Derek Yee’s I Am Somebody will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff, June 13-21), while China-Russian co-production Ballet In The Flames Of War will close the event.
Directed by China’s Yachun Dong and Russia’s Nikita Mikhalkov, Ballet In The Flames Of War is a romance set during the Second World War and opened the Chinese Film Festival in Mosow last month.
Meanwhile, Mikhalkov’s Sunstroke is one of nine films selected for the Golden Goblet Awards, along with Daniel Barnz’s Cake and Taiwanese director Tung Wang’s Where The Wind Settles (see list below). Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) heads the jury for the awards.
Films nominated for the Asian New Talent Award include Japanese director Momoko Ando’s 0.5mm, Iranian filmmaker Hooman Seyedi’s 13 and Labour Of Love from India’s Aditya Vikram Sengupta.
Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home is also nominated in this section, but for the...
Directed by China’s Yachun Dong and Russia’s Nikita Mikhalkov, Ballet In The Flames Of War is a romance set during the Second World War and opened the Chinese Film Festival in Mosow last month.
Meanwhile, Mikhalkov’s Sunstroke is one of nine films selected for the Golden Goblet Awards, along with Daniel Barnz’s Cake and Taiwanese director Tung Wang’s Where The Wind Settles (see list below). Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) heads the jury for the awards.
Films nominated for the Asian New Talent Award include Japanese director Momoko Ando’s 0.5mm, Iranian filmmaker Hooman Seyedi’s 13 and Labour Of Love from India’s Aditya Vikram Sengupta.
Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home is also nominated in this section, but for the...
- 6/3/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Anti-Nazi satire from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Bruggemann and a new documentary from Mark Cousins among titles.Scroll down for competition line-ups
The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West, Forum of Independents and Documentary sections.
The main competition will comprise seven world premieres and six international premieres, including the new film from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heil, a satirical comedy centred on neo-Nazis.
Polish documentary director Marcin Koszałkaʼs will present his feature debut, The Red Spider, a psychological thriller inspired by true events from the 1950s that delves into the mechanisms that give rise to a mass murderer.
Danish documentary maker Daniel Dencik will present his first feature, Gold Coast, about a young anti-colonial idealist who sets out for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation - but not everything goes to plan. The music is...
The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West, Forum of Independents and Documentary sections.
The main competition will comprise seven world premieres and six international premieres, including the new film from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heil, a satirical comedy centred on neo-Nazis.
Polish documentary director Marcin Koszałkaʼs will present his feature debut, The Red Spider, a psychological thriller inspired by true events from the 1950s that delves into the mechanisms that give rise to a mass murderer.
Danish documentary maker Daniel Dencik will present his first feature, Gold Coast, about a young anti-colonial idealist who sets out for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation - but not everything goes to plan. The music is...
- 6/2/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 18th edition of the Shanghai International Film Festival has received a record 2,096 entries from 108 countries and regions, organizers said, and this year's event will have a strong Asian focus. Among the films nominated for the Golden Goblet Award are Sunstroke, from Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov, Kang Je-kyu's Salut D'amour, Cake by Daniel Barnz from the U.S. and Taiwan director Wang Tung's Where the Wind Settles. The nominations also include Polish director Jacek Lusiński's Carte Blanche, The Duchess of Warsaw by France's Joseph Morder (France), Jameh Daran by Iran's Hamid Ghotbe, The Midwife by Antti
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- 5/29/2015
- by Clifford Coonan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ken Loach, Simone Bitton, Walter Bernstein, Annemarie Jacir and Elia Suleiman among signatories of petition; Locarno Film Festival issues statement.
More than 200 filmmakers and industry professionals are urging the Locarno Film Festival to drop a planned focus on Israel this summer, being organised in partnership with the state-backed Israeli Film Fund
Ken Loach, a Locarno regular and recipient of its Leopard of Honour in 2003, is among the petitioners alongside screenwriter Walter Bernstein and composer Richard Horowitz.
Other protestors include Israeli filmmakers Simone Bitton, Rachel Leah Jones and Eyal Sivan, and Palestinian directors Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman and Hany Abu-Assad.
But a statement from Locarno said the festival “has always been a place of freedom of expression” and that it would not drop the focus, which would “represent an important opportunity for debate and dialogue, within the context of cultural enrichment”.
Click here for the petition in fullScroll down for Locarno’s statement
The Swiss lakeside, summer festival...
More than 200 filmmakers and industry professionals are urging the Locarno Film Festival to drop a planned focus on Israel this summer, being organised in partnership with the state-backed Israeli Film Fund
Ken Loach, a Locarno regular and recipient of its Leopard of Honour in 2003, is among the petitioners alongside screenwriter Walter Bernstein and composer Richard Horowitz.
Other protestors include Israeli filmmakers Simone Bitton, Rachel Leah Jones and Eyal Sivan, and Palestinian directors Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman and Hany Abu-Assad.
But a statement from Locarno said the festival “has always been a place of freedom of expression” and that it would not drop the focus, which would “represent an important opportunity for debate and dialogue, within the context of cultural enrichment”.
Click here for the petition in fullScroll down for Locarno’s statement
The Swiss lakeside, summer festival...
- 4/16/2015
- ScreenDaily
Locarno’s initiative dedicated to films in post-production to highlight five-seven projects.
Locarno has announced that the fifth edition of Carte Blanche will focus on Israel.
The festival’s initiative dedicated to films in post-production will select five-seven projects from the territory, in partnership with the Israeli Film Fund, whose producers will be invited to attend the festival to present their work to industry professionals in order to facilitate their completion and distribution.
Previous editions have focused on Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Brazil.
Nadia Dresti, delegate to the artistic direction and head of international at Locarno, commented: “From the success Eran Riklis had on the Piazza Grande with The Syrian Bride, The Human Resources Manager and Dancing Arabs, to the revelation of Nadav Lapid’s talent with the short film Kvish (2006) and then Hashoter selected for the 2010 Concorso internazionale, the relationship forged between the Festival del film Locarno and Israeli cinema has proved increasingly productive.
“With the next...
Locarno has announced that the fifth edition of Carte Blanche will focus on Israel.
The festival’s initiative dedicated to films in post-production will select five-seven projects from the territory, in partnership with the Israeli Film Fund, whose producers will be invited to attend the festival to present their work to industry professionals in order to facilitate their completion and distribution.
Previous editions have focused on Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Brazil.
Nadia Dresti, delegate to the artistic direction and head of international at Locarno, commented: “From the success Eran Riklis had on the Piazza Grande with The Syrian Bride, The Human Resources Manager and Dancing Arabs, to the revelation of Nadav Lapid’s talent with the short film Kvish (2006) and then Hashoter selected for the 2010 Concorso internazionale, the relationship forged between the Festival del film Locarno and Israeli cinema has proved increasingly productive.
“With the next...
- 2/9/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Los Angeles hip-hop/electronic DJ-producer Gaslamp Killer wasn't thinking of endorsements, sponsorships or Grammy commercials five years ago when he began incorporating an iPad into his manic sets.
