France’s Indie Sales has picked up Come Back, the directorial debut from Flemish brothers Jan and Raf Roosens starring Veerle Baetens and her real-life daughter Billie Vlegels.
The film is in post and Indie Sales is launching it at the European Film Market later this month. Kinepolis Film Distribution is handling the Belgian release.
Vlegels plays the teenage daughter of a once-successful techno DJ couple, living with her father after her parents’ divorce. When her mother (Baetens) sets off to make an international comeback, her daughter is thrust into the nocturnal club scene world and finds herself torn between...
The film is in post and Indie Sales is launching it at the European Film Market later this month. Kinepolis Film Distribution is handling the Belgian release.
Vlegels plays the teenage daughter of a once-successful techno DJ couple, living with her father after her parents’ divorce. When her mother (Baetens) sets off to make an international comeback, her daughter is thrust into the nocturnal club scene world and finds herself torn between...
- 2/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-nominated Belgian director Dominique Deruddere believes the shared and universal fear of failure has helped his new film The Chapel resonate with the audience at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival, where it is in the running for the main Golden Goblet award.
“I feel that the young people everywhere today relate to that feeling of having to perform, having to be the best in everything they do, and the fears that brings,” says Deruddere. “I don’t want to spoil the ending, but it is about liberation from that and how to simply be yourself.”
Deruddere first caught international attention back in 2000 when he picked up an Oscar nomination in the foreign language category for Everybody’s Famous!, a film that tore chunks out of the contemporary music scene and its (apparently) manipulated star system.
With The Chapel, Deruddere is back into the world of music but there’s...
“I feel that the young people everywhere today relate to that feeling of having to perform, having to be the best in everything they do, and the fears that brings,” says Deruddere. “I don’t want to spoil the ending, but it is about liberation from that and how to simply be yourself.”
Deruddere first caught international attention back in 2000 when he picked up an Oscar nomination in the foreign language category for Everybody’s Famous!, a film that tore chunks out of the contemporary music scene and its (apparently) manipulated star system.
With The Chapel, Deruddere is back into the world of music but there’s...
- 6/17/2023
- by Mathew Scott
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Projects will be presented during festival’s Industry Days section.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) has unveiled the projects that will be showcased during its Eastern Promises industry strand, which takes place on July 3-4.
27 film projects have been selected for Eastern Promises’ Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch and First Cut+ Works in Progress strands.
The most promising projects, selected by international juries, will receive awards worth a total of €115,000. The showcase of projects to industry professionals will take place during this year’s Kviff Industry Days.
Eleven fiction and documentary features have been selected for the Works in Progress strand.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) has unveiled the projects that will be showcased during its Eastern Promises industry strand, which takes place on July 3-4.
27 film projects have been selected for Eastern Promises’ Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch and First Cut+ Works in Progress strands.
The most promising projects, selected by international juries, will receive awards worth a total of €115,000. The showcase of projects to industry professionals will take place during this year’s Kviff Industry Days.
Eleven fiction and documentary features have been selected for the Works in Progress strand.
- 6/14/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival’s Eastern Promises industry platform has unveiled 27 film projects that will be showcased during its Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch and First Cut+ Works in Progress presentations. The most promising projects, selected by international juries, will receive awards with a total value of 115,000 Eur.
The showcasing of projects to industry professionals will take place in Karlovy Vary, during this year’s Kviff Industry Days on July 3 (Works in Progress and Works in Development – Feature Launch) and July 4 (First Cut+ Works in Progress).
For Works in Progress, 11 fiction and documentary feature films in the late stage of production or post-production from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa have been selected.
The following projects will compete for prizes of a total value of 100,000 Eur:
“Distances” (Poland)
Director: Matej Bobrik
Producer: Agnieszka Skalska...
The showcasing of projects to industry professionals will take place in Karlovy Vary, during this year’s Kviff Industry Days on July 3 (Works in Progress and Works in Development – Feature Launch) and July 4 (First Cut+ Works in Progress).
For Works in Progress, 11 fiction and documentary feature films in the late stage of production or post-production from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa have been selected.
The following projects will compete for prizes of a total value of 100,000 Eur:
“Distances” (Poland)
Director: Matej Bobrik
Producer: Agnieszka Skalska...
- 6/14/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Duo previously collaborated on ’Bullhead’ and ’Racer And The Jailbird’.
Belgian filmmaker Michaël R. Roskam is reuniting with the team behind Bullhead and Racer And The Jailbird for wartime feature Le Faux Soir, set to star regular collaborator Matthias Schoenaerts.
Set in 1943, it tells the story of when the Belgian resistance secretly produced a spoof version of the country’s leading newspaper, Le Soir, which had become a propaganda tool of the occupying Nazi forces.
Schoenaerts, who starred in Roskam’s Oscar-nominated Bullhead and was more recently seen in David O Russell’s Amsterdam, is set to play the Belgian resistance hero.
Belgian filmmaker Michaël R. Roskam is reuniting with the team behind Bullhead and Racer And The Jailbird for wartime feature Le Faux Soir, set to star regular collaborator Matthias Schoenaerts.
Set in 1943, it tells the story of when the Belgian resistance secretly produced a spoof version of the country’s leading newspaper, Le Soir, which had become a propaganda tool of the occupying Nazi forces.
Schoenaerts, who starred in Roskam’s Oscar-nominated Bullhead and was more recently seen in David O Russell’s Amsterdam, is set to play the Belgian resistance hero.
- 2/19/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
When It Melts
Belgian actress Veerle Baetens (best known for The Broken Circle Breakdown and Mothers’ Instinct) moved behind the camera for her directorial debut on a project that was getting terrific buzz (plus Prix Arte Kino Intl. coin) before it even went into production. A book-to-film adaptation based on Lize Spit’s Het Smelt — When It Melts is a film that highlights loneliness, burying the pain and as Baetens illustrates … it is the quiet people who have the loudest minds. Rosa Marchant and Charlotte De Bruyne share the same character and….the same traumas. Savage Films’ Bart Van Langendonck (Racer and the Jailbird) is producing.…...
Belgian actress Veerle Baetens (best known for The Broken Circle Breakdown and Mothers’ Instinct) moved behind the camera for her directorial debut on a project that was getting terrific buzz (plus Prix Arte Kino Intl. coin) before it even went into production. A book-to-film adaptation based on Lize Spit’s Het Smelt — When It Melts is a film that highlights loneliness, burying the pain and as Baetens illustrates … it is the quiet people who have the loudest minds. Rosa Marchant and Charlotte De Bruyne share the same character and….the same traumas. Savage Films’ Bart Van Langendonck (Racer and the Jailbird) is producing.…...
