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‘At Home With The Furys’ Producer Hires Talent-Led Programming Boss

At Home with the Furys producer Optomen has created a Head Of Talent-led Programming role to lead on new docs and reality shows for the UK and U.S. Becky Cadman joins from fellow All3Media stablemate Lime Pictures, which she recently left after the indie closed its London base. Cadman will focus on creating new, premium, talent-driven documentaries and reality shows for the UK and U.S. markets. At Lime she worked across the likes of Vinnie Jones in the Country for Discovery+and her Channel 4 credits included Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death. Optomen has had a number of big hits lately including Netflix’s At Home with the Furys and the BBC’s Sort Your Life Out. Bosses Tina Flintoff and Nick Hornby said: “Talent-led programming has become increasingly important to our business so we are...

Loco Films, the Paris-based world sales and production company, has unveiled the trailer for Yulia Trofimova’s feature debut “The Land of Sasha” which is premiering today at the Berlinale, in the Generation 14plus strand.

“The Land of Sasha” tells the story of an indecisive 18-year-old struggling to pursue his desire to become a painter as his mother urges him to choose a safer career path. The sudden appearance of the boy’s estranged father complicates things further. But when Sasha has an unexpected encounter with an unusual girl called Zhenia, he realizes he has no choice but to finally grow up.

“The Land of Sasha” was produced by Katerina Mikhaylova and Konstantin Fam for Moscow-based Vega Film. The young director said she has always been inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson and Noah Baumbach, and watched “Francis Ha” many times while writing the script.

Trofimova said the film was a...

Exclusive: Parkland Entertainment has swooped on UK and Ireland rights to The Champion of Auschwitz, Maciej Barczzewski’s drama about a boxer who fought for survival inside a Nazi death camp during the Second World War.

Born in Warsaw in 1917, Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski was drawn to boxing early, training with well-known coach Feliks Stamm, who is considered the father of Polish boxing. After rising to become a champion boxer, Pietrzykowski was transported to the notorious concentration camp where he was forced to fight for his life.

Leszek Starzynski and Krzysztof Szpetmanski produced the movie. Piotr Glowacki, Jan Szydlowski and Grzegorz Malecki star. The UK has a large Polish population and films from the country are regularly box office hits in the territory.

Parkland struck the deal with France’s Loco Films. Pic will be released September 3 to coincide with the domestic release in Poland.

“We are thrilled to be bring...

The most famous diarist of the Holocaust, Anne Frank, began to write down the drama of her daily life with no ulterior motive (apart from her teenage ambition to write fiction). But in March 1944, the year before she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she heard a radio broadcast by a member of the Dutch government in exile who promised to publish the letters and diaries of his people after the war. From that moment on, Anne Frank knew that she was writing for posterity, even if she could never have guessed how important her words would one day become.

By contrast, the diarists chronicled in “Who Will Write Our History,” a vital and sobering documentary directed by Roberta Grossman, always knew that they were drafting the record of an existence whose memory — were it not for them — would be wiped away. They were Jewish residents of Warsaw who, in...

Who Will Write Our History Abramorama Reviewed for Shockya.com and BigAppleReviews.net by: Harvey Karten Director: Roberta Grossman Screenwriter: Roberta Grossman, Samuel Kassow from Kassow’s book “Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto” Cast: Jowitz Budnik, Piotr Glowacki, Piotr Jankowski, Wojciech Zielinski, Karolina Gruzka, Bartlomiej Kotschedoff, Gera Sandler Screened at: […]

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Dark Crimes Trailer

Alexandros Avranas‘ Dark Crimes (2016) movie trailer stars Jim Carrey, Marton Csokas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vlad Ivanov, and Piotr Glowacki. Dark Crimes‘ plot synopsis: based on the New Yorker article by David Grann, “Dark Crimes stars Carrey as a police officer named Tadek, who finds similarities between an unsolved murder and a crime outlined [...]

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"We have a suspect - a crime writer..." "I think the book is your confession." Saban Films has released an official trailer for a dark crime thriller titled, of course, Dark Crimes. The title is a variation of the title for the original article this is based on in the New Yorker, called "True Crime", subtitle "A postmodern murder mystery." Dark Crimes stars Jim Carrey as a detective who gets involved in a case where a Polish author killed someone in real life the same way as in one of the fictional crime novels he wrote. Marton Csokas plays the author, and the cast includes Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Vlad Ivanov, Agata Kulesza, Robert Wieckiewicz, and Piotr Glowacki. This loos quite dark and mysterious, but also quite good, I'm intrigued. Especially by Carrey's fierce, bearded performance in this. I really want to check it out. Here's the official trailer (+ new...

May shoot for Who Will Write Our History about the Oyneg Shabes archive; Nancy Spielberg produces with support from Steven Spielberg-chaired fund.

Shoot will begin on May 5, 2016, on Roberta Grossman’s Who Will Write Our History, the feature documentary telling the story of the hidden ‘Oyneg Shabes’ archive of 30,000 documents buried in 1943 on the eve of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

The film is executive-produced by Nancy Spielberg and has received support from the Righteous Persons Foundation which her brother Steven Spielberg set up with proceeds from his 1994 film, Schindler’s List.

Oscar nominee Joan Allen is to provide narration for the film which is based on Samuel Kassow’s well-received 2007 book of the same name.

The Oyneg Shabes archive is the extraordinarily revealing hoard of letters, confessionals, last testaments, poems and questionnaires compiled under the guidance of Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

The documents...