Bad Turn Worse is the new emotional crime thriller and the stunning directorial debut of Simon and Zeke Hawkins.
The film is currently available in select theaters nationwide and VOD platforms including iTunes.
After a weekend of partying with stolen money, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis) find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal named Giff (Mark Pellegrino in a breakout performance).
To pay their debt, Giff forces the teens to steal from his boss, a money-laundering gangster named Big Red (William Devane). Things go from bad to worse when betrayal, distrust, and corruption complicate an already dangerous plan.
Wamg has got an exclusive clip featuring a commentary from Zeke and Simon Hawkins. The two discuss the opening scene in the film starring Mackenzie Davis and Jeremy Allen White. The clip will be featured in ‘iTunes Extras” starting December 5th, but you can see it here first!
The film is currently available in select theaters nationwide and VOD platforms including iTunes.
After a weekend of partying with stolen money, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis) find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal named Giff (Mark Pellegrino in a breakout performance).
To pay their debt, Giff forces the teens to steal from his boss, a money-laundering gangster named Big Red (William Devane). Things go from bad to worse when betrayal, distrust, and corruption complicate an already dangerous plan.
Wamg has got an exclusive clip featuring a commentary from Zeke and Simon Hawkins. The two discuss the opening scene in the film starring Mackenzie Davis and Jeremy Allen White. The clip will be featured in ‘iTunes Extras” starting December 5th, but you can see it here first!
- 12/2/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Taking a strong and unwavering stance on an important issue, no matter what challenges you’re forced to endure as a result, is a crucial moment that powerfully defines your character and the rest of your life. Brothers Zeke and Simon Hawkins made such a critical decision when they rightfully decided to co-helm their first feature film together, the crime thriller ‘Bad Turn Worse,’ which is now playing in theaters and On Demand. The coming-of-age drama, which marks the feature film writing debut of scribe Dutch Southern, enthralling chronicles the life-altering decisions three young friends must make when they inadvertently find themselves involved in a crime. The story also entrancingly emphasizes [ Read More ]
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- 11/16/2014
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
From the opening robbery in a hard-land gas station, Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins's Bad Turn Worse floors it straight into the past — it plays like one of the best of those chatty, reflexive, standoffs-and-monologues crime indies every young dude in L.A. whipped up after Tarantino hit. Deep into the third act, one character actually says, "Now you're bluffing"; another, after announcing a betrayal meant to upend our understanding of what's been going on, executes a little bow. (That one's also tasked with proving the film's un-pc bona fides, saying, "No reason you'd kill someone who exists, right? Just fucking Mexicans!") After blowing thousands of (stolen) bucks on one dumb casino weekend, three Texas teens find themselves entangled with nowheresville mur...
- 11/12/2014
- Village Voice
A selection of the 2013 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival - back when it was known as We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - Zeke and Simon Hawkins' indie thriller Bad Turn Worse hits limited theatrical release, VOD and iTunes on November 14th and there's a new trailer out there to entice you.Here's how Toronto described it:Tipping its hat from the start to the classic novels of pulp crime master Jim Thompson, We Gotta Get Out of This Place is a tight nouveau noir by first-time feature directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins. The Hawkins brothers have crafted a tense thriller in their story of three teens, on the verge of escaping a dead-end existence in their cotton-mill town, who get sucked into...
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- 10/10/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The Texas-set neo-noir formerly known as We Gotta Get Out Of This Place has ponied up its first trailer as Starz Digital ramps up for a November 14 release. Jeremy Allen White (Shameless), Mackenzie Davis (Halt And Catch Fire) and Logan Huffman (V) star in Bad Turn Worse as small-town youngsters who blow stolen cash on a weekend of partying. Unfortunately, the sociopath they stole from (Lost‘s Mark Pellegrino) answers to an even scarier boss (William Devane), whose riches the kids are forced to heist in order to repay their debt.
Zeke and Simon Hawkins directed from a script by Dutch Southern and shot the pic on location in Texas cotton country. After it debuted at Tiff 2013, Starz acquired U.S. and Canada rights and set a limited theatrical/digital release plan. That strategy might work out well for Starz; between the film’s festival premiere and now, more indies...
Zeke and Simon Hawkins directed from a script by Dutch Southern and shot the pic on location in Texas cotton country. After it debuted at Tiff 2013, Starz acquired U.S. and Canada rights and set a limited theatrical/digital release plan. That strategy might work out well for Starz; between the film’s festival premiere and now, more indies...
- 10/9/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Once going under the name We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the Texas-set crime drama from Zeke and Simon Hawkins now has a new title, along with a release date. Going by Bad Turn Worse, the November-bound film has also delivered a slick new trailer which effectively sells the drama with some impressive editing. Following three teens who are forced […]...
- 10/8/2014
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
"Sounds like game time to me." Just last week, we exclusively debuted the teaser poster for the Texas crime thriller Bad Turn Worse, the film formerly known as We Gotta Get Out of This Place, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. Now the film is finally getting released next month in limited theaters and on VOD, and the first trailer has arrived. This looks really cool, like a contemporary western, and the praise for a villainous turn from Mark Pellegrino sounds like that alone will make the film worth seeing. Mackenzie Davis and Jeremy Allen White also star in the film. Watch the trailer! Here's the first trailer for Simon Hawkins & Zeke Hawkins' Bad Turn Worse, originally from Apple: After a weekend of partying with stolen money, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis) find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal...
