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| NEW GLOBAL LENS FILMS ON DVD! |
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Bad Boys and Bad Medicine: Urban Thriller THE TENANTS and Junkie Chronicle STREET DAYS Now Available on DVD
The Global Film Initiative is pleased to announce the DVD release of two new award-winning films from the Global Lens film series:
Dir. Sérgio Bianchi
Brazil, 2009, 103 minutes
Portuguese, with subtitles in English
After three mysterious men move into a smoky São Paulo suburb, a neighboring couple becomes obsessed with the men's clandestine activities and the ozone of violence that descends upon their once-tranquil neighborhood. Best Screenplay, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival; Official Selection, Vancouver International Film Festival.
"Bianchi's richly detailed film excavates society's fear of and fascination with violence--from television's constant stream of near-pornographic mayhem to venomous suspicion between neighbors, petty feuds within married couples, and quarreling among children--in an indictment of the lowest human impulses." -Museum of Modern Art
"Stunning performances....A tour-de-force of cinematic tension." -The Santa Barbara Independent
STREET DAYS (QUCHIS DGEEBI) Dir. Levan Koguashvili
Georgia, 2010, 86 minutesGeorgian, with subtitles in EnglishA well-meaning heroin addict whose life and status seem to worsen by the day, finds himself caught between serving a prison sentence and selling out the son of his former classmate. Official Georgia Submission, Best Foreign Language Film category of the 83rd Academy Awards; Official Selection, International Film Festival Rotterdam. "Drop Koguashvili anywhere in the world and he'll probably shoot an elegantly composed frame....I can't help but compare Street Days to Scorsese's Mean Streets--film lovers everywhere should watch [it]." -Film Threat "A well-crafted, hard-edged look at life in contemporary Tbilisi." -Screen Daily
Both films toured as part of the Global Lens 2011 film series and appeared in venues, festivals and theatrical locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Smithsonian Institution. STREET DAYS was also awarded the Golden Lily for Best Film at the goEast Film Festival, and THE TENANTS was an Official Selection of the Premiere Brazil! 2010 film program at the Museum of Modern Art. These titles are also featured on Virgin America airlines, along with other Global Lens films. |
Upcoming DVD releases from the Global Film Initiative:
THE LIGHT THIEF (SVET-AKE)
Dir. Aktan Arym Kubat
Kyrgyzstan, 2010, 80 minutes
Kyrgyz, with subtitles in English
A humble electrician intent on enlivening his windswept valley with electricity unwittingly strikes a deal with a rich politician whose corrupt ambitions threaten to upend the electrician's dream to build windmills in his village. Official Kyrgyzstan Submission, Best Foreign Language Film category of the 83rd Academy Awards; FIPRESCI Prize, Eurasia International Film Festival; Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival.
SOUL OF SAND (PAIRON TALLE)
Dir. Sidharth Srinivasan
India, 2010, 98 minutes
Hindi, with subtitles in English A watchman at an abandoned mine is drawn into a bizarre triangle after a wealthy landlord's daughter and her lower-caste lover seek refuge from a masked killer wreaking havoc across the Indian countryside. Official Selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam (Bright Future). Other recent DVD releases from the Global Film Initiative: 
Dir. Bui Thac Chuyen Vietnam 
MY TEHRAN FOR SALE Dir. Granaz Moussavi Iran |
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About The Global Film Initiative
The Global Film Initiative is a U.S.-based international arts organization specializing in the support of independent film from Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Founded in 2002 to promote cross-cultural understanding through the language of cinema, the Initiative awards numerous grants to deserving filmmakers from around the world each year, and supports a touring film series entitled Global Lens. For more information about the Global Lens film series and Global Film Initiative programs, please visit: www.globalfilm.org.
The Global Film Initiative is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All proceeds from the Global Lens film series support international filmmaker grants, educational programming and resources, touring film exhibitions and other philanthropic initiatives and programs sponsored by the Global Film Initiative.
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Contact:
Hilary Lawson
Marketing & Publicity Manager
The Global Film Initiative
145 Ninth Street, Suite 105
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 934-9500 - phone
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