- 1/12/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The project is being showcased in the Work in Progress section of Re>Connext.
The Party Film Sales has acquired world sales rights to Belgian actor Veerle Baetens’ feature directorial debut When It Melts, which has just completed the first part of shooting.
The project is being showcased in the Work in Progress section of Re>Connext, the virtual edition of the annual Connext event showcasing films and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels.
Baetens is best-known internationally for her award-winning performances in features including The Broken Circle Breakdown and Mother’s Instinct and has recently broken into high-end...
The Party Film Sales has acquired world sales rights to Belgian actor Veerle Baetens’ feature directorial debut When It Melts, which has just completed the first part of shooting.
The project is being showcased in the Work in Progress section of Re>Connext, the virtual edition of the annual Connext event showcasing films and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels.
Baetens is best-known internationally for her award-winning performances in features including The Broken Circle Breakdown and Mother’s Instinct and has recently broken into high-end...
- 10/11/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Six years on, the legacy of Connext can be seen at festival awards ceremonies and in international theatrical and TV deals.
Cannes prizes, international festival plaudits and a social media thumbs up from Ricky Gervais are among the profile -raising moments enjoyed by projects that have participated in Connext, the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image in Belgium.
The event serves as an export platform for film and TV drama made in Flanders and Brussels and has been mounted virtually under the banner Re>Connext for the last two years amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite being forced online and virtual,...
Cannes prizes, international festival plaudits and a social media thumbs up from Ricky Gervais are among the profile -raising moments enjoyed by projects that have participated in Connext, the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image in Belgium.
The event serves as an export platform for film and TV drama made in Flanders and Brussels and has been mounted virtually under the banner Re>Connext for the last two years amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite being forced online and virtual,...
- 10/4/2021
- by Stuart Kemp
- ScreenDaily
Six years on, the legacy of Connext can be seen at festival awards ceremonies and in international theatrical and TV deals.
Cannes prizes, international festival plaudits and a social media thumbs up from Ricky Gervais are among the profile -raising moments enjoyed by projects that have participated in Connext, the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image in Belgium.
The event serves as an export platform for film and TV drama made in Flanders and Brussels and has been mounted virtually under the banner Re>Connext for the last two years amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite being forced online and virtual,...
Cannes prizes, international festival plaudits and a social media thumbs up from Ricky Gervais are among the profile -raising moments enjoyed by projects that have participated in Connext, the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image in Belgium.
The event serves as an export platform for film and TV drama made in Flanders and Brussels and has been mounted virtually under the banner Re>Connext for the last two years amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite being forced online and virtual,...
- 10/4/2021
- by Stuart Kemp
- ScreenDaily
Now available in select theaters, virtual cinemas, vod, and digital services is Tailgate, a tense road trip film that Emily highly recommended after recently seeing it as part of the North Bend Film Festival. Here's a brand new clip we've been given exclusively for Daily Dead readers:
"Hans, his wife and two young children, hit the highway on a trip to visit family. After getting stuck behind a slow-moving van, he recklessly starts to antagonize the eerily stoic driver, blaring the horn and riding his bumper. Little does he realize that he’s just crossed the wrong motorist – a deranged madman who sets out to teach Hans a lesson he’ll not soon forget. Lured into an alarming game of vehicular cat and mouse, a simple family road trip turns into a deadly obstacle course in this nerve-wracking, pulse-pounding thriller, an Official Selection at the Sitges Film Festival and FrightFest.
"Hans, his wife and two young children, hit the highway on a trip to visit family. After getting stuck behind a slow-moving van, he recklessly starts to antagonize the eerily stoic driver, blaring the horn and riding his bumper. Little does he realize that he’s just crossed the wrong motorist – a deranged madman who sets out to teach Hans a lesson he’ll not soon forget. Lured into an alarming game of vehicular cat and mouse, a simple family road trip turns into a deadly obstacle course in this nerve-wracking, pulse-pounding thriller, an Official Selection at the Sitges Film Festival and FrightFest.
- 7/30/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Fund CEO Koen Van Bockstal divulges details of new treaty.
Koen Van Bockstal, the new CEO of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Vaf), has unveiled details in Cannes of a new co-production treaty between Flanders and Jordan.
One Flemish Belgian film is already shooting in Jordan: Rebel, produced by Caviar. This is a coming-of-age story about a family torn apart over a little boy’s future. It is directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (pictured), the filmmakers behind Bad Boys For Life – the top-grossing Hollywood film of last year. The Vaf is one of the major investors in the project.
Koen Van Bockstal, the new CEO of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Vaf), has unveiled details in Cannes of a new co-production treaty between Flanders and Jordan.
One Flemish Belgian film is already shooting in Jordan: Rebel, produced by Caviar. This is a coming-of-age story about a family torn apart over a little boy’s future. It is directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (pictured), the filmmakers behind Bad Boys For Life – the top-grossing Hollywood film of last year. The Vaf is one of the major investors in the project.
- 7/10/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Jeroen Perceval reveals what happened when an actor tested positive for coronavirus.
Screen can reveal a first-look image of Veerle Baetens in Dealer, the feature directorial debut of Belgian actor Jeroen Perceval, which completed shooting in Antwerp during the coronavirus pandemic.
Perceval, best known for his performances in Bullhead, Borgman and The Ardennes, also wrote the feature, which centres on a 14-year-old drug dealer (Sverre Rous) who forms a bond with a successful actor (Ben Segers). Baetens plays the mother of the young dealer.
Perceval began shooting the drama in Antwerp earlier this year with an initial plan to release this month.
Screen can reveal a first-look image of Veerle Baetens in Dealer, the feature directorial debut of Belgian actor Jeroen Perceval, which completed shooting in Antwerp during the coronavirus pandemic.
Perceval, best known for his performances in Bullhead, Borgman and The Ardennes, also wrote the feature, which centres on a 14-year-old drug dealer (Sverre Rous) who forms a bond with a successful actor (Ben Segers). Baetens plays the mother of the young dealer.
Perceval began shooting the drama in Antwerp earlier this year with an initial plan to release this month.
- 10/2/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
‘Tailgate’ set to be screened at Cannes’ Marché du Film Online.
Montreal-based sales agent Attraction Distribution has closed deals across Europe and Asia on Dutch road-rage thriller Tailgate.
The film, which Attraction will screen at the Cannes’ Marché du Film Online this week, has sold to the UK (Signature), France (Trade Media), Russia/Cis (Volga), China (Jetsen), Japan (New Select) and South Korea (Challan).
Written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Lodewijk Crijns, the film is produced by Amsterdam-based Topkapi Films and Savage Film, the Belgian production outfit behind Patrick and The Ardennes.
