The Ambassador’s Wife[/caption]
36 short films will make up the International portion of the Short Cuts program at this year’s 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
The lineup of provocative, exciting shorts includes 14 World Premieres and works from 32 countries, in 19 different languages, with a strong array of new voices. Of the 36 films in the selection, 18 were directed or co-directed by women.
Highlights among the selection of live-action narrative films include Reed Van Dyk’s Interior, a bold follow-up to his recent Academy Award–nominated DeKalb Elementary ; A.V. Rockwell’s vivid and vital drama Feathers; Héctor Silva Núñez’s exceptional exploration of identity in The Foreign Body; and Charles Williams’ All These Creatures, an emotionally wrenching drama that won the Short Film Palme d’Or at Cannes.
The 2018 program also includes such fascinating short documentaries as Theresa Traore Dahlberg’s The Ambassador’s Wife, an elegant study of a woman who represents the complexities of class, women’s roles, and post-colonialism, and Jayisha Patel’s Circle, a haunting documentary that tells the horrifying story of a young woman caught in a cycle of abuse.
Amazing animations are also prominent at this year’s Festival. Standouts include: Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels’ This Magnificent Cake! , a wildly ambitious and original stop-motion marvel that uses stories set in the Belgian Congo in the 19th century to reveal the absurdity and horror of European colonialism in Africa; Anca Damian’s free-flowing yet astoundingly intricate The Call; and Donato Sansone’s Bavure, a bravura display of eye-popping, mind-bending, and body-morphing ingenuity.
The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2018.
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36 International Short Films in Short Cuts Program of 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
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36 short films will make up the International portion of the Short Cuts program at this year’s 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
The lineup of provocative, exciting shorts includes 14 World Premieres and works from 32 countries, in 19 different languages, with a strong array of new voices. Of the 36 films in the selection, 18 were directed or co-directed by women.
Highlights among the selection of live-action narrative films include Reed Van Dyk’s Interior, a bold follow-up to his recent Academy Award–nominated DeKalb Elementary ; A.V. Rockwell’s vivid and vital drama Feathers; Héctor Silva Núñez’s exceptional exploration of identity in The Foreign Body; and Charles Williams’ All These Creatures, an emotionally wrenching drama that won the Short Film Palme d’Or at Cannes.
The 2018 program also includes such fascinating short documentaries as Theresa Traore Dahlberg’s The Ambassador’s Wife, an elegant study of a woman who represents the complexities of class, women’s roles, and post-colonialism, and Jayisha Patel’s Circle, a haunting documentary that tells the horrifying story of a young woman caught in a cycle of abuse.
Amazing animations are also prominent at this year’s Festival. Standouts include: Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels’ This Magnificent Cake! , a wildly ambitious and original stop-motion marvel that uses stories set in the Belgian Congo in the 19th century to reveal the absurdity and horror of European colonialism in Africa; Anca Damian’s free-flowing yet astoundingly intricate The Call; and Donato Sansone’s Bavure, a bravura display of eye-popping, mind-bending, and body-morphing ingenuity.
The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2018.
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Toronto International Film Festival Unveils 2018 Docs Program, Opens with Michael Moore’s FAHRENHEIT 11/9
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Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9[/caption]
The World Premiere of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 , a radical and humorous look at the United States under Donald Trump, will open the Toronto International Film Festival 2018 documentary program. The Festival will screen 27 feature-length non-fiction films, representing 19 countries in the 2018 documentary program.
Other World Premieres include Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks’ Quincy, profiling musical icon Quincy Jones; Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble’s The Elephant Queen, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, tracing the epic journey of an elephant herd; Billy Corben’s Screwball, a true-crime comedy on doping in Major League Baseball; and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s The Truth About Killer Robots, investigating the lethal consequences of automation.
One-third of this year’s doc features are directed or co-directed by female filmmakers including TIFF Docs closing film, Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching for Ingmar Bergman, which offers a multi-faceted look at the Swedish auteur’s life 100 years after his birth. Women creators, trailblazers, and the #MeToo movement are also examined within the lineup: Naziha Arebi’s Freedom Fields, about a Libyan women’s football team; Alex Holmes’ Maiden recounts the story of the first all-women sailing crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race (now the Volvo Ocean Race), skippered by Tracy Edwards; and Tom Volf’s Maria by Callas, narrated by Joyce DiDonato, profiles one of the major icons of the 20th century. More highlights include Alexis Bloom’s Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, covering the Fox News creator who was ousted for allegations of sexual harassment; and Tom Donahue’s This Changes Everything, an examination of gender dynamics in Hollywood, executive produced by Geena Davis. Mark Cousins’ Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema , narrated by Tilda Swinton, explores international cinema through the lens of women directors.
