French film organisations Arp, directors’ guild Srf spearhead initiative.
With the parallel WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes still in full swing across the Atlantic, France and Italy’s top filmmakers guilds have come together to show solidarity and reinforce auteur rights with a joint ’declaration of filmmakers’ and have announced a September 3 symposium in Venice.
French film organisations the Arp (the guild for writers-directors-producers) and directors’ guild the Srf, behind Directors’ Fortnight, spearheaded the initiative.
They wrote the original “declaration of filmmakers” open letter in May calling for full authorship rights, fair redistribution of revenues and immediate regulation of AI, before...
With the parallel WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes still in full swing across the Atlantic, France and Italy’s top filmmakers guilds have come together to show solidarity and reinforce auteur rights with a joint ’declaration of filmmakers’ and have announced a September 3 symposium in Venice.
French film organisations the Arp (the guild for writers-directors-producers) and directors’ guild the Srf, behind Directors’ Fortnight, spearheaded the initiative.
They wrote the original “declaration of filmmakers” open letter in May calling for full authorship rights, fair redistribution of revenues and immediate regulation of AI, before...
- 8/29/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The Malian filmmaker will be honoured with the award at the opening ceremony on May 17
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé will receive the Carrosse d’Or award of the French directors guild La Société des Réalisateurs (Srf) at the 55th edition of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight strand which runs May 16-27.
The director will be honoured with the award, which recognises filmmakers for their “innovative qualities”, at the opening ceremony on May 17.
Cisse’s career has spanned over 50 years with his work having screened at Cannes six times. His 1987 drama Yelen picked up the jury prize at the festival when it played in competition.
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé will receive the Carrosse d’Or award of the French directors guild La Société des Réalisateurs (Srf) at the 55th edition of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight strand which runs May 16-27.
The director will be honoured with the award, which recognises filmmakers for their “innovative qualities”, at the opening ceremony on May 17.
Cisse’s career has spanned over 50 years with his work having screened at Cannes six times. His 1987 drama Yelen picked up the jury prize at the festival when it played in competition.
- 4/4/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Dubai-based Cercamon handles worldwide sales on Bronx-set tale.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Goldie, Sam de Jong’s coming-of-age story that premiered in Generation 14 Plus in Berlin and is being sold in Cannes by Dubai-based Cercamon.
‘Instagirl’ supermodel Slick Woods makes her acting debut as the titular character in the Bronx-set tale about a streetwise teen who discovers her true strength when her dream of becoming a dancer collides with harsh reality.
The drama, Dutch filmmaker de Jong’s follow-up to his 2015 feature debut Prince, screened at Tribeca Film Festival last month and hails from Twentieth Century Fox and Vice Films.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Goldie, Sam de Jong’s coming-of-age story that premiered in Generation 14 Plus in Berlin and is being sold in Cannes by Dubai-based Cercamon.
‘Instagirl’ supermodel Slick Woods makes her acting debut as the titular character in the Bronx-set tale about a streetwise teen who discovers her true strength when her dream of becoming a dancer collides with harsh reality.
The drama, Dutch filmmaker de Jong’s follow-up to his 2015 feature debut Prince, screened at Tribeca Film Festival last month and hails from Twentieth Century Fox and Vice Films.
- 5/14/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
"I think he fancies you." Film Movement has debuted an official trailer for an indie romantic drama titled The Sower, originally Le Semeur in French. Adapted from Violette Ailhaud's novel, and directed by first-time filmmaker Marine Francen, the film is set in 1851 and is about a small farming village in the Lower Alps that is cutoff from all men. France's autocratic President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte has ordered the arrest of all the men, and so the women take an oath: if a man comes, they will share him as a lover. When a mysterious and handsome stranger arrives, he ignites passions and jealousies that threaten to destroy the tight-knit community. The Sower stars Pauline Burlet as Violette, along with Geraldine Pailhas, Alban Lenoir, Iliana Zabeth, Francoise Lebrun, and Raphaëlle Agogué. Shot in 1.37:1, this looks like it has some lush, gorgeous cinematography amidst all the heavy sexual tension and infighting.
