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Leading Italian sales company The Open Reel has snagged the international sales rights to Pablo Garcia Perez de Lara’s latest doc, “Born to be Born,” ahead of its world premiere at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin.

Doc revolves around a progressive public school, the Escola Congrés-Indians, in Garcia’s native Barcelona, where preparations for an end-of-year trip of the school’s first graduating class are underway. Children learn at their own pace in the primary school which instills, above all, the values of respect and empathy for other people.

“I was struck by the director’s ability to discreetly document the important educational role that the school and its educators play with these young students,” said The Open Reel founder Cosimo Santoro, adding: “They guide them through understanding and dialogue in every phase of their discussions and through any possible conflicts that may arise.”

Garcia has trained...

Lgbtq-focused streaming platform GagaOOLala officially launched worldwide Friday in all territories except for China and North Korea.

The streamer is backed by Taipei-based Portico Media, one of the co-founders of the Taiwan International Queer Film Festival. Its launch comes a week before the one-year anniversary of the day Taiwan became the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.

GagaOOLala is now available worldwide for $6.99 a month. All films currently are equipped with English and Chinese subtitles, with other languages pending as the company monitors content popularity in different regions. It debuts in the U.S. with around 300 titles to start; in Taiwan, it has around 1,000 films.

Although a bit player compared to the other giants in the global streaming wars, Portico Media CEO Jay Lin says he feels his platform has a niche.

“Of course there are Lgbt-focused services in Europe and the U.S., but they’re almost exclusively Western.

Taiwan-based Svod platform was Asia’s first Lgbtq+ streamer when it launched in 2016.

Asian Lgbtq+ streaming platform, GagaOOLala, is launching globally on May 15 with a catalogue of content including features, shorts, series and original productions from key Asian territories.

First launched in Taiwan in 2016, the Svod platform has since expanded into several Asian markets. The May launch date has been chosen to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Taiwan becoming the first Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage.

Among feature films streaming on the platform are South Korea’s Method, Japan’s Athlete and Taiwan’s Bao Bao and The Story Of The Stone.

Company brings 10 recent sales acquisitions to the market also including feature animation The Summit Of The Gods.

Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Italian director Michele Placido’s upcoming drama Caravaggio’s Shadow, exploring the tempestuous life of the 17th-century painter.

It revolves around a secret Vatican investigation into Caravaggio, ordered by Pope Paul V as he debates whether to grant the artist clemency for murdering a love rival.

Riccardo Scamarcio plays Caravaggio opposite Louis Garrel as the investigator – known as The Shadow. Isabelle Huppert also features as a noblewoman who was a steadfast protector of the artist, hiding him...

Oh, what a difference The makes. Just last week, we were showing you the trailer for The Prodigy, which features Orange is the New Black favorite Tayler Schilling as a mother with a possessed son. Today, we have the film Prodigy, which falls within a similar groove but is a much different movie. We forgive you for confusing the two.

October Coast has released the first trailer and poster for Prodigy, which unleashes a global unconsciousness on planet earth. This is the end for humanity, and this time, it looks serious. From writer-director Nathan Leon, Prodigy has been nominated for 4 Icff Awards Including Best Picture. This lung-shriveling horror drama will premiere on VOD this December. So get ready for an apocalyptic Christmas.

Erik Black is a broken soul due to the loss of his wife. He spends his days alone and self-medicating. All of that changes when his estranged son...

With their trio of prior films together, director Stéphane Brizé and actor Vincent Lindon have declared a low-key manifesto of sorts. All three — culminating in 2015’s tremendous “The Measure of a Man,” which won the Cannes Best Actor award for Lindon — are richly attentive portraits of working men fighting to protect their interpersonal relationships and to retain dignity and self-determination, in tightrope circumstances that benefit from no social safety net. To find this furious brand of class consciousness so effortlessly allied to moral class conscience is rare in modern cinema, but it makes the capital-versus-labor quandary explored in their new collaboration, “At War,” seem like a natural progression. And in Union leader, spokesperson and factory worker Laurent Amédéo, Lindon adds another rivetingly real characterization to his muscular everyman repertoire.

It begins as it continues: in a riotous, talky, argumentative scene of disbelief and dismay.. An automotive parts plant in Agen...

Update, 12:45 Pm: El Rey just officially announced the production start and main cast of From Dusk Till Dawn. Also joining the series as a recurring is Don Johnson who will take on the role of Sheriff Earl McGraw, played by Michael Parks in the movie. Previous Exclusive, 10:15 Am: DJ Cotrona, Zane Holtz and Jesse Garcia are set to star in English-language network El Rey’s first original series, the 10-episode From Dusk Til Dawn, based on the cult horror movie by El Rey’s Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Like the movie, the El Rey/FactoryMade-produced series centers on career criminal Seth Gecko (Cotrona) and his older, seriously unstable brother Richie (Holtz). The roles were played in the film by George Clooney and Tarantino, respectively. Garcia plays Freddie, a new character created for the series — a Texas Ranger who sets out in pursuit of the infamous Gecko brothers.

Leven Rambin ("Chasing Mavericks," "The Hunger Games") has joined a pair of soon to shoot indie dramas as the love interest for the male lead.

First up is Jay Martin’s "Seven Minutes" about a young athlete (Luke Mitchell) whose serious injury leads him to break bad, and Walter, first-time helmer

After that is Anna Mastro's "Walter" about guy (Andrew J. West) who believes he’s the son of God and thinks he is destined to decide the fate of everyone he encounters.

Source: Deadline...

Former All My Children star Leven Rambin kicked her movie career into gear last year with a small but pivotal role in the blockbuster adaptation of the wildly popular Ya novel The Hunger Games. In the dystopian adventure, Rambin drew notice as the beautiful but deadly tribute Glimmer from District 1. Hot on the heels of the film's release, she booked the female lead in another Ya adaptation Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters and took to the big screen again in the surfing drama Chasing Mavericks. But this summer, she'll be getting gritty within two indie dramas. Deadline reports Rambin has signed on to star in both Seven Minutes and Walter. The first will mark the writing-directing debut of storyboard artist Jay Martin, who has worked on such high-action offerings as The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Constantine and I Am Legend. Seven Minutes stars former Australian soap star Luke Mitchell as...