LOOKING AHEAD
I'm just a week and a day from closing out my academic year at the real job and only a couple of weeks away from an announcement from the Cannes folks about what films will play their July dated fest for 2021...which usually gives us some Telluride clues. So... I'm starting to think about serious examination of what we know about which films are coming from what distributors and who has a serious track record in as far as playing TFF is concerned.
To that end, I did a quick canvas of distributors and films from the last five years of Tellurides (that included the announced list from last summer for what would have been TFF #47). Over those fests both Netflix and SPC have been represented by 16 selections for a 5.2 film per year average. This included that occasional film that was actually picked up after the fest was complete.
Several outlets have had seven films across the five years: Searchlight (including Oscar Best Picture winners: The Shape of Water and Nomadland), A24, Neon and Amazon Studios.
The rest of list of distributors which have had multiple selections over the last five years are:
Kino Lorber-6
Cohen Media Group-5
HBO-4
Focus Features-3
IFC-3
Magnolia-3
Several outlets have shown up twice including: Warner Bros. Paramount, Roadside Attractions and Sundance.
So over the next few weeks, I'll start to look at what films these outlets have in the pipeline and assess the chances of those films making the Telluride lineup.
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ODDS AND ENDS
***THE GAZE
TFF favorite Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad arrives tomorrow on Amazon Prime. This week Jenkins released a companion short film called The Gaze along with an essay about gthe experience of making the 10 part series. You can access the Vimeo video of The Gaze and the essay here from The Film Stage.
***BERLIN FEST
The Berlin International Film Festival will stage an in-person open-air Summer Special iteration of this year's festival on June 9-20 using 16 venues throughout the city. The lineup for the Summer version of the fest will be announced May 20th. Details are here from The Hollywood Reporter.
***FLOWER MOON PHOTO
We got a peek online this week of Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone from the set of Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon currently filming here in Oklahoma:
Here's a look via Fandango:
That's all for this Thursday.
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