Les Films d’Ici, the production outfit behind “Waltz With Bashir” and “Funan,” has come on board “Ghostdance,” a timely animated feature shedding light on crimes committed against indigenous women in Canada.
“Ghostdance” is being directed by France’s Nicolas Blies, Stephane Hueber-Blies and Canada’s Kim O’Bomsawin.
Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne, the seasoned Canadian screenwriter whose credits include Denis Villeneuve’s “Enemy” and “Incendies,” has also joined “Ghostdance” to co-write the project with the Blies brothers and O’Bomsawin.
Now in development, “Ghostdance” follows Mykis, a native teenager who’s about to leave Canada to attend a prestigious dance school in New York when she accidentally causes the spirit of a faceless young woman to appear. Mykis sets off to help the ghost recover her identity and embarks on a journey that will lead her to learn about her own heritage and the history of her community.
“‘Ghostdance’ is a singular project...
“Ghostdance” is being directed by France’s Nicolas Blies, Stephane Hueber-Blies and Canada’s Kim O’Bomsawin.
Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne, the seasoned Canadian screenwriter whose credits include Denis Villeneuve’s “Enemy” and “Incendies,” has also joined “Ghostdance” to co-write the project with the Blies brothers and O’Bomsawin.
Now in development, “Ghostdance” follows Mykis, a native teenager who’s about to leave Canada to attend a prestigious dance school in New York when she accidentally causes the spirit of a faceless young woman to appear. Mykis sets off to help the ghost recover her identity and embarks on a journey that will lead her to learn about her own heritage and the history of her community.
“‘Ghostdance’ is a singular project...
- 4/10/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
2011 was one of the best years for film in recent years. There are about 25 films that could have made my top ten list and each film in my top 5 could be my number one. I saw about 100 films this year and I still wish I could have seen more. I feel very comfortable with my top ten and I feel like it was a good representative of the year in film. However I do feel that people looking at this article should go over to Sound On Sight and see all the staff’s individual lists, as well as the honorable mentions that just missed my list. You will find a great collection of films on those lists.
1. Martha Marcy May Marlene
Directed by Sean Durkin
I saw Sean Durkin’s directorial debut in August and knew as soon as the last frame came up that this was the best picture of the year.
1. Martha Marcy May Marlene
Directed by Sean Durkin
I saw Sean Durkin’s directorial debut in August and knew as soon as the last frame came up that this was the best picture of the year.
- 12/31/2011
- by Josh Youngerman
- SoundOnSight
Incendies
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Written by Denis Villeneuve and Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne
Canada/France, 2010, 130 mins.
Spoilers are contained herein.
Incendies is the first unqualified masterpiece of 2011 and the film that should have won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at this year’s Academy Awards. Denis Villeneuve’s film is a perfect adaptation of the wonderful Canadian play by Wajdi Mouawad, a plat that might be the best family drama of the past decade. Villeneuve and his co-writer Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne strip away an hour out of the play’s running time while still staying faithful to the play’s structure. What makes the film really work is that it is an intimate family drama set on a global scale that plays out as an engaging and tense thriller. This is the film that Susanne Bier’s film In a Better World tried so hard and failed to be.
The film...
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Written by Denis Villeneuve and Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne
Canada/France, 2010, 130 mins.
Spoilers are contained herein.
Incendies is the first unqualified masterpiece of 2011 and the film that should have won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at this year’s Academy Awards. Denis Villeneuve’s film is a perfect adaptation of the wonderful Canadian play by Wajdi Mouawad, a plat that might be the best family drama of the past decade. Villeneuve and his co-writer Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne strip away an hour out of the play’s running time while still staying faithful to the play’s structure. What makes the film really work is that it is an intimate family drama set on a global scale that plays out as an engaging and tense thriller. This is the film that Susanne Bier’s film In a Better World tried so hard and failed to be.
The film...
- 5/28/2011
- by Josh Youngerman
- SoundOnSight
Director: Denis Villenueve Writers: Denis Villenueve, Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne, Wajdi Mouawad Cinematographer: André Turpin Starring: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard Studio/Running Time: Sony Pictures Classics, 130 min. One of the questions at the heart of Incendies is whether the search is as important as what’s found at the end. The taut drama follows a pair of twins trying to fulfill a request from their mother’s will: to find their lost brother and unknown father and hand them a pair of mysterious letters. It soon turns out that the pair knew little of their mother’s life, so their...
