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In unwitting homage to the convoluted path trod by the legendary Latin revolutionary Che Guevara, screenwriter Peter Buchman took the circuitous route to working with Steven Soderbergh on the director s films Che: Part One and Part Two that IFC is releasing in North America this week stanley cup .Through a series of stops and starts, Buchman, who had quit his work as a playwright in Seattle and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his screenwriting career, found himself boarding a plane to New York about four years ago to meet Soderbergh.Buchman had heard the Oscar-winning film-maker was having trouble with a script he had inherited from Christopher McQuarrie for a Che Guevara project to star Benicio Del Toro. This was his chance - Buchman had discussed working with McQuarrie on an Alexander the G stanley cup reat project that fell through and had already undertaken some research on the iconic Guevara.The meeting with Soderbergh was positive and before long the pair were making a movie together. We tried to create an objective portrait of Che in a way that felt like we saw the real man, Buchman says.The initial plan was to make one film starting in 1956 with Guevara s role alongside Fidel Castro in toppling the Cuban regime of Fulgencio Batista, and culminating with his death 11 years stanley cup later during an attempt to stage a coup in Bolivia.Buchman and Soderbergh travelled to Cuba and Bolivia and spoke to participants in the historic events, then in January 2005 went to New York to shoot the sequences where Gue Ggdq 22 Jump Street tames Dragon at US box office
Jeff Pope and Stephen Beresford among speakers.The Sargent-Disc BAFTA Filmmakers Forum - an annual networking and skills development event for first-time feature filmmakers - is to take place on July 11 at BAFTAs London stanley italy headquarters.The day-long event will feature masterclasses, panel discussions and one-to-one speed sessions offering first-time feature filmmakers advice to help them navigate and progress in the industry.Highlights of the day include:a panel on writing and developing real life stories with BAFTA-winning screenwriters Jeff Pope Philomena and Stephen Beresford Pride , BAFTA-winning documentary-maker Morgan Matthews X+Y and BAFTA-nominated director stanley cup Elaine Constantine Northern Soul ; a session on the rewriting process with the team behind Testament of stanley kubek Youth, Rosie Allison head of development, Heyday Films and writer Juliet Tawhidi; a session on casting presented by RADA with casting director Des Hamilton Nymphomaniac, This Is England ; and a series of panels and roundtables looking at the craft and business of film.BAFTA has run the Filmmakers Forum formerly Filmmakers Market since 2009 and this years event is supported by 15 of the UKs major film organisations.Other panels and sessions will include:- Creative keynote speech;- A series of panels focussing on the craft of film, including Meet the Sound Team behind BAFTA-nominated 71; - Sustainable filmmaking tips from Albert+ and Sargent Disc; - Script feedback from BBC Writers Room;- Creative Europe De |
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