Exclusive: Germany’s second biggest broadcasting network Ard has said it pulled Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s 2017 feature Wajib from its schedule this weekend due to concerns over its “narrative perspective” amid the ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict.
Ard – which is a joint channel involving 10 German regional public broadcasters – has been accused of censorship by the filmmakers.
“In the context of the drastic social and (global) political events, we checked, as per our standard procedure, as to whether our planned program offerings were in line with the current situation,” Ard said in a statement sent to Deadline.
“We had already included the film Wajib you mentioned in our programming a few months ago. However, given the recent events in the Middle East, we currently believe it is not correctly placed in the program as it could be misunderstood due to its narrative perspective.”
Quizzed by Deadline on what aspects of the film...
Ard – which is a joint channel involving 10 German regional public broadcasters – has been accused of censorship by the filmmakers.
“In the context of the drastic social and (global) political events, we checked, as per our standard procedure, as to whether our planned program offerings were in line with the current situation,” Ard said in a statement sent to Deadline.
“We had already included the film Wajib you mentioned in our programming a few months ago. However, given the recent events in the Middle East, we currently believe it is not correctly placed in the program as it could be misunderstood due to its narrative perspective.”
Quizzed by Deadline on what aspects of the film...
- 11/17/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: German broadcasting network Ard has been accused of censorship following its decision to pull a scheduled broadcast of Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s 2017 feature Wajib due to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The film’s German co-producer Titus Kreyenberg told Deadline that Wajib had been due to air this Sunday (November 19), with the programming slot set for months and already announced in TV listings.
“It’s been taken off the schedule. Internally, we were told that it was decided that this was not the time to show a Palestinian film,” said Kreyenberg who works under the banner of Berlin and Cologne-based Unafilm with recent credits including Octopus Skin and A Woman.
Deadline has contacted Ard – a joint network involving 10 German regional public broadcasters – as well as Hamburg-based member Ndr, which backed the production. The networks have yet to respond.
Jacir’s drama Wajib is a gentle comedy-drama capturing the reality of Palestinians living within Israeli borders.
The film’s German co-producer Titus Kreyenberg told Deadline that Wajib had been due to air this Sunday (November 19), with the programming slot set for months and already announced in TV listings.
“It’s been taken off the schedule. Internally, we were told that it was decided that this was not the time to show a Palestinian film,” said Kreyenberg who works under the banner of Berlin and Cologne-based Unafilm with recent credits including Octopus Skin and A Woman.
Deadline has contacted Ard – a joint network involving 10 German regional public broadcasters – as well as Hamburg-based member Ndr, which backed the production. The networks have yet to respond.
Jacir’s drama Wajib is a gentle comedy-drama capturing the reality of Palestinians living within Israeli borders.
- 11/16/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Red-sea Labs announced today the selection of 12 projects, from new and exciting voices from Saudi Arabia and the wider Arab and African region, which have been selected for the Red Sea Lodge, a development program in collaboration with the TorinoFilmLab and sponsored by Film AlUla. The Lodge is an intensive ten-month mentorship program, aimed at the next generation of emerging filmmakers to help turn their project ideas into a reality.
The first Lodge workshop will take place on the 14 March in the Saudi filmmaking hub of AlUla, with the final workshop and presentation of the selected projects taking place during the third edition of the RedSeaIFF, which is scheduled to run from 30 November – 9 December in Jeddah.
This year, The Lodge schedule is made up of five workshops, four of them will be in person. The Workshop designed to take emerging filmmaking talent at the early stages of their career through the essentials of filmmaking.
The first Lodge workshop will take place on the 14 March in the Saudi filmmaking hub of AlUla, with the final workshop and presentation of the selected projects taking place during the third edition of the RedSeaIFF, which is scheduled to run from 30 November – 9 December in Jeddah.
This year, The Lodge schedule is made up of five workshops, four of them will be in person. The Workshop designed to take emerging filmmaking talent at the early stages of their career through the essentials of filmmaking.
- 3/15/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Back for its third year, the Red Sea Lodge brought together 11 feature film projects for a 10-month intensive program in cooperation with TorinoFilmLab. This Saturday, the teams pitched their projects at the Red Sea Souk, the Red Sea Film Festival’s market.
The Red Sea Lodge elects projects for creative and professional mentorship, development and industry opportunities. The initiative is focused on Saudi and Arab projects, and is key to the festival’s mission to support and develop emerging local talent. This year, seven Saudi projects are joined by four projects from Algeria, Egypt and Lebanon. They are “Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore,” “A Last Argument Against Youth,” “A Quarter to Thursday in Algiers,” “Bubblegum Brigades,” “Dancing on Fire,” “Dogmas,” “Scapegoat,” “Tahweedah,” “The Settlement,” “Yajuj” and “You Were the Poet and I Thought I Existed.”
Alongside script development sessions, the Lodge features a producers’ coaching program and sessions on professional development,...
The Red Sea Lodge elects projects for creative and professional mentorship, development and industry opportunities. The initiative is focused on Saudi and Arab projects, and is key to the festival’s mission to support and develop emerging local talent. This year, seven Saudi projects are joined by four projects from Algeria, Egypt and Lebanon. They are “Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore,” “A Last Argument Against Youth,” “A Quarter to Thursday in Algiers,” “Bubblegum Brigades,” “Dancing on Fire,” “Dogmas,” “Scapegoat,” “Tahweedah,” “The Settlement,” “Yajuj” and “You Were the Poet and I Thought I Existed.”
Alongside script development sessions, the Lodge features a producers’ coaching program and sessions on professional development,...
- 12/5/2022
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
13 projects in development and six works in progress to be presented at festival’s co-production market.
New films from the Czech Republic’s Beata Parkanová and Slovenian director Martin Turk are among the projects in development and works in progress being presented at the 24th edition of the East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus (coco), which takes place from November 9-11 during Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus.
Parkanová’s feature project Black Blood, produced by Ondrej Zach of Prague-based Ozet Film, sees her returning to Cottbus after presenting her previous feature The Word as a work in progress at last year’s Connecting Cottbus.
New films from the Czech Republic’s Beata Parkanová and Slovenian director Martin Turk are among the projects in development and works in progress being presented at the 24th edition of the East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus (coco), which takes place from November 9-11 during Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus.
Parkanová’s feature project Black Blood, produced by Ondrej Zach of Prague-based Ozet Film, sees her returning to Cottbus after presenting her previous feature The Word as a work in progress at last year’s Connecting Cottbus.
- 9/21/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Three fiction features and two documentary films were presented to an industry audience at the Cannes Film Market as part of its Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes, the Cannes Film Market’s Works-in-Progress showcase, on May 23.
“Panellinion”
Described as a movie about obsession, madness and loneliness, “Panellinion” is the debut documentary feature of Spyros Mantzavinos and Kostas Antarachas.
The film is named after a coffee-house for passionate chess players in the heart of Athens, which has become a refuge for those who suffocate in modern life. Giannis, the owner, hates chess, but has a fatherly affection for his regulars. Through footage shot in Super8 and black and white, an eclectic crowd that includes scientists, artists and pensioners tell the story of the place which will soon be a memory of the past as Giannis prepares to retire.
Producer Leonidas Konstantarakos of Athens-based Alaska Films told Variety: “We want to use the...
“Panellinion”
Described as a movie about obsession, madness and loneliness, “Panellinion” is the debut documentary feature of Spyros Mantzavinos and Kostas Antarachas.
The film is named after a coffee-house for passionate chess players in the heart of Athens, which has become a refuge for those who suffocate in modern life. Giannis, the owner, hates chess, but has a fatherly affection for his regulars. Through footage shot in Super8 and black and white, an eclectic crowd that includes scientists, artists and pensioners tell the story of the place which will soon be a memory of the past as Giannis prepares to retire.
Producer Leonidas Konstantarakos of Athens-based Alaska Films told Variety: “We want to use the...
- 5/25/2022
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Matias Rojas Valencia directed feature about the infamous Colonia Dignidad commune.
New Europe Film Sales is launching sales at San Sebastian this week on Quijote Films’ upcoming Chilean drama A Place Called Dignity after the parties finalised a deal in Toronto.
Matias Rojas Valencia directed the project, which is in post-production and takes place at Colonia Dignidad, the notorious commune in southern Chile founded in 1961 by former Nazi soldier Paul Schäfer that housed a cult and where many children were sexually abused. It also served as an interrogation centre during the Augusto Pinochet regime.
The fictitious events in the film centre on Pablo,...
New Europe Film Sales is launching sales at San Sebastian this week on Quijote Films’ upcoming Chilean drama A Place Called Dignity after the parties finalised a deal in Toronto.
Matias Rojas Valencia directed the project, which is in post-production and takes place at Colonia Dignidad, the notorious commune in southern Chile founded in 1961 by former Nazi soldier Paul Schäfer that housed a cult and where many children were sexually abused. It also served as an interrogation centre during the Augusto Pinochet regime.
The fictitious events in the film centre on Pablo,...
- 9/20/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Lithuanian writer-director Eglė Vertelytė’s Tasty was named the winner of Screen International’s best pitch award.
