Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #337: ‘Make Your Film’ Live from London Independent Film Festival with Debs Paterson,...
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #337: ‘Make Your Film’ Live from London Independent Film Festival with Debs Paterson,...
- 5/8/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Bear Grylls’ production company The Natural Studios, the Jv with Banijay, has set Escape From Pretoria director Francis Annan to helm its first scripted movie, a contemporary reworking of The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Annan is newly aboard to script and direct the film, which will be set in Afghanistan.
As previously announced, the project is being produced by Into The Wild With Bear Grylls producer Natural Studios and Pure Grass’s Ben Grass (Twist) and Christophe Charlier (Race). The previous script came from Tom Williams (Kajaki).
The movie will focus on the friendship and bitter rivalry that develops between two special forces soldiers who are sent to war in Afghanistan.
Grylls, who was Emmy nominated this week for Running Wild With Bear Grylls, said with producing partner Delbert Shoopman: “It’s fantastic to welcome Francis to the team on this new adventure. We were enthralled by Escape From Pretoria,...
Annan is newly aboard to script and direct the film, which will be set in Afghanistan.
As previously announced, the project is being produced by Into The Wild With Bear Grylls producer Natural Studios and Pure Grass’s Ben Grass (Twist) and Christophe Charlier (Race). The previous script came from Tom Williams (Kajaki).
The movie will focus on the friendship and bitter rivalry that develops between two special forces soldiers who are sent to war in Afghanistan.
Grylls, who was Emmy nominated this week for Running Wild With Bear Grylls, said with producing partner Delbert Shoopman: “It’s fantastic to welcome Francis to the team on this new adventure. We were enthralled by Escape From Pretoria,...
- 7/16/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
At the Award Ceremony of the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) awards were handed to the winners of the four competition programmes of the festival and PÖFF’s sub-festivals Youth and Children’s Film Festival Just Film and International Short Film and Animation Film Festival PÖFF Shorts.
The jury of Official Selection – Competition headed by Mark Adams selected director Ivaylo Hristov’s drama “Fear“ as their favourite, handing the film the Grand Prix of the festival. Blending drama with deadpan comedy, the film’s story is set on the Bulgarian border, on a new route for African migrants arriving from Turkey with hopes to reach Germany. The protagonist, the former school teacher, comes across an African man who will bring a dramatic turn to her life.
The Best Director award goes to Turkish director Nisan Dağ for “When I’m Done Dying“, a vibrant portrayal of an upcoming hiphop artist struggling with drug addiction.
The jury of Official Selection – Competition headed by Mark Adams selected director Ivaylo Hristov’s drama “Fear“ as their favourite, handing the film the Grand Prix of the festival. Blending drama with deadpan comedy, the film’s story is set on the Bulgarian border, on a new route for African migrants arriving from Turkey with hopes to reach Germany. The protagonist, the former school teacher, comes across an African man who will bring a dramatic turn to her life.
The Best Director award goes to Turkish director Nisan Dağ for “When I’m Done Dying“, a vibrant portrayal of an upcoming hiphop artist struggling with drug addiction.
- 12/2/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Nisan Dağ wins best director for ‘When I’m Done Dying’.
Director Ivaylo Hristov and producer Assen Vladimirov have won the Grand Prix for best film, for Bulgarian drama Fear, at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF).
The event presented its awards in Tallinn, Estonia this evening. Hristov and Vladimirov share the €10,000 grant that comes with the win.
Scroll down for the full list of awards
They were awarded the prize by a jury consisting of Mark Adams, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Izabela Kiszka-Hoflik and Ester Kuntu.
The jury praised “a beautifully-made film that astutely balances dry humour with important contemporary drama.
Director Ivaylo Hristov and producer Assen Vladimirov have won the Grand Prix for best film, for Bulgarian drama Fear, at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF).
The event presented its awards in Tallinn, Estonia this evening. Hristov and Vladimirov share the €10,000 grant that comes with the win.
Scroll down for the full list of awards
They were awarded the prize by a jury consisting of Mark Adams, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Izabela Kiszka-Hoflik and Ester Kuntu.
The jury praised “a beautifully-made film that astutely balances dry humour with important contemporary drama.
- 11/27/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The festival is underway in Estonia with 80 international guests in town.
When the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia opened last Thursday November 12, festival director Tiina Lokk stood in front of a socially-distanced, fully masked audience at the Coca-Cola Plaza cinema before a gala screening of Oskar Roehler’s Rainer Werner Fassbinder biopic Enfant Terrible.
Images were streamed around the world to accredited guests. For as has become commonplace in 2020, the festival is taking place as a hybrid event this year, with around 80 international guests, down from 1,500 last year.
But on opening night, Lokk admits she was unnerved; after...
When the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia opened last Thursday November 12, festival director Tiina Lokk stood in front of a socially-distanced, fully masked audience at the Coca-Cola Plaza cinema before a gala screening of Oskar Roehler’s Rainer Werner Fassbinder biopic Enfant Terrible.
