Exclusive: Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster, an exec producer on upcoming Cannes ensemble comedy Rumours, has called the film “stoopid and hilarious and wonderful” as the production reveals an official first look.
Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander star with Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira and Zlatko Burić star in the movie that follows seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Some sites have been reporting the provisional statement is about the climate crisis, which we hear is inaccurate.
The intriguing official first image (above) shows Roy Dupuis as the Prime Minister of Canada and Alicia Vikander as the President of the European Commission. The other roles are being kept under wraps.
Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander star with Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira and Zlatko Burić star in the movie that follows seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Some sites have been reporting the provisional statement is about the climate crisis, which we hear is inaccurate.
The intriguing official first image (above) shows Roy Dupuis as the Prime Minister of Canada and Alicia Vikander as the President of the European Commission. The other roles are being kept under wraps.
- 4/16/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Cate Blanchett is taking on the U.N. by way of Hillary Clinton meets Margaret Thatcher garb in a first look at upcoming comedy “Rumours.”
The film is written and directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, with Bleecker Street distributing. While no release date has been announced yet, the feature is expected to be released in 2024, and debuted first look footage as part of Bleecker Street’s 10-year anniversary reel.
Oscar winner Blanchett co-stars alongside fellow Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander, Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira, and Zlatko Burić. “Rumours” follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Ari Aster executive produces through his and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg production company,...
The film is written and directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, with Bleecker Street distributing. While no release date has been announced yet, the feature is expected to be released in 2024, and debuted first look footage as part of Bleecker Street’s 10-year anniversary reel.
Oscar winner Blanchett co-stars alongside fellow Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander, Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira, and Zlatko Burić. “Rumours” follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Ari Aster executive produces through his and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg production company,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) has been set to star opposite Cate Blanchett in Rumours, a comedy from writer-directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson (The Green Fog), which Bleecker Street has snapped up for release in U.S. theaters this year.
The film follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Also featuring in a top role in the pic, which recently wrapped production in Hungary, is Genie Award winner Roy Dupuis (Shake Hands with the Devil). Additional cast includes Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Knock at the Cabin), Rolando Ravello (Perfect Strangers), Takehiro Hira (Gran Turismo), and Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness).
Hailing from Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg,...
The film follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Also featuring in a top role in the pic, which recently wrapped production in Hungary, is Genie Award winner Roy Dupuis (Shake Hands with the Devil). Additional cast includes Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Knock at the Cabin), Rolando Ravello (Perfect Strangers), Takehiro Hira (Gran Turismo), and Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness).
Hailing from Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Protagonist handles international sales.
Bleecker Street has acquired the ensemble comedy Rumours featuring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Roy Dupuis.
Canadian auteur Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson co-wrote and co-directed, recently wrapping production in Hungary.
Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira, and Zlatko Burić round out the cast on the story of the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit who become lost in the woods while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Bleecker Street is planning a 2024 theatrical release after Kent Sanderson...
Bleecker Street has acquired the ensemble comedy Rumours featuring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Roy Dupuis.
Canadian auteur Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson co-wrote and co-directed, recently wrapping production in Hungary.
Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira, and Zlatko Burić round out the cast on the story of the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit who become lost in the woods while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Bleecker Street is planning a 2024 theatrical release after Kent Sanderson...
- 1/11/2024
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The trailer for The CW’s new procedural introduces Victoria and Darby Spencer who are, despite the show’s title, definitely not sisters. The Spencer Sisters stars Lea Thompson (Back to the Future) as Victoria, a bestselling author and mom of Darby. Both mother and daughter share an interest in solving crimes, and together they take on cases that stump the police.
Episode one, “The Scholar’s Snafu,” will air on October 4, 2023. New season one episodes arrive on Wednesdays at 9pm Et/Pt.
Joining Lea Thompson and Stacey Farber in what’s described as a “female-led, lighthearted procedural” are:
Thomas Antony Olajide (Learn To Swim) as Zane Graham, Darby’s high school best friend and local cop. Edward Ruttle (Arctic Air) as Dr. Lucas Collins, Darby’s high school flame. Husein Madhavji (Saving Hope) as Alastair Dhumal, Victoria’s It Consultant (a.k.a. hacker). Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves (Sort Of) as Sarita Stark,...
Episode one, “The Scholar’s Snafu,” will air on October 4, 2023. New season one episodes arrive on Wednesdays at 9pm Et/Pt.
Joining Lea Thompson and Stacey Farber in what’s described as a “female-led, lighthearted procedural” are:
Thomas Antony Olajide (Learn To Swim) as Zane Graham, Darby’s high school best friend and local cop. Edward Ruttle (Arctic Air) as Dr. Lucas Collins, Darby’s high school flame. Husein Madhavji (Saving Hope) as Alastair Dhumal, Victoria’s It Consultant (a.k.a. hacker). Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves (Sort Of) as Sarita Stark,...
- 9/30/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Last year, director Rebekah McKendry impressed our reviewer Tyler Nichols with the horror film Glorious, which took place in a rest stop bathroom. (You can read Tyler’s 8/10 review at This Link.) Now McKendry has made another “supernatural happenings in a confined location” horror film called Elevator Game, and it’s going to be released through the Shudder streaming service very soon… just not as soon as we had previously heard. Elevator Game was once set to start streaming on August 11th, but its release date has since shifted back to September 15th. And with that date just over a month away, a trailer has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.
Elevator Game will be available for Shudder subscribers in the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. It will also stream on AMC+ in some areas.
Michael Goi (Megan Is Missing) was originally attached to direct the film,...
Elevator Game will be available for Shudder subscribers in the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. It will also stream on AMC+ in some areas.
Michael Goi (Megan Is Missing) was originally attached to direct the film,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The CW has released trailers for its new series for the 2023-24 season: the AMC Studios-produced drama 61st Street; Canadian series Children Ruin Everything, Run the Burbs, Son of a Critch, The Spencer Sisters and Sullivan’s Crossing; UK series Everyone Else Burns; documentary film series I Am; reality series Fboy Island; and German eco-thriller drama series The Swarm. You can read about each and watch below.
61St Street
Produced by AMC Studios. From Peter Moffat, J. David Shanks and Outlier Society and executive producers Moffat, Shanks, Michael B. Jordan, Alana Mayo, Jeff Freilich, Hilary Salmon. The propulsive thriller courses through the dark heart of the infamous Chicago criminal justice system as police and prosecutors investigate a deadly drug bust that threatens to unravel the police department’s code of silence. Cast includes Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Mark O’Brien, Holt McCallany, Tosin Cole, Andrene Ward-Hammond and Bentley Green.
Children Ruin Everything...
61St Street
Produced by AMC Studios. From Peter Moffat, J. David Shanks and Outlier Society and executive producers Moffat, Shanks, Michael B. Jordan, Alana Mayo, Jeff Freilich, Hilary Salmon. The propulsive thriller courses through the dark heart of the infamous Chicago criminal justice system as police and prosecutors investigate a deadly drug bust that threatens to unravel the police department’s code of silence. Cast includes Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Mark O’Brien, Holt McCallany, Tosin Cole, Andrene Ward-Hammond and Bentley Green.
Children Ruin Everything...
- 5/18/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The CW has been busy north of the border.
The network has picked up The Spencer Sisters, a Canadian drama starring Caroline in the City star Lea Thompson and Superman & Lois’ Stacey Farber, for its fall lineup.
It is the latest Canadian series that it has acquired, this time from eOne, as the Nexstar-owned company’s scripted strategy becomes a little clearer.
The Spencer Sisters, which aired its first 10-part earlier this year on CTV (see trailer below), follows a mother and daughter duo who team up to start a private detective agency. It pairs mystery novelist Victoria Spencer (Thompson) and her daughter Darby Spencer (Farber) who are mistaken as sisters as they tackle puzzling cases.
Related: ‘Run The Burbs’, ‘Moonshine’, ‘Bump’ Season 2 Among Additions To The CW’s Summer Programming Slate
It also stars Thomas Antony Olajide, Edward Ruttle, Husein Madhavji, Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves, Rodrigo Massa, Kaitlyn Leeb and Adam Hurtig.
The network has picked up The Spencer Sisters, a Canadian drama starring Caroline in the City star Lea Thompson and Superman & Lois’ Stacey Farber, for its fall lineup.
It is the latest Canadian series that it has acquired, this time from eOne, as the Nexstar-owned company’s scripted strategy becomes a little clearer.
The Spencer Sisters, which aired its first 10-part earlier this year on CTV (see trailer below), follows a mother and daughter duo who team up to start a private detective agency. It pairs mystery novelist Victoria Spencer (Thompson) and her daughter Darby Spencer (Farber) who are mistaken as sisters as they tackle puzzling cases.
Related: ‘Run The Burbs’, ‘Moonshine’, ‘Bump’ Season 2 Among Additions To The CW’s Summer Programming Slate
It also stars Thomas Antony Olajide, Edward Ruttle, Husein Madhavji, Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves, Rodrigo Massa, Kaitlyn Leeb and Adam Hurtig.
- 5/11/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Last year, director Rebekah McKendry impressed our reviewer Tyler Nichols with the horror film Glorious, which took place in a rest stop bathroom. (You can read Tyler’s 8/10 review at This Link.) Now McKendry has made another “supernatural happenings in a confined location” horror film called Elevator Game, and Deadline reports that Elevator Game is going to be released through the Shudder streaming service, just like Glorious was!
Elevator Game will be available for Shudder subscribers in the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand to stream as of August 11th. It will also stream on AMC+ in some areas.
Michael Goi (Megan Is Missing) was originally attached to direct the film, but by the time production began McKendry was at the helm. Scripted by Travis Seppala, Elevator Game centers on socially awkward teenager Ryan, who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game...
Elevator Game will be available for Shudder subscribers in the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand to stream as of August 11th. It will also stream on AMC+ in some areas.
Michael Goi (Megan Is Missing) was originally attached to direct the film, but by the time production began McKendry was at the helm. Scripted by Travis Seppala, Elevator Game centers on socially awkward teenager Ryan, who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game...
- 4/14/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Cameras are rolling in Winnipeg on supernatural horror feature Elevator Game, with a new director onboard. Production began this month with Rebekah McKendry (Glorious) replaced Michael Goi on the film, which is based on the online phenomenon of the same name.
Fearworks Production is producing in association with Amp, Buffalo Gal Pictures, Head Gear Films and Metrol Technology. It’s being produced with the participation of Manitoba Film & Music and producers are Ed Elbert (Anna And The King) and Stefan Brunner (Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance) for Fearworks and James Norrie for Amp.
Elevator Game follows socially awkward teenager Ryan, who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game’ — a ritual conducted in an elevator, in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules that can be found online. Ignoring warnings, he resolves to follow and find her.
Fearworks Production is producing in association with Amp, Buffalo Gal Pictures, Head Gear Films and Metrol Technology. It’s being produced with the participation of Manitoba Film & Music and producers are Ed Elbert (Anna And The King) and Stefan Brunner (Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance) for Fearworks and James Norrie for Amp.
Elevator Game follows socially awkward teenager Ryan, who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game’ — a ritual conducted in an elevator, in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules that can be found online. Ignoring warnings, he resolves to follow and find her.
- 6/9/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
United Artist Releasing has set a limited theatrical release for Sean Penn’s Cannes Film Festival premiere Flag Day for Aug. 13.
The movie, which we told you about on Friday, was scooped up by MGM and stars Penn with his daughter Dylan Penn, in what could be a career-making role.
The pic, written by Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth is adapted from Jennifer Vogel’s memoir Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. Dylan Penn plays Vogel across two decades as she comes of age while navigating a fraught relationship with her beloved, career criminal father John Vogel, played by Sean Penn.
Katheryn Winnick stars as Vogel’s mother Patty. Also starring are Josh Brolin, Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble and Hopper Jack Penn.
The pic is produced by Golden Globe winner William Horberg, Oscar nominee Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin. Original songs are by Cat Power,...
The movie, which we told you about on Friday, was scooped up by MGM and stars Penn with his daughter Dylan Penn, in what could be a career-making role.
