International finance, production and sales company Protagonist Pictures has appointed Alice Vail as creative executive, reporting into head of development Len Rowles and head of acquisitions Luane Gauer. Vail will be working across Protagonist’s film and television projects with a focus on supporting new talent.
Vail previously served as the development editor at Number 9 Films, working on several high-profile projects including Eva Husson’s Cannes 2021 official selection “Mothering Sunday,” and Oliver Hermanus’ “Living,” which bowed at Sundance earlier this year.
Vail began her career working at the film and TV agency, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, where she worked with writers and directors including Oscar-nominee Phyllis Nagy (“Carol”), “Saint Maud” director Rose Glass, and “Ida” screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
Rowles and Gauer said: “We are delighted to welcome Alice to the Protagonist team. Her broad industry experience, ability to analyze scripts with a view to worldwide market appeal, and her...
Vail previously served as the development editor at Number 9 Films, working on several high-profile projects including Eva Husson’s Cannes 2021 official selection “Mothering Sunday,” and Oliver Hermanus’ “Living,” which bowed at Sundance earlier this year.
Vail began her career working at the film and TV agency, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, where she worked with writers and directors including Oscar-nominee Phyllis Nagy (“Carol”), “Saint Maud” director Rose Glass, and “Ida” screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
Rowles and Gauer said: “We are delighted to welcome Alice to the Protagonist team. Her broad industry experience, ability to analyze scripts with a view to worldwide market appeal, and her...
- 4/25/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Under different circumstances, the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival might have been a more celebratory affair, with coronavirus restrictions gradually loosening across Greece and the country’s second city hosting an in-person edition of a festival that was among the world’s first to go virtual at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
But with the humanitarian toll rising in Ukraine, as Russia continues its relentless assault of its Eastern European neighbor, festival director Orestis Andreadakis offered a sobering reflection on the eve of opening night on war, cinema and the need for solidarity.
“It’s shocking what is happening,” Andreadakis told Variety, likening the threat to the one faced by Europe during World War II. “After the war, we had this slogan: Never again. Never again to war. Never again to Holocaust. Never again to horror. Every time we repeated this phrase, every time we wrote it on the walls,...
But with the humanitarian toll rising in Ukraine, as Russia continues its relentless assault of its Eastern European neighbor, festival director Orestis Andreadakis offered a sobering reflection on the eve of opening night on war, cinema and the need for solidarity.
“It’s shocking what is happening,” Andreadakis told Variety, likening the threat to the one faced by Europe during World War II. “After the war, we had this slogan: Never again. Never again to war. Never again to Holocaust. Never again to horror. Every time we repeated this phrase, every time we wrote it on the walls,...
- 3/10/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
A French comedy following an oddball duo on an unconventional road trip and an Australian documentary about four refugees that compete in the World Wine Blind Tasting Championships have topped the audience awards at this year’s Sydney Film Festival.
Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien’s Beautiful Minds and Robert Coe and Warwick Ross’ Blind Ambition were voted number one feature film and documentary respectively, following the announcement of the official awards on Sunday.
Inspired by the real-life experiences of Jollien, Beautiful Minds details an unlikely friendship between workaholic funeral director Louis (Campan) and Igor (Jollien), a grocery worker with cerebral palsy, as a chance encounter leads them on a journey across France, during which they discuss everything from Nietzsche to being pigeon-holed.
France also features heavily in Blind Ambition as the setting for World Wine Blind Tasting Championships that Zimbabweans Joseph, Tinashe, Marlvin, and Pardon set out to attend.
Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien’s Beautiful Minds and Robert Coe and Warwick Ross’ Blind Ambition were voted number one feature film and documentary respectively, following the announcement of the official awards on Sunday.
Inspired by the real-life experiences of Jollien, Beautiful Minds details an unlikely friendship between workaholic funeral director Louis (Campan) and Igor (Jollien), a grocery worker with cerebral palsy, as a chance encounter leads them on a journey across France, during which they discuss everything from Nietzsche to being pigeon-holed.
France also features heavily in Blind Ambition as the setting for World Wine Blind Tasting Championships that Zimbabweans Joseph, Tinashe, Marlvin, and Pardon set out to attend.
- 11/16/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Protagonist Pictures has closed sales on several key territories, including the U.S. and U.K., on 2021 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award-winning documentary “Blind Ambition.”
Protagonist Pictures CEO Dave Bishop revealed to Variety that sales include Samuel Goldwyn Films for the U.S., Curzon for the U.K., Level for Canada, Paradiso for Benelux, Weltkino for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Non Stop for Scandinavia, Madman for Australia and New Zealand and New Select for Japan.
Directed by Warwick Ross and Rob Coe, “Blind Ambition” follows four friends who have conquered the odds to become South Africa’s top sommeliers after escaping starvation and tyranny in their homeland of Zimbabwe. Driven by relentless optimism, a passion for their craft and a sense of national pride, they form Zimbabwe’s first national wine tasting team and set their sights on the coveted title of “World Wine Tasting Champions.”
Ross and Coe also...
Protagonist Pictures CEO Dave Bishop revealed to Variety that sales include Samuel Goldwyn Films for the U.S., Curzon for the U.K., Level for Canada, Paradiso for Benelux, Weltkino for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Non Stop for Scandinavia, Madman for Australia and New Zealand and New Select for Japan.
Directed by Warwick Ross and Rob Coe, “Blind Ambition” follows four friends who have conquered the odds to become South Africa’s top sommeliers after escaping starvation and tyranny in their homeland of Zimbabwe. Driven by relentless optimism, a passion for their craft and a sense of national pride, they form Zimbabwe’s first national wine tasting team and set their sights on the coveted title of “World Wine Tasting Champions.”