Global politics and leaders of modern society are put under the microscope with films such as Werner Herzog and André Singer’s Meeting Gorbachev, on the former Soviet leader; Vitaly Mansky’s Putin’s Witnesses, focusing on Russia’s president; and Errol Morris’ American Dharma , looking at controversial Trump strategist Steve Bannon.
Grand adventures are at the heart of several docs in the selection. E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Free Solo captures Alex Honnold’s unprecedented climb of El Capitan without safety ropes; Andrey Paounov’s Walking on Water documents the artist Christo’s project The Floating Piers; John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm chronicles an eight-year struggle to run a family farm; and Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron’s Ghost Fleet captures a nail-biting rescue of fishermen enslaved at sea.
After directing last year’s Festival opener Borg vs McEnroe, Janus Metz teams with Sine Plambech for the World Premiere of Heartbound, a longitudinal study 10 years in the making about the trend of Thai women marrying Danish men. And several documentaries represent eclectic perspectives told from around the world, including: Rithy Panh’s Graves Without a Name, on the legacy of Cambodia’s genocide; Jawad Rhalib’s When Arabs Danced, on Muslim performers pushing boundaries; James Longley’s Angels Are Made Of Light, about a group of Afghan children and their teachers; and Frederick Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana , about a small town in America’s Midwest.
The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2018.
2018 TIFF Docs Program
American Dharma Errol Morris | USA/United Kingdom North American Premiere Angels Are Made Of Light James Longley | USA/Denmark/Norway Canadian Premiere The Biggest Little Farm John Chester | USA International Premiere Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes Alexis Bloom | USA World Premiere The Elephant Queen Victoria Stone, Mark Deeble | United Kingdom/Kenya World Premiere TIFF Docs Opening Film Fahrenheit 11/9 Michael Moore | USA World Premiere Free Solo E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | USA International Premiere Freedom Fields Naziha Arebi | Libya/United Kingdom/Netherlands/USA/Qatar/Lebanon/Canada World Premiere Ghost Fleet Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron | USA International Premiere Graves Without a Name ( Les tombeaux sans noms) Rithy Panh | France/Cambodia Canadian Premiere Heartbound ( Hjertelandet) Janus Metz, Sine Plambech | Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden World Premiere Maiden Alex Holmes | United Kingdom World Premiere Maria by Callas Tom Volf | France North American Premiere Meeting Gorbachev Werner Herzog, André Singer | United Kingdom/USA/Germany Canadian Premiere This Changes Everything Tom Donahue | USA World Premiere Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman | USA North American Premiere Putin’s Witnesses ( Svideteli Putina) Vitaly Mansky | Latvia/Switzerland/Czech Republic International Premiere Quincy Rashida Jones, Alan Hicks | USA World Premiere Screwball Billy Corben | USA World Premiere TIFF Docs Closing Film Searching for Ingmar Bergman Margarethe von Trotta | Germany/France North American Premiere The Truth About Killer Robots Maxim Pozdorovkin | USA World Premiere Walking on Water Andrey Paounov | Italy/USA North American Premiere When Arabs Danced ( Au temps où les Arabes dansaient) Jawad Rhalib | Belgium North American Premiere Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Mark Cousins | United Kingdom North American Premiere Previously announced Canadian features at the Festival include Ron Mann’s Carmine Street Guitars, Barry Avrich’s Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz, and Astra Taylor’s What is Democracy?
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COMING SOON: Jamie-Lynn Sigler Joins Cast of Megan Freels Johnston’s Thriller HUNTING SEASON
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Jamie-Lynn Sigler[/caption]
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“THE SOPRANOS,” “ENTOURAGE”) will star alongside Deanna Russo (“BEING HUMAN,” “KNIGHT RIDER”) in the upcoming horror film “HUNTING SEASON,” from Look At Me Films. Bruce Davison, Sean Maher and Paula Garces have also joined the cast for the third film from genre director Megan Freels Johnston (“THE ICE CREAM TRUCK,” “REBOUND”).
Russo is set to play near-desperately single Piper opposite Jamie-Lynn (“THE SOPRANOS,” “ENTOURAGE”), who will play her roommate Abby, a street-smart social worker. Frequent Joss Whedon collaborator Sean Maher (“FIREFLY,” “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING”) will play Piper’s dashing new boyfriend, James. When their romantic weekend together goes awry, Abby (Sigler) must track her to his family’s hunting lodge before it’s too late. The real danger in this film isn’t being chased in the woods by a psycho in a mask—it’s the 1%.
