The challenge is how best to support local filmmakers and appeal to the wider international industry.
Four festival directors from Transilvania, IndieLisboa, Thessaloniki and New Horizons came together for the latest edition of ScreenDaily Talks - held in partnership this time with Transilvania Iff (TIFF) – to discuss how their festivals contribute to boosting their respective local (and regional) film industries and forging those all-important connections with the wider international film community.
Watch the session above.
“TIFF started as a strictly audience festival when it was launched in 2002,” recalled TIFF artistic director Mihai Chirilov. “That was our main priority because we...
Four festival directors from Transilvania, IndieLisboa, Thessaloniki and New Horizons came together for the latest edition of ScreenDaily Talks - held in partnership this time with Transilvania Iff (TIFF) – to discuss how their festivals contribute to boosting their respective local (and regional) film industries and forging those all-important connections with the wider international film community.
Watch the session above.
“TIFF started as a strictly audience festival when it was launched in 2002,” recalled TIFF artistic director Mihai Chirilov. “That was our main priority because we...
- 7/27/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Of all the international film festivals to roll out the red carpet this summer in what feels like a global industry reboot, few can fall back on past experience when it comes to the logistics of an in-person pandemic edition. But amid the wave of cancellations that all but wiped out the calendar year in 2020, the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival managed to pull off what few others could, relying on a host of open-air venues to successfully welcome moviegoers to the medieval city of Cluj.
One year later, for what in a different era might have been a splashy 20th anniversary edition, TIFF founder Tudor Giurgiu admits, “I thought this year would be easier.” Just days after confusion over Pcr tests and vaccine certificates reigned on the Croisette, however, Giurgiu and the TIFF organizing team have realized that as the coronavirus’ deadly Delta variant sweeps across the globe, a return...
One year later, for what in a different era might have been a splashy 20th anniversary edition, TIFF founder Tudor Giurgiu admits, “I thought this year would be easier.” Just days after confusion over Pcr tests and vaccine certificates reigned on the Croisette, however, Giurgiu and the TIFF organizing team have realized that as the coronavirus’ deadly Delta variant sweeps across the globe, a return...
- 7/22/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
A man starting his second family is rudely pulled back into his first, with all the guilt and angst that entails, when his teenage son goes missing on a mountain hike in Daniel Sandu’s second feature, The Father Who Moves Mountains, produced by Cristian Mungiu. An adventure film with its heart in the modern tradition of Romanian film drama, it should appeal to a larger audience than pure art house fans. Its edgy story about an aging man of action confronting a mountain disaster and plunging headlong into a dangerous rescue operation ought to attract adventure lovers, aided by the initially breathless ...
- 6/18/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A man starting his second family is rudely pulled back into his first, with all the guilt and angst that entails, when his teenage son goes missing on a mountain hike in Daniel Sandu’s second feature, The Father Who Moves Mountains, produced by Cristian Mungiu. An adventure film with its heart in the modern tradition of Romanian film drama, it should appeal to a larger audience than pure art house fans. Its edgy story about an aging man of action confronting a mountain disaster and plunging headlong into a dangerous rescue operation ought to attract adventure lovers, aided by the initially breathless ...
- 6/18/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The feature film category consists of 13 international titles, all world premieres.
The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), which runs from June 11-20, has unveiled the competition titles for its long-standing Golden Goblet Awards.
The feature film category consists of 13 international titles, all world premieres, vying for eight awards. These include three from China: The Chanting Willows by Dai Wei, The Grace Ends by Wu Di, and Manchurian Tiger by Geng Jun.
The only other Asian title is Barbarian Invasion by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui who also appears in the film as the lead actress. The rest of the...
The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), which runs from June 11-20, has unveiled the competition titles for its long-standing Golden Goblet Awards.
The feature film category consists of 13 international titles, all world premieres, vying for eight awards. These include three from China: The Chanting Willows by Dai Wei, The Grace Ends by Wu Di, and Manchurian Tiger by Geng Jun.
The only other Asian title is Barbarian Invasion by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui who also appears in the film as the lead actress. The rest of the...
- 6/4/2021
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
After shifting last year to an online format, the Shanghai International Film Festival will return for its 24th edition later this month. The festival will play as an in-person event, while the market sections will be hybrids of in-person and online activities.