The 2020 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has named the winners of its Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event awards.
The industry showcase was held online this year, with the winners announced yesterday (November 26) following a week of online presentations and networking with around 850 delegates.
Lithuanian writer-director Eglė Vertelytė’s second feature film Tasty was named the winner of Screen International’s best pitch award, which guarantees coverage on Screen throughout the project’s lifecycle, at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market.
The €700,000 comedy focuses on two...
The 2020 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has named the winners of its Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event awards.
The industry showcase was held online this year, with the winners announced yesterday (November 26) following a week of online presentations and networking with around 850 delegates.
Lithuanian writer-director Eglė Vertelytė’s second feature film Tasty was named the winner of Screen International’s best pitch award, which guarantees coverage on Screen throughout the project’s lifecycle, at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market.
The €700,000 comedy focuses on two...
- 11/27/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Zeynep Dadak has won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, while the Post Production Award was split between Kalev and Nuucha. This year, the 19th edition of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event ran entirely online, and 57 projects were presented in its various sections. The industry section of the Black Nights Film Festival wrapped on Thursday 26 November with its awards ceremony. The biggest prize, the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, valued at €20,000, for the best project among the line-up of 20 that participated in the Baltic Event Co-Production Market, was bestowed upon Electric Sleep, the sophomore feature by Turkish filmmaker Zeynep Dadak, a sci-fi film about a potential future produced by Titus Kreyenberg (unafilm). The jury – comprising Renata Santoro, head of programming for Venice’s Giornate degli Autori; Finnish producer Kaarle Aho (Making Movies); and scriptwriter Elena Kotova, the Eurimages representative in the Czech Republic – made the decision unanimously, as...
- 11/27/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Zsuzsi Bánkuti heads the new Cutting Edge Talent Camp, which welcomes 10 graduates of top German film schools.
The International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg is launching a new talent initiative, Cutting Edge Talent Camp.
The inaugural edition of the Talent Camp will run Nov 9-15.
Zsuzsi Bánkuti, former head of acquisitions at sales company The Match Factory and current Community Coordinator at Locarno Open Doors, is heading the initiative.
The programme is launched under Mannheim Heidelberg’s new festival director Sascha Keilholz and head of programme Frédéric Jaeger; the festival already has a long history of supporting new talents, including programming...
The International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg is launching a new talent initiative, Cutting Edge Talent Camp.
The inaugural edition of the Talent Camp will run Nov 9-15.
Zsuzsi Bánkuti, former head of acquisitions at sales company The Match Factory and current Community Coordinator at Locarno Open Doors, is heading the initiative.
The programme is launched under Mannheim Heidelberg’s new festival director Sascha Keilholz and head of programme Frédéric Jaeger; the festival already has a long history of supporting new talents, including programming...
- 11/6/2020
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Producers on the 14 projects include Singaporean filmmaker Eric Khoo and acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) has unveiled the 14 projects that have been selected for this year’s edition of the IFFAM Project Market (IPM).
Producers on the projects include Singaporean filmmaker Eric Khoo, who is presenting Huang Junxiang’s creature feature Prisoners Of The Pacific; acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who is reteaming with Jenny Suen on comedy Peaches; and Camille Gatin (The Girl With All The Gifts), who is producing Wang Haolu’s adaptation of Alastair Reynolds’ short story Fellow Travellers.
Around one quarter of...
International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) has unveiled the 14 projects that have been selected for this year’s edition of the IFFAM Project Market (IPM).
Producers on the projects include Singaporean filmmaker Eric Khoo, who is presenting Huang Junxiang’s creature feature Prisoners Of The Pacific; acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who is reteaming with Jenny Suen on comedy Peaches; and Camille Gatin (The Girl With All The Gifts), who is producing Wang Haolu’s adaptation of Alastair Reynolds’ short story Fellow Travellers.
Around one quarter of...
- 10/27/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The Iffam Project Market (Ipm) will return digitally this December for a fifth edition during the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (December 3-8) with projects produced by Cate Blanchett, Eric Khoo and Camille Gatin. Scroll down for lineup.
According to organizers, a total of 14 projects will comprise the “intensive program of presentations and meetings conducted digitally with members of the global industry from December 3rd – 5th”. The projects will be eligible for four cash awards (listed below).
Projects include acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle’s collaboration with director Jenny Suen on Cate Blanchett-produced comedy Peaches; Eric Khoo-produced Singaporean creature feature Prisoners Of The Pacific; sci-fi Fellow Travellers from The Girl With All The Gifts producer Camille Gatin; and The Dragon Returns, in which Bruce Lee is brought back from his staged death and retirement to save his old friend Chuck Norris from imprisonment.
There has been no recent word from Macao...
According to organizers, a total of 14 projects will comprise the “intensive program of presentations and meetings conducted digitally with members of the global industry from December 3rd – 5th”. The projects will be eligible for four cash awards (listed below).
Projects include acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle’s collaboration with director Jenny Suen on Cate Blanchett-produced comedy Peaches; Eric Khoo-produced Singaporean creature feature Prisoners Of The Pacific; sci-fi Fellow Travellers from The Girl With All The Gifts producer Camille Gatin; and The Dragon Returns, in which Bruce Lee is brought back from his staged death and retirement to save his old friend Chuck Norris from imprisonment.
There has been no recent word from Macao...
- 10/26/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
German project development event will showcase 28 projects from 34 countries.
The third edition of the European Work in Progress Cologne (Ewip) will unfold as a physical event in spite of the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, its organisers have announced.
Running October 5 to 7 within the framework of the 30th Cologne Film Festival, the meeting will showcase 28 projects from 34 countries.
“The experiences in Cannes and other industry events in this corona year have shown that the direct exchange of people, despite numerous digital communication possibilities, cannot be replaced by anything,” commented Torsten Frehse, a board member of German independent distributors’ association Ag Verleih.
The third edition of the European Work in Progress Cologne (Ewip) will unfold as a physical event in spite of the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, its organisers have announced.
Running October 5 to 7 within the framework of the 30th Cologne Film Festival, the meeting will showcase 28 projects from 34 countries.
“The experiences in Cannes and other industry events in this corona year have shown that the direct exchange of people, despite numerous digital communication possibilities, cannot be replaced by anything,” commented Torsten Frehse, a board member of German independent distributors’ association Ag Verleih.
- 10/2/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
In the sixth episode of the second season of Eave Impact One-to-one, producers Danny Krausz and Titus Kreyenberg broach one of the key topics in the industry. In the sixth episode of the second season of Eave Impact One-to-one (see the news), managing director, producer and head of the National and International TV & Feature Film Department of Dor Film Danny Krausz, who is also a professor at the Mdw – Vienna, and producer and founder of unafilm Titus Kreyenberg delve into a discussion about one of the key issues in the industry: how gender affects the financing and production of films. Agreeing that the idea behind a gender quota is entirely justified, as 80% of funds go to projects by men, the two experts try to get to the root of the problem and ask why there are fewer females in the industry. Krausz admits that, in the past,...
- 12/27/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
After a sudden suicide turns a small eel-farming town upside down, an investigation unearths troubling secrets about the town’s past. Those discoveries will bring together two women trapped in solitary lives, offering each a chance to find salvation.
“The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea” is the third feature by Greek director Syllas Tzoumerkas. Starring frequent Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator Angeliki Papoulia and Youla Boudali (“In the Fade”), the film will world premiere in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section.
Taking its name from the mysterious region of the North Atlantic, a swirling gyre of deep-blue water bounded by four ocean currents, “The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea” is the story of two women dreaming of escape.
Their arduous emotional journey echoes a remarkable natural phenomenon, when eels in Europe and North America reaching sexual maturity leave their habitats and swim hundreds of miles to lay their eggs in the Sargasso.
“The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea” is the third feature by Greek director Syllas Tzoumerkas. Starring frequent Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator Angeliki Papoulia and Youla Boudali (“In the Fade”), the film will world premiere in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section.
Taking its name from the mysterious region of the North Atlantic, a swirling gyre of deep-blue water bounded by four ocean currents, “The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea” is the story of two women dreaming of escape.
Their arduous emotional journey echoes a remarkable natural phenomenon, when eels in Europe and North America reaching sexual maturity leave their habitats and swim hundreds of miles to lay their eggs in the Sargasso.
- 2/22/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Udita Bhargava's Dust starring Morten Holst and Vinay Pathak will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival 2019. The film will be screened in the ?Perspektive Deutsches Kino (New German Cinema) section.
The film, with the backdrop of the Maoist conflict that affects large parts of India, is a German Indian co-production shot entirely in India with an international crew.
Bhargava is an Indian filmmaker who has previously worked on films like Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Mira Nair's The Migration. Dust is her first feature film as a director.
"We are delighted to start our journey at the Berlinale. It feels like a homecoming for many of us, since a large part of our team is from Berlin. Also, as an Indian, I am looking forward to watching Zoya and Rima's films and hope they too can watch mine,...