Ross and Coe also...
- 9/8/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
From Zimbabwe to South Africa and onto France, four refugees with a passion for wine dream big and defy expectation in this feel-good documentary.
Every year, the best oenologists in the world come together for the World Blind Wine Tasting Championships (Wbwtc). Regarded as the ‘Olympics of wine tasting’, the event, held in France and established in 2013, has proven to be very conservative and Western-centric. So when Joseph, Tinashe, Marlvin and Pardon – who each fled Zimbabwe in search of a better life, then find it as sommeliers in the restaurants of South Africa – decide to form Zimbabwe’s first Wbwtc team, they make an impression on this insular industry.
But as the men enter the competition and travel to Europe, it becomes clear that the wine-tasting mission they’re on is about much more than medals.
Helmed by Aussie directors and producers Warwick Ross and Robert Coe, Blind Ambition made...
Every year, the best oenologists in the world come together for the World Blind Wine Tasting Championships (Wbwtc). Regarded as the ‘Olympics of wine tasting’, the event, held in France and established in 2013, has proven to be very conservative and Western-centric. So when Joseph, Tinashe, Marlvin and Pardon – who each fled Zimbabwe in search of a better life, then find it as sommeliers in the restaurants of South Africa – decide to form Zimbabwe’s first Wbwtc team, they make an impression on this insular industry.
But as the men enter the competition and travel to Europe, it becomes clear that the wine-tasting mission they’re on is about much more than medals.
Helmed by Aussie directors and producers Warwick Ross and Robert Coe, Blind Ambition made...
- 7/26/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Festival ran from June 9-20.
2021 Tribeca Festival announced revenge thriller Catch The Fair One and Blind Ambition as audience award winners on Thursday (June 24).
Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Catch The Fair One played in the US Narrative Feature category and centres on a Native American woman’s search for her missing sister. Second place went to Pan Nalin’s Spotlight Narrative selection Last Film Show.
Warwick Ross and Robert Coe’s Documentary Competition entry Blind Ambition took the top prize in the documentary category and tells of four friends who leave Zimbabwe for South Africa and become top sommeliers. Second...
2021 Tribeca Festival announced revenge thriller Catch The Fair One and Blind Ambition as audience award winners on Thursday (June 24).
Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Catch The Fair One played in the US Narrative Feature category and centres on a Native American woman’s search for her missing sister. Second place went to Pan Nalin’s Spotlight Narrative selection Last Film Show.
Warwick Ross and Robert Coe’s Documentary Competition entry Blind Ambition took the top prize in the documentary category and tells of four friends who leave Zimbabwe for South Africa and become top sommeliers. Second...
- 6/24/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The just-concluded Tribeca Festival, which offered signs of the industry and culture bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic, drew solid crowds both in person and online, according to new data from organizers.
About 100,000 people attended the 250-plus events held over 12 days, everything from screenings to performances to talks. Tribeca, whose 2020 edition was wiped out by Covid-19, became the first major North American fest to host in-person events. It opened and closed, respectively, with In the Heights and Dave Chappelle‘s untitled documentary. Like the majority of films at this year’s fest, they were both world premieres.
With limits on in-person ticket sales, the decision was made to mount an ambitious online offering, Tribeca At Home. The online hub for a wide range of features, shorts, conversations, filmmaker Q&As and other material racked up 115,000 overall views, the festival said. The streaming app was distributed on Roku and other platforms,...
About 100,000 people attended the 250-plus events held over 12 days, everything from screenings to performances to talks. Tribeca, whose 2020 edition was wiped out by Covid-19, became the first major North American fest to host in-person events. It opened and closed, respectively, with In the Heights and Dave Chappelle‘s untitled documentary. Like the majority of films at this year’s fest, they were both world premieres.
With limits on in-person ticket sales, the decision was made to mount an ambitious online offering, Tribeca At Home. The online hub for a wide range of features, shorts, conversations, filmmaker Q&As and other material racked up 115,000 overall views, the festival said. The streaming app was distributed on Roku and other platforms,...
- 6/24/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with audience award winners. The Tribeca Festival has announced its Audience Award winners: Catch the Fair One for Best Narrative Feature, Blind Ambition for Best Documentary Feature and Ferguson Rises for Best Online Feature. The winners of the narrative and documentary categories will receive a cash prize of $10,000.
Tribeca’s 20th edition wrapped up on Sunday.
Previously: Lauren Hadaway’s The Novice, about a queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top boat, has won the Best U.S. Narrative Feature Film prize at the Tribeca Festival.
Star Isabelle Furman won the best actress prize, and Todd Martin took cinematography honors for the film, the first feature for Hadaway, a former competitive rower.
Brighton 4th, directed by Levan Koguashvili, won the fest’s Best International Narrative Feature Film prize, taking that honor as...
Tribeca’s 20th edition wrapped up on Sunday.
Previously: Lauren Hadaway’s The Novice, about a queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top boat, has won the Best U.S. Narrative Feature Film prize at the Tribeca Festival.
Star Isabelle Furman won the best actress prize, and Todd Martin took cinematography honors for the film, the first feature for Hadaway, a former competitive rower.
Brighton 4th, directed by Levan Koguashvili, won the fest’s Best International Narrative Feature Film prize, taking that honor as...
- 6/24/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Team Zimbabwe - Tinashe Nyamudoka, Pardon Taguzu, Joseph Dhafana, and Marlvin Gwese in discussion with coach Denis Garret in the middle at the fifth World Wine Tasting Championships.
