Eight years after his stop-motion breakout debut My Life as a Zucchini, which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight, Swiss director Claude Barras is back at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Sauvages (Savages).
My Life as a Zucchini was an Academy Award nominee in 2017, and Barras’ new feature is, if anything, even more ambitious. It tells the story of Kéria, an 11-year-old girl who lives with her father, a Swiss ethnologist who now works for a logging company, in the rural suburbs of the province of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. She’s a typical urban girl, who loves her cell phone, hip-hop music and all things modern. She has largely turned her back on the traditions of her late mother, who was a member of the Penan, a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers whose way of life is threatened by industrial deforestation. But when her father rescues a baby orangutan,...
My Life as a Zucchini was an Academy Award nominee in 2017, and Barras’ new feature is, if anything, even more ambitious. It tells the story of Kéria, an 11-year-old girl who lives with her father, a Swiss ethnologist who now works for a logging company, in the rural suburbs of the province of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. She’s a typical urban girl, who loves her cell phone, hip-hop music and all things modern. She has largely turned her back on the traditions of her late mother, who was a member of the Penan, a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers whose way of life is threatened by industrial deforestation. But when her father rescues a baby orangutan,...
- 5/19/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Les Arcs Film Festival launched its inaugural Green Lab this year looking at what the cinema world can do to help tackle climate change.
The high-altitude, snow-covered setting of the Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps does not immediately conjure up a sense of being in a “climate emergency”.
But its backdrop, one of the last wildernesses of Europe, is facing the same ecological challenges as the rest of the planet, with temperatures rising faster than the global average in the Alps.
Worried about the festival’s environmental impact, its founding chiefs Guillaume Calop and Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurentin, have...
The high-altitude, snow-covered setting of the Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps does not immediately conjure up a sense of being in a “climate emergency”.
But its backdrop, one of the last wildernesses of Europe, is facing the same ecological challenges as the rest of the planet, with temperatures rising faster than the global average in the Alps.
Worried about the festival’s environmental impact, its founding chiefs Guillaume Calop and Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurentin, have...
- 12/19/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The Zurich Film Festival has unveiled a raft of gala screenings, with “Joker” among the lineup after its rousing premiere at Venice.
“Judy” about a late-career Judy Garland will also have its premiere in German-speaking countries at Zurich, and Ron Howard’s feature doc “Pavarotti” will have its local premiere at a gala screening attended by the late opera singer’s wife Nicoletta Mantovani.
Other gala screenings at the festival include Jonas Alexander Arnby’s “Suicide Tourist,” with “Game of Thrones” star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Christian Schwochow’s “Deutschstunde,” Roger Michell’s “Blackbird,” Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s “Hors Normes,” and Karim Aïnouz’s “The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, and Marjane Satrapi’s film about Marie Curie, “Radioactive,” will also all have gala showings.
The above-mentioned filmmakers will be in town for their films’ screenings.
Zurich had already announced Niklaus Hilber’s “Bruno Manser – Die Stimme Des Regenwaldes,” billed as Switzerland’s “Apocalypse Now,...
“Judy” about a late-career Judy Garland will also have its premiere in German-speaking countries at Zurich, and Ron Howard’s feature doc “Pavarotti” will have its local premiere at a gala screening attended by the late opera singer’s wife Nicoletta Mantovani.
Other gala screenings at the festival include Jonas Alexander Arnby’s “Suicide Tourist,” with “Game of Thrones” star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Christian Schwochow’s “Deutschstunde,” Roger Michell’s “Blackbird,” Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s “Hors Normes,” and Karim Aïnouz’s “The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, and Marjane Satrapi’s film about Marie Curie, “Radioactive,” will also all have gala showings.
The above-mentioned filmmakers will be in town for their films’ screenings.
Zurich had already announced Niklaus Hilber’s “Bruno Manser – Die Stimme Des Regenwaldes,” billed as Switzerland’s “Apocalypse Now,...
- 9/4/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Rikke Ennis, the CEO of TrustNordisk, is stepping down from the leading Scandinavian sales company. Susan Wendt, the head of international sales and marketing at TrustNordisk, has taken over as managing director of the company since Tuesday.
Ennis, who worked at TrustNordisk and its sister company Zentropa – the banner founded by Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen — for nearly two decades, has decided to leave the banner in order to launch her own company which will be dedicated to developing, financing and packaging TV series, as well as feature films.
“The TrustNordisk team has been like a family and I am proud of having been part of this great adventure, taking the company to where it is today,” said Ennis, who was featured in Variety‘s V500 ranking of the world’s most powerful film and TV executives.
“I have been dreaming about creating my own for a while...
Ennis, who worked at TrustNordisk and its sister company Zentropa – the banner founded by Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen — for nearly two decades, has decided to leave the banner in order to launch her own company which will be dedicated to developing, financing and packaging TV series, as well as feature films.