The story begins with a family road trip...
Montreal-based sales agent Attraction Distribution has closed deals across Europe and Asia on Dutch road-rage thriller Tailgate.
The film, which Attraction will screen at the Cannes’ Marché du Film Online this week, has sold to the UK (Signature), France (Trade Media), Russia/Cis (Volga), China (Jetsen), Japan (New Select) and South Korea (Challan).
Written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Lodewijk Crijns, the film is produced by Amsterdam-based Topkapi Films and Savage Film, the Belgian production outfit behind Patrick and The Ardennes.
The story begins with a family road trip...
- 6/22/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
The new distribution outfit acquired the title from Beta Films.
Anti-Worlds, the new UK distribution company launched earlier this year, has taken British rights to Tim Mielants’ Patrick, which is on Beta Cinema’s Afm slate.
The Belgian tragicomedy had its world premiere in competition at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where Mielants, making his feature film debut after a successful TV directing career on shows including Peaky Blinders, was awarded best director.
Kevin Janssens stars in the film as the titular Patrick, a handyman on his father’s naturist campsite whose life is thrown off its axis after he loses his favourite hammer.
Anti-Worlds, the new UK distribution company launched earlier this year, has taken British rights to Tim Mielants’ Patrick, which is on Beta Cinema’s Afm slate.
The Belgian tragicomedy had its world premiere in competition at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where Mielants, making his feature film debut after a successful TV directing career on shows including Peaky Blinders, was awarded best director.
Kevin Janssens stars in the film as the titular Patrick, a handyman on his father’s naturist campsite whose life is thrown off its axis after he loses his favourite hammer.
- 11/7/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Documentaries and dramas impressed industry professionals at the Ghent event.
Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.
Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.
The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”
Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.
Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.
Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.
The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”
Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.
- 10/9/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
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Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.
Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.
The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”
Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.
Another doc, Janet van den Brand...
Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.
Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.
The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”
Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.
Another doc, Janet van den Brand...
- 10/9/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The Ace Series Special is running Nov 4-9 in Brussels.
European producers organisation Ace Producers has unveiled the selection of sixteen producers who will participate in its inaugural TV drama-focused initiative, the Ace Series Special, running Nov 4-9 in Brussels.
The programme is aimed at experienced producers who want to create a series division within their film companies and, or deepen their knowledge of developing and producing TV drama series for an international audience. Each participant will attend with a series project in the early stages of development
They include Belgium’s Bart Van Langendonck at Savage Film, who will...
European producers organisation Ace Producers has unveiled the selection of sixteen producers who will participate in its inaugural TV drama-focused initiative, the Ace Series Special, running Nov 4-9 in Brussels.
The programme is aimed at experienced producers who want to create a series division within their film companies and, or deepen their knowledge of developing and producing TV drama series for an international audience. Each participant will attend with a series project in the early stages of development
They include Belgium’s Bart Van Langendonck at Savage Film, who will...
- 9/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Beta Cinema has acquired the dark, offbeat comedy “Patrick,” the feature debut of Flemish director Tim Mielants (“Peaky Blinders”), which will world premiere in competition next month at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival. Variety has the exclusive trailer.
Featuring Kevin Janssens, Jemaine Clement and Bouli Lanners (“Rust and Bone”), “Patrick” is the story of a handyman at his father’s naturist campsite who dedicates his spare time to designing and building furniture. When he loses his trusted hammer, his search to retrieve it takes him to the furthest corner of the campgrounds—a journey that takes on existential meaning when his father passes away. As the life he long took for granted suddenly shifts course, Patrick embarks on a tragicomic quest that might ultimately help him become a new man.
“Patrick” is produced by Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Film. Beta Cinema will handle all international rights outside Benelux.
Featuring Kevin Janssens, Jemaine Clement and Bouli Lanners (“Rust and Bone”), “Patrick” is the story of a handyman at his father’s naturist campsite who dedicates his spare time to designing and building furniture. When he loses his trusted hammer, his search to retrieve it takes him to the furthest corner of the campgrounds—a journey that takes on existential meaning when his father passes away. As the life he long took for granted suddenly shifts course, Patrick embarks on a tragicomic quest that might ultimately help him become a new man.
“Patrick” is produced by Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Film. Beta Cinema will handle all international rights outside Benelux.
- 6/12/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Eurimages Award goes to ’Four Brothers’ directed by Belgium’s Pieter-Jan de Pue.
Greta Vs Climate, a film about teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg, was one of the hottest projects pitched at Danish documentary festival Cph:dox’s Forum event this week.
The Forum team had invited Swedish director Nathan Grossman and producer Fredrik Heining of B-Reel to pitch the film several months ago, and it became even more topical on March 14 when Thunberg, 15, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Greta Vs Climate is already backed by the Swedish Film Institute and Svt.
Other projects stirring a lot of...
Greta Vs Climate, a film about teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg, was one of the hottest projects pitched at Danish documentary festival Cph:dox’s Forum event this week.
The Forum team had invited Swedish director Nathan Grossman and producer Fredrik Heining of B-Reel to pitch the film several months ago, and it became even more topical on March 14 when Thunberg, 15, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Greta Vs Climate is already backed by the Swedish Film Institute and Svt.
Other projects stirring a lot of...
- 3/30/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Hottest presentations of upcoming Flemish films also include multicultural family film Binti; Patrice Toye’s Tench; and Gust van den Berghe’s Rain Anyway.
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organised by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign-language Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organised by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign-language Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
- 10/10/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Hottest presentations of upcoming Flemish films also include multicultural family film Binti; Patrice Toye’s Tench; and Gust van den Berghe’s Rain Anyway.
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organized by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organized by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
- 10/10/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The film was a project at last year’s CONNeXT! in Ghent.
Peaky Blinders director Tim Mielants is to start shooting Patrick, starring Kevin Janssens, this summer in Belgium. It is produced by Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films.
Patrick, which was presented as a project at last year’s CONNeXT! in Ghent, is an existential comedy drama set in a naturist campsite.
The project has been put together as a Belgium-Netherlands-Germany coproduction. Further partners include Eyeworks, Topkapi and Versus.
Peaky Blinders director Tim Mielants is to start shooting Patrick, starring Kevin Janssens, this summer in Belgium. It is produced by Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films.
Patrick, which was presented as a project at last year’s CONNeXT! in Ghent, is an existential comedy drama set in a naturist campsite.
The project has been put together as a Belgium-Netherlands-Germany coproduction. Further partners include Eyeworks, Topkapi and Versus.
- 5/13/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
’Mitra’, ’Electrocute’, ’A White, White Day’, ‘Disco Afrika’ scoop prizes.
