"What is your vision for the future of humanity in space?" A festival promo trailer has landed for an indie documentary film titled Doppelgängers³, a 73 minute sci-fi space documentary from filmmaker Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian. It's premiering at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival underway now in their Visions section - check out some footage below. In the film, three Doppelgängers meet in "outer space" to imagine diasporic and queer eco-feminist futures. They add that "the film culminates in an analog space mission in a deep cave in Spain in which we see Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and her doppelgängers experiencing a moon utopia. But things do not go according to plan..." Surprise, surprise. It never does! Always some danger. A visual, sonic experience - with music by Pussy Riot, Colin Self, Mirrored Fatality and Asmodessa. A film shot in Algeria and Armenia, supported by Sundance Institute and Sandbox Films with BFI Doc Society Fund.
- 3/11/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
This year’s edition marks the first time Buff will take place outside of London after relocating to Leeds and Halifax
The British Urban Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for the 18th edition featuring the world premieres of Jordon Scott Kennedy’s Suicide Kelly and Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stepanian’s Tour De Moon.
Kennedy’s debut feature follows a disgraced former boxer who reconnects with his estranged grandson while Hayoun-Stepanian’s documentary explores an annual UK festival which celebrates plurality, countercultures and nightlife.
Other titles include Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary White Nanny Black Child which first premiered at Sheffield DocFest...
The British Urban Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for the 18th edition featuring the world premieres of Jordon Scott Kennedy’s Suicide Kelly and Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stepanian’s Tour De Moon.
Kennedy’s debut feature follows a disgraced former boxer who reconnects with his estranged grandson while Hayoun-Stepanian’s documentary explores an annual UK festival which celebrates plurality, countercultures and nightlife.
Other titles include Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary White Nanny Black Child which first premiered at Sheffield DocFest...
- 10/11/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The Avalanches and the International Space Orchestra (Iso) conjure space, science, exploration and connection in their new collaborative video for the duo’s “Wherever You Go.” The track — which features Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry and Clypso — was released in tandem with single “Reflecting Light” last month.
Filmed live in quarantine, the Avalanches’ Robbie Chater and Tony Diblasi appear for the first time in one of their videos alongside Iso artists and Clypso in the new clip. Iso musicians comprise researchers, scientists and professors, among others, who hail from NASA Ames Research Center,...
Filmed live in quarantine, the Avalanches’ Robbie Chater and Tony Diblasi appear for the first time in one of their videos alongside Iso artists and Clypso in the new clip. Iso musicians comprise researchers, scientists and professors, among others, who hail from NASA Ames Research Center,...
- 8/20/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been a surprisingly interesting month of moving and shaking in terms of doc development. Just a month after making his first public funding pitch at Toronto’s Hot Docs Forum, legendary doc filmmaker Frederick Wiseman took to Kickstarter to help cover the remaining expenses for his 40th feature film In Jackson Heights (see the film’s first trailer below). Unrelentingly rigorous in his determination to capture the American institutional landscape on film, his latest continues down this thematic rabbit hole, taking on the immensely diverse New York City neighborhood of Jackson Heights as his latest subject. According to the Kickstarter page, Wiseman is currently editing the 120 hours of rushes he shot with hopes of having the film ready for a fall festival premiere (my guess would be Tiff, where both National Gallery and At Berkeley made their North American debut), though he’s currently quite a ways away from his $75,000 goal.
- 7/6/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Well folks, after a rather long and brutal winter (at least for me here in Buffalo), we are finally heading into the wonderful warmth of summer, but with that blast of sunshine and steamy humidity comes the mid-year drought of major film fests. After the Sheffield Doc/Fest concludes on June 10th and AFI Docs wraps on June 21st, we likely won’t see any major influx in our charts until Locarno, Venice, Telluride and Tiff announce their line-ups in rapid succession. In the meantime, we can look forward to the intriguing onslaught of films making their debut in Sheffield, including Brian Hill’s intriguing examination of Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, The Confessions of Thomas Quick, and Sean McAllister’s film for which he himself was jailed in the process of making, A Syrian Love Story, the only two films world premiering in the festival’s main competition.
- 6/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
It should come as no surprise that Cannes Film Festival will play host to Kent Jones’s doc on the touchstone of filmmaking interview tomes, Hitchcock/Truffaut (see photo above). The film has been floating near the top of this list since it was announced last year as in development, while Jones himself has a history with the festival, having co-written both Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. and Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy, both of which premiered in Cannes. The film is scheduled to screen as part of the Cannes Classics sidebar alongside the likes of Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words, which will play as part of the festival’s tribute to the late starlet, and Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna’s Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (see trailer below). As someone who grew up watching road races with my dad in Watkins Glen,...
