Alex Winter (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Alok Vaid-Menon (Random Acts of Flyness), Andy Allo (Chicago Fire), Désiré Mia, Jennifer Jajeh (Transparent), Juliana Joel (American Gigolo), Julie Ann Emery (Better Call Saul), June Carryl (Y: The Last Man), Junes Zahdi (Counterpart), Laith Ashley (Pose), Mario D’Leon (Power), Nora Armani (The Blacklist: Redemption), Oluniké Adeliyi (The Expanse), Patton Oswalt (I Love My Dad), Reagan Gomez (Queen Sugar) and Shawn Mousavi (Echo 3) will star in the action-drama Absolute Dominion, which Lexi Alexander wrote and is directing for Netflix and Blumhouse Television.
In the martial arts pic currently in production, it’s 2085 A.D., and the world has been destroyed by religious warfare. Desperate to save humanity, global governing forces host a gripping, no-holds-barred, martial arts tournament. Last fighter standing wins Absolute Dominion for one faith.
Alexander, Jason Blum, John McKeown and Scott Putman are producing, with Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold exec producing for Blumhouse Television.
In the martial arts pic currently in production, it’s 2085 A.D., and the world has been destroyed by religious warfare. Desperate to save humanity, global governing forces host a gripping, no-holds-barred, martial arts tournament. Last fighter standing wins Absolute Dominion for one faith.
Alexander, Jason Blum, John McKeown and Scott Putman are producing, with Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold exec producing for Blumhouse Television.
- 4/29/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Alex Winter (“Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”) and Patton Oswalt (“Young Adult”) are set to appear in martial arts drama “Absolute Dominion” for Netflix.
“The Porter’s” Oluniké Adeliyi, “Better Call Saul’s” Julie Ann Emery and “Jerry Maguire’s” Reagan Gomez will also star in the project.
Helmed and written by stunt-woman turned director Lexi Alexander (“How to Get Away with Murder”), the high-octane sci-fi action film is co-produced by Blumhouse Television.
“It’s 2085 A.D. and the world has been destroyed by religious warfare,” reads the logline. “Desperate to save humanity, global governing forces host a gripping, no-holds-barred, martial arts tournament. Last fighter standing wins Absolute Dominion for one faith.”
Rounding out the cast are Alok Vaid-Menon, Andy Allo, Désiré Mia, Jennifer Jajeh, Juliana Joel, June Carryl, Junes Zahdi, Laith Ashley, Mario D’Leon, Nora Armani, Oluniké Adeliyi, and Shawn Mousavi.
Meanwhile martial arts expert Phil Tan has boarded...
“The Porter’s” Oluniké Adeliyi, “Better Call Saul’s” Julie Ann Emery and “Jerry Maguire’s” Reagan Gomez will also star in the project.
Helmed and written by stunt-woman turned director Lexi Alexander (“How to Get Away with Murder”), the high-octane sci-fi action film is co-produced by Blumhouse Television.
“It’s 2085 A.D. and the world has been destroyed by religious warfare,” reads the logline. “Desperate to save humanity, global governing forces host a gripping, no-holds-barred, martial arts tournament. Last fighter standing wins Absolute Dominion for one faith.”
Rounding out the cast are Alok Vaid-Menon, Andy Allo, Désiré Mia, Jennifer Jajeh, Juliana Joel, June Carryl, Junes Zahdi, Laith Ashley, Mario D’Leon, Nora Armani, Oluniké Adeliyi, and Shawn Mousavi.
Meanwhile martial arts expert Phil Tan has boarded...
- 4/29/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
The 2017 Socially Relevant Film Festival returns to New York City this month. Founded in 2013 by Artistic Director and Festival Curator Nora Armani the Srff is now in its fourth year. Focusing on "socially relevant film content, and human interest stories that raise awareness to social problems and offer positive solutions through the powerful medium of cinema" the festival has screened 157 films from 35 countries over 20 days in its first three years.
This year, 46 films will be screened from 23 countries. There are narrative features (6), documentary features (12) and short films (23) presented during the fest which also includes "an Ar/Vr and 360 gear expo and film exhibit, panels on Women, Immigrations and Refugees, Vr/Ar and 360 films, Industry Panels at Sva Social Documentary Mfa film department on Funding Film Ideas and The Hazardous Documentary. SAG-aftra hosts a low-budget film production workshop for visiting and local filmmakers in the festival,...