- 10/8/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Sometime a film's buzz has a curious, firework-esque lifespan: there's a lot of dazzle and noise at first, and then a quick dissipation into the ether. This seemed to happen to 2013 Fantastic Film Fest hit "We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place." Met with heaps of praise out of that genre festival, we've barely heard about the movie a word since. But that's about to change as it's roaring back to life. Our Fantastic Fest review (quotes from which are featured on the poster and trailer for the film) says the thriller "offers the kind of clean, elegant storytelling whose emotional impact eclipses the cosmetic horrors of its counterparts while announcing the arrival of considerable new filmmaking talents." Now retitled "Bad Turn Worse," a new poster and trailer for the film has arrived. Directed by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins, the picture is a Texas-set crime thriller, and the official...
- 10/8/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Teenagers become involved in a web of deceit, crime and danger in “Bad Turn Worse,” a presentation by Starz Digital. The film, originally known as “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” will be available on all major VOD outlets including Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, iTunes, Xbox Video ad cable providers Nov. 14. It will also open in Us and Canadian theaters on the same day. “Bad Turn Worse,” the directorial debut by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins, stars Jeremy Allen White (“Shameless”, “Afterschool”), Mark Pellegrino (“The Big Lebowski,” “Supernatural”), Mackenzie Davis (“What If,” “Halt and Catch Fire”), Logan Huffman (“Refuge,” “V”) and William Devane (“The Dark Knight Rises,” “24” [ Read More ]
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- 10/6/2014
- by monique
- ShockYa
IFC Films has snapped up Us rights to Ruba Nadda’s recent Toronto world premiere from Blue Ice Pictures starring Patricia Clarkson. Separately, Starz Digital Media has announced release plans for Bad Turn Worse.
Myriad handles international sales to October Gale, which also stars Scott Speedman and Tim Roth in the story of a doctor who shelters a man on the run from a killer. Callum Keith Rennie rounds out the key cast.
Blue Ice Pictures’ Daniel Iron produced and the executive producers are Myriad chief Kirk D’Amico, Christine Vachon, Emily Alden, Lance Samuels, Steven Silver and Neil Tabatznik.
If brokered the deal with Jay Cohen at Gersh and D’Amico on behalf of the filmmakers.
Starz Digital Media will release Bad Turn Worse (formerly We Gotta Get Out Of This Place) in select theatres and on VOD on November 14. The directorial debut of Zeke and Simon Hawkins is based on the screenplay by Dutch Southern about...
Myriad handles international sales to October Gale, which also stars Scott Speedman and Tim Roth in the story of a doctor who shelters a man on the run from a killer. Callum Keith Rennie rounds out the key cast.
Blue Ice Pictures’ Daniel Iron produced and the executive producers are Myriad chief Kirk D’Amico, Christine Vachon, Emily Alden, Lance Samuels, Steven Silver and Neil Tabatznik.
If brokered the deal with Jay Cohen at Gersh and D’Amico on behalf of the filmmakers.
Starz Digital Media will release Bad Turn Worse (formerly We Gotta Get Out Of This Place) in select theatres and on VOD on November 14. The directorial debut of Zeke and Simon Hawkins is based on the screenplay by Dutch Southern about...
- 10/3/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Today we get to exclusively debut the official release poster for Bad Turn Worse, formerly known as We Gotta Get Out of This Place, a gritty Texas crime thriller that marks the debut of brothers Zeke & Simon Hawkins. The film premiered at Tiff 2013 and picked up the Audience Award at AFI, hitting theaters this fall. Compared to this year's acclaimed thriller Cold in July, the plot follows three Texas teens (played by Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis) who get caught up in organized crime trying to escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill. The film, produced by Brian Udovich and Justin Duprie of Rough & Tumble Films, also had a gorgeous hand-drawn poster for its festival run last year. New art below. Here's the new poster for Zeke & Simon Hawkins' crime thriller Bad Turn Worse - in theaters November. After a weekend of partying with stolen money,...
- 10/2/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Brothers Hawkins have arrived on the scene with a loud bang that could be seen as an ode to a favourite weapon of choice in the crime genre. Now as their feature directorial debut, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, makes its way into UK cinemas, HeyUGuys had the opportunity to lightly interrogate the filmmaking duo, as they shared with us their thoughts on the creative process and the first film in their directorial canon.
Why a career in filmmaking? Was there that one inspirational moment?
Zeke Hawkins: We grew up at the movies. Whilst our parents were trying to deal with having two boys, we would go to the cinema four times a week throughout our childhood. So we have always loved movies. In terms of a seminal moment, I remember when I was eighteen and I first saw Steven Soderbegh’s Out of Sight. It...
Why a career in filmmaking? Was there that one inspirational moment?
Zeke Hawkins: We grew up at the movies. Whilst our parents were trying to deal with having two boys, we would go to the cinema four times a week throughout our childhood. So we have always loved movies. In terms of a seminal moment, I remember when I was eighteen and I first saw Steven Soderbegh’s Out of Sight. It...