"I had no idea there were people reporting back to whoever the hell at Apple," Gaslamp Killer tells Rolling Stone. "It came out of the blue, like, 'We've been watching you, dude. We think you're great.' 'Uhhh, excuse me? Is this a fuckin' prank?' I didn't believe it was them."
The musician stars in a new iPad ad with Swedish...
"I had no idea there were people reporting back to whoever the hell at Apple," Gaslamp Killer tells Rolling Stone. "It came out of the blue, like, 'We've been watching you, dude. We think you're great.' 'Uhhh, excuse me? Is this a fuckin' prank?' I didn't believe it was them."
The musician stars in a new iPad ad with Swedish...
- 2/8/2015
- Rollingstone.com
It’s Tuesday morning. John Oliver‘s news satire Last Week Tonight returns Sunday (HBO, 11/10c) for its second season. But don’t ask the host what topics the premiere, which is mere days away, will cover.
As of right now, he couldn’t tell ya.
“I don’t know,” he says when asked at a press event held at HBO headquarters in Manhattan. “We have a couple of options that we’ve been working on.” The final call will get made the next day, and it will include input from the series’ writers’ room and research staff — the latter...
As of right now, he couldn’t tell ya.
“I don’t know,” he says when asked at a press event held at HBO headquarters in Manhattan. “We have a couple of options that we’ve been working on.” The final call will get made the next day, and it will include input from the series’ writers’ room and research staff — the latter...
- 2/7/2015
- TVLine.com
This year there are 127 feature-length films, representing 29 countries and 45 first-time filmmakers, including 19 in competition. 103 are world premieres.
You can gather these figures and look up contact information as it pertains to your job in this industry, or you can buy the Sundance by Numbers Report from SydneysBuzz and import an excel sheet of all relevant data with contact names, into your own database. If you are about to go to Sundance and need to know the publicist or if in the future, you are going to need a good publicist, or a producer rep, or a festival oriented international sales agents or U.S. distributor who will surely be on the festival circuit, you need this report now.
All titles are linked to contacts you will need for your particular line of work if you are a professional in the business.
There are 26 women directors ( ♀ ).
‧ U.S. Dramatic Competition: 5 of 16 are directed by women (36%).
‧ U.S. Documentary Competition: 7 of 16 are directed by women.
‧ World Cinema Dramatic Competition: 5 of 12 are directed by women.
‧ World Cinema Documentary Competition: 6 of 12 are directed by women.
‧ Next: 1 of 10 is directed by a woman.
‧ New Frontiers has Jenni Olson's "The Royal Road"
48% (62) of the films have international sales agents.
Ryan Kempe's Visit Films and Andrew Hurewitz' Film Sales Company both have 5 films.
3 films are being sold by Im Global, HanWay and Protagonist.
2 by Dogwoof, Epic, Films Distribution, The Match Factory, Trust Nordisk and Xyz and Annapurna.
1 film each are represented by the other sales agents:
Alpha Violet, Altitude Film Sales, Autlook, Cargo ,Content, Dreamcatchers, Film Factory Entertainment,Fortitude, Funny Balloons, Hyde Park International, K5 International, Kaleidoscope, Lotus Entertainment, Memento, Studiocanal, The Exchange, The Match Factory, The Solution, Voltage, Wild Bunch
14% (18) have U.S. distribution. Titles and links are in the report.
3 are with HBO
2 are with Roadside Attractions: "’71" and "Z for Zachariah"
The rest are each with:
Entertainment in Motion (airline)
Radius-twc
Universal Pictures
A&E/ Lifetime
Broad Green Pictures
Drafthouse Films
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Magnolia
Netflix
Sony Pictures Classics – "Wild Tales"
Strand Releasing – "Girlhood"
53% (68) have producer reps
Cinetic - 14
Submarine - 13
ICM - 10
Preferred Content - 8
Wme - 9
UTA -8
CAA - 7
Cassian Elwes - 2
Paradigm - 1
Publicists
Brigade - 9
Stategy - 7
Ryan Werner - 6
Prodigy - 6
David Magdael - 4
Acme - 4
Susan Norget - 4
Steven Rafael, Mj Pakos - 2
Bigtime - 2
Group 2050 - 2
Katleen McGinnis - 2 + 2 shorts
Jazo - 1
Dda - 1
Dish - 1
Sophie Gluck - 1
mPRm - 1
Sundance selected 7 films from Latin American (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico). Four are in official competitions - two for American cinema and two for international cinema - divided between fiction and documentary. Two coproductions with Mexico are in the U.S. Documentary Competition, "Cartel Land" by Matthew Heineman, and "Western" by Bill Ross and Turner Ross, two views on life and struggle in the border.
In the International Fiction Competition of 12 films, Brazil's "The Second Mother" ("Que hours ela volta?") by Anna Muylaert, a story about everyday relations between the employees and employers in a home upset by the visit of the nanny's daughter. Anna Muylawert participated in the Carte Blanche at Locarno dedicated to Brazilian cinema. In the Next secton, dedicated to innovative film is "H." a coproduction between the U.S. and Argentina directed by Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia. The film is a reinterpretation of Greek mythology, following two women named Helen whose lives are altered in the small town of Troy, New York. New Frontier Films will premier Colombia-Mexico coproduction "Liveforever", the adaptation of Carlos Moreno("Dog Eat Dog") of the cult novel by Andres Caicedo.
And finally, in the new Sundance Kids section, "The Games Maker", a coproduction between Argentina, Canada and Italy, will premiere.
To purchase the report visit Here...
You can gather these figures and look up contact information as it pertains to your job in this industry, or you can buy the Sundance by Numbers Report from SydneysBuzz and import an excel sheet of all relevant data with contact names, into your own database. If you are about to go to Sundance and need to know the publicist or if in the future, you are going to need a good publicist, or a producer rep, or a festival oriented international sales agents or U.S. distributor who will surely be on the festival circuit, you need this report now.
All titles are linked to contacts you will need for your particular line of work if you are a professional in the business.
There are 26 women directors ( ♀ ).
‧ U.S. Dramatic Competition: 5 of 16 are directed by women (36%).
‧ U.S. Documentary Competition: 7 of 16 are directed by women.
‧ World Cinema Dramatic Competition: 5 of 12 are directed by women.
‧ World Cinema Documentary Competition: 6 of 12 are directed by women.
‧ Next: 1 of 10 is directed by a woman.
‧ New Frontiers has Jenni Olson's "The Royal Road"
48% (62) of the films have international sales agents.
Ryan Kempe's Visit Films and Andrew Hurewitz' Film Sales Company both have 5 films.
3 films are being sold by Im Global, HanWay and Protagonist.
2 by Dogwoof, Epic, Films Distribution, The Match Factory, Trust Nordisk and Xyz and Annapurna.
1 film each are represented by the other sales agents:
Alpha Violet, Altitude Film Sales, Autlook, Cargo ,Content, Dreamcatchers, Film Factory Entertainment,Fortitude, Funny Balloons, Hyde Park International, K5 International, Kaleidoscope, Lotus Entertainment, Memento, Studiocanal, The Exchange, The Match Factory, The Solution, Voltage, Wild Bunch
14% (18) have U.S. distribution. Titles and links are in the report.