- 5/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Films include a collaboration between Sing Sing prison inmates and a leading contemporary dance company from Turner Prize nominated visual artist Phil Collins.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 5-10) has revealed the titles that will pitch for funding at its MeetMarket initiative, celebrating 10 years in 2015.
A total of 64 filmmaker teams from 19 countries will pitch to international and UK decision makers for research, development and production funding
At Crossover Market, which includes digital titles, a further 26 interactive projects from 12 countries will pitch in one-to-one meetings to a range of specialist decision makers.
Among the Crossover projects being pitched are the latest from Oscar Raby who won last year’s Interactive Audience Award with Assent; and Ram Devineni who attracted funding at last year’s Crossover Market and Tribeca New Media Fund for Priya’s Shakti.
New pitch opportunities this year include a BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra Stories commission for young filmmakers, the Guardian...
Scroll down for full list of projects
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 5-10) has revealed the titles that will pitch for funding at its MeetMarket initiative, celebrating 10 years in 2015.
A total of 64 filmmaker teams from 19 countries will pitch to international and UK decision makers for research, development and production funding
At Crossover Market, which includes digital titles, a further 26 interactive projects from 12 countries will pitch in one-to-one meetings to a range of specialist decision makers.
Among the Crossover projects being pitched are the latest from Oscar Raby who won last year’s Interactive Audience Award with Assent; and Ram Devineni who attracted funding at last year’s Crossover Market and Tribeca New Media Fund for Priya’s Shakti.
New pitch opportunities this year include a BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra Stories commission for young filmmakers, the Guardian...
- 4/27/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Disaster Playground
Written and directed by Nelly Ben Hayoun
UK, 2014
Thermonuclear warfare, famine via overpopulation, zombie apocalypse. Doomsday scenarios exist dearly in human consciousness as evidenced by the plethora of films, television seriesand literature that chronicle it. While it prevails in art, few go about their lives thinking about the realities of a world ending calamity such as a mile wide asteroid.
How does the world react? What is the chain of command? Who will really save mankind? As the creators behind Disaster Playground prefer to put it, the heroes of armageddon aren’t found in Bruce Willis or Jeff Goldblum, but rather Dr. David Morrison and other scientists of his ilk.
Disaster Playground is succinct, bombastic, and a great, fun look at a grave, literally larger-than-life matter. As director Nelly Ben Hayoun takes the audience from Seti offices to disaster training facilities, the world of studying real-life armageddon is...
Written and directed by Nelly Ben Hayoun
UK, 2014
Thermonuclear warfare, famine via overpopulation, zombie apocalypse. Doomsday scenarios exist dearly in human consciousness as evidenced by the plethora of films, television seriesand literature that chronicle it. While it prevails in art, few go about their lives thinking about the realities of a world ending calamity such as a mile wide asteroid.
How does the world react? What is the chain of command? Who will really save mankind? As the creators behind Disaster Playground prefer to put it, the heroes of armageddon aren’t found in Bruce Willis or Jeff Goldblum, but rather Dr. David Morrison and other scientists of his ilk.
Disaster Playground is succinct, bombastic, and a great, fun look at a grave, literally larger-than-life matter. As director Nelly Ben Hayoun takes the audience from Seti offices to disaster training facilities, the world of studying real-life armageddon is...
- 3/19/2015
- by David Tran
- SoundOnSight
Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in TrainwreckPhoto: Universal Pictures With Sundance just wrapping up and Berlin starting up in a few days, we are now immersed in the year-long barrage of film festivals. One such festival in South By Southwest. A few weeks back they announced the first seven films of their program, including the opening night film Brand: A Second Coming. Today, they have revealed the rest of the features to be shown in March (except for the midnight program), and some of it has me very excited. The bigger titles announced do not do much for me. Paul Feig's Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy, and the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart starrer Get Hard leave a lot to be desired in terms of anticipation, as does a work in progress cut of Judd Apatow's latest film Trainwreck. I'm guessing an Apatow work in progress is probably around three and a half hours.
- 2/3/2015
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
South by Southwest, the multi-faceted film, music and technology festival held annually in Austin, TX will feature such upcoming films as Paul Feig’s Spy, David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and Ondi Timoner’s Russell Brand profile Brand: A Second Coming as headliners in this year’s film festival lineup.
SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.
Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.
On the small screen,...
SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.
Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.
On the small screen,...
- 2/3/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
The Streets rapper talks inspiration at Cph:conference.
Mike Skinner, the British rapper also known as The Streets, has plans to move into longer-form film projects, saying he plans “a longer film in the coming year.”
