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Posts Tagged ‘The Forgiveness of Blood’
02/23/2012
» An Update from Cinereach Productions
Cinereach is proud to announce that five films supported through various Cinereach initiatives will be showcased at this year’s BFI London International Film Festival, running October 12 – 27.
Dragonslayer
Director: Tristan Patterson
Nonfiction | Winter 2010 & Summer 2010 Grantee
Festival Screening Information
Drag City in association with Killer Films presents the transmissions of a lost kid, falling in love, in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty.
Here
Director: Braden King
Fiction | Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Festival Screening Information
Measurement and orientation break down in an intensely visual, landscape-obsessed road movie that chronicles the relationship between an American mapmaker and a foreign art photographer who impulsively decide to travel together into deeply uncharted territory.
On the Ice
Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Fiction | Winter 2010 Grantee & Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Festival Screening Information
On the snow-covered Arctic tundra, at the top of the world in Barrow, Alaska, two Inuit teenagers try to get away with murder.
Pariah
Director:Dee Rees
Fiction | Winter 2009 & Winter 2010 Grantee
Festival Screening Information
When forced to choose between the fragile cohesion of her middle-class family and loyalty to her best friend, a Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Return
Director: Liza Johnson
Fiction | Winter 2010 Grantee & Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Festival Screening Information
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli slowly realizes that her everyday life doesn’t resemble the one she left. Can she regain her place in the kind of life she’s been fighting to protect?
The Forgiveness of Blood
Director: Joshua Marston
Fiction | Supported through Cinereach Productions & Winter 2009 Grantee
Festival Screening Information
In The Forgiveness of Blood, the lives of a teenage boy and his younger sister are thrown into turmoil after a killing in a dispute over land draws their northern Albanian family into a blood feud.
Cinereach is proud to announce that five films supported through various Cinereach initiatives will be showcased at this year’s Hamptons International Film Festival, running October 13 – 17.
Laura
Director: Fellipe Barbosa
Nonfiction | Winter 2010 Grantee
Festival Screening Information | World Premiere – Golden Starfish Award Documentary Competition
Imagine if Grey Gardens’ Little Edie had actually realized her dream of moving into a studio apartment on 10th Avenue: her life might have resembled that of Laura’s, a Brazilian expat in New York City who lives two contradictory lives. (synopsis by the Hamptons Intl. Film Festival)
Ok, Enough, Goodbye
Director: Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia
Nonfiction | Summer 2010 Grantee
Festival Screening Information | US Premiere – World Cinema: Narrative
A 40-year-old man still living with his elderly mother has given up on the idea of becoming independent – until she suddenly leaves him.
The Bully Project
Director: Lee Hirsch
Nonfiction | Winter 2009 Grantee
Festival Screening Information | Films of Conflict & Resolution
A year in the life of America’s bullying crisis that offers an intimate look at how bullying has touched the lives of five kids and their families.
The Forgiveness of Blood
Director: Joshua Marston
Fiction | Supported through Cinereach Productions & Winter 2009 Grantee
Festival Screening Information | Films of Conflict & Resolution
In The Forgiveness of Blood, the lives of a teenage boy and his younger sister are thrown into turmoil after a killing in a dispute over land draws their northern Albanian family into a blood feud.
You Have the Right to an Attorney
Director: Matt Bockelman
Nonfiction | Supported through the Reach Film Fellowship 2011
Festival Screening Information | Short Films
You Have the Right to an Attorney enters the daily grind of two young public defenders in the South Bronx.
With an incredible number of films culled across six continents, the Toronto International Film Festival is the largest North American film event of the fall festival season. Cinereach is proud to announce that six films supported through various Cinereach initiatives will be showcased at this year’s festival, running September 8-18.
The Forgiveness of Blood
Director: Joshua Marston
Fiction | Supported through Cinereach Productions & Winter 2009 Grantee
Festival Screening Information – Contemporary World Cinema
In The Forgiveness of Blood, the lives of a teenage boy and his younger sister are thrown into turmoil after a killing in a dispute over land draws their northern Albanian family into a blood feud.
Girl Model
Directors: David Redmon & Ashley Sabin
Nonfiction | Summer 2009 & Summer 2010 Grantee
Festival Screening Information – Real to Reel – World Premiere
Girl Model follows U.S. and Russian model scouts who travel through remote Siberian villages looking for thirteen to fifteen year old girls suitable for modeling jobs in Japan. This poetic film brings viewers into a modeling industry rife with mirrors, images, facades, and uncertainty. It is difficult to know who these young girls can trust and where the industry takes them when their eyes are covered.
Habibi
Director: Susan Youssef
Fiction |Winter 2009 Grantee
Festival Screening Information – Discovery – International & North American Premiere
Habibi, a story of forbidden love, is the first fiction feature set in Gaza in over 15 years. Two students in the West Bank are forced to return home to Gaza, where their love defies tradition. To reach his lover, Qays grafittis poetry across town.
