New projects from Cherien Dabis, Anders Thomas Jensen and Ameer Fakher Eldin have also been awarded
Ariane Labed’s feature-directing debut Sisters is among the 33 projects to receive funding from Eurimages second wave of 2023 co-production funding.
The French-Greek actor’s feature directing debut received €350,000 from the €9.7m pot. The Ireland, UK, Germany and Greece co-production is produced by Ireland’s Element Pictures. An English-language adaptation of Daisy Johnson’s gothic novel of the same name it follows two sisters who move to the countryside with their maniac depressive mother. Labed previously directed short film Olla which won three awards at...
Ariane Labed’s feature-directing debut Sisters is among the 33 projects to receive funding from Eurimages second wave of 2023 co-production funding.
The French-Greek actor’s feature directing debut received €350,000 from the €9.7m pot. The Ireland, UK, Germany and Greece co-production is produced by Ireland’s Element Pictures. An English-language adaptation of Daisy Johnson’s gothic novel of the same name it follows two sisters who move to the countryside with their maniac depressive mother. Labed previously directed short film Olla which won three awards at...
- 7/4/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based company is also launching sales on live-action, animation hybrid A Winter’s Journey.
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has boarded sales on Irish animation director Paul Bolger’s family CGI animated feature Outfoxed!, featuring a screenplay by popular compatriot musician and screenwriter Barry Devlin.
The Ireland-set tale revolves around a family of urban foxes that embarks on an adventure-filled day-trip to the countryside, after one of its cubs asks to see where he was born. Devlin has delivered a screenplay that will appeal to both young and older audiences.
The UK-Ireland-Benelux-Germany production unites top European animation houses Dublin-based Monster Entertainment...
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has boarded sales on Irish animation director Paul Bolger’s family CGI animated feature Outfoxed!, featuring a screenplay by popular compatriot musician and screenwriter Barry Devlin.
The Ireland-set tale revolves around a family of urban foxes that embarks on an adventure-filled day-trip to the countryside, after one of its cubs asks to see where he was born. Devlin has delivered a screenplay that will appeal to both young and older audiences.
The UK-Ireland-Benelux-Germany production unites top European animation houses Dublin-based Monster Entertainment...
- 2/22/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Last year I previewed all 33 of the Oscar qualifying animated shorts that were up for consideration for the Academy Awards and this year I have 12 additional shorts to consider and I have found either the full short, a clip, a trailer or an image from all but two of the contending shorts and put them together in this one article. These shorts have all been screened for members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who will soon vote on the ultimate short list that will be in contention for an Oscar nomination. Last year ten films made the list. Take a look over the next eight pages and see which ones stand out to you. There are a few instances where you may have to click a link to watch a clip and, in one instance, to watch the entire film.
- 11/16/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
This is the list of 45 animated shorts that the Academy is considering in the Best Animated Shorts category (with links to official sites when I could find them). The Animated, Docs, and Shorts Oscar page is going to be updated piecemeal this week as I work on beating all this information into some form of pundited submission.
Until then, the list. Do you ever try to see the nominees in this category?
A Shadow Of Blue (Carlos Lascano)
A Morning Stroll by Grant Orchard (Studio Aka) A Shadow of Blue by Carlos Lascano Birdboy by Alberto Vasquez (Abrikim Studio) Chopin’s Drawings by Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland Correspondence by Zach Hyer (Pratt) Daisy Cutter by Enrique Garcia and Rubin Salazar (Silverspace) Dimanche / Sunday by Patrick Doyon (Nfb) El Salon Mexico by Paul Glickman and Tamarind King Enrique Wrecks the World by David Chai *Annie Nominee Last Year* Ente Tod...
Until then, the list. Do you ever try to see the nominees in this category?
