Elda Ferri produces for Ad Hoc Film and Rai Cinema.
Italian sales outfit Filmexport has picked up international rights to Gianfrancesco Lazotti’s completed feature The Night Is Short For Us, an ensemble drama produced by Elda Ferri for Ad Hoc Film and Rai Cinema.
Inspired by classic Italian films of the 1970s, the story takes place on a dancefloor and interweaves the stories of different dancers. The cast includes Philippe Leroy and Cristiana Capotondi.
As part of its expansion into television Filmexport is in Cannes to pitch the TV drama The Serpent Queen, a drama based on the 16th-century figure of Caterina de’ Medici,...
Italian sales outfit Filmexport has picked up international rights to Gianfrancesco Lazotti’s completed feature The Night Is Short For Us, an ensemble drama produced by Elda Ferri for Ad Hoc Film and Rai Cinema.
Inspired by classic Italian films of the 1970s, the story takes place on a dancefloor and interweaves the stories of different dancers. The cast includes Philippe Leroy and Cristiana Capotondi.
As part of its expansion into television Filmexport is in Cannes to pitch the TV drama The Serpent Queen, a drama based on the 16th-century figure of Caterina de’ Medici,...
- 5/16/2019
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Hans Van Nuffel's Oxygen. The Montreal World Film Festival winners were announced on Sept. 7. Feature Films Grand prix des Americas: Oxygen (Adem) by Hans Van Nuffel (Belgium/Netherlands) Special Grand Prix of the jury : Dalla Vita In Poi (From The Waist On) by Gianfrancesco Lazotti (Italy) Best Director ex-aequo: Limbo by Maria Sødahl (Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Trinidad and Tobago) TÊTE De Turc by Pascal Elbé (France) Best Actress : Eri Fukatsu for the film Akunin (Villain) by Lee Sang-Il (Japan) Best Actor : FRANÇOIS Papineau for the film Route 132 by Louis Bélanger (Canada) Best Screenplay: De La Infancia (From Childhood) by Carlos Carrera, screenplay by Silvia Pasternac, Fernando Leon, Carlos Carrera (Mexico) Best Artistic Contribution : Venice (Wenecja) by Jan Jakub Kolski (Poland) Innovation Award: Tromper Le Silence (Silence Lies) by Julie Hivon (Canada) Short Films : 1st prize : El Vendedor Del AÑO (Salesman Of The...
- 9/16/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Updated Sept. 7 at 10:03 pm Beijing time
Toronto -- The audience award at the Montreal World Film Festival was shared by Spanish director Emilio Aragon's "Paper Birds" and "The Day I Was Not Born," by German director Florian Cossen.
Cossen's debut feature about a young German woman who comes upon a painful family secret while passing through Argentina also earned the Fipresci critics prize and shared the Ecumenical Prize with the juried Grand Prix of the Americas winner, Hans Van Nuffel's "Oxygen."
It's been a busy 10 days for Van Nuffel. The Belgian director was in Montreal last week to debut his first-feature in Montreal, before jumping a plane to open the Film Festival of Ostend back home on Sept. 3 with "Oxygen."
Then Monday night, Van Nuffel was expected back in Montreal to receive the festival's top jury prize ahead of a Belgian theatrical release on Sept. 8 for his...
Toronto -- The audience award at the Montreal World Film Festival was shared by Spanish director Emilio Aragon's "Paper Birds" and "The Day I Was Not Born," by German director Florian Cossen.
Cossen's debut feature about a young German woman who comes upon a painful family secret while passing through Argentina also earned the Fipresci critics prize and shared the Ecumenical Prize with the juried Grand Prix of the Americas winner, Hans Van Nuffel's "Oxygen."
It's been a busy 10 days for Van Nuffel. The Belgian director was in Montreal last week to debut his first-feature in Montreal, before jumping a plane to open the Film Festival of Ostend back home on Sept. 3 with "Oxygen."
Then Monday night, Van Nuffel was expected back in Montreal to receive the festival's top jury prize ahead of a Belgian theatrical release on Sept. 8 for his...
- 9/6/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toronto -- Jeff Lipsky's family drama "Twelve Thirty" and Carl Colpaert's "The Land of the Astronauts," starring David Arquette as a once-hot composer driving a limo to make ends meet, have joined the official competition at the upcoming Montreal World Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.
The American films will compete against 20 features and 16 shorts from 24 countries in the World Competition in Montreal, including two Canadian entries: Louis Belanger's "Route 132," which will open the festival on Aug. 26, and "Silence Lies," directed by Julie Hivon.
France is sending four competition titles to Montreal, including Jacques Doillon's "Three-Way Wedding," with three film from Japan, two from Germany, and Gianfrancesco Lazotti's "From the Waist On by" flying the flag for Italy.
In all, Montreal booked 430 films from 80 countries for its 34th edition, of which 113 features will be world or international premieres.
The festival has also scheduled tributes for actresses Nathalie Baye and Stefania Sandrelli,...
The American films will compete against 20 features and 16 shorts from 24 countries in the World Competition in Montreal, including two Canadian entries: Louis Belanger's "Route 132," which will open the festival on Aug. 26, and "Silence Lies," directed by Julie Hivon.
France is sending four competition titles to Montreal, including Jacques Doillon's "Three-Way Wedding," with three film from Japan, two from Germany, and Gianfrancesco Lazotti's "From the Waist On by" flying the flag for Italy.
In all, Montreal booked 430 films from 80 countries for its 34th edition, of which 113 features will be world or international premieres.
The festival has also scheduled tributes for actresses Nathalie Baye and Stefania Sandrelli,...
- 8/10/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rome -- "Dalla Vita in Poi" (From the Waste On), a debut film from Italian Gianfrancesco Lazotti, won best film in the Taormina Film Festival's main competition limited to films from the Mediterranean region Friday, while its stars won the film's two main actor prizes.
Also on Friday, "Friendship!," a comedy from German director Markus Goller, won the prize as the best film from beyond the Mediterranean, while Emir Kusturica, the Serbian director, was honored for the Mediterranean prize for Dialogue Between Cultures co-sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter. Late Thursday, actor Colin Firth received the fifth and final Taormina Arte honor.
The main jury, headed by Berlin International Film Festival artistic director Dieter Kosslick, gave most of its honors to "Dalla Vita in Poi," the only Italian film in the prestigious Mediterranean competition, an intellectual love story centered on the letters of Katia, a woman with muscular dystrophy.
Cristiana Capotondi,...
Also on Friday, "Friendship!," a comedy from German director Markus Goller, won the prize as the best film from beyond the Mediterranean, while Emir Kusturica, the Serbian director, was honored for the Mediterranean prize for Dialogue Between Cultures co-sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter. Late Thursday, actor Colin Firth received the fifth and final Taormina Arte honor.
The main jury, headed by Berlin International Film Festival artistic director Dieter Kosslick, gave most of its honors to "Dalla Vita in Poi," the only Italian film in the prestigious Mediterranean competition, an intellectual love story centered on the letters of Katia, a woman with muscular dystrophy.
Cristiana Capotondi,...
- 6/18/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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