British musical artist and dancer FKA Twigs will be bringing one major character to life in the 2024 remake of The Crow, and the film's first official trailer finally confirmed who she will be playing.
Aside from starring in dozens of music videos, Twigs was also credited in Shia Labeouf's Honey Boy, and David Gutnik's Brighton Beach (which was supposed to be released in 2020 but is still on the shelf at Spotlight Pictures).
After Lionsgate acquired the rights to The Crow and revealed that a remake was in the works from director Rupert Sanders, it was also confirmed that Twigs would have some sort of role in the film alongside Bill Skarsgard.
Read full article on The Direct.
Aside from starring in dozens of music videos, Twigs was also credited in Shia Labeouf's Honey Boy, and David Gutnik's Brighton Beach (which was supposed to be released in 2020 but is still on the shelf at Spotlight Pictures).
After Lionsgate acquired the rights to The Crow and revealed that a remake was in the works from director Rupert Sanders, it was also confirmed that Twigs would have some sort of role in the film alongside Bill Skarsgard.
Read full article on The Direct.
- 3/15/2024
- by Nathan Johnson
- The Direct
New York, NY – The 22nd Tribeca Film Festival announced their Jury Prizes for 2023 on June 15th. Best U.S. Narrative was rewarded to “Cypher,” directed by Chris Moukarel, a narrative of rapper Tierra Whack. Best International Narrative goes to A Strange Path” and Best Documentary is “Between the Rains.”
“A Strange Path” (Dir: Guto Parente) is a Brazilian film concerning a filmmaker who returns home and encounters his estranged father. “Between the Rains” (Dir: Andrew H. Brown and Moses Thuranira) is a coming-of-age story that follows an orphan as he adapts to radically changing climate conditions in Northern Kenya.
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Awards were distributed in the following feature film competition categories – U.S. Narrative, International Narrative, Documentary, New Narrative Director, and the Nora Ephron Prize, honoring a woman writer or director. Awards were also given in the short film categories – Narrative,...
“A Strange Path” (Dir: Guto Parente) is a Brazilian film concerning a filmmaker who returns home and encounters his estranged father. “Between the Rains” (Dir: Andrew H. Brown and Moses Thuranira) is a coming-of-age story that follows an orphan as he adapts to radically changing climate conditions in Northern Kenya.
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Awards were distributed in the following feature film competition categories – U.S. Narrative, International Narrative, Documentary, New Narrative Director, and the Nora Ephron Prize, honoring a woman writer or director. Awards were also given in the short film categories – Narrative,...
- 6/18/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The 2023 Tribeca Festival has announced its award winners across various competition categories, with Cypher, A Strange Path and Between the Rains among the films winning the top prizes.
Cypher won the founders award for best U.S. narrative feature with the prize going to director Chris Moukarbel.
Cypher follows YouTube rapper Tierra Whack, going behind the scenes of concerts and music videos as she navigates fame and receives praise until a seemingly innocuous fan interaction begins a series of increasingly unsettling events that follow Tierra and her team to Dubai as they start to question being watched as a part of fame.
A Strange Path dominated the international narrative competition, winning best feature (Guto Parente), performance (Carlos Francisco), screenplay (Parente) and cinematography (Linga Acácio).
Between the Rains won best documentary feature (Andrew H. Brown and Moses Thuranira) and cinematography in a doc feature (Brown).
Smoking Tigers, which was the first...
Cypher won the founders award for best U.S. narrative feature with the prize going to director Chris Moukarbel.
Cypher follows YouTube rapper Tierra Whack, going behind the scenes of concerts and music videos as she navigates fame and receives praise until a seemingly innocuous fan interaction begins a series of increasingly unsettling events that follow Tierra and her team to Dubai as they start to question being watched as a part of fame.
A Strange Path dominated the international narrative competition, winning best feature (Guto Parente), performance (Carlos Francisco), screenplay (Parente) and cinematography (Linga Acácio).
Between the Rains won best documentary feature (Andrew H. Brown and Moses Thuranira) and cinematography in a doc feature (Brown).
Smoking Tigers, which was the first...
