Tag: Inheritance
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Slamdance 2024 Announces Winners, The Accident and Inheritance Take Top Prizes
The 2024 Slamdance Film Festival, which returned this year to its original home at the Doubletree Park City, announced the winners of its Sparky Awards on Friday. Giuseppe Garau’s Inheritance, an Appalachia-set film dealing with the opioid epidemic. Kiarash Dadgar, whose short film The Steak played the festival, was awarded the Agbo Fellowship, which comes…
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Lightdox boards world sales rights on ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’ ahead of Venice world premiere (exclusive)
Lina Soualem’s docmentary features her mother, actor Hiam Abbass.Switzerland’s Lightdox has acquired world sales rights to Lina Soualem’s Bye Bye Tiberias ahead of the documentary’s world premiere in the special events sidebar of Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori.Soualem’s feature captures the stories passed on by four generations of daring Palestinian women in her family,…
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James Marsh, Rebecca Snow, Neil Burger films among 12 TIFF Industry Selects sales titles
Fest also announces Connections, Microsessions, and Spotlight sessions.TIFF has announced the Industry Selects acquisition titles available to buyers during the festival, a 12-strong roster featuring new work from James Marsh, Rebecca Snow, and Neil Burger.Gabriel Byrne plays literary giant Samuel Beckett in Marsh’s Dance First alongside Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, Aidan Gillen, and Fionn O’Shea.…
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Outdoor Scenes to be Shot First from September (Exclusive)
“Mission: Impossible 7” is set to restart filming in September after shutting down filming earlier this year due to Covid-19 — and the film’s outdoor scenes are set to shoot first.Actor Simon Pegg, who plays Benji Dunn in the franchise, tells Variety that a September restart is “the plan” for the film. “That will begin…
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‘Inheritance’ Review: Lily Collins and Simon Pegg Spar in Silly, Predictable Thriller
For every good choice in Vaughn Stein’s sophomore effort — the director previously helmed the Margot Robbie-starring curiosity “Terminal” — there are at least three more that fall flat, victims of obvious plotting, silly tropes, and shoddy character building. A mostly predictable thriller, “Inheritance” , but patient audiences might be rewarded by its occasionally unnerving…