- 4/22/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Incendies, Barney’s Version, and the other winners of the 2011 Prix Jutra (Jutra Awards) have been announced. The 13th Annual Jutra Awards (Prix Jutra or La Soirée des Prix Jutra) are Canadian annual cinema awards “that recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in the province of Quebec. First introduced in 1999, the Jutra Award is named after Quebec film-maker Claude Jutra and awarded for performance, writing and technical categories such as best actor, actress, director, screenplay, et cetera. This year’s awards were handed out on March 13, 2011 at the Théâtre St-Denis in Montreal. The full listing of the 2011 Prix Jutra (Jutra Awards) winners is below.
Best Film
Incendies – Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Best Director
Denis Villeneuve - Incendies
Best Actress
Lubna Azabal - Incendies
Best Actor
Claude Legault - 10 ½
Best Supporting Actress
Dorothée Berryman - Cabotins (Entertainers)
Best Supporting Actor
Jean Lapointe - À l’origine...
Best Film
Incendies – Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Best Director
Denis Villeneuve - Incendies
Best Actress
Lubna Azabal - Incendies
Best Actor
Claude Legault - 10 ½
Best Supporting Actress
Dorothée Berryman - Cabotins (Entertainers)
Best Supporting Actor
Jean Lapointe - À l’origine...
- 3/15/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Yesterday, the winners at the 13th Jutra Awards, Quebec's Oscars, were revealed. Denis Villeneuve's Incendies dominated the show with 9 awards, especially the Jutra Award for best film. The following is the full list of winners.
Best film: Incendies
Best direction: Denis Villeneuve (Incendies)
Best leading actress: Lubna Azabal (Incendies)
Best leading actor: Claude Legault (10 1/2)
Best supporting actress: Dorothée Berryman (Cabotins)
Best supporting actor: Jean Lapointe (À l’origine d’un cri)
Best screenplay: Denis Villeneuve, with the collaboration of Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne (Incendies)
Best cinematography: André Turpin (Incendies)
Best art direction: André-Line Beauparlant (Incendies)
Best sound: Sylvain Bellemare, Jean Umansky et Jean-Pierre Laforce (Incendies)
Best editing: Monique Dartonne (Incendies)
Best original score: Guy Bélanger et Benoît Charest (Route 132)
Best costume: Sophie Lefebvre (Incendies)
Best make-up artist: Adrien Morot (Barney's Version)
Best hairdressing: Réjean Goderre (Barney's Version)
Best documentary: Pierre Falardeau (Carmen Garcia et German Gutierrez)
Best short film: M...
Best film: Incendies
Best direction: Denis Villeneuve (Incendies)
Best leading actress: Lubna Azabal (Incendies)
Best leading actor: Claude Legault (10 1/2)
Best supporting actress: Dorothée Berryman (Cabotins)
Best supporting actor: Jean Lapointe (À l’origine d’un cri)
Best screenplay: Denis Villeneuve, with the collaboration of Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne (Incendies)
Best cinematography: André Turpin (Incendies)
Best art direction: André-Line Beauparlant (Incendies)
Best sound: Sylvain Bellemare, Jean Umansky et Jean-Pierre Laforce (Incendies)
Best editing: Monique Dartonne (Incendies)
Best original score: Guy Bélanger et Benoît Charest (Route 132)
Best costume: Sophie Lefebvre (Incendies)
Best make-up artist: Adrien Morot (Barney's Version)
Best hairdressing: Réjean Goderre (Barney's Version)
Best documentary: Pierre Falardeau (Carmen Garcia et German Gutierrez)
Best short film: M...
- 3/14/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Unlike last year's two filmmaker/film horse race between Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique and Xavier Dolan's J'ai tué ma mere, this year it was all "Villeneuve" and "Incendies". Repeating his wins in all the same categories it won at the Canadian Oscars (Genies) this week (this includes Editing, Screenplay, Best Cinematography by the excellent André Turpin, Best Actress in Lubna Azabal (who forced here co-star Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin to give her own thank you speech). These wins more than makes up for his loss last year when Villeneuve won the Best Director honor for Polytechnique, but lost in the Best Film category to J'ai tué ma mere. The predictable 13th edition also saw a Genie-Jutra winner from Barney's Version and in the Animated Film category, the Nfb (naturally) supported Theodore Ushev added a Jutra to his Genie for Lipsett Diaries. Best Film/meilleur film 10 1/2 - Pierre Gendron (Zoofilms) Les amours imaginaires - Xavier Dolan,...
