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Jonás Cuarón is following in the footsteps of his Oscar winning father and taking to the director’s chair once more for the suspenseful feature “Desierto.” Boasting Alfonso Cuarón as executive producer and featuring the cat-and-mouse pairing of Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Gael García Bernal, the drama paints a bleak portrait of the U.S.-Mexican Border as an American vigilante hunts for illegal immigrants trying to make their way into the country.

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The official synopsis reads: “What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.

Many of you likely know the name Alfonso Cuarón, the award-winning director of the science fiction film, Gravity, among other well-respected films. What you may not know is that his son, Jonás Cuarón is a filmmaker in his own right. Not only did the writer/director co-write the script for Gravity with his father, but he directed the companion short film Aningaaq. That particular film follows the man that Sandra Bullock's character talks to over the radio at one point in Gravity.

You can check that out below.

Admittedly, that particularly film didn't really add a whole lot to Gravity for me. In some ways, it kind of took away the magic of wondering who Bullock was talking to, and it also made it feel a lot more bitter in retrospect. But, Cuarón has continued on into features, bringing us the upcoming film Desierto, which has gotten pretty good...

Jonás Cuarón is best known for his work co-writing Gravity with his father Alfonso Cuarón. But the younger Cuarón is a director in his own right with a couple of shorts under his belt, including the fantastic Gravity companion short Aningaaq (watch here), as well as a full length feature. For his sophomore effort Desierto, Jonás Cuarón tackles the thriller.

The movie stars Gael García Bernal as a Mexican migrant crossing illegally into the United States via the desert except that partway through the already perilous journey, he and his group are attacked by a vigilante border patroller (pla [Continued ...]...

After their last collaboration, the breathtaking space odyssey Gravity (which I picked as the best film of 2013), was met with stunning box office numbers and a grand total of seven Oscars, father-son pair Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón are obviously excited to team up on additional projects. Currently, the duo are working on Forsaken, previously known as Desierto, a chase thriller set in the Mexican desert.

Jonás wrote the script with Mateo Garcia, will get behind the camera to direct, and will also produce alongside Alfonso. Now, we’re hearing that Forsaken may bear more similarities to Gravity than initial details about the film had suggested.

The Cuaróns were at Cannes this week, along with Im Global, to talk with potential buyers about how they envision Forsaken unfolding on the big screen. While at the festival, Im Global Founder and Chief Executive Officer Stuart Ford had some interesting comments about the film.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival will see a much less prominent Latino presence than in previous years. Considering that in the past two editions the award for Best Director went to Carlos Reygadas (Post Tenebraz Lux) and Amat Escalante (Heli) respectively, the limited selection of Latin American films should come as surprise. There is only a handful of these films throughout the entire program, but despite the shortage of Latin talent at the Croisette this time around, the ones that made the cut are promising works.

Here are some highlights of the upcoming Latino presence in Cannes.

-Wild Tales by Damián Szifron is the only Latino Film in the main Competition

As the sole Latin American representative to compete for the Palm d’Or, the Argentine film promises to impress audiences at its World Premiere on Saturday May 17th. Starring famous actor Ricardo Darín, as well as Darío Grandinetti, Leonardo Sbaraglia, and Oscar Martínez, the film is said to be controversial and possibly divisive as Cannes’ Thierry Frémaux assured.

-Refugee by Diego Lerman is the only Latin American feature in the Directors’ Fortnight

This is the latest from the Argentine filmmaker, which is a road movie that follows a young boy and his pregnant mother as they run away from a violent environment. Starring Julieta Díaz and Sebastián Molinaro, it’s a co-production between Campo Cine (Argentina) and Burning Blue (Colombia). A short film from Brazil titled Heartless (Sem coração) by Nara Normande y Tião, will also play in this section of the festival. Trincheira Filmes, Garça Torta and CinemaScópio produced the short.

-Gente de Bien (Good People) will be the only Latin American film to play in Cannes’ Critic’s Week

The feature debut from Colombian director Franco Lolli, Gente de Bien, will represent the region during the 53rd edition of this parallel section. The cast includes Brayan Santamaría, Carlos Fernando Pérez and Alejandra Borrero, in a story about a son’s relationship with his father. Charles Tesson, Artistic Director of this program, said of the film “ It is a work of overwhelming sincerity, close to the emotion in some of films by Ozu”. The film was produced by Evidencia Films, Geko Films. Ad Vitam will distribute it in France, and Versatile is its Isa.

