Filmmaker Raghuvir Joshi’s movie ‘Sahela’, an Australian production in English, set to make its South Asian premiere at the Jio Mami Mumbai International Film Festival 2023 is inspired by his own lived experience of having discovered his sexuality post-marriage.
“It was a big milestone In my life and I had to express it through the medium of film. I directed a short film called Yaman a few years ago which then became the proof of concept for the feature film, ‘Sahela’,” he tells Ians.
He however adds that it would be unfair to call the feature film an ‘extension’ of ‘Yaman’ as the story and characters, and the milieu itself is very different. “But yes, the emotional core is the same, of love and loss.”
‘Sahela’, shot in Australia, boasts of a cast including Antonio Aakeel and Anula Navlekar in lead roles along with Sheeba Chaddha, Vipin Sharma, Harish Patel,...
“It was a big milestone In my life and I had to express it through the medium of film. I directed a short film called Yaman a few years ago which then became the proof of concept for the feature film, ‘Sahela’,” he tells Ians.
He however adds that it would be unfair to call the feature film an ‘extension’ of ‘Yaman’ as the story and characters, and the milieu itself is very different. “But yes, the emotional core is the same, of love and loss.”
‘Sahela’, shot in Australia, boasts of a cast including Antonio Aakeel and Anula Navlekar in lead roles along with Sheeba Chaddha, Vipin Sharma, Harish Patel,...
- 11/4/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Filmmaker Raghuvir Joshi’s movie ‘Sahela’, an Australian production in English, set to make its South Asian premiere at the Jio Mami Mumbai International Film Festival 2023 is inspired by his own lived experience of having discovered his sexuality post-marriage.
“It was a big milestone In my life and I had to express it through the medium of film. I directed a short film called Yaman a few years ago which then became the proof of concept for the feature film, ‘Sahela’,” he tells Ians.
He however adds that it would be unfair to call the feature film an ‘extension’ of ‘Yaman’ as the story and characters, and the milieu itself is very different. “But yes, the emotional core is the same, of love and loss.”
‘Sahela’, shot in Australia, boasts of a cast including Antonio Aakeel and Anula Navlekar in lead roles along with Sheeba Chaddha, Vipin Sharma, Harish Patel,...
“It was a big milestone In my life and I had to express it through the medium of film. I directed a short film called Yaman a few years ago which then became the proof of concept for the feature film, ‘Sahela’,” he tells Ians.
He however adds that it would be unfair to call the feature film an ‘extension’ of ‘Yaman’ as the story and characters, and the milieu itself is very different. “But yes, the emotional core is the same, of love and loss.”
‘Sahela’, shot in Australia, boasts of a cast including Antonio Aakeel and Anula Navlekar in lead roles along with Sheeba Chaddha, Vipin Sharma, Harish Patel,...
- 11/4/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Robin Wright and Billy Bob Thornton are set to star in a thriller from director Ben Young called “Where All Light Tends to Go,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Bankside Films will be introducing the movie to buyers and production is scheduled for November.
Hopper Penn also stars in the film, which comes from a script by “Appaloosa” writer Robert Knott and is based on a 2015 novel of the same name by David Joy.
“Where All Light Tends to Go” is set in the Appalachian Mountains and is a thriller about a boy whose father is a domineering and violent crime lord, but when he meets the girl of his dreams and looks to escape his father’s control, he has to go head to head with his father who will stop at nothing to keep control.
Robin Wright will also produce “Where All Light Tends...
Bankside Films will be introducing the movie to buyers and production is scheduled for November.
Hopper Penn also stars in the film, which comes from a script by “Appaloosa” writer Robert Knott and is based on a 2015 novel of the same name by David Joy.
“Where All Light Tends to Go” is set in the Appalachian Mountains and is a thriller about a boy whose father is a domineering and violent crime lord, but when he meets the girl of his dreams and looks to escape his father’s control, he has to go head to head with his father who will stop at nothing to keep control.
Robin Wright will also produce “Where All Light Tends...
- 9/2/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Wright and Hopper Penn are set to star in “Where All Light Tends to Go.” Bankside Films has boarded sales on the film, which will be directed by Ben Young.
The screenplay was written by Robert Knott (“Appaloosa”), based on the novel written by David Joy. Production is scheduled for November.
Set in the Appalachian Mountains, “Where All Light Tends to Go” is a tense thriller about a family dominated by a crime lord who controls his family and his business with his fists. When his son meets the girl of his dreams, desperately wanting to escape the life he is expected to lead and freeing himself from the clutches of his father, he is forced to go head to head with the terrifying man who will stop at nothing to ensure loyalty from all of those around him.
Young said: “Very rarely do words jump...
The screenplay was written by Robert Knott (“Appaloosa”), based on the novel written by David Joy. Production is scheduled for November.
Set in the Appalachian Mountains, “Where All Light Tends to Go” is a tense thriller about a family dominated by a crime lord who controls his family and his business with his fists. When his son meets the girl of his dreams, desperately wanting to escape the life he is expected to lead and freeing himself from the clutches of his father, he is forced to go head to head with the terrifying man who will stop at nothing to ensure loyalty from all of those around him.
