Following on its acquisition in May of “The Island of Thirty Coffins,” Munich-based Beta Film is doubling down on French production, acquiring international rights to the six-hour France 3 crime thriller “Presumed Guilty.”
Written by Franck Ollivier (“Zodiaque”), the limited series follows Lola, played by Garance Thenault (“La Mante”), who travels to a town on the Brittany coast for a job interview. She soon finds out that no such interview has been scheduled, and that she’s the dead ringer of a local woman who was murdered in the town 22 years earlier to the day.
Produced by Episode Productions for French public broadcaster channel France 3, “Presumed Guilty” is directed by directed by Grégory Ecale, and described by Beta Film as a “family saga set on Brittany’s wild coastline, conveying the authentic mysterious look and feel of the thriller series.”
As instanced by Beta Film’s pick up of “Thirty Coffins,...
Written by Franck Ollivier (“Zodiaque”), the limited series follows Lola, played by Garance Thenault (“La Mante”), who travels to a town on the Brittany coast for a job interview. She soon finds out that no such interview has been scheduled, and that she’s the dead ringer of a local woman who was murdered in the town 22 years earlier to the day.
Produced by Episode Productions for French public broadcaster channel France 3, “Presumed Guilty” is directed by directed by Grégory Ecale, and described by Beta Film as a “family saga set on Brittany’s wild coastline, conveying the authentic mysterious look and feel of the thriller series.”
As instanced by Beta Film’s pick up of “Thirty Coffins,...
- 6/21/2021
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
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In honor of Pride Month, we put together a collection of documentaries that explore some of the many challenges faced by the LGBTQ community, and the ongoing fight for equality. From the Stonewall Uprising, to the oldest lesbian bar in the United States, the films listed shed a light on the lives of gays, lesbians, and trans people, while showing the evolution of the Gay Rights Movement. Below, find 10 documentary films that you can rent (or buy) on Amazon Prime Video. If you’re not already an Amazon Prime member, you can joint today for free (the membership will cost you $12.99 a month after a free 30-day trial). For more LGBTQ content check...
In honor of Pride Month, we put together a collection of documentaries that explore some of the many challenges faced by the LGBTQ community, and the ongoing fight for equality. From the Stonewall Uprising, to the oldest lesbian bar in the United States, the films listed shed a light on the lives of gays, lesbians, and trans people, while showing the evolution of the Gay Rights Movement. Below, find 10 documentary films that you can rent (or buy) on Amazon Prime Video. If you’re not already an Amazon Prime member, you can joint today for free (the membership will cost you $12.99 a month after a free 30-day trial). For more LGBTQ content check...
- 6/12/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
It's scary for me to realize that AIDS is still such a big issue in my lifetime, even though I (and the rest of my generation) grew up in a world in which the disease is hardly a mystery and its prevention is common knowledge. Depressing, isn't it, to think that we still inhabit a society where even teaching safe sex has to be a battle?
Despite recent breakthroughs, a readily-available cure is still out of reach. This much is terrifying in itself. It blows my mind to imagine a time when AIDS was such a specter of death that it was communicated only in hysteria. I start to compare it to an epidemic I can relate to today, like swine flu, and I instantly feel stupid for even making it. It's much more serious and pandemic, that much is obvious.
So then the question becomes, why wouldn't it still rouse that level of panic?...
Despite recent breakthroughs, a readily-available cure is still out of reach. This much is terrifying in itself. It blows my mind to imagine a time when AIDS was such a specter of death that it was communicated only in hysteria. I start to compare it to an epidemic I can relate to today, like swine flu, and I instantly feel stupid for even making it. It's much more serious and pandemic, that much is obvious.
So then the question becomes, why wouldn't it still rouse that level of panic?...
- 7/10/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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- 6/24/2009
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
opening wide The Taking of Pelham 123: You know what would be a real disaster? The rush hour that follows this hijacking, what with the East Side subway lines shut down as a crime scene. Oy. Imagine That: This could have been an awesome satire. Imagine this: credit default swaps and interest-only mortgages are the invention of some Wall Street asshole who was taking career advice from his dreamy kindergartner daughter. opening limited Moon: Ground control to Sam Rockwell: it’s time to leave your capsule if you dare. Know what’s really funny? Director Duncan Jones is David Bowie’s son. [official site] Food, Inc.: Remember when Fast Food Nation warned us that there’s shit in the meat? This documentary informs us that it’s still there. [IMDb] Sex Positive: Doc about early AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz who basically invented safe sex. Insert condom-wrapped joke here.
