Flow

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling the year’s most talked-about movies continues with Flow , Janus Films and Sideshow ‘s dream-like animated feature from director Gints Zilbalodis . Matīss Kaža and Zilbalodis crafted a 35-page cinematic script featuring no dialogue, solely comprised of directorial instructions. The acclaimed Cannes Film Festival darling, Latvia’s submission for this year’s International Feature Film Oscar race, just made the category’s shortlist after sweeping major awards including Best Feature at Annecy and Los Angeles , New York and National Board of Review critics. It has noms in international and animation categories from the Golden Globes and the Annies to Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards. The Janus Films and Sideshow pic hit U.S. theaters November 22 and it just crossed $2 million at the domestic box office. The screenplay chronicles the journey of a cat, capybara, lemur, bird and dog forced to embark on a perilous journey after their homes are devastated by a flood. The writing duo strayed from the traditional beats of storytelling by eliminating the villain and the antagonist, instead creating conflict using the events of the catastrophe to move the story forward. Flow explores the fragility of the environment and celebrates the spirit of friendship and community that empowers these animals to adapt to their new reality. Forced to survive aboard a makeshift vessel, they must navigate a perilous aquatic world, relying on trust, courage and ingenuity to overcome the challenges they face. The absence of humans enhances the enchanting world-building, allowing Kaža and Zilbalodis to create a timeless landscape where architectural elements transcend any specific historical period. Thank you for letting us know that your cinematic opinion is absolutely worthless. Since it was too much for you brain to comprehend, then you should probably stick to your Marvel flicks, kiddo. Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them. The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices. Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice. Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you. Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers. Information about your activity on this service (for instance, forms you submit, non-advertising content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (such as your previous activity on this service or other we