Exclusive: Participants include Germany’s Sol Bondy, Jennifer Fox [pictured] from the Us, and Canada’s Lauren Grant.
Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap), the intensive training and networking programme for European Canadian and American producers, has announced the 26 participants selected for this year’s programme.
Partners on the initiative, which is now four years old, are the Erich Pommer Institut in Potsdam, Germany (the creator of Tap), Strategic Partners in Halifax, Canada and Ifp in New York. The scheme also includes observer producers from India and Mexico.
Tap is supported by the Media Mundus Programme of the European Union, by Telefilm Canada, and Vff (Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten mbH) Germany.
The three training modules are taking place in Berlin, Halifax and New York City between June and September 2013. The selected producers also participate in the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners and the Ifp’s Independent Film Week in New York.
Nadja Radojevic...
Trans Atlantic Partners (Tap), the intensive training and networking programme for European Canadian and American producers, has announced the 26 participants selected for this year’s programme.
Partners on the initiative, which is now four years old, are the Erich Pommer Institut in Potsdam, Germany (the creator of Tap), Strategic Partners in Halifax, Canada and Ifp in New York. The scheme also includes observer producers from India and Mexico.
Tap is supported by the Media Mundus Programme of the European Union, by Telefilm Canada, and Vff (Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten mbH) Germany.
The three training modules are taking place in Berlin, Halifax and New York City between June and September 2013. The selected producers also participate in the Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners and the Ifp’s Independent Film Week in New York.
Nadja Radojevic...
- 6/13/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
This June, the Brooklyn Academy of Music presents the fourth annual BAMcinemaFest, featuring a lineup of some of the best emerging voices American cinema has to offer. And CinemaFest is just one of dozens that the Brooklyn institution presents each year, as Bam consistently shines a spotlight on the best in theater, dance, music, film, and more. Now, as the venue celebrates its staggering 150th anniversary, filmmaker Michael Sladek (Con Artist, Devils Are Dreaming) explores what it is about the Brooklyn instituation that has lent it such longevity in his new documentary BAM150.
Filmmaker: Why Bam? What is it about this cultural institution that motivated you to tell the story of its history?
Sladek: I grew up in and around live performance and spent a good part of my life studying, acting, and directing in straight and experimental theater before segueing into film. When I landed in Brooklyn in 1998, I...
Filmmaker: Why Bam? What is it about this cultural institution that motivated you to tell the story of its history?
Sladek: I grew up in and around live performance and spent a good part of my life studying, acting, and directing in straight and experimental theater before segueing into film. When I landed in Brooklyn in 1998, I...
- 4/19/2012
- by Dan Schoenbrun
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Does a documentary subject have to be likable to warrant the film's release? Director Michael Sladek explores that provocative question on the eve of the release of his debut doc Con Artist (Tff 2009), about the 80s "business artist" Mark Kostabi. Director Michael Sladek Three years ago I invited a few friends to my apartment to watch a rough cut of my docu-comedy feature film Con Artist. A half an hour into the screening, one of these friends turned to me and said (in a jocular way that caused his entire being to shake, his eyes to grow wide, and his teeth to suddenly whiten): 'So it took an asshole to make a movie about an asshole!' This boldly inaccurate statement took me aback. For here's the reality: I am decidedly not an asshole. I say 'please' and 'thank you.' I hold doors open for the ladies. I love dogs and cats.
- 11/8/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Andy Warhol promised us all our 15 minutes, but the subject of Con Artist, Mark Kostabi, wanted much more than that. Using a team of assistants and publicists, the artist created Kostabi World, which would produce en masse paintings that Kosabi would sign and sell, claiming, in part, his actions were a commentary on the art world itself. Kostabi got pretty far with his schtick until the recession hit in the '90s. You can't fault Kostabi for not being persistent, though; Michael Sladek's documentary about the fallen '80s art star follows Kostabi in his attempts to get back in the game with little success but plenty of awkward moments. Con Artist (Tff 2009), a so-called "docu-comedy," examines the nature (and dangers) of self-promotion and fame-whoring far before the days of celebutants and paparazzi chases. Notable appearances in the doc include director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,...
- 1/15/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
If you hadn’t seen Con Artist, Michael Sladek’s “docu-comedy” on 80s art star Mark Kostabi, but walked blindly into the theater in the middle of the film’s Q & A last Tuesday, you’d have a fair sense of the dynamic between filmmaker and subject. When asked to account for the film’s playful, comic tone, Sladek said, “I had no intention to make a serious film about the art world. I had no intention to make a documentary, frankly.” At this point, Kostabi, standing next to Sladek, turned his side to the crowd to whisper conspiratorially, apparently offering directions to the director. Sladek did his best to ignore them. “I prefer to make narratives, because I can control them.” Sladek entered Kostabi’s world (and Kostabi World - the studio where dozens of assistants have for years conceived and executed Kostabi’s paintings, which are not quite...
- 5/4/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Editor’S Note: This is one of several interviews, conducted via email, with directors whose films are screening at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. “Con Artist” (Discovery) Director: Michael Sládek Cast: Mark Kostabi Synopsis: From the beginning, Mark Kostabi pronounced his raison d’être as an artist widely: to take all the cash and all the glory. A superstar during the frantic glory of the 1980s New York art world, Kostabi has unapologetically …...
- 4/20/2009
- indieWIRE - People
I know it looks dire as it's 28% lighter (at least so far) and minus an artistic director, but no fear, there's still more to come, and with what's been announced theirs some interesting sounding stuff, especially a film we wrote about briefly called Accidents Happen. Also premiering is the comedy Stay Cool and the Danish film Original, along with the North American premier of The Exploding Girl which we also wrote about.
Check the narrative features, world documentary, and discovery lineups after the break!
World Narrative Feature Competition
A compelling cross-section of bold creative visions from every corner of the globe come together in this year’s World Narrative Feature Competition. Presenting a diverse array of unique voices, this international film collection includes premieres from a wide range of directors, such as U.S. indie veterans the Polish brothers and Tony-nominated Conor McPherson, as well as exciting newcomers. Together, these...
Check the narrative features, world documentary, and discovery lineups after the break!
World Narrative Feature Competition
A compelling cross-section of bold creative visions from every corner of the globe come together in this year’s World Narrative Feature Competition. Presenting a diverse array of unique voices, this international film collection includes premieres from a wide range of directors, such as U.S. indie veterans the Polish brothers and Tony-nominated Conor McPherson, as well as exciting newcomers. Together, these...
- 3/10/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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