The TV festival runs from June 6, while the film festival runs from June 11-20. A prize ceremony for its Golden Goblet awards will be held on June 19.
The jury that will select the competition winners includes: Chinese producer Huang Jianxi as president; Singapore filmmaker Anthony Chen; Chinese director and actor Deng Chao; Italian film festival selector Marco Mueller; Shanghai-based French producer Natacha Devillers; and Chinese actor Song Jia.
Organizers said that the festival was being in the spirit of “strong recovery and leading momentum of Chinese films in the world, with three-fold focuses on Asia, attention to China and support for new talent.
Main Competition
“Amateurs”
Dir. Iwona Siekierzynska (Poland)
“Barbarian Invasion”
Dir.
The TV festival runs from June 6, while the film festival runs from June 11-20. A prize ceremony for its Golden Goblet awards will be held on June 19.
The jury that will select the competition winners includes: Chinese producer Huang Jianxi as president; Singapore filmmaker Anthony Chen; Chinese director and actor Deng Chao; Italian film festival selector Marco Mueller; Shanghai-based French producer Natacha Devillers; and Chinese actor Song Jia.
Organizers said that the festival was being in the spirit of “strong recovery and leading momentum of Chinese films in the world, with three-fold focuses on Asia, attention to China and support for new talent.
Main Competition
“Amateurs”
Dir. Iwona Siekierzynska (Poland)
“Barbarian Invasion”
Dir.
- 6/3/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Father Who Moved Mountains
Romania’s Daniel Sandu finds his sophomore film The Father Who Moved Mountains produced by Cristian Mungiu’s Mobra Films, which won the Arte International prize at Les Arcs back in 2016 and could potentially be ready to premiere in 2020. Previously, Sandu directed his 2017 debut One Step Behind the Seraphim, which won Best Screenplay at the 2018 Bucharest International Film Festival. His 2014 short film “Cai putere” premiered in Locarno.
Gist: Mircea, a retired intelligence officer in his late fifties, discovers his son from a previous marriage has gone missing in the mountains.…...
Romania’s Daniel Sandu finds his sophomore film The Father Who Moved Mountains produced by Cristian Mungiu’s Mobra Films, which won the Arte International prize at Les Arcs back in 2016 and could potentially be ready to premiere in 2020. Previously, Sandu directed his 2017 debut One Step Behind the Seraphim, which won Best Screenplay at the 2018 Bucharest International Film Festival. His 2014 short film “Cai putere” premiered in Locarno.
Gist: Mircea, a retired intelligence officer in his late fifties, discovers his son from a previous marriage has gone missing in the mountains.…...
- 12/30/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
HBO Europe has greenlit original series “Tuff Money” (“Bani Negri”), a six-part crime caper from Cristian Mungiu’s Mobra Films, the company behind Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” and HBO Europe’s “Hackerville.”
“Tuff Money” has been written and will be directed by Daniel Sandu, the writer and director of the film “One Step Behind the Seraphim” and a writer on “Hackerville.”
The Romanian series follows two lovable losers, who joke about being able to commit the perfect crime. The joke backfires when their words are misconstrued, and they find themselves forced into actually having to commit the robbery. They are totally unprepared, both for the crime and its bizarre aftermath.
“’Tuff Money’ is a funny and smart caper that is absolutely Romanian at heart, with a sensibility and charm giving it an appeal beyond local audiences,” Antony Root, exec VP, original programming and production,...
“Tuff Money” has been written and will be directed by Daniel Sandu, the writer and director of the film “One Step Behind the Seraphim” and a writer on “Hackerville.”
The Romanian series follows two lovable losers, who joke about being able to commit the perfect crime. The joke backfires when their words are misconstrued, and they find themselves forced into actually having to commit the robbery. They are totally unprepared, both for the crime and its bizarre aftermath.
“’Tuff Money’ is a funny and smart caper that is absolutely Romanian at heart, with a sensibility and charm giving it an appeal beyond local audiences,” Antony Root, exec VP, original programming and production,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Europe has greenlit a new original series from award-winning Romanian writer/director Daniel Sandu, a comedic caper with the working title Tuff Money.
The six-part series, whose Romanian working title is Bani negri (pentru zile albe), features two lovable losers joking about committing the "perfect crime." The series revolves around the events that unfold when the joke backfires and the pair is forced to actually commit the robbery, for which they are totally unprepared.
