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AÑO UÑA-Jonas Cuaron
Highlights:
AÑO UÑA follows an impossible romance between Molly, a 21 year old American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty.
Jonas talks with us about the experimental film, his process of starting from real images and then developing a screenplay, and playing with fiction and reality.
Happenings:
Born In Mexico City in 1983, Jonas recieved his B.F.A. in Fine Arts from New York's Vassar College. In 2001, Jonas co-wrote and co-directed his first short, 8 Stories, with Colt Haussman, which was awarded "Best Film in the U.S. National High School Film Festival. In 2003, he co-wrote and directed the short Un Disparejo. In 2007, Jonas directed The Shock Doctrine, a short film by Alfonso Cuaron and Naomi Klein, about Klein's book of the same name, which will premiered at the 2007 Corto Cortissimo section of the Venice Film Festival. Also in 2007, Jonas completed Ano Una, which he wrote,directed, co-produced, and edited. It is his first feature-length film, and has been selected to competed in the 2007 Venice Film Festival's Critic's Week.
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Stay tuned for interviews with Harmony Korine (MISTER LONELY, JULIEN DONEY-BOY), Jim Sturgess (21, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), Brendan Sexton III (THE MARCONI BROS., WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), Kevin Corrigan (THE TOE TACTIC, RSO, THE DEPARTED), Mark Webber (EXPLICIT ILLS, DEAR WENDY), Lou Taylor Pucci (EXPLICIT ILLLS, THUMBSUCKER), Greta Gerwig (YEAST, NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS) and many, many more.
Also join us as we follows filmmaker Josh Weinstein at his first film festival with his ...
Born In Mexico City in 1983, Jonas recieved his B.F.A. in Fine Arts from New York's Vassar College. In 2001, Jonas co-wrote and co-directed his first short, 8 Stories, with Colt Haussman, which was awarded "Best Film in the U.S. National High School Film Festival. In 2003, he co-wrote and directed the short Un Disparejo. In 2007, Jonas directed The Shock Doctrine, a short film by Alfonso Cuaron and Naomi Klein, about Klein's book of the same name, which will premiered at the 2007 Corto Cortissimo section of the Venice Film Festival. Also in 2007, Jonas completed Ano Una, which he wrote,directed, co-produced, and edited. It is his first feature-length film, and has been selected to competed in the 2007 Venice Film Festival's Critic's Week.
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Stay tuned for interviews with Harmony Korine (MISTER LONELY, JULIEN DONEY-BOY), Jim Sturgess (21, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), Brendan Sexton III (THE MARCONI BROS., WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), Kevin Corrigan (THE TOE TACTIC, RSO, THE DEPARTED), Mark Webber (EXPLICIT ILLS, DEAR WENDY), Lou Taylor Pucci (EXPLICIT ILLLS, THUMBSUCKER), Greta Gerwig (YEAST, NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS) and many, many more.
Also join us as we follows filmmaker Josh Weinstein at his first film festival with his first feature documentary, Flying On One Engine. We'll be with the young New Yorker as he navigates Austin, Texas, attempts to rally a posse around the film and, of course, take South by Southwest by storm. Will he survive the festival madness? Will he fill seats? Will he sell the film? FIND OUT HERE DAILY.
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