Di4ries is an Italian teen comedy series directed by Alessandro Celli. The Netflix series follows the story of a group of middle school students attending Galileo Galilei Middle School on the island of Ischia. The series follows these students as they encounter their first crush, love, kiss, and friendships. So, if you loved Di4ries here are similar shows you could watch next.
Boy Meets World (Disney+ & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – ABC
Synopsis: Boy Meets World centers around Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) and his issues, theories, and relationships as he comes of age from junior high through college. His childhood sweetheart, Topanga (Danielle Fishel), and best friend, Shawn (Rider Strong), along with Cory’s parents and older brother (Will Friedle), create a balance in this boy’s world. Cory often seeks guidance from his neighbor and school teacher, Mr. Feeney (William Daniels), who manages to give advice that relates back...
Boy Meets World (Disney+ & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – ABC
Synopsis: Boy Meets World centers around Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) and his issues, theories, and relationships as he comes of age from junior high through college. His childhood sweetheart, Topanga (Danielle Fishel), and best friend, Shawn (Rider Strong), along with Cory’s parents and older brother (Will Friedle), create a balance in this boy’s world. Cory often seeks guidance from his neighbor and school teacher, Mr. Feeney (William Daniels), who manages to give advice that relates back...
- 9/17/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Cinereach announced the four recipients of 2019’s Producer Award, a $50,000 filmmaking prize as part of the Cinereach Producers Initiative, on Friday.
The indie film company has selected Jessica Devaney (“Always in Season”), Alexandra Lazarowich (“Fast Horse”), Kishori Rajan (“Random Acts of Flyness”) and Jamund Washington (“Tramps”) as independent producers that have demonstrated vision and integrity, contributed to the film community as mentors and leaders, and enriched the culture through their films.
“This year’s group of recipients is particularly exciting because Jessica, Alexandra, Kishori and Jamund have each created poignant, culturally thoughtful work that breaks down barriers on a multitude of platforms. Their commitment to this type of work is shifting our industry in meaningful ways,” Merrill Sterritt, head of partnerships and creative initiatives at Cinereach, said in a statement.
Also Read: How to Be a 'Real' Producer: Know Your Audience and 'Fight for Your Life'
“We are proud to...
The indie film company has selected Jessica Devaney (“Always in Season”), Alexandra Lazarowich (“Fast Horse”), Kishori Rajan (“Random Acts of Flyness”) and Jamund Washington (“Tramps”) as independent producers that have demonstrated vision and integrity, contributed to the film community as mentors and leaders, and enriched the culture through their films.
“This year’s group of recipients is particularly exciting because Jessica, Alexandra, Kishori and Jamund have each created poignant, culturally thoughtful work that breaks down barriers on a multitude of platforms. Their commitment to this type of work is shifting our industry in meaningful ways,” Merrill Sterritt, head of partnerships and creative initiatives at Cinereach, said in a statement.
Also Read: How to Be a 'Real' Producer: Know Your Audience and 'Fight for Your Life'
“We are proud to...
- 6/7/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
CBS today announced four participants for the 2018-2019 Directors Initiative, including Bold and the Beautiful star Heather Tom (Katie Logan Forrester). Now in its 15th year, the initiative provides a platform for experienced directors to gain access to showrunners, executives, managers and agents and, more importantly, the opportunity to shadow CBS Television Network and CBS Television Studio shows throughout the year. The program helps directors develop strategic objectives aimed at cultivating meaningful relationships with industry professionals that are essential to getting hired.
“This initiative is all about access to decision makers who can ultimately provide opportunities to advance our participants’ careers,” said Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, Executive Vice President, Entertainment Diversity, Inclusion and Communications, CBS Entertainment. “Another rewarding aspect about this community we are building is that many of our participants will gain experience by shadowing directing alumni of previous Director Initiative programs, who are eager to share their insights.”
This year's participants are listed below.