The film, with the backdrop of the Maoist conflict that affects large parts of India, is a German Indian co-production shot entirely in India with an international crew.
Bhargava is an Indian filmmaker who has previously worked on films like Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Mira Nair's The Migration. Dust is her first feature film as a director.
"We are delighted to start our journey at the Berlinale. It feels like a homecoming for many of us, since a large part of our team is from Berlin. Also, as an Indian, I am looking forward to watching Zoya and Rima's films and hope they too can watch mine,...
- 2/5/2019
- GlamSham
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea
Greek director Syllas Tzoumerkas is finally getting ready to unveil his third feature, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea in 2019, reuniting with his A Blast actress Aggeliki Papoulia (we interviewed the Lanthimos regular back in 2012 for Alps) and co-writer Youla Boudali for this revenge thriller. The Greek-German-Swedish co-production is produced by his regular collaborator Maria Drandaki of Homemade Films and co-produced by Ellen Havenith of Prpl, Titus Kreyenberg of unafilm and Olle Wirenhed of Dragon Films. Papoulia and Boudali’s co-stars include Christos Passalis, Maria Filini, Argyris Xafis, Thanassis Dovris and Laertis Malkotsis.…...
Greek director Syllas Tzoumerkas is finally getting ready to unveil his third feature, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea in 2019, reuniting with his A Blast actress Aggeliki Papoulia (we interviewed the Lanthimos regular back in 2012 for Alps) and co-writer Youla Boudali for this revenge thriller. The Greek-German-Swedish co-production is produced by his regular collaborator Maria Drandaki of Homemade Films and co-produced by Ellen Havenith of Prpl, Titus Kreyenberg of unafilm and Olle Wirenhed of Dragon Films. Papoulia and Boudali’s co-stars include Christos Passalis, Maria Filini, Argyris Xafis, Thanassis Dovris and Laertis Malkotsis.…...
- 1/3/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Variety has been given exclusive access to the first teasers for Syllas Tzoumerkas’ female revenge story “The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea” – being sold at Afm by Jan Naszewski’s New Europe Film Sales.
Set in a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece it’s a story of two women, who live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. One of them is Elisabeth, a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens 10 years ago and now living a joyless, hung over life; the other is Rita, a quiet, mysterious sister of a local music star. When a sudden suicide case upsets the town and turns the local community upside-down, the two women who have been ignoring each other’s existence so far begin drifting toward each other. As the secrets hidden in the swamps begin to surface, they will have a chance to become each other’s saviors.
Set in a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece it’s a story of two women, who live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. One of them is Elisabeth, a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens 10 years ago and now living a joyless, hung over life; the other is Rita, a quiet, mysterious sister of a local music star. When a sudden suicide case upsets the town and turns the local community upside-down, the two women who have been ignoring each other’s existence so far begin drifting toward each other. As the secrets hidden in the swamps begin to surface, they will have a chance to become each other’s saviors.
- 11/1/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things takes best director and best actor.Scroll down to see the full list of winners.
Ana Urushadze’s Gerogia-Estonia drama Scary Mother has won the top prize at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, which concludes today (Aug 18).
The film took the Heart of Sarajevo for best feature film, which comes with a financial award of €16,000. It stars Nata Murvanidze as a 50-year-old housewife who experiences family struggles as she tries to complete her first novel.
The main competition saw Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu take the Heart of Sarajevo for best director for his film Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things, which comes with €10,000.
Best actress went to Ornela Kapetani for Daybreak and best actor went to Şerban Pavlu for Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things.
The jury, led by Michel Franco and featuring Mark Adams, Gordan Bogdan...
Ana Urushadze’s Gerogia-Estonia drama Scary Mother has won the top prize at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, which concludes today (Aug 18).
The film took the Heart of Sarajevo for best feature film, which comes with a financial award of €16,000. It stars Nata Murvanidze as a 50-year-old housewife who experiences family struggles as she tries to complete her first novel.
The main competition saw Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu take the Heart of Sarajevo for best director for his film Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things, which comes with €10,000.
Best actress went to Ornela Kapetani for Daybreak and best actor went to Şerban Pavlu for Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things.
The jury, led by Michel Franco and featuring Mark Adams, Gordan Bogdan...
- 8/18/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Jesús premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last autumn.
Breaking Glass Pictures, who acquired North American rights to Chilean writer-director Fernando Guzzoni’s Jesús last November, has unveiled release dates for the film.
Jesús will open theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on September 1, New Orleans on September 8, with other markets to follow leading up to the DVD/VOD release on September 19.
Nicolás Durán and Alejandro Goic star in the film that centres on eighteen-year-old Jesús, who is trapped in a dead end cycle of drugs, sex, apathy, and an obsession with violence.
After he and his friends attack a young boy, Jesús has no choice but to turn to his father for help, despite their troubled relationship.
The film held its Us premiere at the Neighboring Scenes Series held by the Film Society of the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Giancarlo Nasi produced, while [link=nm...
Breaking Glass Pictures, who acquired North American rights to Chilean writer-director Fernando Guzzoni’s Jesús last November, has unveiled release dates for the film.
Jesús will open theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on September 1, New Orleans on September 8, with other markets to follow leading up to the DVD/VOD release on September 19.
Nicolás Durán and Alejandro Goic star in the film that centres on eighteen-year-old Jesús, who is trapped in a dead end cycle of drugs, sex, apathy, and an obsession with violence.
After he and his friends attack a young boy, Jesús has no choice but to turn to his father for help, despite their troubled relationship.
The film held its Us premiere at the Neighboring Scenes Series held by the Film Society of the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Giancarlo Nasi produced, while [link=nm...
- 8/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
Six projects selected for second edition of festival industry event.
Returning in 2017, Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Drama strand has selected six projects for its second edition.
Showcasing television series in development, the aim of the initiative is to bolster regional TV production.
The projects will be shown to European and regional broadcasters, VoD and SVoD Operators, and will include an open pitch session followed by one-on-one meetings.
This year will also see the introduction of a new development award - a €10,000 cash prize sponsored by Film Centre Serbia.
The jury awarding the prize will consist of Meinolf Zurhorst, Tatjana Andersson and Giacomo Durzi, who will select the most promising project out of the six chosen.
Jovan Marjanović, Sarajevo’s head of industry, commented: “We were excited to get so many submissions for the new drama series. The projects that have been selected promise to bring a new chapter to regional screens. The potential...
Returning in 2017, Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Drama strand has selected six projects for its second edition.
Showcasing television series in development, the aim of the initiative is to bolster regional TV production.
The projects will be shown to European and regional broadcasters, VoD and SVoD Operators, and will include an open pitch session followed by one-on-one meetings.
This year will also see the introduction of a new development award - a €10,000 cash prize sponsored by Film Centre Serbia.
The jury awarding the prize will consist of Meinolf Zurhorst, Tatjana Andersson and Giacomo Durzi, who will select the most promising project out of the six chosen.
Jovan Marjanović, Sarajevo’s head of industry, commented: “We were excited to get so many submissions for the new drama series. The projects that have been selected promise to bring a new chapter to regional screens. The potential...
- 7/27/2017
- ScreenDaily
You never know what will be waiting for you in the woods... In today's Horror Highlights, we have two clips from the upcoming thriller Without Name, as well as details on the Nitehawk Shorts Festival Selects program, Frontières returning to the Fantasia International Film Festival, and the official trailer for The Passing.
Without Name Clips: Press Release: "Los Angeles, California (June 16, 2017) - Global Digital Releasing has set a distribution date for the award winning dramatic thriller Without Name. The North American release will be across multiple digital and VOD platforms, beginning Tuesday, June 20.
The story follows land surveyor Eric (Alan McKenna). He travels to a remote, unnamed Irish woodland to assess its suitability for a new development project. However, the assignment it is not as simple as it could be. Intrigued by the woods’ foreboding mysticism, Eric finds himself drawn into a dangerous game that could lead to him becoming...
Without Name Clips: Press Release: "Los Angeles, California (June 16, 2017) - Global Digital Releasing has set a distribution date for the award winning dramatic thriller Without Name. The North American release will be across multiple digital and VOD platforms, beginning Tuesday, June 20.
The story follows land surveyor Eric (Alan McKenna). He travels to a remote, unnamed Irish woodland to assess its suitability for a new development project. However, the assignment it is not as simple as it could be. Intrigued by the woods’ foreboding mysticism, Eric finds himself drawn into a dangerous game that could lead to him becoming...
- 6/16/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
All the winners from the event in Cluj.
Nana & Simon’s (Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross) My Happy Family was the big winner this weekend at the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj, clinching the $16,822 (€15,000) Transilvania Trophy.
In addition, the film’s lead actress Ia Shugliashvili was presented with the best performance award for her first acting role as a woman giving her life a radical change on her 52nd birthday.
The competition jury, which included producers Andras Muhi and Elizabeth Karlsen and film critic Geoff Andrew, presented the best directing award to Icelandic film-maker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson for his debut Heartstone which was also voted by the festival-goers as the winner of this year’s Audience Award.
