• Lymelife
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    Lymelife

    2008-09-11T16:19:00Z

    Dir. Derick Martini, US, 2008, 93 minutesLymelife is a coming-of-age story that takes another look at the darker side of suburban paradise: Long Island in the 1970’s, where Lyme Disease spread by local insects and carried by its picturesque deer is the new plague, and families ...

  • Network takes UK rights to Toronto hit Lymelife
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    Network takes UK rights to Toronto hit Lymelife

    2010-04-08T16:52:00Z

    The indie drama, which won the FIPRESCI discovery award at Toronto in 2008, will be released in UK cinemas on June 25.

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    Screen Media Films takes domestic rights to Lymelife

    2008-10-14T00:42:00Z

    Screen Media Films has picked up US rights to Derick Martini's drama Lymelife following its world premiere at Toronto last month, where it won the FIPRESCI Discovery AwardLymelife takes place in the 1970s in a Long Island community afflicted by an outbreak of Lime Disease. The ensemble cast features Alec ...

  • Hick
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    Hick

    2011-09-12T00:52:00Z

    Dir: Derick Martini. US.2011. 95mins

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    First Look stirs with Martini's Lymelife

    2004-05-17T04:00:00Z

    US-based First Look Mediahas acquired worldwide rights excluding North America to Derick and StevenMartini's drama Lymelife, which starsAlec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Timothy Hutton.The Martini brothersdeveloped the script through the Sundance Institute˙s film-maker andscreenwriter labs and make their directorial debut on the project, which is dueto begin principal photography ...

  • Content Film takes on Hick starring Moretz, Lively
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    Content Film takes on Hick starring Moretz, Lively

    2011-05-06T09:44:00Z

    Derick Martini’s coming-of-age story has nearly finished shooting; Content will show first teaser in Cannes.

  • IFC Films buys The Canyons
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    IFC Films buys The Canyons

    2013-02-15T12:37:00Z

    Paul Schrader’s crowdfunded neo-noir thriller is based on a screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis and stars Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen.

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    Toronto reviews

    2008-09-04T14:37:00Z

    Gala PresentationsBurn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser)The Duchess (Saul Dibb)Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland)La Fille De Monaco (Anne Fontaine)The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell)Nothing But The Truth (Rod Lurie)One Week (Michael McGowan)The Other Man (Richard Eyre)Passchendaele (Paul Gross)Pride And Glory (Gavin O'Connor)Rachel Getting ...

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    TIFF adds 13 world premieres to Discovery, Vision and Vanguard

    2008-08-14T18:59:00Z

    The Toronto International Film Festival added a further 13 world premieres to an already impressive line-up, as it completed the slates for the Discovery, Visions and Vanguard programmes. Among the seven Discovery world premieres announced are Brian Goodman's What Doesn't Kill You, starring Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo as Bostonian ...

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    In Focus: Summer festival review

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Here are three thoughts about film festivals. Some of us spend too much time at them. Like junkies trying to recapture that first blissful high, we return time and again in search of a lost sense of excitement and discovery. Second, some take themselves terribly seriously. Not just the big ...