Sony Pictures Classics' AQUARELA will open in the Bay Area on August 23.
The film was shot in 96fps and will be presented in 48 fps with Dolby Atmos in select theatres.
#YOU ARE INVITED TO THE FOLLOWING PRESS SCREENING#
Wednesday, August 14 at 11am
AMC Metreon
135 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Official Selection - Venice Film Festival 2018
Official Selection - BFI London Film Festival 2018
Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival 2019
Official Selection - South by Southwest Film Festival 2019
Official Selection - SFFILM Festival 2019
Opens August 23 AMC Metreon 16 in San Francisco
Opens August 30 Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill and XD in Pleasant Hill
AMC Saratoga 14 in San Jose
Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael
Opens September 6 Summerfield Cinemas in Santa Rosa
Opens September 13 Landmark's Nickelodeon Theatre in Santa Cruz
Opens September 20 The Tower Theatre in Sacramento
AQUARELA takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Captured at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. AQUARELA is a Sony Pictures Classics release, runs 90 minutes, is in English, and is rated PG.
About the film Captured at a rare 96 frames-per-second, AQUARELA is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, water is AQUARELA’s main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky capturing her many personalities in startling cinematic clarity. The film will be shown in theaters at 48 frames-per-second, double the typical 24 frames-per-second, as projectors with the ability to project at 96-frames-per-second are extremely rare today, but when the time comes that the capacity is there, AQUARELA will be one of the first films to be shown at that speed.
About Director/Writer/Cinematographer/Editor Victor Kossakovsky
Victor Kossakovsky is an innovative documentary filmmaker whose films have been honored with more than 100 awards in national and international festivals. His distinctive filmography spans many different subjects but always explores the interplay of reality and poetic moments. He began his career in motion pictures at the Leningrad studio of Documentaries as assistant cameraman, assistant director and editor at 1978. He studied screenwriting and directing at Moscow HCSF at 1986-1988. In 1989 he directed his first feature LOSEV and then in 1992 his most famous documentary, THE BELOVS, which won both the VPRO Joris Ivens Award and the Audience Award at IDFA and dozens of other awards at international festivals around the world. In 2011, Kossakovsky’s ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! was selected as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival. In many of his films, as with AQUARELA, Kossakovsky has served simultaneously as director, editor, cinematographer and writer. He continues to serve as a teacher and mentor to aspiring filmmakers and documentarians globally. Victor Kossakovsky was born in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad at the time) on July 19, 1961.
