Ewan McNicol
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The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Awards
Below are the winners of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Note that the narrative awards were split evenly between Virgin Mountain and Bridgend, with three apiece. WORLD NARRATIVE COMPETITION CATEGORIES: The jurors for the 2015 World Narrative Competition sponsored by AKA, were Paul Attanasio, Sophie Barthes, Whoopi Goldberg, Dylan McDermott, and Burr Steers. ● The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – Virgin Mountain, written and directed by Dagur Kári [Iceland, Denmark]. Winner receives $25,000, sponsored by AT&T, and the art award “Ash Eroded Film Reel” by Daniel Arsham. The award was given by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 23, 2015 -
Tribeca 2015: MA and Uncertain
Everyone, even The New York Times, is up in arms about the quality disparity in documentary to narrative programming at the Tribeca Film Festival, and it’s with reluctance that I add my voice to the heap. It figures then that the festival’s strongest narrative selection thus far was a work-in-progress screened in far flung Long Island City with negligible publicity fanfare. The “progress” modifier appeared to be fulfilled by a truncated end credit sequence, which director Celia Rowlson-Hall accounted for by reading off a list of names in a squat from the stage to prevent her arms from shaking. When the lights went down in the WV dome […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Apr 21, 2015 -
First Look: “25 New Faces” Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands’ Uncertain
This year we put Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands on our “25 New Faces” list on the strength of their excellent doc short The Roper but also because of how excited we were at the sneak peek we’d had of Uncertain, their debut feature about a remote “town of outlaws” in Texas. The pair has now started releasing clips from the film, which will be making its world premiere at a winter festival in 2014. The first of these is above, and you can check out more via the Vimeo page of McNicol and Sandilands’ production company, Lucid Inc.
by Nick Dawson on Dec 12, 2013
