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Exclusive: Kaelyn Hutchins has joined Neon Kite as a Talent Manager, Deadline has learned.

Hutchins comes to the company after a little more than a year and a half at Strand Entertainment (formerly Silver Lining Entertainment), and will continue working with a number of her clients including Annie Gonzalez (Flamin’ Hot), Maya Lynne Robinson (The Unicorn), Kelen Coleman (The Newsroom), and Carolina Moreno (Acapulco).

Prior to Strand Entertainment, Hutchins worked as a Talent Manager at Principal Entertainment LA for nearly nine years. She began her career as a Programming Intern for the Newport Beach Film Festival and was upped to Features Programmer before transitioning to management as an assistant at Jordan Lee Talent.

In a statement to Deadline on the hiring, a spokesperson for Neon Kite said, “Kaelyn has an amazing foundation paired with a great eye. We have watched her skillfully build and nurture the careers of her clients...

Exclusive: Irish filmmaker Alexandra McGuinness (She’s Missing) has set the film Lucia, about James Joyce’s daughter of the same name, as her next project, with Esme Creed-Miles (Amazon’s Hanna) signing on to star.

Lucia is billed as a dance drama with genre elements, with the story beginning in 1932 Paris. Lucia Joyce (Creed-Miles) is a brilliant modern dancer but lives in the shadow of her famous father, James Joyce. Determined to be recognized as an artist and person in her own right, she sets out to create the greatest and most original dance in the world. But can she do so without losing her mind?

McGuiness and her frequent collaborator Antonia Campbell-Hughes wrote the script. Conor Barry is producing for Savage Productions, with John Lang for Super Bloom Films. Screen Island provided development financing, with the Creative Europe Programme – Media of the European Union offering additional support, and Des Hamilton handling casting.

Lucia is McGuinness’ third feature film. She previously directed She’s Missing, starring Eiza González, Josh Hartnett and Lucy Fry, which was released in 2019, and Lotus Eaters, starring Campbell-Hughes and Johnny Flynn, which premiered at Tribeca in 2011.

Miles is an English actress best known for her portrayal of the title character in Amazon’s Hanna, who will next feature in Travis Beacham’s podcast series Impact Winter and Amazon’s animated series, The Legend of Vox Machina.

Barry has two films premiering at SXSW: Campbell-Hughes’ directorial debut It Is In Us All, starring Cosmo Jarvis, and Brendan Muldowney’s horror pic The Cellar. Lang’s most recent producorial effort, Spree, directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko and starring Joe Keery, premiered at Sundance in 2020.

McGuinness is represented by Neon Kite and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Creed-Miles by Conway van Gelder Grant (UK), WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; and Campbell-Hughes by United Agents (UK) and attorneys Jodi Peikoff and Michael H. Mahan.

Despite tier changes during the shoot, the film shot in October and November.

UK actor-filmmaker Antonia Campbell-Hughes could hardly have picked a trickier time to make her feature directorial debut.

It Is In Us All shot in rural Ireland for four and half weeks in October and November 2020 amid ever-tightening Covid-19 restrictions, last-minute cast changes and ongoing, raging storms.

“Every evening after shooting there were conference calls with Screen Ireland about whether we could continue,” Campbell-Hughes recalls of the conversations with the film’s backer. “It was pretty insane, all of the time.”

It Is In Us All is about a Londoner,...

Just over two years ago, soap opera veteran Blake Berris, who appeared in nearly 1,450 episodes of “Days of Our Lives,” paid “Deadpool” star Morena Baccarin a bit less than $2.1 million for a 1930s knoll-topping traditional in the hills above L.A.’s Silver Lake Reservoir that he and his wife, Alexandra McGuinness, writer-director daughter of Paul McGuinness, the former manager of U2, now have back up for sale at close to $2.5 million.

