The San Sebastian Film Festival today announced the line-up of its Kutxabank-New Directors Award, which seeks to discover new filmmaking talent.
Thirteen films will compete in the section, all made by first or second-time filmmakers.
Among the names, who have previously created waves in non-feature format, are Swedish photographer Jens Assur, whose 2011 short Killing Chickens To Scare Monkeys, won several festival awards. Here, he makes his debut with Ravens (Korparna) - the story of a young buy who is hell-bent on his son taking over the running of the family farm.
Also making the step up from short films - and TV show The Natives (Bevergem) - is director/screenwriter Gilles coulier. The Belgian brings his debut feature Cargo to San Sebastian, exploring conflict between three siblings of a family on the edge of an abyss.
Laura Mora is one of the directors screening their second film...
Thirteen films will compete in the section, all made by first or second-time filmmakers.
Among the names, who have previously created waves in non-feature format, are Swedish photographer Jens Assur, whose 2011 short Killing Chickens To Scare Monkeys, won several festival awards. Here, he makes his debut with Ravens (Korparna) - the story of a young buy who is hell-bent on his son taking over the running of the family farm.
Also making the step up from short films - and TV show The Natives (Bevergem) - is director/screenwriter Gilles coulier. The Belgian brings his debut feature Cargo to San Sebastian, exploring conflict between three siblings of a family on the edge of an abyss.
Laura Mora is one of the directors screening their second film...
- 7/18/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Thirteen first and second films revealed.
The San Sebastian Film Festival has revealed 13 of the first and second films by European, Asian and Latin American filmmakers set to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award.
Among the films are Chilean film Princess, produced by Juan de Dios, Pablo Larraín and Fernanda del Nido, and the first film by Marine Francen, former assistant to Michael Haneke and Olivier Assayas, starring Pauline Burlet (The Past) and Géraldine Pailhas (Young & Beautiful).
Princess is the second feature film by Marialy Rivas. The Chilean director debuted with Young & Wild (Joven & Alocada) selected for Films in Progress 20 at the San Sebastian Festival (2011) and a competitor in Horizontes Latinos after winning the World Cinema Screenwriting Award at Sundance in 2012.
The film, which was selected by Films in Progress 28, narrates the experience of a 12-year-old girl living in a sect.
The Sower (Le Semeur), the first film by Marine Francen, former assistant...
The San Sebastian Film Festival has revealed 13 of the first and second films by European, Asian and Latin American filmmakers set to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award.
Among the films are Chilean film Princess, produced by Juan de Dios, Pablo Larraín and Fernanda del Nido, and the first film by Marine Francen, former assistant to Michael Haneke and Olivier Assayas, starring Pauline Burlet (The Past) and Géraldine Pailhas (Young & Beautiful).
Princess is the second feature film by Marialy Rivas. The Chilean director debuted with Young & Wild (Joven & Alocada) selected for Films in Progress 20 at the San Sebastian Festival (2011) and a competitor in Horizontes Latinos after winning the World Cinema Screenwriting Award at Sundance in 2012.
The film, which was selected by Films in Progress 28, narrates the experience of a 12-year-old girl living in a sect.
The Sower (Le Semeur), the first film by Marine Francen, former assistant...
- 7/18/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Thirteen first and second films revealed.
The San Sebastian Film Festival has revealed thirteen of the first and second films by European, Asian and Latin American filmmakers set to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award.
Among the films are Chilean movie Princess, produced by Juan de Dios, Pablo Larraín and Fernanda del Nido and the first film by Marine Francen, former assistant to Michael Haneke and Olivier Assayas, starring Pauline Burlet (The Past) and Géraldine Pailhas (Young & Beautiful).
Princess is the second feature film by Marialy Rivas. The Chilean director debuted with Young & Wild (Joven & Alocada) selected for Films in Progress 20 at the San Sebastian Festival (2011) and a competitor in Horizontes Latinos after winning the World Cinema Screenwriting Award at Sundance in 2012.
The film, which was selected by Films in Progress 28, narrates the experience of a 12 year-old girl living in a sect.
The Sower (Le Semeur), the first film by Marine Francen, former assistant...
The San Sebastian Film Festival has revealed thirteen of the first and second films by European, Asian and Latin American filmmakers set to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award.
Among the films are Chilean movie Princess, produced by Juan de Dios, Pablo Larraín and Fernanda del Nido and the first film by Marine Francen, former assistant to Michael Haneke and Olivier Assayas, starring Pauline Burlet (The Past) and Géraldine Pailhas (Young & Beautiful).