When I spoke with Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer from Paris on the line-up for the 20th anniversary edition, he called Warwick Ross and Robert Coe’s Blind Ambition “super good.” Joseph Dhafana, Tinashe Nyamudoka, Marlvin Gwese, and Pardon Tagazu, who are all living and working in South Africa, formed team Zimbabwe to compete against 23 countries (the Québecois counting Québec as a country) in the fifth World Wine Tasting Championships, held in Burgundy, France at the Château de Gilly.
Robert Coe and Warwick Ross with Anne-Katrin Titze on Claude Lelouch: “While we were at his atelier, we noticed that there was a [Citroën] 2Cv sitting in the driveway.”
Blind Ambition (co-written with Paul Murphy and Madeleine Ross), a highlight of the festival,...
When I spoke with Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer from Paris on the line-up for the 20th anniversary edition, he called Warwick Ross and Robert Coe’s Blind Ambition “super good.” Joseph Dhafana, Tinashe Nyamudoka, Marlvin Gwese, and Pardon Tagazu, who are all living and working in South Africa, formed team Zimbabwe to compete against 23 countries (the Québecois counting Québec as a country) in the fifth World Wine Tasting Championships, held in Burgundy, France at the Château de Gilly.
Robert Coe and Warwick Ross with Anne-Katrin Titze on Claude Lelouch: “While we were at his atelier, we noticed that there was a [Citroën] 2Cv sitting in the driveway.”
Blind Ambition (co-written with Paul Murphy and Madeleine Ross), a highlight of the festival,...
- 6/16/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"A few years ago, none of us had ever tasted wine before." Protagonist Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for Blind Ambition, a doc film premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival coming up this month. It's the long-awaited follow-up by co-directors Warwick Ross & Robert Coe, the team behind the Russell Crowe-narrated doc Red Obsession. And following its documentary film debut, Blind Ambition is being developed as a scripted series as well. Intro from Tribeca: "Joseph, Tinashe, Marlvin, & Pardon are part of a wave of Zimbabweans who left their economically-hit homeland for a better life elsewhere. After their perilous journeys they arrive in South Africa, eventually get jobs in restaurants, gain interest in the intricacies of wine, become sommeliers, meet and bond with one another, and are encouraged to form the first-ever Zimbabwe team to compete in The World Wine Blind Tasting Championships—the Olympics of the wine world. Blind...
- 6/9/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Tribeca Film Festival’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer (in Paris) with Anne-Katrin Titze (in New York) agrees with Frances McDormand’s Oscar speech: “We have to teach a young generation to see a film on a big screen.”
Tribeca Film Festival’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer is always a good person to talk cinema. We covered in our conversation the Opening Night selection, Jon M Chu’s adaption of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights; Mariem Pérez Riera’s Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It; Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show; Andrew Gaynord’s All My Friends Hate Me with Tom Stourton; Thomas Robsahm and Aslaug Holm’s A-ha the Movie; Thomas Daneskov’s Wild Men; Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate; Adam Leon’s Italian Studies, starring Vanessa Kirby; Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain; Warwick Ross...
Tribeca Film Festival’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer is always a good person to talk cinema. We covered in our conversation the Opening Night selection, Jon M Chu’s adaption of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights; Mariem Pérez Riera’s Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It; Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show; Andrew Gaynord’s All My Friends Hate Me with Tom Stourton; Thomas Robsahm and Aslaug Holm’s A-ha the Movie; Thomas Daneskov’s Wild Men; Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate; Adam Leon’s Italian Studies, starring Vanessa Kirby; Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain; Warwick Ross...
- 5/20/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Documentary follows Zimbabwean refugees who entered the world of competitive wine tasting.
UK outfit Protagonist Pictures is to launch sales of Warwick Ross and Rob Coe’s Blind Ambition, which will world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival next month.
Protagonist will launch global sales at Tribeca, where the feature will screen in the documentary competition on June 10. This year’s hybrid festival will offer titles online as well as through a series of outdoor, Covid-compliant screenings across New York.
Blind Ambition tells the story of four Zimbabwean refugees-turned-sommeliers who shook up the international wine establishment and made history when they...
UK outfit Protagonist Pictures is to launch sales of Warwick Ross and Rob Coe’s Blind Ambition, which will world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival next month.
Protagonist will launch global sales at Tribeca, where the feature will screen in the documentary competition on June 10. This year’s hybrid festival will offer titles online as well as through a series of outdoor, Covid-compliant screenings across New York.
Blind Ambition tells the story of four Zimbabwean refugees-turned-sommeliers who shook up the international wine establishment and made history when they...
- 5/17/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Documentary follows Zimbabwean refugees who entered the world of competitive wine tasting.
UK outfit Protagonist Pictures has boarded sales of Warwick Ross and Rob Coe’s Blind Ambition, which will world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival next month.
Protagonist will launch global sales at Tribeca, where the feature will screen in the documentary competition on June 10. This year’s hybrid festival will offer titles online as well as through a series of outdoor, Covid-compliant screenings across New York.
Blind Ambition tells the story of four Zimbabwean refugees-turned-sommeliers who shook up the international wine establishment and made history when they entered...
UK outfit Protagonist Pictures has boarded sales of Warwick Ross and Rob Coe’s Blind Ambition, which will world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival next month.
Protagonist will launch global sales at Tribeca, where the feature will screen in the documentary competition on June 10. This year’s hybrid festival will offer titles online as well as through a series of outdoor, Covid-compliant screenings across New York.
Blind Ambition tells the story of four Zimbabwean refugees-turned-sommeliers who shook up the international wine establishment and made history when they entered...
- 5/17/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Selection presents 56 world premieres, focuses on comedic, music-centered, socially-conscious films.
