Venice Immersive is the Xr - Extended Reality strand of Venice International Film Festival
Venice Immersive, the Xr – Extended Reality strand of the Venice International Film Festival (August 30-September 9) has unveiled its competition selection for 2023.
The 28 projects include Wallace & Gromit In The Grand Getaway based on the stop-motion comedy franchise. It is directed by Finbar Hawkins, Bram Ttwheam and Lawrence Benetta and is a co-production between Wallace & Gromit’s UK creator Aardman, with the UK’s No Ghost and French companies Atlas V, Albyon and Astrea. The 60-minute VR experience takes players on a holiday gone awry with the...
Venice Immersive, the Xr – Extended Reality strand of the Venice International Film Festival (August 30-September 9) has unveiled its competition selection for 2023.
The 28 projects include Wallace & Gromit In The Grand Getaway based on the stop-motion comedy franchise. It is directed by Finbar Hawkins, Bram Ttwheam and Lawrence Benetta and is a co-production between Wallace & Gromit’s UK creator Aardman, with the UK’s No Ghost and French companies Atlas V, Albyon and Astrea. The 60-minute VR experience takes players on a holiday gone awry with the...
- 7/20/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
YouTube Names VP For Europe, Middle East & Africa
YouTube has appointed Pedro Pina as VP, YouTube, responsible for all aspects of the business across Europe, Middle East and Africa (Emea). The exec arrives with 30 years of experienced in global marketing. He first joined Google in 2013 as leader in the Global Client & Agency Solutions team, working with clients including Apple and Coca Cola. In 2019, he was named one of the 10 most influential LGBTQ+ executives in the UK by the British LGBTQ+ awards. “I believe we have just scratched the surface when it comes to what YouTube can bring to people’s lives and to the world. The potential is limitless here in this region so the opportunity to lead the team to our next phase of growth was too good to miss,” said Pina.
Venice Unveils VR Program
The Venice Film Festival has rounded out its Virtual Reality selection with Venice VR Expanded titles announced today.
YouTube has appointed Pedro Pina as VP, YouTube, responsible for all aspects of the business across Europe, Middle East and Africa (Emea). The exec arrives with 30 years of experienced in global marketing. He first joined Google in 2013 as leader in the Global Client & Agency Solutions team, working with clients including Apple and Coca Cola. In 2019, he was named one of the 10 most influential LGBTQ+ executives in the UK by the British LGBTQ+ awards. “I believe we have just scratched the surface when it comes to what YouTube can bring to people’s lives and to the world. The potential is limitless here in this region so the opportunity to lead the team to our next phase of growth was too good to miss,” said Pina.
Venice Unveils VR Program
The Venice Film Festival has rounded out its Virtual Reality selection with Venice VR Expanded titles announced today.
- 7/29/2021
- by Tom Grater and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
For ages, humankind has looked to space as the final frontier, and the film industry is no exception. Last year, it was reported that Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman were coordinating with NASA and SpaceX on a $200-million action-adventure shot aboard the International Space Station, while Russia’s Channel One TV is rushing to get its own cast and crew up there first for the October shoot of a secretive project called “Challenge.”
But a pair of Canadian filmmakers beat both of them to the punch. Since January 2019, Felix & Paul, the VR studio launched by Montreal-based virtual reality directors Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael in 2013, have been assembling 360-degree footage shot on handmade cameras by 10 astronauts from a revolving crew.
With more than 200 hours of footage to date, the material has so far fueled the first two episodes of the four-part VR series “Space Explorers: The Iss Experience.” The result,...
But a pair of Canadian filmmakers beat both of them to the punch. Since January 2019, Felix & Paul, the VR studio launched by Montreal-based virtual reality directors Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael in 2013, have been assembling 360-degree footage shot on handmade cameras by 10 astronauts from a revolving crew.
With more than 200 hours of footage to date, the material has so far fueled the first two episodes of the four-part VR series “Space Explorers: The Iss Experience.” The result,...
- 4/10/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
RuPaul named inaugural and sole Next juror.
Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, a drama about the tumultuous career of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, is one of eight features announced on Tuesday (December 19) as late additions to the Sundance Film festival line-up.
