Exclusive: Producer of Rafi Pitts’ Berlinale Competition title is lining up several new projects.
Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, the German producer of Rafi Pitts’ Berlinale Competition title Soy Nero [pictured], is lining up projects from Israel and Cyprus.
Twenty Twenty’s managing director Thanassis Karathanos told Screen that principal photography on Israeli filmmaker Veronica Kedar’s Family began at locations in the German city of Halle last week.
Although the film’s story is set in Israel, Family will be shot completely in Germany. It marks another collaboration for Karathanos with Mosh Danon’s Inosan Productions after working together on Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s 2009 film Ajami.
Kedar’s second feature had been pitched at the 2014 edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market where Twenty Twenty’s second project, Christos Georgiou’s Happy Birthday, was also presented to potential co-producers.
A March start is planned for the shooting of Georgiou’s first feature since the 2008 comedy Small Crime and...
Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, the German producer of Rafi Pitts’ Berlinale Competition title Soy Nero [pictured], is lining up projects from Israel and Cyprus.
Twenty Twenty’s managing director Thanassis Karathanos told Screen that principal photography on Israeli filmmaker Veronica Kedar’s Family began at locations in the German city of Halle last week.
Although the film’s story is set in Israel, Family will be shot completely in Germany. It marks another collaboration for Karathanos with Mosh Danon’s Inosan Productions after working together on Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s 2009 film Ajami.
Kedar’s second feature had been pitched at the 2014 edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market where Twenty Twenty’s second project, Christos Georgiou’s Happy Birthday, was also presented to potential co-producers.
A March start is planned for the shooting of Georgiou’s first feature since the 2008 comedy Small Crime and...
- 2/14/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
On the heels of the 39th edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival (Sept 4-14), Ifp’s Independent Film Week is where a plethora of fiction, non-fiction and new this year, web-based series from the likes of Desiree Akhavan and Calvin Reeder find future coin. Sectioned off as projects at the very beginning of financing to those that are nearing completion, there happens to be tons of Sundance alumni in the names below. Among those that caught our attention we have Medicine for Melancholy‘s Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature, produced by Bad Milo!‘s Adele Romanski, Moonlight is about “two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth”. Concussion‘s Stacie Passon digs into the thriller genre with Strange Things Started Happening. Produced by vet Mary Jane Skalski (Mysterious Skin), this is about “a woman who has...
- 7/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Filmmaker Veronica Kedar was awarded $50,000 (Usd) this weekend at the Jerusalem International Film Lab. Kedar, known for Joe + Belle, received the award for her new feature project, Family. Moshe Danon of Inosan Productions, producer of Academy Award nominee Ajami, will produce. Another $30,000 (Usd) was awarded to director Dani Rosenberg and producer Eilon Ratzkovsky of July-August Productions for The Vanishing Soldier. Producer Paulo Branco, chairman of the jury, explained the decision, firstly by stating that they were extremely impressed by the high level of all projects developed in the lab. The jury chose to award prizes to the scripts and directors that presented a unique voice, artistic audacity and strong statements on the complex social and political realities that surround them. Furthermore, these...
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- 7/9/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Roni Keidar’s Family wins top honours and $50,000.
The Jerusalem Film Lab, organised by the Sam Spiegel School of Cinema and Television, chose two out of the 10 projects which reached the finals this year, to be awarded by the Beracha Foundation. The ten candidates, each working on their first or second project, had been tutored for 7 months in Jerusalem and via the Internet by professionals around the world.
Both winners in the 2013 are Israelis. First prize and a cheque for $50,000 went to Roni Keidar’s Family to be produced by Mosh Danon, while the second prize worth $30,000 was handed to Danny Rosenberg’s The This Soldier, which Rosenberg will direct for producer Eylon Ratchkovsky.