3 are with HBO
2 are with Roadside Attractions: "’71" and "Z for Zachariah"
The rest are each with:
Entertainment in Motion (airline)
Radius-twc
Universal Pictures
A&E/ Lifetime
Broad Green Pictures
Drafthouse Films
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Magnolia
Netflix
Sony Pictures Classics – "Wild Tales"
Strand Releasing – "Girlhood"
53% (68) have producer reps
Cinetic - 14
Submarine - 13
ICM - 10
Preferred Content - 8
Wme - 9
UTA -8
CAA - 7
Cassian Elwes - 2
Paradigm - 1
Publicists
Brigade - 9
Stategy - 7
Ryan Werner - 6
Prodigy - 6
David Magdael - 4
Acme - 4
Susan Norget - 4
Steven Rafael, Mj Pakos - 2
Bigtime - 2
Group 2050 - 2
Katleen McGinnis - 2 + 2 shorts
Jazo - 1
Dda - 1
Dish - 1
Sophie Gluck - 1
mPRm - 1
Sundance selected 7 films from Latin American (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico). Four are in official competitions - two for American cinema and two for international cinema - divided between fiction and documentary. Two coproductions with Mexico are in the U.S. Documentary Competition, "Cartel Land" by Matthew Heineman, and "Western" by Bill Ross and Turner Ross, two views on life and struggle in the border.
In the International Fiction Competition of 12 films, Brazil's "The Second Mother" ("Que hours ela volta?") by Anna Muylaert, a story about everyday relations between the employees and employers in a home upset by the visit of the nanny's daughter. Anna Muylawert participated in the Carte Blanche at Locarno dedicated to Brazilian cinema. In the Next secton, dedicated to innovative film is "H." a coproduction between the U.S. and Argentina directed by Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia. The film is a reinterpretation of Greek mythology, following two women named Helen whose lives are altered in the small town of Troy, New York. New Frontier Films will premier Colombia-Mexico coproduction "Liveforever", the adaptation of Carlos Moreno("Dog Eat Dog") of the cult novel by Andres Caicedo.
And finally, in the new Sundance Kids section, "The Games Maker", a coproduction between Argentina, Canada and Italy, will premiere.
To purchase the report visit Here...
- 1/20/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
New initiative is a continuation of its post-production showcase.
Locarno has introduced Carte Blanche Extra.
The new Industry Days’ initiative is a continuation of its post-production showcase Carte Blanche which hosts the most promising upcoming producers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Starting from 2015, Carte Blanche Extra will utilise the strong connection that the showcase has created with the previous selected countries through their national promotion agencies - Cinema do Brasil, CinemaChile, Proimagenes Colombia and Imcine (Mexico).
Each of the agencies will invite up to four upcoming producers to introduce their works to potential co-producers during the Locarno Industry Days (Aug 8-10, 2015).
Nadia Dresti, Locarno’s delegate to the artistic direction and head of international, commented: “Carte Blanche has quickly become one of the cores of the Locarno Industry Days activities. Carte Blanche Extra strengthens and develops an ongoing relationship with our partners for the benefit of the selected producers.”
Carte Blanche Extra was...
Locarno has introduced Carte Blanche Extra.
The new Industry Days’ initiative is a continuation of its post-production showcase Carte Blanche which hosts the most promising upcoming producers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Starting from 2015, Carte Blanche Extra will utilise the strong connection that the showcase has created with the previous selected countries through their national promotion agencies - Cinema do Brasil, CinemaChile, Proimagenes Colombia and Imcine (Mexico).
Each of the agencies will invite up to four upcoming producers to introduce their works to potential co-producers during the Locarno Industry Days (Aug 8-10, 2015).
Nadia Dresti, Locarno’s delegate to the artistic direction and head of international, commented: “Carte Blanche has quickly become one of the cores of the Locarno Industry Days activities. Carte Blanche Extra strengthens and develops an ongoing relationship with our partners for the benefit of the selected producers.”
Carte Blanche Extra was...
- 12/3/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Bristol short film showcase to host 207 films across competitive strands.
Bristol’s short film and animation festival Encounters (Sept 16-21) will showcase 207 works from 30 countries across its competitive strands.
The festival’s Thicker Than Water programme features Happy Toys, the directorial debut of actress Zawe Ashton, while Billy Connolly’s daughter Cara Connolly’s Sundance selected film, Exchange and Mart, will also feature in competition with a cast including Scottish actor Ewen Bremner.
The Journeys programme will feature The Karman Line by Oscar Sharp starring Olivia Colman and shot by Robbie Ryan and established artist filmmaker and Encounters veteran John Smith presents Dark Light in competition.
Meanwhile, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Hanoi Warsaw plays in the Encounters Retrospective. Klimkiewicz previously collaborated with Bristol-based film producer Alison Stirling, which led to Katarzyna’s first feature Flying Blind.
Other films in competition include Crocodile by Gaelle Denis which was selected in the Critics’ Week in Cannes.
In the Strange...
Bristol’s short film and animation festival Encounters (Sept 16-21) will showcase 207 works from 30 countries across its competitive strands.
The festival’s Thicker Than Water programme features Happy Toys, the directorial debut of actress Zawe Ashton, while Billy Connolly’s daughter Cara Connolly’s Sundance selected film, Exchange and Mart, will also feature in competition with a cast including Scottish actor Ewen Bremner.
The Journeys programme will feature The Karman Line by Oscar Sharp starring Olivia Colman and shot by Robbie Ryan and established artist filmmaker and Encounters veteran John Smith presents Dark Light in competition.
Meanwhile, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Hanoi Warsaw plays in the Encounters Retrospective. Klimkiewicz previously collaborated with Bristol-based film producer Alison Stirling, which led to Katarzyna’s first feature Flying Blind.
Other films in competition include Crocodile by Gaelle Denis which was selected in the Critics’ Week in Cannes.
In the Strange...
- 8/19/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Bristol short film showcase to host 207 films across competitive strands.
Bristol’s short film and animation festival Encounters (Sept 16 – 21) will showcase 207 works from 30 countries across its competitive strands.
The festival’s Thicker Than Water programme features Happy Toys, the directorial debut of actress Zawe Ashton, while Billy Connolly’s daughter Cara Connolly’s Sundance selected film, Exchange and Mart, will also feature in competition with a cast including Scottish actor Ewen Bremner.
The Journeys programme will feature The Karman Line by Oscar Sharp starring Olivia Colman and shot by Robbie Ryan and established artist filmmaker and Encounters veteran John Smith presents Dark Light in competition.
Meanwhile, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Hanoi Warsaw plays in the Encounters Retrospective. Klimkiewicz previously collaborated with Bristol-based film producer Alison Stirling, which led to Katarzyna’s first feature Flying Blind.
Other films in competition include Crocodile by Gaelle Denis which was selected in the Critics’ Week in Cannes.
In the Strange...
Bristol’s short film and animation festival Encounters (Sept 16 – 21) will showcase 207 works from 30 countries across its competitive strands.