Festival top brass are adding a Vr experience and said RuPaul will serve as the inaugural and sole Next Innovator Award juror, and convene a retrospective of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race on the heels of its 10th season and host a panel alongside executive producers and Sundance veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.
Hearts Beat Loud, announced previously in thePremieres section, is now confirmed as a closing night film.
The additions bring the number of features in play to 121, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. Selections were culled from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. The Sundance Film Festival is set to...
Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, a drama about the tumultuous career of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, is one of eight features announced on Tuesday (December 19) as late additions to the Sundance Film festival line-up.
Festival top brass are adding a Vr experience and said RuPaul will serve as the inaugural and sole Next Innovator Award juror, and convene a retrospective of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race on the heels of its 10th season and host a panel alongside executive producers and Sundance veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.
Hearts Beat Loud, announced previously in thePremieres section, is now confirmed as a closing night film.
The additions bring the number of features in play to 121, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. Selections were culled from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. The Sundance Film Festival is set to...
- 12/19/2017
- by Jeremy Kay
- Screen Daily Test
RuPaul named inaugural and sole Next juror.
Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, a drama about the tumultuous career of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, is one of eight features announced on Tuesday (December 19) as late additions to the Sundance Film festival line-up.
Festival top brass are adding a Vr experience and said RuPaul will serve as the inaugural and sole Next Innovator Award juror, and convene a retrospective of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race on the heels of its 10th season and host a panel alongside executive producers and Sundance veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.
Hearts Beat Loud, announced previously in thePremieres section, is now confirmed as a closing night film.
The additions bring the number of features in play to 121, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. Selections were culled from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. The Sundance Film Festival is set to run from January 18-28.
The late additions...
Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, a drama about the tumultuous career of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, is one of eight features announced on Tuesday (December 19) as late additions to the Sundance Film festival line-up.
Festival top brass are adding a Vr experience and said RuPaul will serve as the inaugural and sole Next Innovator Award juror, and convene a retrospective of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race on the heels of its 10th season and host a panel alongside executive producers and Sundance veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.
Hearts Beat Loud, announced previously in thePremieres section, is now confirmed as a closing night film.
The additions bring the number of features in play to 121, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. Selections were culled from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. The Sundance Film Festival is set to run from January 18-28.
The late additions...
- 12/19/2017
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Basically every Hollywood entity of note is interested in narrative virtual reality, but they’re still figuring out exactly what that is. However, if a new Vr comedy experience featuring “Thor: Ragnarok” star Jeff Goldblum is any indication, it might look as familiar as an ’80s sitcom. Earlier this week, TheWrap strapped on an Oculus Rift headset for a demo of “Miyubi,” the first feature-length narrative Vr comedy experience with a cast of veteran actors including Goldblum. The experience will be released Thursday on the Oculus Store. “Miyubi” was produced by Oculus, created by co-directors Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael of Felix.
- 7/27/2017
- by Matt Pressberg
- The Wrap
This year’s festival will include an inaugural virtual reality strand and a co-production forum focused on UK-Ibero-American relations.Scroll down for line-up
The 24th Raindance Film Festival has revealed its line-up, with 90 feature films set to be screened in London September 21 – October 2.
This year’s jury will be comprised of Stephen Fry (V For Vendetta), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch), Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies), Jack Davenport (Pirates Of The Caribbean), Nicholas Pinnock (Top Boy) and American artist David Datuna.
They will preside over awards for a competition line-up that features the international premiere of Stephen Elliott’s After Adderall, a semi-autobiographical story about the production of the film adaptation of Elliott’s memoirs. Receiving its European premiere will be Japanese director Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life, about a young woman who is assigned to follow a stranger.
Among the seven UK premieres playing in competition are Indian drama [link=tt...
The 24th Raindance Film Festival has revealed its line-up, with 90 feature films set to be screened in London September 21 – October 2.
This year’s jury will be comprised of Stephen Fry (V For Vendetta), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch), Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies), Jack Davenport (Pirates Of The Caribbean), Nicholas Pinnock (Top Boy) and American artist David Datuna.
