Exclusive: Filmmaking brothers Carlos Contreras and Ernesto Contreras have partnered for the immigrant drama Crossing Borders for Latitude Media and Wink Pictures.
Based on a true story, the film follows a 14-year-old immigrant who flees rape and abuse in her native Guatemala. While in Florida, she gives birth to a premature baby and is later wrongfully charged with the murder of the child. A young female lawyer takes on the case and fights for years against stereotypes, systemic racism and a corrupt system to bring vindication to the young woman. Carlos Carlos Contreras wrote the script while Ernesto Contreras will direct.
“What fascinates me about this story is seeing a person slowly discover the depth of her commitment to finding justice, to doing what is right,” said Carlos Contreras of the very timely story of immigrants and social justice. “She becomes a hero without ever setting out to be one,...
Based on a true story, the film follows a 14-year-old immigrant who flees rape and abuse in her native Guatemala. While in Florida, she gives birth to a premature baby and is later wrongfully charged with the murder of the child. A young female lawyer takes on the case and fights for years against stereotypes, systemic racism and a corrupt system to bring vindication to the young woman. Carlos Carlos Contreras wrote the script while Ernesto Contreras will direct.
“What fascinates me about this story is seeing a person slowly discover the depth of her commitment to finding justice, to doing what is right,” said Carlos Contreras of the very timely story of immigrants and social justice. “She becomes a hero without ever setting out to be one,...
- 7/7/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cold War star Tomasz Kot is set to play celebrated inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla in the feature biopic Nikola.
Based on a screenplay by Leap Year director and Girl With a Pearl Earring producer Anand Tucker, the story will focus on Tesla’s last big experiment, which was regarded as a failure at the time, but may in fact have been among his great triumphs. Tucker will also direct. The character piece will explore Tesla’s personal journey to achieve his scientific ambitions while risking financial security and battling his inner demons.
Ingenious Media is arranging financing and Daria Jovicic (The Railway Man) will produce under her Latitude Media banner. Peter Touche, Andrea Scarso and Ximo Paris will executive produce, with Tucker’s Seven Stories co-producing. Jovicic and Tucker previously collaborated on features The Railway Man, Incendiary and Girl With a Pearl Earring.
UTA’s Independent Film group...
Based on a screenplay by Leap Year director and Girl With a Pearl Earring producer Anand Tucker, the story will focus on Tesla’s last big experiment, which was regarded as a failure at the time, but may in fact have been among his great triumphs. Tucker will also direct. The character piece will explore Tesla’s personal journey to achieve his scientific ambitions while risking financial security and battling his inner demons.
Ingenious Media is arranging financing and Daria Jovicic (The Railway Man) will produce under her Latitude Media banner. Peter Touche, Andrea Scarso and Ximo Paris will executive produce, with Tucker’s Seven Stories co-producing. Jovicic and Tucker previously collaborated on features The Railway Man, Incendiary and Girl With a Pearl Earring.
UTA’s Independent Film group...
- 6/24/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Peter Webber ("Girl with a Pearl Earring," "Hannibal Rising") has signed on to direct a film adaptation of Daniel Mason's acclaimed historical novel "The Piano Tuner". Pre-production begins later this year.
Set in 1886 at the height of the British Empire, it follows a piano tuner who receives a strange request by the British War Office to deliver a rare grand piano to a legendary British Officer in the remote jungles of northeast Burma.
Gopi Sait, Sunaman Sood, Daria Jovicic and Rashaana Shah will produce.
Source: Screen...
Set in 1886 at the height of the British Empire, it follows a piano tuner who receives a strange request by the British War Office to deliver a rare grand piano to a legendary British Officer in the remote jungles of northeast Burma.
Gopi Sait, Sunaman Sood, Daria Jovicic and Rashaana Shah will produce.
Source: Screen...
- 6/30/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Set to go into pre-production later this year, the film is based on Daniel Mason’s acclaimed historical novel.
Peter Webber has signed on to direct The Piano Tuner.
Based on Daniel Mason’s acclaimed historical novel, the film will be produced by Mulberry Films partners Gopi Sait, Sunaman Sood and Rashaana Shah with Latitude Media’s Daria Jovicic.
Set in 1886, it follows a piano tuner who receives a strange request by the British War Office to deliver a rare grand piano to a legendary British Officer in the remot jungles of northeast Burma.
Webber commented: “Daria and I previously worked together on Girl with a Pearl Earring, and as a fan of Daniel Mason’s novel The Piano Tuner, I was delighted when she approached me and asked if I would direct a movie based on his book.
“The story has a distinct contemporary relevance as an early example of the globalising world we still...
Peter Webber has signed on to direct The Piano Tuner.
Based on Daniel Mason’s acclaimed historical novel, the film will be produced by Mulberry Films partners Gopi Sait, Sunaman Sood and Rashaana Shah with Latitude Media’s Daria Jovicic.
Set in 1886, it follows a piano tuner who receives a strange request by the British War Office to deliver a rare grand piano to a legendary British Officer in the remot jungles of northeast Burma.