Source: Iffr
The winners of the 35th edition of CineMart, International Film Festival Rotterdam’s storied co-production market, have been revealed.
Of the 16 selected projects, there were four winners: Kaweh Modiri’s Dutch feature Mitra took the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €20,000; Gastón Solnicki’s Argentine feature Electrocute won the Filmmore Post-Production Award of €7,500; Hlynur Pálmason’s A White, White Day took the Arte International Prize of €6,000; and Luck Razanajaona’s Disco Afrika won the Wouter Barendrecht Award, given to a director under 35-years-old, of €5,000.
The winners were presented their prizes at a ceremony in Rotterdam on Wednesday evening (Jan 31).
The 2018 edition of CineMart featured a revamped and streamlined format of presentations and meetings, changes that have been welcomed by attending industry that Screen spoke to during the festival.
The jury for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, which was comprised of Arben Zharku, Dorien van de Pas and [link=nm...
Source: Iffr
The winners of the 35th edition of CineMart, International Film Festival Rotterdam’s storied co-production market, have been revealed.
Of the 16 selected projects, there were four winners: Kaweh Modiri’s Dutch feature Mitra took the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €20,000; Gastón Solnicki’s Argentine feature Electrocute won the Filmmore Post-Production Award of €7,500; Hlynur Pálmason’s A White, White Day took the Arte International Prize of €6,000; and Luck Razanajaona’s Disco Afrika won the Wouter Barendrecht Award, given to a director under 35-years-old, of €5,000.
The winners were presented their prizes at a ceremony in Rotterdam on Wednesday evening (Jan 31).
The 2018 edition of CineMart featured a revamped and streamlined format of presentations and meetings, changes that have been welcomed by attending industry that Screen spoke to during the festival.
The jury for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, which was comprised of Arben Zharku, Dorien van de Pas and [link=nm...
- 1/31/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Mina, Electrocute, A White, White Day, Disco Afrika scoop prizes.
Source: Iffr
The winners of the 35th edition of CineMart, International Film Festival Rotterdam’s storied co-production market, have been revealed.
Of the 16 selected projects, there were four winners: Kaweh Modiri’s Dutch feature Mitra took the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €20,000; Gastón Solnicki’s Argentine feature Electrocute won the Filmmore Post-Production Award of €7,500; Hlynur Pálmason’s A White, White Day took the Arte International Prize of €6,000; and Luck Razanajaona’s Disco Afrika won the Wouter Barendrecht Award, given to a director under 35-years-old, of €5,000.
The winners were presented their prizes at a ceremony in Rotterdam on Wednesday evening (Jan 31).
The 2018 edition of CineMart featured a revamped and streamlined format of presentations and meetings, changes that have been welcomed by attending industry that Screen spoke to during the festival.
The jury for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, which was comprised of Arben Zharku, Dorien van de Pas and [link=nm...
Source: Iffr
The winners of the 35th edition of CineMart, International Film Festival Rotterdam’s storied co-production market, have been revealed.
Of the 16 selected projects, there were four winners: Kaweh Modiri’s Dutch feature Mitra took the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €20,000; Gastón Solnicki’s Argentine feature Electrocute won the Filmmore Post-Production Award of €7,500; Hlynur Pálmason’s A White, White Day took the Arte International Prize of €6,000; and Luck Razanajaona’s Disco Afrika won the Wouter Barendrecht Award, given to a director under 35-years-old, of €5,000.
The winners were presented their prizes at a ceremony in Rotterdam on Wednesday evening (Jan 31).
The 2018 edition of CineMart featured a revamped and streamlined format of presentations and meetings, changes that have been welcomed by attending industry that Screen spoke to during the festival.
The jury for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, which was comprised of Arben Zharku, Dorien van de Pas and [link=nm...
- 1/31/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Tim League and Tom Quinn’s young distribution company Neon has pre-bought the North American rights to the French-language romantic thriller “Racer and the Jailbird” ahead of the Berlin Film Festival. The film is directed by Michaël R. Roskam, and stars Matthias Schoenaerts and Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue is the Warmest Color”).
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“Racer” reunites Roskam with Schoenaerts, who starred in the director’s 2011 drama “Bullhead,” which earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film. “Racer” tells the story of a romance between a gangster (Schoenaerts) and a wealthy racing driver (Exarchopoulos). The film was written by Roskam, Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré, and produced by Pierre-Ange Le Pogam and Bart Van Langendonck.
“Michaël and I are very excited to team up again with Tim League who had a big hand in the the launch of our first film ‘Bullhead,...
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“Racer” reunites Roskam with Schoenaerts, who starred in the director’s 2011 drama “Bullhead,” which earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film. “Racer” tells the story of a romance between a gangster (Schoenaerts) and a wealthy racing driver (Exarchopoulos). The film was written by Roskam, Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré, and produced by Pierre-Ange Le Pogam and Bart Van Langendonck.
“Michaël and I are very excited to team up again with Tim League who had a big hand in the the launch of our first film ‘Bullhead,...
- 2/8/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The North American rights deal with Wild Bunch on the romantic thriller marks another early buy for the recently launched company headed by Tom Quinn and Tim League.
Schoenaerts reunites with his Bullhead director Michaël R. Roskam and will star in the French-language feature opposite Adèle Exarchopoulos from Blue Is The Warmest Color.
Racer And The Jailbird takes place in Belgium and is set agains the racing world as a gangster falls for a wealthy racing driver.
Stone Angels and Savage Film are producing and Pathé and Wild Bunch co-produce. Wild Bunch handles international sales and Pathé will distribute in France.
“Michaël and I are very excited to team up again with Tim League who had a big hand in the launch of our first film Bullhead in 2011,” said producer Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Film. “We expect great things from Tim’s new association with Tom Quinn at Neon.”
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Schoenaerts reunites with his Bullhead director Michaël R. Roskam and will star in the French-language feature opposite Adèle Exarchopoulos from Blue Is The Warmest Color.
Racer And The Jailbird takes place in Belgium and is set agains the racing world as a gangster falls for a wealthy racing driver.
Stone Angels and Savage Film are producing and Pathé and Wild Bunch co-produce. Wild Bunch handles international sales and Pathé will distribute in France.
“Michaël and I are very excited to team up again with Tim League who had a big hand in the launch of our first film Bullhead in 2011,” said producer Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Film. “We expect great things from Tim’s new association with Tom Quinn at Neon.”
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- 2/8/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- 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:
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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:
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- 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
Robin Pront’s drama is up for 10 Ensor Awards this year.
Belgium has selected Robin Pront’s featuer film debut The Ardennes as its Best Foreign-Language Film submission for this year’s Academy Awards.