They will preside over awards for a competition line-up that features the international premiere of Stephen Elliott’s After Adderall, a semi-autobiographical story about the production of the film adaptation of Elliott’s memoirs. Receiving its European premiere will be Japanese director Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life, about a young woman who is assigned to follow a stranger.
Among the seven UK premieres playing in competition are Indian drama [link=tt...
- 8/25/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Sundance top brass celebrate the tenth anniversary of the New Frontier programme with an exhibition of new work that includes Vr projects involving Björk and Ridley Scott’s global hit The Martian.Scroll Down For Full List
The dynamic roster encompasses features, a live performance, documentary and narrative mobile virtual reality experiences and a look inside the innovations at some of world’s leading media research labs.
Tenth anniversary exhibitions will also be presented with MoMA in New York City in April, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of Northern Spark in June.
The New Frontiers line-up will take place in Park City’s Claim Jumper, The Gateway, a large-scale installation on Swede Alley by Chris Milk and a performance by Gingger Shankar at Festival Base Camp Presented by Canada Goose.
Beyond the dedicated physical exhibition spaces, audiences can experience more than 20 virtual reality pieces on mobile Vr headsets. This year’s...
The dynamic roster encompasses features, a live performance, documentary and narrative mobile virtual reality experiences and a look inside the innovations at some of world’s leading media research labs.
Tenth anniversary exhibitions will also be presented with MoMA in New York City in April, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of Northern Spark in June.
The New Frontiers line-up will take place in Park City’s Claim Jumper, The Gateway, a large-scale installation on Swede Alley by Chris Milk and a performance by Gingger Shankar at Festival Base Camp Presented by Canada Goose.
Beyond the dedicated physical exhibition spaces, audiences can experience more than 20 virtual reality pieces on mobile Vr headsets. This year’s...
- 12/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Bureau producer/founder to discuss 45 Years and more.
Bertrand Faivre, producer and founder of The Bureau and Le Bureau, is to deliver this year’s keynote address at the Film London Production Finance Market (Pfm) on Oct 13.
Opening the ninth Pfm, Faivre will offer more than 200 delegates and industry guests an insight into working as a producer and heading up a London-Paris production company, which has also diversified into international sales.
Faivre will discuss highlights from a career which has involved discovering emerging talent, producing acclaimed auteur films and building cross-territory financing as well as library assets.
He will also discuss how The Bureau empowers the creative talent of its producers, as successfully demonstrated by Tristan Goligher’s latest production, 45 Years, directed by Andrew Haigh.
Taking place over two days (oct 13-14) in association with the 59th BFI London Film Festival, this year’s Pfm will see 58 producers and 58 financiers from 25 different countries conduct more than...
Bertrand Faivre, producer and founder of The Bureau and Le Bureau, is to deliver this year’s keynote address at the Film London Production Finance Market (Pfm) on Oct 13.
Opening the ninth Pfm, Faivre will offer more than 200 delegates and industry guests an insight into working as a producer and heading up a London-Paris production company, which has also diversified into international sales.
Faivre will discuss highlights from a career which has involved discovering emerging talent, producing acclaimed auteur films and building cross-territory financing as well as library assets.
He will also discuss how The Bureau empowers the creative talent of its producers, as successfully demonstrated by Tristan Goligher’s latest production, 45 Years, directed by Andrew Haigh.
Taking place over two days (oct 13-14) in association with the 59th BFI London Film Festival, this year’s Pfm will see 58 producers and 58 financiers from 25 different countries conduct more than...
- 10/8/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Virtual Reality is the fastest-growing medium in entertainment and Hollywood studios are scrambling to stay one step ahead of the competition. One of the primary vendors they're turning to for content is Felix & Paul Studios, a red-hot company that utilizes a unique approach to storytelling to produce Vr content. See photos: 49 Summer Movies on Our Radar: From ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ to Tina Fey's Next Comedy (Photos) Founded by Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael, the thriving Montreal-based company is at the forefront of Virtual Reality, having developed proprietary 3D stereoscopic 360-degree camera recording technology and software. Also read: ‘Interstellar’ Oculus...
