Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery), and Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale, Orange Is the New Black) are to star in the newly unveiled Sky original series Atomic.
The five-part “dynamic and action-fueled adventure” series will follow Max (Allen) and Mohammed (Latif) two unlikely friends who become swept up in a cartel’s plot to transport uranium across North Africa and soon face an enormous decision: save themselves or risk everything to prevent a nuclear bomb falling into the wrong hands.
Pursued by Cassie Elliott (Wiley), a highly-skilled CIA agent, along with MI6 and a network of traffickers, Max and Mohammed find themselves, for once, having to be the good guys.
The show, from Gangs of London producer Pulse Films, is written by Gregory Burke (‘71, Entebbe, Rebus) and directed by Shariff Korver (Temple, Do Not Hesitate).
Writer and executive producer Burke said: “I am thrilled to...
The five-part “dynamic and action-fueled adventure” series will follow Max (Allen) and Mohammed (Latif) two unlikely friends who become swept up in a cartel’s plot to transport uranium across North Africa and soon face an enormous decision: save themselves or risk everything to prevent a nuclear bomb falling into the wrong hands.
Pursued by Cassie Elliott (Wiley), a highly-skilled CIA agent, along with MI6 and a network of traffickers, Max and Mohammed find themselves, for once, having to be the good guys.
The show, from Gangs of London producer Pulse Films, is written by Gregory Burke (‘71, Entebbe, Rebus) and directed by Shariff Korver (Temple, Do Not Hesitate).
Writer and executive producer Burke said: “I am thrilled to...
- 5/16/2024
- by Lily Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sky has greenlighted a high-stakes thriller about a nuclear bomb from Pulse Films starring Game of Thrones‘ Alfie Allen.
Allen is joined by Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery, What’s Love Got To Do With It) and Emmy-winner Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale, Orange is the New Black) in Atomic, which is penned by Gregory Burke (Rebus) and directed by Shariff Korver (Temple).
Filming will commence this month in Morocco on the series, in which Max (Allen) and Mohammed (Latif), two unlikely friends – and even less likely heroes – become swept up in a cartel’s plot to transport uranium across North Africa. The pair face a monumental decision: save themselves or risk everything to prevent a nuclear bomb getting into the wrong hands. Pursued by Cassie Elliott (Wiley) – a highly skilled CIA agent whose life mission is to prevent terrorists from acquiring a nuclear bomb – along with MI6 and a network of traffickers,...
Allen is joined by Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery, What’s Love Got To Do With It) and Emmy-winner Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale, Orange is the New Black) in Atomic, which is penned by Gregory Burke (Rebus) and directed by Shariff Korver (Temple).
Filming will commence this month in Morocco on the series, in which Max (Allen) and Mohammed (Latif), two unlikely friends – and even less likely heroes – become swept up in a cartel’s plot to transport uranium across North Africa. The pair face a monumental decision: save themselves or risk everything to prevent a nuclear bomb getting into the wrong hands. Pursued by Cassie Elliott (Wiley) – a highly skilled CIA agent whose life mission is to prevent terrorists from acquiring a nuclear bomb – along with MI6 and a network of traffickers,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
During the Cannes Film Festival, 20 emerging producers from across Europe took part in European Film Promotion’s promotion and networking platform Producers on the Move. They had been selected by the 37 national film institutes that are members of Efp. Variety invited them to pitch their projects to our readers, which we present below.
Gentian Koçi, Albania
Project: “Cold Sun” (in development)
Director: Gentian Koçi
As he attempts to rebuild his life in his hometown after being freed from jail after serving a 25-year sentence for killing his wife, a man in his fifties falls in love with a woman in her forties and gradually realizes that this love is going to be his true prison.
Julie Esparbes, Belgium
Project: “The Dance of the Foxes”
Director: Valéry Carnoy
A coming-of-age story, about a 17-year-old boxer who, following an accident, will have to reinvent himself in a more sensitive way. Valéry Carnoy...
Gentian Koçi, Albania
Project: “Cold Sun” (in development)
Director: Gentian Koçi
As he attempts to rebuild his life in his hometown after being freed from jail after serving a 25-year sentence for killing his wife, a man in his fifties falls in love with a woman in her forties and gradually realizes that this love is going to be his true prison.
Julie Esparbes, Belgium
Project: “The Dance of the Foxes”
Director: Valéry Carnoy
A coming-of-age story, about a 17-year-old boxer who, following an accident, will have to reinvent himself in a more sensitive way. Valéry Carnoy...
- 5/30/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
As sharply engineered as a reel of razor wire, Shariff Korver’s “Do Not Hesitate” is not the first film to expose the sheer lunacy of sending callow, heavily armed young men, versed in a machismo that sees sensitivity as weakness, into hostile territory and expecting everything to work out fine. But Korver sets his film, which is the Dutch international Oscar selection, apart from the “Jarheads” and the “Full Metal Jackets” of the world with the precision of its craft and the narrowness of its focus. This time, the story is told as though through the sights of a sniper rifle.
