Exclusive: Following the continued success of the PGA Create program, the Producers Guild of America announced the six documentary producers and producing teams invited to take part in the PGA Create lab for emerging and mid-career producers. Now entering its third year, the program’s focus is on supporting producers from underrepresented backgrounds. PGA Create is sponsored by Google, the lead underwriter of the program.
PGA Create’s documentary cycle will be held December 4-7. The program is an immersive lab for documentary producers and producing teams actively developing, financing and packaging nonfiction projects. Participants will have opportunities to hone their project pitches, attend master classes with
experienced producers and build their network of fellow producers.
PGA Create is designed to provide touch points over the span of one year, including an invitation for participants of its Scripted and Documentary cycles to re-convene during the PGA Create Forum, a day-long...
PGA Create’s documentary cycle will be held December 4-7. The program is an immersive lab for documentary producers and producing teams actively developing, financing and packaging nonfiction projects. Participants will have opportunities to hone their project pitches, attend master classes with
experienced producers and build their network of fellow producers.
PGA Create is designed to provide touch points over the span of one year, including an invitation for participants of its Scripted and Documentary cycles to re-convene during the PGA Create Forum, a day-long...
- 11/28/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Film Constellation, the London-based production, finance and sales outfit, has acquired Natalia Almada’s timely documentary “Users,” which will have its world premiere at Sundance.
“Users” is set to unspool as part of Sundance’s U.S. documentary competition section on Jan. 31. Film Constellation is representing the film in international markets, while Endeavor Content is repping North American rights.
The cinematic documentary explores our relationship to technology and its impact on our planet, as well as ways in which machines we use every day may end up changing us forever. Both intimate in scope and epic in scale, “Users” also features a score performed by the Kronos Quartet.
Almada is an award-winning director whose credits include “The General” which won the best director prize at Sundance in 2009 and “The Night Watchman,” which played as part of Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight in 2011. “Users” marks Almada’s fifth feature.
“As illuminating as it is mesmerizing,...
“Users” is set to unspool as part of Sundance’s U.S. documentary competition section on Jan. 31. Film Constellation is representing the film in international markets, while Endeavor Content is repping North American rights.
The cinematic documentary explores our relationship to technology and its impact on our planet, as well as ways in which machines we use every day may end up changing us forever. Both intimate in scope and epic in scale, “Users” also features a score performed by the Kronos Quartet.
Almada is an award-winning director whose credits include “The General” which won the best director prize at Sundance in 2009 and “The Night Watchman,” which played as part of Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight in 2011. “Users” marks Almada’s fifth feature.
“As illuminating as it is mesmerizing,...
- 1/27/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Independent Filmmaker Project on Wednesday announced the slate for its upcoming Project Forum, to take place during its long-running signature event, IFP Week, running September 20 – 25. The sales and development forum — which is going fully virtual this year — includes 144 feature and series projects, and for the first time 36 audio projects.
Among the featured narrative projects are “Mouse” from Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, whose “Saint Frances” won Jury and Audience awards at last year’s SXSW. Producer Emile Lesclaux, who produced the Cannes Jury Prize-winning “Bacurau,” will be at the forum with “Heartless.”
Producers Cait Panesgroux and Elias Ribero, who produced the Sundance award winner “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection,” will be there with “The Spirit Guest.” And “Short Term 12” producer Asher Goldstein will have “First Generation.”
Notable nonfiction producers will also be there with new documentary projects, including “Bitterbrush” from Oscar-nominated Su Kim, plus “Cain and Abel...
Among the featured narrative projects are “Mouse” from Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, whose “Saint Frances” won Jury and Audience awards at last year’s SXSW. Producer Emile Lesclaux, who produced the Cannes Jury Prize-winning “Bacurau,” will be at the forum with “Heartless.”
Producers Cait Panesgroux and Elias Ribero, who produced the Sundance award winner “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection,” will be there with “The Spirit Guest.” And “Short Term 12” producer Asher Goldstein will have “First Generation.”
Notable nonfiction producers will also be there with new documentary projects, including “Bitterbrush” from Oscar-nominated Su Kim, plus “Cain and Abel...
