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Producer Alex C. Lo bursts onto the international festival scene

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 7, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Venice 2024 |

Taiwan-born and New York-based producer Alex C. Lo seems to be everywhere on the A-list festival circuit.

April

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 5, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Venice 2024 |

Choosing a narrative style as austere and unforgiving as her OB-GYN heroine, rising Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili (‘Beginning’) plumbs the depths of female suffering and self-sacrifice in ‘April’, a festival film which, like its protag, is destined to be admired more than loved.

Harvest

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 3, 2024 | Festivals, Venice 2024 |

Strewn with beauty, sadness and food for thought, Rachel Tsangari’s gripping adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel ‘Harvest’ is an allegory on how modernity has rapidly destroyed our natural relationship with the world.

Vermiglio

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 2, 2024 | Festivals, International Oscars 2025, Venice 2024 |

Maura Delpero’s visually resonant, close-to-nature second feature ‘Vermiglio’ follows a large family living in a tiny Alpine village as WW2 draws to a close, emphasizing the changing role of women in society.

Battleground

Posted by Deborah Young | Aug 31, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Venice 2024 |

Three doctors of different political views struggle to treat soldiers returning from the front during WWI and combat a new menace, the Spanish flu, in director Gianni Amelio’s grimly shocking film about war’s after-effects, ‘Battleground’.

Author: Deborah Young

Producer Alex C. Lo bursts onto the international festival scene

April

Harvest

Vermiglio

Battleground