With temperatures starting to drop and darker nights drawing in here in the UK, reminding us that summer is almost over, doesn’t a TV festival on the sunny south coast of Spain sound pretty glorious right now?
We certainly think so, and the first ever edition of the new South International Series Festival, set to be held in Cadiz from 6 October, fits the bill perfectly. Created for the public and industry professionals alike, the South International Series Festival is the first festival of its kind in southern Europe, and was created with the intention to promote the audiovisual small-screen offerings from this region and beyond.
Over seven days, attendees can enjoy a programme including the very best of fiction and unscripted series, some undiscovered gems, and displays of cutting-edge innovation in the industry, with a focus on European and global Spanish-language series, and a spotlight on African nations. The...
We certainly think so, and the first ever edition of the new South International Series Festival, set to be held in Cadiz from 6 October, fits the bill perfectly. Created for the public and industry professionals alike, the South International Series Festival is the first festival of its kind in southern Europe, and was created with the intention to promote the audiovisual small-screen offerings from this region and beyond.
Over seven days, attendees can enjoy a programme including the very best of fiction and unscripted series, some undiscovered gems, and displays of cutting-edge innovation in the industry, with a focus on European and global Spanish-language series, and a spotlight on African nations. The...
- 9/26/2023
- by Empire
- Empire - TV
We at Dn continue to be inspired by the science fiction-inflected animations of Karl Poyzer with his last two comedy shorts Floaters and Floaters: The Big Number Two having premiered here on our pages. Now, once more, we’re delighted to welcome Poyzer back to premiere his music video for Ital Tek’s The Mirror. In The Mirror Poyzer sets his sights on a futuristic city, with a camera that gently bobs and weaves throughout its myriad of internal locations. This smooth and pristine approach to cinematography is the perfect foil to Ital Tek’s ambient and pulsing track which is similarly gentle in its execution. In company with the video, which features below, Dn caught up with Poyzer to talk over the influence of manga artist Tsutomu Nihei on the piece, the freedom of the camera in animation, and the feeling of discovery he wanted to impart to the viewer.
- 7/4/2023
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright speaks with writer/director Chino Moya about making Undergods, letting your actors improvise, the importance of Xtro and how CGI can add so much value to real urban landscapes to create his dystopian nightmare.
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline – a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
Undergods is in select cinemas and on demand now. Check out our review right here.
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline – a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
Undergods is in select cinemas and on demand now. Check out our review right here.
- 5/25/2021
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Chino Moya’s stylish debut, an anthology of unsettling dystopian tales, lacks subtlety but brims with exceptional performances
The Spanish film-maker Chino Moya, who directed the colourfully Orwellian music video for St Vincent’s Digital Witness, makes his feature debut with this eye-catching, Twilight Zone-style anthology of future-tense tales. Laced with a graveside humour reminiscent of the old EC comics (Moya’s multidisciplinary credits include the graphic novel Flat Filters), it’s a collection of grimly satirical snapshots, fitting together like the misshapen pieces of a Chinese puzzle ball to create a dyspeptic, dystopian portrait of our past, present and future.
In a bleak European underworld, a pair of corpse collectors, K (Johann Myers) and Z (Géza Röhrig), prowl the streets, picking up the dead. Around them are the remnants of a once-grand civilisation, the aftermath of some apocalyptic collapse. As they work, they spin nightmarish tales of other worlds,...
The Spanish film-maker Chino Moya, who directed the colourfully Orwellian music video for St Vincent’s Digital Witness, makes his feature debut with this eye-catching, Twilight Zone-style anthology of future-tense tales. Laced with a graveside humour reminiscent of the old EC comics (Moya’s multidisciplinary credits include the graphic novel Flat Filters), it’s a collection of grimly satirical snapshots, fitting together like the misshapen pieces of a Chinese puzzle ball to create a dyspeptic, dystopian portrait of our past, present and future.