The jury gave its special jury award to UK film-maker Francis Lee’s debut God’s Own Country (pictured) and made a special mention of Glory, the second feature by the Bulgarian co-directing team of [link...
Nana & Simon’s (Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross) My Happy Family was the big winner this weekend at the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj, clinching the $16,822 (€15,000) Transilvania Trophy.
In addition, the film’s lead actress Ia Shugliashvili was presented with the best performance award for her first acting role as a woman giving her life a radical change on her 52nd birthday.
The competition jury, which included producers Andras Muhi and Elizabeth Karlsen and film critic Geoff Andrew, presented the best directing award to Icelandic film-maker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson for his debut Heartstone which was also voted by the festival-goers as the winner of this year’s Audience Award.
The jury gave its special jury award to UK film-maker Francis Lee’s debut God’s Own Country (pictured) and made a special mention of Glory, the second feature by the Bulgarian co-directing team of [link...
- 6/12/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
All the winners from the event in Cluj.
Nana & Simon’s (Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross) My Happy Family was the big winner this weekend at the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj, clinching the $16,822 (€15,000) Transilvania Trophy.
In addition, the film’s lead actress Ia Shugliashvili was presented with the best performance award for her first acting role as a woman giving her life a radical change on her 52nd birthday.
The competition jury, which included producers Andras Muhi and Elizabeth Karlsen and film critic Geoff Andrew, presented the best directing award to Icelandic film-maker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson for his debut Heartstone which was also voted by the festival-goers as the winner of this year’s Audience Award.
The jury gave its special jury award to UK film-maker Francis Lee’s debut God’s Own Country and made a special mention of Glory, the second feature by the Bulgarian co-directing team of Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov...
Nana & Simon’s (Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross) My Happy Family was the big winner this weekend at the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj, clinching the $16,822 (€15,000) Transilvania Trophy.
In addition, the film’s lead actress Ia Shugliashvili was presented with the best performance award for her first acting role as a woman giving her life a radical change on her 52nd birthday.
The competition jury, which included producers Andras Muhi and Elizabeth Karlsen and film critic Geoff Andrew, presented the best directing award to Icelandic film-maker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson for his debut Heartstone which was also voted by the festival-goers as the winner of this year’s Audience Award.
The jury gave its special jury award to UK film-maker Francis Lee’s debut God’s Own Country and made a special mention of Glory, the second feature by the Bulgarian co-directing team of Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov...
- 6/12/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Frontières, the Fantasia International Film Festival’s annual film co-production market, has announced its first wave of projects for the ninth edition, which takes place from July 20 to July 23 in Montreal. Among the projects that will participate in the co-production market is the zombie film “George A. Romero Presents: Road of the Dead.” The project was written by Romero and Matt Birman, who is attached to direct.
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“Road of the Dead” is the next zombie film following Romero’s last three movies as a director: “Survival of the Dead,” “Diary of the Dead” and “Land of the Dead.” Birman served as second unit director on all three movies, and has worked as a stunt coordinator and stuntman for more than three decades.
“Road of the Dead” originated as an original pitch from Birman roughly 10 years ago.
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“Road of the Dead” is the next zombie film following Romero’s last three movies as a director: “Survival of the Dead,” “Diary of the Dead” and “Land of the Dead.” Birman served as second unit director on all three movies, and has worked as a stunt coordinator and stuntman for more than three decades.
“Road of the Dead” originated as an original pitch from Birman roughly 10 years ago.
- 5/19/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The Baltic Event Coproduction Market Awards at the 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
The Baltic Event Coproduction Market, taking place since 2005, is the largest coproduction platform in the region of Northern and Central Europe. With a complete overview of the year’s audiovisual production in the region and a range of programs open for feature film projects, Baltic Event is the key production platform to be at in November.
For its 15th edition, Baltic Event selected 14 projects from its traditional roster of new EU territories, Scandinavia and Russia, as well as a project from Georgia in collaboration with Eave and 2 projects from this year’s focus country, Luxembourg. The Baltic Event Coproduction Market presented these 17 projects from November 22 to 24, 2016 to international coproducers and buyers at more than 500 one-to-one meetings during the 20th jubilee edition of the Black Nights Film Festival.
The Baltic Event team was satisfied by the exceptionally...
The Baltic Event Coproduction Market, taking place since 2005, is the largest coproduction platform in the region of Northern and Central Europe. With a complete overview of the year’s audiovisual production in the region and a range of programs open for feature film projects, Baltic Event is the key production platform to be at in November.
For its 15th edition, Baltic Event selected 14 projects from its traditional roster of new EU territories, Scandinavia and Russia, as well as a project from Georgia in collaboration with Eave and 2 projects from this year’s focus country, Luxembourg. The Baltic Event Coproduction Market presented these 17 projects from November 22 to 24, 2016 to international coproducers and buyers at more than 500 one-to-one meetings during the 20th jubilee edition of the Black Nights Film Festival.
The Baltic Event team was satisfied by the exceptionally...
- 11/26/2016
- by Tara Karajica
- Sydney's Buzz
The prize offers editorial coverage during the winning film’s life-cycle.
The 15th edition of Tallinn’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market saw Screen International’s Best Pitch award being presented to Luxembourg-based producer Marion Guth of a_BAHN for UK artist filmmaker Vicki Thornton’s hybrid docu-fiction (N)Ostalgia.
a_BAHN currently has the UK’s Roastbeef Production and Norway’s Oya Films supporting the project about a remote Soviet ghost town on the edge of the Arctic Circle and its transformation into a tourist spectacle.
The Best Pitch Award - which is decided on by the co-production market’s participants and offers editorial coverage during the film’s life-cycle - was presented in the past to such projects as Finnish filmmaker Petri Kotwica’s suspense drama Rat King; Russian director Alexei German Jr.’s Under Electric Clouds; and the first pan-Baltic fiction co-production Seneca’s Day by Kristijonas Vildziunas.
Guth had also...
The 15th edition of Tallinn’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market saw Screen International’s Best Pitch award being presented to Luxembourg-based producer Marion Guth of a_BAHN for UK artist filmmaker Vicki Thornton’s hybrid docu-fiction (N)Ostalgia.
a_BAHN currently has the UK’s Roastbeef Production and Norway’s Oya Films supporting the project about a remote Soviet ghost town on the edge of the Arctic Circle and its transformation into a tourist spectacle.
The Best Pitch Award - which is decided on by the co-production market’s participants and offers editorial coverage during the film’s life-cycle - was presented in the past to such projects as Finnish filmmaker Petri Kotwica’s suspense drama Rat King; Russian director Alexei German Jr.’s Under Electric Clouds; and the first pan-Baltic fiction co-production Seneca’s Day by Kristijonas Vildziunas.
Guth had also...
- 11/24/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Rungano Nyoni wraps Zambia-set satire; Embrace Of The Serpent’s David Gallego is DoP.
Principal photography has wrapped on satire I Am Not A Witch, the debut feature from Welsh-Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, who was previously BAFTA-nominated for short Mwansa The Great.
The present day African satire about beliefs in witchcraft, revolves around a nine year old girl, Shula, who is accused of being a witch. Shula is the first child to be taken to a travelling witch camp, where she is tethered to a spool with a ribbon. She is told that should she cut the ribbon and attempt to escape, she will be cursed and transformed into a goat.
Forced to decide whether to accept her fate as a witch, Shula ignites a rebellion within the camp.
The film shot for six weeks in Zambia’s capital Lusaka and the rural areas around it, and features a cast of non-professional actors, led by nine...
Principal photography has wrapped on satire I Am Not A Witch, the debut feature from Welsh-Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, who was previously BAFTA-nominated for short Mwansa The Great.
The present day African satire about beliefs in witchcraft, revolves around a nine year old girl, Shula, who is accused of being a witch. Shula is the first child to be taken to a travelling witch camp, where she is tethered to a spool with a ribbon. She is told that should she cut the ribbon and attempt to escape, she will be cursed and transformed into a goat.
Forced to decide whether to accept her fate as a witch, Shula ignites a rebellion within the camp.
The film shot for six weeks in Zambia’s capital Lusaka and the rural areas around it, and features a cast of non-professional actors, led by nine...
- 11/14/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Rungano Nyoni wraps Zambia-set satire; Embrace Of The Serpent’s David Gallego is DoP.
Principal photography has wrapped on satire I Am Not A Witch, the debut feature from Welsh-Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, who was previously BAFTA-nominated for short Mwansa The Great.
The present day African satire about beliefs in witchcraft, revolves around a nine year old girl, Shula, who is accused of being a witch. Shula is the first child to be taken to a travelling witch camp, where she is tethered to a spool with a ribbon. She is told that should she cut the ribbon and attempt to escape, she will be cursed and transformed into a goat.
Forced to decide whether to accept her fate as a witch, Shula ignites a rebellion within the camp.
The film shot for six weeks in Zambia’s capital Lusaka and the rural areas around it, and features a cast of non-professional actors, led by nine...
Principal photography has wrapped on satire I Am Not A Witch, the debut feature from Welsh-Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, who was previously BAFTA-nominated for short Mwansa The Great.