Directly in the crosshairs, there’s Erik (major breakout Joes Brauers), a personable, level-headed young soldier and avid amateur drummer, who has been deployed to the Middle East on a peacekeeping mission. When their tricked-out transport vehicle stalls on a remote mountain path, Erik and a small squad...
Directly in the crosshairs, there’s Erik (major breakout Joes Brauers), a personable, level-headed young soldier and avid amateur drummer, who has been deployed to the Middle East on a peacekeeping mission. When their tricked-out transport vehicle stalls on a remote mountain path, Erik and a small squad...
- 12/21/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Filmed in the mountains of Greece — which doubled for the stark, alien landscapes of war-torn Afghanistan — Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate tells the story of three young Dutch soldiers who are left guarding a military vehicle after it breaks down. A chance encounter with a local boy causes tensions in the group, which reach a shocking climax.
The idea came to Korver after reading a newspaper article about a group of Dutch soldiers being sent to an island in Crete after spending five months in Afghanistan to “blow off some steam.” “They were going to have therapy during the daytime,” he said during Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event, “and then they were allowed to go and party in the nighttime. That ‘debrief,’ as it was called, went completely wrong, and two journalists wrote this article about it, criticizing the whole system and saying how bad the aftercare for young soldiers was.
The idea came to Korver after reading a newspaper article about a group of Dutch soldiers being sent to an island in Crete after spending five months in Afghanistan to “blow off some steam.” “They were going to have therapy during the daytime,” he said during Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event, “and then they were allowed to go and party in the nighttime. That ‘debrief,’ as it was called, went completely wrong, and two journalists wrote this article about it, criticizing the whole system and saying how bad the aftercare for young soldiers was.
- 11/20/2021
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
In Do Not Hesitate, selected as the Dutch submission for the Academy’s best international feature film category, a peacekeeping mission in an unnamed Middle Eastern country goes awry when three young Dutch soldiers are stranded in a valley when their vehicle breaks down and their commander sets out for help.
The film’s director, Shariff Korver, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter film critic Leslie Felperin for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media, about his motivation for making the film, and the arduous, no-holds-barred prep he and his crew underwent to assure a high degree of verisimilitude in telling their story.
The idea for the film,...
The film’s director, Shariff Korver, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter film critic Leslie Felperin for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media, about his motivation for making the film, and the arduous, no-holds-barred prep he and his crew underwent to assure a high degree of verisimilitude in telling their story.
The idea for the film,...
- 11/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In Do Not Hesitate, selected as the Dutch submission for the Academy’s best international feature film category, a peacekeeping mission in an unnamed Middle Eastern country goes awry when three young Dutch soldiers are stranded in a valley when their vehicle breaks down and their commander sets out for help.
The film’s director, Shariff Korver, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter film critic Leslie Felperin for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media, about his motivation for making the film, and the arduous, no-holds-barred prep he and his crew underwent to assure a high degree of verisimilitude in telling their story.
The idea for the film,...
The film’s director, Shariff Korver, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter film critic Leslie Felperin for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media, about his motivation for making the film, and the arduous, no-holds-barred prep he and his crew underwent to assure a high degree of verisimilitude in telling their story.
The idea for the film,...
- 11/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The first screenings in the programme are the Oscar entries for Luxembourg, Ukraine, Panama, Netherlands and Algeria.
Screen International is hosting an exclusive series of online screenings focused on the international feature awards race.
This initiative is designed to enable each country to organise an event around their submission.
The first screenings in the programme are the Oscar entries for Luxembourg (Io Sto Bene), Ukraine (Bad Roads), Panama (Plaza Catedral), Netherlands (Do not Hesitate) and Algeria (Heliopolis). More titles will be added during this year’s awards season.
Sign up for the screenings here
For the second year, Screen is partnering with Archipel Market,...
Screen International is hosting an exclusive series of online screenings focused on the international feature awards race.
This initiative is designed to enable each country to organise an event around their submission.
The first screenings in the programme are the Oscar entries for Luxembourg (Io Sto Bene), Ukraine (Bad Roads), Panama (Plaza Catedral), Netherlands (Do not Hesitate) and Algeria (Heliopolis). More titles will be added during this year’s awards season.
Sign up for the screenings here
For the second year, Screen is partnering with Archipel Market,...
- 11/19/2021
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2022 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
- 10/6/2021
- by Ben Dalton¬Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2022 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
- 10/5/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A perfect storm of titles previously delayed by the pandemic combined with features set to launch on the back of the Netherlands Film Festival later this month means that a bumper harvest of home-grown films is set for release in Dutch theaters this autumn.
Anticipated titles include Alex van Warmerdam’s latest feature “No. 10,” which tells the story of an actor who cannot recall his past but who is strong-armed into his future by a group of strangers.
“Goldie” director Sam de Jong also looks set to return with his third film, “Met Mes,” a satire about the media focusing on a TV personality who exaggerates the theft of a new camera, which leads to unforeseen consequences.
