In post-Roe America, it goes without saying that there are a lot of obstacles to obtain an abortion. But even before legislation outlawed the procedure in certain states and made it difficult to access across the country, pro-choice activists have been fighting a lack of information.
Abortion can bring up so many questions: Where can I get one? When is the soonest I can get it? How expensive will it be? Is it safe? How do I talk to my partner about it? If I go to a clinic, will there be protesters there? Does getting an abortion make me a bad person? The organization Plan C aims to disseminate clear, correct knowledge about access to medication abortions, including which online pharmacies are legit and who you can call with questions during the process.
It’s a shame, then, that “Plan C,” a Sundance-premiering documentary about the organization’s efforts,...
Abortion can bring up so many questions: Where can I get one? When is the soonest I can get it? How expensive will it be? Is it safe? How do I talk to my partner about it? If I go to a clinic, will there be protesters there? Does getting an abortion make me a bad person? The organization Plan C aims to disseminate clear, correct knowledge about access to medication abortions, including which online pharmacies are legit and who you can call with questions during the process.
It’s a shame, then, that “Plan C,” a Sundance-premiering documentary about the organization’s efforts,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Lena Wilson
- The Wrap
Composer Nathan Halpern has scored dozens of the best documentaries of the last four years, including Sundance winner “Rich Hill” and the upcoming Netflix release “Joan Didion: The Center Will not Hold.” Halpern’s latest film, director Chloé Zhao’s “The Rider,” drew upon his experiences working in both nonfiction and narrative films. The Cannes breakout – one of the best reviewed film of 2018 – “The Rider” tells the real-life story of rodeo cowboy Brady Jandreau (the film stars Jandreau and his real-life family and friends) who finds new purpose in his life after suffering a massive brain injury.
IndieWire asked Halpern to take us through his collaboration with Zhao in creating a subtle, but deeply moving score that bridges the film’s mix of cinema vérité and a modern western.
In creating the musical score for “The Rider,” our primary intent was to help bring the audience into the emotional point...
IndieWire asked Halpern to take us through his collaboration with Zhao in creating a subtle, but deeply moving score that bridges the film’s mix of cinema vérité and a modern western.
In creating the musical score for “The Rider,” our primary intent was to help bring the audience into the emotional point...
- 4/27/2018
- by Nathan Halpern
- Indiewire
The polarity between director David Lowery’s $65 million Disney film Pete’s Dragon and the micro-budgeted A Ghost Story has been noted repeatedly in reviews and profiles. But the man behind the camera on A Ghost Story has a unique career trajectory of his own. Cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo made his feature debut with Adam Wingard’s tone-mashing home invasion horror flick You’re Next in 2011. He followed that by co-directing a documentary (Rich Hill, an affecting character study of Missouri teens living in poverty) and a narrative feature (One and Two). Palermo is back in director of photography mode on A […]...
- 8/10/2017
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Would you have guessed A Ghost Story’s aesthetic was primarily formed instinctually day by day? I wouldn’t have, and I didn’t. The fact derailed everything I thought I knew about Andrew Droz Palermo (Cinematographer: You’re Next, Rich Hill, A Teacher) and David Lowery’s (Writer/Director: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) formal motivations and forced the interview to operate in an intuitive mode similar to the film’s process.
Each day Andrew operated with the immediacy of a musician, or as close to that as the film industry allows. Even the most premeditated of shots/scenes could undergo major adjustments on the day, and they weren’t beholden to any rules for the sake of developing their own grammar. The film’s small budget allowed them to take their time and properly evaluate the results of their intuition.
I caught Andrew in between shoots.
Each day Andrew operated with the immediacy of a musician, or as close to that as the film industry allows. Even the most premeditated of shots/scenes could undergo major adjustments on the day, and they weren’t beholden to any rules for the sake of developing their own grammar. The film’s small budget allowed them to take their time and properly evaluate the results of their intuition.
I caught Andrew in between shoots.
- 8/3/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Aaron Hunt)
- Cinelinx
The images from David Lowery's A Ghost Story are sort of ridiculous. Some feature star Rooney Mara looking morose, after all the movie centers on her dealing with the loss of her husband played by Casey Affleck, while others feature a white sheet with black eyes. My initial gut reaction is to laugh but now that I've seen the trailer, I'm not so sure.
A24's has released the first trailer for the movie and it's anything but funny. It's beautiful, featuring a dream-like, almost magical approach to the cinematography - in this case from Andrew Droz Palermo of You're Next, A Teacher and Rich Hill fame, but most notably, it's incredibly sad and the ghost? The white sheet with the black eyeholes? At one point it feels downright creepy.
I don't do [Continued ...]...
A24's has released the first trailer for the movie and it's anything but funny. It's beautiful, featuring a dream-like, almost magical approach to the cinematography - in this case from Andrew Droz Palermo of You're Next, A Teacher and Rich Hill fame, but most notably, it's incredibly sad and the ghost? The white sheet with the black eyeholes? At one point it feels downright creepy.
I don't do [Continued ...]...
- 3/28/2017
- QuietEarth.us
The main special effect in “A Ghost Story” is older than the movies: After a young Dallas musician (Casey Affleck) dies in a car crash, he returns as a ghost to the home he shared with his wife (Rooney Mara), and he’s draped in a sheet with hastily made cutout eyeholes, like some misbegotten Halloween costume.
Yet writer-director David Lowery channels the absurdity of this setup into an extraordinary mood piece that amounts to his best movie yet. Lowery has quickly developed a filmography that mines for awe in solitude, and here delivers a cosmic variation on that theme, exploring the ineffable relationship between people and the meaning they give to the places that have value in their lives. Both formally ambitious and emotionally accessible, “A Ghost Story” transforms its main stunt into a savvy dose of minimalism with existential possibilities that cut deep.
That’s unsurprising for a...
Yet writer-director David Lowery channels the absurdity of this setup into an extraordinary mood piece that amounts to his best movie yet. Lowery has quickly developed a filmography that mines for awe in solitude, and here delivers a cosmic variation on that theme, exploring the ineffable relationship between people and the meaning they give to the places that have value in their lives. Both formally ambitious and emotionally accessible, “A Ghost Story” transforms its main stunt into a savvy dose of minimalism with existential possibilities that cut deep.
That’s unsurprising for a...
- 1/22/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
In one of the first scenes in “Abortion: Stories Women Tell,” a pro-life religious leader exclaims to his congregation: “We now have the ability to look into the womb.” This important, comprehensive and heartrending documentary probes even deeper. Director Tracy Droz Tragos (“Rich Hill”) explores a range of complicated emotions as women cope with increasingly diminishing rights over their own wombs. “Stories Women Tell” seeks to shows how multi-faceted the issue can be, while retaining a keen eye for regional specificity. Dozens of women — teenage to elderly — offer honest testimonies about their varying experiences surrounding terminated pregnancies. The...