The present day African satire about beliefs in witchcraft, revolves around a nine year old girl, Shula, who is accused of being a witch. Shula is the first child to be taken to a travelling witch camp, where she is tethered to a spool with a ribbon. She is told that should she cut the ribbon and attempt to escape, she will be cursed and transformed into a goat.
Forced to decide whether to accept her fate as a witch, Shula ignites a rebellion within the camp.
The film shot for six weeks in Zambia’s capital Lusaka and the rural areas around it, and features a cast of non-professional actors, led by nine...
- 11/14/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Belgrade hosts co-pro meeting dedicated to women filmmakers as study reveals industry progress on gender equality in region.
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
- 3/9/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Belgrade hosts co-pro meeting dedicated to women filmmakers as study reveals industry progress on gender equality in region.
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
- 3/9/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (November 6-14) offers busy industry programme including works in progress and Crossroads co-production strand.The 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival kicks off today with the Berlin prizewinner Victoria by Sebastian Schipper.
The festival closes Nov 14 with the Cannes awarded My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) by Arnaud Desplechin, who receives an homage, enjoys a full retrospective of his films and will deliver a masterclass.
Also receiving homages are veteran Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc and Greek master cinematographer Nikos Kavoukidis, accompanied by tributes to the 70 years of Greek animation and to the recent Austrian cinema.The late Belgian director Chantal.Akerman is receiving a special homage with the presentation of her 2011 film Almayer’s Folly (La folie Almayer).
The competition program includes 15 first and second films (the full list is below). The five members of the international jury set to award the Golden, Silver and Bronze...
The festival closes Nov 14 with the Cannes awarded My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) by Arnaud Desplechin, who receives an homage, enjoys a full retrospective of his films and will deliver a masterclass.
Also receiving homages are veteran Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc and Greek master cinematographer Nikos Kavoukidis, accompanied by tributes to the 70 years of Greek animation and to the recent Austrian cinema.The late Belgian director Chantal.Akerman is receiving a special homage with the presentation of her 2011 film Almayer’s Folly (La folie Almayer).
The competition program includes 15 first and second films (the full list is below). The five members of the international jury set to award the Golden, Silver and Bronze...
- 11/6/2015
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been sentenced to 20 years in a verdict passed today (Aug 25) by a military court in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don.
His co-defendant, the activist and anti-fascist Alexander Kolchenko, was sentenced to 10 years.
The judge found Sentsov guilty of setting up a terrorist organisation and committing two terrorist acts.
When asked by the presiding judge Sergei Mikhailyuk whether they understood the verdicts, Sentsov and Kolchenko responded by defiantly singing the Ukrainian national anthem Ukraine Has Not Yet Died.
Sentsov, best known for his 2011 film Gamer, was arrested in May 2014 during a protest against Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula two months earlier.
The 39-year-old director was accused of plotting to blow up a monument to Lenin in Crimea and set fire to the Crimean offices of pro-Moscow political organisations.
The Ukrainian government said he is being punished for being a Crimea-based pro-Ukrainian activist. Russia denies claims he is a political prisoner.
Sentsov denies...
His co-defendant, the activist and anti-fascist Alexander Kolchenko, was sentenced to 10 years.
The judge found Sentsov guilty of setting up a terrorist organisation and committing two terrorist acts.
When asked by the presiding judge Sergei Mikhailyuk whether they understood the verdicts, Sentsov and Kolchenko responded by defiantly singing the Ukrainian national anthem Ukraine Has Not Yet Died.
Sentsov, best known for his 2011 film Gamer, was arrested in May 2014 during a protest against Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula two months earlier.
The 39-year-old director was accused of plotting to blow up a monument to Lenin in Crimea and set fire to the Crimean offices of pro-Moscow political organisations.
The Ukrainian government said he is being punished for being a Crimea-based pro-Ukrainian activist. Russia denies claims he is a political prisoner.
Sentsov denies...
- 8/25/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Drama set in a decaying contemporary Greece wins prize.
Sofia Exarchou’s feature debut Park, a Greek-language drama about disaffected youth in a decaying contemporary Greece, has won the Works in Progress prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) (July 3-11).
The film was previously selected for both the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab and Director’s Lab, the only European project in the line-ups.
Park will receive an award of €10,000 in services from the event’s partner, Barrandov Studios.
It was one of 15 projects - selected out of 57 - showcased at Kviff’s Works in Progress event.
Selecting the most promising project, the international jury said of Park: “Set in the ruins of past glory, this film takes us to the bottom of society and ignites a firework of raw energy. A portrayal of a young generation that has been betrayed and deprived of its future.”
The jury comprised the Berlinale’s Paz Lázaro, [link...
Sofia Exarchou’s feature debut Park, a Greek-language drama about disaffected youth in a decaying contemporary Greece, has won the Works in Progress prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) (July 3-11).
The film was previously selected for both the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab and Director’s Lab, the only European project in the line-ups.
Park will receive an award of €10,000 in services from the event’s partner, Barrandov Studios.
It was one of 15 projects - selected out of 57 - showcased at Kviff’s Works in Progress event.
Selecting the most promising project, the international jury said of Park: “Set in the ruins of past glory, this film takes us to the bottom of society and ignites a firework of raw energy. A portrayal of a young generation that has been betrayed and deprived of its future.”
The jury comprised the Berlinale’s Paz Lázaro, [link...
- 7/8/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Central and Eastern European projects seeking finance, distribution and festival partners have been presented to industry at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff).
Among the 15 projects vying for the $11,000 (€10,000) funding prize is writer-director Marian Crisan’s low-key thriller Orizont, about a family who get more than they bargained for when they set up a guest house in a remote part of Romania.
Crisan’s third film, which was among the more intriguing presentations, is produced by Mandragora Movies and Solar Pictures Film Group founder Bobby Paunescu.
The director’s debut, Morgen, won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010.
Sofia Exarchou’s feature debut Park, a Greek-language drama about disaffected youth in a decaying contemporary Greece, was selected for both the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab and Director’s Lab last year, the only European project in the lineups.
Turkish director Ana Yurdu’s debut Motherland, which also caught the eye, is a portrait...
Among the 15 projects vying for the $11,000 (€10,000) funding prize is writer-director Marian Crisan’s low-key thriller Orizont, about a family who get more than they bargained for when they set up a guest house in a remote part of Romania.
Crisan’s third film, which was among the more intriguing presentations, is produced by Mandragora Movies and Solar Pictures Film Group founder Bobby Paunescu.
The director’s debut, Morgen, won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010.
Sofia Exarchou’s feature debut Park, a Greek-language drama about disaffected youth in a decaying contemporary Greece, was selected for both the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab and Director’s Lab last year, the only European project in the lineups.
Turkish director Ana Yurdu’s debut Motherland, which also caught the eye, is a portrait...
- 7/7/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The Paris Coproduction Village has unveiled its selections and online registration is now open to book meetings. At the event, 14 carefully selected international projects without French partners attached will be presented to producers, sales agents, distributors, financiers, and fund representatives.
The 14 projects selected are the followings:
"Across the Fields" by Daniel Joseph Borgman ("The Weight of Elephants" Berlinale Forum and Generation Selections 2013 ; short film "Berik" Grand Prix Critic’s Week Cannes 2010) produced by Adomeit Film (Denmark) "Brotherhood" by Pepe Diokno ("Above the Clouds", Tokyo International Film Festival 2014 ; "Clash" Venice Film Festival 2009 Lion of the Futur and Orrizonti Award) produced by Epicmedia (Philippines) "Fireflies" by Bani Khoshnoudi ("Ziba" International Film festival Rotterdam 2012 ; short film "Transit" Grand Jury Prix Premiers Plans Angers 2005) produced by Zensky Cine (Mexico) and Pensée Sauvage (U.S.) "Look Up" by Fulvio Risuleo (short film "Varicella" Semaine de la Critique 2015 ; short film "Lievito Madre" Cannes Cinéfondation 2014 ;) produced by Revok (Italy) "Lost Wolves" by Carlos Moreno ("All Your Dead Ones" Competition Sundance 2011 ; "Dog Eat Dog" Competition Sundance 2008) prodced by 64-a Films (Colombia) "The Man from the Sea" by Koji Fukada ("Au revoir l’été" Gold Montgolfière Festival des 3 Continents 2013 ; "Hospitalité" Best Picture Award Tokyo International Film Festival 2010) produced by Nikkatsu Corporation (Japan) "The Omission" by Sebastián Schjaer (short film "The Broken Past," Director’s Fortnight 2015 ; short film "Tomorrow All the Things" Cannes Cinéfondation 2013) produced by Trapecio Cine (Argentina) et Titus Kreyenberg (Germany) "Opening Hours" by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul and Wichanon Somumjarn ("Mother" Competition Torino Film Festival 2012 ; "In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire" Competition International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011 ; "Mundane Story" Tiger Award International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009) produced by Electric Eel Film (Thailand) "Pirate of Love" by Sara Guðmundsdóttir & Árni Sveinsson (short film "The Pirate of Love" Official Selection New Directors / New Films 2013 ; "Backyard" Special Mention Sound&Vision Award Cph:dox 2010) produced by Netop Films (Iceland) "Single Mother" by Hana Makhmalbaf ("Green Days" Venice Film Festival 2009 ; "Le Cahier" Crystal Bear Berlinale 2008) produced by Makhmalbaf Film House (U.K.) "Zoology" by Ivan I. Tverdosvsky ("Correction Class" Gold Star Marrakech Film Festival 2014) produced by New People (Russia) Projects selected as part of the Brazilian Focus:
"Tinnitus" by Gregorio Graziosi ("Obra" Toronto International Film Festival 2014 ; short film "Mira" International Competition Locarno Film Festival 2009) produced by Superfilmes (Brazil) "Revenge Therapy" by Marcos Bernstein ("My Sweet Orange Tree" Alice nella Citta Award Rome Film Festival 2012 ; "The Other Side of the Street" C.I.C.E.A. Award for Best Film - Berlinale Panorama 2004) produced by Passaro Films (Brazil) "A Yellow Animal" by Felipe Bragança (short film "Escape from my Eyes" Berlinale Forum Expanded 2015 ; "A Alegria" Director’s Fortnight 2010) produced by Duas Mariola Filmes (Brazil) The Paris-based international coproduction market is organized by Les Arcs European Film Festival with support from the Champs-Élysées Fim Festival to take place June 10-12, 2015. All the meetings will take place at Eurosites George V 28 Av. George V, 75008 Paris
For further information: contact[At]pariscopro.com...
