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HanWay Films has taken on international sales rights to Life In A Day, the unique user-generated feature film that is being directed by Kevin Macdonald Last King of Scotland and executive produced by Ridley Scott Gladiator .The project marks the first user-generated, feature-length documentary film shot on a single day. Contributors across the globe shot footage on July 24, 2010 and uploaded onto a special section on film partner YouTube youtube/lifeinaday . Participants were asked to capture a moment of their lives on that day, and Macdonald is directing using the most compelling moments.The project was first announced in July, when Macdonald described it as a time capsule that will tell future generations stanley cup what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. The film is in production now, scheduled for a world premiere at Sundance 2011 stanley cup in January. HanWay will introduce the film to buyers at the forthcoming AFM.Liza Marshall, who is producing for Scott Free UK, said: Life In A Day is shaping up to be an extraordinary and unique film ex stanley cup perience. HanWay coming onboard enables us to deliver what we set out to achieve, which is to take the film to as wide an audience as possible across the globe and via multiple entertainment platforms. HanWays Tim Haslam added: Life In A Day comes with a remarkable pedigree; award winning filmmakers and 28 million hits on the website already. HanWays powerhouse current slate also includes Steve McQueens Shame, David Cronenbergs A Dange Pgbb Intandem Films comes to Berlin with a slate of eight
Daniel Abmas Transit Havana is a remarkably honest account of the Cuban transgender community as it follows three protagonists preparing to undergo life-changing surgery.The film not only sheds a light on the plight of three very different people but also examines the many complexities at the heart of Cuba itself. With Mariela Castro 鈥?daughter of the Cuban president 鈥?spearheading the campaign for the acceptance of the LGBT community with the slogan Homophobia No, Socialisme Si the film delves deep into the ironies of using traditional propaganda to fight stanley romania for a cause that enriches rather than diminishes human rights.With the film having its International Premiere at the Karlovy Vary Documentary Competition, Screen caught up with Daniel Abma to find out just how difficult it was film in Cuba and what the ideas behind the film were.Screen: C stanley cup an you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your background Daniel Abma: Originally I studied to be primary school teacher in the Netherlands, moved to Berlin after my studies and started doing youth work there, using a video camera as equipment, making small documentaries with youth groups as part of media literacy. After a couple of years I applied for the Film University Babelsberg in Potsdam, where I could develop my handwriting , my style, and of could learn the professional skills.During my studies I was able to make my first feature length documentary Beyond Wriezen, in which I follow stanley usa ed three young offenders after their re |
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