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Dir: Nick Broomfield. US-UK. 2014. 109minsIn Nick Broomfields documentaries, the central sub
stanley cup ject matter doesnt always prove as interesting as the fascinating subcultures he discovers while investigating them. To a point, that proves true again with the directors latest, Tales Of The Grim Sleeper. Ostensibly chronicling a serial killer who murdered women for 25 years in Los Angeles, the film ends up becoming a sad portrait of an African-American community essentially left to fend for itself in one of the poorest, most dangerous areas in one of Americas richest cities.As with most Broomfield productions, Grim Sleeper has a ragged, verit茅 quality, the director often lugging his own boom mic as he gets impromptu interviews on the street.Making the fall festival rounds, Tales Of The Grim Sleeper could be a theatrical prospect thanks to Broomfields track record for making films about controversial or scandalous subjects. He previously directed Kurt And Courtney and Aileen Wuornos: The Selling Of A Serial Killer. Additionally, his new film might attract significant interest in the United States, especially Los Angeles, because of the location and lur
stanley cup idness of these crimes.Tales Of The Grim Sleeper begins as Lonnie Franklin Jr., an African-American man living in South Los Angeles which was formerly known, infamously, as South Central Los Angeles , is arrested in 2010. He is sus
stanley usa pected of being the Grim Sleeper, a serial killer who had murdered women many of them prostitutes in Xord LA marketing firm BD Fox Friends to launch film sales division at Berlin
Germany s Hannover Leasing HL is to partner again with Universal Studios on its second Montranus mediafund, which is to be launched this September to raise at least Euros 230m forinvesting in several feature films by the US studio.The first Montranus mediafund was, says HL, fully placed within only a few weeks. To date, HL has initiatedand placed eleven media funds in the market with an overall investment volumeof over Euros 1bn, with participation in such films as Rush Hour II, I AmSam and the second and third instalments of The Lord Of The Ringstrilogy.Montranus II will befollowing the same model introduced by HL last year to meet the requirements ofthe revised Media Ruling: the fund will be the sole limited partner of sixsingle-purpose production companies set up to develop and produce feature filmprojects shortlisted by the fund. A meeting will then be convened for thein
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stanley cup of these films are to be backed by the fund. Theywill be supported in the pre-selection and development of the projects byexperts from the film industry.TopicsFinanceProduction No comments Related articles
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