Twelve Hours Shoots In New York
Exclusive: Filming is underway in New York on the sophomore feature from writer-director Bandar Albuliwi, whose 2013 debut Peace After Marriage starred Succession and Ramy actress Hiam Abbas. Starring are Adam Budron (Sundance 2020 entry Wild Indian), newcomer Emma Eudes, Mauricio Bustamante (Little Men) and Louis Anthony Arias (Uncut Gems). Albuliwi produces with Budron and Faruk Ozerten. Albuliwi, who is also working on U.S. projects Juliet and A Brotherhood, told us: “Twelve Hours is a tale of an accidental encounter between two former lovers that rekindles feelings that have been laying dormant all these years. Shooting the movie on location during the Covid-19 pandemic in NYC while taking extreme precautions has proven to be both exhilarating and challenging at the same time. Many people have come up to us on the street and have told us how happy they were to see a film production shooting once again,...
Exclusive: Filming is underway in New York on the sophomore feature from writer-director Bandar Albuliwi, whose 2013 debut Peace After Marriage starred Succession and Ramy actress Hiam Abbas. Starring are Adam Budron (Sundance 2020 entry Wild Indian), newcomer Emma Eudes, Mauricio Bustamante (Little Men) and Louis Anthony Arias (Uncut Gems). Albuliwi produces with Budron and Faruk Ozerten. Albuliwi, who is also working on U.S. projects Juliet and A Brotherhood, told us: “Twelve Hours is a tale of an accidental encounter between two former lovers that rekindles feelings that have been laying dormant all these years. Shooting the movie on location during the Covid-19 pandemic in NYC while taking extreme precautions has proven to be both exhilarating and challenging at the same time. Many people have come up to us on the street and have told us how happy they were to see a film production shooting once again,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
What’s mostly a vérité document of lead character Tina’s (Carlie Guevara) trajectory towards chemically transitioning from male to female despite being an undocumented immigrant in an expensive city like New York, Flavio Alves’ The Garden Left Behind is also a rather potent expression of humanity’s collective dysphoria. Tina is at the center and her plight as a trans woman struggling to survive a world that sees her as “less than” is the main through-line, but Alves isn’t afraid to add to her story by shifting focus onto those who surround her—supportive and antagonistic figures alike. By doing this he’s able to play with our preconceptions of what these social dramas provide, using cinematic language to increase anxiety before ultimately choosing to diffuse or exacerbate our fears with action.
Alves and co-writer John Rotondo accomplish this with an intentional mirroring of characters for a better...
Alves and co-writer John Rotondo accomplish this with an intentional mirroring of characters for a better...
- 10/7/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Girls TV Show Teaser Trailers. Lena Dunham‘s Girls (2011) TV show teaser trailers, produced by Judd Apatow, star Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Chris Eigeman, Angelic Zambrana, and Jemima Kirke. Girls’ plot synopsis: “Created by and starring Lena Dunham (“Tiny Furniture”), the show is a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early 20s. Dunham wrote and directed the pilot of the series, which she executive produces along with Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner.”
Looks funny. I’ll be watching.
More on the Girls‘ production:
Created by Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) and executive produced by Dunham, Judd Apatow, and Jenni Konner…
And another writer’s opinion on Judd Apatow and the series:
it’s great to see the guy who once helped bring Lindsay Weir to life make his return to television with another hilariously uncomfortable series featuring a smart female lead.
Looks funny. I’ll be watching.
More on the Girls‘ production:
Created by Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) and executive produced by Dunham, Judd Apatow, and Jenni Konner…
And another writer’s opinion on Judd Apatow and the series:
it’s great to see the guy who once helped bring Lindsay Weir to life make his return to television with another hilariously uncomfortable series featuring a smart female lead.
- 12/18/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
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