Other films creating buzz include “My Father Is an Aeroplane,” directed by Antoinette Beumer (“Jackie”), which is set to open the Netherlands Film Festival.
Based on Beumer’s 2018 novel it tells the story...
Anticipated titles include Alex van Warmerdam’s latest feature “No. 10,” which tells the story of an actor who cannot recall his past but who is strong-armed into his future by a group of strangers.
“Goldie” director Sam de Jong also looks set to return with his third film, “Met Mes,” a satire about the media focusing on a TV personality who exaggerates the theft of a new camera, which leads to unforeseen consequences.
Other films creating buzz include “My Father Is an Aeroplane,” directed by Antoinette Beumer (“Jackie”), which is set to open the Netherlands Film Festival.
Based on Beumer’s 2018 novel it tells the story...
- 9/4/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Do Not Hesitate Review — Do Not Hesitate (2021) Film Review from the 20th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Shariff Korver, starring Joes Brauers, Spencer Bogaert, Tobias Kersloot, and Omar Alwan. We all know “war is hell”. We’ve all seen that phrase plastered somewhere before. Clichéd as it [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Do Not Hesitate: A Valiant Anti-War Effort, But Nothing New to Add [Tribeca 2021]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Do Not Hesitate: A Valiant Anti-War Effort, But Nothing New to Add [Tribeca 2021]...
- 6/22/2021
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move, starring Benicio Del Toro and Don Cheadle is the Centerpiece Gala selection of the 20th anniversary Tribeca Film Festival
The World Premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move, starring Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro and David Harbour, with Ray Liotta and Jon Hamm is the Centerpiece Gala selection of the 20th anniversary Tribeca Film Festival, and Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar’s documentary on Dave Chappelle will have its World Premiere at Radio City Music Hall as the Closing Night event. Jon M Chu’s adaption of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights is the Opening Night selection.
Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze on Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate: “In this film there is something I have never seen.”
Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer shared his thoughts on Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate; Adam Leon’s Italian Studies, starring...
The World Premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move, starring Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro and David Harbour, with Ray Liotta and Jon Hamm is the Centerpiece Gala selection of the 20th anniversary Tribeca Film Festival, and Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar’s documentary on Dave Chappelle will have its World Premiere at Radio City Music Hall as the Closing Night event. Jon M Chu’s adaption of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights is the Opening Night selection.
Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze on Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate: “In this film there is something I have never seen.”
Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer shared his thoughts on Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate; Adam Leon’s Italian Studies, starring...
- 5/29/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Tribeca Film Festival’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer (in Paris) with Anne-Katrin Titze (in New York) agrees with Frances McDormand’s Oscar speech: “We have to teach a young generation to see a film on a big screen.”
Tribeca Film Festival’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer is always a good person to talk cinema. We covered in our conversation the Opening Night selection, Jon M Chu’s adaption of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights; Mariem Pérez Riera’s Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It; Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show; Andrew Gaynord’s All My Friends Hate Me with Tom Stourton; Thomas Robsahm and Aslaug Holm’s A-ha the Movie; Thomas Daneskov’s Wild Men; Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate; Adam Leon’s Italian Studies, starring Vanessa Kirby; Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain; Warwick Ross...
Tribeca Film Festival’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer is always a good person to talk cinema. We covered in our conversation the Opening Night selection, Jon M Chu’s adaption of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights; Mariem Pérez Riera’s Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It; Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show; Andrew Gaynord’s All My Friends Hate Me with Tom Stourton; Thomas Robsahm and Aslaug Holm’s A-ha the Movie; Thomas Daneskov’s Wild Men; Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate; Adam Leon’s Italian Studies, starring Vanessa Kirby; Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain; Warwick Ross...
- 5/20/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Among European titles are films by Elisabeth Vogler, Levan Koguashvili, Thomas Daneskov, Shariff Korver and Max Eriksson. Yesterday, the Tribeca Film Festival revealed its 2021 line-up. This year’s selection includes 66 films spanning three competitive strands. 56 of these titles are world premieres. The festival will run from 9-20 June in a hybrid form, comprising in-person events at outdoor venues across all five boroughs of New York. The gathering will be opened by the world premiere of Jon M Chu’s In the Heights, based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s stage musical of the same name. The International Feature Competition includes a few European films. Roaring 20’s by French filmmaker Elisabeth Vogler (Netflix title Paris Is Us) gives viewers the chance not only to travel to Paris, but to live a day in the life there during the Covid-19 pandemic, in a single unbroken shot. Brighton 4th (Bulgaria/Georgia/Monaco/Russia/United States), the new film by.
The three projects have all shot and are in post.
TrustNordisk has continued its busy EFM deals with key sales on three more features.
The company has sold Shariff Korver’s Dutch feature Do Not Hesitate to Korea (Watcha) and Lithuania (Scanorama). The film, now finished, will be released by September Film in Benelux. The suspenseful drama follows a Dutch military convoy working on a peacekeeping mission in the Middle East.
