Paris-based sales house Charades has sold the Argentinian Western-inspired documentary “Gaucho Gaucho” across much of Europe.
The film — which won a Sundance Jury Prize in January and recently played at Cph:dox — has landed deals with Tandem (France), Filmin (Spain), Selmer Media, M2, Praesens (Switzerland) and Bantam Films (Benelux). Variety understands a U.K. sale is currently under discussion.
Directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, the duo behind the box office hit “The Truffle Hunters,” “Gaucho Gaucho” explores the story of a community of cowboys and cowgirls in Northern Argentina who live outside the modern world.
Produced by Dweck and Kershaw for Beautiful Stories Prods., the film is shot in black-and-white and celebrates the beauty and passion of a group of skilled Argentine cowboys and cowgirls, known as gauchos. It weaves together a mosaic of tales about gauchos confronting the fragility of their world in the face of unprecedented change.
The film — which won a Sundance Jury Prize in January and recently played at Cph:dox — has landed deals with Tandem (France), Filmin (Spain), Selmer Media, M2, Praesens (Switzerland) and Bantam Films (Benelux). Variety understands a U.K. sale is currently under discussion.
Directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, the duo behind the box office hit “The Truffle Hunters,” “Gaucho Gaucho” explores the story of a community of cowboys and cowgirls in Northern Argentina who live outside the modern world.
Produced by Dweck and Kershaw for Beautiful Stories Prods., the film is shot in black-and-white and celebrates the beauty and passion of a group of skilled Argentine cowboys and cowgirls, known as gauchos. It weaves together a mosaic of tales about gauchos confronting the fragility of their world in the face of unprecedented change.
- 5/15/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Lisa Cortés, co-director of Amazon’s voter suppression documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy, is set to direct The Empire of Ebony, a documentary that explores the rise and impact of the first black media empire Ebony magazine and its sister publication, Jet. Cortés will produce the pic with Alyse Shorland and Roger Ross Williams under his One Story Up banner. Cortés and Williams previously collaborated on the Emmy-winning doc, The Apollo.
Currently in production, the doc will focus on the Johnson Publishing Company, the first home to Ebony and Jet. It will explore the media empire’s beginnings as a small publishing company, started by John H. Johnson and Eunice W. Johnson with a five hundred dollar loan, to its incredible growth into a publishing juggernaut with an unparalleled cultural impact. The film will chart the rise of Ebony and Jet and their growth into a brand...
Currently in production, the doc will focus on the Johnson Publishing Company, the first home to Ebony and Jet. It will explore the media empire’s beginnings as a small publishing company, started by John H. Johnson and Eunice W. Johnson with a five hundred dollar loan, to its incredible growth into a publishing juggernaut with an unparalleled cultural impact. The film will chart the rise of Ebony and Jet and their growth into a brand...
- 2/25/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the worldwide rights to “The Truffle Hunters,” a film about truffle hunting dogs in Italy that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw directed the film that is executive produced by “Call Me By Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino and premiered on Sunday.
“The Truffle Hunters” is set deep in the forests of Northern Italy where a prized white Alba truffle can be found and is desired by the richest people in the world. The truffle can’t be cultivated or found except by a tiny circle of canines and their elderly Italian companions who only hunt for the truffle at night as to not give away their secrets and leave clues for others on how to find them.
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“This is one of the freshest,...
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw directed the film that is executive produced by “Call Me By Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino and premiered on Sunday.
“The Truffle Hunters” is set deep in the forests of Northern Italy where a prized white Alba truffle can be found and is desired by the richest people in the world. The truffle can’t be cultivated or found except by a tiny circle of canines and their elderly Italian companions who only hunt for the truffle at night as to not give away their secrets and leave clues for others on how to find them.
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“This is one of the freshest,...
- 1/28/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Update: Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed Deadline’s story that it acquired The Truffle Hunters. Release is below original scoop.
Earlier Exclusive, 6:25 pm Pst: Sony Pictures Classics has dug out The Truffle Hunters, a documentary that got a tasty reaction since it premiered Sunday at The Prospector. The docu, directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, went for $1.5 million in a worldwide rights deal, with several distributors bidding.