- 3/7/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A different version of “The Sower,” Marine Francen’s poised and petite freshman feature, might have included the extended, rather remarkable story behind its literary source. Aged 84, former village schoolteacher Violette Ailhaud wrote her autobiographical short story “L’homme semence” in 1919, passing it to an attorney with clear instructions that it be given to her eldest female descendant in 1952, a full century after the events it documents; a curious, bittersweet tale of lost innocence and sexual conspiracy in a community of women, it remained in the family for half a century before being published, to steadily building acclaim, in 2006. Some manner of film adaptation was inevitable. Francen’s, however, honors Ailhaud by telling only the story she wrote, albeit with subtly modernized language and aesthetics, underlining its enduringly provocative gender politics in the process.
The resulting film is so delicately wrought and exquisitely visualized that the harsher, eerier details of...
The resulting film is so delicately wrought and exquisitely visualized that the harsher, eerier details of...
- 3/3/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Distributor plans a 2019 theatrical, digital, home entertainment and Svod release.
Film Movement Classics has acquired Us and English-speaking Canadian rights to Fritz Lang Indian Epic, the two-part cliffhanger comprising The Tiger Of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb.
The distributor plans a 2019 release as a theatrical double feature followed by digital and home entertainment release, and a launch on FilmMovement’s Svod platform, Film Movement Plus.
After more than two decades of exile in Hollywood, Lang triumphantly returned to his native Germany to direct the two-part cliffhanger in 1959 from a story he co-authored nearly 40 years earlier.
Film Movement president Michael Rosenberg,...
Film Movement Classics has acquired Us and English-speaking Canadian rights to Fritz Lang Indian Epic, the two-part cliffhanger comprising The Tiger Of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb.
The distributor plans a 2019 release as a theatrical double feature followed by digital and home entertainment release, and a launch on FilmMovement’s Svod platform, Film Movement Plus.
After more than two decades of exile in Hollywood, Lang triumphantly returned to his native Germany to direct the two-part cliffhanger in 1959 from a story he co-authored nearly 40 years earlier.
Film Movement president Michael Rosenberg,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
San Sebastian — Paris-based sales agent Loco Films has acquired world sales rights outside Spain and France to “Journey to a Mother’s Room,” a flagship first feature from the Barcelona-based writer-director Celia Rico, part of a young generation of often women directors who are lending new energies and focus to Catalan cinema.
Alfa Pictures will distribute the film in Spain. “Journey to a Mother’s Room” will world premiere in competition at San Sebastian’s main sidebar, its New Directors section, a launchpad for other notable women talents such as, reaching back to just last year, Switzerland’s Lisa Brühlmann (“Blue My Mind”), Colombia’s Laura Mora (“Killing Jesús”) and France’s Marine Francen (“The Sower), its eventual winner.
Loco Films will introduce the film to buyers at the San Sebastian Festival, which starts Friday. After that, “Journey to a Mother’s Room” will segue to the BFI London Festival.
Alfa Pictures will distribute the film in Spain. “Journey to a Mother’s Room” will world premiere in competition at San Sebastian’s main sidebar, its New Directors section, a launchpad for other notable women talents such as, reaching back to just last year, Switzerland’s Lisa Brühlmann (“Blue My Mind”), Colombia’s Laura Mora (“Killing Jesús”) and France’s Marine Francen (“The Sower), its eventual winner.
Loco Films will introduce the film to buyers at the San Sebastian Festival, which starts Friday. After that, “Journey to a Mother’s Room” will segue to the BFI London Festival.
- 9/20/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Tonie Marshall with uniFrance President Serge Toubiana: "I am working on a documentary. A utopian documentary. I want to confront my ideas and my intuitions with historians, economists, sociologists, philosophers." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the uniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema reception at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, attended by Bruno Dumont, Marine Francen, Xavier Legrand, Mathieu Amalric, and Jeanne Balibar, the new president of uniFrance, Serge Toubiana, introduced me to his longtime friend Tonie Marshall.
The director of Numéro Une (Number One), which stars Emmanuelle Devos, expressed her personal concerns for the women of France and the film industry, when I brought up International Women's Day. She recounted her own difficulties in getting a project made (which never happened) and described in detail what she intends to do with the upcoming documentary that she is working on.
