Museum of the Moving Image is pleased to announce the complete lineup for the 13th edition of First Look, the Museum's festival of new and innovative international cinema, which will take place in person March 13–17, 2024. Each year, First Look offers a diverse slate of major New York premieres, work-in-progress screenings and sessions, gallery installations, and fresh perspectives on the art and process of filmmaking. This year's festival introduces New York audiences to more than three dozen works from around the world. The guiding ethos of First Look is openness, curiosity, and discovery, aiming to expose audiences to new art, artists to new audiences, and everyone to different methods, perspectives, interrogations, and encounters. For five consecutive days the festival takes over MoMI's two theaters, as well as other rooms and galleries throughout the Museum—with in-person appearances and dialogue integral to the experience. Each night concludes with one of five...
- 2/14/2024
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The annual Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival has given IndieWire an exclusive “first look” at the lineup.
The 13th annual event, which takes place March 13 through 17 in Astoria, Queens, opens with the New York premiere of Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s “Sujo,” which recently took home the Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
The First Look Festival focuses on emerging talents and international voices, with the fest premiering 46 works, including 20 features that represent 21 countries. Highlights include Farhad Delaram’s “Achilles,” Graham Swon’s “An Evening Song (for three voices), and the U.S. premiere of Lois Patiño’s “Samsara.” Zhang Mengqi’s “Self-Portrait: 47 Km 2020,” which won the Award of Excellence winner at the 2023 Yamagata Documentary Festival, will also screen along with Shoghakat Vardanyan’s 2023 IDFA grand prize winner “1489,” the debut for the filmmaker. Returning First Look directors like Michaël Andrianaly...
The 13th annual event, which takes place March 13 through 17 in Astoria, Queens, opens with the New York premiere of Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s “Sujo,” which recently took home the Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
The First Look Festival focuses on emerging talents and international voices, with the fest premiering 46 works, including 20 features that represent 21 countries. Highlights include Farhad Delaram’s “Achilles,” Graham Swon’s “An Evening Song (for three voices), and the U.S. premiere of Lois Patiño’s “Samsara.” Zhang Mengqi’s “Self-Portrait: 47 Km 2020,” which won the Award of Excellence winner at the 2023 Yamagata Documentary Festival, will also screen along with Shoghakat Vardanyan’s 2023 IDFA grand prize winner “1489,” the debut for the filmmaker. Returning First Look directors like Michaël Andrianaly...
- 2/12/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For regular updates, sign up for our weekly email newsletter and follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSCapital.The Palestinian Film Institute and several prominent filmmakers—including Sky Hopinka, Miko Revereza, Maryam Tafakory, Charlie Shackleton, and Basma al-Sharif—have withdrawn from the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in response to the festival’s messaging about the war in Gaza. On the festival’s opening night, a group of activists took to the stage holding a banner that read “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”; on November 10, IDFA published a statement apologizing to patrons who may have been offended by this “hurtful slogan.” On November 11, the Pfi and the advocacy group Workers for Palestine Netherlands announced their withdrawal from IDFA: “As the world’s largest documentary film festival, IDFA holds the responsibility to respond to the plight of journalists and documentarians on the ground in Gaza,...
- 11/16/2023
- MUBI
Having recently shifted away from their one-film-a-day approach, Mubi has now unveiled their October lineup, which is headlined by Ira Sachs’ stellar drama Passages following its theatrical run this summer. The slate also features handpicked selections by Sachs, with work by Maurice Pialat, Luchino Visconti, Jack Hazan, Shirley Clarke, and Tsai Ming-liang.
Also arriving in October is “Watch If You Dare: Horror Halloween,” a series featuring a trio of giallo classics, with The Fifth Cord, The Possessed, and Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, alongside Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone and more. The service will also spotlight the work of underseen Japanese director Yasuzô Masumura, including his aching melodrama Red Angel, his biting workplace satire Giants and Toys, his thrilling noir Black Test Car, and more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
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Also arriving in October is “Watch If You Dare: Horror Halloween,” a series featuring a trio of giallo classics, with The Fifth Cord, The Possessed, and Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, alongside Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone and more. The service will also spotlight the work of underseen Japanese director Yasuzô Masumura, including his aching melodrama Red Angel, his biting workplace satire Giants and Toys, his thrilling noir Black Test Car, and more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
October 1
The Infiltrators, directed by Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra | National Hispanic Heritage Month
The Vanished Elephant,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Prismatic Ground is becoming a must-attend filmmaker-centered showcase on the rise for underground documentaries, avant-garde, and experimental cinema in the heart of New York City. Founded by Maysles Documentary Center co-programming director Inney Prakash, the initial virtual festival counter-responded to the approaches of many institutions that have inadequately handled virtual exhibitions and poorly supported artists. Prismatic Ground pays filmmakers screening fees, doesn’t divide features and shorts via “waves,” and merges early career and established voices in its accessible presentation of politically engaged, personal, and speculative imagery.
As this hybrid festival adapts the in-person components each subsequent year, the 3rd Prismatic Ground will present works at the Museum of the Moving Image, Maysles Documentary Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dctv’s Firehouse Cinema, Light Industry, and Anthology Film Archives with limited selections available online.
Taking place May 3-7, check out our picks to see below and learn more here.
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As this hybrid festival adapts the in-person components each subsequent year, the 3rd Prismatic Ground will present works at the Museum of the Moving Image, Maysles Documentary Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dctv’s Firehouse Cinema, Light Industry, and Anthology Film Archives with limited selections available online.
Taking place May 3-7, check out our picks to see below and learn more here.
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- 5/1/2023
- by Edward Frumkin
- The Film Stage
No year in review would be complete without a thank-you to our writers. Time and again, they reminded us that cinema is not only alive and well, but it is also always transforming; the filmmakers and festivals covered here push the boundaries of what we took for granted about the medium.Here’s a quick overview of what we published in 2022—and, for many more excellent pieces, we encourage you to browse our archive using the “explore” tab on the homepage.ESSAYSContemporary Cinema:When Propaganda Fails: Adam McKay's Don't Look Up by Ryan MeehanThe Horse in Motion: Jordan Peele's Nope by Blair McClendonThe Many Faces of Michelle Yeoh by Sean GilmanHall of Mirrors: James Gray's Armageddon Time and Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans by Kelli WestonNameless Energies: Don DeLillo at the Movies by Leonardo GoiThe Voice of a Generation: The Trope of the "Complex Female Character" by Rafaela BassiliHong...
- 1/4/2023
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSThis week, we’re remembering the iconoclastic, anti-capitalist filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub, who has died at the age of 89. In the course of revisiting Christopher Small’s Straub-Huillet Companion column, we were moved by this quotation from Straub, from a 1974 edition of Jump Cut:The revolution is like God’s grace, it has to be made anew each day, it becomes new every day, a revolution is not made once and for all. And it’s exactly like that in daily life. There is no division between politics and life, art and politics. I think one has no other choice, if one is making films that can stand on their own feet, they must become documentary, or in any case they must have documentary roots. Everything must be correct,...
