Quentin Lee’s Lgbtqia+ stand-up comedy concert feature film special “Laugh Proud” has secured theatrical and digital distribution and unveiled a trailer.
Taped on July 1, 2023, the film features Jason Stuart, Kit DeZolt, Amanda Alvich, Christian Cintron, Brian Clark aka Brucey, Rowan Niles, Juno Men and Asha Hall and trans drag activist Jazzmun Nichcala Crayton alongside Seven Graham Aka 7G.
Boutique sales agent Wonderphil Entertainment has signed on to handle all North American and international distribution. The deal was negotiated by Wonderphil CEO Phil Gorn and producer-director Quentin Lee.
Asian American Movies (Aam.tv), a global niché streamer focusing on diasporic Asian Pacific Islander content will release “Laugh Proud” theatrically in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s NoHo on May 17 and release it for global streaming on May 30.
“Wonderphil is proud to take on this important comedy concert and look forward to finding its place in the sun across the planet,” said Gorn.
Taped on July 1, 2023, the film features Jason Stuart, Kit DeZolt, Amanda Alvich, Christian Cintron, Brian Clark aka Brucey, Rowan Niles, Juno Men and Asha Hall and trans drag activist Jazzmun Nichcala Crayton alongside Seven Graham Aka 7G.
Boutique sales agent Wonderphil Entertainment has signed on to handle all North American and international distribution. The deal was negotiated by Wonderphil CEO Phil Gorn and producer-director Quentin Lee.
Asian American Movies (Aam.tv), a global niché streamer focusing on diasporic Asian Pacific Islander content will release “Laugh Proud” theatrically in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s NoHo on May 17 and release it for global streaming on May 30.
“Wonderphil is proud to take on this important comedy concert and look forward to finding its place in the sun across the planet,” said Gorn.
- 4/22/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Sales and production house Film Constellation is launching world sales rights on U.S. comedy drama “Eephus,” directed by Carson Lund, set to world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight section in Cannes in May.
In the film, as an imminent construction project looms over a beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England Sunday league teams face off for the last time over the course of a day. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.
“Eephus” is the feature directorial debut of American filmmaker Lund, who also has a cinematography credit on another Directors’ Fortnight title, “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point.”
“Eephus” is produced by Lund, Tyler Taormina, Michael Basta, David Entin and Gabe Klinger for U.S.-based Omnes Films, in collaboration with executive producers Michael Tonelli, Ashish Shetty, Brian Clark and Jim Christman of Magmys.
In the film, as an imminent construction project looms over a beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England Sunday league teams face off for the last time over the course of a day. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.
“Eephus” is the feature directorial debut of American filmmaker Lund, who also has a cinematography credit on another Directors’ Fortnight title, “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point.”
“Eephus” is produced by Lund, Tyler Taormina, Michael Basta, David Entin and Gabe Klinger for U.S.-based Omnes Films, in collaboration with executive producers Michael Tonelli, Ashish Shetty, Brian Clark and Jim Christman of Magmys.
- 4/18/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Coming off a three-year overall deal at Netflix, kids programming veteran Nancy Kanter is re-launching her production company, Available Light Productions, with several projects already in the works, live-action movie Wayward Girls; animated movie Penny Phantom, based on the novel Little Thieves by Margaret Owen; animated movie The Circus Ship, based on the picture book of the same name; and animated preschool comedy series Alexander the Post Fox done in partnership with Kevin Jonas.
Available Light Productions’s slate of original series and movies, which Kanter is shepherding with the company’s Head of Development, William Goldberg, are expected to be taken out to the broader kids, family and general audience market.
Additionally Kanter, whose Netflix deal ended at the end of January, has animated and live-action projects across both the kid and adult demographic still in development at the streamer where her pact started in the kids and...
Available Light Productions’s slate of original series and movies, which Kanter is shepherding with the company’s Head of Development, William Goldberg, are expected to be taken out to the broader kids, family and general audience market.
Additionally Kanter, whose Netflix deal ended at the end of January, has animated and live-action projects across both the kid and adult demographic still in development at the streamer where her pact started in the kids and...