Tonie Marshall on Emmanuelle Devos: "She's a friend of mine and I...
At the uniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema reception at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, attended by Bruno Dumont, Marine Francen, Xavier Legrand, Mathieu Amalric, and Jeanne Balibar, the new president of uniFrance, Serge Toubiana, introduced me to his longtime friend Tonie Marshall.
The director of Numéro Une (Number One), which stars Emmanuelle Devos, expressed her personal concerns for the women of France and the film industry, when I brought up International Women's Day. She recounted her own difficulties in getting a project made (which never happened) and described in detail what she intends to do with the upcoming documentary that she is working on.
Tonie Marshall on Emmanuelle Devos: "She's a friend of mine and I...
- 3/15/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The many layers of feeling captured in Mathieu Amalric's Barbara is cinema at its best Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opens with Mathieu Amalric's spellbinding Barbara, starring César Best Actress winner Jeanne Balibar. They will present the film on March 8. Bruno Dumont, Vincent Macaigne, Xavier Beauvois, Marine Francen, Emmanuel Finkiel, Léonor Serraille with Julie Roué, Rachid Hami, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Laurent Cantet, Gilles Bourdos with Richard Bausch, Xavier Legrand, Raymond Depardon with Claudine Nougaret, Tonie Marshall, and Eugène Green are also are expected to attend.
Civeyrac's A Paris Education (Mes provincials), starring Andranic Manet; Serraille's Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme) with Laetitia Dosch; Dumont's Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d’Arc), and Barbara - are four of the early bird highlights.
Mathieu Amalric also can be seen during the festival in Noémie Lvovsky's Tomorrow and Thereafter (Demain et tous les...
New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opens with Mathieu Amalric's spellbinding Barbara, starring César Best Actress winner Jeanne Balibar. They will present the film on March 8. Bruno Dumont, Vincent Macaigne, Xavier Beauvois, Marine Francen, Emmanuel Finkiel, Léonor Serraille with Julie Roué, Rachid Hami, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Laurent Cantet, Gilles Bourdos with Richard Bausch, Xavier Legrand, Raymond Depardon with Claudine Nougaret, Tonie Marshall, and Eugène Green are also are expected to attend.
Civeyrac's A Paris Education (Mes provincials), starring Andranic Manet; Serraille's Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme) with Laetitia Dosch; Dumont's Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d’Arc), and Barbara - are four of the early bird highlights.
Mathieu Amalric also can be seen during the festival in Noémie Lvovsky's Tomorrow and Thereafter (Demain et tous les...
- 3/6/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Gustavo Rondon Córdova’s debut La Familia world premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week last year.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to French director Marine Francen’s first feature The Sower and Venezuelan filmmaker Gustavo Rondon Córdova’s La Familia (excluding pay-tv) from Celluloid Dreams.
“I am so delighted to be working with Michael Rosenberg and Film Movement again,” said Celluloid Dreams Vice-President Charlotte Mickie.
“Film Movement has developed a top-notch reputation for bringing world cinema to the North American market-place in a very classy and contemporary way, finding new audiences and pleasing the traditional demographic.”
La Familia, which world premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week last year, is about a father and son who come together when are forced to flee a tough urban suburb in Caracas after the latter seriously injures another boy in a rough game on the streets.
It is produced by La Pandilla Producciones, in coproduction with Cine Cercano, Factor Rh, Avila Films and [link...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to French director Marine Francen’s first feature The Sower and Venezuelan filmmaker Gustavo Rondon Córdova’s La Familia (excluding pay-tv) from Celluloid Dreams.
“I am so delighted to be working with Michael Rosenberg and Film Movement again,” said Celluloid Dreams Vice-President Charlotte Mickie.
“Film Movement has developed a top-notch reputation for bringing world cinema to the North American market-place in a very classy and contemporary way, finding new audiences and pleasing the traditional demographic.”
La Familia, which world premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week last year, is about a father and son who come together when are forced to flee a tough urban suburb in Caracas after the latter seriously injures another boy in a rough game on the streets.
It is produced by La Pandilla Producciones, in coproduction with Cine Cercano, Factor Rh, Avila Films and [link...
- 2/19/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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