An Amélie-inspired film by Swedish Filmmaker to Open TRIFF24
The Tryon International Film Festival 2024 (TRIFF24) is kicking off its 10th anniversary of its weekend-long festival of independent films and filmmaking on November 22, 2024 in Tryon, NC, with Swedish film Just Like Me. The film takes the audience on a journey between laughter and tears in this heartwarming story by UCLA film student, Andreas Thelander. Andreas Thelander is an award-winning film director from Sweden who completed UCLA's intensive 4-year master’s p...
Leading sales, finance and production company Protagonist Pictures is launching worldwide sales and reveals a first look image for Glenrothan, the feature directorial debut from Emmy and Golden Globe winner Brian Cox, best known for playing the ruthless family patriarch Logan Roy in HBO’s hit “Succession.” The company will also screen exclusive footage for buyers at the upcoming American Film Market. The announcement came today from Protagonist’s CEO, Dave Bishop....
Margaret Qualley (The Substance, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Netflix’s The Maid) is set to star in psychological horror thriller film Victorian Psycho. Zachary Wigon (Neon’s Sanctuary) directs from a script by the acclaimed and best-selling author Virginia Feito (Mrs. March), based on her upcoming novel of the same name. This marks the second collaboration between Wigon and Qualley, following Wigon's film Sanctuary, which premiered at TIFF...
Academy Award-winner Jessica Chastain (Eyes of Tammy Faye, Zero Dark Thirty, Interstellar), Academy Award-winner Brendan Fraser (The Whale, Killers of the Flower Moon), and Academy Award-nominee Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad,” Trumbo) have joined Academy Award-winner Al Pacino (The Irishman, Scarface) in the mystery thriller Assassination. The film is directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Bugsy) from a script by David Mamet, with Levinson and Sam Brome...
Cameras have started rolling on Bharat Nalluri’s highly anticipated FLAVIA, it was announced today by Protagonist Pictures’ CEO Dave Bishop. The company reveals an exclusive first look for the family mystery adventure, ahead of AFM where Protagonist Pictures is continuing international sales on the film. CAA Media Finance are handling US rights and arranged financing for the film. Based on the New York Times bestselling series of books by Alan Bradley, Flavia is ...
This Halloween, Studio 100 International is thrilled to announce its collaboration with Lunch Films to develop the enchanting new animated family feature, “Halloween vs Day of the Dead”. This alliance unites the creative talents of Mexican independent animation studio Lunch Films and Munich-based Studio 100 International, a leading independent studio renowned for children’s and family entertainment. Combining their expertise, the two companies are set to transport audiences int...
Acclaimed filmmaker Jay Duplass (“Wild, Wild Country,” “Transparent,” “The Mindy Project”) is directing See You When I See You, starring Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth), David Duchovny (“Californication,” Reverse the Curse), Hope Davis (“Succession,” “Your Honor,” Asteroid City), Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart, “Dopesick”), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, “The Politician”), and Ariela Barer (How To Blow...
Highland Film Group has come on board to handle international distribution rights to the horror thriller Witchboard, it was announced today. The re-imagining of the 1986 horror classic stars Jamie Campbell Bower (“Stranger Things,” The Twilight Saga), Madison Iseman (The Jumanji film series, Warner Bros.’ Annabelle Comes Home), Aaron Dominguez (Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building”), Mel Jarnson (Warner Bros.’ Mortal Kombat), Charlie Tahan (Netflix&rsquo...
IFFI, other Film Festivals, and the Media: Partners or undesirables? When the first film festival as held in Bombay in the year 1952, by the Films Division, 30 years after the first international film festival was held in Venice, nobody would have expected we would be holding the 55th edition in 2024. In the 50s and early 60s, festivals were not held in India regularly, only sporadically. In the 70s it became an annual feature, hence only 55 festivals are spread over 72 years. Since then, it ha..