Hardman’s doc examines workplace inequality 40 years after release of classic comedy ’9 to 5’.
Camille Hardman, the co-director of documentary Still Working 9 To 5, has attacked the “absolutely shocking” and “abhorrent” current conditions for women in low-paid work in the US at a ‘Women in Film, Women at Work’ roundtable event at this week’s Doclisboa festival in Portugal.
“The minimum wage, it’s 7.25 an hour. You can be a single mother with two kids and earn 14,000 a year…it’s a very, very, very low wage,” said Hardman. “Women have to use food stamps. They socially have to get help.
Camille Hardman, the co-director of documentary Still Working 9 To 5, has attacked the “absolutely shocking” and “abhorrent” current conditions for women in low-paid work in the US at a ‘Women in Film, Women at Work’ roundtable event at this week’s Doclisboa festival in Portugal.
“The minimum wage, it’s 7.25 an hour. You can be a single mother with two kids and earn 14,000 a year…it’s a very, very, very low wage,” said Hardman. “Women have to use food stamps. They socially have to get help.
- 10/13/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Selected by Variety as a talent to track, Spain’s Jaione Camborda is developing her sophomore effort, “The Rye Horn,” a story that takes place in ‘70s Galicia. After a terrible event, midwife María is forced to become a fugitive and, to wrestle back her freedom, flee Galicia for Portugal along an old smugglers’ route.
Camborda attended Prague’s Famu film school and Munich’s University of Film and Television (Hff Munich). After several experimental shorts her feature debut “Arima” took a New Waves Award at the Seville European Fest in 2019.
“The Rye Horn” has been developed at two of Spain’s leading labs, San Sebastian’s Ikusmira Berriak and Madrid’s Ecam Incubator, and has participated at the TIFF Filmmaker Lab. The project is back by Galician pubcaster Tvg and the region’s Agency of Cultural Industries (Agadic). “The Rye Horn” is produced by Andrea Vázquez at Miramemira – the...
Camborda attended Prague’s Famu film school and Munich’s University of Film and Television (Hff Munich). After several experimental shorts her feature debut “Arima” took a New Waves Award at the Seville European Fest in 2019.
“The Rye Horn” has been developed at two of Spain’s leading labs, San Sebastian’s Ikusmira Berriak and Madrid’s Ecam Incubator, and has participated at the TIFF Filmmaker Lab. The project is back by Galician pubcaster Tvg and the region’s Agency of Cultural Industries (Agadic). “The Rye Horn” is produced by Andrea Vázquez at Miramemira – the...
- 9/22/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Music from the past, online abuse, girl and boy racers – plus the inner lives of primary school children were among the subjects tackled by films featured in the IDFA’s Upcoming Catalan Documentaries strand.
Designed to showcase projects nearing completion, the online event kicked off with “I Am” – a heartwarming film that traces four children over eight years through their primary school journey.
The documentary’s director Patricia M. Felix then waited a further four years to make the final part of her project, capturing the teenagers’ reactions and comments about their younger selves.
Subjects include Mia, who must overcome dyslexia and the charismatic Candella who the children gravitate towards. There’s also class joker Manuel who experiences issues when two of his close friends leave, and Neil, an adopted child from Russia who starts his school years drawing angry monster houses and finishes them by writing a performing a...
Designed to showcase projects nearing completion, the online event kicked off with “I Am” – a heartwarming film that traces four children over eight years through their primary school journey.
The documentary’s director Patricia M. Felix then waited a further four years to make the final part of her project, capturing the teenagers’ reactions and comments about their younger selves.
Subjects include Mia, who must overcome dyslexia and the charismatic Candella who the children gravitate towards. There’s also class joker Manuel who experiences issues when two of his close friends leave, and Neil, an adopted child from Russia who starts his school years drawing angry monster houses and finishes them by writing a performing a...
- 11/26/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Iryna Tsilyk’s film has emerged triumphant in the Official Section – Ziff. Zinebi First Film at the 62nd, hybrid edition of the Bilbao-based festival. The jury of the Official Section – Ziff. Zinebi First Film, made up of Argentinian audiovisual archivist Carolina Cappa, French filmmaker and artistic director of the La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival Charlotte Serrand, and Spanish director and editor Diana Toucedo (Thirty Souls), has announced its verdict at the 62nd Zinebi. Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival, which was held both on site and online (via the Filmin and FestHome platforms) between 13 and 20 November. The winning title was the magnificent, optimistic and sensitive movie The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, a Ukrainian-Lithuanian production directed by Iryna Tsilyk. In the third Bilbao Professional Documentary Film Forum (organised by the Basque Producers’ Association and Zinebi, in conjunction with Etb, Creative Europe Media Desk Basque Country...
