In today’s Global Bulletin, Raindance announces its winners, Göteborg goes hybrid, Movistar Plus announces a new climate change docuseries, and Dopamine hires Maria Garcia-Castrillon to lead the company’s international business.
Festivals
Raindance Film Festival’s virtual awards ceremony unspooled on Thursday, live streamed from the Leicester Square Theater, where Giorgos Georgopoulos’ dark comedy “Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need to Have a Serious Talk” was declared Film of the Festival and Finnish feature “Force of Habit,” seven stories from seven directors about the normality of sexual harassment and abuse in private and society at large, won best international feature and best screenplay.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s “He Dreams of Giants” and “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” from director Sabrina Van Tassel won best U.K. feature and best documentary feature respectively. In the former, Fulton and Pepe track Terry Gilliam’s long-fought battle to film his most recent feature,...
Festivals
Raindance Film Festival’s virtual awards ceremony unspooled on Thursday, live streamed from the Leicester Square Theater, where Giorgos Georgopoulos’ dark comedy “Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need to Have a Serious Talk” was declared Film of the Festival and Finnish feature “Force of Habit,” seven stories from seven directors about the normality of sexual harassment and abuse in private and society at large, won best international feature and best screenplay.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s “He Dreams of Giants” and “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” from director Sabrina Van Tassel won best U.K. feature and best documentary feature respectively. In the former, Fulton and Pepe track Terry Gilliam’s long-fought battle to film his most recent feature,...
- 11/6/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the top prize.
Greek director Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the ’film of the festival’ prize at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival, held online this year from October 28 to November 7.
A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a sexually-transmited disease that could be fatal to his many partners, Greece’s Not To Be Unpleasant previously picked up the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation award at the 2019 Thessaloniki film festival.
The other winners...
Greek director Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the ’film of the festival’ prize at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival, held online this year from October 28 to November 7.
A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a sexually-transmited disease that could be fatal to his many partners, Greece’s Not To Be Unpleasant previously picked up the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation award at the 2019 Thessaloniki film festival.
The other winners...
- 11/6/2020
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Five-day showcase runs in New York and online from October 15-20.
A drive-in screening of Ari Aster’s horror film Midsommar starring Florence Pugh will kick off the 6th annual Nordic International Film Festival, the largest Nordic film festival outside Europe.
The screening of the out of competition film on October 15 at Brooklyn Army Terminal in New York is followed a day later by a drive-in presentation of Dan Krauss’s war thriller The Kill Team starring Alexander Skarsgård.
The five-day showcase of Nordic cinema including the Faroe Islands runs October 15-20 and is in partnership with A24 and Rooftop Films.
A drive-in screening of Ari Aster’s horror film Midsommar starring Florence Pugh will kick off the 6th annual Nordic International Film Festival, the largest Nordic film festival outside Europe.
The screening of the out of competition film on October 15 at Brooklyn Army Terminal in New York is followed a day later by a drive-in presentation of Dan Krauss’s war thriller The Kill Team starring Alexander Skarsgård.
The five-day showcase of Nordic cinema including the Faroe Islands runs October 15-20 and is in partnership with A24 and Rooftop Films.
- 10/2/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Don’t be taken in by that title – the Finnish helmer’s sophomore feature has nothing to do with either Ice Cube or Chris Tucker. Following her 2016 debut feature, Love and Fury, about two aspiring writers and their all-consuming affair, as well as the anthology film Force of Habit, Finnish director Alli Haapasalo will now focus on slightly younger protagonists in a film brought to life by Helsinki-based Citizen Jane Productions. Friday, currently in pre-production, will see three teenage girls trying to figure out who they are and what they want over the course of three consecutive Fridays. Including Emma, a successful figure skater close to making the European Championships, as well as Mimmi and Rönkkö – friends who, despite their outsider status, dream of being accepted into the “popular” crowd. When two of them slowly fall for each other, things become predictably complicated. And that’s even before the weekend.
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
The post This Week In Trailers: There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace, Gary Busey: Pet Judge, Our Law, Force of Habit appeared first on /Film.
The post This Week In Trailers: There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace, Gary Busey: Pet Judge, Our Law, Force of Habit appeared first on /Film.
