Tag: The Peasants
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Polish animation and awards hopeful ‘The Peasants’ scores UK-Ireland deal (exclusive)
‘The Peasants’ comes from the same team that made ‘Loving Vincent’.Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK-Ireland rights to Dk Welchman and Hugh Welchman’s animated feature The Peasants from New Europe Film Sales.The Polish animation debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, and will have its UK premiere on Wednesday, October 11 at the BFI…
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Polish animation and awards hopeful ‘The Peasants’ scores UK deal (exclusive)
‘The Peasants’ comes from the same team that made ‘Loving Vincent’.Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK rights to Dk Welchman and Hugh Welchman’s animated feature The Peasants from New Europe Film Sales.The Polish animation debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, and will have its UK premiere on Wednesday, October 11 at the BFI…
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Sony Classics takes Polish Oscar submission ‘The Peasants’ for the Americas
The film uses the same painted animation technique as the directors’ Loving Vincent.Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights to The Peasants, Poland’s submission for this year’s international film Oscar, for North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Australia/New Zealand.Written and directed by Dk Welchman and Hugh Welchman, The Peasants had its world premiere…
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‘The Peasants’ Review — ‘Loving Vincent’ Creators Outdo Themselves
In 2017, directors Dk Welchman and Hugh Welchman released Loving Vincent, a tremendous undertaking that includes 65,000 frames of film which were oil painted by hand to look like the work of Vincent van Gogh. Loving Vincent was a remarkable testament to the incredible painter, bringing his work to life in a fascinating and stunning…
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Polish Cinema’s Fall Festival Lineup Showcases Strength, Diversity of Its Growing Film Industry
The fall festival circuit features a powerhouse lineup of Polish cinema that showcases an industry in full stride, with hard-hitting topical dramas, award-season hopefuls and potential box-office breakouts highlighting the strength and diversity of filmmaking in a country with a storied cinematic history.Among the hotly anticipated premieres at this week’s Toronto Film Festival is “The…
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‘The Peasants’ Directors on How ‘Loving Vincent’ Follow-Up Takes Its Groundbreaking, Hand-Painted Animation Style to Another Level (Exclusive Clip)
With the long-awaited follow-up to their Oscar-nominated animated feature “Loving Vincent,” directors D.K. Welchman (formerly known as Dorota Kobiela) and Hugh Welchman revisit the striking, hand-painted animation technique that dramatically brought the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh to life in their groundbreaking debut, which grossed more than $50 million globally.But “The Peasants,” which is based…
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BreakThru Films Bewitches Annecy Film Festival With ‘The Peasants’
On Friday, the team at BreakThru Films behind “The Peasants” – producer Sean Bobbitt, filmmaker Dorota Kobiela and writer-producer Hugh Welchman – took the stage at an Annecy Work in Progress screening to reveal to the world just what they’ve been working on since turning an experimental hand-painted biopic, 2017’s “Loving Vincent,” into one of…
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New Europe Takes World on Latest from ‘Loving Vincent’ Animation Studio (Exclusive)
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has acquired world sales rights for “The Peasants,” the latest feature from BreakThru Films, the animation studio behind Oscar nominee “Loving Vincent.” Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s international teaser.Principal photography has begun on a film based on the novel from Nobel Prize-winning Polish author…