Germany’s biggest local star has been accused of assault and drunkenness in Der Speigel report.
Leading German production company Constantin Film has launched an investigation into allegations of abuse and bullying by Til Schweiger, one of the country’s biggest actor-directors, during the shoot of Constantin’s hit feature Manta Manta 2.
The company has contracted an independent law film to conduct an external compliance analysis following a report by German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel that, among other things, Schweiger had been intoxicated on set on several occasions, had assaulted a staff member of Constantin Film, and forced a...
Leading German production company Constantin Film has launched an investigation into allegations of abuse and bullying by Til Schweiger, one of the country’s biggest actor-directors, during the shoot of Constantin’s hit feature Manta Manta 2.
The company has contracted an independent law film to conduct an external compliance analysis following a report by German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel that, among other things, Schweiger had been intoxicated on set on several occasions, had assaulted a staff member of Constantin Film, and forced a...
- 5/9/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The final announcement will be made tomorrow (22 June).
With Locarno chief Carlo Chatrian’s appointment as successor to Dieter Kosslick as the artistic director of the Berlinale considered a done deal by the German media after a leak from the decision-making body to a tabloid journalist, attention is now focused at who will be the festival manager.
This person will be responsible for finances, organisation and sponsors as part of a new dual leadership for the festival from May 2019.
Monika Grütters, Germany’s state minister for culture and media, has long made it clear she wanted to appoint a woman...
With Locarno chief Carlo Chatrian’s appointment as successor to Dieter Kosslick as the artistic director of the Berlinale considered a done deal by the German media after a leak from the decision-making body to a tabloid journalist, attention is now focused at who will be the festival manager.
This person will be responsible for finances, organisation and sponsors as part of a new dual leadership for the festival from May 2019.
Monika Grütters, Germany’s state minister for culture and media, has long made it clear she wanted to appoint a woman...
- 6/21/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The final announcement will be made tomorrow (22 June).
With Locarno chief Carlo Chatrian’s appointment as successor to Dieter Kosslick at the Berlinale considered a done deal by the German media after a leak from the decision-making body to a tabloid journalist, attention is now focused at who might be selected as the festival manager responsible for finances, organisation and sponsors as part of a new dual leadership for the festival from May 2019.
According to German press reports, it is being presumed that a woman from the local film industry will be proposed to fill the post of festival manager.
With Locarno chief Carlo Chatrian’s appointment as successor to Dieter Kosslick at the Berlinale considered a done deal by the German media after a leak from the decision-making body to a tabloid journalist, attention is now focused at who might be selected as the festival manager responsible for finances, organisation and sponsors as part of a new dual leadership for the festival from May 2019.
According to German press reports, it is being presumed that a woman from the local film industry will be proposed to fill the post of festival manager.
- 6/21/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Elle Driver, Wide Management and European film funds on what brings them back to the Sarajevo Film Festival’s development and financing platform.
The Sarajevo Film Festival has launched the 13th edition of CineLink (Aug 19-22), a development and financing platform that provides the backbone of its industry section, featuring around 25 projects suited for co-production.
The selection - split between a co-production market and work in progress event - has traditionally focused on Southeast Europe but has opened up in recent years to projects from the Caucasus region, while this year will see two projects from Doha and one from Russia.
Click here for the co-production market titlesClick here for the Work in Progress titles
“From the very beginning, the Sarajevo Film Festival always aimed to be relevant for the film industry,” says Jovan Marjanović, head of industry at Sff.
And it is, thanks especially to the CineLink Industry Days, which essentially...
The Sarajevo Film Festival has launched the 13th edition of CineLink (Aug 19-22), a development and financing platform that provides the backbone of its industry section, featuring around 25 projects suited for co-production.
The selection - split between a co-production market and work in progress event - has traditionally focused on Southeast Europe but has opened up in recent years to projects from the Caucasus region, while this year will see two projects from Doha and one from Russia.
Click here for the co-production market titlesClick here for the Work in Progress titles
“From the very beginning, the Sarajevo Film Festival always aimed to be relevant for the film industry,” says Jovan Marjanović, head of industry at Sff.