- 8/14/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Highlights include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Abel Ferrara’s controversial Dsk feature Welcome To New York.
The full line-up of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been revealed this morning by artistic director Chris Fujiwara at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
This year’s festival, which runs from June 18-29, will comprise 156 features from 47 countries, including 11 world premieres, eight international premieres, seven European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
New titles announced today include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances that was first shown at Sundance in January.
Straight from its lively premiere in Cannes is Abel Ferrara’s controversial title Welcome To New York, inspired by the case of former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, starring Gérard Depardieu, which will receive its UK premiere at Eiff.
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The full line-up of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been revealed this morning by artistic director Chris Fujiwara at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
This year’s festival, which runs from June 18-29, will comprise 156 features from 47 countries, including 11 world premieres, eight international premieres, seven European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
New titles announced today include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances that was first shown at Sundance in January.
Straight from its lively premiere in Cannes is Abel Ferrara’s controversial title Welcome To New York, inspired by the case of former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, starring Gérard Depardieu, which will receive its UK premiere at Eiff.
Other new titles added to the line-up include [link=nm...
- 5/28/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Starz Digital Media has acquired Us and Canadian rights to The Hawkins Brothers’ directorial debut We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
The film premiered in Toronto and won the Audience Award at AFI Fest.
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place stars Jeremy Allen White, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Pellegrino and William Devane in the story of three Texas teens whose night of partying leaves them indebted to the wrong person.
Dutch Southern wrote the screenplay and Rough & Tumble Films produced.
“I love when our team discovers films by talented new filmmakers,” said Starz head of acquisitions Kevin Kasha.
“Set in a dead-end Texas town, Zeke and Simon Hawkins offer audiences a gritty thriller that presents a fresh, sometimes surreal take that will appeal to film fans everywhere. We’re excited they’ve partnered with Starz to share their debut film.”...
The film premiered in Toronto and won the Audience Award at AFI Fest.
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place stars Jeremy Allen White, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Pellegrino and William Devane in the story of three Texas teens whose night of partying leaves them indebted to the wrong person.
Dutch Southern wrote the screenplay and Rough & Tumble Films produced.
“I love when our team discovers films by talented new filmmakers,” said Starz head of acquisitions Kevin Kasha.
“Set in a dead-end Texas town, Zeke and Simon Hawkins offer audiences a gritty thriller that presents a fresh, sometimes surreal take that will appeal to film fans everywhere. We’re excited they’ve partnered with Starz to share their debut film.”...
- 3/11/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK distributor also secures Big Sur, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Almost Human, Enter Nowhere and The Battery.
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
- 12/12/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK distributor also secures Big Sur, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Almost Human, Enter Nowhere and The Battery.
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
- 12/12/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK distributor also secures Big Sur, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Almost Human, Enter Nowhere and The Battery.
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
- 12/12/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
AFI Fest announced the winners for the audience and jury awards on Wednesday. The Rocket, Australia's foreign film Oscar submission; The Selfish Giant, made in the UK; We Gotta Get Out of This Place, an American indie film directed by Zeke Hawkins and Simon Hawkins; and B for Boy, a Nigerian film, received Audience Awards. Grand Jury Awards were presented to Butter Lamp in the Live Action Short category, and The Places Where We Lived in the Animated Short category. Special Jury Award winners were Balcony and Syndromeda. Some of the award-winning films will screen again Wednesday at the
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- 11/14/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Visit SydneysBuzz Reports for the complete Fall 2013 Rights Roundup Report.
With an entire new line-up of films Lighting Entertainment is present at Afm this week. The Santa Monica-based company dedicated to the worldwide distribution and licensing of independent content with a focus on quality theatrical films, has 10 new features in the market. Among them there are comedies, several thrillers, and heartfelt dramas.
Here is Lighting Entertainment's Afm line-up
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Director: Zeke Hawkins, Simon Hawkins
Cast: Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, Mackenzie Davis
With his best pal Bobby and his girlfriend Sue getting ready to leave town for college, troublemaker B.J. steals money from his boss, Giff, so he can treat his friends to a wild weekend of partying. Unfortunately, the stolen money belonged to a dangerous gangster known as Big Red. The three teens are forced to rob a local money-laundering front to settle their debt and buy their freedom. They are driven into a world of organized crime to fight for their lives. Deception and insecurities among the three friends increase the tension leading to the heist, making it uncertain who will come out on top — or even alive.
Freezer
Director: Mikael Salomon
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Peter Facinelli, Yuliya Snigir
Robert (Dylan McDermott), an average guy with an average life, is tested beyond human endurance when he awakens to find himself locked in an industrial freezer by Russian thugs. The gangsters threaten his life unless he returns the $8 million dollars he stole from them. The only problem is, Robert has no idea what they are talking about. Searching his surroundings, he discovers Sam (Peter Facinelli) under a pile of boxes in the corner, beaten and battered.