Listings held by Alyssa Valentine and Kurt Wisner of Compass show that the roughly 3,200-square-foot two-story house was designed by architect Winchton L. Risley and retains much original character alongside modern-day creature comforts. The home sits high and privately above a street-level garage with five bedrooms and three bathrooms. The step-down living room features a giant picture window and a full wall of pine built-ins, while a dining room and separate butler’s pantry/breakfast nook provide passage...

A rodeo queen goes missing and when her best friend takes it upon herself to track her friend down, the race against time to find her is on. “She’s Missing” sees best friends Heidi and Jane ripped apart when the latter vanishes into thin air. The film, written and directed by Alexandra McGuinness, follows Heidi’s trek through the desert to find her lost friend.

The “She’s Missing” trailer is intercut with Heidi’s memories of her friend, and her desperate search to find her.

Continue reading ‘She’s Missing’ Trailer: Lucy Fry Is On A One-Woman Rescue Mission To Find Eiza González at The Playlist.

"Where do you think she was going?" Vertical Entertainment has debuted an official Us trailer for this indie drama from Ireland titled She's Missing, set in the Midwestern United States. Both written & directed by Irish filmmaker Alexandra McGuinness, the film stars Lucy Fry as a young woman named Heidi. When her friend goes missing at a rodeo, she goes on a search across the desert, digging up secrets and encountering the violence of life on the road. The main cast includes Eiza González, Blake Berris, Sheila Vand, with Christian Camargo, and Josh Hartnett. This looks rather strange, one of the quotes even states it has a "Lynchian sense of mystery." Seems to touch upon Manson-esque cults, and how people get lost on the road. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Alexandra McGuinness' She's Missing, direct from YouTube: When her best friend goes missing at a rodeo, Heidi (Lucy Fry...

What would you do if your best friend disappeared into thin air and no one in your town seemed to care? That's what Heidi (Bright actress Lucy Fry) is faced with when her gorgeous, enigmatic Bff Jane (Hobbs and Shaw's Eiza González) vanishes while competing for a rodeo queen title in their small desert town in She's Missing, a new film from writer-director Alexandra McGuinness (Riders).

In our exclusive trailer for the harrowing drama, above, we see Heidi ignore warnings to stop looking for her friend, instead venturing into the precarious violence of the desert on the hunt to bring Jane home safe. Along the way, she digs up dangerous secrets and encounters a series of unusual men and women in her search for the truth.

In addition to González and Fry, Blake Berris, Sheila Vand, Christian Camargo, and Josh Hartnett also star. Watch the trailer for She's Missing before it premieres on Dec.

Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Alexandra McGuinness’ desert thriller She's Missing.

Described as a "complex portrait of female friendship and small-town yearning," the film stars Lucy Fry (Godfather of Harlem, Bright), Eiza Gonzalez (Hobbs & Shaw, Godzilla vs. Kong), Josh Hartnett (Oh Lucy!, Penny Dreadful) and Christian Camargo (See, Days and Nights).

It is written and directed by McGuinness and produced by Anna O’Malley, Dominic Wright and Eamonn Cleary.

The film featured at the Newport Beach Film Festival and the deal was brokered by Josh Spector from Vertical and CAA Media Finance.

Carnaby International, which is ...

Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Alexandra McGuinness’ desert thriller She's Missing.

Described as a "complex portrait of female friendship and small-town yearning," the film stars Lucy Fry (Godfather of Harlem, Bright), Eiza Gonzalez (Hobbs & Shaw, Godzilla vs. Kong), Josh Hartnett (Oh Lucy!, Penny Dreadful) and Christian Camargo (See, Days and Nights).

It is written and directed by McGuinness and produced by Anna O’Malley, Dominic Wright and Eamonn Cleary.

The film featured at the Newport Beach Film Festival and the deal was brokered by Josh Spector from Vertical and CAA Media Finance.

Carnaby International, which is ...

Carnaby International has added drama “Highway,” to its Cannes slate, the international sales company announced Wednesday.

The film, which marks the sophomore feature of Irish writer-director Alexandra McGuinness, stars “Baby Driver” actress Eiza Gonzalez (pictured) and Lucy Fry, who starred in the first season of Stan original series “Wolf Creek.”