- 6/15/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lviv Municipal Art Center Director Lyana Mytsko with artist/activist Bogdana Dabydiuk postering support for Ukraine in David Gutnik’s Tribeca highlight Rule Of Two Walls Photo: courtesy of New City/Old City
David Gutnik’s creative and hopeful Rule Of Two Walls, produced by Olha Beskhmelnytsina and executive produced by Liev Schreiber is a take-action highlight of the 22nd edition of the Tribeca Film Festival (along with Nenad Cicin-Sain’s Kiss The Future). At the start in Lviv, Ukraine in April 2022, cinematographer Volodymyr Ivanov and sound recordist Mykhailo Zakutskyi take us to the apartment of Lyana Mytsko and Stepan Burban (aka rapper Palindrom). From there with air-raid sirens blaring we walk with Lyana to the Municipal Art Center, where she is the director, to meet artist Diana Berg from Mariupol who sees her images as “a possibility to regain some control over how beautiful it was” before the invasion...
David Gutnik’s creative and hopeful Rule Of Two Walls, produced by Olha Beskhmelnytsina and executive produced by Liev Schreiber is a take-action highlight of the 22nd edition of the Tribeca Film Festival (along with Nenad Cicin-Sain’s Kiss The Future). At the start in Lviv, Ukraine in April 2022, cinematographer Volodymyr Ivanov and sound recordist Mykhailo Zakutskyi take us to the apartment of Lyana Mytsko and Stepan Burban (aka rapper Palindrom). From there with air-raid sirens blaring we walk with Lyana to the Municipal Art Center, where she is the director, to meet artist Diana Berg from Mariupol who sees her images as “a possibility to regain some control over how beautiful it was” before the invasion...
- 6/15/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The war in Ukraine has many battlezones - and as David Gutnik’s documentary shows, not all of them involve picking up guns. That is not to say the Ukrainian-American filmmaker shies away from the horrors of war - some of the footage here involves dead bodies, including those of children, which may prove too much for some audiences.
The main focus of the film, however, is the creative community that has remained in the country since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. As the film progresses, and these artists and filmmakers articulate their response to the conflict both verbally and through their work, Gutnik also interrogates the importance of culture when it comes to establishing and preserving nationhood.
Although not named as they are introduced on screen - a decision that no doubt stems from the flexible nature of the filmmaking here but which is a bit...
The main focus of the film, however, is the creative community that has remained in the country since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. As the film progresses, and these artists and filmmakers articulate their response to the conflict both verbally and through their work, Gutnik also interrogates the importance of culture when it comes to establishing and preserving nationhood.
Although not named as they are introduced on screen - a decision that no doubt stems from the flexible nature of the filmmaking here but which is a bit...
- 6/8/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
David Gutnik’s Rule of Two Walls, its title a reference to the best place to be between during bombing raids, is a unique take on an exhaustively mined (some would say extracted) story—that of the current war in Europe. Combining doc and fiction, the film follows Ukrainian artists who have chosen to stay and fight for their homeland by making art and preserving culture as a means of resistance. And that includes those involved in the crafting of this very film. To learn all about this meta look at creation in a time of destruction, Filmmaker reached out to the Ukrainian-American writer-director […]
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- 6/8/2023
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
David Gutnik’s Rule of Two Walls, its title a reference to the best place to be between during bombing raids, is a unique take on an exhaustively mined (some would say extracted) story—that of the current war in Europe. Combining doc and fiction, the film follows Ukrainian artists who have chosen to stay and fight for their homeland by making art and preserving culture as a means of resistance. And that includes those involved in the crafting of this very film. To learn all about this meta look at creation in a time of destruction, Filmmaker reached out to the Ukrainian-American writer-director […]
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- 6/8/2023
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Willem Dafoe and Michael Weber among creative advisors helping artistic director Athina Rachel Tsangari.
Thirteen projects from promising filmmakers selected for the Oxbelly Screenwriters and Directors Labs received guidance from mentors such as actor Willem Dafoe, Arte France’s Olivier Pere and The Match Factory founder Michael Weber when they took place in Greece from May 29-June 5.
The Labs were held in Costa Navarino under the artistic direction of Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, whose credits include Chevalier and Trigonometry.
The Labs offer international filmmakers the opportunity to work on their first or second feature script, as well as workshop...