The show is produced by Romanian film director Cristian Mungiu's Mobra Films.
Antony Root, executive vp, original programming and production at HBO Europe, said: ...
The six-part series, whose Romanian working title is Bani negri (pentru zile albe), features two lovable losers joking about committing the "perfect crime." The series revolves around the events that unfold when the joke backfires and the pair is forced to actually commit the robbery, for which they are totally unprepared.
The show is produced by Romanian film director Cristian Mungiu's Mobra Films.
Antony Root, executive vp, original programming and production at HBO Europe, said: ...
- 7/23/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Building on the attention and opportunities that arrived following his 2007 Palme d’Or for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” Cristian Mungiu has transformed himself into a quiet force in the European film industry.
A ubiquitous presence on the festival circuit, the Romanian director has won prizes for his follow-up films “Beyond the Hills” and “Graduation,” served on juries at the Cannes and Marrakech film festivals, and acted as guest director for the TorinoFilmLab earlier this year.
Back in Marrakech for a career spanning masterclass, the filmmaker sat down with Variety to discuss his recent career developments and his upcoming projects.
What could you tell about your next feature film?
It’s the story of my grandmother, and it will be a larger-scale film than anything I’ve done so far. It’s a war film set in the past, so the production needs a bit more time. I originally had written it as a book,...
A ubiquitous presence on the festival circuit, the Romanian director has won prizes for his follow-up films “Beyond the Hills” and “Graduation,” served on juries at the Cannes and Marrakech film festivals, and acted as guest director for the TorinoFilmLab earlier this year.
Back in Marrakech for a career spanning masterclass, the filmmaker sat down with Variety to discuss his recent career developments and his upcoming projects.
What could you tell about your next feature film?
It’s the story of my grandmother, and it will be a larger-scale film than anything I’ve done so far. It’s a war film set in the past, so the production needs a bit more time. I originally had written it as a book,...
- 12/8/2018
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Europe and German broadcaster TNT Serie have released the first trailer for their six-part cyber drama Hackerville, which will also be available in the U.S.
The two broadcasters are launching the show, produced by Deutschland 83 producer Ufa Fiction and Mobra Films in November with HBO Europe airing the show in Central Europe, Scandinavia and Spain on Sunday 4 November and TNT Serie premiering the series in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Thursday 8 November. It will also be available to U.S. HBO subscribers across HBO Go, HBO Now and HBO On Demand, although a premiere date has not been set.
Hackerville follows a network of hackers and the investigators tasked with tracking them down. It is both broadcasters’ first moves into co-productions.
It was created by Ralph Martin and Joerg Winger from Ufa Fiction and will be produced by Cristian Mungiu and Tudor Reu and exec produced by Winger and Johnathan Young.
The two broadcasters are launching the show, produced by Deutschland 83 producer Ufa Fiction and Mobra Films in November with HBO Europe airing the show in Central Europe, Scandinavia and Spain on Sunday 4 November and TNT Serie premiering the series in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Thursday 8 November. It will also be available to U.S. HBO subscribers across HBO Go, HBO Now and HBO On Demand, although a premiere date has not been set.
Hackerville follows a network of hackers and the investigators tasked with tracking them down. It is both broadcasters’ first moves into co-productions.
It was created by Ralph Martin and Joerg Winger from Ufa Fiction and will be produced by Cristian Mungiu and Tudor Reu and exec produced by Winger and Johnathan Young.
- 9/20/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The opening of “One Step Behind the Seraphim” offers that instant satisfaction of knowing you’re watching a talented novice director and cinematographer who’ve learned their craft and understand what to do with it. Although that sensation doesn’t fade throughout the overlong running time, it’s tempered by the equally clear realization that trimming about half an hour would make this autobiographical story set in a Romanian Orthodox seminary both better and significantly more marketable. What’s more, the extra fat isn’t exactly hidden, so making cuts wouldn’t have been so difficult. Still, Daniel Sandu proves he’s a director to watch, and the film swept Romania’s Gopo Awards last year. At this point, chances for international exposure are slight, but as a calling card for future productions, “Seraphim” should open doors.
In interviews, Sandu has said the script is more than 80% real, despite condensing...
In interviews, Sandu has said the script is more than 80% real, despite condensing...