The festival’s Thicker Than Water programme features Happy Toys, the directorial debut of actress Zawe Ashton, while Billy Connolly’s daughter Cara Connolly’s Sundance selected film, Exchange and Mart, will also feature in competition with a cast including Scottish actor Ewen Bremner.
The Journeys programme will feature The Karman Line by Oscar Sharp starring Olivia Colman and shot by Robbie Ryan and established artist filmmaker and Encounters veteran John Smith presents Dark Light in competition.
Meanwhile, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Hanoi Warsaw plays in the Encounters Retrospective. Klimkiewicz previously collaborated with Bristol-based film producer Alison Stirling, which led to Katarzyna’s first feature Flying Blind.
Other films in competition include Crocodile by Gaelle Denis which was selected in the Critics’ Week in Cannes.
In the Strange...
- 8/19/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Locarno’s Golden Leopard has been awarded to Filipino director Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic From What Is Before.Scroll down for full list of winners
The film, which has the Filipino title Mula sa kung ano ang noon, also picked up the Fipresci International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (Iffs) Don Quixote Prize.
On learning that he had won Locarno’s top honour, Diaz said that he wanted to dedicate the award to his father.
“He brought me cinema, he’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me,” said Diaz.
“For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle, and then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work, to Matias Pineiro, and to the makers of all the other films in the...
The film, which has the Filipino title Mula sa kung ano ang noon, also picked up the Fipresci International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (Iffs) Don Quixote Prize.
On learning that he had won Locarno’s top honour, Diaz said that he wanted to dedicate the award to his father.
“He brought me cinema, he’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me,” said Diaz.
“For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle, and then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work, to Matias Pineiro, and to the makers of all the other films in the...
- 8/16/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Locarno director talks highlights and UK presence at the festival and looks to 2015.
Locarno festival director Carlo Chatrian has outlined some of his highlights and regrets from this year’s festival, and ambitions for next year, in an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily ahead of the event’s closing weekend.
“Experiencing cinema as a community”, is high up on the list of this year’s treats, he said.
The world premiere of Swiss film-maker Peter Luisi’s Unlikely Heroes on Wednesday (Aug 13) was “one of those nights on the Piazza where you really felt that the audience is with the film.
“There was a lot of applause and people came up to me afterwards with great enthusiasm. I think Unlikely Heroes is the kind of film which works very well because it’s strongly experiencing cinema as a community,” he continued.
He added that he had also been “very happy“ with the night on the Piazza Grande when Agnes Varda...
Locarno festival director Carlo Chatrian has outlined some of his highlights and regrets from this year’s festival, and ambitions for next year, in an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily ahead of the event’s closing weekend.
“Experiencing cinema as a community”, is high up on the list of this year’s treats, he said.
The world premiere of Swiss film-maker Peter Luisi’s Unlikely Heroes on Wednesday (Aug 13) was “one of those nights on the Piazza where you really felt that the audience is with the film.
“There was a lot of applause and people came up to me afterwards with great enthusiasm. I think Unlikely Heroes is the kind of film which works very well because it’s strongly experiencing cinema as a community,” he continued.
He added that he had also been “very happy“ with the night on the Piazza Grande when Agnes Varda...
- 8/15/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Locarno director talks highlights and UK presence at the festival and looks to 2016.
Locarno festival director Carlo Chatrian has outlined some of his highlights and regrets from this year’s festival, and ambitions for next year, in an exclusive interview with Screen Daily ahead of the event’s closing weekend.
“Experiencing cinema as a community”, is high up on the list of this year’s treats, he said.
The world premiere of Swiss film-maker Peter Luisi’s Unlikely Heroes on Wednesday (Aug 13) was “one of those nights on the Piazza where you really felt that the audience is with the film.
“There was a lot of applause and people came up to me afterwards with great enthusiasm. I think Unlikely Heroes is the kind of film which works very well because it’s strongly experiencing cinema as a community,” he continued.
He added that he had also been “very happy“ with the night on the Piazza Grande...
Locarno festival director Carlo Chatrian has outlined some of his highlights and regrets from this year’s festival, and ambitions for next year, in an exclusive interview with Screen Daily ahead of the event’s closing weekend.
“Experiencing cinema as a community”, is high up on the list of this year’s treats, he said.
The world premiere of Swiss film-maker Peter Luisi’s Unlikely Heroes on Wednesday (Aug 13) was “one of those nights on the Piazza where you really felt that the audience is with the film.
“There was a lot of applause and people came up to me afterwards with great enthusiasm. I think Unlikely Heroes is the kind of film which works very well because it’s strongly experiencing cinema as a community,” he continued.
He added that he had also been “very happy“ with the night on the Piazza Grande...
- 8/15/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Cash prize will help complete Ives Rosenfeld’s debut feature about young friends who dream of being footballers.
Hopefuls (Aspirantes) has won a cash award of CHF10,000 ($11,000) at Carte Blanche, the Locarno Film Festival’s initiative to showcase films in post-production.
This year’s Carte Blanche highlighted seven films from Brazil and each was introduced by its producer to world sales agents and festival programmers attending Locarno’s Industry Days.
The jury included the Cannes Film Festival’s deputy general delegate Christian Jeune; Eva Morsch Kihn, industry department director at Toulouse’s Rencontres de Toulouse; and Vincenzo Bugno, manager of Berlin’s World Cinema Fund.
The award is intended to enable the film’s completion and was offered by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Sdc) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, in partnership with Cinema do Brasil.
Feature: Locarno: Brazil in the spotlight
Hopefuls (Aspirantes), produced by Tatiana Leite of Rio-based Bubble Project and Luiz...
Hopefuls (Aspirantes) has won a cash award of CHF10,000 ($11,000) at Carte Blanche, the Locarno Film Festival’s initiative to showcase films in post-production.
This year’s Carte Blanche highlighted seven films from Brazil and each was introduced by its producer to world sales agents and festival programmers attending Locarno’s Industry Days.
The jury included the Cannes Film Festival’s deputy general delegate Christian Jeune; Eva Morsch Kihn, industry department director at Toulouse’s Rencontres de Toulouse; and Vincenzo Bugno, manager of Berlin’s World Cinema Fund.
The award is intended to enable the film’s completion and was offered by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Sdc) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, in partnership with Cinema do Brasil.
Feature: Locarno: Brazil in the spotlight
Hopefuls (Aspirantes), produced by Tatiana Leite of Rio-based Bubble Project and Luiz...
- 8/12/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
SydneysBuzz takes pride in introducing a new contributor.
Tara Karajica is a young journalist and film critic who contributes to SydneysBuzz from Europe with film business reports, festival reports, interviews and film reviews, interviews. She also contributes to Indiewire, Screen International, Festivalists and Altcine among many other media outlets including her own website, The Film Prospector. Tara is a member of Criticwire and the International Cinephile Society. She has taken part in the Locarno Critics Academy - Class of 2013, the "Nisimazine Venice" film journalism workshop organized by Nisi Masa during last year's Venice Film Festival and the Warsaw Fipresci Project at the 2013 Warsaw Film Festival.
Welcome aboard, Tara!
