DAVID BOWIE: RARE AND UNSEEN

2012 GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS

Album Of The Year
21, Adele

Record Of The Year
"Rolling In The Deep," Adele

Best New Artist
Bon Iver

Best Country Album
Own The Night, Lady Antebellum

Song Of The Year
"Rolling In The Deep," Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters

Best R&B Album
F.A.M.E., Chris Brown

Best Rock Performance
"Walk," Foo Fighters

Best Rap Performance
"Otis," Jay-Z & Kanye West

Best Pop Solo Performance
"Someone Like You," Adele

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
"Body And Soul" - Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
"White Limo," Foo Fighters

Best Rock Album
Wasting Light, Foo Fighters

Best Alternative Music Album
Bon Iver, Bon Iver

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
"All Of The Lights," Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie

Best Country Solo Performance
"Mean," Taylor Swift

Best Country Song
"Mean," Taylor Swift, songwriter

Best Americana Album
Ramble At The Ryman, Levon Helm

Best Blues Album
Revelator, Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Folk Album
Barton Hollow, The Civil Wars

Best Rock Song
"Walk," Foo Fighters

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Paul Epworth

Best Traditional R&B Performance
"Fool For You," Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona

Best Pop Instrumental Album
The Road From Memphis, Booker T. Jones

Best Pop Vocal Album
21, Adele

Best Dance/Electronica Album
Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites, Skrillex

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Duets II, Tony Bennett & Various Artists

Best R&B Performance
"Is This Love," Corinne Bailey Rae

Best Dance Recording
"Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites," Skrillex

Best Long Form Video
Foo Fighters: Back And Forth

Best Comedy Album
Hilarious, Louis C.K.

 

Episode #210

MICHAEL TRAILER

2012 BAFTA AWARD WINNERS

Best Film: The Artist

Outstanding British Film: "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: "Tyrannosaur," Paddy Considine (director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (producer)

Film Not in the English Language: "The Skin I Live In"

Documentary: "Senna"

Animated Film: "Rango"

Director: Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"

Original Screenplay: "The Artist," Michel Hazanavicius

Adapted Screenplay: "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan

Leading Actor: Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"

Leading Actress: Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"

Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, "Beginners"

Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, "The Help"

Original Music: Ludovic Bource, "The Artist"

Cinematography: Guillaume Schiffman, "The Artist"

Editing: "Senna," Gregers Sall and Chris King

Production Design: "Hugo," Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Shiavo

Costume Design: "The Artist," Mark Bridges

Make Up & Hair: "The Iron Lady," Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland, Marese Langan

Sound: "Hugo," Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman and John Midgley

Special Visual Effects: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler and David Vickery

Short Animation: "A Morning Stroll," Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe

Short Film: "Pitch Black Heist," John Maclean and Gerardine O'Flynn

The Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award: Adam Deacon

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award: John Hurt

Academy Fellowship: Martin Scorsese

 

MIKE FIGGIS'S’ "SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF"

12 February 2012, Berlin - Content is delighted to announce principal photography has begun in London on Monday 6 February on Mike Figgis’ SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF.  Figgis is the writer and director of this psychological thriller which stars Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others, Black Book), Lotte Verbeek (The Borgias) as well as Rebecca Night (Wuthering Heights, TV), Eoin Macken (Centurion), Julian Sands (The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo), Emilia Fox (The Pianist), Frances de la Tour (Harry Potter, Hugo), Lachlan Nieboer (Into the White), Kenneth Cranham (Valkyrie) and Gregory Cox (X-Men). 

Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, we watch as a world renowned screenwriter and literature professor becomes deeply implicated in the murder of a mysterious and beautiful young woman….

The film is produced by Vito Di Rosa and executive produced by Future Film’s Carola Ash.

Content’s Jamie Carmichael said: “Mike is a master director of this kind of controversial and intense material and we’re are extremely excited to be working with him, Vito, Sebastian and Lotte on this incredibly beautiful psychological thriller.”

About Content Film, a division of Content Media Corporation plc

Content Film is the worldwide film and library sales arm of Content Media Corporation plc.  Content specializes in high quality and commercial feature films, and is able to assist film producers in securing finance.  Content handles worldwide sales, marketing, and publicity on all titles. The Feature Film Library arm also manages international sales on over 200 titles.

Content titles include THE NUMBERS STATION starring John Cusack and Malin Akerman; NOTHING TO FEAR first of a slate of horror films produced by Slash; THE DALLAS BUYERS CLUB starring Matthew McConnaughey and Hilary Swank, the terrifying ghost story THE PACT starring Caity Lotz and Casper van Dien which premiered in Sundance, HICK starring Chloe Moretz, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, Alec Baldwin and Juliette Lewis; Eduardo Sanchez’s horror LOVELY MOLLY; action thriller, the cult genre sequel OUTPOST: BLACK SUN, SXSW Winner 96 MINUTES starring Brittany Snow, the crime thriller HARD BOILED SWEETS and  post-apocalyptic war action thriller THE DAY starring Dominic Monaghan, Shawn Ashmore,  Ashley Bell and Shannyn Sossamon.

Content attends all major markets and festivals including Cannes, Venice, Toronto, AFM, Sundance and Berlin. Content Film is being managed in an executive capacity by Jamie Carmichael, President - Film Division.

