Director Tony Kaye’s feature film Detachment has won the Cartier Revelation Prize at the Deauville 37th American Film Festival, marking the latest honor its and Kaye have earned on the festival circuit.
Detachment stars Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes, an educator with a true talent to connect with his students. Yet Henry has chosen to bury his gift. By spending his days as a substitute teacher, he conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form an attachment to either students or colleagues. When a new assignment places him at a public school where a frustrated, burned-out administration has created an apathetic student body, Henry soon becomes a role model to the disaffected youth. In finding an unlikely emotional connection to the students, teachers, and a runaway teen he takes in from the streets, Henry realizes that he’s not alone in his life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.
The Detachment cast also includes Christina Hendricks, James Caan, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, Bryan Cranston, William Petersen and Tim Blake Nelson.
The Deauville award comes on the heels of Detachment being the closing night film at the Woodstock Film Festival where Kaye also won the 2011 Honorary Maverick Award. The Maverick kudo is given each year to an individual whose life and work is based on creativity, independent vision, and social activism. Previous recipients include Kevin Smith, Christine Vachon, Barbara Kopple, Tim Robbins, Les Blank, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Woody Harrelson, Mira Nair, Steve Buscemi, and Bruce Beresford.
Kaye said, “I made America my home in 1991 for one reason only, to work with the great American actors and actresses of this era and to find new ones–to go deeper, to help them go deeper and find the truth within the spectacle. I am praying that this cool honor from Woodstock will give me an opportunity to just work more, to be able to help with what I have learned from my blessed journey so far.”
Prior to the Woodstock Festival, Tribeca Film acquired all U.S. distribution rights, including theatrical, VOD, digital, TV and DVD, to Detachment, a movie which had its world premiere at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. Tribeca Film, supported by founding partner American Express, plans a 2012 release via a multi-city theatrical engagement, running day-and-date with nationwide VOD and digital distribution, followed by DVD, pay-TV, and a range of other platforms.
Kaye whose commercialmaking roosts are Supply & Demand Integrated in the U.S. (which also represents actor Brody as a spot director) and Filmmaster which earlier this year began handling the director in both Italy and Spain.
Kaye’s feature film directing debut was American History X (1998), a drama about racism starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong. Norton was later nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Actor for his performance in the film. Kaye made the documentary Lake of Fire on the abortion debate in the United States, which opened in Toronto to positive reviews in September 2006. Lake of Fire made the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences short-list for Best Documentary Film. It was also nominated for Best Documentary Film at the Independent Spirit Awards, Chicago Film Critic Association Awards, and the Satellite Awards.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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