The 2017 Socially Relevant Film Festival returns to New York City this month. Founded in 2013 by Artistic Director and Festival Curator Nora Armani the Srff is now in its fourth year. Focusing on "socially relevant film content, and human interest stories that raise awareness to social problems and offer positive solutions through the powerful medium of cinema" the festival has screened 157 films from 35 countries over 20 days in its first three years.
This year, 46 films will be screened from 23 countries. There are narrative features (6), documentary features (12) and short films (23) presented during the fest which also includes "an Ar/Vr and 360 gear expo and film exhibit, panels on Women, Immigrations and Refugees, Vr/Ar and 360 films, Industry Panels at Sva Social Documentary Mfa film department on Funding Film Ideas and The Hazardous Documentary. SAG-aftra hosts a low-budget film production workshop for visiting and local filmmakers in the festival,...
- 3/10/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
We have been following this New York City Fest's development for a while and wish it well. Needless to say an important program of films.
Rated Sr Socially Relevant Film Festival New York , a new non-profit film festival will run March 14-20, 2014 at New York’s Quad Cinema. Founded by award-winning actor, filmmaker and curator Nora Armani, the festival will showcase films with human interest stories and socially relevant themes as a response to the proliferation of violence and violent forms of storytelling. Rated Sr aims to promote positive social change through the powerful medium of cinema.
Amy Goodman will deliver the festival’s keynote address on Tuesday, March 18th and she will give out the “Rated Sr Social Justice Award” for raising awareness to issues outside mainstream media. Such is the philosophy behind Democracy Now! Currently aired by more than 1,000 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America, and watched in dozens of countries via the Internet.
Over thirty narrative and documentary films will screen including twelve feature films which will compete for the Grand Prize, a week-long theatrical engagement at the Quad Cinema, courtesy of the QuadFlix Select Program, and ten documentaries will compete for the documentary prize. The winner will receive a VOD DVD distribution deal courtesy of Cinema Libre Studio, a leader in the distribution of social issue documentaries and independent feature films.
Films:
Feature Competition Narrative and Documentary
Coney Island: Dreams for Sale, Alessandra Giordano, USA, 81min, 2013, documentary
Dovid Meyer, Paul Mones , USA/Israel, 101 min, 2013, narrative
Flore, Jean-Albert Lièvre, France, 2014, 85min, documentary
Forward 13: Waking Up the American Dream, Patrick Lovell, USA, 120 min. 2013, documentary
If Only Everyone, Nataliya Belyauskene, Armenia, 2012, 94min, narrative
Indian Summer, Simon Brook, France, 84, 2013, documentary
Lucky Express, Anna Fischer , USA, 87, 2013, documentary
Offside Trap (Abseitsfalle), Stefan Hering, Germany, 98min, 2012, narrative
Orphans of the Genocide, Bared Maronian, USA, 91min, 2013, documentary
Small Small Thing, Jessica Vale, USA, 85min, 2013, documentary
Documentary:
Coal Rush , Lorena Luciano & Filippo Piscopo, USA, 85min, 2013,
Control, Chris Bravo & Lindsey Schneider, USA, 50min, 2013 (Nyfa artist)
Destiny's Bridge, Jack Ballo, USA, 80min, 2013 (Nyfa artist)
From the Black You Make Color, Richie Sherman & Judy Maltz , USA, Israel, 75min, 2012
Hamshen Community at the Crossroads of Past and Present, Lusine Sahakyan, Armenia, Turkey, 60min, 2012
Not Who We Are, Carol Mansour, Lebanon, 72min. 2013
Stable Life, Sara Macpherson, USA, 52min, 2013
The Throwaways, Bhawin Suchak, USA, 62min, 2013
Festival partners include:
·Academic partner, the School of the Visual Arts Social Documentary department, home of the new Mfa in Social Documentary filmmaking.
·Dailymotion, the official video media partner. A selection of close to 100 film trailers from the festival submissions are viewable on an official festival page, garnering close to 100,000 visits to date.
·Village Voice (Media partner)
·Other promotional partners of the festival include: Nyfa, Indieflix, Unifrance Films International, Cineuropa, Alouette Communications, Fiaf, Samuel Infirmier, Final Draft and Center for Remembering and Sharing.
·New-York based metalsmith designer Michael Aram has donated a special trophy to be awarded to the recognized Rated Sr honoree.
·The festival awards the Vanya Exerjian award to a film that raises awareness to violence against women and girls, in commemoration of Armani’s late cousin and uncle, victims of a violent hate crime.