Fry and Gonzalez star as best friends living in a small desert town. While Heidi (Fry) is happy to dream her life away while working shifts at a local diner, Jane (Gonzalez) strives for a better life. But when Jane suddenly disappears Heidi sets out across the desert to find her, only to discover a world where reality and the borderless expanse of the desert intertwine.

The cast also includes John Hartnett, Christian Camargo, Blake Berris, Sheila Vand and Antonia Campbell-Hughes. Campbell-Hughes starred in McGuinness’ 2011 debut feature “Lotus Eaters.”

“Highway” is produced by Dominic Wright for Ripple World Pictures and...

FilmNation, the company behind films including Arrival and The Big Sick, has closed an output deal with Chinese digital platform iQiyi. The deal gives it exclusive access to show FilmNation features on its on-demand platform for three years. It comes as FilmNation is launching Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife in Cannes. “More Chinese movie fans than ever before will be able to experience many of the best independent films from some of the world’s most exciting directors,” said FilmNation’s VP, Sales Rob Carney. “Following on the heels of our strategic cooperation agreements with entertainment companies such as Fox, Disney, Sony and Netflix, this exclusive partnership with FilmNation represents the next step of iQIYI bringing subscriber members an ever more international selection of high quality contents,” added Yang Xianghua, Svp, iQiyi.

Stuart Ford’s fledging firm Agc Studios has struck a $150 million film production agreement with Ingenious Media.

Carnaby International will handle international sales, with CAA and Verve Ventures co-repping North American rights.

Highway, the thriller from Lotus Eaters director Alexandra McGuinness, has been picked up for international sales by UK outfit Carnaby International. CAA and Verve Ventures are co-repping rights for North America.

Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver) and Lucy Fry (Bright) star with Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor), Christian Camargo (The Hurt Locker), Blake Berris (Breaking Bad), Sheila Vand (Argo) and Antonia Campbell-Hughes (Bright Star).

Written and directed by McGuinness and now in post-production, the film follows two women who live in a small desert town that has...

Brazilian-born and New York City-raised “Homeland” and “Deadpool” actress Morena Baccarin has sold a restored and updated late-1930s hilltop traditional high in the hipster-chic hills between Los Angeles’ Silver Lake and Echo Park neighborhoods for just under $2.1 million, a smidgen above its not quite $2 million asking price. Property records show the new owner is “Days of Our Lives” actor Blake Berris and writer-actress Alexandra McGuinness, daughter of former U2 manager Paul McGuinness. Baccarin, married last year to her “Gotham” co-star Ben McKenzie, bought the property in June 2012 for almost $1.3 million.

Perched privately well above the street and concealed behind mature trees, the just over 2,900-square-foot residence, designed by architect Winchton L. Risley, has four and potentially five bedrooms and three bathrooms. Main-floor living spaces include a step-down living room with fireplace and a separate dining room with built-in china cabinets. A charming breakfast room links through to an up-to-date...

Exclusive: Lucy Fry and Eiza González will star in Highway, a thriller that Alexandra McGuinness will direct from her script. Production gets underway this week. Fry, who starred in The Preppie Connection and next costars opposite Will Smith and Joel Edgerton in the David Ayer-directed Netflix film Bright, plays a small town diner waitress named Heidi who embarks on a frantic search to find her best friend and rodeo queen Jane. Jane is played by González, who moved from…...

Irish Film Board also backs several other features and grants co-production funds to a revenge thriller starring Game Of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer.

A biopic of tragic singer Amy Winehouse, directed by Irish filmmaker Kirsten Sheridan, is among the productions backed by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.

Actress Noomi Rapace is already attached to the untitled project, which is also scripted by Sheridan (In America). It has received a production funding commitment of €540,000.

It is one of several projects backed by the Ifb as it attempts to build on what has been a successful period for the Irish film industry.