- 6/3/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses,” a Paraguayan-set story of sisterhood and entrapment, won the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival’s top prize Saturday, capping a week of honoring “films that dare,” in the words of its artistic chief Mihai Chirilov.
Crowds filled the ornate, 19th-century national theater in Cluj for the awards gala simulcast Saturday, marking the close of Romania’s top international art film fest, which this year focused on presenting fresh perspectives and provocative work in half a dozen sections, along with industry tech workshops, sessions on micro-budget filmmaking and popular screenings of archival films, often with live orchestral accompaniment.
The awards gala honored Hlynur Palmason with the director prize for Icelandic-Danish sibling rivalry story “Winter Brothers” while all three actors from U.K.-Spanish fertility triangle tale “Anchor and Hope,” Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin and David Verdaguer, shared the best performance prize.
Asghar Yousefinejad’s “The Home,” an...
Crowds filled the ornate, 19th-century national theater in Cluj for the awards gala simulcast Saturday, marking the close of Romania’s top international art film fest, which this year focused on presenting fresh perspectives and provocative work in half a dozen sections, along with industry tech workshops, sessions on micro-budget filmmaking and popular screenings of archival films, often with live orchestral accompaniment.
The awards gala honored Hlynur Palmason with the director prize for Icelandic-Danish sibling rivalry story “Winter Brothers” while all three actors from U.K.-Spanish fertility triangle tale “Anchor and Hope,” Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin and David Verdaguer, shared the best performance prize.
Asghar Yousefinejad’s “The Home,” an...
- 6/3/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Cable company HBO Europe has started to shoot cyber-crime thriller series “Hackerville” in Transilvania, a region of Romania, as its first international co-production, building on a string of locally shot productions, including Romania-set detective series “Umbre” (pictured).
“It will put Romania on the map of the international TV drama scene,” says co-creator and executive producer Joerg Winger (“Deutschland 83”), adding he was won over by the location “as a dynamic and colorful place with a vastly unexplored history and present.”
The project was “created in a truly multi-cultural process, with great Romanian talent attached,” Winger adds, with music a key component, as it was in “Deutschland 83,” the Cold War-set spy series for AMC Networks’ SundanceTV and Rtl Television.
The original six-part “Hackerville,” about a network of hackers and the investigators tasked with tracking them down, co-produced with TNT Serie, was created by Ralph Martin and Winger for Ufa Fiction,...
“It will put Romania on the map of the international TV drama scene,” says co-creator and executive producer Joerg Winger (“Deutschland 83”), adding he was won over by the location “as a dynamic and colorful place with a vastly unexplored history and present.”
The project was “created in a truly multi-cultural process, with great Romanian talent attached,” Winger adds, with music a key component, as it was in “Deutschland 83,” the Cold War-set spy series for AMC Networks’ SundanceTV and Rtl Television.
The original six-part “Hackerville,” about a network of hackers and the investigators tasked with tracking them down, co-produced with TNT Serie, was created by Ralph Martin and Winger for Ufa Fiction,...
- 6/2/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
For a movement that announced itself with a proverbial flatline, with Cristi Puiu’s dry, sardonic, darkly comic “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” (2005), the Romanian New Wave seems poised for a dramatic rebirth.
More than a decade after Puiu took home the Un Certain Regard Award, and Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d’Or in 2007 for his harrowing abortion drama, “4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days,” Romanian cinema is on the brink of a “new New Wave,” says Transilvania Intl. Film Festival artistic director Mihai Chirilov.
As the fest unspools its essential Romanian Days program, beginning on May 30, audiences are witnessing “first-time filmmakers that… are completely different than the aesthetic of the New Wave,” says Chirilov. Breaking from the muted palettes, flat compositions, and slow-burn realism of their predecessors, they’re bringing “a more than welcome freshness to what Romanian cinema is, and the idea of how Romanian cinema is perceived abroad.
More than a decade after Puiu took home the Un Certain Regard Award, and Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d’Or in 2007 for his harrowing abortion drama, “4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days,” Romanian cinema is on the brink of a “new New Wave,” says Transilvania Intl. Film Festival artistic director Mihai Chirilov.
