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NEWS Tuesday 14 May 2019
DAY 1

CANNES

CONFIDENTIAL

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Your job title? Majestic, Carlton or Airbnb?
Producer, Film Doula.
Airbnb.
Jorge Thielen Armand’s Akare-Merú Astrological sign?
© DR What would you like
Cancer. to say to Alejandro
ARMAND AND CREW You were born on… González Iñárritu?
Do you still DJ? Let’s host a
BRAVE VENEZUELAN A Tuesday afternoon in July. mixtape sometime?

Your three favourite films
Outside of Cannes what
TURMOIL TO SHOOT of the last 12 months? is your favourite film
festival and why?
Burning, First Reformed and
FEATURE AKARE MERÚ You Were Never Really Here. Venice International Film
Festival. Over and above the
What can we expect from
festival prides itself in providing
HEN Venezuelan Blockchain entertainment company your company at Cannes dreamy setting, I respect how the
filmmaker Jorge Breaker has produced Akare-Merú as an this year? a platform for artistic expression,
Thielen Armand original for its entertainment platform. Through REALNESS an African new voices and risk-taking to
thrive.
took his 46-strong Others include Duwayne Dunham’s The Screenwriter’s Residency, we
W cast and crew into Happy Worker starring Josh Whitehouse have launched 20 film projects in Are the digital platforms
the jungle to shoot his second feature film (Poldark), and Keith Bearden’s Antarctica 13 African countries in our four the future of the cinema
The Return of Mr. Roque Thielen to the starring Chloë Levine — both currently years of running. The 2019 industry?
Island of Akare-Merú (Akare-Merú), in in post-production. Breaker produced REALNESS residents will be
announced in Cannes on May 20
February, riots broke out in Caracas, the and released Alex Winter’s documentary at 18.00. Tied to this, we have I believe we’re going to find a
capital of Venezuela, which has seen Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain recognised a clear need for a happy medium. Some films were
millions of citizens flee to neighbouring theatrically in New York and Los Angeles. programme catering to African made to be experienced in a
cinema; one cannot fully
countries in the face of political and “Akare-Merú and its director Jorge producers and will be launching appreciate the work otherwise.
financial crisis. Thielen Armand embody everything the Creative Producer Indaba in What I really value about the
Shooting for 48 days in the jungle, the idealistic, beautiful and romantic about partnership with REALNESS, digital platforms is how they are
EAVE, IFFR and Sundance
production survived the riots and power filmmaking,” Breaker CEO and Institute on May 19 at the making arthouse films,
cuts affecting the country, as local tribes co-founder Zach LeBeau said. “They Pavillon Afriques, booth 213 at documentaries and what would
operated their own power generators. represent Breaker’s commitment to 15.00. Please join us! usually be called ‘niche content’
accessible to broader audiences.
Filming wrapped on April 11 with the cinema. Production companies don’t This growing accessibility is
film now being edited in Buenos Aires. typically risk funding and making films When do you usually encouraging people to take risks
As with his debut feature La Soledad, in countries suffering from such civil go to bed on a typical in what they watch and that is so
with Akare-Merú, Jorge and his co-writer strife as Venezuela. It’s too risky an night during the Festival? exciting.
and partner in La Faena Films, Rodrigo investment, but with great risk comes Around two or three am, which,
Michelangeli, blends documentary with great reward.” given the fact that I’m usually in What are your
fiction. The film follows Jorge’s father, Akare-Merú was developed by La Faena bed by 22.00 is a massive post-Festival plans?
Roque Thielen, re-enacting his own past Films and Ardimages UK, with the achievement. I recently wrapped my latest
as a recovering alcoholic, who left his support of the Buenos Aires Lab’s ARTE feature film which was shot in
family in Caracas to look for redemption Prize and the Tribeca Film Institute Latin Where are your favourite Lesotho and am going
in the Amazon jungle but found America Fund.✦ spots to dine in Cannes? immediately into post
temptation instead in illegal gold mining. Julian Newby Cannes is expensive! If my sales production. This is Not a Burial,
It’s a Resurrection by Lemohang
agent isn’t paying for dinner, I Jeremiah Mosese was selected
love a simple burger and beer at for Biennale Cinema College
Little Nextdoor. 2019 and will premiere at the
Venice International Film Festival
Myriad brings Sharon Tate to life with biopic Your weirdest in August.
Cannes moment?
MYRIAD Pictures will finance and handle international sales on the biopic Tate, How many stamps on
which will give us a behind-the-scenes look at the 1960s It Girl, Sharon Tate. Kate In 2017 there was a man dressed your passport?
up as Mrs Doubtfire riding on an
Bosworth stars. electric wheelchair type-thing
The film will explore Tate’s early days as a Texas beauty queen, and look at her blasting trashy dance music from 42
fashion moments through to her personal relationships — including her marriage a speaker strapped to the front.
to filmmaker Roman Polanski. The story ends in 1969 when Tate was brutally He would ride up and down the How long did it take you
murdered by notorious cult the Manson Family. Croisette and smack people on to answer these questions?
Tate is written by Michael Polish and William Day Frank and Polish is set to direct. Kate the ass. Definitely a Cannes
Bosworth, Michael Polish, Nick Phillips and Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico are producing. favourite. 34 minutes split over three days.
Principal photography will begin later this year in Budapest. ✦ Liza Foreman

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