Curious film ‘The Rocket’ set to screen at TriBeca Film Festival in NYC in ‘World Narrative’ category
Curious is proud to announce its latest film, The Rocket, written and directed by Kim Mordaunt, is one of 12 films to be selected in the World Narrative Competition section of the 2013 TriBeca Film Festival, held in New York next month.
The film is eligible for the following awards at TriBeca: Best Narrative Feature (won last year by the Oscar-nominated “War Witch” (AKA Rebelle which Curious Distribution is releasing March 14); Best New Narrative Feature Director; Best Actor in a Narrative Feature; Best Actress in a Narrative Feature; Best Cinematography in a Narrative Feature; and, Best Screenplay.
The film recently won three awards at the Berlin International Film Festival – Crystal Bear for Best Feature (Generation Kplus program), Best First Feature (across all sections of the Festival) and the Amnesty International Film Prize, also judged from all sections of the Festival.
Filmed on location in Laos in the Lao language, it tells the story of a Lao boy who leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits across war-ravaged Laos to the dangerous Rocket Festival, in an attempt to prove he doesn’t carry a bad luck curse.
Says Peter Grasse, executive producer at Curious: “The World Narrative Competition is one of the most prestigious sections of the film festival and is a fantastic way to launch the film into the US market so soon after the success it gained at Berlin.”
Says Sarah Noonan, Curious: “Curious is proud to be the distributor of The Rocket in Australia and New Zealand. Curious is also very proud to have been chosen to complete post-production work on the film, which was a complex and rewarding creative challenge.”
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Who reps Kim?