- 2/9/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Build-a-Bear’s stuffed animal characters have inspired development of animated series Kabu.
Build-a-Bear Entertainment, Foundation Media Partners and Montreal toon maker Laughing Dragon Studios are working up a 10-part show, aimed at 7-11s, and release an exclusive first look at the upcoming Kidscreen Summit.
Mike Mariano, writer and producer on network sitcoms such as Raising Hope and My Name is Earl, is writing alongside Drew Gormley (Family Guy), Claire Ross Dunn, Brian Clark (Glisten and the Merry Mission) and Monica Kelly (Cocomelon).
Build-a-Bear President and CEO Sharon Price John and Foundation Media CEO Patrick Hughes executive producing the series.
The show is billed as a “stylized, colorful new offering with a fun ensemble cast of a variety of ‘stuffed animal’ friends,” with the creative influenced by the popularity of kawaii styling and each episode utilizing “an entertaining, sometimes ‘wacky’ way of...
Build-a-Bear Entertainment, Foundation Media Partners and Montreal toon maker Laughing Dragon Studios are working up a 10-part show, aimed at 7-11s, and release an exclusive first look at the upcoming Kidscreen Summit.
Mike Mariano, writer and producer on network sitcoms such as Raising Hope and My Name is Earl, is writing alongside Drew Gormley (Family Guy), Claire Ross Dunn, Brian Clark (Glisten and the Merry Mission) and Monica Kelly (Cocomelon).
Build-a-Bear President and CEO Sharon Price John and Foundation Media CEO Patrick Hughes executive producing the series.
The show is billed as a “stylized, colorful new offering with a fun ensemble cast of a variety of ‘stuffed animal’ friends,” with the creative influenced by the popularity of kawaii styling and each episode utilizing “an entertaining, sometimes ‘wacky’ way of...
- 1/17/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, Rosy McEwen, Melanie Gaydos, Edmund Dehn | Written by Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper, Brian Clark | Directed by Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper
Vesper, directed by duo Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper, written by Buozyte, Samper and Brian Clark, follows a young girl as she searches for a way to fix her father’s life support system and eventually replenish the largely diminished food supply on a destroyed Earth.
Since there’ve been examples of just about every world-ending event across every medium, it’s hard to come away with something truly unique in the apocalyptic department. Buozyte, Samper and Clark know this and abide by an acceptable, oft-told story, but add flavour between beats.
An opening crawl informs us that the world has been torn asunder by efforts to fix it; genetically engineered food, organisms and viruses wreaked havoc on the population except for those that live in “citadels,...
Vesper, directed by duo Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper, written by Buozyte, Samper and Brian Clark, follows a young girl as she searches for a way to fix her father’s life support system and eventually replenish the largely diminished food supply on a destroyed Earth.
Since there’ve been examples of just about every world-ending event across every medium, it’s hard to come away with something truly unique in the apocalyptic department. Buozyte, Samper and Clark know this and abide by an acceptable, oft-told story, but add flavour between beats.
An opening crawl informs us that the world has been torn asunder by efforts to fix it; genetically engineered food, organisms and viruses wreaked havoc on the population except for those that live in “citadels,...
- 10/17/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Imax is out this Sunday with Brandi Carlile: In The Canyon Haze – Live from Laurel Canyon on 31 screens nationwide, an encore of a live event that reps a milestone for the large format exhibitor.
The concert was broadcast Thursday from LA’s storied Laurel Canyon neighborhood to 87 Imax theaters (there would have been a few more if Hurricane Ian hadn’t taken out Florida locations). More than three dozen sold out for what is the company’s top-grossing live event. It featured Carlile and her band — no live audience — performing reimagined versions of songs from her new deluxe album “In The Canyon Haze”. Filmed for Imax using Imax digital cameras, it’s the first event of its kind Imax has staged.
Early this year, the company grossed 300k from its live stream of Kanye West’s Donda 2 concert event in Miami — the closest thing to date. (It released the...
