Luana Bajrami has won best director and the Discovery Award for best debut feature for “The Hill Where Lionesses Roar” at the 29th Raindance Film Festival (Oct. 27 – Nov. 6).
The film was nominated for the Golden Camera and Queer Palm at Cannes, and has also won awards at the Sarajevo and Warsaw festivals.
The debut feature by YouTuber and short filmmaker Luke Cutforth, “The Drowning Of Arthur Braxton” won best U.K. feature, while Anita Rocha da Silveira’s San Sebastián and Sitges winner “Medusa” won best international feature.
Daniel Lombroso’s “White Noise” was named best documentary feature, while Matthew Walker’s “I’m Wanita” won best music documentary.
Portuguese actor Lucia Moniz won best performance for her lead role in Ana Rocha’s “Listen,” for which she has won several awards previously.
Known for his work on “Frances Ha” and Lady Bird,” DoP Sam Levy won best cinematography for Karen Cinorre’s “Mayday.
The film was nominated for the Golden Camera and Queer Palm at Cannes, and has also won awards at the Sarajevo and Warsaw festivals.
The debut feature by YouTuber and short filmmaker Luke Cutforth, “The Drowning Of Arthur Braxton” won best U.K. feature, while Anita Rocha da Silveira’s San Sebastián and Sitges winner “Medusa” won best international feature.
Daniel Lombroso’s “White Noise” was named best documentary feature, while Matthew Walker’s “I’m Wanita” won best music documentary.
Portuguese actor Lucia Moniz won best performance for her lead role in Ana Rocha’s “Listen,” for which she has won several awards previously.
Known for his work on “Frances Ha” and Lady Bird,” DoP Sam Levy won best cinematography for Karen Cinorre’s “Mayday.
- 11/5/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Okay, here’s a unique twist on some classic fables, one that could truly be called a “fairy tale for grown-ups”. Like many of those “bedtime stories,’ it concerns the main character who’s whisked away from their dull existence into an exciting fantasy realm. Ah, but here the starting point is oppressive sexism in a place all too similar to our world. And the escape spot is not full of whimsical, magical creatures. No, it’s a place of blood, bullets, and near-constant warfare, as the land’s group of transplanted sisters spend much of their days brethelessly repeating one phrase into a spawky radio transmitter. In Military Phonetic Alphabet, over and over, it’s always Mayday.
And that’s just what we hear on the soundtrack (“Mary….Alice…Yankee..”) as the black screen gives way to a modern-day young college-age couple in a late model car. Ana (Grace Van Patten...
And that’s just what we hear on the soundtrack (“Mary….Alice…Yankee..”) as the black screen gives way to a modern-day young college-age couple in a late model car. Ana (Grace Van Patten...
- 10/2/2021
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Grace Van Patten has had a year that most young actresses dream about. She delivers a much-discussed performance on Hulu’s hit series “Nine Perfect Strangers” and counts an acclaimed 2021 Sundance selection among her credits. “Mayday” gives Van Patten a role that is just as complex and layered as her ‘Strangers’ character. Karen Cinorre’s directorial debut is a fantasy built upon timeless classics like “The Wizard of Oz.” Set in a dreamlike world grounded in sad truths, the film contemplates themes ranging from trauma to feminism.
Continue reading Grace Van Patten Talks The Fantasy Escape Of ‘Mayday,’ ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ & More [Interview] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Grace Van Patten Talks The Fantasy Escape Of ‘Mayday,’ ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ & More [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 10/1/2021
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
There are probably quite a few women around the world that would fantasize about being transported to a play where females are in control and the men are pawns in their own little game. That’s the world of “Mayday,” but things aren’t as great as they might seem.
Read More: ‘Mayday’: Grace Van Patten Shines In A Dreamy Fairy Tale Of Escape & Feminist Revenge [Sundance Review]
With “Mayday” arriving everywhere this week, we’re thrilled to give our readers a chance to see an exclusive clip from the upcoming feature.
Continue reading ‘Mayday’ Exclusive Clip: Grace Van Patten & Mia Goth Are At Odds In Karen Cinorre’s Feminist Thriller at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘Mayday’: Grace Van Patten Shines In A Dreamy Fairy Tale Of Escape & Feminist Revenge [Sundance Review]
With “Mayday” arriving everywhere this week, we’re thrilled to give our readers a chance to see an exclusive clip from the upcoming feature.
Continue reading ‘Mayday’ Exclusive Clip: Grace Van Patten & Mia Goth Are At Odds In Karen Cinorre’s Feminist Thriller at The Playlist.
- 9/29/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
by Jason Adams
Heads-up on a movie that should be on your radars if it isn't already -- I saw director Karen Cinorre's debut film Mayday at Sundance back in February, and it's a fascinating feminist spin on the War Film starring a slew of super up-and-comer actresses, including personal beloveds Grace Van Patten (so great on Nine Perfect Strangers right now) and Mia Goth (oh how we love Mia Goth). Oh and Juliette Lewis is there too? Indeed she is! Here's a little of what I said about Mayday in February:
"Mayday... is plenty aware of... the limitations in adopting masculine ideas of violence and revenge. But unlike something like Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, which Mayday feels like an explicit rebuke of, there's no fetishization of girls play-acting tough guy roles -- their past wounds don't become level-up Barbie-costumes that wrap their sexual assaults in pleather bustier pseudo-feminist bullshit.
Heads-up on a movie that should be on your radars if it isn't already -- I saw director Karen Cinorre's debut film Mayday at Sundance back in February, and it's a fascinating feminist spin on the War Film starring a slew of super up-and-comer actresses, including personal beloveds Grace Van Patten (so great on Nine Perfect Strangers right now) and Mia Goth (oh how we love Mia Goth). Oh and Juliette Lewis is there too? Indeed she is! Here's a little of what I said about Mayday in February:
"Mayday... is plenty aware of... the limitations in adopting masculine ideas of violence and revenge. But unlike something like Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, which Mayday feels like an explicit rebuke of, there's no fetishization of girls play-acting tough guy roles -- their past wounds don't become level-up Barbie-costumes that wrap their sexual assaults in pleather bustier pseudo-feminist bullshit.
- 9/7/2021
- by JA
- FilmExperience
"Mary. Alpha. Yankee. Delta. Alpha. Yankee." Magnolia Pictures has released an official trailer for an indie action thriller titled Mayday, which originally premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Marking the feature debut of talented filmmaker Karen Cinorre, this subversive film is a modern feminist fable unlike anything you've ever seen. Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she soon comes to realize that she's not the killer they want her to be. The film stars Grace Van Patten as Ana, with Mia Goth, Soko, Havana Rose Liu, Juliette Lewis, and Théodore Pellerin. "I wanted to create a radical portrait of young women I’ve loved and admired throughout my life. These are modern heroines who deserve a big story with the kind of action,...