As the fest unspools its essential Romanian Days program, beginning on May 30, audiences are witnessing “first-time filmmakers that… are completely different than the aesthetic of the New Wave,” says Chirilov. Breaking from the muted palettes, flat compositions, and slow-burn realism of their predecessors, they’re bringing “a more than welcome freshness to what Romanian cinema is, and the idea of how Romanian cinema is perceived abroad.
- 5/30/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
A coming-of-age story set in an Orthodox theological school is hardly the stuff of Hollywood summer tentpoles. But after cleaning up at March’s Gopo Awards – Romania’s equivalent to the Oscars – first-time director Daniel Sandu realized he’d struck a chord with local audiences with his unexpected crowd-pleaser, “One Step Behind the Seraphim.”
“It gave us a signal that what we are trying to do for the industry is a good thing,” he says.
Sandu’s break-out debut was based on his own experiences as a teenage boy who enrolled in a seminary. At the time, he says, he thought it would be “something like [the] Harry Potter school,” though his five years at St. George Orthodox Theological Seminary would be a far cry from Hogwarts-in-the-Carpathians.
What he discovered there was a Machiavellian world of dizzying intrigues and double-crosses, where favor from the seminary’s corrupt priests could be bought and bartered for,...
“It gave us a signal that what we are trying to do for the industry is a good thing,” he says.
Sandu’s break-out debut was based on his own experiences as a teenage boy who enrolled in a seminary. At the time, he says, he thought it would be “something like [the] Harry Potter school,” though his five years at St. George Orthodox Theological Seminary would be a far cry from Hogwarts-in-the-Carpathians.
What he discovered there was a Machiavellian world of dizzying intrigues and double-crosses, where favor from the seminary’s corrupt priests could be bought and bartered for,...
- 5/24/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Duo first collaborated on Berlinale Generation title Adam.
Veteran indie producer Jim Stark is to continue his collaboration with the Icelandic filmmaker Maria Solrun on her third feature Man In The Storeroom after their first partnership on the Berlinale Generation title Adam.
“Adam benefited a great deal from Jim’s long experience and extensive contacts,” said Solrun who produced the project through the Berlin-based production outfit Big Key Film which she set up last year with her actor son Magnus Mariuson, who also played the lead role.
“We all want to do Man In The Storeroom with a larger budget...
Veteran indie producer Jim Stark is to continue his collaboration with the Icelandic filmmaker Maria Solrun on her third feature Man In The Storeroom after their first partnership on the Berlinale Generation title Adam.
“Adam benefited a great deal from Jim’s long experience and extensive contacts,” said Solrun who produced the project through the Berlin-based production outfit Big Key Film which she set up last year with her actor son Magnus Mariuson, who also played the lead role.
“We all want to do Man In The Storeroom with a larger budget...
- 3/14/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The €50,000 prize sponsored by Eurimages goes to a Spanish-French co production that mixes science fiction and documentary.
The European Film Festival of Les Arcs, held December 10-17 in the French Alps, awarded the industry prizes yesterday (December 12). From the 16 films that were presented in their postproduction stage at the Work In Progress section, The Hidden City won the €50,000 Eurimages Lab Project Award.
The jury - composed of French directors Bertrand Bonello and Clément Cogitore, Italian festival programmer Beatrice Fiorentino, Finnish festival director Sara Norberg and Eurimages Luxembourg Representative Karin Schockweller - was impressed by the unlikely use of the science fiction imagery within the documentary, directed by Victor Moreno.
Set in a labyrinth of tunnels, sewers, transportation networks and underground stations, this Spanish and French co production by El Viaje Films and Pomme Hurlante Films tells the story of the subterrean heart of the world’s most developed cities.
A delighted Moreno (Goya nominated for The Building...
The European Film Festival of Les Arcs, held December 10-17 in the French Alps, awarded the industry prizes yesterday (December 12). From the 16 films that were presented in their postproduction stage at the Work In Progress section, The Hidden City won the €50,000 Eurimages Lab Project Award.
The jury - composed of French directors Bertrand Bonello and Clément Cogitore, Italian festival programmer Beatrice Fiorentino, Finnish festival director Sara Norberg and Eurimages Luxembourg Representative Karin Schockweller - was impressed by the unlikely use of the science fiction imagery within the documentary, directed by Victor Moreno.
Set in a labyrinth of tunnels, sewers, transportation networks and underground stations, this Spanish and French co production by El Viaje Films and Pomme Hurlante Films tells the story of the subterrean heart of the world’s most developed cities.