In a bleak European underworld, a pair of corpse collectors, K (Johann Myers) and Z (Géza Röhrig), prowl the streets, picking up the dead. Around them are the remnants of a once-grand civilisation, the aftermath of some apocalyptic collapse. As they work, they spin nightmarish tales of other worlds,...
- 5/16/2021
- by Mark Kermode Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
K (Johann Myers) and Z (Géza Röhrig) in Undergods. Chino Moya: 'These characters have completely lost their identities, and all they have is a letter and a number' Spanish director Chino Moya’s feature debut Undergods is ambitious and multifaceted, unfolding as a sort of Russian doll of near-future dystopias, each holding their own dark commentary on modern life and framed by a story of two men, K (Johann Myers) and Z (Géza Röhrig), driving around a post-Apocalyptic wasteland on the lookout for dead bodies, while not being averse to fresh meat. It features a strong ensemble cast, including Kate Dickie, Ned Dennehy and Michael Gould. Where some directors might simply have offered a basic connection between the tales, these bleak worldviews feel interconnected in all sorts of unexpected ways.
Moya, who has lived in London for 15 years, says the film took three or four years to write. “I...
Moya, who has lived in London for 15 years, says the film took three or four years to write. “I...
- 5/12/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Chino Moya’s debut is a haunting trilogy of stories that have totalitarianism in their surrealist, satirical sights
A riptide of surrealism runs through Chino Moya’s ambitious debut feature, a fantasy suite of tales that don’t so much interlock as butt into one another and blurt out alarming, dreamlike correspondences.
Related: From Insurgent to Blade Runner: why is the future on film always so grim?...
A riptide of surrealism runs through Chino Moya’s ambitious debut feature, a fantasy suite of tales that don’t so much interlock as butt into one another and blurt out alarming, dreamlike correspondences.
Related: From Insurgent to Blade Runner: why is the future on film always so grim?...
- 5/11/2021
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
In the opening scene of Chino Moya’s grimmer-than-Grimm dystopian fairy tale collection, “Undergods,” a pair of grungy near-future garbagemen scour the ruins of a ghostly former metropolis looking for bodies. Like the Black Plague cleanup crew in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” — the occasionally too-efficient “bring out your dead!” guys — it doesn’t matter whether the corpses they come across are even fully deceased: The collectors toss the bodies into the back of their cart either way. Should the poor souls turn out to still be alive, they can always sell them for precious cans of scarce food back at the depot.
Moya’s vision may be bleak — and “vision” is the right word to describe the Spanish-born director’s stunning capacity to create images and atmosphere — but there’s something unnervingly familiar about the world he creates in his feature debut. Between that twisted introductory vignette and...
Moya’s vision may be bleak — and “vision” is the right word to describe the Spanish-born director’s stunning capacity to create images and atmosphere — but there’s something unnervingly familiar about the world he creates in his feature debut. Between that twisted introductory vignette and...
- 5/9/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Johann Myers, Géza Röhrig, Michael Gould, Hayley Carmichael, Ned Dennehy, Khalid Abdall, Eric Godon, Tanya Reynolds, Tadhg Murphy, Jan Bijvoet, Kate Dickie, Sam Louwyck, Adrian Rawlins | Written and Directed by Chino Moya
I’ve mentioned it many times before but I really enjoy a good anthology movie. I’m not sure exactly why but from the classic eighties horror anthologies to the more modern takes on genres, they always grab my attention. Undergods manages to have a style and tone like no other anthology I have seen before.
The ‘wrap-around’ works much better than many other anthology movies, as we see two street scavengers, K & Z, who are loading dead bodies into their truck while chatting about their dreams. These chats lead to the other ‘segments’ of the movie. This wrap-around introduces us to the world that it is all set in. A bleak, industrial ‘future’ that is full of grey,...
I’ve mentioned it many times before but I really enjoy a good anthology movie. I’m not sure exactly why but from the classic eighties horror anthologies to the more modern takes on genres, they always grab my attention. Undergods manages to have a style and tone like no other anthology I have seen before.