Thirteen projects from promising filmmakers selected for the Oxbelly Screenwriters and Directors Labs received guidance from mentors such as actor Willem Dafoe, Arte France’s Olivier Pere and The Match Factory founder Michael Weber when they took place in Greece from May 29-June 5.
The Labs were held in Costa Navarino under the artistic direction of Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, whose credits include Chevalier and Trigonometry.
The Labs offer international filmmakers the opportunity to work on their first or second feature script, as well as workshop...
- 6/24/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sturgill Simpson has joined the cast of New Regency’s True Love, which is being written and directed by Gareth Edwards. Simpson steps in for Danny McBride, who had to leave the project due to scheduling conflicts. Simpson joins previously announced cast members John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney and Benedict Wong. Kiri Hart will serve as a producer on the project along with Edwards. New Regency will produce and finance the film.
Plot details are being kept under wraps other than it being a near-future sci-fi story. Production is currently under way in Thailand.
Simpson will next be seen in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Previous credits includes Melina Matsoukas’s Queen and Slim for Universal Pictures and Makeready, Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, for which Sturgill wrote and performed the theme song, Craig Zobel’s The Hunt and Materna,...
Plot details are being kept under wraps other than it being a near-future sci-fi story. Production is currently under way in Thailand.
Simpson will next be seen in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Previous credits includes Melina Matsoukas’s Queen and Slim for Universal Pictures and Makeready, Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, for which Sturgill wrote and performed the theme song, Craig Zobel’s The Hunt and Materna,...
- 1/19/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
David Gutnik’s debut feature “Materna” starts with an all-too familiar scene: a woman on a train, obviously desiring to be left alone, is being talked to by a highly aggressive man. He’s shouting, causing a scene, and the more the woman ignores him, the more frustrated he becomes. It’s unfortunate that the rest of “Materna” simultaneously never lives up to that opening intensity nor authenticity with regards to women in contemporary society,
Gutnik utilizes the technique of telling four separate stories, each spotlighting one woman on the train that day. We’ve seen this method of storytelling done so often in other independent features and when done poorly it feels like what it is: a gimmick. Here, there’s never a feeling of unity between the women at any point — outside of them being women with motherhood issues — so they play like four disparate stories with a...
Gutnik utilizes the technique of telling four separate stories, each spotlighting one woman on the train that day. We’ve seen this method of storytelling done so often in other independent features and when done poorly it feels like what it is: a gimmick. Here, there’s never a feeling of unity between the women at any point — outside of them being women with motherhood issues — so they play like four disparate stories with a...
- 8/6/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
It makes sense that one of the protagonists of “Materna” is a fan of Jean-Pierre Melville’s existential neo-noir “Le Samouraï,” given that David Gutnik’s feature debut is itself a tapestry of modern alienation and disaffection. Charting the plights of four women whose paths eventually cross on a New York City subway train, Gutnik’s fragmented feature debut is rooted in fraught mother-daughter dynamics and intertwined issues of regret, resentment, racism, classism and homophobia.
Having won prizes for best actress (Assol Abdullina) and best cinematography at the pandemic-pinched 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, it should entice audiences in search of distinctive art-house fare when it debuts in limited release on Aug. 6 (ahead of an Aug. 10 VOD premiere), even if
Co-written with leads Abdullina and Jade Eshete, Gutnik’s film begins in a New York City subway car whose crowd includes a quartet of women — later identified as Jean (Kate Lyn Sheil...
Having won prizes for best actress (Assol Abdullina) and best cinematography at the pandemic-pinched 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, it should entice audiences in search of distinctive art-house fare when it debuts in limited release on Aug. 6 (ahead of an Aug. 10 VOD premiere), even if
Co-written with leads Abdullina and Jade Eshete, Gutnik’s film begins in a New York City subway car whose crowd includes a quartet of women — later identified as Jean (Kate Lyn Sheil...
- 8/6/2021
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
Materna opens with hazy close-ups of four women on the New York subway, all distracted and on edge. As we’ll come to learn, that’s partly from events in each of their personal lives. But it’s also because a man on the subway is harassing them, venting his frustrations, and teetering ever closer to violence. From here, director David Gutnik flashes back to show us, one-by-one, what led each woman to where they are now, sitting together on the subway as strangers, united only by the man’s harassment.