- 10/28/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.
Bart: I don’t want to sound nostalgic, but do you remember the days when working in the entertainment business was considered a good job? When I was first hired by a movie studio, my journalistic friends all said, ‘Man, you’ve got it made.’
Fleming: Since you take a vow of poverty to be a journalist, I’ve thought that about journalist pals who took studio PR jobs.
Bart: That’s definitely the past. Here’s the reality of the moment: Warner Bros. has started a new wave of firings. Sony is still in the middle of its cost cutting. Overall show biz employment (including music) is down 19 percent over five years. The big talent agencies are...
Bart: I don’t want to sound nostalgic, but do you remember the days when working in the entertainment business was considered a good job? When I was first hired by a movie studio, my journalistic friends all said, ‘Man, you’ve got it made.’
Fleming: Since you take a vow of poverty to be a journalist, I’ve thought that about journalist pals who took studio PR jobs.
Bart: That’s definitely the past. Here’s the reality of the moment: Warner Bros. has started a new wave of firings. Sony is still in the middle of its cost cutting. Overall show biz employment (including music) is down 19 percent over five years. The big talent agencies are...
- 9/22/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
The event led by Toronto International Film Festival founder Bill Marshall is set to run from June 19-22.
Gala premieres include the world premiere of Restrung, Mike Enns’ portrait of Disney animator Randall Wyn Fullmer, the North American premiere of Felix Herngren’s Swedish Blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared and animation Ribbit featuring the voices of Sean Astin and Russell Peters.
The roster includes Emilio Aragon’s A Night In Old Mexico starring Robert Duvall, Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl and Ira Sachs’ gay-marriage drama Love Is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina.
The Canadians-At-Cannes shorts curated by Danny Lennon include Kyle Thomas’ The Post, Moira Sauer’s The Provider and Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael’s The Sparkling River.
The line-up includes two shorts films from the 1950s starring Peter Sellers – Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You.
“Just as Tiff...
Gala premieres include the world premiere of Restrung, Mike Enns’ portrait of Disney animator Randall Wyn Fullmer, the North American premiere of Felix Herngren’s Swedish Blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared and animation Ribbit featuring the voices of Sean Astin and Russell Peters.
The roster includes Emilio Aragon’s A Night In Old Mexico starring Robert Duvall, Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl and Ira Sachs’ gay-marriage drama Love Is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina.
The Canadians-At-Cannes shorts curated by Danny Lennon include Kyle Thomas’ The Post, Moira Sauer’s The Provider and Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael’s The Sparkling River.
The line-up includes two shorts films from the 1950s starring Peter Sellers – Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You.
“Just as Tiff...
- 4/23/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The event led by Toronto International Film Festival founder Bill Marshall is set to run from June 19-22.
Gala premieres include the world premiere of Restrung, Mike Enns’ portrait of Disney animator Randall Wyn Fullmer, the North American premiere of Felix Herngren’s Swedish Blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared and animation Ribbit featuring the voices of Sean Astin and Russell Peters.
The roster includes Emilio Aragon’s A Night In Old Mexico starring Robert Duvall, Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl and Ira Sachs’ gay-marriage drama Love Is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina.
The Canadians-At-Cannes shorts curated by Danny Lennon include Kyle Thomas’ The Post, Moira Sauer’s The Provider and Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael’s The Sparkling River.
The line-up includes two shorts films from the 1950s starring Peter Sellers – Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You.
“Just as Tiff...
Gala premieres include the world premiere of Restrung, Mike Enns’ portrait of Disney animator Randall Wyn Fullmer, the North American premiere of Felix Herngren’s Swedish Blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared and animation Ribbit featuring the voices of Sean Astin and Russell Peters.
The roster includes Emilio Aragon’s A Night In Old Mexico starring Robert Duvall, Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl and Ira Sachs’ gay-marriage drama Love Is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina.
The Canadians-At-Cannes shorts curated by Danny Lennon include Kyle Thomas’ The Post, Moira Sauer’s The Provider and Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael’s The Sparkling River.
