Festival ran November 2-12.
Sofia Exarchou’s Animal has won the €10,000 Golden Alexander-Theo Angelopoulos prize for best film at the 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the first time in 30 years a Greek production has won the top prize.
The film’s lead actress Dimitra Vlagopoulou also won the best actress award ex aequo with Joanna Arnow for US production The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed, which she also directed.
Vlagopoulou had previously won best actress at Locarno where the film had its world premiere.
The Greek, Austrian, Romanian, Cypriot, Bulgarian co-production follows a group of women...
Sofia Exarchou’s Animal has won the €10,000 Golden Alexander-Theo Angelopoulos prize for best film at the 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the first time in 30 years a Greek production has won the top prize.
The film’s lead actress Dimitra Vlagopoulou also won the best actress award ex aequo with Joanna Arnow for US production The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed, which she also directed.
Vlagopoulou had previously won best actress at Locarno where the film had its world premiere.
The Greek, Austrian, Romanian, Cypriot, Bulgarian co-production follows a group of women...
- 11/15/2023
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
Sofia Exarchou’s “Animal” won the Golden Alexander at the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival on Sunday, marking the first time in 30 years that a Greek film took home the top honors at the country’s longest-running film event.
Exarchou’s sophomore feature, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, was praised by Variety’s Jessica Kiang as “a poignant portrait of life amid the sequins and the seediness of a Greek resort.” The film follows a group of entertainers at an all-inclusive island resort preparing for the busy tourist season who are forced to wrestle with the dark reality that the show must go on as the sultry Mediterranean nights turn violent.
Lead actor Dimitra Vlagopoulou, who won the acting award at the prestigious Swiss fest for what Kiang called a “riveting” performance, also shared the award for best actress in Thessaloniki. The awards were handed out by a jury comprised of producer Diana Elbaum,...
Exarchou’s sophomore feature, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, was praised by Variety’s Jessica Kiang as “a poignant portrait of life amid the sequins and the seediness of a Greek resort.” The film follows a group of entertainers at an all-inclusive island resort preparing for the busy tourist season who are forced to wrestle with the dark reality that the show must go on as the sultry Mediterranean nights turn violent.
Lead actor Dimitra Vlagopoulou, who won the acting award at the prestigious Swiss fest for what Kiang called a “riveting” performance, also shared the award for best actress in Thessaloniki. The awards were handed out by a jury comprised of producer Diana Elbaum,...
- 11/12/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Tkt is Belgian director Cicurel’s third feature.
Paris-based sales and co-production company Other Angle, who just launched a US venture, will co-produce and handle international sales for Solange Cicurel’s high school harassment drama Tkt and has taken on sales for female-driven police comedy Sirens.
Screen can reveal a first look image of Tkt. The film is Belgian director Cicurel’s third feature following comedies Don’t Tell Her and Isn’t She Lovely. Tkt tackles a heavier topic, namely bullying in schools. It follows a 16-year-old girl in the hospital in a coma who takes a trip through...
Paris-based sales and co-production company Other Angle, who just launched a US venture, will co-produce and handle international sales for Solange Cicurel’s high school harassment drama Tkt and has taken on sales for female-driven police comedy Sirens.
Screen can reveal a first look image of Tkt. The film is Belgian director Cicurel’s third feature following comedies Don’t Tell Her and Isn’t She Lovely. Tkt tackles a heavier topic, namely bullying in schools. It follows a 16-year-old girl in the hospital in a coma who takes a trip through...
- 11/8/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Realness Institute collaborating with Brazil’s Projeto Paradiso on this year’s cohort.
African filmmaking agency Realness Institute has selected 15 film producers for the third edition of its Creative Producer Indaba (Cpi), a lab for developing entrepreneurial, leadership and creative skills among producers looking to work on the continent.
Ten of the selected producers are from Africa; five of them will attend the lab with projects, with the other five looking for next films and using the lab to network. The African participants include Tapiwa Chipufa from Zimbabwe, who is working on The Other Half Of The African Sky, billed...
African filmmaking agency Realness Institute has selected 15 film producers for the third edition of its Creative Producer Indaba (Cpi), a lab for developing entrepreneurial, leadership and creative skills among producers looking to work on the continent.
Ten of the selected producers are from Africa; five of them will attend the lab with projects, with the other five looking for next films and using the lab to network. The African participants include Tapiwa Chipufa from Zimbabwe, who is working on The Other Half Of The African Sky, billed...
- 10/30/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Former IFC Films president Arianna Bocco, Berlinale managing director Mariette Rissenbeek and the British Film Institute’s head of industry and international policy Agnieszka Moody are set as keynote speakers for the upcoming Locarno Film Festival’s StepIN think tank on the most pressing issues in the indie film industry.
The Swiss fest’s unique event, now at its 11th edition, will explore various aspects of this year’s timely theme, which is “What’s the Deal With Independent Cinema?”
A select group of European and international industry players — distributors, exhibitors, producers, sales agents, film institutions, financiers, streaming platforms, broadcasters and film festival and markets reps — will be participating in closed working sessions to exchange thoughts on practices and business models and propose new ideas and strategies.
The themes of this year’s four StepIN roundtables are: the theatrical battlefield between independents, majors and streamers; how to protect the “biodiversity...
The Swiss fest’s unique event, now at its 11th edition, will explore various aspects of this year’s timely theme, which is “What’s the Deal With Independent Cinema?”
A select group of European and international industry players — distributors, exhibitors, producers, sales agents, film institutions, financiers, streaming platforms, broadcasters and film festival and markets reps — will be participating in closed working sessions to exchange thoughts on practices and business models and propose new ideas and strategies.
The themes of this year’s four StepIN roundtables are: the theatrical battlefield between independents, majors and streamers; how to protect the “biodiversity...
- 7/24/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique has closed multiple territory deals on Agnieszka Holland’s “The Green Border,” which just completed principal photography in Poland.
The film has been sold to Condor (France), September Films (Benelux), Movies Inspired (Italy), Leopardo Filmes (Portugal), McF Megacom (former Yugoslavia), Kino Swiat (Poland) and Aqs (Czech Rep./Slovakia).
“The Green Border” tells the story of a family of Syrian refugees, a solitary English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guard, all of whom meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis triggered by Belarus’ president Alexander Lukashenko, who opened the country’s doors to migrants as a back door to enter the EU.
The screenplay, penned by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk, is inspired by real events. Research for the film included hundreds of hours of document analysis, interviews with refugees, border guards, borderland residents, activists and experts.
A co-production between Poland,...
The film has been sold to Condor (France), September Films (Benelux), Movies Inspired (Italy), Leopardo Filmes (Portugal), McF Megacom (former Yugoslavia), Kino Swiat (Poland) and Aqs (Czech Rep./Slovakia).
“The Green Border” tells the story of a family of Syrian refugees, a solitary English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guard, all of whom meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis triggered by Belarus’ president Alexander Lukashenko, who opened the country’s doors to migrants as a back door to enter the EU.
The screenplay, penned by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk, is inspired by real events. Research for the film included hundreds of hours of document analysis, interviews with refugees, border guards, borderland residents, activists and experts.
A co-production between Poland,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Leo Barraclough and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Rolling off a successful collaboration on “Charlatan,” Films Boutique has boarded Agnieszka Holland’s next film “The Green Border,” which just completed principal photography in Poland.
Now in post production, “The Green Border” tells the fateful story of a family of Syrian refugees, a solitary English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guard, all of whom meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis triggered by President Lukaschenko opening doors to migrants in Belarus as a back door to enter the EU.
The screenplay, penned by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk, is inspired by real events. Research for the film included hundreds of hours of document analysis, interviews with refugees, border guards, borderland residents, activists and experts.
A co-production between Poland, France, Belgium and the Czech Republic, “The Green Border” is produced by Marcin Wierzchosławski (Metro Films), Fred Bernstein (Astute Films) and Holland. Co-producers are Maria Blicharska,...
Now in post production, “The Green Border” tells the fateful story of a family of Syrian refugees, a solitary English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guard, all of whom meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis triggered by President Lukaschenko opening doors to migrants in Belarus as a back door to enter the EU.
The screenplay, penned by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk, is inspired by real events. Research for the film included hundreds of hours of document analysis, interviews with refugees, border guards, borderland residents, activists and experts.
A co-production between Poland, France, Belgium and the Czech Republic, “The Green Border” is produced by Marcin Wierzchosławski (Metro Films), Fred Bernstein (Astute Films) and Holland. Co-producers are Maria Blicharska,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Arthouse genre distribution company Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired North American rights “Rebel,” a music-filled thriller by the Belgian directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. The pair broke into Hollywood with “Bad Boys for Life” starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and are set to direct the sequel for Sony Pictures.
“Rebel” was produced by Caviar, the banner behind the Oscar-winning film “Sound of Metal” as well as “War Pony.” It world premiered at Cannes last year in the Midnight section and be theatrically released later this year.
“Rebel” follows Kamal, a young man seeking meaning for his life, who leaves Belgium to help war victims in Syria. Once there, he is forced to join Isis and discovers the propaganda, manipulation, and atrocity the militia is responsible for. Back home, Kamal’s brother Nassim is slowly indoctrinated by radical recruiters and persuaded to join Kamal in Syria, while...
“Rebel” was produced by Caviar, the banner behind the Oscar-winning film “Sound of Metal” as well as “War Pony.” It world premiered at Cannes last year in the Midnight section and be theatrically released later this year.
“Rebel” follows Kamal, a young man seeking meaning for his life, who leaves Belgium to help war victims in Syria. Once there, he is forced to join Isis and discovers the propaganda, manipulation, and atrocity the militia is responsible for. Back home, Kamal’s brother Nassim is slowly indoctrinated by radical recruiters and persuaded to join Kamal in Syria, while...
- 4/7/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Tonia Noyabrova’s coming-of-age drama will world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama strand.
Paris-based Urban Sales has acquired global rights to writer-director Tonia Noyabrova’s Ukrainian coming-of-age drama Do You Love Me? (Ty meme lubysh?) that will world premiere in the Panorama strand at the upcoming Berlinale (Feb 16-26).