Although there will be no Latin American shorts playing in this section, for the 11th consecutive year as part of a Cannes partnership with the Morelia International Film Festival, a program of Mexican shorts will be featured. Among these films are Aningaaq by Jonás Cuarón,The Sidewalk by Anaïs Pareto Onghena, The End of the Existence of Things by Dalia Huerta Cano, Jesuralem by Alicia Segovia Juárez, The Invisible Mountains by Ángel Linares, and The Last Veil by David Palomino Benítez.

Featuring the Academy Award winning score by Steven Price, Mondo's Gravity Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2Xlp is pressed on 180 gram black vinyl (and randomly-inserted variant colorway vinyl) and comes in a deluxe gatefold jacket designed by artist Kevin Tong. This limited edition release is now available for pre-orderHERE. Track listing: 1. "Above Earth" 2. "Debris" 3. "The Void" 4. "Atlantis" 5. "Don't Let Go" 6. "Airlock" 7. "Iss" 8. "Fire" 9. "Parachute" 10. "In the Blind" 11. "Aurora Borealis" 12. "Aningaaq" 13. "Soyuz" 14. "Tiangong" 15. "Shenzou" 16. "Gravity"...

Amid Gravity's incredible awards season run - which culminated this Sunday with 7 Oscar wins at the Academy Awards - director Alfonso Cuarón weighed into the debate surrounding the film's status as a British film.

"You cannot tell from my accent, but I consider myself part of the British film industry," he said as he collected his BAFTA for Best Director earlier this year. "I have lived in London for 13 years and done almost half of my movies here. I make a very good case for curbing immigration."

Just an hour previously, Gravity triumphed in the Best British Film category igniting a mini-social media storm questioning its national identity.

Cuarón's film may not be a kitchen sink drama about working class grind, but look past the Hollywood stars and Warner Bros backing and there's no question that this is a film that - like the Harry Potter series before it...

Wanna talk about scoring some gold? That's just what Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity did when it took home the Academy Awards for “Best Visual Effects,” “Sound Mixing,” “Sound Editing,” “Cinematography,” “Film Editing,” “Original Score,” and “Best Director.” That's 7 Oscars, baby!

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Gravity, directed by Oscar® winner Alfonso Cuaron, stars Oscar® winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space.

Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone—tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth… and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away...

Need a last-minute prep session for tonight's Academy Awards? Turn to Blinkbox and Amazon Instant Video for everything from Captain Phillips to The Act of Killing

A night of sparkly distraction for most film lovers, but a veritable six-month industry in Hollywood, the Academy Awards will finally be dished out tonight. And once you've exhausted the Oscar-party cocktails and made the annual wisecracks about Sarah Jessica Parker's absurd dress, there's not much in it for you if you haven't seen the films in competition.

Happily, 19 of the nominees across various categories can now be viewed online, if you fancy doing some pre-ceremony prep work. Blinkbox has the widest range, including best picture nominee Captain Phillips, sure-fire best actress winner Blue Jasmine, best foreign film hopeful The Great Beauty and documentary favourite The Act of Killing. Amazon Instant Video (the recent reincarnation of LoveFilm), meanwhile, can help you out with Ernest & Celestine,...

In the lead-up to the 86th annual Academy Awards on March 2, HitFix will be bringing you the lowdown on all 24 Oscar categories with multiple entries each day. Take a few notes and bone up on the competition as we give you the edge in your office Oscar pool! The shorts categories can make or break your office predictions pool, and this year in particular, they could really make a difference. It's a tight race overall and if you can figure out where the Academy might go in these fields, you'll have a leg up. Live action might be the most difficult one of the bunch to call, however, as four of the five nominees could easily win the prize. It's an international assortment, entries coming from Spain, France, the UK, Denmark and Finland. (Note the absence of an American voice this year. Pity.) It's usually best to side with the film that rouses the emotions,...

Chicago – Some films fundamentally change what you expect from cinema. “Star Wars” (1977), “Jurassic Park” (1996), “Avatar” (2007) all pushed those boundaries. In my first of a whopping eight theatrical viewings of “Jurassic Park” for instance I never once felt the illusion of watching real dinosaurs was interrupted by suddenly realizing how ‘they did it’ I was simply watching real dinosaurs.