Tribeca Festival 2021 has announced 66 films in the line-up of the upcoming outdoor 20th anniversary edition that runs June 9-20, including documentaries on the late food and travel broadcaster Anthony Bourdain and Norwegian pop icons A-ha.
The selection will present 56 world premieres and focuses on comedic, music-centered, and socially-conscious films. Many of the films will also be available for US audiences to view online the day after they premiere in person through the Tribeca at Home virtual hub.
Curated Juneteenth programming throughout the festival will celebrate voices from the African Diaspora,...
Tribeca Festival 2021 has announced 66 films in the line-up of the upcoming outdoor 20th anniversary edition that runs June 9-20, including documentaries on the late food and travel broadcaster Anthony Bourdain and Norwegian pop icons A-ha.
The selection will present 56 world premieres and focuses on comedic, music-centered, and socially-conscious films. Many of the films will also be available for US audiences to view online the day after they premiere in person through the Tribeca at Home virtual hub.
Curated Juneteenth programming throughout the festival will celebrate voices from the African Diaspora,...
- 4/20/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rosemary Kariuki of ‘Rosemary’s Way’.
Screen Australia has announced the final round of documentary funding for the 2018-19 financial year, which sees $3.8 million spread across 18 projects – five under the commissioned program and 13 under the producer program.
The announcement comes as Screen Australia prepares to seek industry feedback on proposed updates to its documentary funding programs; the agency will release an issues paper in late September.
“The last time our documentary programs were revised was in 2014-15, and since that time there has been substantial change in screen business models, content creation and audience viewing habits,” said Screen Australia head of documentary Bernadine Lim.
“We will be looking to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the sector, and how Screen Australia can best support quality, culture and innovation in the documentary industry.”
A review of the documentary programs was first announced in January, when the agency flagged that the base...
Screen Australia has announced the final round of documentary funding for the 2018-19 financial year, which sees $3.8 million spread across 18 projects – five under the commissioned program and 13 under the producer program.
The announcement comes as Screen Australia prepares to seek industry feedback on proposed updates to its documentary funding programs; the agency will release an issues paper in late September.
“The last time our documentary programs were revised was in 2014-15, and since that time there has been substantial change in screen business models, content creation and audience viewing habits,” said Screen Australia head of documentary Bernadine Lim.
“We will be looking to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the sector, and how Screen Australia can best support quality, culture and innovation in the documentary industry.”
A review of the documentary programs was first announced in January, when the agency flagged that the base...
- 8/2/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation wins every film category but two at the annual Australian awards ceremony.
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
- 1/30/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation wins every film category but two at the annual Australian awards ceremony.
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
- 1/30/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation wins every film category but two at the annual Australian awards ceremony.
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
- 1/30/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
If the 3rd annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards could be categorised as a David vs Goliath battle between The Rocket and The Great Gatsby, Goliath is the hands-down winner.
Baz Luhrmann.s opulent romantic drama won six awards tonight, for best film, director, adapted screenplay, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor Joel Edgerton and supporting actress Elizabeth Debicki.
That.s in addition to the six awards in craft categories plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects bestowed on Luhrmann.s film on Tuesday.
Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which had 12 nominations versus 14 for Gatsby, had to be content with just one trophy, for Mordaunt.s original screenplay.
The outcome is likely to reignite the debate about the near-impossibility of comparing a lavishly-mounted 3D film financed by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, which cost $160 million, with an independently-funded Lao-set film from a first-time director budgeted at about $2 million.
Baz Luhrmann.s opulent romantic drama won six awards tonight, for best film, director, adapted screenplay, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor Joel Edgerton and supporting actress Elizabeth Debicki.
That.s in addition to the six awards in craft categories plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects bestowed on Luhrmann.s film on Tuesday.
Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which had 12 nominations versus 14 for Gatsby, had to be content with just one trophy, for Mordaunt.s original screenplay.
The outcome is likely to reignite the debate about the near-impossibility of comparing a lavishly-mounted 3D film financed by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, which cost $160 million, with an independently-funded Lao-set film from a first-time director budgeted at about $2 million.
- 1/30/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Great Gatsby dominated. Aacta.s technical and short films awards today, collecting gongs in all six craft categories for which it was nominated, plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects.
The co-production Top of the Lake bagged two TV trophies while Matchbox Pictures. Nowhere Boys, created by Tony Ayres, was named best children.s TV series.
The TV documentary prize went to Redesign My Brain, which explores the revolutionary new science of brain plasticity, written and directed by Paul Scott and produced by Isabel Perez and Scott for ABC TV.
Writer-director Nick Verso's The Last Time I Saw Richard, produced by John Molloy, was honoured as best short fiction film. Developed and funded through Screen Australia.s Springboard program, the short is a prequel to the upcoming feature film Boys In The Trees, tracing the friendship between two teenagers in a mental health clinic in...
The co-production Top of the Lake bagged two TV trophies while Matchbox Pictures. Nowhere Boys, created by Tony Ayres, was named best children.s TV series.
The TV documentary prize went to Redesign My Brain, which explores the revolutionary new science of brain plasticity, written and directed by Paul Scott and produced by Isabel Perez and Scott for ABC TV.
Writer-director Nick Verso's The Last Time I Saw Richard, produced by John Molloy, was honoured as best short fiction film. Developed and funded through Screen Australia.s Springboard program, the short is a prequel to the upcoming feature film Boys In The Trees, tracing the friendship between two teenagers in a mental health clinic in...
- 1/28/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Kim Mordaunt won the Australian Writers. Guild best original screenplay award for his debut film The Rocket and Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee got the feature film adaptation prize for Lore at the Awgie awards held in Melbourne on Friday night.
