Johnny Depp eyes Pancho Villa role (Variety)

ROME -- Serbian helmer Emir Kusturica is in advanced negotiations for Johnny Depp to star as Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa in his upcoming biopic titled “Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman With Six Fingers.”

Kusturica, recently a guest of Italy’s Turin Film Festival, said the script, written with regular collaborator Gordan Mihic (“Time of the Gypsies,” “Black Cat, White Cat”), is completed, although lensing is not set to start until 2011, due to Depp’s prior commitments.

Salma Hayek is also in advanced talks to co-star in the pic.

The Spanish-language biopic is to be shot partly in Mexico, where Villa -- an early 20th-century bandit who became a guerilla fighter and a hero to the poor -- is an iconic historical figure. Depp will act in Spanish, Kusturica said.

Depp and Kusturica collaborated previously on “Arizona Dream” in 1993.

The script is based on the biographical novel “The Friends of Pancho Villa,” in which author James Carlos Blake recounts how Villa and his compadres had a great time fighting and robbing the rich, but also dancing, partying and making love.

The biopic is being set up by French shingle Fidelite, which also produced Kusturica’s “Maradona” docu.

Villa has previously been portrayed many times on screen by thesps such as Antonio Banderas, Telly Savalas and even Villa himself in the 1914 pic “The Life of General Villa,” which was produced by D.W. Griffith.

Prior to “Pancho Villa,” Kusturica is planning to shoot a black comedy titled “Cool Water,” set amid the MidEast conflict, about a Palestinian stripper working in Germany who returns to her homeland to bury her dead father. “Cool Water” is being produced by German indie Brave New Work.

Michael Fleming in New York contributed to this report.

Julien Temple reveals plans for Kinks feature (Variety)

British director Julien Temple is plotting a feature film about legendary British band The Kinks.

You’ve Really Got Me will focus on the intense relationship between brothers Ray and Dave Davies, who formed the band in North London in 1964, and will explore how The Kinks drew on the music hall tradition as well as rock and roll to create their sound. Temple is collaborating on the project with Ray Davies on the film’s approach before a work begins in a screenplay.

Speaking to ScreenDaily, Temple said: “At the heart of it is the extraordinary love-hate relationship between these two brothers: love/hate, sibling rivalry is at the core. I think it’s a very rich social, cultural nexus around The Kinks. Their story is the untold story of all those big bands of the 1960s.”

The cast has yet to be announced but Temple says the actors will be required to play The Kinks music. “I think you would want to have the music played by the actors…that is believable and real while miming is problematic.”

You’ve Really Got Me will be Temple’s latest look at the social history of Britain through its music scene following his previous films The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, The Filth and The Fury and his new film, Oil City Confidential, a rousing account of the life and times of Canvey Island pub rock group Dr Feelgood.

Oil City Confidential, which is being sold internationally by Hanway, will be launched across the UK with a “live” cinema event distributed by Arts Alliance Media on February 2. Screenings of the film will be accompanied by a concert beamed live from Koko in London, with a special red carpet introduction by Temple.

The concert will feature original Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson and his band, ex-Blockhead musicians bassist Norman Watt Roy and drummer Dylan Howe, and also will feature other special guests drawn from the directorial career of Temple.

“By bringing together Arts Alliance Media, EMI records and in the UK, The Mint Group (owners of Koko), we have the cinema, music and live event industries, working together,” commented producer Stephen Malit

Another new feature doc by the prolific Temple, Requiem For Detroit, about the decay and industrial collapse of America’s fourth largest city, will premiere on the BBC in early January. Temple has revealed that the film will be broadcast in a 75 minute version but should also be available in a 90 minute “theatrical” cut.

Temple is also attached to direct Fake!, the long-gestating project about art hoaxer Elmyr de Hory that is being produced through Film & Music Entertainment. It is due to shoot next year.

Cannes tips (Screen)

By Fionnuala Halligan

We’ve had a look at Dieter Kosslick’s shopping list for the Berlinale (see below post), but there are also some early indicators of what Thierry Fremaux and Gilles Jacob are looking at over in Cannes.

Early days yet, of course – Brilliante Mendoza could complete at least three features in the time between now and May 12, when the festival kicks off. Things can change.

Headliners

Sexy art films abound next May – how about this for a Croisette sampler:

- Cannes is an event, and so is a Terrence Malick film: Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star in The Tree Of Life, Malick’s fifth film. The timing could be right, but Malick’s release dates tend to come and go.

- Hereafter. Newly-appointed Commander of the French Legion of Honour Clint Eastwood cast French treasure Cecile de France in the lead for his supernatural thriller alongside Matt Damon (script by Peter Morgan), so why not?.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will certainly be ready with Biutiful, his long-awaited follow-up to Babel, which also premiered at Cannes. Javier Bardem stars in the Barcelona-shot, Spanish language production about a shady dealer who comes up against his childhood friend, now a policeman.

- 78-year-old Jean-Luc Godard, (an “enfant” by Manoel de Oliveira standards) has Socialism, described as “a symphony in three movements” and involving a cruise ship on the Mediterranean with Patti Smith and Alain Badiou. Wild Bunch is selling.

- The Rum Diary, Bruce Robinson’s (Withnail & I) adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s (long unpublished) 1950s-set novel about a freelance journalist writing for a paper in Puerto Rico. Johnny Depp stars – the combination is perfect for Cannes, which hosted the premiere of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas all those years ago (1998 to be precise).

-Woody Allenis ecumenical with his festivals – Whatever Works went to Tribeca last year, Vicky Cristina Barcelonawent to Cannes in 2008. You Will Meet A TallDark Stranger, with Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts and Antonio Banderas, will be ready by May.

- Two years after Marie-Antoinette failed to captivate Cannes, Sofia Coppola is on more secure ground with Somewhere, a story about a Hollywood actor living in the Chateau Marmont who gets a sobering visit from his daughter. Stephen Dorff stars with Dakota Fanning in this Focus Features selection which may be ready by May.

-Lisa Cholodenko, whose High Art broke out at Cannes in 1998, may return with The Kids Are All Right starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and AnnetteBening, about two children of a lesbian couple who decide to track down their father.

I predict a riot

Certain titles have an eau de headline about them

- Ken Loach should be ready with Route Irish, about two security contractors working in Iraq, one of whom dies on “Route Irish”. The other decides to investigate. Post-Looking for Eric, 73-year-old Loach and his producer Rebecca O’Brien and writer Paul Laverty have been vocal in their assertion that festivals should not programme films supported by the state of Israel. Cannes should be a big test for the independently-financed Route Irish.

-Talking of Israel, Julian Schnabel should be ready with Miral, starring Freida Pinto as a Palestinian orphan who ends up in Hind Husseini’s (Hiam Abbas) orphanage in Jerusalem post-1948. Willem Dafoe co-stars.

- Gaumont pictures has one of the most controversial French titles to appear this year (or any): Roselyne Bosch’s TheRound Up (Le Rafle), a $26m feature about French collaboration during the war, namely aFrench police operation which rounded up 13,000 Jews on the night of July 16, 1942. Melanie Laurent and Jean Renostar. As this currently is slated for a March release, there’s a possiblilty it could hit an earlier festival first.