Bruce Davison (“X-MEN,” “INSIDIOUS”) is set to play James’ father, a wealthy hunter whose desires have gone beyond “big game” and Paula Garces (“HAROLD AND KUMAR”) also joins the cast alongside frequent Johnston collaborator Hilary Barraford (“GO FOR SISTERS,” “UNITED STATES OF TARA”), who also serves as executive producer.
Johnston’s previous film THE ICE CREAM TRUCK, a horror comedy about a bored housewife, was released last year to critical acclaim. HUNTING SEASON will continue Johnston’s series of films that explore the unique fears that women face in today’s society—a departure from typical indie horror fare, which often looks only at the part (or parts) rather than the whole woman. HUNTING SEASON is set to shoot this fall.
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Netflix Releases Most Inspiring Trailer for ZION on High School Wrestler Born Without Legs
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Zion Clark appears in ZION by Floyd Russ | photo by Gregory Wilson[/caption]
Netflix released the trailer for the Zion, a gripping portrait of Zion Clark, a young wrestler born without legs who grew up in foster care. The documentary short, premiered earlier this year at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and launches globally on Netflix on August 10.
Zion is a gripping portrait of Zion Clark, a young wrestler born without legs who grew up in foster care. Clark began wrestling in second grade against his able-bodied peers. The physical challenge became a therapeutic outlet and gave him a sense of family. Moving from foster home to foster home, wrestling became the only constant thing in his childhood. The Netflix original documentary short is directed by Floyd Russ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWo0MN_tY1E
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Watch New Trailer for Indie Comedy DR. BRINKS & DR. BRINKS
Gravitas Ventures has released the trailer for the indie siblings rivalry comedy Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks by Josh Crockett. The film opens in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on August 17th, and On-Demand on September 4th.
Estranged brother and sister, Marcus and Michelle Brinks (Scott Rodgers and Kristin Slaysman) reunite after the sudden death of their parents, a saintly pair of doctors-without-borders they barely knew and never liked. The homecoming goes haywire when the siblings choose to revel in dysfunction rather than face the grief of losing a family they thought they didn’t need.
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Punk-Rock Slasher THE RANGER Scares Theaters on August 17th [Trailer]
The punk-rock slasher The Ranger that world premiered earlier this year at the 2018 SXSW is headed to theaters next week, opening in New York’s IFC Center on August 17th and L.A.’s Laemmle Music Hall on September 7th.
After a run-in with the cops at a punk show goes sideways, Chelsea (Chloe Levine, The Transfiguration) and her pals flee the city in search of a place to lay low. Running to the security of Chelsea’s old, abandoned family cabin in the woods, they fall under the watchful eye of an overzealous park ranger (Jeremy Holm, House of Cards) who holds a secret from Chelsea’s past. Set to the beat of a killer punk soundtrack (Fang The Avengers, The Grim, Rotten UK and more) and presented in eye-popping neon colors, Jenn Wexler’s debut offers a modern take on survivalist horror that both celebrates and subverts the genre’s tropes—with equal parts humor, glitter and gore.
The Ranger is the directorial debut from Jenn Wexler, producer of Ana Asensio’s 2017 SXSW Competition Winner Most Beautiful Island, Robert Mockler’s Like Me (2017), and Mickey Keating’s Psychopaths (2017) & Darling (2016). The Ranger world premiered at SXSW 2018, was in official selection for the inaugural What The Fest!, recently played the Fantasia International Film Festival, and is set to open London’s FrightFest.
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Watch New Brilliant Trailer + Poster for Dan Habib’s INTELLIGENT LIVES
The new trailer and poster dropped this week for Dan Habib’s powerful, timely documentary Intelligent Lives, tackling the label of intellectual disability and what it means to be intelligent. The film narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper opens theatrically on September 21 in NYC at the Village East Cinema with a national release to follow.
From award-winning filmmaker Dan Habib comes Intelligent Lives, a catalyst to transform the label of intellectual disability from a life sentence of isolation into a life of possibility for the most systematically segregated people in America.
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Jesse, Marianne, and Chris Cooper in INTELLIGENT LIVES[/caption]
Intelligent Lives stars three pioneering young American adults with intellectual disabilities – Micah, Naieer, and Naomie – who challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college, and the workforce. Academy Award-winning actor and narrator Chris Cooper contextualizes the lives of these central characters through the emotional personal story of his son Jesse, as the film unpacks the shameful and ongoing track record of intelligence testing in the U.S.
Intelligent Lives challenges what it means to be intelligent, and points to a future in which people of all abilities can fully participate in higher education, meaningful employment and intimate relationships.
