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Features world premieres of Cindy Jansen’s documentary Prince Of Muck and Richie Adams’ The Road Dance.
The 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has announced the full programme for its 2021 edition, which will run August 18-25 as a combination of in-person and online screenings.
It includes world premieres of Cindy Jansen’s documentary Prince Of Muck, about the retired patriarch of an Inner Hebridean island; and Richie Adams’ The Road Dance based on Stv News presenter John MacKay’s book. MacKay also stars in the film.
Further titles include the UK premieres of Leos Carax’s Cannes opening film...
The 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has announced the full programme for its 2021 edition, which will run August 18-25 as a combination of in-person and online screenings.
It includes world premieres of Cindy Jansen’s documentary Prince Of Muck, about the retired patriarch of an Inner Hebridean island; and Richie Adams’ The Road Dance based on Stv News presenter John MacKay’s book. MacKay also stars in the film.
Further titles include the UK premieres of Leos Carax’s Cannes opening film...
- 7/28/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
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Physical and outdoor screenings to take place at summer edition of festival.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed it will host a hybrid event from August 18-25, including both indoor and outdoor screenings in the city and throughout Scotland.
Physical screenings and events will take place at Eiff’s main Filmhouse Cinema venue as well as on Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square, where a free programme of “cinematic favourites” will be shown.
Further outdoor screenings will be hosted just outside the city at Port Edgar Marina on nearby estuary the Firth of Forth, where a purpose-built outdoor cinema...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed it will host a hybrid event from August 18-25, including both indoor and outdoor screenings in the city and throughout Scotland.
Physical screenings and events will take place at Eiff’s main Filmhouse Cinema venue as well as on Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square, where a free programme of “cinematic favourites” will be shown.
Further outdoor screenings will be hosted just outside the city at Port Edgar Marina on nearby estuary the Firth of Forth, where a purpose-built outdoor cinema...
- 5/27/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
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Discussions are underway for an online-only version of the festival.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) is planning to host a virtual edition in August and has assembled a new team to deliver the event, providing funding can be secured.
The festival is understood to have recruited Nick Varley, the founder and former co-ceo of distributor Park Circus, to oversee the proposed online-only edition, which is dependent on funding from Screen Scotland. The consulting role is a temporary one to assist with the planning of this year’s edition. Varley was previously director of Glasgow Film Festival, when it launched...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) is planning to host a virtual edition in August and has assembled a new team to deliver the event, providing funding can be secured.
The festival is understood to have recruited Nick Varley, the founder and former co-ceo of distributor Park Circus, to oversee the proposed online-only edition, which is dependent on funding from Screen Scotland. The consulting role is a temporary one to assist with the planning of this year’s edition. Varley was previously director of Glasgow Film Festival, when it launched...
- 4/13/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Picturehouse Entertainment has picked up U.K. rights to Shola Amoo’s Sundance coming-of-age movie “The Last Tree” from Great Point Media.
The deal was negotiated by Picturehouse’s acquisitions manager, Paul Ridd, and Great Point’s head of sales, Nada Cirjanic, at Sundance, where the well-received film opened the World Dramatic Competition.
Amoo’s (“Dear Mr. Shakespeare”) movie is semi-autobiographical and follows a British-Nigerian boy, Femi, who moves from a white rural community to a diverse and deprived London neighborhood. Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it means to be a young black man in London in the early 2000s.
“The coming-of-age saga that ensues thoughtfully alternates universal adolescent insecurities with urgently specific minority politics,” Variety said in its review.
Picturehouse has taken all U.K. rights to the film. “We’ve been fans of Shola’s bold, distinctive work for some time now,...
The deal was negotiated by Picturehouse’s acquisitions manager, Paul Ridd, and Great Point’s head of sales, Nada Cirjanic, at Sundance, where the well-received film opened the World Dramatic Competition.
Amoo’s (“Dear Mr. Shakespeare”) movie is semi-autobiographical and follows a British-Nigerian boy, Femi, who moves from a white rural community to a diverse and deprived London neighborhood. Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it means to be a young black man in London in the early 2000s.
“The coming-of-age saga that ensues thoughtfully alternates universal adolescent insecurities with urgently specific minority politics,” Variety said in its review.
