‘Autumn Gold’ masters track movie coming to U.S.; Oscars next?
Jan Tenhaven writes from Berlin that “Autumn Gold,” the masters track documentary that follow five entrants to Lahti worlds, will screen in California this month and, better yet, “will be the only German documentary eligible to run for the next Academy Award in the the documentary category!”
Jan Tenhaven interviews M100 thrower Alfred Proksch after discus at Lahti worlds. The scene didn't appear in his movie. (Photo by Ken Stone)
Jan writes: “I have been busy promoting my film here in Germany and in Austria where it hit theatres last week. You can watch some pictures of me and two of our protagonists from the premiere in Vienna at the Austrian website: www.herbstgold.at
“Anyway, the reason I am writing today is that… AUTUMN GOLD is coming to the US! The film will be screening at two German film festivals in LA and SF: Saturday, October 23rd, 5:00 PM, Aero Theatre, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA as part of the “German Currents” film festival. More details and tickets. Also: Sunday, October 24th, 4:45 PM, Castro Theatre, San Francisco, CA as part of the “Berlin and Beyond” film festival
More details and tickets.
“I will be attending both screenings and will be available for Q&A. The film will also open the Canadian Sports Film Festival tonight in Toronto: There has been a nice article in The Star (Toronto).”
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I have still not seen the whole thing, but the clips I have seen show that this is simply one of the best sports films ever. THE best Masters film ever, I am certain. It has not reached the UK yet, sadly. I wish they had arranged a showing of it at the Eurovets this year. Big opportunity missed. Wouldn’t it be great to see one of it’s stars walk slowly on stage to collect the Oscar?
Slowly?
How do we get to see it? Netflix?
I’ll check with Jan on Netflix.
Jan replies about Netflix: “That will certainly take a while. Our inernational distributor is still working to get a theatrical release in the US, before that nothing will go online.”
Ken,
“Slowly” meant slow enough really to milk the applause!
The scenes shown on t.v. tonight [November 4, 2010]as a News Special were spectacular! 100 year old discus thrower!!
…and the age 90-plus sprinters. But apparently they are looking for distribution financing…but have qualified for Academy Award consideration.
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