And it is, thanks especially to the CineLink Industry Days, which essentially...
- 8/21/2015
- ScreenDaily
The European Commission’s plans for a Digital Single Market (Dsm) were high on the agenda as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) held its annual strategy meeting in Berlin for first time.
Representatives from all six studios attended the two-day meeting in the German capital.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, Stan McCoy, MPAA’s Brussel-based president and MD for Emea, said: “Rhere are really two reasons why the MPAA came to Berlin this year.
“Firstly, film production between Germany and America has never been stronger. You don’t have to look any further than Homeland [fifth season shooting in the Berlin-Brandenburg region], Grand Budapest Hotel and Monuments Men to understand that.
“Secondly, the German industry has stepped up to take leadership on issues surrounding the Digital Single Market and the threat it poses to the film sector.
“The members of the MPAA are very much interested in understanding the situation that confronts the entire sector in Europe and understanding how we can be...
Representatives from all six studios attended the two-day meeting in the German capital.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, Stan McCoy, MPAA’s Brussel-based president and MD for Emea, said: “Rhere are really two reasons why the MPAA came to Berlin this year.
“Firstly, film production between Germany and America has never been stronger. You don’t have to look any further than Homeland [fifth season shooting in the Berlin-Brandenburg region], Grand Budapest Hotel and Monuments Men to understand that.
“Secondly, the German industry has stepped up to take leadership on issues surrounding the Digital Single Market and the threat it poses to the film sector.
“The members of the MPAA are very much interested in understanding the situation that confronts the entire sector in Europe and understanding how we can be...
- 6/12/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Bernd Neumann, Germany’s former State Minister for Culture and Media, has weighed in with his own comments about the discussion on the German Federal Film Fund (Dfff) spend incentive.
Speaking in his current capacity as the president of the German Federal Film Board (Ffa), Neumann said that it was ¨regrettable¨ that, ¨in spite of the Dfff’s outstanding success and the commitment of [his successor] Minister Grütters,¨, finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble could not be persuaded to retain the fund’s budget at least at € 60m for 2015.
It was learnt a week ago that the Angela Merkel administration is likely to cut the Dfff’s budget by € 10m to € 50m as from next year.
Neumann had been the political architect of the ¨German spend¨ initiative which was introduced in 2007 and has been instrumental in making Germany an attractive location for international film productions.
A current example of a major international production benefiting from the Dfff is Steven Spielberg’s untitled...
Speaking in his current capacity as the president of the German Federal Film Board (Ffa), Neumann said that it was ¨regrettable¨ that, ¨in spite of the Dfff’s outstanding success and the commitment of [his successor] Minister Grütters,¨, finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble could not be persuaded to retain the fund’s budget at least at € 60m for 2015.
It was learnt a week ago that the Angela Merkel administration is likely to cut the Dfff’s budget by € 10m to € 50m as from next year.
Neumann had been the political architect of the ¨German spend¨ initiative which was introduced in 2007 and has been instrumental in making Germany an attractive location for international film productions.
A current example of a major international production benefiting from the Dfff is Steven Spielberg’s untitled...
- 11/20/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Iceland’s Oscar submission takes top prize in Lübeck; Edward Snowden gives video introduction to Citizenfour at Dok Leipzig; arson attack hits Lgbt screening in Kyiv.
Baldvin Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Life In A Fishbowl was the big winner at this year’s Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, taking home the Ndr Film Prize, worth $15,655 (€12,500)
Lead actor Thorsteinn Bachmann accepted the award in person from the five-person jury, which said it was “a touching and hopeful film about seemingly hopeless situations”.
The co-production between Iceland, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic is Iceland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar and is being handled internationally by Films Boutique.
Special mentions were also given to Hisham Zaman’s Letter To The King (Norway) and J-p Valkeapää’s They Have Escaped (Finland) by the jury comprising actors Victoria Trauttmansdorff and Niklas Osterloh, producer Christoph Thoke, Ndr commissioning editor Diana Schulte-Kellinghaus and Finnish film-maker Kirsi Marie Liimatainen.
Festival-goers voted for...