Rated Sr is a film festival that focuses on socially relevant human stories and raises awareness to social problems by offering positive solutions through the powerful medium of cinema. Rated Sr believes that through raised awareness, expanded knowledge about diverse cultures, and the human condition as a whole, it is possible to create a better world free of violence, hate and crime.
Rated Sr Socially Relevant Film Festival New York shines the spotlight on filmmakers who tell compelling, socially relevant narratives across a broad range of social issues without resorting to gratuitous violence and violent forms of movie-making. Rated Sr Films are enlightening, uplifting, entertaining, but most of all artistically appealing. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales each year of the festival will be donated to a charity selected from the fields of: poverty, homelessness, cancer and aging.
Rated Sr Socially Relevant Film Festival New York , a new non-profit film festival will run March 14-20, 2014 at New York’s Quad Cinema. Founded by award-winning actor, filmmaker and curator Nora Armani, the festival will showcase films with human interest stories and socially relevant themes as a response to the proliferation of violence and violent forms of storytelling. Rated Sr aims to promote positive social change through the powerful medium of cinema.
Amy Goodman will deliver the festival’s keynote address on Tuesday, March 18th and she will give out the “Rated Sr Social Justice Award” for raising awareness to issues outside mainstream media. Such is the philosophy behind Democracy Now! Currently aired by more than 1,000 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America, and watched in dozens of countries via the Internet.
Over thirty narrative and documentary films will screen including twelve feature films which will compete for the Grand Prize, a week-long theatrical engagement at the Quad Cinema, courtesy of the QuadFlix Select Program, and ten documentaries will compete for the documentary prize. The winner will receive a VOD DVD distribution deal courtesy of Cinema Libre Studio, a leader in the distribution of social issue documentaries and independent feature films.
Films:
Feature Competition Narrative and Documentary
Coney Island: Dreams for Sale, Alessandra Giordano, USA, 81min, 2013, documentary
Dovid Meyer, Paul Mones , USA/Israel, 101 min, 2013, narrative
Flore, Jean-Albert Lièvre, France, 2014, 85min, documentary
Forward 13: Waking Up the American Dream, Patrick Lovell, USA, 120 min. 2013, documentary
If Only Everyone, Nataliya Belyauskene, Armenia, 2012, 94min, narrative
Indian Summer, Simon Brook, France, 84, 2013, documentary
Lucky Express, Anna Fischer , USA, 87, 2013, documentary
Offside Trap (Abseitsfalle), Stefan Hering, Germany, 98min, 2012, narrative
Orphans of the Genocide, Bared Maronian, USA, 91min, 2013, documentary
Small Small Thing, Jessica Vale, USA, 85min, 2013, documentary
Documentary:
Coal Rush , Lorena Luciano & Filippo Piscopo, USA, 85min, 2013,
Control, Chris Bravo & Lindsey Schneider, USA, 50min, 2013 (Nyfa artist)
Destiny's Bridge, Jack Ballo, USA, 80min, 2013 (Nyfa artist)
From the Black You Make Color, Richie Sherman & Judy Maltz , USA, Israel, 75min, 2012
Hamshen Community at the Crossroads of Past and Present, Lusine Sahakyan, Armenia, Turkey, 60min, 2012
Not Who We Are, Carol Mansour, Lebanon, 72min. 2013
Stable Life, Sara Macpherson, USA, 52min, 2013
The Throwaways, Bhawin Suchak, USA, 62min, 2013
Festival partners include:
·Academic partner, the School of the Visual Arts Social Documentary department, home of the new Mfa in Social Documentary filmmaking.
·Dailymotion, the official video media partner. A selection of close to 100 film trailers from the festival submissions are viewable on an official festival page, garnering close to 100,000 visits to date.
·Village Voice (Media partner)
·Other promotional partners of the festival include: Nyfa, Indieflix, Unifrance Films International, Cineuropa, Alouette Communications, Fiaf, Samuel Infirmier, Final Draft and Center for Remembering and Sharing.
·New-York based metalsmith designer Michael Aram has donated a special trophy to be awarded to the recognized Rated Sr honoree.
·The festival awards the Vanya Exerjian award to a film that raises awareness to violence against women and girls, in commemoration of Armani’s late cousin and uncle, victims of a violent hate crime.
