The Swedish Film Institute (Sfi) has appointed Svt executive Anna Croneman as its new CEO.
Croneman will start in the role in mid-April. She is a permanent replacement for temporary CEO Asa Sjoberg.
Sjoberg had been in the role since the departure of Anette Novak, who left the role abruptly in September 2023.
”I have worked as a commissioner of tv-drama and feature films at Svt for seven wonderful years and I guess I am ready for the next big challenge,” said Croneman. ”The film industry is in a troubled state, from the pandemic, with new players entering and changing viewer habits.
Croneman will start in the role in mid-April. She is a permanent replacement for temporary CEO Asa Sjoberg.
Sjoberg had been in the role since the departure of Anette Novak, who left the role abruptly in September 2023.
”I have worked as a commissioner of tv-drama and feature films at Svt for seven wonderful years and I guess I am ready for the next big challenge,” said Croneman. ”The film industry is in a troubled state, from the pandemic, with new players entering and changing viewer habits.
- 2/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Duván Duque, the Colombian writer-director behind 2024 Oscar-qualifying short All-Inclusive, has signed with UTA and Silent R Management.
World premiering at TIFF last year before going on to play over 70 festivals around the world, where it picked up 20+ awards, Duque’s latest watches as a young boy’s fragile family is shaken when his desperate father faces the possibility of money laundering as a way out of their financial struggles, putting the kid’s precious bond with his stepmother at risk. By shifting the focus from a spectacular tales of drug lords to the emotional journey of a boy with little control over his fate, the drama offers a fresh angle on Colombian society, transcending the typical tropes through which it’s represented.
All-Inclusive was produced by Oscar-nominated French producers Christophe Barral and Toufik Ayadi of Srab Films, as well as Colombian producer Franco Lolli...
World premiering at TIFF last year before going on to play over 70 festivals around the world, where it picked up 20+ awards, Duque’s latest watches as a young boy’s fragile family is shaken when his desperate father faces the possibility of money laundering as a way out of their financial struggles, putting the kid’s precious bond with his stepmother at risk. By shifting the focus from a spectacular tales of drug lords to the emotional journey of a boy with little control over his fate, the drama offers a fresh angle on Colombian society, transcending the typical tropes through which it’s represented.
All-Inclusive was produced by Oscar-nominated French producers Christophe Barral and Toufik Ayadi of Srab Films, as well as Colombian producer Franco Lolli...
- 12/15/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In a HollyShorts Film Festival awards ceremony that took place at midnight the day before a tropical storm was scheduled to his Los Angeles, Tari Wariebi’s “We Were Meant To” won a $60,000 prize and with the win qualified for the Academy Award in the Best Live Action Short category.
The awards were originally scheduled to be handed out on Sunday evening at the TLC Chinese Theatre, but they were moved to the unusual Saturday midnight slot as Hurricane Hilary approached.
“We Were Meant To,” set in a world where Black men can fly, won the Grand Prix for the best short in the 10-day festival, which began on Aug. 10 at the Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. For the first time, the top film also received a $60,000 prize from Panasonic, in addition to the Oscar qualification.
Three other films also qualified for this year’s Oscars by winning awards at HollyShorts: Misan Harriman’s “The After,...
The awards were originally scheduled to be handed out on Sunday evening at the TLC Chinese Theatre, but they were moved to the unusual Saturday midnight slot as Hurricane Hilary approached.
“We Were Meant To,” set in a world where Black men can fly, won the Grand Prix for the best short in the 10-day festival, which began on Aug. 10 at the Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. For the first time, the top film also received a $60,000 prize from Panasonic, in addition to the Oscar qualification.
Three other films also qualified for this year’s Oscars by winning awards at HollyShorts: Misan Harriman’s “The After,...
- 8/20/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Located in the very heart of Tinseltown itself, Hollyshorts is a key event in the short film awards calendar. As an Oscar-qualifying event, the Hollywood-based short film festival often acts as a bellwether for the awards season to come. With a wide plethora of shorts and plenty of prizes up for grabs, it was a programme that I simply couldn’t wait to dive right into. Split between American films that show off the diversity of the grand, complex melting pot of a nation and international efforts, from Italy, Israel, Malaysia and Sweden, varying wildly in tone, style and intention, the following selection of ten shorts is a testament to the very strong curatorial focus of the programming team. While often skewing more conventional than other short film festivals, the stories on show here are sure to provoke strong, visceral emotions, from real tearjerkers to laugh-out-loud comedies to tense thrillers.
- 8/8/2023
- by Redmond Bacon
- Directors Notes
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