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The Bourne Legacy 2012 Trailer

Guy Maddin "Spiritisms"

A New Festival at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

22 FEBRUARY - 12 MARCH 2012

11 am - 9 pm, ADMISSION FREE

SOUTH GALLERY, SPACE 315, FORUM -1 SMALL ROOM AND LARGE ROOM

The third New Festival at the Centre Pompidou offers the public the chance to discover the diversity of the visual culture of our time and to appreciate how the territory of contemporary culture has broadened.

No fewer than one hundred artists including the film director Guy Maddin, visual artists and performers, writers and historians, musicians and show-men, explore new ‘ways of creating worlds’. They have been invited to this third New Festival which brings together, among other things, memory and childhood, ghosts and spectres, teleportation and dreams of experiences.

Guy Maddin is a familiar figure at the Centre Pompidou which showed a substantial retrospective of his work in 2009 (Guy Maddin, The Magician of Winnipeg - from 15 October to 7 November 2009). However, A New Festival offers the film-maker the opportunity to carry out an actual film-making exercise in the Centre itself. Through ‘Spiritisms’, Maddin works with lost or abandoned scripts and projects of great figures in cinema such as Vigo, Von Stroheim and Mizoguchi, among others, rewritten with the help of the American poet John Ashbery.

These seventeen short films (each between three and five minutes) will be filmed daily in front of the public and the film produced will be broadcast live on http://spiritismes.centrepompidou.fr.

The spiritual dimension of Maddin’s project involves him invoking the spirits of these unfinished film projects before beginning each session of filming, putting his actors into a trance state, the original set being a room designed for spiritualist seances.

The Spiritisms project therefore echoes the last full-length film by the director ‘Keyhole’, based on the logic of dreams…

These 17 sessions of ‘spiritisms’ will be brought together in an ambitious international project, launched at the Centre Pompidou, which will also include some one hundred other short films, made during the Biennale in Sao Paolo and at MoMA in New-York in particular. Guy Maddin’s idea is to create a site which would enable the surfer to combine a certain number of these films in a random way, by his choice of word-object-sound combination. Narratives will thus be formed from different short films, each time creating a new combination.

Shootings with Amira Casar, Géraldine Chaplin, Mathieu Demy, Adèle Haenel, Udo Kier, Ariane Labed, Isild Le Besco, Maria de Medeiros, Jacques Nolot, André Wilms.

Lignes de la main (Palm Lines), from a film by Jean Vigo (France, never made), with Luce Vigo

Bits of Life, from a film by  Marshall Neilan (United States,1921)

The Blind Girl, from a film by Alfred Hitchcock (United Kingdom, 1960)

Blue Mountains Mystery, from a film by Lottie Lyell (Australia, 1921)

La femme rêvée (Dream Woman), from a film by Alice Guy (United States, 1914)

Fist of a Cripple, from a film by Tetos Dimitriadis (Greece, 1930)

Gardener Boy Sought, from a film by George Schnéevoigt (Denmark, 1913)

Idle Wives, from a film by Lois Weber (United States, 1916) 

Tu ne tueras point (Ladies of the Mob), from a film by William Wellman (United States, 1928)

Poto-Poto from a film by Erich Von Stroheim (Germany, undated)

Ivresse (Intoxication), from a film by Ernst Lubitsch (Germany, 1919)

Strength of a Moustache, from a film by Mikio Naruse (Japan, 1931)

Thérèse Raquin (or Shadows of Fear), from a film by Jacques Feyder (Germany, 1928)

Over Barbed Wire, from a film by Alexandre Dovzhenko (Russia, never made)

Resurrection of Love, from a film by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1923)

Tararira (Dead Love), from a film by Benjamin Fondane (Argentina, 1936)

 

Centre Pompidou

75191 Paris cedex 04

France

Telephone:00 33 (0)1 44 78 12 33

Metro: Hôtel de Ville, Rambuteau

Opening times: every day except Tuesday, from 11 am to 9 pm

All of the New Festival has free admission except for shows in the Large room.

 

 

Episode #209

SXSW 2012 Festival Line-Up

NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION

"Booster"
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin
When Simon's brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. 
Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail 
(World Premiere)

"Eden"
Director: Megan Griffiths, Screenwriters: Richard B. Phillips, Megan Griffiths, Story by: Richard B. Phillips & Chong Kim
A young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, joins forces with her captors in a desperate plea to survive. Cast: Jamie Chung, Matt O'Leary, Beau Bridges, Jeanine Monterroza, Scott Mechlowicz 
(World Premiere)

"Gayby"
Director/Screenwriter: Jonathan Lisecki
Jenn and Matt, best friends since college who are now in their thirties, decide to have a child together, the old-fashioned way - even though Matt is gay and Jenn is straight. Cast: Jenn Harris, Matthew Wilkas, Mike Doyle, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Jack Ferver 
(World Premiere)

"Gimme the Loot"
Director/Screenwriter: Adam Leon
When Malcolm and Sofia's latest graffiti masterpiece is buffed by a rival gang, these two determined Bronx teens must hustle, steal, and scheme to get spectacular revenge and become the biggest writers in the City. Cast: Tashiana Washington, Ty Hickson, Meeko, Zoe Lescaze, Sam Soghor 
(World Premiere)

"Los Chidos" (Germany / Mexico / USA)
Director/Screenwriter: Omar Rodriguez Lopez
The Gonzales family tries hard to hold on to their beautiful Latino traditions of misogyny and homophobia when a tall, white, industrialist stranger appears, challenging their place in the exploitative food chain. Cast: Kim Stodel, María De Jesús Canales Ramírez, Manuel Ramos, Cecillia Gutiérrez, 
(World Premiere)