The line-up includes two shorts films from the 1950s starring Peter Sellers – Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You.
“Just as Tiff...
- 4/22/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Argentine filmmaker Pablo Trapero ("Carancho," "Lion's Den") is attached to helm the India-set crime drama "Six Suspects" at Working Title-Starfield Productions and BBC Films.
Trapero's first English-language feature, the story is based on Vikas Swarup’s novel which screenwriter John Hodge ("The Beach," "Trainspotting") is adapting.
The story revolves around six guests at a party who are accused of killing the son of an Indian cabinet minister.
Paul Raphael will produce with shooting aiming to get underway next Fall. Swarup’s novel "Q&A" was the basis for Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire".
Source: Screen Daily...
Trapero's first English-language feature, the story is based on Vikas Swarup’s novel which screenwriter John Hodge ("The Beach," "Trainspotting") is adapting.
The story revolves around six guests at a party who are accused of killing the son of an Indian cabinet minister.
Paul Raphael will produce with shooting aiming to get underway next Fall. Swarup’s novel "Q&A" was the basis for Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire".
Source: Screen Daily...
- 10/29/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Over the last five years, it’s nice to have watched the Wndx Festival of Film and Video Art in Winnipeg grow into such a terrific powerhouse of showcasing the best Canadian avant-garde and experimental media. It’s fifth killer edition will run on Sept. 30 — Oct. 3.
There’s one great non-Canadian exception this year, though. Wndx honors the life and work of the legendary Brooklyn-bred underground filmmaker George Kuchar. There will be three retrospectives of his films, chronicling his career from his early ’60s Hollywood-inspired pastiches to his more recent autobiographical videos.
Also screening as part of the Kuchar celebration will be Jennifer M. Kroot’s hit documentary It Came From Kuchar about George and his twin filmmaking brother Mike. Of course, George will be there in person attending the festival and on Sunday, Oct. 3, he will join Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin for a panel discussion that’s not to be missed.
There’s one great non-Canadian exception this year, though. Wndx honors the life and work of the legendary Brooklyn-bred underground filmmaker George Kuchar. There will be three retrospectives of his films, chronicling his career from his early ’60s Hollywood-inspired pastiches to his more recent autobiographical videos.
Also screening as part of the Kuchar celebration will be Jennifer M. Kroot’s hit documentary It Came From Kuchar about George and his twin filmmaking brother Mike. Of course, George will be there in person attending the festival and on Sunday, Oct. 3, he will join Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin for a panel discussion that’s not to be missed.
- 9/23/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Paul Raphael’s Starfield Productions with BBC Films is likely to commence shooting of Six Suspects, a novel by Vikas Swarup. Swarup is the author of Q&A, on which Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire was based. The latest book by the author had been optioned by British producer Paul Raphael’s Starfield Productions and BBC Films in December 2008. Slumdog Millionaire had won eight Academy Awards, Four Golden Globes and seven BAFTA Awards in 2008.
In the novel, Vivek ‘Vicky’ Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murders Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. The police search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession.
In this elaborate murder mystery,...
In the novel, Vivek ‘Vicky’ Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murders Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. The police search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession.
In this elaborate murder mystery,...
- 5/18/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Six Indian actors will play the lead roles in the adaptation of Vikas Swarup’s second novel, Six Suspects. The movie is being produced by the British company, Starfield Productions, which has earlier made Anita And Me (2002) and Rogue Trader (1999). The novel is being adapted by John Hodge, famed for the screenplays of Trainspotting and The Beach, directed by Danny Boyle. Owner of Starfield Productions Paul Raphael says there is no certainty about Boyle directing this movie, but he would be perfect. “John is about to deliver the first official draft, and then we will zero in on the director,” ...
- 4/7/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Canada’s many feature and short filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival gathered this weekend to celebrate at Shabu Restaurant on Main Street. From far left to far right, first row: Alexandre Franchi (The Wild Hunt), Diego Maclean (The Art Of Drowning), Jamie Travis (The Armoire), Cordell Barker (Runaway), Paul Raphael (Tungqijuq), Betty Palik (Rocksteady), Lixin Fan (Last Train Home), Brigitte Hubmann (Telefilm Canada), Sheila De La Varende (Telefilm Canada). From far …...