Set in 1990, before the Soviet Union collapsed, the story follows a 17-year-old girl emerging from adolescence into adulthood at the same moment that Ukraine transitions from Soviet slavery into the unknown.
Anastasiia Bukovska and Danylo Kaptyukh for Ukraine’s Family Production co-produced the film with Jonas Kellagher of Sweden’s Commonground Picture,...
Paris-based Urban Sales has acquired global rights to writer-director Tonia Noyabrova’s Ukrainian coming-of-age drama Do You Love Me? (Ty meme lubysh?) that will world premiere in the Panorama strand at the upcoming Berlinale (Feb 16-26).
Set in 1990, before the Soviet Union collapsed, the story follows a 17-year-old girl emerging from adolescence into adulthood at the same moment that Ukraine transitions from Soviet slavery into the unknown.
Anastasiia Bukovska and Danylo Kaptyukh for Ukraine’s Family Production co-produced the film with Jonas Kellagher of Sweden’s Commonground Picture,...
- 1/31/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The ambitious film is based on the classic Italian novel, Dino Buzatti’s ’The Desert Of The Tatars’
US-Belgian director Jessica Woodworth shot her ambitious new film Luka in Sicily, in black and white and in 16mm, as a complex European co-production.
The film has its world premiere this week in the Big Screen competition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
Geraldine Chaplin and Jonas Smulders star in the English-language film, about a young man, played by Smulders, who heads off to join the army at the remote and desolate Fort Kairos. Under the command of the General, played by Chaplin,...
US-Belgian director Jessica Woodworth shot her ambitious new film Luka in Sicily, in black and white and in 16mm, as a complex European co-production.
The film has its world premiere this week in the Big Screen competition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
Geraldine Chaplin and Jonas Smulders star in the English-language film, about a young man, played by Smulders, who heads off to join the army at the remote and desolate Fort Kairos. Under the command of the General, played by Chaplin,...
- 1/27/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The trailer has debuted for Jessica Woodworth’s sci-fi epic “Luka,” which has its world premiere in the Big Screen Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Films Boutique is handling international sales.
The film is Woodworth’s take on Dino Buzzati’s “The Tartar Steppe,” in which she crafts a fantasy of post-truth lunacy. Geraldine Chaplin plays the twisted General in a drama tinged with the conjured terrors of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” and the rapturous brotherly love of Jean Genet’s “Un chant d’amour.”
In the film, Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience, endurance and sacrifice. As he rises through the ranks, Luka finds joy and strength in friendships with Konstantin,...
The film is Woodworth’s take on Dino Buzzati’s “The Tartar Steppe,” in which she crafts a fantasy of post-truth lunacy. Geraldine Chaplin plays the twisted General in a drama tinged with the conjured terrors of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” and the rapturous brotherly love of Jean Genet’s “Un chant d’amour.”
In the film, Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience, endurance and sacrifice. As he rises through the ranks, Luka finds joy and strength in friendships with Konstantin,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi, the art house streamer and theatrical distributor, has acquired the North American rights to “Lingui, The Sacred Bonds” out of the Cannes Film Festival.
“Lingui” is an abortion drama from the country of Chad and is directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and the film premiered last week in the main competition for the festival as it competes for the Palme D’Or.
Mubi also acquired the UK, Ireland, Latin America and Turkey distribution rights to the film.
“Lingui, The Sacred Bonds” is set in the outskirts of N’Djamena in Chad, where a Muslim woman named Amina lives alone with her 15-year-old daughter Maria and who discovers that her teenage daughter is pregnant and does not want this pregnancy. In a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion, but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a battle that seems lost in advance.
Haroun also wrote the screenplay,...
“Lingui” is an abortion drama from the country of Chad and is directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and the film premiered last week in the main competition for the festival as it competes for the Palme D’Or.
Mubi also acquired the UK, Ireland, Latin America and Turkey distribution rights to the film.
“Lingui, The Sacred Bonds” is set in the outskirts of N’Djamena in Chad, where a Muslim woman named Amina lives alone with her 15-year-old daughter Maria and who discovers that her teenage daughter is pregnant and does not want this pregnancy. In a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion, but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a battle that seems lost in advance.
Haroun also wrote the screenplay,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Iranian director Firouzeh Khosrovani has won the IDFA award for best feature-length documentary with “Radiograph of a Family,” a film that uses an intimate study of her parents’ marriage—her father was secular, Westernized and progressive, while her mother was a devout, traditional Muslim—to explore the divisions in Iranian society both in the run-up and aftermath of the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
The jury, which comprised Marie-Pierre Macia, Ed Lachman, Alice Diop, Abdelkader Benali, and Finn Halligan, praised Khosrovani for the strength of her storytelling, adding, “The fractured body of family life is told through images, photos, and enactments in such a way that the viewer, too, feels the loss.”
Contacted by Zoom, the director screamed with delight. “I’m honored,” she said, after taking a second or two to collect her thoughts. “I have no words to express how happy I am,” she enthused. “I just want to thank...
The jury, which comprised Marie-Pierre Macia, Ed Lachman, Alice Diop, Abdelkader Benali, and Finn Halligan, praised Khosrovani for the strength of her storytelling, adding, “The fractured body of family life is told through images, photos, and enactments in such a way that the viewer, too, feels the loss.”
Contacted by Zoom, the director screamed with delight. “I’m honored,” she said, after taking a second or two to collect her thoughts. “I have no words to express how happy I am,” she enthused. “I just want to thank...
- 11/26/2020
- by Damon Wise
- Variety Film + TV
‘Fads and Miracles’ (Photo credit: Matt Sav.)
Tracey Rigney, Emma Freeman, Tanya Modini, Laura Scrivano, Zoe Pepper, Eve Spence and Amin Palangi are among the directors who will take part in Attagirl, the new lab dedicated to creating production and distribution pathways for feature films by female and non-binary creative teams.
Six Australian projects and one from New Zealand are among 13 from around the world selected for the lab designed and run by For Film’s Sake (Ffs), financially supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise Business and Ideas funding program and other Australian and international screen agencies.
The first of three workshops consisting of nine days of project development during TIFF’s Industry Conference and digital festival begins tomorrow. The second next January will look at ways to identify and reach the target audience, including digital distribution and the future of exhibition.
The third, affiliated with the Sydney Film Festival in June,...
Tracey Rigney, Emma Freeman, Tanya Modini, Laura Scrivano, Zoe Pepper, Eve Spence and Amin Palangi are among the directors who will take part in Attagirl, the new lab dedicated to creating production and distribution pathways for feature films by female and non-binary creative teams.
Six Australian projects and one from New Zealand are among 13 from around the world selected for the lab designed and run by For Film’s Sake (Ffs), financially supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise Business and Ideas funding program and other Australian and international screen agencies.
The first of three workshops consisting of nine days of project development during TIFF’s Industry Conference and digital festival begins tomorrow. The second next January will look at ways to identify and reach the target audience, including digital distribution and the future of exhibition.
The third, affiliated with the Sydney Film Festival in June,...
- 9/8/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
New initiative aims to develop and empower African producers.
Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson has joined a new initiative that aims to develop and empower African producers.
Jackson will be one of several speakers at the inaugural Creative Producer Indaba training programme and will help build the leadership skills of participants.
Further speakers include Cara Mertes, project director of moving image strategies at the Ford Foundation, and Makhosazana Khanyile, CEO of the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa (Nfvf).
There will also be sessions with international producers and experts, including Iffr’s Hubert Bals fund manager Fay Breeman,...
Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson has joined a new initiative that aims to develop and empower African producers.
Jackson will be one of several speakers at the inaugural Creative Producer Indaba training programme and will help build the leadership skills of participants.
Further speakers include Cara Mertes, project director of moving image strategies at the Ford Foundation, and Makhosazana Khanyile, CEO of the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa (Nfvf).
There will also be sessions with international producers and experts, including Iffr’s Hubert Bals fund manager Fay Breeman,...
- 9/1/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the directors of “Bad Boys For Life,” have set their next film “Rebel,” a coming-of-age story of a teenage Muslim boy that they describe as a “true passion project.”
The film is described as a nuanced portrayal of a family torn apart over a little Muslim boy’s future and how he’s driven by song, rap and dance.
“Rebel” stars Amir El Arbi, in his feature film debut, Aboubakr Bensaihi and Lubna Azabal. After his father’s death, Nassim, a 13-year-old Moroccan boy from Molenbeek, is looking for an identity. His mother Leila anxiously tries to keep him away from his older local gangster brother, Karim. At this young age, Nassim needs to decide what the rest of his life will look like.
Also Read: How 'Bad Boys for Life' Directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah Successfully Revived a 17-Year-Old...
The film is described as a nuanced portrayal of a family torn apart over a little Muslim boy’s future and how he’s driven by song, rap and dance.
“Rebel” stars Amir El Arbi, in his feature film debut, Aboubakr Bensaihi and Lubna Azabal. After his father’s death, Nassim, a 13-year-old Moroccan boy from Molenbeek, is looking for an identity. His mother Leila anxiously tries to keep him away from his older local gangster brother, Karim. At this young age, Nassim needs to decide what the rest of his life will look like.
Also Read: How 'Bad Boys for Life' Directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah Successfully Revived a 17-Year-Old...
- 6/24/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the rising Moroccan-born Belgian filmmaking duo, are set to direct “Rebel,” a nuanced portrait of a family torn apart over a little Muslim boy’s future.
Wild Bunch International (“Les Miserables”) and CAA Media Finance have boarded the project, which tells the story of Nassim, a 13-year-old Moroccan boy from Molenbeek, who is searching for an identity after his father’s death. While his mother Leila anxiously tries to keep him away from Karim, his older local gangster brother, Nassim needs to decide what the rest of his life will look like, even at this young age.
“Rebel” is being produced by Caviar, in co-production with Beluga Tree (“Frankie”), Calach Films and Le Collectif 64.
