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Screen Australia, Screenwest and France.s Cnc Cinémas du Monde have all backed Slam, the latest film from writer-director Partho Sen-Gupta (Sunrise, Let The Wind Blow)..
To be shot in Western Sydney later this year, Slam follows the disappearance of a young Muslim woman in a climate of mistrust and xenophobia.
Cast will include Adam Bakri (Omar), Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty, Lantana) and Abbey Aziz (Let it Be Love). Post-production will be completed in Western Australia and France.
"I wrote Slam with urgency and anger in reaction to the world around me nose-diving into hatred and fratricide,. said Sen-Gupta..
.But I am very pleased that what has resulted is a poetic appeal to reason, a socially motivated thriller that transcends language and nationality. I am very excited to work with such a talented international cast and crew who were touched by the human story and will collaborate with...
Screen Australia, Screenwest and France.s Cnc Cinémas du Monde have all backed Slam, the latest film from writer-director Partho Sen-Gupta (Sunrise, Let The Wind Blow)..
To be shot in Western Sydney later this year, Slam follows the disappearance of a young Muslim woman in a climate of mistrust and xenophobia.
Cast will include Adam Bakri (Omar), Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty, Lantana) and Abbey Aziz (Let it Be Love). Post-production will be completed in Western Australia and France.
"I wrote Slam with urgency and anger in reaction to the world around me nose-diving into hatred and fratricide,. said Sen-Gupta..
.But I am very pleased that what has resulted is a poetic appeal to reason, a socially motivated thriller that transcends language and nationality. I am very excited to work with such a talented international cast and crew who were touched by the human story and will collaborate with...
- 5/23/2017
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Adam Bakri to lead Australian-French co-pro.
Partho Sen-Gupta’s Australian-French co-production Slam has completed financing after securing support from Screen Australia, Screenwest and France’s Cnc Cinémas du Monde.
The Sydney-set thriller is scheduled to start shooting in late 2017 with post-production in Western Australia and France. It marks the first Australian production to receive funding from Cnc. Bonsai Films will distribute in Australia with Doc & Film International handling international sales.
Starring Adam Bakri (Omar), Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty) and Abbey Aziz (Let It Be Love), the film follows the disappearance of a young Muslim woman in Sydney in a climate of mistrust and xenophobia.
Australian production houses Invisible Republic, headed by Michael Wrenn, and George and Nille & Co, headed by Tenille Kennedy, are co-producing the film with Marc Irmer’s Paris-based Dolce Vita Films.
“Partho Sen-Gupta has the ability to take a dark subject matter and make an incredibly beautiful film as we saw with his...
Partho Sen-Gupta’s Australian-French co-production Slam has completed financing after securing support from Screen Australia, Screenwest and France’s Cnc Cinémas du Monde.
The Sydney-set thriller is scheduled to start shooting in late 2017 with post-production in Western Australia and France. It marks the first Australian production to receive funding from Cnc. Bonsai Films will distribute in Australia with Doc & Film International handling international sales.
Starring Adam Bakri (Omar), Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty) and Abbey Aziz (Let It Be Love), the film follows the disappearance of a young Muslim woman in Sydney in a climate of mistrust and xenophobia.
Australian production houses Invisible Republic, headed by Michael Wrenn, and George and Nille & Co, headed by Tenille Kennedy, are co-producing the film with Marc Irmer’s Paris-based Dolce Vita Films.
“Partho Sen-Gupta has the ability to take a dark subject matter and make an incredibly beautiful film as we saw with his...
- 5/21/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Dubai/Exclusive: Palestinian actor Adam Bakri (Omar) has been cast in Sydney-based director Partho Sen-Gupta’s upcoming drama Slam, alongside Australian actress Rachael Blake.
The story follows a young Australian of Palestinian origin whose peaceful life is shattered when his sister disappears and local media claim she has run away to join Isis.
Michael Wrenn’s Australian production outfit Invisible Republic is producing the film with Australia’s Charles Billeh and Marc Irmer of Paris-based Dolce Vita Films on board as co-producers. Screen Australia supported development of the English-language project.
Billeh is attending Dubai Film Market to find a minority co-producer from the region for the film, which is scheduled to shoot in Sydney next year.
Born in India and now based in Sydney, Sen-Gupta previously directed award-winning Hindi-language dramas Let The Wind Blow (2004) and Sunrise (2014).
The story follows a young Australian of Palestinian origin whose peaceful life is shattered when his sister disappears and local media claim she has run away to join Isis.
Michael Wrenn’s Australian production outfit Invisible Republic is producing the film with Australia’s Charles Billeh and Marc Irmer of Paris-based Dolce Vita Films on board as co-producers. Screen Australia supported development of the English-language project.
Billeh is attending Dubai Film Market to find a minority co-producer from the region for the film, which is scheduled to shoot in Sydney next year.
Born in India and now based in Sydney, Sen-Gupta previously directed award-winning Hindi-language dramas Let The Wind Blow (2004) and Sunrise (2014).
- 12/12/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive/Film Bazaar: Director Rohena Gera makes fictional feature debut.
