Even in our uncertain pandemic times, we at ScreenAnarchy knew it wouldn't be long before we heard about the next great endeavor from Lindsay Peters. Peters stepped down from Frontières earlier this year, after several years steering that ship to become the most important genre film lab. And now, Peters is taking her knowledge an expertise to another genre development program, this time one that focuses on work by women. We'll let the press release below give the details, and we look forward to seeing the talent that Peters and her team nuture. After six years of successfully supporting the early development of genre film projects, the From Our Dark Side program from Women in Film and Television Vancouver, is shifting to an Advanced Development...
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- 10/8/2020
- Screen Anarchy
I don't know about you but I'm itching to get back to normal life, under whatever definition it means once the current health crisis is over. I for one, am thinking about the long game and how my future plans to attend film festivals have yet to be impacted. Fortunately, when it comes to covering this year's edition of the Frontières International Co-Production Market the team, with a new executive director, have made it easier to participate this year. First of all, the new executive director. Producer Annick Mahnert (The Long Walk and Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist) will take over the role from the recently departed Lindsay Peters. Annick is awesome and many here at Screen Anarchy have the pleasure...
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- 4/15/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Swiss-born industry veteran replaces Lindsay Peters.
Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival programmer Annick Mahnert has been named executive director of the Canadian genre industry platform Frontières as the market said it was taking its July event online.
Swiss-born Mahnert replaces Lindsay Peters, who has departed after six years, and brings vast experience to the role, having served in distribution, sales, acquisitions, production, and festivals. Besides Sitges, she is director of international programming at Fantastic Fest in Austin, and
Meanwhile Frontières has reconfigured its upcoming co-production market, which will take place as planned from July 23-26 in a new digital format.
Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival programmer Annick Mahnert has been named executive director of the Canadian genre industry platform Frontières as the market said it was taking its July event online.
Swiss-born Mahnert replaces Lindsay Peters, who has departed after six years, and brings vast experience to the role, having served in distribution, sales, acquisitions, production, and festivals. Besides Sitges, she is director of international programming at Fantastic Fest in Austin, and
Meanwhile Frontières has reconfigured its upcoming co-production market, which will take place as planned from July 23-26 in a new digital format.
- 4/15/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Frontières, the genre-focused industry initiative, has named Annick Mahnert as its new executive director, following the recent departure of former chief Lindsay Peters.
Mahnert will steer the org through its upcoming event, the International Co-Production Market, which will still take place July 23-26 but in a virtual form due to the global coronavirus disruption. The market usually coincides with the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal but the fest announced last week that it was looking to push to new dates later in the summer due to regulations imposed by the government of Québec calling for the cancelation of cultural events until August 31.
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In its new format, participants in the co-pro market...
Mahnert will steer the org through its upcoming event, the International Co-Production Market, which will still take place July 23-26 but in a virtual form due to the global coronavirus disruption. The market usually coincides with the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal but the fest announced last week that it was looking to push to new dates later in the summer due to regulations imposed by the government of Québec calling for the cancelation of cultural events until August 31.
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In its new format, participants in the co-pro market...
- 4/15/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Renowned films from the market include Raw, Vivarium, Extra Ordinary, Turbo Kid.
Lindsay Peters, executive director of the Canadian genre industry platform Frontières whose successes in recent years have included Raw, Vivarium and Turbo Kid, is departing after six years at the helm, effective April.
Peters took over in 2014 and working with market organisers at Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal to build the international profile of Frontières, forging a critical partnership with the Marché du Film in Cannes in collaboration with Julie Bergeron that launched in 2016.
Since 2017 Frontières produced three annual events: the co-production market at Fantasia, the Cannes platform,...
Lindsay Peters, executive director of the Canadian genre industry platform Frontières whose successes in recent years have included Raw, Vivarium and Turbo Kid, is departing after six years at the helm, effective April.
Peters took over in 2014 and working with market organisers at Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal to build the international profile of Frontières, forging a critical partnership with the Marché du Film in Cannes in collaboration with Julie Bergeron that launched in 2016.
Since 2017 Frontières produced three annual events: the co-production market at Fantasia, the Cannes platform,...
- 4/3/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Well. This is not how we expected to start our weekend. Lindsay Peters, the executive director of Frontières, has decided to step down from leading the genre industry platform that has helped over five dozen genre films get the resources they need to get made and distributed. We will let the press release speak for her, I can only say that I am deeply grateful to Lindsay for allowing myself and ScreenAnarchy to participate in Frontières during her tenure. No other co-production market has opened their doors as wide to myself and the other Anarchists, Izzy and Josh, who have covered the market and its programs in recent years. I often felt like an outsider while there, the monkey with a...
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- 3/27/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Frontieres, the industry initiative for genre film professionals, has named an 11-strong lineup for its 2020 Financing & Packaging Forum.
