Theatrical release set for November.
monterey media has acquired all North American rights from Shoreline Entertainment to Looking For Grace.
Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh and Odessa Young star in the story of a 16-year-old who takes off alone and is pursued by a detective hired by her parents. Sue Brooks directed.
monterey media plans a wide release in November.
Looking For Grace premiered in Toronto and Venice in 2015 and marks monterey media’s 15th acquisition of a Toronto premiere in nine years.
“A film that delicately balances humor with poignancy is rare, and we are so pleased to be bringing this lovely film to domestic audiences,” monterey media managing partner Scott Mansfield said.
monterey media has acquired all North American rights from Shoreline Entertainment to Looking For Grace.
Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh and Odessa Young star in the story of a 16-year-old who takes off alone and is pursued by a detective hired by her parents. Sue Brooks directed.
monterey media plans a wide release in November.
Looking For Grace premiered in Toronto and Venice in 2015 and marks monterey media’s 15th acquisition of a Toronto premiere in nine years.
“A film that delicately balances humor with poignancy is rare, and we are so pleased to be bringing this lovely film to domestic audiences,” monterey media managing partner Scott Mansfield said.
- 8/1/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Principal photography started on location in Vancouver on Richard Says Goodbye starring three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp, it was announced today by Im Global Founder and CEO Stuart Ford.
Golden Globe® nominee Danny Huston (Wonder Woman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land, Rachel’s Getting Married), Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!, upcoming The Disaster Artist), Devon Terrell (Barry), and Odessa Young (Looking for Grace, The Daughter) have joined the cast of the comedy drama, which is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye).
Im Global and Cirrina Studios are co-financing the film with additional financing from Leeding Media.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Midnight Special) of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s President of Production Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) are producing the film. Ford and Miguel Palos of Im Global, Karine Martin, David Lipman and Jim Pesoli of Cirrina Studios, David U. Lee...
Golden Globe® nominee Danny Huston (Wonder Woman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land, Rachel’s Getting Married), Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!, upcoming The Disaster Artist), Devon Terrell (Barry), and Odessa Young (Looking for Grace, The Daughter) have joined the cast of the comedy drama, which is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye).
Im Global and Cirrina Studios are co-financing the film with additional financing from Leeding Media.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Midnight Special) of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s President of Production Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) are producing the film. Ford and Miguel Palos of Im Global, Karine Martin, David Lipman and Jim Pesoli of Cirrina Studios, David U. Lee...
- 7/25/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Australian short film Highway, written and directed by Vanessa Gazy, produced by Tim Russell and Michael Wark and starring the swiftly-rising Odessa Young, will premiere at the BFI London Film Festival next month.
Highway is Gazy.s second major short following her Aftrs film Foal, which was nominated for Adg and Awg awards in 2015 and is currently screening onboard certain Virgin flights.
Leading lady Young was singled out by critics for her performances in Simon Stone's The Daughter and Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace. In Highway, she plays troubled teen Hester Black, who is hitchhiking on an eerie mountain pass when her radio begins to receive phantom news signals from the future bearing very bad news.
.We are truly thrilled to have been selected for the BFI London Film Festival," said Gazy. "It is a great honour to be given the opportunity to showcase our little piece of...
Highway is Gazy.s second major short following her Aftrs film Foal, which was nominated for Adg and Awg awards in 2015 and is currently screening onboard certain Virgin flights.
Leading lady Young was singled out by critics for her performances in Simon Stone's The Daughter and Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace. In Highway, she plays troubled teen Hester Black, who is hitchhiking on an eerie mountain pass when her radio begins to receive phantom news signals from the future bearing very bad news.
.We are truly thrilled to have been selected for the BFI London Film Festival," said Gazy. "It is a great honour to be given the opportunity to showcase our little piece of...
- 9/2/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Australian short film Highway, written and directed by Vanessa Gazy, produced by Tim Russell and Michael Wark and starring the swiftly-rising Odessa Young, will premiere at the BFI London Film Festival next month.
Highway is Gazy.s second major short film following on from her award-winning Aftrs short film Foal, which was nominated for Adg and Awg awards in 2015 and is currently screening onboard certain Virgin flights.
Leading lady Young was singled out by critics for her performances in Simon Stone's The Daughter and Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace. In Highway, she plays troubled teen Hester Black, who is hitchhiking on an eerie mountain pass when her radio begins to receive phantom news signals from the future bearing very bad news.
.We are truly thrilled to have been selected for the BFI London Film Festival," said Gazy. "It is a great honour to be given the opportunity to...
Highway is Gazy.s second major short film following on from her award-winning Aftrs short film Foal, which was nominated for Adg and Awg awards in 2015 and is currently screening onboard certain Virgin flights.
Leading lady Young was singled out by critics for her performances in Simon Stone's The Daughter and Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace. In Highway, she plays troubled teen Hester Black, who is hitchhiking on an eerie mountain pass when her radio begins to receive phantom news signals from the future bearing very bad news.
.We are truly thrilled to have been selected for the BFI London Film Festival," said Gazy. "It is a great honour to be given the opportunity to...
- 9/2/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Sales agent Fortissimo Films has filed for bankruptcy.
As first reported by Variety, the company filed for bankruptcy yesterday in Amsterdam, shuttering its offices in Hong Kong, London, Amsterdam and Beijing..
The sales agent began in 1991, founded by Wouter Barendrecht and Helen Loveridge. Michael Werner joined the company four years later and led it from 2009, becoming a partner in the company and producing films such as.Shortbus.and.Mysterious Skin.
Fortissimo specialised in the Asia-Pacific region and was increasingly run out of Hong Kong.
The company's library has over 300 titles, including Scorsese's Shine a Light, Wong Kar Wai.s Chungking Express, Morgan Spurlock.s Super Size Me, Sydney Pollack.s Sketches Of Frank Gehry,.Andrew Jarecki.s Capturing The Friedmans and the film that made a star of Jennifer Lawrence, Debra Granik's Winter's Bone.
Australian titles include Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace and Leon Ford's Griff the Invisible.
As first reported by Variety, the company filed for bankruptcy yesterday in Amsterdam, shuttering its offices in Hong Kong, London, Amsterdam and Beijing..
The sales agent began in 1991, founded by Wouter Barendrecht and Helen Loveridge. Michael Werner joined the company four years later and led it from 2009, becoming a partner in the company and producing films such as.Shortbus.and.Mysterious Skin.
Fortissimo specialised in the Asia-Pacific region and was increasingly run out of Hong Kong.
The company's library has over 300 titles, including Scorsese's Shine a Light, Wong Kar Wai.s Chungking Express, Morgan Spurlock.s Super Size Me, Sydney Pollack.s Sketches Of Frank Gehry,.Andrew Jarecki.s Capturing The Friedmans and the film that made a star of Jennifer Lawrence, Debra Granik's Winter's Bone.
Australian titles include Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace and Leon Ford's Griff the Invisible.
- 8/18/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Teresa Palmer and Andrew Garfield in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge.
The Aacta Awards longlist for feature films was unveiled this morning, with 24 Australian features named.