- 3/14/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Yesterday, the nominees for the 13th Jutra Awards ceremony were revealed. The winners of this Quebecker Oscar will be revealed next month. The following is the full list of nominees.
Best motion picture:
* 10 1/2
* Les amours imaginaires
* Curling
* Incendies
* Les signes vitaux
Best director:
* Denis Côté- Curling
* Xavier Dolan- Les amours imaginaires
* Kim Nguyen - La cité
* Podz (Daniel Grou) - 10 1/2
* Denis Villeneuve- Incendies
Best leading actress:
* Lubna Azabal - Incendies
* Suzanne Clément - Tromper le silence
* Mélissa Desormeaux-Poulin - Incendies
* Évelyne Rompré- 2 fois une femme
* Guylaine Tremblay- Trois temps après la mort d'Anna
Best leading actor:
* Jay Baruchel - The Trotsky
* Emmanuel Bilodeau - Curling
* Jacques Godin - La dernière fugue
* Claude Legault - 10 1/2
* François Papineau - Route 132
Best supporting actress:
* Dorothée Berryman - Cabotins
* Marie Brassard - Les signes vitaux
* Geneviève Chartrand - Le journal d'Aurélie Laflamme
* Isabelle Miquelon - La dernière fugue
* Danielle Proulx...
Best motion picture:
* 10 1/2
* Les amours imaginaires
* Curling
* Incendies
* Les signes vitaux
Best director:
* Denis Côté- Curling
* Xavier Dolan- Les amours imaginaires
* Kim Nguyen - La cité
* Podz (Daniel Grou) - 10 1/2
* Denis Villeneuve- Incendies
Best leading actress:
* Lubna Azabal - Incendies
* Suzanne Clément - Tromper le silence
* Mélissa Desormeaux-Poulin - Incendies
* Évelyne Rompré- 2 fois une femme
* Guylaine Tremblay- Trois temps après la mort d'Anna
Best leading actor:
* Jay Baruchel - The Trotsky
* Emmanuel Bilodeau - Curling
* Jacques Godin - La dernière fugue
* Claude Legault - 10 1/2
* François Papineau - Route 132
Best supporting actress:
* Dorothée Berryman - Cabotins
* Marie Brassard - Les signes vitaux
* Geneviève Chartrand - Le journal d'Aurélie Laflamme
* Isabelle Miquelon - La dernière fugue
* Danielle Proulx...
- 2/11/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
After announcing the 58 films in four categories that would be eligible for awards at Sundance, the film fest has now announced the next 57 movies to be screened this coming January. These 57 films are of course out of competition and will be included in Premieres, Next, Spotlight, New Frontiers and Midnight categories. Most are big name projects from already established filmmakers and some have already made their way around film festival in 2010. The list includes Kevin Smith’s Red State, Tom McCarthy’s Win Win, Morgan Spurlock’s documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Submarine, I Saw the Devil (which had plenty of buzz at Tiff) and my most anticipated film of 2011, Hobo With a Shotgun.
Here is the full list:
Premieres
To showcase the diversity of contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films.
Here is the full list:
Premieres
To showcase the diversity of contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films.
- 12/3/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Festival Adds New Native Showcase
As Previously Announced, Slacker to Screen From the Collection
Park City, Ut – Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival out-of-competition sections Next (<=>), Spotlight, New Frontier, Park City at Midnight, as well as a new Native Showcase. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at http://www.sundance.org/festival/.
Trevor Groth, Director of Programming said, “The Sundance Film Festival is uniquely a festival of discovery and we are once again privileged to showcase the work of talented new artists, including a special section devoted to Native filmmakers. But it’s also exciting to see returning directors honing their skills and emerging with dazzling new films. And the Next section highlights visionary work that shows aesthetic creativity is not limited by budget.
As Previously Announced, Slacker to Screen From the Collection
Park City, Ut – Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival out-of-competition sections Next (<=>), Spotlight, New Frontier, Park City at Midnight, as well as a new Native Showcase. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at http://www.sundance.org/festival/.
Trevor Groth, Director of Programming said, “The Sundance Film Festival is uniquely a festival of discovery and we are once again privileged to showcase the work of talented new artists, including a special section devoted to Native filmmakers. But it’s also exciting to see returning directors honing their skills and emerging with dazzling new films. And the Next section highlights visionary work that shows aesthetic creativity is not limited by budget.
- 12/3/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Yes, you read that right, they are out of competition but into lesbians courtesy of the midnight lineup.
What do we have to look forward to waiting two years for? Let's see..
