SYNOPSIS
Unsatisfied with his place in New York’s art scene, Artist Peter Bjorn relocates to Berlin in search of change. Meanwhile in a remote Polish village, Alicia prepares to become a nun but, feeling at home in nature, her reveries continually distract her from her religious path. When Peter’s much anticipated Berlin debut is panned by critics, he flees to the Polish countryside where he overhears Alicia’s sweet voice in the woods. Both lost in their own ways, their friendship leads them to yet another new beginning.
Awards
Artists and Aliens Festival, Finland 2020 – Best Soundtrack
US In Progress, Paris 2016 – Grand Jury Prize Winner
Distribution
Kino Lorber (North America) + Under The Milky Way (World)
Film Festivals 2020
Artists and Aliens Festival, Finland
2019
Women Under The Influence Los Angeles (WUTY)
Cinequest
2016
USIP prize
* working title was ” Otto My Life is a Soundtrack * Variety Screen Daily
Press Quotes
“With Grind Reset Shine, Jimeno provides an offbeat filmic response to Sarah Thornton’s 2008 bestselling book Seven Days in the Art World – a timely, observational study of the artistic community’s profound ills. And yes, the improvised nature of the acting may fall flat at times, but it also endows the film with an authenticity that has become far too rare in contemporary cinema. Most importantly, it is a film that cleverly navigates the ambiguous relationship between ambition and failure, hope and angst. Like a mise en abyme, it tells its own story: one of an unusual work on an existential journey through an increasingly defunct art world.”
SLEEK MAGAZINE By Benoit Loiseau
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Year: 2019
Length: 92 minutes
Color DCP 24FPS 5.1 Scope 2.39:1
Genre: Drama/ Hybrid
Director: Margarita Jimeno
Executive Producer: Andrew D. Corkin
Consultant Producer: Sol Bondy
Status: Completed
Country: USA/Poland/ Germany
Screening format: DCP
Language: English and Polish with English Subtitles, Available with French and German Subtitles
Locations: Berlin, Paris, NYC, Polish Carpathian Mountains
Main Cast: Jens Louis Valeur-Jaques, Eva Moari, Rezeta Veliu,
Felix Römer, David Olbrich, Hanna Konarowska
Production Company: Hoptza Films (US)
Co-production: ORKA Film (PL)
PROJECT HISTORY
2011 CPH:DOX FORUM Pitch selection
Notes and Music
Shot primarily in Berlin and the Polish Carpathian Mountains, with short stops in New York and Paris, Grind Reset Shine is a hybrid fiction feature with a cast of both professional and first-time actors.
It features soundtrack music by Moon Duo, Marching band, and Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire), amongst others. All the classical music was recorded on location at the church with the Polish Choir Szczawnicki Chór Kameralny (who also play the nuns) and with celebrated English pipe organist James Mcvinnie.
Featuring art performances by Simone Forti, Charlemagne Palestine, and Lilibeth Cuenca.
GRIND RESET SHINE
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SYNOPSIS
Unsatisfied with his place in New York’s art scene, Artist Peter Bjorn relocates to Berlin in search of change. Meanwhile in a remote Polish village, Alicia prepares to become a nun but, feeling at home in nature, her reveries continually distract her from her religious path. When Peter’s much anticipated Berlin debut is panned by critics, he flees to the Polish countryside where he overhears Alicia’s sweet voice in the woods. Both lost in their own ways, their friendship leads them to yet another new beginning.
Awards
Artists and Aliens Festival, Finland 2020 – Best Soundtrack
US In Progress, Paris 2016 – Grand Jury Prize Winner
Distribution
Kino Lorber (North America) + Under The Milky Way (World)
Film Festivals
2020
Artists and Aliens Festival, Finland
2019
Women Under The Influence Los Angeles (WUTY)
Cinequest
Press
2023
10 films to watch in 2023, Monopol Magazin.
2019
Filmmaker Magazine
Mercury News
Sleek Magazine
Dig in Mag
Monopol Magazine print
2017
#40 of The 50 Most Anticipated American Films of 2017
2016
USIP prize
* working title was ” Otto My Life is a Soundtrack *
Variety
Screen Daily
Press Quotes
“With Grind Reset Shine, Jimeno provides an offbeat filmic response to Sarah Thornton’s 2008 bestselling book Seven Days in the Art World – a timely, observational study of the artistic community’s profound ills. And yes, the improvised nature of the acting may fall flat at times, but it also endows the film with an authenticity that has become far too rare in contemporary cinema. Most importantly, it is a film that cleverly navigates the ambiguous relationship between ambition and failure, hope and angst. Like a mise en abyme, it tells its own story: one of an unusual work on an existential journey through an increasingly defunct art world.”
SLEEK MAGAZINE By Benoit Loiseau
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Year: 2019
Length: 92 minutes
Color DCP 24FPS 5.1 Scope 2.39:1
Genre: Drama/ Hybrid
Director: Margarita Jimeno
Executive Producer: Andrew D. Corkin
Consultant Producer: Sol Bondy
Status: Completed
Country: USA/Poland/ Germany
Screening format: DCP
Language: English and Polish with English Subtitles, Available with French and German Subtitles
Locations: Berlin, Paris, NYC, Polish Carpathian Mountains
Main Cast: Jens Louis Valeur-Jaques, Eva Moari, Rezeta Veliu,
Felix Römer, David Olbrich, Hanna Konarowska
Production Company: Hoptza Films (US)
Co-production: ORKA Film (PL)
PROJECT HISTORY
2011 CPH:DOX FORUM Pitch selection
Notes and Music
Shot primarily in Berlin and the Polish Carpathian Mountains, with short stops in New York and Paris, Grind Reset Shine is a hybrid fiction feature with a cast of both professional and first-time actors.
It features soundtrack music by Moon Duo, Marching band, and Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire), amongst others. All the classical music was recorded on location at the church with the Polish Choir Szczawnicki Chór Kameralny (who also play the nuns) and with celebrated English pipe organist James Mcvinnie.
Featuring art performances by Simone Forti, Charlemagne Palestine, and Lilibeth Cuenca.
Behind the scenes music recording clip
Poster design by Henry Jinings