- 8/10/2016
- by Claudia Puig
- The Wrap
Though it’s a harder film festival to regulate and therefore tabulate a comprehensively genuine list reflecting the totality of the fest’s offering per any individual’s perspective, the Toronto Film Festival manages to be a healthy platform for new and developing voices for those willing to sift through the multitude of titles. Of course, many new exciting voices were present that debuted at earlier film festivals, like Berlin, Sundance, and Cannes. From Guy Maddin’s co-director Evan Johnson on The Forbidden Room and Josh Mond’s stunning debut James White out of Sundance, to notable Cannes berths like Laszlo Nemes of Son of Saul, Deniz Gamz Erguven of Mustang, and Thomas Bidegain’s Les Cowboys, 2015 brought a wide variety of new filmmakers to light. In deliberating the Top Ten New Voices out of Tiff, we focused on offerings either unique to the festival or near concurrent premieres with Locarno and Venice.
- 10/12/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
One is the Loneliest Number: Palermo Exercises Tone Over Content
Playing like the tangential origin story you’d expect to see from some rurally grown mutant attending the famed school of Dr. Xavier, Andrew Droz Palermo’s fiction debut One and Two is a surprisingly well composed low-fi genre piece. Establishing a compelling, mysterious tone, Palermo’s treatment, co-written by Neima Shahadi, walks a fine line with a narrative steeped in vagaries. This saves it from treading predictable territory, and yet its lack of clarity in certain instances, cloaking itself in motifs concerning the toxicity of dogmas and forced isolation from the world, also lends the film a rather superficial sheen.
Eva (Kiernan Shipka) and Zac (Timothee Chalamet) are siblings living with their controlling father Daniel (Grant Bowler) and sickly mother Elizabeth (Elizabeth Reaser) somewhere in the countryside, cut off from the world by a large wall built around their property.
Playing like the tangential origin story you’d expect to see from some rurally grown mutant attending the famed school of Dr. Xavier, Andrew Droz Palermo’s fiction debut One and Two is a surprisingly well composed low-fi genre piece. Establishing a compelling, mysterious tone, Palermo’s treatment, co-written by Neima Shahadi, walks a fine line with a narrative steeped in vagaries. This saves it from treading predictable territory, and yet its lack of clarity in certain instances, cloaking itself in motifs concerning the toxicity of dogmas and forced isolation from the world, also lends the film a rather superficial sheen.
Eva (Kiernan Shipka) and Zac (Timothee Chalamet) are siblings living with their controlling father Daniel (Grant Bowler) and sickly mother Elizabeth (Elizabeth Reaser) somewhere in the countryside, cut off from the world by a large wall built around their property.
- 8/13/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
One of the key players on the critically acclaimed AMC drama Mad Men over the course of its run was Kiernan Shipka. With the drama marking her first major role, many were curious to see what direction she’d go in next. Her first foray into features after the end of the series sees her dive into the supernatural genre with her upcoming feature One & Two. The synopsis is as follows.
Two siblings discover a supernatural escape from a troubled home, but find their bond tested when reality threatens to tear their family apart.
Rich Hill co-director Andrew Droz Palermo takes on directing duties, alongside co-writing the screenplay with Neima Shahdadi. Joining Shipka onscreen are Elizabeth Reaser and Timothée Chalamet, and the movie is slated for release in American theatres and VOD on August 14th, and a new trailer for the film has now been released. The trailer can be seen below.
Two siblings discover a supernatural escape from a troubled home, but find their bond tested when reality threatens to tear their family apart.
Rich Hill co-director Andrew Droz Palermo takes on directing duties, alongside co-writing the screenplay with Neima Shahdadi. Joining Shipka onscreen are Elizabeth Reaser and Timothée Chalamet, and the movie is slated for release in American theatres and VOD on August 14th, and a new trailer for the film has now been released. The trailer can be seen below.
- 7/23/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Sundance Institute today announced the eight projects selected for its annual Documentary Edit and Story Labs, taking place in two sessions at the Sundance Resort in Utah from June 19-27 and July 3-11. The Documentary Edit and Story Labs support projects in later stages of post-production work to hone story, structure and character development. Director and editor teams unite under the stewardship of world-class doc filmmakers and Sundance Institute staff. Projects that have gone through these labs include "(T)Error," "The Queen of Versailles," "Rich Hill" and "The Kill Team." Editors serving as Creative Advisors for the June 19-27 session are Marshall Curry ("Point and Shoot"), Ra’anan Alexandrowicz ("The Law In These Parts"), Tom Haneke ("Where Soldiers Come From"), Mary Lampson ("Harlan County"), Geoffrey Richman ("Racing Extinction") and Jean Tsien ("Shut Up and Sing"). Editors...
- 6/15/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Well folks, after a rather long and brutal winter (at least for me here in Buffalo), we are finally heading into the wonderful warmth of summer, but with that blast of sunshine and steamy humidity comes the mid-year drought of major film fests. After the Sheffield Doc/Fest concludes on June 10th and AFI Docs wraps on June 21st, we likely won’t see any major influx in our charts until Locarno, Venice, Telluride and Tiff announce their line-ups in rapid succession. In the meantime, we can look forward to the intriguing onslaught of films making their debut in Sheffield, including Brian Hill’s intriguing examination of Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, The Confessions of Thomas Quick, and Sean McAllister’s film for which he himself was jailed in the process of making, A Syrian Love Story, the only two films world premiering in the festival’s main competition.
- 6/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
If you're an aspiring filmmaker, it seems that everyone including your grandma has advice to share with you -- and often, it's not very helpful. Ultimately, you have to forge your own career path. But advice from the pros can be helpful and inspiring when it comes from the right people. We reached out to some of our favorite narrative and documentary filmmakers to ask them what advice they wish they had received before they began their career. The filmmakers who responded are listed below (along with the titles of their most recent films): Read More: Is Diversity Important? And What's the Best Way to Achieve It? Tracy Droz Tragos ("Rich Hill") Do not wait for anyone else to give you permission to make your film, to validate your credentials, to recognize your worth. Don't get sucked into a "day job" or the mode of "being a good student...
- 5/6/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Documentary festival to focus on
DocAviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalized the selection for its 17th edition (May 7-16).
With a solid reputation to defend, the festival will kick off with Laura Poitras’ Academy Award winner Citizenfour, whose theme, the onging Edward Snowden saga, fits one of the festival’s main concerns - “(un)Free World”.
Some 13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali Film Competition.
A total 11 world premieres are competing for The Sarah and Michael Sela Prize
The $18,000 (Nis 70,000) award is the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
Some 75 Israeli films have been submitted to the Israeli competition. Well known names among the contenders include: Reuven Brodsky with 7 Days in St. Petersburg, whose previous film Home Movie has won the 2012 Docaviv competition, Avigail Sperber produced Girsa De’Yankuta by Noa Roth, Censored Voices by Mor Loushy which premiered in Sundance and Twilight of a Life, which...
DocAviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalized the selection for its 17th edition (May 7-16).
With a solid reputation to defend, the festival will kick off with Laura Poitras’ Academy Award winner Citizenfour, whose theme, the onging Edward Snowden saga, fits one of the festival’s main concerns - “(un)Free World”.
