Autlook Filmsales has closed deals on Clin d’oeil films’ Hot Docs entry Drawing A Line and is continuing talks with buyers.
Sama Pana’s Belgium-Luxembourg feature has gone to Rts in Switzerland, Tvo in Canada, Tvc in Spain, and Nhk in Japan. Arte boarded the film during production, and is broadcasting the 52-minute version of the film.
Drawing A Line profiles the cartoonist and activist Rachita Taneja, who is facing charges of contempt of court by the Supreme Court of India for her webcomic Sanitary Panels, which addresses issues like corruption and misogyny through stick figures.
The film is one...
Sama Pana’s Belgium-Luxembourg feature has gone to Rts in Switzerland, Tvo in Canada, Tvc in Spain, and Nhk in Japan. Arte boarded the film during production, and is broadcasting the 52-minute version of the film.
Drawing A Line profiles the cartoonist and activist Rachita Taneja, who is facing charges of contempt of court by the Supreme Court of India for her webcomic Sanitary Panels, which addresses issues like corruption and misogyny through stick figures.
The film is one...
- 5/3/2024
- ScreenDaily
The prestigious Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon, Switzerland wraps up this weekend, after hosting the world premiere of dozens of documentaries.
One of those world premieres, the feature documentary Amany, Behind the Lines, centers on Amany Al-Ali, considered to be the first female cartoonist in Idlib, Syria. Her city became a hotbed of protest against the regime of Bashar al-Assad beginning in 2011 in the midst of the Arab Spring and, despite enormous risk, Al-Ali has used her cartooning skill to critique the chaotic developments in Idlib for a dozen years now.
Alisar Hasan and Alaa Amer directed the 73-minute long feature documentary.
Cartoonist Amany Al-Ali
Amany Al-Ali “draws the life of her town, a bastion of jihadist groups that are attempting to overthrow President Assad since 2011,” the Visions du Réel program notes. “Armed with her pen, she is struggling against Islamist authority and traditional patriarchy. But for how...
One of those world premieres, the feature documentary Amany, Behind the Lines, centers on Amany Al-Ali, considered to be the first female cartoonist in Idlib, Syria. Her city became a hotbed of protest against the regime of Bashar al-Assad beginning in 2011 in the midst of the Arab Spring and, despite enormous risk, Al-Ali has used her cartooning skill to critique the chaotic developments in Idlib for a dozen years now.
Alisar Hasan and Alaa Amer directed the 73-minute long feature documentary.
Cartoonist Amany Al-Ali
Amany Al-Ali “draws the life of her town, a bastion of jihadist groups that are attempting to overthrow President Assad since 2011,” the Visions du Réel program notes. “Armed with her pen, she is struggling against Islamist authority and traditional patriarchy. But for how...
- 4/29/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The trailer (below) for “Draw for Change!” – which was named best documentary series at Canneseries this week – has debuted. The feature film version of the first of its six episodes, “Behind the Lines,” will world premiere at Visions du Réel Film Festival on April 28.
The series, from creators Guillaume Vandenberghe and Vincent Coen, profiles six female cartoonists working in six geographic areas of the world, in six individual films and broadcast episodes. Female directors with close connections to each of the societies represented were chosen to tell the stories.
Autlook Film Sales is handling international sales.
“After decades of male directed series on male artists, this series brings us stories about female artists from a female perspective,” producer Hanne Phlypo said. “The stakes are very high for these artists, and championing them by telling their stories is our contribution to empowering global democracy – one laugh at a time.”
Vandenberghe and...
The series, from creators Guillaume Vandenberghe and Vincent Coen, profiles six female cartoonists working in six geographic areas of the world, in six individual films and broadcast episodes. Female directors with close connections to each of the societies represented were chosen to tell the stories.
Autlook Film Sales is handling international sales.
“After decades of male directed series on male artists, this series brings us stories about female artists from a female perspective,” producer Hanne Phlypo said. “The stakes are very high for these artists, and championing them by telling their stories is our contribution to empowering global democracy – one laugh at a time.”
Vandenberghe and...
- 4/21/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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