FRED’s Matt Micucci meets filmmaker Kris Kristinsson, whose film “Hearts Know * the Runaway Brides” has its world premiere in the Bright Future section of the 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Kris tells us about the unique travelling filmmaking style he employed to put this film together. He also opens up to us and reveals the heartbreak that inspired him to play with the central subject of the runaway brides, and tells us how the personal nature of the film shaped his overall fascinating vision.
Plot: Nineteen brides, scattered over four continents, run off on their wedding day. Dressed up in their wedding gowns they cross cities, industrial estates, inhospitable rocky outcrops, huge fields. Why? All attempts to explain this from different cultural backgrounds only served to increase the puzzle.
Barbara Allen with her film "House Music: A Cultural Evolution" paints a clear picture of the birth of a genre that is still rocking the dancefloors, and that in Chicago found a second prolific home to develop and evolve.
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Gemma Lynch is the Head of Production of Sardinia film Commission. She has been at the European film Market bringing a huge delegation of professionals from the region to navigate inside the European Film Market to be known and to …