The movie will mark the helmers’ return to filmmaking in Belgium after having directed “Bad Boys for Life,” which so far ranks as the highest-grossing film of 2020.
“Rebel” will be...
Wild Bunch International (“Les Miserables”) and CAA Media Finance have boarded the project, which tells the story of Nassim, a 13-year-old Moroccan boy from Molenbeek, who is searching for an identity after his father’s death. While his mother Leila anxiously tries to keep him away from Karim, his older local gangster brother, Nassim needs to decide what the rest of his life will look like, even at this young age.
“Rebel” is being produced by Caviar, in co-production with Beluga Tree (“Frankie”), Calach Films and Le Collectif 64.
The movie will mark the helmers’ return to filmmaking in Belgium after having directed “Bad Boys for Life,” which so far ranks as the highest-grossing film of 2020.
“Rebel” will be...
- 6/24/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The French sales company is introducing the film to buyers at the virtual market.
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Belgian directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s upcoming feature Rebel, a family drama about a 13-year-old boy whose life stands at a crossroads following the death of his father.
The Moroccan-born Belgian directors’ last feature Bad Boys For Life - the third instalment of the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith - grossed $419m worldwide when it was released in January.
Driven by song, rap and dance, it stars big-screen debutant Amir El Arbi as a 13-year-old...
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Belgian directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s upcoming feature Rebel, a family drama about a 13-year-old boy whose life stands at a crossroads following the death of his father.
The Moroccan-born Belgian directors’ last feature Bad Boys For Life - the third instalment of the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith - grossed $419m worldwide when it was released in January.
Driven by song, rap and dance, it stars big-screen debutant Amir El Arbi as a 13-year-old...
- 6/24/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Filmmakers Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life) have been set to direct Rebel, a coming-of-age story about a family torn apart over a little boy’s future.
Wild Bunch International is handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the virtual Cannes market. CAA Media Finance will represent the film’s North American rights
Driven by song, rap and dance, the film will stars Amir El Arbi, in his feature film debut, Aboubakr Bensaihi (Black), and Lubna Azabal (Mary Magdalene)
The film will follow a 13-year-old Moroccan boy from Molenbeek who is searching for his identity after the death of his father. His mother Leila anxiously tries to keep him away from his older local gangster brother, Karim.
The filmmaking duo have also made movies Black and Gangsta (for which they are currently developing the sequel) and have directed episodes of FX series Snowfall.
Wild Bunch International is handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the virtual Cannes market. CAA Media Finance will represent the film’s North American rights
Driven by song, rap and dance, the film will stars Amir El Arbi, in his feature film debut, Aboubakr Bensaihi (Black), and Lubna Azabal (Mary Magdalene)
The film will follow a 13-year-old Moroccan boy from Molenbeek who is searching for his identity after the death of his father. His mother Leila anxiously tries to keep him away from his older local gangster brother, Karim.
The filmmaking duo have also made movies Black and Gangsta (for which they are currently developing the sequel) and have directed episodes of FX series Snowfall.
- 6/24/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Mifa’s TV series & specials pitches went live on Thursday with an epic eight-parter from the U.K.’s Mosaic Films, focusing on the life of a young family growing up in North Korea.
Directed by award-winning director Andy Glynne, “38th Parallel: Hidden Voices from North Korea” takes the collected stories of defectors from the secretive regime and distills them into an ordinary family’s journey.
With a narrative spanning over 70 years – from the birth of North Korea to the present day – we follow the Park family – a soldier, a nurse and their two children – from their relative positions of privilege in Pyongyang to their banishment to a sparse northern town.
There, the family deal with famine, poverty, torture and the constant threat of death, while even escape to South Korea provides challenges as they tread the migrant’s path.
According to Glynne, who won a BAFTA for “Seeking Refuge...
Directed by award-winning director Andy Glynne, “38th Parallel: Hidden Voices from North Korea” takes the collected stories of defectors from the secretive regime and distills them into an ordinary family’s journey.
With a narrative spanning over 70 years – from the birth of North Korea to the present day – we follow the Park family – a soldier, a nurse and their two children – from their relative positions of privilege in Pyongyang to their banishment to a sparse northern town.
There, the family deal with famine, poverty, torture and the constant threat of death, while even escape to South Korea provides challenges as they tread the migrant’s path.
According to Glynne, who won a BAFTA for “Seeking Refuge...
- 6/20/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Lingui
Chad’s most notable director, Mahamat Saleh-Haroun, is readying his eighth feature, Lingui, produced by Florence Stern, Diana Elbaum and Melanie Andernach. The French-German co-production was penned by Saleh-Haroun, and was also financed by France’s Cnc in early 2019. Cast has not yet been announced. Saleh-Haroun received accolades out the gate with his 1999 documentary Bye Bye Africa, which received a Special Mention out of Venice for Best First Feature. He returned to Venice in 2006 with Dry Season, which won the Special Jury Prize. The Directors’ Fortnight programmed his 2002 film Our Father (aka Abouna) and he competed in Cannes with 2010’s A Screaming Man (winning the Jury Prize) and again in 2013 with Grisgris, Cannes also programmed his documentary Hissein Habre, A Chadian Tragedy as a Special Screening in 2015, while his 2017 feature A Season in France starring Sandrine Bonnaire premiered in Toronto.…...
Chad’s most notable director, Mahamat Saleh-Haroun, is readying his eighth feature, Lingui, produced by Florence Stern, Diana Elbaum and Melanie Andernach. The French-German co-production was penned by Saleh-Haroun, and was also financed by France’s Cnc in early 2019. Cast has not yet been announced. Saleh-Haroun received accolades out the gate with his 1999 documentary Bye Bye Africa, which received a Special Mention out of Venice for Best First Feature. He returned to Venice in 2006 with Dry Season, which won the Special Jury Prize. The Directors’ Fortnight programmed his 2002 film Our Father (aka Abouna) and he competed in Cannes with 2010’s A Screaming Man (winning the Jury Prize) and again in 2013 with Grisgris, Cannes also programmed his documentary Hissein Habre, A Chadian Tragedy as a Special Screening in 2015, while his 2017 feature A Season in France starring Sandrine Bonnaire premiered in Toronto.…...
- 1/3/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Where is Anne Frank?
A project seven years in-the-making, Israel’s Ari Folman should finally return with his high-profile animated feature Where is Anne Frank?, which will be the first we’ve seen of Folman since his underrated anime live-action hybrid The Congress in 2013. A co-production between Belgium-Netherlands-Israel-Luxembourg, with Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges as producers amongst a host of co-producers, the project is photographed by Tristan Oliver, who served as cinematographer on Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Isle of Dogs (2018). Folman also voiced his characters in English, with Emily Carey, Ruby Stokes, Skye Bennett, and Sebastian Croft amongst the voice cast.…...
A project seven years in-the-making, Israel’s Ari Folman should finally return with his high-profile animated feature Where is Anne Frank?, which will be the first we’ve seen of Folman since his underrated anime live-action hybrid The Congress in 2013. A co-production between Belgium-Netherlands-Israel-Luxembourg, with Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges as producers amongst a host of co-producers, the project is photographed by Tristan Oliver, who served as cinematographer on Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Isle of Dogs (2018). Folman also voiced his characters in English, with Emily Carey, Ruby Stokes, Skye Bennett, and Sebastian Croft amongst the voice cast.…...
- 1/2/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It is Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy’s second year at the helm.
The Cairo International Film Festival opens Wednesday evening (November 20) with the Middle East and North Africa premiere of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, one week ahead of its global release on Netflix.
The mobster drama is among 150 films due to screen at the festival across 11 sections, including the International Competition, the Horizons of Arab Cinema and Focus on Mexico.
UK director Terry Gilliam attended the glitzy opening ceremony to receive the festival’s Faten Hamama Excellence Award for his lifetime contribution to the cinematic arts.
Other honourees included Egyptian director Sherif Arafa,...
The Cairo International Film Festival opens Wednesday evening (November 20) with the Middle East and North Africa premiere of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, one week ahead of its global release on Netflix.
The mobster drama is among 150 films due to screen at the festival across 11 sections, including the International Competition, the Horizons of Arab Cinema and Focus on Mexico.
UK director Terry Gilliam attended the glitzy opening ceremony to receive the festival’s Faten Hamama Excellence Award for his lifetime contribution to the cinematic arts.
Other honourees included Egyptian director Sherif Arafa,...
- 11/20/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
A key aspect of Mohamed Hefzy’s Cairo Film Festival reboot has been to re-introduce and reinvent its Cairo Industry Days market component comprising the Cairo Film Connection (Cfc) co-production platform, which this year almost doubled its prize pot to $200,000 for 16 selected Arabic film projects.
But the mart’s major novelty this edition is its TV component. After starting last year with a TV script development workshop, being held again this year by Screen Buzz, the strand is now rising to the next level with a three-day confab hosted by the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ Middle East Media Initiative (Memi), a Hollywood mentorship program looking to boost the careers of Arabic TV writers and producers.
“We are trying to build a focus on TV, but also to reinforce the combination of both film and TV,” says Cairo Industry Days chief Aliaa Zaki, the former Dubai Film Market exec who...
But the mart’s major novelty this edition is its TV component. After starting last year with a TV script development workshop, being held again this year by Screen Buzz, the strand is now rising to the next level with a three-day confab hosted by the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ Middle East Media Initiative (Memi), a Hollywood mentorship program looking to boost the careers of Arabic TV writers and producers.
“We are trying to build a focus on TV, but also to reinforce the combination of both film and TV,” says Cairo Industry Days chief Aliaa Zaki, the former Dubai Film Market exec who...
- 11/14/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics announced Tuesday that it has acquired the rights to the film “Frankie” in North America and numerous international territories. The film will premiere in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Ira Sachs directed the project, and co-wrote “Frankie” with Mauricio Zacharias. Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson star.
“Frankie” follows a three-generational family get together in the idyllic town of Sintra, Portugal — before the family matriarch faces the next, and last, chapter of her life.
The film is produced by Saïd Ben Saïd of Sbs Productions and Michel Merkt, co-produced by Luís Urbano, Diana Elbaum and Anne Berger and executive produced by Kateryna Merkt, Kevin Chneiweiss and Lucas Joaquin.