Images were streamed around the world to accredited guests. For as has become commonplace in 2020, the festival is taking place as a hybrid event this year, with around 80 international guests, down from 1,500 last year.
But on opening night, Lokk admits she was unnerved; after...
- 11/20/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Personal History Of David Copperfield filmmaker Armando Iannucci and Escape From Pretoria director Francis Annan will be the recipients of the inaugural Dda Spotlight Award at 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The honorary prize was set up to time with the 50th anniversary of comms company Dda and will honor honours artists and filmmakers whose recent work takes a concerted step forward in improving diversity and inclusion in the film industry and cinema culture. The pair will accept their awards virtually on November 15.
Exclusive: Danielle C. Ryan, Matthew Lawrence, Dawn Olivieri And Kevin Joy will star in action-comedy feature Double Threat for director Shane Stanley, whose Break Even releases December 1 via Vision Films and Artist View Entertainment. Mo Gallini and Andrea Logan are also on board the pic which follows a forensic accountant (Lawrence) whose quiet pilgrimage to travel cross country to scatter his late brother’s ashes...
Exclusive: Danielle C. Ryan, Matthew Lawrence, Dawn Olivieri And Kevin Joy will star in action-comedy feature Double Threat for director Shane Stanley, whose Break Even releases December 1 via Vision Films and Artist View Entertainment. Mo Gallini and Andrea Logan are also on board the pic which follows a forensic accountant (Lawrence) whose quiet pilgrimage to travel cross country to scatter his late brother’s ashes...
- 11/13/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
New award to recognise diversity and inclusion in cinema.
Filmmakers Armando Iannucci and Francis Annan are to be the first recipients of the Dda Spotlight Award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.
The new honour has been established to recognise diversity in inclusion in cinema. UK writer-director Iannucci will be honoured for his latest feature, The Personal History Of David Copperfield, which has an inclusive cast led by Dev Patel.
Fellow UK filmmaker Annan will be awarded for his latest feature, Escape From Pretoria, which stars Daniel Radcliffe as anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin, who was sentenced to...
Filmmakers Armando Iannucci and Francis Annan are to be the first recipients of the Dda Spotlight Award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.
The new honour has been established to recognise diversity in inclusion in cinema. UK writer-director Iannucci will be honoured for his latest feature, The Personal History Of David Copperfield, which has an inclusive cast led by Dev Patel.
Fellow UK filmmaker Annan will be awarded for his latest feature, Escape From Pretoria, which stars Daniel Radcliffe as anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin, who was sentenced to...
- 11/13/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
- 3/16/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
‘Escape from Pretoria.’
Since the Harry Potter franchise ended in 2011 Daniel Radcliffe has put the wizardry behind him in such movies as The Woman in Black, Now You See Me 2 and Greg McLean’s Jungle.
In the Adelaide-shot thriller Escape from Pretoria, which opened in the Us and UK last weekend, he plays South African freedom fighter and political prisoner Tim Jenkin.
Jenkin and fellow activist Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber) were branded terrorists for their involvement in covert anti-apartheid operations for the African National Congress in 1978.
Incarcerated in Pretoria’s maximum security prison, Jenkin, Lee and fellow inmate Leonard Fontaine (Mark Leonard Winter) escaped after months of meticulous surveillance and ingenuity before authorities were able to strengthen the prison’s security defences.
Ian Hart plays co-conspirator Denis Goldberg with Miss Fisher’s Nathan Page as Mongo, the hot-headed leader of the prison guards.
Momentum Pictures launched the UK-Australian co-production...
Since the Harry Potter franchise ended in 2011 Daniel Radcliffe has put the wizardry behind him in such movies as The Woman in Black, Now You See Me 2 and Greg McLean’s Jungle.
In the Adelaide-shot thriller Escape from Pretoria, which opened in the Us and UK last weekend, he plays South African freedom fighter and political prisoner Tim Jenkin.
Jenkin and fellow activist Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber) were branded terrorists for their involvement in covert anti-apartheid operations for the African National Congress in 1978.
Incarcerated in Pretoria’s maximum security prison, Jenkin, Lee and fellow inmate Leonard Fontaine (Mark Leonard Winter) escaped after months of meticulous surveillance and ingenuity before authorities were able to strengthen the prison’s security defences.
Ian Hart plays co-conspirator Denis Goldberg with Miss Fisher’s Nathan Page as Mongo, the hot-headed leader of the prison guards.
Momentum Pictures launched the UK-Australian co-production...
- 3/8/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The slightly political prison thriller “Escape From Pretoria” works best when onscreen action is focused on Daniel Radcliffe, playing real-life South African political prisoner Tim Jenkin, as he leads a crack team of white prisoners in breaking out of Pretoria Maximum Security Prison.