Some 13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali Film Competition.
A total 11 world premieres are competing for The Sarah and Michael Sela Prize
The $18,000 (Nis 70,000) award is the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
Some 75 Israeli films have been submitted to the Israeli competition. Well known names among the contenders include: Reuven Brodsky with 7 Days in St. Petersburg, whose previous film Home Movie has won the 2012 Docaviv competition, Avigail Sperber produced Girsa De’Yankuta by Noa Roth, Censored Voices by Mor Loushy which premiered in Sundance and Twilight of a Life, which...
- 4/2/2015
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
2015 is a big year for Kiernan Shipka. The 15-year-old actress, best known to audiences as Sally Draper on AMC's "Mad Men," will be saying goodbye to the hit show that brought her fame as it wraps up its seventh and last season this spring — and hello to a new post-"Mad Men" stage of her already budding career. Read More: Meet the Faces of SXSW 2015: Sally Field, Nick Kroll, Jason Schwartzman and More The talented teen has kept busy during the hiatuses of "Mad Men" by appearing in a number of TV movies/shows and features, including Lifetime's "Flowers in the Attic" and "Very Good Girls," opposite Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen. But this year sees her stepping out in a bigger way by leading Andrew Droz Palermo's provocative narrative debut "One & Two" (his first feature was the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary "Rich Hill"). In the drama,...
- 3/16/2015
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
A little more than a year after "Rich Hill" co-directors Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos won the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize in Documentary, Palermo is making his directorial debut in narrative fiction with the world premiere of "One & Two" at the Berlin International Film Festival. Screening in the festival's Generations category, "One & Two" is a coming-of-age family drama that supposedly incorporates elements of the supernatural. Check out the poster for the film below, exclusively on Indiewire. Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Berlin International Film Festival Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During Run of Festival...
- 2/9/2015
- by Shipra Gupta
- Indiewire
My look at 2014 continues as I review the best documentaries of 2014. Documentaries can serve a multitude of purposes. You will have your change the world docs that pick a certain cause and attempt to spread the word so people will rise up and do something. You have those that are just about a particular story that is just too incredible to believe. You also have those experimental docs that are all about playing with the perimeters with film and experience. My list covers those categories and much more. It shows documentaries can really be used to do just about anything.
10. Kids for Cash Directed By: Robert May
Synopsis: Kids For Cash is a riveting look behind the notorious judicial scandal that rocked the nation. Beyond the millions paid and high stakes corruption, Kids For Cash exposes a shocking American secret. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine, a small...
10. Kids for Cash Directed By: Robert May
Synopsis: Kids For Cash is a riveting look behind the notorious judicial scandal that rocked the nation. Beyond the millions paid and high stakes corruption, Kids For Cash exposes a shocking American secret. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine, a small...
- 1/6/2015
- by Dan Clark
- Nerdly
Last year, Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos’ Rich Hill walked away with U.S. Grand Jury Prize while Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters was perhaps the section’s most buzzed about film. The sixteen titles offerings for 2015 include a first docu offering from Bobcat Goldthwait, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare director Matthew Heineman, the return of Oscar winning director Morgan Neville (for Twenty Feet from Stardom) with Best of Enemies and the latest from Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love director E. Chai Vasarhelyi. Here are the sweet sixteen:
U.S. Documentary Competition
3½ Minutes / U.S.A. (Director: Marc Silver) — On November 23, 2012, unarmed 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis was shot at a Jacksonville gas station by Michael David Dunn. 3½ Minutes explores the aftermath of Jordan’s tragic death, the latent and often unseen effects of racism, and the contradictions of the American criminal justice system.
Being Evel / U.
U.S. Documentary Competition
3½ Minutes / U.S.A. (Director: Marc Silver) — On November 23, 2012, unarmed 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis was shot at a Jacksonville gas station by Michael David Dunn. 3½ Minutes explores the aftermath of Jordan’s tragic death, the latent and often unseen effects of racism, and the contradictions of the American criminal justice system.
Being Evel / U.
- 12/3/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Voting ends today for the Academy’s documentary branch who must narrow the list of 134 documentaries vying for a spot in the Oscar race to a shortlist of 15 films, which will be released in December. Of the 15 films, five Oscar nominees will be chosen in January.
Though a number of film festivals, such as the Savannah Film Fest, are becoming documentary hotspots, a number of Oscar-nominated documentaries premiere at the Sundance Film Festival each year. In the 21st century, seven of the Oscar winners have debuted in Utah: Born into Brothels (2004), March of the Penguins (2005), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Man on Wire (2008), The Cove (2009), Searching for Sugar Man (2012) and 20 Feet from Stardom (2013).
The rest of the documentary winners were unveiled in the states (2000’s Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and 2001’s Murder on Sunday Morning) and at the Cannes, (2002’s Bowling for Columbine,...
Managing Editor
Voting ends today for the Academy’s documentary branch who must narrow the list of 134 documentaries vying for a spot in the Oscar race to a shortlist of 15 films, which will be released in December. Of the 15 films, five Oscar nominees will be chosen in January.
Though a number of film festivals, such as the Savannah Film Fest, are becoming documentary hotspots, a number of Oscar-nominated documentaries premiere at the Sundance Film Festival each year. In the 21st century, seven of the Oscar winners have debuted in Utah: Born into Brothels (2004), March of the Penguins (2005), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Man on Wire (2008), The Cove (2009), Searching for Sugar Man (2012) and 20 Feet from Stardom (2013).
The rest of the documentary winners were unveiled in the states (2000’s Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and 2001’s Murder on Sunday Morning) and at the Cannes, (2002’s Bowling for Columbine,...
- 11/21/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Well versed in the nooks and crannies of the Missourian backdrop, for obvious reasons, the Midwestern state rooted Andrew Droz Palermo knows a thing or two about the casual barbarity of this unpopular indie film destinations. Filmed in North Carolina and with the environment informing his character set, the hopes, impulses and desires in the pinned down teenaged protagonists in his Park City award-winning docu feature debut Rich Hill might ostensibly exist in his feature debut, One & Two. Working alongside cinematographer Autumn Durald (featured in Variety), much like the probable working approach, this began production sans drawing attention to itself (filming began in the mid-summer months), this should have steadily been worked towards a Sundance berth. Sherman was a Producing Fellow with the project back in 2011, so perhaps much like the Rich Hill characters, Palermo can also dream big with back to back years at the fest.
Gist: Starring Kiernan Shipka,...
Gist: Starring Kiernan Shipka,...
- 11/13/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Further reminding us that the Academy Awards are irrelevant in year-end discussions for the best in documentary film, according to the experts at the Cinema Eye Honors’ voting committee, Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour, Steve James’ Life Itself and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s 20,000 Days on Earth would be among the best docu films of the year, leading the pack in almost all categories. Not to be overlooked, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters and Robert Greene’s Actress received kudos in Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking and Outstanding Achievement in Direction while the major surprise of the noms belongs to Orlando von Einsiedel’s Virunga (presented at the Tribeca and Hot Docs Film Fests) grabbing a total of three. Left completely off the scorecard, Manakamana failed to produce a single nom. The Cinema Eye Honors winners will be announced on Wednesday, January 7 at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image.