Hallvar Witzø’s Norwegian comedy Everybody Hates Johan has sold to Former Yugoslavia (Cinemania).The feature debut, now in post, is about a small town loner.
Petter Næss’ Norwegian...
TrustNordisk has continued its busy EFM deals with key sales on three more features.
The company has sold Shariff Korver’s Dutch feature Do Not Hesitate to Korea (Watcha) and Lithuania (Scanorama). The film, now finished, will be released by September Film in Benelux. The suspenseful drama follows a Dutch military convoy working on a peacekeeping mission in the Middle East.
Hallvar Witzø’s Norwegian comedy Everybody Hates Johan has sold to Former Yugoslavia (Cinemania).The feature debut, now in post, is about a small town loner.
Petter Næss’ Norwegian...
- 3/5/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
As The Netherlands, under lockdown, celebrated the first half of 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam’s online, the physical half – set to take place in June with real audiences, panels and talks without Zoom links attached – still feels like a long way off.
Meanwhile, the industry is hopeful that the swift and pragmatic measures taken by its national funding agency, The Netherlands Film Fund, will be enough to see it through until the end of this year.
In January, the fund, headed by former IFFR director Bero Beyer, confirmed €30 million ($36.1 million) in new government support – double the amount that was available last year – to help the industry ride through its third national lockdown and beyond.
According to Beyer, most of last year’s efforts went into maintaining a certain level of production once restrictions were lifted in June: a national protocol for safety on film sets was devised along with...
Meanwhile, the industry is hopeful that the swift and pragmatic measures taken by its national funding agency, The Netherlands Film Fund, will be enough to see it through until the end of this year.
In January, the fund, headed by former IFFR director Bero Beyer, confirmed €30 million ($36.1 million) in new government support – double the amount that was available last year – to help the industry ride through its third national lockdown and beyond.
According to Beyer, most of last year’s efforts went into maintaining a certain level of production once restrictions were lifted in June: a national protocol for safety on film sets was devised along with...
- 2/6/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Producers are busy but there are questions over how films will be released.
As Dutch filmmakers prepare new projects to whet the appetite of the international film industy, the Netherlands Film Fund is keeping an eye on the future with the launch of a range of initiatives to support diverse and emerging talent.
Bero Beyer, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund (and former artistic director of International Film Festival Rotterdam), believes new talent can be overlooked by crisis support schemes.
“We should not forget the next generation of filmmakers and those who have not gone through the route of film academies,...
As Dutch filmmakers prepare new projects to whet the appetite of the international film industy, the Netherlands Film Fund is keeping an eye on the future with the launch of a range of initiatives to support diverse and emerging talent.
Bero Beyer, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund (and former artistic director of International Film Festival Rotterdam), believes new talent can be overlooked by crisis support schemes.
“We should not forget the next generation of filmmakers and those who have not gone through the route of film academies,...
- 2/4/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Sweden’s Plattform Produktion is teaming up with Dutch production group Lemming Film on director Ena Sendijarević’s colonial drama “Sweet Dreams.”
The film, which is set to shoot on location in Southeast Asia next year, follows tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son – the child of his Indonesian housemaid – upending not only his Dutch family’s plans but also established hierarchies in a single stroke.
Plattform, whose credits include “The Square” and “Force Majeure,” joins fellow co-producers A Private View from Belgium and Dutch pubcaster Vpro.
For Sendijarević, the film represents her contribution to the movement that is critically examining the past and the relationship between the West and the rest of the world and its continuing impact.
Following the death of the plantation owner and family patriarch, “everyone’s...
The film, which is set to shoot on location in Southeast Asia next year, follows tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son – the child of his Indonesian housemaid – upending not only his Dutch family’s plans but also established hierarchies in a single stroke.
Plattform, whose credits include “The Square” and “Force Majeure,” joins fellow co-producers A Private View from Belgium and Dutch pubcaster Vpro.
For Sendijarević, the film represents her contribution to the movement that is critically examining the past and the relationship between the West and the rest of the world and its continuing impact.
Following the death of the plantation owner and family patriarch, “everyone’s...
- 9/8/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The Venezuelan helmer’s second feature will star actors Joes Brauers, Spencer Bogaert and Tobias Kersloot in the lead roles. Shariff Korver’s new project, a suspense-drama entitled Do Not Hesitate, is now in post-production. The director’s feature debut, the thriller The Intruder, world-premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 and starred Nasrdin Dchar in the lead role. That flick revolved around the vicissitudes of a Dutch police officer called Sam, the son of a Moroccan family who is tasked with infiltrating a drug cartel. Korver’s new endeavour, penned in its entirety by Jolein Laarman, stars Joes Brauers, Spencer Bogaert and Tobias Kersloot in the lead roles. In detail, the plot follows three young soldiers who are left to guard a military vehicle by themselves after the sudden disappearance of their superior. As their situation...
The suspense drama from director Shariff Korver is in production.
TrustNordisk has boarded international sales for Do Not Hesitate, directed by Venezuela-born director Shariff Korver.