The feature is based on a brutal robbery which goes dreadfully wrong. When one of the robbers escapes, he leaves his brother behind to be caught by the police.
Veerle Baetens (The Broken Circle Breakdown) leads an ensemble cast that also includes Jeroen Perceval (Bullhead) and Kevin Janssens (Madonna’s Pig).
The Ardennes, which received its world premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Discovery programme, was announced last week on the longlist for the European Film Awards.
The film also clocked up 10 nominations for this year’s Ensor Awards - the Flemish cinema awards - which will be presented in Ostend, Belgium on September 16.
Star Perceval co-wrote the screenplay with Robin Pront. Bart Van Langendonck (Bullhead...
Belgium has selected Robin Pront’s featuer film debut The Ardennes as its Best Foreign-Language Film submission for this year’s Academy Awards.
The feature is based on a brutal robbery which goes dreadfully wrong. When one of the robbers escapes, he leaves his brother behind to be caught by the police.
Veerle Baetens (The Broken Circle Breakdown) leads an ensemble cast that also includes Jeroen Perceval (Bullhead) and Kevin Janssens (Madonna’s Pig).
The Ardennes, which received its world premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Discovery programme, was announced last week on the longlist for the European Film Awards.
The film also clocked up 10 nominations for this year’s Ensor Awards - the Flemish cinema awards - which will be presented in Ostend, Belgium on September 16.
Star Perceval co-wrote the screenplay with Robin Pront. Bart Van Langendonck (Bullhead...
- 9/1/2016
- ScreenDaily
Yet again, Belgium has passed over the latest film from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, “The Unknown Girl,” which played in competition at Cannes and will screen at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. Instead, Belgium is submitting rookie director Robin Pront’s “The Ardennes,” a robbery-gone-wrong thriller that debuted at last year’s Tiff in the Discovery program and has been nominated for 10 Ensor Awards (September 16). It also made the shortlist for the European Film Awards.
The last Dardenne brothers film to be submitted by Belgium, “Two Days, One Night,” was not nominated (although Marion Cotillard did earn a Best Actress nomination); nor were submissions “Rosetta,” “The Son,” or “The Child.” (Many believe that if Belgium had selected the Dardennes’ more accessible Golden-Globe-nominated “Kid with a Bike,” it would have landed a final-five slot.)
In “The Ardennes,” a brutal robbery goes wrong. One of two thieves escapes, leaving his brother behind.
The last Dardenne brothers film to be submitted by Belgium, “Two Days, One Night,” was not nominated (although Marion Cotillard did earn a Best Actress nomination); nor were submissions “Rosetta,” “The Son,” or “The Child.” (Many believe that if Belgium had selected the Dardennes’ more accessible Golden-Globe-nominated “Kid with a Bike,” it would have landed a final-five slot.)
In “The Ardennes,” a brutal robbery goes wrong. One of two thieves escapes, leaving his brother behind.
- 8/30/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Yet again, Belgium has passed over the latest film from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, “The Unknown Girl,” which played in competition at Cannes and will screen at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. Instead, Belgium is submitting rookie director Robin Pront’s “The Ardennes,” a robbery-gone-wrong thriller that debuted at last year’s Tiff in the Discovery program and has been nominated for 10 Ensor Awards (September 16). It also made the shortlist for the European Film Awards.
The last Dardenne brothers film to be submitted by Belgium, “Two Days, One Night,” was not nominated (although Marion Cotillard did earn a Best Actress nomination); nor were submissions “Rosetta,” “The Son,” or “The Child.” (Many believe that if Belgium had selected the Dardennes’ more accessible Golden-Globe-nominated “Kid with a Bike,” it would have landed a final-five slot.)
In “The Ardennes,” a brutal robbery goes wrong. One of two thieves escapes, leaving his brother behind.
The last Dardenne brothers film to be submitted by Belgium, “Two Days, One Night,” was not nominated (although Marion Cotillard did earn a Best Actress nomination); nor were submissions “Rosetta,” “The Son,” or “The Child.” (Many believe that if Belgium had selected the Dardennes’ more accessible Golden-Globe-nominated “Kid with a Bike,” it would have landed a final-five slot.)
In “The Ardennes,” a brutal robbery goes wrong. One of two thieves escapes, leaving his brother behind.
- 8/30/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Belgian thriller The Prime Minister, about a terrorist plot to kidnap the Us president, is currently filming in and around Brussels.
Belgian terrorist-themed thriller The Prime Minister, which started shoot this week, is to continue production in spite of the bomb attacks in Brussels on Tuesday.
The film, directed by Erik Van Looy (The Loft), is about a plot to assassinate the Us President, played by Saskia Reeves. Koen De Bouw plays the kidnapped Belgian prime minister, whom terrorists try to force into committing the murder.
Producer Hilde De Laere confirmed to Screen that filming is still underway. The early scenes have been shot outside Brussels but the production is due to move to the city next week.
“Until now, we haven’t received any indication that things are no longer possible,” De Laere commented of the situation in Brussels. “For the moment, the spirit is that life has to go on.”
The film will...
Belgian terrorist-themed thriller The Prime Minister, which started shoot this week, is to continue production in spite of the bomb attacks in Brussels on Tuesday.
The film, directed by Erik Van Looy (The Loft), is about a plot to assassinate the Us President, played by Saskia Reeves. Koen De Bouw plays the kidnapped Belgian prime minister, whom terrorists try to force into committing the murder.
Producer Hilde De Laere confirmed to Screen that filming is still underway. The early scenes have been shot outside Brussels but the production is due to move to the city next week.
“Until now, we haven’t received any indication that things are no longer possible,” De Laere commented of the situation in Brussels. “For the moment, the spirit is that life has to go on.”
The film will...
- 3/24/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Diaphana Distribution has landed distribution rights to the Belgian thriller from Robin Pront and Bart Van Langendonck.
The Ardennes centres on two brothers who reunite when one is released from prison following a botched burglary.
“This is a stunning debut from an important new filmmaker and from the reaction this film has already received from audiences at Tiff, it will no doubt make a very lasting impression with our audiences in France,” said Diaphana Distribution’s Karin Beyens.
Attraction Distribution’s Xiaojuan Zhou and Beyens concluded the deal in Toronto.
Earlier this week Attraction licensed Italian rights to Satine Films.
The Ardennes centres on two brothers who reunite when one is released from prison following a botched burglary.
“This is a stunning debut from an important new filmmaker and from the reaction this film has already received from audiences at Tiff, it will no doubt make a very lasting impression with our audiences in France,” said Diaphana Distribution’s Karin Beyens.
Attraction Distribution’s Xiaojuan Zhou and Beyens concluded the deal in Toronto.