Guess who’s coming to Hollywood?

Looking solely at release schedules, Robin Hood is Ridley Scott’s take on the bandit of Nottingham Forest, with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett in the main roles (medieval mortality rates, however, might suggest that the real Robin and Marian wouldn’t make it as far as Russell or Cate). US release date: May 14. Iron Man 2; Wall Street 2; Sex and the City 2 are also May titles.

We don’t know. Nobody knows, as they say. Anything.

World music

Europe:

- Early word is strong on Thomas Vinterberg’s drama Submarino, about two brothers who can’t get a break in life. This is slated for a February release in Denmark, so could get an earlier festival.

- Seven years after he won the Golden Lion for his directorial debut The Magdalene Sisters, Peter Mullan is back in the director’s chair with Neds, shot in Glasgow and ready in time for Cannes, apparently. Wild Bunch is selling.

- Mike Leigh’s Untitled 2010 stars Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville and Ruth Sheen.

- Abbas Kiarostami’s The Certified Copy, stars Juliette Binoche in an Italian-set story penned by the Iranian director about an English author who meets a French lady on a book-signing tour.

-Guillame Canet has Les Petits Mouchoirs, starring Marion Cotillard, Francois Cluzet and Benoit Magimel in his directorial follow-up toTell No One. This is set on the beaches of Cap Ferret and is about a group of people who holiday together every summer.

Nikita Mikhalkov’sExodus – The Fortress (aka Burnt By The Sun 2),also from Wild Bunch, picks up the story of General Kotov (Mikhalkov) and his family five years after the events portrayed in Oscar-winner Burnt By The Sun – which premiered at Cannes.

There’s a question mark over whether Nanni Moretti’s comedy Habemus Papum might be ready in time; should it be, he’s a Cannes favourite and the subject matter – a newly elected pope on a psychiatrist’s couch – has headline potential.

Andy De Emmony follows up his hit East is EastwithWest Is West for BBC Films with Jimi Mistry and Om Puri reprising their roles in an update with the Manchester-based Khan family, set in 1974.

Hungary’s Bela Tarr may haveThe Turin Horse ready and up for consideration.

Asia-Pacific

Leaving the deeply troubled I Come With The Rain behind him, Tran Anh Hung should be back in better shape with the much anticipated Norwegian Wood, with Rinko Kikuchi and Kenichi Maysuyama. Fortissimo is selling.

Cometh the Cannes, cometh the Johnnie To, who will certainly have Death of a Hostage (Si piu) ready for Media Asia, with Lau Ching-wan as a hitman hired to kill the kidnappers of a tycoon’s daughter.

Korea’s Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine) should be ready with Poetry, starring 60s legend Yoon Hee-jeong

Takashi Miikecertainly will be ready with 13 Assassins, an exciting project which HanWay films is handling about a group of ronin who come together for a suicide mission to do away with an evil lord

Im Sang-soo (The President’s Last Bang) has The Housemaid, a story about a man whose affair with his servant turns very, very dark.

South America

Argentina’s Pablo Trapero (Leonera) could be ready with Carancho, currently filming and starring Ricardo Darin as an ambulance-chasing lawyer. Martina Gusman co-stars; Korea’s Finecut is selling.

Toon town

In the animated sector, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec would bring its director/writer Luc Besson back to Cannes and features the voice talents of Mathieu Amalric and Louise Bourgoin.

Anderson working on 'Master' (Variety)

"There Will Be Blood" writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is working on his next project, a period drama to star Philip Seymour Hoffman as a founder of a new religious organization in the 1950s. The project is set up at Universal, which will make a decision about whether to greenlight the pic, with a $35 million budget, once Anderson delivers a finished script.Hoffman, who has played supporting roles in most of Anderson's past films, this time will be at the center, playing "the Master," as in "master of ceremonies," a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952. The core is the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a twentysomething drifter who becomes the leader's lieutenant. As the faith begins to gain a fervent following, Freddie finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.

The drama does not so much scrutinize self-started churches like Scientology or the Mormons, as much as it explores the need to believe in a higher power, the choice of which one to embrace and the point at which a belief system graduates into a religion.

Anderson's frequent collaborator, JoAnne Sellar, is the producer.

Hoffman made his breakthrough in the cast of Anderson's "Boogie Nights" and has also appeared in the Anderson-directed "Hard Eight," "Punch-Drunk Love" and "Magnolia."

Neither the studio nor reps for Anderson or Hoffman would comment.

Sundance unveils competition lineup (Variety)

"No matter what's happening in the industry, people are going to keep making films," opined John Cooper optimistically as he revealed the lineup for his first year as director of the Sundance Film Festival.

The world's main event for independent American cinema, which unfolds Jan. 21-31 in Park City, Utah, will feature a few changes on the old formula, notably no opening-night picture; Sundance USA, which will take select festival films to eight cities as the fest unspools; and new noncompetitive categories called Spotlight, for what are viewed as particularly audience-friendly films, and Next, dedicated to no-budget digital work.

Cooper, who worked for many years as lieutenant to departed fest director Geoffrey Gilmore, boldly ventured that, "We may even be going into a golden age for independent films, in that the technology will make it possible for the films to be made and for audiences to see them. The industry is going through a major evolutionary stage right now, there's no doubt about that, but we're not here to determine how it reshapes itself. We're serving the filmmaking community rather than the film industry, and we decided to stick to looking for artistic excellence."

In terms of excellence, Sundance is still riding high from having launched two of 2009's big indie titles, "Precious" and "An Education" and Cooper, along with his new No. 2, veteran programmer Trevor Groth, suspect there might be some pictures this year with similar potential. Cooper bluntly predicted that, "I think there will be a lot of activity in sales."

Given industry turmoil and contractions, particularly within the independent world, as well as general financial realities, Cooper was mildly surprised that the number of submissions to Sundance rose somewhat over the total of a year ago -- 2,080 for narrative features, up from 2,038 last year, and 1,644 for documentaries, an increase from 1,623, making for 3,724 films to be viewed by the festival's seven feature and three docu programmers.

Perhaps even more reassuringly, the festival's presenting sponsors -- Entertainment Weekly, HP, Honda and Sundance Channel -- all remained onboard at a time when other fests have scrambled to keep or replace important backers. The festival benefits from the extensive support network enjoyed by its umbrella organization, the Sundance Institute, providing a fiscal foundation that has been minimally affected by the April departure of the institute's executive director, Ken Brecher, who has yet to be replaced. Ticket sales are running apace with previous years, per Cooper.

As to differences festgoers will notice upon arriving in the mountains next month, the first will be the lack of a traditional opening night. Attributing the idea to Sundance topper Robert Redford himself, Cooper explained, "We don't do red carpet and we don't have government officials and executives who demand this sort of thing, so we decided we didn't need that kind of opening night." Instead, Sundance will jumpstart its competition on the first Thursday evening with screenings of one dramatic and one documentary competing title, as well as with a program of shorts. A Salt Lake City gala will take place as usual with a screening of Aaron Schneider's "Get Low," starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray, which debuted at Toronto in September.