The ‘wrap-around’ works much better than many other anthology movies, as we see two street scavengers, K & Z, who are loading dead bodies into their truck while chatting about their dreams. These chats lead to the other ‘segments’ of the movie. This wrap-around introduces us to the world that it is all set in. A bleak, industrial ‘future’ that is full of grey,...
- 5/3/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Undergods is a film which was shot in Serbia, by director Chino Moya. Partially taking place in a post-apocalyptic landscape, this feature also tells the tale of a family, falling apart. Very strange in scope, this feature had its debut at Fantasia in 2020 (Montreal). Now, this award-winning film will show in theatres and on Digital platforms, this May. The latest trailer for the film shows the complexity of Undergods. The post-apocalyptic landscape acts as the frame for the feature. But deeper inside, there is another story of a rejected father and other tales. Undergods offers a lot. And, this viewer found the film to be surreal - overall. Undergods will be released in the United States on May 7th, via Gravitas Features. The United Kingdom will host the film's Digital launch on May 17th. For now, fans of sci-fi or of short films can find the latest on this unique release below.
- 4/20/2021
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Undergods, a fantasy thriller anthology movie directed by Chino Moya in his feature directorial debut. A May 7 day-and-date release in theaters and on-demand is planned.
The pic is a collection of darkly humorous fantasy tales about failed societies and doomed fortune told via a pair of corpse collectors who roam the desolate streets of an unknown city chatting humorously about their dreams, in which a series of men see their worlds fall apart through a visit from an unexpected stranger.
Geza Rohrig, Johann Meyers, Ned Dennehy, Hayley Carmichael, Michael Gould, Khalid Abdalla, Jan Bijvoet, Eric Godon, Tanya Reynolds, Tadhg Murphy, Katariina Unt, Sam Louwyck, Kate Dickie, Adrian Rawlings and Burn Gorman star.
Gravitas’ VP Acquisitions Tony Piantedosi negotiated the deal with Kirk D’Amico of Myriad Pictures, which continues to handle worldwide sales.
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Veteran TV director Matthew Penn has been set to Badge of Trust,...
The pic is a collection of darkly humorous fantasy tales about failed societies and doomed fortune told via a pair of corpse collectors who roam the desolate streets of an unknown city chatting humorously about their dreams, in which a series of men see their worlds fall apart through a visit from an unexpected stranger.
Geza Rohrig, Johann Meyers, Ned Dennehy, Hayley Carmichael, Michael Gould, Khalid Abdalla, Jan Bijvoet, Eric Godon, Tanya Reynolds, Tadhg Murphy, Katariina Unt, Sam Louwyck, Kate Dickie, Adrian Rawlings and Burn Gorman star.
Gravitas’ VP Acquisitions Tony Piantedosi negotiated the deal with Kirk D’Amico of Myriad Pictures, which continues to handle worldwide sales.
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Veteran TV director Matthew Penn has been set to Badge of Trust,...
- 3/11/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lightbulb Film Distribution has picked up UK rights to three films out of the EFM, including BFI-backed dystopian thriller Undergods.
Kate Dickie (The Witch), Ned Dennehy (Peaky Blinders) and Geza Rohrig (Son Of Saul) star in the collection of post-apocalyptic fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune. Release is scheduled for summer.
“Following its European premiere at Glasgow Film Festival, we are delighted to be bringing Undergods to UK audiences later this year. Director and writer Chino Moya has created an incredible world and his debut feature doesn’t just require repeat viewings – it demands it”, commented Lightbulb’s Sales & Acquisitions Director, Peter Thompson.
The deal was negotiated with Scott Bedno of Myriad Pictures.
Lightbulb has also picked up Canadian thriller The Oak Room, starring Rj Mitte (Breaking Bad).
Set during a raging snowstorm, the film follows a drifter who returns home to the blue-collar bar located in...