Gutnik’s anthology tells stories of how each handles struggles related to motherhood. Jean (Kate Lyn Sheil) is a hermit who is developing some sort of sexually charged VR technology (we meet her writhing around on the floor in a full-body VR suit). Over the phone her mother constantly pesters her to freeze her eggs; meanwhile, Jean is secretly...
Gutnik’s anthology tells stories of how each handles struggles related to motherhood. Jean (Kate Lyn Sheil) is a hermit who is developing some sort of sexually charged VR technology (we meet her writhing around on the floor in a full-body VR suit). Over the phone her mother constantly pesters her to freeze her eggs; meanwhile, Jean is secretly...
- 8/6/2021
- by Orla Smith
- The Film Stage
Michael Chernus is set as a lead opposite Rachel Weisz in Amazon’s Dead Ringers series, a reimagining with a gender swap of David Cronenberg’s cult classic 1980s film. The project, which received a straight-to-series order last year, hails from Weisz, Alice Birch, lead writer of Hulu’s acclaimed Normal People series, Annapurna Television and Morgan Creek Entertainment, the company behind the original movie.
Dead Ringers is a modern take on Cronenberg’s thriller starring Jeremy Irons, featuring Weisz playing the double lead role of Elliot and Beverly Mantle, twins who share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes, including pushing the boundaries on medical ethics in an effort to challenge antiquated practices and bring women’s healthcare to the forefront.
Chernus will play the series regular role of Tom, a brilliant scientist, working with Elliot (Weisz) on a groundbreaking but perilous new project.
Dead Ringers is a modern take on Cronenberg’s thriller starring Jeremy Irons, featuring Weisz playing the double lead role of Elliot and Beverly Mantle, twins who share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes, including pushing the boundaries on medical ethics in an effort to challenge antiquated practices and bring women’s healthcare to the forefront.
Chernus will play the series regular role of Tom, a brilliant scientist, working with Elliot (Weisz) on a groundbreaking but perilous new project.
- 7/22/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
There are few boundaries on public transportation, at least not physical ones. Crammed together in small spaces for oftentimes unexpected lengths of time, people who don’t normally interact are suddenly forced into each others’ orbits. Such is the concept behind Tribeca winner “Materna,” which uses the New York City subway system as a meeting point for four seemingly very different women, all of whom are forced to deal with an unexpected encounter and the impact it has on their lives. At its heart, motherhood and questions of feminine identity burn bright.
The film is the directorial debut of David Gutnik, who is also the editor of several acclaimed features, including Christina Choe’s 2018 Sundance award-winning drama “Nancy.” Gutnik wrote the film alongside two of his stars, Jade Eshete (“Billions” and “High Maintenance”) and Assol Abdullina (in one of her first film roles), and the film also features leading roles...
The film is the directorial debut of David Gutnik, who is also the editor of several acclaimed features, including Christina Choe’s 2018 Sundance award-winning drama “Nancy.” Gutnik wrote the film alongside two of his stars, Jade Eshete (“Billions” and “High Maintenance”) and Assol Abdullina (in one of her first film roles), and the film also features leading roles...
- 7/12/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Utopia has acquired worldwide rights to David Gutnik’s “Materna” ahead of the film’s in-person debut at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
The movie looks at four women, whose lives intersect during an incident on a New York City subway. Kate Lyn Sheil (“She Dies Tomorrow”), Jade Eshete (“Billions”), Lindsay Burdge (“Black Bear”), Assol Abdullina (“First Snow”), Michael Chernus (“Orange Is the New Black”), Rory Culkin (“Castle Rock”) and Sturgill Simpson (the upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon”) all star. Abdullina and Eshete co-wrote the screenplay with Gutnik.
According to the official logline: “‘Materna’ follows the journeys of four New York women who are isolated by city life, separated by class, politics, race and religion, and yet bound by a shared hunger for identity and connection. With their futures at stake, the characters’ lives are upended by a fateful encounter underground, where their stories of personal transformation become a battle for survival.