“The experience and sensibilities of the team at Spc makes it a wonderful match for ‘Frankie.’ I am so pleased their passion for this film means it has now the ability to be...
Ira Sachs directed the project, and co-wrote “Frankie” with Mauricio Zacharias. Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson star.
“Frankie” follows a three-generational family get together in the idyllic town of Sintra, Portugal — before the family matriarch faces the next, and last, chapter of her life.
The film is produced by Saïd Ben Saïd of Sbs Productions and Michel Merkt, co-produced by Luís Urbano, Diana Elbaum and Anne Berger and executive produced by Kateryna Merkt, Kevin Chneiweiss and Lucas Joaquin.
“The experience and sensibilities of the team at Spc makes it a wonderful match for ‘Frankie.’ I am so pleased their passion for this film means it has now the ability to be...
- 4/30/2019
- by Daniel Nissen
- Variety Film + TV
Third collaboration between distributor and Ira Sachs, and producer Saïd Ben Saïd.
Sony Pictures Classics announced today has acquired all rights to Ira Sachs’ Cannes Competition selection Frankie in North America, Eastern Europe (including Cis), Scandinavia, the Middle East, South Africa, Spain, India and worldwide airlines.
Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, and Brendan Gleeson star in the story about three generations of a European family that come together in Sintra, Portugal, for one last vacation with the family matriarch.
Over the course of one October day, emotions run high as the fairy tale setting intensifies everybody’s romantic impulses,...
Sony Pictures Classics announced today has acquired all rights to Ira Sachs’ Cannes Competition selection Frankie in North America, Eastern Europe (including Cis), Scandinavia, the Middle East, South Africa, Spain, India and worldwide airlines.
Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, and Brendan Gleeson star in the story about three generations of a European family that come together in Sintra, Portugal, for one last vacation with the family matriarch.
Over the course of one October day, emotions run high as the fairy tale setting intensifies everybody’s romantic impulses,...
- 4/30/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American rights to “Frankie,” the latest film from director Ira Sachs starring Isabelle Huppert that will make its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the company announced Tuesday.
The film is playing In Competition at the festival, and Sony Pictures Classics has also acquired the rights to release the film in Eastern Europe (including Cis), Scandinavia, the Middle East, South Africa, Spain, India and for worldwide airlines.
“Frankie” stars Huppert alongside Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson. It’s a story about three generations of a European family who come together in the fabled town of Sintra, Portugal, for one last vacation before the family matriarch faces the next, and last, chapter of her life. Over the course of one crisp October day, the fairy tale setting brings about everyone’s most romantic impulses, revealing cracks between them, as well as unexpected depth of feeling.
The film is playing In Competition at the festival, and Sony Pictures Classics has also acquired the rights to release the film in Eastern Europe (including Cis), Scandinavia, the Middle East, South Africa, Spain, India and for worldwide airlines.
“Frankie” stars Huppert alongside Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson. It’s a story about three generations of a European family who come together in the fabled town of Sintra, Portugal, for one last vacation before the family matriarch faces the next, and last, chapter of her life. Over the course of one crisp October day, the fairy tale setting brings about everyone’s most romantic impulses, revealing cracks between them, as well as unexpected depth of feeling.
- 4/30/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Two weeks before the event’s official kickoff, the first big deal of this year’s Cannes Film Festival is already on the books. Deadline reports that Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Ira Sachs’ “Frankie” in advance of the film’s world premiere. The film marks the lauded indie filmmaker’s first appearance on the Croisette, and the family drama will premiere in Competition at the May festival.
Per the film’s official synopsis, it follows “three generations of a European family [who] come together in the fabled town of Sintra, Portugal, for one last vacation before the family matriarch faces the next, and last, chapter of her life. Over the course of one crisp October day, the fairy tale setting brings about everyone’s most romantic impulses, revealing both cracks between them, as well as unexpected depth of feeling.” The film stars Isabelle Huppert in a role already earning awards buzz,...
Per the film’s official synopsis, it follows “three generations of a European family [who] come together in the fabled town of Sintra, Portugal, for one last vacation before the family matriarch faces the next, and last, chapter of her life. Over the course of one crisp October day, the fairy tale setting brings about everyone’s most romantic impulses, revealing both cracks between them, as well as unexpected depth of feeling.” The film stars Isabelle Huppert in a role already earning awards buzz,...
- 4/30/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: The Cannes Film Festival is a couple weeks out, but Sony Pictures Classics has gotten on the board with a splashy deal. Spc is acquiring Frankie before the Ira Sachs-directed film makes its world premiere in competition on the Croisette. The deal is for North America, Eastern Europe (including Cis), Scandinavia, the Middle East, South Africa, Spain, India and worldwide airlines.
Frankie stars Isabelle Huppert, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, Brendan Gleeson, Jérémie Renier, Andre Wilms, Vinette Robinson, Ariyon Bakare, and Pascal Greggory.
Three generations of a European family come together in the fabled town of Sintra, Portugal, for one last vacation before the family matriarch faces the next, and last, chapter of her life. Over the course of one crisp October day, the fairy-tale setting brings about everyone’s most romantic impulses, revealing both cracks between them, as well as unexpected depth of feeling.
Sachs wrote the film with Mauricio Zacharias.
Frankie stars Isabelle Huppert, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, Brendan Gleeson, Jérémie Renier, Andre Wilms, Vinette Robinson, Ariyon Bakare, and Pascal Greggory.
Three generations of a European family come together in the fabled town of Sintra, Portugal, for one last vacation before the family matriarch faces the next, and last, chapter of her life. Over the course of one crisp October day, the fairy-tale setting brings about everyone’s most romantic impulses, revealing both cracks between them, as well as unexpected depth of feeling.
Sachs wrote the film with Mauricio Zacharias.
- 4/30/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Three alumni of the programme have films premiering in Competition.
Emily Morgan, producer of Directors’ Fortnight 2017 title I Am Not A Witch, and Nina Bisgaard, producer of the Oscar-nominated Border, are among the 20 up-and-coming producers to be selected for the European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Producers On The Move showcase, which takes place at the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
The programme for 20th edition runs from May 16-20, and includes pitching sessions, case studies, and one-to-one meetings with the international industry.
Morgan produced the Bifa and Bafta-winning I Am Not A Witch through her UK outfit Quiddity Films,...
Emily Morgan, producer of Directors’ Fortnight 2017 title I Am Not A Witch, and Nina Bisgaard, producer of the Oscar-nominated Border, are among the 20 up-and-coming producers to be selected for the European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Producers On The Move showcase, which takes place at the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
The programme for 20th edition runs from May 16-20, and includes pitching sessions, case studies, and one-to-one meetings with the international industry.
Morgan produced the Bifa and Bafta-winning I Am Not A Witch through her UK outfit Quiddity Films,...
- 4/24/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Twenty of Europe’s up-and-coming producers are going to Cannes with European Film Promotion. The organization unveiled its latest roster of Producers on the Move on Wednesday, a lineup that features France’s Gregoire Debailly, who produced Jean-Bernard Marlin’s “Sheherazade,” which premiered in Critics’ Week in Cannes last year, and Ireland’s Cormac Fox, who produced Sophie Hyde’s “Animals.”
Other names include “Borg vs. McEnroe” producer Jon Nohrstedt and, from the U.K., Emily Morgan, whose credits include the critically acclaimed “I Am Not a Witch.”
Efp has been putting selected enterprising producers in the spotlight for 20 years, a period in which 400 have featured. The European Union’s Creative Europe – Media Program backs the initiative, which sees the selected producers take part in networking and production-skewed events.
A trio of producers from previous editions will have films at Cannes this year: Germany’s Janine Jackowski with Corneliu Porumboiu’s “The Whistlers,...
Other names include “Borg vs. McEnroe” producer Jon Nohrstedt and, from the U.K., Emily Morgan, whose credits include the critically acclaimed “I Am Not a Witch.”
Efp has been putting selected enterprising producers in the spotlight for 20 years, a period in which 400 have featured. The European Union’s Creative Europe – Media Program backs the initiative, which sees the selected producers take part in networking and production-skewed events.
A trio of producers from previous editions will have films at Cannes this year: Germany’s Janine Jackowski with Corneliu Porumboiu’s “The Whistlers,...
- 4/24/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Les amis des amis
French writer and director Pascal Bonitzer commences on his eighth feature, Les envoûtés (formerly titled Les amis des amis), which features a cast of notables including Nicolas Duvauchelle, Nicolas Maury, Josiane Balasko, Anable Lopez, Iliana Lolic and the lead Sara Giraudeau (2018 Cesar winner for Best Supporting Actress in Bloody Milk). It is the fourth film in a row from Bonitzer to be produced by Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt of Sbs Productions (their last venture together being 2016’s Right Here Right Now). Belgium’s Diana Elbaum of Beluga Tree is also co-producing. Dp Julien Hirsch lensed the feature.…...
French writer and director Pascal Bonitzer commences on his eighth feature, Les envoûtés (formerly titled Les amis des amis), which features a cast of notables including Nicolas Duvauchelle, Nicolas Maury, Josiane Balasko, Anable Lopez, Iliana Lolic and the lead Sara Giraudeau (2018 Cesar winner for Best Supporting Actress in Bloody Milk). It is the fourth film in a row from Bonitzer to be produced by Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt of Sbs Productions (their last venture together being 2016’s Right Here Right Now). Belgium’s Diana Elbaum of Beluga Tree is also co-producing. Dp Julien Hirsch lensed the feature.…...
- 1/4/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Diana Elbaum, Matthijs Wouter Knol and Franklin Leonard debated the future of cinema at Locarno’s StepIn event.
Diversity and ‘big data’ can help ensure the survival of the theatrical business for independent film, according to experts speaking at the StepIn conference at the Locarno Festival.
The speakers at the event, held on August 3, were Diana Elbaum, producer at Beluga Tree, Efm director Matthijs Wouter Knol and The Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard.