Kate Dickie (The Witch), Ned Dennehy (Peaky Blinders) and Geza Rohrig (Son Of Saul) star in the collection of post-apocalyptic fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune. Release is scheduled for summer.
“Following its European premiere at Glasgow Film Festival, we are delighted to be bringing Undergods to UK audiences later this year. Director and writer Chino Moya has created an incredible world and his debut feature doesn’t just require repeat viewings – it demands it”, commented Lightbulb’s Sales & Acquisitions Director, Peter Thompson.
The deal was negotiated with Scott Bedno of Myriad Pictures.
Lightbulb has also picked up Canadian thriller The Oak Room, starring Rj Mitte (Breaking Bad).
Set during a raging snowstorm, the film follows a drifter who returns home to the blue-collar bar located in...
- 3/10/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
BFI, Wallonia Brussels Fund, Estonian Film Institute, Film I Vast among backers.
Los Angeles-based Myriad Pictures has come on board to handle international sales on Fantasia International Film Festival selection Undergods.
Chino Moya’s fantasy feature directorial debut stars Géza Röhrig and Kate Dickie and takes place in a future-set Europe where individual vignettes and recollections of a shared nightmarish past intertwine.
Burn Gorman, Johann Myers, Michael Gould, Hayley Carmichael, Ned Dennehy, Khalid Abdalla, Eric Gordon, and Tanya Reynolds round out the cast.
Producers are the UK’s Z56FILM in co-production with Velvet Films from Belgium, Homeless Bob Production from Estonia,...
Los Angeles-based Myriad Pictures has come on board to handle international sales on Fantasia International Film Festival selection Undergods.
Chino Moya’s fantasy feature directorial debut stars Géza Röhrig and Kate Dickie and takes place in a future-set Europe where individual vignettes and recollections of a shared nightmarish past intertwine.
Burn Gorman, Johann Myers, Michael Gould, Hayley Carmichael, Ned Dennehy, Khalid Abdalla, Eric Gordon, and Tanya Reynolds round out the cast.
Producers are the UK’s Z56FILM in co-production with Velvet Films from Belgium, Homeless Bob Production from Estonia,...
- 10/7/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Myriad Pictures has taken world rights to Undergods, UK filmmaker Chino Moya’s debut feature which had its world premiere at Fantasia in August.
The pic is a journey through a foreign, futuristic world, set to an original score by Wojciech Golczewksy. Cast includes Kate Dickie (The Witch), Ned Dennehy (Mandy), Geza Rohrig (Son Of Saul), Adrian Rawlins (Chernobyl) and Jan Bijvoet (Borgman).
Film was made with the support of the BFI using funds from the National Lottery, the Wallonia Brussels Fund for Audiovisual and Cinema, the Estonian Cultural Fund, the Estonian Film Institute and Sweden’s Film I Vast, the film is produced by the UK’s Z56FILM in co-production with Velvet Films (Belgium), Homeless Bob Production (Estonia), Media Plus (Serbia), Filmgate Films (Sweden) and Ridley Scott Creative Group’s Black Dog Films and Rsa Films.
“Undergods is visually stunning and perfectly reflects our moment in time. We...
The pic is a journey through a foreign, futuristic world, set to an original score by Wojciech Golczewksy. Cast includes Kate Dickie (The Witch), Ned Dennehy (Mandy), Geza Rohrig (Son Of Saul), Adrian Rawlins (Chernobyl) and Jan Bijvoet (Borgman).
Film was made with the support of the BFI using funds from the National Lottery, the Wallonia Brussels Fund for Audiovisual and Cinema, the Estonian Cultural Fund, the Estonian Film Institute and Sweden’s Film I Vast, the film is produced by the UK’s Z56FILM in co-production with Velvet Films (Belgium), Homeless Bob Production (Estonia), Media Plus (Serbia), Filmgate Films (Sweden) and Ridley Scott Creative Group’s Black Dog Films and Rsa Films.
