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In the beginning of March our film Love Always, Carolyn will have its Swedish premiere at Swedens biggest documentary film festival "Tempo" in the capital Stockholm. Love Always, Carolyn will be opening the festival and will also be in competition in the head category Tempo Documentary Award.
Directors of Love Always, Carolyn. (From the left) Malin Korkeasalo, Maria Ramström. Photo: Johan Bergmark.
The festival will also screen Fredrik Gertten's new documentary BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!*, in competition swell. Directors of Love Always Carolyn Malin Korkeasalo and Maria Ramström as well as director Fredrik Gertten will be present during the festival. Producer Margarete Jangård will also attend. More info about the opening of Love Always, Carolyn soon. Read more and book your tickets at Tempo's website.
Now it's official - our new film BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* by Fredrik Gertten has been selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival! It will take place January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Utah. Read more on the films new official website bigboysgonebananas.com or on sundance.org.
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First there was a film about banana workers saying Dole Food had made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Time for a new film! WG Film is proud to present BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* by Fredrik Gertten. The true story about a Swedish filmmaker and a banana corporation. Dirty tricks, lawsuits, manipulation, and the price of free speech.
Last Saturday the film had its world premiere at the biggest documentary film festival in the world, IDFA in Amsterdam. The film got a response we couln't even wish for, and two screenings were sold out before the festival opened. Follow this exiting film, (because it's gonna be exiting!) and help us make this unother unpleasant journey for the corporations.
Join the network today on www.bigboysgonebananas.com.
We are happy to announce, that our latest documentary Love Always, Carolyn directed by Malin Korkeasalo and Maria Ramström will be screened in competition at the 47th Chicago International Film Festival during October 6-20! The film competes with 12 other documentaries in the DOCUFEST category.
This is the second time the film is invited to screen in the US since the premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in New York in May. The film also had its North American Premiere during the same period, at Hot Docs in Toronto, Canada and on friday 23rd of September it's time for the European premiere when the film will be screened in competition at The Nordisk Panorama Film Festival in Aarhus, Denmark. Read more about the film on the Love Always, Carolyn Official Website.
Fredrik Gerttens BANANAS!* will be shown on Three Continent Filmfestival in South Africa between September 9-28. The film will tour with the festival to Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg.
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Our latest production Love Always, Carolyn is selected to compete at the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival between September 23-28. The film is compeeting against 20 other documetaries in the Nordic Documentary section. This year the festival takes place in Aarhus, Denmark and therefore it will be the European premiere of the film. Visit Love Always, Carolyn official website.
BANANAS!* will be screened at the touring music festival Dave Matthews Band Caravan between June 24 - September 4th. The line-up contains famous artists like Emmylou Harris, The Dave Matthews Band, The Roots and The Wailers. The festival will travel to Atlantic City, New York, Chicago and George. Read more...
The culture organisation CNEX will be organizing a series of touring screenings in Hong Kong and Mainland China under the "The Next Homeland" Doc Film Festival during September - December.
For the second time in a row, I bought a rainforest will be participating with 10 campus screenings all over China, starting in November 2011.
CNEX is a non-profit organization founded by a group of professionals, from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, who are passionate about Chinese culture. It is devoted to the production and promotion of documentaries related to the Chinese people. Visit their website.
Director Helena Nygren and Jacob Andrén
together with line producer Vita Randazzo (middle).
Love Always, Carolyn will attend Lilla Filmfestivalen i Båstad between August 2-8. The screening is a sneak-peak premiere, before the European premiere later this fall. Directors Malin Korkeasalo and Maria Ramström together with the production company WG Film will be attending the screening. Read more...
The NYC based distributer Oscilloscope, founded by Adam Yauch from The Beastie Boys, has now released BANANAS!* in the US. The DVD is designed by the Oscilloscope team and contains loads of bonusmaterial and exclusve liner notes from from writer Dan Koeppel. The DVD is available online and in stores.
Find you nearest retailer here. It can also be booked for special screenings, educational and consumer DVD through Oscilloscope.
Selected press quotes: (Read all of them on bananasthemovie.com)
"Offers a front-row seat to a landmark Erin Brockovich-style trial... an incredibly polished film." -Peter Debruge, VARIETY
FOUR STARS! "As gripping as any fictional courtroom drama" -The Independent.
The DVD release of BANANAS!* in the US is getting really close! Starting on May 8, director Fredrik Gertten and distributors Oscilloscope will launch the film at the following events in NYC (Click on the dates below to get more info). The DVD release is set to May 10th.
Pre-order the DVD here!
Sun, May 8 – 7:00 p.m (film at 7:30) BANANAS!* Screening and Q&A at Liberty Hall in the Ace Hotel.