Disparate audiences
Distributors need to move away from the idea audiences for independent films only exist in upper middle-class areas and cities - for example...
Diversity and ‘big data’ can help ensure the survival of the theatrical business for independent film, according to experts speaking at the StepIn conference at the Locarno Festival.
The speakers at the event, held on August 3, were Diana Elbaum, producer at Beluga Tree, Efm director Matthijs Wouter Knol and The Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard.
Disparate audiences
Distributors need to move away from the idea audiences for independent films only exist in upper middle-class areas and cities - for example...
- 8/8/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Diana Elbaum, Matthijs Wouter Knol and Franklin Leonard debated the future of cinema at Locarno’s StepIn event.
Diversity and ‘big data’ can help ensure the survival of the theatrical business for independent film, according to experts speaking at the StepIn conference at the Locarno Festival.
The speakers at the event, held on August 3, were Diana Elbaum, producer at Beluga Tree, Efm director Matthijs Wouter Knol and The Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard.
Disparate audiences
Distributors need to move away from the idea audiences for independent films only exist in upper middle-class areas and cities - for example...
Diversity and ‘big data’ can help ensure the survival of the theatrical business for independent film, according to experts speaking at the StepIn conference at the Locarno Festival.
The speakers at the event, held on August 3, were Diana Elbaum, producer at Beluga Tree, Efm director Matthijs Wouter Knol and The Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard.
Disparate audiences
Distributors need to move away from the idea audiences for independent films only exist in upper middle-class areas and cities - for example...
- 8/8/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Roughly 50 prominent European independent film industry execs assembled Thursday at the Locarno Festival’s annual StepIn think tank to discuss the challenges they face while contending with the disruption prompted by global streaming platforms.
But whereas last year the discussion was dominated by the upheaval in distribution and the future of theatrical, this edition of StepIn introduced the topic of how new technologies can prompt changes in how movies are conceived. While the seismic shift is causing some indie filmmakers to proclaim that the film industry is “broken,” as one exec said in a closed-door session, there were also more upbeat considerations such as: “Producers already have a new role; that of curating content and projects to meet specific audiences,” as Eurimages Project Manager Susan Newman-Baudais noted presenting the conclusions of the round-table on “A New Era For Film Producers.”
The others StepIn sessions were on: “The Role of Film Markets in This New Landscape,...
But whereas last year the discussion was dominated by the upheaval in distribution and the future of theatrical, this edition of StepIn introduced the topic of how new technologies can prompt changes in how movies are conceived. While the seismic shift is causing some indie filmmakers to proclaim that the film industry is “broken,” as one exec said in a closed-door session, there were also more upbeat considerations such as: “Producers already have a new role; that of curating content and projects to meet specific audiences,” as Eurimages Project Manager Susan Newman-Baudais noted presenting the conclusions of the round-table on “A New Era For Film Producers.”
The others StepIn sessions were on: “The Role of Film Markets in This New Landscape,...
- 8/5/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Red carpet protest highlighted fact only 82 women have been honoured in Official Selection over 71 editions of festival.
Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda led 82 female industry figures in a silent ascent of the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday protesting the lack of female representation at the event over its 71 editions.
Moving, historic, 82 women from all countries and professions in cinema have just made the red carpet entrance for Les Filles Du Soleil (Girls Of The Sun) by Eva Husson. #Cannes2018 #Competition pic.twitter.com/0YY9SNbRqg
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 12, 2018
Other stars joining the protest...
Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda led 82 female industry figures in a silent ascent of the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday protesting the lack of female representation at the event over its 71 editions.
Moving, historic, 82 women from all countries and professions in cinema have just made the red carpet entrance for Les Filles Du Soleil (Girls Of The Sun) by Eva Husson. #Cannes2018 #Competition pic.twitter.com/0YY9SNbRqg
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 12, 2018
Other stars joining the protest...
- 5/12/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, whose 2008 “Waltz With Bashir” nabbed a foreign-language Oscar nom, is set to write and direct “The Horse Boy,” an English-language feature based on Rupert Isaacson’s New York Times bestseller that will topline current Cannes jury member Léa Seydoux and Joel Kinnaman.
Gaumont has come on board to co-produce, take international sales and handle French distribution on the ambitious film, one of the hottest titles being pitched at Cannes. Gaumont and Endeavor Content are co-repping U.S rights.
Folman’s first full-on live-action movie, “The Horse Boy” is being produced by Didar Domehri — whose “Girls of the Sun” is competing at Cannes — Laurent Baudens and Gael Nouaille at Full House, the joint label of French banners Maneki Films and Borsalino Prods. Diana Elbaum at Belgium’s Beluga Tree is also producing.
The film follows the journey of Emily and Jonathan’s son, Noah, an autistic child...
Gaumont has come on board to co-produce, take international sales and handle French distribution on the ambitious film, one of the hottest titles being pitched at Cannes. Gaumont and Endeavor Content are co-repping U.S rights.
Folman’s first full-on live-action movie, “The Horse Boy” is being produced by Didar Domehri — whose “Girls of the Sun” is competing at Cannes — Laurent Baudens and Gael Nouaille at Full House, the joint label of French banners Maneki Films and Borsalino Prods. Diana Elbaum at Belgium’s Beluga Tree is also producing.
The film follows the journey of Emily and Jonathan’s son, Noah, an autistic child...
- 5/8/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Two of this year’s group have films playing at the festival.
The UK’s Chris Martin, Switzerland’s Ivan Madeo [pictured, left] and Poland’s Maria Blicharska [pictured, right] are among the 20 up-and-coming European producers to be selected for the 2017 edition of European Film Promotion’s (Efp) networking platform Producers On The Move, which takes place at Cannes Film Festival.
As in previous years, the five-day event (May 19-23) will include pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings, case studies and other meetings with the international industry gathered in Cannes.
Two of the producers from this year’s line-up have films in the festival’s programme: Poland’s Maria Blicharska will be presenting Frost in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, while France’s Didar Domehri was a co-producer on Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s La Cordillera which will have its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section.
Producers on the Move (PoM) from previous editions of the initiative also regularly return to Cannes...
The UK’s Chris Martin, Switzerland’s Ivan Madeo [pictured, left] and Poland’s Maria Blicharska [pictured, right] are among the 20 up-and-coming European producers to be selected for the 2017 edition of European Film Promotion’s (Efp) networking platform Producers On The Move, which takes place at Cannes Film Festival.
As in previous years, the five-day event (May 19-23) will include pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings, case studies and other meetings with the international industry gathered in Cannes.
Two of the producers from this year’s line-up have films in the festival’s programme: Poland’s Maria Blicharska will be presenting Frost in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, while France’s Didar Domehri was a co-producer on Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s La Cordillera which will have its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section.
Producers on the Move (PoM) from previous editions of the initiative also regularly return to Cannes...
- 5/3/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
With Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann dominating this week’s European Film Awards, panelists at the Les Arcs European Film Festival focus on women filmmakers expressed lingering disbelief that the film was shunned in Cannes.
While Anna Serner, director of the Swedish Film Institute, Elle producer Diana Elbaum and Amour Fou director Jessica Hausner addressed the challenges facing women filmmakers, they couldn’t avoid the Cannes controversy, calling the snub "inconceivable" but acknowledging it was a symptom of the continued focus on established, older and male directors.
“It’s unbelievable with the number of submissions that the Cannes film festival gets every...
While Anna Serner, director of the Swedish Film Institute, Elle producer Diana Elbaum and Amour Fou director Jessica Hausner addressed the challenges facing women filmmakers, they couldn’t avoid the Cannes controversy, calling the snub "inconceivable" but acknowledging it was a symptom of the continued focus on established, older and male directors.
“It’s unbelievable with the number of submissions that the Cannes film festival gets every...
- 12/13/2016
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Other Angle also closed deals on
Paris-based Other Angle Pictures has secured fresh sales on Nicolas Benamou’s action comedy Full Speed, about a vacation-bound family stuck in a car jammed on top cruise control.
In Cannes, the company has sealed deals to Spain (Vertigo), Portugal (Films4U), Japan (Gaga), Korea (Smile) and a Chinese deal is in the works. Previously announced deals include to Italy (Lucky Red), Russia (Volga), Benelux (Belga), Wild Bunch (Germany), Czech (Bohemia), Hungary (Cinetel), Turkey (Fabula).
Wild Bunch Distribution (Wbd) will release the film in France in December.
First production
The company has also secured fresh sales on Don’t Tell Her, about three friends who decide not to tell a fourth friend that her future husband had an affair with a man, to Switzerland (Jmh), Austria (Thym), Latam (California), Turkey (Fabula). It will be released by Sony in France.
It is a first production for Other Angle, which has focused...
Paris-based Other Angle Pictures has secured fresh sales on Nicolas Benamou’s action comedy Full Speed, about a vacation-bound family stuck in a car jammed on top cruise control.
In Cannes, the company has sealed deals to Spain (Vertigo), Portugal (Films4U), Japan (Gaga), Korea (Smile) and a Chinese deal is in the works. Previously announced deals include to Italy (Lucky Red), Russia (Volga), Benelux (Belga), Wild Bunch (Germany), Czech (Bohemia), Hungary (Cinetel), Turkey (Fabula).
Wild Bunch Distribution (Wbd) will release the film in France in December.
First production
The company has also secured fresh sales on Don’t Tell Her, about three friends who decide not to tell a fourth friend that her future husband had an affair with a man, to Switzerland (Jmh), Austria (Thym), Latam (California), Turkey (Fabula). It will be released by Sony in France.
It is a first production for Other Angle, which has focused...
- 5/17/2016
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales company takes on provocative film.
Paris-based Other Angle Pictures has taken on international sales of Yvan Attal’s provocative tragicomic portmanteau film #TheJews exploring antisemitism and the clichés surrounding the Jewish race.
The film – produced by Oscar-winning producer Thomas Langmann (The Artist) - was born out of Israeli-French actor and director Attal’s personal sense of persecution and a growing antisemitism amid reactions from his friends and family that he was over-reacting.
