Exclusive: The Gotham Film & Media Institute (The Gotham) announced today the 2024 fellows for the Festival De Cannes Producers Network Program. They are Deidre Backs (Fancy Dance), Apoorva Guru Charan (Joyland), Gabriel Mayers (A Different Man), Jhane Myers (Prey), Giancarlo Nasi (The Settlers), Stephanie Roush (Stress Positions), and Pierce Varous (The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed). This year’s Producers Network Fellows will be participating in person at Cannes, May 15 – 20.
As the sole U.S. Partner Organization for the Festival de Cannes Producers Network, The Gotham annually selects U.S. fiction and nonfiction producers to participate. Running concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival and the Marche du Film, the program is specifically designed for experienced producers to build up their international networks and learn more about international production, financing, legal and packaging.
In addition, The Gotham is proud to support the Gotham Edu partners Colgate University...
As the sole U.S. Partner Organization for the Festival de Cannes Producers Network, The Gotham annually selects U.S. fiction and nonfiction producers to participate. Running concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival and the Marche du Film, the program is specifically designed for experienced producers to build up their international networks and learn more about international production, financing, legal and packaging.
In addition, The Gotham is proud to support the Gotham Edu partners Colgate University...
- 5/9/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
The Red Sea Film Festival Foundation today announced the recipients of the Red Sea Fund's 2023 post-production funding cycle 1. Eight films by Saudi, Arab and African filmmakers will receive grants to help complete films that shine a light on important narratives and new talents emerging from the region.
The Red Sea Fund's 2023 post-production cycle received 59 applications, which were reviewed and filtered down to a shortlist of 18 films. Of these 18 films, eight were selected: five scripted features and three documentaries.
“The Omen” directed by Baloji, is set to premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2023. This underpins the Red Sea Film Festival's mission to advocate for filmmakers who are leading the way and inspiring a new generation of creatives.
Mohammed Al Turki, CEO of the Red Sea Film Foundation, said: “We are excited to be unveiling eight projects which will be bolstered by the Red Sea Fund's post-production grant – which can be a vital...
The Red Sea Fund's 2023 post-production cycle received 59 applications, which were reviewed and filtered down to a shortlist of 18 films. Of these 18 films, eight were selected: five scripted features and three documentaries.
“The Omen” directed by Baloji, is set to premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2023. This underpins the Red Sea Film Festival's mission to advocate for filmmakers who are leading the way and inspiring a new generation of creatives.
Mohammed Al Turki, CEO of the Red Sea Film Foundation, said: “We are excited to be unveiling eight projects which will be bolstered by the Red Sea Fund's post-production grant – which can be a vital...
- 5/22/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Saudi, Arab and African talent supported in 2023’s first cycle of funding.
The Red Sea Film Festival Foundation has unveiled the recipients of its first post-production grants of 2023.
Eight films by Saudi, Arab and African filmmakers will receive grants to help complete films that spotlight narratives and new talents emerging from the region.
They include Omen, the feature debut of Belgian-Congolese artist-turned filmmaker Baloji, which is set to premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes on Monday (May 22). Memento International handles sales on the film, in which a young Congolese man travels from Belgium to his birthplace of Kinshasa to...
The Red Sea Film Festival Foundation has unveiled the recipients of its first post-production grants of 2023.
Eight films by Saudi, Arab and African filmmakers will receive grants to help complete films that spotlight narratives and new talents emerging from the region.
They include Omen, the feature debut of Belgian-Congolese artist-turned filmmaker Baloji, which is set to premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes on Monday (May 22). Memento International handles sales on the film, in which a young Congolese man travels from Belgium to his birthplace of Kinshasa to...
- 5/18/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Diff has added a new section, Iraqi Legacy: Children of the Future, which will screen six short films from Iraq’s new generation of filmmakers.
Most of the films are affiliated with the Iraqi Independent Cinema Centre (Iicc), established by Iraqi filmmakers Mohamed Al Daradji (Son Of Babylon) and Oday Rasheed (Qarantina).
Two of the six Iraqi Legacy shorts are screening in the Muhr Arab Shorts competition – Meedo Ali’s Children Of War, which offers a child’s perspective on war through the drawings of an Iraqi orphan, and Ahmed Yassin’s Children Of God, about a young boy attempting to win the heart of the goalkeeper of a girls’ football team.
The other shorts are Mohanad Hayal’s Happy Birthday, Yahya Al-Allaq’s War Canister, Luay Fadhil Abbas’ Lipstick and Nesma’s Birds, from Medoo Ali and Najwan Ali, the only film in the programme that features a female filmmaker.