The eligible films are A Few Less Men, A Month of Sundays, Beast, Boys in the Trees, Down Under, Early Winter, Embedded, Girl Asleep, Gods of Egypt, Goldstone, Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Cinque's Consolation, Looking for Grace, Pawno, Red Billabong, Scare Campaign, Spear, Spin Out, Spirit of the Game, Sucker, Tanna, The Daughter, The Menkoff Method and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
That list will be winnowed down once voting begins after the official screenings program, with the nominees for the AACTAs to be announced in October.
The screenings program for AFI and Aacta members runs throughout August and September, and will open with a preview screening of A Few Less Men in Sydney on August 29 at Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction, and in Melbourne on August 30 at Cinema Nova.
The Aacta Awards longlist for feature films was unveiled this morning, with 24 Australian features named.
The eligible films are A Few Less Men, A Month of Sundays, Beast, Boys in the Trees, Down Under, Early Winter, Embedded, Girl Asleep, Gods of Egypt, Goldstone, Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Cinque's Consolation, Looking for Grace, Pawno, Red Billabong, Scare Campaign, Spear, Spin Out, Spirit of the Game, Sucker, Tanna, The Daughter, The Menkoff Method and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
That list will be winnowed down once voting begins after the official screenings program, with the nominees for the AACTAs to be announced in October.
The screenings program for AFI and Aacta members runs throughout August and September, and will open with a preview screening of A Few Less Men in Sydney on August 29 at Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction, and in Melbourne on August 30 at Cinema Nova.
- 8/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Screen spoke to festival heads and industry about why women directors remain painfully sparse in the main strands at major festivals.
Women directors remain painfully sparse in the main strands of major film festivals. Cannes – the world’s leading film showcase – boasts three women directors among its 21-strong Competition line-up, comprising just 14%.
Remarkably, that is the highest number of women directors in Competition in five years.
The number of films directed by women in the entire official selection is down on last year, at seven out of 56 (12.5%) compared with last year’s eight of 54 (14.8%).
“Around 20% of the selection are women,” says Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux, who is taking into account films with multiple directors. “What percentage of film-makers in the world are women? According to a recent report, it’s 7%.”
Frémaux believes the problem takes root at an earlier stage: “What you see in Cannes is a consequence, not the cause. More needs to...
Women directors remain painfully sparse in the main strands of major film festivals. Cannes – the world’s leading film showcase – boasts three women directors among its 21-strong Competition line-up, comprising just 14%.
Remarkably, that is the highest number of women directors in Competition in five years.
The number of films directed by women in the entire official selection is down on last year, at seven out of 56 (12.5%) compared with last year’s eight of 54 (14.8%).
“Around 20% of the selection are women,” says Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux, who is taking into account films with multiple directors. “What percentage of film-makers in the world are women? According to a recent report, it’s 7%.”
Frémaux believes the problem takes root at an earlier stage: “What you see in Cannes is a consequence, not the cause. More needs to...
- 5/10/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Tanna is based on a true story about a girl who runs away from an arranged marriage.
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Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
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Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
- 5/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Tanna is based on a true story about a girl who runs away from an arranged marriage.
.
Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
.
Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
- 5/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Jennifer Peedom.
The Australian Directors Guild awards will be handed out in Melbourne next Friday, and Adg executive director Kingston Anderson is feeling bullish about the work under the spotlight.
"If you look at the nominations this year, you'll notice in some categories there are five nominations", Anderson said.
"That's unusual, and that's because a lot of the judging panels said the quality of the entries was so high. They noted that over the last three years they've seen the quality go up, across television and short film particularly."
Anderson calls the trend "really exciting, and gratifying. It's clear that we're producing good people, and we're continuing to produce good people."
He sees the Adg's annual awards, presented across eighteen categories, as vital..
"You've got the opportunity to see the best of the best in directing, in anything from short films through to feature films to online content to documentary to animation.
The Australian Directors Guild awards will be handed out in Melbourne next Friday, and Adg executive director Kingston Anderson is feeling bullish about the work under the spotlight.
"If you look at the nominations this year, you'll notice in some categories there are five nominations", Anderson said.
"That's unusual, and that's because a lot of the judging panels said the quality of the entries was so high. They noted that over the last three years they've seen the quality go up, across television and short film particularly."
Anderson calls the trend "really exciting, and gratifying. It's clear that we're producing good people, and we're continuing to produce good people."
He sees the Adg's annual awards, presented across eighteen categories, as vital..
"You've got the opportunity to see the best of the best in directing, in anything from short films through to feature films to online content to documentary to animation.
- 4/28/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Looking for Grace.
Director Sue Brooks has won this year's Australian Directors Guild Finders Award for her film Looking for Grace..
The Finders Award is a partnership between the Adg and the Directors Guild of America, where an Australian film yet to secure Us distribution is selected to screen in Los Angeles and New York to key industry figures, including distributors..
Last year.s winner Craig Monahan will present Brooks with her award..
Looking for Grace was released in January 2016 by Palace Films and starred Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh and Odessa Young.
Adg chief executive, Kingston Anderson, said the collaboration between the DGA and the Adg recognised the singular vision of independent film directors and promoted it to the wider film industry..
"The Adg has great pleasure in awarding the Finders Award to Sue Brooks for her outstanding work on Looking for Grace," he said..
"We know the screenings of...
Director Sue Brooks has won this year's Australian Directors Guild Finders Award for her film Looking for Grace..
The Finders Award is a partnership between the Adg and the Directors Guild of America, where an Australian film yet to secure Us distribution is selected to screen in Los Angeles and New York to key industry figures, including distributors..
Last year.s winner Craig Monahan will present Brooks with her award..
Looking for Grace was released in January 2016 by Palace Films and starred Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh and Odessa Young.
Adg chief executive, Kingston Anderson, said the collaboration between the DGA and the Adg recognised the singular vision of independent film directors and promoted it to the wider film industry..
"The Adg has great pleasure in awarding the Finders Award to Sue Brooks for her outstanding work on Looking for Grace," he said..
"We know the screenings of...
- 4/26/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Adg awards nominee Jennifer Peedom.
More than a third of nominees for this year's Australian Directors Guild awards are women.
Two of the four nominees in the Best Direction in a Feature Film category are women and all five films in the Best Documentary Feature category were directed or co-directed by female filmmakers, the Adg said in a statement..
The 2016 awards will be presented across sixteen categories including film, television, animation, multiplatform, music and advertising..
The nominees for Best Direction in a Feature Film are Sue Brooks for Looking for Grace, Jocelyn Moorhouse for The Dressmaker, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler for Tanna and Jeremy Sims for Last Cab to Darwin.
This year there are five nominations for Best Feature Documentary: Nick Bird and Eleanor Sharpe for Remembering The Man, Jennifer Peedom for Sherpa, Margot Nash for The Silences, Stefan Moore and Susan Lambert for Tyke Elephant Outlaw and Lisa Nicol for Wide Open Sky.
More than a third of nominees for this year's Australian Directors Guild awards are women.
Two of the four nominees in the Best Direction in a Feature Film category are women and all five films in the Best Documentary Feature category were directed or co-directed by female filmmakers, the Adg said in a statement..