The 14 projects selected are the followings:
"Across the Fields" by Daniel Joseph Borgman ("The Weight of Elephants" Berlinale Forum and Generation Selections 2013 ; short film "Berik" Grand Prix Critic’s Week Cannes 2010) produced by Adomeit Film (Denmark) "Brotherhood" by Pepe Diokno ("Above the Clouds", Tokyo International Film Festival 2014 ; "Clash" Venice Film Festival 2009 Lion of the Futur and Orrizonti Award) produced by Epicmedia (Philippines) "Fireflies" by Bani Khoshnoudi ("Ziba" International Film festival Rotterdam 2012 ; short film "Transit" Grand Jury Prix Premiers Plans Angers 2005) produced by Zensky Cine (Mexico) and Pensée Sauvage (U.S.) "Look Up" by Fulvio Risuleo (short film "Varicella" Semaine de la Critique 2015 ; short film "Lievito Madre" Cannes Cinéfondation 2014 ;) produced by Revok (Italy) "Lost Wolves" by Carlos Moreno ("All Your Dead Ones" Competition Sundance 2011 ; "Dog Eat Dog" Competition Sundance 2008) prodced by 64-a Films (Colombia) "The Man from the Sea" by Koji Fukada ("Au revoir l’été" Gold Montgolfière Festival des 3 Continents 2013 ; "Hospitalité" Best Picture Award Tokyo International Film Festival 2010) produced by Nikkatsu Corporation (Japan) "The Omission" by Sebastián Schjaer (short film "The Broken Past," Director’s Fortnight 2015 ; short film "Tomorrow All the Things" Cannes Cinéfondation 2013) produced by Trapecio Cine (Argentina) et Titus Kreyenberg (Germany) "Opening Hours" by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul and Wichanon Somumjarn ("Mother" Competition Torino Film Festival 2012 ; "In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire" Competition International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011 ; "Mundane Story" Tiger Award International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009) produced by Electric Eel Film (Thailand) "Pirate of Love" by Sara Guðmundsdóttir & Árni Sveinsson (short film "The Pirate of Love" Official Selection New Directors / New Films 2013 ; "Backyard" Special Mention Sound&Vision Award Cph:dox 2010) produced by Netop Films (Iceland) "Single Mother" by Hana Makhmalbaf ("Green Days" Venice Film Festival 2009 ; "Le Cahier" Crystal Bear Berlinale 2008) produced by Makhmalbaf Film House (U.K.) "Zoology" by Ivan I. Tverdosvsky ("Correction Class" Gold Star Marrakech Film Festival 2014) produced by New People (Russia) Projects selected as part of the Brazilian Focus:
"Tinnitus" by Gregorio Graziosi ("Obra" Toronto International Film Festival 2014 ; short film "Mira" International Competition Locarno Film Festival 2009) produced by Superfilmes (Brazil) "Revenge Therapy" by Marcos Bernstein ("My Sweet Orange Tree" Alice nella Citta Award Rome Film Festival 2012 ; "The Other Side of the Street" C.I.C.E.A. Award for Best Film - Berlinale Panorama 2004) produced by Passaro Films (Brazil) "A Yellow Animal" by Felipe Bragança (short film "Escape from my Eyes" Berlinale Forum Expanded 2015 ; "A Alegria" Director’s Fortnight 2010) produced by Duas Mariola Filmes (Brazil) The Paris-based international coproduction market is organized by Les Arcs European Film Festival with support from the Champs-Élysées Fim Festival to take place June 10-12, 2015. All the meetings will take place at Eurosites George V 28 Av. George V, 75008 Paris
For further information: contact[At]pariscopro.com...
- 6/2/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Second edition set to unfold in French capital June 10-12.
Hana Makhmalbaf, Ivan I. Tverdosvsky and Jonas Carpignano will be among the directors presenting new projects at the second edition of the Paris Coproduction Village in June.
A joint venture between Les Arcs European Film Festival and Champs Elysées Film Festival, the event is set to unfold June 10-12 in the French capital.
Hana Makhmalbafwill present her first feature since the 2009 Green Days, a new UK-produced project entitled Single Mother.
Russian Ivan I. Tverdosvsky, who is being touted as an upcoming director to watch following the festival success of his Corrections Class, will unveil Zoology.
Jonas Carpignano, whose Mediterranea is premiering in Critics’Week, will unveil his next film, A Ciambra, as part of the Cinéfondation selection, which will also be presented at the village.
A total of 14 projects have been selected for the central line-up, five of them European, three Asian and...
Hana Makhmalbaf, Ivan I. Tverdosvsky and Jonas Carpignano will be among the directors presenting new projects at the second edition of the Paris Coproduction Village in June.
A joint venture between Les Arcs European Film Festival and Champs Elysées Film Festival, the event is set to unfold June 10-12 in the French capital.
Hana Makhmalbafwill present her first feature since the 2009 Green Days, a new UK-produced project entitled Single Mother.
Russian Ivan I. Tverdosvsky, who is being touted as an upcoming director to watch following the festival success of his Corrections Class, will unveil Zoology.
Jonas Carpignano, whose Mediterranea is premiering in Critics’Week, will unveil his next film, A Ciambra, as part of the Cinéfondation selection, which will also be presented at the village.
A total of 14 projects have been selected for the central line-up, five of them European, three Asian and...
- 5/18/2015
- ScreenDaily
New projects by Karabey, Aydogan, Sakaoglu among award winners at Istanbul Meetings
New film projects by Hüseyin Karabey, Zekeriya Aydoğan, and Sinem Sakaoğlu were among the award winners at the 10th edition of Meetings on the Bridge (April 15-16) during the Istanbul Film Festival.
Four awards were given to projects presented as part of this year’s Film Project Development Workshop and were decided by an international jury comprising of such leading industry figures as Meinolf Zurhorst (Zdf), Sergio Garcia De Leaniz (Eurimages), Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau Films), Giovanni Robbiano (Mediterranean Film Institute/Mfi) and Khalil Benkirane (Doha Film Institute).
The $ 10,000 Meetings On The Bridge Award went to German-born director Tarik Aktaş’ Dead Horse Nebula - about a sequence of incidents taking place around a small village -, while the € 10,000 Cnc Award was given to The Death of Father and Son by Zekeriya Aydoğan, a period drama set in the Kurdish society.
Aydoğan’s latest...
New film projects by Hüseyin Karabey, Zekeriya Aydoğan, and Sinem Sakaoğlu were among the award winners at the 10th edition of Meetings on the Bridge (April 15-16) during the Istanbul Film Festival.
Four awards were given to projects presented as part of this year’s Film Project Development Workshop and were decided by an international jury comprising of such leading industry figures as Meinolf Zurhorst (Zdf), Sergio Garcia De Leaniz (Eurimages), Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau Films), Giovanni Robbiano (Mediterranean Film Institute/Mfi) and Khalil Benkirane (Doha Film Institute).
The $ 10,000 Meetings On The Bridge Award went to German-born director Tarik Aktaş’ Dead Horse Nebula - about a sequence of incidents taking place around a small village -, while the € 10,000 Cnc Award was given to The Death of Father and Son by Zekeriya Aydoğan, a period drama set in the Kurdish society.
Aydoğan’s latest...
- 4/17/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Directors include Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho.Scroll down for full list
Busan’s Asian Project Market (Apm) has announced this year’s line-up including films from directors Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho and July Jung.
Winner of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or, Vimukthi Jayasundara (The Forbidden Land) will present Sri Lankan project Hair Of The Dog That Bit You.