“Undergods is visually stunning and perfectly reflects our moment in time. We...
- 10/7/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Johann Myers, Géza Röhrig, Michael Gould, Hayley Carmichael, Ned Dennehy, Khalid Abdall, Eric Godon, Tanya Reynolds, Tadhg Murphy, Jan Bijvoet, Kate Dickie, Sam Louwyck, Adrian Rawlins | Written and Directed by Chino Moya
I’ve mentioned it many times before but I really enjoy a good anthology movie. I’m not sure exactly why but from the classic eighties horror anthologies to the more modern takes on genres, they always grab my attention. Undergods manages to have a style and tone like no other anthology I have seen before.
The ‘wrap-around’ works much better than many other anthology movies, as we see two street scavengers, K & Z, who are loading dead bodies into their truck while chatting about their dreams. These chats lead to the other ‘segments’ of the movie. This wrap-around introduces us to the world that it is all set in. A bleak, industrial ‘future’ that is full of grey,...
I’ve mentioned it many times before but I really enjoy a good anthology movie. I’m not sure exactly why but from the classic eighties horror anthologies to the more modern takes on genres, they always grab my attention. Undergods manages to have a style and tone like no other anthology I have seen before.
The ‘wrap-around’ works much better than many other anthology movies, as we see two street scavengers, K & Z, who are loading dead bodies into their truck while chatting about their dreams. These chats lead to the other ‘segments’ of the movie. This wrap-around introduces us to the world that it is all set in. A bleak, industrial ‘future’ that is full of grey,...
- 9/1/2020
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
In a desolate and decrepit cityscape, presumably in the time after some unspecified apocalypse, K (Johann Myers) and Z (Géza Röhrig) drive a garbage truck, picking up the dead bodies that lie strewn along their route. This is just the framing device for writer/director Chino Moya’s first feature, which drifts and digresses into other stories, all centring on a man whose familial equilibrium is disrupted by the sudden arrival of an outsider. A neighbour (Ned Dennehy) shows up at Ron (Michael Gould) and Ruth’s (Hayley Carmichael) door; a foreign inventor (Jan Bijvoet) proposes a project to Hans (Eric Godon) and Dom’s (Adrian Rawlins) life is turned upside down when his wife Rachel’s (Kate Dickie) first husband (Sam Louwyck) mysteriously reappears after fifteen years.
In the stories involving married couples, Moya seems to be building an allegory about the lack of communication, drawing parallels between the...
In the stories involving married couples, Moya seems to be building an allegory about the lack of communication, drawing parallels between the...
- 9/1/2020
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We all like to think we have control—kings of our proverbial castles. It’s all a ruse, though. We’re actually slaves to a system that seems more and more likely to fail with each new day and each new declaration that its imminent demise is a call to arms to save it rather than move on and evolve. That false sense of control is thus a mechanism we use to combat the fear of knowing how little we truly possess. We dream of other men failing so as not to realize that unfortunate soul is probably a future version of ourselves. We play God opposite those we believe are beneath us because we feel the pressure of those above doing the same. And there’s absolutely no way out.
Filmmaker Chino Moya is optimistic, though. Rather than present his debut feature Undergods as an unavoidably prescient vision of where we’re headed,...
Filmmaker Chino Moya is optimistic, though. Rather than present his debut feature Undergods as an unavoidably prescient vision of where we’re headed,...
- 8/31/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The dystopian stories in Spanish director Chino Moya's feature debut nest within one another like a series of Russian dolls - dolls that have been carved by someone with a soft-spot for Jg Ballard. Each brings a bleak message from the near-future, accentuating elements of modern malaise so we see them in all their grotesque detail. Framing them all is something a little more removed and fantastical, a futuristic post-Apocalyptic landscape roamed by K (Johann Myers) and Z (Géza Röhrig), who banter about the unfortunates in their dreams as they drive around on the lookout for corpses... and possibly fresh meat.
