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Soderbergh is Off to Park City ‘And Everything Is Going Fine’
When I predicted that Steven Soderbergh would come to Park City with his Spaulding Gray documentary, I was pegging it as a Sundance premiere, when in fact, the filmmaker who presented The Girlfriend Experience as a surprise screening last year, is renewing his rapport with the festival just down the street -- he once showed Schizopolis there.
Ana Katz Settles in ‘Los Marziano’
We unfortunately don't put enough of the spotlight on film activity in countries such as Argentina (something we'd like to change) so whenever there is a piece of news about filmmakers, especially those that have presented their work in the big five festivals then we like to make a mention of it here. Argentinean actress and filmmaker Ana Katz, who Variety describes with fellow filmmakers Lucia Puenzo and Celina Murga, as belonging to the Second Wave of New Argentine Cinema, is getting ready to lense Los Marziano in the new year (Feb. 15 in Buenos Aires to be exact).
City Of Life And Death and Lebanon Among Batch of 69 Picks for Golden Globes Foreign Category
This year, voting members will have to cover 69 picks, and slim it down to a neat five nominations and among the titles worth mentioning that didn't receive a possibility at an Oscar nomination we have City Of Life And Death and Lebanon. Unfortunately, even this list is imperfect as there is no mention of titles that were big with critics such as Women Without Men, I am Love, Hadewijch.
Zvyagintsev, Escalante and Lehotsky Among Rotterdam’s 27th Cinemart
Wedged between Sundance and Berlin is the extremely important Rotterdam film festival. Rotterdam functions as Europe's first major film fest of the year, but it seconds as a premiere destination for filmmakers such as Andrei Zvyagintsev (The Return), Amat Escalante (Sangre) and Juraj Lehotsky (Blind Loves) who make the kind of films that need a "helping hand". This list is of obvious interest because we'll be talking about this projects-turned-into-films down the road - we only need to look at Venice/TIFF for recent examples such as Samuel Maoz's Lebanon and Shirin Neshat's Women without Men to see the quality of films that got their start here.
Lone Scherfig Would Like to ‘One Day’ Work in the U.S.
In less than 24 hours, they've nabbed Brit Steve McQueen for "Fela", and they've now got their sights on Dane Lone Scherfig who has been on cloud nine this year with An Education. In what would be her transition project to a filmmaking career in the States, THR reports that she is being circled to direct One Day, a romantic comedy to be produced by Color Force's Nina Jacobson (upcoming Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Random House Films.