The movie looks at four women, whose lives intersect during an incident on a New York City subway. Kate Lyn Sheil (“She Dies Tomorrow”), Jade Eshete (“Billions”), Lindsay Burdge (“Black Bear”), Assol Abdullina (“First Snow”), Michael Chernus (“Orange Is the New Black”), Rory Culkin (“Castle Rock”) and Sturgill Simpson (the upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon”) all star. Abdullina and Eshete co-wrote the screenplay with Gutnik.
According to the official logline: “‘Materna’ follows the journeys of four New York women who are isolated by city life, separated by class, politics, race and religion, and yet bound by a shared hunger for identity and connection. With their futures at stake, the characters’ lives are upended by a fateful encounter underground, where their stories of personal transformation become a battle for survival.
- 4/28/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Company boards sales on Moments Like This Never Last, Shit & Champagne, Dilemma Of Desire
Robert Schwartzman’s US sales and distribution company Utopia has announced a raft of deals at EFM including 2020 SXSW, Toronto, and Outfest selection Shiva Baby.
Emma Seligman’s comedy has gone to HBO for the US, Pacific Northwest Pictures for Canada, Filmin for Spain, and Watcha for South Korea. As previously announced, Mubi has acquired the film for the UK, Germany, Latin America, India, and Turkey.
Rachel Sennott, Fred Melamed, Polly Draper, and Dianna Agron lead an ensemble cast in the story of secrets that erupt at a Jewish funeral.
Robert Schwartzman’s US sales and distribution company Utopia has announced a raft of deals at EFM including 2020 SXSW, Toronto, and Outfest selection Shiva Baby.
Emma Seligman’s comedy has gone to HBO for the US, Pacific Northwest Pictures for Canada, Filmin for Spain, and Watcha for South Korea. As previously announced, Mubi has acquired the film for the UK, Germany, Latin America, India, and Turkey.
Rachel Sennott, Fred Melamed, Polly Draper, and Dianna Agron lead an ensemble cast in the story of secrets that erupt at a Jewish funeral.
- 3/8/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Watching David Gutnik’s debut feature film Materna, I got a clear sense that he was trying to tap into both cultural and political diversity. As diversity has become the buzzword du jour, directors have been eager to keep up with the times. This has been a great incentive for white directors to put more consideration into casting roles and sometimes even deciding what stories to tell and how to tell them.
With that in mind, there also must be a consideration for how cast diversity changes the story and its tone in ways that not even a director can control....
With that in mind, there also must be a consideration for how cast diversity changes the story and its tone in ways that not even a director can control....
- 10/13/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Watching David Gutnik’s debut feature film Materna, I got a clear sense that he was trying to tap into both cultural and political diversity. As diversity has become the buzzword du jour, directors have been eager to keep up with the times. This has been a great incentive for white directors to put more consideration into casting roles and sometimes even deciding what stories to tell and how to tell them.
With that in mind, there also must be a consideration for how cast diversity changes the story and its tone in ways that not even a director can control....
With that in mind, there also must be a consideration for how cast diversity changes the story and its tone in ways that not even a director can control....
- 10/13/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tagline: "Crime is a Family Business." Brighton Beach is a crime thriller from the mind of David Gutnik (Materna). Set in Brooklyn, this title looks at neighbourhood, in which a Russian gang is fighting for territory and against a local business. This title recently finished production. And, the film stars: Fka Twigs (Honey Boy), Barney Harris and Costa Ronin. An early poster and stills are available here, ahead of a potential 2020 release. The first graphic shows a character with a shotgun. Figures lie in the shadow as Brighton Beach is displayed in the background. Two vicious groups will collide in a story about family rivalry. Brighton Beach has recently been picked up by Spotlight Pictures, for a future release. This gangland drama will be looking to show internationally later this year and into 2021. More details will emerge as the filmmakers bring this release to film festivals or to a theatre near you.
- 9/18/2020
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Entering its 19th edition this year, Tribeca Film Festival has announced its feature film lineup, including a number of anticipated titles as well as festival favorites. World premiering at the festival is Chad Hartigan’s sci-fi romance Little Fish, Gerardo Naranjo’s Kokoloko, Eleanor Coppola’s Love is Love is Love, Michael Winterbottom’s sequel The Trip to Greece, Rodney Ascher’s A Glitch in the Matrix, Talya Lavie’s Honeymood, BenDavid Grabinski’s Happily, Bryan Bertino’s The Dark & The Wicked, plus documentaries on Stanley Kubrick, Dmx, Harry Belafonte, John Belushi, Brian Wilson, and more.
