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TorinoFilmLab
TorinoFilmLab (TFL) is a Turin-based laboratory that primarily supports persons working on their first and second fiction feature films. Its four main fields of involvement are training, development, funding and distribution. TorinoFilmLab runs several projects in each of these fields every year. They end at the TFL Meeting Event in November during the Torino Film Festival, when participants of the different programmes present their work to a selected group of producers, sales agents, distributors and other professionals in independent filmmaking. History This lab was created in 2008 with the aim of complementing Torino Film Festival with a laboratory dedicated to emerging filmmakers. TFL offers various residential workshops and on-line sessions to its participants. The programmes run parallel during the year and reach their conclusion in November at the TFL Meeting Event during the Torino Film Festival. At this occasion, TFL also hand over various awards in order to financiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men Who Save The World
''Men Who Save the World'' ( ms, Lelaki Harapan Dunia) is a 2014 Malaysian Malay-language comedy film written and directed by Liew Seng Tat. The film was nominated for multiple awards in international film festivals, and won several awards at the 27th Malaysian Film Festival, including Best Picture. Cast * Wan Hanafi Su as Pak Awang * Soffi Jikan as Wan * Jjamal Ahmed as Mat Kacamata * Harun Salim Bachik as Megat * Azhan Rani as Cina * Muhammad Farhan Mohamad Nizam as Zakari * Hazeehan Husain as the Headman's Wife * Othman Hafsham as Encik Juta Seri * Jalil Hamid as Tok Bilal * Azman Hassan as Khamis * Khalid Mboyelwa Hussein as Solomon * Bob Idris as Mat Lembu * Hishamuddin Rais as the Tok Bomoh * Pitt Hanif as Sharman's Intern Production Liew developed Lelaki Harapan Dunia at the Cannes Director's Residence – Cinéfondation and participated at the 2011 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. The film was shot in Kuala Kangsar, Perak. Lelaki Harapan Dunia was supposed to be Liew's deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Laxe
Óliver Laxe Coro (born 11 April 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry. His debut feature film '' You All Are Captains'' premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His third film ''Fire Will Come'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. Early life Laxe was born in Paris, the son of Galician emigrants. In 1988, at the age of six, he went back with them to Galicia. After completing his secondary education in A Coruña he moved to Barcelona where he studied filmmaking at the Pompeu Fabra University, before relocating to London where he filmed his first short ''Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar''. Career His debut feature film '' You All Are Captains'' premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His next film '' Mimosas'' was shot in the Atlas Mountains. It was screened at the 2016 Cannes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juho Kuosmanen
Juho Kuosmanen (born September 30, 1979) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2014. Kuosmanen's graduation film called The Painting Sellers was nominated for five Finnish film Academy Awards. (set design, screenplay, best actress, best director, best film). The Painting Sellers won the first prize in Cinéfondation in Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Kuosmanen worked as an actor in Leea Klemola's arctic trilogy in Tampere Theatre in Kokkola and New Karleby. Kuosmanen has also directed opera with conductors Sakari Oramo and Santtu-Matias Rouvali. His film ''The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the top prize. The project had been developed through the TorinoFilmLab Script&Pitch programme in 2014. In 2021, his film '' Compartment No. 6'' shared the Cannes Grand Prix (the festival's second prize) tog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaelle Kayam
Yaelle Kayam (Hebrew: יעל קיים) is an Israeli filmmaker and journalist. She is known for her most recent film, ''Mountain'', which made its debut in 2015. It was featured at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her other notable works include ''Providence'' and ''Diploma''. ''Diploma'' was regarded at festivals across the world, including the Cannes Film Festival and the Munich International Student Film Festival. ''Diploma'' was later bought by the television production company, Canal+. Her films also have a heavy influence of geography and location. Yaelle Kayam is known for posing strong political questions in her films, and they mostly revolve around the religion of Judaism. Biography Yale Kayam was born in 1979 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Before entering the film world, Yaelle Kayam studied anthropology and acting at the Tel-Aviv University. Yaelle Kayam then moved on to study film and cinema at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne from 2004 to 2006. She lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haifaa Al-Mansour
Haifaa al-Mansour ( ar, هيفاء المنصور ''Hayfā’a al-Manṣūr''; born 10 August 1974), is a Saudi Arabian film director. She is one of the country's best-known and most controversial directors, and the first female Saudi filmmaker.Joan Dupont. Saudi filmmakers come out of the shadows. International Herald Tribune, 14 December 2006 . Early life and education Haifaa is the eighth (out of twelve) children of the poet Abdul Rahman Mansour, who introduced her to films by video, there being no movie theaters in Saudi Arabia between 1983 and 2018.Danna Harman. Middle Eastern Female Filmmakers Give Glimpse of Once-Veiled Worlds March 10, 2008. Christian Science Monitor/Alternet. One of her favourite actors was Jackie Chan. She is from Al Zulfi but grew up in Al-Hasa. Although her town was conservative, her father would go to a Blockbuster and grab any films that were available and bring them back home for their large family to enjoy together. Since cinema was banned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritesh Batra
Ritesh Batra (born 12 June 1979) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Batra's Hindi-language debut feature film ''The Lunchbox'' premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and won the Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). Batra also won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature Film in 2014. ''The Lunchbox'' was the highest-grossing foreign film in North America, Europe and Australia for 2014 grossing over US$25 Million. The film was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language in 2015. He then directed the English-language film '' The Sense of an Ending'' (2017), an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel. 2017 also saw the release of Batra's ''Our Souls at Night'' on Netflix. Batra's latest film is '' Photograph'', released in 2019. Early life and background Ritesh grew up in a middle-class family in Mumbai, India. His father Joginder Batra, worked in the Merchant Navy of India and his mother Manj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime Malaysia–Thailand border, border with Thailand and Maritime boundary, maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, the country's largest city, and the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, legislative branch of the Government of Malaysia, federal government. The nearby Planned community#Planned capitals, planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative capital, which represents the seat of both the Government of Malaysia#Executive, executive branch (the Cabine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimosas (film)
''Mimosas'' (original title: ''Mimosas'') is a 2016 drama film directed and co-written by Oliver Laxe, described by Laxe as 'a Religious Western'. The film is a co-production between Spain, Morocco, France and Qatar. It was screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize. The film shares some footage with Ben Rivers's ''The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers'' and an installation by Artangel that accompanied it: Rivers's film portrays a high-handed Western film-maker working in North Africa, and uses footage of the making of ''Mimosas''. In the assessment of Jonathan Romney, 'this is partly a consummate figures-in-a-landscape study, with characters – and their accompanying mules – often merging into the vastness of a varied, but usually profoundly inhospitable landscape. But the cast makes striking use of non-professionals, and Laxe has an unerring eye for faces tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki
''The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki'' ( fi, Hymyilevä mies, translation=Smiling man) is a 2016 Finnish biographical drama film co-written and directed by Juho Kuosmanen. It won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but was not nominated. Plot It's the year 1962: Olli Mäki ( Jarkko Lahti) is a Finnish amateur-turned-professional boxer from the town of Kokkola who, while attending a wedding, becomes smitten with his friend Raija (Oona Airola). They travel to Helsinki where his manager Elis Ask (Eero Milonoff) is preparing Olli's big break: a World Boxing Association featherweight championship title fight against renowned American boxer Davey Moore (John Bosco Jr.) in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. The match would be one of the biggest events in Finnish sporting history, even though most people – including Olli – are skeptical: Moore's record va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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