Rating: 4.5/5.0

It seemed somehow an award for years of believing that was what cinema was all about. That you could find a moment where the world you wanted to believe in could be really and truly real. In “Gravity” director Alfonso Cuaron and his team have taken the notion of space adventure and stripped it of the same unreality. Never once did I question where the camera was, or how I was witness to the events onscreen. “Gravity” takes the artifice of film into the atmospheric void of the blank screen so...

In my mind, the mark of a truly great film is its ability to make viewers lose themselves in its storytelling. By that measurement, Gravity isn’t just the greatest film of 2013, but also one of the greatest films I’ve ever had the pleasure of losing myself in.

Looking back on my experiencing watching Gravity in theaters, I knew I was witnessing something truly special almost immediately. Director Alfonso Cuarón goes straight into his money shot with a gorgeous, absorbing and completely petrifying opening sequence, one which lasts an astounding 17 minutes. It’s a bold move, and one that grabbed me like I’ve rarely been grabbed by a film before. His images, of the blissful Planet Earth, of the cold emptiness of space and of two intrepid astronauts, scientist Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and veteran Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney), braving the most hostile of conditions in the pursuit of knowledge,...

Gravity

Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron

Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney

Running Time: 1 hrs 30 mins

Rating: PG-13

Due Out: February 25, 2014

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Plot: Astronauts (Bullock and Clooney) stranded in space must overcome the environment’s challenging conditions.

Who’S It For? If you like movies, here’s one that’s going to change things for you. If you love space, you should already be in line.

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Its visual awe as indisputable as its placement towards the top of a pile categorizing sci-fi film’s best achievements, Gravity does what a very rare amount of films can do: it introduces a new type of experience. Through Pov shots: falling, floating, and most importantly, floating through space. This is a film that physically takes viewers to an environment beyond regular comprehension, and with beautiful scope — a silent Earth always peeking in from the background,...

The 86th Annual Academy Awards will take place Sunday March 2nd at 7pm Eastern time. Here is our overview of the major awards nominees in case you didn’t get to see them yourself.

There’s always a lot of talk leading up to the big day about who will win what awards. We try to make our predictions based on trends from the past, but we can’t help to be swayed by our own personal opinions. Some movies truly strike a chord with us, while others aren’t interesting at all. Furthermore, Oscar films are usually heavy in the drama department and therefore they aren’t always the easiest or most entertaining movies to watch.

That’s why we’re here. Here is your guide to the nominees of this year’s Academy Awards. We’ve compiled the following brief summaries, interesting facts, and critical reviews for all these films and people.

Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 25, 2014

Price: DVD $28.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $35.99, Blu-ray 3D Combo $44.95

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The 2013 science fiction adventure film Gravity starring Sandra Bullock (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) and George Clooney (The Ides of March) has become one of the most honored films of the year, appearing on zillions of “Best of” lists and garnering 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture of the Year, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Bullock, and Achievement in Directing for Alfonso Cuarón (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire).

Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (Clooney) in command. But on a seemingly routine mission, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone in space—tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the darkness. Losing any link to...

News Simon Brew 21 Jan 2014 - 09:33

Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is set to get a packed Blu-ray, and a not-so-packed DVD...

With a bucketload of Oscar nominations now under its belt, Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity's next job will be to conquer the home market. This is where we get to see just how well the film holds up. With the element of spectacle set to be diluted a little by the move to a smaller screen (well, unless you've got a scarily big telly), the narrative itself will come more to the fore. We're intrigued to see how well it works.

The DVD and Blu-ray has been confirmed for a March 3rd 2014 release in the UK. That's running a week behind the Us release, which goes on sale on February 25th 2014.

There's a whole bunch of special features on the Blu-ray, currently listed as:

• Collision Point: The Race to...

Screen Film Summit: Understanding the differences between platforms is key to unlocking the potential of a converging world, attendees at Screen’s Film Summit at the BFI Southbank heard today (Dec 2).

A panel on convergence discussed the huge amount of creative potential in the multi-platform arena, but underlined the fact that the appeal of different platforms to audiences had to be fully understood to make projects really work across diverse platforms.

“The promise of convergence is that we can create these storyworlds,” said Film 4.0 commissioning executive Anna Higgs.

