Brazilian production powerhouse Gullane, which is behind Netflix’s “Senna” and Karim Aïnouz’s Cannes competition title “Motel Destino,” has closed international co-production pacts on new projects from Cao Hamburger (”The Year My Parents Went on Vacation”) and Sandra Kogut (“Three Summers”).
France’s Playtime Group and Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes will co-produce Hamburger’s “School Without Walls.” A Playtime Group company will also handle international sales on the true and inspiring story of Braz Nogueira, principal of a public school in Heliopolis, one of Brazil’s biggest slums.
Kogut will direct “New Cancun,” co-created by and starring Sundance actress winner Regina Casé. The film teams Gullane with Kogut’s regular producer in France, Gloria Films. It’s slated to shoot by the first quarter of 2025.
In the film, Casé plays Madá, who has never dwelled on her family’s tragedy in an environmental disaster. When chosen for a Christmas campaign,...
France’s Playtime Group and Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes will co-produce Hamburger’s “School Without Walls.” A Playtime Group company will also handle international sales on the true and inspiring story of Braz Nogueira, principal of a public school in Heliopolis, one of Brazil’s biggest slums.
Kogut will direct “New Cancun,” co-created by and starring Sundance actress winner Regina Casé. The film teams Gullane with Kogut’s regular producer in France, Gloria Films. It’s slated to shoot by the first quarter of 2025.
In the film, Casé plays Madá, who has never dwelled on her family’s tragedy in an environmental disaster. When chosen for a Christmas campaign,...
- 5/19/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Adriano Valerio’s documentary “Casablanca,” which will world premiere on Thursday at Venice Days, has been acquired by Salaud Morisset for world sales. Variety has been given an exclusive clip from the film.
“Casablanca” follows Fouad, a Moroccan living in Italy without papers, and Daniela, a former drug-addict from Apulia’s upper middle-class, who find each other by chance in Umbria. The meeting is the beginning of a love that helps them heal. But Fouad’s feeling of not belonging and the interminable wait for a visa are pushing him to the brink: will he stay in Umbria or go back to Casablanca, even if it means never to return?
Valerio followed the two characters for seven years after he met Fouad in 2016 in a bar and immediately became fascinated by his way of seeing life and his determination fueled by his almost undestroyable hope.
Valerio said: “I wanted to...
“Casablanca” follows Fouad, a Moroccan living in Italy without papers, and Daniela, a former drug-addict from Apulia’s upper middle-class, who find each other by chance in Umbria. The meeting is the beginning of a love that helps them heal. But Fouad’s feeling of not belonging and the interminable wait for a visa are pushing him to the brink: will he stay in Umbria or go back to Casablanca, even if it means never to return?
Valerio followed the two characters for seven years after he met Fouad in 2016 in a bar and immediately became fascinated by his way of seeing life and his determination fueled by his almost undestroyable hope.
Valerio said: “I wanted to...
- 9/7/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Nothing is free in the world of “The White Lotus” — not even Mike White‘s beloved breakfast buffets come without confronting the frayed nerves, petty arguments, and thwarted yearnings of rich people on vacation. But not least among the pleasures of the HBO series’ second season is what changes in the move from Hawaii to Sicily. There’s a specifically European romance reflected in the look of the show and an at-times feverish rhythm to how its different plot lines fit together, bounce off each other, or both.
The show’s lush, ostentatious Italian setting allows for the same thing its predecessor did: a bunch of rich people, their hangers-on, and the folks who have to deal with them to all lose their minds in one way or another. The challenge for both the production and post teams on the series was to create an enveloping and aspirational sense of...
The show’s lush, ostentatious Italian setting allows for the same thing its predecessor did: a bunch of rich people, their hangers-on, and the folks who have to deal with them to all lose their minds in one way or another. The challenge for both the production and post teams on the series was to create an enveloping and aspirational sense of...
- 8/15/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
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