“Yvan tackles several clichés surrounding the Jews from ‘They’re everywhere’, to ‘They killed Jesus Christ’ in a series of sketches – each of them tragi-comic in tone,” explains Other Angle chief Olivier Albou.
Attal has pulled together an ensemble cast including wife Charlotte Gainsbourg as well as Dany Boon, Benoit Poelvoorde, François Damiens, Gilles Lelouche, Gregory Gadebois, Denys Podalydes and Valerie Bonneton.
“Obviously, it’s controversial topic but it’s also a timely one,” said Albou of the film which is due to...
Paris-based Other Angle Pictures has taken on international sales of Yvan Attal’s provocative tragicomic portmanteau film #TheJews exploring antisemitism and the clichés surrounding the Jewish race.
The film – produced by Oscar-winning producer Thomas Langmann (The Artist) - was born out of Israeli-French actor and director Attal’s personal sense of persecution and a growing antisemitism amid reactions from his friends and family that he was over-reacting.
“Yvan tackles several clichés surrounding the Jews from ‘They’re everywhere’, to ‘They killed Jesus Christ’ in a series of sketches – each of them tragi-comic in tone,” explains Other Angle chief Olivier Albou.
Attal has pulled together an ensemble cast including wife Charlotte Gainsbourg as well as Dany Boon, Benoit Poelvoorde, François Damiens, Gilles Lelouche, Gregory Gadebois, Denys Podalydes and Valerie Bonneton.
“Obviously, it’s controversial topic but it’s also a timely one,” said Albou of the film which is due to...
- 5/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
I caught up with Argentine producer Gema Juarez Allen at the Panama Film Festival. Since seeing (and falling in love with) the Argentine road movie “Road to La Paz”/ “Camino a La Paz in Guadalajara and interviewing its director, Francisco Varone, I was interested in meeting her as well, even more so because her other film, the Colombian drama “Oscuro Animal” which premiered in Rotterdam and won four prizes at Mexico’s Guadalajara International Film Festival in March 2016, for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Cinematography and has been sold to seven territories. “Oscuro Animal” is about three women fleeing armed conflict in Colombia. It was directed by Colombia’s Felipe Guerrero, an editor on “La Playa DC,” “Perro come perro” and “El Paramo”. It received funding from the Hubert Bals Fund and World Cinema Fund.
In Panama Gema was quite busy, not only with “Road to La Paz” but participating on the panel, Your Project in Motion: Coproduction and Financing along with Panamanian producers and directors, Delfina Vidal (“Caja 25”), Annie Canavaggio (“Breaking the Wave”) and Abner Benaim (“Invasion”) who also happens to be Gema’s partner.
As one of Latin America’s most active producers, Gema’s extensive experience international coproduction was invaluable and she shared it freely at the panel. Her participation in workshops in Europe, such as the Eave Producers Workshop and Eurodoc, has played a key role in establishing her international connections. While at Eave, she met Greek Boo Productions and Germany’s Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko who came on board to coproduce “Oscuro Animal”.
“Road to La Paz” director, Francisco Varone said,
"In 2012 we submitted the project to Visions Sud Est in Switzerland. I was almost working by myself on the film at this time and then started working with a larger Argentinean production company, Concreto Films, owned by Juan Taratuto, a big film director who was directing TV commercials and said he’d help. They had a tough time finding investors so he introduced me to Gema Juarez Allen (whose recent film “Invasion” is the story of the U.S. invasion of Panama in the 1980s). She is a well-known documentary producer with experience in coproductions who knows how to find money and understands the value of going to festivals. She said she would do it as her first fiction film and went to San Sebastian Film Festival’s Foro de Coproduccion in 2013. There she had lots of one-on-one meetings and met Julius Ponten our Dutch coproducer who got funding from the Netherlands Film Fonds and Gunter Hanfgarn (“Bad Hair”) who applied to Ezef, an Evangelistic Fund for films from the south (one of the backers of “Timbuktu”). “
Read more on “Road to La Paz” here.
Gema continued this story when we spoke:
Juan liked the project but it was not in his domain so he sought me out. I read the script about two men and one car and thought, “This is easy”. But of course it was not. A road movie is the most difficult of all genres, and with animals, and covering two countries! Working with Pancho (Francisco Varone), he is the kind of director I like. I find the shooting is usually more important than the people, but with Pancho, the crew is important and he balanced the people and the shoot, so after all, it was ‘easy’.
The film is being sold internationally by FiGa. It is doing well in Argentina with 35,000 admissions, 20 copies and now in its fourth month in the cinemas. It is a ‘word of mouth’ film.
Sl: What are you working on now?
Gema Juarez Allen: I am now filming “Mapa Mudo”/ “Silent Map”.
A doc project by Felipe Guerrero, Nicolás Rincón and Jorge Caballero, based on video letters of three Colombian filmmakers who left their home country in the late 90s.
And I am developing a new project with the directors of our breakthough film from 2011, “Revenge of the Antipodes”/ “¡Vivan las antípodas!“ which screened in Venice. It’s called “Cro-goo-fant” and is a documentary for children, a funny story about animals. The director, Victor Kossokovsky, did a short doc for kids before.
I am also working with Andres di Tella, the most important documentary filmmaker and founder of Bafici in Argentina. It’s a very personal story about the avant garde art Institute lead by his father, the Instituto Di Tella.
And I am working on “Veterans” about the Falkland Islands War. Bertha Fund is backing it. Lola Arias is directing this documentary feature about the unexpected consequences of war on its protagonists, about the way memory is turned into fiction. I am looking for coproducers now. It is a different look at United Kingdom and Argentina vets that is at the same time both serious and humorous. We are creating a film around a theater play which will open in London this May. It began with the London International Theater Festival along with the Royal Court House Theater. It is not filmic; Lola Arias’ language is so refreshing; she is from the theater.
A winner of the 2015 Berlinale Co-production Market Pitch, Abner Benaim’s “Plaza catedral,” is also in the works. It is a tangled false friendship drama with thriller elements, set against the background of Panama’s social divide.
And I am currently producing Benaim’s doc, “My Name is Not Ruben Blades” with Ruben Blades.
Also in the works: the next film from Manuel Abramovich (“La Reina”), a Mar del Plata 2014 Works in Progress winner for “Solar” – a small but remarkable heart-warming doc-feature whose power struggle between director and subject adds unusually honest depths to a bio-portrait of someone who claims to come from the sun.
Sl: You are so prolific! How did you get started in this?
I studied anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Rio de Janeiro but didn’t like academia and so I studied film at the National Film School and thought I would combine the two. In England I studied Visual Anthropology and worked as a P.A. and as a researcher for the BBC for a “Discovery Channel” type of channel and then I returned to Argentina.
Between 2003 to 2008 I worked at Cine Ojo the oldest doc company in Argentina and at Habitación 1520 Producciones (“Imagen Final”, “Criada”, “Los Jóvenes Muertos”, “Dulce Espera”) before creating my own company Gema Films in 2009.
Sl: You were coordinator of DocBuenos Aires until 2003, a training initiative as well.
Gema Juarez Allen: I have produced 17 films with lots of help.
I was a Sundance Documentary Fund grantee on two films. My projects have been supported by Visions Sud Est, Tribeca Film Institute, Hubert Bals Fund, Idfa Fund, Cinereach, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, DocStation Berlin, et al. I received the Arte/Bal Award in 2008 for Upcoming Producers at Bafici.
I coproduce with Wg Film (Sweden), Majade FilmProduktion (Germany), Gebrüder Beetz (Germany), Lemming Film (Netherlands) and Producciones Aplaplac (Chile).
I have received awards at Berlinale, Bafici, Roma, Guadalajara, Silverdocs, among many others. Gema is part of EuroDoc since 2010 and is a member of the Board of Adn, the Argentinean Documentary Filmmakers Network.
Sl: What advice do you have for young filmmakers?
Gema Juarez Allen: First find a good project. It is very competitive and you must have an original perspective on the subject. There are so many ideas everywhere, it must be good.
Producers should be highly-organized. Be sure to fully develop projects before presenting them to partners and funding decision makers. The key elements to present when the project is fully conceived are an overview, a synopsis, a director’s statement, a brief treatment, a financial plan, a budget, a production timetable and bio-filmographies.
Find a producer with experience. I’m always interested in new directors and new voices.
The best opportunities to find partners are at festivals, markets and above all workshops. These are good places to find colleagues and mentors to give you great feedback. Diana Elbaum is my mentor from Eave and she is always looking at what I’m doing. And most of my coproduction partners came from the Eave and Eurodoc workshops.
Beyond Eave and Eurodoc, which are very open to Latin American projects, other good workshops are Docmontevideo, Guadalajara, Typa, Cinergia Lab, Idfa Summer Academy, Chiledoc, Berlin Talent Campus, Documentary Campus, Morelia Lab among others.
Good international funding sources are Ibermedia and also the “Plus” schemes associated to funds such as Creative Europe, World Cinema Fund, Hubert Bals Fund and the Idfa Bertha fund. Other funds are Fonds d’Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, the Sundance documentary fund, Visions Sud Est, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Doha Film Institute and Sorfond, for co-productions with Norway.
In terms of leading international markets, Cannes, Rotterdam’s Cinemart, Berlin’s European Film Market, Ventana Sur and Guadalajara – and for documentaries – starting with Idfa Forum and Hotdocs, followed by Meetmarket Sheffield and Docmontevideo.
It is also important to choose the right festival to premiere a project since it’s virtually impossible to premiere a picture in a small festival and then get a larger fest to screen the film. It’s also important to explore the work-in-progress sidebars that now exist at most Latin American festivals, including Iff Panama’s Primera Mirada competition.
State funding sources in Latin America include Dicine, in Panama, Incaa in Argentina, Proimagenes in Colombia, Brazil’s Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual, the Fondo Audiovisual in Chile, and Imcine in Mexico. The selection criteria used by these national funds varies considerably. Proimagenes in Colombia, which only finances around 14 films per year last year had three pictures at Cannes.