Hobo With a Shotgun
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (you had me at lesbian)
Attenberg (I'm loving the coming Greek weird wave)
And many many more films, some of which we'll probably never get to see. Damn.
Full list after the break.
Next ()
Eight American films selected for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking. Each is a world premiere.
Bellflower / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Evan Glodell) - A ballad for every person who has ever loved and lost - with enough violence, weapons, action and sex to tell a love story with apocalyptic stakes. Cast: Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson, Rebekah Brandes.
The Lie / U.S.A. (Director: Joshua Leonard; Screenwriters: Jeff Feuerzeig,...
What do we have to look forward to waiting two years for? Let's see..
Hobo With a Shotgun
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (you had me at lesbian)
Attenberg (I'm loving the coming Greek weird wave)
And many many more films, some of which we'll probably never get to see. Damn.
Full list after the break.
Next ()
Eight American films selected for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking. Each is a world premiere.
Bellflower / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Evan Glodell) - A ballad for every person who has ever loved and lost - with enough violence, weapons, action and sex to tell a love story with apocalyptic stakes. Cast: Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson, Rebekah Brandes.
The Lie / U.S.A. (Director: Joshua Leonard; Screenwriters: Jeff Feuerzeig,...
- 12/2/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The Sundance Film Festival announced the in competition film line-up for the film festival running January 20th through January 30th 2011 in Park City, Utah.
Today the festival has announced the line-up for the non-competition films and there is one hell of a line-up! There are a ton of great films that will be premiering at the festival, and if you're going you have a lot of great films to choose from!
Each film has an incredible cast and a great story. These films include Cedar Rapids, about a man traveling to an insurance conference, featuring Ed Helms, John C. Reilly and Sigourney Weaver; Kevin Smith's Red State, about a group of misfits encounter extreme fundamentalism in Middle America; The Details, about domestic tensions spawned by raccoons with Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert; I Melt With You, starring Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay,...
Today the festival has announced the line-up for the non-competition films and there is one hell of a line-up! There are a ton of great films that will be premiering at the festival, and if you're going you have a lot of great films to choose from!
Each film has an incredible cast and a great story. These films include Cedar Rapids, about a man traveling to an insurance conference, featuring Ed Helms, John C. Reilly and Sigourney Weaver; Kevin Smith's Red State, about a group of misfits encounter extreme fundamentalism in Middle America; The Details, about domestic tensions spawned by raccoons with Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert; I Melt With You, starring Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay,...
- 12/2/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Well, yesterday, we saw the full list of films in-competition; today, we get to see those titles that have been selected for Sundance 2011′s out-of-competition lineup.
And as I said with yesterday’s post, I’ll be going over the complete list, highlighting titles that need to be, taking into consideration this blog’s specific interests. The only title that immediately stands out is Brit John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, which MsWOO positively reviewed, after seeing it at the London Film Festival in October. Read her review Here.
But look for future posts profiling any other titles I deem worthy. I’ve applied for press credentials to attend next year’s festival. I won’t know until the 23rd of this month, whether I’ve been granted press access or not. If I am, I will attend the festival; and if I’m not, well, I probably won’t.
And as I said with yesterday’s post, I’ll be going over the complete list, highlighting titles that need to be, taking into consideration this blog’s specific interests. The only title that immediately stands out is Brit John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, which MsWOO positively reviewed, after seeing it at the London Film Festival in October. Read her review Here.
But look for future posts profiling any other titles I deem worthy. I’ve applied for press credentials to attend next year’s festival. I won’t know until the 23rd of this month, whether I’ve been granted press access or not. If I am, I will attend the festival; and if I’m not, well, I probably won’t.
- 12/2/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Wednesday, the 2011 Sundance Film Festival announced the 58 films in four categories [1] that would be eligible for awards. Today, they've announced the next slice of their line up - 57 out of competition films in the Premieres, Next, Spotlight, New Frontiers and Midnight categories. This is generally where you get many of the bigger name projects and this year is no exception. We already knew [2] that Kevin Smith's Red State would be on the list, but there's also Tom McCarthy's new film Win Win, Morgan Spurlock's documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, the highly buzzed-about Submarine, Fantastic Fest darling I Saw the Devil as well as Hobo With a Shotgun and a whole bunch more including films with Al Pacino, Tobey Maguire, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, Paul Rudd and others. As we said yesterday, the announcement of the movies playing the 2011 Sundance Film Festival is like looking into our film futures.
- 12/2/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
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