Crafting his tale the way he does, so that the stories open out from one another, means Moya can play with fragments, not always crafting an 'ending' but rather moving on from one world snapshot to the next. Is that cheating? Perhaps, but you'd have to say he does it.
Crafting his tale the way he does, so that the stories open out from one another, means Moya can play with fragments, not always crafting an 'ending' but rather moving on from one world snapshot to the next. Is that cheating? Perhaps, but you'd have to say he does it.
- 8/30/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s not often that a story presented in a sci-fi fantasy movie that’s supposed to be set in the future can actually also present a cautionary warning about modern real-life events and emotions. But that’s certainly what happened with the plot of the new drama, ‘Undergods,’ which marks the feature film writing and directorial debuts […]
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- 8/30/2020
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
"What is this place?" Fantasia has released a promo trailer for the wickedly strange film Undergods, an "otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline" film premiering at the genre festival this summer. Chino Moya's debut feature Undergods "places viewers in a foreign futuristic world, though sadly one that feels more familiar every day. The film's narrators maneuver through a deserted, crumbling, grayish-blue city, gathering bodies as they go and sharing nightmarish stories of a long-ago abandoned past. What follows is a series of narratives, overlapping and weaving through time and space with remarkable grace and ease. The threads come together elegantly as stories layer upon each other & crescendo towards a powerful, satisfying conclusion." The key cast includes Kate Dickie, Ned Dennehy, Geza Rohrig, Adrian Rawlins, and an especially crazed Jan Bijvoet. Not quite sure what to make of this, but I'm certainly intrigued! Have a look. Here's the festival...
- 8/19/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The genre show goes on as Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival moves online for its 24th annual edition happening from August 20 to September 2, 2020. The best news for the host nation is that anyone in the country (all films save #Shakespearesshitstorm for the US will be geo-blocked to Canada) can experience the fun that only those able to travel to Montreal have in the past.
Each on-demand title will be available through their festival portal for $8 Cad and accessible during the course of the festival (with 30 hours to finish once you’ve pressed play). Attendance numbers will be capped similar to the capacity of the auditorium it would have screened at had an in-person event been possible and there will be select live screenings that must be watched during specified times as a communal experience.
Don’t think that the virtual nature of this installment will water down the product,...
Each on-demand title will be available through their festival portal for $8 Cad and accessible during the course of the festival (with 30 hours to finish once you’ve pressed play). Attendance numbers will be capped similar to the capacity of the auditorium it would have screened at had an in-person event been possible and there will be select live screenings that must be watched during specified times as a communal experience.
Don’t think that the virtual nature of this installment will water down the product,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The trailer for Chino Moya's Undergods is brilliant. It doesn't give anything away but builds enough intrigue and mystery to capture attention.
Billed as "An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline," the film is a collection of darkly humorous tales connected by a visit from a stranger. The stories are set in varying eras, featuring a mix of reality and fantasy along with a cast from across Europe including Kate Dickie (The Witch), Ned Dennehy (Mandy), Geza Rohrig (Son of Saul), Adrian Rawlins (Chernobyl), and Jan Bijvoet (Borgman).
It's a weird and creepy trailer which reveals little of the convoluted story, aside from the suggestion that this may be bookended as a story being told to a child, Princess Bride...
Billed as "An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline," the film is a collection of darkly humorous tales connected by a visit from a stranger. The stories are set in varying eras, featuring a mix of reality and fantasy along with a cast from across Europe including Kate Dickie (The Witch), Ned Dennehy (Mandy), Geza Rohrig (Son of Saul), Adrian Rawlins (Chernobyl), and Jan Bijvoet (Borgman).
It's a weird and creepy trailer which reveals little of the convoluted story, aside from the suggestion that this may be bookended as a story being told to a child, Princess Bride...