Over the last three or four years many national funds have created specific lines of funding for co-productions, through bilateral agreements, such as that between Brazil’s Ancine and Argentina’s Incaa, which grants $250,000 per pic supported. As a result of such bilateral agreements Brazil, for example, is now a key partner for all of Latin America.
“I’d like to make the second or third films of my directors. They’ve all been such good experience. We’ve grown together,” Juarez Allen told Variety at the Mar del Plata Festival.
In Panama Gema was quite busy, not only with “Road to La Paz” but participating on the panel, Your Project in Motion: Coproduction and Financing along with Panamanian producers and directors, Delfina Vidal (“Caja 25”), Annie Canavaggio (“Breaking the Wave”) and Abner Benaim (“Invasion”) who also happens to be Gema’s partner.
As one of Latin America’s most active producers, Gema’s extensive experience international coproduction was invaluable and she shared it freely at the panel. Her participation in workshops in Europe, such as the Eave Producers Workshop and Eurodoc, has played a key role in establishing her international connections. While at Eave, she met Greek Boo Productions and Germany’s Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko who came on board to coproduce “Oscuro Animal”.
“Road to La Paz” director, Francisco Varone said,
"In 2012 we submitted the project to Visions Sud Est in Switzerland. I was almost working by myself on the film at this time and then started working with a larger Argentinean production company, Concreto Films, owned by Juan Taratuto, a big film director who was directing TV commercials and said he’d help. They had a tough time finding investors so he introduced me to Gema Juarez Allen (whose recent film “Invasion” is the story of the U.S. invasion of Panama in the 1980s). She is a well-known documentary producer with experience in coproductions who knows how to find money and understands the value of going to festivals. She said she would do it as her first fiction film and went to San Sebastian Film Festival’s Foro de Coproduccion in 2013. There she had lots of one-on-one meetings and met Julius Ponten our Dutch coproducer who got funding from the Netherlands Film Fonds and Gunter Hanfgarn (“Bad Hair”) who applied to Ezef, an Evangelistic Fund for films from the south (one of the backers of “Timbuktu”). “
Read more on “Road to La Paz” here.
Gema continued this story when we spoke:
Juan liked the project but it was not in his domain so he sought me out. I read the script about two men and one car and thought, “This is easy”. But of course it was not. A road movie is the most difficult of all genres, and with animals, and covering two countries! Working with Pancho (Francisco Varone), he is the kind of director I like. I find the shooting is usually more important than the people, but with Pancho, the crew is important and he balanced the people and the shoot, so after all, it was ‘easy’.
The film is being sold internationally by FiGa. It is doing well in Argentina with 35,000 admissions, 20 copies and now in its fourth month in the cinemas. It is a ‘word of mouth’ film.
Sl: What are you working on now?
Gema Juarez Allen: I am now filming “Mapa Mudo”/ “Silent Map”.
A doc project by Felipe Guerrero, Nicolás Rincón and Jorge Caballero, based on video letters of three Colombian filmmakers who left their home country in the late 90s.
And I am developing a new project with the directors of our breakthough film from 2011, “Revenge of the Antipodes”/ “¡Vivan las antípodas!“ which screened in Venice. It’s called “Cro-goo-fant” and is a documentary for children, a funny story about animals. The director, Victor Kossokovsky, did a short doc for kids before.
I am also working with Andres di Tella, the most important documentary filmmaker and founder of Bafici in Argentina. It’s a very personal story about the avant garde art Institute lead by his father, the Instituto Di Tella.
And I am working on “Veterans” about the Falkland Islands War. Bertha Fund is backing it. Lola Arias is directing this documentary feature about the unexpected consequences of war on its protagonists, about the way memory is turned into fiction. I am looking for coproducers now. It is a different look at United Kingdom and Argentina vets that is at the same time both serious and humorous. We are creating a film around a theater play which will open in London this May. It began with the London International Theater Festival along with the Royal Court House Theater. It is not filmic; Lola Arias’ language is so refreshing; she is from the theater.
A winner of the 2015 Berlinale Co-production Market Pitch, Abner Benaim’s “Plaza catedral,” is also in the works. It is a tangled false friendship drama with thriller elements, set against the background of Panama’s social divide.
And I am currently producing Benaim’s doc, “My Name is Not Ruben Blades” with Ruben Blades.
Also in the works: the next film from Manuel Abramovich (“La Reina”), a Mar del Plata 2014 Works in Progress winner for “Solar” – a small but remarkable heart-warming doc-feature whose power struggle between director and subject adds unusually honest depths to a bio-portrait of someone who claims to come from the sun.
Sl: You are so prolific! How did you get started in this?
I studied anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Rio de Janeiro but didn’t like academia and so I studied film at the National Film School and thought I would combine the two. In England I studied Visual Anthropology and worked as a P.A. and as a researcher for the BBC for a “Discovery Channel” type of channel and then I returned to Argentina.
Between 2003 to 2008 I worked at Cine Ojo the oldest doc company in Argentina and at Habitación 1520 Producciones (“Imagen Final”, “Criada”, “Los Jóvenes Muertos”, “Dulce Espera”) before creating my own company Gema Films in 2009.
Sl: You were coordinator of DocBuenos Aires until 2003, a training initiative as well.
Gema Juarez Allen: I have produced 17 films with lots of help.
I was a Sundance Documentary Fund grantee on two films. My projects have been supported by Visions Sud Est, Tribeca Film Institute, Hubert Bals Fund, Idfa Fund, Cinereach, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, DocStation Berlin, et al. I received the Arte/Bal Award in 2008 for Upcoming Producers at Bafici.
I coproduce with Wg Film (Sweden), Majade FilmProduktion (Germany), Gebrüder Beetz (Germany), Lemming Film (Netherlands) and Producciones Aplaplac (Chile).
I have received awards at Berlinale, Bafici, Roma, Guadalajara, Silverdocs, among many others. Gema is part of EuroDoc since 2010 and is a member of the Board of Adn, the Argentinean Documentary Filmmakers Network.
Sl: What advice do you have for young filmmakers?
Gema Juarez Allen: First find a good project. It is very competitive and you must have an original perspective on the subject. There are so many ideas everywhere, it must be good.
Producers should be highly-organized. Be sure to fully develop projects before presenting them to partners and funding decision makers. The key elements to present when the project is fully conceived are an overview, a synopsis, a director’s statement, a brief treatment, a financial plan, a budget, a production timetable and bio-filmographies.
Find a producer with experience. I’m always interested in new directors and new voices.
The best opportunities to find partners are at festivals, markets and above all workshops. These are good places to find colleagues and mentors to give you great feedback. Diana Elbaum is my mentor from Eave and she is always looking at what I’m doing. And most of my coproduction partners came from the Eave and Eurodoc workshops.
Beyond Eave and Eurodoc, which are very open to Latin American projects, other good workshops are Docmontevideo, Guadalajara, Typa, Cinergia Lab, Idfa Summer Academy, Chiledoc, Berlin Talent Campus, Documentary Campus, Morelia Lab among others.
Good international funding sources are Ibermedia and also the “Plus” schemes associated to funds such as Creative Europe, World Cinema Fund, Hubert Bals Fund and the Idfa Bertha fund. Other funds are Fonds d’Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, the Sundance documentary fund, Visions Sud Est, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Doha Film Institute and Sorfond, for co-productions with Norway.
In terms of leading international markets, Cannes, Rotterdam’s Cinemart, Berlin’s European Film Market, Ventana Sur and Guadalajara – and for documentaries – starting with Idfa Forum and Hotdocs, followed by Meetmarket Sheffield and Docmontevideo.
It is also important to choose the right festival to premiere a project since it’s virtually impossible to premiere a picture in a small festival and then get a larger fest to screen the film. It’s also important to explore the work-in-progress sidebars that now exist at most Latin American festivals, including Iff Panama’s Primera Mirada competition.
State funding sources in Latin America include Dicine, in Panama, Incaa in Argentina, Proimagenes in Colombia, Brazil’s Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual, the Fondo Audiovisual in Chile, and Imcine in Mexico. The selection criteria used by these national funds varies considerably. Proimagenes in Colombia, which only finances around 14 films per year last year had three pictures at Cannes.
Over the last three or four years many national funds have created specific lines of funding for co-productions, through bilateral agreements, such as that between Brazil’s Ancine and Argentina’s Incaa, which grants $250,000 per pic supported. As a result of such bilateral agreements Brazil, for example, is now a key partner for all of Latin America.
“I’d like to make the second or third films of my directors. They’ve all been such good experience. We’ve grown together,” Juarez Allen told Variety at the Mar del Plata Festival.
- 4/26/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The UK’s Lucas Ochoa and Poland’s Klaudia Smieja are among upcoming European producers set for neworking initiative in Cannes.Scroll down for the full list
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging European producers for the 17th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the Cannes Film Festival between May 14-17.
The participating producers will take part in a programme of round-table project presentations, one-on-one speed dating pitches and case studies of successful projects.
The 2016 selection includes the UK’s Lucas Ochoa, producer on Andrea Arnold’s Cannes competition entry American Honey. Ochoa has had winning films at the Sundance Film Festival for four years in a row including Robert Egger’s multi-award winning The Witch and this year’s Michal Marczak documentary All These Sleepless Night.
Poland’s Klaudia Smieja, an executive producer on Icelandic hit Rams, has also been selected. Her additional...
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging European producers for the 17th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the Cannes Film Festival between May 14-17.
The participating producers will take part in a programme of round-table project presentations, one-on-one speed dating pitches and case studies of successful projects.
The 2016 selection includes the UK’s Lucas Ochoa, producer on Andrea Arnold’s Cannes competition entry American Honey. Ochoa has had winning films at the Sundance Film Festival for four years in a row including Robert Egger’s multi-award winning The Witch and this year’s Michal Marczak documentary All These Sleepless Night.
Poland’s Klaudia Smieja, an executive producer on Icelandic hit Rams, has also been selected. Her additional...
- 4/21/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Diana Elbaum, Katriel Schory among speakers, strands added.
Cannes has revealed the programme for its producers workshop (May 13-16), with new additions including a speed-dating event aimed at spotlighting strong global coproduction markets.