The pic, written by Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth is adapted from Jennifer Vogel’s memoir Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. Dylan Penn plays Vogel across two decades as she comes of age while navigating a fraught relationship with her beloved, career criminal father John Vogel, played by Sean Penn.
Katheryn Winnick stars as Vogel’s mother Patty. Also starring are Josh Brolin, Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble and Hopper Jack Penn.
The pic is produced by Golden Globe winner William Horberg, Oscar nominee Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin. Original songs are by Cat Power,...
- 6/15/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Sean Penn is set to direct and star in the conman drama “Flag Day” alongside his daughter Dylan Penn, his son Hopper Penn, Josh Brolin and Miles Teller.
The cast includes two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (“Fosse/Verdon”), Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, and Katheryn Winnick (“Vikings”).
Jez Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow”) wrote the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” “Flag Day” is described an illuminating portrait of a daughter struggling to overcome the loving yet dark legacy of her conman father.
Producers are William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin. Production companies are Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde Is Hungry Films.
Rocket Science and Wild Bunch will executive produce and are handling international sales, with CAA Media Finance, which arranged financing for the film, representing the U.S. and China rights.
The cast includes two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (“Fosse/Verdon”), Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, and Katheryn Winnick (“Vikings”).
Jez Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow”) wrote the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” “Flag Day” is described an illuminating portrait of a daughter struggling to overcome the loving yet dark legacy of her conman father.
Producers are William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin. Production companies are Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde Is Hungry Films.
Rocket Science and Wild Bunch will executive produce and are handling international sales, with CAA Media Finance, which arranged financing for the film, representing the U.S. and China rights.
- 6/19/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Sean Penn is set to direct and star in “Flag Day” opposite his daughter Dylan Penn, Josh Brolin and Miles Teller.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn and Katheryn Winnick will also star in the film on which principal photography will begin this week.
Tony Award-winning playwright Jez Butterworth wrote the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Film-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.”
Also Read: Sean Penn Says 'Spirit' of #MeToo Movement 'Is to Divide Men and Women' (Video)
“Flag Day” is the story of a daughter struggling to overcome the legacy of her con-man father. William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin will produce the film, which is a Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde is Hungry Films production. Christelle Conan, Anders Erdén, Peter Touche, Phyllis Laing, Devan Towers, Thorsten Schumacher, Vincent Maraval,...
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn and Katheryn Winnick will also star in the film on which principal photography will begin this week.
Tony Award-winning playwright Jez Butterworth wrote the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Film-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.”
Also Read: Sean Penn Says 'Spirit' of #MeToo Movement 'Is to Divide Men and Women' (Video)
“Flag Day” is the story of a daughter struggling to overcome the legacy of her con-man father. William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin will produce the film, which is a Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde is Hungry Films production. Christelle Conan, Anders Erdén, Peter Touche, Phyllis Laing, Devan Towers, Thorsten Schumacher, Vincent Maraval,...
- 6/19/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Shoot is under way on Sean Penn-directed feature drama Flag Day, in which Penn will star alongside daughter Dylan Penn (Elvis & Nixon).
The strong supporting cast joining the production includes Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men), Norbert Leo Butz (Fair Game), Dale Dickey (Hell Or High Water), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky), Bailey Noble (True Blood), Hopper Penn (War Machine), Miles Teller (Whiplash), and Katheryn Winnick (Vikings).
Jez Butterworth (Edge Of Tomorrow) has penned the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir Film-Flam Man: The True Story Of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. Based on a true story, the long-gestating film is a portrait of a daughter struggling to overcome the loving but dark legacy of her con man father.
William Horberg (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Jon Kilik (Babel) and Fernando Sulichin (Snowden) are producing the feature, which is a Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde Is Hungry Films production.
The strong supporting cast joining the production includes Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men), Norbert Leo Butz (Fair Game), Dale Dickey (Hell Or High Water), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky), Bailey Noble (True Blood), Hopper Penn (War Machine), Miles Teller (Whiplash), and Katheryn Winnick (Vikings).
Jez Butterworth (Edge Of Tomorrow) has penned the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir Film-Flam Man: The True Story Of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. Based on a true story, the long-gestating film is a portrait of a daughter struggling to overcome the loving but dark legacy of her con man father.
William Horberg (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Jon Kilik (Babel) and Fernando Sulichin (Snowden) are producing the feature, which is a Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde Is Hungry Films production.
- 6/19/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Rocket Science, Wild Bunch handle international
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Tony...
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Tony...
- 6/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rocket Science, Wild Bunch handle international sales.
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn directs and stars in alongside his daughter Dylan Penn, Josh Brolin, and Miles Teller.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn directs and stars in alongside his daughter Dylan Penn, Josh Brolin, and Miles Teller.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
- 6/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rocket Science, Wild Bunch handle international sales.
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
- 6/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rocket Science, Wild Bunch handle international
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Tony...
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Tony...
- 6/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Kristin Stewart’s portrayal as literary hoaxer Jt Leroy is poised to get distribution after it premiered as one of the high profile titles at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group is near to closing a U.S. rights to the Justin Kelly-directed drama. Uphe Content Group will set a U.S. theatrical release for the film and also gets in the deal some international rights that include Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Africa.
Stewart plays the title character alongside Laura Dern, Diane Kruger and Jim Sturgess in a film produced by Patrick Walmsley, Julie Yorn, Thor Bradwell, Gary Pearl, Cassian Elwes, Giri Tharan, Mark Amin, and Dave Hansen.
The fact-based drama has Stewart playing Savannah Knoop, a young woman who spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author Jt Leroy until the scandalous revelation that this was a literary...
Stewart plays the title character alongside Laura Dern, Diane Kruger and Jim Sturgess in a film produced by Patrick Walmsley, Julie Yorn, Thor Bradwell, Gary Pearl, Cassian Elwes, Giri Tharan, Mark Amin, and Dave Hansen.
The fact-based drama has Stewart playing Savannah Knoop, a young woman who spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author Jt Leroy until the scandalous revelation that this was a literary...
- 12/14/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Canadian animation firm Tangent, whose project Next Gen was snapped up by Netflix for big money in Cannes, is teaming up with sales firm Ddi and Eum Entertainment to launch family film Jill & Evan at the Afm this week.
Pic follows twin ten year-old adventurers Jill and Evan who, after their famous archaeologist Dad goes missing in search of the mysterious Crown of Loxocronos – a mythical artifact that allows the wearer to speak to animals – decide to pick up the trail hoping to find out what happened. In the process, they discover a plot by poachers who are also after the Crown. The project is currently in pre-production at Tangent’s studios in Toronto, Canada.
Screenplay comes from Michael Schwartz and Peter Lepeniotis (The Nut Job) and is based on an original script by Lorne Cameron (Over The Hedge) with Lepeniotis also set to direct.
Producers are Ken Zorniak,...
Pic follows twin ten year-old adventurers Jill and Evan who, after their famous archaeologist Dad goes missing in search of the mysterious Crown of Loxocronos – a mythical artifact that allows the wearer to speak to animals – decide to pick up the trail hoping to find out what happened. In the process, they discover a plot by poachers who are also after the Crown. The project is currently in pre-production at Tangent’s studios in Toronto, Canada.
Screenplay comes from Michael Schwartz and Peter Lepeniotis (The Nut Job) and is based on an original script by Lorne Cameron (Over The Hedge) with Lepeniotis also set to direct.
Producers are Ken Zorniak,...
- 11/1/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After making a splash in Cannes with animation Next Gen, which was snapped up by Netflix in a big-dollar deal, Canadian firm Tangent Animation is teaming up with Sc Films to produce family pic War Of Their Worlds, which the latter will launch sales on at the Afm.
Described as a classic cat and mouse story of sworn enemies, the film will follow Nipsy the mouse and her family who have a happy life in an abandoned house that just won’t sell. That is until a ruthless property developer sees potential in their run-down space and sends in two eager cats to chase the mice out of their home. Cast has yet to be set.
The animation is the first developed from Sc Films’ original intellectual property. Jeff Bell, Ken Zorniak and Phyllis Laing of Tangent Animation will co-produce and handle the animation at their emerging Canadian studio,...
Described as a classic cat and mouse story of sworn enemies, the film will follow Nipsy the mouse and her family who have a happy life in an abandoned house that just won’t sell. That is until a ruthless property developer sees potential in their run-down space and sends in two eager cats to chase the mice out of their home. Cast has yet to be set.
The animation is the first developed from Sc Films’ original intellectual property. Jeff Bell, Ken Zorniak and Phyllis Laing of Tangent Animation will co-produce and handle the animation at their emerging Canadian studio,...
- 10/25/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Saban Films has acquired the North American rights to the thriller “Siberia,” which stars Keanu Reeves, Ana Ularu and Molly Ringwald, the distributor announced Friday.
Matthew Ross directed the romantic crime-thriller that was written by Scott B. Smith from a story by Stephen Hamel and Smith. Hamel and Reeves produced alongside Gabriela Bacher of Summerstorm Entertainment/Film House Germany, Dave Hansen and Braden Aftergood.
“Siberia” follows Lucas Hill (Reeves), an American diamond trader who sells blue diamonds to buyers in Russia. He soon begins an obsessive relationship with a Russian cafe owner while dealing with the dangerous world of diamond trade.
Also Read: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter to Reprise Roles in Third 'Bill & Ted' Film
“‘Siberia’ is a fresh departure from your average love story, balancing the high-wire act of being a thriller with pacing that keeps you on your toes till the last frame,” said Saban Films’ Bill Bromiley in a statement. “Everyone will love this.”
Ross’ first feature, “Frank & Lola,” premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It was later acquired and released by Universal Studios.
Cassian Elwes helped to arrange financing and is executive producing with Marc Hansell, Devan Towers, and Jere R. Hausfater; Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones of The Fyzz; Christian Angermayer and Klemens Hallmann of Film House; Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros of Armory Films; and Phyllis Laing and Jeff Beesley of Buffalo Gals.
Also Read: Keanu Reeves Sci-Fi Thriller 'Replicas' Sells to Entertainment Studios
Bromiley and Jonathan Saba negotiated the deal for Saban Films, with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
Saban Films already acquired Gerard Butler’s “Keepers” at this year’s festival. Earlier this year, the company bought the rights to “Lizzie,” starring Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, at Sundance.
Read original story Keanu Reeves Thriller ‘Siberia’ Picked Up by Saban Films At TheWrap...
Matthew Ross directed the romantic crime-thriller that was written by Scott B. Smith from a story by Stephen Hamel and Smith. Hamel and Reeves produced alongside Gabriela Bacher of Summerstorm Entertainment/Film House Germany, Dave Hansen and Braden Aftergood.
“Siberia” follows Lucas Hill (Reeves), an American diamond trader who sells blue diamonds to buyers in Russia. He soon begins an obsessive relationship with a Russian cafe owner while dealing with the dangerous world of diamond trade.
Also Read: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter to Reprise Roles in Third 'Bill & Ted' Film
“‘Siberia’ is a fresh departure from your average love story, balancing the high-wire act of being a thriller with pacing that keeps you on your toes till the last frame,” said Saban Films’ Bill Bromiley in a statement. “Everyone will love this.”
Ross’ first feature, “Frank & Lola,” premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It was later acquired and released by Universal Studios.
Cassian Elwes helped to arrange financing and is executive producing with Marc Hansell, Devan Towers, and Jere R. Hausfater; Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones of The Fyzz; Christian Angermayer and Klemens Hallmann of Film House; Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros of Armory Films; and Phyllis Laing and Jeff Beesley of Buffalo Gals.
Also Read: Keanu Reeves Sci-Fi Thriller 'Replicas' Sells to Entertainment Studios
Bromiley and Jonathan Saba negotiated the deal for Saban Films, with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
Saban Films already acquired Gerard Butler’s “Keepers” at this year’s festival. Earlier this year, the company bought the rights to “Lizzie,” starring Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, at Sundance.
Read original story Keanu Reeves Thriller ‘Siberia’ Picked Up by Saban Films At TheWrap...
- 5/11/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Here in Cannes, Saban Films has inked a deal for North American rights to Keanu Reeves’ romantic crime thriller Siberia. Bill Bromiley and Jonathan Saba negotiated the deal for Saban Films, with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
Reeves stars opposite Ana Ularu (Inferno) in the fearture from director Matthew Ross (Frank & Lola), with supporting cast including Molly Ringwald (Riverdale) and Pasha Lychnikoff (Ray Donovan).
