Aneesh Chaganty's "Searching," was a truly inventive thriller, depicting a father's search for his missing daughter as played out entirely in the digital space. In the 2018 film, John Cho's David Kim doggedly tracks down his missing daughter Margot (Michelle La) in an intense scramble across websites, phone videos, security cameras, and virtual desktops. The Chaganty-helmed project was a minor hit, and a messier but just as thrilling anthology sequel, "Missing," arrived earlier this year.
Directed by "Searching" editors Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, "Missing," carries on the central conceit of someone desperately looking for a lost relative via digital means. In the film, Storm Reid's June searches for her missing mother (Nia Long) who disappears on a trip to Colombia. And just as some viewers noticed a whole alien invasion narrative playing out as an easter egg in "Searching," "Missing" appears to be telling a whole superhero origin story in secret.
Directed by "Searching" editors Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, "Missing," carries on the central conceit of someone desperately looking for a lost relative via digital means. In the film, Storm Reid's June searches for her missing mother (Nia Long) who disappears on a trip to Colombia. And just as some viewers noticed a whole alien invasion narrative playing out as an easter egg in "Searching," "Missing" appears to be telling a whole superhero origin story in secret.
- 3/26/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
Programme is for film directors making first move into scripted TV.
Projects by directors Juho Kuosmanen, César Díaz and Beatriz Seigner have won the inaugural prizes of Seriesmakers, a development programme for filmmakers making their TV series debut.
Led by Series Mania Forum and supported by European studio Beta Group, the first edition of Seriesmakers had 170 submissions, and saw 10 TV series projects participate in a programme for feature film directors who are moving into the world of series.
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki’s Yours, Margot won one of two €50,000 Beta development awards. The 8x45-minute series...
Projects by directors Juho Kuosmanen, César Díaz and Beatriz Seigner have won the inaugural prizes of Seriesmakers, a development programme for filmmakers making their TV series debut.
Led by Series Mania Forum and supported by European studio Beta Group, the first edition of Seriesmakers had 170 submissions, and saw 10 TV series projects participate in a programme for feature film directors who are moving into the world of series.
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki’s Yours, Margot won one of two €50,000 Beta development awards. The 8x45-minute series...
- 3/22/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Lille, France — “Yours, Margot,” from “Compartment No 6’s” Juho Kuosmanen, Guatemalan Cannes Camera d’Or winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”) and Brazil’s Beatriz Seigner (“Los Silencios”) have won the three prizes on offer at the first edition of Seriesmakers.
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, after an inaugural edition delivering one of the most talent-packed project lineups at any festival, film or TV, in 2023, Seriesmakers backers Beta Group and Series Mania opened on Wednesday a call for admissions for a second edition.
Though all three series range hugely in setting and creators, all three see their protagonists go back to a recent past to explore events that have impacted their family, their modern-day country (“The Invisible Ink”), or traumas in the present (“Amigas”).
Doing so they form part of one of the biggest trends in current issue-driven series, through the resort to an alternative, future...
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, after an inaugural edition delivering one of the most talent-packed project lineups at any festival, film or TV, in 2023, Seriesmakers backers Beta Group and Series Mania opened on Wednesday a call for admissions for a second edition.
Though all three series range hugely in setting and creators, all three see their protagonists go back to a recent past to explore events that have impacted their family, their modern-day country (“The Invisible Ink”), or traumas in the present (“Amigas”).
Doing so they form part of one of the biggest trends in current issue-driven series, through the resort to an alternative, future...
- 3/22/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
A project from Finland and a Belgium-Uruguay co-production have won the Seriesmaker initiative here at Series Mania.
The projects, Yours, Margot and The Invisible Ink, both bag €50,000 each after winning the Beta Development Awards.
They were announced minutes ago at Lille’s Series Mania Forum event, which is into its second day.
Yours, Margot is an eight-part drama from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki. The logline is: “After discovering her father’s letters to an unknown lover, Vilja unearths her family’s traumatic past in 1980s East Berlin.”
Kuosmanen’s 2021 road movie Compartment No 6 won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival official competition, and his biographical film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
The Invisible Ink comes from director César Díaz and producer Fernando Epstein, and also runs to eight parts. It...
The projects, Yours, Margot and The Invisible Ink, both bag €50,000 each after winning the Beta Development Awards.
They were announced minutes ago at Lille’s Series Mania Forum event, which is into its second day.
Yours, Margot is an eight-part drama from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki. The logline is: “After discovering her father’s letters to an unknown lover, Vilja unearths her family’s traumatic past in 1980s East Berlin.”
Kuosmanen’s 2021 road movie Compartment No 6 won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival official competition, and his biographical film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
The Invisible Ink comes from director César Díaz and producer Fernando Epstein, and also runs to eight parts. It...
- 3/22/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Sam Claflin may have a complicated love life in his new series Daisy Jones & The Six, but in real life, he only has eyes for his partner Cassie Amato. So who is the actor‘s girlfriend, Amato, and where have you seen her before? Find out.
Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne | Lacey Terrell/Prime Video Who is Cassie Amato?
Amato is a model and Instagram sensation based in Los Angeles. According to People, she is signed with various modeling agencies, including The Industry Model Group, Zombie Model Management, Forte Model Management, and Marilyn Agency. Amato told It’s Now Cool that she was inspired to take up modeling as she grew up watching the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show every year.
“Looking back now, I think that young obsessive passion really lit a fire in me for what’s to come. Modeling was a larger-than-life kind of thing for me as a kid.
Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne | Lacey Terrell/Prime Video Who is Cassie Amato?
Amato is a model and Instagram sensation based in Los Angeles. According to People, she is signed with various modeling agencies, including The Industry Model Group, Zombie Model Management, Forte Model Management, and Marilyn Agency. Amato told It’s Now Cool that she was inspired to take up modeling as she grew up watching the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show every year.
“Looking back now, I think that young obsessive passion really lit a fire in me for what’s to come. Modeling was a larger-than-life kind of thing for me as a kid.
- 3/22/2023
- by Produced by Digital Editors
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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