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GUSTAVO MONTIELProject: Tide Of SandScr: Gustavo MontielEstimated budget: $1.5m Eu1.1m Funds in place: $1.2m Eu880,000 Mexican director Gustavo Montiel thrives on being busy. At present he is juggling work on an experimental digital project called Limbo, with preparation for his next feature, Tide Of Sand Marea De Arena . He des
stanley cup cribes the latter as a story of passion and obsession set in Patagonia, the beautiful wilderness on the tip of Latin America, at what seems like the edge of the world. People go to Patagonia to renounce the world, escape from
stanley usa judicial punishment, to lose or exchange their identity, says Montiel of the significance of the location. Tide Of Sand revolves around a man called Juan and his unrequited infatuation with a woman called Mar, with whom he has a child. He throws her out over a supposed infidelity - and Juan falls into a deep depression. The couple quarrel over the custody of the child and Mar takes a job as an exotic dancer in a city far away. But it is Juan s inability to let go of Mar that leads him toward a path of self destruction. Tide Of Sand looks at the appalling image of a dead family, a concept we do not d
stanley cup are face too directly though it is there, implacable and certain, Montiel says.The project will be his eighth feature as director. As a producer, he has made 22 films and written 12 screenplays. Mexico s Visuarte/Moro Films, with which he has worked previously, is producing Tide Of Sand. No comments Pdct Geena Davis and Trevor Drinkwater, Bentonville Film Festival
London-based artist film-maker John Smith has won the 2013 Film London Jarman Award.The award was an
stanley website nounced today at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.As winner, Smith received æ‹¢10,000 and a film commission for Channel 4s short-form arts strand, Random Acts.From the shortlist Ed Atkins, Emma Hart and Rachel Maclean will also be commissioned for Random Acts this year. A statement said: John Smith has built up a body of experimental film and video work which has made a contribution to artists moving image
stanley mug practice both nationally and internationally. His identification with different artistic spheres is particularly appropriate to the Jarman Award. His film Horizon Five Pounds a Belgian , 2012 exhibited last year at the Turner Contemporary and shot outside the gallery in Margate, was hugely popular with audiences.Smiths recent video, Dads Stick 2012 , won the ARTE Prize for European Short Film, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany and the Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director, Punto De Vista International Film Festival, Spain.The jury, made up of St
stanley uk uart Comer Chief Curator, Dept of Media and Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art MoMA , New York Chair , Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director, Whitechapel Gallery, Tabitha Jackson, Commissioning Editor for Arts, Channel 4, Carol Morley, film-maker, Omar Kholeif, curator, writer and editor, artists Jon Thomson Alison Craighead Thomson Craighead and Francesca Gavin, visual arts editor of Dazed Confu