Penned by Scott B. Smith from a story by Hamel and Smith, Siberia follows Lucas Hill (Reeves), an American diamond trader who sells blue diamonds of dubious origin to buyers in Russia. As the deal quickly begins to disintegrate, he falls into an obsessive relationship with a Russian cafe owner (Ularu) in a small Siberian town while colliding with the treacherous world of the diamond trade.
Producers are Stephen Hamel (Passengers) and Reeves of Company Films, Gabriela Bacher of Summerstorm Entertainment/Film House Germany,...
Reeves stars opposite Ana Ularu (Inferno) in the fearture from director Matthew Ross (Frank & Lola), with supporting cast including Molly Ringwald (Riverdale) and Pasha Lychnikoff (Ray Donovan).
Penned by Scott B. Smith from a story by Hamel and Smith, Siberia follows Lucas Hill (Reeves), an American diamond trader who sells blue diamonds of dubious origin to buyers in Russia. As the deal quickly begins to disintegrate, he falls into an obsessive relationship with a Russian cafe owner (Ularu) in a small Siberian town while colliding with the treacherous world of the diamond trade.
Producers are Stephen Hamel (Passengers) and Reeves of Company Films, Gabriela Bacher of Summerstorm Entertainment/Film House Germany,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Junebug producer Mike Ryan and Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal Pictures among expert advisors.
Training and networking programme Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) has unveiled the 2017 schedule of training modules connecting international producers with a special emphasis on co-productions.
Tap is holding training modules in Berlin from June 21-24 and Halifax, Canada, from September 12-17, when participants will also attend as delegates the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners co-production market.
The programme provides networking and expert insight for film and TV producers from the Us, Canada and international markets.
This year’s experts include Mike Ryan of Greyshack Films (Junebug), Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal Pictures (Aloft), Canada Media Fund director of programme management Nathalie Clermont, German attorney Kai May, and Jeff Boone, manager of global scripted development at eOne Television USA.
Participating Us producers:
Allison Carter, Savage Rose; Reena Dutt, Painted Tree Productions & Off-Chance Productions; Kiara C Jones, Cultivated Films; Carolyn Mao; and Trevite Willis, [link...
Training and networking programme Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) has unveiled the 2017 schedule of training modules connecting international producers with a special emphasis on co-productions.
Tap is holding training modules in Berlin from June 21-24 and Halifax, Canada, from September 12-17, when participants will also attend as delegates the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners co-production market.
The programme provides networking and expert insight for film and TV producers from the Us, Canada and international markets.
This year’s experts include Mike Ryan of Greyshack Films (Junebug), Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal Pictures (Aloft), Canada Media Fund director of programme management Nathalie Clermont, German attorney Kai May, and Jeff Boone, manager of global scripted development at eOne Television USA.
Participating Us producers:
Allison Carter, Savage Rose; Reena Dutt, Painted Tree Productions & Off-Chance Productions; Kiara C Jones, Cultivated Films; Carolyn Mao; and Trevite Willis, [link...
- 6/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Junebug producer Mike Ryan and Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal Pictures among expert advisors.
Training and networking programme Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) has unveiled the 2017 schedule of training modules connecting international producers with a special emphasis on co-productions.
Tap is holding training modules in Berlin from June 21-24 and Halifax, Canada, from September 12-17, when participants will also attend as delegates the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners co-production market.
The programme provides networking and expert insight for film and TV producers from the Us, Canada and international markets.
This year’s experts include Mike Ryan of Greyshack Films (Junebug), Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal Pictures (Aloft), Canada Media Fund director of programme management Nathalie Clermont, German attorney Kai May, and Jeff Boone, manager of global scripted development at eOne Television USA.
Participating Us producers:
Allison Carter, Savage Rose; Reena Dutt, Painted Tree Productions & Off-Chance Productions; Kiara C Jones, Cultivated Films; Carolyn Mao; and Trevite Willis, [link...
Training and networking programme Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) has unveiled the 2017 schedule of training modules connecting international producers with a special emphasis on co-productions.
Tap is holding training modules in Berlin from June 21-24 and Halifax, Canada, from September 12-17, when participants will also attend as delegates the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners co-production market.
The programme provides networking and expert insight for film and TV producers from the Us, Canada and international markets.
This year’s experts include Mike Ryan of Greyshack Films (Junebug), Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal Pictures (Aloft), Canada Media Fund director of programme management Nathalie Clermont, German attorney Kai May, and Jeff Boone, manager of global scripted development at eOne Television USA.
Participating Us producers:
Allison Carter, Savage Rose; Reena Dutt, Painted Tree Productions & Off-Chance Productions; Kiara C Jones, Cultivated Films; Carolyn Mao; and Trevite Willis, [link...
- 6/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sci-fi described as cross between Arrival, Moon, and The Machine.
Content Media has bolstered its Cannes slate with worldwide sales rights to Seth Larney’s elevated sci-fi 2067.
President of Film Jamie Carmichael and executive vice-president of sales and distribution Jonathan Ford will introduce the project excluding Australia and Canada to buyers later this month.
Larney will direct 2067 from his original screenplay that takes place on an earth ravaged by climate change as mankind looks to the future to solve the problems of the present.
The sci-fi is set to commence production later this year in Australia and is described as cross between Arrival, Moon, and The Machine.
Lisa Shaunessy and Leonie Mansfield of Arcadia serve as producers with Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal Pictures, and Kate Croser of Kojo Entertainment. Michael Rymer serves as executive producer.
Larney directed the Malaysian fantasy Tombiruo, which is in post, and served as second unit director on Sundance entry Killing Ground. He has...
Content Media has bolstered its Cannes slate with worldwide sales rights to Seth Larney’s elevated sci-fi 2067.
President of Film Jamie Carmichael and executive vice-president of sales and distribution Jonathan Ford will introduce the project excluding Australia and Canada to buyers later this month.
Larney will direct 2067 from his original screenplay that takes place on an earth ravaged by climate change as mankind looks to the future to solve the problems of the present.
The sci-fi is set to commence production later this year in Australia and is described as cross between Arrival, Moon, and The Machine.
Lisa Shaunessy and Leonie Mansfield of Arcadia serve as producers with Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal Pictures, and Kate Croser of Kojo Entertainment. Michael Rymer serves as executive producer.
Larney directed the Malaysian fantasy Tombiruo, which is in post, and served as second unit director on Sundance entry Killing Ground. He has...
- 5/4/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Trio of projects garner praise from industry; dates set for Cannes producer pitching event.
The Cannes Marché has revealed details about the recently finished first edition of the Frontières Finance and Packaging Forum in Amsterdam (Feb 16-18) and the upcoming second session during the Cannes Film Festival (May 17 -28).
The second instalment in the genre pitching and networking event will take place on Saturday May 20 (10am-12pm) when the 12 Forum projects from international producers will have five minutes each to present and screen their proof of concepts to international industry in Palais K.
The event will mark the Marché’s first genre-specific proof of concept screening session.
Other Frontières Platform events in Cannes will include Frontières Goes to Cannes, a screening of footage from four work-in-progress films on Sunday May 21, and networking event Fantastic Fanatics Mixer.
Sponsor partners to join the Platform include Wallimage and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Existing backers...
The Cannes Marché has revealed details about the recently finished first edition of the Frontières Finance and Packaging Forum in Amsterdam (Feb 16-18) and the upcoming second session during the Cannes Film Festival (May 17 -28).
The second instalment in the genre pitching and networking event will take place on Saturday May 20 (10am-12pm) when the 12 Forum projects from international producers will have five minutes each to present and screen their proof of concepts to international industry in Palais K.
The event will mark the Marché’s first genre-specific proof of concept screening session.
Other Frontières Platform events in Cannes will include Frontières Goes to Cannes, a screening of footage from four work-in-progress films on Sunday May 21, and networking event Fantastic Fanatics Mixer.
Sponsor partners to join the Platform include Wallimage and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Existing backers...
- 3/6/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Sherlock and Doctor Who director among filmmakers with projects at Amsterdam forum which is a partnership between the Cannes Marché and Montreal’s Fantasia.
A total of 12 projects will participate in the inaugural Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum, set to take place February 16-18 in Amsterdam.
Initiated as part of the recent partnership between Fantasia International Film Festival and the Cannes Marché du Film, the event is an offshot of the Frontières International Co-Production Market (which takes place at Montreal’s Fantasia festival in July).
The forum will see industry experts assessing the dozen genre projects from a packaging perspective, analysing finance, marketing and distribution strategies.
Among the selected projects is a feature from Sherlock and Doctor Who director Rachel Talalay, House Of Stairs, and works from producers including Jonathan Bronfman (The Witch), Katie Holly (Love And Friendship) and Phyllis Laing (The Haunting In Connecticut).
The projects originate from eight different countries: Canada, France, Ireland...
A total of 12 projects will participate in the inaugural Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum, set to take place February 16-18 in Amsterdam.
Initiated as part of the recent partnership between Fantasia International Film Festival and the Cannes Marché du Film, the event is an offshot of the Frontières International Co-Production Market (which takes place at Montreal’s Fantasia festival in July).
The forum will see industry experts assessing the dozen genre projects from a packaging perspective, analysing finance, marketing and distribution strategies.
Among the selected projects is a feature from Sherlock and Doctor Who director Rachel Talalay, House Of Stairs, and works from producers including Jonathan Bronfman (The Witch), Katie Holly (Love And Friendship) and Phyllis Laing (The Haunting In Connecticut).
The projects originate from eight different countries: Canada, France, Ireland...
- 12/15/2016
- ScreenDaily
Shooting is underway on the horror title set in France 1918 as an Allied tunneller played by Rossif Sutherland is sent to sabotage a German secret weapon.
Germany’s Robert Stadlober (pictured) also stars alongside Karine Vanasse, Charlie Carrick, Shaun Benson and Ted Atherton.
Raven Banner will distribute in Canada and handles international sales on behalf of Carousel Pictures and Buffalo Gal Pictures. Leo Scherman directs and Martin Katz, Walter Gasparovic, Tyler Levine and Phyllis Laing produce.
Toni Collette and Matthew Goode have joined Montreal-based Item 7’s Birthmarked. Andreas Apergis, Michael Smiley, Fionnula Flanagan and Suzanne Clément round out the key cast on the comedy that began shooting last week outside Montreal. Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais directs and Pierre Evan produces. Executive producers Jeff Sackman and Berry Meyerowitz handle international sales and eOne will distribute in Canada.Aaron Sorkin will receive the Writers Guild Of America, West’s 2017 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for television writing achievement on February 19 in recognition...
Germany’s Robert Stadlober (pictured) also stars alongside Karine Vanasse, Charlie Carrick, Shaun Benson and Ted Atherton.
Raven Banner will distribute in Canada and handles international sales on behalf of Carousel Pictures and Buffalo Gal Pictures. Leo Scherman directs and Martin Katz, Walter Gasparovic, Tyler Levine and Phyllis Laing produce.
Toni Collette and Matthew Goode have joined Montreal-based Item 7’s Birthmarked. Andreas Apergis, Michael Smiley, Fionnula Flanagan and Suzanne Clément round out the key cast on the comedy that began shooting last week outside Montreal. Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais directs and Pierre Evan produces. Executive producers Jeff Sackman and Berry Meyerowitz handle international sales and eOne will distribute in Canada.Aaron Sorkin will receive the Writers Guild Of America, West’s 2017 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for television writing achievement on February 19 in recognition...
- 12/8/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Trench horror stars Hyena Road’s Rossif Sutherland.
Raven Banner arrives in Cannes with First World War horror Trench 11 with Rossif Sutherland [pictured] from Hyena Road attached to star.
The Toronto-based sales team will begin pre-sales in Cannes on the project from director Leo Scherman about an Allied plan to send a shell-shocked tunneller into a bunker where the Germans have lost control of a biological weapon.
Tyler Levine produces and Martin Katz and Walter Gasparovic serve as executive producers alongside Phyllis Laing through her Buffalo Gal Pictures genre label Insidious Pictures.