- 8/15/2020
- QuietEarth.us
Chino Moya's debut feature film Undergods will have it's world premiere during the digial version of the Fantasia Film Festival this month. The first trailer dropped at Deadline this morning and we can now share it with you here. Check it out because there is some terrific dystopic images in it. An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline, Chino Moya’s debut Undergods is a collection of darkly humorous fantasy tales about a series of men whose worlds fall apart through a visit from an unexpected stranger. Set to an original, synth score featuring ‘80s electronica, Undergods journeys through disparate eras and realities fusing failed 20th Century utopias and 21st Century Ikea nightmares. An unsettlingly entertaining, singular visual feast, Undergods features a stand...
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- 8/14/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Chino Moya's Undergods will have its World Premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival this month. We are very pleased to have been asked to premiere this smashing new poster for Chino Moya's upcoming debut film. An aesthetically astonishing, otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline.... Undergods is a collection of darkly humorous fantasy tales about failed societies and doomed fortune. Two corpse collectors roam the desolate streets of an unknown city chatting humorously about their dreams in which a series of men see their worlds fall apart through a visit from an unexpected stranger. Set to an original, synth score featuring ‘80s electronica, Undergods journeys through disparate eras and realities fusing failed 20th Century utopias and 21st Century Ikea nightmares in an unsettlingly entertaining...
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- 8/10/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Neil Marshall’s The Reckoning Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival
The first part of this year's Fantasia International Film Festival was announced today, including opening film The Reckoning, the latest thriller by Neil Marshall, which is set against the backdrop of England's Great Plague and subsequent witch hunts. It stars Charlotte Kirk and Sean Pertwee and will be the second Fantasia opener for Marshall, whose The Descent was the headlines 15 years ago.
The festival will celebrate 45 years of Troma with Lloyd Kaufman's take on The Tempest, his second stab at Shakespeare after Tromeo And Juliet in 1996. Other highlights include Lucky, the second feature by Imitation Girl director Natasha Kermani, which will remind you to play it safe and wear your mask because you won't want to be the person without one, plus Chino Moya's Undergods, which journeys through a fantastically decaying Europe and employs the talents of Geza Rohrig and Kate Dickie.
The first part of this year's Fantasia International Film Festival was announced today, including opening film The Reckoning, the latest thriller by Neil Marshall, which is set against the backdrop of England's Great Plague and subsequent witch hunts. It stars Charlotte Kirk and Sean Pertwee and will be the second Fantasia opener for Marshall, whose The Descent was the headlines 15 years ago.
The festival will celebrate 45 years of Troma with Lloyd Kaufman's take on The Tempest, his second stab at Shakespeare after Tromeo And Juliet in 1996. Other highlights include Lucky, the second feature by Imitation Girl director Natasha Kermani, which will remind you to play it safe and wear your mask because you won't want to be the person without one, plus Chino Moya's Undergods, which journeys through a fantastically decaying Europe and employs the talents of Geza Rohrig and Kate Dickie.
- 6/9/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fantasia’s upcoming virtual edition, which will run August 20 – September 2, will kick off with the first showing of Neil Marshall’s horror The Reckoning. Set in 1665 against the backdrop of the Great Plague, Charlotte Kirk leads the cast of the movie about the witch hunts that followed the crisis.
The fest has revealed a total of eight world premieres alongside films from the SXSW and Tribeca line-ups that have yet to screen for the public. Also debuting are: Chino Moya’s Undergods, Thomas Robert Lee’s The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw, Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, Mauro Iván Ojeda’s The Undertaker’s Home, and Anthony Scott Burns’s Come True. Scroll down for the full list.
Bad luck for international Fantasia fans, however, as the online screenings, which will run via Festival Scope and Shift72’s virtual screening platform, will only be accessible to those based in Canada.
Fantasia’s...
The fest has revealed a total of eight world premieres alongside films from the SXSW and Tribeca line-ups that have yet to screen for the public. Also debuting are: Chino Moya’s Undergods, Thomas Robert Lee’s The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw, Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, Mauro Iván Ojeda’s The Undertaker’s Home, and Anthony Scott Burns’s Come True. Scroll down for the full list.