In terms of festival favorites, there’s Josephine Decker’s Shirley (our review), Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona Heidi Ewing’s I Carry You With Me, Gaspar Noé’s medium-length work Lux Aeterna, the St. Vincent-Carrie Brownstein collaboration The Nowhere Inn, and more. Plus, Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island will...
In terms of festival favorites, there’s Josephine Decker’s Shirley (our review), Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona Heidi Ewing’s I Carry You With Me, Gaspar Noé’s medium-length work Lux Aeterna, the St. Vincent-Carrie Brownstein collaboration The Nowhere Inn, and more. Plus, Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island will...
- 3/4/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President to open festival as previously announced.
The world premieres of The Trip To Greece and a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti, as well as the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Greece reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon and marks the fourth feature entry in the comedy series. It screens in Spotlight Narrative.
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
The world premieres of The Trip To Greece and a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti, as well as the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Greece reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon and marks the fourth feature entry in the comedy series. It screens in Spotlight Narrative.
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
- 3/3/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President to open festival as previously announced.
The world premiere of a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti and the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
The Us premiere of HBO’s Toronto dark comedy pick-up Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman screens in Spotlight Narrative, the same section that will show the New York premiere of...
The world premiere of a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti and the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
The Us premiere of HBO’s Toronto dark comedy pick-up Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman screens in Spotlight Narrative, the same section that will show the New York premiere of...
- 3/3/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Molly Conners of Phiphen Pictures produced with Michelle Booso, Guilio Marantonio and Jane Oster
Spotlight Pictures has introduced worldwide buyers in Toronto to the crime drama Brighton Beach featuring singer-songwriter Fka Twigs in her film debut.
David Gutnik directed the feature about an ambitious doctor and son to Russian immigrants who confronts a mob boss when the gangster threatens to destroy his Brooklyn family practice.
Barney Harris,, Costa Ronin, and Sofia Vassilieva (My Sisters Keeper) star.
Molly Conners of Phiphen Pictures produced Brighton Beach with Michelle Booso, Giulio Marantonio and Jane Oster. Executive Producers are Amanda Bowers, Vincent Morano, Mark David,...
Spotlight Pictures has introduced worldwide buyers in Toronto to the crime drama Brighton Beach featuring singer-songwriter Fka Twigs in her film debut.
David Gutnik directed the feature about an ambitious doctor and son to Russian immigrants who confronts a mob boss when the gangster threatens to destroy his Brooklyn family practice.
Barney Harris,, Costa Ronin, and Sofia Vassilieva (My Sisters Keeper) star.
Molly Conners of Phiphen Pictures produced Brighton Beach with Michelle Booso, Giulio Marantonio and Jane Oster. Executive Producers are Amanda Bowers, Vincent Morano, Mark David,...
- 9/11/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
It’s that post-Cannes time of year again and the Us In Progress folks have selected eight film projects for the 2019 8th edition of Usip Paris – 2019 Champs-Elysées Film Festival edition. Among the recognizable names we find veteran filmmaker Alexandre Rockwell, Danny Madden (was a winner at 2018 SXSW for Krista) and David Gutnik (Before You See the Light) who now has a pair in post-production. One of these could very well end up at Sundance next year, not to mention SXSW and Tribeca.…...
- 6/6/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Brooklyn-born and based David Gutnik has been chipping away at Russian American (formerly Brighton Beach) since 2016, with post perhaps being further delayed because of editing duties on Christina Choe‘s Sundance winner Nancy (here is a glimpse of him at the world preem). Landing British singer Fka Twigs (Tahliah Debrett Barnett) for the lead role (she is supposedly adding some of her tracks), and employing the services of cinematographer Oleg Mutu this crime drama also includes players Barney Harris, Costa Ronin, Sofia Vassilieva and Michael Kingsbaker.
Gist: This follows the rivalry between a family-run medical practice and a local mob boss caught up in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud racket.…...
Gist: This follows the rivalry between a family-run medical practice and a local mob boss caught up in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud racket.…...