- 11/23/2022
- MUBI
As Mine Exactly.Deep in the bowels of London’s BFI Southbank, Charlie Shackleton is recounting a story about his mother. We’re sitting opposite one another in someone else’s office, separated by a desk; I am wearing a virtual-reality headset and cannot see him. For the next 30 minutes, he will read a script and control the wraparound screen I see in the headset. My role is to simply watch, and listen.As Mine Exactly, which won the Immersive Art and Xr Award at the 2022 London Film Festival, is part one-to-one performance, part desktop documentary, using the contemporary technology of VR to build the kind of intimacy that such technology seems to deny. I am his second performance of the day. “Don’t feel you have to perform your reaction,” he tells me. In doing so, Shackleton embraces the inherent awkwardness and artificiality of VR. The effect is startlingly intimate.
- 11/16/2022
- MUBI
The 66th annual British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival announced winners Saturday evening for a competition group representing a diverse selection of stories ranging from period pieces to eerie thrillers. Writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage,” was recognized with the festival’s highest honor — the best film award — continuing the historical drama’s festival praise after lead actress Vicky Krieps was awarded the Un Certain Regard best performance prize at Cannes.
Set during Christmas in 1877, “Corsage” follows Empress Elizabeth as she attempts to find liberation from the stifling conformity of her stuffy, image-focused lifestyle as a Vienna royal. Though the film is in part based on the historical figure, who reigned for 44 years, artistic deviations are made in the former ruler’s story.
“The best film award goes to Marie Kreutzer’s masterfully realised film ‘Corsage’ for its mesmerising and original interpretation of the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth,...
Set during Christmas in 1877, “Corsage” follows Empress Elizabeth as she attempts to find liberation from the stifling conformity of her stuffy, image-focused lifestyle as a Vienna royal. Though the film is in part based on the historical figure, who reigned for 44 years, artistic deviations are made in the former ruler’s story.
“The best film award goes to Marie Kreutzer’s masterfully realised film ‘Corsage’ for its mesmerising and original interpretation of the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth,...
- 10/16/2022
- by Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
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Corsage, Marie Kreutzer’s period drama starring Vicky Krieps, has won the top honor at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival.
The film, which first bowed in Cannes’s Un Certain Regard sidebar (where Krieps won for best performance) and is now Austria’s entry to the Academy Awards, claim the best film award from the official competition, announced on Oct. 16 ahead of the festival’s closing night drama.
The jury said that the “masterfully realized” film won for its “for its mesmerizing and original interpretation of the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth,” adding that it had been “completely seduced by Vicky Krieps’ sublime performance of a woman out of time trapped in her own iconography and her rebellious yearning for liberation.”
In response, Kreutzer said the award was for “everyone on my team,” claiming that “the most beautiful thing about my job...
Corsage, Marie Kreutzer’s period drama starring Vicky Krieps, has won the top honor at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival.
The film, which first bowed in Cannes’s Un Certain Regard sidebar (where Krieps won for best performance) and is now Austria’s entry to the Academy Awards, claim the best film award from the official competition, announced on Oct. 16 ahead of the festival’s closing night drama.
The jury said that the “masterfully realized” film won for its “for its mesmerizing and original interpretation of the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth,” adding that it had been “completely seduced by Vicky Krieps’ sublime performance of a woman out of time trapped in her own iconography and her rebellious yearning for liberation.”
In response, Kreutzer said the award was for “everyone on my team,” claiming that “the most beautiful thing about my job...
- 10/16/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Manuela Martelli’s ‘1976’ wins Sutherland Award.
Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage led the winners at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival (October 5-16), taking the best film prize in the Official Competition.
The Official Competition jury, led by Tanya Seghatchian, praised the ”masterfully realised film for its mesmerising and original interpretation of the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth”, and said it was ”completed seduced by Vicky Krieps’ sublime performance of a woman out of time trapped in her own iconography and her rebellious yearning for liberation.”
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Corsage debuted in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in May,...
Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage led the winners at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival (October 5-16), taking the best film prize in the Official Competition.
The Official Competition jury, led by Tanya Seghatchian, praised the ”masterfully realised film for its mesmerising and original interpretation of the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth”, and said it was ”completed seduced by Vicky Krieps’ sublime performance of a woman out of time trapped in her own iconography and her rebellious yearning for liberation.”
Scroll down for the full list of winners
Corsage debuted in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in May,...
- 10/16/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer clinched the best film award in the main Official Competition of the 66th London Film Festival with her latest feature Corsage, starring Vicky Krieps.
The historical drama, which is also the Austrian entry for the best international feature film Oscar race, follows the disgruntled Empress Elisabeth (Krieps), a 19th-century royal who, upon turning 40, begins to rebel against her carefully orchestrated public image.
The festival jury, headed by producer Tanya Seghatchian, actor Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), filmmaker/playwright Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami), filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane (The Disciple), and journalist Charles Gant described the film as a “mesmerizing and original interpretation of the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth.”
“The jury was completely seduced by Vicky Krieps’ sublime performance of a woman out of time trapped in her own iconography and her rebellious yearning for liberation,” the jury said...
The historical drama, which is also the Austrian entry for the best international feature film Oscar race, follows the disgruntled Empress Elisabeth (Krieps), a 19th-century royal who, upon turning 40, begins to rebel against her carefully orchestrated public image.
The festival jury, headed by producer Tanya Seghatchian, actor Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), filmmaker/playwright Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami), filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane (The Disciple), and journalist Charles Gant described the film as a “mesmerizing and original interpretation of the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth.”
“The jury was completely seduced by Vicky Krieps’ sublime performance of a woman out of time trapped in her own iconography and her rebellious yearning for liberation,” the jury said...
- 10/16/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The London Film Festival has revealed its jury line-up for this year’s awards.
The Official Competition jury is led by “Power of the Dog” and “Cold War” producer Tanya Seghatchian (pictured), while the First Feature Competition (Sutherland Award) jury will be headed up by director and actor Nana Mensah whose directorial debut “Queen of Glory” won the Best New Narrative Director prize at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
Elsewhere, Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini will lead the jury selecting the winner of the Grierson Award for Best Documentary after winning the award in 2018 for his film “What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire.”
Finally, the Immersive Art and Xr Competition will be led by photographer Misan Harriman, while producer and director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor will lead the jury selecting the best short film.
See below for the full jury lists:
Official Competition
Seghatchian is joined this year by: actor...
The Official Competition jury is led by “Power of the Dog” and “Cold War” producer Tanya Seghatchian (pictured), while the First Feature Competition (Sutherland Award) jury will be headed up by director and actor Nana Mensah whose directorial debut “Queen of Glory” won the Best New Narrative Director prize at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
Elsewhere, Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini will lead the jury selecting the winner of the Grierson Award for Best Documentary after winning the award in 2018 for his film “What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire.”
Finally, the Immersive Art and Xr Competition will be led by photographer Misan Harriman, while producer and director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor will lead the jury selecting the best short film.
See below for the full jury lists:
Official Competition
Seghatchian is joined this year by: actor...
- 10/4/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The BFI London Film Festival will debut Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin’s latest project as part of Lff Expanded, the festival’s Immersive Art and Extended Realities strand, which runs from October 5-16, 2022.
Programmed by Ulrich Schrauth, the BFI’s Immersive Art and Xr Curator, this year’s Lff Expanded lineup showcases 20 projects from 17 countries across the world, all of which feature artists working in emerging technologies, such as interactive virtual reality, screen-based installations, augmented reality, mixed reality, immersive audio experience and live performance.