As both men fight for their lives before freezing to death, the truth about their situation slowly reveals itself…
The Reckoning
Director: John V. Soto
Cast: Luke Hemsworth, Jonathan Lapaglia, Viva Bianca
A detective discovers a mysterious video while investigating the roadside execution-style murder of his partner. The footage, shot by two teenagers, reveals murky details behind the death of their sibling in an unsolved hit and run case. The teens have since gone missing, and as the detective retraces their journey to find them, he quickly uncovers a bloody trail of murder...that leads all the way back to him!
Healing
Director: Craig Monahan
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Robert Taylor, Anthony Hayes, Jane Menelaus
After 16 years in prison, Viktor Khadem (Don Hany) is a man who has almost given up on life.
For his final 18 months, he is sentenced to Won Wron, a low-security, rural prison where Senior Officer Matt Perry (Hugo Weaving) has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men by giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors – beautiful, proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic Wedge-tailed Eagle with a 2 metre wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible. Healing is a powerful, moving story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit – in the most unlikely place, for the most unique men, through the most unusual catalyst.
Inspired by a true story, Healing is a new Australian feature film written and directed by Craig Monahan, the multi-award winning director of The Interview (selected for Montreal, Seattle, Flanders and 30 other international Festivals); and Winner of Best Film - Australian Film Institute Awards
The Wonders
Director: Avi Nesher
Cast: Adir Miller, Yuval Scharf, Yehuda Levi, introducing Ori Hizkiah
This story focuses on Arnav, a graffiti artist and bartender living in Jerusalem. Always wearing a mask, he paints at night, and yearns for the day that his beloved ex-girlfriend Vax will return to him. But when Arnav sees a mysterious stranger forced into an abandoned apartment one night by three bearded men, he becomes involved with a hard-boiled investigator, a gorgeous mystery woman, and the conflicted mysterious captive himself. The captive, Shmaya Knafo, leads a cult of fanatically devoted followers who believe he can see into the future. Knafo may possess supernatural powers, or he might be just a clever con man. As dark, incriminating secrets come to light, Arnav is drawn into a world where lines blur between fact and fiction, and reality and imagination. When loyalties shift, Arnav finds his life turning stranger than his art. His attraction to Knafo’s mystery might be the artist’s way of reaching nirvana...or prove to be a fatal attraction.
Gus
Director: Jessie McCormack
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Radha Mitchell, Jon Dore, Michael Weston, Mimi Kennedy
Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) longs to start a family with her husband Peter but is unable to conceive. Her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan), single and adrift, gets pregnant from a one-night stand and offers to give Lizzie the baby. Reluctantly, Peter agrees to be the child's father, and before he knows it Andie has moved into the guest room for the duration of her pregnancy. When Peter also invites his ne'er-do-well brother to the house, chaos ensues, testing the limits of friendship, family and a marriage. "Gus" depicts the deeply human struggles of these four people, taking a funny and poignant look at the ways we try to plan ahead when life has something else in mind.
Cavemen
Director: Herschel Faber
Cast: Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray, Dayo Okeniyi, Alexis Knapp, Kenny Wormald
Fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships, La playboy Dean realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess, Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time - which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles! After a few hilariously bad first dates and some awful advice from his over-sexed guy friends, Dean begins to realize that the true love he has been seeking may be much closer to home. But when he is forced to make a decision between the girl he knows is perfect for him and the seductive party-girl of his fantasies, will Dean finally grow up…or will he just continue the party?
Storm Rider
Director: Craig Clyde
Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, C Thomas Howell, Danielle Chuchran
After her father loses his fortune and family home, a privileged teenage equestrian is forced to give up her beloved championship horse and is sent to live in the country with her reclusive uncle. She struggles to adjust to life on the secluded ranch without any friends, her horse, or her Dad, who has been sent off to prison. But after she meets the nice boy from the neighboring ranch, and is gifted a young horse , Stormy, she soon settles into her new life and realizes that this is perhaps where she was meant to be all along. A heartfelt family drama about second chances, finding happiness, and making the impossible possible.
Dead Drop
Director: R. Ellis Frazier
Cast: Luke Goss, Cole Hauser, Nestor Carbonell
After being shot by his best friend, pushed out of a plane, and miraculously surviving a dead-drop from 5,000 feet, Michael awakens to a living nightmare. His memory is limited, and psychotic tendencies have begun to creep in. Defying the orders of his CIA handlers, Michael re-inserts himself into the dangerous Mexican smuggling ring where he was operating deep under cover. He snakes his way through the underbelly of Northern Mexico, hunting for Santiago, the cartel boss who Michael believes threw him out of the plane and who is also holding his girlfriend hostage.
American Idiots
Director: Robert Taleghany
Cast: Jeffrey T. Schoettlin, Sean Muramatsu, Caroline D’Amore, Madeline Merritt
After losing the girl of his dreams to another man, Wyatt and his posse pack their suitcases and head out on the craziest, screwball road trip to Las Vegas to win her back. With less than twenty-seven hours to break up her wedding, they must make it before it is too late without falling apart at the seams and living up to their names... American Idiots!
With an entire new line-up of films Lighting Entertainment is present at Afm this week. The Santa Monica-based company dedicated to the worldwide distribution and licensing of independent content with a focus on quality theatrical films, has 10 new features in the market. Among them there are comedies, several thrillers, and heartfelt dramas.
