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Wavelength Pictures brings a unique collection of North Korean Cinema to Berlinale / EFM 2009
Although North Korea has been a fairly prolific producer of feature films, they are 
very rarely seen internationally. Wavelength Pictures in association with Pretty Pictures are offering a rare opportunity for distributors, broadcasters and festivals worldwide to sample one of the world's best kept cinematic secrets. Films that despite the repressive nature of the North Korean society in which they were made, exhibit genuine cinematic flair.
The collection features THE FLOWER GIRL (1972) - pictured right, widely regarded as the North Korean Gone With the Wind, A SCHOOLGIRL'S DIARY (2006) which according to official North Korean statistics was a huge hit in the country's cinema's with 8 million admissions - a third of the population. BELLFLOWER (1987) is a classic on a regular theme of North Korean cinema, personal ambition versus devotion to one's community, and the two part historical epic TALE OF CHUN HYANG is a story of impossible love across differing aristocratic classes.
During the Berlinale, Wavelength Pictures are based at the Media Stand in the Martin Gropius Bau, and John Flahive can be reached on his UK mobile +44 7968 772792.
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Wavelength Pictures takes two documentaries about two Great Architects to MIP-TV
OSCAR NIEMEYER (Oscar Niemeyer - A Vida e um Sopro) Brazil, 2007/ 90 mins / col / Directed by Fabiano Maciel 
Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects that the world has ever seen and this documentary, made to coincide with his 100th birthday reveals a truly remarkable man.
Still working and revealing an amazingly undiminished intellect and physical capacity, Oscar Niemeyer recounts his long life and remarkably prolific output. This included the designing of an entire city, Brazilia, and an astonishing array of eye-catching landmark buildings in Brazil and elsewhere.
Highly reflective of the development of modern Brazil, this documentary takes the simple but wholly effective approach of allowing Oscar Niemeyer to speak for himself and his architecture to speak for itself with the aid of some fine camerawork.
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REM KOOLHAAS: A KIND OF ARCHITECT (Germany, 2007 / 97 mins / col / Directed by: Markus Heidingsfelder and Min Tesch) Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations such as the Dutch
Embassy in Berlin, the Seattle Library, the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas are working examples of the Dutchman’s visionary theories about architecture and urban society.
Koolhaas' work is as much about ideas as it is about constructing buildings; he is equally celebrated as a writer and social commentator, his 1978 publication Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan is heralded as seminal text on modern society. For Koolhaas what is essential is not to create individual masterpieces, but to provoke and excite through the wide range of his activities.
Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect is an engaging portrait of a visionary man, which takes us to the heart of his ideas. The filmmakers have made a visually inventive thought provoking portrait of the architect, prompting Rem Koolhaas to state “it’s the only film about me that I have liked”.
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Wavelength Pictures picks up the gay Texan films of Paul Bright in Berlin
At the 2008 Berlin Film Festival, Wavelength Pictures picked up international sales
rights to Paul Brights engaging gay comedies from Texas. Contrary to what one might expect from the cliches about Texas, these films reveal a contemporary gay community at home in their surroundings, and there’s a familiar easy-going charm about his films that feels typical of the Lone Star state.
ANGORA RANCH USA / 2006 / 95 mins / col / Directed by Paul Bright
Only two things stand between Justin and Jack falling in love - their fathers
While driving to a business meeting young and handsome Justin runs off the road to avoid a rabbit. Lucky for him he has ditched at Angora Ranch, a farm owned by hunk Jack, a man almost twice Justin’s age!
THEFT USA / 2007 / 95 mins / col / directed by Paul Bright
Liberty Hills was the most conserative village in America, till they got through with it!
Sweet, sexy and naive Guy (Matthew Burnett) never dreamed he would fall in love with an unrepentant criminal (Patrick Henderson) and their passion would ignite the fire that burns down the local evangelical church in this rambunctious comedy satire about gay men living in small town America. >
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Wavelength Pictures to represent Bavo Defurne Short Films
We have agreed terms with Bavo Defurne and his producer Yves Verbraecken to represent the Bavo Defurne short film collection. Comprising Campfire (21'), Sailor (17') Saint (11') and Particularly Now, in Spring (8') and previously sold by the BFI, the films received great acclaim at Film Festivals and achieved the rare distinction of been distributed as a self contained compilation in a wide range of territories. We are delighted to continue our relationship with Bavo Defurne and to keep looking for new outlets for new distribution opportunities for his films. More information about the films can be found on the filmmaker's websitewww.bavo.org.
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Wavelength Pictures at the Berlin Film Festival / EFM
In Berlin at the European Film Market, Wavelength Pictures is presenting the prestigious BBC feature documentary Bacon's Arena a biographical portrait of Francis Bacon one of the 20th century's greatest painters.
2009 is the centenary of Francis Bacon (born 28-Oct-1909) and takes place at at time when his reputation is growing, as evidenced by the huge prices his paintings obtain at auction. Study for a Bullfight no 1 sold for $45 million in November 2007.
Bacon's centenary is being marked by a series of major exhibitions around the world beginning at Tate Britain, London, the Prado in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
In Bacon's Arena (2005, 95 mins) we experience Francis Bacon as charming and charismatic, in contrast to his paintings of screaming popes and deformed bodies. The director Adam Low links Bacon's life and art as the pictures pass on the screen. Bacon's paintings are examined in connection to his relationships with six different men over six decades of his life.
Originally broadcast by the BBC in 2005, the documentary has been expanded into a much bigger package for DVD release, with an extensive array of extra films, interviews and galleries produced exclusively for the Francis Bacon centenary.
Links
http://www.francis-bacon.com Official website of the Estate of Francis Bacon.
