Directed by Anita Rivaroli
There’s one thing that can be said about We Are the Thousand that sets it apart from almost any other movie, and that’s that there will never be another movie like it. It tells the story of a thousand musicians coming together to perform the Foo Fighters’ song ‘Learn To Fly’ In an attempt to get them to play a concert in their small town.
Maybe that doesn’t sound like something that you could make an eighty-minute documentary out of but there’s a lot going on. Starting with an idea is where this would start and end with many people but that idea grows. Then, even with a small following and backing, you have to get a thousand people to turn up and play the song together. What is, pretty much, a thousand strangers then have to play in harmony and make...
There’s one thing that can be said about We Are the Thousand that sets it apart from almost any other movie, and that’s that there will never be another movie like it. It tells the story of a thousand musicians coming together to perform the Foo Fighters’ song ‘Learn To Fly’ In an attempt to get them to play a concert in their small town.
Maybe that doesn’t sound like something that you could make an eighty-minute documentary out of but there’s a lot going on. Starting with an idea is where this would start and end with many people but that idea grows. Then, even with a small following and backing, you have to get a thousand people to turn up and play the song together. What is, pretty much, a thousand strangers then have to play in harmony and make...
- 5/31/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Even before the pandemic, the foreign sales market became mired down with some risky bets, i.e. the over exorbitant Roland Emmerich sci-fi disaster title Moonfall which carried a 140M production cost (resulting in a 44.3M WW gross), and Simon Kinberg’s femme spy ensemble The 355 at a 75M cost (which grossed just under 28M WW).
But there’s arguably a safer way to make moolah in the foreign sales sphere and that’s off of YA feature adaptations.
True, it’s been a while since the grand slam days of Lionsgate’s Hunger Games series and Summit International’s Twilight franchise, however, these movies can be made off a low cost yielding singles, doubles, or even home runs at the box office. Or worst case scenario, be in the black simply off their sales to streamers. And if a movie strikes out, it doesn’t sting so...
But there’s arguably a safer way to make moolah in the foreign sales sphere and that’s off of YA feature adaptations.
True, it’s been a while since the grand slam days of Lionsgate’s Hunger Games series and Summit International’s Twilight franchise, however, these movies can be made off a low cost yielding singles, doubles, or even home runs at the box office. Or worst case scenario, be in the black simply off their sales to streamers. And if a movie strikes out, it doesn’t sting so...
- 5/16/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Breaking Glass Pictures and Blue Fox Entertainment have jointly acquired a title for the first time, landing SXSW and Hot Docs selection We Are The Thousand, which chronicles the journey taken by 1,000 musicians to create the biggest rock band event on Earth.
The film gives a first-hand account of the group’s efforts to play the Foo Fighters anthem Learn to Fly, convince Dave Grohl to play a concert in Cesena, Italy, and the sensation the event became.
Anita Rivaroli directed the movie, Simone Catania and Charlotte Uzu produced. The movie scooped an Audience Award at SXSW and is currently screening at Hot Docs. The two companies will release the feature stateside in Q3 this year.
The distribution partnership was reached between Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff and Blue Fox founder James Huntsman, with the acquisition signed by Wolff, Huntsman, and Philippa Kowarsky, Managing Director of Cinephil.
“Blue Fox...
The film gives a first-hand account of the group’s efforts to play the Foo Fighters anthem Learn to Fly, convince Dave Grohl to play a concert in Cesena, Italy, and the sensation the event became.
Anita Rivaroli directed the movie, Simone Catania and Charlotte Uzu produced. The movie scooped an Audience Award at SXSW and is currently screening at Hot Docs. The two companies will release the feature stateside in Q3 this year.
The distribution partnership was reached between Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff and Blue Fox founder James Huntsman, with the acquisition signed by Wolff, Huntsman, and Philippa Kowarsky, Managing Director of Cinephil.
“Blue Fox...