Princess is the second feature film by Marialy Rivas. The Chilean director debuted with Young & Wild (Joven & Alocada) selected for Films in Progress 20 at the San Sebastian Festival (2011) and a competitor in Horizontes Latinos after winning the World Cinema Screenwriting Award at Sundance in 2012.
The film, which was selected by Films in Progress 28, narrates the experience of a 12 year-old girl living in a sect.
The Sower (Le Semeur), the first film by Marine Francen, former assistant...
- 7/18/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
(Update: We have been provided a trailer with English subtitles) It was back in February that we shared the first teaser for Gilles Coulier's Belgian crime drama Cargo and, already, we were much impressed by what was on offer. Veteran character actor Sam Louwyck - I first came across him in Ex Drummer and his presence in anything since has been a sure fire mark of quality - takes the lead inwhat promises to be one of the stronger pictures of the year. In the cold waters of the North Sea, Leon Broucke jumps overboard from his fishing boat in front of his eldest son, Jean. The old man slips into a deep coma, leaving his son with a huge debt and responsibility for the...
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- 5/19/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Racer And The Jailbird, Cargo and Double Face to screen at invitation-only event.
Flanders Images’s CONNeXT (formerly NeXT) has confirmed the first 15 titles for its second invitation-only event in Ghent (Oct 8-11).
Completed Flemish films set to screen for industry professionals include Racer And The Jailbird [pictured] by Bullhead’s Michael Roskam, Gilles Coulier’s debut feature Cargo, Jan Verheyen’s Double Face (the final part of his Memory of A Killer trilogy), Meikeminne Clinckspoor’s family film Cloudboy, last year’s winner of the Work in Progress Award; and Zagros, the debut feature from award-winning shorts director Sahim Omar Kalifa.
The works-in-progress sessions will include Ascension Day by Bas Devos; Kenneth Mercken’s Coureur, winner of last year’s Perfect Pitch Award; Patser, from Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah; Facades by Kaat Beels and Nathalie Basteyns; and animated feature Ploey - You Never Fly Alone.
New for 2017, the event will also include TV series - with...
Flanders Images’s CONNeXT (formerly NeXT) has confirmed the first 15 titles for its second invitation-only event in Ghent (Oct 8-11).
Completed Flemish films set to screen for industry professionals include Racer And The Jailbird [pictured] by Bullhead’s Michael Roskam, Gilles Coulier’s debut feature Cargo, Jan Verheyen’s Double Face (the final part of his Memory of A Killer trilogy), Meikeminne Clinckspoor’s family film Cloudboy, last year’s winner of the Work in Progress Award; and Zagros, the debut feature from award-winning shorts director Sahim Omar Kalifa.
The works-in-progress sessions will include Ascension Day by Bas Devos; Kenneth Mercken’s Coureur, winner of last year’s Perfect Pitch Award; Patser, from Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah; Facades by Kaat Beels and Nathalie Basteyns; and animated feature Ploey - You Never Fly Alone.
New for 2017, the event will also include TV series - with...
- 5/19/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Though there are no English subtitles on the first trailer for Gilles Coulier's Belgian crime drama Cargo there really aren't any required to capture the attention and demonstrate that there just may be something special going on here. Veteran Belgian character actor Sam Louwyck - you know his face if you've been paying any attention to recent Belgian cinema at all - plays a key part, which is always a sign of quality, and the visuals really speak for themselves. In the cold waters of the North Sea, Leon Broucke jumps overboard from his fishing boat in front of his eldest son, Jean. The old man slips into a deep coma, leaving his son with a huge debt and responsibility for the family business. The...
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- 2/24/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Massoud Bakhshi’s Yalda wins two prizes at the event.
Production awards worth more than €470,000 were handed out at the 2016 TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event (Nov 23-25), held within the Torino Film Festival.
Three films were awarded Tfl co-production awards worth €50,000 each; Danielle Lessovitz’s Port Authority; Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever and Massoud Bakhshi’s Yalda.
Yalda also took home the audience award, voted for by attendees at event, worth €30,000.
Tehran-born Bakhshi’s feature debut, A Respectable Family, premiered at Cannes in 2012.
The international jury, which was chaired by the Venice Film Festival’s Artistic Director Alberto Barbera, also awarded production awards worth €40,000 each to three films; The Guest by Duccio Chiarini; The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat and The Staffroom by Sonja Tarokić.
