Exclusive: Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich and his Melbar Entertainment Group have signed with APA for representation.
The renowned writer, director and producer’s feature credits include acclaimed 2020 doc Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, which tells the story of the largest art fraud in American history. That project is currently being packaged for a scripted series adaptation.
Avrich also produced the Scotiabank Giller Prize television show, and three editions of The Canadian Screen Awards, between 2015 and 2017. He also directed and produced the upcoming feature The Talented Mr. Rosenberg, which is currently in post-production.
One of North America’s largest producers of non-scripted content, Melbar Entertainment Group has produced over 50 documentaries and filmed productions, including The Last Mogul, about Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman; Prosecuting Evil, about Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz; contemporary art world pic Blurred Lines; The Reckoning, which takes on the #MeToo movement; the upcoming Oscar Peterson: Black and White,...
The renowned writer, director and producer’s feature credits include acclaimed 2020 doc Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, which tells the story of the largest art fraud in American history. That project is currently being packaged for a scripted series adaptation.
Avrich also produced the Scotiabank Giller Prize television show, and three editions of The Canadian Screen Awards, between 2015 and 2017. He also directed and produced the upcoming feature The Talented Mr. Rosenberg, which is currently in post-production.
One of North America’s largest producers of non-scripted content, Melbar Entertainment Group has produced over 50 documentaries and filmed productions, including The Last Mogul, about Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman; Prosecuting Evil, about Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz; contemporary art world pic Blurred Lines; The Reckoning, which takes on the #MeToo movement; the upcoming Oscar Peterson: Black and White,...
- 4/14/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
A couple of things have caught our eye in February’s Netflix UK line-up, first, the German dystopian sci-fi Tribes of Europa. After the success of sci-fi series Dark, the streaming service invested in a bunch of new German-language series, including the mega-successful historical Barbarians. Tribes was among them, and tells the story of a group of siblings in 2074, separated after a global disaster that leaves Europe riven by warring factions. Also sounding like a good time is South Korean comedy Space Sweepers, about a spaceship crew tasked with cleaning up intergalactic trash.
There’s also the arrival of Parks and Recreation in full – perfect for a lockdown rewatch, new stand-up, all of The Vampire Diaries, and Jason “It’s a megalodon” Statham in The Meg.
We’ll update this list with new arrivals as they’re confirmed.
1 February
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
The Family Fang (2015)
The House Arrest of Us...
There’s also the arrival of Parks and Recreation in full – perfect for a lockdown rewatch, new stand-up, all of The Vampire Diaries, and Jason “It’s a megalodon” Statham in The Meg.
We’ll update this list with new arrivals as they’re confirmed.
1 February
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
The Family Fang (2015)
The House Arrest of Us...
- 2/1/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
February may be the shortest month, but that doesn’t mean streaming services can ignore their duty to entertain us at all times. In that mission, Netflix is making a decent effort in February 2021. This isn’t the most jam-packed month the major streamer has trotted out just yet but there are plenty of new originals to get the job done.
Netflix has a few original series of note this month. The party begins with Kid Cosmic on Feb. 2. This animated series is a comic-tinged adventure from Craig McCracken, creator of the Powerpuff Girls. That’s followed by the Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl-starring Firefly Lane on Feb. 3 and Behind Her Eyes on Feb. 17. Perhaps the biggest sleeper this month, however, is Tribes of Europa. This post-apocalyptic adventure series premieres on Feb. 19.
There are also quite a few intriguing Netflix original movies in February 2021. Malcolm and Marie stars John David Washington...
Netflix has a few original series of note this month. The party begins with Kid Cosmic on Feb. 2. This animated series is a comic-tinged adventure from Craig McCracken, creator of the Powerpuff Girls. That’s followed by the Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl-starring Firefly Lane on Feb. 3 and Behind Her Eyes on Feb. 17. Perhaps the biggest sleeper this month, however, is Tribes of Europa. This post-apocalyptic adventure series premieres on Feb. 19.
There are also quite a few intriguing Netflix original movies in February 2021. Malcolm and Marie stars John David Washington...
- 2/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
If the events of the art world aren’t on your radar, you might have missed the late-2000s scandal that enveloped the Knoedler & Co. gallery in Manhattan, one of the oldest art galleries in the country, run by gallery president Ann Freedman. The gallery closed, Freedman resigned, and several people were sent to jail. The story itself remains remarkable, involving Freedman and a horde of fraudulent paintings said to be by storied artists like Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko. Articles and articles were written across publications, art-focused and not. And of course, inevitable documentaries followed, including the Hot Docs 2020 hit Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art and its counterpart and the focus of this review, Driven to Abstraction.
Driven to Abstraction, the new doc from Daria Price, reads like an in-depth news article, one you’d read in a major art magazine. It features a plethora of talking heads,...
Driven to Abstraction, the new doc from Daria Price, reads like an in-depth news article, one you’d read in a major art magazine. It features a plethora of talking heads,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
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