Picturehouse has taken all U.K. rights to the film. “We’ve been fans of Shola’s bold, distinctive work for some time now,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
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Great Point Media and The Development Partnership, the development and production arm of the talent agency the Artists Partnership, are joining forces to develop, package, and co-produce multiple films, kicking off with three projects, including “Chasing Agent Freegard,” starring James Norton (“War & Peace”).
“Chasing Agent Freegard,” which is being produced by “Captain Phillips” co-producer Michael Bronner, is based on the gripping true story of Robert Hendy-Freegard, a con man who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the Ira. Norton, who stars in upcoming Berlin competition title “Mr. Jones” by Agnieszka Holland and will be seen next in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women,” will executive produce “Chasing Agent Freegard” through his recently launched banner, Rabbit Track Pictures.
The other two projects to be developed under the agreement are “Let It Go” and “Rose.” Produced by Damian Jones...
“Chasing Agent Freegard,” which is being produced by “Captain Phillips” co-producer Michael Bronner, is based on the gripping true story of Robert Hendy-Freegard, a con man who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the Ira. Norton, who stars in upcoming Berlin competition title “Mr. Jones” by Agnieszka Holland and will be seen next in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women,” will executive produce “Chasing Agent Freegard” through his recently launched banner, Rabbit Track Pictures.
The other two projects to be developed under the agreement are “Let It Go” and “Rose.” Produced by Damian Jones...
- 1/21/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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Titles include ‘Chasing Agent Freegard’ with James Norton.
UK-based finance and sales outfit Great Point Media is teaming with The Development Partnership, the production initiative run by talent firm The Artists Partnership, on a slate of feature films.
Great Point will handle sales and fund management on the titles, the initial three of which have been unveiled: Chasing Agent Freegard, Let It Go and Rose.
Starring James Norton, Chasing Agent Freegard is based on the true story of con man Robert Hendy-Freegard, who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the Ira.
UK-based finance and sales outfit Great Point Media is teaming with The Development Partnership, the production initiative run by talent firm The Artists Partnership, on a slate of feature films.
Great Point will handle sales and fund management on the titles, the initial three of which have been unveiled: Chasing Agent Freegard, Let It Go and Rose.
Starring James Norton, Chasing Agent Freegard is based on the true story of con man Robert Hendy-Freegard, who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the Ira.
- 1/21/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: A Prayer Before Dawn and Johnny Mad Dog director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is set to direct a feature based on the remarkable life and career of World War II soldier Freddy Spencer Chapman.
Great Point Media and Under The Shadow producers Wigwam are developing the project, which is being penned by Ben Mac Brown. Great Point will also handle sales.
Decorated war hero Chapman was raised in a vicarage after losing both parents at an early age. He would go on to scale the Himalayas, learn to speak Inuit, and become a botanist, writer, photographer and anthropologist. In 1941, with Japanese invading forces advancing fast, the British soldier volunteered to operate a counter insurgency behind enemy lines in the Malayan jungle.
In a fiercely dangerous environment, assumed dead and at the mercy of local feuding guerrilla factions, he pushed himself to his physical and psychological limits in order to survive. He...
Great Point Media and Under The Shadow producers Wigwam are developing the project, which is being penned by Ben Mac Brown. Great Point will also handle sales.
Decorated war hero Chapman was raised in a vicarage after losing both parents at an early age. He would go on to scale the Himalayas, learn to speak Inuit, and become a botanist, writer, photographer and anthropologist. In 1941, with Japanese invading forces advancing fast, the British soldier volunteered to operate a counter insurgency behind enemy lines in the Malayan jungle.
In a fiercely dangerous environment, assumed dead and at the mercy of local feuding guerrilla factions, he pushed himself to his physical and psychological limits in order to survive. He...
- 1/17/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Epix is reteaming with Deep Web helmer Alex Winter for The Panama Papers, an investigative documentary feature from Bungalow Media + Entertainment, Trouper Productions and Zipper Bros. Films, for premiere Monday, November 26 at 9 Pm Et.
