Rocket Science to commence world sales in Cannes.
John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger will star in the road trip project End Of Sentence.
Rocket Science will launch worldwide sales on the Crosette on the story of an uptight widower who embarks on a journey to Ireland with his ex-con son to scatter his wife’s ashes.
The awkward pair must endure an Irish wake, the resurfacing of an old flame, an intriguing hitchhiker played by Bolger, and plenty of other unresolved issues.
Michael Armbruster, whose credits include the 2010 drama Beautiful Boy, wrote the screenplay to End Of Sentence, which is scheduled to begin production this month on location in Ireland. Elfar Adalsteins makes his feature directorial debut.
Adalsteins directed the short film Sailcloth and will produce through his Berserk Films, alongside David Collins of Samson Films, Joni Sighvatsson of Palomar Pictures, and Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir of Berserk Films.
Eva Maria Daniels and [link...
John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger will star in the road trip project End Of Sentence.
Rocket Science will launch worldwide sales on the Crosette on the story of an uptight widower who embarks on a journey to Ireland with his ex-con son to scatter his wife’s ashes.
The awkward pair must endure an Irish wake, the resurfacing of an old flame, an intriguing hitchhiker played by Bolger, and plenty of other unresolved issues.
Michael Armbruster, whose credits include the 2010 drama Beautiful Boy, wrote the screenplay to End Of Sentence, which is scheduled to begin production this month on location in Ireland. Elfar Adalsteins makes his feature directorial debut.
Adalsteins directed the short film Sailcloth and will produce through his Berserk Films, alongside David Collins of Samson Films, Joni Sighvatsson of Palomar Pictures, and Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir of Berserk Films.
Eva Maria Daniels and [link...
- 5/15/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Rocket Science to commence world sales in Cannes.
John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger will star in the road trip project End Of Sentence.
Rocket Science will launch worldwide sales on the Crosette on the story of an uptight widower who embarks on a journey to Ireland with his ex-con son to scatter his wife’s ashes.
The awkward pair must endure an Irish wake, the resurfacing of an old flame, an intriguing hitchhiker played by Bolger, and plenty of other unresolved issues.
Michael Armbruster, whose credits include the 2010 drama Beautiful Boy, wrote the screenplay to End Of Sentence, which is scheduled to begin production this month on location in Ireland. Elfar Adalsteins makes his feature directorial debut.
Adalsteins directed the short film Sailcloth and will produce through his Berserk Films, alongside David Collins of Samson Films, Joni Sighvatsson of Palomar Pictures, and Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir of Berserk Films.
Eva Maria Daniels and [link...
John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger will star in the road trip project End Of Sentence.
Rocket Science will launch worldwide sales on the Crosette on the story of an uptight widower who embarks on a journey to Ireland with his ex-con son to scatter his wife’s ashes.
The awkward pair must endure an Irish wake, the resurfacing of an old flame, an intriguing hitchhiker played by Bolger, and plenty of other unresolved issues.
Michael Armbruster, whose credits include the 2010 drama Beautiful Boy, wrote the screenplay to End Of Sentence, which is scheduled to begin production this month on location in Ireland. Elfar Adalsteins makes his feature directorial debut.
Adalsteins directed the short film Sailcloth and will produce through his Berserk Films, alongside David Collins of Samson Films, Joni Sighvatsson of Palomar Pictures, and Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir of Berserk Films.
Eva Maria Daniels and [link...
- 5/15/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Hello everyone and welcome to our favourite day in the British film calendar. We’re here in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for the 65th annual BAFTA awards and while the red carpet is being ironed and our colleagues fight off the cold anticipation is building for what should be an excellent evening.
Two of the films dominating the nominations are paeans to the magic of cinema with Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo up for numerous awards though a particular favourite of ours here on HeyUGuys, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, has been championed within the Academy and find itself up for Best Film, Director and a Supporting Actress nod for Carey Mulligan.
You can follow our coverage of the awards ceremony, with details of the winners as they are announced as well as other highlights from the Awards noted down before the BBC’s...
Two of the films dominating the nominations are paeans to the magic of cinema with Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo up for numerous awards though a particular favourite of ours here on HeyUGuys, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, has been championed within the Academy and find itself up for Best Film, Director and a Supporting Actress nod for Carey Mulligan.
You can follow our coverage of the awards ceremony, with details of the winners as they are announced as well as other highlights from the Awards noted down before the BBC’s...