By Tara Karajica
Industry representatives from all over the world watch the latest Polish films at closed screenings, and film producers as well as financial backers look for Polish projects to get involved in at Polish Days, the most important industry event at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival.
Almost thirty projects by Polish filmmakers were showcased. Seven were completed films shown at special screenings, eleven films were being pitched and ten were works in progress.
For Joanna Łapińska, the head of Polish Days and the artistic director of the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, “Polish Cinema has numerous faces. It is constantly changing, becoming bolder all the time and it is exactly this sort of cinema that we [wanted] to tell you about at Polish Days”.
2014 marked the third edition that took place from 30 July to 1 August and its special guests were a number of Turkish film professionals invited to Wrocław in cooperation with the Istanbul Film Festival to mark the 600th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Poland.
Thanks to the contacts made at the meetings, the ongoing cooperation with sales agents and festival programmers as a result of the previous two editions, the Polish Days initiative has secured an important position in the laborious process of film production and international promotion. Indeed, according to Agnieszka Odorowicz, the general director of the Polish Film Institute, Polish Days is the “top industry event of the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival” that has “grown to be a brand of great significance for the international promotion of Polish Cinema.”
Read More: Polish Days Titles Announced!
The outcome was the following: Wide Management has initiated pre-sales on the Polish-German co-production "Summer Solstice” directed by Michal Rogalski while according to the producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film, the German theatrical distribution for this film will be handled by Farbfilm.
Poland,1943. Summer days put together four young people - a Polish boy; a young German soldier, a girl from the Polish village and a Jewish girl who has escaped from a train on its way to a death camp. During the war they will experience love, but can love save them?
Jacek Lusinski’s second feature “Carte Blanche,” produced by Leszek Budzak of Aurum Film, will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
This year’s works in progress included the Czech-Polish-Slovak co-production “I, Olga Hepnarova” by Tomás Weinreb and Petr Kazda, which was presented in the Polish Days pitching forum last year as well as Magnus von Horn’s Polish-Swedish-French co-production “The Here After”, being repped by Craig Kastel of William Morris Endeavor, was seeking a sales company to work on a festival strategy and international distribution.
Two prizes were awarded for the first time this year to the best pitches made at the Polish Days by the post-production houses Chimney and Toya Studios. Chimney will offer a 50% reduction on the costs for the visual post-production to “Our Baker’s Daughter” and “Volhynia”, while Toya Studios will offer a 50% reduction on the sound post-production of “Volhynia”.
Polish Days was co-organized by the Polish Film Institute, Odra Film, and the Wrocław Film Commission. Event partners included the National Audiovisual Institute, the Film Commission Poland, the Łódź Film Commission, the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, the Poznań Film Commission, the Krakow Film Commission and the Silesia Film Commission.
Tara Karajica is a young journalist and film critic who contributes to SydneysBuzz from Europe with film business reports, festival reports, interviews and film reviews, interviews. She also contributes to Indiewire, Screen International, Festivalists and Altcine among many other media outlets including her own website, The Film Prospector. Tara is a member of Criticwire and the International Cinephile Society. She has taken part in the Locarno Critics Academy - Class of 2013, the "Nisimazine Venice" film journalism workshop organized by Nisi Masa during last year's Venice Film Festival and the Warsaw Fipresci Project at the 2013 Warsaw Film Festival.
Welcome aboard, Tara!
By Tara Karajica
Industry representatives from all over the world watch the latest Polish films at closed screenings, and film producers as well as financial backers look for Polish projects to get involved in at Polish Days, the most important industry event at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival.
Almost thirty projects by Polish filmmakers were showcased. Seven were completed films shown at special screenings, eleven films were being pitched and ten were works in progress.
For Joanna Łapińska, the head of Polish Days and the artistic director of the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, “Polish Cinema has numerous faces. It is constantly changing, becoming bolder all the time and it is exactly this sort of cinema that we [wanted] to tell you about at Polish Days”.
2014 marked the third edition that took place from 30 July to 1 August and its special guests were a number of Turkish film professionals invited to Wrocław in cooperation with the Istanbul Film Festival to mark the 600th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Poland.
Thanks to the contacts made at the meetings, the ongoing cooperation with sales agents and festival programmers as a result of the previous two editions, the Polish Days initiative has secured an important position in the laborious process of film production and international promotion. Indeed, according to Agnieszka Odorowicz, the general director of the Polish Film Institute, Polish Days is the “top industry event of the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival” that has “grown to be a brand of great significance for the international promotion of Polish Cinema.”
Read More: Polish Days Titles Announced!
The outcome was the following: Wide Management has initiated pre-sales on the Polish-German co-production "Summer Solstice” directed by Michal Rogalski while according to the producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film, the German theatrical distribution for this film will be handled by Farbfilm.
Poland,1943. Summer days put together four young people - a Polish boy; a young German soldier, a girl from the Polish village and a Jewish girl who has escaped from a train on its way to a death camp. During the war they will experience love, but can love save them?
Jacek Lusinski’s second feature “Carte Blanche,” produced by Leszek Budzak of Aurum Film, will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
This year’s works in progress included the Czech-Polish-Slovak co-production “I, Olga Hepnarova” by Tomás Weinreb and Petr Kazda, which was presented in the Polish Days pitching forum last year as well as Magnus von Horn’s Polish-Swedish-French co-production “The Here After”, being repped by Craig Kastel of William Morris Endeavor, was seeking a sales company to work on a festival strategy and international distribution.
Two prizes were awarded for the first time this year to the best pitches made at the Polish Days by the post-production houses Chimney and Toya Studios. Chimney will offer a 50% reduction on the costs for the visual post-production to “Our Baker’s Daughter” and “Volhynia”, while Toya Studios will offer a 50% reduction on the sound post-production of “Volhynia”.
Polish Days was co-organized by the Polish Film Institute, Odra Film, and the Wrocław Film Commission. Event partners included the National Audiovisual Institute, the Film Commission Poland, the Łódź Film Commission, the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, the Poznań Film Commission, the Krakow Film Commission and the Silesia Film Commission.
- 8/10/2014
- by Tara Karajica
- Sydney's Buzz
Nadia Dresti, Delegate of the Artistic Direction, Head of International at the Locarno International Film Festival, is passionately dedicated to spotlighting independent filmmakers from countries that face challenges getting their work noticed and distributed. Ms. Dresti and I met at her office a few days before the start of the Festival to discuss the various initiatives that will take place during Industry Days, which runs from August 9-11.
From the Festival Web site:
Industry Days are aiming to play an active role in the support of auteur films: whether launching a new project or extending and optimizing existing services and initiatives, the goal of Locarno’s Industry Office is always to support sales agents, distributors, producers and exhibitors in their respective tasks, ranging from the conception to the release of independent art-house cinema.
The Industry Office of the Locarno Film Festival facilitates networking among world film industry professionals attending the event, supporting producers and agents presenting films at the Festival by connecting them with international sales and distribution professionals and exhibitors.
Dresti: “The difference between Locarno and other festivals, is that here the exhibitors will sit down with others to try to understand each other’s programs. We have more than 200 buyers and sellers attending. The topics include finding the public audience and the home audience.