David Roach and Warwick Ross.s Red Obsession took the award for public broadcast documentary screenplay.
Underbelly again won best original mini -series and Robert Connolly.s Underground: The Julian Assange Story was named best telemovie adaptation.
The $25,000 Foxtel prize for a significant and impressive body of work in television went to Jacquelin Perske, whose screenwriting credits include The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way, Spirited and Little Fish.
The Good News Week writing team received a ninth Awgie for the final season of the series.
Playwright Alana Valentine picked up three awards including most outstanding script of 2013 and the inaugural David Williamson Prize.
Australian Writers. Guild president Jan Sardi said,...
David Roach and Warwick Ross.s Red Obsession took the award for public broadcast documentary screenplay.
Underbelly again won best original mini -series and Robert Connolly.s Underground: The Julian Assange Story was named best telemovie adaptation.
The $25,000 Foxtel prize for a significant and impressive body of work in television went to Jacquelin Perske, whose screenwriting credits include The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way, Spirited and Little Fish.
The Good News Week writing team received a ninth Awgie for the final season of the series.
Playwright Alana Valentine picked up three awards including most outstanding script of 2013 and the inaugural David Williamson Prize.
Australian Writers. Guild president Jan Sardi said,...
- 10/4/2013
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Tickets are selling fast for the 46th Annual Awgie Awards, to be held in Melbourne on October 4.
To be hosted by writer, comedian and singer Sammy J, the ceremony will honour the achievements made by Australian writers for performance. The Awgie Awards are the only Australian awards judged solely by writers on the basis of the script . the writer's intention . rather than the finished production.
"The Awgies are the highlight of the year for us and a unique chance to celebrate the oft-unsung but stellar work created by Australian writers of the script," says Awg.s President and Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi..
.It.s a night that really just celebrates the importance of story and storytelling. And that.s what sets us apart from other animals in the end, the ability to tell stories..
Sardi says the slate of nominated work is once again a strong one.
.It.s...
To be hosted by writer, comedian and singer Sammy J, the ceremony will honour the achievements made by Australian writers for performance. The Awgie Awards are the only Australian awards judged solely by writers on the basis of the script . the writer's intention . rather than the finished production.
"The Awgies are the highlight of the year for us and a unique chance to celebrate the oft-unsung but stellar work created by Australian writers of the script," says Awg.s President and Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi..
.It.s a night that really just celebrates the importance of story and storytelling. And that.s what sets us apart from other animals in the end, the ability to tell stories..
Sardi says the slate of nominated work is once again a strong one.
.It.s...
- 10/1/2013
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Red Obsession, the first documentary made by Australian filmmakers Warwick Ross and David Roach, is narrated by Russell Crowe. “That voice of Maximus lingered with me,” Ross says, which is why he tapped the Oscar winner for the film, about Bordeaux wine and its unlikely China connection. Born in Hong Kong, Ross always had a “fascination with China,” but beyond that he is both a scripted filmmaker and a winemaker, neither of which ultimately had much to do with his documentary. “We started off making a film about wine but it became something else; that political and economic
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- 9/27/2013
- by Michael Cervin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Australian documentary Red Obsession looks set to reap the rewards of a multi-platform release in the Us.
The doco narrated by Russell Crowe, co-written and co-directed by David Roach and Warwick Ross, began a staggered cinema roll-out in New York and Miami on September 6 and was released on Video-On-Demand platforms the same day.
Over the weekend Ross, who.s in New York, told Roach that iTunes gave their film a 5 star rating and it shot up from No. 7 to No. 2 on the list of most downloaded docs.
Subsequently distributor FilmBuff told Roach the film ranked at No. 11 on the independent chart and No. 3 on the documentary chart. The film also appears among the top docs on Google Play and is featured in the special releases room on Amazon Instant Video.
Roach hasn.t seen any stats for the buy-rates yet but he told If the distributor .seems very excited and...
The doco narrated by Russell Crowe, co-written and co-directed by David Roach and Warwick Ross, began a staggered cinema roll-out in New York and Miami on September 6 and was released on Video-On-Demand platforms the same day.
Over the weekend Ross, who.s in New York, told Roach that iTunes gave their film a 5 star rating and it shot up from No. 7 to No. 2 on the list of most downloaded docs.
Subsequently distributor FilmBuff told Roach the film ranked at No. 11 on the independent chart and No. 3 on the documentary chart. The film also appears among the top docs on Google Play and is featured in the special releases room on Amazon Instant Video.
Roach hasn.t seen any stats for the buy-rates yet but he told If the distributor .seems very excited and...
- 9/10/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Ticket sales at Australian cinemas last weekend slumped to their lowest level of 2013 as none of the new entrants proved to be appealing and most of the holdovers struggled.
The 93 films currently in release collectively raked in a measly $7.6 million, down 14% on the previous weekend.
After bombing in the Us, the mediocre debut of Roland Emmerich's White House Down was no surprise. The action thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum grabbed $1.8 million, the only title to crack $1 million-plus.
Aussie director Robert Luketic's corporate espionage thriller Paranoia fetched a miserable $144,000 on the heels of its Us demise, despite the high-profile cast led by Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Richard Dreyfuss.
Action comedy Red 2 tumbled by 43% to $824,000 in its second assignment, propelling its total to a ho-hum $2.8 million.
The Steve Jobs biopic Jobs declined by 42% to $330,000 after an unimpressive opening, bringing its total to $1.1 million.
In the specialised area,...
The 93 films currently in release collectively raked in a measly $7.6 million, down 14% on the previous weekend.
