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SUNDANCE / RENDEZ-VOUS DE PARIS 2014 UPCOMING
COLD IN JULY
MR. KAPLAN
by Jim Mickle U.S. Dramatic Competition
by Alvaro Brechner In Post-production
LOCK CHARMER
New
by Natalia Smirnoff World Cinema Dramatic Competition
BLUE RUIN by Jeremy Saulnier Spotlight
STILL ALICE
New
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In SUNDANCE
by Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland In Production
COMPLETED
SHORT TERM 12 by Destin Cretton
CHASING THE WIND by Rune Denstad Langlo
BACK IN CRIME by Germinal Alvarez
CONTACTS Emilie GEORGES In Paris: January 10th – 11th In Sundance: January 17th – 22nd
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OFFICE IN PARIS Tanja MEISSNER In Paris: January 10th – 11th In Sundance: January 15th – 20th
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Nicholas KAISER In Paris: January 10th – 11th In Sundance: January 17th- 22nd
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Nick SHUMAKER In Sundance: January 15th – 22nd
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IN SUNDANCE
U.S. Dramatic Competition
COLD IN JULY
A film by Jim Mickle
By the director of WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (Sundance 2013, Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2013), STAKE LAND Based on Joe R. Lansdale’s cult-classic novel With Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard (Mud, The Assassination of Jesse James, Days of Heaven) and Don Johnson (Django Unchained, Miami Vice) Cold in July tells the story of Richard Dane, a small town frame builder from East Texas who is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He then meets Ben Russel, a rough ex-con and the father of the man Dane shot, who is hell-bent on avenging his son’s death. But small town corruption and paranoia turn these bitter ennemies into unlikely allies, as the two guilt-stricken fathers begin a search for truth, aided by Dane’s tough minded wife and a pig-raising detective from the backwoods of Houston. Before it’s all over, they uncover a bigger secret, darker and more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.
SCREENINgs Saturday January 18th, 5:30pm @ Library Center Theatre, Park City (Public) Sunday January 19th, 6pm @ Holiday 2, Park City (P&I) Tuesday January 21st, 3:30pm @ Eccles Theatre, Park City (Public) Thursday January 23rd,11:45pm @ Library Center Theatre, Park City (Public) Saturday January 25th, 4:30pm @ Redstone Cinema 7, Park City (Public)
BMS Studio presents, in association with BACKUP MEDIA and Paradise City a La Cinefacture Label a Belladona Production USA, FRANCE | 2014 | 100 MIN | Budget 3,5 Millions USD
IN SUNDANCE
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
LOCK CHARMER
A film by Natalia Smirnoff
By the director of PUZZLE (Berlin Competition 2009) Sebastián is a 33-year-old locksmith who has never really believed in long-term commitments. Not even with Mónica, his most steady relationship which has only lasted five months. When she reveals she is pregnant and that he is the likely father, Sebastián’s world takes a strange turn : he begins to have strange visions about his clients whenever he’s working on their doors. Some would call it a gift, but, for Sebastián, it feels more like a curse. Together with the help of Daisy, an unlikely assistant who very much wants to believe in his gift, he reluctantly sets out to use his talent for his own good.
SCREENINgs Tuesday January 21st, 6:00pm @ Egyptian Theatre, Park City (Public) Wednesday January 22rd 8:30am @ Holiday 1, Park City (P&I) Thursday, January 23rd, 8:30pm @ Library Center Theatre, Park City (Public) Friday, January 24th, 8:30pm @ Prospector Square Theatre, Park City (Public) Saturday, January 25th, 4:00pm @ Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City (Public)
With Esteban Lamothe (El Estudiente, Villegas), Erica Rivas (Tetro) | PRODUCED BY Tarea Fina (LAS ACACIAS) ARGENTINA | 2014 | 77 min
IN SUNDANCE Toronto Official Selection
Locarno Piazza Grande
Directors fortnight competition
Cannes Fipresci Prize
SPOTLIGHT
BLUE RUIN
A film by Jeremy Saulnier Blue Ruin follows a mysterious homeless man whose quiet life is turned upside down by dreadful news regarding a past tragedy. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an amateur assassin, finding himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family. “Saulnier has made a film of almost unbearable tension, a no-frills pressure cooker that rattles the senses not just for what occurs...but for what’s waiting just off screen at every turn.” THE PLAYLIST “The best Coen Bros. noir since they were making them.” FILMFREAK CENTRAL “A lean and suspenseful genre piece... The script lures the viewer into an unnerving sense of complicity.” VARIETY “A tense, darkly comic and surprisingly esoteric revenge tale in the tradition of the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple, Blue Ruin displays Jeremy Saulnier’s serious capacity for complex genre cinema.” INDIEWIRE “I doubt we’ll see a more deft, thrilling genre film this year... It’s all incredibly smart. It is also violent, hilarious, very suspenseful and best of all, humane and thought-provoking... The acting is superb...Highly Recommended. ” TWITCH
SCREENINgs Friday January 17th, 11:30am @ The MARC, Park City (Public) Saturday January 18th, 3pm @ Holiday 2, Park City (P&I) Sunday January 19th, 11:30pm @ Prospector Square Theatre, Park City (Public) Saturday January 25th, 9:00pm @ Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City (Public) With macon blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves (Homeland) Produced by FILMSCIENCE, NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH AND THE LAB OF MADNESS USA | 2013 | 92 min
DR
UPCOMING
New – Script Available
STILL ALICE
A film by Richard Glatzer and Wash WESTMORELAND By the director of Quinceanera (Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award – Sundance 2007) Adapted from Lisa Genova’s best-seller With Julianne Moore (Map to the Stars, The Kids are All Right, The Hours) Alec Baldwin (Blue Jasmin, 30 Rock), Kristen Stewart (Twilight, On the Road), Kate Bosworth (Another Happy Day) Dr. Alice Howland is a world renowned professor of neuroscience at Columbia University. Happily married and the mother of three grown children, she doesn’t really pay attention when small things seem to slip from her mind, but getting lost in her own neighborhood makes her realize that something terribly wrong is happening. That is only the beginning of her struggle to still be Alice.
