Vice is launching its own online documentary film festival with 11 feature-docs curated by the company’s co-founder Suroosh Alvi.
The youth-skewing media company is launching a site to house the films, which includes a number of Oscar contenders, with each film featuring a Q&a with Alvi and the filmmakers and subjects.
The films are The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima, Showgirls of Pakistan, We Hold the Line, Sakawa, Another Kind of Paradise, Dope Is Death, Mayor, The Donut King, Yung Lean – In My Head, Two Gods and The Prophet and the Space Aliens (full details below).
The collection will be preceded by a linear airing of The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima, which will air today, January 31 at 6:30am Pt, on Vice TV, with the site going live at 8am Pt.
The Short List With Suroosh Alvi is produced by Vice World News and distributed worldwide by Vice Distribution. Executive...
The youth-skewing media company is launching a site to house the films, which includes a number of Oscar contenders, with each film featuring a Q&a with Alvi and the filmmakers and subjects.
The films are The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima, Showgirls of Pakistan, We Hold the Line, Sakawa, Another Kind of Paradise, Dope Is Death, Mayor, The Donut King, Yung Lean – In My Head, Two Gods and The Prophet and the Space Aliens (full details below).
The collection will be preceded by a linear airing of The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima, which will air today, January 31 at 6:30am Pt, on Vice TV, with the site going live at 8am Pt.
The Short List With Suroosh Alvi is produced by Vice World News and distributed worldwide by Vice Distribution. Executive...
- 1/31/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Henrik Burman has already started shooting the feature documentary.
Hot Swedish rapper Yung Lean is heading to the big screen, in a feature documentary about how a geeky Swedish teenager (real name: Jonatan Leandoer) became a YouTube sensation with Frank Ocean and Justin Bieber chasing him to collaborate.
NonStop Entertainment has come on board for Scandinavian rights for the film, which follows Yung Lean’s rise and temptation by fame, drugs and money; his stint in a mental hospital; and how he will move forward.
The rapper and his Sad Boys collective have toured extensively in Europe and he has released three studio albums.
Hot Swedish rapper Yung Lean is heading to the big screen, in a feature documentary about how a geeky Swedish teenager (real name: Jonatan Leandoer) became a YouTube sensation with Frank Ocean and Justin Bieber chasing him to collaborate.
NonStop Entertainment has come on board for Scandinavian rights for the film, which follows Yung Lean’s rise and temptation by fame, drugs and money; his stint in a mental hospital; and how he will move forward.
The rapper and his Sad Boys collective have toured extensively in Europe and he has released three studio albums.
- 8/22/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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