The 2016 awards will be presented across sixteen categories including film, television, animation, multiplatform, music and advertising..
The nominees for Best Direction in a Feature Film are Sue Brooks for Looking for Grace, Jocelyn Moorhouse for The Dressmaker, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler for Tanna and Jeremy Sims for Last Cab to Darwin.
This year there are five nominations for Best Feature Documentary: Nick Bird and Eleanor Sharpe for Remembering The Man, Jennifer Peedom for Sherpa, Margot Nash for The Silences, Stefan Moore and Susan Lambert for Tyke Elephant Outlaw and Lisa Nicol for Wide Open Sky.
- 4/12/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Stephen Chow's The Mermaid.
Deadpool continues to trounce the competition, ringing up $7.8 million over the weekend to bring its cumulative total to just over $27 million..
By comparison, the weekend's runner-up - Warner Bros' comedy How To Be Single, starring Rebel Wilson - brought in $2.7 million, opening on 229 screens in its first week.
Also debuting was Ride Along 2, starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, pulling in $1.2 million on 194 screens.
Next best was the much-derided Zoolander 2, which dropped fifty-eight percent in its second week to ring up over $1.1 million over the weekend, bringing its cume close to $5.7 million.
Transmission's Brooklyn dropped only twenty percent in week two, tallying up $836,966 over the weekend, and now sitting at near $2.8 million overall.
The highest-debuting film after How to Be Single and Ride Along 2 was another comedy, The Mermaid, a Chinese film directed by Kung Fu Hustle's Stephen Chow about a...
Deadpool continues to trounce the competition, ringing up $7.8 million over the weekend to bring its cumulative total to just over $27 million..
By comparison, the weekend's runner-up - Warner Bros' comedy How To Be Single, starring Rebel Wilson - brought in $2.7 million, opening on 229 screens in its first week.
Also debuting was Ride Along 2, starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, pulling in $1.2 million on 194 screens.
Next best was the much-derided Zoolander 2, which dropped fifty-eight percent in its second week to ring up over $1.1 million over the weekend, bringing its cume close to $5.7 million.
Transmission's Brooklyn dropped only twenty percent in week two, tallying up $836,966 over the weekend, and now sitting at near $2.8 million overall.
The highest-debuting film after How to Be Single and Ride Along 2 was another comedy, The Mermaid, a Chinese film directed by Kung Fu Hustle's Stephen Chow about a...
- 2/21/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Deadpool.
Ryan Reynolds' wisecracking hero Deadpool opened on 262 screens and made $14.8 million over the weekend, in keeping with the superhero comedy's boffo opening in the United States.
Aided by a marketing campaign that managed to be arrestingly vulgar but not (quite) obnoxious, Deadpool beat its nearest competition by a country mile.
The closest runner-up was Zoolander 2, which opened on 272 screens and rang up $3.9 million in its first week off the back of scathing reviews.
Brooklyn, starring Saoirse Ronan, was next best, ringing up $1.4 million, and makes an intriguing contrast to Transmission's other New York-set period romance, Carol..
That film was set to be directed by John Crowley (who directed Cate Blanchett onstage in The Present at the Sydney Theatre Company this year) before he left and Todd Haynes stepped in..
Crowley ended up directing Brooklyn instead, and the less-starry film has earnt about the same in a week as Carol made in two.
Ryan Reynolds' wisecracking hero Deadpool opened on 262 screens and made $14.8 million over the weekend, in keeping with the superhero comedy's boffo opening in the United States.
Aided by a marketing campaign that managed to be arrestingly vulgar but not (quite) obnoxious, Deadpool beat its nearest competition by a country mile.
The closest runner-up was Zoolander 2, which opened on 272 screens and rang up $3.9 million in its first week off the back of scathing reviews.
Brooklyn, starring Saoirse Ronan, was next best, ringing up $1.4 million, and makes an intriguing contrast to Transmission's other New York-set period romance, Carol..
That film was set to be directed by John Crowley (who directed Cate Blanchett onstage in The Present at the Sydney Theatre Company this year) before he left and Todd Haynes stepped in..
Crowley ended up directing Brooklyn instead, and the less-starry film has earnt about the same in a week as Carol made in two.
- 2/15/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Spotlight. . Zac Efron and Robert De Niro exercised their collective muscle over the weekend to bring in $1.5 million, again making Dirty Grandpa number one at the local box office with $4.6 million after two weeks. . The Revenant placed second, dropping thirty-three percent to pull in close to $1.1 million, bringing its cume to $17.5 million after five weeks. . Spotlight came in third on 132 screens, dropping only fifteen percent in its second week. Tom McCarthy's film made around $758,000 over the weekend to bring its total to just over $2 million.. . Star Wars has now made $91.7 million after eight weeks, while Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight has made close to $6.9 million after three.. . The biggest debuting film was The Choice, the latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks weepie, this time co-starring Australia's Teresa Palmer.. . The Choice opened on 205 screens and rang up $596,951 over the weekend, with a per-cinema average of $2,912. . It beat the much-buzzed The Big Short,...
- 2/7/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Radha Mitchell and Odessa Young in Looking for Grace.
Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace has pulled in $276,821 in its first week.
After opening on 32 screens, the Richard Roxburgh-starrer made a weekend gross of $99,487.
The other Australian film at the box office remains The Dressmaker, going strong after fourteen weeks.
On 53 screens, Jocelyn Moorhouse's film dropped forty-eight percent for a weekend gross of $54,762, bringing its cume to $19,964,235.
The highest opener was Dirty Grandpa, starring Zac Efron and Robert De Niro, which took out the number one spot.
The comedy opened on 227 screens and rang up over $2.4 million in its first week..
The awards-touted Tom McCarthy drama Spotlight, about the Boston Globe's investigation of systemic abuse within the Catholic Church, opened strong, with an overall tally of $983,339 from 107 screens.
The Revenant continued its strong local run, dropping thirty-one percent for a weekend gross of $1.6 million. The revenge epic is...
Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace has pulled in $276,821 in its first week.
After opening on 32 screens, the Richard Roxburgh-starrer made a weekend gross of $99,487.
The other Australian film at the box office remains The Dressmaker, going strong after fourteen weeks.
On 53 screens, Jocelyn Moorhouse's film dropped forty-eight percent for a weekend gross of $54,762, bringing its cume to $19,964,235.
The highest opener was Dirty Grandpa, starring Zac Efron and Robert De Niro, which took out the number one spot.
The comedy opened on 227 screens and rang up over $2.4 million in its first week..
The awards-touted Tom McCarthy drama Spotlight, about the Boston Globe's investigation of systemic abuse within the Catholic Church, opened strong, with an overall tally of $983,339 from 107 screens.
The Revenant continued its strong local run, dropping thirty-one percent for a weekend gross of $1.6 million. The revenge epic is...
