Momento Film, the leading Swedish banner founded by David Herdies (“Winter Buoy”) and Michael Krotkiewski (“Bellum — The Daemon Of War”), is boasting a slate of projects including the documentaries “Leaving Jesus” and “The Underdog,” as well as Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet.”
While at Cannes, the banner also started teasing one of its biggest project so far, “The Swedish Torpedo,” Frida Kempff (“Winter Buoy”)’s period film inspired by the life of Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim across the English Channel in 1939. “The Swedish Torpedo” will start shooting in August with a topnotch cast led by Josefin Neldén, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, as well as Lisa Carlehed (“The Emigrants”).
Co-produced by Sweden, Estonia, Belgium and England, the film opens in 1939, as Europe is on the brink of war. Sally, a 30-year-old single mom, dreams of being the first European woman to cross the English Channel. While society and...
While at Cannes, the banner also started teasing one of its biggest project so far, “The Swedish Torpedo,” Frida Kempff (“Winter Buoy”)’s period film inspired by the life of Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim across the English Channel in 1939. “The Swedish Torpedo” will start shooting in August with a topnotch cast led by Josefin Neldén, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, as well as Lisa Carlehed (“The Emigrants”).
Co-produced by Sweden, Estonia, Belgium and England, the film opens in 1939, as Europe is on the brink of war. Sally, a 30-year-old single mom, dreams of being the first European woman to cross the English Channel. While society and...
- 5/31/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
60 projects selected for the 30th edition of the industry meet.
IDFA Forum, the co-production and co-financing market of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, has selected 60 projects for its 2022 edition, including The Eternal Memory, a new feature from The Mole Agent director Maite Alberdi.
Produced by Alberdi’s Chilean company Micromundo Producciones and Pablo Larrain’s Chilean firm Fabula, the film is described by IDFA as “an intimate meditation on love and memory that observes a couple dealing with Alzheimer’s over a four-year period”.
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It is one of 22 projects in the market’s flagship Forum Pitch category,...
IDFA Forum, the co-production and co-financing market of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, has selected 60 projects for its 2022 edition, including The Eternal Memory, a new feature from The Mole Agent director Maite Alberdi.
Produced by Alberdi’s Chilean company Micromundo Producciones and Pablo Larrain’s Chilean firm Fabula, the film is described by IDFA as “an intimate meditation on love and memory that observes a couple dealing with Alzheimer’s over a four-year period”.
Scroll down for the full list of IDFA projects
It is one of 22 projects in the market’s flagship Forum Pitch category,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
"Tpb Afk: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard," Simon Klose's documentary about the notorious Torrent site, will be getting a release across all broadband VOD platforms on Tuesday, March 12, courtesy of Filmbuff, the company announced today. The film, which had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, made its North American debut at SXSW last night on March 8. The film profiles the three founders of the Swedish file-sharing platform The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, looking at their philosophy, their legal issues and the criminal charges and $13 million infringement case with which they were charged. Read More: Watch Pirate Bay Documentary 'Tpb Afk' Online For Free (Of Course) In the announcement, Klose said, "I want to experiment with new digital tools without closing down the Internet. I feel strongly that an open library of cultural works can coexist with a blooming digital economy.
- 3/9/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
★★★☆☆ Founded in 2003 by "a couple of guys in a [internet] chatroom," peer-to-peer file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was responsible for co-ordinating half of the world's bit-torrent traffic by 2009. With an estimated 22-25 million users downloading from the site at any one time, Tpb is clearly a principal player. It's claimed that major motion picture studios suffered $6.1 billion losses at the hands of piracy in 2005. That's the kind of thing that puts a trio of Swedish tech-geeks firmly in the sights of Hollywood's big guns. Their ongoing trial is the focus of Simon Klose's documentary, Tpb Afk: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013) (watch for free below).
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- 2/15/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
A funny thing happened in the moments leading up to the Berlin International Film Festival world premiere of "The Pirate Bay: Away From Keyboard," a documentary about the prosecution of the titular Swedish file sharing site's founders. Minutes before the screening, director Simon Klose called a friend up in front of the audience and asked him to unlock a version of the movie uploaded to YouTube, appropriately setting the stage for a tale focused on internet freedoms. The lights went down; the screen lit up. But before "Tpb Afk" started, the same warning sign preceding all movies at the festival appeared. "Film piracy is illegal," it read, an inadvertent irony not lost on the majority of the room. Chuckles circulated. In a way, the story had begun before a single frame. At the root of "Tpb Afk" is a fundamental tension between conventional views on copyright law and the emerging standards of digitally savvy users.
- 2/9/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It's only fitting that "Tpb Afk: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard," a documentary about Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm (who's currently in prison in Sweden), the founders of the notorious file sharing site and copyright lawsuit magnet The Pirate Bay, would end up online for free just as the film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival today. It's all part of the plan for the film, which opened the festival doc section while simultaneously being posted onto YouTube as well as, of course, the site on which it's centered. Directed by Simon Klose, "Tpb Afk" was funded by a combination of Swedish government art grants and a $25,000 Kickstarter campaign. The film's also available for digital purchase and DVD pre-order here, and Klose, who released the film under a Creative Commons license, also plans to upload a remix-friendly version that doesn't include the four minutes of archive material in the.
- 2/8/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Some of the best films of the 2012/2013 calender year from Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Bujalski, Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, Shane Carruth and Joshua Oppenheimer are among the headliner names for the 2013 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival. With a little over 100 plus film line-up (a whopping 2000+ titles were submitted), almost 70 are world premieres: there is the highly anticipated sophomore film (that has been on our radar since it first went into production) with M. Blash’s (The Wait), Joe Swanberg who makes SXSW his second home will premiere Drinking Buddies, veteran indie filmmaker John Sayles saddles in with Go For Sisters, and rounding out the Narrative Spotlight section we’ve got The Bounceback from Bryan Poyser, Loves Her Gun from Geoff Marslett along with titles we thought might break into Park City, but found an Austin home instead with Jacob Vaughan’s Milo and...
- 2/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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