The drama is about a female tourist guide’s loss of memory and identity, and her struggle to come to terms with what is left of her life and an unknown future.
Cannes 2009 Best Director winner Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay) has Philippines-France-Germany co-production Fowl in the Apm line-up.
The story follows Ramon, a Filipino contract worker working at Singapore Post. When his wife Jenny suddenly dies, he has to travel back to the Philippines with her as if she were one of the many parcels he is so used to handling.
Korean directors...
Busan’s Asian Project Market (Apm) has announced this year’s line-up including films from directors Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho and July Jung.
Winner of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or, Vimukthi Jayasundara (The Forbidden Land) will present Sri Lankan project Hair Of The Dog That Bit You.
The drama is about a female tourist guide’s loss of memory and identity, and her struggle to come to terms with what is left of her life and an unknown future.
Cannes 2009 Best Director winner Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay) has Philippines-France-Germany co-production Fowl in the Apm line-up.
The story follows Ramon, a Filipino contract worker working at Singapore Post. When his wife Jenny suddenly dies, he has to travel back to the Philippines with her as if she were one of the many parcels he is so used to handling.
Korean directors...
- 8/19/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Directors include Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho.
Busan’s Asian Project Market (Apm) has announced this year’s line-up including directors Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho and July Jung.
Winner of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or, Vimukthi Jayasundara (The Forbidden Land) will present Sri Lankan project Hair Of The Dog That Bit You.
The drama is about a female tourist guide’s loss of memory and identity, and her struggle to come to terms with what is left of her life and an unknown future.
Cannes 2009 Best Director winner Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay) has Philippines-France-Germany co-production Fowl in the Apm line-up.
The story follows Ramon, a Filipino contract worker working at Singapore Post. When his wife Jenny suddenly dies, he has to travel back to the Philippines with her as if she were one of the many parcels he is so used to handling.
Korean directors include July Jung, the [link=nm...
Busan’s Asian Project Market (Apm) has announced this year’s line-up including directors Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho and July Jung.
Winner of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or, Vimukthi Jayasundara (The Forbidden Land) will present Sri Lankan project Hair Of The Dog That Bit You.
The drama is about a female tourist guide’s loss of memory and identity, and her struggle to come to terms with what is left of her life and an unknown future.
Cannes 2009 Best Director winner Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay) has Philippines-France-Germany co-production Fowl in the Apm line-up.
The story follows Ramon, a Filipino contract worker working at Singapore Post. When his wife Jenny suddenly dies, he has to travel back to the Philippines with her as if she were one of the many parcels he is so used to handling.
Korean directors include July Jung, the [link=nm...
- 8/19/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
The festival is laying on a packed programme of film industry events this year, headlined by the Jerusalem Pitch Point meeting.
The meeting revolves around a central pitching event on July 14, open to both industry professionals, film students and the public, aimed at connecting Israeli filmmakers with international partners on their upcoming projects.
Participants this year include celebrated experimental director Nina Menkes, established filmmakers Nir Bergman and Dina Zvi Riklis and up and coming director Eitan Gafny, whose Lebanon-set zombie picture debut Cannon Fodder has sold well internationally.
For the first time, the event will also screen a selection of Israeli works-in-progress to selected industry professionals, including Madame Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club, the feature debut of Guilhad Emilio Schenker, whose 2010 short Lavan screened in more than 70 festivals and won numerous prizes.
The projects will compete for a trio of prizes meted out by France’s National Cinema Centre, Franco-German broadcaster...
The meeting revolves around a central pitching event on July 14, open to both industry professionals, film students and the public, aimed at connecting Israeli filmmakers with international partners on their upcoming projects.
Participants this year include celebrated experimental director Nina Menkes, established filmmakers Nir Bergman and Dina Zvi Riklis and up and coming director Eitan Gafny, whose Lebanon-set zombie picture debut Cannon Fodder has sold well internationally.
For the first time, the event will also screen a selection of Israeli works-in-progress to selected industry professionals, including Madame Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club, the feature debut of Guilhad Emilio Schenker, whose 2010 short Lavan screened in more than 70 festivals and won numerous prizes.
The projects will compete for a trio of prizes meted out by France’s National Cinema Centre, Franco-German broadcaster...
- 7/10/2014
- ScreenDaily
There were several prizes for German co-productions at the Cannes Film Festival (14 - 25 May 2014) this year: Winter Sleep (Tr/De/Fr, Bredok Film Production) won the Palm d'Or . The film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan also received the Fipresci Prize from the international film critics. Another co-production with German participation, Le Meraviglie by Alice Rohrwacher (It/Ch/De, Pola Pandora), was awarded the Grand Prix. White God by Kornél Mundruczó (Hu/De/Se, Pola Pandora) received the main award in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Pola Pandora, the German production company serving as a partner on both films, was co-founded by the recently departed Karl Baumgartner, a pioneer of European arthouse cinema. Wim Wenders and his co-director Juliano Ribeiro Salgado received the Special Prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar for the French production The Salt of the Earth. Juan Sarmiento G. was responsible for the camerawork on Leidi, the Golden Palm for Short Films. He is now living and working in Berlin after having studied at the Hff Potsdam-Babelsberg.
The cinema was filled to capacity at the world premiere of the Next Generation Short Tiger 2014 program of shorts on Sunday, 18 May 2014. Around 250 guests came to the Star Cinema where the directors and producers of the 14 selected shorts presented their works to an audience of international professionals. The director and Oscar-winner® Caroline Link, who was a member of the jury, was also present at the premiere in Cannes. Next Generation Short Tiger 2014 is organized by German Films and the German Federal Film Board (Ffa). After the screening, the audience – which included representatives of international festivals, journalists, producers and buyers, rewarded the achievements of the German short film talents with long and enthusiastic applause.
Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of German Films: "We are delighted that this year again saw such a large interest from people wanting to get to know the up-and-coming generation of German filmmakers at the Next Generation Short Tiger premiere. Everything was represented – from the Western through drama, animation, thriller, documentary and also comedy – and all of this was of a very high quality." The first festival invitations had already started coming in after the screening in Cannes. The Next Generation Short Tiger 2014 program will be shown in the upcoming months as part of the Festivals of German Films which are organized by German Films in Madrid, New York, Buenos Aires, Paris and Moscow.
This year, the market screenings organized by German Films under the banner of " New German Films in Cannes " at Cannes' Marché du Film presented 35 new German films. The screenings were well received by the professional visitors. A popular and highly regarded meeting place – along with the German Pavilion in the International Village – proved once again to be the German Reception in honor of German cinema and the films with German participation at the festival.
Over 850 guests took the opportunity to come together in a convivial atmosphere on La Plage - Majestic Barrière on Saturday, 17 May 2014. The State Minister for Culture, Prof. Monika Grütters, made the opening speech on the occasion of her first visit to Cannes. The producers Eva Blondiau (Torn), Michael Eckelt (That Lovely Girl / Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsallem), Alfred Hürmer (Maps to the Stars), Thanassis Karathanos (Clouds of Sils Maria) and Titus Kreyenberg (Bridges of Sarajevo), the directors Elmar Imanov and Engin Kundag (Torn), Slomi Elkabetz (Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsallem) and Jessica Hausner (Amour Fou) as well as the actors Christian Friedel and Stefan Großmann (Amour Fou) were among those attending from the delegations of the German co-productions showing at the festival. The guests included, among others, representatives of festivals from Moscow, Montreal, Palm Springs, Locarno and São Paulo, the actors Stefan Konarske and Maxim Mehmet, the directors Margarethe von Trotta, Caroline Link, Dietrich Brüggemann, Veit Helmer and Marco Kreuzpaintner, author Katja Eichinger as well as international and national distributors, producers and funders.
The cinema was filled to capacity at the world premiere of the Next Generation Short Tiger 2014 program of shorts on Sunday, 18 May 2014. Around 250 guests came to the Star Cinema where the directors and producers of the 14 selected shorts presented their works to an audience of international professionals. The director and Oscar-winner® Caroline Link, who was a member of the jury, was also present at the premiere in Cannes. Next Generation Short Tiger 2014 is organized by German Films and the German Federal Film Board (Ffa). After the screening, the audience – which included representatives of international festivals, journalists, producers and buyers, rewarded the achievements of the German short film talents with long and enthusiastic applause.
Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of German Films: "We are delighted that this year again saw such a large interest from people wanting to get to know the up-and-coming generation of German filmmakers at the Next Generation Short Tiger premiere. Everything was represented – from the Western through drama, animation, thriller, documentary and also comedy – and all of this was of a very high quality." The first festival invitations had already started coming in after the screening in Cannes. The Next Generation Short Tiger 2014 program will be shown in the upcoming months as part of the Festivals of German Films which are organized by German Films in Madrid, New York, Buenos Aires, Paris and Moscow.
This year, the market screenings organized by German Films under the banner of " New German Films in Cannes " at Cannes' Marché du Film presented 35 new German films. The screenings were well received by the professional visitors. A popular and highly regarded meeting place – along with the German Pavilion in the International Village – proved once again to be the German Reception in honor of German cinema and the films with German participation at the festival.