"Pilgrim Song"
Director: Martha Stephens, Screenwriters: Martha Stephens, Karrie Crouse
A pink-slipped music teacher ponders his stalled relationship and place in the world during an arduous trek across Kentucky's Sheltowee Trace Trail. Cast: Timothy Morton, Bryan Marshall, Karrie Crouse, Harrison Cole, Michael Abbott Jr. 
(World Premiere)

"Starlet"
Director: Sean Baker, Screenwriters: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
The film explores the unlikely friendship between 21-year-old Jane (Dree Hemingway), and 85 year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. 
Cast: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone, Karren Karagulian 
(World Premiere)

"The Taiwan Oyster"
Director: Mark Jarrett, Screenwriters: Mark Jarrett, Jordan Heimer, Mitchell Jarrett
Two Ex-Pat Kindergarten teachers in Taiwan embark on a quixotic odyssey to bury a fellow countryman. Cast: Billy Harvey, Jeff Palmiotti, Leonora Lim 
(World Premiere)

 

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION

"Bay of All Saints"
Director: Annie Eastman
As the last of the notorious water slums is demolished in Bahia, Brazil, will three single mothers face homelessness or rally for a better life? 
(World Premiere)

"Beware of Mr. Baker"
Director: Jay Bulger
Ginger Baker is the original rock 'n roll madman junkie drummer superstar who everyone thought was dead but somehow survived 50+ years of heroin abuse, disastrous experiments and 5 marriages on 4 continents. 
(World Premiere)

"The Central Park Effect"
Director: Jeffrey Kimball
The film reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan's celebrated patch of green, and the equally colorful, full-of-attitude New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of migration. 
(World Premiere)

"Jeff"
Director: Chris James Thompson
A documentary about the people around Jeffrey Dahmer during the 1991 summer of his arrest for the murder of 17 people in Milwaukee. 
(World Premiere)

"Seeking Asian Female"
Director: Debbie Lum
When an American man with "yellow fever" meets a Chinese woman half his age online, documenting their attempt to build a marriage from scratch reveals hilarious and troubling complications for the couple and the filmmaker. 
(World Premiere)

"The Sheik and I"
Director: Caveh Zahedi
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (I am a Sex Addict) is threatened with a fatwa. 
(World Premiere)

"The Source"
Directors: Jodi Wille, Maria Demopoulos
The Source Family was a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. Their popular restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood; but their outsider ideals led to their dramatic undoing. 
(World Premiere)

"Welcome To The Machine"
Director: Avi Zev Weider
Upon fathering triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology, seeking answers about what it means to be human. 
(World Premiere)

 

HEADLINERS

"21 Jump Street"
Directed by: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, Screenplay by: Michael Bacall, Story by: Michael Bacall & Jonah Hill
Police officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) get sent back to high school as undercover cops in the action-comedy 21 Jump Street. Cast: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, with Ice Cube (World Premiere)

"Big Easy Express"
Director: Emmett Malloy
Emmett Malloy's latest film invites us aboard a train ride unlike any other with Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show. 
(World Premiere)

"The Cabin in the Woods" 
Director: Drew Goddard, Screenwriters: Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard
Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know this story, think again. From fan favorites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes The Cabin in the Woods, a mind-blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out. Cast: Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Anna Hutchison, Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, and Bradley Whitford (World Premiere)

"Decoding Deepak"
Director: Gotham Chopra
Filmmaker Gotham Chopra spends a year on the road decoding his father and spiritual icon Deepak Chopra. 
(World Premiere)

"Girls"
Director/Screenwriter: Lena Dunham
Created by and starring Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture), the HBO show is a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early 20s. 
Cast: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver (World Premiere)

"The Hunter" (Australia)
Director: Daniel Nettheim, Screenplay by: Alice Addison, Novel by: Julia Leigh, Original Adaptation by: Wain Fimeri
A mercenary is dispatched from Europe to the Tasmanian wilderness by a mysterious biotech company to search for the last surviving Tasmanian tiger. 
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill (U.S. Premiere)

"Killer Joe"
Director: William Friedkin, Screenwriter: Tracy Letts
A garish, Southwestern tale - a violent black comedy about a desperate Texas debtor (Hirsch) who plots to kill his mother with help of his family (Haden Church, Gershon). They hire a crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer (McConaughey) to do the job, but Killer Joe asks for their teenage daughter (Temple) as a retainer. The film is based on Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' (August: Osage County) award winning play. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Gina Gershon, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church (U.S. Premiere)

"Marley" (UK / USA)
Director: Kevin Macdonald
The definitive life story of Bob Marley - musician, revolutionary, legend - from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best. Directed by Academy-Award-Winner Kevin Macdonald. 
(North American Premiere)

 

NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT

"The Babymakers"
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar, Screenwriters: Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow
Unable to impregnate his wife, Tommy and friends rob a sperm bank - to get Tommy's long-ago donated sperm back. The crazy plan goes hilariously awry and shows how far a couple will go to create a new life. 
Cast: Paul Schneider, Olivia Munn, Kevin Heffernan, Wood Harris, Nat Faxon (World Premiere)