- 1/31/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Although boasting strong performances, the fling-us-here and fling-us-there structure of Sue Brooks’s family drama feels gimmicky and lacks a certain grace
Related: Looking for Grace director Sue Brooks on gender diversity in Australian film: 'They just don't get it'
In her 2003 tear-jerker Japanese Story, Australian director Sue Brooks uses sudden unexpected tragedy to transition from a pleasant cross-culture romance to an emotionally gut-punching drama. Its tale of a foreigner’s dalliance with a local in the Pilbara desert plays like a high-art equivalent of Dumb Ways to Die, but the film generated considerable acclaim and attention regardless.
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Related: Looking for Grace director Sue Brooks on gender diversity in Australian film: 'They just don't get it'
In her 2003 tear-jerker Japanese Story, Australian director Sue Brooks uses sudden unexpected tragedy to transition from a pleasant cross-culture romance to an emotionally gut-punching drama. Its tale of a foreigner’s dalliance with a local in the Pilbara desert plays like a high-art equivalent of Dumb Ways to Die, but the film generated considerable acclaim and attention regardless.
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- 1/25/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Looking For Grace was led by an entirely female creative team but women account for only 15% of directors in Australia. ‘I think we are losing out, as audiences, on a subtlety in communication,’ Brooks says
When the lights went up at the Venice film festival, the cheering began.
“This spotlight comes on and everybody just stood up and turned around [towards us] and started clapping,” says cinematographer Katie Milwright. It was the first time Looking For Grace had ever been shown. Director Sue Brooks says: “We were beside ourselves.”
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When the lights went up at the Venice film festival, the cheering began.
“This spotlight comes on and everybody just stood up and turned around [towards us] and started clapping,” says cinematographer Katie Milwright. It was the first time Looking For Grace had ever been shown. Director Sue Brooks says: “We were beside ourselves.”
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- 1/22/2016
- by Susan Chenery
- The Guardian - Film News
Friday night saw the Australian premiere of Looking for Grace at the St.George OpenAir Cinema.
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Kenya Pearson and Harry Richardson joined director Sue Brooks on the red carpet.
The cast were joined at the opening-night party by Simon Baker, Rebecca Rigg, Miranda Tapsell, Matt Day, April Rose Pengilly, Brenna Harding, Henry Nixon, Raechelle Banno, Alex Cubis, Tessa de Josselin, and Sean Keenan..
St.George OpenAir
Radha Mitchell, Sue Brooks, Harry Richardson, Odessa Young, Richard Roxburgh, Kenya Pearson.
Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Kenya Pearson
Harry Richardson and Odessa Young...
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Kenya Pearson and Harry Richardson joined director Sue Brooks on the red carpet.
The cast were joined at the opening-night party by Simon Baker, Rebecca Rigg, Miranda Tapsell, Matt Day, April Rose Pengilly, Brenna Harding, Henry Nixon, Raechelle Banno, Alex Cubis, Tessa de Josselin, and Sean Keenan..
St.George OpenAir
Radha Mitchell, Sue Brooks, Harry Richardson, Odessa Young, Richard Roxburgh, Kenya Pearson.
Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Kenya Pearson
Harry Richardson and Odessa Young...
- 1/12/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Sue Brooks.
Looking for Grace, the new Sue Brooks film opening on Australia Day, is the story of a young girl written and directed by a woman..
The film's score was composed by a woman. It's produced by women; the film's cinematographer, casting agent and costume designer were women. You get the idea.
Asked about the steps being taken by Screen Australia and others to guarantee gender equality behind the camera, Brooks is cautious but optimistic.
"I think it's great that people are talking about it. It's a complex set of questions. I've been aware of gender issues for a long time. I suppose most women are.".
"When you're trying to get your film financed, you just battle away like anybody. You don't think about doing it because you're a woman. But then afterwards you look back at the statistics and get really conscious of the fact that you're up against the odds,...
Looking for Grace, the new Sue Brooks film opening on Australia Day, is the story of a young girl written and directed by a woman..
The film's score was composed by a woman. It's produced by women; the film's cinematographer, casting agent and costume designer were women. You get the idea.
Asked about the steps being taken by Screen Australia and others to guarantee gender equality behind the camera, Brooks is cautious but optimistic.
"I think it's great that people are talking about it. It's a complex set of questions. I've been aware of gender issues for a long time. I suppose most women are.".
"When you're trying to get your film financed, you just battle away like anybody. You don't think about doing it because you're a woman. But then afterwards you look back at the statistics and get really conscious of the fact that you're up against the odds,...
- 1/12/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Richard Roxburgh in Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace
Richard Roxburgh is gearing up for a busy year..
There's his starring role in the new Australian feature film Looking for Grace, directed by Sue Brooks (Japanese Story), opening on January 26, as well as a new season of Rake airing in February..
If things pan out, there's also Babyteeth, Roxburgh's next film as a director - the actor's first foray behind the lens since 2007's Romulus, My Father.
Roxburgh describes Looking for Grace, the fragmented story of parents (Roxburgh and Radha Mitchell) trying to track down their runaway daughter (Odessa Young), as one of "these little independent films [that] are such an important part of the whole diagram of our industry".
Roxburgh's also coming off a film that's at the other end of the local filmmaking spectrum (and one that has provoked grumbling in some quarters) - Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge.
Richard Roxburgh is gearing up for a busy year..
There's his starring role in the new Australian feature film Looking for Grace, directed by Sue Brooks (Japanese Story), opening on January 26, as well as a new season of Rake airing in February..
If things pan out, there's also Babyteeth, Roxburgh's next film as a director - the actor's first foray behind the lens since 2007's Romulus, My Father.
Roxburgh describes Looking for Grace, the fragmented story of parents (Roxburgh and Radha Mitchell) trying to track down their runaway daughter (Odessa Young), as one of "these little independent films [that] are such an important part of the whole diagram of our industry".
Roxburgh's also coming off a film that's at the other end of the local filmmaking spectrum (and one that has provoked grumbling in some quarters) - Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge.
- 1/11/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Radha Mitchell and Odessa Young in Looking for Grace
The Independent Cinemas Association of Australia has launched 'My Cinema Select', which aims to increase audience access to limited release Australian and independent films in regional areas.
Palace's Looking for Grace and Transmission's Brooklyn will be the first two films to participate in the program..
.Lower marketing budgets and limited release patterns often restrict regional audience access to quality features until well after they are available in metropolitan areas - if they are released in regional cinemas at all", Icaa CEO Adrianne Pecotic said. "My Cinema Select will enable a series of preview screenings giving audiences the opportunity to see these films at or before release, and give our industry the ability to both promote and assess the appetite for a wider release of more diverse films and documentaries to discerning audiences throughout Australia..
My Cinema Select will build on the...
The Independent Cinemas Association of Australia has launched 'My Cinema Select', which aims to increase audience access to limited release Australian and independent films in regional areas.
Palace's Looking for Grace and Transmission's Brooklyn will be the first two films to participate in the program..
.Lower marketing budgets and limited release patterns often restrict regional audience access to quality features until well after they are available in metropolitan areas - if they are released in regional cinemas at all", Icaa CEO Adrianne Pecotic said. "My Cinema Select will enable a series of preview screenings giving audiences the opportunity to see these films at or before release, and give our industry the ability to both promote and assess the appetite for a wider release of more diverse films and documentaries to discerning audiences throughout Australia..