The lineup includes the World Premiere of Guy Maddin’s latest work Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality. Presented at BFI Southbank, this evocative, immersive exhibition transports the audience into a surreal paper world, created from an eclectic selection of clippings drawn from Maddin’s own personal archive, set to an intricate soundscape by acclaimed composer Magnus Fiennes. The project was commissioned by the Lff...
Programmed by Ulrich Schrauth, the BFI’s Immersive Art and Xr Curator, this year’s Lff Expanded lineup showcases 20 projects from 17 countries across the world, all of which feature artists working in emerging technologies, such as interactive virtual reality, screen-based installations, augmented reality, mixed reality, immersive audio experience and live performance.
The lineup includes the World Premiere of Guy Maddin’s latest work Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality. Presented at BFI Southbank, this evocative, immersive exhibition transports the audience into a surreal paper world, created from an eclectic selection of clippings drawn from Maddin’s own personal archive, set to an intricate soundscape by acclaimed composer Magnus Fiennes. The project was commissioned by the Lff...
- 8/24/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The BFI London Film Festival has revealed the line-up for Lff Expanded, its immersive art and extended realities strand (Oct. 5-16).
Programmed by Ulrich Schrauth, the BFI’s immersive art and Xr curator, this year’s program features interactive virtual reality, screen-based installations, augmented reality, mixed reality, immersive audio experience and live performance. The program will be at multiple venues on London’s South Bank.
The highlight of the program is the world premiere, commissioned by the festival, of Guy Maddin’s “Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality,” which promises to transport the audience into a surreal paper world, created from a selection of clippings drawn from Maddin’s own personal archive, set to a soundscape by composer Magnus Fiennes.
Schrauth describes the work as one “that invites audiences to explore a vibrant tableau of desire, deception and death.”
Schrauth said: “This year’s program considers pertinent issues of...
Programmed by Ulrich Schrauth, the BFI’s immersive art and Xr curator, this year’s program features interactive virtual reality, screen-based installations, augmented reality, mixed reality, immersive audio experience and live performance. The program will be at multiple venues on London’s South Bank.
The highlight of the program is the world premiere, commissioned by the festival, of Guy Maddin’s “Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality,” which promises to transport the audience into a surreal paper world, created from a selection of clippings drawn from Maddin’s own personal archive, set to a soundscape by composer Magnus Fiennes.
Schrauth describes the work as one “that invites audiences to explore a vibrant tableau of desire, deception and death.”
Schrauth said: “This year’s program considers pertinent issues of...
- 8/24/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmakers Charlie Shackleton, Wu Tsang also to present works.
The world premiere of Guy Maddin’s Haunted Hotel – A Melodrama In Augmented Reality will headline the programme of BFI London Film Festival 2022’s Lff Expanded strand, for immersive art and extended realities.
A 20-minute immersive experience commissioned by the festival, German production Haunted Hotel will play at the BFI Southbank throughout the festival, and until October 30. It will use clippings from Maddin’s personal archive in “a surreal paper world”; viewers will look through virtual peep holes and “rooms filled with longing, hysteria and madness”, in what the festival describes...
The world premiere of Guy Maddin’s Haunted Hotel – A Melodrama In Augmented Reality will headline the programme of BFI London Film Festival 2022’s Lff Expanded strand, for immersive art and extended realities.
A 20-minute immersive experience commissioned by the festival, German production Haunted Hotel will play at the BFI Southbank throughout the festival, and until October 30. It will use clippings from Maddin’s personal archive in “a surreal paper world”; viewers will look through virtual peep holes and “rooms filled with longing, hysteria and madness”, in what the festival describes...
- 8/24/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSEnys Men (Mark Jenkin).The New York Film Festival announced its Main Slate. Highlights include new films from Park Chan-wook, Claire Denis, and Kelly Reichardt; a fiction feature from Frederick Wiseman; Mark Jenkin's Bait follow-up Enys Men; and much more.Hong Kong action director John Woo will reimagine his 1989 crime classic The Killer in a new remake due out in 2023. French actor Omar Sy (The Intouchables) will play the lead.Lars Von Trier has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, his production company Zoetrope has confirmed. The director is doing well, and is currently being treated for symptoms whilst continuing to work on The Kingdom Exodus.Artist and El Planeta filmmaker Amalia Ulman's visa is expiring, meaning she may have to leave the United States, where she is currently working on her next feature film.
- 8/9/2022
- MUBI
Charlie Shackleton’s film exists as a single 35mm print.
Charlie Shackleton’s non-fiction feature The Afterlight, which exists on a single 35mm print, has set a 12-date UK-Ireland tour, self-distributed by production company Loop.
The film will play locations around the territory from June 29th with in-person introductions and Q&As from UK filmmaker Shackleton.
Only one copy of the film exists, meaning it erodes every time it screens. It is described by the filmmakers as “a living document of its life in circulation. Eventually it will disappear entirely.”
The Afterlight is currently touring North America, having had its...
Charlie Shackleton’s non-fiction feature The Afterlight, which exists on a single 35mm print, has set a 12-date UK-Ireland tour, self-distributed by production company Loop.
The film will play locations around the territory from June 29th with in-person introductions and Q&As from UK filmmaker Shackleton.
Only one copy of the film exists, meaning it erodes every time it screens. It is described by the filmmakers as “a living document of its life in circulation. Eventually it will disappear entirely.”
The Afterlight is currently touring North America, having had its...
- 5/11/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
With the 2022 edition of Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival beginning on Wednesday, the series has just dropped a trailer — a brisk 1-minute+ showing the range of this year’s selections. The First Look schedule now includes a number of recently announced additions, including a screening of Jenny Perlin’s documentary Bunker followed by a discussion with the film’s producer, the well-known critic A.S. Hamrah; Deniz Tortum and Kathryn Hamilton’s single-channel video installation Our Ark (now viewable in the gallery); and Charlie Shackleton’s single-viewer VR experience As Mine Exactly. Also, there are a number of films in the program from […]
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The post Watch: MoMI’s Trailer for the 2022 First Look Festival first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/11/2022
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
With the 2022 edition of Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival beginning on Wednesday, the series has just dropped a trailer — a brisk 1-minute+ showing the range of this year’s selections. The First Look schedule now includes a number of recently announced additions, including a screening of Jenny Perlin’s documentary Bunker followed by a discussion with the film’s producer, the well-known critic A.S. Hamrah; Deniz Tortum and Kathryn Hamilton’s single-channel video installation Our Ark (now viewable in the gallery); and Charlie Shackleton’s single-viewer VR experience As Mine Exactly. Also, there are a number of films in the program from […]
The post Watch: MoMI’s Trailer for the 2022 First Look Festival first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Watch: MoMI’s Trailer for the 2022 First Look Festival first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/11/2022
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Exclusive: All3Media-backed Little Dot Studios’ Head of Arts Catherine Bray has departed to focus on UK indie Loop.
Bray joined Little Dot six years ago as Commissioning Editor for Channel 4 shorts strand Random Acts, which featured the likes of Mae Martin, Asa Butterfield and Noel Fielding.
