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tue 15 nov 10:00 pm Murnau Filmtheater FROM NOWHERE USA 2016 89 min English-Spanish original version with English subtitles German premiere Script: Matthew Newton, Kate Ballen, DoP: Jay Keitel, Editor: Betsy Kagen, Production: No Place For Films, Producers: Kate Ballen, Matthew Newton, Cast: Julianne Nicholson, J Mallory McCree, Octavia Chavez Richmond, Racquel Castro, Chinasa Ogbuagu Nearing their high school graduation, three undocumented Bronx teenagers (a Dominican girl, an African boy and a Peruvian girl) navigate the difficulties of adolescence while living with the threat of being discovered by the authorities and their friends. As they continue to deal with the everyday problems of adolescence, they are forced to confront their past and, at the same time, fight for their future. "Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, FROM NOWHERE feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments. Writer-director Newton neatly avoids predictability and melodramatic excess in focusing on three undocumented teenagers nearing graduation at a Bronx high school." (Variety) |
Biography: Matthew Newton, born in Melbourne/Australia in 1977, is a critically acclaimed, award-winning director, writer and actor. After graduating from the National Institute Of Dramatic Art in Sydney he worked extensively as an actor in his native Australia, playing lead roles in the theater, on television and in films. His debut feature film as writer/director, THREE BLIND MICE (2008), in which he also starred, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was awarded the International Film Critics’ Prize at the London Film Festival. Filmography: 2008 THREE BLIND MICE, 2016 FROM NOWHERE Awards: Audience Award for Best American Feature Film & Special Jury Mention (Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Paris/France 2016), Audience Award "Narrative Spotlight" (SXSW Film Festival, Austin/USA 2016) www.visitfilms.com/film.asp?movieID=1567 Contact: |
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