- 6/12/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
"Let me get this gay stuff out of my system." Richard Berkowitz (pictured above in both images) did not set to be an AIDS activist, or even to live openly as a gay man. He fully intended to meet and marry a woman, settle down, and raise a family, which would have pleased his liberal New Jersey Jewish Democratic family. Enrolling at Rutgers University in the early 1970s, however, changed his life.
Berkowitz's journey from college student to S&M hustler to safe sex advocate to gay community outcast is carefully chronicled in Sex Positive, a documentary by Daryl Wein that opens today in New York after a successful series of festival screenings. (Regent Releasing will open it in Los Angeles and Denver next week and in San Francisco on July 3.) Berkowitz is nearly forgotten today, despite co-writing two key texts that introduced the concept of "safe sex" and generated considerable controversy upon their publication.
Berkowitz's journey from college student to S&M hustler to safe sex advocate to gay community outcast is carefully chronicled in Sex Positive, a documentary by Daryl Wein that opens today in New York after a successful series of festival screenings. (Regent Releasing will open it in Los Angeles and Denver next week and in San Francisco on July 3.) Berkowitz is nearly forgotten today, despite co-writing two key texts that introduced the concept of "safe sex" and generated considerable controversy upon their publication.
- 6/12/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
Richard Berkowitz, the man at the center of Daryl Wein’s intelligent and engaging “Sex Positive,” is the ideal documentary subject: with his combination of self-effacement and daunting confidence, Berkowitz easily commands the screen throughout its short running time. Such an appealing figure is especially crucial for a film that focuses on a subject as potentially didactic and strictly educational as the promotion of safe sex for the gay community. Yet director …...
- 6/9/2009
- Indiewire
Opening on Friday in New York and expanding to other cities through the rest of the month in concert with Gay Pride, Daryl Wein’s Sex Positive is a documentary portrait of Richard Berkowitz, an early AIDS activist who helped to invent the concept of safe sex. Working as a team with writer/performer Michael Callen and doctor Joseph Sonnabend (the three collaborated on the groundbreaking 1983 pamphlet “How to Have Sex in An Epidemic: One Approach”), Berkowitz fought, largely without fanfare, to spread the word that a number of lifestyle factors (particularly, drug use and condom-free promiscuity) were responsible for the rapid-fire spread of AIDS through urban gay male communities. At his most active as an activist, Berkowitz was widely criticized (those who didn’t essentially accuse him of being a buzzkill tried to use his night job as an S&M hustler as evidence of his lack of credibility...
- 6/8/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
New York -- "Sex Positive," the true story of former S&M hustler turned AIDS activism pioneer, has been picked up by Here Films.
After premiering at the SXSW Film Festival, Daryl Wein's feature went on to win best documentary feature at La Outfest this year. Here nabbed domestic rights and will distribute the film theatrically through sister outfit Regent Releasing in March.
The film profiles Richard Berkowitz, one of the first people to promote safe sex practices shortly after the discovery of AIDS. Wein and David Oliver Cohen produced the Ro*Co Films project.
" 'Sex Positive' carries a vital message still today about an epidemic that's hitting American youth hard, as HIV rates have nearly doubled between 2001 and 2006," said Regent's Mark Reinhart, who announced the buy on World AIDS Day. He negotiated the deal with Ro*Co's Annie Roney.
After premiering at the SXSW Film Festival, Daryl Wein's feature went on to win best documentary feature at La Outfest this year. Here nabbed domestic rights and will distribute the film theatrically through sister outfit Regent Releasing in March.
The film profiles Richard Berkowitz, one of the first people to promote safe sex practices shortly after the discovery of AIDS. Wein and David Oliver Cohen produced the Ro*Co Films project.
" 'Sex Positive' carries a vital message still today about an epidemic that's hitting American youth hard, as HIV rates have nearly doubled between 2001 and 2006," said Regent's Mark Reinhart, who announced the buy on World AIDS Day. He negotiated the deal with Ro*Co's Annie Roney.
- 12/1/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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