Chile-based Escala Humana Prods., led by Sebastián Brahm, is developing an ambitious English-language series titled “Golpe” about a little-known story behind the CIA’s involvement in the fall of Chile’s first Socialist president, Salvador Allende.
Intended for a U.S. audience and based on declassified U.S. government documents, the first season of the historical crime drama series, titled “The Abduction of a Commander-in-Chief,” will dramatize the CIA’s covert attempt to trigger a coup before Marxist candidate Salvador Allende assumes power in 1970 Chile and a CIA officer’s initial instinct to undermine it.
“It pits traditional corporate interest in U.S. interventionism against the ultra-liberal disciples of Milton Friedman that would later run the show, to whom the chaos of a communist regime was a necessary step before full-scale privatization; Chile was a global test case and ‘Golpe’ will tell the story,” said Brahm, adding that he reviewed...
Intended for a U.S. audience and based on declassified U.S. government documents, the first season of the historical crime drama series, titled “The Abduction of a Commander-in-Chief,” will dramatize the CIA’s covert attempt to trigger a coup before Marxist candidate Salvador Allende assumes power in 1970 Chile and a CIA officer’s initial instinct to undermine it.
“It pits traditional corporate interest in U.S. interventionism against the ultra-liberal disciples of Milton Friedman that would later run the show, to whom the chaos of a communist regime was a necessary step before full-scale privatization; Chile was a global test case and ‘Golpe’ will tell the story,” said Brahm, adding that he reviewed...
- 11/27/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
She will leave the Copenhagen-based festival after its upcoming 18th edition.
Tine Fischer, the founder and CEO of Cph:dox, will depart her post after this year’s festival to become the new director of the National Film School of Denmark from May 2021.
Fischer will continue to spearhead the 18th edition of Cph:dox, with its new dates of April 21-May 2.
Fischer said, “Needless to say, it’s been a difficult decision for me to leave the festivals. I founded Cph:dox in 2003, and in collaboration with amazing colleagues and partners from all over the world I have spent almost my entire adult...
Tine Fischer, the founder and CEO of Cph:dox, will depart her post after this year’s festival to become the new director of the National Film School of Denmark from May 2021.
Fischer will continue to spearhead the 18th edition of Cph:dox, with its new dates of April 21-May 2.
Fischer said, “Needless to say, it’s been a difficult decision for me to leave the festivals. I founded Cph:dox in 2003, and in collaboration with amazing colleagues and partners from all over the world I have spent almost my entire adult...
- 2/8/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Rotterdam has a unique position in the festival circuit, avoiding the simultaneous frenzy of premieres in Sundance and the jockeying for major titles at Berlin, Cannes and Venice, and instead taking chances on under the radar discoveries from around the world. The Bright Future competition focuses on unique, emerging filmmakers but across all the sections you’ll find work that fits that mandate. This edition’s best films announced an exciting group of filmmakers that deserve your attention. Here are 10 standout world premieres from Iffr to look out for in 2019.
“Again Once Again”
Written and directed by Romina Paula, known best as a regular in the films of Matías Piñeiro and seen most recently in Mariano Llinas’ 13-hour-epic “La flor,” this assured first feature was the most impressive debut at the festival. A docu-fiction, the film stars Paula as herself as she and her four-year old boy Ramón stay with...
“Again Once Again”
Written and directed by Romina Paula, known best as a regular in the films of Matías Piñeiro and seen most recently in Mariano Llinas’ 13-hour-epic “La flor,” this assured first feature was the most impressive debut at the festival. A docu-fiction, the film stars Paula as herself as she and her four-year old boy Ramón stay with...
- 2/2/2019
- by Adam Cook
- Indiewire
Oscar Season Officially Begins! Check Out Complete List of Winners of the 68th Venice Film Festival!
