All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 2
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Liew Seng Tat aims higher with second feature
Malaysian writer/director Liew Seng Tat enjoyed a festival hit with his debut feature, Flower In The Pocket, which won the New Currents award and audience award at Pusan 2007 and a Tiger award at Rotterdam 2008.With his second feature, In What City Does It Live', he wants to make sure ...
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Content Republicto handleonline release of The Republic Of Love
Digital distribution company Content Republichas struck a dealwith The Works International to distribute Deepa Mehta's The Republic Of Love online in European territories including Benelux, Germany, Italy and France.Content Republic will release The Republic Of Love this spring as part of its recently announced deal with Babelgum as well as ...
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Poul, Wright to adapt Dews' Must Read After My Death
Alan Poul and Craig Wright have optioned the family story captured in documentary Must Read After My Death and plan to co-produce the feature film which Wright will write and Poul will direct.The documentary, directed by Morgan Dews, was released Friday (February 20) at New York's Quad Cinemas and in ...
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Olaf de Fleur breaks the ice
Olaf de Fleur says he has been through 'a good film school of dos and don'ts' in the past few busy years making a string of very different feature films. 'I've been working on quantity, just doing a lot of films for the past four or five years,' the Icelandic ...
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NewsAdam Yauch's indie music approach to film
Adam Yauch, co-founder of groundbreaking hip-hop group The Beastie Boys, is building on his experience and knowledge of the music world to create a new breed of film distribution company. In January 2008, he launched Oscilloscope Pictures, a full-service New York-based distributor.‘It’s an idea I’ve had for a ...
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Simon Ellis talks Dogging...and romance
Simon Ellis became one of the hottest rising talents of the UK film scene with his lauded short film, Soft, about a father and son coming to terms with bullying. That Bafta-nominated film won 35 festival prizes including best international short at Sundance 2008.For his first feature he isn't playing ...
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Lance Weiler's multi-screen ambitions
Many independent film-makers try to self-distribute their films or use new platforms; Lance Weiler has actually succeeded in grossing $5m from the self-distribution and digital dissemination of his past work.The Pennsylvania-based writer-director pioneered digital distribution with 1998's The Last Broadcast and 2006's Head Trauma and is now planning his most ...
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New Directors/New Films to open with Amreeka, close with Push
Cherien Dabis' Amreeka will open the New Directors/New Films 2009 programme presented by New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Amreeka is about a single mother and her teenage son who move from Ramallah to middle America.The series will have its first ever closing ...
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Joseph Phillips takes lead in UK family feature Halo Boy
Director Stephen Cookson is currently shooting family feature Halo Boy in London for CKM Entertainments.Joseph Phillips, a 16-year-old actor who played Michael in London's stage version of Billy Eliot, has taken the lead role in Halo Boy.Cookson says of his star: ''I was looking for not only someone who is ...
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Arthouse takes on Shulman doc Visual Acoustics
Arthouse Films has acquired North American and worldwide rights to feature documentary Visual Acoustics: The Modernism Of Julius Shulman.Eric Bricker directed the film, which explores the career of 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman, who works with human models and striking landscapes to explore how nature mixes with urban design. Dustin ...
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Middle east - First of the storytellers
Chadi Zeneddine is shouldering the expectations of many aspiring film-makers in the Arab world. The 30-year-old Lebanese film-maker has been tapped by Disney to write and direct The Last Of The Storytellers, the first Arabic-language feature backed by a US studio."It's about our stories now, we have our own fairy ...
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Profile: The International producer Chuck Roven
With a career spanning more than 25 years, producer Charles 'Chuck' Roven is not letting a huge hit like The Dark Knight sidetrack him from the kinds of films he has always enjoyed making.'After a hit like that, maybe there are more opportunities to select what I'll be doing next,' ...
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FeaturesPalestinian territories - bearing fruit
Najwa Najjar has first-hand experience of the Middle Eastern conflicts that inspired her debut narrativefeature, Pomegranates And Myrrh.
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United States - Welcome visitors
New York-based Visit Films has established itself as a growing boutique sales company for the kind of smaller-budget festival hits that can become lost in the international marketplace."In the environment we started the company in, we quickly filled a niche," says co-founder Ryan Kampe.That niche, however, can be "hard to ...
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United States - 7th heaven
Producers Allen Bain and Jesse Scolaro are keen to remember their humble roots even as their New York-based company The 7th Floor grows. "We want to be a company that helps people starting out in their careers, giving people opportunities they might not otherwise have," says Bain. "You could be ...
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Lyes Salem's Masquerades takes top prize in Dubai
The Dubai International Film Festival closed its fifth edition tonight with Lyes Salem's comedy Masquerades taking the top prize for best film in the Muhr Awards for Excellence In Arab Cinema. The French-Algerian production also won the festival's first FIPRESCI prize. Director Salem also stars in the tale of an ...
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Alexandra Maria Lara to star in groundbreaking Dubai-set drama
An international cast including Control and The Baader Meinhof Complex actress Alexandra Maria Lara, Bollywood rising star Sonu Sood, US-based, Egyptian-born comedian Ahmed Ahmed, The Tudors' Natalie Dormer and hip-hop starThe Narcicyst are lining up for City Of Life, a new feature film to shoot in Dubai.UAE national Saoud Al ...
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Dubai Film Market announces first deals
As the Dubai International Film Festival crossed its midway point, the inaugural Dubai Film Market (DFM) reported its first deals. The first sale of the market was Alchemy Films taking on Middle East rights to South African comedy Mr Bones 2, already a box-office hit at home. Gray Hofmeyr directs ...
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In Focus: Cinetic's new world
When Wayne Wang's feature The Princess Of Nebraska streamed for free on YouTube in mid-October, it was not a leak, it was the official digital release - and world premiere - of the film.The YouTube experiment, which attracted 220,000 views in the US (access from elsewhere was blocked), was one ...
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Dubai International Film Festival and Market opens
The fifth Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) opens today with Oliver Stone's W ., kicking off a week long programme that includes 181 films, 11 world premieres and runs parallel to the inaugural Dubai Film Market. Dubai Film Market For Ziad Yaghi, director of the Dubai Film Market, the market ...