The Panama Papers details the unprecedented coordination of journalists from around the world working in secret, at great personal risk, to expose the largest data leak in history: a global corruption scandal involving corrupt power brokers, the uber rich, elected officials, dictators, cartel bosses, athletes and celebrities who had used the Panamanian law firm of Mossack Fonseca to hide their money. The story cracked open a hidden network of tax evasion, fraud, cronyism, bribing government officials, rigging elections, and murder.
Produced by Robert Friedman, Winter and Glen Zipper, The Panama Papers strikes at the heart of the biggest themes of our times; income inequality, whistleblowers and corrupt power-brokers manipulating world governments and big business. Oscar...
The Panama Papers details the unprecedented coordination of journalists from around the world working in secret, at great personal risk, to expose the largest data leak in history: a global corruption scandal involving corrupt power brokers, the uber rich, elected officials, dictators, cartel bosses, athletes and celebrities who had used the Panamanian law firm of Mossack Fonseca to hide their money. The story cracked open a hidden network of tax evasion, fraud, cronyism, bribing government officials, rigging elections, and murder.
Produced by Robert Friedman, Winter and Glen Zipper, The Panama Papers strikes at the heart of the biggest themes of our times; income inequality, whistleblowers and corrupt power-brokers manipulating world governments and big business. Oscar...
- 10/9/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi Jr.’s London-based Great Point Media (Gpm) has made three additions to its film and TV sales team.
Jordan Allwood joins as Sales Executive after working most recently at Altitude Film Sales as International Sales Co-ordinator. Joining as Sales Assistant are both Lucas Meurin, formerly a production manager at Canal + in Paris, and Regys Badi, who was most recently a Team Co-ordinator at Discovery Communications.
Last November, sales veteran Nada Cirjanic, formerly of Independent Film Sales, joined as Gpm’s Head of Sales while Peta Browne, Gpm’s Head of International Marketing, joined from Umedia.
In a joint statement, Reeve and Halmi said, “Jordan Allwood brings a superb set of skills and knowledge to Great Point and he is already a firm favorite with international buyers.” Cirjanic added, “We’re delighted to add Jordan, Lucas and Regys to our growing team in time for our autumn slate announcements.
Jordan Allwood joins as Sales Executive after working most recently at Altitude Film Sales as International Sales Co-ordinator. Joining as Sales Assistant are both Lucas Meurin, formerly a production manager at Canal + in Paris, and Regys Badi, who was most recently a Team Co-ordinator at Discovery Communications.
Last November, sales veteran Nada Cirjanic, formerly of Independent Film Sales, joined as Gpm’s Head of Sales while Peta Browne, Gpm’s Head of International Marketing, joined from Umedia.
In a joint statement, Reeve and Halmi said, “Jordan Allwood brings a superb set of skills and knowledge to Great Point and he is already a firm favorite with international buyers.” Cirjanic added, “We’re delighted to add Jordan, Lucas and Regys to our growing team in time for our autumn slate announcements.
- 7/18/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film at the 72nd Edinburgh International Film Festival has gone to Matt Palmer’s debut feature Calibre.
Dunkir’s Jack Lowden and The Survivalist star Martin McCann play two lifelong friends who get more than they bargained for when they head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. Netflix previously picked up world rights to the film, which had its world premiere in Edinburgh.
The winner was chosen by the Michael Powell Jury comprised of Ana Ularu, Jason Connery and Iain de Caestecker. The jury said, “Beautifully shot, technically accomplished, with a fantastic ensemble performance, director and screenwriter Matt Palmer pitches the tension and emotional journey flawlessly. We are fully invested in the characters and their dilemmas as the choices they make lead to a shattering conclusion.”
The award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film,...
Dunkir’s Jack Lowden and The Survivalist star Martin McCann play two lifelong friends who get more than they bargained for when they head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. Netflix previously picked up world rights to the film, which had its world premiere in Edinburgh.
The winner was chosen by the Michael Powell Jury comprised of Ana Ularu, Jason Connery and Iain de Caestecker. The jury said, “Beautifully shot, technically accomplished, with a fantastic ensemble performance, director and screenwriter Matt Palmer pitches the tension and emotional journey flawlessly. We are fully invested in the characters and their dilemmas as the choices they make lead to a shattering conclusion.”
The award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film,...