- 2/12/2012
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Okay, the more news that surfaces about “Snow Piercer”, the upcoming English-language debut from Korean director Bong Joon-ho (“The Host”, “Mother”), the more excited I get. Not only does it team Bong with countryman Park Chan-wook (“Oldboy”, “Lady Vengeance”), who will produce the picture, but Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, and Tilda Swinton are all set to appear in the post-apocalyptic indie film. Now there’s one more name to get stoked about: John Hurt. That’s right, the Elephant Man, Ollivander, Winston Smith, and so many more great characters, is joining the “Snow Piercer” party. Oh yeah, just in case you forgot, Hurt was also in “Alien”. Never a bad thing. While talking to The Telegraph about “Sailcloth”, a short film he appears in, the venerable Brit dropped a quick nugget about “Snow Piercer”, and working with Bong. He said, “All the film crew refer to him, with great reverence,...
- 1/24/2012
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
[1] Though we first heard of Bong Joon-ho's Snow Piercer back in 2009 [2], it wasn't until just a couple of weeks ago that the project really began to pick up steam and build a top-notch cast. Chris Evans was the first star announced [3] for the film, with Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell boarding soon afterward. Now John Hurt has been announced as the latest addition to the post-apocalyptic film, based on a French graphic novel titled Le Transperceneige. More details after the jump. When we first heard of Evans' casting, Variety wrote that the film was "already drawing the attention of handful of top-tier Hollywood talent," and so far that's proved to be true. Hurt touched upon his new role in an interview with The Telegraph [4] (via The Playlist [5]), in which he joked about the filmmaker's name. "All the film crew refer to him, with great reverence, as 'Director Bong,' he said.
- 1/23/2012
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
John Hurt's heartbreaking new film about a pensioner who takes his life at sea after escaping a home for the elderly is a tribute to the filmmaker's late grandfather.
Elfar Adalsteins' Sailcloth is among the short films tipped to land an Oscar nomination next month and the Icelandic director reveals the movie was inspired by his granddad's death.
He explains, "I was raised by my grandparents in a small fishing village on the East Coast of Iceland, as far away from the capital as you can get. My grandfather passed away in 2008 and the idea came to me a year later and I gradually built it up in my head. He withered away in a nursing home where he spent his last seven years. So, possibly I just wrote him an alternative exit."
Hurt is also very proud of the short, adding, "It's a glorious exit, I think. That’s what I love about the film. It’s about suicide so everybody thinks that it's got to be gloomy, it's got to be miserable. But I don't think it is. I think it's a fantastic celebration."...
Elfar Adalsteins' Sailcloth is among the short films tipped to land an Oscar nomination next month and the Icelandic director reveals the movie was inspired by his granddad's death.
He explains, "I was raised by my grandparents in a small fishing village on the East Coast of Iceland, as far away from the capital as you can get. My grandfather passed away in 2008 and the idea came to me a year later and I gradually built it up in my head. He withered away in a nursing home where he spent his last seven years. So, possibly I just wrote him an alternative exit."
Hurt is also very proud of the short, adding, "It's a glorious exit, I think. That’s what I love about the film. It’s about suicide so everybody thinks that it's got to be gloomy, it's got to be miserable. But I don't think it is. I think it's a fantastic celebration."...
- 12/27/2011
- WENN
John Hurt in ‘Sailcloth.’
“Sailcloth” is one of the live action short films selected for this year’s Oscar shortlist, that stars British actor John Hurt as a man who decides one day to leave his nursing home with his belongings, and take to the sea.
The 17-minute short, directed by newcomer Elfar Adalsteins, was filmed for five days in St. Mawes, Cornwall. In the film, Hurt doesn’t speak. The only interaction he has with another person is a...
“Sailcloth” is one of the live action short films selected for this year’s Oscar shortlist, that stars British actor John Hurt as a man who decides one day to leave his nursing home with his belongings, and take to the sea.
The 17-minute short, directed by newcomer Elfar Adalsteins, was filmed for five days in St. Mawes, Cornwall. In the film, Hurt doesn’t speak. The only interaction he has with another person is a...
- 12/18/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Yesterday the finalist list for short films was announced. This is, of course, much bigger news for the filmmakers in question than the general public who rarely gets the chance to see their work, but it's very much worth noting. In order to qualify to begin with a film must pass numerous gauntlets and be an awards magnet. Who knows. We could all be obsessed with one or three of these filmmakers in 5 to 10 years time if their careers bloom.