- 1/27/2010
- Indiewire
First the features, which were unveiled last week; and now the shorts.
I haven’t looked through the list yet, but I will eventually. Feel free to flag any for me if you’re aware.
For now, here’s the full press release I received:
2010 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Program
from Sundance Film Festival | Press Releases
Park City, Ut- Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. This year the Festival’s Short Film Program comprises 70 short films from U.S. and international filmmakers selected from 6,092 submissions up 8% over 2009. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival runs January 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.
As previously announced, the Festival will break tradition by foregoing the conventions of one opening night film and instead focus on...
I haven’t looked through the list yet, but I will eventually. Feel free to flag any for me if you’re aware.
For now, here’s the full press release I received:
2010 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Program
from Sundance Film Festival | Press Releases
Park City, Ut- Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. This year the Festival’s Short Film Program comprises 70 short films from U.S. and international filmmakers selected from 6,092 submissions up 8% over 2009. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival runs January 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.
As previously announced, the Festival will break tradition by foregoing the conventions of one opening night film and instead focus on...
- 12/7/2009
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
The success of Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire has sparked a rush of British movie interest in all things Mumbai, India.
Slumdog director Danny Boyle has reportedly acquired the rights to develop a film on Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found and British film producer Paul Raphael and screenwriter John Hodge are planning to invest $16 million (GBP10.6 million) in a film based on Slumdog Millionaire author Vikas Swarup's second book Six Suspects.
Welcoming the sudden passion for India by world filmmakers, acclaimed Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed insists producers and directors should try not to focus on the negatives of India.
He says, "Instead of just focusing on poverty and crime, filmmakers should also explore many finer and deeper things India offers. It is the planet’s most multi-dimensional country and boasts a fast growing economy and the largest democracy.
"India has snow-capped mountains, palm-fringed and sun-washed beaches, glorious temples, colourful festivals, a rich philosophy and spirituality, abundant historical sites, wildlife safaris, recharging treks, historic trade routes and cultural wealth.
"Four major world religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism - originated there, while Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Islam have long established history and traditions.
Slumdog director Danny Boyle has reportedly acquired the rights to develop a film on Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found and British film producer Paul Raphael and screenwriter John Hodge are planning to invest $16 million (GBP10.6 million) in a film based on Slumdog Millionaire author Vikas Swarup's second book Six Suspects.
Welcoming the sudden passion for India by world filmmakers, acclaimed Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed insists producers and directors should try not to focus on the negatives of India.
He says, "Instead of just focusing on poverty and crime, filmmakers should also explore many finer and deeper things India offers. It is the planet’s most multi-dimensional country and boasts a fast growing economy and the largest democracy.
"India has snow-capped mountains, palm-fringed and sun-washed beaches, glorious temples, colourful festivals, a rich philosophy and spirituality, abundant historical sites, wildlife safaris, recharging treks, historic trade routes and cultural wealth.
"Four major world religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism - originated there, while Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Islam have long established history and traditions.
- 6/4/2009
- WENN
The second film to be based on a novel by Vikas Swarup, the author who penned Q&A, arrives in 2010! In case you didn't already know, his novel Q&A was adapted into Danny Boyle’s outrageously popular 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
'Six Suspects' is to be a $15 million budget whodunit set in Delhi. Set to be scripted by John Hodge, screenwriter of not one but two other outstanding Danny Boyle-helmed films (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) the project is being described as “Agatha Christie meets Elmore Leonard” and, if it’s anything like Slumdog, the film will dive into Delhi’s criminal underbelly known for its contract killings and rampant fraud.
Like many manor house crime stories before it, Six Suspects centers on a houseful of likely suspects who, in this case, may or may not have murdered politician’s son and notorious playboy Vivek “Vicky” Rai. He...
'Six Suspects' is to be a $15 million budget whodunit set in Delhi. Set to be scripted by John Hodge, screenwriter of not one but two other outstanding Danny Boyle-helmed films (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) the project is being described as “Agatha Christie meets Elmore Leonard” and, if it’s anything like Slumdog, the film will dive into Delhi’s criminal underbelly known for its contract killings and rampant fraud.