The film unlocks a fascinating business success story in Northern Italy, where a group of aging men hunt in the woods for a prized quarry: the Alba truffle. These are impossible to cultivate other than the secret culture that this group employs. They employ a certain breed of dogs, which sniff out the culinary treasures, walking with their dogs at night to hide their trail. Part of their business is to keep outsiders from poaching their underground truffle supply. The truffles...
Earlier Exclusive, 6:25 pm Pst: Sony Pictures Classics has dug out The Truffle Hunters, a documentary that got a tasty reaction since it premiered Sunday at The Prospector. The docu, directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, went for $1.5 million in a worldwide rights deal, with several distributors bidding.
The film unlocks a fascinating business success story in Northern Italy, where a group of aging men hunt in the woods for a prized quarry: the Alba truffle. These are impossible to cultivate other than the secret culture that this group employs. They employ a certain breed of dogs, which sniff out the culinary treasures, walking with their dogs at night to hide their trail. Part of their business is to keep outsiders from poaching their underground truffle supply. The truffles...
- 1/28/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Jenny Raskin has been named executive director of Impact Partners, a documentary film funding company. Raskin replaces Impact co-founder Dan Cogan, who will continue his involvement with the company in an advisory role. Raskin will work closely with Impact’s co-founder and veteran producer Geralyn Dreyfous, who serves in an advisory role to the company.
One of the largest investment portfolios in the independent nonfiction sector, Impact Partners was founded and launched in 2007 by Cogan, Dreyfous as well as Diana Barrett, Jim Swartz and Susan Swartz. Every year the org helps fund between eight and 15 documentaries chosen from a pool of 900 nonfiction projects looking for finishing money. Selected titles are sent to Impact’s 43 high-net-worth members — multi-millionaires, and in some cases, billionaires — who seek to promote social change through nonfiction film. Those members then choose on an individual basis what films they will get behind. All 43 members pay an annual fee that covers operating costs,...
One of the largest investment portfolios in the independent nonfiction sector, Impact Partners was founded and launched in 2007 by Cogan, Dreyfous as well as Diana Barrett, Jim Swartz and Susan Swartz. Every year the org helps fund between eight and 15 documentaries chosen from a pool of 900 nonfiction projects looking for finishing money. Selected titles are sent to Impact’s 43 high-net-worth members — multi-millionaires, and in some cases, billionaires — who seek to promote social change through nonfiction film. Those members then choose on an individual basis what films they will get behind. All 43 members pay an annual fee that covers operating costs,...
- 1/8/2020
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Actor-turned-documentarian Bryan Fogel literally delivered the print of “Icarus” to Sundance 2017 at 8:00Am; the film premiered at 10:00Am. By the end of the screening, “Icarus” was in the midst of a bidding war that was eventually won by Netflix for $5 million.
Fogel is an unexpected documentarian, to say nothing of an investigative journalist. He started out in Hollywood as a standup comic and actor, but found early success as the creator of a hit Coast Playhouse and Broadway play, “Jewtopia,” which he grew into a touring company, a book, and a movie. He eventually came up with the “Icarus” documentary as his next career move.
As a racing cyclist, Fogel thought he could create a “Super Size Me” movie about doping in sports — injecting himself in the butt with steroids to prove how easy it is to evade detection, as Lance Armstrong did for years. Instead, he stumbled...
Fogel is an unexpected documentarian, to say nothing of an investigative journalist. He started out in Hollywood as a standup comic and actor, but found early success as the creator of a hit Coast Playhouse and Broadway play, “Jewtopia,” which he grew into a touring company, a book, and a movie. He eventually came up with the “Icarus” documentary as his next career move.
As a racing cyclist, Fogel thought he could create a “Super Size Me” movie about doping in sports — injecting himself in the butt with steroids to prove how easy it is to evade detection, as Lance Armstrong did for years. Instead, he stumbled...
