As usual... These aren't necessarily recommendations; consider it more of an Fyi - films we've talked about on this site, that are now streaming on Netflix, that you might want to check out for yourselves. Without further ado, here's this week's list of 5: 1 - Acclaimed Venezuelan drama Hermano (or Brother), directed by Marcel Rasquin from a script penned by Rasquin and Rohan Jones. An Academy Awards Submission for Venezuela in 2011, the film focuses on the journey two brothers Daniel (Fernando Moreno) and Julio (Eliú Armas), take, as they struggle to become professional soccer players amidst slum life and tragedy. Here's its...
- 5/29/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The 2010 acclaimed Venezuelan film Hermano (Brother), directed by Marcel Rasquin from a script penned by Rasquin and Rohan Jones, will have a limited theatrical release starting Friday, August 24 at the AMC Empire 25 and Cinema Village theaters in New York City, and in several cities across the country including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, San Diego and San Francisco (see venue information below). Hermano, an Academy Awards Submission for Venezuela in 2011, focuses on the journey of brothers Daniel (Fernando Moreno) and Julio (Eliú Armas), who struggle to become professional soccer players amidst slum life and tragedy. The film won Best Feature at the 2011 Naples International...
- 8/1/2012
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
Good football action and an inside look at the Caracas barrios cannot save this film from a thin script and sport drama predictability. Writer/director Marcel Rasquin.s football dram (co-written with Rohan Jones) is a high-pitched look at life in one of the most dangerous cities of the world, Caracas, Venezuela. In truth, the whole city is not this dangerous, but the neighborhood of teenagers Daniel and Julio is treacherous. Street cred is the only thing that keeps kids alive and a lot of that street cred comes from how a young player handles himself on the football field. By the way, by football we mean what the Americans call soccer. In many countries of the world, people hang their...
- 7/29/2011
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
I love finding out about horror movies like Donna McRae's just-wrapped punk rock Australian indie Johnny Ghost.
The feature-length horror flick was written, directed, and produced by McRae, is about a professional female musician named Millicent who wants to get her old commemorative tattoo removed, which she got in her crazy, punk-rock filled youthful glory days. The ghosts of her past, however, won't let her go so easily.
This flick looks like it'll have tons of great music, punk references, artistic sentiment, and some horrible hidden skeletons. I sincerely hope so. The cast includes Anni Finsterer, Clara Pagone, Natalie Carr, Ian Scott, Catherine Hill, Dino Marnika, Tamara Searle, Rohan Jones and Si Francis. There's no release date yet - we'll keep you posted. In the meantime, watch this making-of/teaser:...
The feature-length horror flick was written, directed, and produced by McRae, is about a professional female musician named Millicent who wants to get her old commemorative tattoo removed, which she got in her crazy, punk-rock filled youthful glory days. The ghosts of her past, however, won't let her go so easily.
This flick looks like it'll have tons of great music, punk references, artistic sentiment, and some horrible hidden skeletons. I sincerely hope so. The cast includes Anni Finsterer, Clara Pagone, Natalie Carr, Ian Scott, Catherine Hill, Dino Marnika, Tamara Searle, Rohan Jones and Si Francis. There's no release date yet - we'll keep you posted. In the meantime, watch this making-of/teaser:...
- 6/15/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Foreign film specialists Music Box Films have grabbed the rights to Marcel Rasquin's directorial debut - a sport-themed drama where the two exits for a better life are either making the team or joining another "sort" of team. Considering that the field is rather strong this year, Brother (Hermano) -- this year's Venezuelan submission for the Foreign Language Oscar, does appear to be a long-shot for a shortlist nomination. Gist: Written by Rohan Jones and Rasquin, in the most dangerous place in the world, two brothers dream of salvation, by kicking goals out of there. On this pitch, life is on the line. Worth Noting: The film was accepted in what we considered the second tier of the top film festivals on the circuit (top 20 to 40 range) Moscow Film Festival, Shanghai Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival and São Paulo International Film Festivals. Do We Care?: A slightly different...
- 12/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The soccer film Hermanos, written by Melbourne-based Rohan Jones, is currently the number four film at the box office in Venezuela.
“One of the reasons I went overseas was to get a film up. The process to do so here, is limited by imagination,” Jones told Encore.
Jones met director Marcel Raquin at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2003, when Rasquin was an international student.
“I helped him on all his films and we became good friends. Then I went to Venezuela to write three times, from 2005 to 2008. The original was written in English – which I have the rights to make into a film,” he said.
According to Jones, the idea for the script came from a story Raquin told him on the way back from dropping some friends off at Melbourne airport.
“He told me about a protest in Caracas where two factions came head to head on a freeway overpass.
“One of the reasons I went overseas was to get a film up. The process to do so here, is limited by imagination,” Jones told Encore.
Jones met director Marcel Raquin at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2003, when Rasquin was an international student.
“I helped him on all his films and we became good friends. Then I went to Venezuela to write three times, from 2005 to 2008. The original was written in English – which I have the rights to make into a film,” he said.
According to Jones, the idea for the script came from a story Raquin told him on the way back from dropping some friends off at Melbourne airport.
“He told me about a protest in Caracas where two factions came head to head on a freeway overpass.
- 7/14/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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