The story follows a Dutch military convoy working on a peacekeeping mission in the Middle East. When three young soldiers guarding their vehicle on a desolate mountain road accidentally shoot and kill a goat, they don’t know if they can trust a 14-year-old goatherd following an ambush.
Described a suspenseful drama, the film is currently in production. Screen International can reveal the first image here.
TrustNordisk sales and project manager Silje Nikoline Glimsdal said:...
TrustNordisk has boarded international sales for Do Not Hesitate, directed by Venezuela-born director Shariff Korver.
The story follows a Dutch military convoy working on a peacekeeping mission in the Middle East. When three young soldiers guarding their vehicle on a desolate mountain road accidentally shoot and kill a goat, they don’t know if they can trust a 14-year-old goatherd following an ambush.
Described a suspenseful drama, the film is currently in production. Screen International can reveal the first image here.
TrustNordisk sales and project manager Silje Nikoline Glimsdal said:...
- 11/6/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Government-backed scheme is backing projects by Thomas Vinterberg, Alex van Warmerdam and Ramon Gieling.
The Netherlands film production incentive has announced today it is backing high-profile projects by Thomas Vinterberg and Alex van Warmerdam in its first funding round of 2019.
Overall the incentive will pump €10.5m ($11.79m) into 22 new productions and five high-end TV-series. This breaks down as 17 feature films, three feature length documentaries, two animated feature films, four drama series and one animated series, including 14 international co-productions. It is predicted the projects backed in this spending round will generate more than €40m ($35.64m) in production expenditure in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands film production incentive has announced today it is backing high-profile projects by Thomas Vinterberg and Alex van Warmerdam in its first funding round of 2019.
Overall the incentive will pump €10.5m ($11.79m) into 22 new productions and five high-end TV-series. This breaks down as 17 feature films, three feature length documentaries, two animated feature films, four drama series and one animated series, including 14 international co-productions. It is predicted the projects backed in this spending round will generate more than €40m ($35.64m) in production expenditure in the Netherlands.
- 4/4/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Mark Strong is set to star in new comic thriller “Temple” for Sky, the European pay-tv broadcaster announced Wednesday. Strong will be joined in the eight-part Sky original production by Dutch star Carice van Houten (“Game of Thrones”) and British actor Daniel Mays.
Set deep below the streets of London, “Temple” is described as a story of fate, chaos and consequence which asks how far you would go to save the person you love. It is written by playwright Mark O’Rowe and adapted from Norwegian drama series “Valkyrien.”
Strong stars as a surgeon working in an illegal clinic, set up in an abandoned subterranean network of tunnels. Driven by personal tragedy to treat anyone willing to pay for medical help outside the system he is assisted in his work by a guilt-ridden medical researcher (van Houten) and a disgruntled transport employee (Mays).
Strong, who also serves as an executive producer on the show,...
Set deep below the streets of London, “Temple” is described as a story of fate, chaos and consequence which asks how far you would go to save the person you love. It is written by playwright Mark O’Rowe and adapted from Norwegian drama series “Valkyrien.”
Strong stars as a surgeon working in an illegal clinic, set up in an abandoned subterranean network of tunnels. Driven by personal tragedy to treat anyone willing to pay for medical help outside the system he is assisted in his work by a guilt-ridden medical researcher (van Houten) and a disgruntled transport employee (Mays).
Strong, who also serves as an executive producer on the show,...
- 8/22/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Mark Strong (Kingsman), Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones) and Daniel Mays (Line of Duty) will star in the Sky-commissioned thriller series Temple. The high-concept eight-parter, produced by Hera Pictures head Liza Marshall (Riviera), is playwright Mark O’Rowe’s adaptation of the acclaimed Norwegian drama series Valkyrien about the workings of an illegal and subterranean clinic.
We first announced Strong for the darkly comic drama last summer when it was still in early stages. Additional cast is being finalized with production due to begin next month.
Strong will star as Daniel, a surgeon who is driven by personal tragedy to treat anyone in his underground London clinic who is willing to pay for medical help outside the system. Aided by Lee (Mays), a disgruntled transport employee, and Anna (van Houten), a guilt-ridden medical researcher, they treat a variety of increasingly desperate and highly dangerous patients, as Daniel...
We first announced Strong for the darkly comic drama last summer when it was still in early stages. Additional cast is being finalized with production due to begin next month.
Strong will star as Daniel, a surgeon who is driven by personal tragedy to treat anyone in his underground London clinic who is willing to pay for medical help outside the system. Aided by Lee (Mays), a disgruntled transport employee, and Anna (van Houten), a guilt-ridden medical researcher, they treat a variety of increasingly desperate and highly dangerous patients, as Daniel...
- 8/21/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The 46 projects include 25 feature and documentary works.
The Venice Gap-Financing Market has selected the projects for its 5th edition, to be held from August 31-September 2 during the Venice film festival.
Organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, the three-day event will present 46 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding.