A delighted Moreno (Goya nominated for The Building...
- 12/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
A total of 21 projects will be presented at the development and financing platform.
Caroline Deruas, Jonathan Nossiter and David Verbeek will be among the directors presenting their upcoming projects at the eighth edition of the Les Arcs Coproduction Village (Dec 10-13).
A total of 24 projects will presented at the three-day event unfolding within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (10-17) which announced the bulk of its programme last week.
Verbeek will present his long-gestating vampire project Dead & Beautiful.
Jonathan Nossiter will be at the market with The Last Words, his big screen adaptation of France-based Argentine writer Santiago Amigorena’s novel Mes derniers mots revolving around the last two members of the human race as they contemplate a world destroyed by mankind.
Deruas will present her second feature Sad Liza after Daydreams which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival over the summer.
Two animation projects have also made it into this year’s selection, Dutch experimental...
Caroline Deruas, Jonathan Nossiter and David Verbeek will be among the directors presenting their upcoming projects at the eighth edition of the Les Arcs Coproduction Village (Dec 10-13).
A total of 24 projects will presented at the three-day event unfolding within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (10-17) which announced the bulk of its programme last week.
Verbeek will present his long-gestating vampire project Dead & Beautiful.
Jonathan Nossiter will be at the market with The Last Words, his big screen adaptation of France-based Argentine writer Santiago Amigorena’s novel Mes derniers mots revolving around the last two members of the human race as they contemplate a world destroyed by mankind.
Deruas will present her second feature Sad Liza after Daydreams which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival over the summer.
Two animation projects have also made it into this year’s selection, Dutch experimental...
- 11/17/2016
- ScreenDaily
Details revealed of 10 upcoming European features seeking distribution and sales agents.Scroll down for project details
Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 12-19) hosted its fifth annual Work in Progress event on Monday (Dec 14), offering industry a first look at 10 forthcoming features and documentaries from across Europe – eight of which are directed by female film-makers.
Hosted by the festival’s artistic director, Frederic Boyer, directors and producers seeking sales agents and distribution introduced short clips of their films before discussing the productions, 2,000m up at the French ski resort.
A jury comprising Karlovy Vary artistic director Karel Och, Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrain and Haugesund managing director Gyda Velvin Myklebust chose Elina Psykou’s Son Of Sofia as the winner of the Digimage prize, worth €4,000 in services from post-production lab Monal Group [more here].
At the end of the event, Eurimages took the opportunity to announce that Les Arcs was one of four festivals selected for its new Lab...
Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 12-19) hosted its fifth annual Work in Progress event on Monday (Dec 14), offering industry a first look at 10 forthcoming features and documentaries from across Europe – eight of which are directed by female film-makers.
Hosted by the festival’s artistic director, Frederic Boyer, directors and producers seeking sales agents and distribution introduced short clips of their films before discussing the productions, 2,000m up at the French ski resort.
A jury comprising Karlovy Vary artistic director Karel Och, Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrain and Haugesund managing director Gyda Velvin Myklebust chose Elina Psykou’s Son Of Sofia as the winner of the Digimage prize, worth €4,000 in services from post-production lab Monal Group [more here].
At the end of the event, Eurimages took the opportunity to announce that Les Arcs was one of four festivals selected for its new Lab...
- 12/14/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Kevorkian, Shoval, Haq, Fiennes, Sigurðsson, Nikonova and Runarsson heading to Les Arcs European Film Festival with upcoming projects.Scroll down for full list of projects
The UK’s Johnny Kevorkian and Sophie Fiennes, Israeli Tom Shoval, Norwegian Iram Haq and Russia’s Angelina Nikonova will be among the filmmakers presenting their upcoming projects at the Les Arcs Co-Production Village this year.
The event, running Dec 13-16 within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 13-20), will present 25 projects in development and a further 10 Works-in-Progress.
“I thinks it’s a good sign that filmmakers whose projects we presented in development are now coming back to show their films in Work-in-Progress, which is the case for Sparrow and Rams,” said Les Arcs industry head Vanja Kaludjercic.
“Conversely, we’ve got directors who presented in Works-in Progress, such as Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, who came with Paris of the North last year, who is back with his new project The Tree...
