Sol Bondy’s Berlin-based One Two Films has boarded Iranian helmer Rafi Pitts’ latest film, “Random Star Suicide,” produced by French shingle Les Films du Worso and set to shoot next year.
After 2016’s “Soy Nero,” Pitts again examines Americans living on the margins of society in a story that follows a young black man and a working-class veteran whose lives and destinies cross.
One Two Films is continuing its focus on international and English-language productions as it recalibrates following the recent exit of longtime partner Jamila Wenske. The company has a new office in Berlin and a slew of projects in the works as it seeks to broaden its reach as an international co-producer specialized in Germany’s soft money incentives.
One Two Films partnered with Denmark’s Profile Pictures on Grimur Hakonarson’s Icelandic drama “The County,” which premieres in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section, and the...
After 2016’s “Soy Nero,” Pitts again examines Americans living on the margins of society in a story that follows a young black man and a working-class veteran whose lives and destinies cross.
One Two Films is continuing its focus on international and English-language productions as it recalibrates following the recent exit of longtime partner Jamila Wenske. The company has a new office in Berlin and a slew of projects in the works as it seeks to broaden its reach as an international co-producer specialized in Germany’s soft money incentives.
One Two Films partnered with Denmark’s Profile Pictures on Grimur Hakonarson’s Icelandic drama “The County,” which premieres in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section, and the...
- 9/6/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy’s Berlin-based One Two Films, co-producer of this year’s Efm buzz title “Persian Lessons,” has scored another early winner with comedy-drama “Franky Five Star.”
The project, from writer-director Birgit Möller, won the Junior Entertainment Talent Slate (Jets) pitching competition at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday, securing it industry support from a broad range of international participants.
“Franky Five Star” stars Jella Haase, who shot to fame in the “Fack ju Göhte” franchise, as a young woman dealing with her often meddling multiple personalities as she navigates a blossoming romance.
The Jets initiative, organized by William Peschek’s German-u.K. group Wep Films, unites up-and-coming filmmakers and their feature film projects with producers, sales agents, financing companies and distributors from Germany, Canada, Ireland, Britain, Finland, Norway and the U.S.
This year the 13-member Jets jury, which included Sophie Green of Bankside Films; Antonio Exacoustos of Arri Media Intl.
The project, from writer-director Birgit Möller, won the Junior Entertainment Talent Slate (Jets) pitching competition at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday, securing it industry support from a broad range of international participants.
“Franky Five Star” stars Jella Haase, who shot to fame in the “Fack ju Göhte” franchise, as a young woman dealing with her often meddling multiple personalities as she navigates a blossoming romance.
The Jets initiative, organized by William Peschek’s German-u.K. group Wep Films, unites up-and-coming filmmakers and their feature film projects with producers, sales agents, financing companies and distributors from Germany, Canada, Ireland, Britain, Finland, Norway and the U.S.
This year the 13-member Jets jury, which included Sophie Green of Bankside Films; Antonio Exacoustos of Arri Media Intl.
- 2/14/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Irène Jacob and South African actress Thishiwe Ziqubu are attached to star in Saturn, a supernatural thriller which would be the first official Australia-South Africa co-production.
African-born, UK-based Elan Gamaker is the writer-director and the co-producers are Mark Overett.s New Holland Pictures Two and Fireworx Media.s Bridget Pickering, who was one of the producers of Hotel Rwanda.
Set in South Africa in the 1980s, the screenplay follows Patience (Zigubu) a young African woman who is asked to babysit two white children by her mother, who is campaigning against Apartheid.
Jacob (Three Colors: Red, The Double Life of Véronique) will play the children.s French mother, while a high-profile Aussie is in talks to play her husband.
The twist: the ghost of the children.s older brother Ben, an Army conscript who was reported to have died, tries to take them away.
Overett, who recently returned from a recce in Cape Town and Johannesburg,...
African-born, UK-based Elan Gamaker is the writer-director and the co-producers are Mark Overett.s New Holland Pictures Two and Fireworx Media.s Bridget Pickering, who was one of the producers of Hotel Rwanda.
Set in South Africa in the 1980s, the screenplay follows Patience (Zigubu) a young African woman who is asked to babysit two white children by her mother, who is campaigning against Apartheid.
Jacob (Three Colors: Red, The Double Life of Véronique) will play the children.s French mother, while a high-profile Aussie is in talks to play her husband.
The twist: the ghost of the children.s older brother Ben, an Army conscript who was reported to have died, tries to take them away.
Overett, who recently returned from a recce in Cape Town and Johannesburg,...
- 12/2/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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