Exclusive: Svod service secures exclusive global distribution rights to epic Locarno winner.
Video-on-demand service Mubi has acquired the first exclusive global distribution rights to Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic From What Is Before.
Securing a 30 day rights window, this acquisition marks a significant deal for the Svod service and marks a continuation of its relationship with the award-winning indie Filipino film director.
The deal makes the 338-minute film available to audiences around the world and in France later this year.
Shot in black and white, the film revolves around the lives of poor villagers in one of the most remote regions of the Philippines before Martial Law was declared in 1972 by dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
According to Diaz, the film is loosely based on real events and characters, and examines “how an individual and collective psyche responds to extreme and mysterious changes in the social and physical environment”.
The film won the Golden Leopard at last year’s...
Video-on-demand service Mubi has acquired the first exclusive global distribution rights to Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic From What Is Before.
Securing a 30 day rights window, this acquisition marks a significant deal for the Svod service and marks a continuation of its relationship with the award-winning indie Filipino film director.
The deal makes the 338-minute film available to audiences around the world and in France later this year.
Shot in black and white, the film revolves around the lives of poor villagers in one of the most remote regions of the Philippines before Martial Law was declared in 1972 by dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
According to Diaz, the film is loosely based on real events and characters, and examines “how an individual and collective psyche responds to extreme and mysterious changes in the social and physical environment”.
The film won the Golden Leopard at last year’s...
- 4/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Our Deaths, in memoriam was the project title of Lav Diaz' Kagadanan sa Banwaan Ning mga Engkanto (2007). For the Ferroni Brigade, it became the motto of Venice 2011—specters of dear lives gone seemed to roam the event, the Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica as well as the Esposizione internazionale d'arte, and beyond.
We always commemorate the murder of Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco on September 1st 2009, quietly, invariably in Venice; it was here that we heard about the crime; now, whenever we go to the press room to check our e-mails, deep down something inside us is afraid of getting another message like that one; fittingly, one of the last films we saw this year was Diaz' latest, Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of Birthing, 2011), which ends with a dedication to them, and talks about the way our loved ones, just like cherished ideas, notions and visions are essentially eternal,...
We always commemorate the murder of Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco on September 1st 2009, quietly, invariably in Venice; it was here that we heard about the crime; now, whenever we go to the press room to check our e-mails, deep down something inside us is afraid of getting another message like that one; fittingly, one of the last films we saw this year was Diaz' latest, Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of Birthing, 2011), which ends with a dedication to them, and talks about the way our loved ones, just like cherished ideas, notions and visions are essentially eternal,...
- 2/7/2012
- MUBI
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