Buenos Aires-based Boutique sales agency Compañía de Cine has snagged “Pirópolis,” Chilean Nicolás Molina’s docu selected as part of Ventana Sur’s Doc Sur sidebar.
Compañía de Cine’s deal with its producers Funky Films and Pequén Prods. caps a triumphant festival trajectory for “Pirópolis,” which has played in a number of film events, including Docs in Progress at Fidocs + Conecta 2022, where it was awarded with the Best Project prize, as well as Visions Du Réel 2023 were it earned the VdR- Work-in-Progress Award.
“We are genuinely excited about this acquisition and the opportunity to bring ‘Pirópolis’ to a broader audience,” said Compañía de Cine’s Paulina Portela.
“Pirópolis” plunges us into the volatile Valparaíso city-port through the “Pompe France,” a fire brigade with French ties. The captain and crew receive Baptista, a French firefighter addressing eucalyptus-related fires. Amidst social upheaval, the company faces protests and strives for the...
Compañía de Cine’s deal with its producers Funky Films and Pequén Prods. caps a triumphant festival trajectory for “Pirópolis,” which has played in a number of film events, including Docs in Progress at Fidocs + Conecta 2022, where it was awarded with the Best Project prize, as well as Visions Du Réel 2023 were it earned the VdR- Work-in-Progress Award.
“We are genuinely excited about this acquisition and the opportunity to bring ‘Pirópolis’ to a broader audience,” said Compañía de Cine’s Paulina Portela.
“Pirópolis” plunges us into the volatile Valparaíso city-port through the “Pompe France,” a fire brigade with French ties. The captain and crew receive Baptista, a French firefighter addressing eucalyptus-related fires. Amidst social upheaval, the company faces protests and strives for the...
- 12/2/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Camerimage, the cinematography-oriented film festival, will bestow its Lifetime Achievement Award on auteur director Krzysztof Zanussi.
Born in Warsaw in 1939, Zanussi studied at the National Film School in Lodz, Poland, but even before enrolling he was making amateur films, winning awards at various festivals.
His directorial debut, “The Death of a Provincial” (1966), with cinematography by Jan Hesse, foreshadowed the central themes of his work – the juxtaposition of the sacred and the profane, youth and old age, life and death.
After making several medium-length and documentary films, Zanussi directed his first feature, “The Structure of Crystal” (1969), with Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz as Dp. The picture is considered part of the so-called third wave in Polish cinema, which combines asceticism, lack of a traditional plot and a profound sense of realism, reflected in the cinematography – all defining characteristics of the director’s early work.
In the 1970s, Zanussi created a series of films that...
Born in Warsaw in 1939, Zanussi studied at the National Film School in Lodz, Poland, but even before enrolling he was making amateur films, winning awards at various festivals.
His directorial debut, “The Death of a Provincial” (1966), with cinematography by Jan Hesse, foreshadowed the central themes of his work – the juxtaposition of the sacred and the profane, youth and old age, life and death.
After making several medium-length and documentary films, Zanussi directed his first feature, “The Structure of Crystal” (1969), with Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz as Dp. The picture is considered part of the so-called third wave in Polish cinema, which combines asceticism, lack of a traditional plot and a profound sense of realism, reflected in the cinematography – all defining characteristics of the director’s early work.
In the 1970s, Zanussi created a series of films that...
- 10/18/2023
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
Five years after it first hit SoundCloud, Shamir’s album Hope has been reissued on vinyl for a deluxe version via Kill Rock Stars, featuring the never-before-heard songs “Breathe” and “Camouflage.”
Hope was the follow-up to Shamir’s debut album, 2015’s Ratchet, and came about in a miraculous way. Stunned by the attention and acclaim Ratchet garnered, but taken aback by the pressures of fame and the process of commodification, Shamir almost quit music entirely. But a single weekend recording session brought him back from the edge, and resulted in the creation of Hope.
“Hope came at a time in my life when I was desperately searching for it,” Shamir explained in a statement. “I found myself not wanting to do music anymore after a rough introduction into the music industry. I didn’t feel seen or heard as the artist I was, or at least wanted to be, and...
