The recently created Saint-Petersburg-based Point Of View (Pov) Development Fund has backed three film projects a total of $86,000 (€65,000).
An international expert group of producers that selected the projects included Sergei Selyanov (Ctb Film Company), Artem Vasiliev (Metrafilms), Riina Sildos (Amrion), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Heretic) and Berlin-based sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon of Films Boutique.
The films they selected each have the fate of a woman at their centre:
The Woman From Ingria, to be produced by Pavel Odynin, is based on the biography of a simple woman in the north-western corner of Russia during the 20th century (€25,000);
Svetlana follows the real love story between Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva and the Indian raj Brajesh Singh in the mid-1960s. It will be produced by Anastasia Perova, Olga Kolegaeva and Konstantin Nafikov with Karsten Stöter of Germany’s Rohfilm,which was a co-producer of Ritesh Batra’s Cannes hit The Lunchbox (€25,000);
Manifestation, the feature debut by Georgian-born film-maker Anna Sarukhanova...
An international expert group of producers that selected the projects included Sergei Selyanov (Ctb Film Company), Artem Vasiliev (Metrafilms), Riina Sildos (Amrion), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Heretic) and Berlin-based sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon of Films Boutique.
The films they selected each have the fate of a woman at their centre:
The Woman From Ingria, to be produced by Pavel Odynin, is based on the biography of a simple woman in the north-western corner of Russia during the 20th century (€25,000);
Svetlana follows the real love story between Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva and the Indian raj Brajesh Singh in the mid-1960s. It will be produced by Anastasia Perova, Olga Kolegaeva and Konstantin Nafikov with Karsten Stöter of Germany’s Rohfilm,which was a co-producer of Ritesh Batra’s Cannes hit The Lunchbox (€25,000);
Manifestation, the feature debut by Georgian-born film-maker Anna Sarukhanova...
- 9/2/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Moscow Business Square is the industry platform of the 34th Moscow International Film Festival. This is the only large-scale international event for film business professionals on the territory of Russia. Moscow Business Square 2012 will include the 4th Moscow Co-production Forum, Business Round-tables and Eurasia Film Meetings (International Film Forum for Cis, Baltic Countries and Georgia). This year program will have a special focus on the film industry of USA and Canada.
Since the establishment of Moscow Business Square Co-production Forum in 2009, it has become an efficient platform for co-production development. In previous years, Un Certain Regard 2011 official selection The Hunter , directed by Bakur Bakuradze, Isa: Ctb) and Berlin Film Festival 2011 official selection Innocent Saturday, directed by Alexander Mindadze (Isa:Global Screen) were presented at Moscow Co-production Forum.
This year they are scouting for up to 20 co-production projects from all different parts of the world to present from 25-27 of June, 2012. For the first time, the best project will receive the prize from the Russian Cinema Fund of 5,000 Euros.
Selection Criteria:
In order to be eligible to enter Moscow Co-production Forum 2012, the projects have to meet the following criteria:
1. Project has to be a feature film at the stage of development;
2. The project has to have high potential of international or European distribution;
3. By the moment of submission, the script must be completed;
4. By the moment of submission, producer and director have to be attached to the project;
5. The project has to prove that 20% of finance is already secured.
Documents requirements:
1. Filled-in project form (attached);
2. English language synopsis (2-3 pages);
3. Script fragments in English language (8-10 pages);
4. Directorʼs vision (1 page);
5. Budget and financial plan.
Application deadline is May 7, 2012.
Contact: Olga Kolegaeva, Head of Moscow Co-production Forum, forummoscow@gmail.com, +7-903-666-74-44
Contact for press: Artem Ivanov, artem.ivanov@fond-kino.ru
Moscow Business Square is organized by the Russian Cinema Fund and the Moscow International Film Festival. The operator of the Moscow Business Square - RFilms.
Since the establishment of Moscow Business Square Co-production Forum in 2009, it has become an efficient platform for co-production development. In previous years, Un Certain Regard 2011 official selection The Hunter , directed by Bakur Bakuradze, Isa: Ctb) and Berlin Film Festival 2011 official selection Innocent Saturday, directed by Alexander Mindadze (Isa:Global Screen) were presented at Moscow Co-production Forum.
This year they are scouting for up to 20 co-production projects from all different parts of the world to present from 25-27 of June, 2012. For the first time, the best project will receive the prize from the Russian Cinema Fund of 5,000 Euros.
