October 16, 2019
GOOD MANNERS (AS BOAS MANEIRAS)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Clara is a quiet nurse with a thin résumé from the outskirts of São Paulo. When she’s hired by high-class and seemingly sheltered Ana to be a nanny for her unborn child, the two develop a surprising relationship. Ana’s increasingly strange behavior, including an intense hunger for meat, leads to a fateful night that...
October 16, 2019
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (IL BUONO, IL BRUTTO, IL CATTIVO)
DescriptionBiosDescription The final film in Sergio Leone’s “The Man With No Name” trilogy and perhaps his best-known work, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, released in the U.S. in 1967, is a landmark film celebrated by generations of cinephiles around the world. During the American Civil War, a stolen cache of Confederate gold drives...
October 16, 2019
A GENTLE CREATURE (KROTKAYA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription An unnamed Russian woman receives a package she’d sent to her incarcerated husband, stamped with the frustrating words “return to sender.” So begins this woman’s descent into the bureaucratic hell of the Russian penal system, as she travels to a Siberian backwater where the prison fortress stands. Her requests to see her husband are...
October 16, 2019
A GENTLE NIGHT (XIAO CHENG ER YUE)
BiosContactTrailerBios Qiu Yang was born and raised in Changzhou, China. He studied film directing at the Victorian College of the Arts in Australia. His short UNDER THE SUN played the 68th Cannes Cinéfondation. He has been selected to participate in the Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy, mentored by legendary filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. Contact Some Shorts Trailer
October 16, 2019
GEMINI
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Aptly set in Los Angeles, this film is an impressionistic, dark and stylish murder mystery. The LA that GEMINI’s characters inhabit is an insecure city filled with insecure people; secrets have to be hidden — especially about sex — and everyone lies. Starlets like Heather (Zoë Kravitz) and her assistant Jill (Lola Kirke) are...
October 16, 2019
GAZE (NEGAH)
BiosContactTrailerBios Farnoosh Samadi is an Iranian filmmaker who graduated from the Fine Art Academy in Rome, Italy. THE SILENCE, her first short film co-directed by Ali Asgari, had its world premiere in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Her second short film, GAZE, had its world premiere at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival. Contact...
October 16, 2019
FOXTROT
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Samuel Maoz set his brilliantly claustrophobic debut LEBANON solely inside a war tank. His latest tale operates on a larger canvas, but still bears Maoz’s trademark intimacy and detail of storytelling. FOXTROT follows Michael, a grieving Israeli father who must grapple with the unimaginable and surreal circumstances surrounding the death of his son. Mourning...
October 16, 2019
FUNDING AND FINANCIAL MODELS FOR VR
DescriptionDescription This panel discussion centers on how and where VR artists can find funding, as well as platforms and models for distribution. Panelists will include Jeffrey Abramson, DiscoveryVR, Head of Programming and Development; James Kaelan, Acquisitions and Licensing for Positron; and Kaleidoscope Founder René Pinnell; as moderated by Daniel Burwen, Creative Director and Head of...
October 16, 2019
FITS AND STARTS
DescriptionBiosDescription Actor/comedian Wyatt Cenac delivers a double dollop of his trademark deadpan charm in this fantastic and funny debut from director Laura Terruso. Cenac plays David, a writer who hasn’t yet attained the success he wants so desperately from the literary world. On the other hand, his wife Jennifer (played by the equally comic and...