New award
A new prize this year was the Lago development award, worth €5000, which went to Jan-Ole Gerster’s Imperium.
Apprentice by Boo Junfeng, Felicity by Alain Gomis, Jesús by [link...
Production awards worth more than €470,000 were handed out at the 2016 TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event (Nov 23-25), held within the Torino Film Festival.
Three films were awarded Tfl co-production awards worth €50,000 each; Danielle Lessovitz’s Port Authority; Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever and Massoud Bakhshi’s Yalda.
Yalda also took home the audience award, voted for by attendees at event, worth €30,000.
Tehran-born Bakhshi’s feature debut, A Respectable Family, premiered at Cannes in 2012.
The international jury, which was chaired by the Venice Film Festival’s Artistic Director Alberto Barbera, also awarded production awards worth €40,000 each to three films; The Guest by Duccio Chiarini; The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat and The Staffroom by Sonja Tarokić.
New award
A new prize this year was the Lago development award, worth €5000, which went to Jan-Ole Gerster’s Imperium.
Apprentice by Boo Junfeng, Felicity by Alain Gomis, Jesús by [link...
- 11/25/2016
- ScreenDaily
New Europe Film Sales is representing the Bel-Swe-Nor-nl co-production.
Cloudboy has won the Works In Progress award - which comes with an $11,000 (€10,000) prize - at Flanders Image’s inaugural NeXT event. The story is about a Belgian boy who connects to his Swedish mother’s Sami roots during a summer trip to Lapland.
An international industry jury said, “We really want to see the special world that director Meikeminne Clinckspoor has created. We thought producer Katleen Goossens was very well prepared with her presentation, and both she and Meikeminne also told us about the heart of the story not just the plot. The story is both original and universal and we think it will appeal to wide audiences.”
Flanders Image had invited invited 13 projects in post-production – all backed by the Flanders Audiovisual fund — to pitch to the international industry in attendance.
The 13 projects in detail:
Blue Silence, wr/dir Bülent Öztürk, prod [link=nm...
Cloudboy has won the Works In Progress award - which comes with an $11,000 (€10,000) prize - at Flanders Image’s inaugural NeXT event. The story is about a Belgian boy who connects to his Swedish mother’s Sami roots during a summer trip to Lapland.
An international industry jury said, “We really want to see the special world that director Meikeminne Clinckspoor has created. We thought producer Katleen Goossens was very well prepared with her presentation, and both she and Meikeminne also told us about the heart of the story not just the plot. The story is both original and universal and we think it will appeal to wide audiences.”
Flanders Image had invited invited 13 projects in post-production – all backed by the Flanders Audiovisual fund — to pitch to the international industry in attendance.
The 13 projects in detail:
Blue Silence, wr/dir Bülent Öztürk, prod [link=nm...
- 10/11/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Roskam’s third feature The Racer And The Jailbird starring Matthias Schoenaerts will be among the line-up.
Flanders Image – a division of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund — is hosting the first NeXT event from Oct 9-12 in Ghent, Belgium.
The event will include a showcase of new films and pitches of future projects, alongside works in progress presentations from both established names and new talents of Belgian cinema made in Flanders. There will also be a day of talks, workshops and panel discussions that bring together local filmmakers and international experts.
Among the high profile Flemish films to be discussed will be Michael R Roskam’s third feature The Racer And The Jailbird, described as a dark romantic drama and starring his Bullhead star Matthias Schoenaerts alongside Adèle Exarchopoulos; and Loft director Erik Van Looy’s new thriller The Prime Minister, which is being sold by The Works. Those are both part of short works in progress presentations...
Flanders Image – a division of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund — is hosting the first NeXT event from Oct 9-12 in Ghent, Belgium.
The event will include a showcase of new films and pitches of future projects, alongside works in progress presentations from both established names and new talents of Belgian cinema made in Flanders. There will also be a day of talks, workshops and panel discussions that bring together local filmmakers and international experts.
Among the high profile Flemish films to be discussed will be Michael R Roskam’s third feature The Racer And The Jailbird, described as a dark romantic drama and starring his Bullhead star Matthias Schoenaerts alongside Adèle Exarchopoulos; and Loft director Erik Van Looy’s new thriller The Prime Minister, which is being sold by The Works. Those are both part of short works in progress presentations...
- 9/30/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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