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stanley website ry, Sleeper Films, FilmFour, British Screen. International Sales: FilmFour International, tel: 44 207 868 7700. Prods: John Stewart, Sally Llewellyn. Assoc prod: Nicole Keddy. Scr: Jamie Thraves. DoP: Igor Jadue-Lillo. Ed: Lucia Zucchetti. Mus: Nick Currie, Fred Thomas. Main cast: Aidan Gillen, Kate Ashfield, Dean Lennox Kelly, Tobias Menzies, Rupert Proctor. Successful video director Jamie Thraves said he made Chilean-born DoP Jadue-Lillo watch over fifty films just before beginning the shoot of The Low Down, in order to show him the exact style he was looking for in his first feature film. The result is a stylistically remarkable cross between Thraves cinematic role models Jean Luc Godard and John Cassavetes, yet without the dramatic tension of the iconoclastic filmmakers. A quiet and meandering look at indecision and restlessness amo
stanley cup ng late twenty-somethings in London, The Low Down revolves around Frank Gillen , an artist who makes props for commercials, and who cannot take the plunge in life, be it in his art, in buying a house, or with his new girlfriend Ruby Ashfield . With the use of a hand held camera, Thraves, like his predecessors, weaves long moments of silence, sparse dialogue, extreme close-ups and abrupt flashbacks to create an ultra-naturalistic film. The danger with such long pau
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Neil Friedman s LA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment, which enjoyed success in 2000 with
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stanley cup Majidi s Iranian hit The Color Of Paradise, has acquired two new Iranian films for worldwide representation - Bahman Ghobadi s Marooned In Iraq and Rasoul Sadrameli s I m Taraneh, 15 which is Iran s submission for this year s Academy Awards.Friedman said that the two new acquisitons are representative of the potential for Iranian cinema with audiences and critics; Menemsha sold The Color Of Paradise to Sony Pictures Classics in North America and over 40 countries around the world and is the highest grossing Iranian film in domestic box office history.Marooned In Iraq is Ghobadi s first film since his Camera d Or-winning A Time For Drunken Horses 2001 . It also played in Cannes this year, in Un Certain Regard under the title The Songs Of My Mother s Land. I m Taraneh, 15 premiered at Locarno this year, winning a special jury prize and the Golden Leopard for best actress for Taraneh Allidousti.Menemsha will distribute Taraneh theatrically in North America itself and handle all international sales, while it only has international rights on Marooned In Iraq. Our interest is to be involved in films that move us emotionally regardless of wh
stanley cup ether the film is in English or not, said Friedman. Marooned in Iraq and I m Taraneh, 15 are both terrific films and we feel very proud to be working on them. Hopefully we can have just some of the success with each of these