Here is Lighting Entertainment's Afm line-up
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Director: Zeke Hawkins, Simon Hawkins
Cast: Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, Mackenzie Davis
With his best pal Bobby and his girlfriend Sue getting ready to leave town for college, troublemaker B.J. steals money from his boss, Giff, so he can treat his friends to a wild weekend of partying. Unfortunately, the stolen money belonged to a dangerous gangster known as Big Red. The three teens are forced to rob a local money-laundering front to settle their debt and buy their freedom. They are driven into a world of organized crime to fight for their lives. Deception and insecurities among the three friends increase the tension leading to the heist, making it uncertain who will come out on top — or even alive.
Freezer
Director: Mikael Salomon
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Peter Facinelli, Yuliya Snigir
Robert (Dylan McDermott), an average guy with an average life, is tested beyond human endurance when he awakens to find himself locked in an industrial freezer by Russian thugs. The gangsters threaten his life unless he returns the $8 million dollars he stole from them. The only problem is, Robert has no idea what they are talking about. Searching his surroundings, he discovers Sam (Peter Facinelli) under a pile of boxes in the corner, beaten and battered.
As both men fight for their lives before freezing to death, the truth about their situation slowly reveals itself…
The Reckoning
Director: John V. Soto
Cast: Luke Hemsworth, Jonathan Lapaglia, Viva Bianca
A detective discovers a mysterious video while investigating the roadside execution-style murder of his partner. The footage, shot by two teenagers, reveals murky details behind the death of their sibling in an unsolved hit and run case. The teens have since gone missing, and as the detective retraces their journey to find them, he quickly uncovers a bloody trail of murder...that leads all the way back to him!
Healing
Director: Craig Monahan
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Robert Taylor, Anthony Hayes, Jane Menelaus
After 16 years in prison, Viktor Khadem (Don Hany) is a man who has almost given up on life.
For his final 18 months, he is sentenced to Won Wron, a low-security, rural prison where Senior Officer Matt Perry (Hugo Weaving) has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men by giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors – beautiful, proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic Wedge-tailed Eagle with a 2 metre wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible. Healing is a powerful, moving story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit – in the most unlikely place, for the most unique men, through the most unusual catalyst.
Inspired by a true story, Healing is a new Australian feature film written and directed by Craig Monahan, the multi-award winning director of The Interview (selected for Montreal, Seattle, Flanders and 30 other international Festivals); and Winner of Best Film - Australian Film Institute Awards
The Wonders
Director: Avi Nesher
Cast: Adir Miller, Yuval Scharf, Yehuda Levi, introducing Ori Hizkiah
This story focuses on Arnav, a graffiti artist and bartender living in Jerusalem. Always wearing a mask, he paints at night, and yearns for the day that his beloved ex-girlfriend Vax will return to him. But when Arnav sees a mysterious stranger forced into an abandoned apartment one night by three bearded men, he becomes involved with a hard-boiled investigator, a gorgeous mystery woman, and the conflicted mysterious captive himself. The captive, Shmaya Knafo, leads a cult of fanatically devoted followers who believe he can see into the future. Knafo may possess supernatural powers, or he might be just a clever con man. As dark, incriminating secrets come to light, Arnav is drawn into a world where lines blur between fact and fiction, and reality and imagination. When loyalties shift, Arnav finds his life turning stranger than his art. His attraction to Knafo’s mystery might be the artist’s way of reaching nirvana...or prove to be a fatal attraction.
Gus
Director: Jessie McCormack
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Radha Mitchell, Jon Dore, Michael Weston, Mimi Kennedy
Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) longs to start a family with her husband Peter but is unable to conceive. Her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan), single and adrift, gets pregnant from a one-night stand and offers to give Lizzie the baby. Reluctantly, Peter agrees to be the child's father, and before he knows it Andie has moved into the guest room for the duration of her pregnancy. When Peter also invites his ne'er-do-well brother to the house, chaos ensues, testing the limits of friendship, family and a marriage. "Gus" depicts the deeply human struggles of these four people, taking a funny and poignant look at the ways we try to plan ahead when life has something else in mind.
Cavemen
Director: Herschel Faber
Cast: Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray, Dayo Okeniyi, Alexis Knapp, Kenny Wormald
Fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships, La playboy Dean realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess, Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time - which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles! After a few hilariously bad first dates and some awful advice from his over-sexed guy friends, Dean begins to realize that the true love he has been seeking may be much closer to home. But when he is forced to make a decision between the girl he knows is perfect for him and the seductive party-girl of his fantasies, will Dean finally grow up…or will he just continue the party?
Storm Rider
Director: Craig Clyde
Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, C Thomas Howell, Danielle Chuchran
After her father loses his fortune and family home, a privileged teenage equestrian is forced to give up her beloved championship horse and is sent to live in the country with her reclusive uncle. She struggles to adjust to life on the secluded ranch without any friends, her horse, or her Dad, who has been sent off to prison. But after she meets the nice boy from the neighboring ranch, and is gifted a young horse , Stormy, she soon settles into her new life and realizes that this is perhaps where she was meant to be all along. A heartfelt family drama about second chances, finding happiness, and making the impossible possible.