- 8/25/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One of the interesting breakouts of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival was “Mayday” from first-time feature-length filmmaker Karen Cinorre, a dreamy fairy tale of female revenge and perhaps, #MeToo going too far. The film stars Grace Van Patten, a young woman pushed around in life who is mysteriously transported to another land where she meets a group of female rebels battling against male soldiers.
Continue reading ‘Mayday’ Trailer: Grace Van Patten Escapes In A Feminist Fantasy Standout From Sundance at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Mayday’ Trailer: Grace Van Patten Escapes In A Feminist Fantasy Standout From Sundance at The Playlist.
- 8/25/2021
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
A premiere at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Mayday brings together Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Soko, Havana Rose Liu, Juliette Lewis, and Théodore Pellerin in a fantastical story featuring a female army engaged in a mysterious, never-ending war with men. Directed by Karen Cinorre, Magnolia Pictures picked it up for an October 1 release and now the first trailer and poster have arrived.
I said in my review, “Not far removed from the island nation of Themyscira as recently seen in Wonder Woman’s big-screen/HBO Max adventures, the world of Mayday is one dominated by women. Establishing little rules or context with its fable-esque qualities, Marsha (Mia Goth) is the leader of a small crew of female soldiers, destined to decimate any men that may find themselves in their crosshairs. Oh, and everyone may be dead and this is all some sort of otherworldly realm. Such is the...
I said in my review, “Not far removed from the island nation of Themyscira as recently seen in Wonder Woman’s big-screen/HBO Max adventures, the world of Mayday is one dominated by women. Establishing little rules or context with its fable-esque qualities, Marsha (Mia Goth) is the leader of a small crew of female soldiers, destined to decimate any men that may find themselves in their crosshairs. Oh, and everyone may be dead and this is all some sort of otherworldly realm. Such is the...
- 8/25/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Hulu has given a series greenlight to an adaptation of Carola Lovering’s 2018 novel “Tell Me Lies,” the streamer said Tuesday.
“Nine Perfect Strangers” star Grace Van Patten will lead the series, which follows a “tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of eight years.” Van Patten will play Lucy Albright, a “sheltered but well-adjusted girl from an affluent Long Island town” who meets a boy at college and falls “into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.”
The project was first put into development at Hulu a year ago under the streamer’s first-look deal with “American Horror Story” star Emma Roberts. Roberts executive produces the series alongside Karah Preiss, co-founder of her Belletrist production company.
Meaghan Oppenheimer, creator of the Catherine Zeta-Jones-led Facebook Watch series “Queen America,” will executive produce and write the pilot,...
“Nine Perfect Strangers” star Grace Van Patten will lead the series, which follows a “tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of eight years.” Van Patten will play Lucy Albright, a “sheltered but well-adjusted girl from an affluent Long Island town” who meets a boy at college and falls “into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.”
The project was first put into development at Hulu a year ago under the streamer’s first-look deal with “American Horror Story” star Emma Roberts. Roberts executive produces the series alongside Karah Preiss, co-founder of her Belletrist production company.
Meaghan Oppenheimer, creator of the Catherine Zeta-Jones-led Facebook Watch series “Queen America,” will executive produce and write the pilot,...
- 8/3/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Coming off her role in the upcoming Hulu limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, Grace Van Patten has been tapped as the lead of the streamer’s drama Tell Me Lies, which has received a straight-to-series order.
Tell Me Lies, based on Carola Lovering’s novel, was the first project Emma Roberts set up for development at Hulu last fall under a first-look deal for her Belletrist TV banner focused on adapting books for television. Roberts is executive producing the series.
Adapted by Meaghan Oppenheimer, who created Facebook Watch’s Catherine Zeta Jones series Queen America, Tell Me Lies follows a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of 8 years. When Lucy Albright (Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. Although their relationship begins like any typical campus romance, they quickly...
Tell Me Lies, based on Carola Lovering’s novel, was the first project Emma Roberts set up for development at Hulu last fall under a first-look deal for her Belletrist TV banner focused on adapting books for television. Roberts is executive producing the series.
Adapted by Meaghan Oppenheimer, who created Facebook Watch’s Catherine Zeta Jones series Queen America, Tell Me Lies follows a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of 8 years. When Lucy Albright (Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. Although their relationship begins like any typical campus romance, they quickly...
- 8/3/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Swan Song, Mayday, Queen Of Glory, A Glitch In The Matrix galvanise buyers.
Magnolia Pictures International head Lorna Lee Torres has reported brisk sales in Cannes on Udo Kier drama and SXSW selection Swan Song, Sundance action fantasy Mayday, Tribeca winner Queen Of Glory, and Sundance Midnight entry A Glitch In The Matrix.
Torres and Magnolia international sales director Marie Zeniter attended Cannes for what proved to be a productive trip.
Rights to Swan Song have gone in the UK (Peccadillo), Germany and Austria (Koch Media), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Australia and New Zealand (Icon), Scandinavia, Baltics, Iceland (NonStop), Canada (Mongrel...
Magnolia Pictures International head Lorna Lee Torres has reported brisk sales in Cannes on Udo Kier drama and SXSW selection Swan Song, Sundance action fantasy Mayday, Tribeca winner Queen Of Glory, and Sundance Midnight entry A Glitch In The Matrix.
Torres and Magnolia international sales director Marie Zeniter attended Cannes for what proved to be a productive trip.
Rights to Swan Song have gone in the UK (Peccadillo), Germany and Austria (Koch Media), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Australia and New Zealand (Icon), Scandinavia, Baltics, Iceland (NonStop), Canada (Mongrel...
- 7/19/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Also sold at the festival were Mayday, Queen Of Glory and A Glitch In The Matrix.
Magnolia Pictures International has reported a number of sales deals on its Cannes slate titles Swan Song, Mayday, Queen Of Glory and A Glitch In The Matrix.
With Udo Kier starring as a retired small-town hairdresser for director Todd Stephens, comedy Swan Song sold to Peccadillo for the UK, Koch Media for Germany/Austria, Ascot Elite for Switzerland, Icon for Australia/New Zealand, Nonstop for Scandinavia, the Baltics and Iceland, Mongrel for Canada, Telefilms for Latin America, Tongariro for Poland and Penny Black for airlines.
Magnolia Pictures International has reported a number of sales deals on its Cannes slate titles Swan Song, Mayday, Queen Of Glory and A Glitch In The Matrix.
With Udo Kier starring as a retired small-town hairdresser for director Todd Stephens, comedy Swan Song sold to Peccadillo for the UK, Koch Media for Germany/Austria, Ascot Elite for Switzerland, Icon for Australia/New Zealand, Nonstop for Scandinavia, the Baltics and Iceland, Mongrel for Canada, Telefilms for Latin America, Tongariro for Poland and Penny Black for airlines.