- 11/13/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Amy Berg's An Open Secret
While the world premiere of Marjorie Sturm's The Cult Of Jt Leroy joins Doc NYC, Amy Berg's An Open Secret is still up in the air.
Gracie Otto's The Last Impresario on Michael White, Andrea B. Scott's Florence, Arizona, Keva Rosenfeld's All American High Revisited, Thomas Wirthensohn's Homme Less, Dave Jannetta's Love And Terror On The Howling Plains Of Nowhere, Norah Shapiro's Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile, Rich Hill by Tracy Droz Tragos, Little White Lie by Lacey Schwartz and Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden's Almost There, connect with Richard Gere's performance in Oren Moverman's Time Out Of Mind, Marion Cotillard in Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's Two Days, One Night to Michael Keaton's Birdman in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance, turning questions of identity into passages of time.
While the world premiere of Marjorie Sturm's The Cult Of Jt Leroy joins Doc NYC, Amy Berg's An Open Secret is still up in the air.
Gracie Otto's The Last Impresario on Michael White, Andrea B. Scott's Florence, Arizona, Keva Rosenfeld's All American High Revisited, Thomas Wirthensohn's Homme Less, Dave Jannetta's Love And Terror On The Howling Plains Of Nowhere, Norah Shapiro's Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile, Rich Hill by Tracy Droz Tragos, Little White Lie by Lacey Schwartz and Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden's Almost There, connect with Richard Gere's performance in Oren Moverman's Time Out Of Mind, Marion Cotillard in Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's Two Days, One Night to Michael Keaton's Birdman in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance, turning questions of identity into passages of time.
- 11/12/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Potentially filling Sundance’s quota for difficult relationships, Hannah Fidell (profiled in our Ioncinephile series) will have moved from the heated, self-deprecating rapport between prof and student in A Teacher (selected for the Next section in 2013) to a tumultuous, uphill/downhill portrait of couplehood in 6 Years. Reunited with cinematographer/filmmaker Andrew Droz Palermo (Rich Hill), this Austin shot drama has benefitted from the extra time in post-production as it was shot in March of this year and we’re sure glad she didn’t waste much time between projects. Younglings Taissa Farmiga (see on set pic above) and Ben Rosenfield (last year’s Song One) topline the feature, while Sundance regular Joshua Leonard, Jennifer Lafleur, Peter Vack and Lindsay Burdge (who has appeared in Fidell’s We’re Glad You’re Here (2010) and of course toplined A Teacher) are the supporting players.
Gist: The film tells the story of Mel...
Gist: The film tells the story of Mel...
- 11/11/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Doc NYC Director of Programming Basil Tsiokos Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
What do Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's portrait of Sebastião Salgado in The Salt Of The Earth, Ben Cotner and Ryan White's The Case Against 8, Rory Kennedy's Last Days In Vietnam, Life Itself, based on Roger Ebert's memoir directed by Steve James, D.A. Pennebaker and William Ray's David on jazz trumpeter David Allen, Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo's Rich Hill and Divide In Concord directed by Kris Kaczor and Dave Regos have in common?
All of these documentaries and more are screening in the 2014 Doc NYC Film Festival.
David
Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards, Citizenfour director Laura Poitras will receive the Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence and Dan Cogan the Leading Light Award which honours "an individual making a crucial...
What do Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's portrait of Sebastião Salgado in The Salt Of The Earth, Ben Cotner and Ryan White's The Case Against 8, Rory Kennedy's Last Days In Vietnam, Life Itself, based on Roger Ebert's memoir directed by Steve James, D.A. Pennebaker and William Ray's David on jazz trumpeter David Allen, Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo's Rich Hill and Divide In Concord directed by Kris Kaczor and Dave Regos have in common?
All of these documentaries and more are screening in the 2014 Doc NYC Film Festival.
David
Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards, Citizenfour director Laura Poitras will receive the Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence and Dan Cogan the Leading Light Award which honours "an individual making a crucial...
- 11/10/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The art of the documentarian is getting close to your subjects and catching the moments as they come. There is no finer a portrait of what grinding, incompetent poverty can do to a family, no matter how well-intentioned, than first cousins Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo's self-funded "Rich Hill." That's the name of yet another wrong-side-of-the-tracks town in rural America, in this case depressed one-time mining town Rich Hill, Missouri, seventy miles south of Kansas City, home to some 1300 residents trying to scratch out a living. The streets are deserted, the kids are poor, with sadass parents. We follow three boys, including cheery, bright-eyed, athletic Andrew, who gets up every day and tries to get ahead, despite his helpless, over-medicated mom and under-employed dad, who mean well but no matter how many times they start over, keep sliding back to near homelessness. It's heartbreaking when you see...
- 11/4/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Directed by: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos
Rich Hill is a rich portrait of poverty stricken youth culture in rural America. Directors Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos never ask you to pity their subjects rather they are more content on making you aware of their existence. With unfettered access they are able to craft a documentary full of intimate moments that showcase the power an environment can hold on a person, and how broken the American dream can become. There is this dichotomous streak that runs throughout where desire and reality are always at odds. One that serves as a reminder that desperation does not always diminish hope. Even if a person is eternally trapped in their situation there is a glimmer of faith that life will somehow turn out better.
Nothing better displays that than the town of Rich Hill, Missouri itself. Located about an hour...
Rich Hill is a rich portrait of poverty stricken youth culture in rural America. Directors Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos never ask you to pity their subjects rather they are more content on making you aware of their existence. With unfettered access they are able to craft a documentary full of intimate moments that showcase the power an environment can hold on a person, and how broken the American dream can become. There is this dichotomous streak that runs throughout where desire and reality are always at odds. One that serves as a reminder that desperation does not always diminish hope. Even if a person is eternally trapped in their situation there is a glimmer of faith that life will somehow turn out better.
Nothing better displays that than the town of Rich Hill, Missouri itself. Located about an hour...
- 10/16/2014
- by Dan Clark
- Nerdly
• Jag star David James Elliott has been cast opposite Martin Freeman and Brian Cox in the indie thriller American Hangman. Elliot will play Detective James Steptoe in the kidnapping film from writer/director Wilson Coneybeare, who worked with Elliot on the movie A Ted Named Gooby. [THR]
• Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men), Timothée Chalamet (Homeland), Grant Bowler (Defiance), and Elizabeth Reaser (Twilight) will star as a family with dark secrets in One & Two. Director Andrew Droz Palermo is directing the film about the family of four living in peaceful isolation in a mysterious farmhouse. Palermo, who made his feature debut co-directing the...
• Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men), Timothée Chalamet (Homeland), Grant Bowler (Defiance), and Elizabeth Reaser (Twilight) will star as a family with dark secrets in One & Two. Director Andrew Droz Palermo is directing the film about the family of four living in peaceful isolation in a mysterious farmhouse. Palermo, who made his feature debut co-directing the...
