Morgan Neville’s enterprise Tremolo Productions is formally in production of an untitled Andy Kaufman documentary alongside Josh and Benny Safdie’s Elara Pictures. The Emmy-nominated Alex Braverman will immediate the element-length film.
“No issue how several periods I view Andy Kaufman’s work, I experience like I’m observing a magic trick for the very 1st time,” Braverman explained. “I’m enthusiastic for our project to honor that. This is the film I have preferred to make my whole existence.”
The Safdie brothers will government develop the challenge alongside Rick Rubin and Braverman’s father Chuck Braverman, who created Kaufman’s 1980 special “Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall.” Wavelength founder and CEO Jennifer Westphal also will executive make.
Wavelength and Tremolo experienced previously worked together on the 2018 Mr. Roger’s documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” directed by Neville. This documentary also marks the next time Neville and Rubin have labored jointly on a project, the 1st occasion staying Showtime’s documentary collection “Shangri-La.”
The creation crew on the challenge have signed an exceptional offer to convey Kaufman’s crucial creative companions Bob Zmuda and Lynne Margulies Osgood onto the job. Production has also secured exceptional legal rights to crucial Kaufman films and early operates along with by no means-prior to-seen footage and audio recordings.
Netflix Announces 20 New Polish Language Titles Coming in 2022
This calendar year, Netflix will launch 20 Polish movie and television originals in the United States.
The information was hared these days on a Netflix website write-up from Anna Nagler, who heads Netflix productions in the Central and Japanese Europe regions, and Łukasz Kłuskiewicz, who is in charge of content material acquisitions for the region. Release dates for the titles have however to be introduced.
Highlights from the announced titles include things like “Detective Forst,” which is primarily based on the novels of common Polish author Remigiusz Mroz. The sequence will star Borys Szyc, with course from Daniel Jaroszek. Other diversifications incorporate the sequence “Feedback” and the movie “Tonight You Are Sleeping With Me,” which are dependent on novels by Jakub Żulczyk and Anna Szczypczyńska. Other popular Polish originals contain films this sort of as “Hellhole” and displays these kinds of as “The Environmentally friendly Glove Gang” and “A Female and an Astronaut.”
Watch the whole list of declared Polish Netflix titles underneath:
Declared Films:
“Broad Peak”
“Delivery by Christmas”
“Freestyle”
“Hellhole”
“Mother’s Day”
“Mr. Automobile & The Knights Templar”
“Night In The Kindergarten”
“Tonight You Are Sleeping With Me”
“The Hive”
Introduced Collection:
“A Lady and An Astronaut”
“Dark Stories”
“Detective Forst”
“Glitter”
“The Eco-friendly Glove Gang”
“Family Secrets”
“Feedback”
“Infamia”
“Lovzone”
AFI Awarded $350,000 Grant from NEH
The American Film Institute (AFI) has been given a $350,000 grant from the Nationwide Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to guidance an initiative to study 1000’s of brief films produced in the silent and early audio eras. The challenge is entitled “Behind the Veil” right after a lost 1914 film directed by Lois Weber. It is spearheaded by the AFI Study crew at the AFI Catalog, and it is meant to document the cultural affect of gals and persons of coloration in the creation, distribution and reception of early cinema. The investigate initiative aims to chronicle the groundbreaking function of feminine and BIPOC pioneers who had been doing the job mainly on small films in the early times of American filmmaking. Notable names contain Alice Person Blaché, the world’s to start with female director who manufactured hundreds of shorts William D. Foster, America’s very first Black filmmaker who labored exclusively in the brief film sort and actors this sort of as Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Myrtle Gonzalez, Red Wing and quite a few other people who obtained their start in limited films.
Sony Companions With USC to Provide New Means and Equipment
Sony Electronics has introduced a new partnership with the College of Southern California to help the university’s prestigious film school.
Below this new settlement, Sony has donated $2 million to the USC University of Cinematic Arts, and will give new, point out of the art equipment to the college. These incorporate Sony Cinema Line of cameras including VENICE 2, Fx9 and Forex6 designs, and the Alpha mirrorless digicam line. In addition, the school will open a new Sony Virtual Output studio, showcasing Sony’s Crystal LED B exhibit screens. The studio will be developed this summer months, and courses in it will be provided to college students starting off this tumble.
“Sony’s merchandise are the main-edge technologies that drive tips, encourage creative imagination, and advise the foreseeable future of cinematic instruction,” USC School of Cinematic Arts dean Elizabeth M. Daley claimed in a statement. “Our students are the potential resourceful leaders of our sector, and this partnership will enable give them the equipment they need to have to entirely know their instruction plans and resourceful thoughts. We are so fired up for the partnership with Sony to invest jointly in our students’ talent and in supporting the modern cinematic creations of the long run.”