“This initiative is all about access to decision makers who can ultimately provide opportunities to advance our participants’ careers,” said Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, Executive Vice President, Entertainment Diversity, Inclusion and Communications, CBS Entertainment. “Another rewarding aspect about this community we are building is that many of our participants will gain experience by shadowing directing alumni of previous Director Initiative programs, who are eager to share their insights.”
This year's participants are listed below.
- 10/25/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
CBS has named the four helmers selected for its 2018-19 Directors Initiative. Now in its eighth year, the program helps directors develop strategic objectives aimed at cultivating meaningful relationships with industry professionals that are essential to getting hired.
This year’s class includes Lionel Colman, Cellin Gluck, Anne Hamilton and Heather Tom. All are drama directors. Read more about them below.
CBS’ program provides a platform for experienced directors to gain access to showrunners, executives, managers and agents and gives them the opportunity to shadow CBS Television Network and CBS Television Studio shows throughout the year.
“This initiative is all about access to decision makers who can ultimately provide opportunities to advance our participants’ careers,” said Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, Evp Entertainment Diversity, Inclusion and Communications at CBS Entertainment. “Another rewarding aspect about this community we are building is that many of our participants will gain experience by shadowing directing alumni of previous Director Initiative programs,...
This year’s class includes Lionel Colman, Cellin Gluck, Anne Hamilton and Heather Tom. All are drama directors. Read more about them below.
CBS’ program provides a platform for experienced directors to gain access to showrunners, executives, managers and agents and gives them the opportunity to shadow CBS Television Network and CBS Television Studio shows throughout the year.
“This initiative is all about access to decision makers who can ultimately provide opportunities to advance our participants’ careers,” said Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, Evp Entertainment Diversity, Inclusion and Communications at CBS Entertainment. “Another rewarding aspect about this community we are building is that many of our participants will gain experience by shadowing directing alumni of previous Director Initiative programs,...
- 10/25/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Daytime Emmy Awards nominee Marci Miller bid farewell via an Instagram post today, her last day of filming on Days of Our Lives. She announced a month or so ago that she would be leaving.
Miller played Abigail Deveraux on Days, joining the cast in November 2016. In addition to that, she has appeared in the feature films American Fable, Dog Bowl, Children of the Corn: Runaway and Death Race 2050.
Soap Opera Digest reported Miller opted not to renew her deal.
Miller played Abigail Deveraux on Days, joining the cast in November 2016. In addition to that, she has appeared in the feature films American Fable, Dog Bowl, Children of the Corn: Runaway and Death Race 2050.
Soap Opera Digest reported Miller opted not to renew her deal.
- 5/25/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Last year, chenille sweaters were a holiday party staple and Jenny Slate made frizzy hair cool again in “Landline.” With Netflix’s latest comedy driving a Volvo station wagon back to 1996, it appears ’90s nostalgia is far from reaching a saturation point. The first trailer for “Everything Sucks!” promises plenty of VHS tapes, flannel, and CD-skipping jokes, plus a crew of scheming pre-teens who are just trying to deal. Looking like a cross between “Stranger Things” and “Big Mouth,” “Everything Sucks!” could be the latest Netflix comedy to go make waves.
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Per the official synopsis: “Set in the real life town of Boring, Oregon in 1996, ‘Everything Sucks!’ is a quirky, funny coming of age story that revolves around Boring High School’s A/V Club and Drama Club— two crews of nerdy-edgy outsiders, who join...
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Per the official synopsis: “Set in the real life town of Boring, Oregon in 1996, ‘Everything Sucks!’ is a quirky, funny coming of age story that revolves around Boring High School’s A/V Club and Drama Club— two crews of nerdy-edgy outsiders, who join...
- 1/16/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
I spent my teenage years in the 1990s and when I look back at that time, I loved it! I have so many great memories, but at the same time, it was awkward as hell! If you grew up in the 90s this new trailer for Netflix's upcoming series Everything Sucks! will flood your senses with nostalgic memories of what it was like to grow up during this era of greatness. The teaser was made in the style of those cheesy pop up music videos that I'm sure many of you will remember from Vh-1. This teaser trailer did a great job of getting me excited about this series!