Following its return to film production with A Death In The Gunj, Studioz IDrream is set to produce Mumbai-set drama Sir, written and directed by Rohena Gera.
The film, which marks Gera’s narrative feature debut, revolves around the relationships between the middle class and their domestic helpers in Mumbai society. “The story tackles Indian taboos but I want it to be understood outside of India,” said Gera.
A successful scriptwriter with credits including Kuch Naa Kaho and Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, Gera made her directing debut in 2013 with documentary What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Studioz IDrream CEO Ashish Bhatnagar said he wanted to produce the film because “our company aims to tell Indian stories that can resonate globally”.
Bhatnagar and Gera are currently in talks with a potential French co-producer.
Rakesh Mehra (Qissa, Sunrise) is also on board the film as line producer...
Following its return to film production with A Death In The Gunj, Studioz IDrream is set to produce Mumbai-set drama Sir, written and directed by Rohena Gera.
The film, which marks Gera’s narrative feature debut, revolves around the relationships between the middle class and their domestic helpers in Mumbai society. “The story tackles Indian taboos but I want it to be understood outside of India,” said Gera.
A successful scriptwriter with credits including Kuch Naa Kaho and Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, Gera made her directing debut in 2013 with documentary What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Studioz IDrream CEO Ashish Bhatnagar said he wanted to produce the film because “our company aims to tell Indian stories that can resonate globally”.
Bhatnagar and Gera are currently in talks with a potential French co-producer.
Rakesh Mehra (Qissa, Sunrise) is also on board the film as line producer...
- 11/22/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Indian cinema provides another jolt of electricity to the thriller genre with Sunrise, a tight, punchy neo-noir about child trafficking in Mumbai. Taking place at night, frequently under heavy rain and driven forward by a pulsating minimalist electro score, the sophomore feature of Partho Sen-Gupta comes fully stocked in the style department yet never loses sight of its narrative core, that of a detective haunted by the abduction of his daughter. Aruna disappeared at the age of six and ten years later her father, Detective Joshi, is still looking for her, traumatised by the loss and forced to care for a wife who was driven to insanity by the abduction. One night he discovers Paradise, a dark bar filled with sweaty men and suspiciously young...
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- 6/23/2016
- Screen Anarchy
The Indian company will show the titles, totalling 49, as part of an Nfdc film festival.
India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc) has licensed 49 of its library titles to Zee Classic, owned by leading Indian broadcaster Zee Entertainment.
The deal includes classics such as Gandhi [pictured], starring Ben Kingsley, Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay and Ketan Mehta’s Mirch Masala, along with more recent titles such as Anup Singh’s Qissa, which premiered at Toronto in 2013, and Gyan Correa’s The Good Road, India’s official submission to the 2014 Oscars.
Zee Classic is planning to broadcast the titles in an ‘Nfdc film festival’ running for couple of months from July. Nfdc has also licensed a package of titles to India’s Epic channel and is closing deals with Ott platforms.
“Over the past ten years, the Nfdc has introduced 18 first time feature filmmakers in 13 regional languages,” said Nfdc finance director Nazhat J. Shaikh. “We’re...
India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc) has licensed 49 of its library titles to Zee Classic, owned by leading Indian broadcaster Zee Entertainment.
The deal includes classics such as Gandhi [pictured], starring Ben Kingsley, Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay and Ketan Mehta’s Mirch Masala, along with more recent titles such as Anup Singh’s Qissa, which premiered at Toronto in 2013, and Gyan Correa’s The Good Road, India’s official submission to the 2014 Oscars.
Zee Classic is planning to broadcast the titles in an ‘Nfdc film festival’ running for couple of months from July. Nfdc has also licensed a package of titles to India’s Epic channel and is closing deals with Ott platforms.
“Over the past ten years, the Nfdc has introduced 18 first time feature filmmakers in 13 regional languages,” said Nfdc finance director Nazhat J. Shaikh. “We’re...
- 5/14/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film follows a young Tibetan woman living in exile in Delhi.
Shrihari Sathe’s Infinitum Productions has boarded Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s second narrative feature The Sweet Requiem.
Scripted by Sonam, the film follows a young Tibetan woman living in exile in Delhi, whose life is unexpectedly shattered when she runs into a man from her past. Sarin and Sonam will co-direct, while Sathe will produce alongside Sarin.
Sarin and Sonam’s first narrative feature, Dreaming Lhasa (2005), was executive produced by Jeremy Thomas and Richard Gere and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Their credits also include award-winning documentaries such as The Sun Behind The Clouds (2010) and When Hari Got Married (2012).
The Sweet Requiem was selected for the Drishyam-Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab in 2015, as well as Busan’s Asian Project market and Film Bazaar in Goa. Cast and locations have been finalised and the film will shoot on location in India later this year...
Shrihari Sathe’s Infinitum Productions has boarded Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s second narrative feature The Sweet Requiem.
Scripted by Sonam, the film follows a young Tibetan woman living in exile in Delhi, whose life is unexpectedly shattered when she runs into a man from her past. Sarin and Sonam will co-direct, while Sathe will produce alongside Sarin.
