Adam Rosetto
Memento’s Artscope Acquires Berlin Generation 14plus Opener Girl Asleep
Artscope, Paris-based Memento Film Intl.’s new talent label, has acquired international sales rights to “Girl Asleep,” the Australian rites-of-passage fantasy drama that opens Berlin’s 2016 Generation 14plus, one of the festival’s biggest sidebars. More.
BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2016
11-21 February 2016
Girl Asleep will make its international premiere at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival, opening the Generation 14 Plus program. Tickets are available from 2 February. More details here.
Girl Asleep to internationally premiere at Berlin Film Festival
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first 13 titles in the Generation section. Girl Asleep will officially make its international premiere as part of the Generation Strand. More.
THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD
“A delightful film from an exciting new voice in Australian cinema.”
2015 FOXTEL MOVIES AUDIENCE AWARD
The Adelaide Film Festival announced the results of its 2015 Foxtel Movies Audience Awards for Best Feature, Best Short and Best Documentary.
These awards are the people’s choice awards, and the winners reflect the most popular films seen at the Festival, which ran October 15-25 across Adelaide. After each screening, audience members were invited to rate each film.
Most Popular Feature – Girl Asleep, directed by Rosemary Myers, produced by Jo Dyer.
ROLLING STONE
FRANCE
“Magic…offbeat, but strangely right.”
THE WASHINGTON POST
“A wild curiosity that shifts on a whim…there couldn’t be a better metaphor for the inner workings of a teenage girl’s mind.”
SCENESTR
“Director Rosemary Myers brings a pitch-perfect sense of heightened reality to this coming-of-age drama. Her attention to detail, and the care she takes in framing a scene, put her in the same conversation as Wes Anderson. But unlike Anderson, Myers is fascinated by the pedestrian and the mundane, and she channels that fascination towards some understated and inspired directorial choices.”
THE GUARDIAN
“It’s in Myers’s commitment to eccentricity that Girl Asleep – an art-house film made firmly with a teenage audience in its sight – finds its heart. The weirdness of Greta’s world is just an expansion of the weirdness of being a teenager.”