The ’90s high school experience: Desperate, heartfelt, awkward, exciting, and free of smartphones. Set in the real life town of Boring, Oregon in 1996, Everything Sucks! is a quirky, funny coming-of-age story that revolves around Boring High School’s A/V Club...
The ’90s high school experience: Desperate, heartfelt, awkward, exciting, and free of smartphones. Set in the real life town of Boring, Oregon in 1996, Everything Sucks! is a quirky, funny coming-of-age story that revolves around Boring High School’s A/V Club...
- 1/16/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
There’s visual style to spare but precious little narrative coherence in Anne Hamilton’s debut feature set during the Reagan-era '80s. Its storyline revolving around a self-possessed young girl who makes a startling discovery at her family’s financially struggling Wisconsin farm, American Fable possesses an amorphous, dreamlike quality that proves increasingly irritating as it wears on.
The story revolves around 11-year-old Gitty (Peyton Kennedy), who lives on the isolated farm with her caring father Abe (Kip Pardue); pregnant, distracted mother Sarah (Marci Miller); and hostile, borderline abusive older brother Martin (Gavin MacIntosh). Despite Reagan’s promise that the nation is on an...
The story revolves around 11-year-old Gitty (Peyton Kennedy), who lives on the isolated farm with her caring father Abe (Kip Pardue); pregnant, distracted mother Sarah (Marci Miller); and hostile, borderline abusive older brother Martin (Gavin MacIntosh). Despite Reagan’s promise that the nation is on an...
- 2/24/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A successful Oscar season is wrapping up, as multiple contenders from the specialty world continuing their long runs. Last out of the gate is Documentary Feature contender “I Am Not Your Negro” (Magnolia) which is rapidly expanding far beyond most similar nominees in an era when most documentaries do not play outside their Oscar-qualifying theatrical runs.
Among limited films, the new releases are mainly niche items without high expectations, and will add little in upcoming weeks. However, strong new Los Angeles dates on the second week of cat documentary “Kedi” (Oscilloscope) showed that its big New York opening was no fluke.
Opening
Everybody Loves Somebody (Lionsgate) – Metacritic: 74; Festivals include: Palm Springs 2017
$1,000,000 in 333 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $3,003,000
The second 2017 release from Lionsgate’s Mexico producing partner Pantelion is a rom-com with a rare female director for this commercial general (mostly Latino) audience. Bilingual, it centers on an Los Angeles-based...
Among limited films, the new releases are mainly niche items without high expectations, and will add little in upcoming weeks. However, strong new Los Angeles dates on the second week of cat documentary “Kedi” (Oscilloscope) showed that its big New York opening was no fluke.
Opening
Everybody Loves Somebody (Lionsgate) – Metacritic: 74; Festivals include: Palm Springs 2017
$1,000,000 in 333 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $3,003,000
The second 2017 release from Lionsgate’s Mexico producing partner Pantelion is a rom-com with a rare female director for this commercial general (mostly Latino) audience. Bilingual, it centers on an Los Angeles-based...
- 2/19/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
The below interview was originally published during SXSW 2016, when debuting filmmaker Anne Hamilton premiered her ’80s-set, gothic thriller, American Fable, which melds del Toro-esque fantasy with a critique of Reagan-era economic policy. The film opens today in New York at the IFC Center. World premiering in the Visions section of SXSW is American Fable, the debut film from 2014 AFI Directing Workshop for Women graduate Anne Hamilton. Before beginning her career in film by working on the set of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Hamilton studied law and philosophy, and, as she relates below, she applied aspects of […]...
- 2/17/2017
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A day after Thursday’s A Day Without Immigrants nationwide observance, Pantelion/Lionsgate's new release Everybody Loves Somebody puts a spotlight on the bi-cultural Latino experience via romantic comedy, while FilmRise's From Nowhere even more directly tackles the current experience of immigration by focusing on undocumented Bronx teens. Also this weekend: Peyton Kennedy stars in IFC Films' American Fable, opening day and date today, while Riley Keough and Jena Malone…...