The fest's Spectrum section, known before that as American Spectrum and once perceived as a consolation category for films that didn't quite make the competition cut, has now been reconceived as Spotlight. Groth defined it as "a place for films we love," faves from previous fests or pictures otherwise unqualified for competition slots that perhaps need a boost to find their way to the marketplace.

The new category, Next, will consist of eight features of an adamantly independent nature that "will show audiences what no-budget really looks like," per Cooper. "We wanted to make sure we had a platform for them, so they wouldn't get lost." Groth elaborated that, since Next will lean toward narrative films, "Now we can be a little more rigorous about what goes into Frontier," the fest section devoted to avant-garde and more non-narrative work.

All the American dramatic and documentary competition entries will be seen in their world premieres, and Groth allowed that he and Cooper are pushing toward the goal that all World Cinema entries be world preems as well. This year, the American competish categories retain 16 entries apiece, none of them with distributors, while the foreign dramatic and docu sections have been reduced from 16 to 14 and 12, respectively; dropping the numbers marks an attempt to make sure no significant international titles fall through the cracks, an admitted problem in the past due to the fest's dominant spotlight on American work. This year, fest directors allow to having lost only one film they wanted to the Berlin Film Festival, which takes place in February, shortly after Sundance wraps.

In an effort to "put up a lightning rod about independent cinema," per Cooper, Sundance USA will physically bring what's happening at Sundance to other regions of the country. On the fest's second Thursday, Jan. 28, eight filmmakers -- four from Premieres, two with competitive titles and two from Spotlight -- will travel to arthouses in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Boston; Brooklyn; Chicago; Los Angeles; Madison, Wisc.; Nashville, Tenn.; and San Francisco to share their work with audiences there. Fest toppers acknowledge that the effort is "an experiment" designed "to take some of the energy at the festival to connect where there's an awareness of the spirit of independent cinema."

Both Cooper and Groth found it difficult to generalize about the nature of the work set to fill the screens at Sundance 2010. Groth noticed a recurrence of the examination of "faith in the modern age" and, especially among documakers, an urge "to tell the truth, to find out what's going on out there and tell it so as to get their point across in a way that conventional films can't." Cooper agreed, noting that, "Documentary filmmakers are becoming nonfiction storytellers instead of longform newscasters."

Looming over everything having to do with mass communications these days is the issue that, as Groth put it, "More people are using more media now than ever, but they want it for free." The search for new models for making money -- in films, music, news -- is in full swing, but in the meantime, Sundance, per its director, "is trying to provide a feeling for what's being made."

U.S. and World Cinema competition titles were announced today. Premieres, Next, Spotlight, New Frontier and Park City at Midnight entries will be announced Thursday.

2010 SUNDANCE COMPETITION LINEUP:

DRAMATIC COMPETITION

• "Blue Valentine" - Directed by Derek Cianfrance, written by Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis, a portrait of an American marriage that charts the evolution of a relationship over time. With Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman.
• "Douchebag" - Directed by Drake Doremus, written by Lindsay Stidham, Doremus, Jonathan Schwartz and Andrew Dickler, in which a man about to be married takes his younger brother on a wild goose chase to find the latter's fifth-grade girlfriend. Features Dickler, Ben York Jones, Marguerite Moreau, Nicole Vicius, Amy Ferguson, Wendi McClendon-Covey.
• "The Dry Land" - Directed and written by Ryan Piers Williams, in which a returning U.S. soldier tries to reconcile his experiences overseas with his life in Texas. With America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, Ethan Suplee, June Diane Raphael, Melissa Leo.
• "Happythankyoumoreplease" - Directed and written by Josh Radnor, about six New Yorkers negotiating love, friendship and gratitude when they're too old to be precocious and not yet fully adults. Stars Malin Akerman, Radnor, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan, Tony Hale, Pablo Schreiber, Michael Algieri.
• "Hesher" - Directed by Spencer Susser, written by Susser and David Michod from a story by Brian Charles Frank, in which a mysterious, anarchical trickster enters the lives of a family dealing with a painful loss. Toplines Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Devin Brochu, Piper Laurie, John Carroll Lynch.
• "Holy Rollers" - Directed by Kevin Tyler Asch, written by Antonio Macia, concerning a young Hasidic man in the throes of money, power and opportunity who becomes an international Ecstasy smuggler. With Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser, Ari Graynor, Jason Fuchs.
• "Howl" - Directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, a "nonfiction drama" about how Allen Ginsberg created the eponymous poem and the subsequent landmark obscenity trial. Stars James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels.
• "The Imperialists Are Still Alive!" - Directed and written by Zeina Durra, about how a French Manhattanite continues her work as an artist in the wake of the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart and a blooming love affair. Toplines Elodie Bouchez, Jose Maria de Tavira, Karim Saleh Karolina Muller, Marianna Kulukundis, Rita Ackerman.
• "Lovers of Hate" - Directed and written by Bryan Poyser, about how the reunion of estranged brothers is undermined when the woman they both love chooses one over the other. With Chris Doubek, Heather Kafka, Alex Karpovsky, Zach Green.
• "Night Catches Us" - Directed and written by Tanya Hamilton, which focuses on the eventful return of a young man to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up during the Black Power movement. Features Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Jamie Hector, Wendell Pierce, Jamara Griffin.
• "Obselidia" - Directed and written by Diane Bell, about the amorous awakening of a lonely librarian with a beguiling cinema projectionist in Death Valley. Toplines Gaynor Howe, Michael Piccirilli, Frank Hoyt Taylor.
• "Skateland" - Directed by Anthony Burns, and written by Burns, Brandon Freeman and Heath Freeman, in which dramatic events in early '80s small-town Texas force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to see his life in a new light. With Shiloh Fernandez, A.J. Buckley, Ashley Greene, Brett Cullen, Ellen Hollman, Heath Freeman.
• "Sympathy for Delicious" - Directed by Mark Ruffalo and written by Christopher Thornton, which centers on a newly paralyzed DJ who gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing. Stars Orlando Bloom, Ruffalo, Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney, John Carroll Lynch.
• "3 Backyards" - Directed and written by Eric Mendelsohn, in which a quiet suburban town becomes intense emotional terrain for three residents on one strange day. Toplines Embeth Davidtz, Edie Falco, Elias Koteas, Rachel Resheff, Kathryn Erbe, Danai Gurira.
• "Welcome to the Rileys" - Directed by Jake Scott, about a damaged man who seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman during a business trip to New Orleans. Stars James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo.
• "Winter's Bone" - Directed by Debra Granik and written by Granik and Anne Rosellini, which focuses on the dangerous efforts of an Ozard Mountain girl to track down her drug-dealer father while keeping her family intact. With Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Lauren Sweetser, Kevin Breznahan, Isaiah Stone.

