Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe 30 films comprising the main slate of this year's New York Film Festival have been announced, including Alfonso Cuarón's autobiographical, Mexico-set film Roma, Mariano Llinás's fourteen-hour "adventure in scale and duration" La Flor, and Alex Ross Perry's '90s rockstar melodrama Her Smell. "The unifying thread is their bravery," says Festival Director Kent Jones. "The bravery needed to fight past the urge to commercialized smoothness and mediocrity that is always assuming new forms." Festival president Marco Solari and Vice President Carla Speziali of the Locarno Film Festival—which is currently ongoing until August 11—have agreed to sign a pledge "ensuring gender equality and inclusion in programming". The initiative was organized by members of the Swiss Women’s Audiovisual Network (Swan), including filmmaker Ursula Meier, and joins a number of pledges to...
- 8/10/2018
- MUBI
Keeping costs low is often a case of “backing into a number”, one producer told trinidad + Tobago film festival’s Caribbean Film Mart attendees at a co-production session on Wednesday.
Damon D’Oliveira of Canada’s Conquering Lion Pictures spoke about the slavery miniseries The Book Of Negroes (pictured) starring Aunjanue Ellis and Cuba Gooding Jr that shot in South Africa and Canada as an official co-production.
“It was about… maintaining a one-third shoot in Canada and two-thirds in South Africa,” D’Oliveira said. “When you get official co-production you determine what the split will be between the two countries and you have to stay within a few percentage points of that.”
“The big benefit [of shooting in South Africa] was the [25% local spend] tax rebate … we did a broadcaster deal, which helped with financing.”
D’Oliveira and French producer Samuel Chauvin of Promenades Films, whose Melaza is a Cuba-France-Panama comedy about a married couple struggling to survive after the closure of the town...
Damon D’Oliveira of Canada’s Conquering Lion Pictures spoke about the slavery miniseries The Book Of Negroes (pictured) starring Aunjanue Ellis and Cuba Gooding Jr that shot in South Africa and Canada as an official co-production.
“It was about… maintaining a one-third shoot in Canada and two-thirds in South Africa,” D’Oliveira said. “When you get official co-production you determine what the split will be between the two countries and you have to stay within a few percentage points of that.”
“The big benefit [of shooting in South Africa] was the [25% local spend] tax rebate … we did a broadcaster deal, which helped with financing.”
D’Oliveira and French producer Samuel Chauvin of Promenades Films, whose Melaza is a Cuba-France-Panama comedy about a married couple struggling to survive after the closure of the town...
- 9/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Late last night, I received an impassioned email from Michelange Quay, a Paris based Haitian-American filmmaker with whom I've been friendly since his feature debut Eat, for This is My Body screened at New Directors/New Films in 2008:
Aaron, could I implore you to read about and mention my young film students in Haiti, from Ciné Institute, the country's only film school, and their efforts to document the tragedy and recovery since the earthquake? I'm trying to raise awareness in our media profession for them, our younger brothers down there, showing us that in the face of CNN etc's version, there is a human, patient, hopeful, sober reality to survival and solidarity in Haiti before and after this tragedy. Although they've lost family and friends, school, equipment, their films… their dreams... their first instinct was to pick up the one or two cameras left in the rubble and be of service with them.
Aaron, could I implore you to read about and mention my young film students in Haiti, from Ciné Institute, the country's only film school, and their efforts to document the tragedy and recovery since the earthquake? I'm trying to raise awareness in our media profession for them, our younger brothers down there, showing us that in the face of CNN etc's version, there is a human, patient, hopeful, sober reality to survival and solidarity in Haiti before and after this tragedy. Although they've lost family and friends, school, equipment, their films… their dreams... their first instinct was to pick up the one or two cameras left in the rubble and be of service with them.
- 1/19/2010
- GreenCine Daily
When I saw Michelange Quay's Eat, For This is My Body at Sundance in 2008, I called it "the rare Sundance title that unquestionably bears the mark of an obstinately independent vision. It’s by turns exhilarating and totally confounding, and it’s certainly not always successful, but it is always a challenge." The film, which went on to screen at New Directors, New Films and all over the world, comes back to New York tonight as part of a program at the French Institute hosted by none other than Jonathan Demme. How did that come about? In an email this morning, Quay ca ...
- 5/26/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
NEW YORK -- The Sundance Film Festival announced its New Frontier multimedia, live performance and panel discussion lineup and an added world premiere for the main fest: Andrew Fleming's comedy Hamlet 2.
Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler and David Arquette and which has no domestic distributor, premieres Jan. 21 out of competition in the Premieres slate. It stars Coogan as a high school drama teacher who creates a musical sequel to Hamlet based on the premise that no one died in the original play. Elisabeth Shue and Melonie Diaz round out the ensemble cast.
This year's seven New Frontier features are art-inspired films that use new narrative structures. Screenings include James Benning's art sculpture study "casting a glance," Michelange Quay's look at Hatian politics Eat, For This is My Body, Jennifer Phang's family drama Half-Life and Mia Trachinger's genetic mutation love story Reversion.
Yang Fudong's historical biographies "Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Parts 4 and 5" and the multi-director French animated omnibus "Fear(s) of the Dark" round out the features slate.
Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler and David Arquette and which has no domestic distributor, premieres Jan. 21 out of competition in the Premieres slate. It stars Coogan as a high school drama teacher who creates a musical sequel to Hamlet based on the premise that no one died in the original play. Elisabeth Shue and Melonie Diaz round out the ensemble cast.
This year's seven New Frontier features are art-inspired films that use new narrative structures. Screenings include James Benning's art sculpture study "casting a glance," Michelange Quay's look at Hatian politics Eat, For This is My Body, Jennifer Phang's family drama Half-Life and Mia Trachinger's genetic mutation love story Reversion.
Yang Fudong's historical biographies "Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Parts 4 and 5" and the multi-director French animated omnibus "Fear(s) of the Dark" round out the features slate.
- 12/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday named the 13 directors who will compete for the Artistic Innovation Award in September.
This year's competition includes the Afghan film "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" from Hana Makhmalbaf, the youngest daughter of Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Spanish director Jose Luis Guerin's "Dans La Ville de Sylvia", a virtually dialogue-free quest film.
Also competing for the Innovation nod are Philippine director Lav Diaz's "Death in the Land of Encantos"; Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer's "Dr. Plonk", a black-and-white silent comedy shot with a hand-cranked camera; Anahi Berneri's "Encarnacia", from Argentina; and "M," a supernatural love story from South Korean director Lee Myung-se ("Duelist").
Rounding out the sidebar are Michelange Quay's "Mange, ceci est mon corps" (France); Lawrence Johnston's "Night" (Australia); Alexander Voulgaris' "Pink" (Greece); Christian Frosch's "Silent Resident" (Australia); Hiner Saleem's "Sous les toits de Paris" (France); Naqi Nemati's "Those Three" (Iran) and Dorota Kedzierzawska's "Time to Die" (Poland).
All 13 titles will screen as part of the Visions program and will be judged by a jury composed of Dutch multimedia artist Lonnie van Brummelen, Canadian photoconceptual artist Ian Wallace and hat designer Misa Harada.
This year's competition includes the Afghan film "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" from Hana Makhmalbaf, the youngest daughter of Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Spanish director Jose Luis Guerin's "Dans La Ville de Sylvia", a virtually dialogue-free quest film.
Also competing for the Innovation nod are Philippine director Lav Diaz's "Death in the Land of Encantos"; Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer's "Dr. Plonk", a black-and-white silent comedy shot with a hand-cranked camera; Anahi Berneri's "Encarnacia", from Argentina; and "M," a supernatural love story from South Korean director Lee Myung-se ("Duelist").
Rounding out the sidebar are Michelange Quay's "Mange, ceci est mon corps" (France); Lawrence Johnston's "Night" (Australia); Alexander Voulgaris' "Pink" (Greece); Christian Frosch's "Silent Resident" (Australia); Hiner Saleem's "Sous les toits de Paris" (France); Naqi Nemati's "Those Three" (Iran) and Dorota Kedzierzawska's "Time to Die" (Poland).
All 13 titles will screen as part of the Visions program and will be judged by a jury composed of Dutch multimedia artist Lonnie van Brummelen, Canadian photoconceptual artist Ian Wallace and hat designer Misa Harada.
PARIS -- The Festival de Cannes on Thursday announced the selection of 18 young filmmakers to participate in the second edition of the Atelier du Festival, which gives them a chance to present their projects to producers. This year's participants include such recognized talents as Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose Tropical Malady won the jury prize at Cannes in 2004; Romanian writer-director Cristi Puiu, who won the Un Certain Regard prize last year; the U.S.' Richard Press, whose 2÷3 won a special mention at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000; Haiti's Michelange Quay, whose L'evangile du cochon creole was nominated for a short-film Palme d'Or in 2004; South Africa's Teboho Mahlatsi, whose Portrait of a Young Man Drowning won a Silver Lion at Venice in 1999; and India's Dev Benegal, whose first feature, English, August, won a special jury prize at the Torino International Film Festival for Young Cinema in 1994.
- 3/16/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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