- 2/17/2017
- Deadline
In 1982, Reagan's America looked pretty darn convincing ... on television ... if you were 11 years old. But for hundreds of farmers across the heartland of the U.S.A., times were desperate. They were losing their farms, their homes, their livelihoods. Some committed suicide. Some did whatever they could to hold onto their property and survive. In American Fable, Gitty, 11, is a guileless dreamer who has always lived with her family on their farm. She loves to run through endless acres of cornfields and play with neighboring kids and soak in the fresh air and dream up simple fantasies of a horse and its rider. Her father Abe (Kip Pardue) and her mother Sarah (Marci Miller) share a special love and they plainly love...
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- 2/16/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
The Lego Batman Movie won the weekend as expected, but not with nearly as much money as I had predicted, not besting the opening of The Lego Movie as expected, but instead ending up with a reasonable and not so bad $53 million. Fifty Shades Darker proved that the audience for movies based on the popular books was still great enough for it to win Friday with $21 million (to Lego Batman’s $15 million) and end up second for the weekend with a strong $46.6 million. That was still almost $40 million less than the opening of the previous movie Fifty Shades of Grey, but the sequel also didn’t have the benefits of Valentine’s Day and a four-day holiday. Coming in...
This Past Weekend:
The Lego Batman Movie won the weekend as expected, but not with nearly as much money as I had predicted, not besting the opening of The Lego Movie as expected, but instead ending up with a reasonable and not so bad $53 million. Fifty Shades Darker proved that the audience for movies based on the popular books was still great enough for it to win Friday with $21 million (to Lego Batman’s $15 million) and end up second for the weekend with a strong $46.6 million. That was still almost $40 million less than the opening of the previous movie Fifty Shades of Grey, but the sequel also didn’t have the benefits of Valentine’s Day and a four-day holiday. Coming in...
- 2/15/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
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- 1/28/2017
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Watching the trailer for Anne Hamilton's feature film debut brought back memories of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, not in setting or story or perhaps even theme but in its approach to how a young girl deals with a traumatic event.
American Fable stars Peyton Kennedy as Gitty, an 11-year-old girl who lives on a struggling farm with her family.
When she discovers a man being held in a silo, her world is thrown into a tailspin and she finds herself trying to piece together what the adults aren't telling her. It's here the fantastical elements kick in.
I'm not certain if American Fable is actually a horror movie but the trailer features some unsettling images and there's a sense of dread throughout which is really appealing.
Ame [Continued ...]...
American Fable stars Peyton Kennedy as Gitty, an 11-year-old girl who lives on a struggling farm with her family.
When she discovers a man being held in a silo, her world is thrown into a tailspin and she finds herself trying to piece together what the adults aren't telling her. It's here the fantastical elements kick in.
I'm not certain if American Fable is actually a horror movie but the trailer features some unsettling images and there's a sense of dread throughout which is really appealing.
Ame [Continued ...]...
- 1/20/2017
- QuietEarth.us
If a dark fairy tale rooted in reality sounds right up your alley, you may want to check out writer-director Anne Hamilton’s debut film. Set during the farm crisis that plagued many American families in the 1980s, American Fable finds an 11-year-old girl intermingling the bleak prospects of daily life with a fantastical realm. It’s certainly not just another day at the farm when Gitty (Peyton Kennedy) comes across an unknown man trapped in her family’s silo, while out in the distance she espies a horned horseback rider stalking the lands. Following its SXSW world premiere in March 2016, American Fable has drawn favorable comparisons to the early works of Stephen King and the surrealist fantasy of Guillermo del Toro’s wondrously allegorical Pan’s Labyrinth. Watch the trailer...
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- 1/20/2017
- Screen Anarchy
American Fable, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2016, visits a dark world of fairy-tale creatures from the mind of an imaginative young girl.
