Production company Superprime has added filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos to its directorial roster for U.S. commercial representation.
Lanthimos is a multi-award-winning director whose first English language feature film The Lobster, starring Golden Globe nominee Colin Farrell, won the Jury Prize at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in 2015. The film also won Best Screenplay and Best Costume Design at the 2015 European Film Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Screenplay. Lanthimos’ most recent film, The Favourite, stars Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. The Favourite premiered last month at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Olivia Colman won the Best Actress Award.
Lanthimos was born in Athens and began his career directing dance videos in collaboration with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV commercials, short films and theater plays. Lanthimos’ first feature film was Kinetta. He went on to make the Oscar-nominated feature Dogtooth and Alps, winner of Best Screenplay at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. Lanthimos’ additional work includes 2017’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, which won Best Screenplay in Cannes, and a short film vignette for Radiohead’s “Identikit.”
John Lesher, managing director of Superprime, described Lanthimos as “a true master whose unique voice adroitly fuses tension and comedy in a form that is pure cinema and wholly his own.”
Full Lineup Set For AFI Fest; Official Selections Span 44 Countries, Include 9 Best International Feature Oscar Submissions
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, taking place in Los Angeles from October 23-27. Rounding out the slate of already announced titles are such highlights as September 5 directed by Tim Fehlbaum, All We Imagine As Light directed by Payal Kapadia, The Luckiest Man in America directed by Samir Oliveros (AFI Class of 2019), Zurawski v. Texas from executive producers Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence and directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and Oh, Canada directed by Paul Schrader (AFI Class of 1969). A total of 158 films are set to screen at the 38th edition of AFI Fest.
Of the official selections, 48% are directed by women and non-binary filmmakers and 26% are directed by BIPOC filmmakers.
Additional festival highlights include documentaries Architecton directed by Victor Kossakovsky; Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie directed by David Bushell; Devo directed by Chris Smith about the legendary new wave provocateurs; Gaucho Gaucho directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw; Group Therapy directed by Neil Berkeley with Emmy® winner Neil Patrick Harris and Tig Notaro; No Other Land directed by a Palestinian-Israeli team comprised of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal; Pavements directed by Alex Ross Perry; and Separated directed by Errol Morris. Notable narrative titles include Black Dog (Gou Zen) directed by Guan Hu; Bonjour Tristesse directed by Durga Chew-Bose with Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny; Caught By The Tides directed by Jia Zhangke; Hard Truths directed by Mike Leigh with... Read More