Webber commented: “Daria and I previously worked together on Girl with a Pearl Earring, and as a fan of Daniel Mason’s novel The Piano Tuner, I was delighted when she approached me and asked if I would direct a movie based on his book.
“The story has a distinct contemporary relevance as an early example of the globalising world we still...
- 6/30/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Following yesterday's debut of the film's trailer, The Weinstein Company has announced that it has acquired Us rights to Jonathan Teplitzky.s The Railway Man , starring Academy Award-winner Colin Firth, Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgard, Sam Reid, Tanroh Ishida and Hiroyuki Sanada. Featuring a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, The Railway Man was produced by Paterson, Chris Brown and Bill Curbishley, and executive produced by Silver Reel.s Claudia Bluemhuber and Ian Hutchinson, Lionsgate UK.s Zygi Kamasa and Nick Manzi, Daria Jovicic and Anand Tucker. Based on a remarkable autobiography, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of...
- 9/11/2013
- Comingsoon.net
The 10-week shoot scheduled for Jonathan Teplitzky.s fourth feature, The Railway Man, starts today in Scotland, before moving to Thailand and Queensland.
When local distributor Transmission Films comes to market the official Australian/UK co-production next year their job will be made easier by the two Academy Award winners in the cast: Nicole Kidman, who won her Oscar for The Hours in 2003, and Firth, who won his for The King.s Speech in 2010.
The focus of The Railway Man is real-life British Army officer Eric Lomax who, years after he and thousands of other prisoners were forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during World War II, returns to Thailand to confront his tormentor Nagase Takashi.
Jeremy Irvine and Firth play Lomax at different times in his life and Hiroyuki Sanada plays Nagase. Kidman.s role is that of a woman who helps Lomax rid...
When local distributor Transmission Films comes to market the official Australian/UK co-production next year their job will be made easier by the two Academy Award winners in the cast: Nicole Kidman, who won her Oscar for The Hours in 2003, and Firth, who won his for The King.s Speech in 2010.
The focus of The Railway Man is real-life British Army officer Eric Lomax who, years after he and thousands of other prisoners were forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during World War II, returns to Thailand to confront his tormentor Nagase Takashi.
Jeremy Irvine and Firth play Lomax at different times in his life and Hiroyuki Sanada plays Nagase. Kidman.s role is that of a woman who helps Lomax rid...
- 4/30/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
Colin Firth is set to star in the WWII drama, The Railway Man. THR reports that the adaptation by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson for Lionsgate International is being sold at the Toronto Film Festival. The project is the first major investment from Daria Jovicic’s Latitude Media and will be distributed in the U.K. by Lionsgate UK.
Railway Man is based on "former British army officer Eric Lomax’s best-selling account of his torture by the Japanese during the construction of the “death railway” during World War II and his mission decades later to seek revenge on his tormentor." Jonathan Teplitzky is directing based on the adapted script by Boyce and Paterson. Paterson is also producing with Chris Brown, Bill Curbishley, while Lionsgate UK CEO Zygi Kamasa is executive producer.
Here is what Kamasa had to say in a statement:
“To have Colin Firth in such a...
Railway Man is based on "former British army officer Eric Lomax’s best-selling account of his torture by the Japanese during the construction of the “death railway” during World War II and his mission decades later to seek revenge on his tormentor." Jonathan Teplitzky is directing based on the adapted script by Boyce and Paterson. Paterson is also producing with Chris Brown, Bill Curbishley, while Lionsgate UK CEO Zygi Kamasa is executive producer.
Here is what Kamasa had to say in a statement:
“To have Colin Firth in such a...
- 9/11/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Production has begun on writer/director Jonathan Teplitzky’s film Burning Man in Sydney.
International sales are being handled by New York’s Filmbox, with a Scandinavian pre-sale (Svensk) already negotiated at Cannes.
British producer Andy Paterson shares the the production with Teplitzky. Executive producers are Daria Jovicic, Cedric Jeanson and Sam Tromans.
In Burning Man, Matthew Goode plays Tom, an English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach. He’s a man behaving badly, surrounded by women trying in their own ways to help him put his life back together. Those women include Bojana Novakovic, Rachel Griffiths, Essie Davis, Kerry Fox, Kate Beahan and Gia Carides.
The project received the financial support of Screen Australia and Screen Nsw and Standard Chartered Bank, with the Producer Offset as part of the financing model. It was developed through the Aurora program.
Transmission will release the film in Australia/Nz next year.
International sales are being handled by New York’s Filmbox, with a Scandinavian pre-sale (Svensk) already negotiated at Cannes.
British producer Andy Paterson shares the the production with Teplitzky. Executive producers are Daria Jovicic, Cedric Jeanson and Sam Tromans.
In Burning Man, Matthew Goode plays Tom, an English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach. He’s a man behaving badly, surrounded by women trying in their own ways to help him put his life back together. Those women include Bojana Novakovic, Rachel Griffiths, Essie Davis, Kerry Fox, Kate Beahan and Gia Carides.
The project received the financial support of Screen Australia and Screen Nsw and Standard Chartered Bank, with the Producer Offset as part of the financing model. It was developed through the Aurora program.
Transmission will release the film in Australia/Nz next year.
- 5/18/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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