The Hollywood Reporter debuts the first trailer for the directorial debut of Anne Hamilton.
Peyton Kennedy stars as the titular character, Gitty, an 11-year-old who is torn between keeping her family's secret and saving a man from it. Set in the 1980s on a Midwestern farm, Gitty's internal fantasy comes alive among the fields of corn and countryside as a horned horseman looms upon her and her dreams darken as...
The Hollywood Reporter debuts the first trailer for the directorial debut of Anne Hamilton.
Peyton Kennedy stars as the titular character, Gitty, an 11-year-old who is torn between keeping her family's secret and saving a man from it. Set in the 1980s on a Midwestern farm, Gitty's internal fantasy comes alive among the fields of corn and countryside as a horned horseman looms upon her and her dreams darken as...
- 1/17/2017
- by Kirk Mattu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
★★★★☆ It's curious that both of this month's Criterion releases - The Royal Tenenbaums being the other - share so many thematic and narrative similarities. Unsurprising given that Wes Anderson directed the Tenenbaums and produced this effort, both films revolve around dysfunctional, wealthy urban families with troubled patriarchs. But where The Royal Tenenbaums is broadly a warm American fable, Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale tells a far darker and more uneasy story. Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney are both superb as recently-divorced authors Bernard and Joan Berkman, bringing depth and humanity to roles that could so easily be reduced to tyrant and victim.
- 12/5/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Full Lineup Announcements
– The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and The India Center Foundation are launching India Kaleidoscope, an exciting new festival that will present film lovers with a chance to immerse themselves in the unique sights and sounds that make up the Indian regional, independent film landscape. These films, which delve into the most relevant and pressing topics facing India, are being made by today’s most progressive filmmakers working in regional languages such as Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, and Bengali. Their films are insightful, topical, and provocative, bringing to light the dynamism and the challenges that face modern India and her many diverse communities.
The inaugural festival, taking place December 8 – 11 at the Museum, will feature eight films, including seven new titles that will be making their U.
Full Lineup Announcements
– The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and The India Center Foundation are launching India Kaleidoscope, an exciting new festival that will present film lovers with a chance to immerse themselves in the unique sights and sounds that make up the Indian regional, independent film landscape. These films, which delve into the most relevant and pressing topics facing India, are being made by today’s most progressive filmmakers working in regional languages such as Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, and Bengali. Their films are insightful, topical, and provocative, bringing to light the dynamism and the challenges that face modern India and her many diverse communities.
The inaugural festival, taking place December 8 – 11 at the Museum, will feature eight films, including seven new titles that will be making their U.
- 11/3/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Chicago – For seven years, the town of Mineral Points, Wis., has hosted an ever evolving event called the “Driftless Film Festival.” And for all those years, from the time she was a young teenager to the present day, Eve Studnicka has worked within and around the festival. For the past two years, she has been the Festival Director, all while completing her undergraduate degree at Columbia College in Chicago.
The Driftless Film Festival is a four day happening through November 6th, 2016, with both film screenings and activities beyond those screenings. The opening night film is “American Fable,” and a complete schedule of films, workshops and networking can be accessed by clicking here.
Opening Night Film is ‘American Fable’
Photo credit: DriftlessFilmFest.org
The dynamic Eve Studnicka spoke with HollywoodChicago.com about the Driftless Film Festival, and her own history in association with it.
HollywoodChicago.com: This is a Wisconsin-centric Film Fest.
The Driftless Film Festival is a four day happening through November 6th, 2016, with both film screenings and activities beyond those screenings. The opening night film is “American Fable,” and a complete schedule of films, workshops and networking can be accessed by clicking here.
Opening Night Film is ‘American Fable’
Photo credit: DriftlessFilmFest.org
The dynamic Eve Studnicka spoke with HollywoodChicago.com about the Driftless Film Festival, and her own history in association with it.
HollywoodChicago.com: This is a Wisconsin-centric Film Fest.