The titles include 25 feature fiction and documentary projects; 15 virtual reality works; and six projects developed during the workshop of Biennale College Cinema.
Fiction projects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends Of The Earth (working title), which shot in Uzbekistan in April and May,...
The Venice Gap-Financing Market has selected the projects for its 5th edition, to be held from August 31-September 2 during the Venice film festival.
Organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, the three-day event will present 46 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding.
The titles include 25 feature fiction and documentary projects; 15 virtual reality works; and six projects developed during the workshop of Biennale College Cinema.
Fiction projects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends Of The Earth (working title), which shot in Uzbekistan in April and May,...
- 6/29/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 46 projects include 25 feature and documentary works.
The Venice Gap-Financing Market has selected the projects for its 5th edition, to be held from August 31-September 2 during the Venice film festival.
Organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, the three-day even will present 46 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding.
The titles include 25 feature fiction and documentary projects; 15 virtual reality works; and six projects developed during the workshop of Biennale College Cinema.
Fiction projects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends Of The Earth (working title), which shot in Uzbekistan in April and May,...
The Venice Gap-Financing Market has selected the projects for its 5th edition, to be held from August 31-September 2 during the Venice film festival.
Organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, the three-day even will present 46 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding.
The titles include 25 feature fiction and documentary projects; 15 virtual reality works; and six projects developed during the workshop of Biennale College Cinema.
Fiction projects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends Of The Earth (working title), which shot in Uzbekistan in April and May,...
- 6/29/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Emmanuelle Guilbart and Laurent Boissel’s up-and-coming Paris-based company About Premium Content is joining forces with Finish production company Mogul Movies to develop “Isolated,” a high-concept fantasy thriller series set in a remote island.
“Isolated” unfolds in a peaceful island plagued by a strange phenomenon which cuts the power and prevents the inhabitants from leaving. Meanwhile, a survivor of the Ms Estonia, a passenger ship that sank more than 24 years ago, washes ashore. Faced with those extraordinary events, the islanders quickly descend into paranoia and start fighting to gain control of local resources.
The 8-part series, now is development, is based on an original idea by Markos Annala, Lassi Vierikko and Petja Lähde, who co-wrote “Fingerpori,” a comedy about a fictional town and its uncommon people. Jari Olavi Rantala, a popular Finnish screenwriter who won the Jussi prize for “Frozen Land” in 2005 and is a frequent collaborator of director Aku Louhimies,...
“Isolated” unfolds in a peaceful island plagued by a strange phenomenon which cuts the power and prevents the inhabitants from leaving. Meanwhile, a survivor of the Ms Estonia, a passenger ship that sank more than 24 years ago, washes ashore. Faced with those extraordinary events, the islanders quickly descend into paranoia and start fighting to gain control of local resources.
The 8-part series, now is development, is based on an original idea by Markos Annala, Lassi Vierikko and Petja Lähde, who co-wrote “Fingerpori,” a comedy about a fictional town and its uncommon people. Jari Olavi Rantala, a popular Finnish screenwriter who won the Jussi prize for “Frozen Land” in 2005 and is a frequent collaborator of director Aku Louhimies,...
- 4/9/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
An interview with Kaweh Modiri, the Cinemart filmmaker who won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €20,000 for the development of an international co-production.
People who attend the Rotterdam Film Festival and Cinemart (Iffr for short) for the most part are an idealistic group truly believing that film can change the world. And the corollary to this is that we feel united with the world in our quest. The Dutch have always actively promoted international voices, in cinema, arts and in general. The Hubert Bals Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund seek coproductions and have a role in world cinema which belies the small size of their country.
Cinemart Winners
For those who are not aware, Holland (properly named The Netherlands, and the people speak Dutch — not Danish:) has always welcomed those fleeing persecution, war or famine. During the Spanish Inquisition the Dutch opened their doors and their arms to the...
People who attend the Rotterdam Film Festival and Cinemart (Iffr for short) for the most part are an idealistic group truly believing that film can change the world. And the corollary to this is that we feel united with the world in our quest. The Dutch have always actively promoted international voices, in cinema, arts and in general. The Hubert Bals Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund seek coproductions and have a role in world cinema which belies the small size of their country.
Cinemart Winners
For those who are not aware, Holland (properly named The Netherlands, and the people speak Dutch — not Danish:) has always welcomed those fleeing persecution, war or famine. During the Spanish Inquisition the Dutch opened their doors and their arms to the...
- 2/8/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The third annual First Time Fest took place in New York City this past weekend; a film festival that celebrates first time filmmakers, whether they are first time directors, writers, cinematographers, editors, composers and producers. The festival holds a competition for filmmakers all over the world to submit their film and win theatrical distribution as well as international sales. The festival is also the only festival to boast that sixteen of its eighteen competition films have garnered theatrical distribution in an international audience, something no other festival can claim. With such a great track record, it’s no doubt that these films are sure to exceed expectations and are worthy of viewing. Here are the films and what awards they won.