After bombing in the Us, the mediocre debut of Roland Emmerich's White House Down was no surprise. The action thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum grabbed $1.8 million, the only title to crack $1 million-plus.
Aussie director Robert Luketic's corporate espionage thriller Paranoia fetched a miserable $144,000 on the heels of its Us demise, despite the high-profile cast led by Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Richard Dreyfuss.
Action comedy Red 2 tumbled by 43% to $824,000 in its second assignment, propelling its total to a ho-hum $2.8 million.
The Steve Jobs biopic Jobs declined by 42% to $330,000 after an unimpressive opening, bringing its total to $1.1 million.
In the specialised area,...
- 9/9/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Economics by the Glass: French Elixir Battles China’s Thirst on Unfair Ground
Part informative introduction to the exclusive world of fine wine and part horror tale about China’s voracious venture to take over every single industry known to man and narrated by Russell Crowe, David Roach and Warwick Ross’ engrossing documentary Red Obsession deals with much more than just the pleasure of sipping fermented grape elixir at $50, 000 a bottle. On the contrary, the implications that this product has on global markets and economies are, to say the least, revelatory.
Bordeaux’s legendary chateaux have distilled the best wines in the world for centuries, their privileged geography and terrain have placed them at the top of their craft. Their product is the object of desire for millions of consumers across the globe, but also the best investment for billionaires and businessmen who don’t need to appreciate the taste...
Part informative introduction to the exclusive world of fine wine and part horror tale about China’s voracious venture to take over every single industry known to man and narrated by Russell Crowe, David Roach and Warwick Ross’ engrossing documentary Red Obsession deals with much more than just the pleasure of sipping fermented grape elixir at $50, 000 a bottle. On the contrary, the implications that this product has on global markets and economies are, to say the least, revelatory.
Bordeaux’s legendary chateaux have distilled the best wines in the world for centuries, their privileged geography and terrain have placed them at the top of their craft. Their product is the object of desire for millions of consumers across the globe, but also the best investment for billionaires and businessmen who don’t need to appreciate the taste...
- 9/7/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- IONCINEMA.com
Sly, sometimes funny documentary version of Bottle Shock, with China playing the role of 1970s Napa as it creeps up to smack the snooty Old World wine snobs. I’m “biast” (pro): mmm, wine…
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Oooo, I wish I’d had a glass of wine to go with this! Red Obsession — Australian documentarians David Roach and Warwick Ross — starts out all very much tourist-board-y tour of the Bordeaux countryside, complete with the sun dappling through grapevines and narrator Russell Crowe telling us about how the Romans first planted grapes here and handsome chateaux operators swooning with French accents about the soul of the fruit. And then it gets even better, and morphs into a sly, sometimes funny version of Bottle Shock, except with China playing the role of Napa Valley in the 1970s as it...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Oooo, I wish I’d had a glass of wine to go with this! Red Obsession — Australian documentarians David Roach and Warwick Ross — starts out all very much tourist-board-y tour of the Bordeaux countryside, complete with the sun dappling through grapevines and narrator Russell Crowe telling us about how the Romans first planted grapes here and handsome chateaux operators swooning with French accents about the soul of the fruit. And then it gets even better, and morphs into a sly, sometimes funny version of Bottle Shock, except with China playing the role of Napa Valley in the 1970s as it...
- 9/6/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
As such things go, the clash of civilizations between the patrician French winemakers of Bordeaux and the upstart investors of 21st century China is hardly of the apocalyptic Samuel P. Huntington variety. A less sophisticated analog might be 1980's Caddyshack, though you wouldn't necessarily refer to these newly minted Chinese billionaires—like Peter Tseng, owner of a $50,000 bottle of Château Latour—as "slobs." (Tseng did make his fortune on sex toys, so it's arguable.) Directors Warwick Ross and David Roach (with narration supplied by an especially gravelly Russell Crowe) chart this brief love affair between wealthy Chinese eager to catch up on all the post-Communist fun and the French vintners desperate for buyers after the 2008 economic crisis caused their ...
- 9/4/2013
- Village Voice
Red Obsession co-director and co-writer David Roach says he made the documentary on power, passion and the Bordeaux fine wine industry as much for people like himself- a non-wine buff- as for those who love the stuff.
Judging by the opening weekend take of $92,000 at 18 cinemas last weekend, the docu is appealing to both segments of the audience.
That.s a solid number which Roach believes will help create a platform for DVD and TV sales and Video-on-Demand platforms.
Roach, who co-directed and co-wrote the film with the producer Warwick Ross, said the first weekend total is .better than we expected,. noting that it.s .always risky when you open a documentary on the big screen..
The filmmaker is full of praise for distributor Roadshow Films, stating, .They have given us the screens we wanted - the best art house cinemas in each capital city- and have been very supportive.
Judging by the opening weekend take of $92,000 at 18 cinemas last weekend, the docu is appealing to both segments of the audience.
That.s a solid number which Roach believes will help create a platform for DVD and TV sales and Video-on-Demand platforms.
Roach, who co-directed and co-wrote the film with the producer Warwick Ross, said the first weekend total is .better than we expected,. noting that it.s .always risky when you open a documentary on the big screen..
The filmmaker is full of praise for distributor Roadshow Films, stating, .They have given us the screens we wanted - the best art house cinemas in each capital city- and have been very supportive.
- 8/19/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Palme d’Or winner to open Finnish festival, which has announced its gala films.
The 26th Helsinki International Film Festival (Sep 19-29) is to open with Cannes Palme d’Or winner Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (La Vie d’Adèle: Chapitre 1 & 2).
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, it is a love story between two young women.