“The TrustNordisk team has been like a family and I am proud of having been part of this great adventure, taking the company to where it is today,” said Ennis, who was featured in Variety‘s V500 ranking of the world’s most powerful film and TV executives.
“I have been dreaming about creating my own for a while...
- 5/2/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Rikke Ennis, CEO of leading Scandinavian banner TrustNordisk and an executive at Danish production powerhouse Zentropa, has decided to leave her post to start her own company which will work on development, financing and packaging, mainly focusing on TV series but also on features.
Susan Wendt, Director of International Sales & Marketing will be taking over and has been appointed Managing Director of the Scandi outfit as of May 1st. Wendt has been a part of TrustNordisk since the company’s inception in 2008 and has sold some of the firm’s biggest movies including titles from Lars von trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier, Hannes Holm, Roar Uthaug and Hans Petter Moland.
“Rikke and I have been working closely together for more than 10 years, and it’s for sure very sad and took some time to digest that Rikke had decided to leave TrustNordisk, but we will continue in her spirit. This...
Susan Wendt, Director of International Sales & Marketing will be taking over and has been appointed Managing Director of the Scandi outfit as of May 1st. Wendt has been a part of TrustNordisk since the company’s inception in 2008 and has sold some of the firm’s biggest movies including titles from Lars von trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier, Hannes Holm, Roar Uthaug and Hans Petter Moland.
“Rikke and I have been working closely together for more than 10 years, and it’s for sure very sad and took some time to digest that Rikke had decided to leave TrustNordisk, but we will continue in her spirit. This...
- 5/2/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
They will host market screenings for Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio’s film in Cannes.
LevelK has acquired world sales rights to Finnish comedy Heavy Trip after its successful launch at SXSW.
LevelK will host market screenings in Cannes for the film, which is directed by Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio.
Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho produced for Making Movies on a budget of $3.8m (€3.1m), financed by the Finnish Film Foundation, Yle & Film Camp.
Scanbox Entertainment released the film locally on March 9.
The cast includes Johannes Holopainen, Minka Kuustonen & Ville Tiihonen.
The story is about an unknown heavy metal...
LevelK has acquired world sales rights to Finnish comedy Heavy Trip after its successful launch at SXSW.
LevelK will host market screenings in Cannes for the film, which is directed by Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio.
Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho produced for Making Movies on a budget of $3.8m (€3.1m), financed by the Finnish Film Foundation, Yle & Film Camp.
Scanbox Entertainment released the film locally on March 9.
The cast includes Johannes Holopainen, Minka Kuustonen & Ville Tiihonen.
The story is about an unknown heavy metal...
- 4/19/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Film is based on true story of Manser’s 1984 Borneo expedition.
Denmark-based sales company TrustNordisk has added Paradise War, the based-on-a-true-story tale of environmentalist Bruno Manser’s 1984 expedition in Borneo, to its slate.
Directed by Niklaus Hilber (Amateur Teens) and starring Sven Schelker (Homeland) as Manser, the film was shot in 76 days in Switzerland, New York, Budapest and Borneo, including in the last areas of primary jungle on the island.
It is produced by Valentin Greutert for A Film Company GmbH (Switzerland) in coproduction with Philip Delaquis for Das Kollektiv GmbH (Switzerland). Ascot Elite are handling Swiss distribution for the film.
Denmark-based sales company TrustNordisk has added Paradise War, the based-on-a-true-story tale of environmentalist Bruno Manser’s 1984 expedition in Borneo, to its slate.
Directed by Niklaus Hilber (Amateur Teens) and starring Sven Schelker (Homeland) as Manser, the film was shot in 76 days in Switzerland, New York, Budapest and Borneo, including in the last areas of primary jungle on the island.
It is produced by Valentin Greutert for A Film Company GmbH (Switzerland) in coproduction with Philip Delaquis for Das Kollektiv GmbH (Switzerland). Ascot Elite are handling Swiss distribution for the film.
- 4/17/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Genre market Frontières Platform (May 12-13), the co-presentation between the Fantasia International Film Festival and Cannes’ Marché du Film, will this year feature projects from Denis Côté, Ben Wheatley and Can Evrenol. The Frontières Buyers Showcase (Sunday May 13 at 4pm in Palais K) will feature 6 films, with producers screening footage for potential buyers, sales agents and festival programmers. The lineup includes Denis Côté’s (Vic + Flo Saw A Bear) Ghost Town Anthology, Jovanka Vuckovic’s (Xx) Riot Girls, which is handled by Xyz in the U.S., and Antonio Tublen’s (Lfo) Zoo, which is handled by Seville International. The proof of concept presentation on Saturday May 12 will include Girl Without A Mouth, the new film from Baskin director Can Evrenol, and Casey Walker’s UK-Canadian project Whitaker, produced by Andy Starke, Pete Tombs and Free Fire director Ben Wheatley for Rook Films alongside Jonathan Bronfman (The Witch).
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- 4/17/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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