A Shadow Of Blue (Carlos Lascano)
A Morning Stroll by Grant Orchard (Studio Aka) A Shadow of Blue by Carlos Lascano Birdboy by Alberto Vasquez (Abrikim Studio) Chopin’s Drawings by Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland Correspondence by Zach Hyer (Pratt) Daisy Cutter by Enrique Garcia and Rubin Salazar (Silverspace) Dimanche / Sunday by Patrick Doyon (Nfb) El Salon Mexico by Paul Glickman and Tamarind King Enrique Wrecks the World by David Chai *Annie Nominee Last Year* Ente Tod...
- 11/15/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Cu Chulainn will be portrayed as a brutal killer in the news "Lord of the Rings" style movie called "Hound". The movie is set to start production next year with computer-generated imagery and special effects helping to tell the ancient tales. The tag line to the movie is already being quoted as "Born to Kill, Dying to Defend". The movie will be directed by Paul Bolger, who worked on the cartoon "The Land Before Time", while the script is being written by, former Horslips front man, Barry Devlin. So far the Irish Film Board has given the movie $37,327 and $62,497 has come from the Northern Ireland Screen. The movie is expected for release in 2013. Although filming is expected to take place in Ireland it is reported that the production team is already in talks with U.S. studios. The film will capture all the violence and gore of the original fables.
- 9/14/2010
- IrishCentral
Berkeley
Screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- The 1960s hasn't lost its hold on veteran television director Bobby Roth who, having plundered his adulthood for low-budget, autobiographical films such as "Jack the Dog" and "Manhood", reaches deeper into his past for "Berkeley", an affectionate look at his undergraduate years at UC Berkeley, when the tumultuous '60s ignited the campus.
Roth, who also wrote the script, attempts and only partially succeeds in capturing the exhilaration of feeling part of something larger than oneself -- an experience shared, at that time, by many young people in the midst of a heady social and political awakening. The elegant looking, nostalgic film is undermined by inadequate character development, amateurish acting and sentimental self-regard. "Berkeley" doesn't have a distributor though it might find life on premium television.
The story centers on 18-year-old Ben Sweet (Nick Roth), a middle-class, Jewish kid from a conservative family, "away from home for the first time, horny and trying to avoid the draft," as it follows him through his less than earth-shattering adventures at college. It's only a matter of time before he grows his hair long and plays Bad Bob Dylan on the street. Otherwise, he's jamming with his buddies, smoking dope, bedding attractive co-eds and arguing with his immigrant father, Sy, played by Henry Winkler, who brings warmth and substance to an underwritten role. Bonnie Bedelia, in wire-rimmed glasses, also does a nice turn as Ben's sardonic professor, a woman who enjoys a nip or two while conducting student conferences.
A crucial misstep was the casting of Nick Roth, the director's son, as Ben. Well-lit and lovingly photographed, Roth is in almost every scene and is the film's primary focus. Unfortunately, Roth fils is not, as yet, a compelling camera subject and cannot carry a movie. His delivery of lines and banal voice-over narration is lackluster and detached. Two-dimensional characters including Ben float through the story and fail to register, with the exception of Sy, whose struggle to understand and accept his son is moving and rings true.
Roth seems infatuated with his youth, a potential pitfall, but he does get the '60s cultural zeitgeist: the cultivated sloppiness, the posturing and intellectual pretentiousness. After all, those were the days when pontificating about the evils of capitalism was considered foreplay. Although, through Ben, he professes a strong connection with this singular period in his life, the passion and energy don't communicate on screen. Not much happens, little is revealed. There's a paradox in making a static movie about a generation that wanted to change the world.
Roth saturates the soundtrack with raucous music of the era, which supplies ambiance, but doesn't compensate for the emotional vacuity at the film's core. It's sex, drugs and rock and roll without soul. Guess you had to be there.
BERKELEY
IMAC Arts. JungNRestless Films Presents a Jeffrey White Production
Credits:
Writer/director: Bobby Roth
Producers: Bobby Roth, Jeffrey White
Executive producers: Lon Bender, Cosmas Paul Bolger Jr.