Ghost story The Lodgers, written by musician and professor of gothic literature David Turpin, has received production funding of €600,000. Directed by Brian O’Malley (Let Us Prey), it will be produced by Tailored Films (Stitches).

Described as a classic ghost story, The Lodgers tells the story of orphaned twins Edward and Rachel...

The Martian

Jeff Daniels is in talks to join the cast of Ridley Scott's "The Martian" at Warner Bros. Pictures. Based on Andy Weir's 2012 e-book, the story centers on an American astronaut (Matt Damon) who becomes stranded on Mars as Nasa launches a rescue mission to bring him back home.

Daniels would play the director of Nasa who is dealing with this crisis. Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara and Kristen Wiig are also said to be circling roles in the project. [Source: Heat Vision]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

"White Collar" star Tim DeKay has been cast as Senator Christian Ward, the brother of Agent Grant Ward in the second season of ABC's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.".

The Grant Ward character revealed last season his brother would force him to beat up their younger brother. DeKay will make an appearance in the sixth episode this season. [Source: EW]

Mission: Impossible 5

Simon McBurney ("Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,...

Exclusive: The Twilight Saga’s Nikki Reed has been cast opposite Harry Potter thesp Bonnie Wright in thriller The Highway Is For Gamblers. Writer-director Alexandra McGuinness follows her debut film Lotus Eaters with the desert-set tale of Jane (Reed), a newly crowned rodeo queen who goes missing, and her friend Heidi (Wright), who uncovers secrets and encounters the violence of life on the road while searching for her pal. Vikings’ Gustaf Skarsgård and pop singer/actor Joe Jonas round out the indie cast.

Philip Gray and Mark Lee are producers on the film, which has a November shoot planned for California’s San Bernardino County. They filmmakers have raised the bulk of their budget independently but also have turned to Kickstarter, seeking $165,000 in finishing funds. With a concerted social media push in the works, that goal might be achieved before long; among Reed, Wright, and Jonas, the film’s social...

About a third of the way through this frustrating 80-minute film, English musician Johnny Flynn, portraying a charismatic drug addict, sings an acoustic version of The Magnetic Fields song "Papa Was a Rodeo" that's so plaintive and moving that it stops the show, so to speak, and also, regrettably, underscores the show's hollowness. Directed by newcomer Alexandra McGuinness, this beautifully photographed (by Gareth Munden) black-and-white film tracks a group of London-based trust-fund twentysomethings as they meet for coffee, go to parties, puke, flirt, and talk, a lot, about how bored they are. When tragedy strikes, the group doesn't know how to deal, so they head to a country manor to dance, drink, and betray each other sexually. Lotus Eaters, which McGuinness co-wrote with Bren...

Sigh. Strum. Strum strum strum. Sing. Sigh. Isn’t life hard? In Alexandra McGuinness‘ feature debut, Lotus Eaters, it sure looks like it, though it also looks plenty pretty. The Dublin-born, London-based filmmaker’s film centers on a group of young, hip, and hot Londoners who are all struggling mighty hard with some big problems and obsessions (like drink, drugs, and heartache). Ain’t that always the way? The film’s cast includes a bunch of rising British stars, including Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Benn Northover, Liam Browne, Jay Choi, Daisy Lewis, and our strummer himself - Johnny Flynn, who is (of course) also the frontman for the folk-rock band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit. Sigh. Strum. Rinse. Repeat. Soak in some champagne-drenched bourgeois ennui with the first trailer for Lotus Eaters, after the break. Lotus Eaters will open the film in New York on April 5th, with expansion to Los Angeles and VOD on April 12th. [Thompson on Hollywood]...

