Venice’s “virtual festival” will feature 15 world premieres this year.Scroll Down For Full List
The fourth edition of Sala Web, the “virtual festival” at the Venice Film Festival (September 2-12), has revealed it’s line-up for 2015.
This year’s selection of films includes 15 world premieres: 12 from the Orizzonti Competition and three features from the Biennale College, Venice’s laboratory that supports micro-budget films.
Directors having their films featured include Merzak Allouache (The Rooftops), Jake Mahaffy (Wellness) and Gabriel Mascaro (August Winds), as well as numerous first-time filmmakers.
The selected films will again be streaming on VOD platform Festival Scope and will be available for five days after the films have premiere screenings at the festival.
Full list:
Synopses provided by Venice Film Festival
Orizzonti Films
Neon Bull (Boi Neon) dir. Gabriel Mascaro
Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands; 101’ Portuguese
(Available from September 3)
Iremar works at the Vaquejadas, a rodeo in the Northeast of Brazil, where two men...
The fourth edition of Sala Web, the “virtual festival” at the Venice Film Festival (September 2-12), has revealed it’s line-up for 2015.
This year’s selection of films includes 15 world premieres: 12 from the Orizzonti Competition and three features from the Biennale College, Venice’s laboratory that supports micro-budget films.
Directors having their films featured include Merzak Allouache (The Rooftops), Jake Mahaffy (Wellness) and Gabriel Mascaro (August Winds), as well as numerous first-time filmmakers.
The selected films will again be streaming on VOD platform Festival Scope and will be available for five days after the films have premiere screenings at the festival.
Full list:
Synopses provided by Venice Film Festival
Orizzonti Films
Neon Bull (Boi Neon) dir. Gabriel Mascaro
Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands; 101’ Portuguese
(Available from September 3)
Iremar works at the Vaquejadas, a rodeo in the Northeast of Brazil, where two men...
- 8/18/2015
- ScreenDaily
Sala Web will screen films through the festival Titles screening in the fourth edition of Sala Web at Venice Festival have been announced. The screening room of the festival will run from September 3 to 16, showcasing 12 feature films from the Orizzonti Competition and three feature films from the Biennale College, Venice’s own laboratory dedicated to support micro-budget films.
The Orizzonti Competition line-up includes established filmmakers such as Merzak Allouache (The Rooftops, The Repentant), and Jake Mahaffy (Wellness), along with first-feature directors, including Anita Rocha Da Silveira, Hada Mogar and Yorgos Zois. Other highlights are the new films by Gabriel Mascaro (August Winds) and Vetri Maaran, who will present the first film in Tamil to screen in Venice.
This edition of Sala Web will feature titles from 20 countries, including Brazil, Greece, Israel, Mexico, China, USA and France.
Strong women dealing with politics in Iran (Wednesday, May 9), a teenager dealing with a...
The Orizzonti Competition line-up includes established filmmakers such as Merzak Allouache (The Rooftops, The Repentant), and Jake Mahaffy (Wellness), along with first-feature directors, including Anita Rocha Da Silveira, Hada Mogar and Yorgos Zois. Other highlights are the new films by Gabriel Mascaro (August Winds) and Vetri Maaran, who will present the first film in Tamil to screen in Venice.
This edition of Sala Web will feature titles from 20 countries, including Brazil, Greece, Israel, Mexico, China, USA and France.
Strong women dealing with politics in Iran (Wednesday, May 9), a teenager dealing with a...
- 8/17/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jake Mahaffy appeared on Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2005 following his Tarkovsky-esque black-and-white (shot on a hand cranked camera, no less) tale of American collapse, War. His very different 2008 feature Wellness won the Grand Prize at SXSW and now, seven years later, Mmhaffy is back with the Venice-premiering Free in Deed. Produced by Mike Ryan, it’s easily the film I’m anticipating most on the Fall festival circuit. From the film’s Facebook page: Set in the distinctive world of storefront churches and based on actual events, Free in Deed depicts one man’s attempts to perform a miracle. When […]...
- 8/3/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Jake Mahaffy appeared on Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2005 following his Tarkovsky-esque black-and-white (shot on a hand cranked camera, no less) tale of American collapse, War. His very different 2008 feature Wellness won the Grand Prize at SXSW and now, seven years later, Mmhaffy is back with the Venice-premiering Free in Deed. Produced by Mike Ryan, it’s easily the film I’m anticipating most on the Fall festival circuit. From the film’s Facebook page: Set in the distinctive world of storefront churches and based on actual events, Free in Deed depicts one man’s attempts to perform a miracle. When […]...