Dead Drop
Director: R. Ellis Frazier
Cast: Luke Goss, Cole Hauser, Nestor Carbonell
After being shot by his best friend, pushed out of a plane, and miraculously surviving a dead-drop from 5,000 feet, Michael awakens to a living nightmare. His memory is limited, and psychotic tendencies have begun to creep in. Defying the orders of his CIA handlers, Michael re-inserts himself into the dangerous Mexican smuggling ring where he was operating deep under cover. He snakes his way through the underbelly of Northern Mexico, hunting for Santiago, the cartel boss who Michael believes threw him out of the plane and who is also holding his girlfriend hostage.
American Idiots
Director: Robert Taleghany
Cast: Jeffrey T. Schoettlin, Sean Muramatsu, Caroline D’Amore, Madeline Merritt
After losing the girl of his dreams to another man, Wyatt and his posse pack their suitcases and head out on the craziest, screwball road trip to Las Vegas to win her back. With less than twenty-seven hours to break up her wedding, they must make it before it is too late without falling apart at the seams and living up to their names... American Idiots!
- 11/13/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
William Devane Respects The Text
By
Alex Simon
Few actors ruled the big and small screen with such vigor during the 1970s as William Devane. Using his classically handsome Irish features to embody parts best described as “Ivy League menace,” Devane hasn’t stopped working since making his film debut in 1967. McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Missiles of October, Marathon Man, Family Plot, Rolling Thunder, Yanks and Testament are just a few of the classic titles to which Devane brought his unique brand of charisma. The ‘80s saw him dominating the airwaves on the primetime soap Knots Landing as the nefarious Gregory Sumner, with dozens more memorable turns to follow.
Devane lends his gravitas to the new indie thriller We Gotta Get Out of This Place, a nifty neo-noir about a group of Texas teens (Mackenzie Davis, Logan Huffman, Jeremy Allen White) from a dead-end town who find themselves over their...
By
Alex Simon
Few actors ruled the big and small screen with such vigor during the 1970s as William Devane. Using his classically handsome Irish features to embody parts best described as “Ivy League menace,” Devane hasn’t stopped working since making his film debut in 1967. McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Missiles of October, Marathon Man, Family Plot, Rolling Thunder, Yanks and Testament are just a few of the classic titles to which Devane brought his unique brand of charisma. The ‘80s saw him dominating the airwaves on the primetime soap Knots Landing as the nefarious Gregory Sumner, with dozens more memorable turns to follow.
Devane lends his gravitas to the new indie thriller We Gotta Get Out of This Place, a nifty neo-noir about a group of Texas teens (Mackenzie Davis, Logan Huffman, Jeremy Allen White) from a dead-end town who find themselves over their...
- 11/10/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Exclusive: Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights for Afm to Zeke and Simon Hawkins’ Toronto and Fantastic Fest entry We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine Entertainment holds all Us rights to the thriller set in South Texas cotton country based on Dutch Southern’s screenplay.
Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis play best friends who unwittingly rob a gangster at the behest of a sociopathic cotton farmer. Mark Pellegrino and William Devane round out the key cast.
Rough and Tumble Films’ Justin Duprie and Brian Udovich produced We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine’s Josh Braun negotiated the deal with Lightning acquisition and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and Lightning evp and general manager Ken DuBow.
“The film is a total sleeper,” said Guardian and DuBow, who saw the film in Toronto and will screen it for buyers at Afm. “The craftsmanship and power of it just blows us away...
Submarine Entertainment holds all Us rights to the thriller set in South Texas cotton country based on Dutch Southern’s screenplay.
Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis play best friends who unwittingly rob a gangster at the behest of a sociopathic cotton farmer. Mark Pellegrino and William Devane round out the key cast.
Rough and Tumble Films’ Justin Duprie and Brian Udovich produced We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine’s Josh Braun negotiated the deal with Lightning acquisition and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and Lightning evp and general manager Ken DuBow.
“The film is a total sleeper,” said Guardian and DuBow, who saw the film in Toronto and will screen it for buyers at Afm. “The craftsmanship and power of it just blows us away...
- 10/28/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights for Afm to Zeke and Simon Hawkins’ Toronto and Fantastic Fest entry We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine Entertainment holds all Us rights to the thriller set in South Texas cotton country based on Dutch Southern’s screenplay.
Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis play best friends who unwittingly rob a gangster at the behest of a sociopathic cotton farmer. Mark Pellegrino and William Devane round out the key cast.
Rough and Tumble Films’ Justin Duprie and Brian Udovich produced We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine’s Josh Braun negotiated the deal with Lightning acquisition and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and Lightning evp and general manager Ken DuBow.
“The film is a total sleeper,” said Guardian and DuBow, who saw the film in Toronto and will screen it for buyers at Afm. “The craftsmanship and power of it just blows us away...
Submarine Entertainment holds all Us rights to the thriller set in South Texas cotton country based on Dutch Southern’s screenplay.
Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis play best friends who unwittingly rob a gangster at the behest of a sociopathic cotton farmer. Mark Pellegrino and William Devane round out the key cast.
Rough and Tumble Films’ Justin Duprie and Brian Udovich produced We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine’s Josh Braun negotiated the deal with Lightning acquisition and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and Lightning evp and general manager Ken DuBow.
