Short-film and documentary platform FILMPIXS to launch on 17 February
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New streaming platform FILMPIXS is set to launch globally on 17 February with a primary focus on short films and feature-length documentaries that “will spotlight engaging social impact stories and new voices in filmmaking”. Content on the site is set to be curated from a number of festivals – amongst them Cannes, Venice, Toronto and Sundance – and the platform is due to be made available globally (though a small selection of titles may be geoblocked), and come with both monthly and annual subscriptions. The streaming service will be available via its own website, filmpixs.com, as well as via the FILMPIXS app, available on iOS, Android and other formats.
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Night of the Kings, written and directed by Philippe Lacôte, follows an unnamed protagonist (Koné Bakary) into Ivory Coast’s infamous MACA prison where he’s anointed the institutions “Roman” by the reigning inmate king, Blackbeard (Steve Tientcheu). Now, it’s up to him to tell a story because his life quite literally depends on it. With the help of some brilliant cinematography by Tobie Marier-Robitaille, editing by Aube Foglia, and production design by Samuel Teisseire, Lacôte highlights the power of storytelling and how necessary it is for us to harness it in order to infuse magic into the otherwise mundane finiteness of it all.
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TheWrap magazine: Bakary was a student who had never before acted when he was cast as the lead in the acclaimed African film “Night of the Kings” By Steve Pond | January 14, 2021 @ 4:00 PM
This story about Koné Bakary and “Night of the Kings” first appeared in the International Films Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Philippe Lacôte’s prison drama “Night of the Kings,” the Ivory Coast’s entry in this year’s Oscar race for Best International Feature Film, stars a lot of actors who are known in international cinema circles. Among them are Steve Tientcheu from the Oscar-nominated French film “Les Misérables” as the inmate boss of a brutal concrete prison, and “Holy Motors” star Denis Lavant in a feral and deranged performance as the sole white convict.