Sarin and Sonam’s first narrative feature, Dreaming Lhasa (2005), was executive produced by Jeremy Thomas and Richard Gere and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Their credits also include award-winning documentaries such as The Sun Behind The Clouds (2010) and When Hari Got Married (2012).
The Sweet Requiem was selected for the Drishyam-Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab in 2015, as well as Busan’s Asian Project market and Film Bazaar in Goa. Cast and locations have been finalised and the film will shoot on location in India later this year...
- 2/15/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Breaking Glass Pictures Acquires SXSW Favorite 'Sweaty Betty' Breaking Glass Pictures has announced its acquisition of the Indian noir thriller "Sunrise," directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta. "Sunrise," which made its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, tells the dark and intense story of a loner who seeks justice after his daughter is kidnapped. The official synopsis reads: "Social Service officer Lakshman Joshi, played by Adil Hussain ('Life of Pi'), is led on a chase through the dark gutters and rain-soaked back alleys of Mumbai by a shadowy figure. His pursuit leads him to Paradise, a seedy nightclub seemingly at the center of the kidnapping ring he is investigating. Joshi's hunt brings back memories of his own kidnapped daughter, and as his investigation pushes forward his past and present reality begin to converge." "'Sunrise' is such a...
- 12/9/2015
- by Tarek Shoukri
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Marc Irmer’s Paris-based Dolce Vita Films will co-produce Bornila Chatterjee’s Nuclear Hearts with Kolkata-based Oddjoint Art.
The English and Bengali-language project, which was selected for the Co-production Market at Film Bazaar 2014, revolves around three characters – a rich party girl of mixed descent, a European gigolo and a teenage Indian boy exploring his sexuality through music and girls’ dresses.
“I liked the project’s boldness and energy and the fact that’s its something completely different for India,” said Irmer, who will produce with Oddjoint’s Tanaji Dasgupta and Celine Loop.
The project has also been selected for the Produire au Sud workshop at the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, which kicks off on November 24. Chatterjee and the producers are planning to cast a French actress, American actor and Indian lead.
Dolce Vita Films also co-produced Partho Sen-Gupta’s award-winning drama Sunrise. Oddjoint also recently co-produced Q (Kaushik Mikherjee)’s first English-language film, B. Naman...
The English and Bengali-language project, which was selected for the Co-production Market at Film Bazaar 2014, revolves around three characters – a rich party girl of mixed descent, a European gigolo and a teenage Indian boy exploring his sexuality through music and girls’ dresses.
“I liked the project’s boldness and energy and the fact that’s its something completely different for India,” said Irmer, who will produce with Oddjoint’s Tanaji Dasgupta and Celine Loop.
The project has also been selected for the Produire au Sud workshop at the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, which kicks off on November 24. Chatterjee and the producers are planning to cast a French actress, American actor and Indian lead.
Dolce Vita Films also co-produced Partho Sen-Gupta’s award-winning drama Sunrise. Oddjoint also recently co-produced Q (Kaushik Mikherjee)’s first English-language film, B. Naman...
- 11/23/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: French sales company closes deals on two of its Indian titles.
Nathan Fischer’s Stray Dogs has closed several new deals on Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday), to the Us (Breaking Glass), UK (Vertigo Films) and Germany (Rapid Eye).
Sunrise [pictured], backed by the Nfdc and pitched at Film Bazaar 2012, has shown at more than 40 festivals. The thriller is about a detective in Mumbai investigating a series of child abductions.
Stray Dogs is also selling Ruchika Oberoi’s debut feature Island City, which won the Fedeora Awards for best young director in Venice Days, and has now closed a deal with airlines aggregator Encore Inflight.
“They only take one or two Indian films per year – last year they took Court – so this is a good deal,” Fischer said. He is currently in final negotiations to sell the film in Turkey and Hungary.
Fischer started tracking Island City at Film Bazaar 2014 and boarded the project before its Venice...
Nathan Fischer’s Stray Dogs has closed several new deals on Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday), to the Us (Breaking Glass), UK (Vertigo Films) and Germany (Rapid Eye).
Sunrise [pictured], backed by the Nfdc and pitched at Film Bazaar 2012, has shown at more than 40 festivals. The thriller is about a detective in Mumbai investigating a series of child abductions.
Stray Dogs is also selling Ruchika Oberoi’s debut feature Island City, which won the Fedeora Awards for best young director in Venice Days, and has now closed a deal with airlines aggregator Encore Inflight.
“They only take one or two Indian films per year – last year they took Court – so this is a good deal,” Fischer said. He is currently in final negotiations to sell the film in Turkey and Hungary.
Fischer started tracking Island City at Film Bazaar 2014 and boarded the project before its Venice...
- 11/23/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: French sales company closes deals on two of its Indian titles.
Nathan Fischer’s Stray Dogs has closed several new deals on Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday), to Breaking Glass of the Us, Vertigo Films for the UK and Rapid Eye for Germany.