She was promoted to Head of Arts in 2019, overseeing three years of BBC iPlayer strand Inside Cinema along with podcasts and specials.
Bray was previously running Loop on the side with producers Anthony Ing and Charlie Shackleton. The indie is developing two scripted films with the BFI and Field of Vision and has previously had features play at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and 2021 BFI London Film Festival. Bray has also produced essay films Guilt-Free Pleasures and Meet the Family for BBC Four via Loop.
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In related Little Dot news, the indie has launched a foundation to improve social mobility...
Bray joined Little Dot six years ago as Commissioning Editor for Channel 4 shorts strand Random Acts, which featured the likes of Mae Martin, Asa Butterfield and Noel Fielding.
She was promoted to Head of Arts in 2019, overseeing three years of BBC iPlayer strand Inside Cinema along with podcasts and specials.
Bray was previously running Loop on the side with producers Anthony Ing and Charlie Shackleton. The indie is developing two scripted films with the BFI and Field of Vision and has previously had features play at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and 2021 BFI London Film Festival. Bray has also produced essay films Guilt-Free Pleasures and Meet the Family for BBC Four via Loop.
Andy Taylor Foundation
In related Little Dot news, the indie has launched a foundation to improve social mobility...
- 2/22/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The 11th annual First Look festival at the Museum of the Moving Image released its star-studded lineup February 7.
The festival, which is set to take place March 16–20 at the MoMI museum in Astoria, Queens, will open with the New York City premiere of Camera d’Or winner “Murina.” Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović was honored with the title at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for Best First Feature, and the film is executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
“Murina” is a coming-of-age story set in a scenic coastal Croatian town. Also on March 16, Tsai Ming-Liang’s ode to Hong Kong, “The Night,” will host its New York premiere. Closing Night selection and 2021 Locarno Grand Prix winner “The Balcony Movie” finishes off the festival.
The First Look festival features “new and innovative international cinema.” Spotlight screenings include the New York premiere of “Zero Fucks Given,” starring Adèle Exarchopoulos as a flight attendant in crisis,...
The festival, which is set to take place March 16–20 at the MoMI museum in Astoria, Queens, will open with the New York City premiere of Camera d’Or winner “Murina.” Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović was honored with the title at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for Best First Feature, and the film is executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
“Murina” is a coming-of-age story set in a scenic coastal Croatian town. Also on March 16, Tsai Ming-Liang’s ode to Hong Kong, “The Night,” will host its New York premiere. Closing Night selection and 2021 Locarno Grand Prix winner “The Balcony Movie” finishes off the festival.
The First Look festival features “new and innovative international cinema.” Spotlight screenings include the New York premiere of “Zero Fucks Given,” starring Adèle Exarchopoulos as a flight attendant in crisis,...
- 2/7/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The film side of TikTok has plenty of spoofs. But our writer prefers the critics, the metal-jawed burger-biting machine – and the effects experts revealing how to make a camera crew vanish into thin air
Film TikTok is giving film an explosion of energy, a performative and democratised version of cinephilia that celebrates, imitates, teases, lip-syncs, mashes up and mocks – but all the time rubs up against – the movies. Susan Sontag, in Against Interpretation, called for a rich, intuitive kind of criticism that celebrates and reproduces the sensuous effect of art, instead of imposing a coldly pedagogic analysis. I think she’d have loved Film TikTok. And it’s happened over just a few years, propelled by people under the age of 25.
Apart from everything else, Film TikTok may be undermining one of the most fundamental tenets of cinema: that the screen has to be “landscape” style, since anything else looks amateurish and inauthentic.
Film TikTok is giving film an explosion of energy, a performative and democratised version of cinephilia that celebrates, imitates, teases, lip-syncs, mashes up and mocks – but all the time rubs up against – the movies. Susan Sontag, in Against Interpretation, called for a rich, intuitive kind of criticism that celebrates and reproduces the sensuous effect of art, instead of imposing a coldly pedagogic analysis. I think she’d have loved Film TikTok. And it’s happened over just a few years, propelled by people under the age of 25.
Apart from everything else, Film TikTok may be undermining one of the most fundamental tenets of cinema: that the screen has to be “landscape” style, since anything else looks amateurish and inauthentic.
- 11/10/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Audrey Diwan's Happening. The Venice Film Festival has come to a close. Check out all of the award winners, which include Audrey Diwan's Happening, Paolo Sorrentino's The Hand of God, and Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, here.Comedian Norm Macdonald, best known as a former cast member of Saturday Night Live and for his performances in films like Dirty Work, has died at 61. In a tweet dedicated to Macdonald, Adam Sandler described Macdonald as the "most fearless funny original guy we knew." Once titled Soggy Bottom, Paul Thomas Anderson's latest feature has a new title: Licorice Pizza, a reference to the record store chain from the 1970s. Surprise 35mm trailers for Licorice Pizza, described as having similarities to Anderson's Boogie Nights, have been seen playing before films like American Graffiti and Repo Men.
- 9/15/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSProlific title designer Wayne Fitzgerald, who created the titles for films like The Godfather, Touch of Evil, and even Beverly Hills Ninja, has died. You can find the many infamous title cards designed by Fitzgerald on Annyas. Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, as introduced by Robert De Niro on Jimmy Fallon. Read our review of the film from the New York Film Festival here. The 4K restoration of Béla Tarr's slow cinema masterpiece, Sátántangó (1994), about a collective of Hungarian villagers seeking refuge during the fall of communism. Kazuo Hara's latest, Reiwa Uprising, follows "Ayumi Yasutomi, a cross-dressing candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a seat in Japan's Upper House." For Sight & Sound, critic Charlie Lyne delves into...
- 10/1/2019
- MUBI
An imminent Mubi season offers a rare chance to explore the work of ‘Korean Woody Allen’ Hong Sang-soo
Twenty-three years and 23 films into his career, the South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo has been dubbed the “Korean Woody Allen” in certain world cinema quarters, and not just for the remarkable frequency of his output. His films rival those of the controversial New York nebbish for their persistence of focus, as they routinely unpick male-female desire and miscommunication, usually with extended sidebars on cinema (bumbling alter-ego film-makers are frequently his protagonists), and the inebriating wonders of Korea’s favourite drink, that fiercely clear spirit, soju.
Packed with variations and idiosyncrasies beyond these wry trademarks, it’s an oeuvre that has become one of the most prolific and distinctive on the international festival circuit, winning Hong the fandom of such industry royals as Claire Denis and Isabelle Huppert, yet it’s a taste...
Twenty-three years and 23 films into his career, the South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo has been dubbed the “Korean Woody Allen” in certain world cinema quarters, and not just for the remarkable frequency of his output. His films rival those of the controversial New York nebbish for their persistence of focus, as they routinely unpick male-female desire and miscommunication, usually with extended sidebars on cinema (bumbling alter-ego film-makers are frequently his protagonists), and the inebriating wonders of Korea’s favourite drink, that fiercely clear spirit, soju.
Packed with variations and idiosyncrasies beyond these wry trademarks, it’s an oeuvre that has become one of the most prolific and distinctive on the international festival circuit, winning Hong the fandom of such industry royals as Claire Denis and Isabelle Huppert, yet it’s a taste...
- 1/14/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
The Guardian newspaper is eyeing its first move into long-form feature docs following its success in short-to-medium length online films.
