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Dir: John Maringouin. US-UK.2008. 94mins.If extreme sports have a Falstaff, he is Martin Strel, a Slovenian who has set world records for marathon endurance swims, often achieved while drunk. Strel is a big and big-bellied man who swims the length of big rivers. Big River Man is as odd as hybrids come, a documentary of comic moralism. Its very oddity could find it multiple niches in art houses, on midnight programs, on public television, and on sports channels. Sports fans who didnt get enough of Michael Phelps and the Olympics could now have a new hero.Big River Man follows Strel as he and his English-speaking son/manag stanley cup er Borut Strel decide to swim the Amazon, in the name of protecting the river and the vast forest around it that shrinks every day from human predation.Before that ordeal, director John Maringouin visits Strels native Slovenia, where the affable man is known to all including cops who stop him while driving drunk and promotes himself shamelessly in everything from bad local movies to beer commercials. He looks more like an aging wrestler than a swimmer, and plays that buffo role to the hilt as he dines on his favorite food, the horse burger.Once in the Peruvian Amazon, Strel t stanley cup he likeable clown becomes Strel the driven athlete. Despite dangerously high blood pressure and all sorts of natural hazards, he enters the water like a walrus in a wet suit and the crowds stanley usa soon follow.Marangouins filming of the swim - a Supersize Me of sport - is a marathon in itself, Bxao Sky Movies rebrands as Sky Cinema
UK-based Goldfinch Studios has unveiled its full slate of productions ahead of the European Film Market EFM in Berlin.Source: Goldfinch StudiosIn October last year, fin stanley cup ancing stanley cup outfit Goldfinch Entertainment teamed with York-based production company GSP Studios to form Goldfinch Studios, which is now operating as a combined production, sales and financing company.Goldfinch has four new productions on its slate, including a project from writer-director Carl Strathie, whose Steven Ogg and Alice Lowe-starring Solis is in post-production.The latest project, which is currently casting up in pre-production, is a sci-fi titled The Encounter set in rural Philad stanley cup elphia in the early 1980s that follows a family who are terrorised by otherworldly beings.Further new productions include elevated genre project In The Hands Of Jesus from first-time director Oliver Vilas, Burners starring Rhianne Barreto, and period drama The Black Callant.Those all join a production slate that already features: Ben Cooksons Waiting For Anya, based on Michael Morpurgos novel; Sometimes, Always, Never previously Triple Word Score , which is being sold internationally by DDI and stars Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, and Jenny Agutter; Mark Murphys The Revenger: An Unromantic Comedy starring Robert Kazinsky and Samantha Barks; Johnny Kevorkians horror Await Further Instructions; and Lawrence Goughs adaptation of Terry Hughes Gatecrash; Gary Nurses urban drama London Boys; and Luke Cresswells big-screen adaptation of hit |
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