Trench 11 is the first film under the first-look deal with Insidious Pictures announced in Berlin.
“We’re thrilled that Trench 11 is the first film in this exciting pact and feel it’s exemplary of the type of genre film-making we are excited about for the Insidious brand,” said Buffalo Gal Pictures vice-president of sales and marketing Isaac Clements.
Raven Banner arrives in Cannes with First World War horror Trench 11 with Rossif Sutherland [pictured] from Hyena Road attached to star.
The Toronto-based sales team will begin pre-sales in Cannes on the project from director Leo Scherman about an Allied plan to send a shell-shocked tunneller into a bunker where the Germans have lost control of a biological weapon.
Tyler Levine produces and Martin Katz and Walter Gasparovic serve as executive producers alongside Phyllis Laing through her Buffalo Gal Pictures genre label Insidious Pictures.
Trench 11 is the first film under the first-look deal with Insidious Pictures announced in Berlin.
“We’re thrilled that Trench 11 is the first film in this exciting pact and feel it’s exemplary of the type of genre film-making we are excited about for the Insidious brand,” said Buffalo Gal Pictures vice-president of sales and marketing Isaac Clements.
- 5/12/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Canada-based distribution outfit has agreed a first-look deal with The Forbidden Room producers.
Toronto-based Raven Banner Entertainment, at the Efm kicking off sales on Owen Egerton’s horror-thriller Follow, has moved to bulk up its pipeline with a first-look financing and distribution deal with The Forbidden Room producers Buffalo Gal Pictures.
Buffalo Gal’s Insidious Pictures, a genre label behind such titles as Silent Night, The Lazarus Project, and The Haunting In Connecticut, will generate the projects.
The arrangement with Winnipeg’s Buffalo Gal is aimed at modestly budgeted, auteur-driven, elevated genre films for global audiences from renowned genre filmmakers and emerging Canadian talent.
Buffalo Gal president Phyllis Laing said: “Buffalo Gal is excited to bring its curatorial excellence to join the Raven Banner brand in cultivating genre films by talented emerging and established filmmakers.”
Michael Paszt and Andrew Hunt of Raven Banner added: “Buffalo Gals has a fantastic track record in production, and a deep...
Toronto-based Raven Banner Entertainment, at the Efm kicking off sales on Owen Egerton’s horror-thriller Follow, has moved to bulk up its pipeline with a first-look financing and distribution deal with The Forbidden Room producers Buffalo Gal Pictures.
Buffalo Gal’s Insidious Pictures, a genre label behind such titles as Silent Night, The Lazarus Project, and The Haunting In Connecticut, will generate the projects.
The arrangement with Winnipeg’s Buffalo Gal is aimed at modestly budgeted, auteur-driven, elevated genre films for global audiences from renowned genre filmmakers and emerging Canadian talent.
Buffalo Gal president Phyllis Laing said: “Buffalo Gal is excited to bring its curatorial excellence to join the Raven Banner brand in cultivating genre films by talented emerging and established filmmakers.”
Michael Paszt and Andrew Hunt of Raven Banner added: “Buffalo Gals has a fantastic track record in production, and a deep...
- 2/11/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Saban Films unveils Q1 2016 releasing roster; and Tribeca Shortlist broadens its appeal.Montreal-based Attraction Distribution has struck a deal to handle international sales on the adventure drama Considering Love And Other Magic (pictured)starring Eric McCormack.
Dave Schultz of Interstate 80 Entertainment directs the film and Jeff Beesley and Joanne Levy will produce, with Phyllis Laing on board as executive producer. The film is expected to be ready for a Cannes market premiere.
Saban Films has revealed its Q1 2016 release slate kicking off with Laurence Fishburne thriller Stand Off on February 26. The roster includes Adrien Brody mystery Backtrack on March 11 and Clive Owen family drama The Confirmation on March 18. Undated titles include a partnership with Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions on the theatrical release of Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram For The King starring Tom Hanks.Tribeca Shortlist, the Svod service created by Lionsgate and Tribeca Enterprises, announced on Thursday that its curated film catalogue is available for offline...
Dave Schultz of Interstate 80 Entertainment directs the film and Jeff Beesley and Joanne Levy will produce, with Phyllis Laing on board as executive producer. The film is expected to be ready for a Cannes market premiere.
Saban Films has revealed its Q1 2016 release slate kicking off with Laurence Fishburne thriller Stand Off on February 26. The roster includes Adrien Brody mystery Backtrack on March 11 and Clive Owen family drama The Confirmation on March 18. Undated titles include a partnership with Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions on the theatrical release of Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram For The King starring Tom Hanks.Tribeca Shortlist, the Svod service created by Lionsgate and Tribeca Enterprises, announced on Thursday that its curated film catalogue is available for offline...
- 12/17/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Game Of Thrones regular Carice van Houten has joined Aaron Paul on the drama that Myriad Pictures has introduced to international buyers at the market.
The Parts You Lose centres on a hearing-impaired boy who strikes up a friendship with a fugitive in a North Dakota town. UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights with Myriad.
Zus & Zo director Paula van der Oest will helm the Dutch production and shooting is scheduled for early spring in Manitoba, Canada.
Mark Johnson and Tom Williams are producing through Gran Via Productions alongside Nl Film’s Alain de Levita and Joris van Wijk as well as Paul via his Lucid Road Productions.
Buffalo Gal Pictures will handle Canadian production and Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker from the company serve as executive producers with Myriad chief Kirk D’Amico.
The Parts You Lose centres on a hearing-impaired boy who strikes up a friendship with a fugitive in a North Dakota town. UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights with Myriad.
Zus & Zo director Paula van der Oest will helm the Dutch production and shooting is scheduled for early spring in Manitoba, Canada.
Mark Johnson and Tom Williams are producing through Gran Via Productions alongside Nl Film’s Alain de Levita and Joris van Wijk as well as Paul via his Lucid Road Productions.
Buffalo Gal Pictures will handle Canadian production and Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker from the company serve as executive producers with Myriad chief Kirk D’Amico.
- 11/5/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jan Miller is a connector – and she loves doing it! Supporting producers around the world is in her DNA. After she invited us to speak at the second Strategic Partners in Halifax, (which she created and directed for 15 years), we would then meet Jan regularly in Cuba, Berlin and Cannes where she is a regular moderator at the Producers’ Network Breakfasts. Cartegena was also on her regular beat. She is in demand everywhere as a trainer for directors, writers and producers of pitching and content development as well as an international consultant, from regular events like Poland’s ScriptEast, to Guangzhou, Manaus, Capetown, Glasgow, Yellowknife and most recently, Tehran to name just a few of the more exotic locales.
After bringing the stars in alignment to launch Canada’s first national film school, the National Screen Institute and its highly regarded Features First and Drama Prize programs almost three decades ago, Jan moved from Canada’s west to the east coast where she launched Strategic Partners, Canada’s premiere international co-production market.
In Sp’s 10th year, Jan was approached by Nadja Radojevic of the The Erich Pommer Institut – Epi to partner on a brand new training concept Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) where Jan Miller serves as its Head of Studies. Together they have developed the program in to one-of-a-kind training that brings together experienced producers from Europe, Canada and the U.S. with a team of Experts, to develop projects for international co-production and co-venturing. Tap is co-presented by the Erich Pommer Institut and the Canadian Media Production Association – Cmpa. Industry partners are Telefilm Canada and Canada Media Fund.
Always responding to the industry, Tap began with only European and Canadian involvement but both Nadja and Jan realized bringing U.S. indie producers into the mix would take the program to a whole other level. Each year, three additional producers from beyond these three ‘regions’ are also selected to participate in this two-module program.
The Tap 2015 line-up includes producers from India, Australia and Mexico. And now in its 7th year, Tap, responding to the industry needs, has opened its program to independent producers with international television series projects in development as well.
This year’s expert line-up of award winning producers include Belladonna’s René Bastian of Belladonna Productions whose film “ Cold in July” is directed by Jim Mickie, and whose newest film “Live Cargo” was presented at Ifp’s No Borders and Us in Progress this past month, K5’s Oliver Simon, Dynamic Television’s Klaus Zimmermann (“100 Code”, “Borgia”, “Death In Paradise”, “The Transporter”), international television consultant Lorri Faughan (“Pillars Of The Earth”), and Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing, (“Aloft”, “Keyhole”, Heaven is for Real”) of Buffalo Gal Pictures, Canada, who was herself a Tap’er in its very first year.
Jan says that they often draw on previous Tap producer talent to come back as resources as so many have remarkable track records.
The Erich Pommer Institut of Germany is a leading training provider in the European media industry dealing with cutting-edge legal and economic topics. Nadja Radojevic, has recently moved into the CEO and Director of Training.
Epi was founded in 1998. Erich Pommer himself was the producer of “Metropolis” and “The Blue Angel”. He left Germany in the war and his grandson, Erich Pommer is a Los Angeles entertainment attorney. The Institute’s core business is advanced professional training in film and media. Aside from Trans Atlantic Partners which is held in Berlin in June and in Halifax in September post Tiff, Epi hosts a European TV Drama Series Lab following the American model with top showrunners and Scandinavian trainers. Now in its fourth edition - former editions featured Showrunners James Manos (“Sopranos”), Carol Flint (“West Wing”, “Emergency Room”), Frank Spotnitz (“The X-Files”), Simon Mirren (“Criminal Minds”) and Glen Mazzara of “Walking Dead” – David Semel, Executive Producer “Madam Secretary”, Co-Executive Producer “House MD” and Director of “The Man in the High Castle”, “Hannibal”, Hemlock Grove”, “Homeland”, “Heroes”will be trainer amongst others.
Epi also hosts Essential Legal Framework, a program consisting of three independent workshops for European professionals on negotiating, European coproduction and digital strategies. A national section for German speakers only, runs four hours a day with 20-30 seminars per year. Its focus is on media law and deals with television, film production, labor and tax revisions which – one of their best-selling seminars as there have recently been quite a lot of changes in tax law in Germany. Classes in film financing and film funding are also popular.
There is also a Copyright Policy Congress, Writers Room Simulation and other conventions featuring various current topics relevant to the media industry. In fall Epi is pioneering with Epi e:training starting with a course on European Co-Production. Epi e:training is offering crucial knowledge and business insights by top-level experts online – at your own pace and wherever and whenever you want. “We developed the online training program according to the demands of today’s media industry. It offers more flexibility and adapts to individual preferences," comments Nadja Radojevic. Epi is located at the historic Babelsberg Studios and can be found at www.epi-medieninstitut.de
Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) is designed for experienced film and television producers from Europe, Canada and the U.S. including 3 additional seats for International producers. The 24 Tap 2015 producers below were selected by the Erich Pommer Institut (Epi) (Germany) and the Canadian Media Production Association (Cmpa) (Canada).
