families being forced to leave their homes in order to seek refuge somewhere more secure, to grant their children a better future and, nevertheless, one for themselves, this universal tale is more relevant than ever, especially as it is also about the hardships of adapting to a culture, to the values of the older generation while still maintaining the intellectual independence of the younger ones. It may be a difficult and complicated concept to express,...
- 6/23/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The Palm Springs International Film Festival has announced its juried award-winners, with the Fipresci prizes going to “Shoplifters,” “Italy,” and “Cold War.” The three films — all of which premiered at Cannes and won major prizes there — have proven a mainstay of awards season, especially Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winner. It and “Cold War” both made the Academy Awards shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film, while “Dogman” was left out.
The full list of winners:
Fipresci Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
“Shoplifters” (Japan)
Fipresci Prize for the Best Actor in a Foreign Language Film
Marcello Fonte, “Dogman” (Italy)
Fipresci Prize for Best Actress in a Foreign Language Film
Joanna Kulig, “Cold War” (Poland)
The Fipresci jury members were Thomas Abeltshauser, Elaine Guerini, and Marietta Steinhart.
New Voices New Visions Award
“Sofia” (France/Qatar), directed by Meryem Benm’Barek
Honorable Mention
“Saf” (Turkey), directed by Ali Vatansever.
The full list of winners:
Fipresci Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
“Shoplifters” (Japan)
Fipresci Prize for the Best Actor in a Foreign Language Film
Marcello Fonte, “Dogman” (Italy)
Fipresci Prize for Best Actress in a Foreign Language Film
Joanna Kulig, “Cold War” (Poland)
The Fipresci jury members were Thomas Abeltshauser, Elaine Guerini, and Marietta Steinhart.
New Voices New Visions Award
“Sofia” (France/Qatar), directed by Meryem Benm’Barek
Honorable Mention
“Saf” (Turkey), directed by Ali Vatansever.
- 1/12/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Washington — The filmmakers behind the HBO documentary “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls” interview family, friends, rivals and colleagues to capture the life of the Arizona senator, who is now battling brain cancer.
But the project, which debuts this weekend, does not include President Donald Trump. In hours of interviews, the filmmakers asked McCain about Trump, but chose not to dwell on the fissures between the two.
“It sucks the air out of the room and we wanted the attention to be on John,” Teddy Kunhardt, who made the film along with his brother George and father Peter, tells Variety‘s “PopPolitics” on SiriusXM. “When we walked around Arizona, he said something along the lines of ‘This is my last fight.’ We assumed he meant cancer. He said it is not about cancer. It is about bringing the Senate back to regular order, about working together in the Senate.
But the project, which debuts this weekend, does not include President Donald Trump. In hours of interviews, the filmmakers asked McCain about Trump, but chose not to dwell on the fissures between the two.
“It sucks the air out of the room and we wanted the attention to be on John,” Teddy Kunhardt, who made the film along with his brother George and father Peter, tells Variety‘s “PopPolitics” on SiriusXM. “When we walked around Arizona, he said something along the lines of ‘This is my last fight.’ We assumed he meant cancer. He said it is not about cancer. It is about bringing the Senate back to regular order, about working together in the Senate.
- 5/26/2018
- by Ted Johnson
- Variety Film + TV
An Unlikely Weapon, a Susan Morgan Cooper film His photograph of a Saigon execution changed the country's sentiment toward the Vietnam War overnight. The picture won a Pulitzer Prize, but it would torment photographer Eddie Adams until he died in 2004. An Unlikely Weapon, a new documentary produced by Susan Morgan Cooper, examines Adams’s complicated life, weaving together accounts from his family and wartime colleagues, and from media greats like Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings.
- 4/14/2009
- Vanity Fair
You may not know the name Eddie Adams, but unless you just arrived from Mars (or New Jersey) you know the photographer's most famous image: a Vietnamese general shooting dead a Viet Cong prisoner at point-blank range on a Saigon street in 1968.
The photo won a Pulitzer Prize and helped turn Us public opinion against the ill-advised war.
In the documentary "An Unlikely Weapon," Adams and people such as Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Morley Safer talk extensively about his career as...
The photo won a Pulitzer Prize and helped turn Us public opinion against the ill-advised war.
In the documentary "An Unlikely Weapon," Adams and people such as Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Morley Safer talk extensively about his career as...
- 4/10/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
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