- 8/4/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Actor-turned-documentarian Bryan Fogel literally delivered the print of “Icarus” to Sundance 2017 at 8:00 am; the film premiered at 10 am. By the end of the screening, “Icarus” was in the midst of a bidding war that was eventually won by Netflix for $5 million.
Fogel is an unexpected documentarian, to say nothing of an investigative journalist. He started out in Hollywood as a standup comic and actor, but found early success as the creator of a hit Coast Playhouse and Broadway play, “Jewtopia,” which he grew into a touring company, a book, and a movie. He eventually came up with the “Icarus” documentary as his next career move.
As a racing cyclist, Fogel thought he could create a “Super Size Me” movie about doping in sports — injecting himself in the butt with steroids to prove how easy it is to evade detection, as Lance Armstrong did for years. Instead, he stumbled onto...
Fogel is an unexpected documentarian, to say nothing of an investigative journalist. He started out in Hollywood as a standup comic and actor, but found early success as the creator of a hit Coast Playhouse and Broadway play, “Jewtopia,” which he grew into a touring company, a book, and a movie. He eventually came up with the “Icarus” documentary as his next career move.
As a racing cyclist, Fogel thought he could create a “Super Size Me” movie about doping in sports — injecting himself in the butt with steroids to prove how easy it is to evade detection, as Lance Armstrong did for years. Instead, he stumbled onto...
- 8/4/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Netflix continued its Sundance Film Festival acquisition spree Tuesday by acquiring the documentary “Icarus,” which premiered in the festival’s U.S. Documentary Competition section last Friday. The movie sold for $5 million, one of the largest in Sundance’s history for a non-fiction film, Variety reports. Sony Pictures Classics, Neon, Magnolia, and Amazon were all reportedly in the hunt for the movie.
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The feature-length documentary debut from Byran Fogel (“Jewtopia”), “Icarus” was conceived as an experiment to test the impact of performance-enhancing drugs, but the film took a turn when Fogel met the former chief of Russia’s antidoping lab and uncovered one of the biggest scandals in sports history. The end result plays like a suspense thriller within a feature documentary.
“Fogel’s incredible risk-taking has delivered an absorbing real-life thriller that continues to have global reverberations,” Lisa Nishimura,...
Read More: Netflix Acquires Documentary ‘Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower’ — Sundance 2017
The feature-length documentary debut from Byran Fogel (“Jewtopia”), “Icarus” was conceived as an experiment to test the impact of performance-enhancing drugs, but the film took a turn when Fogel met the former chief of Russia’s antidoping lab and uncovered one of the biggest scandals in sports history. The end result plays like a suspense thriller within a feature documentary.
“Fogel’s incredible risk-taking has delivered an absorbing real-life thriller that continues to have global reverberations,” Lisa Nishimura,...
- 1/24/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The Russian doping documentary Icarus has been acquired by Netflix for worldwide rights.
The doc focuses on Russian "anti-doping" doctor Grigory Rodchenkov, who became a whistle-blower, detailing Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program that took place ahead of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio.
Bryan Fogel directed the doc, which he co-wrote with Mark Monroe.
Fogel also produced alongside Dan Cogan, David Fialkow and Jim Swartz. Timothy Rode, Maiken Baird, Teddy Leifer and Craig Sims exec produced.
Icarus made its world premiere in Sundance's U.S. Documentary Competition on Friday, one day before a cyber attack shut down the festival's box office, prompting speculation that...
The doc focuses on Russian "anti-doping" doctor Grigory Rodchenkov, who became a whistle-blower, detailing Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program that took place ahead of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio.
Bryan Fogel directed the doc, which he co-wrote with Mark Monroe.
Fogel also produced alongside Dan Cogan, David Fialkow and Jim Swartz. Timothy Rode, Maiken Baird, Teddy Leifer and Craig Sims exec produced.
Icarus made its world premiere in Sundance's U.S. Documentary Competition on Friday, one day before a cyber attack shut down the festival's box office, prompting speculation that...
- 1/17/2017
- by Mia Galuppo ,Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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