Hong Kong Arts Centre Moving Image Programme Presents “CameraWomen: Films by Women Cinematographers”
Women have held vital positions in filmmaking since the beginning of its history. Based on our current knowledge, the first credited female director of photography (Dp) is Italian Rosina Cianelli in 1915, but there are earlier examples in US magazines. Cinematography is traditionally a male profession. It is a technical and physical job, involving endurance and heavy lifting, which have not been thought of as something that women were good at. But as time goes by, many women have broken the stereotype, and secured their place in this line of work by making films across genres. Today, women cinematographers are still a minority, and widespread recognition of their contribution is still overdue. To appreciate their efforts, the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) presents this programme with their partners to introduce their work, accompanied by after-screening talks with them or their directors.
There have also been more women taking up creative roles in Hong Kong filmmaking.
There have also been more women taking up creative roles in Hong Kong filmmaking.
- 5/21/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Cannes’ Critics Week winner Laura Ferrés’ debut feature The Permanent Picture is among the projects.
Cannes’ Critics Week winner Laura Ferrés’ debut feature The Permanent Picture and the new film from Tribeca winner Elina Psykou are among 14 feature projects in post-production selected for the 2022 in-person edition of the Les Arcs Film Festival Work in Progress session.
The annual industry event designed to help projects find international sales agents, distributors and festival premieres will run on Sunday, December 11 as part of the Industry Village at the 13th edition of the festival (December 11-19).
Scroll down for the full list of projects
This year,...
Cannes’ Critics Week winner Laura Ferrés’ debut feature The Permanent Picture and the new film from Tribeca winner Elina Psykou are among 14 feature projects in post-production selected for the 2022 in-person edition of the Les Arcs Film Festival Work in Progress session.
The annual industry event designed to help projects find international sales agents, distributors and festival premieres will run on Sunday, December 11 as part of the Industry Village at the 13th edition of the festival (December 11-19).
Scroll down for the full list of projects
This year,...
- 12/1/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
France’s Les Arcs Film Festival has unveiled the 14 European feature film projects that will be presented in its Works in Progress showcase as part of its industry program, running December 1-10.
The selected projects were picked out of 160 submissions this year.
The line-up includes Rossa Speranza, the second film from Italian director Annarita Zambrano, whose debut feature After The War world premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2017.
Set in the 1980s, the dark comedy revolves around a group of teenagers who meet in an institution for wayward rich kids.
Other projects in the mix include the Peruvian feature Fuga by directorial duo Mary Jiménez and Bénédicte Liénard, whose previous collaborations include the award-winning documentary By The Name Of Tania.
The Work in Progress showcase is aimed at connecting features in post-production with sales agents, distributors and festival programmers.
Twelve of the projects will compete for a €10,000 post-production prize,...
The selected projects were picked out of 160 submissions this year.
The line-up includes Rossa Speranza, the second film from Italian director Annarita Zambrano, whose debut feature After The War world premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2017.
Set in the 1980s, the dark comedy revolves around a group of teenagers who meet in an institution for wayward rich kids.
Other projects in the mix include the Peruvian feature Fuga by directorial duo Mary Jiménez and Bénédicte Liénard, whose previous collaborations include the award-winning documentary By The Name Of Tania.
The Work in Progress showcase is aimed at connecting features in post-production with sales agents, distributors and festival programmers.
Twelve of the projects will compete for a €10,000 post-production prize,...
- 12/1/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Arnaud Desplechin’s film wins the highest honour, while Belgian film By The Name of Tania leaves the festival with two awards. During the closing ceremony of the 34th Namur International French-Language Film Festival on Friday, the Jury presided by André Techiné chose to hand out the Bayard d’or to the French film Oh Mercy! directed by Arnaud Desplechin, and to reward twice the work of Mary Jimenez and Bénédicte Liénard on the film By The Name of Tania, discovered at the last Berlin International Film Festival. The highest honour of the festival thus goes to the latest work by the French filmmaker, which premiered in Cannes and focuses on a police investigation in a (very) working-class district of Roubaix, a film which to this day does not have distribution in Belgium. This award could change that. Winner of two awards, By The Name of Tania will be released by Mooov.
The lineup for the 23rd annual Urbanworld Film Festival was announced Friday, with Tony-award winning broadway actor Cynthia Erivo and Emmy award-winning director Roger Ross Williams making appearances at the event, which is geared towards representing and celebrating diverse, international voices in film, music videos, television, screenplays and shorts.
Director and co-writer Kasi Lemmons will open the festival Sept 18 with her Focus Features biopic “Harriet,” following the influential life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman who led slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. Following the screening, star Erivo, Lemmons and executive producers Debra Martin Chase and Daniela Taplin Lundberg will discuss the film with CBS This Morning Saturday’s Michelle Miller moderating. Lemmons is this year’s festival ambassador.
Other notable films include HBO’s documentary “The Apollo,” which features archival footage to chronicle the history of Harlem’s landmark venue the Apollo Theater. A Q&a with director Williams and...
Director and co-writer Kasi Lemmons will open the festival Sept 18 with her Focus Features biopic “Harriet,” following the influential life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman who led slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. Following the screening, star Erivo, Lemmons and executive producers Debra Martin Chase and Daniela Taplin Lundberg will discuss the film with CBS This Morning Saturday’s Michelle Miller moderating. Lemmons is this year’s festival ambassador.