Young said: “Very rarely do words jump...
- 9/2/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
John Huston’s classic “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) echoes through Roderick MacKay’s feature debut “The Furnace” which premiered at last year’s Venice section Orizzonti, before heading on a festival tour with the final stop at Karlovy Vary, where we caught it. Both films are the stories of gold and greed, but the key difference between them are their milieus and the differences between the American and the Australian use of western genre tropes.
In America, westerns were created to preserve the myth of the hardy pioneers that fought the savage Natives for the land and have pushed the frontiers of the so-called civilised world from one ocean to another. Only in the New Hollywood era, the revisionist westerns appeared aimed at debunking the myths and used as the metaphorical canvas to expose the American imperial politics of the 20th century. In Australia, however, the western setting...
In America, westerns were created to preserve the myth of the hardy pioneers that fought the savage Natives for the land and have pushed the frontiers of the so-called civilised world from one ocean to another. Only in the New Hollywood era, the revisionist westerns appeared aimed at debunking the myths and used as the metaphorical canvas to expose the American imperial politics of the 20th century. In Australia, however, the western setting...
- 9/1/2021
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
The producers and funding bodies behind “The Furnace” took quite a chance when they agreed to back Roderick MacKay in his debut feature, yet clearly the young writer-director knows how to sell his vision just as well as he knows how to make a movie. Set in the deserts of Western Australia in the late 19th century, this ambitious, ethnically diverse and visually dramatic Western about an Afghani camel driver and a hard-bitten gold thief in the outback is a classic oater on every level, reminiscent of the more sensitive Westerns of the 1970s in which natives are accorded dignity and depth and moral quandaries aren’t black and white. Premiering in the Horizons section at Venice, the film combines racial sensitivity with good old-fashioned storytelling, which should be a winning competition on big screens at home but also abroad.
It opens in 1897, when a title explains that Western Australia...
It opens in 1897, when a title explains that Western Australia...
- 9/16/2020
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Furnace.’
Roderick MacKay’s debut feature The Furnace has been hailed as a compelling, ambitious and meticulously researched exploration of a little-known slice of Australian history following the world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Critics praised the performances of Egyptian actor Ahmed Malek as Hanif, a wide-eyed young Afghan cameleer, and David Wenham as a shifty gold prospector.
DOPs Michael McDermott and Bonnie Elliott’s camerawork was lauded for capturing the ancient landscapes of the Western Australian interior, as were Mark Bradshaw’s score and production designer Clayton Jauncey’s recreation of the gold rush town Mount Magnet in its infancy.
Produced by Timothy White and Tenille Kennedy, the 1890s drama co-starring Jay Ryan, Erik Thomson, Kaushik Das, Baykali Ganambarr, Trevor Jamieson, Mahesh Jadu and Samson Coulter screened in the festival’s Horizons section on Saturday.
The plot follows Malek’s Hanif and Wenham’s Mal who...
Roderick MacKay’s debut feature The Furnace has been hailed as a compelling, ambitious and meticulously researched exploration of a little-known slice of Australian history following the world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Critics praised the performances of Egyptian actor Ahmed Malek as Hanif, a wide-eyed young Afghan cameleer, and David Wenham as a shifty gold prospector.
DOPs Michael McDermott and Bonnie Elliott’s camerawork was lauded for capturing the ancient landscapes of the Western Australian interior, as were Mark Bradshaw’s score and production designer Clayton Jauncey’s recreation of the gold rush town Mount Magnet in its infancy.
Produced by Timothy White and Tenille Kennedy, the 1890s drama co-starring Jay Ryan, Erik Thomson, Kaushik Das, Baykali Ganambarr, Trevor Jamieson, Mahesh Jadu and Samson Coulter screened in the festival’s Horizons section on Saturday.
The plot follows Malek’s Hanif and Wenham’s Mal who...
- 9/6/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Cinema has long provided a vivid canvas for Australian cinema to confront the country’s history of racial conflict, but there are many more stories to tell. Recent entries such as Warwick Thornton’s “Sweet Country” and Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale” capture the simmering anger and resentment between white settlers and the Indigenous people in their crosshairs in disturbing detail. Set against the backdrop of sprawling rocky landscapes, these brutal Westerns give the genre renewed immediacy for a country working through the demons of the past through the stories it offers up.
“The Furnace” marks the latest compelling entry to this emerging subgenre, and while writer-director Roderick MacKay’s first feature hews to plenty of formulaic twists, .
A tense and bloody chase across the Western Australian desert set against the 1890s Gold Rush, “The Furnace” focuses on the little-known plight of a “Ghan” cameleer — one of many Muslim and...
“The Furnace” marks the latest compelling entry to this emerging subgenre, and while writer-director Roderick MacKay’s first feature hews to plenty of formulaic twists, .
A tense and bloody chase across the Western Australian desert set against the 1890s Gold Rush, “The Furnace” focuses on the little-known plight of a “Ghan” cameleer — one of many Muslim and...
- 9/4/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Production start set for Manila, Philippines, in August.
