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Interview: Wyatt McDill and Megan Huber (Four Boxes)
We tried to make a movie that couldn’t be made better even for a million dollars. That’s why we chose an internet story – it intrinsically has a digital look and limited locations that would only get worse (in a way) if you threw money into the mix. I really believe in low-budgets – you’re forced to be more creative – cliché, but true.
No Shortage of TIFF Items; Music Box Steal ‘Viva Riva!’
Once in the blue moon pretty much describes how a film from the Democratic Republic of Congo managed to break out from the recent edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival and land distribution deals in a multitude of territories, -- which now includes the U.S. Music Box Films have made their first TIFF pick-up, landing Djo Tunda Wa Munga's Viva Riva! - a dramatic thriller about a gas shortage and the one entrepreneur who benefits from it. Look for a release next year.
Vitagraph Films Like Chances for ‘Even the Rain’
Vitagraph Films, a film distributor that services only one to a trio of titles per year, have made the rare pick-up. Following last year's purchase of Germany's The Baader Meinhof Complex, the company have grabbed yet another Foreign Oscar hopeful for a theatrical release sometime next year -- as Spain's Even The Rain will only play in it's host country in January.
Nathalie Baye To Mother Garrel in Dolan’s Laurence Anways
The young filmmaker is in the financing stages of his next project, a Canada-France co-production that would only allow the filmmaker to make a cameo appearance as the lead has been locked up by Louis Garrel, and now helping out with the funding, the name of Nathalie Baye has been added to the cast. Baye will take on the role of the mother in Laurence Anways.
Antoniak, Maoz, Aladag, Serban and Capotondi Vying for EFA Discovery Award
Completing the five noms, there's Florin Serban's Berlin Film Festival-winning If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Film Movement) along with Germany's Feo Aladag's When We Leave (Olive Films) and overwhelming 2009 Locarno winning favorite in Urszula Antoniak's Nothing Personal (Olive Films).
