The Adg Conference session 'The Entrepreneurial Director' should have been titled 'The Desperate Director,' according to Ben Lewin, who rounded out the first day of Directing in the Digital Age yesterday. Speaking candidly to a room full of peers, Lewin spoke of how it was hitting (almost) rock-bottom in his field that opened the doors which would lead to his successful and critically acclaimed film The Sessions. Speaking of how ABC TV in Australia wouldn't return his calls, Lewin said "It was, at the time,the hardest pill to swallow... In retrospect, I am grateful for the rejection. It gave me the desperation I needed to move forward. Thus, the theme of this talk. Except for 'entrepreneurial', read 'desperate.' And for the other part of the formula - add in sheer, dumb, luck." Lewin is being modest here. Sheer dumb luck didn't grant the film a Golden Globe or Oscar nod,...
- 11/7/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
UK indie producer Zig Zag has sealed a raft of deals on its one-off sex therapy documentary Real 40 Year Old Virgins. The program first aired on Channel 4 earlier this year and stars Cheryl Cohen Greene, the therapist played by Helen Hunt in The Sessions. Discovery Fit & Health has acquired it for the U.S. and Discovery TLC has taken it in Poland. Other broadcaster deals include Australia’s ABC, RTL2 in Germany, Norway’s TV Norge, TV2 in Denmark, Sbs in the Netherlands and Vmma in Belgium. The hourlong film follows Clive and Rosie as they work with therapists and accredited sex surrogates and try to resolve their long-standing difficulties with physical and emotional intimacy. The pair spends two weeks in California working up to losing their virginity. Vice president of commercial and current production Leila Monks brokered the deals on behalf of Zig Zag.
- 7/8/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
The Sundance Film Festival can be a significant launching pad for Oscar nominees. In the past few years, the best picture-nominated likes of “Precious,” “An Education,” “The Kids Are All Right” and “Winter’s Bone” all debuted at festival. But last year’s crop significantly fell short of the norm, despite what seemed like a lot of potential in films like “Take Shelter,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “Like Crazy.”
Films from the 2011 fest received only one nomination in the major categories: “Margin Call” for best original screenplay. The norm is more like 10 or 12 nominations. So will 2012 continue this trend, or bring us back to the heydays of 2009 and 2010?
Unfortunately, it’s probably the former. Despite a lot of sales, this year’s Sundance slate looks like it might be even less Oscar-friendly than last year. Nothing screamed “Oscar” like “Precious,” “An Education” and “The Kids Are All Right” have in...
Films from the 2011 fest received only one nomination in the major categories: “Margin Call” for best original screenplay. The norm is more like 10 or 12 nominations. So will 2012 continue this trend, or bring us back to the heydays of 2009 and 2010?
Unfortunately, it’s probably the former. Despite a lot of sales, this year’s Sundance slate looks like it might be even less Oscar-friendly than last year. Nothing screamed “Oscar” like “Precious,” “An Education” and “The Kids Are All Right” have in...
- 1/31/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
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