Rated Sr is a film festival that focuses on socially relevant human stories and raises awareness to social problems by offering positive solutions through the powerful medium of cinema. Rated Sr believes that through raised awareness, expanded knowledge about diverse cultures, and the human condition as a whole, it is possible to create a better world free of violence, hate and crime.
Rated Sr Socially Relevant Film Festival New York shines the spotlight on filmmakers who tell compelling, socially relevant narratives across a broad range of social issues without resorting to gratuitous violence and violent forms of movie-making. Rated Sr Films are enlightening, uplifting, entertaining, but most of all artistically appealing. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales each year of the festival will be donated to a charity selected from the fields of: poverty, homelessness, cancer and aging.
- 3/10/2014
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
In Cannes recently we met with Nora and Mike and were taken by their ambitious plans to organize a new New York City and state based film fest that deals mainly with the type of films we love the most. They bring impressive qualifications to this new task and we look forward next year to participating. The Rated Sr “Socially Relevant” New York Film Festival Shines New Light on Film Violence. Nora Armani, Festival Founding Artistic Director, recently announced this new Film Festival to launch in both New York City and Rensselaerville, New York on March 14-20, 2014.
Entitled ‘Rated Sr’ for Socially Relevant, the festival is a response to the proliferation of violence and related social ills in today’s movie industry. The fest aims to satisfy a market need to concentrate more on everyday positive human stories seeking an audience.
The Downstate-Upstate event will provide Festival attendees and public alike with the best of both worlds: the buzz of Manhattan and the rural setting of Rensselaerville. The main goal of the Festival is to support filmmakers who are producing films that tackle the tough social and environmental issues of the day without relying on gratuitous violence or sensationalism to draw in an audience.
“Rated Sr aims to show that socially relevant films can be of high artistic value, educate, enlighten, but most of all equally entertain and be commerciallyviable,” said Armani who holds extensive festival organizing and curatorial skills honed from decades of experience in the United States and overseas markets. Armani organized film weeks at London’s Ica, Cine Lumiere, AFI in Los Angeles and Kennedy Centre, collaborated with Paris’s Pompidou Centre, The Edinburgh and Cambridge Film Festivals and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Armani had her films in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival and is invited to attend the Producers Network at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Armani is joined in organizing "Rated Sr" by Mike Camoin, Founder of the Festival’s Filmmaker’s Lab that will take place March 18-20th during the Upstate portion of the fest. Camoin is an Albany-based filmmaker, producer and director with a number of completed documentaries and shorts. Camoin is currently in post-production with “An American Life: The Journey from Violence to Hope” centered on mental illness and criminal justice featuring David Kaczynski. Armani and Camoin met serendipitously in Rotterdam during the fest’s synergetic industry forum and quickly discovered a mutual interest in non-violent storytelling. It is this synergy they want to carry over to New York with "Rated Sr".
Joining Armani and Camoin is Carol Ash, President of the Carey Center for Global Good, in Rensselaerville, NY, which will host the Upstate section of the Festival on its 100-acre campus. "The Carey Center for Global Good's mission is bringing together innovative and dynamic people from around the world to seek creative solutions to the most pressing challenges of the day. Rated Sr’s theme of nonviolence make this partnership particularly unique,” said Ash whose facility began hosting dialogues through film in 2012.
“We’re quite fortunate to have found a partner in the Carey Center for Global Good,” stated Camoin.
Keeping with the tradition of the institute, the Upstate retreat center is an ideal facility for filmmakers to gather in a supportive environment and move their respective and significant stories to completion. “The screening and lab components are designed to be complimentary,” he noted.
Henry Ford once said "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." The film festival also coincides with growing trends related to socially conscientious consumers. A number of independent research studies show there is a growing desire by consumers around the globe to do business with socially conscious companies.
More About Nora Armani
Armani is a seasoned actor and filmmaker who notably draws her inspiration, among others, from the work of Sherry Lansing, Oprah Winfrey and Nelson Mandela.
Armani studied drama and sociology in England and currently divides her time between London, Paris and New York. Her most recent work "Moving Stories" will screen at the Monaco Film Festival in the official selection in May 2013. Nora Armani is available for interviews. For more information about Nora Armani,
http://www.noraarmani.com/ and www.movingstoriesthemovie.wordpress.com/
More About Mike Camoin
Mike Camoin is founding member and former President of Upstate Independents, Inc. He is an advisory board member to The New School of Radio and Television, and serves as a consultant to the Albany Film Commission. He's appeared on Vox-Pop with Wamc's public radio Alan Chartock discussing all things independent motion pictures. Camoin is also attending the Producers Network at the Cannes Film Festival.