Higgs highlighted the strategy taken by Film 4.0 to the multi-platform release of Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England earlier this year which looked to understand the attraction — and differences — of different platforms.

“Thinking about them all as the same pipe to put the same content is dangerous,” she explained.

The problems posed by the range of terms used to describe the arena was also said to be unhelpful...

There is a scene in Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity where Sandra Bullock makes radio contact with a foreigner in Artic Greenland but in the movie you only see her side of the call. In this short film, Aningaaq, directed by Alfonso Cuaron’s son Jonas Cuaron, we get a seven minute glimpse at the other side of that call.

Short Film: Aningaaq...

The Academy has announced the short list of contenders for this year's Best Short Film - Live Action Oscar competition, and of immediate note is the fact that Jonás Cuarón's "Aningaaq," which Warner Bros. submitted for consideration in the category, didn't make the cut. It would have been a first for a film with a tie to another (sure-fire) Oscar nominee — in this case "Gravity" — to land a nomination in the shorts field and a nice little entry in Academy history as a result. The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed 120 pictures that qualified and...

Sneak Peek "Aningaaq", written, directed, edited and produced by Jonás Cuarón, spinning-off from the feature film "Gravity" and included in the upcoming "Gravity" home video release. Warner Bros. has presented the film now, in order to compete in the category for 'Oscar' for best short film:

"...'Aningaaq' is an Inuit fisherman located in a fjord in Greenland with his wife and son.

"While fishing, he intercepts a radio communication. Approaching the transceiver he turns to talk to a woman he does not know or understand the language.

"Meanwhile, 'Dr. Ryan Stone' (Sandra Bullock) continues her 'mayday' appeal, while adrift in space inside the space station 'China Tiangong 1'..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Aningaaq"...

Viral Video Ryan Lambie 22 Nov 2013 - 10:50

A new seven minute short film provides a new insight into Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity. You can watch Aningaaq here...

Nb: the following contains minor spoilers for Gravity

If you've seen Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, you'll probably remember a moment where Sandra Bullock's Dr Stone attempts to send a distress signal back to Earth, and gets an unexpected response from a man who can't understand a word she says.

The film below, called Aningaaq, provides the other side of that conversation, explaining who the man with the unusual accent was, and the story behind the crying baby and the barking dogs. It's beautifully shot by Cuaron's son Jonas, who spent $100,000 making this complementary piece, which will be packaged as an extra on Gravity's Blu-ray disc.

It provides an emotional extra dimension to an already magnificent film, offering up a contrasting story of loneliness and desolation.

Jean-Claude Van Damme does the splits, Mike Tyson lends an ear and 10 years of The X Factor in 60 seconds

Doing the splits is the theme of this week's viral video chart and we can guarantee that opinion will be divided on the first two clips. Jean-Claude Van Damme, the Belgian martial artist, actor, and director, performs an epic stunt when he does the splits between two reversing lorries.

The stunt, filmed to demonstrate the precision and directional stability of Volvo Dynamic Steering was filmed on a Spanish airstrip at sunrise. Directed by Andreas Nilsson and with a haunting soundtrack called Only Time by Enya, it was filmed in one take.

Such a dramatic advert is, of course, wide open to parody and so our second clip features Channing Tatum, who halts filming on his latest film, 22 Jump Street, to film Jenko's epic split. Cue tension as tea trollies replace the...

"Gravity" has become a bona fide Oscar contender, with much of that buzz thanks to the incredible performance by Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone. She spends most of her screen time alone, stranded in space with little hope of survival. In one of the film’s most pivotal scenes, Stone makes contact with someone on Earth while floating around in a Russian Soyuz capsule. However, the static radio reception is met on the other end by a man speaking in a foreign language and the sounds of a barking dog and crying baby. This exchange serves as a major cathartic moment for Bullock’s character, so if anyone was wondering who the mystery man was, look no further than the new short film “Aningaaq.” Jonas Cuaron, co-writer of “Gravity” and son of its director, Alfonso Cuaron, has written and directed the short companion piece to the $500 million-grossing space odyssey.