Over 850 guests took the opportunity to come together in a convivial atmosphere on La Plage - Majestic Barrière on Saturday, 17 May 2014. The State Minister for Culture, Prof. Monika Grütters, made the opening speech on the occasion of her first visit to Cannes. The producers Eva Blondiau (Torn), Michael Eckelt (That Lovely Girl / Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsallem), Alfred Hürmer (Maps to the Stars), Thanassis Karathanos (Clouds of Sils Maria) and Titus Kreyenberg (Bridges of Sarajevo), the directors Elmar Imanov and Engin Kundag (Torn), Slomi Elkabetz (Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsallem) and Jessica Hausner (Amour Fou) as well as the actors Christian Friedel and Stefan Großmann (Amour Fou) were among those attending from the delegations of the German co-productions showing at the festival. The guests included, among others, representatives of festivals from Moscow, Montreal, Palm Springs, Locarno and São Paulo, the actors Stefan Konarske and Maxim Mehmet, the directors Margarethe von Trotta, Caroline Link, Dietrich Brüggemann, Veit Helmer and Marco Kreuzpaintner, author Katja Eichinger as well as international and national distributors, producers and funders.
- 6/7/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
This year will see 74 market screenings of feature documentaries, with half available at the Doc Corner’s Video Library.
There will be 74 market screenings of feature documentaries at the Marche this year, an increase on previous years. Half of these will also be available at the Doc Corner’s Video Library.
Sales companies including Cinephil, Rise & Shine and Cat&Docs are amongst those showcasing films in the video library.
Cannes Marche’s Doc Corner will welcome expert speakers at a series of roundtables, including Anne Lai from the Sundance Institute, producer Heidi Fleisher, Idfa’s Isabel Arrate Fernandez, Vimeo’s Sam Toles, La Septième Salle’s Tom Dercourt, We Want Cinema’s Marieke Jonker and Touscoprod’s Nicolas Bailly.
Topics of discussion at the 4-6pm talks at Palais I will include new financing models for documentaries (Sunday); crowdfunding (Monday); VOD models (Tuesday); and consumer-driven documentaries (Wednesday).
The DocCorner Brunch will be be held on Monday (by invitation...
There will be 74 market screenings of feature documentaries at the Marche this year, an increase on previous years. Half of these will also be available at the Doc Corner’s Video Library.
Sales companies including Cinephil, Rise & Shine and Cat&Docs are amongst those showcasing films in the video library.
Cannes Marche’s Doc Corner will welcome expert speakers at a series of roundtables, including Anne Lai from the Sundance Institute, producer Heidi Fleisher, Idfa’s Isabel Arrate Fernandez, Vimeo’s Sam Toles, La Septième Salle’s Tom Dercourt, We Want Cinema’s Marieke Jonker and Touscoprod’s Nicolas Bailly.
Topics of discussion at the 4-6pm talks at Palais I will include new financing models for documentaries (Sunday); crowdfunding (Monday); VOD models (Tuesday); and consumer-driven documentaries (Wednesday).
The DocCorner Brunch will be be held on Monday (by invitation...
- 5/16/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Detailfilm reunites with director Kutlug Ataman following their collaboration on The Lamb.
Henning Kamm, who will represent Germany at Cannes next month as its Producer on the Move, and business partner Fabian Gasmia at Hamburg-based Detailfilm are to reunite with Turkish filmmaker Kutlug Ataman for his next feature project.
Kamm and Gasmia were co-producers on Ataman’s last feature film The Lamb (Kuzu), which had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama last February and won the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Detailfilm will now serve as the co-producer on Ataman’s Hilil, Feza And Other Planets, which received support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Co-Development Fund at this month’s Meetings on the Bridge co-production market in Istanbul.
Moreover, Berlin-based producer Titus Kreyenberg of Unafilm confirmed to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon that the Co-Development Fund had also awarded funding to Jessica Krummacher’s feature debut, Birth Of Purple...
Henning Kamm, who will represent Germany at Cannes next month as its Producer on the Move, and business partner Fabian Gasmia at Hamburg-based Detailfilm are to reunite with Turkish filmmaker Kutlug Ataman for his next feature project.
Kamm and Gasmia were co-producers on Ataman’s last feature film The Lamb (Kuzu), which had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama last February and won the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Detailfilm will now serve as the co-producer on Ataman’s Hilil, Feza And Other Planets, which received support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Co-Development Fund at this month’s Meetings on the Bridge co-production market in Istanbul.
Moreover, Berlin-based producer Titus Kreyenberg of Unafilm confirmed to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon that the Co-Development Fund had also awarded funding to Jessica Krummacher’s feature debut, Birth Of Purple...
- 4/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Detailfilm reunites with director Kutlug Ataman following their collaboration on The Lamb.
Henning Kamm, who will represent Germany at Cannes next month as its Producer on the Move, and business partner Fabian Gasmia at Hamburg-based Detailfilm are to reunite with Turkish filmmaker Kutlug Ataman for his next feature project.
Kamm and Gasmia were co-producers on Ataman’s last feature film The Lamb (Kuzu), which had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama last February and won the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Detailfilm will now serve as the co-producer on Ataman’s Hilil, Feza And Other Planets, which received support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Co-Development Fund at this month’s Meetings on the Bridge co-production market in Istanbul.
Moreover, Berlin-based producer Titus Kreyenberg of Unafilm confirmed to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon that the Co-Development Fund had also awarded funding to Jessica Krummacher’s feature debut, Birth Of Purple...
Henning Kamm, who will represent Germany at Cannes next month as its Producer on the Move, and business partner Fabian Gasmia at Hamburg-based Detailfilm are to reunite with Turkish filmmaker Kutlug Ataman for his next feature project.
Kamm and Gasmia were co-producers on Ataman’s last feature film The Lamb (Kuzu), which had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama last February and won the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Detailfilm will now serve as the co-producer on Ataman’s Hilil, Feza And Other Planets, which received support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Co-Development Fund at this month’s Meetings on the Bridge co-production market in Istanbul.
Moreover, Berlin-based producer Titus Kreyenberg of Unafilm confirmed to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon that the Co-Development Fund had also awarded funding to Jessica Krummacher’s feature debut, Birth Of Purple...
- 4/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
I am not him wins best film in Turkish competition.
Blind [pictured] by Norway’s Eskil Vogt, the story of a married woman losing her sight and battling with the real and imaginary demons of her condition, won the Golden Tulip at the 33rd Istanbul International Film Festival. The jury — presided over by Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and including British producer Lynda Myles from the National Film & TV School, Turkish actress Defne Halman, French director Philippe Leguay and Romanian writer/director Razvan Radulescu — added a special jury prize for Poland’s Papusza, written and directed by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze.
On the national front, Tayfun Pirselimoglou’s I am not him (Ben O Degilim) lead the field, winning the Best Film Award, also Best Script (also by Pirselimoglou) and best music (by Giorgios Komendakis), an award shared with Ali Tekbas, Serhat Bostanci and A. Imran Erin who wrote the score for Come to My Voice (Were...
Blind [pictured] by Norway’s Eskil Vogt, the story of a married woman losing her sight and battling with the real and imaginary demons of her condition, won the Golden Tulip at the 33rd Istanbul International Film Festival. The jury — presided over by Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and including British producer Lynda Myles from the National Film & TV School, Turkish actress Defne Halman, French director Philippe Leguay and Romanian writer/director Razvan Radulescu — added a special jury prize for Poland’s Papusza, written and directed by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze.
On the national front, Tayfun Pirselimoglou’s I am not him (Ben O Degilim) lead the field, winning the Best Film Award, also Best Script (also by Pirselimoglou) and best music (by Giorgios Komendakis), an award shared with Ali Tekbas, Serhat Bostanci and A. Imran Erin who wrote the score for Come to My Voice (Were...
- 4/21/2014
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
Local and international executives come together at second Riding The Greek Wave conference organised by Hellenic Film Academy.
WIth much political and financial upheaval in the country, Greek cinema has finally received a much needed shot in the arm.
This happened during the weekend-long second edition of Riding the Greek Wave, the annual conference organised by the Hellenic Film Academy in the presence of a selected group of foreign film executives.
For the first time since the early June shut down of the public radio and television network (Ert) by the government, a move that blocked all financial backing made more or less regularly available by the network to local productions, the government confirmed in public that the backing to local productions would resume shortly in the wake of the appointment in the very next days of a CEO to head the TV and Radio public network actually in the restructuring process.
A spokesman...
WIth much political and financial upheaval in the country, Greek cinema has finally received a much needed shot in the arm.
This happened during the weekend-long second edition of Riding the Greek Wave, the annual conference organised by the Hellenic Film Academy in the presence of a selected group of foreign film executives.
For the first time since the early June shut down of the public radio and television network (Ert) by the government, a move that blocked all financial backing made more or less regularly available by the network to local productions, the government confirmed in public that the backing to local productions would resume shortly in the wake of the appointment in the very next days of a CEO to head the TV and Radio public network actually in the restructuring process.
A spokesman...
- 10/2/2013
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
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