Tag: Amanda Kernell
2026 TIFF: Amanda Kernell, Irene Dionisio & John Trengove Films Among Dozen Platform Comp Selections
Earlier this year, the Academy Awards announced that the winner of TIFF’s Platform Award—alongside major prizes from other leading international festivals—would automatically qualify for...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Directors’ Fortnight
It’s nearly impossible to predict what the programming crew led by Artistic Director Julien Rejl will cook up for year four, but if the...
2024 Eurimages: Tarik Saleh, Hafsia Herzi, Joachim Trier, Carla Simon & Amanda Kernell Land Coin
The results of the first Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of European-based filmmakers to receive some...
Charter | 2020 Sundance Film Festival Review
The Custody of Love: Kernell Returns with Emotionally Wrought Portrait of a Mother’s Love
Consider the standard, universally familiar (i.e., acceptable) narrative of fathers who...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #93. Charter – Amanda Kernell
Charter
Sweden’s Amanda Kernell is poised to debut her sophomore feature Charter in 2020, produced by Lars Lindstrom and Eva Akergren. Kernell reunites with her...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lawrence Michael Levine, Malik Vitthal & Michael Dowse
Black Bear
Gabi on the Roof in July (2010) and 2014's Wild Canaries (review) filmmaker Lawrence Michael Levine landed the likes of Sarah Gadon, Aubrey...
Sami Blood | Review
I Am Sami: Kernell Examines Sweden’s Colonialist History in Coming-of-Age Drama
Sweden of the 1930s was not the sterling template of Scandinavian progression for which...
’15 Sundance Film Fest: Jake Mahaffy, Zachary Heinzerling, Shaka King, Matt Wolf & Actor Riz Ahmed Supply Short Imports & Exports
Not unlike the previous year, a whopping eight thousand plus short films were submitted to Sundance this year. Among some of the filmmaker names...