This comes as it rolls out its latest online doc – Crisanto Street – a film about gentrification in Silicon Valley.
Charlie Phillips, Head of Documentaries at the Guardian, told Deadline that it is in the early stages of plotting a move to become a funder and partner for longer form films and documentaries.
“That’s definitely something that we are wanting to do and are figuring out the best model for, especially when it comes to in-house Guardian ideas. There’s a ton of great investigative journalism going on and big stories that people are working on and there’s definitely a space in which that IP could be matched up with a really great doc filmmaker and we could have an incubation lab for those kinds of ideas. It takes...
This comes as it rolls out its latest online doc – Crisanto Street – a film about gentrification in Silicon Valley.
Charlie Phillips, Head of Documentaries at the Guardian, told Deadline that it is in the early stages of plotting a move to become a funder and partner for longer form films and documentaries.
“That’s definitely something that we are wanting to do and are figuring out the best model for, especially when it comes to in-house Guardian ideas. There’s a ton of great investigative journalism going on and big stories that people are working on and there’s definitely a space in which that IP could be matched up with a really great doc filmmaker and we could have an incubation lab for those kinds of ideas. It takes...
- 12/18/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
This evening the great and good gathered in the capital to celebrate the best films playing in this year’s London Film Festival.
The winners of the awards were Sudabeh Mortezai, Documentary award winner Roberto Minervini, Lukas Dhont who won the First Feature Film Award, and Ultraculture supremo Charlie Lyne who collected another award, this time for his short film Lasting Marks.
Attending the awards ceremony were BFI Lff Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle, Frank/Room/The Little Stranger director Lenny Abrahamson Jury Chair. Official Competition (Best Film Award), Academy Award®-nominated director, nominee for the Lff Best Film Award for Room Francis Lee – Jury Chair, First Feature Competition (Sutherland Award) – Winner of the 2017 Bifa for Best Début Screenwriter for God’S Own Country- Simon Chinn – Jury Chair, Documentary Competition (Grierson Award) – The prolific, award-winning documentary producer who won the 2009 and 2013 Academy Award® for Best Documentary for Man On Wire and Searching For Sugarman respectively.
The winners of the awards were Sudabeh Mortezai, Documentary award winner Roberto Minervini, Lukas Dhont who won the First Feature Film Award, and Ultraculture supremo Charlie Lyne who collected another award, this time for his short film Lasting Marks.
Attending the awards ceremony were BFI Lff Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle, Frank/Room/The Little Stranger director Lenny Abrahamson Jury Chair. Official Competition (Best Film Award), Academy Award®-nominated director, nominee for the Lff Best Film Award for Room Francis Lee – Jury Chair, First Feature Competition (Sutherland Award) – Winner of the 2017 Bifa for Best Début Screenwriter for God’S Own Country- Simon Chinn – Jury Chair, Documentary Competition (Grierson Award) – The prolific, award-winning documentary producer who won the 2009 and 2013 Academy Award® for Best Documentary for Man On Wire and Searching For Sugarman respectively.
- 10/21/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sex-trafficking drama “Joy,” from Austrian-Iranian director Sudabeh Mortezai, has won the award for Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival. “Joy” was one of 10 films in the official competition lineup, half of which were directed or co-directed by women, including Mortezai.
The winning picture is a “vital, beautifully made film,” said Lenny Abrahamson, president of the main competition jury. “’Joy’ is a provocative and unique film offering a devastating portrait of human resilience in the most inhuman of environments.”
In its review, Variety said the movie was a “fully inhabited portrayal of Nigerian migrant sex workers,” adding that “it offers a raw, fresh view on the currently ubiquitous topic of European immigration control, sewn through with sharp feminist perspective.”
“Joy’s” London accolade comes after it won the Hearst Film Award for female direction and the 2018 Europa Cinemas Label at Venice.
Lukas Dhont’s “Girl,” about a transgender teen...
The winning picture is a “vital, beautifully made film,” said Lenny Abrahamson, president of the main competition jury. “’Joy’ is a provocative and unique film offering a devastating portrait of human resilience in the most inhuman of environments.”
In its review, Variety said the movie was a “fully inhabited portrayal of Nigerian migrant sex workers,” adding that “it offers a raw, fresh view on the currently ubiquitous topic of European immigration control, sewn through with sharp feminist perspective.”
“Joy’s” London accolade comes after it won the Hearst Film Award for female direction and the 2018 Europa Cinemas Label at Venice.
Lukas Dhont’s “Girl,” about a transgender teen...
- 10/20/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Joy, Girl and What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire? were among winners revealed tonight at the BFI London Film Festival.
Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy took home the Best Film Award in the Official Competition. Winner of both the first ever Hearst Film Award 2018 for Best Female Direction and the 2018 Europa Cinemas Label at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, the drama tackles the vicious cycle of sex trafficking in modern Europe. It follows the life of Joy, a young Nigerian woman, who works the streets to pay off debts to her exploiter Madame, while supporting her family in Nigeria and hoping for a better life for her young daughter in Vienna.
In the same section, there was a Special Commendation for Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s Birds Of Passage.
Lukas Dhont’s Cannes hit Girl, about a transgender teenager who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer,...
Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy took home the Best Film Award in the Official Competition. Winner of both the first ever Hearst Film Award 2018 for Best Female Direction and the 2018 Europa Cinemas Label at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, the drama tackles the vicious cycle of sex trafficking in modern Europe. It follows the life of Joy, a young Nigerian woman, who works the streets to pay off debts to her exploiter Madame, while supporting her family in Nigeria and hoping for a better life for her young daughter in Vienna.
In the same section, there was a Special Commendation for Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s Birds Of Passage.
Lukas Dhont’s Cannes hit Girl, about a transgender teenager who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer,...
- 10/20/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“Game of Thrones” and “Solo: A Star Wars Story” star Emilia Clarke will be on the jury of the Official Competition of the 62nd BFI London Film Festival, which runs Oct. 10-21. Another “Thrones” star, Natalie Dormer, is on the fest’s First Feature Competition jury, which hands out the Sutherland Award.
Joining Clarke on the Official Competition judging panel are “Mamma Mia” star Dominic Cooper and actress Andrea Riseborough, whose credits include “Birdman” and “Black Mirror.” Also on the jury are Daily Mail journalist Baz Bamigboye; Cairo Cannon, the producer of Carol Morley’s “Out of Blue,” screening as a Special Presentation in the festival; and Gonzalo Maza, the producer and screenwriter of Oscar-winner “A Fantastic Woman.” Director Lenny Abrahamson, Oscar nominated for “Room,” is the jury president, as previously announced.
Dormer, whose recent credits include “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” is joined on the First Feature Competition jury by jury president Francis Lee,...
Joining Clarke on the Official Competition judging panel are “Mamma Mia” star Dominic Cooper and actress Andrea Riseborough, whose credits include “Birdman” and “Black Mirror.” Also on the jury are Daily Mail journalist Baz Bamigboye; Cairo Cannon, the producer of Carol Morley’s “Out of Blue,” screening as a Special Presentation in the festival; and Gonzalo Maza, the producer and screenwriter of Oscar-winner “A Fantastic Woman.” Director Lenny Abrahamson, Oscar nominated for “Room,” is the jury president, as previously announced.