- 7/15/2021
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
CAA has signed filmmaker Karen Cinorre, who made her debut with the action fantasy film “Mayday.”
The film, which Cinorre also wrote and produced, was recently acquired by Magnolia Pictures. The indie studio recently announced that it plans to release “Mayday” this fall.
“Mayday” premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it earned positive notices. It was nominated for the Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film stars Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Havana Rose Liu, Soko, Théodore Pellerin, and Juliette Lewis. In “Mayday,” Ana (Van Patten) finds herself transported to a dreamlike and dangerous coastline. Once there, she joins a female army engaged in a never-ending war where the women lure men to their deaths with radio signals, like 20th century sirens. Though Ana finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize she is not the...
The film, which Cinorre also wrote and produced, was recently acquired by Magnolia Pictures. The indie studio recently announced that it plans to release “Mayday” this fall.
“Mayday” premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it earned positive notices. It was nominated for the Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film stars Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Havana Rose Liu, Soko, Théodore Pellerin, and Juliette Lewis. In “Mayday,” Ana (Van Patten) finds herself transported to a dreamlike and dangerous coastline. Once there, she joins a female army engaged in a never-ending war where the women lure men to their deaths with radio signals, like 20th century sirens. Though Ana finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize she is not the...
- 6/8/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
With a slimmer lineup and much of the action taking place online rather than in Park City, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival will be anything but normal. But if early sales activity is any indication, the hybrid virtual/in-person festival will still serve as a key acquisitions market for distributors.
News of the first deals broke on December 16, the day after Sundance revealed its full slate of 72 features. That’s when Bleecker Street announced it has acquired North American rights to Nikole Beckwith’s “Together Together” and Magnolia Pictures revealed it has nabbed Rodney Ascher’s Midnight section pick “A Glitch in the Matrix.”
While those two movies come from established filmmakers, over half of the festival lineup comes from first-time feature directors. Over 90 percent of the slate are world premieres.
That suggests there is plenty of opportunity for the discovery of hidden gems. But with streaming — coupled with satellite screenings...
News of the first deals broke on December 16, the day after Sundance revealed its full slate of 72 features. That’s when Bleecker Street announced it has acquired North American rights to Nikole Beckwith’s “Together Together” and Magnolia Pictures revealed it has nabbed Rodney Ascher’s Midnight section pick “A Glitch in the Matrix.”
While those two movies come from established filmmakers, over half of the festival lineup comes from first-time feature directors. Over 90 percent of the slate are world premieres.
That suggests there is plenty of opportunity for the discovery of hidden gems. But with streaming — coupled with satellite screenings...
- 6/8/2021
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Lorna Lee Torres, Marie Zeniter launching international sales at virtual Cannes market.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Karen Cinorre’s action fantasy and Sundance and IFFR Rotterdam selection Mayday.
Lorna Lee Torres and Marie Zeniter will launch international sales at the virtual Cannes market,, and Magnolia Pictures plans an autumn release in North America.
Mayday stars Grace Van Patten in the story of Ana, a woman transported to a dreamlike and dangerous coastline where she joins a female army engaged in an endless war where women lure men to their deaths with radio signals. Ana realises she is...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Karen Cinorre’s action fantasy and Sundance and IFFR Rotterdam selection Mayday.
Lorna Lee Torres and Marie Zeniter will launch international sales at the virtual Cannes market,, and Magnolia Pictures plans an autumn release in North America.
Mayday stars Grace Van Patten in the story of Ana, a woman transported to a dreamlike and dangerous coastline where she joins a female army engaged in an endless war where women lure men to their deaths with radio signals. Ana realises she is...
- 6/3/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to “Mayday,” an action fantasy that debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
“Mayday” is directed by debut filmmaker Karen Cinorre and stars Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Havana Rose Liu, Soko, Théodore Pellerin and Juliette Lewis. Magnolia plans to release the film in the fall.
In “Mayday,” Ana (Van Patten) finds herself transported to a dreamlike and dangerous coastline. Once there, she joins a female army engaged in a never-ending war where the women lure men to their deaths with radio signals, like 20th century sirens. Though Ana finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize she is not the killer they want her to be.
“‘Mayday’ is an exciting, original film with a lot on its mind,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles. “Karen Cinorre has delivered something truly unique.”
“I’m thrilled to be partnering with Magnolia Pictures as...
“Mayday” is directed by debut filmmaker Karen Cinorre and stars Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Havana Rose Liu, Soko, Théodore Pellerin and Juliette Lewis. Magnolia plans to release the film in the fall.
In “Mayday,” Ana (Van Patten) finds herself transported to a dreamlike and dangerous coastline. Once there, she joins a female army engaged in a never-ending war where the women lure men to their deaths with radio signals, like 20th century sirens. Though Ana finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize she is not the killer they want her to be.
“‘Mayday’ is an exciting, original film with a lot on its mind,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles. “Karen Cinorre has delivered something truly unique.”
“I’m thrilled to be partnering with Magnolia Pictures as...
- 6/3/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Above: Carlson Young’s The Blazing World Midnight screenings are my personal haven at festivals. Whenever main competitions start to feel a bit weary, I gladly deflect to genre-driven sessions for a sharper edge and a quickened pulse. At the same time, the competitions have also made some welcome room for genre (consider Parasite or Bacurau), which serves as a reminder that horror has always been well suited not only to bold narrative leaps and visual experimentation, but also to a social and cultural critique. This proclivity continues in the recent electrifying horror movies by Jordan Peele (Get Out and Us), and by indie women directors. I’m thinking particularly of Amy Seimetz’s stellar I Die Tomorrow, which was originally scheduled to premiere at SXSW, in 2020, and Rose Glass’s Saint Maud, an absolute find at TIFF, in 2019, which is finally getting recognition in the UK, and was just released in the US.
- 2/23/2021
- MUBI
Mayday, one of this year’s Sundance Festival lineup, tells the compelling story of a woman trying to piece together her fragmented memories.
“The situations that bring Ana, the disoriented heroine of writer-director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday, to the movie’s remote, windswept island are as disturbing as they are integral to the movie’s message of survival. After losing herself in a storm of the world’s brutality, Ana comes to on a seemingly deserted island, unsure of what’s happened, and fuzzy on the details about her past.”
Read more at Gizmodo.
Actress Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, released a statement about Joss Whedon’s alleged abusive behavior on the set of those shows.
“More than a decade and a half after her character was abruptly written off of the Buffy spinoff Angel, Charisma Carpenter has released a statement detailing the...