Mon, May 9 – 7:30 p.m BANANAS!* Screening and Q&A at the Maysles Cinema.
Tues, May 10 – 7:00 BANANAS!* Screening and Q&A at Park Slope Food Co-Op.
DVD RELEASE!
Our new film Love Always, Carolyn had three sold out screenings at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival in New York last week. The directors Malin Korkeasalo and Maria Ramström was present together with producer Margarete Jangård from WG Film. After the first screening, one of the film's main characters and the son of Neal and Carolyn Cassady, John Cassady joined in a Q&A together with the directors.
Directors Maria Ramström and Malin Korkeasalo along with "Beat-son" John Cassady and composer David Amram, who was a close friend of Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac. Photo: Margarete Jangård
Tomorrow, tuesday, it's time for World Premiere Part 2 when the movie will be shown on North America's largest documentary film festival Hot Docs in Toronto, Canada. The festival will also screen Alex Gibbneys "The magic trip", based on author Ken Kesey archival material from the last years of Neal Cassady's life.
On Wednesday April 6th, Pernille Rose Groenkjaer's brand new feature documentary, Love Addict will premiere simultaneously in 40 cinemas throughout Denmark. The film is produced by Danish Documentary from Denmark in co-production with WG Film.
Love Addict is a documentary that explores the nature of the disorder “love addiction” through personal stories of love addicts and the people around them. It's a search to understand what creates this peculiar disorder and describe the struggles and cravings for the ultimate aphrodisiac: Love.
Today it's official that our new documentary Love Always, Carolyn - A story about Kerouac, Cassady and Me will conquer the world! As previously mentioned the film will have its world premiere, in competition, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 23rd. Closely after this the film will continue to HotDocs where it will meet its Canadian audience and celebrate a North American premiere!
Love always, Carolyn is directed by Maria Ramström and Malin Korkeasalo and produced by WG Film. The film is about Carolyn Cassady, the wife and lover of two famous Beat icons, Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac. Carolyn is fighting a losing battle for truth. Mythmakers and the media have hijacked the story of her life and the memory of the men she loved. Love Always, Carolyn is an intimate yet universal story of a woman’s search for personal recognition and price of a life in the public eye. Read more on the films homepage or visit Tribeca Film Festival.
The 1st San Francisco Green Film Festival (SFGFF), which made its debut March 3-6, 2011, announced on Sunday the recipient of the festival’s inaugural Green Tenacity Award.
Fredrik Gertten with the Green Tenacity Award
The award, to be given annually to a filmmaker who shows great tenacity in exploring crucial environmental issues in their work, was presented to director Fredrik Gertten for his film BANANAS!* which screened at the festival. The festival’s 25-person Screening Committee, including international filmmakers, environmentalists, journalists, industry executives, and content experts, selected the award. Read the full article here.
Our film The Leftovers about dumpster diving is now sold to Finlands nationwide TV-channel YLE. Broadcast date is set to March 14th. Since the premiere in the end of 2008, the film has been screened at several "green" film festivals and the topic is just as actual than it was almost three years ago.
Our new film BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* will have an audience in the UK and Ireland as the distribution rights yesterday was sold to London based distribution and sales company Doogwoof. Doogwoof was also the distributors behind Fredrik Gertten's previous film BANANAS!*. The film will be avaliable on cinemas and DVD soon. Read more on Dogwoofs website.
Today BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* is having its scandinavian premiere at DocPoint - Scandinavias biggest documentary film festival located in Helsinki, Finland. The festival runs between 24-29 of January. Read more...
BANANAS!* is now avaliable on the French market. This month the DVD was released by the distribution company L'Harmattan located in Paris. The DVD is avaliable on video stores and online. Read more...
The WG production Milkbar will be screened at the film and food festival Slow Filme in Goiás, Brazil between September 15 - 18. The documentary is directed by Ewa Einhorn and Terese Mörnvik. Read more...
The Italian premiere of I bought a rainforest on this years CinemAmbiente Film Festival in Torino, Italy did as usual get a lot of attention from a sold-out and very diverse crowd. One of the directors Jacob Andrén (picture) were there and held a Q&A after the screenings.
Malmö City Cultural Award "Valuable contributions" went this year to filmaker/producer Fredrik Gertten and filmmaker/producer Jan Hemmel.
The scholarship was handed out by the president of city council at the City Hall in Malmö on Thursday, May 26.
I bought a rainforest is invited to the 14th CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Fesival in Torino, Italy between May 31 - June 5. Jacob Andrén - one of the directors and also the main character in the film - will be present. The screening is the Italian premiere of the film.