My Cinema Select will build on the...
- 1/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Australian actor Radha Mitchell will walk the red carpet at the Melbourne premiere of Sue Brooks. new film Looking For Grace at the Astor Theatre on November 24.
La-based Mitchell (The Waiting City, High Art, Finding Neverland) will be joined by Brooks (Japanese Story) in her home city, along with fellow cast members Odessa Young, Terry Norris and Julia Blake when the film is screened to Melbourne audiences for the first time.
In the film, Mitchell stars as Denise, the mother of eponymous Grace (Young) and wife of Dan (Richard Roxburgh), whose quiet suburban lives are thrown into turmoil when their daughter absconds with a large amount of money from their family safe.
It was only Australian film of the year to be selected In Competition for both Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, where it had its World and North American Premieres in September.
The film had its Australian premiere...
La-based Mitchell (The Waiting City, High Art, Finding Neverland) will be joined by Brooks (Japanese Story) in her home city, along with fellow cast members Odessa Young, Terry Norris and Julia Blake when the film is screened to Melbourne audiences for the first time.
In the film, Mitchell stars as Denise, the mother of eponymous Grace (Young) and wife of Dan (Richard Roxburgh), whose quiet suburban lives are thrown into turmoil when their daughter absconds with a large amount of money from their family safe.
It was only Australian film of the year to be selected In Competition for both Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, where it had its World and North American Premieres in September.
The film had its Australian premiere...
- 11/5/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The Adelaide Film Festival has announced its competition line-up for 2015.
Four directorial debuts are among the Adelaide Film Festival’s (Oct 15-25) 10 competition titles: Visar Morina’s Father, a refugee story that opens in 1990s Kosovo and closes in Germany; Danish director Daniel Dencik’s historical drama Gold Coast, set in Africa; Lamb, set in director Yared Zaleke’s homeland of Ethiopia; and South Korean thriller Office from Hong Won-Chan.
The two Australian films in the mix are Sue Brooks’ Looking For Grace, starring Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell and rising star Odessa Young, and a love story complicated by tribal tradition that was filmed in Vanuatu and sees documentary collaborators Bentley Dean and Martin Butler cross over into narrative drama.
Carol, Todd Haynes’ story of lady love set in Manhattan in the 1950s, also has a strong Australian connection given that the homegrown Cate Blanchett plays a wealthy socialite whose life becomes entangled with that of a shop...
Four directorial debuts are among the Adelaide Film Festival’s (Oct 15-25) 10 competition titles: Visar Morina’s Father, a refugee story that opens in 1990s Kosovo and closes in Germany; Danish director Daniel Dencik’s historical drama Gold Coast, set in Africa; Lamb, set in director Yared Zaleke’s homeland of Ethiopia; and South Korean thriller Office from Hong Won-Chan.
The two Australian films in the mix are Sue Brooks’ Looking For Grace, starring Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell and rising star Odessa Young, and a love story complicated by tribal tradition that was filmed in Vanuatu and sees documentary collaborators Bentley Dean and Martin Butler cross over into narrative drama.
Carol, Todd Haynes’ story of lady love set in Manhattan in the 1950s, also has a strong Australian connection given that the homegrown Cate Blanchett plays a wealthy socialite whose life becomes entangled with that of a shop...
- 9/9/2015
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
The Australian premiere of Cate Blanchett's Carol is set to headline this year's Adelaide Film Festival.
One-hundred and eighty films will screen at the Festival - including over 40 Australian films, and 24 South Australian films - with 51 countries represented at the Festival.
Some of films' biggest names, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Michael Keaton, Richard Roxburgh, Anthony Lapaglia and Rachel McAdams.
In its eleventh year, the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival will provide the best of local, Australian and internationally produced films, with an eclectic mix of cinema, television, art and the moving image . plus the one night only reunion of Festival ambassadors Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, as they host the Ultimate Quiz night.
The Festival will feature new work from Australian directors including Scott Hicks, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Matt Saville, Sue Brooks, Stephen Page, Matthew Bate, Meryl Tankard and Rosemary Myers.
It will also include work from international filmmakers Todd Haynes,...
One-hundred and eighty films will screen at the Festival - including over 40 Australian films, and 24 South Australian films - with 51 countries represented at the Festival.
Some of films' biggest names, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Michael Keaton, Richard Roxburgh, Anthony Lapaglia and Rachel McAdams.
In its eleventh year, the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival will provide the best of local, Australian and internationally produced films, with an eclectic mix of cinema, television, art and the moving image . plus the one night only reunion of Festival ambassadors Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, as they host the Ultimate Quiz night.
The Festival will feature new work from Australian directors including Scott Hicks, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Matt Saville, Sue Brooks, Stephen Page, Matthew Bate, Meryl Tankard and Rosemary Myers.
It will also include work from international filmmakers Todd Haynes,...
- 9/8/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Reveals First Slate of Titles: New Ridley Scott and Cary Fukunaga Films Top List, 'Demolition' to Open Eva Husson ("Bang Gang")Why You May Know Her: The Sorbonne and AFI educated Husson has two shorts under her belt, including "Hope to Die," which had a big festival run in 2004 (it debuted at Tribeca), and 2014's "Those for Whom It's Always Complicated," a funny and sexy road trip-centric feature. What She's Bringing to Toronto: Husson's feature directorial debut "Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)" will premiere in the festival's Platforms section, and it's already building big buzz for its reportedly frank look at teenage sexuality. It's already topped our 7 Hidden Gems from the 2015 Toronto Film Festival list, and it's poised to make big waves when it premieres during a prime spot in the festival's first weekend. Sue Brooks ("Looking for Grace")Why You May Know.
- 9/8/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Australian writer-director Sue Brooks, whose latest feature Looking For Grace has premiered at the Venice Film Festival, has revealed details of her upcoming projects.
Brooks has two new features in development. One is an adaptation of Alex Miller’s novel, Lovesong. This is the story of a relationship and marriage between a young Australian man and a Tunisian woman.
It is scripted and produced by Alison Tilson (Looking For Grace). Brooks said: “It’s a love story but it is also about place and migration…it is about being displaced.”
The project is currently being financed and cast.
Brooks is also plotting a comedy-musical, Not Quite Waiting In The Wings. Also scripted by Tilson, it is described by Brooks as a story “about the folly of human endeavour.”
It centres on an amateur troupe’s courageous but faltering attempt to mount a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.
Looking For Grace stars Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh and upcoming...
Brooks has two new features in development. One is an adaptation of Alex Miller’s novel, Lovesong. This is the story of a relationship and marriage between a young Australian man and a Tunisian woman.
It is scripted and produced by Alison Tilson (Looking For Grace). Brooks said: “It’s a love story but it is also about place and migration…it is about being displaced.”
The project is currently being financed and cast.
Brooks is also plotting a comedy-musical, Not Quite Waiting In The Wings. Also scripted by Tilson, it is described by Brooks as a story “about the folly of human endeavour.”
It centres on an amateur troupe’s courageous but faltering attempt to mount a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.
