‘I am Not Everything I Want To Be’ Doc Acquired By Grasshopper Film

EXCLUSIVE: Grasshopper Film has acquired U.S. rights to I’m Not Everything I Want To Be, the award-winning documentary about Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková that’s contending for Oscars in a number of classes.

Klára Tasovská’s movie received two awards on the Czech Lions (the Czech Republic’s equal of the Academy Awards), together with Best Documentary and Best Editing. It additionally received main prizes on the Torino Film Festival in Italy and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montréal, amongst different awards. The movie is made totally from pictures by Jarcovjáková, a rare artist who started her profession in Czechoslovakia’s Communist period, usually specializing in minorities and marginalized group’s together with the LGBTQ neighborhood.

We have your first take a look at the movie within the trailer above.

“Through a dynamic montage of still images, layered sound design, contemporary music and Jarcovjáková’s own voice drawn from her diaries, the film delivers a wild, intimate, and deeply political cinematic experience,” mentioned Ryan Krivoshey of Grasshopper Film. “We’re thrilled to share it with audiences.”

The movie chronicles the photographer’s “turbulent, decades-long journey,” notes a launch, “as she documents her search for self-acceptance and freedom in Czechoslovakia.”

“Libuše Jarcovjáková’s work has influenced generations of artists in the Czech Republic – to have the opportunity to bring her work to American audiences is sensational,” commented the director. “We are delighted to partner with Grasshopper.”

I’m Not Everything I Want To Be has been chosen by the Czech Republic as its official entry for the Oscar class of Best International Film. Grasshopper Film, which can be submitting the documentary for Best Documentary Feature, will launch the movie theatrically in New York and Los Angeles subsequent month.

The acquisition deal was negotiated by Grasshopper’s Krivoshey, with Wouter Jansen of Square Eyes, which is dealing with worldwide gross sales. The documentary has been offered to quite a few territories, together with Germany and Switzerland (Salzgeber), Austria (Polyfilm), France (Centre audiovisual Simone de Beauvoir), Portugal (No Comboio), Spain (Filmin), Brazil (Filmicca), and India (Big Tree Entertainment).

“I am a photographer and a teacher of photography,” Jarcovjáková writes on her web site. “As I pass through various landscapes, wondrous strange images emerge. What is strange is interesting, but what is most strange is most interesting. I have indulged in out-of-the-ordinary life experiences. I have become a part of different social groups – probably because of my empathy – which is an important part of my personality and gives me an endless source of visual stories to tell.”

Grasshopper Film, based in 2015, is a distribution firm “dedicated to the release of acclaimed and award-winning independent cinema.” Recent titles embrace Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude, Jem Cohen’s Little, Big, And Far, and Roberto Minervini’s The Damned. It launched the 2023 award-winning documentary Pictures of Ghosts, directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho, who’s in Oscar competition this 12 months for the drama The Secret Agent.

Watch the trailer for I’m Not Everything I Want To Be above.