Alicia Moncholí, winner of the New Directors of Asturias Award for her latest short, “Campolivar,” is developing her first feature film, the coming-of-age drama “Weekends,” just announced as one of the five titles in development set to be presented at the Second Spanish Screenings on Tour.
They unspool at Rome’s Mia forum, which takes place Oct. 9-13.
“Weekends,” like “Campolivar,” is set up at Barcelona-based Oberón Media, launched in 2018 by Antonio Chavarrías, producer of Berlin Golden Bear winner “The Milk of Sorrow” and director of “The Chosen,” and Mexico’s Mónica Lozano, producer of Alejandro González Iñarritu’s “Amores Perros” and Eugenio Derbéz’s “Instructions Not Included.”
Selected at the 9th edition of Dama Ayuda, where Moncholí was tutored by Michel Gaztambide, “Weekends” was put through Spain’s Residencias de la Academia 2023 program and Acció Viver de Dones Visuals, a 7th-month development initiative.
Her future debut is also written by Moncholí,...
They unspool at Rome’s Mia forum, which takes place Oct. 9-13.
“Weekends,” like “Campolivar,” is set up at Barcelona-based Oberón Media, launched in 2018 by Antonio Chavarrías, producer of Berlin Golden Bear winner “The Milk of Sorrow” and director of “The Chosen,” and Mexico’s Mónica Lozano, producer of Alejandro González Iñarritu’s “Amores Perros” and Eugenio Derbéz’s “Instructions Not Included.”
Selected at the 9th edition of Dama Ayuda, where Moncholí was tutored by Michel Gaztambide, “Weekends” was put through Spain’s Residencias de la Academia 2023 program and Acció Viver de Dones Visuals, a 7th-month development initiative.
Her future debut is also written by Moncholí,...
- 9/11/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Underscoring a renaissance on Spain’s genre scene, a duo of titles – Daniel Calparsoro’s “All the Names of God” and Carlota Pereda’s “The Chapel” – lead the lineup of the second Spanish Screenings on Tour, which unspools at Rome’s Mia forum, taking place Oct. 9-13.
A platform of market premieres, projects, pics in post and potential remake titles, the Spanish Screenings also underscore the ever stronger emergence in Spain of open arthouse titles – Isaki Lacuesta’s “Saturn Return,” Arantxa Echeverría “Chinas,” Benito Zambrano’s “Jumping the Fence” and Gerardo Herrero’s “Under Therapy,” which was one of the best-selling titles at March’s Malaga Spanish Screenings.
With titles in Next from Spain set to present trailers, Spanish Screenings on Tour will also position a bevy of anticipated feature debuts, at different stages of production, from Spain’s seemingly bottomless well of new talent, such as Jaume Claret Muxart.
A platform of market premieres, projects, pics in post and potential remake titles, the Spanish Screenings also underscore the ever stronger emergence in Spain of open arthouse titles – Isaki Lacuesta’s “Saturn Return,” Arantxa Echeverría “Chinas,” Benito Zambrano’s “Jumping the Fence” and Gerardo Herrero’s “Under Therapy,” which was one of the best-selling titles at March’s Malaga Spanish Screenings.
With titles in Next from Spain set to present trailers, Spanish Screenings on Tour will also position a bevy of anticipated feature debuts, at different stages of production, from Spain’s seemingly bottomless well of new talent, such as Jaume Claret Muxart.
- 9/11/2023
- by John Hopewell and Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
The 91st annual Oscars is officially in the books. Speaking of books, “Green Book” won Sunday’s final trophy — the coveted Best Picture Oscar. The film also brought Mahershala Ali another Best Supporting Actor statuette. “Green Book” won the Best Original Screenplay award as well.
“Bohemian Rhapsody” actually won the most Academy Awards with four. Like “Green Book,” “Black Panther” and “Roma” won three Oscars apiece.
Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) and Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) earned Sunday’s top acting honors. Alfonso Cuarón was named best director for “Roma.” See all of the winners and nominees below.
Also Read: Will 2019 Oscars Have A(nother) Record Low Audience?
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, “Vice” Marina de Tavira, “Roma” Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk” *Winner Emma Stone, “The Favourite” Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”
Best Documentary Feature
“Free Solo” *Winner “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” “Minding the Gap” “Of Fathers and Sons...
“Bohemian Rhapsody” actually won the most Academy Awards with four. Like “Green Book,” “Black Panther” and “Roma” won three Oscars apiece.
Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) and Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) earned Sunday’s top acting honors. Alfonso Cuarón was named best director for “Roma.” See all of the winners and nominees below.
Also Read: Will 2019 Oscars Have A(nother) Record Low Audience?
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, “Vice” Marina de Tavira, “Roma” Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk” *Winner Emma Stone, “The Favourite” Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”
Best Documentary Feature
“Free Solo” *Winner “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” “Minding the Gap” “Of Fathers and Sons...
- 2/25/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
The 91st annual Academy Awards (Oscars) was a night of incredibly well-deserved wins, first time wins, and shocking wins. See the full list of nominees and winners below.
Performance by an actress in a supporting role Regina King in “If Beale Street Could Talk” (Winner) Amy Adams in “Vice” Marina de Tavira in “Roma” Emma Stone in “The Favourite” Rachel Weisz in “The Favourite” Best documentary feature “Free Solo” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill (Winner) “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim “Minding the Gap” Bing Liu and Diane Quon “Of Fathers and Sons” Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert “Rbg” Betsy West and Julie Cohen Achievement in makeup and hairstyling “Vice” Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney (Winner) “Border” Goran Lundstrom and Pamela Goldammer “Mary Queen of Scots” Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and...
Performance by an actress in a supporting role Regina King in “If Beale Street Could Talk” (Winner) Amy Adams in “Vice” Marina de Tavira in “Roma” Emma Stone in “The Favourite” Rachel Weisz in “The Favourite” Best documentary feature “Free Solo” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill (Winner) “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim “Minding the Gap” Bing Liu and Diane Quon “Of Fathers and Sons” Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert “Rbg” Betsy West and Julie Cohen Achievement in makeup and hairstyling “Vice” Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney (Winner) “Border” Goran Lundstrom and Pamela Goldammer “Mary Queen of Scots” Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and...
- 2/25/2019
- by Andrew Wendowski
- Age of the Nerd
The 91st Academy Awards are set to honor the best films and performances released in 2018. “Roma” and “The Favourite” lead all films this year with 10 total nominations each, including Best Picture and Best Director. With “Roma,”
In addition to “Roma” and “The Favourite,” other films nominated in multiple categories include “Green Book,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “A Star Is Born,” “Vice,” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The Oscars are set to air after a years-worth of controversies that found the Academy introducing and removing a Best Popular Film category and reversing their decision to move four of the categories to the telecast’s commercial breaks.
The complete nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are below. IndieWire will update the winners of each category in bold as they are announced live.
Best Picture
“Black Panther”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“The Favourite”
“Green Book”
“Roma”
“A Star Is Born”
“Vice”
Best Director
Spike Lee (“BlacKkKlansman”)
Pawel Pawlikowski (“Cold War...
In addition to “Roma” and “The Favourite,” other films nominated in multiple categories include “Green Book,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “A Star Is Born,” “Vice,” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The Oscars are set to air after a years-worth of controversies that found the Academy introducing and removing a Best Popular Film category and reversing their decision to move four of the categories to the telecast’s commercial breaks.
The complete nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are below. IndieWire will update the winners of each category in bold as they are announced live.
Best Picture
“Black Panther”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“The Favourite”
“Green Book”
“Roma”
“A Star Is Born”
“Vice”
Best Director
Spike Lee (“BlacKkKlansman”)
Pawel Pawlikowski (“Cold War...