Looking For Grace stars Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh and upcoming...
- 9/7/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
As we approach the halfway point in this year's Venice Film Festival, it's time to index the entries on the films for which we've gathered reviews, trailer and so on so far. And these include the Competition contenders—Sue Brooks's Looking for Grace, Drake Doremus's Equals, Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation, Xavier Giannoli's Marguerite, Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl and Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's Anomalisa—as well as a few big titles screening out of competition: Scott Cooper's Black Mass, Baltasar Kormákur's Everest and Tom McCarthy's Spotlight. The index will expand throughout the festival. » - David Hudson...
- 9/6/2015
- Keyframe
As we approach the halfway point in this year's Venice Film Festival, it's time to index the entries on the films for which we've gathered reviews, trailer and so on so far. And these include the Competition contenders—Sue Brooks's Looking for Grace, Drake Doremus's Equals, Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation, Xavier Giannoli's Marguerite, Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl and Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's Anomalisa—as well as a few big titles screening out of competition: Scott Cooper's Black Mass, Baltasar Kormákur's Everest and Tom McCarthy's Spotlight. The index will expand throughout the festival. » - David Hudson...
- 9/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Odessa Young and Richard Roxburgh in Looking For Grace - 'For once the fractured narrative approach really does work.' The scarcity of Us indies at this year’s Venice Film Festival throws an interesting light on two Australian entries – Sue Brooks’ Official Competition film Looking For Grace and Simon Stone’s The Daughter, which is screening in Venice Days. With just a few tweaks, both could easily become Sundance competition entries, dealing with family skeletons in the suburbs and the sticks respectively. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, but Brooks’ film is perhaps the most satisfying, an elliptical road movie that begins with the title character (Odessa Young) taking a trip across country with her best friend Sappho (Kenya Pearson).
Where Grace is going is initially withheld, instead we see a teenage love affair unfold as she meets a mysterious stranger who seduces her and drives a wedge between the two friends.
Where Grace is going is initially withheld, instead we see a teenage love affair unfold as she meets a mysterious stranger who seduces her and drives a wedge between the two friends.
- 9/6/2015
- by Damon Wise
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Following up on her 1997 comedy Road to Nhill and her 2003 drama Japanese Story, Sue Brooks's Looking for Grace, starring Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Terry Norris, Harry Richardson and Kenya Pearson, has premiered in Venice and now heads to Toronto. In the Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney finds that it "opens strongly, full of poignancy and promise, training its intimate gaze on the teenager of the title, who has run away from her family home to cross the sprawling flat wheat belt of inland Western Australia. But when the focus widens to consider the perspective of other messy lives affected by Grace's flight, the tone lurches into awkwardness, undercutting the emotional impact." We're collecting more reviews and we've got a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 9/5/2015
- Keyframe
Following up on her 1997 comedy Road to Nhill and her 2003 drama Japanese Story, Sue Brooks's Looking for Grace, starring Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Terry Norris, Harry Richardson and Kenya Pearson, has premiered in Venice and now heads to Toronto. In the Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney finds that it "opens strongly, full of poignancy and promise, training its intimate gaze on the teenager of the title, who has run away from her family home to cross the sprawling flat wheat belt of inland Western Australia. But when the focus widens to consider the perspective of other messy lives affected by Grace's flight, the tone lurches into awkwardness, undercutting the emotional impact." We're collecting more reviews and we've got a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 9/5/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
★★★☆☆ Cut-up family tragicomedy Looking for Grace (2015) is Sue Brooks' fifth feature film and premièred in competition at the Venice Film Festival today. Odessa Young plays Grace, a young girl who for motives unknown has decided to go walkabout with her friends Sapph (Kenya Pearson). Travelling across West Australia on a bus, they meet up with a young chap Jamie (Harry Richardson), who takes a shine to Grace, much to the chagrin of Sapph who decides to head back home. Things don't quite work out the way Grace was hoping and she is left without money in the outback, but just when things look to be heading a familiarly depressing route, mum and dad turn up in the family car.
This anticlimax is only the beginning as the film divides up achronologically into distinct chapters which each follow a separate character, often revisiting scenes from new perspectives. Such narrative play feels a bit thin,...
This anticlimax is only the beginning as the film divides up achronologically into distinct chapters which each follow a separate character, often revisiting scenes from new perspectives. Such narrative play feels a bit thin,...
- 9/5/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Sue Brooks is most famous for Japanese Story, which plonked Toni Colette in the harsh landscape of the Australian outback. In Looking for Grace the opening titles play out to scenes of bucolic loveliness, the colours and textures like the brushstrokes of a landscape artist thanks to the work of cinematographer Katie Milwright. The landscape
The post Venice 2015: ‘Looking for Grace’ Review – ‘A tender and bittersweet drama appeared first on HeyUGuys.
The post Venice 2015: ‘Looking for Grace’ Review – ‘A tender and bittersweet drama appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 9/4/2015
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The things that happen to us do not always belong to us. Sometimes they are parts of someone else's story — our heartbreaks, our illnesses, our sudden, dumb-luck accidental deaths all might actually be the property of other people, at least partially. It's an esoteric point, perhaps, on which to build a career, but director Sue Brooks appears preternaturally interested in this notion. It turned out to be pivotal to her 2003 film, the simple but resonant "Japanese Story," in which, following the death of her unacknowledged married lover, Toni Collette rails "But I was there too! It happened to me too." And it also informs the more sprawling, looser structure of her latest "Looking For Grace," writ large by the division of the film into chapters, headed "Denise's Story," "Dan's Story" and so on. Which event, over the course of several days and nights, to "file" under whose story, since they are all closely interconnected and.
- 9/3/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Films set to show at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), updated as announcements are made in the run up to the event.
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
- 8/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
Matthew Saville.s A Month of Sundays and Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin will screen in the Contemporary World Cinema program at next month.s Toronto International Film Festival.
It will be the world premiere for Saville.s comedy-drama which stars Anthony Lapaglia as real estate agent Frank Mollard, who is divorced but still attached, can't connect with his teenage son or sell houses in a property boom. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother, who died a year ago. John Clarke, Justine Clarke and Julia Blake round out the cast.
Produced by Madman.s Nick Batzias, Saville and Kirsty Stark, the film deals with parents, children, regrets, mourning, joy, houses, homes, love, work, television, Shakespeare and jazz fusion. Madman has yet to set a release date.
The Toronto launch steals a march on the Adelaide Film Festival (October 15-25), which had announced A Month of Sundays as a world premiere.
It will be the world premiere for Saville.s comedy-drama which stars Anthony Lapaglia as real estate agent Frank Mollard, who is divorced but still attached, can't connect with his teenage son or sell houses in a property boom. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother, who died a year ago. John Clarke, Justine Clarke and Julia Blake round out the cast.
Produced by Madman.s Nick Batzias, Saville and Kirsty Stark, the film deals with parents, children, regrets, mourning, joy, houses, homes, love, work, television, Shakespeare and jazz fusion. Madman has yet to set a release date.
The Toronto launch steals a march on the Adelaide Film Festival (October 15-25), which had announced A Month of Sundays as a world premiere.