Baldvin Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Life In A Fishbowl was the big winner at this year’s Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, taking home the Ndr Film Prize, worth $15,655 (€12,500)
Lead actor Thorsteinn Bachmann accepted the award in person from the five-person jury, which said it was “a touching and hopeful film about seemingly hopeless situations”.
The co-production between Iceland, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic is Iceland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar and is being handled internationally by Films Boutique.
Special mentions were also given to Hisham Zaman’s Letter To The King (Norway) and J-p Valkeapää’s They Have Escaped (Finland) by the jury comprising actors Victoria Trauttmansdorff and Niklas Osterloh, producer Christoph Thoke, Ndr commissioning editor Diana Schulte-Kellinghaus and Finnish film-maker Kirsi Marie Liimatainen.
Festival-goers voted for...
- 11/3/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Closer collaboration is being promoted by two German public film funds and opposite numbers in Norway and Denmark.
This week will see Hanover-based nordmedia and the East Norwegian fund Film3 joining forces with the Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 10-14) in Lower Saxony to stage the festival’s first ever co-production meeting entitled ‘Linking The North’ on Sept 13.
The event will bring producers from Northern Germany and Norway together to discuss the co-production potential of ten fiction feature and documentary projects.
The line-up of projects seeking partners includes:
Christian Lo’s 1910-set detective story The Charlatan, to be produced by Lillehammer-based Filmbin;
Peter Dodd and Kristian Kamp’s 3D family fantasy animation $17.5m film Troll: The Tale Of A Tail, which already has Norway’s Sagatoon, Canada’s Blue Bug Entertainment, and the UK’s Timeless Films already onboard as co-producers, looking for top financing and German distribution;
Leading Norwegian documentary production house As Video Maker’s three-part...
This week will see Hanover-based nordmedia and the East Norwegian fund Film3 joining forces with the Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 10-14) in Lower Saxony to stage the festival’s first ever co-production meeting entitled ‘Linking The North’ on Sept 13.
The event will bring producers from Northern Germany and Norway together to discuss the co-production potential of ten fiction feature and documentary projects.
The line-up of projects seeking partners includes:
Christian Lo’s 1910-set detective story The Charlatan, to be produced by Lillehammer-based Filmbin;
Peter Dodd and Kristian Kamp’s 3D family fantasy animation $17.5m film Troll: The Tale Of A Tail, which already has Norway’s Sagatoon, Canada’s Blue Bug Entertainment, and the UK’s Timeless Films already onboard as co-producers, looking for top financing and German distribution;
Leading Norwegian documentary production house As Video Maker’s three-part...
- 9/9/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Sarajevo’s August 21 panel will look at co-productions with lower budgets.
Sarajevo Film Festival’s co-production market CineLink partners this year with Germany and four of its regional funds: Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh), Mfg Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (Mdm). On this occasion, a seminar titled Co-producing With Germany On Lower Budgets will be held on Aug 21.
Germany is the most active co-producing partner for films from South East Europe, with 13 minority co-productions with German participation released in 2012 only. However, average production budget for films from the region has been constantly decreasing over the past years, meaning that German regional funding systems spending requirements are becoming harder to meet on one side, while at the same time pressure on German funds to attract projects that generate bigger regional spent, mounts on the other.
Eva Hubert [pictured], the Executive Director of Ffhsh, explains that “In some projects it is difficult to raise at least a part of...
Sarajevo Film Festival’s co-production market CineLink partners this year with Germany and four of its regional funds: Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh), Mfg Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (Mdm). On this occasion, a seminar titled Co-producing With Germany On Lower Budgets will be held on Aug 21.
Germany is the most active co-producing partner for films from South East Europe, with 13 minority co-productions with German participation released in 2012 only. However, average production budget for films from the region has been constantly decreasing over the past years, meaning that German regional funding systems spending requirements are becoming harder to meet on one side, while at the same time pressure on German funds to attract projects that generate bigger regional spent, mounts on the other.
Eva Hubert [pictured], the Executive Director of Ffhsh, explains that “In some projects it is difficult to raise at least a part of...
- 8/17/2013
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
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