- 11/20/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Three or so years ago, a new generation of directors, many women, were beginning to break out in Catalonia. That was no flash in the pan.
Following on Nely Reguera’s “María (and Everybody Else)” and Carla Simón’s Berlinale Generation Kplus pic “Summer 1993,” first features by Diana Toucedo (“Thirty Souls”), Meritxell Colell (“Facing the Wind”), Neus Ballús (“The Plague”) and Celia Rico (“Journey to a Mother’s Room”) have set the film festival circuit alight, garnering bullish reviews and a slew of prizes. Many of these women are now on to their second or third features: Simón with “Alcarrás,” Ballús (“The Odd-Job Men”), Colell, Rico (“The Little Loves”), Pilar Palomero (“La maternal”) and Reguera (“The Grandson”), among others.
Now, women producers are taking center stage: Belén Sánchez at Un Capricho Producciones (Lucía Alemeny’s “The Innocence”), Patricia Franquesa at Gadea Films (Laura Herrero’s “La Mami”) are succeeding. Many...
Following on Nely Reguera’s “María (and Everybody Else)” and Carla Simón’s Berlinale Generation Kplus pic “Summer 1993,” first features by Diana Toucedo (“Thirty Souls”), Meritxell Colell (“Facing the Wind”), Neus Ballús (“The Plague”) and Celia Rico (“Journey to a Mother’s Room”) have set the film festival circuit alight, garnering bullish reviews and a slew of prizes. Many of these women are now on to their second or third features: Simón with “Alcarrás,” Ballús (“The Odd-Job Men”), Colell, Rico (“The Little Loves”), Pilar Palomero (“La maternal”) and Reguera (“The Grandson”), among others.
Now, women producers are taking center stage: Belén Sánchez at Un Capricho Producciones (Lucía Alemeny’s “The Innocence”), Patricia Franquesa at Gadea Films (Laura Herrero’s “La Mami”) are succeeding. Many...
- 6/22/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
It’s hard to explain the cycle of emotions prompted by permanently leaving one’s home country to someone who has never had to do it. Pangs of guilt, loyalty, resentment and yearning chase each other in turn, oblivious to the fact that your motherland is returning no feelings in kind. Eventually, enough time passes that you realize you’re nostalgic for a place that doesn’t exist anymore: You’ve both grown, and your country, as it belonged to you and you to it, is fixed only in your memory. That continuing ache is articulated with lovely, delicate precision in “In a Whisper,” who know it all too well: Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez Fernández, childhood friends from Cuba whose paths have diverged in the larger confusion of Europe.
As such, “In a Whisper” is not just a story of immigrant alienation, but of intimate personal estrangement, as Hassan...
As such, “In a Whisper” is not just a story of immigrant alienation, but of intimate personal estrangement, as Hassan...
- 11/28/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Italian sales agent does business in Berlin.
Turin-based sales agency The Open Reel has closed deals on a number of titles in its European Film Market slate.
Spi International has acquired rights for the Us and China on Jelle Stroo’s La Deuxieme and Enrique Castro Rios’ Decembers (Diciembres).
The former is a Belgian drama about a spiritual leader of a community who promises a second life to his disciples but starts to questions his own beliefs.
The Panama-Colombia co-production Decembers centres on a reconciliation between survivors of the 1989 American invasion of Panama. The Open Reel has licensed non-exclusive worldwide...
Turin-based sales agency The Open Reel has closed deals on a number of titles in its European Film Market slate.
Spi International has acquired rights for the Us and China on Jelle Stroo’s La Deuxieme and Enrique Castro Rios’ Decembers (Diciembres).
The former is a Belgian drama about a spiritual leader of a community who promises a second life to his disciples but starts to questions his own beliefs.
The Panama-Colombia co-production Decembers centres on a reconciliation between survivors of the 1989 American invasion of Panama. The Open Reel has licensed non-exclusive worldwide...
- 2/12/2019
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
"Melancholic," "atmospheric," and "mysterious" are three adjectives often used to describe the region of Galicia in northwestern Spain, and they could just as easily be used to talk about the Galician-set Thirty Souls. A slow, evocative and very Galician meditation on many — perhaps too many — things, including memory, abandonment and death, Diana Toucedo’s first full-length film is full of wonderful things but feels unfocused, as though the director has been overwhelmed by the sheer thematic richness of what she found in front of her during the six years it took to shoot.
Nonetheless, Souls is a fest-worthy addition...
Nonetheless, Souls is a fest-worthy addition...
- 2/21/2018
- by Jonathan Holland
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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