The Patron Saints
Directors: Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky
Nonfiction | Winter 2009 & Winter 2011 Grantee
Festival Screening Information – Canada First – World Premiere
The Patron Saints is a disquieting and hyperrealistic glimpse into life at a nursing home. Bound by the candid confessions of a recently disabled resident, the film weaves haunting images, scenes and stories from within the institution walls. Sidestepping conventional documentary methods for a heightened cinematic approach to storytelling, the film employs lyrical realism and black humor in its charged portrait of fading bodies and minds.
Pariah
Director: Dee Rees
Fiction | Winter 2009 & Winter 2010 Grantee
Festival Screening Information – Discovery
When forced to choose between losing her best friend or destroying her family, a Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and endures heartbreak in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Porfirio
Director: Alejandro Landes
Fiction | Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute 2011
Festival Screening Information – Visions – International & North American Premiere
Confined to a universe that stretches only from bed to wheelchair, Porfirio – a man in diapers who sells call time on his cell phone in a faraway city on the outskirts of the Colombian Amazon – dreams that he can fly.
Joshua Marston's The Forgiveness of Blood
We’re thrilled to announce that Cinereach Productions’ The Forgivness of Blood has been acquired by Sundance Selects!
Joshua Marston’s (Maria Full of Grace) film, follows Nik, an energetic 17-year-old in his last year of high school in Northern Albania. Embarking on his first romance with a girl in his class, he plans to open his own internet cafe after graduation. His sister, Rudina, is a bright, mature fifteen-year-old who aspires to go to college. When a local land dispute results in their father Mark being accused of murder, the family is drawn into a deadly blood feud. The rules of the Kanun, a centuries-old Albanian code of law, force Nik, his 7 year old brother and the other male members of his family into virtual house arrest. With Mark hiding in the mountains and Nik unable to leave the house, the family must rely on Rudina, who has to leave school and take over Mark’s business in order to provide for them. While Rudina flourishes in her newfound responsibility, Nik’s frustration and anger at his isolation drive him to try to end the feud, even though it may cost him his life.
The Forgiveness of Blood, written by Marston and Andamion Murataj, was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The film is a Journeyman production co-financed by Cinereach Productions, Artists Public Domain and Fandango Portobello.
03/03/2011
» Joshua Marston’s The Forgiveness of Blood takes home Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Script
Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj received the Silver Bear Award for Best Script at the 2011 Berlinale. Marston and Mourataj are the writers of Cinereach Productions’ The Forgiveness of Blood, which also received a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury.
The film, produced by Paul Mezey of Journeyman Pictures, and directed by Marston, follows the lives of a teenage boy and his younger sister when they are thrown into turmoil after a killing in a dispute over land draws their northern Albanian family into a blood feud.
The Forgiveness of Blood was produced in partnership with Fandango Portobello, Artists Public Domain, and Lissus Media and received grants from the Goteborg Film Festival Film Fund and New York State Council on the Arts.
This recent Hollywood Reporter interview with Marston sheds more light on the story behind the film.
The Forgiveness of Blood
Writers: Joshua Marston & Andamion Murataj
Director: Joshua Marston
Producer: Paul Mezey
Cinereach congratulates Here, On the Ice, and Yelling to the Sky, which also screened in competition. On the Ice (a Winter 2010 Cinereach Grantee and supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute) won the Best First Feature Award, which includes a 50,000 Euro prize. Here (supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute) was recognized with the C.I.C.A.E. Prize from the Panorama Jury.
On the Ice
Writer & Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Producers: Cara Marcous & Lynette Howell
HERE
Writers: Braden King & Dani Valent
Director: Braden King
Producers: Jay Van Hoy & Lars Knudsen
Yelling to the Sky
Writer & Director: Victoria Mahoney
Producers: Billy Mulligan, Ged Dickersin, Diane Houslin, Victoria Mahoney
Now in its 61st year, the Berlin International Film Festival, also known as the Berlinale, remains one of the world’s most important film festivals. The 2011 Berlinale takes place from February 10th – 20th, and Cinereach is a proud supporter of four films included in this year’s festival!
The Forgiveness of Blood
The lives of a teenage boy and his younger sister are thrown into turmoil after a killing in a dispute over land draws their northern Albanian family into a blood feud.
Winter 2009 Cinereach Grantee, and supported through Cinereach Productions
Writers: Joshua Marston & Andamion Murataj
Director: Joshua Marston
Producer: Paul Mezey
In Competition – Berlinale Screening Information
HERE
On assignment to create a new, more accurate satellite survey of Armenia, an American cartographer forms a powerful bond with an Armenian expatriate and art photographer.
Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Writers: Braden King & Dani Valent
Director: Braden King
Producers: Jay Van Hoy & Lars Knudsen
In Panorama – Berlinale Screening Information
Photo Courtesy of Sebastian Mlynarski
On the Ice
On the snow-covered Arctic tundra, two teenagers try to get away with murder.
Winter 2010 Cinereach Grantee, and supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Writer/Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Producers: Cara Marcous & Lynette Howell
In Generation 14plus – Berlinale Screening Information
Photo Courtesy of Kirsten Johnson
Yelling to the Sky
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O’Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Supported through The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute
Writer/Director: Victoria Mahoney
Producers: Billy Mulligan, Ged Dickersin, Diane Houslin, Victoria Mahoney
In Competition – Berlinale Screening Information