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

• "Bhutto" - Directed by Duane Baughman and Johnny O'Hara, written by O'Hara, a look at the life of the assassinated former Pakistani prime minister.
• "Casino Jack and the United States of Money" - Directed by Alex Gibney, an investigation into the world of imprisoned super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.
• "Family Affair" - Directed by Chico Colvard, which examines resilience, survival and the capacity to accomodate a parent's past crimes on the road to satisfying the longing for family.
• "Freedom Riders" - Directed by Stanley Nelson, about civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the South in 1961.
• "Gas Land" - Directed by Josh Fox, which looks at toxic streams, dying livestock, flammable sinks and people with weakened health in the vicinity of natural gas drilling.
• "I'm Pat ------- Tillman" - Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, which focuses on the efforts of the family of the pro football star to take on the U.S. government after he was killed by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan in 2004.
• "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child" - Directed by Tamra Davis, a portrait of the celebrated '80s artist.
• "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" - Directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, a forthright glimpse into the life and comedic process of the veteran comedian.
• "Lucky" - Directed by Jeffrey Blitz, which examines what happens when ordinary people hit the lottery jackpot.
• "My Perestroika" - Directed by Robin Hessman, an analysis of the transition of the U.S.S.R. as seen through the lives of five Muscovites who came of age at the time of communism's collapse.
• "The Oath" - Directed by Laura Poitras, lensed in Yemen, about two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo and the U.S. Supreme Court.
• "Restrepo" - Directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, for which the two filmmakers accompanied the Second Platoon in a crucial valley to reveal the soldiers' intense labor, fights and camaraderie as they take on the Taliban.
• "A Small Act" - Directed by Jennifer Arnold, which spotlights how a young Kenyan, whose life was dramatically changed when a Swedish stranger sponsored his education, later reciprocates by founding his own scholarship program.
• "Smash His Camera" - Directed by Leon Gast, which uses the story of notorious paparazzo Ron Galella to examine issues such as the right to privacy, freedom of the press and celebrity worship.
• "12th and Delaware" - Directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, a look at how the abortion battle continues in unexpected ways on an unassuming corner in the U.S.
• "Waiting for Superman" - Directed by Davis Guggenheim, which uses multiple interlocking stories to analyze the crisis in U.S. public education.

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION

• "All That I Love" (Poland) - Directed and written by Jacek Borcuch, about four small-town teenagers who form a punk rock band in 1981 during the growth of the Solidarity movement. With Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Jakub Gierszal, Mateusz Banasiuk, Olga Frycz, Igor Obloza. North American premiere.
• "Animal Kingdom" (Australia) - Directed and written by David Michod, which centers upon a 17-year-old boy who, in the wake of his mother's death, is thrust precariously between a criminal family and a detectives who hopes to save him. Stars Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, James Frecheville. World premiere.
• "Boy" (New Zealand) - Directed and written by Taika Waititi, a study of how two young brothers reconciles fantasy with reality when their father returns home after many years. Features Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone. World premiere.
• "Four Lions" (U.K.) - Directed by Chris Morris, written by Morris, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, a comedy about some self-styled British jihadis. With Chris Wilson, Kevin Eldon. World premiere.
• "Grown Up Movie Star" (Canada) - Directed and written by Adriana Maggs, which spins on a teenage girl left to care for her rural father when her mother runs away. Features Shawn Doyle, Tatiana Maslany, Jonny Harris, Mark O'Brien, Andy Jones, Julia Kennedy. U.S. premiere.
• "The Man Next Door" (Argentina), written and directed by Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat, about two neighbors who clash over a wall separating their properties. With Rafael Spregelburd, Daniel Araoz, Eugenia Alonso, Ines Budassi, Lorenza Acuna. International premiere.
• "Me Too" (Spain) - Directed by Alvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, about the unconventional relationship between a 34-year-old college-educated man with Down syndrome and his free-spirited co-worker. With Pablo Pineda, Lola Duenas, Antonio Naharro, Isabel Garcia Lorca, Pedro Alvarez Ossorio. International premiere.
• "Nuummioq" (Greenland) - Directed by Otto Rosing and Torben Bech, written by Bech, a contemporary story of how a young man pieces together aspects of his past and gets on with his life while journeying through Greenland's imposing landscapes. Stars Lars Rosing, Angunnguaq Larsen, Julie Berthelsen, Morten Rose, Makka Kleist, Mariu Olsen. World premiere.
• "Peepli Live" (India) - Directed and written by Anusha Rizvi, a satire about the media frenzy created when an impoverished farmer announces that he'll commit suicide so his family can receive government compensation. Toplines Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak.
• "Son of Babylon" (Iraq) - Directed and written by Mohamed Al Daradji, the tale of a young Kurdish boy and his grandmother as they travel through Iraq searching for the remains of their father/son in the wake of Saddam Hussein's fall from power. With Yasser Talib, Shazda Hussein, Bashir Al-Majid. International premiere.
• "Southern District" (Bolivia) - Directed and written by Juan Carlos Valdivia, a look at social change that envelopes an upper-class family in La Paz, Bolivia. Toplines Ninon del Castillo, Pascual Loayza, Nicolas Fernandez, Juan Pablo Koria, Mariana Vargas. North American premiere.
• "The Temptation of St. Tony" (Estonia) - Directed and written by Veiko Ounpuu, which centers upon a mid-level manager with an aversion to being "good" who confronts life mysteries as he loses his grasp on his once-quiet life. Features Taavi Eelmaa, Rain Tolk, Tiina Tauraite, Katarina Lauk, Raivo E. Tamm. World premiere.
• "Undertow" (Colombia-France-Germany-Peru) - Directed and written by Javier Fuentes-Leon, an offbeat ghost story in which a married fisherman on the Peruvian seaside tries to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within the town's rigid traditions. Stars Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo. North American premiere.
• "Vegetarian" (South Korea) - Directed and written by Lim Woo-seong, about a housewife whose strange dreams and resulting meat aversion cause trouble with her husband and attract the interest of her artist brother-in-law. Toplines Chea Min-seo, Kim Hyun-sung, Kim Yeo-jin, Kim Young-jae. International premiere.