The Ten Finalists
Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I Could Be Your Grandmother) (19 min)
Trailer • France • Directed and produced by Bernard Tanguy
Official Synopsis: "A young business lawyer finds that the old Rumanian homeless person, in front of his flat, looks like his grandmother. One night, he makes her a cardboard card: I could be your grandmother. The passers-by become suddenly very generous. Other homeless people ask him a cardboard card.
The Ten Finalists
Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I Could Be Your Grandmother) (19 min)
Trailer • France • Directed and produced by Bernard Tanguy
Official Synopsis: "A young business lawyer finds that the old Rumanian homeless person, in front of his flat, looks like his grandmother. One night, he makes her a cardboard card: I could be your grandmother. The passers-by become suddenly very generous. Other homeless people ask him a cardboard card.
- 12/15/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Out of 107 qualified submissions, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced 10 finalists that will advance to the next round of voting for the Best Live-Action Short Film Oscar. Out of these, three to five will ultimately be nominated for the Academy Award.
Ironically, actor John Hurt stars in two of the finalists: the British shorts Love at First Sight and Sailcloth. Also among the finalists is The Shore, written and directed by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) and starring Ciarán Hinds.
The 10 finalists (with links to trailers when available) are:
Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I...
Ironically, actor John Hurt stars in two of the finalists: the British shorts Love at First Sight and Sailcloth. Also among the finalists is The Shore, written and directed by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) and starring Ciarán Hinds.
The 10 finalists (with links to trailers when available) are:
Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I...
- 12/15/2011
- by John Young
- EW - Inside Movies
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 10 live action short films are advancing in the voting process for the 84th Academy Awards. This is list has been cut down from the original 107 films that qualified in this category. Three to five nominees will be chosen out of these 10 films. The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 5:30am.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:
"Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I Could Be Your Grandmother)," Bernard Tanguy, director-producer (Rézina Productions)
"Love at First Sight," Michael Davies, director and Sandra Gorel, producer (Spellbound Films)
"Pentecost," Peter McDonald, director (Emu Productions)
"Raju," Max Zähle, director and Stefan Gieren, producer (Hamburg Media School/Filmwerkstatt)
"The Road Home," Rahul Gandotra, director-producer and Ameenah Ayub, producer (London Film School)
"The Roar of the Sea," Ana Rocha Fernandes and Torsten Truscheit,...
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:
"Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I Could Be Your Grandmother)," Bernard Tanguy, director-producer (Rézina Productions)
"Love at First Sight," Michael Davies, director and Sandra Gorel, producer (Spellbound Films)
"Pentecost," Peter McDonald, director (Emu Productions)
"Raju," Max Zähle, director and Stefan Gieren, producer (Hamburg Media School/Filmwerkstatt)
"The Road Home," Rahul Gandotra, director-producer and Ameenah Ayub, producer (London Film School)
"The Roar of the Sea," Ana Rocha Fernandes and Torsten Truscheit,...
- 12/14/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Today the Academy announced the ten films that will advance in the voting process for the 2012 Oscars for Live Action Short out of the 107 films that qualified in the category. Of the ten I was unable to find anything on only one of them as I have trailers for eight of the others and an image for one more. Of the bunch Love at First Sight and Sailcloth are sure to gain attention as both star John Hurt and The Shore features Hurt's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy co-star, Ciaran Hinds, Hotel Rwanda helmer Terry George directing. I didn't watch the trailers before posting, but the plot for Time Freak sounds a little fun as a neurotic inventor creates a time machine only to get lost trying to make yesterday perfect. Last year I didn't watch the animated or live-action shorts, but this year I hope to do that and include...
- 12/14/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
HollywoodNews.com:The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 84th Academy Awards®. One hundred seven pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:
“Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I Could Be Your Grandmother),” Bernard Tanguy, director-producer (Rézina Productions)
“Love at First Sight,” Michael Davies, director and Sandra Gorel, producer (Spellbound Films)
“Pentecost,” Peter McDonald, director (Emu Productions)
“Raju,” Max Zähle, director and Stefan Gieren, producer (Hamburg Media School/Filmwerkstatt)
“The Road Home,” Rahul Gandotra, director-producer and Ameenah Ayub, producer (London Film School)
“The Roar of the Sea,” Ana Rocha Fernandes and Torsten Truscheit, directors (Niama Filmproduktion GmbH)
“Sailcloth,” Elfar Adalsteins, director-producer (Berserk Films)
“The Shore,” Terry George, director-producer (All Ashore Productions Limited)
“Time Freak,” Andrew Bowler, director and Gigi Causey, producer (Team Toad)
“Tuba Atlantic,...