- 2/24/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The big night is finally here. All of the precursors, predictions, speculation, and overall insanity has led to this. The 91st Academy Awards are only a few hours away. By the end of the night, we won’t be guessing what the telecast will be like, and more importantly, we’ll have a whole new crop of Oscar winners. I’ve spent almost a full year trying to figure this race out, which is perhaps the most unpredictable in memory. It all comes down to this. There’s nothing left to do but sit back and try to enjoy the craziness we’ll undoubtedly experience this evening. One more time, the Academy Award nominees: Best Picture: “Black Panther” “BlacKkKlansman” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “The Favourite” “Green Book” “Roma” “A Star Is Born” “Vice” Lead Actor: Christian Bale, “Vice” Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born” Willem Dafoe, “At Eternity’s Gate” Rami Malek,...
- 2/24/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
A couple years ago, the Academy went and changed the rules on how the animated shorts are nominated, opening the process to members of other branches, which may explain why the ballot is one of the most conventional in ages, including none of the experimental stop-motion, hand-painted, or 360-degree techniques seen in recent years. That doesn’t make it any less delightful to watch, however — if anything, this year’s animated noms will be easier for audiences to digest, balancing out the downright depressing batch of live-action shorts.
They could hardly do better than “Bao,” a breath of fresh air from Pixar, which has been lagging virtually every other animated studio when it comes to both gender and cultural representation. At any rate, Domee Shi has already been promoted to developing a feature on the strength of this adorable — and unexpected — morsel, in which a childless Chinese woman lovingly crafts a dumpling by hand,...
They could hardly do better than “Bao,” a breath of fresh air from Pixar, which has been lagging virtually every other animated studio when it comes to both gender and cultural representation. At any rate, Domee Shi has already been promoted to developing a feature on the strength of this adorable — and unexpected — morsel, in which a childless Chinese woman lovingly crafts a dumpling by hand,...
- 2/24/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – The relationships in our lives affect who we are, whether they are momentary or long term. Interestingly, like the Oscar nominated Live Action shorts, the Animated Short Film nominees have that similar connective themes in four of the five stories. Family relationships, son-to-mother, mother-to-daughter, daughter-to-father and parents-to-child, are explored in poignant and expressive ways. The Landmark Century Centre Cinema in Chicago are currently showing all the shorts in one program. Click here for more information.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
One of the nominees, “Animal Behavior” (Canada), is not so much about relationships, but is a comic overview of the law of nature in the context of a psychotherapy group session. The other nominees – “Bao” (USA), “Late Afternoon” (Ireland), “One Small Step” (USA/China) and “Weekends” (USA) – are about our relationships, and the influential nature of them. The trend of animation is to communicate different subjects in this flexible and reverential art form,...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
One of the nominees, “Animal Behavior” (Canada), is not so much about relationships, but is a comic overview of the law of nature in the context of a psychotherapy group session. The other nominees – “Bao” (USA), “Late Afternoon” (Ireland), “One Small Step” (USA/China) and “Weekends” (USA) – are about our relationships, and the influential nature of them. The trend of animation is to communicate different subjects in this flexible and reverential art form,...
- 2/17/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It’s hard not to notice shared themes in this year’s animated short film nominees: the emotional lives of women, life in Toronto, difficult family relations, and two films featuring parents who literally eat their children.
Big visuals have swayed voters’ favor, often — though not always — to the benefit of studio-backed shorts including “Bao.” But don’t be surprised if voters follow the Annies’ lead and go with the dreamlike “Weekends” or with previous winners Alison Snowden and David Fine for the comic “Animal Behaviour.”
Animal Behaviour
Snowden and Fine’s 1995 Oscar-winning “Bob’s Birthday” steered the husband-and-wife duo from shorts to a long stint in TV. When an offer from Nfb producer Michael Fukushima opened the door to a return, they bit. “We kind of missed it,” Fine says.
