5th Ascona Film Festival’s Official Selection 2016 Unveiled

Posted by abcsocial on January 22, 2016

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N.	Title	Author	Country	Genre	Duration

1	Mediation	Francisco Lorite	United States	Noir/Humor	14.10
2	La Queue	Yacine Sersal	France	Fiction	10.00
3	A splendid affair	Laurent Ardoint &Stéphane Duprat	France	Comedy	9.20
4	Webseries:The webseries	Marc Giacomi	United States	New media	4.45
5	Voluntario	Javier Marco Rico	Spain	Fiction	4.00
6	By mutual agreement	Remy Cayuela	France	Fiction/Comedy	12.00
7	Quelques secondes	Nora El Hourch	France	Fiction/Drama	17.00
8	Sans Plomb	Emmanuel Tenenbaum	Canada-France-Netherlands	Comedy/Thriller	7.00
9	Sinuaria	Roberto Carta	Italy	Fiction	15.00
10	A`consommer avant…	Nicolas Fogliarini	France	Drama	15.00
11	Madame & monsieur	Eleonora Albrecht	Italy	Drama/Sentimental	9.05
12	Scrabble	Cristian Susler	Switzerland	Short	11.25
13	Gender & numbers	Inés Poggio Quero	Ethiopia	Documentary	6.00
14	Comic potential	Ross Carey & Emmet O’Brien	Ireland	Short	14.39
15	No Matter who	Anne-Claire Jaulin	France	Short/Drama	18.49
16	L’encenedor quantic	Pau Escribano	Spain	Comedy/Fantasy	5.08
17	Stuck	Aaron Kamp	Australia	Short/Drama	12.09
18	Easy reapparence	Guillaume Levil	France	Short/Comedy	16.50
19	Poetry-Marina Tsvetaeva”I like…”	Alexey Karpov	Russian federation	Short/Music Video	3.45
20	A day	Jaebin HAN	South Corea	Fiction	25.00
21	E.T.E.R.N.I.T	Nicolo` Galbiati e Giovanni Aloi	France	Fiction/Short	14.00
22	Colourful knots	Polen Ly	Cambodia	Drama/Children/Family	6.59
23	Fucking Tøs-Damn girls	Kira Richards Hansen	Denmark	Psycological/Teen movie	14.00
24	The Business	Davide Labanti	Italy	Short/Drama	15.00
25	El pescador	Alejandro Suarez	Spain	Science Fiction	20.00
26	Vainilla	Juan Beiro	Spain	Fiction	10.00
27	The Tailor	Antonio Losito	Italy	Drama/History	15.00
28	Bebé a tout prix	Guillaume Cliquot	France	Comedy/Children	10.00
29	La grippe du panda	Sammy Hosseny	France	Comedy/Romantic	8.00
30	Zero	David Victori	United States/Spain	Science fiction/Drama	29.00
31	In memory	Alastar Clayton	United Kingdom	Drama/Romance/Illness	12.30
32	He and She	Marco Gadge	Comedy	Germany	15.00

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2015 in review

Posted by abcsocial on December 31, 2015

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Ascona Film Festival submissions : The Man Who Fed His Shadow (187 Official Selections, 44 Awards, qualified to BAFTA)

Posted by abcsocial on December 8, 2015

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The truth …

Posted by abcsocial on December 2, 2015

‏@nuascannan

Graham Jones ha ritwittato Andrea Biasca-Caroni

ancaroni provides a good example of something to http://nuascannan.com … http://twitter.com/ancaroni/status/671632933434753024 … #nuascannan

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Graham Jones “a very talented director”
VARIETY MAGAZINE

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5th Ascona Film Festival closes submissions

Posted by abcsocial on December 1, 2015

submissions closed

Artistic Selection’s work in progress

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Ascona Film Festival announces the submission of “Tamago” by Koji Hirano

Posted by abcsocial on November 17, 2015

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Tamago

In a small harbor town at the Southernmost end of Honshu Island of Japan, a highschool girl, Sora, lives alone with her father, Taichi. Sora deals with the pain of being abandoned by her mother. Being a teenager, Sora finds difficulty expressing her gratitude against her father. Sora slowly learns to face her own life choices and starts to dissolve the conflicting emotions. Sora takes a step toward her dream, inspiring others to find their own answers.

