Dattner Dispoto’s cinematographer, editor and visual effects clients have six features premiering at Toronto and Venice film festivals this September.
The Toronto International Film Festival will premiere “Rampart,” shot by Bobby Bukowski; “The Descendants,” with visual effects designed by Custom Film Effects and Butter featuring sculptures designed by Josh Hakian. Declan Quinn, ASC’s “The Moth Diaries” will screen at TIFF after a Venice Film Festival premiere and “Page Eight,” lensed by Martin Ruhe, will screen following its recent Edinburgh Film Festival premiere. Also appearing at Venice is “Wilde Salome,” edited by David Leonard.
Rampart is the hotly anticipated film from writer/director Oren Moverman who received a 2010 Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for The Messenger, also shot by Bukowski. The script, focusing the LAPD Rampart scandal of the 1990’s, is co-written with scribe James Ellroy. It will star Woody Harrelson as Officer Dave Brown along with Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Anne Heche and Ice Cube.
One of the most prolific DPs in the business, Bukowksi’s numerous projects include features Phoebe In Wonderland directed by Daniel Barnz, Arlington Road directed by Mark Pellington and Saved! directed by Brian Dannelly.
Custom Film Effects provided the VFX needs for The Descendants, writer/director Alexander Payne’s latest film since the multi award-wining Sideways in 2004. The film stars George Clooney as a Hawaiian land baron attempting to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boat accident, while he seeks to confront the man with whom his wife was having an affair.
Custom Film Effects is a full service visual effects house with work recently completed on the two Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies, Beastly, His Way and The Blind Side.
Butter is a Midwest comedy about an adopted girl competing in a butter-carving competition. Special effects coordinator Hakian designed sculptures to look and move like carved butter without melting under the film’s lights. Directed by Jim Field, Butter stars Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Garner, Ashley Greene and Alicia Silverstone.
Hakian has worked on dozens of features and TV projects, including Cloverfield, Entourage, Drive Angry 3D and Jonah Hex.
Famed British playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Sir David Hare has directed Page Eight – his first film as director since Strapless in 1989 – featuring a cast including Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Tom Hughes and James McArdle. Ruhe provides cinematography for the contemporary spy film, looking at political and moral issues around intelligence and security organizations such as Britain’s MI5.
Ruhe is a DP at the top of his game, offering exquisite lensing for directors of artistically progressive features such as The American and Control with Anton Corbijn, Harry Brown and The Countess.
Declan Quinn, ASC’s latest work on The Moth Diaries will premiere at the Venice Film Festival before screening at TIFF. Mary Harron directs the moody horror story about a girl who believes her roommate is a vampire, from Rachel Klein’s novel. The film stars Lily Cole, Scott Speedman and Sarah Bolger.
Quinn is at the forefront of thought-provoking cinema, having earned three Best Cinematography Indie Spirit Awards for Leaving Las Vegas, In America and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love as well as the Sundance Best Cinematography award for 2×4. After photographing Focus Features’ upcoming Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, Quinn is currently working on director Mira Nair’s latest project The Reluctant Fundementalist.
David Leonard edited Al Pacino’s take on Oscar Wilde’s most controversial work with Wilde Salome, premiering at Venice. The feature, Pacino’s third as director, uses a combination of documentary, improvisation and dramatic interpretation of the original text to get to the bottom of Wilde’s scandalous tale. Jessica Chastain will play Salome, who requests the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter after performing the Dance of the Seven Veils for her stepfather Herod Anitpas (Pacino).
Leonard’s other recent feature credits include Camp Hope, City Island, I Sell the Dead and The Guitar.
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