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Fourteen has been acquired for US distribution by Grasshopper Films. A theatrical release is planned for spring, followed by digital and home video releases.

Following on its honorable mention in the Uruguay International Film Festival in April 2019 (which included a shout-out to “the colossal actress Tallie Medel”), Fourteen will have its Uruguay theatrical premiere at the Cinemateca Uruguaya in Montevideo on Thu, Jan 16, 2020. Fourteen screens in Sala 1 at 5 and 7 pm nightly through Wed, Jan 22, 2020.

Fourteen will be the closing film in a series of contemporary independent films at the University of Guadalajara’s Casa del Arte in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, about 80 miles from Guadalajara. The screening is on Fri Jan 31, 2020 at 7 pm, and is open to the public.

Here are some of the year-end lists on which Fourteen has appeared:

La Vida Útil – top film of 2019 – Alejo Franzetti (Argentina filmmaker), Malena Solarz (Argentina filmmaker), Nicolás Zukerfeld (Argentina filmmaker) (tie), María Aparicio (Argentina filmmaker) (tie), Álvaro Bretal (Argentina critic), Verónica Balduzzi (Argentina filmmaker) (honorable mention), Valeria Fernández (Uruguay filmmaker) (three-way tie)

La Internacional Cinéfila 2019 poll – top five films of 2019 – José Fuentes Navarro (Argentina programmer/critic), Fernando Vílchez Rodríguez (Spain/Peru filmmaker/programmer), Andrea Morán (Spain filmmaker/programmer), Lucas Granero (Argentina critic), Lautaro Garcia Candela (Argentina filmmaker/critic), Martín Emilio Campos (Argentina programmer/critic), André Novais Oliveira (Brazil filmmaker) (honorable mention)

Desistfilm – top films of 2019 – Aldo Padilla (Bolivia/Chile critic) (#7), Raúl Camargo (Chile programmer) (#9), Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa (Peru critic/programmer) (#25)

Sight & Sound poll – top ten films of 2019 – Vadim Rizov (US critic), Christopher Small (UK critic)

Revista Mutaciones (Spain) – top 20 films of 2019 (poll – tie for #18). Top ten films of 2019 – Iván Ginés (Spain critic), Joaquín Fabregat (Spain critic), Mariona Borrull (Spain critic)

Toronto Film Review – top ten films of 2019 – Gaspard Nectoux (France critic) (#5), Blake Williams (Canada filmmaker) (#7), Aret Frost (US critic) (#1), Sofia Bohdanowicz (Canada filmmaker)

Las Nueve Musas poll (Spain) – top films of 2019 – Toni Llena (Spain critic) (#9), Andrea Morán (Spain filmmaker/programmer) (#7), Javier Trigales (Spain programmer) (#2)

Miradas de Cine (Spain) – top ten films of 2019 – Jose Luis Losa (Spain programmer), Paula Arantzazu Ruiz (Spain critic)

Senses of Cinema 2019 World Poll (Australia) – David Heslin (top 10), Michelle Carey (top 13), Leonardo Goi (top 25), Jordan Cronk (top 50), Miguel Marias

Cargo (Germany) – Hannes Brühwiler – top five films of 2019

A Cuarta Parede poll (Spain) – Sergio de Benito – top films of 2019 (#1)

Macguffin007 poll (Spain) – Sergio Casteleiro – top films of 2019 (#2)

El Fondo del Aire Es Rojo (Spain) – Mario Iglesias – top films of 2019 (#1)

The End of Cinema (Canada) – Sean Gilman – top films of 2019 (#4) and top films of the 2010s (#44)

Kasia With Love (Poland) – top films of 2019 (#3)

Apartman Sinemasi poll (Turkey) – Uğur Eymirli – top films of 2019 (#6)

The Culturist (UAE) – Hind Mezaina – top films of 2019 (#7)

Sergio Alpendre (Brazil) – top films of 2019 (#8)

Insertos (Spain) – Santiago Alonso – top ten international films of 2019

Scout Tafoya (US) – top films of 2019 (#11)

Critikat poll (France) – Marin Gérard – top ten films of 2019 (honorable mention)

Nestor Juez (Spain) – top films of 2019 (#14)

Filmloverss (Turkey) – Güvenç Atsüren – top films of 2019 (#15)

Anotações de um Cinéfilo (Brazil) – Filipe Furtado – top films of 2019 (#19)

Henrique Rodrigues Marques (Brazil) – top films of 2019 (#24)

Micropsia (Spain) – Diego Lerer – top international fiction films of 2019 (#34)

Roberto Gonzales (UK) – top films of 2019 (#48)

Le Polyester (France) – top 25 unreleased films of 2019

The Film Stage (USA) – top 30 undistributed films of 2019

Looks as if at least two major Brazilian streaming services, NOW and Vivo Play, are making Fourteen available.

The MDFF Selects series, programmed by Kazik Radwanski and Dan Montgomery, will screen Fourteen and Dan Sallitt’s 2019 short film Caterina at Toronto’s TIFF Lightbox on Thu Feb 20, 2020 at 9 pm.

The 2019 Weyauwega Film Festival gave Fourteen its award for Best Narrative Feature. Actors Tallie Medel and Norma Kuhling were in Weyauwega to accept the award.