That’s not really a spoiler, since “Escape From Pretoria” is based on a real-life prison break that led to a decades-long international manhunt. Still, it’s hard to care about what happens to Jenkin and co-conspirators Stephen Lee and Denis Goldberg (Ian Hart), even if you do know how their story will end, and even though “Escape from Pretoria” does feature some well-paced and visually dynamic pre-breakout prep scenes.
Almost everything that’s enjoyable about “Escape From Pretoria” is a variation on stuff you’ve probably seen in superior prison movies, though Radcliffe’s haunted performance is exceptionally compelling. Jenkin and Lee’s politics never make...
That’s not really a spoiler, since “Escape From Pretoria” is based on a real-life prison break that led to a decades-long international manhunt. Still, it’s hard to care about what happens to Jenkin and co-conspirators Stephen Lee and Denis Goldberg (Ian Hart), even if you do know how their story will end, and even though “Escape from Pretoria” does feature some well-paced and visually dynamic pre-breakout prep scenes.
Almost everything that’s enjoyable about “Escape From Pretoria” is a variation on stuff you’ve probably seen in superior prison movies, though Radcliffe’s haunted performance is exceptionally compelling. Jenkin and Lee’s politics never make...
- 3/6/2020
- by Simon Abrams
- The Wrap
Escape from Pretoria is easily one of the most anticipated films at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival and understandably so. This adaptation of Tim Jenkin’s real-life story, Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison, of South Africa during apartheid sees Daniel Radcliffe taking on the lead role.
We caught up with upcoming and exciting director, Francis Annan, to talk about the gruelling shoot and how the issues of the film are still particularly relevant today.
Escape from Pretoria is such a powerful story- is there added pressure because these events actually happened?
It is interesting in a number of ways. On one level it can be quite comforting because you are not sat down staring at a blank page trying to write something.
You can go to Tim’s books, back to the source material and that is useful when you are stuck. But with this you have something...
We caught up with upcoming and exciting director, Francis Annan, to talk about the gruelling shoot and how the issues of the film are still particularly relevant today.
Escape from Pretoria is such a powerful story- is there added pressure because these events actually happened?
It is interesting in a number of ways. On one level it can be quite comforting because you are not sat down staring at a blank page trying to write something.
You can go to Tim’s books, back to the source material and that is useful when you are stuck. But with this you have something...
- 3/6/2020
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“You are the white Mandela,” says a ham-faced warden, all but spitting in the face of anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin upon his arrival at Pretoria Local Prison in 1978. It’s not intended as a compliment: “The most deluded of them all,” the warden adds, lest it be taken as such. As clunkily deployed in the script for “Escape from Pretoria,” however, the line acts as a shortcut to nobility, in a tight genre exercise that has scant time for such elaborate niceties as character development and social context. Adapted from Jenkin’s memoir of his time served — and resourcefully cut short — as a South African political prisoner in the country’s darkest days of white supremacy, Francis Annan’s film works effectively as a straight-up jailbreak thriller, well-oiled in greasy B-movie tradition. It’s when it shoots for more historical import that it falls somewhat short.
Jenkin’s book of...
Jenkin’s book of...
- 3/6/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The real-life story of anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin makes for a tough, muscular drama
The rather amazing true story of the white Anc activist Tim Jenkin and his audacious escape from Pretoria Prison in apartheid-era South Africa is told in this capable and well-carpentered movie from British film-maker Francis Annan, adapted from Jenkin’s own book. The film has something pleasingly traditional about it, with tense nailbiting moments, slab-faced guards, and touches of The Great Escape and Papillon.
With long hair and straggly beard, Daniel Radcliffe plays Jenkin and Daniel Webber plays his fellow Anc activist Stephen Lee, imprisoned in 1978 for their “leaflet bombs” – firecracker-type devices left in the street which send blizzards of leaflets flying. Their prison is tough, but as they are white, it is not as tough it might have been. Inside, Jenkin and Lee meet another political prisoner and future escaper: Frenchman Leonard Fontaine (a slightly...
The rather amazing true story of the white Anc activist Tim Jenkin and his audacious escape from Pretoria Prison in apartheid-era South Africa is told in this capable and well-carpentered movie from British film-maker Francis Annan, adapted from Jenkin’s own book. The film has something pleasingly traditional about it, with tense nailbiting moments, slab-faced guards, and touches of The Great Escape and Papillon.
With long hair and straggly beard, Daniel Radcliffe plays Jenkin and Daniel Webber plays his fellow Anc activist Stephen Lee, imprisoned in 1978 for their “leaflet bombs” – firecracker-type devices left in the street which send blizzards of leaflets flying. Their prison is tough, but as they are white, it is not as tough it might have been. Inside, Jenkin and Lee meet another political prisoner and future escaper: Frenchman Leonard Fontaine (a slightly...
- 3/4/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This year’s festivities kicked off with with a bang with the opening night gala which presented Alice Winocour’s beautifully atmospheric drama Proxima. Winocour was also present after the main event for a Q&a session in which she talked about her experiences of working with a multi-national team of actors and technicians.