Like many manor house crime stories before it, Six Suspects centers on a houseful of likely suspects who, in this case, may or may not have murdered politician’s son and notorious playboy Vivek “Vicky” Rai. He...
- 5/17/2009
- by mihirkula
- India.com
Six Suspects, the next novel from Vikas Swarup, author of Q&A -- on which Danny Boyle’s terrific Slumdog Millionaire was based, has been optioned by British producer Paul Raphael's Starfield Productions and BBC Films. The novel is described as Agatha Christie meets Elmore Leonard in Delhi. In the novel, Vivek 'Vicky' Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murders Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. The police search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession. In this elaborate murder mystery we join Arun Advani, India's best-known investigative journalist, as the lives of these six suspects unravel before our eyes: a corrupt bureaucrat; an American tourist...
- 12/16/2008
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
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Dubai -- The next novel from Vikas Swarup, author of "Q&A" -- on which Dubai International Film Festival closer "Slumdog Millionaire" was based -- has been optioned by British producer Paul Raphael's Starfield Prods. and BBC Films.
"Six Suspects" is "Agatha Christie meets Elmore Leonard in Delhi," Raphael said Monday at the festival, where his "Under the Bombs" won top prize in 2007.
Raphael, who has an 18-month option on the newly published novel, has begun a search for a "heavy-hitting" scriptwriter, he said.
After "Bombs" took Raphael and Lebanese director Philippe Aractingi on a world tour that saw the film earn 21 awards, Raphael partnered with the film's co-producer, Maya Hariri, to form London- and Paris-based Har Films.
Raphael, 50, said that "Under the Bombs," Lebanon's official entry for the foreign-language Oscar, opened doors for him in the Middle East and North Africa.
"It took a...
Dubai -- The next novel from Vikas Swarup, author of "Q&A" -- on which Dubai International Film Festival closer "Slumdog Millionaire" was based -- has been optioned by British producer Paul Raphael's Starfield Prods. and BBC Films.
"Six Suspects" is "Agatha Christie meets Elmore Leonard in Delhi," Raphael said Monday at the festival, where his "Under the Bombs" won top prize in 2007.
Raphael, who has an 18-month option on the newly published novel, has begun a search for a "heavy-hitting" scriptwriter, he said.
After "Bombs" took Raphael and Lebanese director Philippe Aractingi on a world tour that saw the film earn 21 awards, Raphael partnered with the film's co-producer, Maya Hariri, to form London- and Paris-based Har Films.
Raphael, 50, said that "Under the Bombs," Lebanon's official entry for the foreign-language Oscar, opened doors for him in the Middle East and North Africa.
"It took a...
- 12/15/2008
- by By Jonathan Landreth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
opens: In France: May 14 (Capa Cinema, Starfeld Productions, Art'Mell, Fantascope Prods.)
PARIS -- Philippe Aractingi's "Under the Bombs" ("Sous les Bombes") is an Art House movie about an unpopular war featuring actors unknown outside the Islamic world. In an ideal world it would pack them in, but its makers will probably have to make do with a sideboard-full of festival awards. The movie is set against the Israeli invasion of south Lebanon in July 2006. "Under the Bombs" could even be described as an odd-couple road movie.
Zeina (Nada Abou Ferhat), the wife of a wealthy Lebanese businesman based in Dubai, arrives in Beirut, desperate to travel to the south of the country to trace her young son. The only driver she can find is the scruffy Tony (Georges Khabbaz), who happens to be Christian.
As the pair travel through Lebanon's strikingly beautiful but tragic countryside, a bond forms between them despite Zeina's initial suspicions of Tony's motives and his resentment at her snobbish behaviour. Zeina, we learn, is estranged from her husband, and Tony has ghosts of his own, in particular an older brother who collaborated with the Israelis back in the 1980s. He has not seen his brother since.