Why Watch? Meanwhile, on earth. Aningaaq is the companion to Gravity that fills in the visual space on the other end of Ryan Stone’s last-grasp radio call, and it breathes cold air into an isolated, unhappy story. Directed by Jonas Cuaron, it has the potential to be powerful, but probably not for anyone who hasn’t seen Alfonso Cuaron’s feature. Some have said that it should have been included in the movie — either at the very beginning or in real-time — but I just don’t see it. Part of what made Gravity so powerful was that we were never allowed to escape the environment. There was no safety release valve of flashing down to Houston to see what they were up to and no breather in the form of exposition from Stone’s past life. Including this short (or any shots on earth) would have broken the spell. Luckily...

One of the more emotionally gripping (as opposed to terrifyingly out-of-body) moments in Alfonso Cuaron's 3D masterpiece "Gravity" is the moment when Sandra Bullock's stranded astronaut tries to make contact with someone on earth. Instead, she talks to what sounds like an Inuit man who is talking to his barking dogs. For a brief moment there is hope, but that gets turned into stardust just like everything else. But the human contact does add something that fuels Bullock's character, ultimately to the point where she's able to land safely on earth. Um, spoiler alert.

Well, during "Gravity's" production, Jonas Cuaron, Alfonso's son and the film's co-writer, filmed a seven-minute short that was supposed to debut as part of the film's home video release. But the project, entitled "Aningaaq," turned out so well that Warner Bros. started screening it at festivals and has now entered it into competition...

A short film drawing on the events of Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, and directed by his son Jonas, could be in line to make history

Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón's arthouse sci-fi blockbuster, has been joined in orbit by a short film featuring the voice of Sandra Bullock.

Directed by Cuarón's son Jonas, the spinoff centres on a Greenlander who is contacted by Bullock's character from high above the Earth during Gravity. It features the voice of Bullock as lost-in-space medical engineer Dr Ryan Stone, and was shot on location in Greenland.

The Cuaróns are hoping the stark, abstract film, entitled Aningaaq, will make history as the first live action short to be nominated for the Oscars in the same year as its parent movie.

"It's this moment where the audience and the character get this hope that Ryan is finally going to be Ok," said Jonas, 31, of the connection between his project and Gravity.

If you've seen Gravity - and judging by its monster box office, you have, twice - cast your mind back to the moment Sandra Bullock's astronaut Ryan Stone gets on the comms in the Russian space station and, Major Tom-style, has a fleeting interaction with a disembodied voice on Earth. Well, in a lovely moment of loose-end-tying, the movie's screenwriter, Jonás Cuarón, has made a short film showing what happened at the end of that line. The seven-minute short film, entitled Aningaaq, was originally intended as a Blu-ray extra but has now debuted over at The Hollywood Reporter. It shows an Inuit, played by Greenlander Orto Ignatiussen, providing Stone's garbled lifeline, and offers a starkly beautiful counterpoint to the expanseless reaches of space. "It's this moment where the audience and the character get this hope that [Stone] is finally going to be Ok," Jonás Cuarón told The Hollywood Reporter. "Then...

Just as it was great to go into Gravity knowing as little as possible, I think there’s really no need to describe what you’ll see in Jonás Cuarón...

Director Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) co-wrote his "Gravity" film with his 34-year-old son Jonas, who directed a seven-minute short film, called "Aningaaq," that's meant to be a companion piece to "Gravity." We now have that short film and you can check it out below. Spoilers Ahead: Near the end of "Gravity," Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) finally makes radio contact with Earth. Unfortunately, the people she reaches live in a small village. They don't speak English, but the sound of dogs barking and a child crying in the background make Stone momentarily feel better about her situation. "Aningaaq" shows us the village and gives us a look at the moment Stone communicates with its people. The short film played at the Telluride Film Festival, and many thought that it would be a "Gravity" post-credits scene. Instead, "Aningaaq" was inexplicably shown in front some theatrical showings of "We're the Millers." Trailer:...

The film Aningaaq, which serves as a companion piece to Gravity, has appeared online courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter. The seven-minute short complements a scene in the feature that is only partially heard and not seen: it shows who is on the other end of a transmission when Sandra Bullock's astronaut character makes contact with an Earthly voice that does not speak English.

Now we're able to see that the voice belongs to an Inuit living in icy tundra. As Bullock describes her situation, floating hundreds of miles above the planet,...

Last month we broke the news that Warner Bros. will be submitting the short film "Aningaaq," a companion piece to Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" directed by Jonás Cuarón, for Oscar consideration in the Best Live Action Short race. We also talked to the father and son about what the thought process was behind the piece. Today, well ahead of the film's DVD/Blu-ray release, it looks like you can have a look at the short yourself. "We were adamant that we wanted to stay in the point of view of Ryan [in the 'Gravity'], never cut back to Earth or Houston, nothing," Jonás told...

