Russian director Alexander Velidinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe Away was the big winner at the 4th Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff).
The tragi-comedy picked up the Grand Prix Golden Duke, voted for by the festival audience, and the International Jury’s Golden Duke for Best Film
The $4m production, which had screened to an enthusiastic capacity audience of over 1,200 in Odessa’s Festival Palace on Thursday evening, is being handled internationally by fledgling Russian sales outfit Antipode Film Sales & Distribution and will be released theatrically in Russia on 400 prints on November 7.
Last month, Velidinsky’s film won the Grand Prix and three other awards at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi.
The prize for Best Acting went to the female leads Lika Babluani and Mariam Bokeria of Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’s In Bloom, which won the main prize at Voices in Vologda two weeks ago. The Odessa...
The tragi-comedy picked up the Grand Prix Golden Duke, voted for by the festival audience, and the International Jury’s Golden Duke for Best Film
The $4m production, which had screened to an enthusiastic capacity audience of over 1,200 in Odessa’s Festival Palace on Thursday evening, is being handled internationally by fledgling Russian sales outfit Antipode Film Sales & Distribution and will be released theatrically in Russia on 400 prints on November 7.
Last month, Velidinsky’s film won the Grand Prix and three other awards at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi.
The prize for Best Acting went to the female leads Lika Babluani and Mariam Bokeria of Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’s In Bloom, which won the main prize at Voices in Vologda two weeks ago. The Odessa...
- 7/22/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Full marks to Ukrainian director Lubomir Levitski. He has clearly paid his dues watching American college-set horror films and mastered this particular sub-set of the horror world, both in terms of embracing the goofier conventions of the genre and building in some scares that while genuinely scary are every bit as much fun. Levitski is the man behind the camera for upcoming feature Unforgotten Shadows, a horror comedy due for release across the Cis later this month. We ran the first trailer for the film back in January and that has now been followed by a second effort that captures even more of the tongue in cheek tone of the film - it revolves around college kids trying to cage a demon awoken when one...
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- 6/7/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Director Lubomir Levitski is poised to have a very busy year. Early today we posted the trailer for his upcoming horror comedy Unforgotten Shadows, which is due for a June release in the Cis. And Levitski will have a second picture hitting screens in September, in the form of stylish crime comedy Pawn Shop.The story follows two young men who learn they have gained an inheritance but with one catch. It's being held in a pawn shop and the shop refuses to give up what is theirs. With the blend of grit and style Pawn Shop seems to nod back to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels era Guy Ritchie, which isn't a bad thing at all. Check the trailer below....
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- 1/30/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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