Day 2 was marked by the Scottish premier screening of Lorcan Finnegan’s brilliantly unsettling sci-fi drama Vivarium. Finnegan and star of the film Imogene Poots were also there to introduce the film.
The festival also welcomed Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson who was there to introduce his new film The County. Hákonarson also stayed afterwards for a short Q&a session. The County is part of a wider Icelandic strand at this year’s Gff. Other films in this strand also feature the brilliant A white, White Day by Hlynur Palmason.
Meanwhile 1917 star George MacKay was also...
Day 2 was marked by the Scottish premier screening of Lorcan Finnegan’s brilliantly unsettling sci-fi drama Vivarium. Finnegan and star of the film Imogene Poots were also there to introduce the film.
The festival also welcomed Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson who was there to introduce his new film The County. Hákonarson also stayed afterwards for a short Q&a session. The County is part of a wider Icelandic strand at this year’s Gff. Other films in this strand also feature the brilliant A white, White Day by Hlynur Palmason.
Meanwhile 1917 star George MacKay was also...
- 3/2/2020
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
South Africa in the 1970s feels more like an eternity ago, not just 50 years. It was the era of Apartheid, when just 13% of the population ruled the country to the advantage of the whites. The indigenous populations were segregated, law and order maintained with a ferocious brutality coupled with the threat that rebellion wouldn’t change anything and that anybody who resisted the regime would suffer personally. There were, of course, those who wouldn’t give in, and one of them went on to become president in the 1990s. Nelson Mandela.
While he was imprisoned on the all-black Robben Island, activist Tim Jenkin was locked up in the white equivalent, the maximum security Pretoria Prison. The story of how he and two other inmates hatched an ingenious escape plan and fled to freedom was told in Jenkin’s own book and now arrives as Escape From Pretoria, courtesy of British director,...
While he was imprisoned on the all-black Robben Island, activist Tim Jenkin was locked up in the white equivalent, the maximum security Pretoria Prison. The story of how he and two other inmates hatched an ingenious escape plan and fled to freedom was told in Jenkin’s own book and now arrives as Escape From Pretoria, courtesy of British director,...
- 3/1/2020
- by Freda Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Escape From Pretoria Entertainment One Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Francis Annan Screenwriter: Francis Annan, L.H. Adams, Karol Griffiths, from Tim Jenkin’s book “Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison” Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Ian Hart, Daniel Webster Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 2/4/20 Opens: March 6, 2020 Whenever […]
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- 3/1/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Francis Annan, Daniel Webber and Daniel Radcliffe on the set of Escape From Pretoria Photo: courtesy of Signature Entertainment
A little over three decades ago, I played my small part in the battle against Apartheid in South Africa, encouraging the boycott of South African fruit that activists in that country had requested of those living elsewhere in the world. Looking back, it seems more absurd than ever that such injustice should have been permitted to flourish for as long as it did – a whole country with a legal system built upon the premise that one group of people were categorically inferior to another because of their ethnicity, and brazenly, brutally so, even in the late 20th Century. Escape From Pretoria, the new film from Francis Annan, carries us back to that time and celebrates the people who fought for change in far more extreme circumstances than mine simply because they...
A little over three decades ago, I played my small part in the battle against Apartheid in South Africa, encouraging the boycott of South African fruit that activists in that country had requested of those living elsewhere in the world. Looking back, it seems more absurd than ever that such injustice should have been permitted to flourish for as long as it did – a whole country with a legal system built upon the premise that one group of people were categorically inferior to another because of their ethnicity, and brazenly, brutally so, even in the late 20th Century. Escape From Pretoria, the new film from Francis Annan, carries us back to that time and celebrates the people who fought for change in far more extreme circumstances than mine simply because they...
- 2/29/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Francis Annan, whose Daniel Radcliffe-starring feature Escape From Pretoria is released in March, has signed with ICM Partners for representation in all areas.
Annan has also inked with Sue Latimer of UK agency Arg, becoming her first directing client and joining a roster of actors including Radcliffe, Lesley Manville, Richard E. Grant and Romola Garai.
Escape From Pretoria opens March 6 in the U.S. via eOne/Momentum and in the UK via Signature. It will also screen at the Glasgow and Guadalajara film festivals, after which the Brit director will travel to Los Angeles for meetings.
Annan told us he is now working on scripts with companies including Automatik Entertainment, Russell Ackerman’s Addictive Pictures, Cassian Elwes, and Simon Pegg’s UK company Stolen Picture.
He is also writing his own projects, including a thriller about the 1958 Notting Hill riots, and is developing a Mexico/Texas border thriller...
Annan has also inked with Sue Latimer of UK agency Arg, becoming her first directing client and joining a roster of actors including Radcliffe, Lesley Manville, Richard E. Grant and Romola Garai.