Last time I saw "Gravity" co-writer Jonas Cuaron, I asked him when we could see the short "Aningaaq" that he made to accompany his father Alfonso's film, which is kicking ass at the box office all over the world ($500 million and counting) and is one of two Oscar frontrunners so far. He said they were working on it. And so they were. Now we can finally see that seven-minute companion piece (below) which was originally intended after viewings in Telluride and Venice as a Warner Home Video extra on the Blu-ray. It shows the other side of a crucial scene where Sandra Bullock's stranded astronaut Ryan Stone makes radio contact with someone on Earth. Now Warners has submitted the film for Oscar consideration in the live-action short category, "where it would make Academy Awards history as the first feature and spinoff short drawn from the same material to be...

Spoiler Alert!!!!

Okay, if you haven't seen "Gravity" yet and don't want us to spoil your fun, then leave...now! I don't want to spoil the fantastic movie for you too!

Now...if you've seen "Gravity," you may remember that one key scene where distressed astronaut Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) with someone but they're just not understanding each other? Well, we now know that she was trying to communicate with an Inuit fisherman living in Greenland. How do we know that? Jonas Cuaron, the son of director Alfonso Cuaron (he also co-wrote the script with his dad) created a short film, a companion film if you may, called "Aningaaq" that explains the other half of the scene (video below).

THR reported that "Aningaaq" is eligible for Oscar consideration in the Best Live-Action Short category. Wouldn't that be cool if "Gravity" gets a Best Picture nod and then the short film gets nominated too?...

Remember in Gravity when Sandra Bullock's character makes radio contact with a foreign stranger and we never see who she's talking to? Of course you remember, you've been a good movie lover and seen Alfonso Cuaron's space thriller a handful of times already. Well, now you can watch an additional part of the movie even more times because the depiction of what's going on on the other end of the radio conversation is streaming online via The Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Alfonso's son, Jonas Cuaron, this seven-minute sequence has been released as a companion short titled Aningaaq, which will also be a part of the DVD/Blu-ray release of the acclaimed feature whenever that hits. What we see is that the stranger is an Inuit man named Aningaaq in Arctic...

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Remember in Gravity when Sandra Bullock's character makes radio contact with a foreign stranger and we never see who she's talking to? Of course you remember, you've been a good movie lover and seen Alfonso Cuaron's space thriller a handful of times already. Well, now you can watch an additional part of the movie even more times because the depiction of what's going on on the other end of the radio conversation is streaming online via The Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Alfonso's son, Jonas Cuaron, this seven-minute sequence has been released as a companion short titled Aningaaq, which will also be a part of the DVD/Blu-ray release of the acclaimed feature whenever that hits. What we see is that the stranger is an Inuit man named Aningaaq in Arctic...

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A lot of credit must be given to Sandra Bullock and her performance in award hopeful Gravity as the Oscar winner spends the majority of the film on screen alone. In one of the most memorable moments toward the end of the film, Bullock’s character Dr. Ryan Stone believes she has made contact with Earth while floating in a Russian Soyuz capsule. However, the static radio reception is met on the other end by a man Stone realizes doesn’t speak English. Through her conversation, however, Stone has kind of a cathartic moment listening to a young child cry and howling like a dog.

During a pivotal scene in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, Sandra Bullock’s character Ryan Stone finds herself running out of hope when trapped inside a Russian space capsule. During the sequence, she makes contact with a man down on earth who is speaking in a foreign language. What unfolds on the other end of that broken conversation, is the subject of a short film by Jonas Cuaron, son of director Alfonso Cuaron, who co-wrote the screenplay. The seven-minute companion piece which was financed by Warner Home Video, introduces Orto Ignatiussen as the title character, an Inuit fisherman on a remote fjord in Greenland, where the short was shot on location. Though it was originally made to be used as bonus content on the Blu-ray release, Warner Bros. has now decided to submit Aningaaq for Oscar consideration in the Best Short Film category due to the positive response it has received at festival screenings.