We understand the challenge of audiences who hardly go to the theaters anymore and watch movies from home.”
Industry Days Initiatives
Step In is an interdisciplinary exchange platform in which international professionals discuss and develop new, promising strategies for distribution, exhibition and sales of auteur cinema.
Dresti: “We will have two panels, one on the South African market and the other on the Brazilian market. This gives the opportunity for an overview of these markets to buyers and sellers in the European industry, as well as to the South African and Brazilian key players from the regions.”
Carte Blanche showcases a number of films in postproduction by emerging talents from a different country in Asia, Africa, Latin America or South-East Europe. This year’s Carte Blanche is dedicated to Brazil.
Dresti: “The idea of Carte Blanche is that since there are buyers and sales companies already in Locarno to buy films at the Festival, they could also buy these Brazilian films that don’t have a distributor yet. It gives the Brazilian filmmakers a good opportunity. At first we were expecting seven producers from Brazil, but thanks to the support of the cinema of Brazil and others, we are very honored that now we have 64 people coming from this country, including buyers from Brazil, producers and journalists. It’s huge.”
Open Doors , a co-production initiative, aims to assist its selected participants, to find support for their projects by offering training and pairing them with potential co-production partners, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Sdc).
Dresti: “We want people to see films at the Festival, but still take the time to sit down and talk. Locarno is the right place; all activities are tailor-made for this to happen. They will meet producers from Open Door and others so they can all understand what the other one does.”
The panelists for this year include Eugene Hernandez (Deputy Director, Film Society of Lincoln Center), Sheila de la Varende (Director, International Promotion, Telefilm Canada), Roberto Olla (Executive Director, Eurimages), Marit van den Elshout (Cinemart Manager, Cinemart Rotterdam), and Monique Simard (President & CEO, Sodec, Canada).
Industry Days is organized in collaboration with Europa International, Europa Distribution and Europa Cinemas, and Festival Scope and Fera.
To learn more about Industry Days and the Locarno International Film visit: http://www.pardolive.ch
Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell presents international workshops and seminars on screenwriting and film. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with over 1,000 writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide. www.su-city-pictures.com, http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog .
From the Festival Web site:
Industry Days are aiming to play an active role in the support of auteur films: whether launching a new project or extending and optimizing existing services and initiatives, the goal of Locarno’s Industry Office is always to support sales agents, distributors, producers and exhibitors in their respective tasks, ranging from the conception to the release of independent art-house cinema.
The Industry Office of the Locarno Film Festival facilitates networking among world film industry professionals attending the event, supporting producers and agents presenting films at the Festival by connecting them with international sales and distribution professionals and exhibitors.
Dresti: “The difference between Locarno and other festivals, is that here the exhibitors will sit down with others to try to understand each other’s programs. We have more than 200 buyers and sellers attending. The topics include finding the public audience and the home audience.
We understand the challenge of audiences who hardly go to the theaters anymore and watch movies from home.”
Industry Days Initiatives
Step In is an interdisciplinary exchange platform in which international professionals discuss and develop new, promising strategies for distribution, exhibition and sales of auteur cinema.
Dresti: “We will have two panels, one on the South African market and the other on the Brazilian market. This gives the opportunity for an overview of these markets to buyers and sellers in the European industry, as well as to the South African and Brazilian key players from the regions.”
Carte Blanche showcases a number of films in postproduction by emerging talents from a different country in Asia, Africa, Latin America or South-East Europe. This year’s Carte Blanche is dedicated to Brazil.
Dresti: “The idea of Carte Blanche is that since there are buyers and sales companies already in Locarno to buy films at the Festival, they could also buy these Brazilian films that don’t have a distributor yet. It gives the Brazilian filmmakers a good opportunity. At first we were expecting seven producers from Brazil, but thanks to the support of the cinema of Brazil and others, we are very honored that now we have 64 people coming from this country, including buyers from Brazil, producers and journalists. It’s huge.”
Open Doors , a co-production initiative, aims to assist its selected participants, to find support for their projects by offering training and pairing them with potential co-production partners, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Sdc).
Dresti: “We want people to see films at the Festival, but still take the time to sit down and talk. Locarno is the right place; all activities are tailor-made for this to happen. They will meet producers from Open Door and others so they can all understand what the other one does.”
The panelists for this year include Eugene Hernandez (Deputy Director, Film Society of Lincoln Center), Sheila de la Varende (Director, International Promotion, Telefilm Canada), Roberto Olla (Executive Director, Eurimages), Marit van den Elshout (Cinemart Manager, Cinemart Rotterdam), and Monique Simard (President & CEO, Sodec, Canada).
Industry Days is organized in collaboration with Europa International, Europa Distribution and Europa Cinemas, and Festival Scope and Fera.
To learn more about Industry Days and the Locarno International Film visit: http://www.pardolive.ch
Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell presents international workshops and seminars on screenwriting and film. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with over 1,000 writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide. www.su-city-pictures.com, http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog .
- 8/6/2014
- by Susan Kouguell
- Sydney's Buzz
Pilot open to young European professionals in distribution, exhibition, sales and marketing.
The Locarno Film Festival’s Industry Office has joined forces with the Locarno Summer Academy to launch a pilot project titled Industry Academy (Aug 8-12).
The educational programme will include a group of nine young European professionals starting out in the areas of distribution, exhibition, sales and marketing, and they will meet with seasoned industry professionals.
Speaking recently to Screen, Locarno’s head of industry Nadia Dresti said the pilot aimed to fill a gap in the market. “If you want to be a director or producer, you can go to film school. But what do you do if you want to become a distributor, or a sales agent, or an exhibitor?”
Those selected come from six different countries and include:
Damien Le Délézir, Europa International (Belgium)Vanessa Jarlot, O’Brother (Belgium)Peter Ahlén, Trust Nordisk (Denmark)Océane Portal, Under The Milky Way (France...
The Locarno Film Festival’s Industry Office has joined forces with the Locarno Summer Academy to launch a pilot project titled Industry Academy (Aug 8-12).
The educational programme will include a group of nine young European professionals starting out in the areas of distribution, exhibition, sales and marketing, and they will meet with seasoned industry professionals.
Speaking recently to Screen, Locarno’s head of industry Nadia Dresti said the pilot aimed to fill a gap in the market. “If you want to be a director or producer, you can go to film school. But what do you do if you want to become a distributor, or a sales agent, or an exhibitor?”
Those selected come from six different countries and include:
Damien Le Délézir, Europa International (Belgium)Vanessa Jarlot, O’Brother (Belgium)Peter Ahlén, Trust Nordisk (Denmark)Océane Portal, Under The Milky Way (France...
- 8/6/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Noaz Deshe’s feature debut White Shadow was the big winner at this year’s T-Mobile New Horizons in Poland’s Wroclaw.
The International Jury - including Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski, the Austrian Film Commission’s managing director Martin Schweighofer and Cannes Film Festival’s Christian Jeune - presented the €20,000 ($27,000) Grand Prix to the Tanzanian-German-Italian co-production, which was also voted by New Horizons’ festival-goers as the recipient of the Audience Award.
