Karlovy Vary’s industry days continued today with the Pitch & Feedback initiative, including the new film from My Dog Killer director Mira Fornay, alongside the Docu Talents from the East showcase.
Czech and Slovak filmmakers presented seven projects in development, which are considered to have international co-production potential.
Among these was Cook, F**k, Kill (Frogs With No Tongues), the third feature from Slovakian filmmaker Mira Fornay, described an absurdist drama about domestic violence.
First pitched at the Sofia Meetings in March, the film follows her 2009 feature debut Little Foxes and 2013’s My Dog Killer, which won a Tiger Award at last year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam and was Slovakia’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.
Cook, F**k, Kill is produced by Fornay’s company, Mirafox, and is slated to shoot in spring 2015 for release in spring 2016 with a budget of €1.15m.
Fornay said of the film: “I believe that my absurd drama rendered...
Czech and Slovak filmmakers presented seven projects in development, which are considered to have international co-production potential.
Among these was Cook, F**k, Kill (Frogs With No Tongues), the third feature from Slovakian filmmaker Mira Fornay, described an absurdist drama about domestic violence.
First pitched at the Sofia Meetings in March, the film follows her 2009 feature debut Little Foxes and 2013’s My Dog Killer, which won a Tiger Award at last year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam and was Slovakia’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.
Cook, F**k, Kill is produced by Fornay’s company, Mirafox, and is slated to shoot in spring 2015 for release in spring 2016 with a budget of €1.15m.
Fornay said of the film: “I believe that my absurd drama rendered...
- 7/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
South Korean star of Life in a Day to get his own feature length documentary.
A feature length documentary is currently in production based on Okhwan Yoon, the South Korean star of Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day.
Okhwan is a former businessman from Seoul who gave up his professional career to embark on a ten-year long cycling trip through 192 countries.
Slovakian film-maker Marek Mackovic, director and producer, commented: “Okhwan’s story is as jaw-dropping as it is poignant. It’s the ultimate tale of endurance and perseverance.
“There were times when we as the film crew simply couldn’t go on and Okhwan would still have this boundless energy, that was truly an inspiration.”
Okhwan is a Slovak/UK co-production, supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
A feature length documentary is currently in production based on Okhwan Yoon, the South Korean star of Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day.
Okhwan is a former businessman from Seoul who gave up his professional career to embark on a ten-year long cycling trip through 192 countries.
Slovakian film-maker Marek Mackovic, director and producer, commented: “Okhwan’s story is as jaw-dropping as it is poignant. It’s the ultimate tale of endurance and perseverance.
“There were times when we as the film crew simply couldn’t go on and Okhwan would still have this boundless energy, that was truly an inspiration.”
Okhwan is a Slovak/UK co-production, supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
- 5/13/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Dok Leipzig’s Golden Dove for Best International Documentary went to the Us, while Norway scored a hat-trick at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck.
The top award in Leipzig’s International Documentary Competition went to Italian-born, Us-based film-maker Roberto Minervini’s Stop The Pounding Heart whose portrayal of a strict religious family was described by the jury as ¨refreshing and unsettling at the same time.¨
The Us-Belgian-Italian co-production is handled internationally by Doc & Film.
The Golden Dove in the German Documentary Competition was awarded to Carlo Zoratti for his feature-length debut The Special Need, while the newly-created Golden Dove for the animation-documentary hybrid form was presented to French director Daniela De Felice’s Casa.
A total of 18 prizes with cash awards totalling almost €70,000 ($95,000) included the Fipresci Prize for Gang Zhao’s A Folk Troupe; the Mdr Film Prize for Vitaly Mansky’s Pipeline; and the Youth Jury Prize to Joanna by Aneta Kopacz, a graduate...
The top award in Leipzig’s International Documentary Competition went to Italian-born, Us-based film-maker Roberto Minervini’s Stop The Pounding Heart whose portrayal of a strict religious family was described by the jury as ¨refreshing and unsettling at the same time.¨
The Us-Belgian-Italian co-production is handled internationally by Doc & Film.
The Golden Dove in the German Documentary Competition was awarded to Carlo Zoratti for his feature-length debut The Special Need, while the newly-created Golden Dove for the animation-documentary hybrid form was presented to French director Daniela De Felice’s Casa.
A total of 18 prizes with cash awards totalling almost €70,000 ($95,000) included the Fipresci Prize for Gang Zhao’s A Folk Troupe; the Mdr Film Prize for Vitaly Mansky’s Pipeline; and the Youth Jury Prize to Joanna by Aneta Kopacz, a graduate...
- 11/4/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
We previously reported that producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland) teamed up with YouTube to create a film described as being the first user-generated feature length documentary.
The film is called Life in a Day and it incorporates footage shot YouTube users from all over the world. The film incorporates about 4,600 hours of footage submitted by YouTube users from 192 countries, 80,000 clips created on 500 cameras distributed to “remote areas of the world” on one single day — July 24th 2010. Macdonald took all of this footage and compiled it into a feature film.
Read the full press release below for all the the details:
YouTube has announced the premiere of director Kevin Macdonald's Life in a Day and that the film will stream live twice online:
Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void...
The film is called Life in a Day and it incorporates footage shot YouTube users from all over the world. The film incorporates about 4,600 hours of footage submitted by YouTube users from 192 countries, 80,000 clips created on 500 cameras distributed to “remote areas of the world” on one single day — July 24th 2010. Macdonald took all of this footage and compiled it into a feature film.
Read the full press release below for all the the details:
YouTube has announced the premiere of director Kevin Macdonald's Life in a Day and that the film will stream live twice online:
Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void...
- 1/6/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
We've previously told you about [1] a documentary from producer Ridley Scott, director Kevin Macdonald (helmer of State of Play, Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland) titled Life in A Day. The movie is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and is being billed as "the first user-generated feature-length documentary." The film incorporates about 4,600 hours of footage submitted by YouTube users from 192 countries, 80,000 clips created on 500 cameras distributed to "remote areas of the world" on one single day -- July 24th 2010. They have announced that "Contributors whose submissions were chosen are credited as co-directors, and 26 of them have been invited to attend the world premiere of the film on Thursday, January 27, as part of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival." But more importantly, the film will be live streamed on youtube.com/lifeinaday at 6pm mt, for those of you who want to see it before the movie is released in select theaters,...
- 1/6/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Academy Award-winning director Director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void ) set out to create the world’s largest user-generated film compiled from 4,500 hours of footage sent in from 192 countries, with each selected contributor credited as a co-director. The landmark film, culled from 80,000 video submissions, is intended as a cinematic experiment to capture life around the world in a single day. Now 26 of these contributors have been invited to attend the world premiere of Life in a Day on January 27th as part of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The 26 contributors invited to attend the premiere span the globe from Egypt to the Ukraine. Their film clips capture a wide array of life experiences, including a Korean man who has been cycling the world for nine years, a young mother battling cancer, and a Russian free-runner making Moscow his playground.
The premiere will be streamed live on youtube.
The premiere will be streamed live on youtube.
- 1/6/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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