Filed under: Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical
Attention festival-goers: Sundance Film Festivaal 2011 is now underway! If you're in Park City, use this as your handy guide to notable screenings and events popping up in the snowy mountain town. If you're stuck elsewhere, consider this your roadmap for navigating all the indie buzz.
The forecast for Friday, January 21: 32° with partly cloudy skies.
9:00 Am: 'Attenberg' screening at the Egyptian Theatre.
There's nothing like kicking off the first full day of festival screenings with a daringly insane Greek film from 'Dogtooth' producer Athina Rachel Tsangari. The film stars Venice winner Ariane Labed as a young woman busy with her cancer-stricken father and using her friend to practice mammalian sexiness, who often mimicks wild animal movements she learned from Sir David Attenborough's animal programs.
11:30 Am: 'Bobby Fischer Against the World' at the Library Center Theatre
Liz Garbus' documentary...
Attention festival-goers: Sundance Film Festivaal 2011 is now underway! If you're in Park City, use this as your handy guide to notable screenings and events popping up in the snowy mountain town. If you're stuck elsewhere, consider this your roadmap for navigating all the indie buzz.
The forecast for Friday, January 21: 32° with partly cloudy skies.
9:00 Am: 'Attenberg' screening at the Egyptian Theatre.
There's nothing like kicking off the first full day of festival screenings with a daringly insane Greek film from 'Dogtooth' producer Athina Rachel Tsangari. The film stars Venice winner Ariane Labed as a young woman busy with her cancer-stricken father and using her friend to practice mammalian sexiness, who often mimicks wild animal movements she learned from Sir David Attenborough's animal programs.
11:30 Am: 'Bobby Fischer Against the World' at the Library Center Theatre
Liz Garbus' documentary...
- 1/21/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Production and distribution company Cactus Three has formed a new film-finishing fund for documentaries and independent pics.
As part of its mission to finance movies that focus on social issues, Cactus Three will identify five to seven films per year in need of capital and resources to be completed. Accepted projects, especially those with an eye on the festival circuit, can receive up to $100,000 for postproduction work.
The fund is a collaboration between C3 co-founders and executive producers Caroline Stevens and Krysanne Katsoolis and Canadian film financier John Margetis of Liquid Prods.
"As executive producers, we understand the importance of a fund to help those creating the best in their genre to realize their creative visions," Stevens said. "Too often even the best filmmakers are crippled by the inability to complete production financing, and this fund is specifically aimed to redress this situation."
In the past few years, Cactus Three...
As part of its mission to finance movies that focus on social issues, Cactus Three will identify five to seven films per year in need of capital and resources to be completed. Accepted projects, especially those with an eye on the festival circuit, can receive up to $100,000 for postproduction work.
The fund is a collaboration between C3 co-founders and executive producers Caroline Stevens and Krysanne Katsoolis and Canadian film financier John Margetis of Liquid Prods.
"As executive producers, we understand the importance of a fund to help those creating the best in their genre to realize their creative visions," Stevens said. "Too often even the best filmmakers are crippled by the inability to complete production financing, and this fund is specifically aimed to redress this situation."
In the past few years, Cactus Three...
- 10/14/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director Sydney Pollack 1934-2008.
Director Sydney Pollack passed two years ago today. I had the good fortune to meet and interview Sydney Pollack twice, both of which are included here: first in 1999 for his well-made but ill-fated romantic drama "Random Hearts," and again in 2006 for what would be his final film, "Sketches of Frank Gehry," a masterful documentary look at the eponymous architect's life, work and process. It was also in many respects a personal investigation for Pollack himself, which he spoke quite candidly about during our conversation.
This has been a tough year for those of us who were weaned on the films of the so-called "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls" who made the iconic films of the late 1960s and 1970s, with the loss of such figures as Pollack, Roy Scheider, and others of the era. Pollack was certainly among the lions of that pack, but was perhaps...
Director Sydney Pollack passed two years ago today. I had the good fortune to meet and interview Sydney Pollack twice, both of which are included here: first in 1999 for his well-made but ill-fated romantic drama "Random Hearts," and again in 2006 for what would be his final film, "Sketches of Frank Gehry," a masterful documentary look at the eponymous architect's life, work and process. It was also in many respects a personal investigation for Pollack himself, which he spoke quite candidly about during our conversation.
This has been a tough year for those of us who were weaned on the films of the so-called "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls" who made the iconic films of the late 1960s and 1970s, with the loss of such figures as Pollack, Roy Scheider, and others of the era. Pollack was certainly among the lions of that pack, but was perhaps...
- 5/26/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday snapped back to reality by unveiling 29 documentaries for its upcoming lineup, including world premieres for films by Sydney Pollack, Josh Gilbert and Ward Serril. Toronto booked Sydney Pollack's Sketches of Frank Gehry -- a portrait of the famed architect -- into its Masters series, while also welcoming Ward Serrill's The Heart of the Game, a look at a high school girls basketball team. U.S. director Lian Lunson is bringing Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, a portrait of the music artist, while slots have been reserved for Danish director Tomas Gislason's Tour de France docu Overcoming, and Alex Hinton's Pick Up the Mic, a portrait of the underground gay hip hop movement.
- 8/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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