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

• "Enemies of the People" (Cambodia-U.K.) - Directed by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, which recounts the shocking revelations that ensue when a young journalist whose family was killed by the Khmer Rouge befriends the perpetrators of the Killing Fields genocide. World premiere.
• "A Film Unfinished" (Germany-Israel) - Directed by Yael Hersonski, in which film found in Nazi archives reveals the means used to stage Warsaw ghetto life. World premiere.
• "Fix Me" (France-Palestinian Territories-Switzerland) - Directed by Raed Andoni, in which Andoni seeks different forms of help for a relentless headache in his hometown of Ramallah. International premiere.
• "His and Hers" (Ireland) - Directed by Ken Wardrop, in which 70 Irish women offer insights into the relationships between women and men. World premiere.
• "Kick in Iran" (Germany) - Directed by Fatima Geza Abdollahyan, about the struggles of the first female Taekwondo fighter from Iran to qualify for the Olympic Games. World premiere.
• "Last Train Home" (Canada) - Directed by Fan Lixin, which focuses on the ordeals of a Chinese migrant worker who, along with many others, tries to reunite with a distant family. U.S. premiere.
• "The Red Chapel" (Denmark) - Directed by Mads Bruegger, about a journalist without scruples, a self-proclaimed spastic and a comedian travel to North Korea under the guise of a cultural exchange visit to challenge the totalitarian regime. U.S. premiere.
• "Russian Lessons" (Georgia-Germany-Norway) - Directed by Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, which looks into ethnic cleansing in Georgia revealed by an investigation of Russian actions during the 2008 war. World premiere.
• "Secrets of the Tribe" (Brazil) - Directed by Jose Padiha, which examines the scandal and infighting within the academic anthropology community regarding the representation and exploitation of indigenous Indian in the Amazon Basin. World premiere.
• "Sins of My Father" (Argentina-Colombia) - Directed by Nicolas Entel, which delves into the life and times of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his son, who fled Colombia to lead his own life. North American premiere.
• "Space Tourists" (Switzerland) - Directed by Christian Frei, a humorous look at billionaires who pay large sums to travel into outer space for fun. North American premiere.
• "Waste Land" (U.K.) - Directed by Lucy Walker, which reveals how lives are transformed when international artist Vik Muniz collaborates with garbage picker in the world's largest landfill in Rio de Janeiro. World premiere.
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Kitano plots gangster pic 'Outrage' (Variety)

TOKYO -- Secretive Japanese helmer Takeshi Kitano has finally unveiled details of his latest gangster pic -- his first in nine years.

“Outrage” depicts power struggles among Tokyo gangsters. Kitano not only helms and scripts, but also plays the lead -- a low-ranking gang boss charged with doing the dirty work of his superiors.

The cast also includes Tomokazu Miura, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase, Jun Kunimura, Tetta Sugimoto, Renji Ishibashi, Fumiyo Kohinata and Takashi Tsukamoto.

Shooting started in August, with Warner Japan and Office Kitano skedded to release next year.

Kitano made his international breakthrough in 1993 playing a gang boss in “Sonatine,” and became known for his extreme depictions of on-screen violence in such pics as “Boiling Point” (1990), “Hana-Bi” (1997) and “Brother” (2000), but has adopted a more peaceful on-screen persona in recent years.

Murió Paul Naschy

(AFP) El director de cine, guionista y actor Jacinto Molina Álvarez, cuyo nombre artístico era 'Paul Naschy' y que alcanzó la fama por sus trabajos en películas de terror, falleció este martes en Madrid a los 75 años, informaron fuentes familiares.

Licenciado en Arquitectura y siete veces Campeón de España de halterofilia, había nacido en Madrid el 6 de septiembre de 1934.

Naschy interpretó más de un centenar de películas y series de televisión, en 39 trabajó como guionista y en 14 como director. Debutó en el cine en 1967, protagonizando 'La marca del hombre lobo'. En su filmografía también destacan títulos como 'Inquisición', que dirigió en 1976, 'El huerto del francés', 'El carnaval de las bestias', 'Latidos de pánico', 'El aullido del diablo' o 'Madrid al desnudo', 'La noche de Walpurgis', de León Klimovsky; 'El retorno del hombre lobo' (1980) y 'Licántropo: El asesino de la luna llena' (1996).

En enero estaba previsto el estreno de 'La herencia de Valdemar' (2010), de José Luis Alemán y actualmente era objeto de un homenaje en la XIII Muestra de Cine Independiente y Fantástico de Toledo.

Naschy, cuya muerte ha lamentado la Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), será enterrado el miércoles en Burgos.

'Up,' 'Meatballs' earn Annie noms (The Hollywood Reporter)

ASIFA-Hollywood embraced the full range of animation -- from traditional to stop-motion to 3-D CG -- as it announced the nominees for its 37th annual Annie Awards.

Nominated for best animated feature are the 3D movies "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" from Sony Animation and "Up," from Pixar/Disney; stop-motion films "Coraline" from Laika/Focus and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" from Fox; and the traditionally-animated "The Secret of Kells" from Cartoon Saloon and "The Princess and the Frog" from Disney.

Nominated for feature animation directing are Wes Anderson for "Fox," Pete Docter for "Up," Christopher Miller and Phil Lord for "Meatballs," Hayao Miyazaki for "Ponyo" and Henry Selick for "Coraline."

The group's Windsor Kay Award recipients for 2009 are Tim Burton, Bruce Timm and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

The awards will be presented on Feb. 6 at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Folimage worships 'Tin Gods' - Antin animation is budgeted at $6 million (Variety)

BUENOS AIRES -- French animation studio Folimage has boarded Argentine toonpic “Los Dioses de Lata” (Tin Gods) to be directed by Juan Antin. Director’s debut feature toon, sci-fi tale “Mercano the Martian,” sold to 11 territories, including France and Japan.

“Tin Gods,” a co-production between Antin’s Ayllu Animaciones and France’s O2B Films, has a budget of Euros 4 million ($6 million), far lower than the $10.5 million average for European animated pics, kept down by lower labor and production costs in Argentina.

“Tin Gods” is about a native American boy taken to the old world by Spanish conquerors. The boy thinks he is going to where the gods live.

“It is a universal story about one of the biggest moments in history, the story of the Americas,” Antin told Variety. “It changed the history of mankind,” he said, adding that the message is of respect for earth and people.

Production will start in March 2010 for a release at the end of that year or in 2011, Antin said.

Folimage will work as a partner studio and tap into European funds.

“Having them makes it sure that the money will come in for the film,” Antin said.

“Tin Gods” will be produced in English-, French- and Spanish- language versions, helping expand sales opportunities, Antin said.

Balance oficial de Ventana Sur

Entre el viernes 27 y el 30 de noviembre de 2009, se desarrolló Ventana Sur, el acontecimiento más importante de la industria del cine de América Latina.

En este acontecimiento inédito dentro del mundo del séptimo arte, estuvieron presentes productores, realizadores, distribuidores y exhibidores de cine, representantes de canales de TV abierta y TV paga, distribuidores de contenido digital, proveedores de contenido on-line, productores audiovisuales, distribuidores de DVDs, directores y programadores de festivales, entre otros profesionales.

El evento estuvo dirigido a distribuidores de todo el mundo, que tomaron contacto con sus pares de América Latina para la compra de derechos de películas.

Se desarrollaron diversas actividades como screenings de películas, rondas de negocios, actividades paralelas, mesas redondas sobre la problemática de la distribución y sobre las nuevas plataformas digitales.