In a scene that alternates between elegiac and cheeky, a striking young man strums his guitar and serenades his sweetheart.  Domestic bliss, though, this is not: he's actually her ex and bearing his own burden as he struggles with addiction. This is "Lotus Eaters," the feature debut of Dublin-born, London-based director Alexandra McGuinness, a film about a group of glamorous young Londoners who romp through the city, keeping their discontent and wanderlust at bay by relying on sex, cigarettes and drugs.  The sensitive guitarist is Charlie, the seranadee is Alice, a model-turned-actress (yet still in transition), the booze is vodka. Featuring a cast of burgeoning British names--among them Antonia Campbell-Hughes, a former model, and Johnny Flynn, the frontman for the folk-rock band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit--"Lotus Eaters" premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and later screened in London and Galway.  New producer/distrib Meneret Productions will...

9 new British films funded by the Lottery Film Fund

selected for the BFI London Film Festival

including the Opening and Closing night Galas

London - Wednesday 7 September 2011. This year.s 55th BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express, will showcase 9 new British feature films funded by the UK Film Council.s Film Fund, now with the BFI, including the Opening and Closing night UK Gala premieres of Fernando Meirelles. 360, written by Peter Morgan, and Terence Davies. The Deep Blue Sea.

The line-up of British films which have been developed and/or production funded by the Film Fund at the BFI London Film festival also includes:

Shame, directed by Steve McQueen and co-written with Abi Morgan; We Need To Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay and co-written with Rory Stewart Kinnear; Wuthering Heights, directed by Andrea Arnold and co-written with Olivia Hetreed; Trishna, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom; A Dangerous Method,...

The programme for the 55th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express launched today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron, celebrates the imagination and excellence of international filmmaking from both established and emerging talent. Over 16 days the Festival will screen a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres . There will also be screenings of 110 live action and animated shorts. Many of the films will be presented by their directors, cast members and crew, some of whom will also take part in career interviews, masterclasses, and other special events. The 55th BFI London Film Festival will run from 12-27 October.

Special Screenings

Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles’ 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies’ closing night film, The Deep Blue Sea, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.

From the 12th to the 27th of October the 55th BFI London Film Festival brings its annual box of delights to the capital. Earlier today the full programme was announced, and it look like being another fine year.

We already know that Fernando Meirelles’ latest 360 will open proceedings on the 12th and fifteen days later Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea will bring the festival to a close but there are many more great films to come and see in London this October.

There was a familiar feeling creeping across the audience this morning that a lot of the films had, like last year, already played elsewhere but this is only a small consideration when you consider the scope of the festival’s remit. To bring a vital, fresh and horizon-expanding series of features, shorts and documentaries is no easy task, and while the more well known films have played...

Artistic director Sandra Hebron has announced the line-up for the 55th BFI London Film Festival this morning where they will screen “a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres” plus “110 live action and animated shorts”.

We are already knew Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic drama play 360 written by Peter Morgan and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz would open the festival and that The Deep Blue Sea, which incidentally is another adaptation of a play (Terence Rattigan’s) and also stars Rachel Weisz, will close it. Of Time and City’s Terrence Davies directed that movie which also stars Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.

Now we know the in-between stuff from the Gala & Special Screenings and there’s a wide selection of extremely interesting films;

George Clooney is bringing his political thriller The Ides of March that...

Fascinating black and white photography cannot make up for the lack of energy in this dreamscape of human misery. New director Alexandra McGuinness teamed up with award winning writer/director Brendan Grant (Directors Guild of Great Britain award for short .London Fields Are Blue.) to pen this dreamy story of good lives gone bad in Glastonbury England and the south of France. Charlie and Alice have it all. Alice is a beautiful model who knows the ropes and has the wealth and style to prove it. Actually, Alice is a former model who knows the ropes. Knowing the ropes is the best she can do because she has a low down feeling that the things she values may be going...

Errol Rainey Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Johnny Flynn as Alice and Charlie in “Lotus Eaters”

Simple pleasures: a couture dress, a perfectly uneven set of wispy bangs, the “it” party. Shot in soft black and white with no hit of a shadow, “Lotus Eaters” wanders primarily around London with Alice as she loses herself in love and opulence. Out of the ensemble cast, no one eats onscreen but there’s plenty of drinking and frolicking, equally in the bedroom and the...