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:
“Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I Could Be Your Grandmother),” Bernard Tanguy, director-producer (Rézina Productions)
“Love at First Sight,” Michael Davies, director and Sandra Gorel, producer (Spellbound Films)
“Pentecost,” Peter McDonald, director (Emu Productions)
“Raju,” Max Zähle, director and Stefan Gieren, producer (Hamburg Media School/Filmwerkstatt)
“The Road Home,” Rahul Gandotra, director-producer and Ameenah Ayub, producer (London Film School)
“The Roar of the Sea,” Ana Rocha Fernandes and Torsten Truscheit, directors (Niama Filmproduktion GmbH)
“Sailcloth,” Elfar Adalsteins, director-producer (Berserk Films)
“The Shore,” Terry George, director-producer (All Ashore Productions Limited)
“Time Freak,” Andrew Bowler, director and Gigi Causey, producer (Team Toad)
“Tuba Atlantic,...
- 12/14/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
The charts have all been updated... I started with the Animation, Shorts and Doc page which never gets enough attention and on which you'll see a lot of new information. Short films are such a crucial building block for young filmmakers and an ideal experimental playground for established filmmakers. They never get enough attention. We haven't culled enough information yet on the live action shorts but we know of three in the mix that have qualified that all happen to star Oscar talent: Sailcloth has two time nominee John Hurt as a nursing home escapee, The Sea is All I Know has recent winner Melissa Leo as a grieving mom and African Chelsea has Sally Kirkland as the mother of an exotic dancer. (Full disclosure: African Chelsea is advertising on the sidebar even as you read this but our love for Kirkland long pre-dates advertisements. We first fell for...
- 11/21/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
We’ve seen some fantastic short films over the last year, with Terry Gilliam’s The Wholly Family being a particularly delightful way to spend twenty minutes, and I found watching Elfar Adalsteins’ Sailcloth a completely captivating experience.
Not to wander too far into spoiler territory but the dialogue free short tells the story of a day in the life of a hospital bound widower making an important decision to break free from his surrounds. Adalsteins has enormous good fortune in his leading man as John Hurt delivers a powerful and soulful performance.
I was able to speak with John Hurt this week about the film, his support for the short film format and the difficulties of films being tied to the source material.
We inevitably touch on spoilers for the film, which is being considered for an Oscar and will hopefully be available to watch online at some point.
Not to wander too far into spoiler territory but the dialogue free short tells the story of a day in the life of a hospital bound widower making an important decision to break free from his surrounds. Adalsteins has enormous good fortune in his leading man as John Hurt delivers a powerful and soulful performance.
I was able to speak with John Hurt this week about the film, his support for the short film format and the difficulties of films being tied to the source material.
We inevitably touch on spoilers for the film, which is being considered for an Oscar and will hopefully be available to watch online at some point.
- 11/11/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The line-up for this year’s Raindance Film Festival, taking place from 28th September to 9th October, has been announced over at the festival’s official site, and it’s got some pretty interesting films playing across the twelve days.
This year is the festival’s nineteenth year running, and it has a history of debuting some of the best and most well-known independent films in recent years, including The Blair Witch Project, Memento, and Oldboy.
Raindance will be holding almost a hundred UK premieres this year, and over thirty international premieres, along with screening more than a hundred shorts, including Sailcloth, starring John Hurt, running at seventeen minutes without any dialogue.
“Raindance Film Festival is Europe’s leading independent film festival. Listed by Variety as one of the world’s top 50 ‘unmissable film festivals’, Raindance aims to nurture, support and promote independent films and filmmakers from the UK and around the world.
This year is the festival’s nineteenth year running, and it has a history of debuting some of the best and most well-known independent films in recent years, including The Blair Witch Project, Memento, and Oldboy.
Raindance will be holding almost a hundred UK premieres this year, and over thirty international premieres, along with screening more than a hundred shorts, including Sailcloth, starring John Hurt, running at seventeen minutes without any dialogue.
“Raindance Film Festival is Europe’s leading independent film festival. Listed by Variety as one of the world’s top 50 ‘unmissable film festivals’, Raindance aims to nurture, support and promote independent films and filmmakers from the UK and around the world.
- 9/7/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival (Riiff), August 9-14, announced the lineup for its 15th annual fest. This is the only Academy Awards-qualifying festival in New England. This year's 195 films include 18 world and 21 North American premieres. The fest will kick off with an opening-night ceremony and screening of the following short films: "Henry," directed by Yan England; "Sailcloth" directed by Elfar Adalsteins; "Tooty’s Wedding" directed by Frederic ...
- 8/4/2011
- Indiewire
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