Brazilian mystery Bacurau earned $100,152 from first six weeks at virtual box office.
Kino Lorber’s virtual cinema initiative Kino Marquee is set to cross $400,000 this week following the digital platform’s March 19 launch with Arthouse Convergence.
The haul means $200,000 is returning to participating art house cinemas in line with Kino Marquee’s stated 50-50 split.
Figures sent by Kino Lorber to participating art house theatres show that from March 19 through April 30, the platform generated $317,304 at the virtual box office and 26,364 virtual tickets sold from a total of 368 participating cinemas (not necessarily all over six weeks).
The data averaged $39,663 per film over eight titles,...
Kino Lorber’s virtual cinema initiative Kino Marquee is set to cross $400,000 this week following the digital platform’s March 19 launch with Arthouse Convergence.
The haul means $200,000 is returning to participating art house cinemas in line with Kino Marquee’s stated 50-50 split.
Figures sent by Kino Lorber to participating art house theatres show that from March 19 through April 30, the platform generated $317,304 at the virtual box office and 26,364 virtual tickets sold from a total of 368 participating cinemas (not necessarily all over six weeks).
The data averaged $39,663 per film over eight titles,...
- 5/9/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Ask anyone to name a female pioneer who studied wild species in their natural habitat in Africa and you’ll get Jane Goodall. But in 1956, four years before primatologist Goodall’s rightfully celebrated work with the chimpanzees started, there was the 23-year-old Canadian Dr. Anne Innis Dagg and her research of giraffes. Despite being the first woman to set off on a solitary expedition to observe animal behavior, the zoologist never received proper popular praise for her efforts. With her bighearted documentary “The Woman Who Loves Giraffes,” director Alison Reid aims to correct this error, honoring an ahead-of-her-time scientist who defied the patriarchal conventions of the 1950s and stood up to various forms of sexism since then.
Blending stunning original 16mm footage captured during the researcher’s year in South Africa; lively talking heads interviews with various familial, academic, and conservationist figures; and loving letters exchanged between young Innis (read...
Blending stunning original 16mm footage captured during the researcher’s year in South Africa; lively talking heads interviews with various familial, academic, and conservationist figures; and loving letters exchanged between young Innis (read...
- 1/10/2020
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
A bright spot in the middle of this dark month, Alison Reid’s unabashedly sincere documentary offers gentle comfort even when it brushes up against tough subjects. “The Woman Who Loves Giraffes” is Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, though a more accurate — if admittedly impractical — title might be “The Woman Who Once Loved Giraffes, Then Lost Them, and Finally Found Them Again.”
The movie traces the length of her remarkable journey beginning in 1936, when her mother took her to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. Just three years old, she gazed at a group of giraffes — what she now calls “a symphony of perfection” — and knew that she wanted to dedicate her life to them.
And so she did, at least at first. Dagg made her way to Africa for the rigorous study of wild animals in their native habitat years before Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey or many other peers who earned greater renown.
The movie traces the length of her remarkable journey beginning in 1936, when her mother took her to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. Just three years old, she gazed at a group of giraffes — what she now calls “a symphony of perfection” — and knew that she wanted to dedicate her life to them.
And so she did, at least at first. Dagg made her way to Africa for the rigorous study of wild animals in their native habitat years before Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey or many other peers who earned greater renown.
- 1/9/2020
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, the Alison Reid documentary about pioneering biologist Anne Innis Dagg, who began studying giraffes in the wild in South Africa in 1956 (ahead of Jane Goodall’s and Diane Fosse’s exploits), but who found it difficult to gain traction in her own profession because she was a woman.
With the deal, the pic will opening January 10, 2020 at Quad Cinema in New York and February 21 at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles.
Dagg made her solo journey to South Africa as a 23 year old, and her work became the foundation for many scientists following in her footsteps. Now 85, she and Reid retrace her steps, and with letters and original 16mm footage show a window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first-hand look at the devastating reality giraffes face today.
With the deal, the pic will opening January 10, 2020 at Quad Cinema in New York and February 21 at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles.
Dagg made her solo journey to South Africa as a 23 year old, and her work became the foundation for many scientists following in her footsteps. Now 85, she and Reid retrace her steps, and with letters and original 16mm footage show a window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first-hand look at the devastating reality giraffes face today.
- 11/1/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Lesbian pregnancy is one of the queer community’s time-honored clichés. The subject (and the stereotype) has been covered in everything from The L Word to a glut of so-so Lgbt films (see: Tick Tock Lullaby, Goldfish Memory) to mainstream TV’s favorite “very special episodes.”
It was therefore almost shocking to find one of the most original, inventive and entertaining lesbian films of recent days in The Baby Formula. While premised on a lesbian pregnancy, the film is really about parenthood, family, and, more broadly, love.
Framed realistically (with just a pinch of sci-fi speculation tossed in), with truly excellent performances by both leads and the strong ensemble cast, it deserves a place on every queer parent’s watch list.
We begin with a close-up shot of two women snuggling on a porch. A documentary director and her camera crew look on, rapt. “Athena wants to have my baby,...
It was therefore almost shocking to find one of the most original, inventive and entertaining lesbian films of recent days in The Baby Formula. While premised on a lesbian pregnancy, the film is really about parenthood, family, and, more broadly, love.
Framed realistically (with just a pinch of sci-fi speculation tossed in), with truly excellent performances by both leads and the strong ensemble cast, it deserves a place on every queer parent’s watch list.
We begin with a close-up shot of two women snuggling on a porch. A documentary director and her camera crew look on, rapt. “Athena wants to have my baby,...
- 4/5/2010
- by danieller
- AfterEllen.com
Maple Pictures, the distributor of Alison Reid's The Baby Formula, has released online the DVD artwork of this romantic comedy. Moreover, The Baby Formula will come out on DVD on January 5, 2010 in Canada.
Synopsis:
Athena (Angela Vint) and Lilith (Megan Fahlenbock) form a lesbian couple. They both want a biological child of their own. Their envy pushes them as far as taking part in an experimental scientific process that will allow them to make sperm from their own stem cells. However, Athena and Lilith must face the disapproving attitude of people around them.
Synopsis:
Athena (Angela Vint) and Lilith (Megan Fahlenbock) form a lesbian couple. They both want a biological child of their own. Their envy pushes them as far as taking part in an experimental scientific process that will allow them to make sperm from their own stem cells. However, Athena and Lilith must face the disapproving attitude of people around them.
- 1/2/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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