- 8/29/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men), Timothée Chalamet (Homeland, Interstellar), Grant Bowler (True Blood, Defiance), and Elizabeth Reaser (Twilight, True Detective) will star in One & Two, the next feature from director Andrew Droz Palermo. Palermo, a Dp whose credits include You’re Next, V/H/S, and Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher, made his helming debut with co-director Tracy Droz Tragos on Rich Hill, the 2014 documentary about youngsters growing up in an impoverished Midwestern town that won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize. One & Two follows a family of four who live peacefully in purposeful isolation in a mysterious farmhouse, where siblings Zac and Eva begin to explore unusual abilities and dark family secrets when their mother falls ill. Palermo co-wrote the film with Neima Shahdadi and will begin filming soon in North Carolina. Kim Sherman is producing with Bow + Arrow Entertainment’s Matthew Perniciaro and Michael Sherman. Bow + Arrow and Protagonist Pictures are executive producers.
- 8/28/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
A portrait of small-town American poverty in which compassion for its subjects is matched only by a caustic undercurrent of rage at the utter collapse of the American dream. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Rich Hill isn’t a person but a place: a rather ironically named “city” of 1,300-someodd souls in Missouri where hopelessness appear to reign even among the cheery fireworks and patriotic parades complete with countless waving Stars and Stripes and enthusiastic but off-key high-school marching band renditions of “God Bless America.”
Local filmmakers Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for this portrait of a year in the life of three teenaged Rich Hill boys, and their compassion for the trials of their subjects’ lives is...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Rich Hill isn’t a person but a place: a rather ironically named “city” of 1,300-someodd souls in Missouri where hopelessness appear to reign even among the cheery fireworks and patriotic parades complete with countless waving Stars and Stripes and enthusiastic but off-key high-school marching band renditions of “God Bless America.”
Local filmmakers Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for this portrait of a year in the life of three teenaged Rich Hill boys, and their compassion for the trials of their subjects’ lives is...
- 8/27/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Here are some International Documentary Association (Ida) News:
The Ida Documentary Screening Series brings some of the year's best documentaries to the Ida community and members of industry guilds and organizations. Screenings conclude with Q&A discussions with filmmakers, moderated by journalists from Media Partners Indiewire and The Nation.
Series kicks off September 11, 2014 with "Keep On Keepin' On" at the Landmark in L.A.
See what's screening and RSVP today!
Take the Lisa Kirk Colburn Challenge : Ida Board Member to Triple Your Gift's Impact
Help the Ida build and serve the needs of a thriving documentary culture! Now through Labor Day (September 1), nonfiction filmmaker and Ida Board member Lisa Kirk Colburn will triple the impact of your tax-deductible donation to the Ida with her personal contribution of up to $10,000.
If you give $50, she?ll give $100. If you give $250, she?ll give $500. That?s a pretty sweet deal, and will help the Ida provide the resources and support that all documentarians need to practice their art form.
While supplies last, donors of $100 or more are eligible to receive a DVD of 2014 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Rich Hill by Ida members Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palmero!
Thanks for helping us take full advantage of Lisa? amazing offer by giving as generously as your budget allows.
The Ida Documentary Screening Series brings some of the year's best documentaries to the Ida community and members of industry guilds and organizations. Screenings conclude with Q&A discussions with filmmakers, moderated by journalists from Media Partners Indiewire and The Nation.
Series kicks off September 11, 2014 with "Keep On Keepin' On" at the Landmark in L.A.
See what's screening and RSVP today!
Take the Lisa Kirk Colburn Challenge : Ida Board Member to Triple Your Gift's Impact
Help the Ida build and serve the needs of a thriving documentary culture! Now through Labor Day (September 1), nonfiction filmmaker and Ida Board member Lisa Kirk Colburn will triple the impact of your tax-deductible donation to the Ida with her personal contribution of up to $10,000.
If you give $50, she?ll give $100. If you give $250, she?ll give $500. That?s a pretty sweet deal, and will help the Ida provide the resources and support that all documentarians need to practice their art form.
While supplies last, donors of $100 or more are eligible to receive a DVD of 2014 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Rich Hill by Ida members Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palmero!
Thanks for helping us take full advantage of Lisa? amazing offer by giving as generously as your budget allows.
- 8/25/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
In the summer of 2011, Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo, first cousins, both filmmakers, sat in an idling car at Lax, trying to come up with a project. Talk turned to Rich Hill, their family's hometown in southwestern Missouri. "It was actually a conversation about our Uncle Paul, who still lives there and our love of him and, by extension, our love of this town," Tragos says. "But it was also the acknowledgment that it's a hard place. It clicked."
Three years later, their astonishing documentary, Rich Hill, has...
Three years later, their astonishing documentary, Rich Hill, has...
- 8/13/2014
- Rollingstone.com
One of the Playlist's picks for Best Documentaries Of 2014 So Far and an award winner at Sundance for Best Documentary "Rich Hill" has since been even more widely lauded. Today we have an exclusive clip from the film. Directed by Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos, the doc follows the hopes, dreams and challenges of teenagers Andrew, Harley and Appachey in Rich Hill, Missouri. It's a straight-forward concept that rewards viewers with what we called an "important film" and a "tough but tender journey...and a sort of state of the union address of Middle America in the twenty-teens." In the clip, you can see one of the film's quaint slices of life. "Rich Hill" is now in theaters and on VOD. Watch below. ...
- 8/6/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
It is difficult to watch the penetrating documentary Rich Hill without imposing your own values and prejudices. I did. Watching the case-studies of three impoverished Missouri male adolescents, my despair over the degeneration of life in small-town America led to a constant inner dialogue with the film and its subjects: Why, child, I asked, are they giving you so many meds? Why the hell are you chain-smoking at age 13? Why did your parents bring you into the world when they were so young and so evidently unable (or unwilling) to care for you? What can you do in such a bleak place to keep your mind from turning to mush?Directors Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos have chosen their young (white) subjects from among a population of 1,396: two problem boys and one who’s more “normal,” more primed to escape his world — except his mother has fled...
- 8/1/2014
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. For those keeping tabs on emerging indie talents, you’d find our month’s featured personality listed as the cinematographer on Adam Wingard’s You’re Next, Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher, and Kat Candler’s short, Black Metal, but it’s his “radiant observational piece” smack-dab in a don’t blink or you’ll miss it community in middle America that Andrew Droz Palermo decided would be the subject of his first full length docu feature. Co-signed with cousin Tracy Droz Tragos, the U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary winning Rich Hill will be released by The Orchard distrib folks on August 1st in New York City (check the listings). Here’s our profile on Andrew, and make sure to click on over to his Top Ten Films of All Time...
- 8/1/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile, we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten favorite films of all time. Currently filming his debut narrative feature One & Two, Andrew Droz Palermo (read here) took some time out to unveil the films that make up that list as of August 2014. Andrew’s Rich Hill gets released theatrically (Aug.1st) via The Orchard. Here are his top ten in his own words.:
Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
“What can I possibly add that hasn’t already been said? It’s a masterpiece.”