“The situations that bring Ana, the disoriented heroine of writer-director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday, to the movie’s remote, windswept island are as disturbing as they are integral to the movie’s message of survival. After losing herself in a storm of the world’s brutality, Ana comes to on a seemingly deserted island, unsure of what’s happened, and fuzzy on the details about her past.”
Read more at Gizmodo.
Actress Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, released a statement about Joss Whedon’s alleged abusive behavior on the set of those shows.
“More than a decade and a half after her character was abruptly written off of the Buffy spinoff Angel, Charisma Carpenter has released a statement detailing the...
- 2/11/2021
- by Ivan Huang
- Den of Geek
With the 2021 Sundance Film Festival now officially in the books, here’s a look at three different female-centric films that I had the opportunity to screen during the festival: Frida Kempff’s Knocking, Violation from Madeleine Sims-Frewer and Dusty Macinelli, and Karen Cinorre’s girl power fantasy Mayday.
Knocking: In Knocking, filmmaker Frida Kempff has crafted a timely and effective thriller that explores mental health in a very thoughtful and thought-provoking way. The story is centered around Molly (Cecilia Milocco), a woman who has recently been released from a psychiatric facility after experiencing a traumatic event and is looking to start her life over. As she settles into her new apartment during an oppressive heatwave, Molly begins to hear a mysterious knocking through the wall. What could it be? Is it someone fixing something, or is there something more sinister than that going on? As Molly begins to investigate the strange noises,...
Knocking: In Knocking, filmmaker Frida Kempff has crafted a timely and effective thriller that explores mental health in a very thoughtful and thought-provoking way. The story is centered around Molly (Cecilia Milocco), a woman who has recently been released from a psychiatric facility after experiencing a traumatic event and is looking to start her life over. As she settles into her new apartment during an oppressive heatwave, Molly begins to hear a mysterious knocking through the wall. What could it be? Is it someone fixing something, or is there something more sinister than that going on? As Molly begins to investigate the strange noises,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
In writer-director Karen Cinorre’s visually enthralling, stunning debut, Mayday, it’s a semi-Hobbesian “war of all against all,” except the first “all” and the second “all” fall strictly along gender lines, pitting semi-suspecting men, some all-too-eager to play the heroes in their own mind, against a tight-knit group of young women, ferociously skilled fighters one and all, just as eager to prove they don’t need or want men to save them. That most of Mayday is set not in our socially, politically, and culturally stratified world, but in an oneiric, upside-down Oz crossed with Lord of the Flies where a never-ending war resembling World War II rages in and around a sun-drenched coastline. Spoiler: The men don’t stand...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
- 2/6/2021
- Screen Anarchy
“Mayday,” which took its first European bow at the Rotterdam Film Festival this week after premiering at Sundance, is the debut feature of U.S. writer/director Karen Cinorre.
The film tells the tale of oppressed young waitress Ana working at a wedding, who falls through an oven into a female-dominated utopia.
The character then joins group of seemingly like-minded soldiers who are involved in a Siren-like mission to lure male soldiers to their deaths via fake mayday calls.
The feature is one of a number of films vying for this year’s Tiger Award at Rotterdam exploring female self-realization and shares similar revenge fantasy themes to fellow Sundance breakout, Emma Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman.”
While Cinorre’s original script for the film pre-dates both the #MeToo and “Time’s Up” movements, she remains hopeful that these events have created “a new openness” that has meant films like hers are more likely to get made.
The film tells the tale of oppressed young waitress Ana working at a wedding, who falls through an oven into a female-dominated utopia.
The character then joins group of seemingly like-minded soldiers who are involved in a Siren-like mission to lure male soldiers to their deaths via fake mayday calls.
The feature is one of a number of films vying for this year’s Tiger Award at Rotterdam exploring female self-realization and shares similar revenge fantasy themes to fellow Sundance breakout, Emma Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman.”
While Cinorre’s original script for the film pre-dates both the #MeToo and “Time’s Up” movements, she remains hopeful that these events have created “a new openness” that has meant films like hers are more likely to get made.
- 2/6/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Directors included Ismaël and Youssef Chebbi, Nino Martínez Sosa, Karen Cinorre and Juja Dobrachkous.
“Fearless” filmmakers are forging a path to get international production back on its feet, according to a panel of Tiger Competition directors at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
“I don’t think [the pandemic] will affect it at all – I think we’re going to be reaching out across the seas forever,” said US director Karen Cinorre, whose debut feature Mayday received its international premiere at IFFR following its worldwide launch at Sundance. “And I don’t see it stopping films today.
“My team [on Mayday] is travelling as we...
“Fearless” filmmakers are forging a path to get international production back on its feet, according to a panel of Tiger Competition directors at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
“I don’t think [the pandemic] will affect it at all – I think we’re going to be reaching out across the seas forever,” said US director Karen Cinorre, whose debut feature Mayday received its international premiere at IFFR following its worldwide launch at Sundance. “And I don’t see it stopping films today.
“My team [on Mayday] is travelling as we...
- 2/4/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Like the Sirens of Greek mythology dolled up in Wes Anderson-esque Girl Scout uniforms, the four young women in Karen Cinorre’s stylish yet surface-level feminist fantasy “Mayday” lure off-screen soldiers to their deaths with invented pleas for help. “They can’t resist a lady in distress,” says Marsha (Mia Goth), coaching newcomer Ana (Grace Van Patten) on how to craft an enticing Sos call. “They like their girls softer, with less authority.”
Debuting at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, “Mayday” joins recent female-revenge fantasies “Promising Young Woman” and “Assassination Nation” in imagining a scenario where women are mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. Like those films, it’s simultaneously exhilarating and confused, in part because the patriarchy is too big a Goliath to be crippled by a single strident slingshot, no matter how accurate its aim. Still, it’s a thrill to see young filmmakers raging against the status quo,...
Debuting at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, “Mayday” joins recent female-revenge fantasies “Promising Young Woman” and “Assassination Nation” in imagining a scenario where women are mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. Like those films, it’s simultaneously exhilarating and confused, in part because the patriarchy is too big a Goliath to be crippled by a single strident slingshot, no matter how accurate its aim. Still, it’s a thrill to see young filmmakers raging against the status quo,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Mayday, mayday! It's time to fight the patriarchy! One of my favorite premieres from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival is this gritty war film Mayday, written & directed by filmmaker Karen Cinorre making her feature directorial debut. There are many, many films being made these days about fighting the patriarchy and the power of modern feminism. There are also plenty of films telling stories about women fighting back against abusive men and pushing back against oppressive societies. But few films, few conversations ever, dare to wade into the discussion on toxic feminism. But this film finally does. Mayday is a compelling sci-fi fantasy thriller set in "another place" where a group of women are fighting a never-ending war against men. All men. Soldiers and others that randomly appear in their paradise are swiftly & mercilessly killed. But this film isn't really glorifying violence, it's examining how feminists fight back (literally) against the patriarchy.