- 7/29/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
The Roads Not Taken
Sally Potter’s ninth feature will be The Roads Not Taken (formerly titled Molly), a narrative taking place across three continents featuring a stellar cast. The project is produced by Christopher Sheppard, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, and Josh Penn and stars Elle Fanning, (returning to work for Potter after 2012’s Ginger and Rosa – read review), Javier Bardem, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Laura Linney and Savion Glover. Potter’s exceptional debut, the experimental Julie Christie headlined The Gold Diggers (1983), played in Berlin’s Forum program. Since then, Potter entered Berlin’s competition in 2009 with Rage and again in 2017 with The Party.…...
Sally Potter’s ninth feature will be The Roads Not Taken (formerly titled Molly), a narrative taking place across three continents featuring a stellar cast. The project is produced by Christopher Sheppard, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, and Josh Penn and stars Elle Fanning, (returning to work for Potter after 2012’s Ginger and Rosa – read review), Javier Bardem, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Laura Linney and Savion Glover. Potter’s exceptional debut, the experimental Julie Christie headlined The Gold Diggers (1983), played in Berlin’s Forum program. Since then, Potter entered Berlin’s competition in 2009 with Rage and again in 2017 with The Party.…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Body to offer $245,000 in support.
The International Documentary Association (Ida) announced on Thursday (28) 16 grants totalling $245,000 to films through its Enterprise Documentary Fund and Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund.
Eleven feature-length documentary projects have been selected as development grantees of the Enterprise Documentary Fund with awards totalling $150,000. The Fund aims to support projects that reframe contemporary and historical events.
A further five projects will receive $95,000 in support through the Pare Lorentz Doc Fund, which supports production and post production for films that illuminate issues in the Us. This year’s themes centre on land and water.
The 11 Enterprise Documentary Fund grantees are:...
The International Documentary Association (Ida) announced on Thursday (28) 16 grants totalling $245,000 to films through its Enterprise Documentary Fund and Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund.
Eleven feature-length documentary projects have been selected as development grantees of the Enterprise Documentary Fund with awards totalling $150,000. The Fund aims to support projects that reframe contemporary and historical events.
A further five projects will receive $95,000 in support through the Pare Lorentz Doc Fund, which supports production and post production for films that illuminate issues in the Us. This year’s themes centre on land and water.
The 11 Enterprise Documentary Fund grantees are:...
- 2/28/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Molly
Sally Potter’s ninth feature will be Molly, a narrative taking place across three continents featuring a stellar cast. The project is produced by Christopher Sheppard, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, and Josh Penn and stars Elle Fanning, (returning to work for Potter after 2012’s Ginger and Rosa – read review), Javier Bardem, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Laura Linney and Savion Glover. Potter’s exceptional debut, the experimental Julie Christie headlined The Gold Diggers (1983), played in Berlin’s Forum program. Since then, Potter entered Berlin’s competition in 2009 with Rage and again in 2017 with The Party. Potter’s Tilda Swinton headlined breakthrough, the fascinating adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando competed in Venice, where she would return in 2000 with The Man Who Cried.…...
Sally Potter’s ninth feature will be Molly, a narrative taking place across three continents featuring a stellar cast. The project is produced by Christopher Sheppard, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, and Josh Penn and stars Elle Fanning, (returning to work for Potter after 2012’s Ginger and Rosa – read review), Javier Bardem, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Laura Linney and Savion Glover. Potter’s exceptional debut, the experimental Julie Christie headlined The Gold Diggers (1983), played in Berlin’s Forum program. Since then, Potter entered Berlin’s competition in 2009 with Rage and again in 2017 with The Party. Potter’s Tilda Swinton headlined breakthrough, the fascinating adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando competed in Venice, where she would return in 2000 with The Man Who Cried.…...
- 1/3/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Release set for January 11, 2019. Neon to distribute in Us.
Altitude Film Distribution has partnered with Canadian rap superstar Drake to jointly acquire UK rights to Reinaldo Marcus Green’s police shooting drama Monsters And Men.
The film screened in Toronto this week and plays again on September 14. It premiered earlier this year at Sundance where it won the dramatic special jury prize for outstanding first feature. HanWay Films handles international sales, and Neon will open in the Us on September 28.
Altitude has set a January 11 2019 release in the UK and Ireland on Monsters And Men, which stars John David Washington from BlacKkKlansman,...
Altitude Film Distribution has partnered with Canadian rap superstar Drake to jointly acquire UK rights to Reinaldo Marcus Green’s police shooting drama Monsters And Men.