Official Awards of the 68th Venice Film Festival
Venezia 68
Golden Lion for Best Film
Faust by Aleksander Sokurov (Russia)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Shangjun Cai for the film Ren Shan Ren Hai (People Mountain People Sea) (China - Hong Kong)
Special Jury Prize
Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese (Italy)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Michael Fassbender in the film Shame by Steve McQueen (United Kingdom)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
Deanie Yip in the film Tao jie (A Simple Life) by Ann Hui (China - Hong Kong)
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress
Shôta Sometani and Fumi Nikaidô in the film Himizu by Sion Sono (Japan)
Osella for the Best Cinematography
Robbie Ryan for the film Wuthering Heights by Andrea Arnold (United Kingdom)
Osella for Best Screenplay
Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou for the film Alpis (Alps) by Yorgos Lanthimos (Grecia)
Lion of the Future -...
Venezia 68
Golden Lion for Best Film
Faust by Aleksander Sokurov (Russia)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Shangjun Cai for the film Ren Shan Ren Hai (People Mountain People Sea) (China - Hong Kong)
Special Jury Prize
Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese (Italy)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Michael Fassbender in the film Shame by Steve McQueen (United Kingdom)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
Deanie Yip in the film Tao jie (A Simple Life) by Ann Hui (China - Hong Kong)
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress
Shôta Sometani and Fumi Nikaidô in the film Himizu by Sion Sono (Japan)
Osella for the Best Cinematography
Robbie Ryan for the film Wuthering Heights by Andrea Arnold (United Kingdom)
Osella for Best Screenplay
Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou for the film Alpis (Alps) by Yorgos Lanthimos (Grecia)
Lion of the Future -...
- 9/12/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust has won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival. Now's a good time to catch up with Daniel Kasman's review.
The Jury, headed by Darren Aronofsky, awarded the Silver Lion (Best Director) to Cai Shangjun for People Mountain People Sea.
The Special Jury Prize goes to Emanuele Crialese's Terraferma. A roundup was posted earlier today.
The Osella for Best Screenplay goes to Giorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for Alps. (Roundup and Daniel Kasman's review.)
The Osella for Best Cinematography: Robbie Ryan for Wuthering Heights. (Roundup.)
Michael Fassbender wins the Volpi Cup (Best Actor) for his performance in Steve McQueens's Shame (roundup), while the Volpi Cup for Best Actress goes to Deanie Ip for her performance in Ann Hui's A Simple Life (roundup and Daniel Kasman's review).
The Marcello Mastroianni Award (Best Young Actor) goes to Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaido for their work in Sion Sono's Himizu.
The Jury, headed by Darren Aronofsky, awarded the Silver Lion (Best Director) to Cai Shangjun for People Mountain People Sea.
The Special Jury Prize goes to Emanuele Crialese's Terraferma. A roundup was posted earlier today.
The Osella for Best Screenplay goes to Giorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for Alps. (Roundup and Daniel Kasman's review.)
The Osella for Best Cinematography: Robbie Ryan for Wuthering Heights. (Roundup.)
Michael Fassbender wins the Volpi Cup (Best Actor) for his performance in Steve McQueens's Shame (roundup), while the Volpi Cup for Best Actress goes to Deanie Ip for her performance in Ann Hui's A Simple Life (roundup and Daniel Kasman's review).
The Marcello Mastroianni Award (Best Young Actor) goes to Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaido for their work in Sion Sono's Himizu.
- 9/11/2011
- MUBI
Faust directed by Aleksander Sokurov of Russia won the Golden Lion for the Best Film at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. The festival came to a close on September 10 with the award ceremony.
The Special Jury prize went to Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese of Italy.
Fipresci Prizes went to Shame directed by Steve McQueen of UK and Two Years at Sea directed by Ben Rivers of UK.
The Indian films that were presented at the festival are Amit Dutta’s Sonchidi and Gurvinder Singh’s Anhey Ghore Da Daan (Alms of the Blind Horse).
Official Awards of the 68th Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
Faust by Aleksander Sokurov (Russia)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Shangjun Cai for the film Ren Shan Ren Hai (People Mountain People Sea) (China – Hong Kong)
Special Jury Prize
Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese (Italy)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Michael Fassbender in...
The Special Jury prize went to Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese of Italy.
Fipresci Prizes went to Shame directed by Steve McQueen of UK and Two Years at Sea directed by Ben Rivers of UK.