Director: Alexandra McGuinness Writers: Alexandra McGuinness, Brendan Grant Starring: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Johnny Flynn, Benn Northover, Cynthia Fortune Ryan In Greek mythology, the lotus-eaters are a race of people from an island near North Africa where narcotic lotus fruits and flowers are the primary food and the inhabitants sleep in peaceful apathy. Odysseus tells us about the lotus-eaters in Odyssey IX, as does Lord Tennyson (in his poem "The Lotos-Eaters") and James Joyce (in the fifth chapter of Ulysses). Writer-director Alexandra McGuinness (the daughter of Paul McGuinness, U2's manager) reveals the modern equivalent of the mythological lotus-eaters: an elite group of 20-something Londoners whose soulless lives consist merely of apathetically shooing away boredom with a 24-hour party of booze, drugs and sex. Money and gainful employment seem to be of no concern for them; their impeccable fashion sense, idyllically good looks and bourgeois pedigree are their tickets to ride. They...

Film still from Lotus Eaters. A diaphanous glitter has descended upon Tribeca in the form of beautiful people, fabulous parties, and youth—and it’s hard not to wax poetic about such a seemingly perfect cocktail. However, first-time director Alexandra McGuinness has cast anything but a sparing eye on the neophyte jet set in her La Dolce Vita–esque black-and-white film, Lotus Eaters. The film follows Alice (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young model-turning-actress, and her friend Felix as they stumble through a youthful haze of cigarettes, vodka baths, and late-night revelry to the point where the fabulous really starts to wear you down. It takes its title from a stop on Odysseus’s journey, where a tribe of narcotic-noshing natives seem to do nothing but laze about all day, coaxing Odysseus’s men to do the same. Under McGuinness’s deft direction, the film casts a gently critical eye on young...

Tribeca: Tell us a little about Lotus Eaters. Alexandra McGuinness: It's a big ensemble, comedy/drama, which charts a summer in London amongst of group of models and artists. It's told through a series of parties and has a doomed love story at its core. Tribeca: In Greek mythology, the Lotus Eaters were a race of people from an island dominated by lotus plants, narcotic fruits and flowers that caused the people to sleep in peaceful apathy. How does this title reflect the characters in your film? Alexandra McGuinness: The island of the Lotus Eaters was mentioned in The Odyssey as a place where Odysseus is washed up on the island for about 10 years. The title of the film insinuates being waylaid. The main character, Alice, is at a time in her life where she hasn't really figured out what she wants to do and gets waylaid in...

The Tribeca Film Festival in New York will have a strong lineup of Irish premieres, movies and talent this year including Brendan Gleeson's “The Guard” and Alexandra McGuinness' "Lotus Eaters.” Irish feature-length movie "Lotus Eaters,” directed by McGuinness, will have its world premiere at the event. “The Guard” will have its New York debut at the festival, having received excellent feedback at the Sundance Film Festival. "We’re thrilled to be having the world premiere screening of ‘Lotus Eaters’ at the Tribeca Film Festival,” McGuinness said. "It’s a privilege to be included in the Viewpoints Program alongside such an unusual and exciting mix of films and filmmakers. I just hope I have time to see some of the other movies while I’m out there.” Also included in the festival are Domhall Gleeson's directorial debut "Noreen,” Lance Daly's new film "The Good Doctor" and "The Swell Season,...

Tribeca Film Festival has announced the line up of this years competition categories, including World Narrative Feature, World Documentary Feature, and the brand new Viewpoints which highlights eleven independent features and nine documentaries.

Tribeca Film Festival is one of leading film festivals located in New York City, showcasing many films not screened in any other U.S. film festival along with forty three world premieres and fifty four directorial debuts. Cameron Crowe’s premier of his concert documentary, The Union, will start the festival followed by a performance by Elton John. The rest of the lineup will be announced March 14th, and look out for coverage of the festival in April. Below you can find the complete press release on the lineup.