"Crazy Eyes"
Director: Adam Sherman, Screenwriters: Adam Sherman, Dave Reeves & Rachel Hardisty
Just another story about love. 
Cast: Lukas Haas, Madeline Zima, Jake Busey, Tania Raymonde, Regine Nehy (World Premiere)

"Do-Deca-Pentathalon"
Director/Screenwriter: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Two brothers compete in their own private 25-event Olympics. 
Cast: Mark Kelly, Steve Zissis, Elton LeBlanc (World Premiere)

"Fat Kid Rules The World"
Director: Matthew Lillard, Screenwriters: Michael M.B. Galvin, Peter Speakman
Troy, a depressed overweight teenager, gets sucked into the punk rock world by Marcus, a charming street musician. But when Troy discovers Marcus' drug addiction, he suddenly must figure out the true boundaries of friendship. 
Cast: Jacob Wysocki, Matt O'Leary, Billy Campbell, Lilli Simmons, Dylan Arnold (World Premiere)

"frankie go boom"
Director/Screenwriter: Jordan Roberts
"A flick by bruce about his little brother Frank who's a crybaby who shouldn't do lame-ass embarrassing shit if he dozn't want people 2 see it."
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Chris O'Dowd, Lizzy Caplan, Ron Perlman, Chris Noth (World Premiere)

"Hunky Dory" (UK)
Director: Marc Evans, Screenwriter: Laurence Coriat
From the producer of Billy Elliot comes this funny, coming of age film featuring songs from artists such as David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Dusty Springfield and Electric Light Orchestra. Cast: Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Danielle Branch, Robert Pugh, Haydn Gwynne 
(North American Premiere)

"In Our Nature"
Director/Screenwriter: Brian Savelson
Taking place over a single weekend, an estranged father and son accidentally end up in the same country house with their two girlfriends. 
Cast: Zach Gilford, Jena Malone, John Slattery, Gabrielle Union (World Premiere)

"Keyhole" (Canada)
Director: Guy Maddin, Screenwriters: Guy Maddin, George Toles
I'm only a ghost... but a ghost isn't nothing. 
Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Jason Patric, Udo Kier, Kevin McDonald, Tattiawna Jones (U.S. Premiere)

"See Girl Run"
Director/Screenwriter: Nate Meyer
What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present. 
Cast: Robin Tunney, Adam Scott, Jeremy Strong, William Sadler, Josh Hamilton (World Premiere)

"Small Apartments"
Director: Jonas Åkerlund, Screenwriter: Chris Millis
When Franklin Franklin accidentally kills his landlord, he must hide the body; but, the wisdom of his beloved brother and the quirks of his neighbors, force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.Cast: Matt Lucas, Billy Crystal, James Caan, Johnny Knoxville, Juno Temple (World Premiere)

"Somebody Up There Likes Me"
Director/Screenwriter: Bob Byington
Time flies for everyone: Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal, and a woman they both adore. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us. 
Cast: Keith Poulson, Nick Offerman, Jess Weixler, Stephanie Hunt, Kevin Corrigan (World Premiere)

 

DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT

"$ellebrity"
Director: Kevin Mazur
Renowned celebrity photographer, Kevin Mazur, gives us an all access pass to the life behind the velvet rope and in front of the camera. Candid, revealing and bold interviews with Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Lopez, Elton John and more, take us inside the blurred lines of privacy, pliable journalism, celebrity, fame and what it feels like to be consumed. 
(World Premiere)

"America's Parking Lot"
Director: Jonny Mars
Pull up a front row seat as two die-hard fans of 'America's Team' spend their last season with the Dallas Cowboys at historic Texas Stadium, and scramble to preserve their place in America's Parking Lot. 
(World Premiere)

"The Announcement"
Director: Nelson George
On Thursday, November 7, 1991, Earvin "Magic" Johnson made the stunning announcement that he was HIV-positive and would be retiring from basketball immediately. The Announcement gets to the core of Magic's incredible personal journey. 
(World Premiere)

"Beauty Is Embarrassing"
Director: Neil Berkeley
A funny, irreverent and inspirational look into the life and times of one of America's most important artists, Wayne White. 
(World Premiere)

"Brooklyn Castle"
Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school's champion chess team. 
(World Premiere)

"Code of the West"
Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen
Frames a high stakes showdown in the halls of the Montana State Legislature. The future of medical marijuana is at stake. 
(World Premiere)

"Degenerate Art: The Art and Culture of Glass Pipes"
Director: M. Slinger
A true document of the art and culture of glass pipe-making. It is the first film to ever bring to light this invisible sub-culture in a comprehensive and well-informed format. 
(World Premiere)

"Girl Model"
Directors: A. Sabin, David Redmon
Young Russian girls join a modeling agency to seek work in Japan, but get caught up in an unregulated system that reveals an unseemly side of the fashion industry. (U.S. Premiere)

"Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters"
Director: Ben Shapiro
Acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson's 10-year quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life -- filmed with unprecedented access as he makes perfect renderings of a disturbing, imperfect world. 
(World Premiere)

"Just Like Being There"
Director: Scout Shannon
Through the eyes of Daniel Danger, Jay Ryan, and the gig poster community, Just Like Being There focuses on poster artists, the music they commemorate, MONDO film posters, fans, bloggers, galleries, collectors and everything in between. 
(World Premiere)

"Scarlet Road" (Australia)
Director: Catherine Scott
The film follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele - people with disability. 
(North American Premiere)