- 8/18/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Sue Brooks. Looking for Grace will screen in Platform, a new competitive section of the Toronto International Film Festival which showcases films that have a strong directorial vision. The road movie starring Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young and Terry Norris is the only Australian title in the running for the $C25,000 prize determined by the jury of filmmakers Jia Zhang-ke, Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland. That strengthens Australia.s profile at the event which runs September 10-20. Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in Gala Presentations,. Simon Stone.s The Daughter will have its North American premiere in Special Presentations and Jennifer Peedom.s Sherpa and Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed will compete in Tiff Docs.
Young, who also stars in The Daughter, plays 16-year-old Grace, who has run away from home. Her exasperated parents head to the West Australian wheat belt...
Young, who also stars in The Daughter, plays 16-year-old Grace, who has run away from home. Her exasperated parents head to the West Australian wheat belt...
- 8/13/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Tiff folks have unveiled their slated dozen features for their spanking brand new competitive section and they’ve managed to lasso some high profile world preems that will compete alongside Int. and Na premieres. Claire Denis, Agnieszka Holland and Jia Zhang-ke for which the name of the programme section is named after (Tiff referenced his 2000 film), will see a class comprised of the likes Joachim Lafosse and his piping hot The White Knights, David Verbeek (Full Contact starring Grégoire Colin – see pic above), Fabienne Berthaud and yet again actress Diane Kruger with Sky and Ben Wheatley‘s highly anticipated High Rise. Also included in the comp we find Pablo Trapero‘s Venice-bound The Clan, Eva Husson‘s hotly tipped directorial debut Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) and a docu entry that sounds absolutely brutal true story from Alan Zweig in Hurt. The winner will be announced on...
- 8/13/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Toronto International Film Festival has, through its run, divided the films into numerous programmes to better identify and group together like-minded features. One of the new additions to the programme in 2015 will be the Platform selection, which will showcase films with a strong directorial vision. What is unique about this programme is that the selected films, twelve in total, will be judged by a three-person jury during the event, with the top film taking home a $25,000 prize. The first ever group of judges at the 2015 event will be comprised of filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke, whose 2000 film Platform was cited as the inspiration for the programme, alongside filmmakers Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland. The lineup for the Platform was announced today, and can be seen below, alongside their official synopses.
Bang Gang, directed by Eva Husson, making its World Premiere
Biarritz. Sixteen-year-old George, a beautiful high-school student, falls in love with Alex.
Bang Gang, directed by Eva Husson, making its World Premiere
Biarritz. Sixteen-year-old George, a beautiful high-school student, falls in love with Alex.
- 8/13/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Twelve titles also include films by Pablo Trapero, Joaquim Lafosse, He Ping and Fabienne Berthaud.Scroll down for full list
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) has unveiled the 12 titles that will comprise the inaugural line-up for Platform - the new juried programme that champions director-led cinema from around the world.
The competitive strand includes the world premiere of Ben Wheatley’s highly-anticipated High-Rise, a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment. The adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.
Also receiving its world premiere is Fabienne Berthaud’s Sky, a France-Germany co-production that star Diane Kruger, The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus and Girls star Lena Dunham.
Kruger plays Romy, a married woman on holiday in the Us who storms out on her French husband (Gilles Lellouche) after an argument and wanders into the desert outside of Las...
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) has unveiled the 12 titles that will comprise the inaugural line-up for Platform - the new juried programme that champions director-led cinema from around the world.
The competitive strand includes the world premiere of Ben Wheatley’s highly-anticipated High-Rise, a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment. The adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.
Also receiving its world premiere is Fabienne Berthaud’s Sky, a France-Germany co-production that star Diane Kruger, The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus and Girls star Lena Dunham.
Kruger plays Romy, a married woman on holiday in the Us who storms out on her French husband (Gilles Lellouche) after an argument and wanders into the desert outside of Las...
- 8/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Fred Schepisi is attached to direct Andorra, an adaptation of American author Peter Cameron.s thriller/dark comic novel.
The protagonist is Alexander Fox, a 40-year-old Yank who ends up in the tiny nation of Andorra where he befriends an Australian couple who had moved there. Complications arise when Fox falls in love with the wife and a dead body is found floating in the harbour.
Jamie Bialkower.s Melbourne-based Jump Street Films optioned the novel in 2013 and he subsequently teamed up with Lizzette Atkins. Unicorn Films, who produced Sue Brooks. Looking for Grace. He wrote the screenplay with Cameron.
James Ivory and Natalie Miller are the executive producers. Miller.s Sharmill Films and Jump Street Films will distribute in Australia.
Bialkower tells If that filming is due to start in Europe in the first half of next year, probably in either Italy or the Czech Republic. He plans to partner with a European producer,...
The protagonist is Alexander Fox, a 40-year-old Yank who ends up in the tiny nation of Andorra where he befriends an Australian couple who had moved there. Complications arise when Fox falls in love with the wife and a dead body is found floating in the harbour.
Jamie Bialkower.s Melbourne-based Jump Street Films optioned the novel in 2013 and he subsequently teamed up with Lizzette Atkins. Unicorn Films, who produced Sue Brooks. Looking for Grace. He wrote the screenplay with Cameron.
James Ivory and Natalie Miller are the executive producers. Miller.s Sharmill Films and Jump Street Films will distribute in Australia.
Bialkower tells If that filming is due to start in Europe in the first half of next year, probably in either Italy or the Czech Republic. He plans to partner with a European producer,...
- 8/13/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The full lineup for the Venice Film Festival has been revealed, and includes new films by Martin Scorsese, Jerzy Skolimowsky, Frederick Wiseman, Marco Bellocchio, Tsai Ming-liang, Aleksandro Sokurov and more.CompetitionFrenzy (Emin Alper, Turkey/France/Qatar)Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson, Us)Blood of My Blood (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)Looking for Grace (Sue Brooks, Australia)Equals (Drake Doremus, Us)Remember (Atom Egoyan, Canada/Germany)Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga, Us)Per amor vostro (Giuseppe M. Gaudino, Italy/France)Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli, France/Czech Republic/Belgium)Rabin, the Last Day (Amos Gitai, Israel/France)A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, Italy/France)The Endless River (Oliver Hermanus, South Africa/France)The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, UK/Us)Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman/Duke Johnson, Us)L'attesa (Piero Mesina, Italy)11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov, France/Germany/Netherlands)The Clan (Pablo Trapero, Argentina/Spain)Desde alla (Lorenza Vigas, Venezuela/Mexico)L'hermine (Christian Vincent,...
- 8/1/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
With the exception of Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation and Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, the nineteen other films in Venice Film Festival’s contention for the Golden Lion won’t be mentioned during awards season, but who cares when you have the likes of Aleksander Sokurov, Luca Guadagnino and Marco Bellocchio in the line-up. Not unlike previous years, the 2015 edition has a good numbers of films from Italy and the U.S., with several France co-productions littered throughout and the addition of fresh faces with first time works from composer Piero Messina and artist/musician Laurie Anderson.
