Polish producer Dariusz Jablonski of Apple Film Production has been elected president of the influential European Producers Club (Epc).
Previously a vice-president of the Epc, Jablonski takes over from Gudny Hummelvoll who has held the post since 2020.
Pandora da Cunha Telles of Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes has been re-elected as a vice-president of the Epc, while Carlotta Calori of Rome based Indigo Film and Mariela Besuievsky of Spain’s Tornasol Films also become vice-presidents.
Speaking to Screen at Cannes, Jablonski stressed that the incoming team would focus on protecting independent producers, big or small “especially in light of more and more illiberal governments taking power.
Previously a vice-president of the Epc, Jablonski takes over from Gudny Hummelvoll who has held the post since 2020.
Pandora da Cunha Telles of Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes has been re-elected as a vice-president of the Epc, while Carlotta Calori of Rome based Indigo Film and Mariela Besuievsky of Spain’s Tornasol Films also become vice-presidents.
Speaking to Screen at Cannes, Jablonski stressed that the incoming team would focus on protecting independent producers, big or small “especially in light of more and more illiberal governments taking power.
- 5/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Lisbon-based Ukbar Filmes, run by Pandora da Cunha Telles and Pablo Iraola, is prepping the period series “The Marquise of Alorna” (“A Marquesa de Alorna”), based on the eponymous bestseller by Portuguese author Maria João Lopo de Carvalho.
Participating in the 2nd Iberseries & Platino Industria’s Co-Production and Financing Forum, the 6 x 50’ episode series will be directed by award-winning helmer Tiago Alvarez Marques, known for “Madre Paula” and “A Impostora.”
Written by Mário Cunha, Cláudia Clemente and Rafael Afonso, the series turns on Leonor de Almeida Portugal, best known as the Marquise of Alorna, who as a poet, translator and teacher, was deemed among the first and most prominent feminists of Portugal. She is described to have “survived the great earthquake of 1755, political purges and the French Revolution to become the greatest pioneer in education for women.”
“Telling her story is important as it prompts reflection on women’s place in our society,...
Participating in the 2nd Iberseries & Platino Industria’s Co-Production and Financing Forum, the 6 x 50’ episode series will be directed by award-winning helmer Tiago Alvarez Marques, known for “Madre Paula” and “A Impostora.”
Written by Mário Cunha, Cláudia Clemente and Rafael Afonso, the series turns on Leonor de Almeida Portugal, best known as the Marquise of Alorna, who as a poet, translator and teacher, was deemed among the first and most prominent feminists of Portugal. She is described to have “survived the great earthquake of 1755, political purges and the French Revolution to become the greatest pioneer in education for women.”
“Telling her story is important as it prompts reflection on women’s place in our society,...
- 10/3/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has selected 10 films from seven countries for its works in progress strand.
The strand selects projects in post-production stage, which have a link to the Mediterranean region and Southeastern Europe, and presents them to sales agents, distributors, producers, streaming platforms and festival programmers with the objective to raise finishing funds, secure sales agents, festival premieres and book meetings with potential partners.
“This year’s powerful projects challenge contemporary issues and gaze upon the human condition through gripping imagery, sometimes painfully beautiful storytelling and creative cinematic language. Their common compass navigates us through the subjects of social injustice, exploration of human relationships and common desires and choices people make to treat one another and the environment they inhabit,” the festival said in a statement.
Agora gives out several awards for the works in progress films. These include the Authorwave post-production award...
The strand selects projects in post-production stage, which have a link to the Mediterranean region and Southeastern Europe, and presents them to sales agents, distributors, producers, streaming platforms and festival programmers with the objective to raise finishing funds, secure sales agents, festival premieres and book meetings with potential partners.
“This year’s powerful projects challenge contemporary issues and gaze upon the human condition through gripping imagery, sometimes painfully beautiful storytelling and creative cinematic language. Their common compass navigates us through the subjects of social injustice, exploration of human relationships and common desires and choices people make to treat one another and the environment they inhabit,” the festival said in a statement.
Agora gives out several awards for the works in progress films. These include the Authorwave post-production award...
- 9/28/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Portuguese producers Pandora Cunha Telles and Pablo Iraola, of Ukbar Filmes, are bringing a delegation of six Portuguese women helmers to the Berlinale, to showcase their ambitious project “Told by Women,” – a slate of 10 TV movies by 10 first-time women filmmakers – coproduced with Portuguese public broadcaster, Rtp.
The producers have lined up an intensive mentoring experience with leading international women producers that aims to endow them with the tools to embrace new challenges.
The first season of five films of “Told by Women” was broadcast by Rtp in October 2022, to strong ratings, and the second season of five films will bow this spring.