European Producers
-Simon Amberger, Germany (Producer, "Eastalgia", Molodist Int. Ff 2012, Tallinn Int. Ff 2013 | Producer, Blockbustaz, 2014, Winner ZDFneo TV Lab 2014 | Producer, Ada, 2014)
-Sebastien Aubert, France ("Patardzlebi" (Brides), 2014, Berlinale 2014, 3rd Audience Award)
-Rudolf Biermann, Czech Republic (Producer, "Kawasaki's Rose," 2009, Berlinale 2010, Ecumenical Award Panorama Section, Czech Lion 2010 | Executive Producer, "I Served the King of England," 2006, Berlinale 2006, Fipresci Critics Award | Producer, "Garden," 1995, Karlovy Vary Iff 1995, Jury Award)
-Jacqueline de Goeij, Belgium (Producer, "Allez, Eddy!," 2012, Chemnitz Ff, Main Prize & Diamant Award For Most Convincing Acting Performance Of A Child, Palm Springs Best of the Fest Selection | Producer, "Zus & Zo," 2002, Academy Awards, Nominee Best Foreign Language Film, Dutch Ff, Golden Calf Best Actor)
-Sylvia Günthner, Germany (Producer, "Bela Kiss: Prologue," 2013, Twisted Celluloid Ff Ireland 2013, Audi Festival of German Films Australia 2014)
-Martin Heisler, Germany (Producer, "Houston," 2013, Sundance Ff 2013, Independent Ff Boston 2013, Special Prize of the Jury | Producer "Forget Me Not," 2012, Ff Locarno, Settima Della Critica 2012, Best film | Producer "David Wants to Fly," 2010, Berlinale 2010)
-Rachel Lysaght, Ireland (Producer, "Patrick's Day," 2015, Ifta 2014, Best Script, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Sound | Producer, "One Million Dubliners," 2014, TV Award Sandford Saint Martin Trust, UK, Irish Ff Boston 2015, Director's Choice, Galway Film Fleadh Ireland 2014, Best Feature Documentary)
-Christof Neracher, Switzerland (Producer, "War" (Chrieg), 2014, San Sebastian Ff 2014, Max Ophüls 2014, Max Ophüls Prize | Producer Vitus, 2006, Shortlist Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film 2006, Berlinale 2006, AFI Fest 2006, Audience Award)
-Diarmid Scrimshaw, UK (Producer / Production Co., "Tyrannosaur," 2012, Sundance 2011, Best Director, Satellite Awards 2011, Best First Feature)
Canadian Producers
-Coral Aiken, Canada (Producer, Big Muddy, 2014, Toronto Iff 2014, Arizona Iff 2015 | Producer, "The People Garden")
-Patrick Banister, Canada (Executive Producer, "Bitten," 2014 | Executive Producer, "Whistler," 2006)
-John Barbisan, Canada (Executive Producer, "Bitten," 2014 | Executive Producer, "Whistler," 2006)
-Amy Belling, Canada (Producer / DoP / Cam Op / Post Supervisor, Songs She Wrote About People She Knows, 2014, Toronto Iff 2014, Santa Barbara Iff 2015 | Producer / DoP / Cam Op / Post Super, Stress Position, 2013, Sci Fi London 2013, Las Vegas Ff 2013, Best Cinematography / Best Supporting Actor)
-Isaac Clements, Canada (Senior Production Executive, "The Pinkertons," 2014-15 | Production Executive, "Sunnyside,"2014-15 | Associate Producer, "Silent Night," 2012)
-Jeff Kopas, Canada (Producer / Director / Writer, "An Insignificant Harvey," 2011, Busan Iff 2012, Audience Award)
-Linda Ludwick, Canada (Exec. Producer/Producer: "Mohawk Girls Season 2," 2014, Yorkton Ff 2015, Banff Media Festival 2015 | Exec. Producer/Producer, "Smoke Traders," 2012, Yorkton Ff 2013 | Exec. Producer/Producer, "Reel Injun," 2009, 3 Gemini awards 2010 | Exec. Producer/Producer, "Moose TV," 2006, "Cfpta" 2008)
-Robyn Wiener, Canada (Producer, "Numb," 2015 | Producer, "Black Fly," 2014, Viff 2014 , Marché du Film Telefilm Perspective Canada Cannes 2015| Co-Producer / Line Producer, "Lawrence & Holoman," 2013, "Viff" 2013, Best Director | Co-Producer / Line Producer, "American Mary," 2012, London Fright Ff 2012)
American Producers
-Mollye Asher, USA (Producer, "Fort Tilden," 2015, SXSW 2014 Grand Jury Prize | Producer, "She's Lost Control," Independent Spirit Award Nominee 2015, Berlinale 2014 | Producer, "Songs My Brother Taught Me," 2015, Sundance 2015, Cannes 2015)
-Diane Houslin, USA (Producer, "Yelling to the Sky," 2011)
-Tommy Oliver, USA (Producer, 1982, 2015, Toronto Ff 2013, Austin Ff 2013, Marquee Audience Award | Producer, "The Perfect Guy," 2015 | Producer, "Kinyarwanda," 2011, Sundance Ff 2011, World Audience Award, AFI Fest 2011, Audience Award)
-Riel Roch Decter, USA (Producer, "The Wait," 2014, South by Southwest 2013, Deauville 2013 | Producer, "Bottled Up," 2014, Tribeca Film Festival 2013 | Producer, "Life After Death from Above 1979," 2014.
International Producers
-Vivek Kajaria, India (Producer, "Fandry," 2014, Indian Ff of La 2014, Grand Jury Prize Best Film, Fipresci India 2014, Film Critic Award Best Indian Film 2013 | Presenter, "Anumati," 2013, National Film Award for Best Actor 2013, New York Indian Ff 2013, Best Film Award | Producer, "Siddhant," 2015, Mumbai 2014)
-Ozcar Ramirez Gonzalez, Mexico (Producer, "Ciclo," 2013, DocsDF 2012, Vancouver Latino Iff 2013, Audience Award | Producer, "The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man," 2013, Tokyo Iff 2011, La Iff 2012 | Producer, "Days of Grace," 2012, Cannes Iff 2011, Guadalajara Iff 2012, Best Director, Best Score, Press Award)
-Lisa Shaunessy, Australia (Executive Producer, "Killing Ground," 2016 | Co-Producer, "Black & White & Sex," 2012, Iff Rotterdam 2012, Sydney Ff 2011, Best Experimental Film | Producer, "Hipsters," Sbs Australia, 2015)
Who is Jan Miller and how did she arrange such an organization?
It’s in Jan’s nature to look for opportunities to support the individual filmmaker, her local industry and work internationally as well. Most recently Jan served as an international consultant for the Canadian Media Production Association helping to develop their international strategy and contributing to Cmpa led delegations to Berlin and Rio de Janeiro. In March she led a delegation of 18 production companies to the Hk Filmart for Creative BC and Cmpa BC.
Jan divides her time on Tap, on international contracts, on teaching and on Wift-at.
How do you see the place of women in the film industry?
Recognizing that there was a real need in Atlantic Canada for women to come together and support, celebrate and learn from each other in the industry, I started Women in Film and Television - Atlantic which I headed up as Founding Chair and architect for six years. During this time I was working with a remarkable team to launch Women Making Waves an annual Conference that brings in the best female talent to offer master classes, panels, conversations and networking opportunities to men and women in the industry. I continue as one of the organization’s primary resources and mentors. And most recently, strongly believing that women in the industry need to strengthen their entrepreneurial skills and business strategies, I worked with Mount Saint Vincent University’s Centre for Women in Business, to launch Wift-at’s first six month Advanced Management and Mentoring Program.
Can you explain your connection to the music business?
Close to a decade ago, I was approached by Canada’s vibrant east coast music industry to adapt my pitching workshop into a program that has become “export readiness for the music industry”... During this intensive workshop I work with artists, bands and managers to develop their communication and pitch skills to present their work to international music supervisors, festival programrs and tour managers in 1-2-1 meetings. It was a very steep learning curve, but I loved the challenge of redesigning her training to fit a new market.
Can you explain your connection to romance writers?
When the Music Export Readiness workshops took off, other disciplines began approaching me to ask if I could adapt her teaching for a workshop for Romance Writers wanting to pitch to potential film and TV producers and then theatre practitioners wanting to pitch their properties internationally. My un-designed career path came full circle!
How did you come into the film world?
I first came into the entertainment industry through my theatre troupe that performed clown and mask shows internationally for 10 years as one of Canada’s cultural calling cards. During this period I successfully auditioned for a short film and the seed was planted …
What do you do in Nova Scotia? (or What did you do?)
Amazingly I call home Nova Scotia. Living 40 feet from the ocean, I connect daily to the world and travel the world almost as often. I am an international resource for the local industry and mentor talent both for the short term and long term as the demand requires. My husband and I also breed standard poodles!
How would you sum up your “portfolio”?
I am an initiator, a passionate connector devoted to helping people do what they want to do well.
After bringing the stars in alignment to launch Canada’s first national film school, the National Screen Institute and its highly regarded Features First and Drama Prize programs almost three decades ago, Jan moved from Canada’s west to the east coast where she launched Strategic Partners, Canada’s premiere international co-production market.
In Sp’s 10th year, Jan was approached by Nadja Radojevic of the The Erich Pommer Institut – Epi to partner on a brand new training concept Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) where Jan Miller serves as its Head of Studies. Together they have developed the program in to one-of-a-kind training that brings together experienced producers from Europe, Canada and the U.S. with a team of Experts, to develop projects for international co-production and co-venturing. Tap is co-presented by the Erich Pommer Institut and the Canadian Media Production Association – Cmpa. Industry partners are Telefilm Canada and Canada Media Fund.
Always responding to the industry, Tap began with only European and Canadian involvement but both Nadja and Jan realized bringing U.S. indie producers into the mix would take the program to a whole other level. Each year, three additional producers from beyond these three ‘regions’ are also selected to participate in this two-module program.
The Tap 2015 line-up includes producers from India, Australia and Mexico. And now in its 7th year, Tap, responding to the industry needs, has opened its program to independent producers with international television series projects in development as well.
This year’s expert line-up of award winning producers include Belladonna’s René Bastian of Belladonna Productions whose film “ Cold in July” is directed by Jim Mickie, and whose newest film “Live Cargo” was presented at Ifp’s No Borders and Us in Progress this past month, K5’s Oliver Simon, Dynamic Television’s Klaus Zimmermann (“100 Code”, “Borgia”, “Death In Paradise”, “The Transporter”), international television consultant Lorri Faughan (“Pillars Of The Earth”), and Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing, (“Aloft”, “Keyhole”, Heaven is for Real”) of Buffalo Gal Pictures, Canada, who was herself a Tap’er in its very first year.
Jan says that they often draw on previous Tap producer talent to come back as resources as so many have remarkable track records.
The Erich Pommer Institut of Germany is a leading training provider in the European media industry dealing with cutting-edge legal and economic topics. Nadja Radojevic, has recently moved into the CEO and Director of Training.
Epi was founded in 1998. Erich Pommer himself was the producer of “Metropolis” and “The Blue Angel”. He left Germany in the war and his grandson, Erich Pommer is a Los Angeles entertainment attorney. The Institute’s core business is advanced professional training in film and media. Aside from Trans Atlantic Partners which is held in Berlin in June and in Halifax in September post Tiff, Epi hosts a European TV Drama Series Lab following the American model with top showrunners and Scandinavian trainers. Now in its fourth edition - former editions featured Showrunners James Manos (“Sopranos”), Carol Flint (“West Wing”, “Emergency Room”), Frank Spotnitz (“The X-Files”), Simon Mirren (“Criminal Minds”) and Glen Mazzara of “Walking Dead” – David Semel, Executive Producer “Madam Secretary”, Co-Executive Producer “House MD” and Director of “The Man in the High Castle”, “Hannibal”, Hemlock Grove”, “Homeland”, “Heroes”will be trainer amongst others.
Epi also hosts Essential Legal Framework, a program consisting of three independent workshops for European professionals on negotiating, European coproduction and digital strategies. A national section for German speakers only, runs four hours a day with 20-30 seminars per year. Its focus is on media law and deals with television, film production, labor and tax revisions which – one of their best-selling seminars as there have recently been quite a lot of changes in tax law in Germany. Classes in film financing and film funding are also popular.
There is also a Copyright Policy Congress, Writers Room Simulation and other conventions featuring various current topics relevant to the media industry. In fall Epi is pioneering with Epi e:training starting with a course on European Co-Production. Epi e:training is offering crucial knowledge and business insights by top-level experts online – at your own pace and wherever and whenever you want. “We developed the online training program according to the demands of today’s media industry. It offers more flexibility and adapts to individual preferences," comments Nadja Radojevic. Epi is located at the historic Babelsberg Studios and can be found at www.epi-medieninstitut.de
Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) is designed for experienced film and television producers from Europe, Canada and the U.S. including 3 additional seats for International producers. The 24 Tap 2015 producers below were selected by the Erich Pommer Institut (Epi) (Germany) and the Canadian Media Production Association (Cmpa) (Canada).