The concert was broadcast Thursday from LA’s storied Laurel Canyon neighborhood to 87 Imax theaters (there would have been a few more if Hurricane Ian hadn’t taken out Florida locations). More than three dozen sold out for what is the company’s top-grossing live event. It featured Carlile and her band — no live audience — performing reimagined versions of songs from her new deluxe album “In The Canyon Haze”. Filmed for Imax using Imax digital cameras, it’s the first event of its kind Imax has staged.
Early this year, the company grossed 300k from its live stream of Kanye West’s Donda 2 concert event in Miami — the closest thing to date. (It released the...
- 9/30/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Set in “the new dark ages” — a ruined tomorrow in which the engineered viruses and organisms that humanity created in order to stem the planet’s ecological crisis have escaped into the wild and remade life on Earth into a dreary (but awesome) Cronenbergian wasteland full of fleshy droids, bioluminescent critters, and trees whose spores try to suck out your internal tissue while you sleep — Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s “Vesper” has already drawn several comparisons to the likes of “Stalker” and the Andrei Tarkovsky-inspired “Annihilation.” It’s easy to see why.
Told at the somnambulant of a European art film but plotted with the simplicity of a fairy tale, the filmmaking duo’s first feature since 2012’s “Vanishing Waves” offers .
Instead of using a variety of unique details to flesh out its familiar dystopian premise about the tension between a rich society of elites — who’ve barricaded...
Told at the somnambulant of a European art film but plotted with the simplicity of a fairy tale, the filmmaking duo’s first feature since 2012’s “Vanishing Waves” offers .
Instead of using a variety of unique details to flesh out its familiar dystopian premise about the tension between a rich society of elites — who’ve barricaded...
- 9/29/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It’s the New Dark Ages and the world has devolved to mimic a YA novel’s class system with the poor left to fend for themselves in desolate wastelands while the rich remain protected in Citadels sprinkled throughout their expanse. Animals are dead. Plants are dead. Most humans are dead. To survive means scraping by with what few seeds you purchase from the cities, each lasting only one season. The cost is the blood of children and why those with power in the swamps procreate as an occupation. Jonas (Eddie Marsan) is one such man, lording over a farm of his own deformed children wielded as blood banks and babymakers. It’s why his brother Darius (Richard Brake) left to raise his daughter Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) in the woods alone.
Unfortunately for them, however, life proves even harder. Vesper’s mother has left to join the so-called Pilgrims—mute...
Unfortunately for them, however, life proves even harder. Vesper’s mother has left to join the so-called Pilgrims—mute...
- 9/27/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Plot: After the collapse of Earth’s ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed father, meets a woman with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future.
Review: From the moment I saw the trailer for Vesper, I was entranced. Echoing the dreamlike films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Luc Besson, Vesper stuck out thanks to a distinct looking visual style that made use of physical sets, locations, and special effects rather than green screen and CGI. The tangible quality of the film comes through in the well-acted production that builds a massive fictional world and remains engaging for audiences of all ages and across all languages. Vesper is a beautiful and solemn movie that stands out because it looks more real than most big-budget movies while delivering a story that resonates more deeply as well.
Review: From the moment I saw the trailer for Vesper, I was entranced. Echoing the dreamlike films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Luc Besson, Vesper stuck out thanks to a distinct looking visual style that made use of physical sets, locations, and special effects rather than green screen and CGI. The tangible quality of the film comes through in the well-acted production that builds a massive fictional world and remains engaging for audiences of all ages and across all languages. Vesper is a beautiful and solemn movie that stands out because it looks more real than most big-budget movies while delivering a story that resonates more deeply as well.
- 9/26/2022
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Vesper Trailer 2 — IFC Films has released the second movie trailer for Vesper (2022). View here the Vesper teaser trailer. Crew Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper‘s Vesper stars Raffiella Chapman, Rosy McEwen, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, and Edmund Dehn. Kristina Buozyte, Brian Clark, and Bruno Samper wrote the screenplay for Vesper. [...]
Continue reading: Vesper (2022) Movie Trailer 2: A Young Girl in a Post-Apocalyptic World Uses Bio-hacking to Unlock the Future...