What makes this movie utterly compelling is the knowledge that many of the war scenes were shot while the Israeli attacks were in progress. Bombs seen exploding in the near distance are real, and coffins disinterred for reburial elsewhere contain real bodies.
Only three actors are professionals. Most of the rest -- Lebanese civilians for the most part, but also foreign journalists and UN peacekeepers -- play parts they were enacting in real life days earlier. Thus, the movie has a rough-hewn, documentary feel, enhanced by the sense of urgency conveyed by both the lead actors and the filmmakers. (During the early part of the shoot, writer Michel Leviant was turning out pages of dialogue to be filmed the same day.)
Franco-Lebanese director Aractingi makes no attempt at even-handedness. The picture is an unabashed portrayal of life at the receiving end of Israeli bombs. But the director's focus is on the common humanity of his characters and there is no sense of political point-scoring. The final twist, when Zeina and Tony reach their destination, is sharp and wrenching.
Cast: Nada Abou Ferhat; Georges Khabbaz; Rawya El Chab; Bshara Atallah.
Director: Philippe Aractingi.
Screenwriters: Michel Leviant, Philippe Aractingi.
Executive Producers: Claude Chelli, Nathalie Leyendecker; Sound: Mouhab Chanesaz.
Producers: Herve Chabalier, Francois Cohen-Seat, Paul Raphael, Philippe Aractingi. Director of photography: Nidal Abdel Khalek.
Music: Rene Aubry, Lazare Boghossian.
Editor: Deena Charara.
Sales: Art'Mell.
No MPAA rating, running time 98 minutes.
PARIS -- Philippe Aractingi's "Under the Bombs" ("Sous les Bombes") is an Art House movie about an unpopular war featuring actors unknown outside the Islamic world. In an ideal world it would pack them in, but its makers will probably have to make do with a sideboard-full of festival awards. The movie is set against the Israeli invasion of south Lebanon in July 2006. "Under the Bombs" could even be described as an odd-couple road movie.
Zeina (Nada Abou Ferhat), the wife of a wealthy Lebanese businesman based in Dubai, arrives in Beirut, desperate to travel to the south of the country to trace her young son. The only driver she can find is the scruffy Tony (Georges Khabbaz), who happens to be Christian.
As the pair travel through Lebanon's strikingly beautiful but tragic countryside, a bond forms between them despite Zeina's initial suspicions of Tony's motives and his resentment at her snobbish behaviour. Zeina, we learn, is estranged from her husband, and Tony has ghosts of his own, in particular an older brother who collaborated with the Israelis back in the 1980s. He has not seen his brother since.
What makes this movie utterly compelling is the knowledge that many of the war scenes were shot while the Israeli attacks were in progress. Bombs seen exploding in the near distance are real, and coffins disinterred for reburial elsewhere contain real bodies.
Only three actors are professionals. Most of the rest -- Lebanese civilians for the most part, but also foreign journalists and UN peacekeepers -- play parts they were enacting in real life days earlier. Thus, the movie has a rough-hewn, documentary feel, enhanced by the sense of urgency conveyed by both the lead actors and the filmmakers. (During the early part of the shoot, writer Michel Leviant was turning out pages of dialogue to be filmed the same day.)
Franco-Lebanese director Aractingi makes no attempt at even-handedness. The picture is an unabashed portrayal of life at the receiving end of Israeli bombs. But the director's focus is on the common humanity of his characters and there is no sense of political point-scoring. The final twist, when Zeina and Tony reach their destination, is sharp and wrenching.
Cast: Nada Abou Ferhat; Georges Khabbaz; Rawya El Chab; Bshara Atallah.
Director: Philippe Aractingi.
Screenwriters: Michel Leviant, Philippe Aractingi.
Executive Producers: Claude Chelli, Nathalie Leyendecker; Sound: Mouhab Chanesaz.
Producers: Herve Chabalier, Francois Cohen-Seat, Paul Raphael, Philippe Aractingi. Director of photography: Nidal Abdel Khalek.
Music: Rene Aubry, Lazare Boghossian.
Editor: Deena Charara.
Sales: Art'Mell.
No MPAA rating, running time 98 minutes.
- 5/12/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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