Escape From Pretoria opens March 6 in the U.S. via eOne/Momentum and in the UK via Signature. It will also screen at the Glasgow and Guadalajara film festivals, after which the Brit director will travel to Los Angeles for meetings.
Annan told us he is now working on scripts with companies including Automatik Entertainment, Russell Ackerman’s Addictive Pictures, Cassian Elwes, and Simon Pegg’s UK company Stolen Picture.
He is also writing his own projects, including a thriller about the 1958 Notting Hill riots, and is developing a Mexico/Texas border thriller...
- 2/13/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
"This is how we fight!" Momentum Pictures has released a new official Us trailer for the true story thriller Escape from Pretoria, opening in March (on VOD) at the same time as the UK release. The film is about two white South Africans, imprisoned in 1978 for working covert operations for Nelson Mandela's banned Anc. They attempt to escape from the notorious white man's Pretoria Prison, known as "Robben Island", the same place former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned before. Starring Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber as the two leads, with a cast including Ian Hart, Nathan Page, Stephen Hunter, Mark Leonard Winter, Jeanette Cronin, David Wilson, and Ratidzo Mambo. Based on a true story, of course. This looks as good as it did in the UK trailer, a gripping thriller with an inspiring story. Here's the official Us trailer for Francis Annan's Escape from Pretoria,...
- 1/22/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ratidzo Mambo.
Last year Ratidzo Mambo figured she wasn’t being offered the type of roles she wanted and so she made a pivotal decision.
The Zimbabwean-born actor and former sales agent and distribution consultant resolved to take her fate into her own hands by becoming a creative producer, developing her own TV and film projects.
“I’ve had to learn how to multi-task because acting jobs are scarce and the types of roles I want to do are seldom offered to me,” Rati tells If via Skype from Bali, where she is finishing the bibles and treatments for a bunch of projects.
“Rather than blame people or live in a space of negativity, I have to take accountability. I have a lot to say and I am a storyteller as well.”
With the help of her Us manager, Fictional Entity’s Krista Carpenter (a former head of development at...
Last year Ratidzo Mambo figured she wasn’t being offered the type of roles she wanted and so she made a pivotal decision.
The Zimbabwean-born actor and former sales agent and distribution consultant resolved to take her fate into her own hands by becoming a creative producer, developing her own TV and film projects.
“I’ve had to learn how to multi-task because acting jobs are scarce and the types of roles I want to do are seldom offered to me,” Rati tells If via Skype from Bali, where she is finishing the bibles and treatments for a bunch of projects.
“Rather than blame people or live in a space of negativity, I have to take accountability. I have a lot to say and I am a storyteller as well.”
With the help of her Us manager, Fictional Entity’s Krista Carpenter (a former head of development at...
- 12/16/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
"Your whole plan is doomed to failure..." Empire Mag. has debuted the first official trailer for a true story thriller titled Escape from Pretoria, which is opening first in the UK coming up this March. The film is about two white South Africans, imprisoned for working on behalf of the Anc. They attempt to escape from the notorious white man's Pretoria Prison, known as "Robben Island", the same place former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned before. Starring Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber as the two leads, with a cast including Ian Hart, Nathan Page, Stephen Hunter, Mark Leonard Winter, Jeanette Cronin, David Wilson, and Ratidzo Mambo. Based on a true story, of course. This looks like a solid prison escape thriller, about insistent prisoners who want out as a way of fighting back. Have a look. Here's the first UK trailer (+ poster) for Francis Annan's Escape from Pretoria,...
- 12/11/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Hamilton Entertainment, BeaglePug, Footprint Films, and Enriched Media Group produce Australia-uk co-pro.
Gary Hamilton’s Arclight Films has struck major new deals on the Daniel Radcliffe true-life prison break thriller Escape From Pretoria led by a sale to Signature in the UK.
Besides the UK, rights have also gone in Latin America (Turner). Additional recent deals include Benelux (Dfw), Scandinavia and Iceland (Mis. Label), Italy (Minerva), Japan (At Entertainment), Poland (Monolith), Portugal (Films4You), Turkey (Sayez Films), and Israel (Shoval).
Arclight previously announced completed deals with: Ksm GmbH for Germany, Top Film for Cis, Inopia Films in Spain, Spentzos for Greece,...
Gary Hamilton’s Arclight Films has struck major new deals on the Daniel Radcliffe true-life prison break thriller Escape From Pretoria led by a sale to Signature in the UK.
Besides the UK, rights have also gone in Latin America (Turner). Additional recent deals include Benelux (Dfw), Scandinavia and Iceland (Mis. Label), Italy (Minerva), Japan (At Entertainment), Poland (Monolith), Portugal (Films4You), Turkey (Sayez Films), and Israel (Shoval).
Arclight previously announced completed deals with: Ksm GmbH for Germany, Top Film for Cis, Inopia Films in Spain, Spentzos for Greece,...
- 12/5/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
‘Nekrotronic.’