The president of the 2013 jury was Paris-based Portuguese producer Paolo Branco, assisted by Cannes’ Christian Jeune, Arte fiction head Olivier Pere, Manfred Schmidt of the Mitteldeutsche Mediaforderung, Toronto programmer Jean Schoettle, Sabina Neirotti of the Torino Filmlab and Israeli producer Assaf Amir.
The Jerusalem Film Lab, organised by the Sam Spiegel School of Cinema and Television, chose two out of the 10 projects which reached the finals this year, to be awarded by the Beracha Foundation. The ten candidates, each working on their first or second project, had been tutored for 7 months in Jerusalem and via the Internet by professionals around the world.
Both winners in the 2013 are Israelis. First prize and a cheque for $50,000 went to Roni Keidar’s Family to be produced by Mosh Danon, while the second prize worth $30,000 was handed to Danny Rosenberg’s The This Soldier, which Rosenberg will direct for producer Eylon Ratchkovsky.
The president of the 2013 jury was Paris-based Portuguese producer Paolo Branco, assisted by Cannes’ Christian Jeune, Arte fiction head Olivier Pere, Manfred Schmidt of the Mitteldeutsche Mediaforderung, Toronto programmer Jean Schoettle, Sabina Neirotti of the Torino Filmlab and Israeli producer Assaf Amir.
- 7/8/2013
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
Roni Keidar’s Family wins top honours and $50,000.
The Jerusalem Film Lab, organised by the Sam Spiegel School of Cinema and Television, chose two out of the 10 projects which reached the finals this year, to be awarded by the Beracha Foundation. The ten candidates, each working on their first or second project, had been tutored for 7 months in Jerusalem and via the Internet by professionals around the world.
Both winners in the 2013 are Israelis. First prize and a cheque for $50,000 went to Roni Keidar’s Family to be produced by Mosh Danon, while the second prize worth $30,000 was handed to Danny Rosenberg’s The This Soldier, which Rosenberg will direct for producer Eylon Ratchkovsky.
The president of the 2013 jury was Paris-based Portuguese producer Paolo Branco, assisted by Cannes’ Christian Jeune, Arte fiction head Olivier Pere, Manfred Schmidt of the Mitteldeutsche Mediaforderung, Toronto programmer Jean Schoettle, Sabina Neirotti of the Torino Filmlab and Israeli producer Assaf Amir.
The Jerusalem Film Lab, organised by the Sam Spiegel School of Cinema and Television, chose two out of the 10 projects which reached the finals this year, to be awarded by the Beracha Foundation. The ten candidates, each working on their first or second project, had been tutored for 7 months in Jerusalem and via the Internet by professionals around the world.
Both winners in the 2013 are Israelis. First prize and a cheque for $50,000 went to Roni Keidar’s Family to be produced by Mosh Danon, while the second prize worth $30,000 was handed to Danny Rosenberg’s The This Soldier, which Rosenberg will direct for producer Eylon Ratchkovsky.
The president of the 2013 jury was Paris-based Portuguese producer Paolo Branco, assisted by Cannes’ Christian Jeune, Arte fiction head Olivier Pere, Manfred Schmidt of the Mitteldeutsche Mediaforderung, Toronto programmer Jean Schoettle, Sabina Neirotti of the Torino Filmlab and Israeli producer Assaf Amir.
- 7/8/2013
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Academy have nominated five films for the Discovery Award - which recognises a director’s first full length feature film. Previous winners include Bruno Dumot's La vie de Jésus (1997), Laurent Cantet's Human Resources (2000), Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return (2003) and last year the award went to the very deserving Steve McQueen's Hunger. - The European Film Academy have nominated five films for the Discovery Award - which recognises a director’s first full length feature film. Previous winners include Bruno Dumot's La vie de Jésus (1997), Laurent Cantet's Human Resources (2000), Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return (2003) and last year the award went to the very deserving Steve McQueen's Hunger. The favorite among this year's batch would be the just selected Israeli film from Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani. Ajami received a special mention at Cannes. Here are the five noms.: Ajami, Germany / Israel written...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
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