- 5/30/2020
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
The Sydney Film Festival has revealed a heavily Australian leaning selection as the backbone of its first virtual edition.
Organizers had planned a real-world festival for late June. But that was canceled in March due to the coronavirus outbreak, which caused cinemas to be closed and audiences confined to their home addresses.
More recently, the festival organizers saw that they could make use of some of their selection and preparatory work to come up with an online festival instead. Announced on May 3, the online edition will run June 10 – 21.
The full program, announced Wednesday, comprises 7 feature films, 13 documentaries, and 13 shorts, for a total of 33 titles. That compares with some 300 pieces of content in a normal Sff edition.
The lineup is organized in four programming strands: the Documentary Australia Foundation award for best Australian documentary; the Dendy Awards for Australian short films; Europe! Voices of Women in Film; Screenability, which includes three...
Organizers had planned a real-world festival for late June. But that was canceled in March due to the coronavirus outbreak, which caused cinemas to be closed and audiences confined to their home addresses.
More recently, the festival organizers saw that they could make use of some of their selection and preparatory work to come up with an online festival instead. Announced on May 3, the online edition will run June 10 – 21.
The full program, announced Wednesday, comprises 7 feature films, 13 documentaries, and 13 shorts, for a total of 33 titles. That compares with some 300 pieces of content in a normal Sff edition.
The lineup is organized in four programming strands: the Documentary Australia Foundation award for best Australian documentary; the Dendy Awards for Australian short films; Europe! Voices of Women in Film; Screenability, which includes three...
- 5/27/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Ten films have been chosen, produced by 14 different European nations.
Neasa Hardiman’s sci-fi thriller Sea Fever is one of the 10 female-directed features chosen for Sydney Film Festival (Sff) and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative, which will run online from June 10-21.
Chosen by Sff director Nashen Moodley, the 10 films are produced by 14 European countries.
Hardiman’s film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last September, and is an Ireland-Sweden-Belgium-uk co-production. It stars Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield and Dougray Scott in the story of a West of Ireland trawler crew who struggle for...
Neasa Hardiman’s sci-fi thriller Sea Fever is one of the 10 female-directed features chosen for Sydney Film Festival (Sff) and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative, which will run online from June 10-21.
Chosen by Sff director Nashen Moodley, the 10 films are produced by 14 European countries.
Hardiman’s film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last September, and is an Ireland-Sweden-Belgium-uk co-production. It stars Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield and Dougray Scott in the story of a West of Ireland trawler crew who struggle for...
- 5/26/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
"These days it's hard to know whether you can even hug someone." Tuffi Films has unveiled the first promo trailer for an indie anthology feature titled Force of Habit, which just recently premiered at the Goteborg Film Festival in Sweden last month. Tuffi Films put together this project to comment on gender stereotypes and sexism, and hired 15 different female directors and screenwriters to produce segments. This film, Force of Habit, includes six of the segments assembled into a 75 minute feature. The episodes represent four of the major gender-related problems in modern society: consent, rape, gaze, and power dynamics. From the looks of it, this is brutally honest and empowering, and the righteous slap-in-the-face that many still need. The ensemble cast includes Eero Ritala, Krista Kosonen, Pinja Sanaksenaho, Suvi Blick, and Julia Lappalainen. This looks terrific! Truly worth a watch. "Keep that same energy and you'll save the world." Here's the...
- 2/9/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The film is comprised of six shorts following women dealing with discrimination.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Force Of Habit, a Finnish feature comprised of six short films about women looking at gender stereotypes.
The all-female production explores the different forms of discrimination faced by women both in public and in private. Screen first reported on the project in October last year.
The episodes that comprise the anthology are presented under the four category banners of consent, rape, gaze and power dynamics.
15 female directors and screenwriters were assembled for the Finnish production, six episodes of which have been assembled into this feature.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Force Of Habit, a Finnish feature comprised of six short films about women looking at gender stereotypes.
The all-female production explores the different forms of discrimination faced by women both in public and in private. Screen first reported on the project in October last year.
The episodes that comprise the anthology are presented under the four category banners of consent, rape, gaze and power dynamics.
15 female directors and screenwriters were assembled for the Finnish production, six episodes of which have been assembled into this feature.
- 1/21/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦¬0¦Thomas Messner¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
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