“The film is a total sleeper,” said Guardian and DuBow, who saw the film in Toronto and will screen it for buyers at Afm. “The craftsmanship and power of it just blows us away...
- 10/28/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
AFI Fest 2013 presented by Audi, a program of the American Film Institute, today announced the remaining sections and films that will screen in the festival’s World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programs. AFI Fest, which redefines Hollywood today as a place where icons and emerging artists bring audiences together to experience global cinema in the movie capital of the world, will take place November 7 through 14 at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, the American Independents section features work by U.S. filmmakers, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the blind submission process, Midnight’s selections tend toward the macabre and Cinema’s Legacy highlights restorations and classic films.
This year’s program includes the return of several filmmakers to AFI Fest...
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, the American Independents section features work by U.S. filmmakers, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the blind submission process, Midnight’s selections tend toward the macabre and Cinema’s Legacy highlights restorations and classic films.
This year’s program includes the return of several filmmakers to AFI Fest...
- 10/22/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
They say timing is everything, and somehow, I managed to have good timing with some of the clothes I chose to wear to Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. (Bear with me and my nerdiness.) I had picked out an Epcot-specific T-shirt to wear to Day Two of Fantastic Fest, in some goofy way to tie into Escape from Tomorrow, which screened that morning. Of course, then I thought I wouldn’t be attending said screening; the machinations that went into place to secure me a spot, as mentioned in that Day Two report happened so immediately that I realized I was no longer ironically dressed for the occasion in Disney gear. But as it happens, I wore that shirt, with the design of The American Adventure, the centerpiece of Epcot’s World Showcase, to Day Four of the festival. And, as luck would have it, a shirt commemorating one aspect...
- 9/23/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Written by Dutch Southern
Directed by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins
USA, 2013
The crime thriller is not an easy genre to tackle. The cinematic landscape is littered with movies that were unable to illustrate stakes worth caring about, characters worth emotionally investing in, or stories worth following. Good additions to the genre, however, are always fascinating to watch, as they show a side of things that very few people see otherwise, and put people in situations that reveal a lot about them. One of the movies premiering at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival is We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the feature film debut of directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins, and it stands as a worthy addition to the genre, adding its own flavour to stand out from the others while still paying attention to the story.
A major highlight are the performances.
Written by Dutch Southern
Directed by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins
USA, 2013
The crime thriller is not an easy genre to tackle. The cinematic landscape is littered with movies that were unable to illustrate stakes worth caring about, characters worth emotionally investing in, or stories worth following. Good additions to the genre, however, are always fascinating to watch, as they show a side of things that very few people see otherwise, and put people in situations that reveal a lot about them. One of the movies premiering at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival is We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the feature film debut of directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins, and it stands as a worthy addition to the genre, adding its own flavour to stand out from the others while still paying attention to the story.
A major highlight are the performances.
- 9/9/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
With only weeks left before Fantastic Fest gets underway in Austin, the final wave of films has been announced. Check out the goodies below, and visit FantasticFest.com for the complete schedule and to get your tickets.
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (USA, 2006)
Special Screening
Director - Jonathon Levine, 98 min
All the boys love Mandy Lane and all the girls want to be her. There's at least one person, though, that wants Mandy and her friends dead.
Chanthaly (Lao People's Democratic Republic, 2013)
North American Premiere
Director - Mattie Do, 98 min
A sickly young woman experiences visions of her dead mother. Is the apparition simply a side effect of her daily medication, or her mother actually reaching out to her from beyond the grave?
Confession Of Murder (Korea, 2012)
U.S. Premiere
Director - Jeong Byeong-Gil, 119 min
After the statute of limitations expires on a series of high profile murders, a...
- 9/6/2013
- by Alyse Wax
- FEARnet
In 2 weeks, you will be seeing tons of content from one of the best genre film festivals in North America, Fantastic Fest. Held in Austin, TX, Fantastic Fest is a orgasmic wave of sci-fi, horror, crime and foreign film. We have been lucky enough to be attending since 2010 and this year, I plan on giving you the most coverage I can. There will be daily video recorded and published on the site in addition to interviews and reviews. Today, the final wave and closing night film was announced. Every year, Fantastic Fest tends to have side events/parties that tie into the Opening & Closing Night films and given the content, I can’t wait to see what they come up with. The closing night film is the North American Premiere of Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem.
Without further ado, here is the official press release with a full list of films that were added.
Without further ado, here is the official press release with a full list of films that were added.
- 9/5/2013
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Fantastic Fest has sent out a press release announcing their closing night film and the final wave of programming that includes All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, We Are What We Are, Rigor Mortis, and more:
Austin, TX-Thursday, September 5, 2013- Fantastic Fest is excited to announce its final wave of film programming, including Terry Gilliam’s unique dystopian vision of the future, The Zero Theorem, as the closing night film on September 26th. The ninth edition of Fantastic Fest, will take place September 19 – 26 at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline in Austin, Texas. See below for descriptions of twenty-five new World, North American & Us premiere films at this year’s festival.
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (USA, 2006)
Special Screening
Director – Jonathon Levine, 98 min
All the boys love Mandy Lane and all the girls want to be her. There’s at least one person, though, that wants Mandy and her friends dead.