- 2/3/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ana (Grace Van Patten), a lowly hotel worker, finds herself transported to another world where a war is raging and a clutch of young women lure men to their deaths at sea via radio transmissions, like 20th century sirens, in Mayday, a U.S. Dramatic Competition entry at this year’s Sundance.
Like several other intriguing, Gothic-tinged but quite bonkers female-centric fantastical features made by upcoming women directors recently (see, for instance, Amanda Kramer’s Ladyworld, Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills or, the mama of them all, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence), first-time writer-director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday is less interested in logic than creating a ...
Like several other intriguing, Gothic-tinged but quite bonkers female-centric fantastical features made by upcoming women directors recently (see, for instance, Amanda Kramer’s Ladyworld, Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills or, the mama of them all, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence), first-time writer-director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday is less interested in logic than creating a ...
Ana (Grace Van Patten), a lowly hotel worker, finds herself transported to another world where a war is raging and a clutch of young women lure men to their deaths at sea via radio transmissions, like 20th century sirens, in Mayday, a U.S. Dramatic Competition entry at this year’s Sundance.
Like several other intriguing, Gothic-tinged but quite bonkers female-centric fantastical features made by upcoming women directors recently (see, for instance, Amanda Kramer’s Ladyworld, Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills or, the mama of them all, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence), first-time writer-director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday is less interested in logic than creating a ...
Like several other intriguing, Gothic-tinged but quite bonkers female-centric fantastical features made by upcoming women directors recently (see, for instance, Amanda Kramer’s Ladyworld, Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills or, the mama of them all, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence), first-time writer-director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday is less interested in logic than creating a ...
S.O.S distress calls, fantasy escape from trauma, and forever wars that need to be fought all swirl together in “Mayday,” a dreamy and surreal new feminist fairy tale and revenge film that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this week. The feature-length filmmaking debut of writer/director Karen Cinorre, “Mayday” centers on Ana, a young woman who is mysteriously transported to an otherworldly and dangerous island. Upon her rescue, she is recruited into a murderous army of girls engaged in an endless conflict that lies between a treacherous ocean and a jagged coastline.
Continue reading ‘Mayday’ First Look: Mia Goth Teaches Grace Van Patten To Put The Boys In The Crosshairs [Sundance Exclusive Clip] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Mayday’ First Look: Mia Goth Teaches Grace Van Patten To Put The Boys In The Crosshairs [Sundance Exclusive Clip] at The Playlist.
- 2/3/2021
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Shattering expectations to question where empowerment truly lies is a powerful driving force behind people being able to take control of their own destinies. That’s certainly the case for both the protagonist and filmmakers behind the new drama, ‘Mayday.’ The movie marks the feature film writing, directorial and producing debuts of filmmaker Karen Cinorre, who […]
The post 2021 Sundance Film Festival Video Interview: Sam Levy Talks Mayday (Exclusive) appeared first on Shockya.com.
The post 2021 Sundance Film Festival Video Interview: Sam Levy Talks Mayday (Exclusive) appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 2/1/2021
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
The Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam had to forego a physical event for its 50th anniversary edition, but it’s aiming to reach a wider audience with expanded competition sections and showcases that include promising new voices and established filmmakers alike.
Under new festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, IFFR has reduced the overall number of films from the more than 270 feature films that unspooled last year while beefing up the main Tiger Competition, which celebrates innovative works from up-and-coming filmmakers, from 10 to 16 titles. Also expanded was the Big Screen Competition, which bridges the gap between popular, classic and arthouse cinema.
The revised competitions “encapsulate IFFR’s spirit as a platform for the discovery of visions that pique our curiosity and capture our imagination,” Kaludjercic says.
Female self-realization is one subject that is explored in a number of films vying for this year’s Tiger Award, namely Karen Cinorre’s U.S. title...
Under new festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, IFFR has reduced the overall number of films from the more than 270 feature films that unspooled last year while beefing up the main Tiger Competition, which celebrates innovative works from up-and-coming filmmakers, from 10 to 16 titles. Also expanded was the Big Screen Competition, which bridges the gap between popular, classic and arthouse cinema.
The revised competitions “encapsulate IFFR’s spirit as a platform for the discovery of visions that pique our curiosity and capture our imagination,” Kaludjercic says.
Female self-realization is one subject that is explored in a number of films vying for this year’s Tiger Award, namely Karen Cinorre’s U.S. title...
- 2/1/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam is celebrating its 50th anniversary under a new artistic director this year, and while the event has been forced online due to the ongoing pandemic, organizers are hopeful that an extended edition in June could see festgoers returning to cinemas this summer.
Moving the festival and its IFFR Pro Days industry section online has nevertheless created opportunities.
For festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, it became apparent early on that her debut would be different than what she had originally anticipated. Netherlands went into lockdown two weeks into her new job in early March 2020 along with much of the rest of the world. The development “quite quickly gave us a clear idea that we had to start planning a very different festival,” she says.
Praising her colleagues, Kaludjercic adds: “This team is very resourceful, skilled and very creative. It helped us very early on to form work...
Moving the festival and its IFFR Pro Days industry section online has nevertheless created opportunities.
For festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, it became apparent early on that her debut would be different than what she had originally anticipated. Netherlands went into lockdown two weeks into her new job in early March 2020 along with much of the rest of the world. The development “quite quickly gave us a clear idea that we had to start planning a very different festival,” she says.
Praising her colleagues, Kaludjercic adds: “This team is very resourceful, skilled and very creative. It helped us very early on to form work...
- 2/1/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The feature debut of writer-director Karen Cinorre, orbits an intriguing premise – healing as purgatory, inspired by the Sirens – but its visuals far outpace its writing
The ancient Greek myth of the Sirens, the half-woman, half-bird monsters whose mellifluous songs lured men to shipwrecked deaths on their shores, cast desire as inherently dangerous, femininity as bait. The story is overdue for a retelling, along the lines of Madeline Miller’s bestseller Circe, which reimagined the myth of the under-studied Odyssey sorceress through the perspective of a chameleonic, independent, traumatized goddess. Such fresh revision is one of many promising ideas undergirding Mayday, the atmospheric if often airless feature debut of the writer-director Karen Cinorre. There’s great potential in plumbing the tale of the Sirens for motivations masked by centuries of inattention, of attending to the scars that fester into monstrous rage. But its tantalizing visuals far outpace its sparse writing, which...