Los 15 títulos más vistos en la Video Library fueron:

100% LUCHA, EL AMO DE LOS CLONES – Argentina -De Pablo Pares y Paulo Soria
EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS – Argentina - De Juan José Campanella
ABALLAY – Argentina - De Fernando Spiner
1, 2 Y 3 MUJERES – Venezuela - De Anabel Rodríguez y Andrea Herrera
3 EFES – Brasil – De Carlos Gerbase
HIROSHIMA – Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia – De Pablo Stoll
PERRO MUERTO – Chile – De Camilo Becerra
LOS VIEJOS – Bolivia – Martín Boulocq
LAS VIUDAS DE LOS JUEVES – Argentina – De Marcelo Piñeyro
AÑO BISIESTO – México - De Michael Rowe
DAWSON, ISLA 10 – Chile, Brasil, Venezuela – De Miguel Littin
DEL AMOR Y OTROS DEMONIOS – Colombia, Costa Rica – De Marcelo Mosenson
DORMIR AL SOL – Argentina – De Alejandro Chomski
LA SANGRE Y LA LLUVIA – Colombia – De Jorge Navas
ANICETO – Argentina – De Leonardo Favio

Las películas más vistas en los screenings de Cinemark Puerto Madero fueron:

DEL AMOR Y OTROS DEMONIOS – Colombia – De Hilda Hidalgo

LAS VIUDAS DE LOS JUEVES – Argentina – De Marcelo Piñeyro

LA CANTANTE DE TANGO – Argentina – De Diego Martínez Vigniatti

ALAMAR – México – De Pedro González Rubio

CONTRACORRIENTE – Colombia – De Javier Fuentes León

LA SANGRE Y LA LLUVIA – Colombia – De Jorge Navas

Ultimas funciones de "Entrenamiento elemental para actores"

Entrenamiento elemental para actores
Una película de Federico León y Martín Rejtman
Argentina, 2009

Últimas dos funciones: Sábados 5 y 12 de diciembre a las 22:00 El camarín de las musas, Mario Bravo 960.


SINOPSIS

Sergio es un profesor de teatro para chicos.
A través de sus clases conocemos algo de él y de sus alumnos.

Sergio: (…) “El dolor está por encima del miedo. Los chicos solo pueden actuar de chicos. Un chico no puede hacer de policía, de viejo, de prostituta, por ejemplo. La gran ventaja de un niño es que es el único que puede hacer de niño con naturalidad. Por lo tanto, sus grandes competidores son los animales.”


NOTA DE LOS DIRECTORES

Entrenamiento elemental para actores surge a partir de un encargo de un canal de televisión argentino como parte de una serie de telefilms en donde la premisa era juntar a un director de cine con a un director de teatro (con la particularidad en este caso de que el director de teatro también dirige cine).

Para ambos fue una experiencia de co-escritura y co-dirección inédita. Tuvimos que cambiar, combinar, ceder y adaptarnos a la forma de trabajo del otro. Fue también para ambos la primer experiencia de un trabajo hecho en un estudio de televisión, con todas las diferencias que tiene esa forma de trabajo con el cine, medio con el que estamos más familiarizados.

En Entrenamiento elemental para actores decidimos explorar el territorio de un taller de teatro que no existe a través de la figura de Sergio, el profesor, que con un método de enseñanza propio y radical no es para nada complaciente con los niños a quienes "entrena". Se trata de una experiencia casi utópica en donde no hay prácticamente diferencia entre niños y adultos, ni entre arte y vida. La película transcurre casi íntegramente en un espacio cerrado, el estudio, y lo que conocemos de los personajes se limita a sus experiencias en las clases. Lo que vemos es la puesta en escena de una teoría “seria” ejecutada por niños, llevando al extremo ideas sobre la educación artística. Esta combinación tuvo como resultado un tono que pasa de la intensidad al humor y del humor a la intesidad de una manera que para nosotros resultó completamente imprevisible.

Federico León - Martín Rejtman

FICHA TÉCNICA

Guión y dirección
Federico León - Martín Rejtman

Producida por
Violeta Bava - Federico León -Rosa Martínez Rivero -Martín Rejtman

Producción Ejecutiva
Rosa Martínez Rivero

Asistencia de dirección
Adrián Lakerman

Coordinación de Producción
Julieta Squeri

Fotografía
Gustavo “Chino” Nakamura

Montaje
Martín Mainoli
Karina Flomenbaum

Post producción de sonido
Catriel Vildosola

Elenco:

Con
Fabián Arenillas
Carlos Portaluppi

Y los niños
Ulises Bercovich
Luca Damperat
Matías Delgado
Paula Egdechman
Melanie Guignant
Agustín Prieto
Milena Psevosnik
Lourdes Reynoso
Iago Scippo
Brian Sichel
Candelaria Toria
Micaela Vega
Iván Vitale
Julián Zuker



Duración: 52 minutos

Soporte de rodaje: Xdcam



SOBRE LOS DIRECTORES

Federico León escribió y dirigió las películas Todo juntos y Estrellas (en colaboración con Marcos Martínez) y las obras de teatro Cachetazo de campo, Museo Miguel Angel Boezzio, Mil quinientos metros sobre el nivel de Jack El adolescente y Yo en el futuro.

Martín Rejtman dirigió las películas Rapado, Silvia Prieto, Los guates mágicos y Copacabana. Publicó los libros Rapado, Treinta y cuatro historias (incluido en Un libro sobre Kuitca), Velcro y yo y Literatura y otros cuentos.


Entrenamiento elemental para actores se estrenó en el 11 BAFICI, y ha participado en las ediciones 2009 de Los Angeles Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival y London Film Festival.

'Anvil!' nabs doc group award (The Hollywood Reporter)

Although "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" did not make the short list for the documentary Oscar, it has been named best music doc by the International Documentary Assn.

The IDA on Monday announced winners in seven categories in advance of the organization's awards ceremony set for Friday at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles.

"Anvil!," the tale of a heavy metal band in the 1980s directed by Sacha Gervasi and produced by Rebecca Yeldham, also is nominated for the IDA's top feature prize, which will be announced Friday.

PBS' "POV" series, produced by American Documentary, captured the group's Continuing Series Award. In the Limited Series category, the prize went to the Sundance Channel's "Architecture School," a six-part series from Michael Selditch and Stan Bertheaud that follows a group of students at Tulane's School of Architecture.

The IDA/Humanitas Award, a new prize that recognizes a film that strives to unify the human family, goes to Mai Iskander's "Garbage Dreams," which centers on three teenage boys growing up on the outskirts of Cairo.

The IDA/Pare Lorentz Award goes to Irene Taylor Brodsky's Oscar-nominated short "The Final Inch," about health workers in some of India's poorest neighborhoods. The IDA/ABC News VideoSource Award, for best use of archival news footage, was awarded to "Wounded Knee," an episode produced and directed by Stanley Nelson from the "We Shall Remain" series produced by WGBH with Native American Public Television.

Stanford's Peter Jordan earned the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award for his short "The First Kid to Learn English From Mexico."

Nominaciones a los Spirit Awards (Indiewire)

The nominations for the 25th Anniversary Spirit Awards are being announced now in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be held on Friday evening March 5 at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles.

Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson welcomed attendees to the nominations this morning, touting the legacy of the awards and the early nominees, including Spike Lee, the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch and others.

“We are living in the world that they created,” she said this mornining, “This years nominations reflect the same criteria that were important to us back then. [They are] doing more with less.”