Chanthaly (Lao People’s Democratic Republic,...
Austin, TX-Thursday, September 5, 2013- Fantastic Fest is excited to announce its final wave of film programming, including Terry Gilliam’s unique dystopian vision of the future, The Zero Theorem, as the closing night film on September 26th. The ninth edition of Fantastic Fest, will take place September 19 – 26 at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline in Austin, Texas. See below for descriptions of twenty-five new World, North American & Us premiere films at this year’s festival.
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (USA, 2006)
Special Screening
Director – Jonathon Levine, 98 min
All the boys love Mandy Lane and all the girls want to be her. There’s at least one person, though, that wants Mandy and her friends dead.
Chanthaly (Lao People’s Democratic Republic,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Every once in a while, a film will choose to take the path less traveled and use unique poster art that eschews Photoshop and goes for aesthetic beauty instead. Here we have the Tiff promo poster for Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins' We Gotta Get Out of This Place, a twisted Texas-set crime drama about three teens (Mackenzie Davis, Jeremy Allen White and Logan Huffman) hoping to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in their cotton-mill town. The poster features hand-painted artwork by Eisner Award winning artist Sean Phillips that's just gorgeous. This film is now on our festival radar thanks to this art. Here's the first promo poster for We Gotta Get Out of This Place debuted by Indiewire just in time for Tiff: From Tiff: Tipping its hat from the start to the classic novels of pulp crime master Jim Thompson, We Gotta...
- 8/27/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Outclassing Venice this year in terms of quantity (and we’ll soon see in perhaps quality), 2013′s Toronto International Film Festival’s Vanguard section sees programmer Colin Geddes happily working with a flood of film items that could have easily have been featured in the Midnight Madness section. Alongside world premieres for Simon & Zeke Hawkins’ We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Zack Parker’s Proxy, Juan Cavestany’s People In Places and Yeon Sang-ho’s The Fake, the fest lassoed notable premium offerings in the likes of Alexandre Aja’s Horns, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s sophomore pic The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears and (also skipping the Lido) and Brillante Mendoza’s Sapi.
Ti West’s The Sacrament will benefit from the Lido-t.O exposure, while from Cannes, we find Jeremy Saulnier’s brilliant, award-winning Blue Ruin and Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman both receive their...
Ti West’s The Sacrament will benefit from the Lido-t.O exposure, while from Cannes, we find Jeremy Saulnier’s brilliant, award-winning Blue Ruin and Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman both receive their...
- 7/30/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Tiff’s Midnight Madness selection is usually where we find all of the horror films, but the Vanguard selection features Ti West’s latest film, The Sacrament, and Alexandre Aja’s Horns, starring Daniel Radcliffe:
“Toronto — The Toronto International Film Festival® Vanguard programme takes audiences on a sensory rollercoaster ride with boundary-pushing international works that are bold and bodacious. Curated by international programmer Colin Geddes, this lineup brings the best in genre and arthouse together for a cinematic odyssey that eludes conventional definition.
“From revenge and ruin to sex, drugs and taxation, this programme challenges audiences to go places that noaudience has gone before,” said Geddes. “Where Midnight Madness opens up audiences to a world of fear and fantasy, Vanguard plunges them into a confrontational and unnerving one that sometimes comes a bit too close to reality for comfort.”
The Vanguard roster features a provocative partnership between Ti West (The House of the Devil,...
“Toronto — The Toronto International Film Festival® Vanguard programme takes audiences on a sensory rollercoaster ride with boundary-pushing international works that are bold and bodacious. Curated by international programmer Colin Geddes, this lineup brings the best in genre and arthouse together for a cinematic odyssey that eludes conventional definition.
“From revenge and ruin to sex, drugs and taxation, this programme challenges audiences to go places that noaudience has gone before,” said Geddes. “Where Midnight Madness opens up audiences to a world of fear and fantasy, Vanguard plunges them into a confrontational and unnerving one that sometimes comes a bit too close to reality for comfort.”
The Vanguard roster features a provocative partnership between Ti West (The House of the Devil,...
- 7/30/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The 2013 Toronto Film Festival selection grew quite a bit today as the organizers announced the Midnight Madness, Documentary, Vanguard, City to City and Cinematheque selections for this year's festival. Among the title announced there aren't exactly a ton of names that pop off the paper immediately. The Midnight Madness selection will open with Lucky McKee's All Cheerleaders Die in which a young girl who practices the dark arts turns on her best friend after she joins the cheer squad. However, I assume most attention will be on Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, a film in which a group of humanitarians go to the Amazon to help a native tribe only to have the tribe kidnap them and later learn their cannibalistic heritage is very much intact. The Documentary selection includes plenty of familiar faces such as Marcel Ophuls, Claude Lanzmann and Errol Morris and Frank Pavich will be bringing Jodorowsky's Dune,...
- 7/30/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
New work from Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman will screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tiff Docs strand, while City To City spotlights Athens and Alex Aja’s Horns is among the Vanguard offerings.
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
- 7/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
New work from Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman will screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tiff Docs strand, while City To City spotlights Athens and Alex Aja’s Horns is among the Vanguard offerings.
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
- 7/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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