- 11/22/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Writer/director Christina Cho and editor David Gutnik met during their time at Columbia University’s Mfa Film Program. Gutnik edited Cho’s thesis film, I Am John Wayne, which won the Grand Jury Prize for best short film at Slamdance in 2012. Their new film together, Nancy, is one of three films at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival to star Andrea Riseborough. Below, Gutnik discusses the genre elements of this psychological thriller and how he sought to ensure that “every edit is connected to the central nervous system of the character, and by extension the soul of the film.” Filmmaker: How and why did you […]...
- 1/22/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Year-long fellowship awarded to 10 first-time filmmakers.
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced the projects selected for the 13th Ifp Narrative Labs.
Ifp’s year-long fellowship provides an all-encompassing mentorship and resources for 10 first-time filmmakers currently in post-production on their debut narrative feature.
The selected fellows for the 13th Ifp Narrative Labs are:
American Thief Miguel Silveira writer-director, Melissa Hernandez co-writer, Michel Stolnicki writer-producer;
Cubby Mark Blane writer-director, Carolina Gimenez producer, William Colby editor;
Dead Pigs Cathy Yan writer-director;
The Garden Left Behind Flavio Alves director, Roy Wol producer, Alex Lora editor;
Geppetto Z Behl writer-director, Sam Kuhn director of photography, Justin Cox music supervisor;
Jinn Nijla Mu’min writer-director, Avril Z. Speaks producer, Collin Kriner editor;
Jules Of Light And Dark Daniel Laabs writer, director and editor, Jeff Walker producer, Judd Myers producer-editor;
Kids Go Free To Fun Fun Time Ben Hicks writer-director;
Nancy Christina Choe writer-director, Amy Lo producer, David Gutnik editor...
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced the projects selected for the 13th Ifp Narrative Labs.
Ifp’s year-long fellowship provides an all-encompassing mentorship and resources for 10 first-time filmmakers currently in post-production on their debut narrative feature.
The selected fellows for the 13th Ifp Narrative Labs are:
American Thief Miguel Silveira writer-director, Melissa Hernandez co-writer, Michel Stolnicki writer-producer;
Cubby Mark Blane writer-director, Carolina Gimenez producer, William Colby editor;
Dead Pigs Cathy Yan writer-director;
The Garden Left Behind Flavio Alves director, Roy Wol producer, Alex Lora editor;
Geppetto Z Behl writer-director, Sam Kuhn director of photography, Justin Cox music supervisor;
Jinn Nijla Mu’min writer-director, Avril Z. Speaks producer, Collin Kriner editor;
Jules Of Light And Dark Daniel Laabs writer, director and editor, Jeff Walker producer, Judd Myers producer-editor;
Kids Go Free To Fun Fun Time Ben Hicks writer-director;
Nancy Christina Choe writer-director, Amy Lo producer, David Gutnik editor...
- 5/9/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Singer co-stars in movie produced by Birdman and Tulip Fever executive Molly Connners.
British singer FKA Twigs is to make her movie debut in Us crime-drama Brighton Beach, which is being produced by Birdman executive Molly Conners.
Currently in post-production, the under-the-radar contemporary feature follows the rivalry between a family-run medical practice and a local mob boss caught up in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud racket.
Twigs will co-star opposite rising UK actor Barney Harris, whose first roles include appearances in Ang Lee’s upcoming awards hopeful Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and hit UK TV series The Hollow Crown.
Also featuring among cast are Costa Ronin (The Americans), Sofia Vassilieva (Medium) and Michael Kingsbaker.
Currently in post-production, the film marks the feature debut of Russian-American writer-director David Gutnik who previously lived in the film’s eponymous Brooklyn neighbourhood and whose previous credits as editor include Four and Heartlock.
DoP is acclaimed...
British singer FKA Twigs is to make her movie debut in Us crime-drama Brighton Beach, which is being produced by Birdman executive Molly Conners.
Currently in post-production, the under-the-radar contemporary feature follows the rivalry between a family-run medical practice and a local mob boss caught up in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud racket.
Twigs will co-star opposite rising UK actor Barney Harris, whose first roles include appearances in Ang Lee’s upcoming awards hopeful Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and hit UK TV series The Hollow Crown.
