Meet Hollywood's next heavy hitters – Globe and Mail

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September 1, 2007 3:47 am
By: tiffreviews

Globe and Mail, Canada - When director Brian De Palma took the stage at the 64th Venice Film Festival yesterday after the screening of his controversial film Redacted, he wept quietly as the audience of 2,000 gave the New Yorker a 10-minute standing ovation. Behind him – equally weepy – were two relatively unknown Canadians, Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss, whose company, the Film Farm, produced the movie that was the toast of Venice. “The screening was quite something,” said Ms. Weiss, who prior to flying to Italy had been nervous about how the audience would react to Mr. De Palma’s grim, fictionalized retelling of the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family. “The audience had a very emotional response to the images, and many were in tears,” said Ms. Weiss, still shaken, from Venice. “Brian’s eyes welled up during the ovation. “… [Full Story]

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