- 5/6/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The 28th SXSW Film Festival revealed the Audience Award winners Tuesday, with Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, The Fallout and Not Going Quietly among the list of honorees. The news comes after the online edition of the fest announced its jury awards.
The Mary Wharton-directed docu Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free chronicles the iconic musician’s work on his lauded 1994 record Wildflowers via newly discovered archived footage. The film won the Audience Award in the Headliners category, while The Fallout, Megan Park’s reflection on teen grief and trauma after a mass shooting — something all too familiar right now — won under the narrative feature competition banner. On the documentary competition banner, Nicholas Bruckman’s moving feature docu Not Going Quietly took the Audience Award.
Over the course of five days of SXSW Online, the SXSW Film Festival screened 75 features including 57 world premieres, three international premieres, four North American Premieres,...
The Mary Wharton-directed docu Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free chronicles the iconic musician’s work on his lauded 1994 record Wildflowers via newly discovered archived footage. The film won the Audience Award in the Headliners category, while The Fallout, Megan Park’s reflection on teen grief and trauma after a mass shooting — something all too familiar right now — won under the narrative feature competition banner. On the documentary competition banner, Nicholas Bruckman’s moving feature docu Not Going Quietly took the Audience Award.
Over the course of five days of SXSW Online, the SXSW Film Festival screened 75 features including 57 world premieres, three international premieres, four North American Premieres,...
- 3/23/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The documentary “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free” and Megan Park’s “The Fallout” won the audience awards from the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, it was announced Tuesday.
Mary Wharton’s “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free,” which tells the backstory behind the late rock star’s “Wildflowers” recording sessions, won among the three headlining films playing the festival. “The Fallout,” a teen drama starring Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler, won the audience prize for narrative features after it also won the category’s jury prize.
“Not Going Quietly,” a documentary by Nicholas Bruckman about progressive political activist Ady Barkan and his fight with Als, won the audience award for films in the documentary feature competition. Director Natalie Morales also won the Narrative Spotlight audience award for her film “Language Lessons,” and Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler won the Documentary Spotlight Audience Award for “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America.
Mary Wharton’s “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free,” which tells the backstory behind the late rock star’s “Wildflowers” recording sessions, won among the three headlining films playing the festival. “The Fallout,” a teen drama starring Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler, won the audience prize for narrative features after it also won the category’s jury prize.
“Not Going Quietly,” a documentary by Nicholas Bruckman about progressive political activist Ady Barkan and his fight with Als, won the audience award for films in the documentary feature competition. Director Natalie Morales also won the Narrative Spotlight audience award for her film “Language Lessons,” and Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler won the Documentary Spotlight Audience Award for “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America.
- 3/23/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Winners include Language Lessons, Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism In America.
Documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free and The Fallout and are among SXSW audience award winners announced across multiple sections on Tuesday (March 23).
Narrative feature competition winner The Fallout fared well when the juried award winners were unveiled last week. Megan Park’s follows a high-school student as she navigates life in the wake of a school tragedy.
Mary Wharton directed Headliners winner Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, which follows the legendary late performer as he records his second solo album ’Wildflowers’.
Nicholas Bruckman’s...
Documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free and The Fallout and are among SXSW audience award winners announced across multiple sections on Tuesday (March 23).
Narrative feature competition winner The Fallout fared well when the juried award winners were unveiled last week. Megan Park’s follows a high-school student as she navigates life in the wake of a school tragedy.
Mary Wharton directed Headliners winner Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, which follows the legendary late performer as he records his second solo album ’Wildflowers’.
Nicholas Bruckman’s...
- 3/23/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Winners include Language Lessons, Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism In America.
Documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free and The Fallout and are among SXSW audience award winners announced across multiple sections on Tuesday (March 23).
Narrative feature competition winner The Fallout fared well when the juried award winners were unveiled last week. Megan Park’s follows a high-school student as she navigates life in the wake of a school tragedy.