Other notable films include HBO’s documentary “The Apollo,” which features archival footage to chronicle the history of Harlem’s landmark venue the Apollo Theater. A Q&a with director Williams and...
- 8/30/2019
- by Mackenzie Nichols
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Berlinale is full of features from filmmakers all around that world that have Dutch producers on board. Some are documentaries, some are dramas, but each one has a Dutch imprint. Geoffrey Macnab from The Independent reports.
‘Monos’ by Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos
Monos, directed by Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos, is screening both in Sundance and Berlin. This is a kidnap drama involving child soldiers set deep in the Colombian jungle. Amsterdam-based Lemming Film discovered the project at CineMart in 2016. “We were immediately drawn by the premise of the project and of course by directors Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos, whose work so far has been really impressive,” says Lemming’s CEO Leontine Petit.
There are several other co-producers on board, among them La Franja from Colombia itself, Campo Cine from Argentina, Mutante Cine in Uruguay, and Pandora from Germany. Petit knew it...
‘Monos’ by Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos
Monos, directed by Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos, is screening both in Sundance and Berlin. This is a kidnap drama involving child soldiers set deep in the Colombian jungle. Amsterdam-based Lemming Film discovered the project at CineMart in 2016. “We were immediately drawn by the premise of the project and of course by directors Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos, whose work so far has been really impressive,” says Lemming’s CEO Leontine Petit.
There are several other co-producers on board, among them La Franja from Colombia itself, Campo Cine from Argentina, Mutante Cine in Uruguay, and Pandora from Germany. Petit knew it...
- 2/26/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Near record levels of inward investment are boosting the local industry.
As the Dutch film industry comes together at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), there is much to be optimistic about in 2019.
The local industry is experiencing near record levels of inward investment as a location and post-production hub and Dutch co-production is blossoming. There may have been a slight - 0.8% - decline in admissions to 35.7 million cinema visitors in the Netherlands in 2018 but box office revenue has risen due to an increase in ticket prices.
Dutch market share for local films has remained broadly stable: it fell slightly from...
As the Dutch film industry comes together at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), there is much to be optimistic about in 2019.
The local industry is experiencing near record levels of inward investment as a location and post-production hub and Dutch co-production is blossoming. There may have been a slight - 0.8% - decline in admissions to 35.7 million cinema visitors in the Netherlands in 2018 but box office revenue has risen due to an increase in ticket prices.
Dutch market share for local films has remained broadly stable: it fell slightly from...
- 1/28/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Berlin-based Pluto Film has acquired international sales rights to Mary Jimenez and Bénédicte Liénard’s “By the Name of Tania” ahead of its world premiere in the Generation section of the Berlin Film Festival.
Set in the gold mine-gashed landscape of northern Peru, “By the Name of Tania” tells the true story of a young woman who is forced into prostitution after failing to escape the constrictions of her village.
The hybrid documentary feature mixes real eyewitness accounts and was shot with non-professional actors on the actual locations.
“‘By The Name Of Tania’ is a strong, honest and personal film. It combines a clear signature with a well-told story and authentic aesthetics,” said Pluto Film’s Daniela Chlapíková, adding that the film depicted the events and characters with realism.
“By the Name of Tania” was produced by Hanne Phlypo at Belgian outfit Clin d’Oeil Films, in co-production with Julie Freres for Dérives,...
Set in the gold mine-gashed landscape of northern Peru, “By the Name of Tania” tells the true story of a young woman who is forced into prostitution after failing to escape the constrictions of her village.
The hybrid documentary feature mixes real eyewitness accounts and was shot with non-professional actors on the actual locations.
“‘By The Name Of Tania’ is a strong, honest and personal film. It combines a clear signature with a well-told story and authentic aesthetics,” said Pluto Film’s Daniela Chlapíková, adding that the film depicted the events and characters with realism.
“By the Name of Tania” was produced by Hanne Phlypo at Belgian outfit Clin d’Oeil Films, in co-production with Julie Freres for Dérives,...
- 1/25/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
While there have been many coming of age films about teenage girls, it’s safe to say none have been quite like Rosetta, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s Palme d’Or winner from 1999. Finally getting its long awaited North American video release by Criterion, Rosetta is a film that will shock viewers with its raw, jagged energy and unvarnished realism. Watching the film is an experience akin to having dirt thrown in your face, leaving viewers to spit out specks of grit while a destitute young woman wages war with society, her family and herself.
Played by 17 year old Émilie Dequenne, Rosetta lives a hand-to-mouth existence in a decrepit trailer park on the dingy outskirts of Liége, Belgium. Rosetta’s mother (Anne Yernaux) is an alcoholic who has given up on life, and spends her days huddled about the camper in a torpid funk. So determined is Rosetta not to...
Played by 17 year old Émilie Dequenne, Rosetta lives a hand-to-mouth existence in a decrepit trailer park on the dingy outskirts of Liége, Belgium. Rosetta’s mother (Anne Yernaux) is an alcoholic who has given up on life, and spends her days huddled about the camper in a torpid funk. So determined is Rosetta not to...
- 8/14/2012
- by David Anderson
- IONCINEMA.com
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