The Indian films that were presented at the festival are Amit Dutta’s Sonchidi and Gurvinder Singh’s Anhey Ghore Da Daan (Alms of the Blind Horse).
Official Awards of the 68th Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion for Best Film
Faust by Aleksander Sokurov (Russia)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Shangjun Cai for the film Ren Shan Ren Hai (People Mountain People Sea) (China – Hong Kong)
Special Jury Prize
Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese (Italy)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Michael Fassbender in...
- 9/11/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Sofia Coppola's Somewhere (roundup) has won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival. Bloomberg reports that jury president Quentin Tarantino assures us that this was a unanimous decision: "This film enchanted us from its first screening. Yet from that first enchanting screening, it grew and grew and grew in both our hearts, in our analysis, in our minds, and in our affections."
The Silver Lion goes to Álex de la Iglesia's A Sad Trumpet Ballad, which also wins Best Screenplay (written by Álex de la Iglesia).
A Special Prize is awarded to Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing (roundup), which also picks up the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Vincent Gallo.
Ariane Labed has won the Best Actress award for her performance in Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg.
The International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) presents its prize this year to Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls.
The...
The Silver Lion goes to Álex de la Iglesia's A Sad Trumpet Ballad, which also wins Best Screenplay (written by Álex de la Iglesia).
A Special Prize is awarded to Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing (roundup), which also picks up the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Vincent Gallo.
Ariane Labed has won the Best Actress award for her performance in Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg.
The International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) presents its prize this year to Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls.
The...
- 9/13/2010
- MUBI
Festivals tend to have more than one jury so let's deal with the sidebar prizes first, before we get to the main competition jury, headed by Quentin Tarantino. But a little preview: Natalie Portman went home empty-handed for Black Swank but Mila Kunis didn't. Interesssssssting.
Various Sidebars
Europa Cinema Award: This honor comes from the Venice Days sidebar and the winning film was Bertrand Blier's Le Bruit des Glacons (The Clink of the Ice), a dark French comedy about an alcoholic dealing with cancer.
The Queer Lion: This prize focuses on the way films portray gay characters and themes. The winner was En el futuro (In the Future), a 62 minute black and white film directed by Mauro Andrizzi. None of the summaries seem to tell you what it's about. Hmmmm. It played in the Orizzonti sidebar of the festival. Guess they didn't like the disturbing sapphic tryst angle of Black Swan all that much.
Various Sidebars
Europa Cinema Award: This honor comes from the Venice Days sidebar and the winning film was Bertrand Blier's Le Bruit des Glacons (The Clink of the Ice), a dark French comedy about an alcoholic dealing with cancer.
The Queer Lion: This prize focuses on the way films portray gay characters and themes. The winner was En el futuro (In the Future), a 62 minute black and white film directed by Mauro Andrizzi. None of the summaries seem to tell you what it's about. Hmmmm. It played in the Orizzonti sidebar of the festival. Guess they didn't like the disturbing sapphic tryst angle of Black Swan all that much.
- 9/11/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Rome -- Bertrand Blier's "Le Bruit des Glacons" (The Clink of the Ice) won the Europa Cinemas award for the best film in the Venice Days sidebar at the Venice Film Festival, while "En el futuro" (In the Future), from Argentina's Mauro Andrizzi, won the festival Queer Lion honor.
The last Friday of the Venice Film Festival, the day before the festival officially concludes, is traditionally the day most of the collateral awards are presented.
In addition to the top Venice Days prize and the Queer Lion Award, Friday saw the Leoncino d'Oro (The Golden Lion Cub) award go to Richard Lewis' "Barneys Vision," which had its world premiere on Friday, the same day the Leoncino award was announced. The prize, which is selected by local school children who watch all the festival's main films, has predicted the winner of the main Golden Lion prize in six of the past 18 years,...
The last Friday of the Venice Film Festival, the day before the festival officially concludes, is traditionally the day most of the collateral awards are presented.
In addition to the top Venice Days prize and the Queer Lion Award, Friday saw the Leoncino d'Oro (The Golden Lion Cub) award go to Richard Lewis' "Barneys Vision," which had its world premiere on Friday, the same day the Leoncino award was announced. The prize, which is selected by local school children who watch all the festival's main films, has predicted the winner of the main Golden Lion prize in six of the past 18 years,...