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Charming, Funny Argentinian Film THE LAST SUIT to Opens in Theaters in September [Trailer]
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EL ÚLTIMO TRAJE (THE LAST SUIT)[/caption]
In The Last Suit (El último traje), the charming, funny and notably poignant new film from Argentine director Pablo Solarz, an elderly Holocaust survivor decides to undertake a trip from Argentina to Poland to tie up some unfinished business. The film which won the Audience Award at the 2018 Miami Film Festival will open in theaters on Friday, September 21 in New York with Los Angeles following on Friday, September 28 and wider national release to follow.
At 88, Abraham Bursztein (Miguel Ángel Solá) is seeing his place in the world rapidly disappear. His kids have sold his Buenos Aires residence, set him up to move to a retirement home, and disagree on how to handle his fading health. But Abraham survived the Holocaust, made a successful life in a foreign land, and isn’t about to quietly fade away. Instead, he plots a secret one-way trip to Poland, where he plans to find the Christian friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II, and to keep his promise to return one day.
With its klezmer-driven score, evocative cinematography and fleet pacing, The Last Suit (El último traje) approaches its weighty themes with a light touch that illuminates a serious story. And in its mix of Spanish, Yiddish, German and Polish it is a globe-trotting surprise, a late-in-life road movie with planes, trains and heart.
Pablo Solarz is an Argentine screenwriter and director. He wrote the screenplay for Carlos Sorin’s Intimate Stories (2002) and local Argentine comedy hits A Boyfriend for my Wife (2008) and I Married a Dumbass (2016), who made his feature directorial debut with Together Forever (2010). The Last Suit (El último traje) (2017) is his latest film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLZVMgJoo-k
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GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE, Documentary on Photographer Garry Winogrand, Opens on September 19 [Trailer]
Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable is the first documentary made on the life and work of Garry Winogrand, who was the epic photographer of 20th century American life. Directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, the film will open on Wednesday, September 19 at New York’s Film Forum with a national rollout to follow.
“What is a photograph?” Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) asks in his iconic, gravelly Bronx accent. Decades before digital technology transformed how we make and see pictures, Winogrand made hundreds of thousands of them with his 35mm Leica, creating an encyclopedic portrait of America from the late 1950s to the early 1980s in the process. When he died suddenly at age 56, Winogrand left behind more than 10,000 rolls of film—more than a quarter of a million pictures! These images capture a bygone era: the New York of Mad Men and the early years of the Women’s Movement, the birth of American suburbs, and the glamour and alienation of Hollywood. He produced so many unseen images that it has taken until now for the full measure of his artistic legacy to emerge. Forged by Winogrand’s own words and images, Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable is a stunningly intimate portrait of an artist who both personified his era and transformed it.
Image (top): Portrait of Garry Winogrand. Credit: Judy Teller
Image (bottom): New York, 1968 [laughing woman with ice cream] Credit: Photographs by Garry Winogrand,Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
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SUSANNE BARTSCH: ON TOP Documentary on NYC Nightlife and Fashion Icon Sets Release Date
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Susanne Bartsch: On Top[/caption]
The documentary Susanne Bartsch: On Top by award-winning director duo Anthony&Alex is an intimate immersion into the world of New York City nightlife and fashion icon Susanne Bartsch credited with launching the careers of RuPaul and Marc Jacobs; and raising millions of dollars for the fight against AIDS. The Orchard will open Susanne Bartsch: On Top theatrically on Friday, September 7 in Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica Film Center.
People have flocked to New York City to break free from the oppressive shackles of social norms and find themselves for decades; Susanne Bartsch has dedicated her life to creating a safe haven for just those people. The mother of avant-garde self-expression, Susanne creates imaginative spaces where people can live out their wildest fantasies night after night.
Susanne Bartsch: On Top explores Susanne’s life and impact through never-before-seen archival footage, verité cinematography, personal testimonials, and highly stylized imagery. From quiet moments at home to the creation of deliciously debaucherous spectacles, Susanne juggles family life with the overwhelming stress of being a one-woman industry. At an age when most of her peers have slowed down, Susanne moves forward more determined than ever.
Anthony&Alex are an award-winning director duo who over the past decade have transitioned from experimental live theater to filmmaking. Their work has been featured on MTV, VH1, Vogue, Dazed, HuffPo, Rolling Stone, Paper Magazine, Bullett, Out, Vice, been banned from Youtube, and awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick. In 2015 they directed the feature length work Success, an experimental concert film for musician Liam Finn, that premiered at The Museum of the Moving Image. Anthony&Alex debuted their first feature documentary, Susanne Bartsch: On Top, which premiered at Hot Docs and went on to win the John Schlesinger award at the Provincetown International Film Festival. They are partners at No Weather, a production company and filmmaking collective in NYC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fEGoXMDg60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAAsU9NnsI
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3100: RUN AND BECOME, Documentary on Endurance Runners Sprints into Theaters on August 17 [Trailer]
3100: Run and Become is a new documentary about why we run; featuring uplifting, and intimate portrait of endurance runners and what motivates them. The documentary directed by Sanjay Rawal (Food Chains) opens in theaters on August 17, 2018.
