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Advance Party (film)
Advance Party is the name given to a concept of three films which are all to follow a set of rules proposed by executive producers Gillian Berrie, Lone Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen. The concept came out of discussion between Lars von Trier, Berrie, Scherfig and Jensen. Each film is to be made by different first-time directors and producers. The production companies Sigma Films (Glasgow) and Zentropa (Denmark) are behind the concept. Scherfig and Jensen created a list of characters and gave them back stories, which the three directors could then use to build their story. Casting for all three films was to be done at the same time by the three different directors, due to the intended shared cast. Films ''Red Road'' was the first film in the trilogy to be released in 2006, directed by Andrea Arnold (Glasgow). The second, directed by Morag McKinnon (Glasgow), ''Donkeys The domestic donkey is a hoofed mammal in the family Equidae, the same family as the horse. It deri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Berrie
Gillian Berrie is a Scottish filmmaker and co-founder of the Glasgow-based production company Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie. Berrie also founded Film City Glasgow, the state-of-the-art creative cluster for production, picture and sound which spearheads independent production in Scotland. She also created the hugely successful Jumpcut project which was dedicated to giving young and underprivileged people access to working in the film industry through a pop-up film school that created an intensive, mentor-lead fast track into the industry. The project went on to inspire Berrie to create Short Circuit, the Scottish talent initiative and shorts funding scheme that launched in 2020. Career In 1996 Berrie co-founded Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie, writing and producing serial award-winning shorts, ''California Sunshine'' and ''Somersault''. Alongside, Berrie gained experience in numerous film and television roles as well as Casting Director on Ken Loach's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lone Scherfig
Lone Scherfig (; born 2 May 1959) is a Denmark, Danish film director and screenwriter who has been involved with the Dogme 95 film movement and who has been widely critically acclaimed for several of her movies, including the Oscar-nominated film ''An Education'' (2009) (for which she received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction). Scherfig's movies are generally romantic comedy, romantic comedies, including her film ''One Day (2011 film), One Day'' (2011), based on the David Nicholls (writer), David Nicholls's One Day (novel), novel of the same name. Scherfig has come to be recognized as a significant talent in the film industry for her experimentation with creative constraints and astute attention to detail. Career 1980s – 1990s: Early beginnings Scherfig graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1984. She initially worked in the advertising business and won awards (including the Lion d'Argent) at the Cannes International Advertising Film Fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Thomas Jensen
Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His film ''Election Night (1998 film), Election Night'' won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Life and career Jensen was born in Frederiksværk. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Oscar for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Best Short Subject for his 1998 film ''Election Night (1998 film), Election Night''. He received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films ''Ernst & Lyset'' (1996) and ''Wolfgang'' (1997). He also wrote the script for ''After the Wedding (2006 film), After the Wedding'' which was nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign film in 2007, ''The New Tenants'', which won the 2009 Oscar for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Best Live Action Short and ''In a Better World'' which won the Oscar for Best Foreign film in 2011 and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign film. From the end of the 1990s a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Von Trier
Lars von Trier (''né'' Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish filmmaker, actor, and lyricist. Having garnered a reputation as a highly ambitious, polarizing filmmaker, he has been the subject of several controversies: Cannes, in addition to nominating and awarding his films on numerous occasions, once listed him as '' persona non grata'' for flippant Nazi remarks during an interview; depictions of graphic violence and unsimulated sex in some of his films have drawn criticism; and he has been accused of mistreating actresses during filming, including Björk and Nicole Kidman. Trier's career has spanned more than four decades and his works have gained notoriety for his trademarks including European frequent actors (particularly Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgård), different thematic trilogies, handheld camerawork, upsetting subject matters, genre and technical innovation, confrontational examination of existential, social, and political issues, and his treatment of subje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zentropa