Busy Australian star Sam Worthington has signed up for the thriller CounterPlay (formerly Escape), which Blue Fox Entertainment is selling at the Efm and marks the first international feature produced by Mam Media in association with BlackOps Studios Asia.
Worthington, whose credits include the Avatar franchise and Terminator Salvation and just signed to Alphas, will play a former kidnap and hostage negotiator who comes out of retirement to help get a young man accused of drug trafficking out of the Philippines and back to Australia.
CounterPlay is scheduled to shoot in Manila in the Philippines in August.
Busy Australian star Sam Worthington has signed up for the thriller CounterPlay (formerly Escape), which Blue Fox Entertainment is selling at the Efm and marks the first international feature produced by Mam Media in association with BlackOps Studios Asia.
Worthington, whose credits include the Avatar franchise and Terminator Salvation and just signed to Alphas, will play a former kidnap and hostage negotiator who comes out of retirement to help get a young man accused of drug trafficking out of the Philippines and back to Australia.
CounterPlay is scheduled to shoot in Manila in the Philippines in August.
- 2/21/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Filipino Director Pedring A Lopez has made quite a name for himself with such projects as Nialang/The Entity which pitted a Manilla Cop and a Yakuza Princess played by former Av superstar Maria Ozawa against a soul-stealing demon, and the slick widely acclaimed female driven action thriller Maria, starring Christine Reyes as a former assassin whose past life comes back to haunt her and brings her back to battle. The film was a huge success on Netflix around the world and he's currently developing a sequel amongst other projects. Now he's set to make his English language International Debut with the high octane action thriller Escape, shooting in the Philippines early 2020 with Producers Scott Rosenfelt and Michael McDermott. When a teenager in the Philippines goes missing, his mother...
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- 11/27/2019
- Screen Anarchy
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Hounds of Love star Emma Booth with Patrick Brammall in Glitch.
Australian cinematographer Mick McDermott has described Ben Young.s debut feature Hounds of Love, starring Stepen Curry and Emma Booth, as the .surprise package of the year. in Australian film.
The project, which is now in production in Western Australia, from writer/director, Young and producer Melissa Kelly, is a thriller drawn from a number of infamous local and international crimes.
Supported by Screen Australia and ScreenWest, is also stars Susie Porter, Harrison Gilbertson, Ashleigh Cummings and Damien de Montemas.
McDermott told If he had a look at the rough edit of about 40 per cent of a week.s scenes and was very impressed.
.It's going to be an intense and challenging journey for the audience,. he says. .
.The performances are very powerful. .Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings and Stephen Curry really dug deep with their roles and were very brave.
Hounds of Love star Emma Booth with Patrick Brammall in Glitch.
Australian cinematographer Mick McDermott has described Ben Young.s debut feature Hounds of Love, starring Stepen Curry and Emma Booth, as the .surprise package of the year. in Australian film.
The project, which is now in production in Western Australia, from writer/director, Young and producer Melissa Kelly, is a thriller drawn from a number of infamous local and international crimes.
Supported by Screen Australia and ScreenWest, is also stars Susie Porter, Harrison Gilbertson, Ashleigh Cummings and Damien de Montemas.
McDermott told If he had a look at the rough edit of about 40 per cent of a week.s scenes and was very impressed.
.It's going to be an intense and challenging journey for the audience,. he says. .
.The performances are very powerful. .Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings and Stephen Curry really dug deep with their roles and were very brave.
- 4/7/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
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Hounds of Love star Emma Booth with Patrick Brammall in Glitch.
Australian cinematographer Mick McDermott has described Ben Young.s debut feature Hounds of Love, starring Stepen Curry and Emma Booth, as the .surprise package of the year. in Australian film.
The project, which is now in production in Western Australia, from writer/director, Young and producer Melissa Kelly, is a thriller drawn from a number of infamous local and international crimes.
Supported by Screen Australia and ScreenWest, is also stars Susie Porter, Harrison Gilbertson, Ashleigh Cummings and Damien de Montemas.
McDermott told If he had a look at the rough edit of about 40 per cent of a week.s scenes and was very impressed.
.It's going to be an intense and challenging journey for the audience,. he says. .
.The performances are very powerful. .Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings and Stephen Curry really dug deep with their roles and were very brave.
Hounds of Love star Emma Booth with Patrick Brammall in Glitch.
Australian cinematographer Mick McDermott has described Ben Young.s debut feature Hounds of Love, starring Stepen Curry and Emma Booth, as the .surprise package of the year. in Australian film.
The project, which is now in production in Western Australia, from writer/director, Young and producer Melissa Kelly, is a thriller drawn from a number of infamous local and international crimes.
Supported by Screen Australia and ScreenWest, is also stars Susie Porter, Harrison Gilbertson, Ashleigh Cummings and Damien de Montemas.
McDermott told If he had a look at the rough edit of about 40 per cent of a week.s scenes and was very impressed.
.It's going to be an intense and challenging journey for the audience,. he says. .
.The performances are very powerful. .Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings and Stephen Curry really dug deep with their roles and were very brave.
- 4/7/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
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