- 11/3/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Pictured above, American Fable, which won the breakthrough performance award. Variety says about American Fable, “Anne Hamilton’s dreamy thriller should offer its director a passport to bigger things.” As it happens,...
- 10/29/2016
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
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Chicago – That’s a wrap! After seven days of fantastic films and packed houses, the 4th Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival (Ccff) had their closing night on May 26th, 2016, with the film “Operator” – featuring Martin Starr (“Silicon Valley”), and directed by Logan Kibens. HollywoodChicago.com was at the event for all the celebrity appearances, and photographer Joe Arce got these Exclusive Portraits.
The Ccff was created by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2013, and the 4th annual event took place at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre. The festival offered a selection of films comprised of recent festival favorites and as-yet-undistributed works covering a wide variety of genres, and it’s currently the only major film critics group hosting its own festival.
The only honor given at the fest is the Audience “Favorite” Award, to acknowledge the film-loving patrons at the Ccff.
Chicago – That’s a wrap! After seven days of fantastic films and packed houses, the 4th Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival (Ccff) had their closing night on May 26th, 2016, with the film “Operator” – featuring Martin Starr (“Silicon Valley”), and directed by Logan Kibens. HollywoodChicago.com was at the event for all the celebrity appearances, and photographer Joe Arce got these Exclusive Portraits.
The Ccff was created by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2013, and the 4th annual event took place at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre. The festival offered a selection of films comprised of recent festival favorites and as-yet-undistributed works covering a wide variety of genres, and it’s currently the only major film critics group hosting its own festival.
The only honor given at the fest is the Audience “Favorite” Award, to acknowledge the film-loving patrons at the Ccff.
- 6/2/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Plus: CinemaCon honour for Arnon Milchan; Wanda Cinema Line Corp and Dolby sign deployment deal; and more.
Geena Davis on Wednesday announced the narrative and documentary selections for the second Annual Bentonville Film Festival taking place in Arkansas from May 3-8.
Highlighting female and other diverse voices, the festival will comprise 34 films, including 16 documentaries and 18 narratives. There will be a separate short film competition.
Founding sponsor Walmart, presenting sponsor Coca-Cola, and distribution partners AMC Theatres, Lifetime, and Starz guarantee distribution for their Audience, Best Family, and Jury Award winners.
Anne Hamilton’s American Fable, Kim A Snyder’s documentary Newtown, Kid Witness starring Susan Sarandon and Running Wild starring Sharon Stone are among the line-up.
Beech Hill Films and Low Profile Films announced on Wednesday that production on One Last Thing will begin on April 2. Tim Rouhana’s directorial debut is set to star Wendell Pierce of Selma and Jurnee Smollett-Bell of Friday Night Lights. The film tells...
Geena Davis on Wednesday announced the narrative and documentary selections for the second Annual Bentonville Film Festival taking place in Arkansas from May 3-8.
Highlighting female and other diverse voices, the festival will comprise 34 films, including 16 documentaries and 18 narratives. There will be a separate short film competition.
Founding sponsor Walmart, presenting sponsor Coca-Cola, and distribution partners AMC Theatres, Lifetime, and Starz guarantee distribution for their Audience, Best Family, and Jury Award winners.
Anne Hamilton’s American Fable, Kim A Snyder’s documentary Newtown, Kid Witness starring Susan Sarandon and Running Wild starring Sharon Stone are among the line-up.
Beech Hill Films and Low Profile Films announced on Wednesday that production on One Last Thing will begin on April 2. Tim Rouhana’s directorial debut is set to star Wendell Pierce of Selma and Jurnee Smollett-Bell of Friday Night Lights. The film tells...
- 4/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
My day started with me balancing emails and waiting at the InterContinental for my first interview of the day: American Fable. I spoke to the director for a podcast I am also working for during SXSW, One of Us, and it went really well. It always feels good to be the first interviewer because you know you’ll be on time and you’ll probably also have the chance to run over time and ruin everyone’s schedule for the rest of the day.