The UK’s Johnny Kevorkian and Sophie Fiennes, Israeli Tom Shoval, Norwegian Iram Haq and Russia’s Angelina Nikonova will be among the filmmakers presenting their upcoming projects at the Les Arcs Co-Production Village this year.
The event, running Dec 13-16 within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 13-20), will present 25 projects in development and a further 10 Works-in-Progress.
“I thinks it’s a good sign that filmmakers whose projects we presented in development are now coming back to show their films in Work-in-Progress, which is the case for Sparrow and Rams,” said Les Arcs industry head Vanja Kaludjercic.
“Conversely, we’ve got directors who presented in Works-in Progress, such as Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, who came with Paris of the North last year, who is back with his new project The Tree...
- 11/24/2014
- ScreenDaily
Russia big winner at FilmFestival Cottbus for second consecutive year.
Russia was the big winner for the second year in a row at the FilmFestival Cottbus with Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Corrections Class picking up four awards at the weekend.
The feature debut received the International Jury’s main prize ¨for its unsentimental and unpretentious presentation of a powerful social theme presented through the prism of an excellent ensemble performance¨, thereby qualifying for the Connecting Cottbus Special Pitch Award, which will allow Tverdovsky and his producers to pitch a new project at the East-West co-production market in a year’s time.
Tverdovsky’s Russian-German co-production, which won the Best Debut prize at Kinotavr in Sochi and the East of the West Award in Karlovy Vary, also picked up the prizes from the Fipresci and Interfilm juries in Cottbus.
Last year, the main prize at Cottbus went to Russian director Alexander Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe...
Russia was the big winner for the second year in a row at the FilmFestival Cottbus with Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Corrections Class picking up four awards at the weekend.
The feature debut received the International Jury’s main prize ¨for its unsentimental and unpretentious presentation of a powerful social theme presented through the prism of an excellent ensemble performance¨, thereby qualifying for the Connecting Cottbus Special Pitch Award, which will allow Tverdovsky and his producers to pitch a new project at the East-West co-production market in a year’s time.
Tverdovsky’s Russian-German co-production, which won the Best Debut prize at Kinotavr in Sochi and the East of the West Award in Karlovy Vary, also picked up the prizes from the Fipresci and Interfilm juries in Cottbus.
Last year, the main prize at Cottbus went to Russian director Alexander Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe...
- 11/10/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Cinetic, Oscilloscope and Koch Media are among the first-time companies attending the Locarno Film Festival this year.
A number of international buyers and sellers are due to attend the Locarno Film Festival for the first time this year.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, Industry Days chief Nadia Dresti confirmed that Ryan Werner of Us sales and distribution company Cinetic and David Laub of Us based distribution and production company Oscilloscope will be coming to Locarno as well as Genevieve Segall of UK distributor Koch Media.
Also attending for the first time will be Nicolas Eschbach (Indie Sales France), Michael Werner (Fortissimo, Hong Kong), Joao Pablo Abreu (Films4you, Portugal), Steven Beswick (The Works Group, UK), Michael Auret (Spierfilm, South Africa), Clive Fisher (Sterkino, South Africa) and Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision, Brazil).
This year also sees Locarno teaming up with the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj to showcase the winners of the first Transilvania Pitch Stop...
A number of international buyers and sellers are due to attend the Locarno Film Festival for the first time this year.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, Industry Days chief Nadia Dresti confirmed that Ryan Werner of Us sales and distribution company Cinetic and David Laub of Us based distribution and production company Oscilloscope will be coming to Locarno as well as Genevieve Segall of UK distributor Koch Media.
Also attending for the first time will be Nicolas Eschbach (Indie Sales France), Michael Werner (Fortissimo, Hong Kong), Joao Pablo Abreu (Films4you, Portugal), Steven Beswick (The Works Group, UK), Michael Auret (Spierfilm, South Africa), Clive Fisher (Sterkino, South Africa) and Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision, Brazil).
This year also sees Locarno teaming up with the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj to showcase the winners of the first Transilvania Pitch Stop...
- 7/16/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Transilvania International Film Festival’s (Tiff) main prize went this year to Spanish film-maker Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Stockholm as the week-long festival came to a close on June 8.
The second feature also picked up the Best Performance Award for leads Javier Pereira and Aura Garrido at the gala awards ceremony on Saturday evening (7).