Frontieres runs three events throughout the year: the Forum, which this year will be held in Sweden in February, the Frontières Platform at the Marché du Film which is held during the Cannes festival in May, and finally the International Co-Production Market at Montreal’s Fantastia festival in July.
The year’s Forum relocates from Helsinki to Karlskrona, Sweden, and will run February 27-29. It is co-organized with The Carl International Film Festival and Nordic Factory, and marks the first collaboration between Frontieres, the Swedish Film Institute and Norwegian Film Institute, and a returning collaboration with the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
This year’s slate features a majority of women directors as participants. Jen Handorf, whose credits as a producer include Alice Lowe’s Prevenge and Ben Parker’s The Chamber,...
Frontieres runs three events throughout the year: the Forum, which this year will be held in Sweden in February, the Frontières Platform at the Marché du Film which is held during the Cannes festival in May, and finally the International Co-Production Market at Montreal’s Fantastia festival in July.
The year’s Forum relocates from Helsinki to Karlskrona, Sweden, and will run February 27-29. It is co-organized with The Carl International Film Festival and Nordic Factory, and marks the first collaboration between Frontieres, the Swedish Film Institute and Norwegian Film Institute, and a returning collaboration with the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
This year’s slate features a majority of women directors as participants. Jen Handorf, whose credits as a producer include Alice Lowe’s Prevenge and Ben Parker’s The Chamber,...
- 1/30/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Event to take place in coastal city of Karlskrona from February 27-29, 2020.
Genre market Frontières has partnered with the Swedish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Norwegian Film Institute, and the Netherlands Film Fund on the fourth edition of the Finance & Packaging Forum set to run in Sweden in February 2020.
The event will take place in the coastal city of Karlskrona from February 27 to 29 and is being organised by Carl International Film Festival and Nordic Factory.
The forum is one of three annual internationally recognised programmes organised by Frontières besides the Frontières Platform in Cannes and the Frontières International...
Genre market Frontières has partnered with the Swedish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Norwegian Film Institute, and the Netherlands Film Fund on the fourth edition of the Finance & Packaging Forum set to run in Sweden in February 2020.
The event will take place in the coastal city of Karlskrona from February 27 to 29 and is being organised by Carl International Film Festival and Nordic Factory.
The forum is one of three annual internationally recognised programmes organised by Frontières besides the Frontières Platform in Cannes and the Frontières International...
- 11/5/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Just as Netflix tries to gain traction in the Middle East by backing local genre series, such as its first Arab original, “Jinn,” from Jordan, and Egypt’s upcoming “Paranormal,” Beirut’s Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival is launching the region’s first platform dedicated to genre films.
Five Arabic-language projects, ranging from a zombie comedy to a supernatural female-empowerment drama, have been selected for the Maskoon Fantastic Lab’s pilot edition, which is set for Nov. 7-8 in Beirut’s Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. All the projects have a strong sociopolitical subtext, organizers say.
“Arab producers and film festivals haven’t really embraced genre cinema yet,” said Myriam Sassine, the fest’s chief exec. “So we felt the need for a platform to encourage and help those filmmakers who would like to venture into genre”
The fest’s artistic director, Antoine Waked, underlined that, at a time when genre...
Five Arabic-language projects, ranging from a zombie comedy to a supernatural female-empowerment drama, have been selected for the Maskoon Fantastic Lab’s pilot edition, which is set for Nov. 7-8 in Beirut’s Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. All the projects have a strong sociopolitical subtext, organizers say.
“Arab producers and film festivals haven’t really embraced genre cinema yet,” said Myriam Sassine, the fest’s chief exec. “So we felt the need for a platform to encourage and help those filmmakers who would like to venture into genre”
The fest’s artistic director, Antoine Waked, underlined that, at a time when genre...
- 9/23/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Cannes’ Film Market – in co-operation with the Fantasia International Film Festival will, for the third year, present the Frontières Platform for genre film projects and works in progress, running May 18-19.
Over the two days, Cannes Film Market will host two platforms for the 14 selected productions: Proof of Concept presentations for those still in financing stages, and a Buyers Showcase for films in post-production or recently completed.
Six features will participate in this year’s Buyer’s Showcase, where representatives will screen footage to sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. Meanwhile, eight projects which participated in the Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum in Helsinki this past February will offer up teasers at the Proof of Concept Presentations.
This year the event will also give out two new awards, the Frontières Warner Music Supervision Award and the Frontières Post Control VFX Boost Award.
“We can’t wait to introduce this year...
Over the two days, Cannes Film Market will host two platforms for the 14 selected productions: Proof of Concept presentations for those still in financing stages, and a Buyers Showcase for films in post-production or recently completed.
Six features will participate in this year’s Buyer’s Showcase, where representatives will screen footage to sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. Meanwhile, eight projects which participated in the Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum in Helsinki this past February will offer up teasers at the Proof of Concept Presentations.