While watching Sandra Bullock fight for her life in "Gravity" this fall, did anyone else wonder about the voice on the other end of her distress call? Jonas Cuaron's "Aningaaq" shows us who was on the other end of that radio. Read More: Alfonso Cuarón Tells Indiewire Why TV Trumps Cinema at 'Gravity' Reception In a moving scene during "Gravity," Bullock's stranded astronaut Ryan Stone finally makes it into a Russian space capsule to send out a distress call only to be answered by an Inuit who doesn't understand her. Stone listens to the Earthly sounds of dogs howling and a baby crying as she begins to embrace the idea of her death, perhaps soothed by the Inuit's lullaby. Flip that scene and we get "Aningaaq," a short look into the life of man, played by Greenland's Orto Ignatiussen, whose isolation and survival on a barren tundra echoes Bullock's experience in space.

During an emotional moment of Gravity, Sandra Bullock‘s Dr. Ryan Stone sends out a desperate plea for help over the radio on the Russian space capsule she’s trapped in. Her desperate conversation with the man’s voice on the end is one of the more devastating moments of the fantastic film. In the short film Aningaaq,...Read more»...

Jonas Cuarón's Gravity spinoff short film has been unveiled.

The short film, titled Aningaaq, offers viewers the chance to learn more about the male voice Sandra Bullock's Ryan makes contact with via radio in the blockbuster.

Jonas, the son of Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón, co-wrote the screenplay for the Sandra Bullock space epic with his father.

The spinoff follows an Inuit fisherman stationed on a remote fjord in Greenland as he picks up Bullock's voice on the radio.

"It's this moment where the audience and the character get this hope that Ryan is finally going to be okay," Jonas Cuarón, 31, tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Then you realise that everything gets lost in translation."

Aningaaq was originally intended as a bonus feature for the DVD and Blu-ray release of Gravity, but will now be submitted for Oscar consideration following a number of festival screenings.

It will be submitted for the live-action short category,...

The short film companion piece to Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" has gone online. The seven-minute "Aningaaq" follows an Inuit fisherman who receives a distress call from... well you have to see the film to find out.

"Gravity" co-writer Jonas Cuarón is responsible for the short though which shows off a whole other side regarding a key moment in the film. The $100,000-budget short has been submitted to the AMPAS as it's a potential contender for the live-action short film Oscar.

Aningaaq, a short film directed by Jonás Cuarón — Gravity co-screenwriter and son of director Alfonso — reveals the other side of astronaut Ryan Stone's (Sandra Bullock's) "mayday" distress call: A fisherman named Aningaaq picks up the line, and as turns out, he's in Greenland. Even though he's unable to help her, and they can't even fully understand each other's words, the comfort of another human voice just is enough for them both.

A Gravity spinoff? Already? Yes, it's real, but don't panic-- the above short film "Aningaaq" is indeed a companion piece to Gravity, the mammoth hit of the fall. But it's directed by Jonas Cuaron, who co-wrote Gravity's screenplay with his father Alfonso Cuaron, and it was made as a companion piece to the bigger film, revealing the other end of a short phone conversation that Sandra Bullock's character Ryan Stone has from way up in space. The short is a bit of a spoiler if you haven't seen Gravity-- but who hasn't by this point?-- and it's worth watching anyway. In Gravity the scene arrives as Bullock's character is in a moment of desperation, running out of fuel and oxygen and desperately trying to radio for help to anyone who can hear her. Finding Aningaaq is no help-- he can't understand her or do anything to...

A Gravity spinoff? Already? Yes, it's real, but don't panic-- the above short film "Aningaaq" is indeed a companion piece to Gravity, the mammoth hit of the fall. But it's directed by Jonas Cuaron, who co-wrote Gravity's screenplay with his father Alfonso Cuaron, and it was made as a companion piece to the bigger film, revealing the other end of a short phone conversation that Sandra Bullock's character Ryan Stone has from way up in space. The short is a bit of a spoiler if you haven't seen Gravity-- but who hasn't by this point?-- and it's worth watching anyway. In Gravity the scene arrives as Bullock's character is in a moment of desperation, running out of fuel and oxygen and desperately trying to radio for help to anyone who can hear her. Finding Aningaaq is no help-- he can't understand her or do anything to...

After Finally watching Gravity last month in glorious IMAX 3D, I been curious to check out that seven-minute companion piece/short film, titled Aningaaq that has been making noise via festival screenings at Venice and Telluride.