"Trash Dance"
Director: Andrew Garrison
A choreographer finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and against the odds, rallies reluctant city trash collectors to perform an extraordinary dance spectacle. On an abandoned airport runway, two dozen sanitation workers -- and their trucks -- inspire an audience of thousands. 
(World Premiere)

"Waiting For Lightning"
Director: Jacob Rosenberg
From the producers of Step into Liquid, comes the story of visionary skateboarder Danny Way, who jumped China's Great Wall and created a new movement in sport. 
(World Premiere)

"Wikileaks: Secrets & Lies" (UK)
Director: Patrick Forbes
The in-depth story of Wikileaks told by all the key players. Sulphurous, personal and moving, it documents history in the making at the lawless frontier of new technology and mainstream media. 
(North American Premiere)

"Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines"
Director: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
This documentary examines the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman and introduces audiences to a dynamic group of real life superheroes who continue to fight the good fight both on and off the screen. 
(World Premiere)

 

EMERGING VISIONS

"Black Pond" (UK)
Directors: Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, Screenwriter: Will Sharpe
An ordinary family is accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Stars BAFTA-winner Chris Langham and British Comedy Award Winner Simon Amstell. Cast: Chris Langham, Simon Amstell, Amanda Hadingue, Colin Hurley, Will Sharpe 
(North American Premiere)

"Dollhouse" (Ireland)
Director/Screenwriter: Kirsten Sheridan
Five street teens break into a house in a rich Dublin suburb for a night of partying. But games are twisted into something more emotional and ultimately out of control through a series of surprising revelations. Cast: Seana Kerslake, Johnny Ward, Kate Stanley Brennan, Shane Curry, Ciaran McCabe 
(North American Premiere)

"Eating Alabama"
Director: Andrew Beck Grace
A quest to eat locally becomes a meditation on community, the South and sustainability. Eating Alabama is a story about why food matters. 
(World Premiere)

"Electrick Children"
Director/Screenwriter: Rebecca Thomas
Rachel, a 15-year-old fundamentalist Mormon, believes she's had an immaculate conception by listening to rock and roll. She flees to Las Vegas to escape an arranged marriage, seeking answers to her mysterious pregnancy. 
Cast: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Billy Zane 
(North American Premiere)

"Extracted"
Director/Screenwriter: Nir Paniry
A scientist is trapped in the memories of a criminal and must solve a crime in order to get back home to his family. 
Cast: Sasha Roiz, Dominic Bogart, Jenny Mollen, Nick Jameson, Brad Culver (World Premiere)

B>"Francine" (Canada / USA) 
Director/Screenwriter: Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky
Academy-Award-winner, Melissa Leo, plays Francine, a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison. 
Cast: Melissa Leo, Keith Leonard, Victoria Charkut 
(North American Premiere)

"Funeral Kings"
Director/Screenwriter: Kevin Mcmanus, Matthew Mcmanus
For three 14-year-old boys at St. Mark's Middle School, it's always a good day for a funeral. 
Cast: Dylan Hartigan, Alex Maizus, Jordan Puzzo, Charles Odei, Kevin Corrigan 
(World Premiere)

"Hard Labor" (Brazil)
Director/Screenwriter: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Helena prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid. But when her husband Octavio is suddenly fired from his job, Helena is left to support the family alone. 
Cast: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes, Naloana Lima, Marina Flores 
(U.S. Premiere)

"La Camioneta - The Journey of One American School Bus"
Director: Mark Kendall
On a 3,000-mile adventure across the borders between the Americas, La Camioneta follows the journey of one out-of-service American school bus as it is repaired, repainted and resurrected into a Guatemalan camioneta. 
(World Premiere)

"The Last Fall"
Director/Screenwriter: Matthew A. Cherry
An NFL journeyman struggles to deal with life's complexities after his professional career is over at age 25. 
Cast: Lance Gross, Nicole Beharie, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Harry Lennix, Keith David 
(World Premiere)

"Leave Me Like You Found Me"
Director/Screenwriter: Adele Romanski
Big trees, broken hearts. The story of a lovesick couple's breakup & makeup while camping in the wilds of California. Cast: Megan Boone, David Nordstrom (World Premiere)

"Pavilion"
Director/Screenwriter: Tim Sutton
Max, a quietly troubled 15-year-old, leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the sun-blasted fringe of suburban Arizona. What begins in a calm and lush environment ends in a drastic, frayed confusion. Cast: Max Schaffner, Zach Cali, Cody Hamric, Addie Barlett, Aaron Buyea 
(World Premiere)

"Sun Don't Shine"
Director/Screenwriter: Amy Seimetz
Two lovers, on the back roads of Florida, do very bad things. 
Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, AJ Bowen, Kit Gwinn, Mark Reeb 
(World Premiere)

"Sunset Stories"
Directors: Silas Howard, Ernesto Foronda, Screenwriter: Valerie Stadler
When May returns to LA and runs smack into JP, the man she left behind, past and present collide sending them on a twenty-four hour journey in search of what they lost. 
Cast: Monique Curnen, Sung Kang, Joshua Leonard, Mousa Kraish, Michelle Krusiec 
(World Premiere)

"Tchoupitoulas"
Director: Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Three young brothers' immersive journey into the sensory wonders of the New Orleans night. 
(World Premiere)

"Thale" (Norway)
Director/Screenwriter: Aleksander L. Nordaas
The film revolves around huldra, a mythical, tailed creature, found by two crime scene cleaners in a concealed cellar. Someone's been keeping her down here for decades, for reasons soon to surface.Cast: Silje Reinåmo, Jon Sigve Skard, Erlend Nervold, Morten Andresen 
(North American Premiere)

"Wildness"
Director/Screenwriter: Wu Tsang
A magical-realist portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in Los Angeles that provides a safe space for Latin/LGBT immigrant and queer art communities to come together in love and conflict.

