Deadline Launches Streaming Site For Contenders Film: International

Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for its Contenders Film: International, featuring the full panel videos from Saturday’s award-season showcase of 12 movies submitted by their countries to this year’s Oscar International Feature race.

Click here to launch the streaming site.

Actors who took part in the discussions included South Korean entry Concrete Utopia‘s Lee Byung-hun, Renée Soutendijk from Netherlands’ Sweet Dreams, Eli Skorcheva from Bulgaria’s Blaga’s Lessons and Eliane Umuhire from Belgium’s Omen.

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They were joined among others by directors including J.A. Bayona from Netflix’s Society of the Snow, Hugh Welchman from Poland’s The Peasants, Noora Niasari from Australia’s Shayda, llker Çatak from Germany’s The Teachers’ Lounge, Concrete Utopia‘s Um Tae-hwa, Ena Sendijarević from Sweet Dreams, Stephan Komandarev from Blaga’s Lessons, Omar Hilal from Egypt’s Voy! Voy! Voy!, Jude Anthany Joseph from India’s 2018 – Everyone Is a Hero, Makbul Mubarak from Indonesia’s Autobiography, and Carmen Jaquier from Switzerland’s Thunder.

The list of global studios participating included Sony Pictures Classics; Netflix; 815 Pictures and Lotte Entertainment; Vox Studios, Film Clinic & Image Nation; Lemming Film; Argo Film; Utopia; Kavya Film Company; KawanKawan Studios; and Close Up Films.

Contenders International was one of two Contenders events this past weekend, with Contenders Film: Documentary taking place Sunday. The latter’s streaming site will launch Tuesday.

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