Exclusive: Germany’s Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion is gearing up for Sundance Film Festival by changing its corporate identity to Beetz Brothers Film Production, and unveiling new projects on Boney M and the Titan Disaster as part of an international push.
The Leonine Studios-owned producer’s new name reflects the relationship of its co-founders, brothers Christian and Reinhardt Beetz, and comes as the company lines up a series of new projects that form part of its push into international premium docs. It also comes ahead of Beetz Brothers’ latest doc, Eternal You, competing in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance in Utah, as announced earlier this week.
Christian Beetz told Deadline the company will is also co-developing a feature-length doc about the Germany cult music group Boney M alongside the Twilight saga producer Temple Hill. Beetz Brothers senior producer Kerstin Meyer-Beetz is developing the project alongside Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen,...
The Leonine Studios-owned producer’s new name reflects the relationship of its co-founders, brothers Christian and Reinhardt Beetz, and comes as the company lines up a series of new projects that form part of its push into international premium docs. It also comes ahead of Beetz Brothers’ latest doc, Eternal You, competing in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance in Utah, as announced earlier this week.
Christian Beetz told Deadline the company will is also co-developing a feature-length doc about the Germany cult music group Boney M alongside the Twilight saga producer Temple Hill. Beetz Brothers senior producer Kerstin Meyer-Beetz is developing the project alongside Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen,...
- 1/12/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO has picked up the U.S. TV rights to the feature documentary "Sins of My Father," an official selection in the World Documentary competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
It is slated to premiere on the pay cable network this year, possibly in the fall.
"Sins," directed and produced by New York-based Argentinean filmmaker Nicolas Entel, tells the inside story of Pablo Escobar, the most notorious drug lord in Colombian history, through the eyes of his son, Sebastian Marroquin, who changed his name and fled Colombia after his father's death.
The documentary features interviews with Marroquin and his mother, Maria Victoria, as well as never before seen pictures and home movies from the Escobar archive. It also has Marroquin meeting the sons of prominent political figures, including Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento, killed by Escobar and his men 20 years ago.
"Sins" took four years to make, said Entel, who came to the U.
It is slated to premiere on the pay cable network this year, possibly in the fall.
"Sins," directed and produced by New York-based Argentinean filmmaker Nicolas Entel, tells the inside story of Pablo Escobar, the most notorious drug lord in Colombian history, through the eyes of his son, Sebastian Marroquin, who changed his name and fled Colombia after his father's death.
The documentary features interviews with Marroquin and his mother, Maria Victoria, as well as never before seen pictures and home movies from the Escobar archive. It also has Marroquin meeting the sons of prominent political figures, including Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento, killed by Escobar and his men 20 years ago.
"Sins" took four years to make, said Entel, who came to the U.
- 1/7/2010
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The European Film Academy, in co-operation with the European cultural channel Arte, has awarded the film "Rene" with the European Film Academy Documentary 2008 - Prix Arte award.
The European Film Academy annually honors an outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking. The recipient of the award is chosen by an independent jury and this year's jury was made up of Danish producer Karoline Leth, Finnish program director of the Moscow Film Festival, Kirsi Tykkyläinen, and British producer Alan Hayling. They screened all ten nominated documentaries at Berlin's Arsenal cinema and decided on the winner.
The jury statement regarding the winning documentary "Rene" said, "This is a film which tells a powerful story - filmed over 20 years - about an extraordinary character on the edge of society. It is a longitual documentary of outstanding quality. The jury found its examination of the relationship between subject and filmmaker fascinating and thought-provoking."
The award will...
The European Film Academy annually honors an outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking. The recipient of the award is chosen by an independent jury and this year's jury was made up of Danish producer Karoline Leth, Finnish program director of the Moscow Film Festival, Kirsi Tykkyläinen, and British producer Alan Hayling. They screened all ten nominated documentaries at Berlin's Arsenal cinema and decided on the winner.
The jury statement regarding the winning documentary "Rene" said, "This is a film which tells a powerful story - filmed over 20 years - about an extraordinary character on the edge of society. It is a longitual documentary of outstanding quality. The jury found its examination of the relationship between subject and filmmaker fascinating and thought-provoking."
The award will...
- 10/22/2008
- icelebz.com
Cologne, Germany -- Politics, big and small, are the themes running through this year's nominees for the Prix Arte -- the European Film Academy's best documentary award.
Political films of all stripes will be in the running for Europe's top docu prize, from resurgent Russian nationalism in Mikhail Morozov's "Durakovo -- Village of Fools" to African dictatorship in Klaarte Quirijns' "The Dictator Hunter"; from a private look at the former Czech president in Pavel Kotecky and Miroslav Janek's "Citizen Havel" to "Shadow of the Holy Book," Arto Halonen's comic criticism of crony capitalism.
Other nominees include "Children. As Times Flies," Thomas Heise's picture of social deprivation in eastern Germany; "Rene," a 20 years-in-the-making portrait of a petty criminal from Czech director Helena Trestikova; and "The Mother," Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov's look at a woman raising her family on a Russian farm away from her violent husband.
Political films of all stripes will be in the running for Europe's top docu prize, from resurgent Russian nationalism in Mikhail Morozov's "Durakovo -- Village of Fools" to African dictatorship in Klaarte Quirijns' "The Dictator Hunter"; from a private look at the former Czech president in Pavel Kotecky and Miroslav Janek's "Citizen Havel" to "Shadow of the Holy Book," Arto Halonen's comic criticism of crony capitalism.
Other nominees include "Children. As Times Flies," Thomas Heise's picture of social deprivation in eastern Germany; "Rene," a 20 years-in-the-making portrait of a petty criminal from Czech director Helena Trestikova; and "The Mother," Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov's look at a woman raising her family on a Russian farm away from her violent husband.
- 10/16/2008
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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