Dormer, whose recent credits include “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” is joined on the First Feature Competition jury by jury president Francis Lee,...
- 10/2/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Trio join Lenny Abrahamson as heads of the four juries this year.
Francis Lee, the writer-director of God’s Own Country, documentary producer Simon Chinn, whose credits include the Oscar and Bafta-winning Man On Wire and Searching For Sugarman, and writer-director Rungano Nyoni, whose debut film was I Am Not A Witch, will head the juries of the First Feature Competition, the Documentary Competition and the Short Film Competition respectively at the 62nd BFI London FIlm Festival this month.
They join director Lenny Abrahamson who will preside over this year’s Official Competition.
The remaining jurors are:
Official Competition (Best Film Award): Baz Bamigboye,...
Francis Lee, the writer-director of God’s Own Country, documentary producer Simon Chinn, whose credits include the Oscar and Bafta-winning Man On Wire and Searching For Sugarman, and writer-director Rungano Nyoni, whose debut film was I Am Not A Witch, will head the juries of the First Feature Competition, the Documentary Competition and the Short Film Competition respectively at the 62nd BFI London FIlm Festival this month.
They join director Lenny Abrahamson who will preside over this year’s Official Competition.
The remaining jurors are:
Official Competition (Best Film Award): Baz Bamigboye,...
- 10/2/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Bros documentary After The Screaming Stops and Simon Amstell’s Benjamin are among the 21 world premieres at the 62nd BFI London Film Festival. The festival has announced its full line-up for the festival, which runs 10 – 21 October, including nine international premieres and 29 European premieres.
There will be onstage Q&As with talent including Alfonso Cuaron, Keira Knightley, Lee Chang-dong and Sir David Hare.
In addition to the already announced opener and closer (Steve McQueen’s Widows and Stan & Ollie respectively), gala slots will go to Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, The Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet-fronted Beautiful Boy, Melissa McCarthy’s Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Keira Knightley and Dominic West’s Colette, Jason Reitman’s Gary Hart political drama The Front Runner, Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself, Outlaw King from Hell or High Water’s David Mackenzie, Rosamund Pike’s A Private War,...
There will be onstage Q&As with talent including Alfonso Cuaron, Keira Knightley, Lee Chang-dong and Sir David Hare.
In addition to the already announced opener and closer (Steve McQueen’s Widows and Stan & Ollie respectively), gala slots will go to Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, The Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet-fronted Beautiful Boy, Melissa McCarthy’s Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Keira Knightley and Dominic West’s Colette, Jason Reitman’s Gary Hart political drama The Front Runner, Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself, Outlaw King from Hell or High Water’s David Mackenzie, Rosamund Pike’s A Private War,...
- 8/30/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
It sounded too crazy to be true. The host of an opening for a Welsh marina in the 1980s was a BBC broadcaster named Michael Fish and all the invited guests were locals with fish names: Salmon, Carp, Bass, Haddock …
Charlie Lyne figured that it probably wasn’t true, but he loved the story anyway. He’d heard it from his friend Caspar Salmon, who said his grandmother had attended the event on the Welsh island of Anglesey.
“I would force him to tell it to anyone I introduced him to,” Lyne said. “It just became incessant, a favorite party trick to get him to reiterate this story — culminating in forcing him to do it for the film.”
Also Read: Finalists Announced for 2018 ShortList Film Festival
Lyne didn’t have high hopes for his short film, “Fish Story,” a finalist in TheWrap’s 2018 ShortList Film Festival that required feats of...
Charlie Lyne figured that it probably wasn’t true, but he loved the story anyway. He’d heard it from his friend Caspar Salmon, who said his grandmother had attended the event on the Welsh island of Anglesey.
“I would force him to tell it to anyone I introduced him to,” Lyne said. “It just became incessant, a favorite party trick to get him to reiterate this story — culminating in forcing him to do it for the film.”
Also Read: Finalists Announced for 2018 ShortList Film Festival
Lyne didn’t have high hopes for his short film, “Fish Story,” a finalist in TheWrap’s 2018 ShortList Film Festival that required feats of...
- 8/10/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
TheWrap is pleased to announce the 12 finalists in the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival, launching today online.
The finalists, hand-picked from the world’s top film festivals over the last year, will stream on the site starting today through August 22, 2018 — allowing visitors to vote on their favorites.
The Audience Prize and The Industry Prize winners will each receive a $5,000 cash prize during a ceremony to take place at the AMC Century City in Los Angeles on Thursday, August 23.
The films in the main competition are a mix of foreign language, drama, comedy and animation created by filmmakers from around the globe.
Also Read: Meet: The 2018 ShortList Film Festival Jurors!
In addition, eight student films from top colleges and universities included in TheWrap’s ranking of film schools have been named finalists in a sidebar competition.
The contenders come from filmmakers who studied at USC, UCLA, University of North Carolina School of the Arts,...
The finalists, hand-picked from the world’s top film festivals over the last year, will stream on the site starting today through August 22, 2018 — allowing visitors to vote on their favorites.
The Audience Prize and The Industry Prize winners will each receive a $5,000 cash prize during a ceremony to take place at the AMC Century City in Los Angeles on Thursday, August 23.
The films in the main competition are a mix of foreign language, drama, comedy and animation created by filmmakers from around the globe.
Also Read: Meet: The 2018 ShortList Film Festival Jurors!
In addition, eight student films from top colleges and universities included in TheWrap’s ranking of film schools have been named finalists in a sidebar competition.
The contenders come from filmmakers who studied at USC, UCLA, University of North Carolina School of the Arts,...
- 8/8/2018
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
Newly-established Loop Fund aims for ‘risk-taking approach’.
Nascent UK production company Loop has reinvested profits from its own films into three ‘no-strings-attached’ filmmaker grants of £5,000.
The three recipients are: artist-filmmaker Jamie Janković, who will use their award for a project applying the aesthetic of text-based gameplay to personal stories of queerness, disconnection and family; artist and animator Grace Lee, whose work will examine the use of dogs throughout art history; and filmmaker John Ogunmuyiwa, whose project will portray the high street as seen through the window of an African hair salon.
“Apart from being easy to apply, people were also drawn to the no-strings-attached element,...
Nascent UK production company Loop has reinvested profits from its own films into three ‘no-strings-attached’ filmmaker grants of £5,000.
The three recipients are: artist-filmmaker Jamie Janković, who will use their award for a project applying the aesthetic of text-based gameplay to personal stories of queerness, disconnection and family; artist and animator Grace Lee, whose work will examine the use of dogs throughout art history; and filmmaker John Ogunmuyiwa, whose project will portray the high street as seen through the window of an African hair salon.
“Apart from being easy to apply, people were also drawn to the no-strings-attached element,...
- 7/5/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
We’re pleased to be hosting the online launch of Charlie Lyne’s new short Personal Truth, which premiered last year at Idfa. The Field of Vision short builds on the digressive, zig-zag first-person narrative style of Lyne’s earlier short Copycat, this time looking into Pizzagate, the conspiracy theory involving John Podesta running a child sex ring out of a DC pizza parlor. Whether he likes it or not, Lyne sees a bit of himself in Maddison Welch, the man who shot up Comet Ping Pong in an attempt to liberate the kidnapped children he was sure were being held there. Before he was cos-playing […]...