The mentoring program at the Berlinale involves international producers Sara Silveira, Brazilian producer and founder of Dezenove Som e Imagens, Mariela Besuievsky from Tornasol Filmes, and Gudny Hummelvoll, producer at Hummelfilm, the first woman president of the European Producers Club.
The delegation of Portuguese women directors is comprised by Ana Cunha,...
The producers have lined up an intensive mentoring experience with leading international women producers that aims to endow them with the tools to embrace new challenges.
The first season of five films of “Told by Women” was broadcast by Rtp in October 2022, to strong ratings, and the second season of five films will bow this spring.
The mentoring program at the Berlinale involves international producers Sara Silveira, Brazilian producer and founder of Dezenove Som e Imagens, Mariela Besuievsky from Tornasol Filmes, and Gudny Hummelvoll, producer at Hummelfilm, the first woman president of the European Producers Club.
The delegation of Portuguese women directors is comprised by Ana Cunha,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Shooting is set to start in April in 10 different municipalities of Portugal. Ten adaptations of Portuguese literary works, directed by ten female directors, shot in ten municipalities: such is the concept behind Told by Women, a co-production by Ukbar Filmes, RTP1 and Krakow Film Klaster. A project which, according to producers Pandora da Cunha Telles and Pablo Iraola, is an “unprecedented empowerment program that will allow ten talented professionals to reach national and international markets.” According to Ukbar’s press release, this is also an attempt to enrich the market “with dynamic audiovisual works,” whilst also trying to fix “the asymmetry” experienced by female directors when trying “to access the audiovisual field.”Actresses Anabela Moreira, Ana Cunha, Cristina Carvalhal, Daniela Ruah and Maria João Luís, producer Sofia Teixeira Gomes and directors Diana Antunes, Fabiana Tavares, Laura Seixas and Rita Barbosa accepted Ukbar Filmes’ challenge to direct these television films that represent.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Tarzan and Arab Nasser’s Gaza Mon Amour, Palestine’s official submission for Best International Feature at the 93rd Academy Awards. The film will be released later this year.
Written and directed Tarzan and Arab Nasser, the film stars Salim Daw (Tel Aviv on Fire), Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi (Baghdad Central). “This film is a love message from and to Gaza, and we are thrilled to share it with the American audiences,” said the twin brother filmmakers in a joint statement.
Set in present-day Gaza, the story follows 60-year-old fisherman Issa who is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside,...
Written and directed Tarzan and Arab Nasser, the film stars Salim Daw (Tel Aviv on Fire), Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi (Baghdad Central). “This film is a love message from and to Gaza, and we are thrilled to share it with the American audiences,” said the twin brother filmmakers in a joint statement.
Set in present-day Gaza, the story follows 60-year-old fisherman Issa who is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside,...
- 2/4/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The Open Reel sells film to Tla Releasing for key territories.
With the 2018 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival now underway in the Estonian capital, Official Selection title Sunburn has scored key territory deals.
Torino-based sales agent The Open Reel has sold the film to Philadeliphia-based Tla Releasing for North America, UK and Ireland, France and French-speaking Territories.
Sunburn has its world premiere in Tallinn on Thursday, November 29.
Directed and written by Vicente Alves do Ó, the Portugese psychological drama follows four friends in their 40s who meet for a weekend by the pool. When a sudden call disrupts the quietness of the hot countryside,...
With the 2018 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival now underway in the Estonian capital, Official Selection title Sunburn has scored key territory deals.
Torino-based sales agent The Open Reel has sold the film to Philadeliphia-based Tla Releasing for North America, UK and Ireland, France and French-speaking Territories.
Sunburn has its world premiere in Tallinn on Thursday, November 29.
Directed and written by Vicente Alves do Ó, the Portugese psychological drama follows four friends in their 40s who meet for a weekend by the pool. When a sudden call disrupts the quietness of the hot countryside,...
- 11/26/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Efp’s European Shooting Stars and Producers On The Move Alumni at the Cannes Film Festival 2018Euphoria with European Shooting Stars Jasmine Trinca (Italy 2007) and Riccardo Scamarcio (Italy 2006) was produced by Viola Prestieri (Producer on the Move Italy 2013).International sales agent: True Colors. ( Andrea Pirrello).
European Film Promotion (Efp) and its member organisations are pleased to announce that 28 former participants of Efp’s Producers On The Move programme and seven Shooting Stars will be presenting their films at the Cannes Film Festival.
Efp Managing Director Sonja Heinen says:
We are delighted that we can support such outstanding acting talents and producers at an early stage of their careers by shining a spotlight on and opening new doors for them. Together with our members, we would like to congratulate them on their inspiring work being presented in Cannes.
European Film Promotion (Efp) is a unique network of 38 European member organisations who...
