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Opa! Strand Picks Up Venice Winner ‘Attenberg’
Of course, you need confident distribs such as the Strand Releasing folks to take on an atypical film such as Athina Rachel Tsangari's award-winnning Attenberg. Strand are planning a release sometime in the fall.
Return to Calabria: Directors’ Fortnight Confirms ‘Corpo Celeste’
After programming Le Quattro Volte in last year's Directors' Fortnight line-up, Frederic Boyer has turned towards Calabria (the toe portion of Italy) once again - confirming to Variety that Alba Rohrwacher's debut narrative film "Corpo Celeste," will be among the films included in the sidebar and in the same measure will be up for the Camera d'or award for Best First Feature (the only award that includes all the Cannes sections).
Michelangelo Frammartino’s Top Ten Films List
This month we profile Michelangelo Frammartino. His award-winning film, Le Quattro Volte was among our top three back on the Croisette and it receives a theatrical release via Lorber Films -- beginning in Gotham's Film Forum and then expanding into other markets in North America commencing this weekend.
Exclusive: Factory 25 Brings ‘Two Gates of Sleep’ to Final Resting Place
Factory 25, the uber cool Brooklyn NY label responsible for making sure that Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo and You Wont Miss Me get some love from the movie-going public have picked up one of my favorite films from the 2010 campaign in the Cannes Director's Fortnight selected Two Gates of Sleep.
Cinema Guild Place Caring Hand Around ‘The Interrupters’
It terms of acquisitions, this Sundance Film Fest was one of the better ones in terms of volume (number of titles sold, not necessarily dollar amount) actually it was such a great fest that we've kind of forgotten that not all titles found a suitor.
