Cologne-based The Match Factory has acquired rights to Swedish-Polish helmer Magnus von Horn’s Danish pic “The Girl With the Needle,” billed as a “fairy-tale about a horrible truth.” In the starring roles are Trine Dyrholm, Vic Carmen Sonne and Besir Zeciri (“Wildland”).
First clips of the stylised black-and-white chiller will be unveiled at the Works in Progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market.
“Magnus von Horn is a talent to follow,” said The Match Factory’s head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou. “His story of “The Girl with the Needle” hooked us and his choice of cast and narrative style promises a great outcome. We are certain the audiences will relate to this.”
Von Horn’s dark drama is his first foray into period genre, following his 2015 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight calling card “The Here After”, and his 2020 Cannes-selected and international festival hit “Sweat”, a “poised, impressive drama” according to Variety.
First clips of the stylised black-and-white chiller will be unveiled at the Works in Progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market.
“Magnus von Horn is a talent to follow,” said The Match Factory’s head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou. “His story of “The Girl with the Needle” hooked us and his choice of cast and narrative style promises a great outcome. We are certain the audiences will relate to this.”
Von Horn’s dark drama is his first foray into period genre, following his 2015 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight calling card “The Here After”, and his 2020 Cannes-selected and international festival hit “Sweat”, a “poised, impressive drama” according to Variety.
- 1/18/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Line-up for the 25th edition of the market includes 16 completed features, 15 Wip, 17 films in development.
Films by Sweat director Magnus von Horn and Margrete: Queen of the North filmmaker Charlotte Sieling will be presented at the 25th Nordic Film Market (January 31-February 2), the film marketplace of Goteborg Film Festival.
The projects are among the 15 Nordic films in post-production being showcased in the Works in Progress strand.
Scroll down for the full Market selection
Swedish director von Horn attends with The Girl With The Needle, a horror story set in 1910s Denmark, starring Trine Dyrholm and produced by Creative Alliance’s Malene Blenkov.
Films by Sweat director Magnus von Horn and Margrete: Queen of the North filmmaker Charlotte Sieling will be presented at the 25th Nordic Film Market (January 31-February 2), the film marketplace of Goteborg Film Festival.
The projects are among the 15 Nordic films in post-production being showcased in the Works in Progress strand.
Scroll down for the full Market selection
Swedish director von Horn attends with The Girl With The Needle, a horror story set in 1910s Denmark, starring Trine Dyrholm and produced by Creative Alliance’s Malene Blenkov.
- 1/16/2024
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
She steals the show in the new Bridget Jones film and took a protest to its premiere. The actor-writer-rabblerouser explains why it’s time to shake things up
Sarah Solemani was drunk after a hen do and heading home on a night bus when she bumped into a friend and came up with one of those ideas that seem genius in the early hours of Sunday morning, but invariably never see the light of day. Only, in this case, it did. Less than 48 hours later, she was walking the red carpet at a world premiere in Leicester Square, wearing a dazzling Marchesa gown, and holding a matching placard that read Budget The Baby: Fund creches on film sets #RaisingFilms.
The cause? Improving working conditions for parents in the film industry (the friend she bumped into, Line Langebek, is one of the founders of the initiative, Raising Films, and both women have toddlers). The film?...
Sarah Solemani was drunk after a hen do and heading home on a night bus when she bumped into a friend and came up with one of those ideas that seem genius in the early hours of Sunday morning, but invariably never see the light of day. Only, in this case, it did. Less than 48 hours later, she was walking the red carpet at a world premiere in Leicester Square, wearing a dazzling Marchesa gown, and holding a matching placard that read Budget The Baby: Fund creches on film sets #RaisingFilms.
The cause? Improving working conditions for parents in the film industry (the friend she bumped into, Line Langebek, is one of the founders of the initiative, Raising Films, and both women have toddlers). The film?...
- 9/24/2016
- by Martha Hayes
- The Guardian - Film News
New initiative Raising Films launches crowdfunding campaign in a bid to hire a project manager.