Kiah Roache-Turner’s sci-fi horror comedy Nekrotronic will be released in the Us in select cinemas and on VOD and digital HD on August 9 by Momentum Pictures.
“I’m really excited: I think day-and-date is the future for most independent films in the Us,” Kiah tells If. “Some say it is the end of cinema but it’s not: it’s a different way of delivering films to eyeballs.”
One advantage of the day-and-date strategy is limiting the potential for piracy. The Roache-Turner brothers’ Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead was available on iTunes in the Us before the Australian release. “Piracy killed us,” he says.
Produced by Andrew Mason and Troy Lum for Hopscotch Features and Tristan Roache-Turner for Guerrilla Films, Nekrotronic stars Monica Bellucci as Finnegan, CEO of the sinister Daemokon corporation, who is determined to feast on every human soul on the planet via a new smartphone app.
Kiah Roache-Turner’s sci-fi horror comedy Nekrotronic will be released in the Us in select cinemas and on VOD and digital HD on August 9 by Momentum Pictures.
“I’m really excited: I think day-and-date is the future for most independent films in the Us,” Kiah tells If. “Some say it is the end of cinema but it’s not: it’s a different way of delivering films to eyeballs.”
One advantage of the day-and-date strategy is limiting the potential for piracy. The Roache-Turner brothers’ Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead was available on iTunes in the Us before the Australian release. “Piracy killed us,” he says.
Produced by Andrew Mason and Troy Lum for Hopscotch Features and Tristan Roache-Turner for Guerrilla Films, Nekrotronic stars Monica Bellucci as Finnegan, CEO of the sinister Daemokon corporation, who is determined to feast on every human soul on the planet via a new smartphone app.
- 6/14/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
May 15
– NewFest and NYC Pride, the official host of WorldPride 2019 | Stonewall 50, in partnership with Sva Theatre, announced its multi-day lineup of cinema and in-depth conversations for the 2019 edition of OutCinema from June 17 – June 19.
Each night features specially curated screenings followed by Q&As with the filmmakers and cast along with open bar after-parties. The three-day format encompasses the diversity of voices and perspectives within the Lgbtqia+ community while celebrating and commemorating the community’s commitment to our history.
“With the success of last year’s multi-day format for OutCinema, we’re thrilled to continue with the same structure for WorldPride 2019 | Stonewall 50,” said NYC Pride’s Executive Director, Chris Frederick, in an official statement. “This year’s film selections focus on diverse perspectives from our vibrant Lgbtqia+ community.”
“Given the momentous occasion of WorldPride 2019 | Stonewall 50, we’re delighted to showcases stories from New York City to a global audience with ‘Adam’ and ‘Wig,...
– NewFest and NYC Pride, the official host of WorldPride 2019 | Stonewall 50, in partnership with Sva Theatre, announced its multi-day lineup of cinema and in-depth conversations for the 2019 edition of OutCinema from June 17 – June 19.
Each night features specially curated screenings followed by Q&As with the filmmakers and cast along with open bar after-parties. The three-day format encompasses the diversity of voices and perspectives within the Lgbtqia+ community while celebrating and commemorating the community’s commitment to our history.
“With the success of last year’s multi-day format for OutCinema, we’re thrilled to continue with the same structure for WorldPride 2019 | Stonewall 50,” said NYC Pride’s Executive Director, Chris Frederick, in an official statement. “This year’s film selections focus on diverse perspectives from our vibrant Lgbtqia+ community.”
“Given the momentous occasion of WorldPride 2019 | Stonewall 50, we’re delighted to showcases stories from New York City to a global audience with ‘Adam’ and ‘Wig,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Momentum Pictures plans to “Escape From Pretoria.” It has taken North American distribution rights to the movie, which stars Daniel Radcliffe as a political prisoner attempting to break out from a maximum security South African jail. Gary Hamilton’s Arclight Films did the U.S. deal and is continuing sales efforts at Cannes, with new footage from the film in hand.
Radcliffe appears alongside Australian actor Daniel Webber (“The Dirt”). The pair play freedom fighters Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, who were jailed in 1978 for being involved in covert anti-apartheid operations. Ian Hart (“God’s Own Country”), Mark Leonard Winter (“Cleverman”) and Nathan Page (“Underbelly”) also star.
Based on a true story, the film follows Jenkin and Lee – joined by a fellow inmate – as they decide to escape from prison. After months of planning, and in a race against time as the authorities strengthen the prison’s security, they craft...
Radcliffe appears alongside Australian actor Daniel Webber (“The Dirt”). The pair play freedom fighters Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, who were jailed in 1978 for being involved in covert anti-apartheid operations. Ian Hart (“God’s Own Country”), Mark Leonard Winter (“Cleverman”) and Nathan Page (“Underbelly”) also star.
Based on a true story, the film follows Jenkin and Lee – joined by a fellow inmate – as they decide to escape from prison. After months of planning, and in a race against time as the authorities strengthen the prison’s security, they craft...
