UTA has signed Ian Barling, a New York-based filmmaker whose latest short competed at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, for worldwide representation in all areas.
Barling’s “Safe” world premiered at Critics’ Week, the Cannes sidebar dedicated to emerging directors.
A twisted father-son thriller set in Barling’s native Atlantic City, “Safe” is the first U.S. short to compete at Critics’ Week in over four years. The film focuses on the manager of a defunct casino, who must confront his parental failures when his reckless son needs to find a way out of an illicit bind. The cast includes Will Patton (“Minari”), Philip Ettinger (“First Reformed”) and Cindy Katz (“Limitless”).
Barling is currently preparing his first feature debut “Francis,” and is participating in the Torino FilmLab, which supports creatives working on their first and second feature films.
The filmmaker, who is also a drummer and toured the eastern U.
Barling’s “Safe” world premiered at Critics’ Week, the Cannes sidebar dedicated to emerging directors.
A twisted father-son thriller set in Barling’s native Atlantic City, “Safe” is the first U.S. short to compete at Critics’ Week in over four years. The film focuses on the manager of a defunct casino, who must confront his parental failures when his reckless son needs to find a way out of an illicit bind. The cast includes Will Patton (“Minari”), Philip Ettinger (“First Reformed”) and Cindy Katz (“Limitless”).
Barling is currently preparing his first feature debut “Francis,” and is participating in the Torino FilmLab, which supports creatives working on their first and second feature films.
The filmmaker, who is also a drummer and toured the eastern U.
- 8/26/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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- 5/12/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Calista Flockhart, T.R. Knight and Dakin Matthews head the cast when L.A. Theatre Works opens its 2012-13 season with Christopher Hamptons new version of Anton Chekhovs tragi-comic masterpiece, The Seagull. The cast also includesGordon Clapp, Stephen Collins, Logan Fahey, Cindy Katz and Josh Stamberg, with Rosalind Ayres directing. Five performances will take place Sept. 20-23 at UCLAs James Bridges Theater, where they will be recorded for broadcast on L.A. Theatre Works' nationally syndicated radio theater series.
- 8/28/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Chicago – If you’re not easily susceptible to vertigo and can survive the intro cut scene, “Limitless” proceeds to treat you to one part thrill ride and one part exercise in ridiculousness. While we often go to the movies to escape, “Limitless” manipulatively exploits our deepest and darkest desires for wealth, power and Google-like global conquests.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
The film’s frustrations start and end with its story, which was written for the screen by Leslie Dixon based on the novel by Alan Glynn. Dixon, who has come a long way from “Mrs. Doubtfire” with this immediate-gratification film that goes out one ear just as fast as it enters the other, bases her premise on an experimental, non-fda-approved drug with no street name.
Predictable with every try at a twist or turn, even if your brain got extracted from your head you’d still be able to channel from it the...
Rating: 2.0/5.0
The film’s frustrations start and end with its story, which was written for the screen by Leslie Dixon based on the novel by Alan Glynn. Dixon, who has come a long way from “Mrs. Doubtfire” with this immediate-gratification film that goes out one ear just as fast as it enters the other, bases her premise on an experimental, non-fda-approved drug with no street name.
Predictable with every try at a twist or turn, even if your brain got extracted from your head you’d still be able to channel from it the...
- 3/18/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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