Mary Wharton directed Headliners winner Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, which follows the legendary late performer as he records his second solo album ’Wildflowers’.
Nicholas Bruckman’s...
Documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free and The Fallout and are among SXSW audience award winners announced across multiple sections on Tuesday (March 23).
Narrative feature competition winner The Fallout fared well when the juried award winners were unveiled last week. Megan Park’s follows a high-school student as she navigates life in the wake of a school tragedy.
Mary Wharton directed Headliners winner Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, which follows the legendary late performer as he records his second solo album ’Wildflowers’.
Nicholas Bruckman’s...
- 3/23/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In 2015, desperate to get his favorite band, Foo Fighters, to play in Cesena, a small town near Rimini, Italian marine geologist Fabio Zaffagnini came up with a rather unorthodox solution. Reportedly inspired by the prank pulled by the team of “School of Rock,” which saw Jack Black and Richard Linklater asking Led Zeppelin to let them use “Immigrant Song” in a video recorded on set, he decided to invite “The Rockin’1000”—1,000 guitarists, drummers and singers —to play their song “Learn to Fly.” Simultaneously.
Raising $50,000 through a crowdfunding site, Zaffagnini started recruiting potential allies and musicians with the help of his friends, including director Anita Rivaroli. One year in the planning, the open-air event produced a YouTube video that quickly went viral, amassing 55 million views to date. Rivaroli was only meant to be in charge of shooting the original video, but after a while she realized she wanted to dig deeper.
Raising $50,000 through a crowdfunding site, Zaffagnini started recruiting potential allies and musicians with the help of his friends, including director Anita Rivaroli. One year in the planning, the open-air event produced a YouTube video that quickly went viral, amassing 55 million views to date. Rivaroli was only meant to be in charge of shooting the original video, but after a while she realized she wanted to dig deeper.
- 11/29/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The Dutch documentary section comprises eight world premieres.
The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) has announced its Dutch competition titles, as well as the selections for its Luminous and Frontlight strands.
The festival is due to run as a hybrid edition from November 18 to December 6, though some physical elements of the edition have been scaled back due to fresh Covid-19 restrictions in the Netherlands.
The Dutch documentary section comprises eight world premieres, and includes Heddy Hoonigan’s 100Up which tells the stories of seven colorful centenarians. Honigmann’s previous feature Buddy screened at Moma and Hot Docs as well as at Idfa.
The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) has announced its Dutch competition titles, as well as the selections for its Luminous and Frontlight strands.
The festival is due to run as a hybrid edition from November 18 to December 6, though some physical elements of the edition have been scaled back due to fresh Covid-19 restrictions in the Netherlands.
The Dutch documentary section comprises eight world premieres, and includes Heddy Hoonigan’s 100Up which tells the stories of seven colorful centenarians. Honigmann’s previous feature Buddy screened at Moma and Hot Docs as well as at Idfa.
- 10/20/2020
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
On the eve of the festival, Cinephil also picked up Love, It Was Not.
Tel Aviv-based documentary powerhouse Cinephil has taken on world sales (excluding North America) on hit Sundance film, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, directed by Bill and Turner Ross and screening in the Efm and in Panorama. Cinetic is handling North America.
Buyers are circling the film, which unfolds over the last night for a dive bar called the Roaring 20s in Las Vegas before it has to close. It’s a mixed genre project which straddles the lines between documentary and fiction.
On the eve of the festival,...
Tel Aviv-based documentary powerhouse Cinephil has taken on world sales (excluding North America) on hit Sundance film, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, directed by Bill and Turner Ross and screening in the Efm and in Panorama. Cinetic is handling North America.
Buyers are circling the film, which unfolds over the last night for a dive bar called the Roaring 20s in Las Vegas before it has to close. It’s a mixed genre project which straddles the lines between documentary and fiction.
On the eve of the festival,...
- 2/22/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
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