“The Iraqi Legacy...
Most of the films are affiliated with the Iraqi Independent Cinema Centre (Iicc), established by Iraqi filmmakers Mohamed Al Daradji (Son Of Babylon) and Oday Rasheed (Qarantina).
Two of the six Iraqi Legacy shorts are screening in the Muhr Arab Shorts competition – Meedo Ali’s Children Of War, which offers a child’s perspective on war through the drawings of an Iraqi orphan, and Ahmed Yassin’s Children Of God, about a young boy attempting to win the heart of the goalkeeper of a girls’ football team.
The other shorts are Mohanad Hayal’s Happy Birthday, Yahya Al-Allaq’s War Canister, Luay Fadhil Abbas’ Lipstick and Nesma’s Birds, from Medoo Ali and Najwan Ali, the only film in the programme that features a female filmmaker.
“The Iraqi Legacy...
- 12/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
Young female filmmakers took home the lions share of awards in Emirates and International Shorts competitions of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.Scroll down for full list of winners
The next generation of Emirati filmmakers will made up in large part by women, guaging by the winners of the Emirates Film Competition (Efc) at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
The ceremony to announce the ‘Black Pearl Awards’, held at the Emirates Palace, saw all six student prizes won by women including Noura Al Zarouni for her narrative short I Don’t Understand and Reem Al Meqbali for her short documentary Oops!.
Hosting the event, presenter Said Al mamari said: “Congratulations to the female winners. And they say it’s a macho society!”
Now in its 12th year, this year’s selection comprised 49 short films from across the Gulf region, including 36 from the UAE.
The Efc jury was led by Ahmed Rachedi (Algeria) and comprised Oday Rasheed (Iraq...
The next generation of Emirati filmmakers will made up in large part by women, guaging by the winners of the Emirates Film Competition (Efc) at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
The ceremony to announce the ‘Black Pearl Awards’, held at the Emirates Palace, saw all six student prizes won by women including Noura Al Zarouni for her narrative short I Don’t Understand and Reem Al Meqbali for her short documentary Oops!.
Hosting the event, presenter Said Al mamari said: “Congratulations to the female winners. And they say it’s a macho society!”
Now in its 12th year, this year’s selection comprised 49 short films from across the Gulf region, including 36 from the UAE.
The Efc jury was led by Ahmed Rachedi (Algeria) and comprised Oday Rasheed (Iraq...
- 10/30/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Silver Linings Playbook actress to lead Narrative Competition jury.
The juries of the 7th Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 24-Nov 2) have been revealed.
The Narrative Competition jury president is Australian actress Jacki Weaver, best known for her Oscar-nominated performances in David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom and David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook.
Joining her on the jury are Israeli actress Hiam Abbass, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission Adrian Wootton, Tunisian producer Dora Bouchoucha and Sandra den Hamer, current CEO of Eye Film Institute Netherlands.
The New Horizons Competition jury is lead by Yeşim Ustaoğlu, director of Turkish drama Araf.
Ustaoğlu is assisted by Irene Bignardi, co-founder of daily newspaper La Repubblica and former director of the Locarno Film Festival (2000–05), Moroccan filmmaker Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Ukrainian director Valery Todorovsky and Lebanese director Michel Kammoun.
President of the Documentary Competition is the co-director and artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff...
The juries of the 7th Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 24-Nov 2) have been revealed.
The Narrative Competition jury president is Australian actress Jacki Weaver, best known for her Oscar-nominated performances in David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom and David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook.
Joining her on the jury are Israeli actress Hiam Abbass, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission Adrian Wootton, Tunisian producer Dora Bouchoucha and Sandra den Hamer, current CEO of Eye Film Institute Netherlands.
The New Horizons Competition jury is lead by Yeşim Ustaoğlu, director of Turkish drama Araf.
Ustaoğlu is assisted by Irene Bignardi, co-founder of daily newspaper La Repubblica and former director of the Locarno Film Festival (2000–05), Moroccan filmmaker Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Ukrainian director Valery Todorovsky and Lebanese director Michel Kammoun.
President of the Documentary Competition is the co-director and artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff...
- 10/23/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Ashim Ahluwalia
Filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia has been invited as the San Francisco Film Society’s ‘Artist in Residence’ for Spring 2013 from February 23 – March 9. The Miss Lovely fame director will present his film, network with local filmmakers and visit Bay Area high school and college classrooms as part of the programme.
On March 5, Ahluwalia will participate in an intimate artist talk in which he will discuss his filmmaking style and the state of the film industry in India. The discussion will include topics like ‘The Bollywood commercial film vs. the Rural Art film’, ‘The aesthetics of the C-grade films that he is inspired by and how they subvert ideas of a homogenous national identity’ and ‘The relationship between the Indian trash film and early Surrealist cinema’.