Now Warners has submitted Aningaaq for Oscar consideration in the live-action short category and Hollywood Reporter scored the exclusive short film which we embedded below for you to peep. It’s pretty damn cool.

Aningaaq was financed by Warner Home Video, which initially envisioned the short film as a unique extra feature for Gravity‘s Blu-ray edition. During a pivotal scene in Gravity, Sandra Bullock’s character Ryan Stone, trapped inside a Russian space capsule with little hope of survival, makes contact with a male voice speaking via radio in a foreign language. What unfolds on the other end of that fractured conversation, complete with a barking dog and a crying baby, the subject...

One of the most moving moments in Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" comes when stranded astronaut Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) reaches someone on the radio. At first, she thinks it is Mission Control but quickly realizes it is a stranger who can be of no help to her. Or can he?  Jonas Cuaron, who co-wrote the script with his father, travelled to Greenland to shoot "Aningaaq," a seven-minute short named for the Inuit fisherman who finds himself on the other end of the distress call. Orto Ignatiussen plays the part of this kindly soul who, despite not speaking English, connects with Bullock's character even introducing her to his dog and baby.  The film unspooled at the Venice filmfest and will feature on the upcoming home video release of "Gravity." And Warner Bros. has submitted it for consideration at this year's Oscars in the Live Action Short category.  -Break- Take a look below and then vot.

For anyone who doesn't want to know anything about Alfonso Cuaron's incredible film Gravity, then don't read any further, because there will be some spoilers from here on out. You've been warned. In the sci-fi film, Sandra Bullock's character Ryan Stone ends up by herself inside a Russian space capsule, on the verge of giving up. While at her lowest point, she tries to use the vessel's radio, and ends up communicating with a foreign guy who has a dog and a baby with him. Well, Jonas Cuaron, son of the filmmaker, co-wrote the feature screenplay and directed this companion film called Aningaaq that follows the man on the other end of the radio, an Inuit fisherman stationed on a remote fjord in Greenland. Watch! Here is Jonas Cuaron's short film Aningaaq in full, made available online by THR: Aningaaq was originally just supposed to be a special feature,...

Gravity is no doubt one of the best films of the year and watching this short film just re-enforces just how good it is. Co-Writer and Son of Gravity Director Jonas Cuarón has written and Directed this simply fabulous short film showing the other side of the Sandra Bullock distress call from the movie. If you’ve not seen Gravity yet then this will make no sense but if you have seen it then this is a must watch.

Mild spoilers below

This 7 minute-long short details the distress call that Sandra Bullock’s character Ryan Stone makes to the Chinese space station which she hopes can be her saviour. It takes her a little while to realise that the person she’s actually talking to is on Earth and for all she knows could be the last person she’ll ever talk to. The language is an issue but the...

While we're still baffled as to why Warner Bros. didn't use this as a post-credits treat for the theatrical run of "Gravity" (though they could try and snag audiences a second time by adding it to the movie in an awards season, second run push) this will more than do. "Gravity" co-writer Jonas Cuaron's seven-minute spin-off short film "Aningaaq"has now arrived online in full for you to see. Premiering rather quietly this summer at the Venice Film Festival (where, oddly enough (again), it didn't even feature alongside "Gravity"), the short film centers on the Inuit ice-fisherman in Greenland (played by Orto Ignatiussen) that Sandra Bullock's imperilled astronaut Ryan Stone makes radio contact with briefly while floating in outer space, trying to make her way back home. Cuaron tells THR this short was assembled "guerilla style," shot for $100,000 on location in Greenland (most which covered transportation for the crew...

I already wrote about Jonas Cuaron's short film Aningaaq, which is something of a companion piece to Gravity, which Jonas co-wrote with his father, Alfonso Cuaron, who, of course, directed Gravity. Jonas, however, directed Aningaaq, a Greenland-set short film centered on an ice-fishing Inuit by the name of Aningaaq (Orto Ignatiussen), who happens to be the voice on the other end of the line during the scene in Gravity where Sandra Bullock's character manages to briefly make contact with Earth. In Gravity we only see Bullock's side of the conversation, Aningaaq shows the other side. The short will be made available on the DVD and Blu-ray for Gravity, but it has now come online and can be watched directly below. Here's the synopsis from the Venice Film Festival where it played earlier this year: Aningaaq, an Inuit fisherman camping on the ice over a frozen fjord, talks through a...