Also featuring among cast are Costa Ronin (The Americans), Sofia Vassilieva (Medium) and Michael Kingsbaker.
Currently in post-production, the film marks the feature debut of Russian-American writer-director David Gutnik who previously lived in the film’s eponymous Brooklyn neighbourhood and whose previous credits as editor include Four and Heartlock.
DoP is acclaimed...
- 7/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Abrams Artists Agency has signed Costa Ronin — best known for his role as Oleg on FX's acclaimed drama The Americans — for representation in all theatrical areas. In addition to FX’s The Americans, Ronin has been cast as a lead in the feature film Brighton Beach from writer-director David Gutnik and producer Molly Connors (Birdman). Ronin has also recently appeared in FX’s The Strain for FX, TNT’s Agent X, Scorpion on CBS and ABC’s Agent Carter. Ronin is also represented…...
- 4/13/2016
- Deadline
Director Joshua Sanchez
Director: Joshua Sanchez
Festival Entry: Four
Narrative Competition
Over the course of a steamy 4th of July night, a father and daughter, each trapped in loneliness, reach out for sexual connection — he with a self-hating teenage boy, she with a smooth-talking wannabe homeboy — in this psychologically complex, beautifully acted drama.
Directed By: Joshua Sanchez
Executive Producer: Neil Labute
Producer: Christine Giorgio
Screenwriter: Joshua Sanchez
Cinematographer: Gregg Conde
Editor: David Gutnik
Music: Bryan Senti
Cast: Wendell Pierce, Emory Cohen, Aja Naomi King, Ej Bonilla
We asked Four director Josh Sanchez about everything from his inspirations to his challenges while making his Festival entry film. Here’s what he had to say:
Who are you and what do you do?
I’m Josh Sanchez. I make films, I write and I make art.
Who were your early mentors in filmmaking?
The filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan really made me understand film in a whole new way.
Director: Joshua Sanchez
Festival Entry: Four
Narrative Competition
Over the course of a steamy 4th of July night, a father and daughter, each trapped in loneliness, reach out for sexual connection — he with a self-hating teenage boy, she with a smooth-talking wannabe homeboy — in this psychologically complex, beautifully acted drama.
Directed By: Joshua Sanchez
Executive Producer: Neil Labute
Producer: Christine Giorgio
Screenwriter: Joshua Sanchez
Cinematographer: Gregg Conde
Editor: David Gutnik
Music: Bryan Senti
Cast: Wendell Pierce, Emory Cohen, Aja Naomi King, Ej Bonilla
We asked Four director Josh Sanchez about everything from his inspirations to his challenges while making his Festival entry film. Here’s what he had to say:
Who are you and what do you do?
I’m Josh Sanchez. I make films, I write and I make art.
Who were your early mentors in filmmaking?
The filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan really made me understand film in a whole new way.
- 6/13/2012
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent
Has it been a decade of films and freaks already? Well, it has! The 10th annual Coney Island Film Festival is set to run once again on Sept. 24-26 at the world famous Sideshows by the Seashore — the last operating circus-style sideshow/freak show in the U.S.A.
The festival starts with real bang this year with the Brooklyn premiere of Gary Beeber‘s latest documentary Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, which chronicles the rise of the hot new burlesque trend in NYC and its most popular star, Dirty Martini. The film will also be preceded by two short films: The recently uncovered Museum of Wax by playwright Charles Ludlam and Jaye Cherian’s documentary Shape of the Shapeless.
This year the festival is also celebrating by hosting director Darren Aronofsky as their 2010 honoree. On Sept. 26, Aronofsky — who was born in South Brooklyn — will be present at a...
The festival starts with real bang this year with the Brooklyn premiere of Gary Beeber‘s latest documentary Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, which chronicles the rise of the hot new burlesque trend in NYC and its most popular star, Dirty Martini. The film will also be preceded by two short films: The recently uncovered Museum of Wax by playwright Charles Ludlam and Jaye Cherian’s documentary Shape of the Shapeless.
This year the festival is also celebrating by hosting director Darren Aronofsky as their 2010 honoree. On Sept. 26, Aronofsky — who was born in South Brooklyn — will be present at a...
- 9/21/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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