The ancient Greek myth of the Sirens, the half-woman, half-bird monsters whose mellifluous songs lured men to shipwrecked deaths on their shores, cast desire as inherently dangerous, femininity as bait. The story is overdue for a retelling, along the lines of Madeline Miller’s bestseller Circe, which reimagined the myth of the under-studied Odyssey sorceress through the perspective of a chameleonic, independent, traumatized goddess. Such fresh revision is one of many promising ideas undergirding Mayday, the atmospheric if often airless feature debut of the writer-director Karen Cinorre. There’s great potential in plumbing the tale of the Sirens for motivations masked by centuries of inattention, of attending to the scars that fester into monstrous rage. But its tantalizing visuals far outpace its sparse writing, which...
- 1/31/2021
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
“Mary, Alpha, Yankee, Delta, Alpha, Yankee…” a woman’s voice lazily repeats over radio static, as a man parachutes from a helicopter amid a freak storm. That refrain echoes throughout Karen Cinorre‘s surreal drama: “Mayday, mayday” the woman calls, not appearing to need much help at all. But Mayday is very much about women in need. […]
The post ‘Mayday’ Review: Mia Goth Leads a Group of Lost Girls to War in a Dreamy, Distorted ‘Peter Pan’ Fable [Sundance 2021] appeared first on /Film.
The post ‘Mayday’ Review: Mia Goth Leads a Group of Lost Girls to War in a Dreamy, Distorted ‘Peter Pan’ Fable [Sundance 2021] appeared first on /Film.
- 1/31/2021
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Ana’s (Grace Van Patten) restless sleep is punctuated with all sorts of strange things: nightmares about endless tunnels, worryingly quiet men, vintage bombers laden with airmen, and a clear voice spelling out “M A Y D A Y” via the phonetic alphabet. But all that, strange as it may seem, is at least better than her real life, complete with a dead-end catering job and a sense of invisibility that’s not only in her head. In Karen Cinorre’s fantastical, feminist “Mayday,” Ana shrugs off her earthbound existence for something that, at first, seems like her ticket to fulfillment and happiness. But thorny questions persist, even in the most compelling of dreamscapes, and
Ana’s life in a sterile seaside town isn’t a happy one, and when Cinorre’s feature debut opens, she’s starting another day that seems destined to be just like the ones before it.
Ana’s life in a sterile seaside town isn’t a happy one, and when Cinorre’s feature debut opens, she’s starting another day that seems destined to be just like the ones before it.
- 1/31/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Not far removed from the island nation of Themyscira as recently seen in Wonder Woman’s big-screen/HBO Max adventures, the world of Mayday is one dominated by women. Establishing little rules or context with its fable-esque qualities, Marsha (Mia Goth) is the leader of a small crew of female soldiers, destined to decimate any men that may find themselves in their crosshairs. Oh, and everyone may be dead and this is all some sort of otherworldly realm. Such is the strange set-up for Karen Cinorre’s folkloric, ambitious debut feature, which intrigues with its unexpected tonal melange, even if the execution comes up lacking.
Before the film’s protagonist, Ana (Grace Van Patten), arrives washed up on a mysterious shore, she’s introduced beginning a day’s work as part of a catering team at a wedding venue. She has a friendly relationship with her co-worker (Théodore Pellerin), who...
Before the film’s protagonist, Ana (Grace Van Patten), arrives washed up on a mysterious shore, she’s introduced beginning a day’s work as part of a catering team at a wedding venue. She has a friendly relationship with her co-worker (Théodore Pellerin), who...
- 1/31/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
For first-time write and director Karen Cinorre, “Mayday” combines her love of Greek mythology with a drive to tell a feminist story that will resonate with modern audiences.
“I hope they take a lot of things [away from it],” she tells Gold Derby. “One is maybe the sense of friendship and hope that some sort of darkness can have beauty in it and that they can survive that and find their voice.”
Starring Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Juliette Lewis, Havana Rose Liu, and Stephanie Sokolinksi, “Mayday” takes place primarily in an alternate reality where men and women have been engaged in an endless and deadly war. It’s into this world where Ana (Van Patten) is transported after an accident. How she navigates her new surroundings and forms a relationship with Marsha (Goth), a military leader with a rigid view of the battle, makes up the film’s central conflict as audiences...
“I hope they take a lot of things [away from it],” she tells Gold Derby. “One is maybe the sense of friendship and hope that some sort of darkness can have beauty in it and that they can survive that and find their voice.”
Starring Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Juliette Lewis, Havana Rose Liu, and Stephanie Sokolinksi, “Mayday” takes place primarily in an alternate reality where men and women have been engaged in an endless and deadly war. It’s into this world where Ana (Van Patten) is transported after an accident. How she navigates her new surroundings and forms a relationship with Marsha (Goth), a military leader with a rigid view of the battle, makes up the film’s central conflict as audiences...
- 1/31/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
How did events of 2020—any of them—change your film, either in the way you approached it, produced it, post-produced it, or are now thinking about it? As I worked remotely with editor Nick Ramirez and composers Colin Stetson and Caroline Shaw, so much erupted around us. When the horrible Covid surge overtook New York City, we heard endless ambulance sirens while banging pots and pans every night at 7 p.m. to honor our frontline and essential workers. We were simultaneously swept up in the mobilization of Black Lives Matter. We marched, masks on, proud of our own city’s electrifying reaction […]
The post "Firework Explosions Went Off During So Many Sleepless Nights Just as They Do in Our Film": Director Karen Cinorre | Mayday first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post "Firework Explosions Went Off During So Many Sleepless Nights Just as They Do in Our Film": Director Karen Cinorre | Mayday first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/31/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
How did events of 2020—any of them—change your film, either in the way you approached it, produced it, post-produced it, or are now thinking about it? As I worked remotely with editor Nick Ramirez and composers Colin Stetson and Caroline Shaw, so much erupted around us. When the horrible Covid surge overtook New York City, we heard endless ambulance sirens while banging pots and pans every night at 7 p.m. to honor our frontline and essential workers. We were simultaneously swept up in the mobilization of Black Lives Matter. We marched, masks on, proud of our own city’s electrifying reaction […]
The post "Firework Explosions Went Off During So Many Sleepless Nights Just as They Do in Our Film": Director Karen Cinorre | Mayday first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post "Firework Explosions Went Off During So Many Sleepless Nights Just as They Do in Our Film": Director Karen Cinorre | Mayday first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/31/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Here are the titles most often mentioned by buyers and sellers as having the potential to shake up this virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival marketplace. While you can say they are a bit light on starpower, Sundance success has never been defined by that. There are solid plot lines in numerous genres and the potential for magic to unfold on…the television sets of buyers and viewers.