- 5/13/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Daniel Radcliffe is undergoing a radical transformation for his new thriller Escape from Pretoria.
The 29-year-old actor was photographed on the set of the film on Wednesday wearing a blue button-down shirt, gray slacks and sporting long hair and a beard, as well as glasses.
Radcliffe plays Tim Jenkin, the real-life white South African activist who was imprisoned on the brutal Pretoria Prison for working with the African National Congress, an organization intent on ending apartheid.
The film is directed by Francis Annan and also stars Nathan Page and Mark Leonard Winter.
Radcliffe is currently starring on TBS’ Miracle Workers...
The 29-year-old actor was photographed on the set of the film on Wednesday wearing a blue button-down shirt, gray slacks and sporting long hair and a beard, as well as glasses.
Radcliffe plays Tim Jenkin, the real-life white South African activist who was imprisoned on the brutal Pretoria Prison for working with the African National Congress, an organization intent on ending apartheid.
The film is directed by Francis Annan and also stars Nathan Page and Mark Leonard Winter.
Radcliffe is currently starring on TBS’ Miracle Workers...
- 3/14/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Arclight Films has come on board true-life prison break thriller Escape From Pretoria, alongside Mep Capital, with assistance from the South Australian Film Corporation (Safc), the trio announced Wednesday.
The U.K.-Australian co-production stars Daniel Radcliffe and Australian actor Daniel Webber as two anti-apartheid activists, Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, who broke out of Pretoria's maximum-security prison in 1978, alongside social campaigner and activist Denis Goldberg, who was a member of the African National Congress’ military wing. British actor Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter and Nathan Page have also joined the cast.
British director Francis Annan makes ...
The U.K.-Australian co-production stars Daniel Radcliffe and Australian actor Daniel Webber as two anti-apartheid activists, Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, who broke out of Pretoria's maximum-security prison in 1978, alongside social campaigner and activist Denis Goldberg, who was a member of the African National Congress’ military wing. British actor Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter and Nathan Page have also joined the cast.
British director Francis Annan makes ...
- 3/13/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Arclight Films has come on board true-life prison break thriller Escape From Pretoria, alongside Mep Capital, with assistance from the South Australian Film Corporation (Safc), the trio announced Wednesday.
The U.K.-Australian co-production stars Daniel Radcliffe and Australian actor Daniel Webber as two anti-apartheid activists, Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, who broke out of Pretoria's maximum-security prison in 1978, alongside social campaigner and activist Denis Goldberg, who was a member of the African National Congress’ military wing. British actor Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter and Nathan Page have also joined the cast.
British director Francis Annan makes ...
The U.K.-Australian co-production stars Daniel Radcliffe and Australian actor Daniel Webber as two anti-apartheid activists, Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, who broke out of Pretoria's maximum-security prison in 1978, alongside social campaigner and activist Denis Goldberg, who was a member of the African National Congress’ military wing. British actor Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter and Nathan Page have also joined the cast.
British director Francis Annan makes ...
- 3/13/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Escape from Pretoria’. (Photo: Ian Routledge)
Production is underway in South Australia on British director Francis Annan’s feature debut Escape From Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Aussie Daniel Webber.
Radcliffe and Webber play real-life political prisoners and freedom fighters Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee; two white South African twenty-somethings who were branded ‘terrorists’ and imprisoned in 1978 for their involvement in covert anti-apartheid operations for the Anc (African National Congress). The cast also includes British actor Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter and Nathan Page.
Incarcerated in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, Jenkin and Lee – joined by a fellow inmate – decide to send the regime a clear message and escape. After months of meticulous surveillance, breath-taking ingenuity, and in a race against time as the authorities strengthen the prison security defenses, the group craft wooden keys for each of the ten steel doors between them and freedom.
The script is based on...
Production is underway in South Australia on British director Francis Annan’s feature debut Escape From Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Aussie Daniel Webber.
Radcliffe and Webber play real-life political prisoners and freedom fighters Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee; two white South African twenty-somethings who were branded ‘terrorists’ and imprisoned in 1978 for their involvement in covert anti-apartheid operations for the Anc (African National Congress). The cast also includes British actor Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter and Nathan Page.
Incarcerated in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, Jenkin and Lee – joined by a fellow inmate – decide to send the regime a clear message and escape. After months of meticulous surveillance, breath-taking ingenuity, and in a race against time as the authorities strengthen the prison security defenses, the group craft wooden keys for each of the ten steel doors between them and freedom.
The script is based on...
- 3/13/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Page join cast.
Arclight Films has released the first image from the Australia-uk true-life drama Escape From Pretoria starring Daniel Radcliffe, which has begun production in Adelaide, Australia.
British actor Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, and Nathan Page have joined Radcliffe and Australian actor Daniel Webber in the story of political prisoners and freedom fighters Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, who were incarcerated in 1978 for their part in anti-apartheid operations for the African National Congress.