Come and See – Elem Klimov (1985)
“Eerie. Heartbreaking. Surreal. Just amazing control of tone. Dying for Kino Lorber to release a Blu-ray.”
George Washington – David Gordon Green (2000)
“Rich Hill” gets compared to this film pretty often. I definitely take that as a compliment.
Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
“What can I possibly add that hasn’t already been said? It’s a masterpiece.”
Come and See – Elem Klimov (1985)
“Eerie. Heartbreaking. Surreal. Just amazing control of tone. Dying for Kino Lorber to release a Blu-ray.”
George Washington – David Gordon Green (2000)
“Rich Hill” gets compared to this film pretty often. I definitely take that as a compliment.
- 8/1/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Born of a Small Town: Droz Tragos & Droz Palermo Regard Three Boys Living With Ingrained Poverty and Troubled Pedigree
With increasing frequency, documentary filmmakers are examining the developing lives of youngsters, observing the rapid transformation of their bodies and their transitioning self images in reciprocating unrest, their puberty ridden psyches an emotional microcosm often illuminating the family and communities in which they’re raised. Some indulge juvenile subversion like 12 O’Clock Boys, some investigate race relations as in American Promise, some observe the fragile state of growing relationships like Young Ones, some conjure the spirit of youthful wonder à la Tchoupitoulas, and some document the naive resilience of young minds stuck in dire situations as co-directors Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo have with their visually sumptuous collaboration, Rich Hill. Following a trio of teenage boys who’ve inherited the heartbreak of poverty and domestic disputes, the film calls...
With increasing frequency, documentary filmmakers are examining the developing lives of youngsters, observing the rapid transformation of their bodies and their transitioning self images in reciprocating unrest, their puberty ridden psyches an emotional microcosm often illuminating the family and communities in which they’re raised. Some indulge juvenile subversion like 12 O’Clock Boys, some investigate race relations as in American Promise, some observe the fragile state of growing relationships like Young Ones, some conjure the spirit of youthful wonder à la Tchoupitoulas, and some document the naive resilience of young minds stuck in dire situations as co-directors Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo have with their visually sumptuous collaboration, Rich Hill. Following a trio of teenage boys who’ve inherited the heartbreak of poverty and domestic disputes, the film calls...
- 8/1/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Listen To Nathan Halpern's "Fourth Of July" From Sundance Winning Documentary 'Rich Hill'
Filmmakers Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos didn't reinvent the wheel for their documentary "Rich Hill." They simply turned the camera on Andrew, Harley, and Appachey, three youngsters on the verge of adolescence in the titular small town, resulting in a movie that took the Best Documentary prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The film's score, composed by Nathan Halpern, is particularly key. He has a strong track record of documentary work behind him ("Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present," "The Loving Story," "All the President's Men Revisited"): Below, you can hear the lovely tune, "Fourth Of July," from the "Rich Hill" soundtrack. "Rich Hill" opens in limited release on August 1st. The soundtrack will be available digitally on the same day via Halpern's Copticon Music, distributed by The Orchard on outlets like iTunes, Amazon and more. Listen below and check out...
- 7/30/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The directors of Rich Hill, cousins Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo, didn't pick the rural Missouri town at random.
Their family hails from Rich Hill, where their grandparents (a teacher and grocer/mailman) were widely known. The remarkable ease their documentary subjects display reflects the trust Tragos (Be Good, Smile Pretty) and Palermo engendered, and their Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner shows obvious affection for this economically depressed community.
They capture many extraordinarily candid moments, but Rich Hill does not add up to more than a series of vignettes. What it offers is a compassionate look at the intricacies of American poverty, where joblessness is only one factor.
The teens in Rich Hill</...
Their family hails from Rich Hill, where their grandparents (a teacher and grocer/mailman) were widely known. The remarkable ease their documentary subjects display reflects the trust Tragos (Be Good, Smile Pretty) and Palermo engendered, and their Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner shows obvious affection for this economically depressed community.
They capture many extraordinarily candid moments, but Rich Hill does not add up to more than a series of vignettes. What it offers is a compassionate look at the intricacies of American poverty, where joblessness is only one factor.
The teens in Rich Hill</...
- 7/30/2014
- Village Voice
The art of the documentarian is getting close to your subjects and catching the moments as they come. There is no finer a portrait of what grinding, incompetent poverty can do to a family, no matter how well-intentioned, than first cousins Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo's self-funded "Rich Hill." That's the name of yet another wrong-side-of-the-tracks town in rural America, in this case depressed one-time mining town Rich Hill, Missouri, seventy miles south of Kansas City, home to some 1300 residents trying to scratch out a living. The streets are deserted, the kids are poor, with sadass parents. We follow three boys, including cheery, bright-eyed, athletic Andrew, who gets up every day and tries to get ahead, despite his helpless, over-medicated mom and under-employed dad, who mean well but no matter how many times they start over, keep sliding back to near homelessness. It's heartbreaking when you see...
- 7/21/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Over the course of cinematic history, documentaries have left a distinct impression, often managing to capture true life stories of fascinating individuals and places in a way their film counterparts are unable to. This has led to many awards ceremonies and film festival recognising documentaries on their own merit, and the Sundance Film Festival is no stranger in this regard. One of the documentaries that made waves at the 2014 incarnation of the Festival was Rich Hill, which went on to win the Grand Jury Prize in the documentary category. A trailer for the film, which is directed by Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos, has now released a new trailer, which can be seen below.
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- 6/26/2014
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Rich Hill, Missouri is not unlike other towns. In some ways, it’s an everytown—a microcosm of the many once-thriving areas that have become irreparably blighted in the last half century.
But for documentary filmmakers and first cousins Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo, Rich Hill happened to be where their grandparents lived and their parents grew up. Their collective ties to the area allowed them to use their documentary—named for the town—to tell a story that was unique and hyper-personal, and one that paints a portrait of adolescence in America’s forgotten towns.
Tragos and...
But for documentary filmmakers and first cousins Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo, Rich Hill happened to be where their grandparents lived and their parents grew up. Their collective ties to the area allowed them to use their documentary—named for the town—to tell a story that was unique and hyper-personal, and one that paints a portrait of adolescence in America’s forgotten towns.
Tragos and...
- 6/24/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Not all docu films that make the cut into the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Labs are fortunate enough to then land a coveted spot at the festival (recent examples include Roger Ross Williams’ God Loves Uganda and Tracy Draz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Rich Hill) but some fresh air and supportive pounding from the Institute’s Advisors surely contributes to the realization of passion projects that are buckets filled in blood, sweat and tears. Among the press release mentions below, we’ll surely be discussing them in Park City setting in a January to too far off from now. Here are the selection of 20 Fellows representing eight documentary film projects to participate in the 2014 Documentary Edit and Story Labs, June 20-28 and July 4-12 at Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah.
Artists and projects selected for the June 20-28 Documentary Edit and Story Lab:
A Flickering...
