Johnny Mad Dog

Preview and Trailer for Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s JOHNNY MAD DOG

Twitch (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008

Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s film Johnny Mad Dog , which was produced by Mathieu Kassovitz and Benoit Jaubert, is based on Emmanuel Dongala’s novel of the same name. Dongala’s book presents the intertwining stories of two children from an unidentified West African country: Johnny Mad Dog, a guerrilla soldier and Laokole, a girl who goes on the run after town is raided by Johnny Mad Dog’s militia, the Death...

Boys of Mass Destruction

All Africa (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008

In a twist of realism, a new feature film, "Johnny Mad Dog", uses a cast of actual ex-child soldiers from Liberia to portray the violent lives of youth forced to participate in armed conflict.

'Johnny Mad Dog' Movie to Be Screened At UN

All Africa (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008

The award-winning film on child soldiers, "Johnny Mad Dog" filmed in Liberia is expected to be screened today at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Cannes 2008 Winners

FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008

As we already wrote “Entre les Murs” (”The Class“) directed by Laurent Cantet won the Golden Palm (Palme d'Or) at 2008 Cannes Film festival.Other winners included Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time Palme d'Or recipients, who took the screenplay award for “The Silence of Lorna.” Sandra Corveloni, who played a working-class mother in São Paulo in Walter [...]

Cannes Film Festival begins rolling awards - Summary

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008

Cannes, France - The Cannes Film Festival began rolling out its awards Saturday with Kazakh director Sergey Dvortsevoy's film Tulcan about a young man's dreams for a new life in a harsh landscape winning the prize for one of the 12-day movie marathon...

Powerful film shows the world of child soldiers

Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008

A powerful new film, shot on the streets of Monrovia with a cast of former child soldiers from Liberia, depicts the brutal chaos of the civil wars that have consumed generations of African

• Powerful film shows brutal world of child soldiers - ABS CBN

Un Certain Regard: 'Johnny Mad Dog' and 'Delta'

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008

"Johnny Mad Dog," by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, is a brutal and assaultive fiction about Liberian child soldiers that's presented without context or explanation. "Delta," by the Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo, is a beautiful if somewhat cliché art film of life in a Hungarian river settlement.

THE CANNES REPORTS: Today's show: Soderbergh's 'Che'

France24 (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008

Watch our daily show about the Cannes Film Festival, today featuring Steven Soderbergh's eagerly awaited "Che", "Johnny Mad Dog" from Liberia, and a Brazilian beach party.

Watch It! - Cannes: Oustanding discovery of the festival

IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008

By Jonathan Romney What's been wrong about this year’s competition? Some very good films, and a consistent level, but nothing that made critics want to have a good argument, or to throttle the director or each other. One real kick...

Un Certain Regard

Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008

The line-up for the Un Certain Regard category was also announced today with a few familiar faces. The line-up is as follows: - Versailles - dir. Pierre Schöller (screenwriter of Hotel Harabati ) - with Guillaume Depardieu - Johnny Mad Dog - dir. Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire - Sol Cowboy - dir. Thomas Clay - Wolke 9 - dir. Andreas Dresen ( Summer in Berlin ) - O' Horten - dir. Bent Hamer ( Factotum ) - Tokyo!...