As I mentioned yesterday, American Fable is incredible, so talking with Anne Hamilton about her movie was equally special. She had so much to say about her craft, and I cannot wait for people to hear it.
My next interview was for I Am Not a Serial Killer, but luckily for me that wasn’t until 1:00pm. That meant I had about an hour and a half to kill,...
As I mentioned yesterday, American Fable is incredible, so talking with Anne Hamilton about her movie was equally special. She had so much to say about her craft, and I cannot wait for people to hear it.
My next interview was for I Am Not a Serial Killer, but luckily for me that wasn’t until 1:00pm. That meant I had about an hour and a half to kill,...
- 3/15/2016
- by Jenny Nulf
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Coming off the warm reception for American Fable at its SXSW world premiere last night, first-time feature writer-director Anne Hamilton has signed with Wme. Set at the beginning of the 1980s Midwest farm crisis that defined much of the Reagan years, American Fable follows Gitty (Peyton Kennedy), a courageous 11-year-old girl whose magical outlook on life influenced by her love of fables and fairytales protects her from the harsh reality that her family soon…...
- 3/15/2016
- Deadline
In 1982, Reagan's America looked pretty darn convincing ... on television ... if you were 11 years old. But for hundreds of farmers across the heartland of the U.S.A., times were desperate. They were losing their farms, their homes, their livelihoods. Some committed suicide. Some did whatever they could to hold onto their property and survive. In American Fable, Gitty, 11, is a guileless dreamer who has always lived with her family on their farm. She loves to run through endless acres of cornfields and play with neighboring kids and soak in the fresh air and dream up simple fantasies of a horse and its rider. Her father Abe (Kip Pardue) and her mother Sarah (Marci Miller) share a special love and they plainly love...
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- 3/14/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Here’s a scene from American Fable, writer-director Anne Hamilton drama that premieres at SXSW this weekend. Peyton Kennedy stars as Gitty, a courageous girl living in a dark and sometimes magical world. Set amid the 1980s Midwest farm crisis, Gitty discovers that her beloved father is hiding a wealthy man in her family’s silo in order to save their struggling farm. She secretly befriends the captive and is forced to choose between saving the man’s life and…...
- 3/8/2016
- Deadline
We have the first look at four new photos from American Fable, which will soon have its world premiere at SXSW in Austin, Teas. As the photos suggest, it's a dark thriller from writer/director Anne Hamilton, a protégé of Terrence Malick who spent a year as an intern on Malicks's The Tree of Life before making her first short film. This is her feature debut; she says that she was aiming for a mixture of Fargo and Pan's Labyrinth, so that's certainly ambitious. Here's the official synopsis: American Fable is a fairytale thriller set in the 1980s Midwest farm crisis about a courageous girl living in a dark and sometimes magical world. When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her beloved father is hiding a wealthy man...
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- 3/3/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Simply put, the SXSW Film, Music and Interactive Festival is one of the biggest, most prestigious events in the media calendar. Taking place annually in Austin, Texas, it is beloved by film fans and filmmakers from all over the world, and has reached such heights by building a reputation for showcasing excellent content. This results in a high level of competition, with the Narrative Feature category alone having received 1442 submissions this year, and the documentary feature category having received 1,013.
The 2016 event looks to be particularly exciting, with many world premieres and feature debuts already announced. The Narrative Feature category will include Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens, Debra Eisenstadt’s Before The Sun Explodes, Joey Klein’s The Other Half, and Musa Syeed’s A Stray, among others, while the Headliner category will feature Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some.
The Narrative Spotlight category includes 9 Rides by Matthew A. Cherry; The Waiting...
The 2016 event looks to be particularly exciting, with many world premieres and feature debuts already announced. The Narrative Feature category will include Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens, Debra Eisenstadt’s Before The Sun Explodes, Joey Klein’s The Other Half, and Musa Syeed’s A Stray, among others, while the Headliner category will feature Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some.
The Narrative Spotlight category includes 9 Rides by Matthew A. Cherry; The Waiting...
- 2/10/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
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