The media’s endless capacity for judgment inspired “Animal Behaviour’s” therapy group for creatures with species-specific issues: an overeating pig,...
Big visuals have swayed voters’ favor, often — though not always — to the benefit of studio-backed shorts including “Bao.” But don’t be surprised if voters follow the Annies’ lead and go with the dreamlike “Weekends” or with previous winners Alison Snowden and David Fine for the comic “Animal Behaviour.”
Animal Behaviour
Snowden and Fine’s 1995 Oscar-winning “Bob’s Birthday” steered the husband-and-wife duo from shorts to a long stint in TV. When an offer from Nfb producer Michael Fukushima opened the door to a return, they bit. “We kind of missed it,” Fine says.
The media’s endless capacity for judgment inspired “Animal Behaviour’s” therapy group for creatures with species-specific issues: an overeating pig,...
- 2/12/2019
- by Thomas J. McLean
- Variety Film + TV
This is one of the better crop of animated shorts the Animation Branch has rewarded this decade. “Animal Behavior” is quite funny, “Late Afternoon” is beautifully animated with a universal story, “One Small Step” is imaginative and “Weekends” is wonderfully impressionistic and haunting, but it’s hard to see any of them overcoming “Bao.” Pixar has an impressive history in this category and, moreover, it’s one of the most original and surprising of the bunch.
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Continue reading 2019 Best Animated Short Film Oscars Predictions at The Playlist.
- 2/9/2019
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
For most people, the news that the Oscar-nominated short films will soon (Feb. 8) be coming to a theater near you may not be the hallelujah moment it is for lovers of the short form and for those nerds among us trying to get a leg up in our office Oscar pool.
The three short film categories – documentary, live-action and animated – at the Oscars are invariably the hardest ones to handicap, especially if you haven’t seen them and when meeny, miney, mowing them only gives you a 20% chance of picking the winners. Yet, there they are, three mysteries that can ruin your ballot or put you on top.
I’ve just finished watching all 15 nominees and know which ones I like best. But picking the eventual winners at the Academy Awards is still a chore. Based on our predictions Pixar’s “Bao” is a huge favorite to win animated short.
The three short film categories – documentary, live-action and animated – at the Oscars are invariably the hardest ones to handicap, especially if you haven’t seen them and when meeny, miney, mowing them only gives you a 20% chance of picking the winners. Yet, there they are, three mysteries that can ruin your ballot or put you on top.
I’ve just finished watching all 15 nominees and know which ones I like best. But picking the eventual winners at the Academy Awards is still a chore. Based on our predictions Pixar’s “Bao” is a huge favorite to win animated short.
- 2/4/2019
- by Jack Mathews
- Gold Derby
Most films are personal for the filmmakers in some way, but Trevor Jimenez’s animated short, “Weekends,” is more personal than most. It follows a 6-year-old boy shuttling between his divorced parents’ homes in Toronto and it’s steeped in his own childhood experiences.
“I grew up with divorced parents and I drew a lot about those experiences. The film started as a drawing I did 10 years ago for an animation portfolio of a kid walking from his mom’s house to his dad’s apartment,” explains Jimenez, who works as a story artist at Pixar. “I put that online and got more response on that than anything else on the vlog. People were talking about their divorced families in the comments section and I started sharing memories with my friends, and they’d be amused by them. It made me think that there was something there that could connect...
“I grew up with divorced parents and I drew a lot about those experiences. The film started as a drawing I did 10 years ago for an animation portfolio of a kid walking from his mom’s house to his dad’s apartment,” explains Jimenez, who works as a story artist at Pixar. “I put that online and got more response on that than anything else on the vlog. People were talking about their divorced families in the comments section and I started sharing memories with my friends, and they’d be amused by them. It made me think that there was something there that could connect...
- 11/8/2018
- by Terry Flores
- Variety Film + TV
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