- 5/31/2018
- by Vadim Rizov and Charlie Lyne
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
We’re pleased to be hosting the online launch of Charlie Lyne’s new short Personal Truth, which premiered last year at Idfa. The Field of Vision short builds on the digressive, zig-zag first-person narrative style of Lyne’s earlier short Copycat, this time looking into Pizzagate, the conspiracy theory involving John Podesta running a child sex ring out of a DC pizza parlor. Whether he likes it or not, Lyne sees a bit of himself in Maddison Welch, the man who shot up Comet Ping Pong in an attempt to liberate the kidnapped children he was sure were being held there. Before he was cos-playing […]...
- 5/31/2018
- by Vadim Rizov and Charlie Lyne
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Musicians The xx presents a curated programme; festival hosts world premieres of new films by Andreas Dalsgaard and Iris Zaki.
Cph:Dox will offer more than 200 films during its 15th event, which runs March 15-25.
In its five competitions (full list below), world premieres include Woman In Sink director Iris Zaki’s new film Unsettling, about Jewish setllers in the West Bank; The War Show director Andreas Dalsgaard’s The Great Game, about a man trying to find out if his grandfather was a spy; Emma Davie & Peter Mettler’s Becoming Animal, about how our relationship with nature has evolved; and Elissa Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei’s Laila at the Bridge, about an Afghan woman trying to save heroin addicts in Kabul.
Highlights also include a specially curated programme by The xx; a focus on justice (films will include Pre-Crime, Recruiting for Jihad and The Congo Tribunal); and a film programme and art exhibition dedicated to social experiments (with films...
Cph:Dox will offer more than 200 films during its 15th event, which runs March 15-25.
In its five competitions (full list below), world premieres include Woman In Sink director Iris Zaki’s new film Unsettling, about Jewish setllers in the West Bank; The War Show director Andreas Dalsgaard’s The Great Game, about a man trying to find out if his grandfather was a spy; Emma Davie & Peter Mettler’s Becoming Animal, about how our relationship with nature has evolved; and Elissa Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei’s Laila at the Bridge, about an Afghan woman trying to save heroin addicts in Kabul.
Highlights also include a specially curated programme by The xx; a focus on justice (films will include Pre-Crime, Recruiting for Jihad and The Congo Tribunal); and a film programme and art exhibition dedicated to social experiments (with films...
- 2/16/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Now this is a unique, totally fun short documentary. Fish Story is a short doc produced by The Guardian, telling the tall tale of a event that happened years ago. The story goes that in North Wales, a weatherman named Michael Fish was the host behind an event where people with "fishy" last names (Mrs. Crab, Mr. Salmon, Mrs. Bass, Mr. Mullet) would attend a dinner and be served the fish of their last name. Filmmaker Charlie Lyne attempts to figure out if the story is actually true and reach the people who put it together. I admire the way this doc is presented, with the oral storytelling and nice, clean visuals to keep us captivated. Hit tip to The Guardian for first premiering this short film. Original description (also found on YouTube): "Sometime in the 1980s, Caspar Salmon's grandmother was invited to a gathering on the Welsh island of Anglesey,...
- 7/9/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sometime in the 1980s, Caspar Salmon’s grandmother was invited to a gathering on the Welsh island of Anglesey, attended exclusively by people with fish surnames. Or so he says. Thirty years later, film-maker Charlie Lyne attempts to sort myth from reality as he searches for the truth behind this fishy tale
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- 6/30/2017
- by Charlie Lyne, Caspar Salmon, Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton
- The Guardian - Film News
15th Edition of AFI Docs presents audience awards.
Amanda Lipitz’s Step has won the AFI Docs Audience Award for Best Feature.
The selection premiered at Sundance and follows the Lethal Ladies step dance team from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women in their bid to win the city’s dance competition and become the first women in their families to attend college.
Fox Searchlight paid in the region of $4m for worldwide rights following the world premiere in Park City in January and will release the crowd-pleasing documentary (pictured) later this year.
The award for best short went to Charlie Lyne’s Fish Story, which investigates a mysterious gathering rumoured to have taken place in 1980s Wales when an unlikely group of people with one thing in common came together.
The festival ran from June 14-18 and presented 112 films from 28 countries on subjects ranging from the environment and sports to politics and art.
Six films with...
Amanda Lipitz’s Step has won the AFI Docs Audience Award for Best Feature.
The selection premiered at Sundance and follows the Lethal Ladies step dance team from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women in their bid to win the city’s dance competition and become the first women in their families to attend college.
Fox Searchlight paid in the region of $4m for worldwide rights following the world premiere in Park City in January and will release the crowd-pleasing documentary (pictured) later this year.
The award for best short went to Charlie Lyne’s Fish Story, which investigates a mysterious gathering rumoured to have taken place in 1980s Wales when an unlikely group of people with one thing in common came together.
The festival ran from June 14-18 and presented 112 films from 28 countries on subjects ranging from the environment and sports to politics and art.
Six films with...
- 6/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Following the announcement of its competition, Next, New Frontier, premieres, midnight, kids, spotlight and special events slates, Sundance rounds out its slate with a list of the shorts to be shown during the festival. Some quick highlights: Come Swim, Kristen Stewart’s first narrative short; Fish Story, the new short by documentary filmmaker Charlie Lyne (Beyond Clueless), who’s also been a contributor to Filmmaker; and a new film from Jim Cummings, winner of last year’s Short Film Grand Jury Prize for Thunder Road. He returns with The Robbery, whose one-line synopsis is unimprovable: “Crystal robs a liquor store—it goes pretty Ok.” U.S. Narrative Short Films American Paradise / […]...
- 12/6/2016
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
AFI Fest top brass unveiled on Tuesday the New Auteurs, Shorts, American Independents and Midnight sections.
New Auteurs showcases first- and second-time feature directors and the ten films include AFI Fest alumni Sophia Takal with Always Shine and Sarah Adina Smith with Buster’s Mal Heart.
American Independents is designed to promote what the programmers regard as the best independent cinema.
Selections includes Tim Sutton’s Dark Night, Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes Of My Mother and Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea.
Midnight programme features Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (pictured), Charlie Lyne’s Fear Itself, and Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s The Lure.
The Shorts section presents 39 films from 17 countries including nine animations.
As Previously Announced Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply will open the festival on November 10.
Paul Verhoeven’s Elle and Mike Mill’s 20th Century Women are centrepiece galas on November 13 and 16, respectively.
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New Auteurs showcases first- and second-time feature directors and the ten films include AFI Fest alumni Sophia Takal with Always Shine and Sarah Adina Smith with Buster’s Mal Heart.
American Independents is designed to promote what the programmers regard as the best independent cinema.
Selections includes Tim Sutton’s Dark Night, Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes Of My Mother and Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea.
Midnight programme features Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (pictured), Charlie Lyne’s Fear Itself, and Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s The Lure.
The Shorts section presents 39 films from 17 countries including nine animations.
As Previously Announced Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply will open the festival on November 10.
Paul Verhoeven’s Elle and Mike Mill’s 20th Century Women are centrepiece galas on November 13 and 16, respectively.