While non comp offerings in the shape of Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight are sure to receive a fair amount of trade news attention it’s the docus that are especially rich this year: Frederick Wiseman is joined by Sergei Loznitsa makes back to...
While non comp offerings in the shape of Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight are sure to receive a fair amount of trade news attention it’s the docus that are especially rich this year: Frederick Wiseman is joined by Sergei Loznitsa makes back to...
- 7/29/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Writer-director Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace will be the first film by a female Australian director to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival since Clara Law's The Goddess Of 1967 in 2000.
Australia will have an unprecedented profile at the festival with Michael Rowe.s Early Winter and Simon Stone.s The Daughter selected for the Venice Days sidebar and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler.s Tanna screening in Venice Critics. Week.
This is the first time Australian films will be represented in all three Venice categories. That adds to the prestige of The Daughter having its North American premiere in the Special Presentations section of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival, where Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in the Gala Presentations section.
Wayne Blair's Us thriler Septembers Of Shiraz, which stars Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody and Shohreh Aghdashloo, will also screen in Gala Presentations.
Australia will have an unprecedented profile at the festival with Michael Rowe.s Early Winter and Simon Stone.s The Daughter selected for the Venice Days sidebar and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler.s Tanna screening in Venice Critics. Week.
This is the first time Australian films will be represented in all three Venice categories. That adds to the prestige of The Daughter having its North American premiere in the Special Presentations section of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival, where Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in the Gala Presentations section.
Wayne Blair's Us thriler Septembers Of Shiraz, which stars Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody and Shohreh Aghdashloo, will also screen in Gala Presentations.
- 7/29/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
On the heels of yesterday's Toronto Film Festival announcement, this morning we get the lineup for the 2015 Venice Film Festival and, as always, there's a little crossover with some films set to premiere on the Lido ahead of their Toronto (and/or Telluride premieres). Some of the titles not screening at Toronto (at least not yet) that will premiere at Venice include Baltasar Kormakur's Everest, which is serving as the opening night film, Drake Doremus' Equals starring Kristen Stewart, A Bigger Splash from Luca Guadagnino, Go With Me directed by Daniel Alfredson, Dito Montiel's Man Down, Amy Berg's Janis as well as a new, 16-minute short film from Martin Scorsese titled The Audition and a Brian De Palma documentary directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. There's also buzz building for The Childhood of a Leader directed by Brady Corbet and starring Robert Pattinson and Berenice Bejo.
- 7/29/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Venice Film Festival has become one of the longest-running events on the festival circuit, its veteran status giving it a level of prestige that has only been heightened by the films that have screened at the event. Having first started in 1932, a number of movies that have gone on to be classics have won prizes at the festival, including Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Satyajit Ray’s Aparajito, and Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad. Interest in the festival’s lineup announcement has thus grown over the years, with many film fans curious to see what the organisers select to play at the event, due to its stature. The full lineup for the 2015 incarnation of the festival, the 72nd one in the festival’s history, has now been announced. The festival itself will run from September 2nd to the 12th, with a jury that includes Alfonso Cuarón, Nuri Bilge Ceylan,...
- 7/29/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne, and Atom Egoyan’s Remember among the 21 competition titles.Scroll down for full line-up
The 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) has unveiled the 55 features – mixing star vehicles and international auteurs – that will make up this year’s official selection.
Venice director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Paolo Baratta announced the line-up this morning.
As previously announced, Baltasar Kormakur’s mountaineering thriller Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will open the festival on Sept 2. The Universal release will play out of competition.
Birdman, last year’s opening night film, went on to be named best picture at this year’s Academy Awards, while multiple Oscar-winner Gravity bowed at the 2013 edition.
Venice also revealed that Guan Hu’s Mr Six will close the festival on Sept 12. Feng Xiaogang plays the title character, a former gangster living alone with various illnesses, who is tempted back into the business by his son.
Competition titles...
The 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) has unveiled the 55 features – mixing star vehicles and international auteurs – that will make up this year’s official selection.
Venice director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Paolo Baratta announced the line-up this morning.
As previously announced, Baltasar Kormakur’s mountaineering thriller Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will open the festival on Sept 2. The Universal release will play out of competition.
Birdman, last year’s opening night film, went on to be named best picture at this year’s Academy Awards, while multiple Oscar-winner Gravity bowed at the 2013 edition.
Venice also revealed that Guan Hu’s Mr Six will close the festival on Sept 12. Feng Xiaogang plays the title character, a former gangster living alone with various illnesses, who is tempted back into the business by his son.
Competition titles...
- 7/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Some of the most anticipated movies of the Fall will make their debut at the four major festivals that annual suck up the movie world's attention during a five-week period beginning in September. The New York Film Festival has already revealed that "The Walk," "Steve Jobs" and "Miles Away" will be its major galas. The 40th Toronto International Film Festival announced its initial wave of selections on Tuesday giving away many of the "secret" premieres at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend. Earlier this month Venice announced it would open with Universal Pictures' "Everest" and debut Scott Cooper's "Black Mass" with Johnny Depp out of competition. Now, the festival has unveiled a majority of its slate with some very exciting surprises. The biggest news is that Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" will have its world premiere in Venice. The highly anticipated drama has already generated...
- 7/29/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
All the films screening at this year’s Venice film festival. This list will be updated as more titles are announced
Frenzy, Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar)
Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson (U.S.)
Blood of My Blood, Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
Looking for Grace, Sue Brooks (Australia)
Equals, Drake Doremus (Us)
Remember, Atom Egoyan (Canada, Germany)
Beasts of No Nation, Idris Elba (Us)
Per amor vostro, Giuseppe M. Gaudino (Italy, France)
Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli (France, Czech Republic, Belgium)
Rabin, the Last Day, Amos Gitai (Israel, France)
A Bigger Splash, Luca Guadagnino (Italy, France)
The Endless River, Oliver Hermanus (South Africa, France)
The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper (UK, Us)
Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson (Us)
L’attesa, Piero Messina (Italy)
11 minutes, Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
Francofonia, Aleksander Sokurov (France, Germany, Netherlands)
The Clan, Pablo Trapero (Argentina, Spain)
Desde alla, Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
L’hermine, Christian Vincent (France)
Behemoth, Zhao Liang (China,...
Frenzy, Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar)
Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson (U.S.)
Blood of My Blood, Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
Looking for Grace, Sue Brooks (Australia)
Equals, Drake Doremus (Us)
Remember, Atom Egoyan (Canada, Germany)
Beasts of No Nation, Idris Elba (Us)
Per amor vostro, Giuseppe M. Gaudino (Italy, France)
Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli (France, Czech Republic, Belgium)
Rabin, the Last Day, Amos Gitai (Israel, France)
A Bigger Splash, Luca Guadagnino (Italy, France)
The Endless River, Oliver Hermanus (South Africa, France)
The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper (UK, Us)
Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson (Us)
L’attesa, Piero Messina (Italy)
11 minutes, Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
Francofonia, Aleksander Sokurov (France, Germany, Netherlands)
The Clan, Pablo Trapero (Argentina, Spain)
Desde alla, Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
L’hermine, Christian Vincent (France)
Behemoth, Zhao Liang (China,...
- 7/29/2015
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
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