Selection Criteria:
In order to be eligible to enter Moscow Co-production Forum 2012, the projects have to meet the following criteria:
1. Project has to be a feature film at the stage of development;
2. The project has to have high potential of international or European distribution;
3. By the moment of submission, the script must be completed;
4. By the moment of submission, producer and director have to be attached to the project;
5. The project has to prove that 20% of finance is already secured.
Documents requirements:
1. Filled-in project form (attached);
2. English language synopsis (2-3 pages);
3. Script fragments in English language (8-10 pages);
4. Directorʼs vision (1 page);
5. Budget and financial plan.
Application deadline is May 7, 2012.
Contact: Olga Kolegaeva, Head of Moscow Co-production Forum, forummoscow@gmail.com, +7-903-666-74-44
Contact for press: Artem Ivanov, artem.ivanov@fond-kino.ru
Moscow Business Square is organized by the Russian Cinema Fund and the Moscow International Film Festival. The operator of the Moscow Business Square - RFilms.
- 4/9/2012
- by SydneyLevine
- Sydney's Buzz
Indian film critic and director of the Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (India), Indu Shrikent will preside over the Jury of “Pardi di domani” section at the 64th Locarno International Film festival.
The festival which will take place from August 3-13, 2011 announced its Jury on Monday.
“I’m very honored to be on the short film Jury of one of the oldest film festivals in the world. Locarno is known for its absolutely fantastic selection of films. Moreover, there is lot of focus on India in the 2011 edition of the festival,” Shrikent told DearCinema.
“Pardi di domani” is an international competition section which presents short films by directors who are yet to make a full-length feature. Shrikent will be accompanied by Georgian director Bakur Bakuradze (Shultes, 2008; The Hunter, 2011 ), Israeli director and film critic Tom Shoval (Petach Tikva, 2007), Swiss producer Luc Toutounghi (Peter & the Wolf, 2006; The Lost Town of Switez,...
The festival which will take place from August 3-13, 2011 announced its Jury on Monday.
“I’m very honored to be on the short film Jury of one of the oldest film festivals in the world. Locarno is known for its absolutely fantastic selection of films. Moreover, there is lot of focus on India in the 2011 edition of the festival,” Shrikent told DearCinema.
“Pardi di domani” is an international competition section which presents short films by directors who are yet to make a full-length feature. Shrikent will be accompanied by Georgian director Bakur Bakuradze (Shultes, 2008; The Hunter, 2011 ), Israeli director and film critic Tom Shoval (Petach Tikva, 2007), Swiss producer Luc Toutounghi (Peter & the Wolf, 2006; The Lost Town of Switez,...
- 6/21/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
High time to round up the films at this year's Cannes Film Festival that never saw entries of their own and send them on their way. Today: Un Certain Regard.
"Bakur Bakuradze's The Hunter seems like a ficticious version of Raymond Depardon's Modern Life, a trilogy on farming that was screened in Cannes in 2008," finds Moritz Pfeifer, who also interviews the director for the East European Film Bulletin. "With no soundtrack, no professional actors, little dialogue and a minimalist plot, the film depicts the daily life of Ivan (Mikhail Barskovich) as he peacefully runs his pig farm in one of the less populous areas of northwestern Russia…. Clearly, Bakuradze wants to depict an alternative world, and the spirit of his film is more utopian than its hyper-realistic images suggest."
Grumbles the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt: "There is maybe 10 to 15 minutes of actual story located within this 124 minute slog,...
"Bakur Bakuradze's The Hunter seems like a ficticious version of Raymond Depardon's Modern Life, a trilogy on farming that was screened in Cannes in 2008," finds Moritz Pfeifer, who also interviews the director for the East European Film Bulletin. "With no soundtrack, no professional actors, little dialogue and a minimalist plot, the film depicts the daily life of Ivan (Mikhail Barskovich) as he peacefully runs his pig farm in one of the less populous areas of northwestern Russia…. Clearly, Bakuradze wants to depict an alternative world, and the spirit of his film is more utopian than its hyper-realistic images suggest."
Grumbles the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt: "There is maybe 10 to 15 minutes of actual story located within this 124 minute slog,...
- 5/31/2011
- MUBI
Tier ?