The ceremony will air live and uncut on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. PST/11:00 p.m. EST on IFC.

The complete list of nominations:

Best Feature

500 Days Of Summer

Amreeka

Precious

Sin Nombre

The Last Station

Best director

Ethan and Joel Coen – A Serious Man

Lee Daniels – Precious

Cary Fukunaga – Sin Nombre

James Gray – Two Lovers

Michael Hoffman – The Last Station

Best screenplay

Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman – The Messenger

Michael Hoffman – The Last Station

Lee Toland Krieger – The Vicious Kind

Greg Mottola – Adventureland

Scott Neustadter, Michael H Weber – 500 Days of Summer

Best first feature

A Single Man – Tom Ford, dir; Tom Ford, Andrew Miano, Robert Salerno, Chris Weitz, prds.

Crazy Heart – Scott Cooper, dir; T Bone Burnett, Judy Cairo, Rob Carliner, Scott Cooper, Robert Duvall, prds.

Easier With Practice – Kyle Patrick Alvarez, dir; Cookie Carosella, pdr.

Paranormal Activity – Oren Peli, dir. Jason Blum, Oren Peli, prds.

The Messenger – Oren Moverman, dir. Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee, Zack Miller, prds.

Best first screenplay

Sophie Barthes – Cold Souls

Scott Cooper – Crazy Heart

Cherien Dabis – Amreeka

Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious

Tom Ford, David Scearce – A Single Man

John Cassavetes Award (best feature made for under $500,000)

Big Fan – Robert Siegel, dir. Elan Bogarin, Jean Kouremetis, prds.

Humpday – Lynn Shelton, dir/prd.

The New Year Parade – Tom Quinn, dir. Steve Beal, Tom Quinn, prds.

Treeless Mountain – Kim So Yong, dir. Bradley Rust Gray, Ben Howe, Kim So Yong, Lars Knusden, Jay Van Hoy, prds.

Zero Bridge – Tariq Tapa, dir. Josee Lajoie, Hilal Ahmed Langoo, Tariq Tapa, prds.

Best female lead

Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy

Nisreen Faour – Amreeka

Helen Mirren – The Last Station

Gwyneth Paltrow – Two Lovers

Gabourey Sidibe – Precious

Best male lead

Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart

Colin Firth – ASingle Man

Joseph Gordon-Levitt – 500 Days Of Summer

Souleymane Sy – Goodbye Solo

Adam Scott – The Vicious Kind

Best support female

Dina Korzun – Cold Souls

Mo’Nique – Precious

Samantha Morton – The Messenger

Natalie Press – Fifty Dead Men Walking

Mia Wasikowska – That Evening Sun

Best supporting male

Jermaine Clement – Gentleman Broncos

Woody Harrelson – The Messenger

Christian McKay – Me And Orson Welles

Raymond McKinnon – That Evening Sun

Christopher Plummer – The Last Station

Best cinematography

Roger Deakins – A Serious Man

Adriano Goldman – Sin Nombre

Anne Misawa – Treeless Mountain

Andrij Parekh – Cold Souls

Peter Zeitlinger – Bad Lieutenant: Post Of Call New Orleans

Documentary

Anvil! The Story Of Anvil – Sacha Gervasi

Food, Inc – Robert Kenner

More Than A Game – Kristopher Bellman

October Country – Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri

Which Way Home – Rebecca Cammisa

Foreign film

A Prophet (France) – Jacques Audiard

An Education (UK/France) – Lone Scherfig

Everlasting Moments (Sweden) – Jan Troell

Mother (South Korea) Bong Joon-ho

The Maid( Chile) – Sebastian Silva

Acura Someone To Watch Award (Now in its 16^th year, the award is presented to a film-maker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes as $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Acura.)

Kyle Patrick Alvarez – Easier With Practice

Asiel Norton – Redland

Tariq Tapa – Zero Bridge

Truer Than Fiction Award (Now in its 15^th year, the award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes as $25,000 unrestricted grant.)

Natalie Almada – El General

Jessica Oreck – Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

Bill Ross, Turner Ross – 45356

Piaget Producers Award (Now in its 13^th year, the award is presented to emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films. The award includes as $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget.)

Karin Chien – The Exploding Girl, Santa Mesa

Larry Fessenden – I Sell The Dead, The House Of The Devil

Dia Sokol – Beeswax, Nights & Weekends

Robert Altman Award (presented to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast)

A Serious Man

Dirs, Ethan and Joel Coen

Casting directors, Ellen Chenoweth and Rachel Tenner

Ensemble cast: Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Jessica McManus, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff

Ataque de pánico!!!

Si quieren que escriba algo más sustancioso sobre los Premios Clarín, Ventana Sur, el programa de radio o lo que sea (además de linkear a notas de afuera) van a tener que darme un pulmotor o 24 horas de sueño, o tres francos compensatorios, o 15 años menos... Mientras tanto, hago lo que puedo...

Eso si: al productor Oscar Kramer --lector de este blog-- le diría que si todavía no sabe con quién hacer El Eternauta, que vea este clip del uruguayo Federico Alvarez, llamado "Ataque de pánico".

Pensalo!!!

"El secreto de sus ojos", la gran ganadora de los Premios Clarín

MEJOR PELICULA:

El secreto de sus ojos, de Juan José Campanella


MEJOR OPERA PRIMA:

El asaltante, de Pablo Fendrik


MEJOR DOCUMENTAL:

Mundo Alas, de León Gieco, Fernando Molnar y Sebastián Schindel


MEJOR DIRECTOR:

Campanella, Juan José (El secreto de sus ojos)


MEJOR GUION:

El secreto de sus ojos (Juan José Campanella y Eduardo Sacheri)


MEJOR FOTOGRAFIA:

El secreto de sus ojos (Félix Monti)


MEJOR MUSICA:

El secreto de sus ojos (Juan Federido Jusid)


MEJOR ACTOR:

Darín, Ricardo (El secreto de sus ojos)


MEJOR ACTRIZ:

Villamil, Soledad (El secreto de sus ojos)


MEJOR ACTOR DE REPARTO:

Francella, Guillermo (El secreto de sus ojos)


MEJOR ACTRIZ DE REPARTO:

Celentano, Ana (Felicitas)


REVELACION MASCULINA:

Gioia, José Luis (El secreto de sus ojos)


REVELACION FEMENINA:

Emme (El niño pez)

'Hurt Locker' tops Gotham Awards - Catalina Saavedra wins breakthrough actor kudo (Variety)

"The Hurt Locker" emerged as the big winner at Monday's Gotham Independent Film Awards at New York's Cipriani Wall Street.

Though it didn't sweep the Gothams, Summit's actioner picked up prizes for feature -- the night's top prize -- as well as for ensemble cast.

Feature prize went to producer-helmer Kathryn Bigelow, producer-scribe Mark Boal, and producers Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro.

Cast trophy went to Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse and Evangeline Lilly.

"Locker" missed out on its third nom, the breakthrough actor kudo, which went to Catalina Saavedra for Chilean-set "The Maid." Pic, helmed by Gotham-based Sebastian Silva, bowed in Sundance's World Cinema section in January and was released by Elephant Eye Films Stateside. Renner was also nommed in the category.