Eight For Silver – Director: Sean Ellis. Cast: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie. In the late 1800s, a man arrives in a remote country village to investigate an attack by a wild animal but discovers a much deeper, sinister force that has both the manor and the townspeople in its grip. Section: Premiere. 1st Screening: Saturday, January 30, 6 Pm Pt
Coda – Director: Sian Heder. Cast: Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Marlee Matlin, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo. As a Coda – Child of Deaf Adults – Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family.
Eight For Silver – Director: Sean Ellis. Cast: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie. In the late 1800s, a man arrives in a remote country village to investigate an attack by a wild animal but discovers a much deeper, sinister force that has both the manor and the townspeople in its grip. Section: Premiere. 1st Screening: Saturday, January 30, 6 Pm Pt
Coda – Director: Sian Heder. Cast: Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Marlee Matlin, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo. As a Coda – Child of Deaf Adults – Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family.
- 1/28/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival, beginning Thursday, will look quite different. Forging ahead during the pandemic, they’ve to continue offering some of the year’s finest independent discoveries, with a new online platform, drive-ins, screenings at independent arthouses around the country, and more.
We’ll have extensive coverage from the festival (which one can follow here or on Twitter). Before reviews arrive, we’re counting down our most-anticipated films. If you’re interested in experiencing Sundance from home, one can see available tickets here.
15. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
Year after year, Sundance’s Next section offers independent cinema’s most compelling new voices; one that’s caught our eye is Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Shot by Daniel Patrick Carbone and scored by Alex G, it follows a teenager (Anna Cobb) whose reality begins blurring when she plays an online horror role-playing game.
We’ll have extensive coverage from the festival (which one can follow here or on Twitter). Before reviews arrive, we’re counting down our most-anticipated films. If you’re interested in experiencing Sundance from home, one can see available tickets here.
15. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
Year after year, Sundance’s Next section offers independent cinema’s most compelling new voices; one that’s caught our eye is Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Shot by Daniel Patrick Carbone and scored by Alex G, it follows a teenager (Anna Cobb) whose reality begins blurring when she plays an online horror role-playing game.
- 1/25/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
During today’s press conference, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced vital details for its 2021 edition. IFFR 2021 will also take place from 1 to 7 February, and will be opened by film “Riders of Justice” by Anders Thomas Jensen and the Robby Müller Award recipient Kelly Reichardt. They will also be part of IFFR Talks, next to Benoît Jacquot, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Dea Kulumbegashvili and Nicolás Jaar. IFFR 2021 will also be the first year for new festival director Vanja Kaludjercic — who is also debuting IFFR’s online format. The entire online programme will be available to audiences across the Netherlands, and the Press / Industry screenings, IFFR Talks programmes accessible worldwide. Premieres will have Q&As and live interaction will be available to limited ticket capacity for 72 hours.
Next year’s slate also shows plenty of promise. Of the 16 films selected for the festival’s Tiger Competition, 6 hail from different points...
Next year’s slate also shows plenty of promise. Of the 16 films selected for the festival’s Tiger Competition, 6 hail from different points...
- 12/23/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Looking for VeneraThe first titles for the International Film Festival Rotterdam's hybrid multi-part 50th edition program have been revealed. Under new festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, the newly-organized and extended IFFR 2021 will feature a new program structure, with competition sections to be presented between 1 – 7 February. The festival will resume again between 2 – 6 June with Bright Future (the festival's existing section dedicated to emerging film talent) and what will be the festival's latest and largest section, Harbour. In February the festival will also celebrate the 75th anniversary of Amsterdam's Eye Filmmusuem, while in June IFFR's own 50th year will be celebrated with a special anniversary program. Tiger COMPETITIONAgate mousse (Selim Mourad)Bebia, à mon seul désir (Juja Dobrachkous)Bipolar (Queena Li)Black MedusaA Corsican Summer (Pascal Tagnati)The Edge of Daybreak (Taiki Sakpisit)Feast (Tim Leyendekker)Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan)Gritt (Itonje Søimer Guttormsen)Landscapes of Resistance (Marta Popivoda)Liborio (Nino Martínez Sosa...
- 12/22/2020
- MUBI
The Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) has unveiled the line-up for its 50th edition, with the Mads Mikkelsen-starring Riders Of Justice set to open the fest.
You can see the full line-up below. The event has had to change its traditional format for 2021 due to ongoing pandemic disruption. It will now run as a two-stage event, initially with a hybrid showcase of films February 1-7, followed by a physical event June 2-6.
The flagship Tiger Competition has confirmed 16 titles, 14 of which are world premieres. There are a further 15 titles in the Big Screen competition, which looks to bridge the gap between popular and arthouse cinema, while the non-competitive Limelight section will feature 13 titles, most of which have played other festivals, such as Magnus von Horn’s Sweat and Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida?.
Anders Thomas Jensen’s dark comedy Riders Of Justice will be having its international premiere...
You can see the full line-up below. The event has had to change its traditional format for 2021 due to ongoing pandemic disruption. It will now run as a two-stage event, initially with a hybrid showcase of films February 1-7, followed by a physical event June 2-6.
The flagship Tiger Competition has confirmed 16 titles, 14 of which are world premieres. There are a further 15 titles in the Big Screen competition, which looks to bridge the gap between popular and arthouse cinema, while the non-competitive Limelight section will feature 13 titles, most of which have played other festivals, such as Magnus von Horn’s Sweat and Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida?.
Anders Thomas Jensen’s dark comedy Riders Of Justice will be having its international premiere...
- 12/22/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The 50th anniversary event will take place in February and June.
Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen’s comedy Riders Of Justice starring Mads Mikkelsen will open the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The festival is taking place as multi-part event from February to June 2021, with the first part running as hybrid festival from February 1-7. Organisers hope it will culminate in a physical event from June 2-6, 2021.
Some 60 titles spanning the Tiger Competition, Big Screen Competition and its Ammodo Tiger Shorts and Limelight sections are screening in February.
The festival’s flagship Tiger Competition will showcase 16 titles, which will...
Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen’s comedy Riders Of Justice starring Mads Mikkelsen will open the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The festival is taking place as multi-part event from February to June 2021, with the first part running as hybrid festival from February 1-7. Organisers hope it will culminate in a physical event from June 2-6, 2021.
Some 60 titles spanning the Tiger Competition, Big Screen Competition and its Ammodo Tiger Shorts and Limelight sections are screening in February.
The festival’s flagship Tiger Competition will showcase 16 titles, which will...
- 12/22/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Anders Thomas Jensen’s action comedy “Riders of Justice,” starring Mads Mikkelsen, will open the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam. The festival will be staged in two parts this year: the first, in a hybrid format, running Feb. 1-7, and the second, hopefully a physical event, June 2-6. The awards ceremony will take place on Feb. 7.