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- 10/18/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
AFI Fest top brass unveiled on Tuesday the New Auteurs, Shorts, American Independents and Midnight sections.
New Auteurs showcases first- and second-time feature directors and the ten films include AFI Fest alumni Sophia Takal with Always Shine and Sarah Adina Smith with Buster’s Mal Heart.
American Independents is designed to promote what the programmers regard as the best independent cinema.
Selections includes Tim Sutton’s Dark Night, Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes Of My Mother and Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea.
Midnight programme features Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (pictured), Charlie Lyne’s Fear Itself, and Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s The Lure.
The Shorts section presents 39 films from 17 countries including nine animations.
As Previously Announced Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply will open the festival on November 10.
Paul Verhoeven’s Elle and Mike Mill’s 20th Century Women are centrepiece galas on November 13 and 16, respectively.
Click here for...
New Auteurs showcases first- and second-time feature directors and the ten films include AFI Fest alumni Sophia Takal with Always Shine and Sarah Adina Smith with Buster’s Mal Heart.
American Independents is designed to promote what the programmers regard as the best independent cinema.
Selections includes Tim Sutton’s Dark Night, Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes Of My Mother and Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea.
Midnight programme features Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (pictured), Charlie Lyne’s Fear Itself, and Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s The Lure.
The Shorts section presents 39 films from 17 countries including nine animations.
As Previously Announced Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply will open the festival on November 10.
Paul Verhoeven’s Elle and Mike Mill’s 20th Century Women are centrepiece galas on November 13 and 16, respectively.
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- 10/18/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
AFI Fest has announced the selections for its New Auteurs, American Independents, Midnights and Shorts sections. Already announced as part of the weeklong festival, which runs in Hollywood from November 10 – 17, are “Elle,” “20th Century Women” and the world premieres of both “The Comedian” and “Rules Don’t Apply.” Read the full announcement here, and see the New Auteurs, American Independents and Midnight selections below.
Read More: Warren Beatty’s ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Will Open AFI Fest 2016
New Auteurs
“Always Shine” (dir. Sophia Takal)
“Buster’s Mal Heart” (dir. Sarah Adina Smith)
“Divines” (dir. Houda Benyamina)
“The Future Perfect” (dir. Nele Wohlatz)
“Godless” (dir. Ralitza Petrova)
“Kati Kati” (dir. Mbithi Masya)
“Kill Me Please” (dir. Anita Rocha da Silveira)
“One Week and a Day” (dir. Asaph Polonsky)
“Oscuro Animal” (dir. Felipe Guerrero)
“Still Life” (dir. Maud Alpi)
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Read More: Warren Beatty’s ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Will Open AFI Fest 2016
New Auteurs
“Always Shine” (dir. Sophia Takal)
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- 10/18/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
As the first James Bond film to enter Hollywood’s exclusive billion-dollar club, coupled with the overwhelming critical acclaim, Skyfall stands as a bona fide success no matter which angle you take.
But mid-way through post on Sam Mendes’ triumphant actioner, a seemingly innocuous pair of gloves almost thrust production into turmoil. First spotted by film critic Charlie Lyne – and confirmed via video breakdowns of the scene in question – the blunder all revolves around Skyfall‘s casino scene.
Then approaching the crunch time of production, Lyne notes that both Mendes and Daniel Craig became burdened with the weight of expectation and were, in short, “completely miserable” at certain stages. As such, during downtime, Craig tended to venture off set on shopping trips, and one day returned with a pair of leather gloves that he believed would be fitting for one James Bond.
And so, after getting permission from a Sam Mendes...
But mid-way through post on Sam Mendes’ triumphant actioner, a seemingly innocuous pair of gloves almost thrust production into turmoil. First spotted by film critic Charlie Lyne – and confirmed via video breakdowns of the scene in question – the blunder all revolves around Skyfall‘s casino scene.
Then approaching the crunch time of production, Lyne notes that both Mendes and Daniel Craig became burdened with the weight of expectation and were, in short, “completely miserable” at certain stages. As such, during downtime, Craig tended to venture off set on shopping trips, and one day returned with a pair of leather gloves that he believed would be fitting for one James Bond.
And so, after getting permission from a Sam Mendes...
- 7/4/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Many widely consider Skyfall to be one of the top-tier Daniel Craig/James Bond entries — tied or beaten only by Casino Royale. Stunning cinematography by Roger Deakins and Sam Mendes‘ assured direction make for a strong outing in a long-standing franchise, one that seems like all players were on point and fully game. However, a new behind-the-scenes story released through Twitter by Charlie Lyne suggests all was not so peachy in the director’s chair.
The story posits that both Mendes and Craig were both bored and miserable throughout production, with mass studio needs weighing down on them to make the biggest, baddest, and most profitable Bond flick they could. During a particularly memorable sequence in a casino, Craig wore gloves he found himself and requested be worn by Bond. However, when an assistant editor spotted a continuity error, it would potentially cost the studio millions. So, the VFX team had to improvise,...
The story posits that both Mendes and Craig were both bored and miserable throughout production, with mass studio needs weighing down on them to make the biggest, baddest, and most profitable Bond flick they could. During a particularly memorable sequence in a casino, Craig wore gloves he found himself and requested be worn by Bond. However, when an assistant editor spotted a continuity error, it would potentially cost the studio millions. So, the VFX team had to improvise,...
- 7/4/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
There were numerous stories of issues with "Spectre" during its production and release, be it on-set injuries to actor Daniel Craig's dismissive attitude to the franchise during the press tour. With its predecessor "Skyfall" though it seemed everything went pretty smoothly.
Turns out that's not quite the case. Filmmaker and film critic Charlie Lyne has posted a video story to Twitter, which Vulture spotted, about an apparent incident on-set involving a pair of leather gloves which Daniel Craig purchased one day and which ultimately cost the film millions of dollars in awkward CGI replacement. Check out the two-part story below:
Here's a story I heard about James Bond... [1/2] pic.twitter.com/3gtOdBeowO
— Charlie Lyne (@charlielyne) June 27, 2016
... split across two tweets because the video's too long for Twitter. [2/2] pic.twitter.com/roJyMNxK6p
— Charlie Lyne (@charlielyne) June 27, 2016
Since then Birth Movies Death has posted a follow-up going into detail suggesting...
Turns out that's not quite the case. Filmmaker and film critic Charlie Lyne has posted a video story to Twitter, which Vulture spotted, about an apparent incident on-set involving a pair of leather gloves which Daniel Craig purchased one day and which ultimately cost the film millions of dollars in awkward CGI replacement. Check out the two-part story below:
Here's a story I heard about James Bond... [1/2] pic.twitter.com/3gtOdBeowO
— Charlie Lyne (@charlielyne) June 27, 2016
... split across two tweets because the video's too long for Twitter. [2/2] pic.twitter.com/roJyMNxK6p
— Charlie Lyne (@charlielyne) June 27, 2016
Since then Birth Movies Death has posted a follow-up going into detail suggesting...
- 7/1/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
While Daniel Craig‘s dismissive attitude to the franchise that made his face globally recognized has been a big part of the James Bond narrative lately, there was a time when he seemed a bit more enthusiastic about the gig. And while this great story from filmmaker and film critic Charlie Lyne hasn’t been officially confirmed […]
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- 7/1/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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