Navid Mahmoudi’s Afghanistan-Iran production “Seven and a Half” will have its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival’s ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ strand.
Mahmoud previously wrote and produced “A Few Meters of Love,” which was Aghanistan’s entry to the Oscars in 2014. “Parting,” which he wrote and directed, was the country’s entry in 2016.
Meanwhile, Iranian project “African Violet” from Mona Zandi Haghighi (“Friday Evening”) will also play in Busan’s Asian strand. It arrives in Korea after playing at home at Fajr, and winning a jury special mention at Tripoli.
The connection between the two films – and the regular supply of high quality Iranian and Afghan films to major film festivals – is Paris-based production, distribution, promotion and sales outfit DreamLab Films. Spearheaded by Nasrine Medard de Chardon, the company was set up in 2000 and since then has championed more than 60 features and shorts from the region.
Mahmoud previously wrote and produced “A Few Meters of Love,” which was Aghanistan’s entry to the Oscars in 2014. “Parting,” which he wrote and directed, was the country’s entry in 2016.
Meanwhile, Iranian project “African Violet” from Mona Zandi Haghighi (“Friday Evening”) will also play in Busan’s Asian strand. It arrives in Korea after playing at home at Fajr, and winning a jury special mention at Tripoli.
The connection between the two films – and the regular supply of high quality Iranian and Afghan films to major film festivals – is Paris-based production, distribution, promotion and sales outfit DreamLab Films. Spearheaded by Nasrine Medard de Chardon, the company was set up in 2000 and since then has championed more than 60 features and shorts from the region.
- 10/3/2019
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Seven and a half years after Aaron Kaplan left agenting to become a producer and launch Kapital Entertainment, he is partnering with CBS Corporation. Under the joint venture agreement, CBS Corp. has acquired an ownership stake in Kapital Entertainment. CBS will provide co-financing for Kapital projects and will serve as worldwide distributor. Kapital will continue to operate as an independent production company run by Kaplan which will be completely separate from CBS…...
- 2/10/2017
- Deadline TV
The Screenwriting Lab at Outfest, Los Angeles’ Lgbt Film Festival, offers a platform to tell important stories. In the program’s 19th year, writers Michael Colucci, Kellee Terrell, Chanelle Tyson, Jen Richards and Michael Walek not only got to work with professionals to hone their skills and develop their stories in a three-day, mentor led workshop, but also got to see their visions come to life during the Screenwriting Lab’s Live Stage Reading at Outfest on Tuesday night.
Read More: Outfest 2016 Opens With A Heavy Heart And A Message of Hope
With actors including Elaine Hendrix, Zackary Drucker, Mather Zickel, Jason Stuart, Kym Whitley and Alexandra Grey, the reading presented select segments from each writer’s scripts. From gay ancient Greeks to a young girl exploring her sexuality to transgender women navigating Chicago, it was a powerful and emotional journey through the important and varied stories of the lab’s fellows.
Read More: Outfest 2016 Opens With A Heavy Heart And A Message of Hope
With actors including Elaine Hendrix, Zackary Drucker, Mather Zickel, Jason Stuart, Kym Whitley and Alexandra Grey, the reading presented select segments from each writer’s scripts. From gay ancient Greeks to a young girl exploring her sexuality to transgender women navigating Chicago, it was a powerful and emotional journey through the important and varied stories of the lab’s fellows.
- 7/13/2016
- by Kyle Kizu
- Indiewire
WWE.com
So here’s the problem with writing a list-based article based on the bloodiest pro wrestling matches you can find that have been on the telly: there are, at last count, Seven And A Half Billion Of Them. And every one of them is supposedly bloodier than the last.
Us pro wrestling fans – the proper, hardcore nerdy types who remember the dates and runtimes of individual matches in Japan seventeen years ago – are incredibly precious about blood. It’s one of the signifiers that differentiates a casual fan from a real fan, after all: we know that red means green, and what a crimson mask should really look like. We understand the difference between hardway and a blade job (in fact, we call it ‘gigging’ like we read that they do in the business, just to make sure everyone knows we’re smart to it). We have our favourite bloody matches,...
So here’s the problem with writing a list-based article based on the bloodiest pro wrestling matches you can find that have been on the telly: there are, at last count, Seven And A Half Billion Of Them. And every one of them is supposedly bloodier than the last.
Us pro wrestling fans – the proper, hardcore nerdy types who remember the dates and runtimes of individual matches in Japan seventeen years ago – are incredibly precious about blood. It’s one of the signifiers that differentiates a casual fan from a real fan, after all: we know that red means green, and what a crimson mask should really look like. We understand the difference between hardway and a blade job (in fact, we call it ‘gigging’ like we read that they do in the business, just to make sure everyone knows we’re smart to it). We have our favourite bloody matches,...
- 11/18/2015
- by Ben Cooke
- Obsessed with Film
Doctor Who has long glossed over scientific logic for storytelling reasons, says Andrew. Why complain about implausibility now?
Warning: contains spoilers for series eight episode Kill The Moon.
Doctor Who has gained a reputation for being unrealistic. While the original run is seen as generally striving for, if not accuracy, then at least scientific plausibility, since 2005 it's ditched this in favour of less rigorous, more fantastical ideas and resolutions. It's become more impressionistic, favouring symbolism over physics and magic over advanced science.
Way back in Rose, we were treated to Anti-Plastic, a term so simple and free of technobabble that it still causes raised eyebrows and froth expulsion to this day. How simplistic. How dumbed down. Jon Pertwee would be spinning in his grave, and then presumably spinning the other way.