Earlier this week Attraction licensed Italian rights to Satine Films.
- 9/16/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Diaphana Distribution has landed distribution rights to the Belgian thriller from Robin Pront and Bart Van Langendonck.
The Ardennes centres on two brothers who reunite when one is released from prison following a botched burglary.
“This is a stunning debut from an important new filmmaker and from the reaction this film has already received from audiences at Tiff, it will no doubt make a very lasting impression with our audiences in France,” said Diaphana Distribution’s Karin Beyens.
Attraction Distribution’s Xiaojuan Zhou and Beyens concluded the deal in Toronto.
Earlier this week Attraction licensed Italian rights to Satine Films.
The Ardennes centres on two brothers who reunite when one is released from prison following a botched burglary.
“This is a stunning debut from an important new filmmaker and from the reaction this film has already received from audiences at Tiff, it will no doubt make a very lasting impression with our audiences in France,” said Diaphana Distribution’s Karin Beyens.
Attraction Distribution’s Xiaojuan Zhou and Beyens concluded the deal in Toronto.
Earlier this week Attraction licensed Italian rights to Satine Films.
- 9/16/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Attraction Distribution has licensed its Toronto world premiere selection to Satine Films for Italy.
The Belgian thriller follows two brothers as they reunite after one of them gets out of prison following a botched burglary.
Robin Pront and Bart Van Langendonck directed The Ardennes, which screens again in Toronto on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday.
“With such a powerful directorial debut from Robin Pront we’re certain that The Ardennes will resonate extremely well with our Italian audience and look very much forward to sharing it with them,” said Satine’s Claudia Bedogni.
Attraction Distribution’s Xiaojuan Zhou brokered the deal with Bedogni.
The Belgian thriller follows two brothers as they reunite after one of them gets out of prison following a botched burglary.
Robin Pront and Bart Van Langendonck directed The Ardennes, which screens again in Toronto on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday.
“With such a powerful directorial debut from Robin Pront we’re certain that The Ardennes will resonate extremely well with our Italian audience and look very much forward to sharing it with them,” said Satine’s Claudia Bedogni.
Attraction Distribution’s Xiaojuan Zhou brokered the deal with Bedogni.
- 9/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Watch: Exclusive 'The Ardennes' Clip is a Sinister Trip to the Country You Won't Forget Italian distributor Satine Films has acquired "The Ardennes," the debut film from Flemish director Robin Pront, ahead of its world premiere at Tiff. From what we've seen so far, the film is a grim and stylish retelling of the Cain and Abel story, in which one brother's insistence on living a life of drugs and crime after being released from prison clashes with the other brother's attempts at living a reformed life. "The Ardennes" was produced by Bart Van Langendonck (who produced the Academy Award nominated "Bullhead") and written by Pront and Jeroen Perceval, who also stars in the film. Like "Bullhead," the film is stylistically dark but crisp and artfully shot, creating an atmosphere as macabre as it is beautiful. Attraction Distribution, the film's worldwide sales agent, has stated that they expect distributors in other major territories to acquire.
- 9/14/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
Benelux sales outfit Be For Films is launching international sales on Galloping Mind, the new feature from ballet star turned filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus.
The English-language film, shot in Hungary, is produced by Savage Films’ Bart Van Langendonck.
Galloping Mind begins with a nurse who discovers that her partner is the father of newborn twins and decides to steal one of the babies.
Years later, the boy meets his sister during a street robbery and together they discover their common fate.
The film is co-produced by Belgium’s Peter Bouckaert of Eyeworks and Olivier Rausin of Cliamx Films as well as Laszlo Kantor of Uj Budapest Film Studio and Petra Goedings of Dutch outfit Phantavision.
Benelux distribution will be handled by Kinepolis.
Also on Be For Films’ slate is Je Suis Mort Mais J’Ai Des Amis, by Stephane and Guillaume Malandrin, about a rock band confronted with the sudden death of their lead singer on the eve...
The English-language film, shot in Hungary, is produced by Savage Films’ Bart Van Langendonck.
Galloping Mind begins with a nurse who discovers that her partner is the father of newborn twins and decides to steal one of the babies.
Years later, the boy meets his sister during a street robbery and together they discover their common fate.
The film is co-produced by Belgium’s Peter Bouckaert of Eyeworks and Olivier Rausin of Cliamx Films as well as Laszlo Kantor of Uj Budapest Film Studio and Petra Goedings of Dutch outfit Phantavision.
Benelux distribution will be handled by Kinepolis.
Also on Be For Films’ slate is Je Suis Mort Mais J’Ai Des Amis, by Stephane and Guillaume Malandrin, about a rock band confronted with the sudden death of their lead singer on the eve...
- 5/15/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
It’s a thrill to see two out of three of the CineMart Awards are to filmmakers we are tracking: “Luxembourg” by Myroslav Slaboshptyskly from Ukraine and Cuba’s Claudia Calvino and Carlos Lechuga's “Santa y Delfin” won the inaugural Wouter Barendrecht Award. Best unpublished screenplay prize was awarded to the team this past December at Havana’s Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. The Ukrainian-German production to be produced by Miff’s Business Square founder Anna Katchko, “Luxembourg”, was awarded the €7,000 Arte International Prize after winning the Sundance Aj+ sponsored Global Filmmaking Award of Us $10,000.
The project has a budget of €1.5 million and is half financed by the Ukrainean State Film Agency. It received a grant from Hubert Bals Fund earlier and will be at Berlin’s Efm Coproduction Market next week. This U.K.-German-French coproduction is being sold internationally by Ultra Violet who sold writer-director Myroslav Slaboshptyskly’s first film “The Tribe” to 35 territories. Myroslav and I spoke at Sundance and he gave me a link to his short “Nuclear Waste” which is a pilot for this film, shot in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and awarded the Silver Leopard of Tomorrow at the Locarno Film Festival and showed at many festivals.
CineMart 2015 awards were announced recently, marking the close of the 32nd edition of the co-production market. Dutch/French/Belgian production “Tonic Immobility” was awarded the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €20,000, which is given to a project presented by a European producer.
CineMart selected 24 international projects to participate in the four day event which has been one of the most successful in recent years. A panel discussion to launch Iffr’s new VoD initiative, Tiger Release, was well attended with several filmmakers now in discussion with the Iffr team on releasing their new films via this platform. Multiple conferences and panels covering topics ranging from “Making the most of a film festival” to “The Director-Producer Partnership” were held in front of packed audiences who were invited to be involved in the debates and receive advice. The "Creative Europe Day" on Tuesday, January 27th which offered advice and guidance on creating beyond the boundaries of Europe proved one of the highlights of Iffr 2015.