Zentropa, or Zentropa Entertainments, is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. Zentropa is named after the train company Zentropa in the film ''Europa'' (1991), which started the collaboration between von Trier and Jensen. History It has produced over 70 feature films and has become the largest film production company in Scandinavia. It owns a number of subsidiary companies in Europe. Zentropa is also responsible for creating a large studio complex called ''Filmbyen'' (Film City), where both Zentropa and many other film-related companies are located. Zentropa may be best known for creating the Dogme 95 movement, leading to such acclaimed films as ''Idioterne'' (1998), ''Festen'' (1998) and ''Mifunes sidste sang'' (1999). In 1998, von Trier made history by having his company Zentropa to be the world's first mainstream film company to produce hardcore pornographic films, under the division Puzzy Power. Three of these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Road (film)
''Red Road'' is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, and Natalie Press. It tells the story of a Closed-circuit television, CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road Flats in Balornock, Glasgow, Scotland, which were the tallest residential buildings in Europe at the time they were built. It was shot largely in a Dogme 95 style, using handheld cameras and natural light. ''The Observer'' polled several filmmakers and film critics who voted it as one of the best British films in the last 25 years. ''Red Road'' is the first film in ''Advance Party (film series), Advance Party'', a projected trilogy following a set of rules dictating how the films will be written and directed. They will all be filmed and set in Scotland, using the same characters and cast. Each film will be made by a different first-time director. Plot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film ''Wasp'' in 2005. Her feature films include ''Red Road'' (2006), ''Fish Tank'' (2009), and ''American Honey'' (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Arnold has also directed four episodes of the Amazon Prime Video series ''Transparent'', as well as all seven episodes of the second season of the HBO series '' Big Little Lies''. Her documentary ''Cow'' premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and played at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. Early life Arnold was born in Dartford, Kent, the eldest of four children. She was born when her mother was only 16 years old and her father was 17, and they separated when she was very young. Growing up on a council estate, she spent her youth days constantly exploring the "chalk pits, fields, woods and motorways" of Dartford. Her mother had to bring up all four children alone, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morag McKinnon
Morag may refer to: Fiction * Morag Bellingham, a character on ''Home and Away'' * Mòrag Ladair, a character from the video game '' Xenoblade Chronicles 2'' * Morag the Tulgah Witch, a character on the animated series ''Ewoks'' * Morag, a character in the '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode "Aquiel" * Morag, a fictional planet in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that appeared in the films '' Guardians of the Galaxy'' (2014) and '' Avengers: Endgame'' (2019) People with the given name * Morag Shepherd, Scottish playwright * Morag McLellan, Scottish field hockey player * Morag McLaren, Scottish singer * Morag Beaton, Scottish-Australian soprano Other uses * Morąg (german: Mohrungen, link=no), a city in Poland * Morag, a monster reported to inhabit Loch Morar in Scotland * Morag, a former Israeli settlement in Gush Katif * Megan and Morag, sheep that were the first mammals to be cloned from differentiated cells * Sherman Morag, the Israeli name for the Sherman Crab tank; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donkeys (film)
''Donkeys'' is a 2010 Scottish independent feature film, directed by Morag McKinnon and starring James Cosmo, Kate Dickie, Martin Compston, Brian Pettifer, and Natalie Press. It was awarded best feature film at the 2011 British Academy Scotland Awards, and Cosmo was named best actor. Plot The film is a black comedy or tragicomedy set in Glasgow, Scotland. Cosmo plays an old man called Alfred trying to mend his relationship with his children, daughter Jackie (Kate Dickie) and son Stevie (Martin Compston), with darkly comic results. Production and release It was originally planned as the second part of the Advance Party trilogy inspired by Lars von Trier and the Dogme 95 movement. It followed Andrea Arnold's ''Red Road'', and all the films in the trilogy, produced by Sigma Films and Zentropa, were supposed to feature the same characters and actors. Kate Dickie's character Jackie was the lead playing a CCTV camera-operator in ''Red Road'' and is a checkout operator in ''Donkeys''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikkel Nørgaard
Mikkel is a Danish and Norwegian masculine given name. It may refer to: *Mikkel Ødelien (1893–1984), Norwegian soil researcher *Mikkel Aaland (born 1952), award-winning American photographer *Mikkel Andersen (other) *Mikkel Bødker (born 1989), Danish ice hockey right winger *Mikkel Beck (born 1973), Danish former football player *Mikkel Beckmann (born 1983), Danish professional football winger *Mikkel Birkegaard, Danish author of fantasy fiction *Mikkel Bischoff (born 1982), Danish professional footballer of Kenyan descent *Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (born 1951), Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of Washington in Seattle *Mikkel Christoffersen (born 1983), Danish professional association football player *Mikkel Diskerud (born 1990), Norwegian-born American association football midfielder *Mikkel Frandsen (1892–1981), Danish American physical chemist * Mikkel Frost (born 1971), Danish architect *Mikkel Hansen (born 1987), Danish handballer *Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Series Introduced In 2006
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In British Cinema
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