Hope was the follow-up to Shamir’s debut album, 2015’s Ratchet, and came about in a miraculous way. Stunned by the attention and acclaim Ratchet garnered, but taken aback by the pressures of fame and the process of commodification, Shamir almost quit music entirely. But a single weekend recording session brought him back from the edge, and resulted in the creation of Hope.
“Hope came at a time in my life when I was desperately searching for it,” Shamir explained in a statement. “I found myself not wanting to do music anymore after a rough introduction into the music industry. I didn’t feel seen or heard as the artist I was, or at least wanted to be, and...
- 4/7/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles has announced the nominees for the 10th annual Best of Nfmla Awards.
Nfmla is a nonprofit organization that supports emerging filmmakers and artists through a monthly series of screenings and events in Los Angeles. The nominees for its Best of Nfmla slate are comprised of films that have screened as part of the Nfmla Monthly Film Festival selection in 2021. This year, the awards honor 125 nominees across 16 categories, including achievements in features, documentaries, shorts, experimental media and a best new filmmaker award.
“We are so proud to be able to highlight the incredible talent of all of our nominees, who have each created such inspiring work,” Nfmla programming director Bojana Sandic said in a statement.
15,000 will be provided to select Best of Nfmla winners, a practice that began last year to celebrate the career of recently passed producer Anthony Rhulen, who launched the indie producing company FilmEngine.
“We...
Nfmla is a nonprofit organization that supports emerging filmmakers and artists through a monthly series of screenings and events in Los Angeles. The nominees for its Best of Nfmla slate are comprised of films that have screened as part of the Nfmla Monthly Film Festival selection in 2021. This year, the awards honor 125 nominees across 16 categories, including achievements in features, documentaries, shorts, experimental media and a best new filmmaker award.
“We are so proud to be able to highlight the incredible talent of all of our nominees, who have each created such inspiring work,” Nfmla programming director Bojana Sandic said in a statement.
15,000 will be provided to select Best of Nfmla winners, a practice that began last year to celebrate the career of recently passed producer Anthony Rhulen, who launched the indie producing company FilmEngine.
“We...
- 4/6/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
My favorite film of the Berlinale was Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Ashley McKenzie’s ambitious and otherworldly fantasia about a “queer friendship romance” between a suicidal young woman and a Chinese immigrant she meets while hospitalized. Inspired by two teenagers she befriended during the casting of her previous feature, Werewolf (2016), McKenzie first sketched out the central character, Star (Sarah Walker), whose everyday life is mediated by endless negotiations with social workers, doctors, guardians, landlords and the various bureaucracies that employ them. Star is aging out of child protective services and has been deemed unfit to live independently, so as […]
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- 3/22/2022
- by Darren Hughes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
My favorite film of the Berlinale was Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Ashley McKenzie’s ambitious and otherworldly fantasia about a “queer friendship romance” between a suicidal young woman and a Chinese immigrant she meets while hospitalized. Inspired by two teenagers she befriended during the casting of her previous feature, Werewolf (2016), McKenzie first sketched out the central character, Star (Sarah Walker), whose everyday life is mediated by endless negotiations with social workers, doctors, guardians, landlords and the various bureaucracies that employ them. Star is aging out of child protective services and has been deemed unfit to live independently, so as […]
The post Berlinale 2022 Critic’s Notebook: Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Dry Ground Burning, Rewind and Play, Camouflage, Happer’s Comet, The Middle Ages first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
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- 3/22/2022
- by Darren Hughes
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Forum adds 10 more titles; Classics includes Godard, Pasolini, Russell.
New films from Jonathan Perel and Max Linz are among 17 new titles added to the Forum section at the 2022 Berlinale; while the Classics section has programmed seven digitally restored titles ahead of next month’s festival.
Argentinian filmmaker Jonathan Perel will participate with the world premiere of documentary Camouflage, about a writer who embodies a man with an obsession with Argentina’s biggest military unit.
Perel’s previous films include Berlinale 2020 title Corporate Responsibility.