The Tree of Life (Terence Malick)
Tier 1
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
No Man’s Land (Victor Trivas )
This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahasebi & Jafar Panahi)
Tier 2
L'apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (Bertrand Bonello)
Le gamin au vélo (Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
Miss Bala (Gerardo Nananjo)
Oslo, August 31 (Joachim Trier)
Play (Ruben Östlund)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg)
Le rideau cramoisi [The Crimson Curtain] (Alexandre Astruc)
Tier 3
Chatrak (Vimukthi Jayasundra)
Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn)
The Hunter (Bakur Bakuradze)
Impardonnables (André Téchiné)
Ninja Kids!!! (Takashi Miike)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Wu Xia (Peter Chan)
Tier 4
L’assassino (Elio Petri)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 3D (Takashi Miike)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
Tier ...
(the rest)...
The Tree of Life (Terence Malick)
Tier 1
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
No Man’s Land (Victor Trivas )
This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahasebi & Jafar Panahi)
Tier 2
L'apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (Bertrand Bonello)
Le gamin au vélo (Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
Miss Bala (Gerardo Nananjo)
Oslo, August 31 (Joachim Trier)
Play (Ruben Östlund)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg)
Le rideau cramoisi [The Crimson Curtain] (Alexandre Astruc)
Tier 3
Chatrak (Vimukthi Jayasundra)
Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn)
The Hunter (Bakur Bakuradze)
Impardonnables (André Téchiné)
Ninja Kids!!! (Takashi Miike)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Wu Xia (Peter Chan)
Tier 4
L’assassino (Elio Petri)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 3D (Takashi Miike)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
Tier ...
(the rest)...
- 5/25/2011
- MUBI
Bakur Bakuradze is a director of great tenacity, of strong stylistic choices, of clear standpoints in the way he looks at Russia to design his stories.
All the qualities he showed in his previous works, including the beautiful documented-fiction short Moscow, are reflected in his film in Un Certain Regard, The Hunter.
The main character of this new film takes something from Bakuradze's previous anti-hero Shultes: a man of not many words and of a strong physical presence (Bakuradze's talent in casting and actors' direction is exceptional). The mise-en-scène (precise even when elliptical, always at the right distance) takes the best from its semi-documentary position to tell of a man, of his handicapped son (how to help him conquer his autonomy), of his lover (a woman prisoner he hired from the town prison manager to work in his farm), of his family and environment.
The film, soft-paced yet filled with tension,...
All the qualities he showed in his previous works, including the beautiful documented-fiction short Moscow, are reflected in his film in Un Certain Regard, The Hunter.
The main character of this new film takes something from Bakuradze's previous anti-hero Shultes: a man of not many words and of a strong physical presence (Bakuradze's talent in casting and actors' direction is exceptional). The mise-en-scène (precise even when elliptical, always at the right distance) takes the best from its semi-documentary position to tell of a man, of his handicapped son (how to help him conquer his autonomy), of his lover (a woman prisoner he hired from the town prison manager to work in his farm), of his family and environment.
The film, soft-paced yet filled with tension,...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
Updated through 5/9.
Along with the trailer for Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives, another's just appeared for Kim Ki-duk's Arirang. Both will be screening in Un Certain Regard and, if you're checking the entry rounding up all the current news on the lineup of the Official Selection, you'll see, first, that it's being continuously updated (as are the entries on Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight), and second, another trailer: the one for Na Hong-jin's Yellow Sea. And of course, you've seen the trailers for Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Let's have a look at a few more.
Here's one for Joseph Cedar's Footnote:
And here's another and another.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike:
Update, 5/9: The Playlist has two clips.
Julie Leigh's Sleeping Beauty:
Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope, with Michel Piccoli...
Along with the trailer for Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives, another's just appeared for Kim Ki-duk's Arirang. Both will be screening in Un Certain Regard and, if you're checking the entry rounding up all the current news on the lineup of the Official Selection, you'll see, first, that it's being continuously updated (as are the entries on Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight), and second, another trailer: the one for Na Hong-jin's Yellow Sea. And of course, you've seen the trailers for Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Let's have a look at a few more.
Here's one for Joseph Cedar's Footnote:
And here's another and another.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike:
Update, 5/9: The Playlist has two clips.
Julie Leigh's Sleeping Beauty:
Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope, with Michel Piccoli...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
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