Sunrise [pictured], backed by the Nfdc and pitched at Film Bazaar 2012, has shown at more than 40 festivals. The thriller is about a detective in Mumbai investigating a series of child abductions.
Stray Dogs is also selling Ruchika Oberoi’s debut feature Island City, which won the Fedeora Awards for best young director in Venice Days, and has now closed a deal with airlines aggregator Encore Inflight. “They only take one or two Indian films per year – last year they took Court – so this is a good deal,” Fischer said. He is currently in final negotiations to sell the film in Turkey and Hungary.
Fischer started tracking Island City at Film Bazaar 2014 and boarded the project...
Nathan Fischer’s Stray Dogs has closed several new deals on Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday), to Breaking Glass of the Us, Vertigo Films for the UK and Rapid Eye for Germany.
Sunrise [pictured], backed by the Nfdc and pitched at Film Bazaar 2012, has shown at more than 40 festivals. The thriller is about a detective in Mumbai investigating a series of child abductions.
Stray Dogs is also selling Ruchika Oberoi’s debut feature Island City, which won the Fedeora Awards for best young director in Venice Days, and has now closed a deal with airlines aggregator Encore Inflight. “They only take one or two Indian films per year – last year they took Court – so this is a good deal,” Fischer said. He is currently in final negotiations to sell the film in Turkey and Hungary.
Fischer started tracking Island City at Film Bazaar 2014 and boarded the project...
- 11/23/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Sunrise
Written and directed by Partho Sen-Gupta
India, 2014
The despair of loss weighs down Joshi in Sunrise. Joshi works as an agent in the social services of a Mumbai police station. He handles reports of lost and trafficked children, rarely able to effect any meaningful change. After fruitless days at work, he returns to his dark apartment and his heartbroken wife who cannot accept the loss of their grade school daughter. A strange shadow figure haunts Joshi, leading him night after night to a strange club called ‘Paradise’.
With very few words, so much is conveyed in Partho Sen-Gupta’s sophomore film. Character is built through environment and performance. The film’s early scenes capture a world of great detail, brimming with textures and sounds. Shot almost entirely at night, the sparseness of light and the heavy rains of the monsoons focus our attention and transform the city into a mythical labyrinth.
Written and directed by Partho Sen-Gupta
India, 2014
The despair of loss weighs down Joshi in Sunrise. Joshi works as an agent in the social services of a Mumbai police station. He handles reports of lost and trafficked children, rarely able to effect any meaningful change. After fruitless days at work, he returns to his dark apartment and his heartbroken wife who cannot accept the loss of their grade school daughter. A strange shadow figure haunts Joshi, leading him night after night to a strange club called ‘Paradise’.
With very few words, so much is conveyed in Partho Sen-Gupta’s sophomore film. Character is built through environment and performance. The film’s early scenes capture a world of great detail, brimming with textures and sounds. Shot almost entirely at night, the sparseness of light and the heavy rains of the monsoons focus our attention and transform the city into a mythical labyrinth.
- 7/31/2015
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
Sales include German deal for Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise.
Fledgling sales company Stray Dogs has sold Indian director Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise, starring Adil Hussein as a detective investigating a series of child abductions over a decade, to Germany’s Rapid Eye.
The Paris-based company, which made its Cannes debut this year, has also sealed deals on Ben and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What to Japan (Transformer), Mexico (Axolote Distribucion) and ex-Yugoslavia (2i Films).
Company founder Nathan Fischer is also reporting sales on experimental Philippine filmmaker Khavn De La Cruz Ruined Heart to Taiwan (Flash Forward), Japan (Tokyo New Cinema) and the UK (Third Window) and France (Spectrum).
Israeli Noam Kaplan’s Manpower about a police officer, who reassesses his job as an immigration police officer when a controversial new policy is introduced has been picked up for the Us by Menemsha Films.
Fledgling sales company Stray Dogs has sold Indian director Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise, starring Adil Hussein as a detective investigating a series of child abductions over a decade, to Germany’s Rapid Eye.
The Paris-based company, which made its Cannes debut this year, has also sealed deals on Ben and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What to Japan (Transformer), Mexico (Axolote Distribucion) and ex-Yugoslavia (2i Films).
Company founder Nathan Fischer is also reporting sales on experimental Philippine filmmaker Khavn De La Cruz Ruined Heart to Taiwan (Flash Forward), Japan (Tokyo New Cinema) and the UK (Third Window) and France (Spectrum).
Israeli Noam Kaplan’s Manpower about a police officer, who reassesses his job as an immigration police officer when a controversial new policy is introduced has been picked up for the Us by Menemsha Films.
- 5/19/2015
- ScreenDaily
The Tribeca Film Festival of 2015 closed the books on Sunday as it always does, with a day full of screenings of the prize-winning films. And, as I noted on Day Three, it bears noting that the festival’s reputation of being for “indies that aren’t really indies” almost never bears out during the awards ceremony. All of the films that played on Sunday will be launching new talent into American arthouses, rather than showing a new dimension for established stars.