The film screened in Toronto this week and plays again on September 14. It premiered earlier this year at Sundance where it won the dramatic special jury prize for outstanding first feature. HanWay Films handles international sales, and Neon will open in the Us on September 28.
Altitude has set a January 11 2019 release in the UK and Ireland on Monsters And Men, which stars John David Washington from BlacKkKlansman,...
- 9/8/2018
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
In an unusual but intriguing partnership, UK distributor Altitude is teaming up with singer DrakeDrake/] to jointly acquire UK distribution rights to Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Sundance and Toronto drama Monsters And Men.
Details on Drake’s commitment here are thin but Altitude said it hoped the film is “the first of many projects” on which it collaborates with the Canadian rapper. Drake was previously reported as an executive producer on the movie and was due to present the film’s Toronto Film Festival screening earlier this week but he cancelled his appearance late in the day.
The deal was negotiated between Altitude Film’s Will Clarke, Gabrielle Stewart from HanWay Films, and Endeavor Content.
Shot in Brooklyn, NY, the police brutality drama features John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman), up-and-coming actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Mudbound) and star of Broadway’s Hamilton Anthony Ramos. Pic charts the aftermath of a police killing of a black man,...
Details on Drake’s commitment here are thin but Altitude said it hoped the film is “the first of many projects” on which it collaborates with the Canadian rapper. Drake was previously reported as an executive producer on the movie and was due to present the film’s Toronto Film Festival screening earlier this week but he cancelled his appearance late in the day.
The deal was negotiated between Altitude Film’s Will Clarke, Gabrielle Stewart from HanWay Films, and Endeavor Content.
Shot in Brooklyn, NY, the police brutality drama features John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman), up-and-coming actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Mudbound) and star of Broadway’s Hamilton Anthony Ramos. Pic charts the aftermath of a police killing of a black man,...
- 9/8/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Neon made Reinaldo Marcus Green’s feature directorial debut Monsters And Men one of the bigger pickups of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where the drama had its world premiere in competition. Now comes the first trailer for the pic, which the distributor is aiming for a fall awards-season release.
Starring John David Washington, Anthony Ramos and Kelvin Harrison Jr., the plot centers on the tight-knit community of Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, where a young father witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man. The film is told through differing views: by the bystander who filmed the shooting, the black police officer, and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand. Nicole Beharie, Jasmine Cephas Jones Chante Adams and Rob Morgan co-star.
As Green said at Deadline’s Sundance Studio, although this film focuses on one incident the piece itself is inspired by the ongoing epidemic of race-related police brutality cases.
Starring John David Washington, Anthony Ramos and Kelvin Harrison Jr., the plot centers on the tight-knit community of Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, where a young father witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man. The film is told through differing views: by the bystander who filmed the shooting, the black police officer, and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand. Nicole Beharie, Jasmine Cephas Jones Chante Adams and Rob Morgan co-star.
As Green said at Deadline’s Sundance Studio, although this film focuses on one incident the piece itself is inspired by the ongoing epidemic of race-related police brutality cases.
- 5/1/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Us Dramatic Competition selection premiered on Friday.
Source: Neon
Neon has picked up North American rights in Park City to Reinaldo Marcus Green’s feature debut Monsters And Men, which debuted on Friday in Us Dramatic Competition and stirred buyer interest over the weekend.
At time of writing interest continued to swirl around American Animals, Blindspotting, Assassination Nation, The Tale, The Kindergarten Teacher, Crime + Punishment, and Three Identical Strangers, among others.
Green wrote the screenplay to Monsters And Men, which charts how a phone recording of the killing of a black man by a white police officer affects the lives of three men.
Green wrote the screenplay. The breakout cast includes John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chanté Adams, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Nicole Beharie, Rob Morgan, and Cara Buono.
Elizabeth Lodge Stepp and Josh Penn of The Department of Motion Pictures produced with Sight Unseen’s Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev, and Luca Borghese.
Executive...
Source: Neon
Neon has picked up North American rights in Park City to Reinaldo Marcus Green’s feature debut Monsters And Men, which debuted on Friday in Us Dramatic Competition and stirred buyer interest over the weekend.
At time of writing interest continued to swirl around American Animals, Blindspotting, Assassination Nation, The Tale, The Kindergarten Teacher, Crime + Punishment, and Three Identical Strangers, among others.