Raising Films, a UK-based initiative that aims to provide advice to parents attempting to juggle family with a career in the film business, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to further its cause.
The indiegogo campaign is currently at 25% of its goal to raise £6,000, which it will use to hire a project manager to deliver its objectives.
These objectives include building an online “supportive community” of parents in the film industry and launching its first campaign, which will investigate the issue of childcare, as well as setting up training events at festivals around the world to help filmmakers understand how they can develop their career while raising a family.
The collective of women behind Raising Films includes Hope Dickson Leach, currently producing her first feature The Levelling through iFeatures; London-based screenwriter Line Langebek; producer Nicky Bentham (The Silent Storm); indie film producer [link=nm...
Raising Films, a UK-based initiative that aims to provide advice to parents attempting to juggle family with a career in the film business, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to further its cause.
The indiegogo campaign is currently at 25% of its goal to raise £6,000, which it will use to hire a project manager to deliver its objectives.
These objectives include building an online “supportive community” of parents in the film industry and launching its first campaign, which will investigate the issue of childcare, as well as setting up training events at festivals around the world to help filmmakers understand how they can develop their career while raising a family.
The collective of women behind Raising Films includes Hope Dickson Leach, currently producing her first feature The Levelling through iFeatures; London-based screenwriter Line Langebek; producer Nicky Bentham (The Silent Storm); indie film producer [link=nm...
- 8/4/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: A crime farce, prison drama, Highland thriller and fantastical love story among titles.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed the feature film projects and filmmaking teams who will be participating in the fourth year of development and mentoring programme Eiff Network.
The Network participants are:
writer/director John Addis and producer Sukey Richardson with their crime farce Deadbeat;
screenwriter Brian Martin and his prison based drama Inside;
screenwriter Nat Luurtsema, director Isabelle Sieb and producer Diarmuid Hughes with their black comedy drama Poppy;
writer/director Iain Mitchell with his highland thriller Keeper;
screenwriter Melissa Iqbal with her science fiction thriller The Ark;
screenwriter Line Langebek and director Samantha Harrie with the fantastical love story When I Could Fly.
The initiative is run in partnership with story editor Kate Leys and supported by the Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund and Creative Scotland. Network aims to connect filmmaking teams with industry as they develop feature projects...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed the feature film projects and filmmaking teams who will be participating in the fourth year of development and mentoring programme Eiff Network.
The Network participants are:
writer/director John Addis and producer Sukey Richardson with their crime farce Deadbeat;
screenwriter Brian Martin and his prison based drama Inside;
screenwriter Nat Luurtsema, director Isabelle Sieb and producer Diarmuid Hughes with their black comedy drama Poppy;
writer/director Iain Mitchell with his highland thriller Keeper;
screenwriter Melissa Iqbal with her science fiction thriller The Ark;
screenwriter Line Langebek and director Samantha Harrie with the fantastical love story When I Could Fly.
The initiative is run in partnership with story editor Kate Leys and supported by the Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund and Creative Scotland. Network aims to connect filmmaking teams with industry as they develop feature projects...
- 6/3/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: A crime farce, prison drama, Highland thriller and fantastical love story among titles.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed the feature film projects and filmmaking teams who will be participating in the fourth year of development and mentoring programme Eiff Network.
The Network participants are:
writer/director John Addis and producer Sukey Richardson with their crime farce Deadbeat;
screenwriter Brian Martin and his prison based drama Inside;
screenwriter Nat Luurtsema, director Isabelle Sieb and producer Diarmuid Hughes with their black comedy drama Poppy;
writer/director Iain Mitchell with his highland thriller Keeper;
screenwriter Melissa Iqbal with her science fiction thriller The Ark;
screenwriter Line Langebek and director Samantha Harrie with the fantastical love story When I Could Fly.
The initiative is run in partnership with story editor Kate Leys and supported by the Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund and Creative Scotland. Network aims to connect filmmaking teams with industry as they develop feature projects...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed the feature film projects and filmmaking teams who will be participating in the fourth year of development and mentoring programme Eiff Network.