Berlin-based Deshe’s tale of albinos in Tanzania was premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it received the Luigi de Laurentis Award for the best debut.
It has since won the best director award at the Tarkovsky ¨Zerkalo¨ festival and the best feature film at London’s East End Film Festival as well as a special mention at the Transilvania International Film Festival.
White Shadow is handled internationally by Premium Films.
The Fipresci International Critics Prize went to another feature debut by Argentinian...
The International Jury - including Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski, the Austrian Film Commission’s managing director Martin Schweighofer and Cannes Film Festival’s Christian Jeune - presented the €20,000 ($27,000) Grand Prix to the Tanzanian-German-Italian co-production, which was also voted by New Horizons’ festival-goers as the recipient of the Audience Award.
Berlin-based Deshe’s tale of albinos in Tanzania was premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it received the Luigi de Laurentis Award for the best debut.
It has since won the best director award at the Tarkovsky ¨Zerkalo¨ festival and the best feature film at London’s East End Film Festival as well as a special mention at the Transilvania International Film Festival.
White Shadow is handled internationally by Premium Films.
The Fipresci International Critics Prize went to another feature debut by Argentinian...
- 8/4/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Wroclaw New Horizons roundup: works in progress include Close Ups and I, Olga Hepnarova.
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
- 8/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Wroclaw New Horizons roundup: works in progress include Close Ups and I, Olga Hepnarova.
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
- 8/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
For its fourth edition, the Festival del film Locarno’s Carte Blanche initiative (August 9-11, 2014) turns the spotlight on Brazil. Supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Sdc) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Carte Blanche offers a look at films in post-production from a different country every year. Of the 45 submissions received by Cinema do Brasil, the Festival del film Locarno chose 7 films for the Carte Blanche showcase. At the beginning of each screening, the producers and directors will introduce their film to the various international sales agents, funders, distributors and festival programmers attending. The selected films...
- 7/30/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Film-maker Kleber Mendoça, who won the Fipresci Prize at Rotterdam and Wroclaw’s New Horizons for his fiction feature debut Neighbouring Sounds in 2012, will be in Locarno next month as part of an almost 60-strong Brazilian delegation.
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
- 7/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
New Films by Przemyslaw Wojcieszek, Marcin Krzysztalowicz, Jolanta Dylewska and Andrzej Wajda, will be presented to the foreign professionals during the key industry event of the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival. The organizers expect around 150 guests to attend.
Polish Days is the most important industry event at the 14.T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (24 July – 3 August 2014), where industry representatives including programmers, sales agents, producers, film funds and distributors from all over the world watch the latest Polish films at closed screenings.
This year’s edition of Polish Days will take place on July 30 – August 1. Six completed Polish films and ten works-in-progress will be shown at closed screenings, while eleven projects will be pitched to the international audience.
Among the finished films, the representatives of the international film industry will have the chance to see "15 Corners of the World" by Zuzanna Solakiewicz, which will have its world premiere in the Films on Art International Competition at the T-Mobile New Horizons Iff and then international premiere in the Settimana della Critica section of the Locarno Ff in August. Other films shown in full at the closed screenings during Polish Days include "Gods" by Lukasz Palkowski, "Call me Marianna" by Karolina Bielawska, "Performer" by Lukasz Ronduda and Maciej Sobieszczański and two films that will compete in the Main Competition of the T-Mobile International Film Festival - "How to Disappear Completely" by Przemyslaw Wojcieszek and "Calling" by Marcin Dudziak. The organisers hope to secure one extra title in the last moment before the event starts.
Projects in development presented in the pitching session include, among others, "Hungry" by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, "I’m the Killer" by Maciej Pieprzyca, "Volhynia" by Wojciech Smarzowski, "Window" by Anna Jadowska, "Rosa" by Denijal Hasanovic and "Toxaemia" by Julia Kolberger.
This year, for the first time, two projects presented in the section will be awarded with post-production awards given by Polish Days’ new partners - post-production companies Toya Studios and Chimney Poland.
The works in progress section will show clips from the following films, which are currently in production: "And There Was Love in the Ghetto " by Jolanta Dylewska and Andrzej Wajda, "Carte Blanche" by Jacek Lusiński, "Journey to Rome" by Tomasz Mielnik, "I, Olga Hepnarova" by Tomás Weinreb and Petr Kazda , "The Here After" by Magnus von Horn, "Walser" by Zbigniew Libera and "Close Ups" by Magdalena Piekorz, among others.
The organizers are expecting around 150 guests at the event. Confirmed attendees include programmers from Berlin, Cannes, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Edinburgh, and Hong-Kong, as well as a number of buyers such as Level K, Ndm, Premium Films, Film Republic, Alpha Violet, Indie Sales, New Europe Film Sales, Just Film Distribution, Imagine Film, Soda Pictures and Epicentre. This year’s special guests will be a group of Turkish film professionals invited to Wrocław in cooperation with the international film festival in Istanbul, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Turkish Ministry for Culture and Tourism to celebrate the 600 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Polish Days are co-organized with the Polish Film Institute, Odra Film and the Wrocław Film Commission with the support of the Lower Silesia municipality and the city of Wrocław. Event partners include Film Commission Poland, Łódź Film Commission, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, Poznań Film Commission, Kraków Film Commission, Silesia Film Commission, National Audiovisual Institute, as well as post-production studios Toya Studios and Chimney Poland.
Full list of presented films:
Finished Films
"15 Corners of the World" (15 stron świata) , dir. Zuzanna Solakiewicz
"Gods" (Bogowie) , dir. Lukasz Palkowski
"How to Disappear Completely" (Jak całkowicie zniknąć) , dir. Przemysław Wojcieszek
"Call me Marianna" (Mów mi Marianna) , dir. Karolina Bielawska
"Performer" dirs. Lukasz Ronduda and Maciej Sobieszczański
"Calling" (Wołanie) , dir. Marcin Dudziak
Pitching
"Hungry" (Głodna) , dir. Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
"I’m the Killer" (Jestem mordercą) , dir. Maciej Pieprzyca
"All Gone Mad" (Krokodyl) , dir. Aleksandra Niemczyk
"Maya + Theo and Others" (Maja + Theo i inni) , dir. Filip K. Kasperaszek
"Window" (Okno) , dir. Anna Jadowska
"The Wounded Beast" (Ranne Zwierzę) , dir. Piotr Trzaskalski
"Nano" (Rdzeń) , dir. Piotr Ryczko
"Rosa" , dir. Denijal Hasanovic
"Owl, the Baker’s Daughter" (Sowa, córka piekarza) , dir. Grzegorz Jarzyna
"Toxaemia" (Toksymia) , dir. Julia Kolberger
"Volhynia" ( Wołyń) , dir. Wojciech Smarzowski
Works in Progress
"Carte Blanche" dir. Jacek Lusiński
"Journey to Rome" (Droga do Rzymu) , dir. Tomasz Mielnik
"And There Was Love in the Ghetto" (I była miłość w getcie) , dir. Jolanta Dylewska, Andrzej Wajda
"I, Olga Hepnarova" (Ja, Olga Hepnarova) , dir. Tomás Weinreb & Petr Kazda
"Summer Solstice" (Letnie przesilenie) , dir. Michal Rogalski
"The Wall" (Mur) , dir. Dariusz Glazer
"All About My Parents" (Pani z przedszkola) , dir. Marcin Krzysztalowicz
"The Here After" (Po śmierci) , dir. Magnus von Horn
"Walser" dir. Zbigniew Libera
"Close Ups" (Zbliżenia), dir. Magdalena Piekorz...