The ‘Artist in Residence’ program organizes a two-week stay for a selected filmmaker to participate in the Society’s various undertakings like education and exhibition.
Filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia has been invited as the San Francisco Film Society’s ‘Artist in Residence’ for Spring 2013 from February 23 – March 9. The Miss Lovely fame director will present his film, network with local filmmakers and visit Bay Area high school and college classrooms as part of the programme.
On March 5, Ahluwalia will participate in an intimate artist talk in which he will discuss his filmmaking style and the state of the film industry in India. The discussion will include topics like ‘The Bollywood commercial film vs. the Rural Art film’, ‘The aesthetics of the C-grade films that he is inspired by and how they subvert ideas of a homogenous national identity’ and ‘The relationship between the Indian trash film and early Surrealist cinema’.
The ‘Artist in Residence’ program organizes a two-week stay for a selected filmmaker to participate in the Society’s various undertakings like education and exhibition.
- 2/26/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Wow, the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival already has been amazing!
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Thursday, November 15th
Shorts Program 8: Quirky Relationships
Shorts Program 8: Quirky Relationships plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
Shorts that give romance a twist.
Boo! (Rupert Reid, Australia, 2012, 5 min.): An aging married couple keep their love alive by staying one step ahead of each other. Coffees (Alex Beh, U.S., 2012, 11 min.): As a last-ditch effort, Mikey decides to go to his ex...
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Thursday, November 15th
Shorts Program 8: Quirky Relationships
Shorts Program 8: Quirky Relationships plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
Shorts that give romance a twist.
Boo! (Rupert Reid, Australia, 2012, 5 min.): An aging married couple keep their love alive by staying one step ahead of each other. Coffees (Alex Beh, U.S., 2012, 11 min.): As a last-ditch effort, Mikey decides to go to his ex...
- 11/15/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This year's Palme d'or winner (Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) is a glowing example of exact purpose that the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam serves: supporting national cinemas and filmmakers through various stages of production. The Fund’s Fall 2010 Selection Round includes one of our profiled Ioncinephile filmmakers in Mexico's Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, who won over critics and film festival prizes (2010 Tiger Award) with Alamar, and who is now in the development phase of his next project entitled, Sombra del arbol (Tree Shade). In total, four projects from Mexico are receiving well-needed coin. Here are the selected projects: Postproduction & Final Financing Ausensias (Absences) - Milagros Mumenthaler; Argentina Black Blood - Miaoyan Zhang; China Flying Fish - Sanjeewa Pelanwattage; Sri Lanka The Old Donkey - Li Ruijun; China Paraísos Artificiales (Artificial Paradises) - Yulene Olaizola; Mexico Digital Production If It Is Not Now,...
- 10/14/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The fourth Abu Dhabi Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 14-23, will open with Randall Wallace's "Secretariat," starring John Malkovich and Diane Lane. Tsui Hark's "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" will serve as the closing night film.
The festival has programmed twelve world premieres: "Here Comes the Rain" by Bahij Hojeij; "Taming," Nidal Al-Dibs; "Homeland," George Sluizer; "A Man’s Story," Varon Bonicas; "Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace," Harry Hunkele; "In/Out of the Room," Dina Hamza; "Living Skin," Fawzi Saleh; "Ok, Enough, Goodbye," Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia; "Qarantina," Oday Rasheed; “Sun Dress," Saeed Salmeen; "Wrecked," Michael Greenspan; and "Paan Singh Tomar," Tigmanshu Dhulia.
The festival will include three competitions for features that offer cash awards totaling $1 million. The narrative and documentary competitions will be joined this year by the New Horizons section, a competition for first- and second-time directors.
"This...
The festival has programmed twelve world premieres: "Here Comes the Rain" by Bahij Hojeij; "Taming," Nidal Al-Dibs; "Homeland," George Sluizer; "A Man’s Story," Varon Bonicas; "Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace," Harry Hunkele; "In/Out of the Room," Dina Hamza; "Living Skin," Fawzi Saleh; "Ok, Enough, Goodbye," Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia; "Qarantina," Oday Rasheed; “Sun Dress," Saeed Salmeen; "Wrecked," Michael Greenspan; and "Paan Singh Tomar," Tigmanshu Dhulia.
The festival will include three competitions for features that offer cash awards totaling $1 million. The narrative and documentary competitions will be joined this year by the New Horizons section, a competition for first- and second-time directors.
"This...
- 9/27/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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