Director of photography: Steve Burns
Production designer: Henry G. Sanders
Music: Christopher Franke, Tom Morello
Costumes: Naila Aladdin Sanders
Editors: Carsten Becker, Emily Wallin
Cast:
Ben: Nick Roth
Sadie: Laura Jordan
Sy: Henry Winkler
Alice: Sarah Carter
Blue: Tom Morello
Henry: Jake Newton
Mishkin: Sebastian Tillinger
Buddy: Wade Allain-Marcus
Hawkins: Bonnie Bedelia
Susie: Sarah Bibb
Pearl: Ruby Roth
Thomas the Valet: Thomas Gibson
Ralph: Reed Diamond
No MPAA rating
unning time -- 88 minutes...
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- The 1960s hasn't lost its hold on veteran television director Bobby Roth who, having plundered his adulthood for low-budget, autobiographical films such as "Jack the Dog" and "Manhood", reaches deeper into his past for "Berkeley", an affectionate look at his undergraduate years at UC Berkeley, when the tumultuous '60s ignited the campus.
Roth, who also wrote the script, attempts and only partially succeeds in capturing the exhilaration of feeling part of something larger than oneself -- an experience shared, at that time, by many young people in the midst of a heady social and political awakening. The elegant looking, nostalgic film is undermined by inadequate character development, amateurish acting and sentimental self-regard. "Berkeley" doesn't have a distributor though it might find life on premium television.
The story centers on 18-year-old Ben Sweet (Nick Roth), a middle-class, Jewish kid from a conservative family, "away from home for the first time, horny and trying to avoid the draft," as it follows him through his less than earth-shattering adventures at college. It's only a matter of time before he grows his hair long and plays Bad Bob Dylan on the street. Otherwise, he's jamming with his buddies, smoking dope, bedding attractive co-eds and arguing with his immigrant father, Sy, played by Henry Winkler, who brings warmth and substance to an underwritten role. Bonnie Bedelia, in wire-rimmed glasses, also does a nice turn as Ben's sardonic professor, a woman who enjoys a nip or two while conducting student conferences.
A crucial misstep was the casting of Nick Roth, the director's son, as Ben. Well-lit and lovingly photographed, Roth is in almost every scene and is the film's primary focus. Unfortunately, Roth fils is not, as yet, a compelling camera subject and cannot carry a movie. His delivery of lines and banal voice-over narration is lackluster and detached. Two-dimensional characters including Ben float through the story and fail to register, with the exception of Sy, whose struggle to understand and accept his son is moving and rings true.
Roth seems infatuated with his youth, a potential pitfall, but he does get the '60s cultural zeitgeist: the cultivated sloppiness, the posturing and intellectual pretentiousness. After all, those were the days when pontificating about the evils of capitalism was considered foreplay. Although, through Ben, he professes a strong connection with this singular period in his life, the passion and energy don't communicate on screen. Not much happens, little is revealed. There's a paradox in making a static movie about a generation that wanted to change the world.
Roth saturates the soundtrack with raucous music of the era, which supplies ambiance, but doesn't compensate for the emotional vacuity at the film's core. It's sex, drugs and rock and roll without soul. Guess you had to be there.
BERKELEY
IMAC Arts. JungNRestless Films Presents a Jeffrey White Production
Credits:
Writer/director: Bobby Roth
Producers: Bobby Roth, Jeffrey White
Executive producers: Lon Bender, Cosmas Paul Bolger Jr.
Director of photography: Steve Burns
Production designer: Henry G. Sanders
Music: Christopher Franke, Tom Morello
Costumes: Naila Aladdin Sanders
Editors: Carsten Becker, Emily Wallin
Cast:
Ben: Nick Roth
Sadie: Laura Jordan
Sy: Henry Winkler
Alice: Sarah Carter
Blue: Tom Morello
Henry: Jake Newton
Mishkin: Sebastian Tillinger
Buddy: Wade Allain-Marcus
Hawkins: Bonnie Bedelia
Susie: Sarah Bibb
Pearl: Ruby Roth
Thomas the Valet: Thomas Gibson
Ralph: Reed Diamond
No MPAA rating
unning time -- 88 minutes...
- 3/9/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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