European Producers
-Simon Amberger, Germany (Producer, "Eastalgia", Molodist Int. Ff 2012, Tallinn Int. Ff 2013 | Producer, Blockbustaz, 2014, Winner ZDFneo TV Lab 2014 | Producer, Ada, 2014)
-Sebastien Aubert, France ("Patardzlebi" (Brides), 2014, Berlinale 2014, 3rd Audience Award)
-Rudolf Biermann, Czech Republic (Producer, "Kawasaki's Rose," 2009, Berlinale 2010, Ecumenical Award Panorama Section, Czech Lion 2010 | Executive Producer, "I Served the King of England," 2006, Berlinale 2006, Fipresci Critics Award | Producer, "Garden," 1995, Karlovy Vary Iff 1995, Jury Award)
-Jacqueline de Goeij, Belgium (Producer, "Allez, Eddy!," 2012, Chemnitz Ff, Main Prize & Diamant Award For Most Convincing Acting Performance Of A Child, Palm Springs Best of the Fest Selection | Producer, "Zus & Zo," 2002, Academy Awards, Nominee Best Foreign Language Film, Dutch Ff, Golden Calf Best Actor)
-Sylvia Günthner, Germany (Producer, "Bela Kiss: Prologue," 2013, Twisted Celluloid Ff Ireland 2013, Audi Festival of German Films Australia 2014)
-Martin Heisler, Germany (Producer, "Houston," 2013, Sundance Ff 2013, Independent Ff Boston 2013, Special Prize of the Jury | Producer "Forget Me Not," 2012, Ff Locarno, Settima Della Critica 2012, Best film | Producer "David Wants to Fly," 2010, Berlinale 2010)
-Rachel Lysaght, Ireland (Producer, "Patrick's Day," 2015, Ifta 2014, Best Script, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Sound | Producer, "One Million Dubliners," 2014, TV Award Sandford Saint Martin Trust, UK, Irish Ff Boston 2015, Director's Choice, Galway Film Fleadh Ireland 2014, Best Feature Documentary)
-Christof Neracher, Switzerland (Producer, "War" (Chrieg), 2014, San Sebastian Ff 2014, Max Ophüls 2014, Max Ophüls Prize | Producer Vitus, 2006, Shortlist Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film 2006, Berlinale 2006, AFI Fest 2006, Audience Award)
-Diarmid Scrimshaw, UK (Producer / Production Co., "Tyrannosaur," 2012, Sundance 2011, Best Director, Satellite Awards 2011, Best First Feature)
Canadian Producers
-Coral Aiken, Canada (Producer, Big Muddy, 2014, Toronto Iff 2014, Arizona Iff 2015 | Producer, "The People Garden")
-Patrick Banister, Canada (Executive Producer, "Bitten," 2014 | Executive Producer, "Whistler," 2006)
-John Barbisan, Canada (Executive Producer, "Bitten," 2014 | Executive Producer, "Whistler," 2006)
-Amy Belling, Canada (Producer / DoP / Cam Op / Post Supervisor, Songs She Wrote About People She Knows, 2014, Toronto Iff 2014, Santa Barbara Iff 2015 | Producer / DoP / Cam Op / Post Super, Stress Position, 2013, Sci Fi London 2013, Las Vegas Ff 2013, Best Cinematography / Best Supporting Actor)
-Isaac Clements, Canada (Senior Production Executive, "The Pinkertons," 2014-15 | Production Executive, "Sunnyside,"2014-15 | Associate Producer, "Silent Night," 2012)
-Jeff Kopas, Canada (Producer / Director / Writer, "An Insignificant Harvey," 2011, Busan Iff 2012, Audience Award)
-Linda Ludwick, Canada (Exec. Producer/Producer: "Mohawk Girls Season 2," 2014, Yorkton Ff 2015, Banff Media Festival 2015 | Exec. Producer/Producer, "Smoke Traders," 2012, Yorkton Ff 2013 | Exec. Producer/Producer, "Reel Injun," 2009, 3 Gemini awards 2010 | Exec. Producer/Producer, "Moose TV," 2006, "Cfpta" 2008)
-Robyn Wiener, Canada (Producer, "Numb," 2015 | Producer, "Black Fly," 2014, Viff 2014 , Marché du Film Telefilm Perspective Canada Cannes 2015| Co-Producer / Line Producer, "Lawrence & Holoman," 2013, "Viff" 2013, Best Director | Co-Producer / Line Producer, "American Mary," 2012, London Fright Ff 2012)
American Producers
-Mollye Asher, USA (Producer, "Fort Tilden," 2015, SXSW 2014 Grand Jury Prize | Producer, "She's Lost Control," Independent Spirit Award Nominee 2015, Berlinale 2014 | Producer, "Songs My Brother Taught Me," 2015, Sundance 2015, Cannes 2015)
-Diane Houslin, USA (Producer, "Yelling to the Sky," 2011)
-Tommy Oliver, USA (Producer, 1982, 2015, Toronto Ff 2013, Austin Ff 2013, Marquee Audience Award | Producer, "The Perfect Guy," 2015 | Producer, "Kinyarwanda," 2011, Sundance Ff 2011, World Audience Award, AFI Fest 2011, Audience Award)
-Riel Roch Decter, USA (Producer, "The Wait," 2014, South by Southwest 2013, Deauville 2013 | Producer, "Bottled Up," 2014, Tribeca Film Festival 2013 | Producer, "Life After Death from Above 1979," 2014.
International Producers
-Vivek Kajaria, India (Producer, "Fandry," 2014, Indian Ff of La 2014, Grand Jury Prize Best Film, Fipresci India 2014, Film Critic Award Best Indian Film 2013 | Presenter, "Anumati," 2013, National Film Award for Best Actor 2013, New York Indian Ff 2013, Best Film Award | Producer, "Siddhant," 2015, Mumbai 2014)
-Ozcar Ramirez Gonzalez, Mexico (Producer, "Ciclo," 2013, DocsDF 2012, Vancouver Latino Iff 2013, Audience Award | Producer, "The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man," 2013, Tokyo Iff 2011, La Iff 2012 | Producer, "Days of Grace," 2012, Cannes Iff 2011, Guadalajara Iff 2012, Best Director, Best Score, Press Award)
-Lisa Shaunessy, Australia (Executive Producer, "Killing Ground," 2016 | Co-Producer, "Black & White & Sex," 2012, Iff Rotterdam 2012, Sydney Ff 2011, Best Experimental Film | Producer, "Hipsters," Sbs Australia, 2015)
Who is Jan Miller and how did she arrange such an organization?
It’s in Jan’s nature to look for opportunities to support the individual filmmaker, her local industry and work internationally as well. Most recently Jan served as an international consultant for the Canadian Media Production Association helping to develop their international strategy and contributing to Cmpa led delegations to Berlin and Rio de Janeiro. In March she led a delegation of 18 production companies to the Hk Filmart for Creative BC and Cmpa BC.
Jan divides her time on Tap, on international contracts, on teaching and on Wift-at.
How do you see the place of women in the film industry?
Recognizing that there was a real need in Atlantic Canada for women to come together and support, celebrate and learn from each other in the industry, I started Women in Film and Television - Atlantic which I headed up as Founding Chair and architect for six years. During this time I was working with a remarkable team to launch Women Making Waves an annual Conference that brings in the best female talent to offer master classes, panels, conversations and networking opportunities to men and women in the industry. I continue as one of the organization’s primary resources and mentors. And most recently, strongly believing that women in the industry need to strengthen their entrepreneurial skills and business strategies, I worked with Mount Saint Vincent University’s Centre for Women in Business, to launch Wift-at’s first six month Advanced Management and Mentoring Program.
Can you explain your connection to the music business?
Close to a decade ago, I was approached by Canada’s vibrant east coast music industry to adapt my pitching workshop into a program that has become “export readiness for the music industry”... During this intensive workshop I work with artists, bands and managers to develop their communication and pitch skills to present their work to international music supervisors, festival programrs and tour managers in 1-2-1 meetings. It was a very steep learning curve, but I loved the challenge of redesigning her training to fit a new market.
Can you explain your connection to romance writers?
When the Music Export Readiness workshops took off, other disciplines began approaching me to ask if I could adapt her teaching for a workshop for Romance Writers wanting to pitch to potential film and TV producers and then theatre practitioners wanting to pitch their properties internationally. My un-designed career path came full circle!
How did you come into the film world?
I first came into the entertainment industry through my theatre troupe that performed clown and mask shows internationally for 10 years as one of Canada’s cultural calling cards. During this period I successfully auditioned for a short film and the seed was planted …
What do you do in Nova Scotia? (or What did you do?)
Amazingly I call home Nova Scotia. Living 40 feet from the ocean, I connect daily to the world and travel the world almost as often. I am an international resource for the local industry and mentor talent both for the short term and long term as the demand requires. My husband and I also breed standard poodles!
How would you sum up your “portfolio”?
I am an initiator, a passionate connector devoted to helping people do what they want to do well.
- 6/22/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: 24 producers from across Europe, Canada, Us and beyond to take part in this year’s training programme.
Internationally renowned training programme Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) has unveiled its participants for this year’s edition.
The 24 producers were selected by the Erich Pommer Institut (Epi) (Germany) and partner Canadian Media Production Association (Cmpa) (Canada).
Although designed for independent producers from Europe, Canada, and the Us, Tap also offers three positions for producers from all over the world, which this year come from India, Australia and Mexico.
Tap’s seventh edition will be incorporated into two training modules taking place in Berlin (June 16-21) and Halifax (Sept 14-20), and the producers will also participate as full delegates at the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners co-pro market.
For the first time, Tap has included TV drama projects in addition to its traditional feature film focus.
Experts for this year’s edition include Belladona Productions’ René Bastian (Cold In July); [link...
Internationally renowned training programme Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) has unveiled its participants for this year’s edition.
The 24 producers were selected by the Erich Pommer Institut (Epi) (Germany) and partner Canadian Media Production Association (Cmpa) (Canada).
Although designed for independent producers from Europe, Canada, and the Us, Tap also offers three positions for producers from all over the world, which this year come from India, Australia and Mexico.
Tap’s seventh edition will be incorporated into two training modules taking place in Berlin (June 16-21) and Halifax (Sept 14-20), and the producers will also participate as full delegates at the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners co-pro market.
For the first time, Tap has included TV drama projects in addition to its traditional feature film focus.
Experts for this year’s edition include Belladona Productions’ René Bastian (Cold In July); [link...
- 6/12/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Kirk D’Amico’s Santa Monica-based company heads to the Croisette with international sales rights to the Aaron Paul thriller.
Paul starred in TV smash Breaking Bad and reunites with his producer Mark Johnson, who produces The Parts You Lose alongside Tom Williams through their Gran Via Productions and Holland’s Paula van der Oest, whose credits include Accused, Black Butterflies and Zus & Zo, will direct.
Darren Lemke wrote the screenplay to the story of a boy with hearing difficulties who encounters a fugitive in his small North Dakota town.
The filmmakers expect The Parts You Lose to become a German-Canadian co-production and anticipate a fourth quarter start in Manitoba. UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad co-represent Us rights.
Paul will produce through his Lucid Road Productions. Buffalo Gal Pictures will be the Canadian co-producer with Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker also producing.
D’Amico and Pacific Northwest Pictures’ (Pnp) Emily Alden will serve as...
Paul starred in TV smash Breaking Bad and reunites with his producer Mark Johnson, who produces The Parts You Lose alongside Tom Williams through their Gran Via Productions and Holland’s Paula van der Oest, whose credits include Accused, Black Butterflies and Zus & Zo, will direct.
Darren Lemke wrote the screenplay to the story of a boy with hearing difficulties who encounters a fugitive in his small North Dakota town.
The filmmakers expect The Parts You Lose to become a German-Canadian co-production and anticipate a fourth quarter start in Manitoba. UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad co-represent Us rights.
Paul will produce through his Lucid Road Productions. Buffalo Gal Pictures will be the Canadian co-producer with Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker also producing.
D’Amico and Pacific Northwest Pictures’ (Pnp) Emily Alden will serve as...
- 5/8/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Lightning Entertainment has bolstered its Afm slate with international sales rights to the drama starring Lucas Till, Josh Duhamel and hot awards contender Laura Dern.
Maria Bello, Tom Everett Scott and Jae Head round out the key cast on the story of a talented New York DJ who finds new meaning in life after he is sentenced following an overdose to the custody of his estranged father in small-town North Dakota.