"Wolf"
Director/Screenwriter: Ya'ke Smith
A family is shaken to the core when they discover their son has been molested. As they struggle to deal with the betrayal, their son heads towards a total mental collapse. 
Cast: Irma P. Hall, Mikala Gibson, Jordan Cooper, Shelton Jolivette, Eugene Lee 
(World Premiere)

 

24 BEATS PER SECOND

"Amor Cronico" (Cuba / USA)
Director: Jorge Perugorria
Weaving footage of singer Cucu Diamantes' Cuban tour into a fictional love story. The result is an energetic display of her glamorous and infectious performance style and a fascinating portrait of Cuba today. 
Cast: Cucu Diamantes, Adela Legra, Liosky Clavero, Andres Levin, Jorge Perugorria 
(World Premiere)

"Bad Brains: Band in DC"
Directors: Mandy Stein, Benjamen Logan
How four young men from DC changed music forever. 
(World Premiere)

"Charles Bradley: Soul of America"
Director: Poull Brien
The incredible late-in-life rise of 62-year-old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album rocketed him from a hard life in the projects to Rolling Stone magazine's top 50 albums of 2011. 
(World Premiere)

"Daylight Savings"
Director: Dave Boyle, Screenwriters: Dave Boyle, Michael Lerman, Joel Clark, Goh Nakamura
After a devastating breakup, musician Goh Nakamura hits the road with his irresponsible cousin to pursue a promising rebound with fellow musician Yea-Ming Chen. 
Cast: Goh Nakamura, Michael Aki, Yea-Ming Chen, Lynn Chen, Ayako Fujitani 
(World Premiere)

"Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Níelsdóttir" (Iceland / Denmark)
Director: Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir
At the tender age of 70 she started making music - and then she couldn't stop! A tribute to the Danish/Icelandic artist and late bloomer Sigrídur Níelsdóttir.

"Paul Williams Still Alive"
Director: Stephen Kessler
A documentary filmmaker tracks down actor/singer/songwriter Paul Williams in an attempt to find out what happened to his idol. 
(U.S. Premiere)

"Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen" (UK)
Director: Don Letts
Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Billie Joe Armstrong and others discuss the incredible life and work of the world's foremost rock 'n' roll photographer, Bob Gruen. 
(North American Premiere)

"Sunset Strip"
Director/Screenwriter: Hans Fjellestad
The 100-year history of the loudest street on the planet, The Sunset Strip. 
(World Premiere)

"Under African Skies"
Director: Joe Berlinger
Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.

"Uprising: Hip Hop & The LA Riots"
Director: Mark Ford
20 years after riots ripped through Los Angeles, Uprising documents how hip hop forecasted – and some say ignited – the worst civil unrest of the 20th century. 
(World Premiere)

 

SX GLOBAL

"Bijuka" (India)
Director: Ashtar Sayed, Screenwriter: Dr. Mahendra Purohit
Inspired by a true event. Scarecrow tells the true story of a young woman who is attempting to escape from an abusive arranged marriage. Cast: Arti Rautela, Amit Purohit 
(North American Premiere)

"Crulic - The Path to Beyond" (Romania / Poland)
Director: Anca Damian
The animated documentary feature-length "Crulic – The Path to Beyond" tells the story of the life of Crulic, the 33-year-old Romanian who died in a Polish prison while on hunger strike.

"Cubaton - El Medico Story" (Estonia / Sweden)
Director: Daniel Fridell
El Medico - a Cuban house doctor who wants to become a cubaton star - is facing a serious choice between serving the state and becoming a popstar. 
(North American Premiere)

"Her Master's Voice" (UK)
Director: Nina Conti
Watching someone talk to themselves has never been so interesting. 
(World Premiere)

"Italy Love It or Leave It" (Italy / Germany)
Directors: Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi
Gustav and Luca, two Italians, have to decide: Should they stay in Italy, or leave it? (North American Premiere)

"Mustafa's Sweet Dreams"(Greece / UK)
Director: Angelos Abazoglou
Mustafa, a 16-year-old pastry shop apprentice dreams of becoming a famous baklava chef in Istanbul. 
(North American Premiere)

"Pompeya" (Argentina)
Director: Tamae Garateguy, Screenwriters: Tamae Garateguy, Diego A. Fleischer
When a film director hires two screenwriters to make a gansters movie, a fiction feast starts: femmes fatales, mobs fighting for the same neighborhood and a limitless hero who defies every movie concept. Cast: José Luciano González, Joel Drut, Chang Sung Kim, Vladimir Yuravel, Miguel Forza de Paul 
(U.S. Premiere)

"¡Vivan las Antipodas!" (Germany / The Netherlands / Argentina / Chile)
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Haven't we all wondered at some point what was happening just at this moment beneath our very feet at the other side of the planet?

