For the past three editions of the European Film Market, as visitors cinched their coats tight and hustled through the February chill, many noticed a stark presence in the shadow of the Martin Gropius Bau: a giant glass cube teeming with overflow crowds, built by the Efm to host the Berlinale Africa Hub.
Conceived as a meeting place to address the unique challenges and opportunities facing filmmakers in Africa and throughout its diaspora, the Africa Hub is arguably the first platform at a top-shelf film festival to offer a stand-alone space entirely devoted to African cinema.
This year it’s leaving its former home and relocating to the Marriott Hotel, the fulfillment of an ambition Efm director Matthijs Wouter Knol has held for the hub since day one. “From the beginning, it was the idea to merge and include it within the venues of the Efm,” he says.
The Berlinale...
Conceived as a meeting place to address the unique challenges and opportunities facing filmmakers in Africa and throughout its diaspora, the Africa Hub is arguably the first platform at a top-shelf film festival to offer a stand-alone space entirely devoted to African cinema.
This year it’s leaving its former home and relocating to the Marriott Hotel, the fulfillment of an ambition Efm director Matthijs Wouter Knol has held for the hub since day one. “From the beginning, it was the idea to merge and include it within the venues of the Efm,” he says.
The Berlinale...
- 2/20/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Durban — Buzzy competition titles and late-night bidding wars might be a staple at some of the world’s biggest film festivals, but sales agents at the 9th edition of the Durban FilmMart (Dfm), which ran parallel to the Durban Int’l. Film Festival this week, said the value of attending the continent’s leading market and finance forum is instead about what one described as “playing the long game.”
“If you’re looking at this as a place where people are selling, categorically not, because the buyers aren’t here,” said Todd Brown, head of international acquisitions at Xyz Films. What drives the Durban mart is “not the selling end, it’s the discovery end.”
He continued, “For me, it’s across the board. I’m looking for directing talent. I’m looking for people who are strong screenwriters. I’m looking for producers who have an interesting eye, and a smart sensibility,...
“If you’re looking at this as a place where people are selling, categorically not, because the buyers aren’t here,” said Todd Brown, head of international acquisitions at Xyz Films. What drives the Durban mart is “not the selling end, it’s the discovery end.”
He continued, “For me, it’s across the board. I’m looking for directing talent. I’m looking for people who are strong screenwriters. I’m looking for producers who have an interesting eye, and a smart sensibility,...
- 7/27/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Rushlake Media picks up Iffr title.
Philipp Hoffmann’s Rushlake Media has burgeoned its international sales slate with the acquisition of two titles.
Source: Rushlake
Who Am I?
The Cologne-based company has taken world rights (excluding Sub-Saharan Africa) to Who Am I?, which has its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) in the Pan-African Cinema Today strand today (Jan 25).
From Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu and co-director Nick Reding, Who Am? is a hybrid documentary and social project that follows the aftermath of the 2007 general elections in Kenya, which divided people among tribal lines. Now, 10 years later, many Kenyans fear that the country is becoming more polarised than ever before.
For the film, the directors used a series of games and interviews to ask children between the ages of 8 and eleven what they understand about discrimination, tribe and religion.
Global Family
Rushlake has also boarded Global Family from Melanie Andernach and Andreas Köhler. The film, which...
Philipp Hoffmann’s Rushlake Media has burgeoned its international sales slate with the acquisition of two titles.
Source: Rushlake
Who Am I?
The Cologne-based company has taken world rights (excluding Sub-Saharan Africa) to Who Am I?, which has its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) in the Pan-African Cinema Today strand today (Jan 25).
From Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu and co-director Nick Reding, Who Am? is a hybrid documentary and social project that follows the aftermath of the 2007 general elections in Kenya, which divided people among tribal lines. Now, 10 years later, many Kenyans fear that the country is becoming more polarised than ever before.
For the film, the directors used a series of games and interviews to ask children between the ages of 8 and eleven what they understand about discrimination, tribe and religion.
Global Family
Rushlake has also boarded Global Family from Melanie Andernach and Andreas Köhler. The film, which...
- 1/25/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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