Skinner has already made what he calls a “short documentary or a long advert” for shoes brand Dr Martens, the two-minute 15-second Spirit of 69.
He told Friday’s Cph:conference, part of Cph:dox in Copenhagen, that he spent three months researching the project. “The more fascinated I became with that era of skinheads is when I realized really they were mods,” he said.
Skinner, who also wrote and narrates the film, said the client wasn’t always happy with his vision – “I had an argument with Dr Martens, but I was determined to tell the truth. I have a reputation that people trust and there’s a trust I want to have.”
“It’s as truthful as any documentary can be, and it was...
Mike Skinner, the British rapper also known as The Streets, has plans to move into longer-form film projects, saying he plans “a longer film in the coming year.”
Skinner has already made what he calls a “short documentary or a long advert” for shoes brand Dr Martens, the two-minute 15-second Spirit of 69.
He told Friday’s Cph:conference, part of Cph:dox in Copenhagen, that he spent three months researching the project. “The more fascinated I became with that era of skinheads is when I realized really they were mods,” he said.
Skinner, who also wrote and narrates the film, said the client wasn’t always happy with his vision – “I had an argument with Dr Martens, but I was determined to tell the truth. I have a reputation that people trust and there’s a trust I want to have.”
“It’s as truthful as any documentary can be, and it was...
- 11/17/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Streets rapper talks inspiration at Cph:conference.
Mike Skinner, the British rapper also known as The Streets, has plans to move into longer-form film projects, saying he plans “a longer film in the coming year.”
Skinner has already made what he calls a “short documentary or a long advert” for shoes brand Dr Martens, the two-minute-15-second Spirit of 69.
He told Friday’s Cph:conference, part of Cph:dox in Copenhagen, that he spent three months researching the project. “The more fascinated I became with that era of skinheads is when I realized really they were mods,” he said.
Skinner, who also wrote and narrates the film, said the client wasn’t always happy with his vision – “I had an argument with Dr Martens, but I was determined to tell the truth. I have a reputation that people trust and there’s a trust I want to have.”
“It’s as truthful as any documentary can be, and it was...
Mike Skinner, the British rapper also known as The Streets, has plans to move into longer-form film projects, saying he plans “a longer film in the coming year.”
Skinner has already made what he calls a “short documentary or a long advert” for shoes brand Dr Martens, the two-minute-15-second Spirit of 69.
He told Friday’s Cph:conference, part of Cph:dox in Copenhagen, that he spent three months researching the project. “The more fascinated I became with that era of skinheads is when I realized really they were mods,” he said.
Skinner, who also wrote and narrates the film, said the client wasn’t always happy with his vision – “I had an argument with Dr Martens, but I was determined to tell the truth. I have a reputation that people trust and there’s a trust I want to have.”
“It’s as truthful as any documentary can be, and it was...
- 11/17/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Winners also include E-Team and Olmo & The Seagull.
The winners were announced at Cph:dox tonight in Copenhagen’s lavish Hotel D’Angleterre hotel, followed by a party at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
The top prize, the Dox:award, went to Joshua Oppenheimer’s lauded The Look of Silence, his follow-up film to Bafta winner and Oscar nominee The Act of Killing.
The jury for that ward included David Wilson, Laurence Reymond, Kidlat Thaimik, Lilibeth Cuenca and Nelly Ben Hayoun. They gave a special mention to Democrats by Camilla Nielsson.
They said in a statement: “This film is an act of research, digging into recent but clouded history, a philosophical meditation on memory and crime. We honor this work of art that, above all else, manages to break the silence.”
The other prizes were:
Nordic:dox: Olmo & the Seagull by Lea Glob & Petra Costa
Special Mention to: In the country by Anders Jedenfors
F:act: E-Team by Katy Chevigny & Ross...
The winners were announced at Cph:dox tonight in Copenhagen’s lavish Hotel D’Angleterre hotel, followed by a party at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
The top prize, the Dox:award, went to Joshua Oppenheimer’s lauded The Look of Silence, his follow-up film to Bafta winner and Oscar nominee The Act of Killing.
The jury for that ward included David Wilson, Laurence Reymond, Kidlat Thaimik, Lilibeth Cuenca and Nelly Ben Hayoun. They gave a special mention to Democrats by Camilla Nielsson.
They said in a statement: “This film is an act of research, digging into recent but clouded history, a philosophical meditation on memory and crime. We honor this work of art that, above all else, manages to break the silence.”
The other prizes were:
Nordic:dox: Olmo & the Seagull by Lea Glob & Petra Costa
Special Mention to: In the country by Anders Jedenfors
F:act: E-Team by Katy Chevigny & Ross...
- 11/14/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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