Commercials and music video director Daniel Duran makes his feature debut on Bravetown from a screenplay by Oscar Orlando Torres, who produced with Phyllis Laing.
Acquisitions and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and svp Joseph Dickstein negotiated the deal with producers rep Julio Caro and Ramo Law.
Maria Bello, Tom Everett Scott and Jae Head round out the key cast on the story of a talented New York DJ who finds new meaning in life after he is sentenced following an overdose to the custody of his estranged father in small-town North Dakota.
Commercials and music video director Daniel Duran makes his feature debut on Bravetown from a screenplay by Oscar Orlando Torres, who produced with Phyllis Laing.
Acquisitions and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and svp Joseph Dickstein negotiated the deal with producers rep Julio Caro and Ramo Law.
- 10/31/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Principal photography has commenced in Shilo, Manitoba, on Rhombus Media’s Afghanistan-set war film that Elevation Pictures will distribute in Canada. WTFilms handles international sales.
Rhombus Media is producing in association with Buffalo Gal Pictures and Whizbang Films.
Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film and Music, Grand Technology Resources and Canadian educational rights holder Canada Company are financing the project.
Producers have released two first-look images to Screendaily (pictured). Paul Gross directs and stars alongside Rossif Sutherland, Christine Horne, Allan Hawco, Clark Johnson and Nabil Elouahabi.
Hyena Road is in the vein of Lone Survivor and The Hurt Locker and focuses on three men in three different wars who find themselves at the intersection of modern warfare where all is not as it seems.
“This story has been foremost on my mind since visiting our troops in Afghanistan back in 2010,” said Gross, who plays a veteran intelligence officer. “Their passion and commitment was truly inspiring, so I’m thrilled...
Rhombus Media is producing in association with Buffalo Gal Pictures and Whizbang Films.
Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film and Music, Grand Technology Resources and Canadian educational rights holder Canada Company are financing the project.
Producers have released two first-look images to Screendaily (pictured). Paul Gross directs and stars alongside Rossif Sutherland, Christine Horne, Allan Hawco, Clark Johnson and Nabil Elouahabi.
Hyena Road is in the vein of Lone Survivor and The Hurt Locker and focuses on three men in three different wars who find themselves at the intersection of modern warfare where all is not as it seems.
“This story has been foremost on my mind since visiting our troops in Afghanistan back in 2010,” said Gross, who plays a veteran intelligence officer. “Their passion and commitment was truly inspiring, so I’m thrilled...
- 10/9/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Accompanied by a strong presence of Tap producers at this year’s Tiff line-up, Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap), renowned international co-production training and networking program launches Module 2 of the 2014 edition in Halifax September 8th. Tap Producers will tackle a vast range of training topics and networking opportunities leading into the international coproduction market Strategic Partners, as part of the program.
Potsdam, Germany – After completing Module 1 in Berlin in June, The Erich Pommer Institut – Epi (Germany), new Presenting Partner Canadian Media Production Association – Cmpa (Canada), and the Independent Filmmaker Project – Ifp (USA) proudly present Module 2 of their annual intensive training and networking program for established producers from Europe, Canada, and the United States, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 8th- 14th. 22 experienced producers were selected from the target countries including, the UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Greece, Denmark, Canada and USA to participate in the 6th edition.
Looking forward to the upcoming training unit, Tap Head of Studies, Jan Miller, comments, “With the strong presence of Tap producers at Tiff this year, we’re seeing tangible evidence that the training program in Berlin and Halifax is supporting the best in international producer talent.”
The Tap producers’ highlight list of films that premiere at Tiff include:
"Bang Bang Baby" produced by Daniel Bekerman (Tap 2013)
"Big Muddy"produced by Bob Crowe (Tap 2009)
"Cub" produced by Peter De Maegd (Tap 2009) and co-produced by Femke Wolting (Tap 2011)
"Dukhtar" co-produced by Shrihari Sathe (Tap 2013)
"Guidance" produced by Mike MacMillan (Tap 2014)
"Hole" produced by Laura Perlmutter and Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith (both Tap 2014)
"Shelter" produced by Katie Mustard (Tap 2014)
"Tigers" produced by Guneet Monga (Tap 2011)
"Voice Over" co-produced by Nicolas Comeau (Tap 2014)
"Wet Bum" produced by Paula Devonshire and Lauren Grant (both Tap 2013)
In Module 2, producers take part in a multi-facetted training programme including up-to-date topics on marketing and distribution and case studies. The list of experts and trainers is broad: Susan Shopmaker (Susan Shopmaker Casting, USA), Mark Horowitz (H20 Motion Pictures, USA), Mia Bays (Missing In Action Films, UK), Evan Schwartz (FilmBuff, USA), Jay van Hoy (Parts and Labor Films, USA), Marc Almon (Story Engine Pictures), Andrew Noble (Filmoption International) and Belgium producer Jean-Yves Roubin (Frakas Productions) as well as Phyllis Laing (Buffalo Gal Pictures). The Tap training leads directly into Strategic Partners where producers will participate in 3 days of b2b meetings, panels and keynote speakers at one of the world’s pre-eminent international co-production markets.
About Trans Atlantic Partners
Tap offers a unique combination of intensive, hands-on training with effective networking among potential partners, and targeted project feedback from resource trainers.
Tap alumni include internationally acclaimed producers such as Sol Bondy, Germany (Youth – bfi Award-nomination 2013), Peter Bouckaert, Belgium (Bullhead – Oscar®-nomination 2012), Marc- Daniel Dichant, Germany (In Darkness – Oscar®-nomination 2012), Anne-Marie Gelinas, Canada (Mars and Avril – Canadian Screen Awards 4 nominations 2013), Alexandra Johnes, USA (The House I Live in – Sundance Grand Jury Prize 2012), Bob Moore, Canada (China Heavyweight – Sundance Grand Jury Prize nomination 2012), Guneet Monga, India (Gangs of Wasseypur– Toronto & Cannes 2012, The Lunchbox – 2013 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Rail d’ Or), and Ryan Zacharias, USA (I Used to Be Darker – Sundance & Berlin 2013). Presenting
Partners
The Erich Pommer Institut (Epi) is one of the leading centers in Europe for media law, media management, and media research. As a non-profit independent institute, our curriculum follows the process of media convergence through research, consultation and advanced training. Each year, Epi organizes and hosts close to 40 seminars, workshops, conferences and panels – for the German as well as the European media industry. www.epi-medieninstitut.de
The Canadian Media Production Association (Cmpa) is Canada's leading trade association for independent producers. The Cmpa represents more than 350 companies engaged in the production and distribution of English-language television programs, feature films and digital media. Together, the production sector generates almost $6 billion of activity annually and sustains 127,700 high-quality, full-time jobs. The Cmpa works on behalf of members to promote and stimulate the Canadian production industry to ensure the continued success of Canada's independent production sector and a future for Canadian content. www.cmpa.ca
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) is the U.S.'s oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Ifp represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world, with a mission of ensuring that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness and fostering activism. www.ifp.org
Tap is supported by Telefilm Canada, Vff (Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten mbH) Germany, and Creative BC, Canada. Associate partner: Strategic Partners...
Potsdam, Germany – After completing Module 1 in Berlin in June, The Erich Pommer Institut – Epi (Germany), new Presenting Partner Canadian Media Production Association – Cmpa (Canada), and the Independent Filmmaker Project – Ifp (USA) proudly present Module 2 of their annual intensive training and networking program for established producers from Europe, Canada, and the United States, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 8th- 14th. 22 experienced producers were selected from the target countries including, the UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Greece, Denmark, Canada and USA to participate in the 6th edition.
Looking forward to the upcoming training unit, Tap Head of Studies, Jan Miller, comments, “With the strong presence of Tap producers at Tiff this year, we’re seeing tangible evidence that the training program in Berlin and Halifax is supporting the best in international producer talent.”
The Tap producers’ highlight list of films that premiere at Tiff include:
"Bang Bang Baby" produced by Daniel Bekerman (Tap 2013)
"Big Muddy"produced by Bob Crowe (Tap 2009)
"Cub" produced by Peter De Maegd (Tap 2009) and co-produced by Femke Wolting (Tap 2011)
"Dukhtar" co-produced by Shrihari Sathe (Tap 2013)
"Guidance" produced by Mike MacMillan (Tap 2014)
"Hole" produced by Laura Perlmutter and Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith (both Tap 2014)
"Shelter" produced by Katie Mustard (Tap 2014)
"Tigers" produced by Guneet Monga (Tap 2011)
"Voice Over" co-produced by Nicolas Comeau (Tap 2014)
"Wet Bum" produced by Paula Devonshire and Lauren Grant (both Tap 2013)
In Module 2, producers take part in a multi-facetted training programme including up-to-date topics on marketing and distribution and case studies. The list of experts and trainers is broad: Susan Shopmaker (Susan Shopmaker Casting, USA), Mark Horowitz (H20 Motion Pictures, USA), Mia Bays (Missing In Action Films, UK), Evan Schwartz (FilmBuff, USA), Jay van Hoy (Parts and Labor Films, USA), Marc Almon (Story Engine Pictures), Andrew Noble (Filmoption International) and Belgium producer Jean-Yves Roubin (Frakas Productions) as well as Phyllis Laing (Buffalo Gal Pictures). The Tap training leads directly into Strategic Partners where producers will participate in 3 days of b2b meetings, panels and keynote speakers at one of the world’s pre-eminent international co-production markets.
About Trans Atlantic Partners
Tap offers a unique combination of intensive, hands-on training with effective networking among potential partners, and targeted project feedback from resource trainers.
Tap alumni include internationally acclaimed producers such as Sol Bondy, Germany (Youth – bfi Award-nomination 2013), Peter Bouckaert, Belgium (Bullhead – Oscar®-nomination 2012), Marc- Daniel Dichant, Germany (In Darkness – Oscar®-nomination 2012), Anne-Marie Gelinas, Canada (Mars and Avril – Canadian Screen Awards 4 nominations 2013), Alexandra Johnes, USA (The House I Live in – Sundance Grand Jury Prize 2012), Bob Moore, Canada (China Heavyweight – Sundance Grand Jury Prize nomination 2012), Guneet Monga, India (Gangs of Wasseypur– Toronto & Cannes 2012, The Lunchbox – 2013 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Rail d’ Or), and Ryan Zacharias, USA (I Used to Be Darker – Sundance & Berlin 2013). Presenting
Partners
The Erich Pommer Institut (Epi) is one of the leading centers in Europe for media law, media management, and media research. As a non-profit independent institute, our curriculum follows the process of media convergence through research, consultation and advanced training. Each year, Epi organizes and hosts close to 40 seminars, workshops, conferences and panels – for the German as well as the European media industry. www.epi-medieninstitut.de
The Canadian Media Production Association (Cmpa) is Canada's leading trade association for independent producers. The Cmpa represents more than 350 companies engaged in the production and distribution of English-language television programs, feature films and digital media. Together, the production sector generates almost $6 billion of activity annually and sustains 127,700 high-quality, full-time jobs. The Cmpa works on behalf of members to promote and stimulate the Canadian production industry to ensure the continued success of Canada's independent production sector and a future for Canadian content. www.cmpa.ca
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) is the U.S.'s oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Ifp represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world, with a mission of ensuring that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness and fostering activism. www.ifp.org
Tap is supported by Telefilm Canada, Vff (Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten mbH) Germany, and Creative BC, Canada. Associate partner: Strategic Partners...
- 9/7/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Rhombus Media, WTFilms and Canada Company are teaming up on the Afghanistan war film, set to begin shooting in Manitoba in late September before relocating to Jordan.
Paris-based WTFilms is the international sales outside Canada, where Elevation Pictures will distribute. Canada Company will handle Canadian educational rights.
Passchendaele director Paul Gross will helm the project from his screenplay, described as a high-octane tale in the vein of The Hurt Locker and Lone Survivor.
Gross will play a veteran intelligence officer in the story of three men whose lives intersect in the murky world of modern warfare.
The producers will unveil Hyena Road at a breakfast on Saturday (September 6) and expect to announce further casting shortly.
Rhombus Media will produce in association with Buffalo Gal Pictures and Whizbang Films.
