Six Umedia Films at TIFF 2019 !

We are excited to announce that 6 Umedia films have been selected to Toronto International Film Festival !

GUNS AKIMBO Action comedy directed by Jason Lei Howden (Deathgasm) starring Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving
A nerdy video game developer (Daniel Radcliffe) becomes the next contestant in an illegal live-streamed death match, in this hilariously dark, viciously violent, and chillingly prescient sci-fi thriller.
Producers : Occupant Entertainment, Hyperion Entertainment, Altitude Entertainment, Maze Pictures, Umedia
In collaboration with Umedia VFX
https://www.tiff.net/events/guns-akimbo

THE OTHER LAMB the English-language debut of critically acclaimed and silver-bear winner director Małgorzata Szumowska (Body, Elles) starring Michiel Huisman and Raffey Cassidy.
A girl (Raffey Cassidy) born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound (Michiel Huisman) begins to question his teachings and her own reality.
Producers : Subotica Entertainment, Rumble Films, Umedia
In collaboration with Umedia VFX
https://www.tiff.net/events/the-other-lamb

DEERSKIN The latest from outrageously offbeat filmmaker-musicianby Quentin Dupieux ( Rubber, Au poste !) starring Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel, after opening the Director’s Forthnigt.
A troubled man’s (Jean Dujardin) gradually disengaged himself with reality as his relationship with a strange deerskin jacket deepens.
Producers : Atelier de production, Arte France Cinéma, Nexus Factory, Garidi Films, Umedia
https://www.tiff.net/events/deerskin

LA BELLE EPOQUE by Nicolas Bedos (Mr & Mme Adelman)  starring Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Fanny Ardant and Doria Tillier this year in official selection out of competition at Cannes Film Festival.
A luddite cartoonist suffering an existential crisis hires a VR company to recreate a happier time in his marriage, as he tries to reconcile the golden-hued past with an inescapable digital present.
Producers : Les Films du Kiosque, Pathé, Orange Studio, France 2 Cinéma, Hugar Prod, FILS, Umedia
In collaboration with Umedia VFX
https://www.tiff.net/events/la-belle-epoque

Our VFX teams in Brussels and Paris worked on two other selected films :

BACURAU by Kleber Mendonça Filho et Juliano Dornelles (Aquarius, Les bruits de Recife) with Udo Kier, Sônia Braga ,  Bárbara Colen shown in official competition at Cannes Film Festival.
Teresa (Bárbara Colen) comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find that its citizens have been sold as prey to bloodthirsty foreign hunters,
Producers : SBS films, CinemaScópio Produções, Arte France Cinema
https://www.tiff.net/events/bacurau

 

WASP NETWORK political thriller from Olivier Assayas (Personal ShopperClouds of Sils Maria)  starring Penélope Cruz, Ana de Armas, Edgar Ramírez, Gael Garcia Bernal , in competition at this year Venice Film Festival.
The increasingly complex lives of Cuban dissidents during the country’s 1990s post–Soviet Union economic collapse.
Producters : CG Cinéma, Nostromo Pictures, RT features, Scope Pictures
https://www.tiff.net/events/wasp-network

 Full schedule and more info on : https://www.tiff.net/films 

Our team will be in Toronto from Sept 6th to 12th




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