The Intruder (Infiltrant) is a film from Holland directed by Shariff Korver and written by him as well as Rogier de Blok. The film follows a Dutch-Moroccan undercover police...
The Intruder (Infiltrant) is a film from Holland directed by Shariff Korver and written by him as well as Rogier de Blok. The film follows a Dutch-Moroccan undercover police...
- 3/13/2015
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
The Third Annual First Time Fest took place over the past weekend in New York City, from March 5th to March 9th. The festival, which celebrates first time filmmakers, had numerous panels that discussed topics such as financing films to getting the right marketing for the film to even talks from established filmmakers sharing their advice. The festival concluded with the honoring of Harvey Weinstein, as a tribute for “his support of first time filmmakers.”
A purely New York City centric film festival, the festival’s founders of Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward chose to show the films at the Core Club, the Village East Cinema, and the Wild Project, while the discussions and panels were featured at the B Bar and Grill. The festival allows for a five day competition among films that were completed by first time filmmakers for the chance to win international sales and theatrical distribution.
A purely New York City centric film festival, the festival’s founders of Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward chose to show the films at the Core Club, the Village East Cinema, and the Wild Project, while the discussions and panels were featured at the B Bar and Grill. The festival allows for a five day competition among films that were completed by first time filmmakers for the chance to win international sales and theatrical distribution.
- 3/13/2015
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
Read More: SXSW Exclusive: Meet Davina In Clip From Romantic Drama 'I Believe In Unicorns' If you haven't heard of it before, the First Time Fest is exactly what it sounds like -- a festival designed to put the focus on first-time feature filmmakers, with an aim of shepherding in the next generation of great filmmakers. Held in New York, the five-day festival celebrated its third year. Here are the winners of this year's fest: Grand Prize Winner Of Theatrical Distribution & International Sales From Cinema Libre Studio The grand prize of the five-day festival went to "Infiltrant" ("The Intruder"), Holland-based Shariff Korver's thriller about a Dutch cop of Moroccan descent who goes undercover with a drug-trafficking Moroccan family and has something of an identity crisis along the way. The prize includes theatrical distribution and international sales from one of the festival's sponsors, Cinema Libre Studio. Ftf Award for Outstanding.
- 3/10/2015
- by Rosie Narasaki
- Indiewire
Name change follows move into co-production among other developments
Wild Bunch Benelux has been renamed September Film Distribution, effective today (Sept 1).
The film distribution company, founded nearly six years ago by Paris-based Wild Bunch and Pim Hermeling, has since become a leading arthouse distributor with titles such as The Hunt, Melancholia, The Broken Circle Breakdown and Nymphomaniac.
The distributor ended its collaboration with the French company in 2010 but retained the name.
However, several development at the firm have led to the decision to rebrand.
September Film Distribution will continue to focus on the acquisition of director-driven films and release arthouse productions theatrically and on DVD, VOD and other platforms.
But it recently set up a film distribution office in Belgium; purchased the Cartoons movie theatre in Antwerp; and developed large arthouse cinema complex Da Kade in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
It has also set up a production company and has a growing slate of films including Nicole van Kilsdonk’s Ventoux...
Wild Bunch Benelux has been renamed September Film Distribution, effective today (Sept 1).
The film distribution company, founded nearly six years ago by Paris-based Wild Bunch and Pim Hermeling, has since become a leading arthouse distributor with titles such as The Hunt, Melancholia, The Broken Circle Breakdown and Nymphomaniac.
The distributor ended its collaboration with the French company in 2010 but retained the name.
However, several development at the firm have led to the decision to rebrand.
September Film Distribution will continue to focus on the acquisition of director-driven films and release arthouse productions theatrically and on DVD, VOD and other platforms.
But it recently set up a film distribution office in Belgium; purchased the Cartoons movie theatre in Antwerp; and developed large arthouse cinema complex Da Kade in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
It has also set up a production company and has a growing slate of films including Nicole van Kilsdonk’s Ventoux...
- 9/1/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The lineups for the Mavericks, Discovery, and Tiff Kids parts of the Toronto Film Festival were announced, wrapping up a series of lineup announcements for the Toronto International Film Festival.
With the added films, the festival’s entire slate is now a whopping 393 movies. Two hundred eighty-five of those movies are feature films, of which 143 are world premieres.
The Mavericks portion of the festival includes onstage discussions following the screening of each film. Do I Sound Gay? will be followed by a talk between director David Thorpe and sex-advice guru Dan Savage. Also premiering in that space is The 50 Year Argument,...
With the added films, the festival’s entire slate is now a whopping 393 movies. Two hundred eighty-five of those movies are feature films, of which 143 are world premieres.
The Mavericks portion of the festival includes onstage discussions following the screening of each film. Do I Sound Gay? will be followed by a talk between director David Thorpe and sex-advice guru Dan Savage. Also premiering in that space is The 50 Year Argument,...