A BSM Studio presentation of a Lex Lutzus & James Brown production in association with Killer Films Delivery Fall 2014
in post-production
PROMOREEL AVAILABLE
MR. KAPLAN
A film by Alvaro Brechner By the director of Bad Day to Go Fishing (Cannes Critics’ Week 2009) Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he’s become rather grumpy, fed up with his community and his family’s lack of interest in its own heritage. One beach bar may, however, provide him with an unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness and recover his family’s respect in the community: its owner, a quiet, elderly German, raises Mr.Kaplan suspicion of being a runaway nazi. Ignoring his family’s concerns about his health, Jacob secretly recruits Contreras, a more loyal than honest former police officer, to help him investigate. Together, they will try to repeat the historic capture of Adolf Eichmann: by unmasking and kidnapping the German and secretly taking him to Israel.
with HECTOR NOGUERA, NESTOR GUZZINI AND ROLF BECKER Produced by BAOBAB FILMS, SALADO, RAZOR FILM PRODUKTION (WADJDA, WALTZ WITH BASHIR) Delivery Spring 2014
COMPLETED locarno best actress
locarno Special mention
locarno Ecumenical Prize
locarno junior jury second prize
Gotham Award Best actress
South by Southwest Grand Jury Prize
South by Southwest Audience Award
INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD best supporting male nomination
INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD Best Female Lead nomination
INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD Best editing nomination
SHORT TERM 12 A film by Destin Cretton
Short Term 12 follows Grace, a 20-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Grace is passionate and takes great care of the kids in her charge, and hides her relationship with her boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. When the troubled Jayden is admitted in the center, Grace’s difficult past starts to resurface and puts at risks the delicate balance of her life and future prospects.
“Genuinely moving and heartfelt, honest and striking, this is a drama that will have audiences simultaneously laughing and crying. Larson gives a phenomenal performance!” SCREEN “The stunning SXSW fest winner puts the recent Park City competition lineup to shame.” VARIETY “Genuinely moving, affecting, engaging. Theatrical appeal is strong. Brie Larson gives a breakthrough performance.” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER “Brie Larson turns in an Oscar worthy performance as the lead. Not only emotionally engaging, it’s also funny.” AIN’T IT COOL ”Impeccable performances all around. Tremendously involving. Intensely likable protagonists whose penchant for cracking jokes under duress.“ INDIEWIRE
View trailer here With Brie Larson (The Spectacular Now, United States of Tara), John Gallagher Jr. (The Newsroom), Kaitlyn Dever (The Spectacular Now, J. Edgar), Rami Malek (Need For Speed, Twilight, The Master) Produced by TRACTION MEDIA / ANIMAL KINGDOM USA | 2013 | 96 min
COMPLETED
ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL IN COMPETITION
ARRAS FILM FESTIVAL IN COMPETITION
CHASING THE WIND
A film by Rune Denstad Langlo
Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. She’s moved to Berlin, where she now works as a fashion designer, happily living with Mathias. When her grandmother dies, she reluctantly returns to her small town in Norway to take care of the arrangements and stays with her grumpy grandfather. But in the week leading up to the funeral, nothing goes as expected and secrets that were kept for too long are soon revealed. Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life and learn to care for the ones she really loves.
View trailer here
With Marie Blokhus, Tobias Santelmann (Kon-Tiki), Sven-Bertil Taube (Millenium), Frederik Meldal Nørgaard Produced by Motlys (Oslo, August 31st, North, Turn me on Dammit !) NORWAY | 2013 | 93 min
COMPLETED Moscow In COMPETITION
PUCHEON FILM FESTIVAL IN COMPETITION
ENGLISH DUBBED VERSION AVAILABLE
BACK IN CRIME
A film by Germinal Alvarez
Inspector Richard Kemp never got around to putting the handcuffs around the Earwig, a dangerous serial killer who began his rampage 20 years before. When Kemp is mysteriously transported back in time, to Earwig’s first murder, he realizes that this could provide a second chance to catch this elusive killer. As he tries to help his youngerself, Kemp will trigger a series of events with unforeseen consequences…
“A film fully mastered, as much in its direction as in its screnplay.” LE MONDE “Anglade carries the film with such enthusiasm and talent. His performance is what makes a real success from this clever first feature, which allows us to discover a young promising director: Germinal Alvarez.” 20 MINUTES
View trailer here With Jean-Hugues Anglade (Betty Blue, La Femme Nikita, Queen Margot) and Mélanie Thierry (Babylon A.D, The Princess of Montpensier) Produced by Haut et Court (Coco Before Chanel, LES REVENANTS) FRANCE | 2013 | 102 Min