Continue reading: Vesper (2022) Movie Trailer 2: A Young Girl in a Post-Apocalyptic World Uses Bio-hacking to Unlock the Future...
- 8/12/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
If Hollywood’s sci-fi outings have left one a bit disappointed in terms of a lack of imagination, a more grounded genre outing looks to hit the mark. Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte’s new feature Vesper, which world premiered at Karlovy Vary, stars Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen, and Richard Brake in a tale of survival set after the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem. Ahead of a September 30 release from IFC Films, the new trailer has now arrived.
Scripted by Bruno Samper, Brian Clark and Kristina Buozyte, the film follows Vesper (Chapman), a headstrong 13-year-old girl who uses her survival skills to subsist in the remnants of a strange and dangerous world with her ailing father, Darius (Brake). When Vesper finds a mysterious woman, Camellia (McEwen), alone and disoriented after an aerial crash, she agrees to help find her missing companion in exchange for safe passage to the...
Scripted by Bruno Samper, Brian Clark and Kristina Buozyte, the film follows Vesper (Chapman), a headstrong 13-year-old girl who uses her survival skills to subsist in the remnants of a strange and dangerous world with her ailing father, Darius (Brake). When Vesper finds a mysterious woman, Camellia (McEwen), alone and disoriented after an aerial crash, she agrees to help find her missing companion in exchange for safe passage to the...
- 8/10/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Aglow in earth tones and abundant with retro-futurist designs, the sci-fi drama “Vesper” certainly feels like a throwback. But a throwback to what? While the postapocalyptic tale reflects sci-fi strands both East and West, echoing cerebral fare from the Soviet bloc as much as grimy Hollywood spectacles, filmmakers Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper have woven those older threads into something wholly unique — at once modern and timeless, nostalgic for a genre only just created, already pining for images freshly cast up on screen.
Making its world premiere in competition at the 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, this wistful, bio-punk fairy tale builds around the broad contours of modern young-adult fiction and shades them with the unhurried, observational rhythms of the European art-house. From the rebellious young prodigy to the focus on class division to the expository wall of title cards that introduce this particular dystopia, the film plays with many...
Making its world premiere in competition at the 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, this wistful, bio-punk fairy tale builds around the broad contours of modern young-adult fiction and shades them with the unhurried, observational rhythms of the European art-house. From the rebellious young prodigy to the focus on class division to the expository wall of title cards that introduce this particular dystopia, the film plays with many...
- 7/6/2022
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
Should the apocalypse strike and any of us happen to survive it, you can’t accuse the movies of leaving us unprepared. Dystopian futures are a dime a dozen in science-fiction cinema these days, with a generally shared aesthetic that leads us to expect, for better or (probably) worse, a lot of damp, ashy slurry and unflattering sackcloth. In some ways “Vesper,” with its drenched khaki palette and all-encompassing air of ruin, conforms to this forecast. In others, Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s solemn, elegant fantasy surprises with its textured, sometimes iridescent world-building: There’s beauty to be found in this vision of Earth in a state of ecosystemic collapse, even if it’s hard-won and harder still to nurture.
Premiering in the main competition strand of this year’s Karlovy Vary festival, “Vesper” marks a long-awaited return to feature filmmaking for Lithuanian director Buozyte and her French writing partner Samper,...
Premiering in the main competition strand of this year’s Karlovy Vary festival, “Vesper” marks a long-awaited return to feature filmmaking for Lithuanian director Buozyte and her French writing partner Samper,...
- 7/2/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Vesper Trailer — Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper‘s Vesper (2022) movie trailer has been released by IFC Films. The Vesper trailer stars Raffiella Chapman, Rosy McEwen, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, and Edmund Dehn. Crew Kristina Buozyte, Brian Clark, and Bruno Samper wrote the screenplay for Vesper. Dan Levy created the music for the film. [...]
Continue reading: Vesper (2022) Teaser Trailer: A 13-year-old Girl Tries to Survive Earth after it’s Ecosystem has Collapsed...
Continue reading: Vesper (2022) Teaser Trailer: A 13-year-old Girl Tries to Survive Earth after it’s Ecosystem has Collapsed...
- 6/15/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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