On making the announcement Head of Industry & CineMart, Marit van den Elshout commented “The quality of our line-up this year is something the whole team is very proud of - so many standout projects with talented teams behind them, the award winners exemplify this. We hosted multiple extremely well attended panels and conversations, experienced great success with the launch of Tiger Release and the enthusiasm with which our Creative Europe day was received all adds up to one of the strongest CineMart’s in a long time. ”
This year’s Eurimages Co-Production Development Award winner, “Tonic Immobility” by Nathalie Teirlinck, (The Netherlands, France, Belgium), is a Bart van Langendonck, Xavier Rombaut, Savage Film production. It tells the story of Alice, an escort who abandons her baby son Robin. Unexpectedly, seven years later Alice is reunited with the boy and they must find a way to co-exist while Alice is confronted with the fact that true emotions can't be controlled and that intimacy can lead to vulnerability. On the Jury’s decision Dorien van de Pas commented “ The award is being given to a project from a multitalented first time feature director who will tell a very emotional, universal story. His short films demonstrate a strong visual style in combination with a great focus on sound. ”
The Arte International Prize winner “Luxembourg”, (Ukraine, Germany) by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, and produced by Anna Katchko with Tandem Production is a film noir with touches of a western. A great project by a very talented director, stunningly set up for a strong and cinematic story. On presenting the award Annamaria Lodato commented. “This year the Arte International Prize is awarded to a talented, daring and radical director. He is preparing a film that explores a world unknown to most of us: today’s Chernobyl. Far from being a ‘disaster film’, it is a story about living in the Chernobyl zone, a world with its own rules, an almost primitive community that the director knows from the inside. ”
The Wouter Barendrecht Award winner “Santa y Delfin” (Cuba), by Carlos Lechuga is produced by Claudia Calvino and Producciones de la 5ta Avenida. Cuba, homosexuality, censorship, working class and intellectuals, a young talented director and a real story - real potential for a hit project.
On presenting the award Managing Director of Fortissimo Films, Nelleke Driessen commented “The Wouter Barendrecht Foundation (Wbf) encourages the work of talented young filmmakers, we encourage daring films, films that oppose social conventions, with a large urgency. There were 8 films eligible for this award, but in the end only one can win and 'Santa y Delfin' stood out amongst all - if Wouter were here he would be thrilled with the choice. ”
CineMart Selected Projects
"A Shining Flaw" by Erwin Olaf
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, Netherlands
"Cobain" by Nanouk Leopold
Circe Films/Waterland Film, Netherlands
"Vita & Virginia" by Sacha Polak
Mirror Productions/Viking Film, United Kingdom/Netherlands
"Tonic Immobility" by Nathalie Teirlinck
Savage Film/Ctm Pictures, Belgium/France/Netherlands
"The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea" by Syllas Tzoumerkas
Homemade Films/Prpl, Greece/Netherlands
"Angel" by Koen Mortier
Czar Film/Tobina Films/Anonymes Films, Belgium/Senegal/France
"Ceux qui travaillent" by Antoine Russbach
Box Productions, Switzerland
"Cunningham" by Alla Kovgan
Arsam International/Chance Operations, France/USA
"La Fille de l’Estuaire" by Gaëlle Denis
Life to Live Films, United Kingdom/France
"Holiday" by Isabella Eklöf
Dharmafilm/Beofilm, Denmark
"Luxembourg" by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Tandem Production/Garmata Film, Ukraine/Germany
"Bat, Butterfly, Moth" by Sergio Caballero
Corte y Confección de Películas/Am Films, Spain
"The Gray Beyond" by Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Jirafa Films/Wa Entertainment, Chile/Japan
"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of the War" by Khavn
Kamias Overground, Philippines
"Rojo" by Benjamin Naishtat
Pucará Cine, Argentina
"La Barracuda" by Jason Cortlund & Julia Halperin
Small Drama/Hot Metal Films/Blue Suitcase Productions, USA
"Boyfriend" by Ashim Ahluwalia
Future East Film, India
"Gabriel and the Mountain" by Fellipe Barbosa
TvZero/Gamarosa Filmes, Brazil
"Los Delincuentes" by Rodrigo Moreno
Compañía Amateur/Rizoma, Argentina
"Santa y Delfín" by Carlos Lechuga
Producciones de la 5ta Avenida, Cuba
"Kodokushi" by Janus Victoria
Paperheart, Philippines/Malaysia/Japan
Art:Film projects "Cactus Flower" by Hala Elkoussy
Transit Films, Egypt
"Hurrah, Wir Leben Noch" by Agnieszka Polska
Kijora Anna Gawlita/Museum of Modern Art Poland, Poland/Germany
"Mr Sing Sing" by Phil Collins
Shady Lane Productions, Germany/USA
Audience Awards Winners
The awards, as voted for by the public audience attending the Festival, were announced this evening at the Iffr 2015 Closing Night Ceremony, hosted by Festival Director, Rutger Wolfson and Managing Director, Janneke Staarink. James Napier Robertson was awarded the Iffr Audience Award 2015 of €10,000 for his film "The Dark Horse." The award is Napier’s second of the Festival following the MovieZone Iffr Award which was presented on Friday, January 30th at the Iffr Awards Ceremony. The Hubert Bals Fund Dioraphte Award, also of €10,000, presented to the most popular film which received support from the Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) went to Oscar Ruiz Navia for "Los Hongos," an autobiographical drama centering on the youth culture of Cali, Colombia.
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On the announcement of the Iffr Audience Award 2015 Wolfson commented “The audiences who come from all over the Netherlands and around the world to participate in the Festival and explore our diverse, thought provoking programme are integral to Iffr. It would not be the special Festival it is without them so we would like to thank all who joined us in celebrating cinema this year and of course congratulations to James who created a wonderful, personal film.”
On the announcement of the Hubert Bals Fund Dioraphte Award, Manager of the Hubert Bals Fund, Iwana Chronis commented “I am thrilled with the reception the Hbf supported films received throughout the twelve days of the Festival. Oscar Ruiz Navia is a talented filmmaker with a long and successful career ahead of him, this recognition is fully deserved, we are so pleased to have been a part of helping getting this film to the big screen .”
A highly acclaimed drama, "The Dark Horse" tells the true and moving story of Genesis Potini, who fought for the future of disadvantaged children in New Zealand until his death in 2011. In spite of his own bipolar disorder, he taught them to play chess and fight for opportunities. "The Dark Horse" is both amusing and raw, and above all intensely moving. Born in New Zealand, director James Napier Robertson made a name for himself in the world of television before switching to cinema. He appeared as an actor in the series "The Tribe" and "Shortland Street." He directed his first feature film "I’m Not Harry Jenson" in 2009.