- 8/3/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
After Tim Sutton’s portrait in 2014, this could this be a back-to-back Sundance editions with the idea of Memphis in the forefront. Taking perhaps the tortoise route towards fruition, Free in Deed was part of the same 2005 Screenwriters Lab (same year as Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre and So Yong Kim’s Treeless Mountain) with stops at the but the Cannes Atelier, 2006 Sundance Institute Director Lab and Annenberg Film Fellowship Grant. This project is definitely in the homestretch. Jake Mahaffy who first broke out with Frontier section War in 2004 and followed that up with the 2008 SXSW Dramatic Comp Grand Jury Prize winning Wellness (also an Ifp Gotham Awards – Best Undistributed Film Nominee) has been keeping the coals fired up working in the short and installation forms. He had previously made appearances in Park City with his Motion Studies series in Gravity (2005), Mobile (2005), Heat (2005), Inertia (2008), and most recently broke onto the...
- 11/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Screenings for the 2008 Sxsw Film Festival (as well as our coverage here at Ifc.com) will carry on as the music contingent rolls into Austin, but last night, the winners of the jury and audience awards were announced.
Daniel Junge's "They Killed Sister Dorothy," about the murder of activist Dorothy Mae Stang, received both the jury and audience prizes for best documentary, while on the narrative side, Jake Mahaffy's "Wellness" and Mark Webber's "Explicit Ills" were given nods by the jury and by the audience. Here's a full list of the winners:
Narrative Feature
Grand Jury Award: "Wellness," dir. Jake Mahaffy
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast: "Up With Me," dir. Greg Takoudes
Special Jury Award for Cinematography: "Explicit Ills," dir. Mark Webber
Documentary Feature
Grand Jury Award: "They Killed Sister Dorothy," dir. Daniel Junge
Special Jury Award: "Full Battle Rattle," dirs. Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss...
Daniel Junge's "They Killed Sister Dorothy," about the murder of activist Dorothy Mae Stang, received both the jury and audience prizes for best documentary, while on the narrative side, Jake Mahaffy's "Wellness" and Mark Webber's "Explicit Ills" were given nods by the jury and by the audience. Here's a full list of the winners:
Narrative Feature
Grand Jury Award: "Wellness," dir. Jake Mahaffy
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast: "Up With Me," dir. Greg Takoudes
Special Jury Award for Cinematography: "Explicit Ills," dir. Mark Webber
Documentary Feature
Grand Jury Award: "They Killed Sister Dorothy," dir. Daniel Junge
Special Jury Award: "Full Battle Rattle," dirs. Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss...
- 3/12/2008
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
COMPLETE SXSW 2008 COVERAGE
UPDATED 4:54 p.m. PT March 13
AUSTIN -- Jake Mahaffy's existential, experimental "Wellness" won the best narrative feature jury award at the 2008 South By Southwest Film Festival on Tuesday night.
Awards for documentary grand jury feature and Audience Award for documentary feature went to Daniel Junge for his look at the politics behind a nun's murder with "They Killed Sister Dorothy".
The Audience Award for narrative film went to first-time helmer Mark Webber for "Explicit Ills", a film about poverty and hope in Philadelphia starring Paul Dano and Rosario Dawson. Festival vet Jeremiah Zagar's portrait of his mother and mosaic artist father, "In a Dream", brought home the Emerging Visions Audience Award.
Greg Takoude's "Up With Me", a film written as a collaboration with Harlem teens, took the special jury award for ensemble cast. The documentary special jury award went to "Full Battle Rattle", directed by Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss, about the U.S. Army's urban warfare simulation in the Mojave. "Explicit Ills" also earned a special jury award for Patrice Lucien Cochet's cinematography.
UPDATED 4:54 p.m. PT March 13
AUSTIN -- Jake Mahaffy's existential, experimental "Wellness" won the best narrative feature jury award at the 2008 South By Southwest Film Festival on Tuesday night.
Awards for documentary grand jury feature and Audience Award for documentary feature went to Daniel Junge for his look at the politics behind a nun's murder with "They Killed Sister Dorothy".
The Audience Award for narrative film went to first-time helmer Mark Webber for "Explicit Ills", a film about poverty and hope in Philadelphia starring Paul Dano and Rosario Dawson. Festival vet Jeremiah Zagar's portrait of his mother and mosaic artist father, "In a Dream", brought home the Emerging Visions Audience Award.
Greg Takoude's "Up With Me", a film written as a collaboration with Harlem teens, took the special jury award for ensemble cast. The documentary special jury award went to "Full Battle Rattle", directed by Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss, about the U.S. Army's urban warfare simulation in the Mojave. "Explicit Ills" also earned a special jury award for Patrice Lucien Cochet's cinematography.
- 3/12/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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