Except that plastic-dissolving solutions exist now, as does flesh-eating bacteria. Is it really so unlikely that the Doctor could...
Warning: contains spoilers for series eight episode Kill The Moon.
Doctor Who has gained a reputation for being unrealistic. While the original run is seen as generally striving for, if not accuracy, then at least scientific plausibility, since 2005 it's ditched this in favour of less rigorous, more fantastical ideas and resolutions. It's become more impressionistic, favouring symbolism over physics and magic over advanced science.
Way back in Rose, we were treated to Anti-Plastic, a term so simple and free of technobabble that it still causes raised eyebrows and froth expulsion to this day. How simplistic. How dumbed down. Jon Pertwee would be spinning in his grave, and then presumably spinning the other way.
Except that plastic-dissolving solutions exist now, as does flesh-eating bacteria. Is it really so unlikely that the Doctor could...
- 10/8/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Seven and a half years after his tragic underwater death, Steve Irwin's final words have been revealed. Justin Lyons, Irwin's underwater photographer and best friend, has opened up about watching the famed “Crocodile Hunter” be killed by a stingray's barb through the chest. Lyons was filming Irwin for a special called “Ocean's Deadliest,” and after eight days of filming crocodiles and other animals, the pair focused in on a ray — normally a very calm animal — which started to stab its tail rapidly and wildly. Also read: Discovery Sued Over Fatal Reality TV Helicopter Crash “I panned with the camera as.
- 3/10/2014
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Wrap
Co-directed by Mark Peranson and Raya Martin, La última película is several things at once: a documentary pretending to be fiction (and vice versa), a reflexively cinephillic ode to materiality, a deconstruction and/or exploration of disparate forms, a meditation on the (false) apocalypse of the world and cinema, and an (experimental) comedy. Its one-line synopsis is as follows: "a famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes." Inspired by Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie and its subsequent documentary cousin The American Dreamer (both 1971), La última película taps into a sort of artistic freedom of spirit, an all-too-rare ecstasy of moviemaking-as-adventuring. It is a manifesto by implication for the liberation of film from convention, and as thought and life. Starring American independent filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel, Impolex) and Gabino Rodríguez (Greatest Hits, Together) as the filmmaker protagonist's Mexican guide,...
- 12/9/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
The biggest night in Hollywood is nearly upon us, and it seems like the entire town is busy preparing to make sure everything goes off without a hitch. Six hundred celebrities and filmmakers can't just feed themselves, you know! The Oscars are a massive production involving everything from construction to sculpting and fine dining, so a look behind the scenes just days before the big awards is a sneak peek at an incredibly intricate process.
So as you put the finishing touches on your plans for Oscar night, take a look at the party behind your party and see what goes into making the Academy Awards a reality.
Check out even more photos from behind the scenes at the Oscars!
The Carpet
What are the Academy Awards without the red carpet? We mean the actual carpet, the kind you walk on. Mirror has the rundown on Hollywood's most famous throw rug,...
So as you put the finishing touches on your plans for Oscar night, take a look at the party behind your party and see what goes into making the Academy Awards a reality.
Check out even more photos from behind the scenes at the Oscars!
The Carpet
What are the Academy Awards without the red carpet? We mean the actual carpet, the kind you walk on. Mirror has the rundown on Hollywood's most famous throw rug,...
- 2/22/2013
- by Kevin P. Sullivan
- MTV Movies Blog
As public ticket sales for the BFI London Film Festival open Monday (24 September), the time is ripe for a preview blog. Having attended a number international film festivals this year, I’ve already had the chance to see a handful of the films that will be screening here in London next month. The complete list of films (which you can view conveniently organised A-z by title, country or director) has been online for several days now. The line-up looks more varied and interesting than ever, and of the films I’ve already seen, I can recommend every one of them wholeheartedly. Here are my tips on films you shouldn’t miss:
Neighbouring Sounds
The film centres a neighbourhood in urban Brazil and follows the everyday life of a few of its residents: a middle class family with kids; three generations of a wealthier family; and the lower classes who come to cook,...
Neighbouring Sounds
The film centres a neighbourhood in urban Brazil and follows the everyday life of a few of its residents: a middle class family with kids; three generations of a wealthier family; and the lower classes who come to cook,...
- 9/22/2012
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
A decade ago, Tom Bidwell was a poetry-loving Lancashire teenager facing an uncertain future. This weekend, he could win an Oscar for his short film Wish 143. So how did that happen?
It's 11 years since I first heard from Tom Bidwell's mother. Barbara Bidwell said I might be interested in her son's poems. He was 15 years old, had a cancer in his shoulder the size of an orange, and didn't know what the future held, if anything at all. The poems were funny and bitter, some fizzed with anger, others ached with longing and hurt.
When people think they know,
How you feel deep down inside,
And you say you're not afraid,
When you're really petrified.
When you think there is no heaven,
And feel like you're in hell,
When you can't recall at all
What it feels like to be well.
When everyone has left you,
Except a certain few.
It's 11 years since I first heard from Tom Bidwell's mother. Barbara Bidwell said I might be interested in her son's poems. He was 15 years old, had a cancer in his shoulder the size of an orange, and didn't know what the future held, if anything at all. The poems were funny and bitter, some fizzed with anger, others ached with longing and hurt.
When people think they know,
How you feel deep down inside,
And you say you're not afraid,
When you're really petrified.
When you think there is no heaven,
And feel like you're in hell,
When you can't recall at all
What it feels like to be well.
When everyone has left you,
Except a certain few.
- 2/25/2011
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
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