The Tribeca jury gives awards to Actor, Actress, Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, New Director for each of narrative and documentary, Director for each of narrative and documentary, a special Nora Ephron prize honoring new female filmmakers, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Narrative feature. The Tribeca Audience Awards cover the best narrative film and best documentary as well. I confess to being completely unable to judge good editing, but I will...
The Tribeca jury gives awards to Actor, Actress, Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, New Director for each of narrative and documentary, Director for each of narrative and documentary, a special Nora Ephron prize honoring new female filmmakers, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Narrative feature. The Tribeca Audience Awards cover the best narrative film and best documentary as well. I confess to being completely unable to judge good editing, but I will...
- 4/29/2015
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
All good things must come to an end. And even though, at eleven days long, the 31st Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam was longer than ever, this weekend it still ended. Last Friday saw the awards ceremony, where Liza, the Fox-Fairy won the Silver Méliès Award. All festivals which are part of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation (the Effff for short) give away a Silver Méliès, out of which, once a year, the Golden Méliès is chosen, meaning Liza, the Fox-Fairy is now officially nominated for gold. Aside from that, the Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam has its own independent prize as well: the Black Tulip Award, which went to Partho Sen-Gupta's Mumbai-based child abduction drama Sunrise. In his review, Pierce Conran called the ink-black...
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- 4/22/2015
- Screen Anarchy
The big opening at Tribeca on Sunday was Name’s Maggie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first indie role, as a father in a zombie-style apocalypse who has to deal with the infection of his daughter. However, your humble correspondent won’t be able to see that film until later this week. Fortunately, there were no shortage of films to report on Sunday and Monday, and one of them actually did star a Teutonic titan.
That film is Virgin Mountain, whose title in Swedish is Fusi, after the main character played by Gunnar Jonsson. Fusi is a sexless 43-year-old, but no one should confuse this film with The 40-Year-Old Virgin. There’s no slapstick in play here, and not even that much fun; most shots in the film are what I like to call “Sad Verb” shots, where the lead character morosely performs alone in a scene designed to make the audience say “awwwww…...
That film is Virgin Mountain, whose title in Swedish is Fusi, after the main character played by Gunnar Jonsson. Fusi is a sexless 43-year-old, but no one should confuse this film with The 40-Year-Old Virgin. There’s no slapstick in play here, and not even that much fun; most shots in the film are what I like to call “Sad Verb” shots, where the lead character morosely performs alone in a scene designed to make the audience say “awwwww…...
- 4/21/2015
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
One of TwitchFilm's favorite discoveries at the Busan International Film Festival last October, Partho Sen-Gupta's Indian noir Sunrise is going to Tribeca next month and has just released a new trailer. We're happy to be the first media outlet to offer a peak at this terrific addition to India's new wave of electric crime thrillers. Partho's film, which falls somewhere in between Nicholas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives and Anurag Kashyap's Ugly, offers a hypnotic and distressing look at the underworld of child trafficking and prostitution in Mumbai, through one detective's inability to move on from the loss of his own daughter. Thought-provoking, stylish and accessible, Sunrise packs twice the punch of most Indian films in about half the running time. Check out our Biff...
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- 3/4/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Andrew Renzi‘s directorial debut about a third wheel starring Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning and Theo James, Reed Morano‘s relationship testing drama featuring Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson, Onur Tukel‘s secret unleashed on the airwaves and Gregory Kohn‘s hallucinatory tale with Eléonore Hendricks topling are part of the American independent offerings at the 14th Tribeca Film Festival. Renzi’s Franny and Morano’s Meadowland will be competing in the dozen selected in the World Narrative Competition while Tukel’s Applesauce and Kohn’s Come Down Molly are among the in the Viewpoints sidebar. Here are the selected titles below sans synopsis.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
- 3/3/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Top brass at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) presented by At&T have announced the World Narrative and Documentary Competition and Viewpoints selections.
Organisers also said that At&T’s Film For All Friday will return with free screenings on April 24. The festival is set to run in New York City from April 15-26 and the festival hub is Spring Studios.
Tuesday’s announcement covers 51 films out of a total 97 features at the upcoming 14th edition. As previously announced, Tribeca will open with the documentary Live From New York!
The line-up includes world premieres of Andrew Renzi’s Franny starring Richard Gere, Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries with James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris and Cynthia Nixon and documentaries In My Father’s House by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg and In Transit from Albert Maysles and four co-directors.
Thirty of the festival’s feature film directors are women –the highest percentage in Tribeca history. Nine of...
Organisers also said that At&T’s Film For All Friday will return with free screenings on April 24. The festival is set to run in New York City from April 15-26 and the festival hub is Spring Studios.
Tuesday’s announcement covers 51 films out of a total 97 features at the upcoming 14th edition. As previously announced, Tribeca will open with the documentary Live From New York!
The line-up includes world premieres of Andrew Renzi’s Franny starring Richard Gere, Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries with James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris and Cynthia Nixon and documentaries In My Father’s House by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg and In Transit from Albert Maysles and four co-directors.