- 9/10/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HollywoodNews.com: Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is making a play for one of the newer trophies at the 67th Venice Film Festival, the Queer Lion.
The Queer Lion is an award which is bestowed upon a film in the Venice competition, out of competition or sidebar slots that deals with a homosexual theme or interest. A three-member jury chooses the winner and this year there are a total of seven films contending. The prize will be handed out on Sept. 10 followed by an open party.
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
In addition to “Black Swan,” Venice’s opening film this year, candidates for the prize are love triangle story “Drei” from Tom Tykwer; Francois Ozon’s camp drama “Potiche”; Antony Cordier’s “Happy Few”; “En el Futuro” from Mauro Andrizzi; Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini’s “Et in Terra Pax”; and Daniele Segre’s “Lisetta Carmi, un’animo in Cammino,...
The Queer Lion is an award which is bestowed upon a film in the Venice competition, out of competition or sidebar slots that deals with a homosexual theme or interest. A three-member jury chooses the winner and this year there are a total of seven films contending. The prize will be handed out on Sept. 10 followed by an open party.
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
In addition to “Black Swan,” Venice’s opening film this year, candidates for the prize are love triangle story “Drei” from Tom Tykwer; Francois Ozon’s camp drama “Potiche”; Antony Cordier’s “Happy Few”; “En el Futuro” from Mauro Andrizzi; Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini’s “Et in Terra Pax”; and Daniele Segre’s “Lisetta Carmi, un’animo in Cammino,...
- 8/24/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Darren Aronofsky's highly touted thriller "Black Swan" will be among the seven films vying for this year's Queer Lion collateral prize at the 67th Venice Film Festival.
This is the fourth year that the Venice festival will host the Queer Lion competition, which selects a winner from among the films in the main Venice competition lineup, or in any of the main sidebars, or out of competition that deal with "homosexual themes or queer interests." A three-member jury will select the winner.
In addition to "Black Swan," Venice's opening film this year, candidates for the prize are love triangle story "Drei" from Tom Tykwer; Francois Ozon's camp drama "Potiche"; Antony Cordier's "Happy Few"; "En el Futuro" from Mauro Andrizzi; Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini's "Et in Terra Pax"; and Daniele Segre's "Lisetta Carmi, un'animo in Cammino," which explores the world of transvestites in Genoa.
The prize will be announced Sept.
This is the fourth year that the Venice festival will host the Queer Lion competition, which selects a winner from among the films in the main Venice competition lineup, or in any of the main sidebars, or out of competition that deal with "homosexual themes or queer interests." A three-member jury will select the winner.
In addition to "Black Swan," Venice's opening film this year, candidates for the prize are love triangle story "Drei" from Tom Tykwer; Francois Ozon's camp drama "Potiche"; Antony Cordier's "Happy Few"; "En el Futuro" from Mauro Andrizzi; Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini's "Et in Terra Pax"; and Daniele Segre's "Lisetta Carmi, un'animo in Cammino," which explores the world of transvestites in Genoa.
The prize will be announced Sept.
- 8/23/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I'm adding the make-up of the Venice Film Festival Horizons sidebar selections a little late to the site, I'm mostly curious to see the low ratio of films that'll be picked up from this section for the upcoming Tiff announcements. Deemed as re-branding of the section, a more eclectic melange of titles mixing short, medium length pics, documentaries film and feature length items, of the items that will generate the most interest are the opening and closing titles which were revealed the week before, but we should see media coverage mentions on Paul Morrissey's News From Nowhere, Jose Luis Guerin's docu Guest (I've yet to see 2007/2008's In the City of Sylvia) and Sion Sono's Cold Fish and short film offerings from Guillermo Arriaga, Isaac Julien and Clara Law. Horizons: Feature-length Works "Sleeping Beauty," Catherine Breillat (France, opener) "Oki's Movie," Hong Sang-soo (South Korea, closer) "The Nine Muses,...
- 8/2/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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