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KojiHirano

Director: Koji Hirano

A Japanese, Koji Hirano, who studied in the USA and graduated from the University of Hawaii with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, has been a professional photographer in the USA for over 10 years and for 6 years in Paris, France as a fashion photographer and an artist.
Following his passion to find new ways of artistic expression, he now takes on the world of cinema and cinematography.

Director’s Statement

I made something. Something that was in my head to share with others.
This film is for all the people in the world furthermore for the future people in the era of the artificial intelligence.

Awards :

MAC Film Festival

Amazon, Brazil
August 8, 2015
Best Cinematography
The Accolade Global Film Competition

USA
September 1, 2015
Awards of Recognition
Louisville’s International Festival of Film

Louisville, KY
October 3, 2015
The Best “On The Edge” Film
The Oregon Film Awards

Oregon, USA
November 8, 2015
The Gold First-Time Director

Ascona Film Festival submissions will close shortly, hurry up !

Posted by abcsocial on October 24, 2015

Ascona Film Festival submissions will close shortly, hurry up !

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Ascona Film Festival proudly announce the submission of the award winner “Wildlike” with Ella Purnell and Bruce Greenwood

Posted by abcsocial on October 20, 2015

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After conditions in her new home become unbearable, a teenage girl runs away and befriends an older man preparing for a hike through the Alaskan wilderness.

SYNOPSIS

In this thrilling coming-of-age adventure, a troubled teen must face the dangers of the Alaskan wild, as well as her own past, in order to find her way home. Sent to stay with her uncle in Alaska while her mother is in treatment, 14-year-old Mackenzie (Ella Purnell) is forced to flee as her uncle’s attention turns threatening. Unable to reach her mother and afraid that the authorities will return her to her uncle, she embarks on a journey across miles of wilderness to find a way back home to Seattle. As she plunges deeper into the Alaskan interior, a chance connection with gruff backpacker Bartlett (Bruce Greenwood) proves to be her only lifeline. Mackenzie shadows Bartlett across the rugged frontier, thwarting his efforts to cut her loose until he has no choice but to help her survive, and against the backdrop of a spectacular landscape, they discover the redemptive power of friendship.

Ella Purnell (MACKENZIE)

Born on September 17, 1996 in London, England, Ella can currently be seen playing the young Angelina Jolie in Disney’s Maleficent and will also appear in the lead role of the feature film Wildlike. Ella’s also due to portray a young Jane in the upcoming remake of Tarzan. In 2008, she beat hundreds of other girls for a role in Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. She was one of only a few girls chosen to appear in the children’s ensemble and remained in the show for a year. Her previous credits include Kick Ass 2, Intruders, a co-starring role in Ways To Live Forever and as a young version of Keira Knightly’s character Ruth in Never Let Me Go, based on the acclaimed book by Kazuo Ishiguro. Ella was named one of Screen International’s Stars Of Tomorrow. She has also appeared as one of English Vogue’s “Young Meteors” and Teen Vogues “Young Hollywood”. More recently Ella can be found in V Magazine, GQ, Flaunt, Tatler, Teen Tatler, Wonderland, Lulu, Dazed and Confused, Union and 1984. Ella is also an active member in the National Youth Theatre group.

Bruce Greenwood (RENE BARTLETT)

Bruce Greenwood is a Canadian actor and producer known for numerous films such as I, Robot (2004), Star Trek (2009) and Flight (2012). He was last seen in Universal’s Endless Love (2014), and he will next be seen in Andrew Niccol’s Military drama-thriller Good Kill opposite Ethan Hawke. Greenwood’s other noteworthy film credits include Déjà Vu (2006), a famous portrayal of JFK in Thirteen Days (2000) and Todd Hayne’s I’m Not There (2007). Greenwood also enjoys a diverse and successful career in television. He has starred in shows such as ABC’s Horror/Drama series The River and HBO’s John From Cincinnati. Bruce has been married to Susan Devlin since 1985. They divide their time between homes in Los Angeles and Vancouver.