Exclusive: Daniel Dencik is readying an August 4 start of shoot for his first fiction feature, Gold Coast; his short Tal R premieres in Karlovy Vary.
The film will shoot for about seven weeks, mostly in Ghana. Some opening scenes will be shot in Copenhagen.
Kon-Tiki’s Jakob Oftebro will star, along with Danica Curcic. Both were Efp Shooting Stars in Berlin this year.
The story is about the illegal Danish slave trade on Africa’s Gold Coast. The story, based on true events, is set in the 1830s as Wulff Joseph Wulff arrives in Africa to set up plantations and falls in love with a slave girl despite having a fiancée at home in Denmark. Through the young slave girl’s help, he exposes the corruption of the trade.
“I’m a fiction writer, and while I was researching a book I found these letters in the library. In Denmark it’s almost a secret, nobody knows what...
The film will shoot for about seven weeks, mostly in Ghana. Some opening scenes will be shot in Copenhagen.
Kon-Tiki’s Jakob Oftebro will star, along with Danica Curcic. Both were Efp Shooting Stars in Berlin this year.
The story is about the illegal Danish slave trade on Africa’s Gold Coast. The story, based on true events, is set in the 1830s as Wulff Joseph Wulff arrives in Africa to set up plantations and falls in love with a slave girl despite having a fiancée at home in Denmark. Through the young slave girl’s help, he exposes the corruption of the trade.
“I’m a fiction writer, and while I was researching a book I found these letters in the library. In Denmark it’s almost a secret, nobody knows what...
- 7/3/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Daniel Dencik is readying an August 4 start of shoot for his first fiction feature, Gold Coast; his short Tal R premieres in Karlovy Vary.
The film will shoot for about seven weeks, mostly in Ghana. Some opening scenes will be shot in Copenhagen.
Kon-Tiki’s Jakob Oftebro will star, along with Danica Curcic. Both were Efp Shooting Stars in Berlin this year.
The story is about the illegal Danish slave trade on Africa’s Gold Coast. The story, based on true events, is set in the 1830s as Wulff Joseph Wulff arrives in Africa to set up plantations and falls in love with a slave girl despite having a fiancée at home in Denmark. Through the young slave girl’s help, he exposes the corruption of the trade.
“I’m a fiction writer, and while I was researching a book I found these letters in the library. In Denmark it’s almost a secret, nobody knows what...
The film will shoot for about seven weeks, mostly in Ghana. Some opening scenes will be shot in Copenhagen.
Kon-Tiki’s Jakob Oftebro will star, along with Danica Curcic. Both were Efp Shooting Stars in Berlin this year.
The story is about the illegal Danish slave trade on Africa’s Gold Coast. The story, based on true events, is set in the 1830s as Wulff Joseph Wulff arrives in Africa to set up plantations and falls in love with a slave girl despite having a fiancée at home in Denmark. Through the young slave girl’s help, he exposes the corruption of the trade.
“I’m a fiction writer, and while I was researching a book I found these letters in the library. In Denmark it’s almost a secret, nobody knows what...
- 7/3/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Seven world premieres and five international premieres include an animated movie for the first time in competition; Us drama Low Down starring John Hawkes and Elle Fanning; and Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson’s follow-up to Either Way.
The 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12) has revealed the line-ups for its Official Selection Competition, East of the West Competition, Documentary Films Competition and Forum of Independents Competition.
Kv artistic director Karel Och said: “This year’s selection of competing films offers an exciting mixture of outstanding films whose completion has been eagerly anticipated.
“Many of the filmmakers, who explore less frequently trodden paths of cinematic expression, come from the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, which the Kviff has long focused on.”
In the main festival section, renowned Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili (The Other Bank) will introduce his long-anticipated film Corn Island, a psychological drama that uses captivating imagery and visuals to present a highly topical subject...
The 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12) has revealed the line-ups for its Official Selection Competition, East of the West Competition, Documentary Films Competition and Forum of Independents Competition.
Kv artistic director Karel Och said: “This year’s selection of competing films offers an exciting mixture of outstanding films whose completion has been eagerly anticipated.
“Many of the filmmakers, who explore less frequently trodden paths of cinematic expression, come from the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, which the Kviff has long focused on.”
In the main festival section, renowned Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili (The Other Bank) will introduce his long-anticipated film Corn Island, a psychological drama that uses captivating imagery and visuals to present a highly topical subject...
- 6/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-nominated The Hunt (Jagten) won seven awards at the Danish Academy Awards - where Gravity picked up Best Us Feature.Scroll down for full list of winners
The Hunt, which has made the shortlist for the Best Foreign-Language Film at this year’s Oscars, was nominated in 14 categories at the Roberts - the annual awards of the Danish Film Academy.
Last night’s ceremony marked the 30th time the Danish national film prize was awarded at a gala in Copenhagen’s Tivoli Hotel & Congress Centre.
Having already collected 18 international prizes, including three at Cannes and a European Film Award, The Hunt won for Best Film and Best Original Screenplay (Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm), and Mads Mikkelsen was named Best Actor for his portrayal of a 40-year-old man in a small provincial town, wrongly suspected of child abuse.
Taking to the stage with his team, Vinterbeg said: ”We have basked in success, and it has...
The Hunt, which has made the shortlist for the Best Foreign-Language Film at this year’s Oscars, was nominated in 14 categories at the Roberts - the annual awards of the Danish Film Academy.
Last night’s ceremony marked the 30th time the Danish national film prize was awarded at a gala in Copenhagen’s Tivoli Hotel & Congress Centre.
Having already collected 18 international prizes, including three at Cannes and a European Film Award, The Hunt won for Best Film and Best Original Screenplay (Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm), and Mads Mikkelsen was named Best Actor for his portrayal of a 40-year-old man in a small provincial town, wrongly suspected of child abuse.
Taking to the stage with his team, Vinterbeg said: ”We have basked in success, and it has...
- 1/27/2014
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
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