Top brass at the 2015 trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) announced on Tuesday that the Oscar-nominated short film writer will serve as facilitator for this year’s Rbc Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion in September.
The fifth Rbc Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion will champion ten emerging filmmakers from the Caribbean and its diaspora and their feature film concepts.
Participants will be expected to develop a detailed treatment during the course and will pitch to a jury. The person adjudged to have presented the best project and pitch will win a cash prize of Tt$20,000, roughly equivalent to Usd $3,055.
Festival top brass will soon unveil the filmmakers selected for the Rbc Focus, which takes place from September 22-25.
Lazaridi was nominated for an Academy Award for her work on the 2001 WWII short drama One Day Crossing. Her 2011 feature Coming Up Roses starred Bernadette Peters and Peter Friedman and was directed by Lisa Albright.
She has consulted on projects for New Line and...
The fifth Rbc Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion will champion ten emerging filmmakers from the Caribbean and its diaspora and their feature film concepts.
Participants will be expected to develop a detailed treatment during the course and will pitch to a jury. The person adjudged to have presented the best project and pitch will win a cash prize of Tt$20,000, roughly equivalent to Usd $3,055.
Festival top brass will soon unveil the filmmakers selected for the Rbc Focus, which takes place from September 22-25.
Lazaridi was nominated for an Academy Award for her work on the 2001 WWII short drama One Day Crossing. Her 2011 feature Coming Up Roses starred Bernadette Peters and Peter Friedman and was directed by Lisa Albright.
She has consulted on projects for New Line and...
- 7/21/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Imagine Gypsy’s Mama Rose transplanted to a depressed New England town decades later and you have the flavor of Coming Up Roses, Lisa Albright’s debut feature starring Bernadette Peters, who actually played the role in a Broadway revival. Playing a failed musical theater actress struggling to raise her younger daughter under dire financial circumstances, the veteran actress provides a touch of blowsy glamour to this determinedly gritty indie. Set in 1985 in a crime-ridden New Hampshire town, the film depicts the plight of the unemployed Diane (Peters), who clings to her show business past even as she struggles to
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- 11/9/2012
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
2011 Woodstock Film Festival will be opened by Bruce Beresford's "Peace, Love and Misunderstanding" which is set to make its U.S. premiere, reports Variety. Catherine Keener and Jane Fonda star in the film. Also making their premieres is Lisa Albright's drama concerning a mother and daughter "Coming Up Roses," the documentary "Fat Cows Lean Cows" from helmer Meni Elias and "Another Happy Day"starring Ellen Barkin. "Giving Back," Meera Gandhi's humanitarianism documentary has a special screening where Mark Ruffalo, thanks to his anti-fracking community activism, is set to receive the Meera Gandhi Giving Back award.
- 8/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
2011 Woodstock Film Festival will be opened by Bruce Beresford's "Peace, Love and Misunderstanding" which is set to make its U.S. premiere, reports Variety. Catherine Keener and Jane Fonda star in the film. Also making their premieres is Lisa Albright's drama concerning a mother and daughter "Coming Up Roses," the documentary "Fat Cows Lean Cows" from helmer Meni Elias and "Another Happy Day"starring Ellen Barkin. "Giving Back," Meera Gandhi's humanitarianism documentary has a special screening where Mark Ruffalo, thanks to his anti-fracking community activism, is set to receive the Meera Gandhi Giving Back award.
- 8/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
2011 Woodstock Film Festival will be opened by Bruce Beresford's "Peace, Love and Misunderstanding" which is set to make its U.S. premiere, reports Variety. Catherine Keener and Jane Fonda star in the film. Also making their premieres is Lisa Albright's drama concerning a mother and daughter "Coming Up Roses," the documentary "Fat Cows Lean Cows" from helmer Meni Elias and "Another Happy Day"starring Ellen Barkin. "Giving Back," Meera Gandhi's humanitarianism documentary has a special screening where Mark Ruffalo, thanks to his anti-fracking community activism, is set to receive the Meera Gandhi Giving Back award.
- 8/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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