European Film Promotion (Efp) and its member organisations are pleased to announce that 28 former participants of Efp’s Producers On The Move programme and seven Shooting Stars will be presenting their films at the Cannes Film Festival.
Efp Managing Director Sonja Heinen says:
We are delighted that we can support such outstanding acting talents and producers at an early stage of their careers by shining a spotlight on and opening new doors for them. Together with our members, we would like to congratulate them on their inspiring work being presented in Cannes.
European Film Promotion (Efp) is a unique network of 38 European member organisations who...
- 5/3/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The young acting talent will be presented on the opening weekend of next year’s Berlinale.
European Film Promotion (Efp) has revealed the 10 young actors that it has selected for the 2017 edition of European Shooting Stars.
The list includes Romanian actor Tudor Aaron Istodor, best known for his role as Edward II in the BBC production The Plantagenets and Portuguese-British actress Victoria Guerra who has received acclaim for her lead performance in Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos’ Impossible Love.
Italian actor Alessandro Borghi also features on the list, he is most known for his roles in Stefano Sollima’s Suburra and Michael Vanucci’s I Was A Dreamer.
Other nominess include Swedish actress Karin Franz Körlof, who is noted for her performance in Olaf Spaak’s debut feature Garden Lane.
The selected group will be now be presented during the opening weekend of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (February 9 – 19).
This year’s Shooting Stars jury included: Lucinda Syson, casting...
European Film Promotion (Efp) has revealed the 10 young actors that it has selected for the 2017 edition of European Shooting Stars.
The list includes Romanian actor Tudor Aaron Istodor, best known for his role as Edward II in the BBC production The Plantagenets and Portuguese-British actress Victoria Guerra who has received acclaim for her lead performance in Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos’ Impossible Love.
Italian actor Alessandro Borghi also features on the list, he is most known for his roles in Stefano Sollima’s Suburra and Michael Vanucci’s I Was A Dreamer.
Other nominess include Swedish actress Karin Franz Körlof, who is noted for her performance in Olaf Spaak’s debut feature Garden Lane.
The selected group will be now be presented during the opening weekend of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (February 9 – 19).
This year’s Shooting Stars jury included: Lucinda Syson, casting...
- 12/15/2016
- ScreenDaily
Efp chooses panel of industry experts to select Europe’s best acting talents for its annual Berlinale showcase.
European Film Promotion, the international association of organisations promoting European cinema worldwide, has announced its European Shooting Stars jury for 2017.
The panel will select the ten most promising young actors from across Europe in early December.
Members of the jury include Hungarian actress and former Shooting Star Dorka Gyllus (Demimonde), British casting director Lucinda Syson (Batman Begins), Portuguese producer Pandora da Cunha Telles (Bridges Of Saravejo), Swiss film director Xavier Koller (Journey Of Hope) [pictured] and Swedish film editor and critic Jan Lumhold (Svenska Dagbladet).
At the upcoming Berlinale, which runs from February 9 – 19, 2017, Efp will celebrate the 20th edition of its European Shooting Stars initiative.
The Shooting Stars programme aims to bring together European talent with agents, casting directors and international media. The three-day annual event ends with its awards ceremony on February 13, where each selected actor is honoured on the...
European Film Promotion, the international association of organisations promoting European cinema worldwide, has announced its European Shooting Stars jury for 2017.
The panel will select the ten most promising young actors from across Europe in early December.
Members of the jury include Hungarian actress and former Shooting Star Dorka Gyllus (Demimonde), British casting director Lucinda Syson (Batman Begins), Portuguese producer Pandora da Cunha Telles (Bridges Of Saravejo), Swiss film director Xavier Koller (Journey Of Hope) [pictured] and Swedish film editor and critic Jan Lumhold (Svenska Dagbladet).
At the upcoming Berlinale, which runs from February 9 – 19, 2017, Efp will celebrate the 20th edition of its European Shooting Stars initiative.
The Shooting Stars programme aims to bring together European talent with agents, casting directors and international media. The three-day annual event ends with its awards ceremony on February 13, where each selected actor is honoured on the...
- 11/17/2016
- ScreenDaily
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Toronto -- They say it's a global business, so Australia and New Zealand producers are for the first time taking part in Producers Lab Toronto at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. Aussie producers Melanie Coombs of Optimism Film and Mathew Dabner of Gate 41 will join Kiwi counterparts Fiona Copland of filmwork and Robin Laing of StellaFilm, plus 10 European producers and 10 more Canadian movie producers at the fourth annual co-production forum. Coming to Toronto from Europe is Pandora da Cunha Telles of Portugal's Ukbar Filmes, Yael Fogiel of France's Les Films du Poisson, David Grumbach of Luxembourg's
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- 8/7/2013
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged on Wednesday [7] that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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