 

FESTIVAL FAVORITES

"Beast" (Denmark)
Director/Screenwriter: Christoffer Boe
How long will you go, to hold on to the person you love? 
Cast: Nicolas Bro, Marijana Jankovic, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

"The Comedy"
Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Robert Donne, Colm O'Leary
Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker), a desensitized, aging Brooklyn hipster, strays into a series of reckless situations that may offer the promise of redemption or the threat of retribution. 
Cast: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, James Murphy, Kate Lyn-Sheil, Alexia Rassmusen

"Dreams of a Life" (UK / Ireland)
Director: Carol Morley
An imaginative quest to go beyond the newspaper reports and solve the mystery of who thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent was and why she lay undiscovered for three years after her death in one of the busiest parts of London. 
(North American Premiere)

"God Bless America"
Director/Screenwriter: Bobcat Goldthwait
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. Cast: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr (U.S. Premiere)

"The Imposter" (UK)
Director: Bart Layton
In 1994 a 13-year-old disappears without trace in Texas. Three years later he resurfaces in Spain with accounts of a horrifying kidnap. His family is overjoyed – but all is not as it seems.

"Indie Game: The Movie" (Canada)
Directors: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
With the twenty-first century comes a new breed of artist: the indie game designer. These innovators design and program their distinctly personal games in the hope that they may find connection and success.

"Kid-Thing"
Director/Screenwriter: David Zellner
A fever-dream fable about Annie, a rebellious girl devoid of parental guidance or a moral compass. She roams the countryside looking for adventure, and finds it one day in the form of an abandoned well. Cast: Sydney Aguirre, Susan Tyrrell, Nathan Zellner, David Zellner, David Wingo

"Last Call at the Oasis"
Director: Jessica Yu
A powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century.

"Lovely Molly"
Director: Eduardo Sanchez, Screenwriters: Eduardo Sanchez, Jamie Nash
Exploring the parallels between psychosis, addiction and demonic possession, Lovely Molly tells the story of what really happens before the exorcist arrives. 
Cast: Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Lewis, Alexandra Holden (U.S. Premiere)

"The Raid (Indonesia)"
Director/Screenwriter: Gareth Huw Evans
Rama and his special forces team fight their way through a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord. 
Cast: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Doni Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, Pierre Gruno

"We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists"
Director: Brian Knappenberger
We Are Legion takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.

 

SPECIAL EVENTS

"An Evening With Sacred Bones Records"
Director: Jacqueline Castel
Brooklyn-based record label Sacred Bones presents an evening of original and curated programming of music videos, short films, works in progress, and a rare screening of their first film production, Twelve Dark Noons. 
(World Premiere)

"Bernie"
Director: Richard Linklater, Screenwriters: Richard Linklater, Skip Hollandsworth
Based on real-life events, this dark comedy follows Bernie Tiede, his recently deceased friend Marjorie Nugent and District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson who is determined to get to the bottom of the crime. Cast: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman, Richard Robichaux

"Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me"
Director: Drew Denicola
A feature-length documentary about the massive critical acclaim, dismal commercial failure, and enduring legacy of pop music's greatest cult phenomenon, Big Star. (Work in Progress)

"Casa de mi Padre"
Director: Matt Piedmont, Screenwriter: Andrew Steele
Will Ferrell plays a Mexican rancher who must defend his father's home against the country's most infamous drug lord. Cast: Will Ferrell, Gael García Vernal, Diego Luna, Genesis Rodriguez, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Nick Offerman

"Girl Walk // All Day"
Director/Screenwriter: Jacob Krupnick
A feature-length dance music film that combines freestyle dance with the daily chaos of New York City, set to Girl Talk's recent mashup album, All Day. Cast: Anne Marsen, John Doyle, Daisuke Omiya

"Re:Generation"
Director: Amir Bar Lev
5 DJ's Turn the Table on The History of Music.

"Renga" (UK)
Directors: Adam Russell, John Sear
A ground breaking feature-length show controlled entirely by the audience using laser pointers. It is the first viable example of a standalone interactive experience capable of running in commercial movie theatres. 
(North American Premiere)

"The Oyster Princess" (1919) with original live score by Bee vs. Moth (Germany)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch, Screenriters: Hanns Kraly & Ernst Lubitsch
The Oyster Princess is Ernst Lubitsch's tart 1919 silent comedy that parodies the rich and the spoiled. Austin jazz/rock band Bee vs. Moth performs their original score live with the film for the first time. 
(World Premiere)

 

NALA FILMS "DECODING DEEPAK"

 

DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES ONE YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WORLD-RENOWNED MIND-BODY HEALING PIONEER DEEPAK CHOPRA

(Los Angeles, January 30, 2012)  – NALA Films announced today that it has financed and produced DECODING DEEPAK, a feature-length documentary film that chronicles one year in the life of spiritualist and pop cultural icon Deepak Chopra. The film, which is written, directed and produced by Deepak’s son, filmmaker and journalist Gotham Chopra, follows Deepak as he road-trips across the world to uncover who Deepak really is, and, ultimately, who any of us really are. NALA Films plans to take the film on the festival circuit and seek the most effective way to reach what they believe to be a large worldwide audience for the film, including the millions familiar with the work of Deepak Chopra and the larger audience beyond.

Gotham Chopra and Mark Rinehart serve as producers. Scott Carlin and NALA Films principals Emilio Diez Barroso and Darlene Caamano Loquet serve as executive producers, and Josh Sorkin co-produced.