For more information on Mike Camoin, visit www.videosforchange.com
About The Carey Center for Global Good
The Carey Center for Global Good, located on an historic 100-acre estate, features a unique setting for conferences, meetings, events and retreats. The mission of the Carey Center for Global Good is to bring together innovative and dynamic people from around the world to seek creative solutions to the most pressing challenges of the day. For more information on The Carey Center for Global Good, visit www.careyconferencecenter.org...
Entitled ‘Rated Sr’ for Socially Relevant, the festival is a response to the proliferation of violence and related social ills in today’s movie industry. The fest aims to satisfy a market need to concentrate more on everyday positive human stories seeking an audience.
The Downstate-Upstate event will provide Festival attendees and public alike with the best of both worlds: the buzz of Manhattan and the rural setting of Rensselaerville. The main goal of the Festival is to support filmmakers who are producing films that tackle the tough social and environmental issues of the day without relying on gratuitous violence or sensationalism to draw in an audience.
“Rated Sr aims to show that socially relevant films can be of high artistic value, educate, enlighten, but most of all equally entertain and be commerciallyviable,” said Armani who holds extensive festival organizing and curatorial skills honed from decades of experience in the United States and overseas markets. Armani organized film weeks at London’s Ica, Cine Lumiere, AFI in Los Angeles and Kennedy Centre, collaborated with Paris’s Pompidou Centre, The Edinburgh and Cambridge Film Festivals and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Armani had her films in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival and is invited to attend the Producers Network at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Armani is joined in organizing "Rated Sr" by Mike Camoin, Founder of the Festival’s Filmmaker’s Lab that will take place March 18-20th during the Upstate portion of the fest. Camoin is an Albany-based filmmaker, producer and director with a number of completed documentaries and shorts. Camoin is currently in post-production with “An American Life: The Journey from Violence to Hope” centered on mental illness and criminal justice featuring David Kaczynski. Armani and Camoin met serendipitously in Rotterdam during the fest’s synergetic industry forum and quickly discovered a mutual interest in non-violent storytelling. It is this synergy they want to carry over to New York with "Rated Sr".
Joining Armani and Camoin is Carol Ash, President of the Carey Center for Global Good, in Rensselaerville, NY, which will host the Upstate section of the Festival on its 100-acre campus. "The Carey Center for Global Good's mission is bringing together innovative and dynamic people from around the world to seek creative solutions to the most pressing challenges of the day. Rated Sr’s theme of nonviolence make this partnership particularly unique,” said Ash whose facility began hosting dialogues through film in 2012.
“We’re quite fortunate to have found a partner in the Carey Center for Global Good,” stated Camoin.
Keeping with the tradition of the institute, the Upstate retreat center is an ideal facility for filmmakers to gather in a supportive environment and move their respective and significant stories to completion. “The screening and lab components are designed to be complimentary,” he noted.
Henry Ford once said "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." The film festival also coincides with growing trends related to socially conscientious consumers. A number of independent research studies show there is a growing desire by consumers around the globe to do business with socially conscious companies.
More About Nora Armani
Armani is a seasoned actor and filmmaker who notably draws her inspiration, among others, from the work of Sherry Lansing, Oprah Winfrey and Nelson Mandela.
Armani studied drama and sociology in England and currently divides her time between London, Paris and New York. Her most recent work "Moving Stories" will screen at the Monaco Film Festival in the official selection in May 2013. Nora Armani is available for interviews. For more information about Nora Armani,
http://www.noraarmani.com/ and www.movingstoriesthemovie.wordpress.com/
More About Mike Camoin
Mike Camoin is founding member and former President of Upstate Independents, Inc. He is an advisory board member to The New School of Radio and Television, and serves as a consultant to the Albany Film Commission. He's appeared on Vox-Pop with Wamc's public radio Alan Chartock discussing all things independent motion pictures. Camoin is also attending the Producers Network at the Cannes Film Festival.
For more information on Mike Camoin, visit www.videosforchange.com
About The Carey Center for Global Good
The Carey Center for Global Good, located on an historic 100-acre estate, features a unique setting for conferences, meetings, events and retreats. The mission of the Carey Center for Global Good is to bring together innovative and dynamic people from around the world to seek creative solutions to the most pressing challenges of the day. For more information on The Carey Center for Global Good, visit www.careyconferencecenter.org...
- 6/27/2013
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
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