Artists and projects selected for the June 20-28 Documentary Edit and Story Lab:
A Flickering...
- 6/19/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Once again I have the good fortune of spending some time with Sophie Dulac who is not only President of the Champs Elysees Film Festival but producer currently of three coproductions, one with Germany and one with Armenia and whose past co-productions include "Hannah Arendt" by Margarethe Von Trotta, "Last Days in Jerusalem" by Tawfik Abu-Wael and "The Band's Visit". She is also a distributor of over 70 films since the 2003 founding of Sophie Dulac Distribution with films of Bela Tarr, Frederick Wiseman, Alexandre Sokourov, Jacques Doillon and Theo Angelopoulos as well as new talents like Katel Quillévéré or Eva Ionesco, from festivals such as Cannes, Locarno, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance or Venice among others.
She also owns key theaters in Paris without whose support films would flounder and die. The company, Screens in Paris (Les Ecrans de Paris), is a circuit of five independent cinemas with 13 screens and 2,300 seats on Paris: Harlequin, the Medici Reflection Panorama El Escorial, the Majestic and Majestic Passy Bastille. When a film shows in some of these, then its success is nearly guaranteed. And last, but hardly least, she is Vice President of Publicis, founded by her grandfather, Marcel Blaustein, in 1926, abandoned while he fought in the Resistance and reclaimed after the war and rebuilt into the third largest public relations/ advertising corporation in the world. Marcel Blaustein was first to use radio as a means of advertising,
When we spoke two years ago, the Champs Elysees Film Festival was just beginning.
See Women to Watch.
Now in its third edition, taking place June 11 - 17, 2014, it has grown in recognition among professionals and the public worldwide, and it is enhancing the Champs Elysees as a place for the French to attend cinema once again. It is also creating ties between the French and American cineastes in many new ways. This popular and festive Franco-American film festival taking place on the most prestigious avenue offered an even more eclectic and exciting program this year. It was presided over by Bertrand Tavernier and Jacqueline Bisset.
Guests of Honor giving master classes include :
- Agnès Varda, present to talk about her films shot in the States
- Keanu Reeves, who presented the documentary "Side by Side" which he produced
- Whit Stillman whose cult film "Metropolitan" was shown in the festival and will shortly be released in France. He spoke French as did many other American filmmakers during their presentations.
- Mike Figgis spoke about fashion and film following a documentary and several short films he has made this subject
The Feature Film Competition of newly released American Independent films includes "1982" by Tommy Oliver which won U.S. in Progress in 2013 and will soon be released in the U.S., "American Promise", a documentary by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, "Fort Bliss" by Claudia Myers, "Obvious Child" by Gillian Robespierre, "Rich Hill" a documentary by Andrew Droz Palermo & Tacy Droz Tragos, "See You Next Tuesday" by Drew Tobia, "Summer of Blood" by Onur Tukel, a former U.S. in Progress entry, "Sun Belt Express" by Evan Buxbaum - another former U.S. in Progress entry, "The Magic City" by R. Malcolm Jones.
There is also a short film competition of over 35 French and American shorts, including a selection from film schools (AFI, USC and Columbia in the States and La Fémis, Eicar, ArtFx and Les Gobelins schools in France).
Since the Paris Film Festival lost its funding by the city earlier this year, Ceff is the only Film Festival in the city and the Paris Coproduction Village moved over to it with 12 features. Run by the same team which runs the Les Arcs Coproduction Village in the French Alps in December, CEO Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin, head of industry Vanja Kaludjercic, general manager Guillaume Calop and consultant co-founder Jeremy Zelni, it kept up the high quality of its projects. More than 130 companies registered and 160 professionals attended. There were 560 one-to-one meetings over the two days. The main focus of the event is to connect international filmmakers with potential French sales agents and producers but alongside representatives of companies such as Bac Films, Other Angle, Les Films d’ici 2 a number of international companies also attended including the UK’s WestEnd Films, Bankside, The Match Factory and The Works.
The festival poster is a cross between movie icon Marilyn Monroe and the icon of French Liberty, Marianne. Nicknamed "Marilyanne", it is being featured on T shirts, buttons, post cards and are all for sale. A new pass for full entry for the week is offered for 50 Euros.
She also owns key theaters in Paris without whose support films would flounder and die. The company, Screens in Paris (Les Ecrans de Paris), is a circuit of five independent cinemas with 13 screens and 2,300 seats on Paris: Harlequin, the Medici Reflection Panorama El Escorial, the Majestic and Majestic Passy Bastille. When a film shows in some of these, then its success is nearly guaranteed. And last, but hardly least, she is Vice President of Publicis, founded by her grandfather, Marcel Blaustein, in 1926, abandoned while he fought in the Resistance and reclaimed after the war and rebuilt into the third largest public relations/ advertising corporation in the world. Marcel Blaustein was first to use radio as a means of advertising,
When we spoke two years ago, the Champs Elysees Film Festival was just beginning.
See Women to Watch.
Now in its third edition, taking place June 11 - 17, 2014, it has grown in recognition among professionals and the public worldwide, and it is enhancing the Champs Elysees as a place for the French to attend cinema once again. It is also creating ties between the French and American cineastes in many new ways. This popular and festive Franco-American film festival taking place on the most prestigious avenue offered an even more eclectic and exciting program this year. It was presided over by Bertrand Tavernier and Jacqueline Bisset.
Guests of Honor giving master classes include :
- Agnès Varda, present to talk about her films shot in the States
- Keanu Reeves, who presented the documentary "Side by Side" which he produced
- Whit Stillman whose cult film "Metropolitan" was shown in the festival and will shortly be released in France. He spoke French as did many other American filmmakers during their presentations.
- Mike Figgis spoke about fashion and film following a documentary and several short films he has made this subject
The Feature Film Competition of newly released American Independent films includes "1982" by Tommy Oliver which won U.S. in Progress in 2013 and will soon be released in the U.S., "American Promise", a documentary by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, "Fort Bliss" by Claudia Myers, "Obvious Child" by Gillian Robespierre, "Rich Hill" a documentary by Andrew Droz Palermo & Tacy Droz Tragos, "See You Next Tuesday" by Drew Tobia, "Summer of Blood" by Onur Tukel, a former U.S. in Progress entry, "Sun Belt Express" by Evan Buxbaum - another former U.S. in Progress entry, "The Magic City" by R. Malcolm Jones.
There is also a short film competition of over 35 French and American shorts, including a selection from film schools (AFI, USC and Columbia in the States and La Fémis, Eicar, ArtFx and Les Gobelins schools in France).
Since the Paris Film Festival lost its funding by the city earlier this year, Ceff is the only Film Festival in the city and the Paris Coproduction Village moved over to it with 12 features. Run by the same team which runs the Les Arcs Coproduction Village in the French Alps in December, CEO Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin, head of industry Vanja Kaludjercic, general manager Guillaume Calop and consultant co-founder Jeremy Zelni, it kept up the high quality of its projects. More than 130 companies registered and 160 professionals attended. There were 560 one-to-one meetings over the two days. The main focus of the event is to connect international filmmakers with potential French sales agents and producers but alongside representatives of companies such as Bac Films, Other Angle, Les Films d’ici 2 a number of international companies also attended including the UK’s WestEnd Films, Bankside, The Match Factory and The Works.
