On the heels of the 39th edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival (Sept 4-14), Ifp’s Independent Film Week is where a plethora of fiction, non-fiction and new this year, web-based series from the likes of Desiree Akhavan and Calvin Reeder find future coin. Sectioned off as projects at the very beginning of financing to those that are nearing completion, there happens to be tons of Sundance alumni in the names below. Among those that caught our attention we have Medicine for Melancholy‘s Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature, produced by Bad Milo!‘s Adele Romanski, Moonlight is about “two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth”. Concussion‘s Stacie Passon digs into the thriller genre with Strange Things Started Happening. Produced by vet Mary Jane Skalski (Mysterious Skin), this is about “a woman who has...
- 7/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Just about everything that she has produced from her magic documentary wand has found a home at the prestigious festival. Dating back to 1983′s When the Mountains Tremble, Pamela Yates has been supported and shown Nicaragua: Report From the Front (1984), Teatro! (1990), Takeover (1991), Poverty Outlaw (1997), State of Fear (2005), The Reckoning (2009) and most recently, 2011′s Granito: How to Nail a Dictator. Recipient of the 2013 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, in a nutshell, Disruption delves into the socials ills of machismo.
Gist: A band of Latin American activist economists sets out to change their continent, teaming up with impoverished women to challenge accepted notions on how to eradicate poverty. The women become empowered economic and political engines of their communities. If taken to scale, could 20 million women upend a continent?
Production Co./Producers: Skylight Pictures’ Paco de Onís
Prediction: Documentary Premieres section with Tribeca Film Fest keen on getting the film as well.
Gist: A band of Latin American activist economists sets out to change their continent, teaming up with impoverished women to challenge accepted notions on how to eradicate poverty. The women become empowered economic and political engines of their communities. If taken to scale, could 20 million women upend a continent?
Production Co./Producers: Skylight Pictures’ Paco de Onís
Prediction: Documentary Premieres section with Tribeca Film Fest keen on getting the film as well.
- 11/18/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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