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AWARDS ORIGINALS
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Iranian filmmaker Farhadi is no stranger to awards attention. His film
A Separation won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Foreign Language film in 2011.
The Past is an emotionally harrowing examination of family, relationships and how our history forever affects us.
SSN spoke with Farhadi about his writing process, casting
The Past, and his desire to leave filmmaking one day for a quieter life.
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Wadjda is the first film to be shot entirely in the Saudi Kingdom and is the country’s first ever submission for Best Foreign Language Film consideration. Al-Mansour spoke to SSN about the challenges she faced as a woman making her first full-length movie on the streets of Saudi Arabia and why she hopes
Wadjda can inspire cultural change in her home country.
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Gloria is Chile’s entry for the best foreign language film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. Sebastian Lelio, 39, spoke to
SSN about making the film, shooting nude scenes with 53-year old Paulina Garcia and how he came to use pop singer Laura Branigan’s Grammy nominated hit song
Gloria in the movie.
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Already nominated for a Golden Globe, the film is Denmark’s official entry in to the Oscar race. Vinterberg, 44, spoke to
SSN about the film and why Hollywood would never have been able to make it.
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If you can run the gauntlet of your home country’s film commission, earning the right to be your nation’s official submission, and be among the lucky five to get a nomination—the studios are paying attention—you too could find yourself at the threshold of Hollywood success.
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Warner Bros.’ overall slate is probably as good as any other studio’s, but this year they’ve been blessed with a once-in-a-long-while piece of work that all but guarantees an impressive showing when the nominations are announced. What happens after that depends on many factors, but one thing is clear:
Gravity has established itself as the early leader in a very long race.
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OTHER ORIGINALS
China is now suddenly up front and center daily in our business news. China is not only the fast-growing No. 2 film market in the world, it is the world’s biggest TV production market. Pen Densham writes: “I am like many, eyeing the vast changes coming in all our futures and curious how China might represent a place to grow our talent and business.”
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