- 8/19/2014
- by Jacob Shamsian
- EW - Inside Movies
Bill Murray is coming to Toronto folks. Actually, the film he stars in (Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent) is having its official World Premiere launch at the jaw-dropping 285 feature film 2014 Tiff line-up. In the final batch of items we finally get the confirmation that 2014′s Palme d’Or Winner Winter Sleep (which gets added along with a trio of others to the Masters Programme) will show, and Tomm Moore’s highly anticipated Song of the Sea (among the four item line-up for Tiff Kids) also lands. Worth mentioning are the sprinkling of add-ons to the various other sections (Marjane Satrapi’s Sundance preemed The Voices, Matt Shakman’s Cut Bank and the world preem of Danis Tanovic’s Tigers) with a Studio Ghibli docu item being fitted into the Tiff Docs, but it is the Discovery Programme that finally takes shape.
The “up-and-comers” include Berlin Film Fest (and future Nyff...
The “up-and-comers” include Berlin Film Fest (and future Nyff...
- 8/19/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 2014 Toronto Film Festival lineup got a lot stronger this morning by adding several new titles to the Special Presentations, Masters, Documentaries, Vanguard and Contemporary World Cinema selection as well as announcing the Mavericks and Discovery Programme picks. Most notable selections begin with Special Presentations additions of The Weinstein's St. Vincent starring Bill Murray and Melissa McCarty and James Franco's The Sound and the Fury. The St. Vincent screening will be a world premiere and suggest Murray will be walking the Tiff red carpet... now that's a get for the fest I'm sure brings a smile to their face. In the Masters selection we have Studio Ghibli's The Tale of Princess Kaguya as well as the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep. The Vanguard selection has added The Voice, the lastest film from Persepolis helmer Marjane Satrapi and in the Mavericks selection...
- 8/19/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Bill Murray starrer St. Vincent will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of this week’s wave of programming that includes Discovery.
The Discovery section includes the upcoming world premiere of Stories Of Our Lives, a portmanteau of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex testimonies by anonymous filmmakers from Kenya.
Selections include first-looks of Ross Katz’s Us comedy Adult Beginners, Sarah Leonor’s French Legion drama The Great Man, Isidora Marras’ Chile-Argentinian psychothriller I Am Not Lorena and UK drama X + Y.
“Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay and David Gordon Green all presented their first features in our Discovery section,” said Tiff artistic director Cameron Bailey. “It’s a great place to spot new talent first.”
Besides St. Vincent, Festival Additions includes concert film cum road movie Roger Waters The Wall, while the world premiere of Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body takes its place among the Masters strand.
Tiff Docs arrivals...
The Discovery section includes the upcoming world premiere of Stories Of Our Lives, a portmanteau of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex testimonies by anonymous filmmakers from Kenya.
Selections include first-looks of Ross Katz’s Us comedy Adult Beginners, Sarah Leonor’s French Legion drama The Great Man, Isidora Marras’ Chile-Argentinian psychothriller I Am Not Lorena and UK drama X + Y.
“Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay and David Gordon Green all presented their first features in our Discovery section,” said Tiff artistic director Cameron Bailey. “It’s a great place to spot new talent first.”
Besides St. Vincent, Festival Additions includes concert film cum road movie Roger Waters The Wall, while the world premiere of Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body takes its place among the Masters strand.
Tiff Docs arrivals...
- 8/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
At Iffr this week, Dutch production outfit Lemming has revealed full details of its 2014 slate.
The company has attached Gregoire Colin (Before The Rain, Beau Travail) to star in David Verbeek’s new English-language feature Full Contact.
Co-produced by Nukleus Film, this is a drama outfit about a drone pilot riddled with guilt after bombing a school instead of a military training camp. It will shoot in Croatia. Sales agents are circling the project, which went through Cinefondation.
The financing is also now almost in place for another Verbeek project, the China-set vampire movie Dead & Beautiful, on Bac Films’ slate.
Another new Lemming co-production is No One’s Boy, the next feature from young Chilean auteur Frenando Guzzoni, whose 2012 film Dog Flesh was a prize winner in San Sebastian.
Jba (France), Solita (Chile) and Motlys (Norway) are co-producers of the family drama. The project was a prize winner recently at the Torino Film Lab.
The company...
The company has attached Gregoire Colin (Before The Rain, Beau Travail) to star in David Verbeek’s new English-language feature Full Contact.
Co-produced by Nukleus Film, this is a drama outfit about a drone pilot riddled with guilt after bombing a school instead of a military training camp. It will shoot in Croatia. Sales agents are circling the project, which went through Cinefondation.
The financing is also now almost in place for another Verbeek project, the China-set vampire movie Dead & Beautiful, on Bac Films’ slate.
Another new Lemming co-production is No One’s Boy, the next feature from young Chilean auteur Frenando Guzzoni, whose 2012 film Dog Flesh was a prize winner in San Sebastian.
Jba (France), Solita (Chile) and Motlys (Norway) are co-producers of the family drama. The project was a prize winner recently at the Torino Film Lab.
The company...
- 1/28/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
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