This year the festival showcases a record number of films, comprising 160 features and a short film series.
This year’s Hiff Gala Film is The Grandmaster, the new film from Wong Kar-wai that opened the Berlinale in February. The film, which spans the five first decades of the 20th century in China, depicts the life of legendary kung fu master Ip Man, portrayed by Tony Leung.
The Finnish Film Gala selection is Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydän) by Dome Karukoski (Lapland Odyssey, Forbidden Fruit).
The drama centres on neo-nazi Teppo (Peter Franzén), who falls in love with a woman that has a black son and finds...
The 26th Helsinki International Film Festival (Sep 19-29) is to open with Cannes Palme d’Or winner Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (La Vie d’Adèle: Chapitre 1 & 2).
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, it is a love story between two young women.
This year the festival showcases a record number of films, comprising 160 features and a short film series.
This year’s Hiff Gala Film is The Grandmaster, the new film from Wong Kar-wai that opened the Berlinale in February. The film, which spans the five first decades of the 20th century in China, depicts the life of legendary kung fu master Ip Man, portrayed by Tony Leung.
The Finnish Film Gala selection is Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydän) by Dome Karukoski (Lapland Odyssey, Forbidden Fruit).
The drama centres on neo-nazi Teppo (Peter Franzén), who falls in love with a woman that has a black son and finds...
- 8/5/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Producer Bill Leimbach has hired Morgan O.Neill to direct Banjo & Matilda, an action romance revolving around Banjo Paterson and his iconic bush ballad Waltzing Matilda.
O.Neill, who co-directed the surfing-set drama Drift with Ben Nott, takes over from Bruce Beresford.
.We split up amiably,. Beresford told If. .Couldn't agree on the script and they wanted a younger,. more hip director, I think..
Beresford is in the Us working on the post production of Bonnie & Clyde, a four-hour miniseries that stars Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch as the infamous bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The mini co-stars Holly Hunter and William Hurt and will air in the Us on A+E Networks History and Lifestyle.
Beresford had not formally committed to the Paterson project, telling this writer last year that he was awaiting a rewrite of the script.
Leimbach said O.Neill is finalising the screenplay with writer David Roach,...
O.Neill, who co-directed the surfing-set drama Drift with Ben Nott, takes over from Bruce Beresford.
.We split up amiably,. Beresford told If. .Couldn't agree on the script and they wanted a younger,. more hip director, I think..
Beresford is in the Us working on the post production of Bonnie & Clyde, a four-hour miniseries that stars Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch as the infamous bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The mini co-stars Holly Hunter and William Hurt and will air in the Us on A+E Networks History and Lifestyle.
Beresford had not formally committed to the Paterson project, telling this writer last year that he was awaiting a rewrite of the script.
Leimbach said O.Neill is finalising the screenplay with writer David Roach,...
- 7/28/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Bursting a bubble with Robert De Niro, how a trailer lead to Francis Ford Coppola, shooting in Bordeaux, ending up in China - in our conversation we learn from the astute filmmaking team David Roach and Warwick Ross what Red Obsession is all about. Their film, narrated by Russell Crowe, uncorks the craze taking place in Shanghai of buying wine as an investment and investigates the impact it has on the centuries-old vineyards of Bordeaux, the people who own them, and consumers worldwide.
By chance, the directors and I met on Earth Day and they suggested we rename it Terroir Day in honor of our talk. I started out with the distinct flavor of their documentary.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Red Obsession sets a different mood from other wine films, visually and especially by your choice of music. You start with I Put a Spell On You and end with Fever....
By chance, the directors and I met on Earth Day and they suggested we rename it Terroir Day in honor of our talk. I started out with the distinct flavor of their documentary.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Red Obsession sets a different mood from other wine films, visually and especially by your choice of music. You start with I Put a Spell On You and end with Fever....
- 4/30/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Tribeca Film Festival's Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer and I met up for a conversation at MoMA PS1 during Michelangelo Frammartino's World Premiere of the breathtaking 28 minute continuous cinematic installation Alberi in the Vw Dome. This is Boyer's second year at Tribeca, after running the Directors’ Fortnight program at the Cannes Film Festival. We discussed how to bring nature into an urban setting through films like Bruno Barreto's Reaching For The Moon, Reha Erdem's Jîn, Whitewash, directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Hisham Zaman's Before Snowfall, and Red Obsession, directed by David Roach and Warwick Ross.
Interacting with cats, Lil Bub & Friendz, tree people, and being Tricked by Paul Verhoeven - Tribeca 2013 challenges the boundaries of cinema.
Anne-Katrin Titze: This is your second year at Tribeca.
Frédéric Boyer: Yes, my second edition as Artistic Director for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Akt:...
Interacting with cats, Lil Bub & Friendz, tree people, and being Tricked by Paul Verhoeven - Tribeca 2013 challenges the boundaries of cinema.
Anne-Katrin Titze: This is your second year at Tribeca.
Frédéric Boyer: Yes, my second edition as Artistic Director for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Akt:...
- 4/23/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Did you hear that popping sound? That was me uncorking a bottle of red wine, which happens often enough at my house. But unlike a lot of wine enthusiasts out there, I.m not the most particular person when it comes to the region where the grapes were harvested. Blasphemy! It doesn.t take much education, however, to know that wines that come from the Bordeaux vineyards in France are some of the most cherished in the world, and are the subject of Red Obsession, a documentary from first time directors David Roach and Warwick Ross. Not even a tasting was necessary for distribution company FilmBuff to snatch up the rights, according to Variety. The film is making its premiere on April 20 at this year.s Tribeca Film Festival, and Red Obsession is the first acquisition, even though it technically happened before the festival began. The film, which is narrated...