Speakers at the workshop will include Lucius Barre, Diana Elbaum, Katriel Schory, Peter Wetherell, Sarah Calderon and Linda Beath.
Launched five years ago, the three-day event organized by the Marché du Film, aims to give up-and-coming producers hands on experience of the international market place.
The 2015 programme will include the following sessions:
B2B Marketing Tools & Strategies with Eave expert Sarah Calderon;
Mining Europe for Co-productions with Eave expert Linda Beath;
Branding Yourself and Your Projects with Eave expert Roshanak Behesht Nedjad;
What Kind of a Producer Are You? with Diana Elbaum and Katriel Schory;
How to Navigate the International Market and Festival Circuit with Tobias Pausinger and Jacobine Van Der Vloed.
Julie Bergeron, head of industry programmes for the Cannes Marché, said:...
Cannes has revealed the programme for its producers workshop (May 13-16), with new additions including a speed-dating event aimed at spotlighting strong global coproduction markets.
Speakers at the workshop will include Lucius Barre, Diana Elbaum, Katriel Schory, Peter Wetherell, Sarah Calderon and Linda Beath.
Launched five years ago, the three-day event organized by the Marché du Film, aims to give up-and-coming producers hands on experience of the international market place.
The 2015 programme will include the following sessions:
B2B Marketing Tools & Strategies with Eave expert Sarah Calderon;
Mining Europe for Co-productions with Eave expert Linda Beath;
Branding Yourself and Your Projects with Eave expert Roshanak Behesht Nedjad;
What Kind of a Producer Are You? with Diana Elbaum and Katriel Schory;
How to Navigate the International Market and Festival Circuit with Tobias Pausinger and Jacobine Van Der Vloed.
Julie Bergeron, head of industry programmes for the Cannes Marché, said:...
- 4/10/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Ari Folman continues to follow his own strange star. The Israeli filmmaker will follow his spellbinding animation hybrids "Waltz with Bashir" (Oscar-nominated) and "The Congress" (a high-iq cult oddity that will someday get its due) with an animated retelling of the life and diary of Anne Frank. A blend of stop-motion and traditional animation—with 2D characters cut into stop-motion backgrounds — his Anne Frank Film is the first of its kind. That's because Folman, with Diana Elbaum of Belgian-based production company Entre Chien et Loup, negotiated to obtain world rights in all languages and media and complete access to the Anne Frank archives. Read More: Ari Folman Takes on Animated Anne Frank Feature Production began in winter 2014. Folman has finally shared concept art from the studio at Passion Films in London. Folman is collaborating with "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Dp Tristan Oliver and designer Andy Gent to hew the film's stop motion look,...
- 3/31/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Untitled Anne Frank Project
Director: Ari Folman // Writer: Ari Folman
We were sorry to see Folman’s last film, 2013’s The Congress so apathetically received after it opened the Director’s Fortnight sidebar at Cannes, a hybrid of live-action and animation. Known for his skillful animation, which was most prominent in his 2008 breakthrough third film, Waltz with Bashir, Folman looks to be returning to its pool for another history lesson with his as yet untitled Anne Frank project, which went into production, purportedly, at the end of 2013. Recently, Folman revealed it would be a stop-motion animated feature and was being worked on by Passion Films in London. Folman also is collaborating with DoP Tristan Oliver, who worked on Wes Anderson’s 2009 film The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Cast: Unknown.
Producers: Entre Chien et Loup’s Diana Elbaum (Bethlehem), Film Gang’s Bridgit Folman
U.S. Distributor: Rights available
Release Date: We...
Director: Ari Folman // Writer: Ari Folman
We were sorry to see Folman’s last film, 2013’s The Congress so apathetically received after it opened the Director’s Fortnight sidebar at Cannes, a hybrid of live-action and animation. Known for his skillful animation, which was most prominent in his 2008 breakthrough third film, Waltz with Bashir, Folman looks to be returning to its pool for another history lesson with his as yet untitled Anne Frank project, which went into production, purportedly, at the end of 2013. Recently, Folman revealed it would be a stop-motion animated feature and was being worked on by Passion Films in London. Folman also is collaborating with DoP Tristan Oliver, who worked on Wes Anderson’s 2009 film The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Cast: Unknown.
Producers: Entre Chien et Loup’s Diana Elbaum (Bethlehem), Film Gang’s Bridgit Folman
U.S. Distributor: Rights available
Release Date: We...
- 1/6/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Winning film-makers are Ram Nehari, Nir Bergman and Elad Keidan.
Ram Nehari’s [pictured] “eccentric” romantic comedy Nils, a youthful tale about a gifted, mentally ill classical musician, Nir Bergman’s drama Saving Neta and Elad Keidan’s Our Economic Situation have won the top prizes at the Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point event.
The event aimed at connecting Israeli feature projects with international producers unfolded on the fringes of the festival on Monday and Tuesday.
Nehari’s Nils clinched the €7,000 Cnc Award sponsored by France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc). Produced by Yifat Prestelnik, the film revolves around romance between two young patients of a mental hospital who escape together.
Director Nehari, who has made several successful romantic comedy series for Israeli television, said the work was inspired by his work mentoring and directing short films by mentally ill people. He said the key characters would be “chemically and emotionally unbalanced.”
“They don’t undergo...
Ram Nehari’s [pictured] “eccentric” romantic comedy Nils, a youthful tale about a gifted, mentally ill classical musician, Nir Bergman’s drama Saving Neta and Elad Keidan’s Our Economic Situation have won the top prizes at the Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point event.
The event aimed at connecting Israeli feature projects with international producers unfolded on the fringes of the festival on Monday and Tuesday.
Nehari’s Nils clinched the €7,000 Cnc Award sponsored by France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc). Produced by Yifat Prestelnik, the film revolves around romance between two young patients of a mental hospital who escape together.
Director Nehari, who has made several successful romantic comedy series for Israeli television, said the work was inspired by his work mentoring and directing short films by mentally ill people. He said the key characters would be “chemically and emotionally unbalanced.”
“They don’t undergo...
- 7/16/2014
- 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
The 14th edition of the Rotterdam Lab kicks off tomorrow as part of CineMart.
The Lab is for emerging producers, who are nominated by international training bodies and funding agencies that are partners on the scheme. This year there are 57 producers participating.
This year’s new partners are Curious Film, One Fine Day Workshop, Tribeca Film Institute and Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.
In addition to case studies, panels, speed-dating, talks and networking, the Lab allows producers to present their companies and projects. Expert speakers include Marleen Slot of Viking Film in the Netherlands, Steven Markovitz of South Africa’s Big World Cinema, Ido Abram of Eye Film Institute Netherlands, Katriel Schory of the Israel Film Fund, and Diana Elbaum of Entre Chien et Loup, among others.
The participants are:
Jaime Barrios, ColombiaEva Blondiau, GermanyRosan Boersma, NetherlandsNicholas Bruckman, USLiz Burke, AustraliaJessica Caldwell, USDiana Camargo, ColombiaGilles Chanial, LuxembourgSarah Cook, New ZealandIsabel de la Serna, BelgiumIsabel Delpierre...
The Lab is for emerging producers, who are nominated by international training bodies and funding agencies that are partners on the scheme. This year there are 57 producers participating.
This year’s new partners are Curious Film, One Fine Day Workshop, Tribeca Film Institute and Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.
In addition to case studies, panels, speed-dating, talks and networking, the Lab allows producers to present their companies and projects. Expert speakers include Marleen Slot of Viking Film in the Netherlands, Steven Markovitz of South Africa’s Big World Cinema, Ido Abram of Eye Film Institute Netherlands, Katriel Schory of the Israel Film Fund, and Diana Elbaum of Entre Chien et Loup, among others.
The participants are:
Jaime Barrios, ColombiaEva Blondiau, GermanyRosan Boersma, NetherlandsNicholas Bruckman, USLiz Burke, AustraliaJessica Caldwell, USDiana Camargo, ColombiaGilles Chanial, LuxembourgSarah Cook, New ZealandIsabel de la Serna, BelgiumIsabel Delpierre...
- 1/24/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The 14th edition of the Rotterdam Lab kicks off tomorrow as part of CineMart.
The Lab is for emerging producers, who are nominated by international training bodies and funding agencies that are partners on the scheme. This year there are 57 producers participating.
This year’s new partners are Curious Film, One Fine Day Workshop, Tribeca Film Institute and Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.
In addition to case studies, panels, speed-dating, talks and networking, the Lab allows producers to present their companies and projects. Expert speakers include Marleen Slot of Viking Film in the Netherlands, Steven Markovitz of South Africa’s Big World Cinema, Ido Abram of Eye Film Institute Netherlands, Katriel Schory of the Israel Film Fund, and Diana Elbaum of Entre Chien et Loup, among others.
The participants are:
Jaime Barrios, ColombiaEva Blondiau, GermanyRosan Boersma, NetherlandsNicholas Bruckman, USLiz Burke, AustraliaJessica Caldwell, USDiana Camargo, ColombiaGilles Chanial, LuxembourgSarah Cook, New ZealandIsabel de la Serna, BelgiumIsabel Delpierre...
The Lab is for emerging producers, who are nominated by international training bodies and funding agencies that are partners on the scheme. This year there are 57 producers participating.
This year’s new partners are Curious Film, One Fine Day Workshop, Tribeca Film Institute and Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.
In addition to case studies, panels, speed-dating, talks and networking, the Lab allows producers to present their companies and projects. Expert speakers include Marleen Slot of Viking Film in the Netherlands, Steven Markovitz of South Africa’s Big World Cinema, Ido Abram of Eye Film Institute Netherlands, Katriel Schory of the Israel Film Fund, and Diana Elbaum of Entre Chien et Loup, among others.
The participants are:
Jaime Barrios, ColombiaEva Blondiau, GermanyRosan Boersma, NetherlandsNicholas Bruckman, USLiz Burke, AustraliaJessica Caldwell, USDiana Camargo, ColombiaGilles Chanial, LuxembourgSarah Cook, New ZealandIsabel de la Serna, BelgiumIsabel Delpierre...
- 1/24/2014
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