Polish Days is the most important industry event at the 14.T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (24 July – 3 August 2014), where industry representatives including programmers, sales agents, producers, film funds and distributors from all over the world watch the latest Polish films at closed screenings.
This year’s edition of Polish Days will take place on July 30 – August 1. Six completed Polish films and ten works-in-progress will be shown at closed screenings, while eleven projects will be pitched to the international audience.
Among the finished films, the representatives of the international film industry will have the chance to see "15 Corners of the World" by Zuzanna Solakiewicz, which will have its world premiere in the Films on Art International Competition at the T-Mobile New Horizons Iff and then international premiere in the Settimana della Critica section of the Locarno Ff in August. Other films shown in full at the closed screenings during Polish Days include "Gods" by Lukasz Palkowski, "Call me Marianna" by Karolina Bielawska, "Performer" by Lukasz Ronduda and Maciej Sobieszczański and two films that will compete in the Main Competition of the T-Mobile International Film Festival - "How to Disappear Completely" by Przemyslaw Wojcieszek and "Calling" by Marcin Dudziak. The organisers hope to secure one extra title in the last moment before the event starts.
Projects in development presented in the pitching session include, among others, "Hungry" by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, "I’m the Killer" by Maciej Pieprzyca, "Volhynia" by Wojciech Smarzowski, "Window" by Anna Jadowska, "Rosa" by Denijal Hasanovic and "Toxaemia" by Julia Kolberger.
This year, for the first time, two projects presented in the section will be awarded with post-production awards given by Polish Days’ new partners - post-production companies Toya Studios and Chimney Poland.
The works in progress section will show clips from the following films, which are currently in production: "And There Was Love in the Ghetto " by Jolanta Dylewska and Andrzej Wajda, "Carte Blanche" by Jacek Lusiński, "Journey to Rome" by Tomasz Mielnik, "I, Olga Hepnarova" by Tomás Weinreb and Petr Kazda , "The Here After" by Magnus von Horn, "Walser" by Zbigniew Libera and "Close Ups" by Magdalena Piekorz, among others.
The organizers are expecting around 150 guests at the event. Confirmed attendees include programmers from Berlin, Cannes, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Edinburgh, and Hong-Kong, as well as a number of buyers such as Level K, Ndm, Premium Films, Film Republic, Alpha Violet, Indie Sales, New Europe Film Sales, Just Film Distribution, Imagine Film, Soda Pictures and Epicentre. This year’s special guests will be a group of Turkish film professionals invited to Wrocław in cooperation with the international film festival in Istanbul, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Turkish Ministry for Culture and Tourism to celebrate the 600 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Polish Days are co-organized with the Polish Film Institute, Odra Film and the Wrocław Film Commission with the support of the Lower Silesia municipality and the city of Wrocław. Event partners include Film Commission Poland, Łódź Film Commission, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, Poznań Film Commission, Kraków Film Commission, Silesia Film Commission, National Audiovisual Institute, as well as post-production studios Toya Studios and Chimney Poland.
Full list of presented films:
Finished Films
"15 Corners of the World" (15 stron świata) , dir. Zuzanna Solakiewicz
"Gods" (Bogowie) , dir. Lukasz Palkowski
"How to Disappear Completely" (Jak całkowicie zniknąć) , dir. Przemysław Wojcieszek
"Call me Marianna" (Mów mi Marianna) , dir. Karolina Bielawska
"Performer" dirs. Lukasz Ronduda and Maciej Sobieszczański
"Calling" (Wołanie) , dir. Marcin Dudziak
Pitching
"Hungry" (Głodna) , dir. Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
"I’m the Killer" (Jestem mordercą) , dir. Maciej Pieprzyca
"All Gone Mad" (Krokodyl) , dir. Aleksandra Niemczyk
"Maya + Theo and Others" (Maja + Theo i inni) , dir. Filip K. Kasperaszek
"Window" (Okno) , dir. Anna Jadowska
"The Wounded Beast" (Ranne Zwierzę) , dir. Piotr Trzaskalski
"Nano" (Rdzeń) , dir. Piotr Ryczko
"Rosa" , dir. Denijal Hasanovic
"Owl, the Baker’s Daughter" (Sowa, córka piekarza) , dir. Grzegorz Jarzyna
"Toxaemia" (Toksymia) , dir. Julia Kolberger
"Volhynia" ( Wołyń) , dir. Wojciech Smarzowski
Works in Progress
"Carte Blanche" dir. Jacek Lusiński
"Journey to Rome" (Droga do Rzymu) , dir. Tomasz Mielnik
"And There Was Love in the Ghetto" (I była miłość w getcie) , dir. Jolanta Dylewska, Andrzej Wajda
"I, Olga Hepnarova" (Ja, Olga Hepnarova) , dir. Tomás Weinreb & Petr Kazda
"Summer Solstice" (Letnie przesilenie) , dir. Michal Rogalski
"The Wall" (Mur) , dir. Dariusz Glazer
"All About My Parents" (Pani z przedszkola) , dir. Marcin Krzysztalowicz
"The Here After" (Po śmierci) , dir. Magnus von Horn
"Walser" dir. Zbigniew Libera
"Close Ups" (Zbliżenia), dir. Magdalena Piekorz...
- 7/21/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
New Films by Andrzej Wajda and Jolanta Dylewska will be amongst those presented during industry event Polish Days which will take place during the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival.
Amongst the titles due to be screened at Polish Days are new films by Przemysław Wojcieszek, Marcin Krzyształowicz, Jolanta Dylewska and Andrzej Wajda.
The films will be presented at the industry event - which showcases Polish films to international sellers, buyers and programmers - as part of the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival. Over 150 foreign professionals are expected to attend.
Six completed Polish films and ten works-in-progress will be shown at the closed screenings, while eleven projects will be pitched to the international audience.
Among the finished films will be Zuzanna Solakiewicz’s 15 Corners of the world which will have its world premiere in the Films on Art International Competition at the T-Mobile New Horizons Iff.
Other films shown in full at the closed...
Amongst the titles due to be screened at Polish Days are new films by Przemysław Wojcieszek, Marcin Krzyształowicz, Jolanta Dylewska and Andrzej Wajda.
The films will be presented at the industry event - which showcases Polish films to international sellers, buyers and programmers - as part of the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival. Over 150 foreign professionals are expected to attend.
Six completed Polish films and ten works-in-progress will be shown at the closed screenings, while eleven projects will be pitched to the international audience.
Among the finished films will be Zuzanna Solakiewicz’s 15 Corners of the world which will have its world premiere in the Films on Art International Competition at the T-Mobile New Horizons Iff.
Other films shown in full at the closed...
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