Thirty of the festival’s feature film directors are women –the highest percentage in Tribeca history. Nine of...
- 3/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Other Iffr pick-ups include God Loves the Fighter.
Newly launched French sales company Stray Dogs has picked up world rights to Mexican horror-thriller I Stay With You (Me quedo contigo) following its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) last month.
Reversing traditional male-female kidnap narratives to shocking effect, I Stay With You follows a group of women who abduct and abuse an unsuspecting cowboy they meet in a bar.
“This is a mind-blowing and crazy film about violence and the battle of the sexes,” says Nathan Fischer, who launched Paris-based Stray Dogs last month.
In another Iffr acquisition, Fischer has world rights excluding Us and the Caribbean to Trinidad and Tobago-born, Los Angeles-based Damian Marcano’s debut God Loves The Fighter.
Set against the backdrop of east Port of Spain, dubbed the murder capital of the Caribbean, the film revolves around a homeless criminal’s tragic struggle to help a young prostitute in trouble...
Newly launched French sales company Stray Dogs has picked up world rights to Mexican horror-thriller I Stay With You (Me quedo contigo) following its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) last month.
Reversing traditional male-female kidnap narratives to shocking effect, I Stay With You follows a group of women who abduct and abuse an unsuspecting cowboy they meet in a bar.
“This is a mind-blowing and crazy film about violence and the battle of the sexes,” says Nathan Fischer, who launched Paris-based Stray Dogs last month.
In another Iffr acquisition, Fischer has world rights excluding Us and the Caribbean to Trinidad and Tobago-born, Los Angeles-based Damian Marcano’s debut God Loves The Fighter.
Set against the backdrop of east Port of Spain, dubbed the murder capital of the Caribbean, the film revolves around a homeless criminal’s tragic struggle to help a young prostitute in trouble...
- 2/10/2015
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales agent launches new company. First films include Heaven Knows What.
Paris-based Nathan Fischer - one of Screen’s Future Leaders at Cannes last year - has launched a new sales company called Stray Dogs on the eve of Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris.
“The focus is on young, international talents,” said Fischer. “I want want to work with filmmakers and for filmmakers to be an asset to their films.”
“I will be working on theatrical sales, of course, but will also look at innovative distribution strategies with an emphasis on strong festival and digital rollouts,” he added.
Stray Dogs’ debut slate features Ben and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What starring Arielle Holmes as a young heroin addict who finds mad love on the streets of New York.
Fischer will accompany the film to the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) where is screening in the Spectrum section.
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Paris-based Nathan Fischer - one of Screen’s Future Leaders at Cannes last year - has launched a new sales company called Stray Dogs on the eve of Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris.
“The focus is on young, international talents,” said Fischer. “I want want to work with filmmakers and for filmmakers to be an asset to their films.”
“I will be working on theatrical sales, of course, but will also look at innovative distribution strategies with an emphasis on strong festival and digital rollouts,” he added.
Stray Dogs’ debut slate features Ben and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What starring Arielle Holmes as a young heroin addict who finds mad love on the streets of New York.
Fischer will accompany the film to the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) where is screening in the Spectrum section.
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- 1/14/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Kalki Koechlin and Adil Hussain have joined the cast of Nicholas Kharkongor’s Mantra alongside Rajat Kapoor, who will also produce.
The project, selected for this year’s Co-production Market at Film Bazaar, is based on the true story of an Indian food company that was taken over by a multinational in the 1990s.
“The rest of the cast will be from Delhi,” said Kharkongor. “This is the story of a five-member family, headed by Rajat’s character, who runs a successful company, and the things that happen to each of them in a changing India.”
The project is scheduled to start shooting in Delhi in January 2015. Koechlin recently starred in Margarita, With A Straw, while Hussain’s credits include Life Of Pi, Tigers and Sunrise.
The project, selected for this year’s Co-production Market at Film Bazaar, is based on the true story of an Indian food company that was taken over by a multinational in the 1990s.
“The rest of the cast will be from Delhi,” said Kharkongor. “This is the story of a five-member family, headed by Rajat’s character, who runs a successful company, and the things that happen to each of them in a changing India.”
The project is scheduled to start shooting in Delhi in January 2015. Koechlin recently starred in Margarita, With A Straw, while Hussain’s credits include Life Of Pi, Tigers and Sunrise.
- 11/21/2014
- by uditaj@gmail.com (Udita Jhunjhunwala)
- ScreenDaily
Indian cinema provides another jolt of electricity to the thriller genre with Sunrise, a tight, punchy neo-noir about child trafficking in Mumbai. Taking place at night, frequently under heavy rain and driven forward by a pulsating minimalist electro score, the sophomore feature of Partho Sen-Gupta comes fully stocked in the style department yet never loses sight of its narrative core, that of a detective haunted by the abduction of his daughter. Aruna disappeared at the age of six and ten years later her father, Detective Joshi, is still looking for her, traumatised by the loss and forced to care for a wife who was driven to insanity by the abduction. One night he discovers Paradise, a dark bar filled with sweaty men and suspiciously young...
