Hopper/Welles will be screened next month at the 25th Busan International Film Festival, the largest movie fest in Asia.
The festival is set to run October 7-16 in Busan, South Korea.
Hopper/Welles will be shown in the Icons category, which showcases the latest films of contemporary iconic filmmakers from around the world.
In addition to its showing Asia, Hopper/Welles will also be shown at the American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland on November 5-15.
The film made its debut at the Venice International Film Festival in Italy and had its U.S. premiere this week at the New York Film Festival.
Comprised of previously unknown interview footage uncovered and assembled by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski, Hopper/Welles captures a November 1970 conversation shot during The Other Side of the Wind between Orson Welles and Easy Rider director Dennis Hopper. Two cameras filmed the approximately two-and-a-half-hour conversation, which has been trimmed to 130 minutes.
The overwhelming majority of the two-camera, black and white footage — lit only by hurricane lamps and the glow of a fireplace — had never been publicly seen before. It was among the 1,083 reels of The Other Side of the Wind footage that was inventoried and scanned in 2017.
The late Gary Graver served as cinematographer on Hopper / Welles. His then-wife, Connie Nelson Graver, was a camera assistant with John Willheim on the B camera and R. Michael Stringer as gaffer.
The Wellesnet review of Hopper/Welles can be found at wellesnet.com/hopper-welles-review-wellesnet and an interview with Rymsza and Murawski at wellesnet.com/inside-hopper-welles
HOPPER/WELLES
Director: Orson Welles
Producer: Royal Road Entertainment (Filip Jan Rymsza)
Co-producers: Grindhouse Releasing (Bob Murawski) and Fixafilm (Wojciech Janio)
Executive producers: Jon Anderson, Jonathan Gardner
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Orson Welles with Janice Pennington and Glenn Jacobson
Director of photography: Gary Graver
Cutter: Bob Murawski, a.c.e.
Assistant editor: Dov Samuel
Camera operators: Gary Graver, John Willheim
Assistant camera: Connie Graver
Gaffer: R. Michael Stringer
Sound: Bob Dietz, Jussi Tegelman
Title design: Garson Yu
Running time: 130 minutes
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