The festival poster is a cross between movie icon Marilyn Monroe and the icon of French Liberty, Marianne. Nicknamed "Marilyanne", it is being featured on T shirts, buttons, post cards and are all for sale. A new pass for full entry for the week is offered for 50 Euros.
- 6/17/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Technically her sophomore point fifth of a feature (65-minuter We’re Glad You’re Here precedes A Teacher) which has amusingly gone by a vast array of titles (follow the social media folks for a visual clapboard round-up), Hannah Fidell (featured Ioncinephile of the month) has been cooking up her latest since the spring and now we’ve got official word on the make-up of the cast in the currently untitled project — a drama which will surely hit Sundance next year. Deadline reports that Taissa Farmiga (of Higher Ground fame) and Ben Rosenfield share the lead, while Joshua Leonard, Peter Vack, Jennifer Lafleur and three times a charm Lindsay Burdge are part of the supporting cast in what sounds like a psychological roller-coaster ride for a couple that are nearing the end of college — sort of the anthesis of the grown up portion in Linklater’s Boyhood. Kelly Williams and...
- 6/13/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
At this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, the panel “The Art of Documentary Film Editing: Case Studies” featured moderator Jim Hession, editor of Rich Hill, Lucia Small, director and editor of One Cut, One Life and Bryan Storkel, editor of Fight Church. An audience member asked the panel how they interviewed people and whether they prepped them beforehand, adding “Whenever I interview people, they’re always really bad talking to the camera.” Storkel: I try and do as little prep as possible. I try to show up and just start talking and get to know them on camera. I’ll have my questions […]...
- 5/2/2014
- by Michael Murie
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
At this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, the panel “The Art of Documentary Film Editing: Case Studies” featured moderator Jim Hession, editor of Rich Hill, Lucia Small, director and editor of One Cut, One Life and Bryan Storkel, editor of Fight Church. An audience member asked the panel how they interviewed people and whether they prepped them beforehand, adding “Whenever I interview people, they’re always really bad talking to the camera.” Storkel: I try and do as little prep as possible. I try to show up and just start talking and get to know them on camera. I’ll have my questions […]...
- 5/2/2014
- by Michael Murie
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This year's Sundance Grand Jury award winner makes its way to Hot Docs, and it's one of those documentaries that lets the subjects do all the heavy lifting. Using the cinéma vérité observational style of filmmaking, "Rich Hill" is a powerful story about rural living in modern times.
Andrew, Harley and Appachey are three teenage boys trying to make their way through life in the small and relatively poor town of Rich Hill, Missouri. These young bucks are facing troubles beyond their years, with not a lot of support. Too young to strike out on their own, but too old to shirk responsibility, their stories are evidence that give credibility to a haunting version of the American Dream. "Rich Hill" doesn't provide any answers, but all the questions come from the real lives of its three subjects.
The most endearing character in this trio has to be 14-year-old Andrew. He's handsome,...
Andrew, Harley and Appachey are three teenage boys trying to make their way through life in the small and relatively poor town of Rich Hill, Missouri. These young bucks are facing troubles beyond their years, with not a lot of support. Too young to strike out on their own, but too old to shirk responsibility, their stories are evidence that give credibility to a haunting version of the American Dream. "Rich Hill" doesn't provide any answers, but all the questions come from the real lives of its three subjects.
The most endearing character in this trio has to be 14-year-old Andrew. He's handsome,...
- 4/29/2014
- by Mark Wigmore
- Moviefone
The 2014 Sarasota Film Festival wrapped over the weekend in Florida with Pawel Pawlikowski's black-and-white drama "Ida" taking home top honors in the Narrative section, and Amir Bar-Lev's "Happy Valley" winning the respective honor in the Documentary competition. Josephine Decker's "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely" meanwhile won the Independent Visions Award, which includes a distribution offer from Factory 25, and Tangerine Entertainment’s Juice Award. Read More: Berlinale Breakout -- Josephine Decker On Her Much Discussed Festival Double Feature In addition to the main awards, three special jury prizes were awarded: in the Narrative category, Lukas Moodysson's "We Are the Best!" was rewarded with a Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting; in the Documentary section, Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo's "Rich Hill" won a Special Jury Prize for Direction; and in the Visions competition, the jury gave a special Outstanding Performance Award to Tallie Medel from "Joy Kevin,...
- 4/13/2014
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
The distributor has acquired Us rights from Films Distribution to Andreas Prochaska’s revenge tale following its world premiere in Berlin.
Sam Riley stars as a stranger who arrives on horseback in an Alpine village ruled by a violent elder.
The Dark Valley is based on Thomas Willmann’s novel Das Finstere Tal.
Film Movement is distributing in association with Ram Releasing and plans n early 2015 theatrical release in the Us and Canada, followed by VOD and DVD release.
Warner Bros distributed in Germany.
Independent Lens will partner with film and music distributor The Orchard to distribute Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Sundance 2014 grand jury documentary winner Rich Hill. Independent Lens acquired linear broadcast rights for the Us, while The Orchard acquired the film for all rights in the Us and Canada outside of linear broadcast and will release theatrically in 18 markets through its new documentary imprint, Opus Docs.WWE...
Sam Riley stars as a stranger who arrives on horseback in an Alpine village ruled by a violent elder.
The Dark Valley is based on Thomas Willmann’s novel Das Finstere Tal.
Film Movement is distributing in association with Ram Releasing and plans n early 2015 theatrical release in the Us and Canada, followed by VOD and DVD release.
Warner Bros distributed in Germany.
Independent Lens will partner with film and music distributor The Orchard to distribute Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Sundance 2014 grand jury documentary winner Rich Hill. Independent Lens acquired linear broadcast rights for the Us, while The Orchard acquired the film for all rights in the Us and Canada outside of linear broadcast and will release theatrically in 18 markets through its new documentary imprint, Opus Docs.WWE...
- 3/18/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Two documentaries that premiered at this year's Sundance, Grand Jury winner "Rich Hill" and Rory Kennedy's "Last Days in Vietnam," have found distribution. Emmy-winning TV series Independent Lens (broadcast nationally on PBS) and music distributor The Orchard are teaming for a theatrical release on "Rich Hill," which follows three teen boys living on the brink of absolute poverty in the Missouri town of the title. It is helmed by Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo. Indiewire's Eric Kohn said of the film in a B+ review, "With its constant melancholic tone, which blend voiceovers and somber asides from its characters, "Rich Hill" often feels like a Terrence Malick movie that trades majestic spirituality for burgeoning teen angst." Meanwhile, "Last Days in Vietnam" has found a distribution home with American Experience Films, slating a September 5 limited release. The film chronicles the final chaotic days of the Vietnam War, as...
- 3/18/2014
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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