Almost lost for words as he accepted the prize on the stage of Cluj’s National Theatre, an elated Sorogoyen (pictured) said that these were the film’s first international awards.
Stockholm previously earned best actress and new screenwriter honours in Malaga last year and a Goya this year for Pereira.
Tiff’s international jury including Chicago Film Festival director Michael Kutza, Nfts director Nik Powell and Hungarian film-maker Janos Szasz, presented their Best Directing Award to Poland’s Tomasz Wasilewski for his second feature Floating Skyscrapers and the Special Jury Award to Bulgaria’s Maya Vitkova for her debut Viktoria, which had its...
The second feature also picked up the Best Performance Award for leads Javier Pereira and Aura Garrido at the gala awards ceremony on Saturday evening (7).
Almost lost for words as he accepted the prize on the stage of Cluj’s National Theatre, an elated Sorogoyen (pictured) said that these were the film’s first international awards.
Stockholm previously earned best actress and new screenwriter honours in Malaga last year and a Goya this year for Pereira.
Tiff’s international jury including Chicago Film Festival director Michael Kutza, Nfts director Nik Powell and Hungarian film-maker Janos Szasz, presented their Best Directing Award to Poland’s Tomasz Wasilewski for his second feature Floating Skyscrapers and the Special Jury Award to Bulgaria’s Maya Vitkova for her debut Viktoria, which had its...
- 6/8/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
A gala open-air screening of Stephen Frears’ Philomena will tonight (May 30) launch the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) which is expanding its industry dimension for its 13th edition.
This weekend will see the festival focusing its attention on the ¨Save The Big Screen¨ campaign, launched under the auspices of Romania Film Promotion, which aims to halt the disappearance of cinemas outside of the main centres of population and create a network of digital cinemas throughout the country.
A conference will be held on May 31 bringing together officials from the Ministry of Culture, local authorities, Romania Film, cinema managers, film-makers and foreign guests such as Marta Materska-Samek, from Poland’s Cinema Development Foundation Bard, Ivo Andrle of Czech exhibitor Aero Films, and Tina Hajon, Head of Exhibition at the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
Debate will centre, for example, on the foreign guests’ experiences of accessing European funds for cinema renovation and digitisation programmes, as well as...
This weekend will see the festival focusing its attention on the ¨Save The Big Screen¨ campaign, launched under the auspices of Romania Film Promotion, which aims to halt the disappearance of cinemas outside of the main centres of population and create a network of digital cinemas throughout the country.
A conference will be held on May 31 bringing together officials from the Ministry of Culture, local authorities, Romania Film, cinema managers, film-makers and foreign guests such as Marta Materska-Samek, from Poland’s Cinema Development Foundation Bard, Ivo Andrle of Czech exhibitor Aero Films, and Tina Hajon, Head of Exhibition at the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
Debate will centre, for example, on the foreign guests’ experiences of accessing European funds for cinema renovation and digitisation programmes, as well as...
- 5/30/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Since 2004, Short Film Corner which takes up the bottom lobby portion of the Cannes Film Festival market has granted producers and directors the possibility to show their films and more importantly, shake hands and make connections. This year, the Romanian Short Waves – part of the Short Film Corner – includes 9 short films: Tatăl meu e cel mai tare/My Father is the Best – director Radu Potcoavă, 24 găleți, 7 șoareci, 18 ani/24 buckets, 7 mice, 18 years – director Marius Iacob, Lost Springs 2 – director Andrei Dobrescu, Chefu’ /The Party – director Adrian Sitaru, Hello, Kitty – director Millo Simulov, Numărătoarea manuală – director Daniel Sandu, Fotografii de familie/Family Pictures – director Andrei Cohn, Stremț ’89 – directors Anda Pușcaș and Dragoș Dulea (see pic above), and Wedding Duet – director Goran Mihailov.
These films are joined by Cristi Iftime’s Tabăra din Răzoare/The Camp in Razoare – also selected for Cinefondation, Betoniera – director Liviu Săndulescu, Așteptând zorile – director Mihai Sofronea, Micile vedete...
These films are joined by Cristi Iftime’s Tabăra din Răzoare/The Camp in Razoare – also selected for Cinefondation, Betoniera – director Liviu Săndulescu, Așteptând zorile – director Mihai Sofronea, Micile vedete...
- 5/14/2012
- by Marin Apostol
- IONCINEMA.com
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