Robert Kenner's "Food, Inc.," Magnolia Pictures' nonfiction hit, took the documentary prize. Elise Pearlstein produced.

The breakthrough director kudo went to Robert Siegel for his debut "Big Fan." Siegel also penned 2008's "The Wrestler."

Ry Russo-Young's "You Won't Miss Me" took the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award, which comes with a $5,000 cash prize.

Winners in each category were selected by selected industryites including actors William H. Macy and Ellen Burstyn; helmers Julie Taymor, William Friedkin and Marc Forster; cinematographer Matthew Libatique; producer Wendy Finerman; and musician-composer Stewart Copeland.

In addition to the six competitive kudos, career tributes were presented to actors Natalie Portman and Stanley Tucci, Bigelow and producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.

The show, hosted by rising comedian Kumail Nanjiani, was streamed live via Ustream.com.

Lartin Side of the Doc: Premios y resultados

60 europeos vinieron al encuentro de documentalistas latinoamericanos de Chile, Bolivia, Perú, México, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brasil y Argentina. 35 productores de televisión pudieron descubrir 24 proyectos pitcheados y encontrar individuamente a los productores presentes. ITVS, ShowTime Networks, Latin Public Broadcasting/PBS, TéléQuébec, l'ONF, YLE, Multicanal, ARTE, RTBF, Music Box d'une part, La 7, Encuentros, Canal(a), ISat Space, TAL TV, Volver, Primer Plano &

Americine (Argentine), TVN Chili, TVN Uruguay, Tele Sur (Venezuela).

Con gran suceso de participación nacional e internacional de productores y directores de cine documental (mas de 300 acreditados) así como de inicio de importantes acuerdos de coproducción, finalizó el DocBuenosAires/LatinSideoftheDoc (DBA/LSD), realizado del 25 al 27 de noviembre en la sede de la Alianza Francesa en colaboración con el mercado Ventana Sur-Negocios de Cine.

Además del interés que suscitaron numerosos proyectos y directores latinoamericanos en los compradores internacionales tanto en las sesiones de los “pitchs” como en los encuentros personales (“side by side” ), se cerraron dos importantes acuerdos y compromisos de colaboración para la próxima edición 2010 del DBA/LSD. Uno con ARTE y otro con el ONF/NFB (Nacional Film Board). El canal cultural francés realizara un atelier de escritura de proyectos para el mercado internacional, mientras que el instituto canadiense ofrecerá un atelier de formación sobre Web Documental. Dos anuncios que prometen una edición 2010 muy intensa también.

Se concreto también con el Sr. Jorge Luis Serrano (presidente del Instituto de Cine de Ecuador ) y la Sra. Annouchka de Andrade ( la Agregada Audiovisual regional para los países andinos de la Embajada de Francia en Colombia) la realización de un atelier de formación del DBA/LSD en Ecuador para la región andina. A los fines de preparar los proyectos para su presentación en la edición DBA /LSD del año próximo se dictara un taller de escritura y pitch en la segunda semana de Abril 2010 para Bolivia, Colombia, Peru y Venezuela. Su sede será la ciudad de Quito y los formadores serán Françoise Gazio (Francia) Jan Vandierendonck (asesor) y Carmen Guarini (DocBsAs Argentina).

En su cierre fueron leídos los premios a los proyectos latinoamericanos elegidos por un jurado conformado por Christilla HUILLARD-KANN de Arte/France, Monique Simard del Office National du Film de Canada, Claire Colart de Radio Televisión Belga, Ritva Leino de YLE Televisión de Finlandia, Roberto Blatt de Multicanal España, Bibiana Ricciardi de Canal a y Alejandro Fernandez Moujan de Canal 7-Television Publica (los ultimos de Argentina). También otorgo un premio Lena Esquenazi por su empresa Sound/Rec.

Los premios fueron para:

Mejor Proyecto

Otorga Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)

10.000 pesos argentinos (para cualquier pais de America Latina)

FUERA DE LUGAR de DIEGO MONDACA (BOLIVIA) / MANOSUDACA PRODUCCIONES

Mejor Proyecto del Cono Sur

Otorga Delegación Regional Francesa de Cooperación para el Cono Sur

2.500.- euros (solo para Argentina, Uruguay, Chile o Paraguay)

CEDRON de FERNANDO PEREZ (Argentina) / MAGMA FILMS y BARACKA PRODUCCIONES

Proyecto más creativo

Otorga ARTE France (Canal Cultural europeo, Francia)

3.000.- euros (Para todos los países de AL)

GEOMETRIA Y MISTERIO de IGNACIO AGUERO (Chile) / LUPE FILMS

Premio Mercosur al Mejor Documental Experimental

Otorga Secretaría del Audiovisual / Ministerio de Cultura de Brasil

2.000.- euros (Para todos los países de AL)

SONIDOS VIVOS de LUIS QUQUEZANA (Peru) / CABINA LIBRE

Premio Canal (à)

Otorga Canal (à) (Canal televisivo de Argentina)

pre-compra derechos televisivos por 1.000.- euros (Para todos los países de AL)

RESONANCIA de MATEO HERRERA CORNEJO (Ecuador)

Premio Canal 7

Otorga La Televisión Pública de Argentina

Pre-compra derechos televisivos por 10.000.- pesos argentinos (Para todos los países de AL)

FUERA DE LUGAR de DIEGO MONDACA (BOLIVIA) / MANOSUDACA PRODUCCIONES

Premio Cinecolor / Kodak

Otorgan Cinecolor Argentina y Kodak Argentina

Transcripción de imagen de data /tape a fílmico 35mm en equipo Celco, incluye material virgen. Hasta una duración de 100 minutos.

(Para todos los países, pero en todos los casos los procesos se llevarán a cabo en la República Argentina )

GEOMETRIA Y MISTERIO de IGNACIO AGUERO (Chile) / LUPE FILMS

Premio Lena Esquenazi / Sound Rec

Otorgan Lena Esquenazi y Estudio Sound Rec

Diseño y Edición de Sonido (Armado de Bandas y preparación para mezcla) + 5 turnos de mezcla en Estudio Profesional.

(Para todos los países, pero en todos los casos los procesos se llevarán a cabo en la República Argentina )

CEDRON de FERNANDO PEREZ (Argentina) / MAGMA FILMS y BARACKA PRODUCCIONES

Y Premio ODISEA de España (otorgado por ChelloMulticanal de 3.000 € (para todos los paises de AL)

PERON PERON de BLAS ELOY MARTINEZ (Argentina) / MICROMUNDOS

El SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC otorgo además un premio a los proyectos europeos participantes consistente en un viaje pago para el productor para viajar al próximo ASIAN SIDE OF THE DOC que realizara en la ciudad de Hong Kong en el mes de marzo de 2010. El proyecto ganador resulto LA MAIN DU VATICAN de JEAN MICHEL MEURICE (Francia) / AMIP PRODUCTIONS.