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- 10/10/2014
- Screen Anarchy
At the beginning of Sunrise, we are told that over 60,000 children go missing in India every year, and it is the country’s well-documented struggle with violence against women and children that is at the heart of Partho Sen-Gupta’s latest, a surreal and haunting procedural. Challenging and richly realized, the drama about a cop wrestling with guilt over his young daughter’s disappearance effortlessly and effectively weaves together fantasy and reality, melding the tension of cop thrillers with the introspection of a psychological drama. Sen-Gupta masterfully exploits sight and sound in a mature exploration of escalating mental
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- 10/7/2014
- by Elizabeth Kerr
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider, Homi Adajania’s Finding Fanny and Shonali Bose’s Margarita with a straw are among the six films that will be showcased in “A window to Asian Cinema” section of Busan International Film Festival 2014.
Other films that will screen in the section include: Malayalam film Zahir by Siddharth Siva, Tamil film Goli Soda by Vijay Milton and Adityavikram Sengupta’s Labour of Love that earlier screened at Venice Days sidebar of Venice Film Festival.
Omung Kumar’s Mary Kom will be screened outdoors in a special program titled Open Cinema. The film had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
As we reported earlier, Paris based Indian filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise will compete in the New Currents section.
Our Metropolis by Gautam Sonti and Usha Rao has been shortlisted for documentary competition while Balaka Ghosh’s Foot Prints in Desert will be screened in the Documentary Showcase section.
Other films that will screen in the section include: Malayalam film Zahir by Siddharth Siva, Tamil film Goli Soda by Vijay Milton and Adityavikram Sengupta’s Labour of Love that earlier screened at Venice Days sidebar of Venice Film Festival.
Omung Kumar’s Mary Kom will be screened outdoors in a special program titled Open Cinema. The film had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
As we reported earlier, Paris based Indian filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise will compete in the New Currents section.
Our Metropolis by Gautam Sonti and Usha Rao has been shortlisted for documentary competition while Balaka Ghosh’s Foot Prints in Desert will be screened in the Documentary Showcase section.
- 9/4/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from Partho Sen-Gupta’s “Sunrise”
Partho Sen-Gupta’s Marathi film “Arunoday” (Sunrise) will compete in the New Currents section of Busan International Film Festival (Biff) in South Korea.
Sunrise is an Indo-French co-production between Nfdc, Dolce Vita Films and Partho’s production company Independent Movies.
The film revolves around Inspector Joshi, a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she was six. In his despair, life converges with a recurring dream in which Joshi pursues a shadowy figure who leads him to ‘Paradise’, a night-club where teenage girls dance to a leering crowd. He is convinced he will find Aruna there and vows to bring her back to Leela, his broken wife.
The film has Adil Hussain and Tannishtha Chatterjee in lead roles.
Busan’s New Current competition is aimed at discovering new talent. It presents first or second feature films from all over the world.
Partho Sen-Gupta’s Marathi film “Arunoday” (Sunrise) will compete in the New Currents section of Busan International Film Festival (Biff) in South Korea.
Sunrise is an Indo-French co-production between Nfdc, Dolce Vita Films and Partho’s production company Independent Movies.
The film revolves around Inspector Joshi, a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she was six. In his despair, life converges with a recurring dream in which Joshi pursues a shadowy figure who leads him to ‘Paradise’, a night-club where teenage girls dance to a leering crowd. He is convinced he will find Aruna there and vows to bring her back to Leela, his broken wife.
The film has Adil Hussain and Tannishtha Chatterjee in lead roles.
Busan’s New Current competition is aimed at discovering new talent. It presents first or second feature films from all over the world.
- 9/2/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
M antra – The Song of Scorpions is one of the twenty-three films selected for the co- production market of Film Bazaar 2013. We spoke to the director Anup Singh:
Anup Singh
Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?
There is an ancient legend, which says that the sting of the local scorpion in Rajasthan is bound to kill in 24 hours. The scorpion’s poison builds a feverish melody within the victim. The only cure is to find a sage singer who can read the melody in the victim’s wrist and then sing a counter-melody.
Mantra- The Song Of Scorpions is a contemporary tale of twisted love, revenge and the redemptive power of a song, which unfurls like a folktale. Nooran is a singer, a scorpion healer, a mid-wife and a medicine woman for the Manganiar community of Rajasthan. When Irfan, a camel trader in the desert community,...
Anup Singh
Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?
There is an ancient legend, which says that the sting of the local scorpion in Rajasthan is bound to kill in 24 hours. The scorpion’s poison builds a feverish melody within the victim. The only cure is to find a sage singer who can read the melody in the victim’s wrist and then sing a counter-melody.
Mantra- The Song Of Scorpions is a contemporary tale of twisted love, revenge and the redemptive power of a song, which unfurls like a folktale. Nooran is a singer, a scorpion healer, a mid-wife and a medicine woman for the Manganiar community of Rajasthan. When Irfan, a camel trader in the desert community,...
- 11/16/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) has put on hold submission of new scripts, according to a notice on the Nfdc website.