The Network participants are:
writer/director John Addis and producer Sukey Richardson with their crime farce Deadbeat;
screenwriter Brian Martin and his prison based drama Inside;
screenwriter Nat Luurtsema, director Isabelle Sieb and producer Diarmuid Hughes with their black comedy drama Poppy;
writer/director Iain Mitchell with his highland thriller Keeper;
screenwriter Melissa Iqbal with her science fiction thriller The Ark;
screenwriter Line Langebek and director Samantha Harrie with the fantastical love story When I Could Fly.
The initiative is run in partnership with story editor Kate Leys and supported by the Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund and Creative Scotland. Network aims to connect filmmaking teams with industry as they develop feature projects...
- 6/3/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
UK mentor scheme received seventeen applications for each place.
Actor-director Kenneth Branagh and writer-director Hossein Amini are among mentors for training programme Guiding Lights, run by Brighton-based cultural agency Lighthouse.
The 15 mentees include directors, writers, producers and, for the first time, exhibitors, as a result of a new partnership with Film Hub South East, part of the BFI Film Audience Network.
They will receive nine months of personal mentoring.
This year there were seventeen applications for each place on the scheme, which requires candidates to demonstrate experience in their field and their potential for the future.
The scheme began in 2006 and is sponsored by Creative Skillset and Studiocanal. Previous years’ mentors include Danny Boyle, Abi Morgan, Lone Scherfig and Julian Fellowes.
Kevin Macdonald, director of The Last King of Scotland, is taking part for the third time this year. He said: “What I really love about [Guiding Lights] is that I learn as much – maybe more – from the mentee...
Actor-director Kenneth Branagh and writer-director Hossein Amini are among mentors for training programme Guiding Lights, run by Brighton-based cultural agency Lighthouse.
The 15 mentees include directors, writers, producers and, for the first time, exhibitors, as a result of a new partnership with Film Hub South East, part of the BFI Film Audience Network.
They will receive nine months of personal mentoring.
This year there were seventeen applications for each place on the scheme, which requires candidates to demonstrate experience in their field and their potential for the future.
The scheme began in 2006 and is sponsored by Creative Skillset and Studiocanal. Previous years’ mentors include Danny Boyle, Abi Morgan, Lone Scherfig and Julian Fellowes.
Kevin Macdonald, director of The Last King of Scotland, is taking part for the third time this year. He said: “What I really love about [Guiding Lights] is that I learn as much – maybe more – from the mentee...
- 12/17/2014
- by Laurence.Bartleet@city.ac.uk (Larry Bartleet)
- ScreenDaily
Guiding Lights is run by Lighthouse and Creative Skillset and offers participants nine months of one-on-one mentor support, as well as industry training and networking events.
Digital culture agency Lighthouse and Creative Skillset have announced the 15 participants taking part in their 2014 Guiding Lights programme.
In its sixth year, Guiding Lights offers participants nine months of one-on-one mentor support from professionals in the film industry, as well as access to industry training and networking events. The candidates were selected from more than 250 applications.
“The Guiding Lights selection process is always extremely competitive, and this year was no exception,” said Lighthouse senior producer Emily Kyriakides.
“We’re really excited by the past achievements, future potential and talent within the group, and feel that they have a lot to offer each other as well. They’re a very impressive bunch, and we look forward to working with them over the coming months.”
This year, Lighthouse and Creative...
Digital culture agency Lighthouse and Creative Skillset have announced the 15 participants taking part in their 2014 Guiding Lights programme.
In its sixth year, Guiding Lights offers participants nine months of one-on-one mentor support from professionals in the film industry, as well as access to industry training and networking events. The candidates were selected from more than 250 applications.
“The Guiding Lights selection process is always extremely competitive, and this year was no exception,” said Lighthouse senior producer Emily Kyriakides.
“We’re really excited by the past achievements, future potential and talent within the group, and feel that they have a lot to offer each other as well. They’re a very impressive bunch, and we look forward to working with them over the coming months.”
This year, Lighthouse and Creative...