In “Riders of Justice,” Mikkelsen plays Markus, a military man who returns home to look after his daughter Mathilde following his wife’s death in a train accident. At first it looks like she was the victim of a tragic piece of bad luck, but then mathematics geek Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a fellow passenger on the train, shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart (Lars Brygmann) and Emmenthaler (Nicolas Bro), and floats the theory of a possible murder conspiracy. The film plays in the Limelight section.
Jensen is Denmark’s top screenwriter,...
In “Riders of Justice,” Mikkelsen plays Markus, a military man who returns home to look after his daughter Mathilde following his wife’s death in a train accident. At first it looks like she was the victim of a tragic piece of bad luck, but then mathematics geek Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a fellow passenger on the train, shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart (Lars Brygmann) and Emmenthaler (Nicolas Bro), and floats the theory of a possible murder conspiracy. The film plays in the Limelight section.
Jensen is Denmark’s top screenwriter,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
I Was A Simple ManThe Sundance Institute has announced 72 feature films and 50 shorts selected for their 2021 Festival, including 66 world premieres and 38 films from first-time feature filmmakers. The first festival under new Festival Director Tabitha Jackson, Sundance 2021 is set to take place both digitally and in person across the entire United States at drive-ins and independent arthouses between January 28—February 3.U.S. Dramatic Competitioncoda (Siân Heder, USA) — As a Coda – Child of Deaf Adults – Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents. Cast: Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, and Marlee Matlin. World Premiere.I Was a Simple Man (Christopher Makoto Yogi, USA) — As a family in Hawai'i faces the imminent death of their eldest, the ghosts of the past haunt the countryside.
- 12/15/2020
- MUBI
Taking place January 28 through February 3 next year, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival will look quite different than ever before. After unveiling their screening plans, featuring a new online platform, drive-ins, screenings at independent arthouses around the country, and more, the lineup has now arrived.
The full 2021 slate of works includes 72 feature-length films, representing 29 countries and 38 first-time feature filmmakers. These films were selected from 14,092 submissions including 3,500 feature-length films. Of the feature film submissions, 1,377 were from the U.S. and 2,132 were international.
Check out the lineup below.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 10 films in this section are all world premieres.
Coda (Director and Screenwriter: Siân Heder, Producers: Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger) — As a Coda – Child of Deaf Adults – Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
The full 2021 slate of works includes 72 feature-length films, representing 29 countries and 38 first-time feature filmmakers. These films were selected from 14,092 submissions including 3,500 feature-length films. Of the feature film submissions, 1,377 were from the U.S. and 2,132 were international.
Check out the lineup below.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 10 films in this section are all world premieres.
Coda (Director and Screenwriter: Siân Heder, Producers: Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger) — As a Coda – Child of Deaf Adults – Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
- 12/15/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The directorial debuts of actress Robin Wright and musician Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and a documentary from Edgar Wright will be among the new films screening at the largely virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Sundance organizers announced on Tuesday.
Robin Wright’s “Land,” starring Wright, Demian Bichir and Kim Dickens and set in the Rocky Mountains, will premiere at Sundance in advance of its Feb. 12 release from Focus Features. Questlove’s “Summer of Soul” is a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival, which drew 300,000 people in the summer of 1969. Edgar Wright’s “The Sparks Brothers” is about Ron and Russell Mael, the two brothers who founded the rock band Sparks.
The Sundance lineup, which was revealed in its entirety, will consist of 72 feature films, 50 shorts, four indie episodic series and 14 “new frontier” projects. The films will screen on Sundance’s online platform, with each one having a live online premiere, and also...
Robin Wright’s “Land,” starring Wright, Demian Bichir and Kim Dickens and set in the Rocky Mountains, will premiere at Sundance in advance of its Feb. 12 release from Focus Features. Questlove’s “Summer of Soul” is a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival, which drew 300,000 people in the summer of 1969. Edgar Wright’s “The Sparks Brothers” is about Ron and Russell Mael, the two brothers who founded the rock band Sparks.
The Sundance lineup, which was revealed in its entirety, will consist of 72 feature films, 50 shorts, four indie episodic series and 14 “new frontier” projects. The films will screen on Sundance’s online platform, with each one having a live online premiere, and also...
- 12/15/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Getting to go creatively madcap with art/set decor on the Isabella Rossellini starring Green Porno series, New Yorker Karen Cinorre made the jump to feature filmmaking after dabbling in clip/short form. Coined as a fantastical female-driven action film, she assembled Juliette Lewis, Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Soko, Havana Rose Liu and Théodore Pellerin for Mayday in what was a November 2019 shoot in Croatia and perhaps NYC.
Gist: This focuses on a young woman named Ana (Van Patten) who is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins up with a band of female soldiers engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast.…...
Gist: This focuses on a young woman named Ana (Van Patten) who is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins up with a band of female soldiers engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast.…...
- 11/19/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Grace Van Patten is set as a lead opposite Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy in Hulu’s tentpole limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, based on Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty’s latest book, from David E. Kelley, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories, Kidman’s Blossom Films and Endeavor Content.
Co-written by Kelley, John Henry Butterworth and Samantha Strauss and co-showrun by Kelley and Butterworth, Nine Perfect Strangers the series takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this ten-day retreat is the resort’s director Masha (played by Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies.
Van Patten will play Zoe, one of the nine “perfect” strangers. In addition to Kidman and McCarthy, Weaving joins previously cast Luke Evans,...
Co-written by Kelley, John Henry Butterworth and Samantha Strauss and co-showrun by Kelley and Butterworth, Nine Perfect Strangers the series takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this ten-day retreat is the resort’s director Masha (played by Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies.
Van Patten will play Zoe, one of the nine “perfect” strangers. In addition to Kidman and McCarthy, Weaving joins previously cast Luke Evans,...
- 7/20/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar-nominee Juliette Lewis, Grace Van Patten, and Mia Goth have signed on to star in Mayday, an indie film written and directed by first-time feature helmer Karen Cinorre. Soko (Her) and Havana Rose Liu also co-star in the pic, which is currently in production.
Described as a fantastical female-driven action film, the plot focuses on a young woman named Ana (Van Patten) who is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins up with a band of female soldiers engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize that she’s not the killer they want her to be and must use her newfound power to try to fight her way back to life.
Cinorre will produce the project via her Queen’s Army label alongside Jonah Disend of Complementary Colors, Sam Levy, and Lucas Joaquin of Secret Engine.
Described as a fantastical female-driven action film, the plot focuses on a young woman named Ana (Van Patten) who is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins up with a band of female soldiers engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize that she’s not the killer they want her to be and must use her newfound power to try to fight her way back to life.
Cinorre will produce the project via her Queen’s Army label alongside Jonah Disend of Complementary Colors, Sam Levy, and Lucas Joaquin of Secret Engine.
- 11/12/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.