- 6/28/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: Chaos Walking director Doug Liman has joined upcoming documentary Tread, about the Colorado welder who rampaged through his local town in a weaponized bulldozer. Liman will produce the Paul Solet-directed (Grace) movie alongside Undefeated producer Glen Zipper and Sean Stuart, producer on Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming Muhammad Ali documentary for HBO. Great Point Media will launch the project in Cannes next month. CAA reps U.S.
The project charts the story of Marvin John Heemeyer, the American welder who in 2004 became known for his rampage with a modified bulldozer. Outraged over zoning disputes, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it to demolish the town hall, the former mayor’s house, and other buildings in Granby, Colorado. The rampage ended when the bulldozer got stuck in the basement of a Gambles store he was in the process of destroying. Heemeyer...
The project charts the story of Marvin John Heemeyer, the American welder who in 2004 became known for his rampage with a modified bulldozer. Outraged over zoning disputes, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it to demolish the town hall, the former mayor’s house, and other buildings in Granby, Colorado. The rampage ended when the bulldozer got stuck in the basement of a Gambles store he was in the process of destroying. Heemeyer...
- 4/27/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Great Point Media has boarded international sales on the latest feature from Deep State and State Of Play (TV) producer Endor Productions, I can reveal. Bafta-nominated actress Maxine Peake (Funny Cow, The Falling) stars in the BFI-backed Gothic mystery alongside Britannia actress Eleanor Worthington-Cox, the youngest recipient of the best actress Laurence Olivier award for her role of the theatre production of Matilda, and newcomer Jodie Innes.
Buzzed-about UK director-writer William McGregor’s under-the-radar first feature, which currently has a working title of The Dark Outside, follows a young girl who desperately tries to hold her family together in the face of a hostile local community, a rapacious slate mine nearing their land and a growing darkness that has begun to haunt her home life.
Shot on location in Snowdonia, Wales, supporting cast on the movie includes Richard Harrington (Hinterland), Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (The Commuter) and Mark Lewis Jones...
Buzzed-about UK director-writer William McGregor’s under-the-radar first feature, which currently has a working title of The Dark Outside, follows a young girl who desperately tries to hold her family together in the face of a hostile local community, a rapacious slate mine nearing their land and a growing darkness that has begun to haunt her home life.
Shot on location in Snowdonia, Wales, supporting cast on the movie includes Richard Harrington (Hinterland), Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (The Commuter) and Mark Lewis Jones...
- 4/5/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: Grindstone nabs UK drama with Johnny Harris, Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley and Ian McShane.
Sales outfit Independent and Us buyer Grindstone Entertainment Group have closed a deal for all North American rights on Johnny Harris and Thomas Napper’s UK boxing drama Jawbone.
The film will be distributed through Lionsgate Home Entertainment in the territory.
The deal was negotiated by Grindstone’s head of acquisitions Stan Wertlieb and Independent’s head of sales Nada Cirjanic.
Jawbone marks the writing debut of Snow White And The Huntsman and This Is England actor Johnny Harris, who also stars in the film alongside Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley and Ian McShane, with Thomas Napper making his feature directional debut.
In the movie, a former youth boxing champion (Harris) returns to his childhood boxing club in the hope of rekindling past glory after hitting rock bottom.
Music comes from Paul Weller, former frontman of The Jam. Former boxers...
Sales outfit Independent and Us buyer Grindstone Entertainment Group have closed a deal for all North American rights on Johnny Harris and Thomas Napper’s UK boxing drama Jawbone.
The film will be distributed through Lionsgate Home Entertainment in the territory.
The deal was negotiated by Grindstone’s head of acquisitions Stan Wertlieb and Independent’s head of sales Nada Cirjanic.
Jawbone marks the writing debut of Snow White And The Huntsman and This Is England actor Johnny Harris, who also stars in the film alongside Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley and Ian McShane, with Thomas Napper making his feature directional debut.
In the movie, a former youth boxing champion (Harris) returns to his childhood boxing club in the hope of rekindling past glory after hitting rock bottom.
Music comes from Paul Weller, former frontman of The Jam. Former boxers...
- 6/19/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Gimme Danger, Supersonic in-demand for Independent; Thomas Quick doc gets North America deal.