This year the event will also give out two new awards, the Frontières Warner Music Supervision Award and the Frontières Post Control VFX Boost Award.
“We can’t wait to introduce this year...
- 5/9/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Panelists included ‘The Walking Dead’ showrunner Gale Anne Hurd.
Progress has been made towards gender equality across the European cinema industry but more needs to be done, said professionals at the Women in Film and Television Germany’s annual gender equality conference at the Berlinale on Saturday.
Recent data, collated by Strasbourg-based cultural support fund Eurimages showed that only 9% of the directors supported by Eurimages in 2008 were female. Today this stands at 31%.
“It was bad and it’s still bad but it is getting better,” said Eurimages executive director Roberto Olla, speaking on a panel entitled ‘Money, Power and responsibility’.
“It’s still low,...
Progress has been made towards gender equality across the European cinema industry but more needs to be done, said professionals at the Women in Film and Television Germany’s annual gender equality conference at the Berlinale on Saturday.
Recent data, collated by Strasbourg-based cultural support fund Eurimages showed that only 9% of the directors supported by Eurimages in 2008 were female. Today this stands at 31%.
“It was bad and it’s still bad but it is getting better,” said Eurimages executive director Roberto Olla, speaking on a panel entitled ‘Money, Power and responsibility’.
“It’s still low,...
- 2/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Market establishes new partnership with Montreal International Documentary Festival.
Top brass at Frontières have announced the final wave of projects for the co-production market that runs from July 19-22 in Montreal.
In addition to the 16 projects in the Frontières Platform unveiled in the first wave on the Croisette last month, the second wave features 10 projects.
The new titles from emerging and established directors and producers from North America and Europe include The Containment (Mexico) from Jack Zagha and Yossy Zagha, which is co-presented with the Buenos Aires genre showcase Blood Window, and François Blouin’s A Moment Of Pure Joy...
Top brass at Frontières have announced the final wave of projects for the co-production market that runs from July 19-22 in Montreal.
In addition to the 16 projects in the Frontières Platform unveiled in the first wave on the Croisette last month, the second wave features 10 projects.
The new titles from emerging and established directors and producers from North America and Europe include The Containment (Mexico) from Jack Zagha and Yossy Zagha, which is co-presented with the Buenos Aires genre showcase Blood Window, and François Blouin’s A Moment Of Pure Joy...
- 6/19/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Half of features directed by women.
Nate Estabrooks’ Aztec Honeymoon from Canada and Robert San Sebastian’s Bedtime from Spain will be among the projects at the 10th Frontieres co-production market when the Fantasia International Film Festival runs in Montreal from July 19-22.
Half of the features in the line-up are directed by women and this year marks Frontieres’ first project from Ukraine. The complete roster will be announced in June.
The event follows the Frontieres Platform in Cannes this weekend, where attendees are seeing proof of concept presentations of projects in the late finance and packaging stages, a Buyers Showcase,...
Nate Estabrooks’ Aztec Honeymoon from Canada and Robert San Sebastian’s Bedtime from Spain will be among the projects at the 10th Frontieres co-production market when the Fantasia International Film Festival runs in Montreal from July 19-22.
Half of the features in the line-up are directed by women and this year marks Frontieres’ first project from Ukraine. The complete roster will be announced in June.
The event follows the Frontieres Platform in Cannes this weekend, where attendees are seeing proof of concept presentations of projects in the late finance and packaging stages, a Buyers Showcase,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Festival’s Frontières Platform is heading into its second year, following a successful inauguration in 2017.
Organized by the Fantasia Intl. Film Festival, in partnership with the Cannes Film Market, the Frontières Platform is an international co-production market and networking platform for genre projects, aimed to foster relationships in co-production and financing between Europe and North America.
This year will see 16 projects participate in the event which runs May 12-13. Among the activities to be hosted are a Proof of Concept Presentation for projects in advanced financing stages, and a Buyers Showcase for films that are already in post-production or which have recently been completed.
This year’s participants represent a wide range of countries and cultures from across Europe and North America, and for the first time a South American project in Chile’s “The Monster Within.”
Those participating in the Proof of Concept Presentations have previously workshopped...
Organized by the Fantasia Intl. Film Festival, in partnership with the Cannes Film Market, the Frontières Platform is an international co-production market and networking platform for genre projects, aimed to foster relationships in co-production and financing between Europe and North America.
This year will see 16 projects participate in the event which runs May 12-13. Among the activities to be hosted are a Proof of Concept Presentation for projects in advanced financing stages, and a Buyers Showcase for films that are already in post-production or which have recently been completed.
This year’s participants represent a wide range of countries and cultures from across Europe and North America, and for the first time a South American project in Chile’s “The Monster Within.”
Those participating in the Proof of Concept Presentations have previously workshopped...
- 5/1/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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