- 7/2/2014
- ScreenDaily
Venue: Los Angeles Film Festival.Some of the most provocative recent films, including “Babel, ” “The Visitor, ” and “The Edge of Heaven, ” have dramatized encounters of people from different cultures. While these films frequently focus on the tragic consequences of such culture clashes, they remind us that we live in a shrinking world where interdependence is crucial. The latest movie to bring this theme into focus, “I'll Come Running, ” has its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. While not as seamless as some of those earlier movies, it's an affecting drama of people from different nationalities trying to bridge the gulf that divides them.
“Running” begins with a group of Danish tourists visiting the Alamo and deriding the alien universe of Texas. Enjoying a night on the town in nearby Austin, Pelle (Jon Lange) hooks up with Veronica (Melonie Diaz). A one-night stand leads to a more serious infatuation, but Pelle is set to return to Denmark. An unexpected accident throws everything into turmoil and leads Veronica to travel to Denmark. There she meets Pelle's best friend and family. All of these characters are profoundly changed by a chance encounter that started on a dance floor in Texas.
Diaz (“Raising Victor Vargas, ” “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints”) holds the film together. The role allows her to demonstrate toughness as well as curiosity about all the heartbreaking surprises that life has in store for us. Lange and Christian Tafdrup as Pelle's best friend both bring the requisite magnetism to their roles. There are times when the budgetary limitations hurt the film; some crucial dramatic moments take place offscreen. Still, cinematographer Siobhan Walshe captures the contrasts in the two worlds that Veronica navigates. The open-ended conclusion is honest but somehow less than fully satisfying, and the film as a whole must be considered a flawed but compelling foray into cross-cultural confusion.
Cast: Melonie Diaz, Jon Lange, Christian Tafdrup, Birgitte Raaberg, Hallie Bulleit, Mads Norby. Director: Spencer Parsons. Screenwriters: Line Langebek Knudsen, Spencer Parsons. Executive producers: Thomas Lydholm, Rajen Savjani, Jesper Zartov. Producers: Lars Knudsen, Anish Savjani, Jay Van Hoy. Director of photography: Siobhan Walshe. Production designer: Elliott Hostetler. Music: Graham Reynolds. Costume designer: Caroline Karlen. Editor: David Fabelo. Production companies: Film Science, Van Hoy/Knudsen Productions.
No MPAA rating, 112 minutes.
“Running” begins with a group of Danish tourists visiting the Alamo and deriding the alien universe of Texas. Enjoying a night on the town in nearby Austin, Pelle (Jon Lange) hooks up with Veronica (Melonie Diaz). A one-night stand leads to a more serious infatuation, but Pelle is set to return to Denmark. An unexpected accident throws everything into turmoil and leads Veronica to travel to Denmark. There she meets Pelle's best friend and family. All of these characters are profoundly changed by a chance encounter that started on a dance floor in Texas.
Diaz (“Raising Victor Vargas, ” “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints”) holds the film together. The role allows her to demonstrate toughness as well as curiosity about all the heartbreaking surprises that life has in store for us. Lange and Christian Tafdrup as Pelle's best friend both bring the requisite magnetism to their roles. There are times when the budgetary limitations hurt the film; some crucial dramatic moments take place offscreen. Still, cinematographer Siobhan Walshe captures the contrasts in the two worlds that Veronica navigates. The open-ended conclusion is honest but somehow less than fully satisfying, and the film as a whole must be considered a flawed but compelling foray into cross-cultural confusion.
Cast: Melonie Diaz, Jon Lange, Christian Tafdrup, Birgitte Raaberg, Hallie Bulleit, Mads Norby. Director: Spencer Parsons. Screenwriters: Line Langebek Knudsen, Spencer Parsons. Executive producers: Thomas Lydholm, Rajen Savjani, Jesper Zartov. Producers: Lars Knudsen, Anish Savjani, Jay Van Hoy. Director of photography: Siobhan Walshe. Production designer: Elliott Hostetler. Music: Graham Reynolds. Costume designer: Caroline Karlen. Editor: David Fabelo. Production companies: Film Science, Van Hoy/Knudsen Productions.
No MPAA rating, 112 minutes.
- 6/20/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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