Incarcerated in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, Jenkin and Lee – joined by a fellow inmate – crafted wooden keys for each...
Arclight Films has released the first image from the Australia-uk true-life drama Escape From Pretoria starring Daniel Radcliffe, which has begun production in Adelaide, Australia.
British actor Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, and Nathan Page have joined Radcliffe and Australian actor Daniel Webber in the story of political prisoners and freedom fighters Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, who were incarcerated in 1978 for their part in anti-apartheid operations for the African National Congress.
Incarcerated in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, Jenkin and Lee – joined by a fellow inmate – crafted wooden keys for each...
- 3/12/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Germany, Spain, Cis, Middle East among buyers.
Arclight Films has licensed key territories at Efm to Daniel Radcliffe prison-break thriller Escape From Pretoria led by deals in Germany and Spain.
Company chairman Gary Hamilton and his team have concluded sales with Ksm GmbH for Germany, Inopia Films for Spain, Top Film for Cis, and Front Row for the Middle East.
Rights have gone in Greece (Spentzos), Thailand (Logo Motion Pictures), Vietnam (Galaxy Studio), India (Viswaas), and airlines (CineSky Pictures).
Arclight is co-financing the Australia-uk co-production along with New York-based Magna Entertainment. Escape From Pretoria is financed with the assistance of the South Australia Film Corporation.
Arclight Films has licensed key territories at Efm to Daniel Radcliffe prison-break thriller Escape From Pretoria led by deals in Germany and Spain.
Company chairman Gary Hamilton and his team have concluded sales with Ksm GmbH for Germany, Inopia Films for Spain, Top Film for Cis, and Front Row for the Middle East.
Rights have gone in Greece (Spentzos), Thailand (Logo Motion Pictures), Vietnam (Galaxy Studio), India (Viswaas), and airlines (CineSky Pictures).
Arclight is co-financing the Australia-uk co-production along with New York-based Magna Entertainment. Escape From Pretoria is financed with the assistance of the South Australia Film Corporation.
- 2/11/2019
- ScreenDaily
Australian-uk co-production is based on the life of political prisoner Tim Jenkin.
Arclight Films has come on board to co-finance the Daniel Radcliffe true-life prison break film Escape From Pretoria along with New York-based Magna Entertainment, and is in talks with worldwide buyers here.
The Australian-uk co-production is based on the life of Tim Jenkin (Radcliffe), who as a twentysomething white South African was slung in jail in 1978 with Stephen Lee after they were branded terrorists for their involvement in covert anti-apartheid operations for the African National Congress.
Racing against time as the authorities at the high-security Pretoria Central Prison ramp up security,...
Arclight Films has come on board to co-finance the Daniel Radcliffe true-life prison break film Escape From Pretoria along with New York-based Magna Entertainment, and is in talks with worldwide buyers here.
The Australian-uk co-production is based on the life of Tim Jenkin (Radcliffe), who as a twentysomething white South African was slung in jail in 1978 with Stephen Lee after they were branded terrorists for their involvement in covert anti-apartheid operations for the African National Congress.
Racing against time as the authorities at the high-security Pretoria Central Prison ramp up security,...
- 2/9/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Winners of Reed’s annual Short Film Competition were proudly announced on Wednesday May 30th at an exclusive awards ceremony hosted at London’s Hospital Club.
We were pleasantly greeted with a Champagne reception which was enjoyed with the intimate gathering of Reed staff, directors, actors and judges. The space was modern and the creative canvases marking each finalists’ film displayed across the walls gave it a personal touch. A few topped up champagne glasses later we were ushered into the screening room to reveal what everyone was waiting for: The 2012 winners.
Just to recap- with over 500 entries from film makers around the UK who each created their piece based on the theme, ‘The Boss’ the following 12 were shortlisted:
• ‘Boss Boot Camp’ by Paul Cook
• ‘Disconnected’ by Tom Edkins
• ‘Gaffer’ by Alex Hinx
• ‘Going Up’ by Francis Annan
• ‘Man Up’ by Caroline Giammetta
• ‘Mourning Rules’ by Daniel Castell
• ‘Moynihan...
We were pleasantly greeted with a Champagne reception which was enjoyed with the intimate gathering of Reed staff, directors, actors and judges. The space was modern and the creative canvases marking each finalists’ film displayed across the walls gave it a personal touch. A few topped up champagne glasses later we were ushered into the screening room to reveal what everyone was waiting for: The 2012 winners.
Just to recap- with over 500 entries from film makers around the UK who each created their piece based on the theme, ‘The Boss’ the following 12 were shortlisted:
• ‘Boss Boot Camp’ by Paul Cook
• ‘Disconnected’ by Tom Edkins
• ‘Gaffer’ by Alex Hinx
• ‘Going Up’ by Francis Annan
• ‘Man Up’ by Caroline Giammetta
• ‘Mourning Rules’ by Daniel Castell
• ‘Moynihan...
- 6/5/2012
- by Paris Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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