Heading into Toronto, leading indie buyers remain hot for music-themed documentaries with mainstream cross-over appeal, as evidenced by a slew of deals on films sold by UK sales outfit Independent.
After premiering Out of Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and locking up an English-language territories deal with Amazon, Jim Jarmusch’s cinematic love letter to Iggy Pop and The Stooges Gimme Danger (screening in Tiff Docs) has sold to Transmission for Australia/New Zealand, Studiocanal for German speaking territories, Le Pacte for France, Non Stop for Scandinavia, Avalon for Spain, Bim for Italy, FilmCoopi for Switzerland, Leopardo for Portugal and Ama Films for Greece.
Poland has sold to Gutek, Cis and Baltic States with A One Films, McF Megacom has Former Yugoslavia, King Records have acquired Japan, Taiwan is with B-Side and Edko has Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, [link...
Heading into Toronto, leading indie buyers remain hot for music-themed documentaries with mainstream cross-over appeal, as evidenced by a slew of deals on films sold by UK sales outfit Independent.
After premiering Out of Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and locking up an English-language territories deal with Amazon, Jim Jarmusch’s cinematic love letter to Iggy Pop and The Stooges Gimme Danger (screening in Tiff Docs) has sold to Transmission for Australia/New Zealand, Studiocanal for German speaking territories, Le Pacte for France, Non Stop for Scandinavia, Avalon for Spain, Bim for Italy, FilmCoopi for Switzerland, Leopardo for Portugal and Ama Films for Greece.
Poland has sold to Gutek, Cis and Baltic States with A One Films, McF Megacom has Former Yugoslavia, King Records have acquired Japan, Taiwan is with B-Side and Edko has Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, [link...
- 9/7/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Gimme Danger, Supersonic sell wide for Independent; Thomas Quick doc gets North America deal.
Heading into Toronto, leading indie buyers remain hot for music-themed documentaries with mainstream cross-over appeal, as evidenced by a slew of deals on films sold by UK sales outfit Independent.
After premiering Out of Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and locking up an English-language territories deal with Amazon, Jim Jarmusch’s cinematic love letter to Iggy Pop and The Stooges Gimme Danger (screening in Tiff Docs) has sold to Transmission for Australia/New Zealand, Studiocanal for German speaking territories, Le Pacte for France, Non Stop for Scandinavia, Avalon for Spain, Bim for Italy, FilmCoopi for Switzerland, Leopardo for Portugal and Ama Films for Greece.
Poland has sold to Gutek, Cis and Baltic States with A One Films, McF Megacom has Former Yugoslavia, King Records have acquired Japan, Taiwan is with B-Side and Edko has Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, [link...
Heading into Toronto, leading indie buyers remain hot for music-themed documentaries with mainstream cross-over appeal, as evidenced by a slew of deals on films sold by UK sales outfit Independent.
After premiering Out of Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and locking up an English-language territories deal with Amazon, Jim Jarmusch’s cinematic love letter to Iggy Pop and The Stooges Gimme Danger (screening in Tiff Docs) has sold to Transmission for Australia/New Zealand, Studiocanal for German speaking territories, Le Pacte for France, Non Stop for Scandinavia, Avalon for Spain, Bim for Italy, FilmCoopi for Switzerland, Leopardo for Portugal and Ama Films for Greece.
Poland has sold to Gutek, Cis and Baltic States with A One Films, McF Megacom has Former Yugoslavia, King Records have acquired Japan, Taiwan is with B-Side and Edko has Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, [link...
- 9/7/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
London – Protagonist Pictures, the sales company that counts U.K. broadcaster Channel 4's stanalone film arm Film4, production banner Vertigo Films and financier Ingenious Media among its shareholders, has rung the changes at the top. Protagonist CEO Mike Goodridge has hired Revolver Entertainment's head of acquisitions David Bishop as joint director of sales alongside Nada Cirjanic, Protagonist's sales director. Also arriving at Protagonist is Jennifer Fattell, who joins the company from A+E Television Networks as sales manager. Fattell will report to Cirjanic and Bishop. “In an invigorating year of change at Protagonist, it’s very exciting to announce our expanded
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- 10/11/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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