What would you do to transform your life? How far would you go to change yourself? Would you drive, would you fly, would you run?
These are the themes of a new documentary about why we run, 3100: Run and Become. This uplifting, intimate portrait of endurance runners and what motivates them opens around the US in theaters August 17, 2018.
3100: Run and Become follows Ashprihanal Aalto, an unassuming Finnish paperboy, and Shamita, an Austrian cellist, in their attempts to complete the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, the world’s longest certified footrace, which takes place each summer June through August. The 3100 encourages runners to discover the limits of their capacities–and to try to go beyond them. And go beyond, they must: the small group of competitors come from all over the world to run a distance that approximates a US cross-country run — a total of 3,100 miles in 52 days – 5,649 laps around one city block in Jamaica, Queens.
Ashprihanal and Shamita’s 3100 quest takes viewers from the heart of this astonishing event in New York to places around the world where ancient cultures have held running sacred for millennia: the Kalahari Desert, Arizona’s Navajo Reservation, and to the mountain temples of Japan. Through the heroic stories of three other runners (Shaun Martin, a Navajo runner and Board Member of Wings of America; Gaolo of the San Bushmen of the Kalahari; and Gyoman-san of the Monks of Mt. Hiei, Japan) 3100: Run and Become presents a portrait of endurance and transformation. Beyond competitiveness and athletic prowess, they run not for glory but for spiritual enlightenment, universal oneness –or because they simply have the responsibility to run.
3100: Run and Become is directed by Sanjay Rawal (Food Chains) and produced by Tanya Ager Meillier (Alias Ruby Blade, Capitalism: a Love Story). It was edited by Alex Meillier (Alias Ruby Blade, Obscene) and shot in 4K by Sean Kirby (Racing Extinction, We are X, Long Strange Trip). The film’s soundtrack, composed by Michael A. Levine, features an original song recorded by Roberta Flack, her first after suffering a stroke in 2016.
https://vimeo.com/261386426
DATE : CITY – THEATER
Aug 17 : Santa Fe – Center for Contemporary Art
Aug 24 : Albuquerque – Regal High Ridge
Aug 31 : Phoenix – Shea 14
Aug 31 : Sedona – Sedona 6
Aug 31 : Flagstaff – Flagstaff 16
Sep 7 : Eugene – Bijou Metro
Sep 7 : Seattle – Varsity Cinemas
Sep 7 : Portland – Cinema 21
Sep 7 : Bend – Pony Village 10
Sep 11 : Boulder – Int’l Film Series
Sep 14 : Denver – Sie FilmCenter
Sep 21 : Chicago – Gene Siskel
Sep 28 : North Lake Tahoe – Tahoe Art Haus and Cinema
Oct 26 : New York – Village East
Nov 9 : LA/Santa Monica – Laemmle Theater
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Argentinian Crime Thriller EL ANGEL Steals November Release Date
The Argentinian film El Angel directed by Luis Ortega that screened earlier this year at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and next at the upcoming 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, will open in theaters in November. The film, starring Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darin, Mercedes Morán, Daniel Fanego, Luis Gnecco, Peter Lanzani, and Cecilia Roth, is inspired by the true story of Carlos Robledo Puch, known as “the black angel”, a thief who killed eleven people in the early 1970s in Argentina.
The Orchard will release El Angel in Los Angeles at the NuArt on November 9th, as well as in New York in early November and rolling out to other US cities in November and December 2018.
Buenos Aires, 1971. Carlitos (Lorenzo Ferro) is a seventeen-year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people’s things, but it wasn’t until his early adolescence that his true calling—to be a thief—manifested itself. When he meets Ramon (Chino Darin) at his new school, Carlitos is immediately drawn to him and starts showing off to get his attention. Together they will embark on a journey of discoveries, love and crime. Killing is just a random offshoot of the violence, which continues to escalate until Carlitos is finally apprehended. Because of his angelic appearance, the press dubs Carlitos “The Angel of Death.” Showered with attention because of his beauty, he becomes an overnight celebrity. Altogether, he is believed to have committed over forty thefts and eleven homicides. Today, after more than forty-five years in jail, Carlos Robledo Puch is the longest-serving prisoner in the history of Argentina.