The notice reads, “Nfdc has taken a decision to not accept applications for production of films w.e.f. June 14, 2013 till further notice.”
When contacted, Nfdc General Manager (Film Production) Vikramjit Roy told DearCinema.com, “This is to clear the backlog of current submissions. We are trying our level best to clear the backlog at the earliest.”
He mentioned that the decision will not affect projects which are currently under production or pre-production. Two of the films funded by the Nfdc currently under production are Anup Singh’s Qissa and Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise.
Earlier, applications could be submitted round the year on Nfdc’s website or at its corporate, regional and branch offices.
Roy reiterated that the hold is temporary and submissions will open as soon as the backlog is cleared.
The notice reads, “Nfdc has taken a decision to not accept applications for production of films w.e.f. June 14, 2013 till further notice.”
When contacted, Nfdc General Manager (Film Production) Vikramjit Roy told DearCinema.com, “This is to clear the backlog of current submissions. We are trying our level best to clear the backlog at the earliest.”
He mentioned that the decision will not affect projects which are currently under production or pre-production. Two of the films funded by the Nfdc currently under production are Anup Singh’s Qissa and Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise.
Earlier, applications could be submitted round the year on Nfdc’s website or at its corporate, regional and branch offices.
Roy reiterated that the hold is temporary and submissions will open as soon as the backlog is cleared.
- 6/22/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday) starts principal photography on May 24, 2013 and will go on till July 10, 2013. The film will be shot in Mumbai and Goa.
The film deals with the subject of child trafficking and abuse. The protagonist, Joshi, distressed by the disappearance of his little daughter, must chase an elusive figure on the streets of Mumbai that steals the children.
It features Adil Hussain (Life of Pi, English Vinglish) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane, Monsoon Shootout).
The film was selected for the Nfdc Film Bazaar in 2012 and Locarno Open Doors co-production market in 2011.
French DoP Jean-Marc Ferriere who shot Sen-Gupta’s previous film Hava Aney Dey is the cinematographer of the film which is produced by India’s Independent Movies, Infinitum Productions, Aryasaa Cine Productions and France’s Dolce Vita Films along with the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc).
The film deals with the subject of child trafficking and abuse. The protagonist, Joshi, distressed by the disappearance of his little daughter, must chase an elusive figure on the streets of Mumbai that steals the children.
It features Adil Hussain (Life of Pi, English Vinglish) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane, Monsoon Shootout).
The film was selected for the Nfdc Film Bazaar in 2012 and Locarno Open Doors co-production market in 2011.
French DoP Jean-Marc Ferriere who shot Sen-Gupta’s previous film Hava Aney Dey is the cinematographer of the film which is produced by India’s Independent Movies, Infinitum Productions, Aryasaa Cine Productions and France’s Dolce Vita Films along with the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc).
- 5/22/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The brilliant Adil Husain, so convincing as Sridevi's unintentionally cruel husband in English Vinglish, is now going to be seen as Tabu's husband in Ang Lee's The Life Of Pi, which releases in English, Hindi and other dubbed languages on November 23. In fact at the premiere if English Vinglish last week Adil, who is a seasoned stage actor and acting teacher, trained at the National School of Drama, sat and watched the film with Tabu. Says the actor fondly, "Yes, I met up with my latest screen-wife at the English Vinglish premiere. Tabu is very special, just like Sridevi. In fact my first screen-wife Vidya Balan from Ishqiya, was also there at the premiere. So I got a chance to meet up with my three glorious screen-wives all at the same venue. It was a pleasure working with all three of them." Adil who never craved for a career in movie acting,...
- 10/15/2012
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise has on board Bero Beyer (Augustus Film, Netherlands) and Fabian Massah (Endorphine Productions, Germany) apart from Rakesh Mehra (Independent Movies, Mumbai) and Nfdc. The co-production deals were finalized at Marche du Films in Cannes Film Festival.
Sunrise, which deals with child abuse, will feature Adil Hussain (Life of Pi) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane). The project is expected to go into production early next year.
“ It’s great for me as a large weight has been shifted from my shoulders as I can pass the baton to them and stick only to the creative process of the film. Nfdc backing it also gave the impetus that we were waiting for. But I think that the 156 crowd-funders are the real heroes of the film project,” said Sen-Gupta.
Sen-Gupta has earlier collected $21, 000 for Sunrise on crowd funding website indiegogo.com.
The film will now be an Indo-German-Dutch co-production with a mixed international crew.
Sunrise, which deals with child abuse, will feature Adil Hussain (Life of Pi) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane). The project is expected to go into production early next year.
“ It’s great for me as a large weight has been shifted from my shoulders as I can pass the baton to them and stick only to the creative process of the film. Nfdc backing it also gave the impetus that we were waiting for. But I think that the 156 crowd-funders are the real heroes of the film project,” said Sen-Gupta.
Sen-Gupta has earlier collected $21, 000 for Sunrise on crowd funding website indiegogo.com.
The film will now be an Indo-German-Dutch co-production with a mixed international crew.
- 5/25/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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