Green wrote the screenplay to Monsters And Men, which charts how a phone recording of the killing of a black man by a white police officer affects the lives of three men.
Green wrote the screenplay. The breakout cast includes John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chanté Adams, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Nicole Beharie, Rob Morgan, and Cara Buono.
Elizabeth Lodge Stepp and Josh Penn of The Department of Motion Pictures produced with Sight Unseen’s Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev, and Luca Borghese.
Executive...
- 1/22/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Documentary premiered at this year’s True/False Film Festival.
Oscilloscope has acquired North American rights to Viktor Jakovleski’s Brimstone & Glory and plan a theatrical release for later this year.
Mongrel is selling international rights to the Court 13 and Department of Motion Pictures production funded by Cinereach.
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers that engulfs the town for ten days.
Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, up-and-comers create their own displays, and dozens of teams build larger-than-life papier-mâché bulls to parade into the town square, adorned with fireworks that blow up in all directions.
More than three quarters of Tultepec’s residents work in pyrotechnics, making the festival more than revelry for revelry’s sake.
Jakovleski said: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to have Oscilloscope as a partner. Their passion for cinema as a big screen experience is evident in their...
Oscilloscope has acquired North American rights to Viktor Jakovleski’s Brimstone & Glory and plan a theatrical release for later this year.
Mongrel is selling international rights to the Court 13 and Department of Motion Pictures production funded by Cinereach.
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers that engulfs the town for ten days.
Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, up-and-comers create their own displays, and dozens of teams build larger-than-life papier-mâché bulls to parade into the town square, adorned with fireworks that blow up in all directions.
More than three quarters of Tultepec’s residents work in pyrotechnics, making the festival more than revelry for revelry’s sake.
Jakovleski said: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to have Oscilloscope as a partner. Their passion for cinema as a big screen experience is evident in their...
- 5/26/2017
- ScreenDaily
Oscilloscope has picked up North American rights to Viktor Jakovleski’s Brimstone & Glory, a documentary about the annual fireworks displays at the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico. The distributor is planning a theatrical release later this year for the film that premiered at this year’s True/False Film Festival.
The film was produced by Dan Janvey, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Kellen Quinn, Affonso Goncalves, Benh Zeitlin, Casey Coleman, Antonio 'Tonitzin' Gomez, Jakovleski and Erdem Karahan. It was funded by Cinereach and is a Court 13 and Department of Motion Pictures production. The film was edited by Goncalves and scored by Dan...
The film was produced by Dan Janvey, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Kellen Quinn, Affonso Goncalves, Benh Zeitlin, Casey Coleman, Antonio 'Tonitzin' Gomez, Jakovleski and Erdem Karahan. It was funded by Cinereach and is a Court 13 and Department of Motion Pictures production. The film was edited by Goncalves and scored by Dan...
- 5/26/2017
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Institute Announces Participants & Projects For Weeklong Creative Film Producing Initiative
Today, the Sundance Institute announces the participants for its weeklong Creative Film Producing Initiative at the Sundance Resort in Utah. This includes 11 feature film and documentary projects for the Creative Producing Labs, and more than 50 industry leaders for the Creative Producing Summit. The Institute’s Creative Producing Initiative encompasses a year-round series of Labs and Fellowships, nurturing the next generation of independent producers so that they can help sustain and support the vibrancy of independent film.
Read More: Sundance Institute Announces Projects For Its 2016 Screenwriters Lab, Doc Edit and Story Labs & Theatre-Makers Residency
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab takes place from August 1st through 5th. It identifies emerging producers and, under the guidance of Creative Advisors, allows them to develop their creative instincts and evolve their skills at all stages of the project. Lab Fellows continue on through the Creative Producing Summit and receive ongoing yearlong mentorship, granting, and...
Read More: Sundance Institute Announces Projects For Its 2016 Screenwriters Lab, Doc Edit and Story Labs & Theatre-Makers Residency
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab takes place from August 1st through 5th. It identifies emerging producers and, under the guidance of Creative Advisors, allows them to develop their creative instincts and evolve their skills at all stages of the project. Lab Fellows continue on through the Creative Producing Summit and receive ongoing yearlong mentorship, granting, and...
- 7/18/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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