Rhombus head Niv Fichman, whose credits include Enemy and Blindness, produces with Gross, Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing, who previously made My Winnipeg, and [link=tt...
Paris-based WTFilms is the international sales outside Canada, where Elevation Pictures will distribute. Canada Company will handle Canadian educational rights.
Passchendaele director Paul Gross will helm the project from his screenplay, described as a high-octane tale in the vein of The Hurt Locker and Lone Survivor.
Gross will play a veteran intelligence officer in the story of three men whose lives intersect in the murky world of modern warfare.
The producers will unveil Hyena Road at a breakfast on Saturday (September 6) and expect to announce further casting shortly.
Rhombus Media will produce in association with Buffalo Gal Pictures and Whizbang Films.
Rhombus head Niv Fichman, whose credits include Enemy and Blindness, produces with Gross, Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing, who previously made My Winnipeg, and [link=tt...
- 9/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Rhombus Media, WTFilms and Canada Company are teaming up on the Afghanistan war film, set to begin shooting in Manitoba in late September before relocating to Jordan.
Paris-based WTFilms is the international sales outside Canada, where Elevation Pictures will distribute. Canada Company will handle Canadian educational rights.
Passchendaele director Paul Gross will helm the project from his screenplay, described as a high-octane tale in the vein of The Hurt Locker and Lone Survivor.
Gross will play a veteran intelligence officer in the story of three men whose lives intersect in the murky world of modern warfare.
The producers will unveil Hyena Road at a breakfast on Saturday (September 6) and expect to announce further casting shortly.
Rhombus Media will produce in association with Buffalo Gal Pictures and Whizbang Films.
Rhombus head Niv Fichman, whose credits include Enemy and Blindness, produces with Gross, Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing, who previously made My Winnipeg, and [link=tt...
Paris-based WTFilms is the international sales outside Canada, where Elevation Pictures will distribute. Canada Company will handle Canadian educational rights.
Passchendaele director Paul Gross will helm the project from his screenplay, described as a high-octane tale in the vein of The Hurt Locker and Lone Survivor.
Gross will play a veteran intelligence officer in the story of three men whose lives intersect in the murky world of modern warfare.
The producers will unveil Hyena Road at a breakfast on Saturday (September 6) and expect to announce further casting shortly.
Rhombus Media will produce in association with Buffalo Gal Pictures and Whizbang Films.
Rhombus head Niv Fichman, whose credits include Enemy and Blindness, produces with Gross, Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing, who previously made My Winnipeg, and [link=tt...
- 9/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: 22 producers from across Europe, Canada and the Us to take part in this year’s training programme.
Internationally renowned training programme Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) has unveiled its participants for this year’s edition.
The 22 producers from across Europe, Canada and the Us were selected by the Erich Pommer Institut (Epi) (Germany), new presenting partner Canadian Media Production Association (Cmpa) (Canada) and The Independent Filmmaker Project (USA).
Tap’s sixth edition will be incorporated into two training modules taking place in Berlin (June 17-22) and Halifax (Sept 8-14), and the producers will also participate as full delegates at the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners.
Nadja Radojevic, Epi’s head of international training, commented: “Thanks to the excellent collaboration among the three Presenting Partners we can once more include a great line-up of experts, seminars and workshops. And of course, we are delighted to have acquired so many talented and experienced producers.
Experts for this...
Internationally renowned training programme Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap) has unveiled its participants for this year’s edition.
The 22 producers from across Europe, Canada and the Us were selected by the Erich Pommer Institut (Epi) (Germany), new presenting partner Canadian Media Production Association (Cmpa) (Canada) and The Independent Filmmaker Project (USA).
Tap’s sixth edition will be incorporated into two training modules taking place in Berlin (June 17-22) and Halifax (Sept 8-14), and the producers will also participate as full delegates at the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners.
Nadja Radojevic, Epi’s head of international training, commented: “Thanks to the excellent collaboration among the three Presenting Partners we can once more include a great line-up of experts, seminars and workshops. And of course, we are delighted to have acquired so many talented and experienced producers.
Experts for this...
- 6/12/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
A new poster has arrived for "Aloft," starring Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy and Melanie Laurent. Sony Pictures Classics has picked up distribution for this one which is playing at the Berlin International Film Festival. Claudia Llosa directs and writes the drama which is produced by Ibon Cormenzana, Phyllis Laing and José María Morales. Here's the synopsis courtesy of the Berlin International Film Festival: Accompanied by a young documentary filmmaker, Ivan penetrates deeper and deeper into an unknown, frozen landscape. The film uses an enigmatic network of flashbacks to reveal the reasons behind this journey.
- 2/11/2014
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The distributor has acquired Us and Latin American rights to Golden Bear winner Claudia Llosa’s Berlin competition entry starring Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy and Mélanie Laurent.
Sales agent Dreamcatchers made the announcement after Marina Fuentes and executive producer Mark Johnson negotiated the deal with Sony Pictures Classics.
Wanda’s Jose María Morales, Ibon Cormenzana of Arcadia, Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal and Jerome Vidal of Noodles produced Llosa’s first English-language film and follow-up to 2009 Golden Bear winner Milk Of Sorrow.
Aloft tells of a struggling mother who encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier. William Shimell also stars.
Sales agent Dreamcatchers made the announcement after Marina Fuentes and executive producer Mark Johnson negotiated the deal with Sony Pictures Classics.
Wanda’s Jose María Morales, Ibon Cormenzana of Arcadia, Phyllis Laing of Buffalo Gal and Jerome Vidal of Noodles produced Llosa’s first English-language film and follow-up to 2009 Golden Bear winner Milk Of Sorrow.
Aloft tells of a struggling mother who encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier. William Shimell also stars.
- 2/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Update, Thursday Am: As the Berlin Film Festival kicks off today, Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed its acquisition of all U.S. and Latin American rights to competition title, Aloft. This is Milk Of Sorrow helmer Claudia Llosa’s first English-language film. It screens next Wednesday. The deal was negotiated by executive producer Mark Johnson, Dreamcatchers’ Marina Fuentes and Spc. Previous, Wednesday Pm, Exclusive: Sony Pictures Classics is closing on a deal to release Aloft, the film that premieres in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. The picture is directed by Claudia Llosa, whose last film The Milk Of Sorrow won the Golden Bear Prize at Berlin. The picture stars Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy and Melanie Laurent. Told in two different periods, the film stars Connelly as a struggling mother of two young sons who becomes a renowned artist and healer. Years later, a journalist (Laurent) tracks down the son she abandoned,...
- 2/6/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
The national support body announced on January 30 its Ten Canadians to Watch list.
The selected individuals will attend the Berlinale and/or the European Film Market.
They are in alphabetical order:
Jennifer Baichwal, Watermark – European Premiere, Berlinale Special;
Paul Barkin, Afterlands – a participant with a project at the Berlinale Coproduction Market;
Adam Beach – a Producers Without Borders participant promoting the Adam Beach Film Institute;
Jean-François Caissy, Guidelines (La Marche À Suivre, pictured) – World Premiere, Forum;
Denis Côté, Joy Of Man’s Desiring (Que Ta Joie Demeure) – World Premiere, Forum;
Félize Frappier, Kuessipan – a participant with a project at the Berlinale Coproduction Market;
Phyllis Laing and Liz Jarvis, producers of Aloft – World Premiere, Competition (minority Canadian co-production with Spain and France);
Robert Lepage, Triptych (Triptyque) – European Premiere, Panorama;
Robert Morin, 3 Indian Tales (3 Histoires D’indiens) – World Premiere, Generation; and
Ingrid Veninger – a participant at the Berlinale Coproduction Market.
The selected individuals will attend the Berlinale and/or the European Film Market.
They are in alphabetical order:
Jennifer Baichwal, Watermark – European Premiere, Berlinale Special;
Paul Barkin, Afterlands – a participant with a project at the Berlinale Coproduction Market;
Adam Beach – a Producers Without Borders participant promoting the Adam Beach Film Institute;
Jean-François Caissy, Guidelines (La Marche À Suivre, pictured) – World Premiere, Forum;
Denis Côté, Joy Of Man’s Desiring (Que Ta Joie Demeure) – World Premiere, Forum;
Félize Frappier, Kuessipan – a participant with a project at the Berlinale Coproduction Market;
Phyllis Laing and Liz Jarvis, producers of Aloft – World Premiere, Competition (minority Canadian co-production with Spain and France);
Robert Lepage, Triptych (Triptyque) – European Premiere, Panorama;
Robert Morin, 3 Indian Tales (3 Histoires D’indiens) – World Premiere, Generation; and
Ingrid Veninger – a participant at the Berlinale Coproduction Market.
- 1/30/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
FilmBuff has acquired Us rights to Tiff Docs entry Burt’s Buzz and will release in theatres and on VoD in 2014.
Jody Shapiro’s film chronicles the life and times of Burt’s Bees founder Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper and formerphotojournalist who reluctantly assumed the mantle of a globally renowned brand.
Shapiro produced and Jean Du Toit, Phyllis Laing and Isabella Rossellini served as executive producers.
The film is scheduled to screen on Tuesday (10) and again on Friday. The Film Sales Company’s Andrew Herwitz handles international sales.
Jody Shapiro’s film chronicles the life and times of Burt’s Bees founder Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper and formerphotojournalist who reluctantly assumed the mantle of a globally renowned brand.
Shapiro produced and Jean Du Toit, Phyllis Laing and Isabella Rossellini served as executive producers.
The film is scheduled to screen on Tuesday (10) and again on Friday. The Film Sales Company’s Andrew Herwitz handles international sales.
- 9/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Film Sales Company president Andrew Herwitz has acquired international rights to Jody Shapiro’s documentary ahead of its world premiere in Toronto.
Burt’s Buzz chronicles the career of Burt Shavitz, founder of the cosmetic giant Burt’s Bees.
Shapiro previously directed How To Start Your Own Country and produced My Winnipeg.
Shapiro produced Burt’s Buzz and Jean Du Toit, Phyllis Laing and Isabella Rossellini serve as executive producers. Cinetic is in talks to represent Us rights.
Herwitz’s Toronto roster includes When Jews Were Funny and White Lies.
Burt’s Buzz chronicles the career of Burt Shavitz, founder of the cosmetic giant Burt’s Bees.
Shapiro previously directed How To Start Your Own Country and produced My Winnipeg.
Shapiro produced Burt’s Buzz and Jean Du Toit, Phyllis Laing and Isabella Rossellini serve as executive producers. Cinetic is in talks to represent Us rights.
Herwitz’s Toronto roster includes When Jews Were Funny and White Lies.
- 9/5/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Spiritismes
Director: Guy Maddin
Writer(s): Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk
Producer(s): Phyllis Laing
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Amira Casar, Adèle Haenel, Ariane Labed, Elina Löwensohn, Mathieu Demy, Jean-François Stévenin, André Wilms, Grégory Gadebois, Jacques Nolot
High set of profile actors join one crazy project which is best described by the avant-gardist himself – “Over eighty percent of silent films are lost. I’ve always considered a lost film as a narrative with no known final resting place — doomed to wander the landscape of film history, sad, miserable and unable to project itself to the people who might love it.”
Gist: Every day, Guy Maddin invites visitors of the Centre Pompidou to witness the making of a new film inspired by a long-lost movie. Summoning these wandering spirits of cinema in theatrical “séances”, Maddin and his actors inhabit their ghostly scenarios.
Director: Guy Maddin
Writer(s): Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk
Producer(s): Phyllis Laing
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Amira Casar, Adèle Haenel, Ariane Labed, Elina Löwensohn, Mathieu Demy, Jean-François Stévenin, André Wilms, Grégory Gadebois, Jacques Nolot
High set of profile actors join one crazy project which is best described by the avant-gardist himself – “Over eighty percent of silent films are lost. I’ve always considered a lost film as a narrative with no known final resting place — doomed to wander the landscape of film history, sad, miserable and unable to project itself to the people who might love it.”
Gist: Every day, Guy Maddin invites visitors of the Centre Pompidou to witness the making of a new film inspired by a long-lost movie. Summoning these wandering spirits of cinema in theatrical “séances”, Maddin and his actors inhabit their ghostly scenarios.
- 1/14/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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