“When entering into such an intimate endeavor with your family, you need a partner who brings the same sensitivity and sensibility,” said Gotham Chopra. “Working with Emilio, Scott, Darlene and the whole NALA team has been amongst the best and most rewarding experiences of my career - they give Hollywood a good name. I just hope my dad agrees when he sees the finished cut, or at least doesn't kill me.”

“NALA Films is proud to partner on this project with Gotham and Deepak Chopra,” said NALA Films CEO Emilio Diez Barroso. “Deepak is truly a pioneer in the connection between the mind and body, and has transformed the way the world views wellness. This film truly allows viewers to gain a deeper understanding of the man behind the philosophies.”

 

ABOUT NALA FILMS

NALA Films is a financing and production company that focuses on developing and producing commercial stories that empower and uplift audiences. The process at NALA begins at the inception of an idea, through the development of a screenplay and the financing and producing of the film, all the way to its distribution. NALA’s latest projects include the highly anticipated and groundbreaking Spanish-language comedy, Casa De Mi Padre/House of My Father, starring Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Nick Offerman; and the critically acclaimed coming of age comedy Ceremony, about a young man that falls hard for an older woman starring Uma Thurman, Michael Angarano and Lee Pace directed by Max Winkler, which Magnolia Pictures recently released.

Other NALA films include Academy Award-nominated In the Valley of Elah which starred Academy Award-winners Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon, and was directed by Academy Award-winner Paul Haggis; The Air I Breathe starring Andy Garcia, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker, Kevin Bacon and Julie Delpy and the Steve Carell romantic comedy Dan in Real Life.  

ABOUT GOTHAM CHOPRA

Gotham Chopra is a multi-media voice in the worlds of entertainment, news, spirituality and pop-culture. Recently he published Walking Wisdom (Hyperion books) which is about all the love and licks that go along with being a dad, a dude, a dog-owner and son of Deepak. His latest book – in collaboration with Deepak –The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes - dropped in June 2011. He is also currently directing his first feature documentary film Decoding Deepak set to be released in 2012.

Gotham is also the co-founder of Liquid Comics (formerly Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation), a premiere entertainment company based in Los Angeles and Bangalore India. As part of the company, Gotham works with creators to develop graphic novels and is also responsible for packaging and producing the books as they evolve into games, films, and more. At present Gotham is collaborating with notable talents like John Woo, Guy Ritchie, Nic Cage, Hugh Jackman, John Moore, Ed Burns and more as well as media companies like Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Universal Studios, Sony, Freemantle, Reliance, UTV and others.

Gotham is the author of five books, including the graphic novels Bulletproof Monk for which he also served along with John Woo as Executive Producer on the feature film produced by MGM Studios (2003). Formerly an award winning journalist and documentary film-maker, Gotham reported from countless warzones and has interviewed a wide range of Global leaders – from President Bush to the Dalai Lama. He also served as researcher and lyrical advisor to Michael Jackson on the multi-platinum albums Dangerousand HIStory. More recently Gotham was integrally involved in the formation of Current TV, co-founded by former Vice-President Al Gore which launched in August of 2005. At present, he is leading the charge onThe Chopra Well in partnership with YouTube which will formally launch on July, 2012.

Gotham’s varied experience in journalism, publishing, and entertainment had him identified by Newsweek Magazine as one of the “most powerful and influential” South Asians worth watching. He blogs regularly atwww.intent.com which he co-founded and thinks is “pretty awesome” as well as www.huffingtonpost.com. Contrary to his “spiritual upbringing,” he lives and dies by his hometown Boston sports teams, which he thinks in pretty spiritual and is converting in a documentary series called The Religion of Sports. J

ABOUT DEEPAK CHOPRA, M.D. FACP

As a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Chopra transforms the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellness. Known as a prolific author of over sixty-four books with nineteen New York Times best sellers in both the fiction and non-fiction categories, his books have been published in more than eighty-five languages. His latest New York Times bestsellers, War of the Worldviews, (co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow), has as been quoted by Larry King “as one of the more important books to read of the decade.” War of the Worldviews successfully attempts to elevate the conversation around science and religion in a way that is thoughtful and constructive rather than polarizing and divisive.   His New York Times bestsellers, Peace Is the Way received the Religion and Spirituality Quill Award in 2005, and The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life was awarded the 2005 Nautilus Grand Prize.  FINS - Wall Street Journal, mentioned his book, The Soul of Leadership, as one of five best business books to read for your career.   The next upcoming book, Spiritual Solutions, will be released in April 2012.

He is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post On Faith and contributes regularly to Oprah.com, Intent.com, and The Huffington Post and, hosts his daily show on BlogTalk Radio called “Deepak Chopra Radio” which focuses on the areas - success, love, sexuality and relationships, well-being, and spirituality.

Deepak Chopra's popularity as an international presenter and keynote speaker is exemplified in an impressive list of honorariums.  Chopra is the recipient of the 2010 GOI Peace Award, 2010, Starlite Humanitarian Award, 2010 Art for Life Honoree, 2009 Oceana Partners Award, 2006 Ellis Island Medal of Honor presented by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations Foundation, and 2006 Trailblazer Award by the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, 2002 Einstein Humanitarian Award through Albert Einstein College of Medicine in collaboration with the American Journal of Psychotherapy. He participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center since 1997.

Chopra is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Distinguished Scholar, Executive Program at Columbia University, and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.