10th Tribeca Film Festival Announces World Narrative

And Documentary Competition Selections, And New Viewpoints Section

Tribeca Expands Awards Scope

2011 Festival to Present 88 Feature-Length and 61 Short Films April 20 – May...

The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) on Monday announced the first 44 feature films of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival slate, comprising the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections, and one new section: Viewpoints.

In a record year for submissions, the 2011 film slate was chosen from a field of 5,624 entries. Tff 2011 will include feature films from 32 countries, including 43 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres, seven U.S. Premieres and nine New York premieres.

“It’s our 10th Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Tff executive director Nancy Schafer in a statement. “The festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”

A complete list of the films announced Monday follows, with descriptions provided by the festival.

World Narrative Features

“Angel’s Crest”

Directed by Gaby Dellal

Written by Catherine Trieschmann

(UK,...

The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) on Monday announced the first 44 feature films of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival slate, comprising the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections, and one new section: Viewpoints.

In a record year for submissions, the 2011 film slate was chosen from a field of 5,624 entries. Tff 2011 will include feature films from 32 countries, including 43 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres, seven U.S. Premieres and nine New York premieres.

“It’s our 10th Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Tff executive director Nancy Schafer in a statement. “The festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”

A complete list of the films announced Monday follows, with descriptions provided by the festival.

World Narrative Features

“Angel’s Crest”

Directed by Gaby Dellal

Written by Catherine Trieschmann

(UK,...

By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival revealed the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections for the 10th annual Tff, which will be held April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan.

In addition, Tff organizers unveiled the first edition of the new section — Viewpoints.

Forty-four of the 88 feature-length films that will screen during the fest have been announced. Much more information on each title can be found below.

“It’s our tenth Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Nancy Schafer, Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Festival. “The Festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”

So what will screen at Tribeca this year? In part, the following:

World Narrative Feature Competition

· Angels Crest, directed by Gaby Dellal, written by Catherine Trieschmann. (UK, Canada) – World Premiere.

And the festival beat marches on… nothing on this list immediately jumps out at me… no titles I recognize. These are just the World Narrative and Documentary competition selections, so, there’ll be more announcements made later. I do see representation from South Africa, Egypt and Rwanda. As I always do, I’ll be taking a closer look at the lineup for any titles worth profiling on this website. The festival runs from April 20th to May 1st. It’s in my backyard, so you know I’ll be covering it!

For now, here’s the full press release:

New York, NY [March 7, 2011] – The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, today announced the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections and the first edition of the new section—Viewpoints. Forty-three of the 87 feature-length films were announced. The 10th edition of the Festival will take place from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan.

The Tribeca Film Festival announced selections for its World Narrative, World Documentary, and Viewpoints competitions at its 10th annual event, running from April 20 to May 1 in New York. Eighty-eight features (such as Angels Crest, with Jeremy Piven) and 61 short films from 32 different countries were selected from more than 5,600 submissions to screen at the festival. “In programming the Festival this year we had to make some incredibly difficult decisions, but we are excited about the quality, ingenuity, risk-taking and diversity of this year’s program,” David Kwok, Director of Programming, said in a statement. “We are particularly proud that we have...

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The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, which will run from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan, has announced the films that will play in this year’s World Narrative and Documentary Competition film categories, which are both competition sections. The also named the films that will will play in its new, out-of-competition section “Viewpoints.”

Now in its tenth year, this year’s festival features movies from 32 different counties and 99 different filmmakers, who were selected from a pool of 5,624 entries.

Post work is currently being carried out on 'Lotus Eaters', a new feature film written by Brendan Grant and Alexandra McGuinness who is also directing. The drama stars Antonia Campbell Hughes (Bright Star), Benn Northover (Abyss), Cynthia Fortune (Every Thing) and Johnny Flynn (Crusade Jeans) . 'Lotus Eaters' shot for five weeks in August and September 2010 with Gareth Munden (Mike) on board as director of photography. It is currently being edited in Dublin's Optical Sandwich by Bert Hunger (Horses) and is due for delivery in April. The film's release date is Tbc.