German director Linz is in the festival with the world premiere of his new film L’Etat Et Moi,...
New films from Jonathan Perel and Max Linz are among 17 new titles added to the Forum section at the 2022 Berlinale; while the Classics section has programmed seven digitally restored titles ahead of next month’s festival.
Argentinian filmmaker Jonathan Perel will participate with the world premiere of documentary Camouflage, about a writer who embodies a man with an obsession with Argentina’s biggest military unit.
Perel’s previous films include Berlinale 2020 title Corporate Responsibility.
German director Linz is in the festival with the world premiere of his new film L’Etat Et Moi,...
- 1/17/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“Can I be Mr. Camouflage?” A young punk asks his friends in the closing moments of the “Reservation Dogs” pilot, helmed by Oscar-winning writer/director Taika Waititi. Though its title portends homage to a certain mixed-tape filmmaker, FX’s newest half-hour comedy is more in line with the rebellious spirit of Richard Linklater’s indie 90s flicks.
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- 7/29/2021
- by Andrew Bundy
- The Playlist
Greg Rucka has been enchanting comics readers with his sprawling stories for years. Although he might be best known as the writer behind acclaimed runs on major superheroes like Wonder Woman, he’s also got a stack of critically acclaimed creator-owned comics under his belt too. One of those series, The Old Guard, is making its way to the small screen in a new Netflix movie starring Charlize Theron. The Gina Prince-Bythewood directed flick centers around Theron’s immortal warrior, Andy, and her team of undying soldiers who’ve been protecting humanity for millennia.
There’s no question that Andy is the tragic hero of The Old Guard. So where did the idea of the deathless warrior come from? Well, as Rucka explains, it wasn’t an easy road.
“That is one of those deceptively hard questions to answer,” he says. “Because, for me, a lot of ideas tend to...
There’s no question that Andy is the tragic hero of The Old Guard. So where did the idea of the deathless warrior come from? Well, as Rucka explains, it wasn’t an easy road.
“That is one of those deceptively hard questions to answer,” he says. “Because, for me, a lot of ideas tend to...
- 7/10/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
EtherAs he approaches his 80th birthday, distinguished Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi shows little sign of letting up. Although his reputation in wider cinephile culture has diminished somewhat since a remarkably febrile period in the 1970s and 80s (several films from which were seen in last year’s retrospective on Mubi), Zanussi remains an ambassador for his nation’s cinema internationally, in an esteemed triumvirate alongside dearly departed colleagues Krzysztof Kieslowśki and Andrzej Wajda.Zanussi’s latest film, pre-First World War drama Ether, premiered at the Rome Film Festival in October and continues the director’s recent interest in examining the structures of power and our relationship to religion. In something of a warping of the stereotypical “Zanussoid” protagonists for which he originally became famous—young, scientifically-inclined men searching for meaning, often in a hostile world—Ether follows a doctor using morally questionable means to pursue his studies into the oppressive potential of the eponymous chemical.
- 4/18/2019
- MUBI
Lara Fabian performed at New York City’s Beacon Theater Monday night as part of her Camouflage World Tour – only her second performance ever in the Big Apple. Lara Fabian Camouflage World Tour The famed Canadian-Belgian singer has been performing since the mid-1980s and her 13th studio album, Camouflage, was released on Oct. 6, 2017. It […]
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- 2/6/2018
- by Hillary Luehring-Jones
- Uinterview
Karl Schanzer, a longtime story analyst whose real-life experience as a private eye was an inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, died May 25 in Studio City. He was 81. Schanzer worked as a reader for Jeffrey Katzenberg at Paramount (where he found what would become the 1982 Eddie Murphy hit 48 HRs.) and as a creative executive at 20th Century Fox, among many studio positions. He also produced and created the story for Camouflage (2001), co-written by Billy Bob Thornton under the pseudonym Reginald Perry. (Thornton’s character in Sling Blade is named after Schanzer.) Born in Hartford, Conn., on Nov. 25, 1932, Schanzer
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- 6/3/2014
- by Stephen Galloway
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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