U.K.-French film company Alief has boarded Cinélatino winner Victoria Linares Villegas’ upcoming horror debut “No salgas” (“Stay Quiet”) as its world sales agent and co-producer, teaming up with El Perro de Argento, the Dominican Republic-based production company founded by Linares Villegas and Carlos Marranzini.
Alief partners Brett Walker and Miguel Angel Govea are heading to Cannes with a sizzle reel to meet with potential buyers and post-production partners at the Marché du Film. Pic is slated for completion by winter 2024, in time for the festival circuit.
Currently filming in the Dominican Republic, the queer coming-of-age horror pic stars Camila Issa (Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark”) Cecile van Welie (San Sebastian’s New Directors Award winner “Carajita”) and Camila Santana (Berlinale Generation’s “Ramona”) as well as newcomer Gabriela Cortés.
In “No salgas,” van Welie portrays Liz, a college student grappling with her sexual identity. While...
Alief partners Brett Walker and Miguel Angel Govea are heading to Cannes with a sizzle reel to meet with potential buyers and post-production partners at the Marché du Film. Pic is slated for completion by winter 2024, in time for the festival circuit.
Currently filming in the Dominican Republic, the queer coming-of-age horror pic stars Camila Issa (Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark”) Cecile van Welie (San Sebastian’s New Directors Award winner “Carajita”) and Camila Santana (Berlinale Generation’s “Ramona”) as well as newcomer Gabriela Cortés.
In “No salgas,” van Welie portrays Liz, a college student grappling with her sexual identity. While...
- 5/9/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Nichola Burley, Josie Walker, Flora Hylton, Joel Sefton-Iongi | Written and Directed by Lucy Cohen
A girl makes friends with a local boy while on holiday in rural Cornwall. Looking for an escape from her mum and her new boyfriend, the young girl looks to seek solace wherever she can find it. When the boy takes her down to an abandoned tin mine, what they uncover there leads to trouble above ground.
The undeniable positive of a film festival — particularly a regional one — is discovering a title or two that would never have had their dues if it wasn’t for a circuit break. Whether it’s an unconscious bias or a gravitational pull, the British independent film has a certain appeal regardless of its quality or subject matter, almost as if the mere fact it fits the category indicates its greatness. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Lucy Cohen’s Edge of Summer,...
A girl makes friends with a local boy while on holiday in rural Cornwall. Looking for an escape from her mum and her new boyfriend, the young girl looks to seek solace wherever she can find it. When the boy takes her down to an abandoned tin mine, what they uncover there leads to trouble above ground.
The undeniable positive of a film festival — particularly a regional one — is discovering a title or two that would never have had their dues if it wasn’t for a circuit break. Whether it’s an unconscious bias or a gravitational pull, the British independent film has a certain appeal regardless of its quality or subject matter, almost as if the mere fact it fits the category indicates its greatness. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Lucy Cohen’s Edge of Summer,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Jasmine Valentine
- Nerdly
Films about childhood, aimed at adult viewers, have to speak effectively to memory. Lucy Cohen’s Edge Of Summer is a wonderfully sensual film full of the details that might pull one back into a remembered world: the edge of a lace curtain blowing against the sill. The sunlight on a patch of ceiling. The sharp, clear blue of the sea. One can almost smell the salt air, the bruised grass, the slightly musty odour of a holiday cottage just opened up early in the season. Evie (Flora Hylton) and her mother Yvonne (Josie Walker) were supposed to be going there to get some time together, just the two of them, but the sudden arrival of Tony (Steffan Rhodri), in whom her mother has an obvious sexual interest, crushes that hope. The resulting feelings of betrayal and abandonment are also the kind of things that linger over time.
Evie was still hoping.
Evie was still hoping.
- 3/9/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“Hallelujah,” was the message from BFI Filmmaking Fund director Mia Bays as she took to the stage at Glasgow Film Festival on March 7, to celebrate the next generation of UK talent.
“[Representation] has transformed over the past few years,” said Bays, who pointed towards the post-Times Up and MeToo movements and the impact of BFI’s diversity and inclusion targets as part of what has helped drive the opportunity for new voices to break through.
“One of my favourite terms is ‘opportunity hoarding’. There are lots of people who just sat on those opportunities, who have kept them. All of those conversations have led to this.
“[Representation] has transformed over the past few years,” said Bays, who pointed towards the post-Times Up and MeToo movements and the impact of BFI’s diversity and inclusion targets as part of what has helped drive the opportunity for new voices to break through.
“One of my favourite terms is ‘opportunity hoarding’. There are lots of people who just sat on those opportunities, who have kept them. All of those conversations have led to this.
- 3/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
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