Projects featuring Daisy Ridley and Zar Amir are among the titles set to screen as part of this year’s Cannes Immersive competition.
This is the second year Cannes has run an immersive programme. 16 immersive works from 9 countries will screen as part of the immersive selection, including nine in the competition.
Ridley features in Trailblazer, an immersive project from filmmaker Eloise Singer. The film was produced by Singer Studios and screens as a French premiere. Zar Amir stars in Lili, an immersive project from Iranian artist Navid Khonsari. The project was produced by iNK Stories, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and Alambic Production. Scroll down for the full line.
The immersive competition jury will be chaired by French director Luc Jacquet. He will be joined by American artist Laurie Anderson, French writer Tania de Montaigne, British director Martha Fiennes and Japanese video game creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi.
This year’s event will...
This is the second year Cannes has run an immersive programme. 16 immersive works from 9 countries will screen as part of the immersive selection, including nine in the competition.
Ridley features in Trailblazer, an immersive project from filmmaker Eloise Singer. The film was produced by Singer Studios and screens as a French premiere. Zar Amir stars in Lili, an immersive project from Iranian artist Navid Khonsari. The project was produced by iNK Stories, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and Alambic Production. Scroll down for the full line.
The immersive competition jury will be chaired by French director Luc Jacquet. He will be joined by American artist Laurie Anderson, French writer Tania de Montaigne, British director Martha Fiennes and Japanese video game creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi.
This year’s event will...
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- Deadline Film + TV
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“Can you spy him deep within? Little Possum. Black as sin.” That’s just part of the creepy children’s poem that accentuates the sheer bloody terror in Possum, a supremely disturbing British horror flick from writer-director Matthew Holness, creator of Darth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
Based on Holness’ own short story, Possum stars Sean Harris as Philip, a disgraced children’s puppeteer who returns to his childhood home with a suspiciously large leather bag. Inside the bag is Possum, perhaps the scariest puppet ever committed to celluloid. The frankly terrifying poster for the film (google it at your peril) gives some idea of the horror, but the finished article is guaranteed to give you nightmares for weeks.
On the surface, the plot is deceptively simple:...
“Can you spy him deep within? Little Possum. Black as sin.” That’s just part of the creepy children’s poem that accentuates the sheer bloody terror in Possum, a supremely disturbing British horror flick from writer-director Matthew Holness, creator of Darth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
Based on Holness’ own short story, Possum stars Sean Harris as Philip, a disgraced children’s puppeteer who returns to his childhood home with a suspiciously large leather bag. Inside the bag is Possum, perhaps the scariest puppet ever committed to celluloid. The frankly terrifying poster for the film (google it at your peril) gives some idea of the horror, but the finished article is guaranteed to give you nightmares for weeks.
On the surface, the plot is deceptively simple:...
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- Nerdly
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Related: The full list of 2019 BAFTA winners and Red Carpet Interviews
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One of the stand-out shorts this year is a slow-burning...
Related: The full list of 2019 BAFTA winners and Red Carpet Interviews
Barnaby Blackburn’s Wale (★★★★) presents an exhilarating crime thriller starring Raphel Famotibe and Jamie Sives. The film tells the story of 18-year-old Wale (Famotibe), a reformed young criminal turned mechanic trying to get his life back on track. Things take a dark turn when Wale finds himself implicated in a serious crime after a chance meeting with a smooth talking businessman (Sives).
One of the stand-out shorts this year is a slow-burning...
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- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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“Can you spy him deep within? Little Possum. Black as sin.” That’s just part of the creepy children’s poem that accentuates the sheer bloody terror in Possum, a supremely disturbing British horror flick from writer-director Matthew Holness, creator of Darth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
Based on Holness’ own short story, Possum stars Sean Harris as Philip, a disgraced children’s puppeteer who returns to his childhood home with a suspiciously large leather bag. Inside the bag is Possum, perhaps the scariest puppet ever committed to celluloid. The frankly terrifying poster for the film (google it at your peril) gives some idea of the horror, but the finished article is guaranteed to give you nightmares for weeks.
On the surface, the plot is deceptively simple:...
“Can you spy him deep within? Little Possum. Black as sin.” That’s just part of the creepy children’s poem that accentuates the sheer bloody terror in Possum, a supremely disturbing British horror flick from writer-director Matthew Holness, creator of Darth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
Based on Holness’ own short story, Possum stars Sean Harris as Philip, a disgraced children’s puppeteer who returns to his childhood home with a suspiciously large leather bag. Inside the bag is Possum, perhaps the scariest puppet ever committed to celluloid. The frankly terrifying poster for the film (google it at your peril) gives some idea of the horror, but the finished article is guaranteed to give you nightmares for weeks.
On the surface, the plot is deceptively simple:...
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