Pop Icon Peaches and Filmmaker Marie Losier Decentralize Cool With Venice Doc ‘Peaches Goes Bananas’
The journey towards this year’s Venice Film Festival began nearly two decades ago for documentarian Marie Losier and pop icon Merrill Nisker – better known to the world as Peaches. Upon meeting backstage at a show, Losier instinctively turned her Bolex camera on the musician — and then didn’t stop filming for 17 years.
The result is “Peaches Goes Bananas,” an intimate and unconventional doc premiering out the Venice Days sidebar.
The project marks the second Peaches-focused project to hit this year’s festival circuit, following Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer’s “Teaches of Peaches” in Berlin, and the singer sees no overlap.
“The projects are so different,” Nisker tells Variety. “One is more of a documentary of a certain album at a certain place in time, [whereas] Marie’s film – well, I don’t even consider it documentary. It’s more of a painting, a portrait. Marie gets excited about an...
The result is “Peaches Goes Bananas,” an intimate and unconventional doc premiering out the Venice Days sidebar.
The project marks the second Peaches-focused project to hit this year’s festival circuit, following Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer’s “Teaches of Peaches” in Berlin, and the singer sees no overlap.
“The projects are so different,” Nisker tells Variety. “One is more of a documentary of a certain album at a certain place in time, [whereas] Marie’s film – well, I don’t even consider it documentary. It’s more of a painting, a portrait. Marie gets excited about an...
- 9/2/2024
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Canada’s Hot Docs documentary festival has wrapped its 31st edition in Toronto (May 5) and named Yintah the winner of its Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary.
The award, whose winner is determined by an audience poll, comes with a cash prize of Cad 50,000.
Directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano, Yintah is about the efforts of the Canadian First Nation Wet’suwet’en people to resist the construction of pipelines across their territory.
On Friday evening (May 3) Hot Docs announced the prize winners from its official competition line-up (full list below).
The festival’s Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award,...
The award, whose winner is determined by an audience poll, comes with a cash prize of Cad 50,000.
Directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano, Yintah is about the efforts of the Canadian First Nation Wet’suwet’en people to resist the construction of pipelines across their territory.
On Friday evening (May 3) Hot Docs announced the prize winners from its official competition line-up (full list below).
The festival’s Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award,...
- 5/6/2024
- ScreenDaily
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