- 4/17/2013
- cinemablend.com
Warwick Ross is not one to give up on his dreams. He was born into colonial Hong Kong society of the 1950's and later moved to Australia where he graduated with an honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Melbourne. But his passion was always film. He spent time making shorts at school so after graduating, he applied to film school at the University of Southern California. Although he didn't earn a place in the program he still showed up to school and audited all the classes for a year, learning as much as he could while trying to keep a low profile from the administrators. It was with a reference from one of those professors that he managed to land a position working on Columbia Pictures "The Blue Lagoon" starring Brooke Shields and so began his film career. Warwick also owns a winery called Portsea Estate, in Victoria,...
- 4/13/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
This article first appeared in If Magazine issue #150
Producer Lizzette Atkins justifies the theatrical nature of Aim High In Creation! on several levels: the scale and scope of the ideas; its experimental style; the broad interest in the closed society of North Korea; and director Anna Broinowski.s cinematic eye.
.And Anna has proven she can sustain a story for 90 minutes,. says Atkins, referring to the bold Forbidden Lie$..
If the various threads can be woven neatly together, this intriguing project could be a pearler. Cinematic propaganda is the key theme and the film follows Broinowski as she travels to North Korea to meet with that industry.s leading lights and examine former leader Kim Jong-il.s passion for cinema and the filmmaking manifesto he published. Back in Australia, applying the advice she got on a script she took with her, Broinowski makes a short about a community overcoming gas frackers . after all,...
Producer Lizzette Atkins justifies the theatrical nature of Aim High In Creation! on several levels: the scale and scope of the ideas; its experimental style; the broad interest in the closed society of North Korea; and director Anna Broinowski.s cinematic eye.
.And Anna has proven she can sustain a story for 90 minutes,. says Atkins, referring to the bold Forbidden Lie$..
If the various threads can be woven neatly together, this intriguing project could be a pearler. Cinematic propaganda is the key theme and the film follows Broinowski as she travels to North Korea to meet with that industry.s leading lights and examine former leader Kim Jong-il.s passion for cinema and the filmmaking manifesto he published. Back in Australia, applying the advice she got on a script she took with her, Broinowski makes a short about a community overcoming gas frackers . after all,...
- 3/14/2013
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
Tribeca Film Festival organizers on Wednesday announced 46 of the 89 feature films screening at the New York-set festival starting next month, including selections in the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film sections, as well as out-of-competition Viewpoints screenings.
"Big Men," a documentary about American corporations pursuing oil reserves in Africa, will serve as the opening night film for the World Documentary portion; "Bluebird," a small-town drama featuring "Girls" star Adam Driver, will kick-off the World Narrative slate. "Flex Is Kings," a documentary about Brooklyn street performers, is the Viewpoints opener. All three films premiere on April 18. The Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 17 through April 28, with "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, serving as the fest's opening night film.
"Our competition selections embody the quality and diversity of contemporary cinema from across the globe,” Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frederic Boyer said in a release. “The cinematic proficiency that...
"Big Men," a documentary about American corporations pursuing oil reserves in Africa, will serve as the opening night film for the World Documentary portion; "Bluebird," a small-town drama featuring "Girls" star Adam Driver, will kick-off the World Narrative slate. "Flex Is Kings," a documentary about Brooklyn street performers, is the Viewpoints opener. All three films premiere on April 18. The Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 17 through April 28, with "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, serving as the fest's opening night film.
"Our competition selections embody the quality and diversity of contemporary cinema from across the globe,” Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frederic Boyer said in a release. “The cinematic proficiency that...
- 3/5/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
The Tribeca Film Festival announced the first half of its 2013 movie slate today, including its World Narrative and Documentary Competition film categories, along with selections from the out-of-competition Viewpoints section, which highlights international and independent cinema. Festival organizers reviewed more than 6,000 submissions to select 89 feature-length films from 30 different countries for this year’s festival, which boasts 53 world premieres. “Our competition selections embody the quality and diversity of contemporary cinema from across the globe,” said Frederic Boyer, Tribeca’s artistic director. “The cinematic proficiency that harnesses this lineup is remarkable and we’re looking forward to sharing these new perspectives, powerful performances,...
- 3/5/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Peter Tseng Billionaire wine collector
A new Australian documentary about the international wine industry will see a theatrical release from major distributor, Roadshow Films.
Red Obsession is produced by Lion Rock Films with David Roach writing and co-directing and Warwick Ross producing and co-directing.
The film, made for just over $1m is currently in post-production.
With a letter of intent from Roadshow, the film is expected in cinemas in early 2013.
Only nine documentaries were released to theatres in 2011, none by any of the major distributors.
Red Obsession’s story of the international wine trade is the backbone to discuss the impact China’s growing influence is having in various industries.
Roach told Encore: “It’s a documentary about wine, but its also about the shift of economic power from West to East. In Australia we look to China to buy our raw material – How much should we buy into their...
A new Australian documentary about the international wine industry will see a theatrical release from major distributor, Roadshow Films.
Red Obsession is produced by Lion Rock Films with David Roach writing and co-directing and Warwick Ross producing and co-directing.
The film, made for just over $1m is currently in post-production.
With a letter of intent from Roadshow, the film is expected in cinemas in early 2013.
Only nine documentaries were released to theatres in 2011, none by any of the major distributors.
Red Obsession’s story of the international wine trade is the backbone to discuss the impact China’s growing influence is having in various industries.
Roach told Encore: “It’s a documentary about wine, but its also about the shift of economic power from West to East. In Australia we look to China to buy our raw material – How much should we buy into their...
- 8/21/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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