Bad luck for international Fantasia fans, however, as the online screenings, which will run via Festival Scope and Shift72’s virtual screening platform, will only be accessible to those based in Canada.
Fantasia’s...
- 6/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Géza Röhrig: “Since Son of Saul I was privileged to work with Elizabeth McGovern and Jesse Eisenberg, Matthew Broderick. And so for me to work with these people, it’s the real school of life.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Géza Röhrig, star of László Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son Of Saul and a partner in crime with Matthew Broderick in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust, produced by Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer, is cousin Georges to Jesse Eisenberg’s Marcel Marceau in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance with Clémence Poésy, Edgar Ramírez (Roberto Durán in Jakubowicz’s Hands of Stone) and Matthias Schweighöfer. Géza’s upcoming roles include playing Jesus in Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet, costumes by Carlo Poggioli, and Z in Chino Moya’s Undergods.
Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Marceau with Clémence Poésy as Emma
Early last year, I moderated a post-screening discussion with Géza Röhrig and Shawn Snyder for the To Dust theatrical premiere.
Géza Röhrig, star of László Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son Of Saul and a partner in crime with Matthew Broderick in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust, produced by Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer, is cousin Georges to Jesse Eisenberg’s Marcel Marceau in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance with Clémence Poésy, Edgar Ramírez (Roberto Durán in Jakubowicz’s Hands of Stone) and Matthias Schweighöfer. Géza’s upcoming roles include playing Jesus in Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet, costumes by Carlo Poggioli, and Z in Chino Moya’s Undergods.
Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Marceau with Clémence Poésy as Emma
Early last year, I moderated a post-screening discussion with Géza Röhrig and Shawn Snyder for the To Dust theatrical premiere.
- 3/28/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Altitude receives biggest distribution award for Mid90s and Beats.
Francis Lee’s drama Ammonite and the Doc Society have received two of the biggest funding awards from the various pots administered by the British Film Institute (BFI)’s Film Fund in the fourth quarter of the financial year 2018-2019, which ran from January 1-April 5, 2019.
Ammonite, produced by See-Saw Films and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, and starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, is an 1840s-set story of the intense relationship between a female fossil hunter and a young woman. It is now in post-production.
The BFI awarded the film a...
Francis Lee’s drama Ammonite and the Doc Society have received two of the biggest funding awards from the various pots administered by the British Film Institute (BFI)’s Film Fund in the fourth quarter of the financial year 2018-2019, which ran from January 1-April 5, 2019.
Ammonite, produced by See-Saw Films and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, and starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, is an 1840s-set story of the intense relationship between a female fossil hunter and a young woman. It is now in post-production.
The BFI awarded the film a...
- 4/26/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Farhana Bhula joins the BFI Film Fund; Kristin Irving promoted to same role.
Farhana Bhula, head of development at UK production outfit Wildgaze Films, is joining the BFI Film Fund as a development and production executive from January 2019.
The BFI has also promoted Kristin Irving to the same role. Irving joined the BFI as development executive in 2015.
Bhula and Irving will work on projects with a particular focus on emerging filmmakers, including those supported through the BFI Network and iFeatures programmes.
During her time at Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey’s Wildgaze, Bhula has worked on titles including Brooklyn TV spin-off Boarding House,...
Farhana Bhula, head of development at UK production outfit Wildgaze Films, is joining the BFI Film Fund as a development and production executive from January 2019.
The BFI has also promoted Kristin Irving to the same role. Irving joined the BFI as development executive in 2015.
Bhula and Irving will work on projects with a particular focus on emerging filmmakers, including those supported through the BFI Network and iFeatures programmes.
During her time at Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey’s Wildgaze, Bhula has worked on titles including Brooklyn TV spin-off Boarding House,...
- 11/22/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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