Directed by Oscar Ruiz Navia, "Los Hongos" is an autobiographically inspired drama based around two skater friends who are at the heart of the colorful, noisy street and youth culture of Cali, Colombia. With a warm heart, Ruiz tells the story of Ras and Calvin, who are looking for their own voice, a stage and of course freedom, love and fun. Born in Colombia, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s debut film "Crab Trap" won a Fipresci Award at the Berlinale in 2010. Prior to that he was focused on the development and production of independent cinema in Colombia and founded the production company Contravia Films having previously studied Social Communications and Journalism.
Top 5 Audience Award Iffr 2015
"The Dark Horse" "The Farewell Party" "Loin des Hommes" "La Vie de Jean-Marie" "Alice Cares" Top 5 Hbf Dioraphte Award 2015
"Los Hongos" "La Mujer de los Perros" (Dog Lady) "Nn" "Court" "The Tribe" The full list can be found on the Festival's website:
www.iffr.com/professionals/iffr-2015/iffr-audience-award-2015...
The project has a budget of €1.5 million and is half financed by the Ukrainean State Film Agency. It received a grant from Hubert Bals Fund earlier and will be at Berlin’s Efm Coproduction Market next week. This U.K.-German-French coproduction is being sold internationally by Ultra Violet who sold writer-director Myroslav Slaboshptyskly’s first film “The Tribe” to 35 territories. Myroslav and I spoke at Sundance and he gave me a link to his short “Nuclear Waste” which is a pilot for this film, shot in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and awarded the Silver Leopard of Tomorrow at the Locarno Film Festival and showed at many festivals.
CineMart 2015 awards were announced recently, marking the close of the 32nd edition of the co-production market. Dutch/French/Belgian production “Tonic Immobility” was awarded the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €20,000, which is given to a project presented by a European producer.
CineMart selected 24 international projects to participate in the four day event which has been one of the most successful in recent years. A panel discussion to launch Iffr’s new VoD initiative, Tiger Release, was well attended with several filmmakers now in discussion with the Iffr team on releasing their new films via this platform. Multiple conferences and panels covering topics ranging from “Making the most of a film festival” to “The Director-Producer Partnership” were held in front of packed audiences who were invited to be involved in the debates and receive advice. The "Creative Europe Day" on Tuesday, January 27th which offered advice and guidance on creating beyond the boundaries of Europe proved one of the highlights of Iffr 2015.
On making the announcement Head of Industry & CineMart, Marit van den Elshout commented “The quality of our line-up this year is something the whole team is very proud of - so many standout projects with talented teams behind them, the award winners exemplify this. We hosted multiple extremely well attended panels and conversations, experienced great success with the launch of Tiger Release and the enthusiasm with which our Creative Europe day was received all adds up to one of the strongest CineMart’s in a long time. ”
This year’s Eurimages Co-Production Development Award winner, “Tonic Immobility” by Nathalie Teirlinck, (The Netherlands, France, Belgium), is a Bart van Langendonck, Xavier Rombaut, Savage Film production. It tells the story of Alice, an escort who abandons her baby son Robin. Unexpectedly, seven years later Alice is reunited with the boy and they must find a way to co-exist while Alice is confronted with the fact that true emotions can't be controlled and that intimacy can lead to vulnerability. On the Jury’s decision Dorien van de Pas commented “ The award is being given to a project from a multitalented first time feature director who will tell a very emotional, universal story. His short films demonstrate a strong visual style in combination with a great focus on sound. ”
The Arte International Prize winner “Luxembourg”, (Ukraine, Germany) by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, and produced by Anna Katchko with Tandem Production is a film noir with touches of a western. A great project by a very talented director, stunningly set up for a strong and cinematic story. On presenting the award Annamaria Lodato commented. “This year the Arte International Prize is awarded to a talented, daring and radical director. He is preparing a film that explores a world unknown to most of us: today’s Chernobyl. Far from being a ‘disaster film’, it is a story about living in the Chernobyl zone, a world with its own rules, an almost primitive community that the director knows from the inside. ”
The Wouter Barendrecht Award winner “Santa y Delfin” (Cuba), by Carlos Lechuga is produced by Claudia Calvino and Producciones de la 5ta Avenida. Cuba, homosexuality, censorship, working class and intellectuals, a young talented director and a real story - real potential for a hit project.
On presenting the award Managing Director of Fortissimo Films, Nelleke Driessen commented “The Wouter Barendrecht Foundation (Wbf) encourages the work of talented young filmmakers, we encourage daring films, films that oppose social conventions, with a large urgency. There were 8 films eligible for this award, but in the end only one can win and 'Santa y Delfin' stood out amongst all - if Wouter were here he would be thrilled with the choice. ”
CineMart Selected Projects
"A Shining Flaw" by Erwin Olaf
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, Netherlands
"Cobain" by Nanouk Leopold
Circe Films/Waterland Film, Netherlands
"Vita & Virginia" by Sacha Polak
Mirror Productions/Viking Film, United Kingdom/Netherlands
"Tonic Immobility" by Nathalie Teirlinck
Savage Film/Ctm Pictures, Belgium/France/Netherlands
"The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea" by Syllas Tzoumerkas
Homemade Films/Prpl, Greece/Netherlands
"Angel" by Koen Mortier
Czar Film/Tobina Films/Anonymes Films, Belgium/Senegal/France
"Ceux qui travaillent" by Antoine Russbach
Box Productions, Switzerland
"Cunningham" by Alla Kovgan
Arsam International/Chance Operations, France/USA
"La Fille de l’Estuaire" by Gaëlle Denis
Life to Live Films, United Kingdom/France
"Holiday" by Isabella Eklöf
Dharmafilm/Beofilm, Denmark
"Luxembourg" by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Tandem Production/Garmata Film, Ukraine/Germany
"Bat, Butterfly, Moth" by Sergio Caballero
Corte y Confección de Películas/Am Films, Spain
"The Gray Beyond" by Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Jirafa Films/Wa Entertainment, Chile/Japan
"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of the War" by Khavn
Kamias Overground, Philippines
"Rojo" by Benjamin Naishtat
Pucará Cine, Argentina
"La Barracuda" by Jason Cortlund & Julia Halperin
Small Drama/Hot Metal Films/Blue Suitcase Productions, USA
"Boyfriend" by Ashim Ahluwalia
Future East Film, India
"Gabriel and the Mountain" by Fellipe Barbosa
TvZero/Gamarosa Filmes, Brazil
"Los Delincuentes" by Rodrigo Moreno
Compañía Amateur/Rizoma, Argentina
"Santa y Delfín" by Carlos Lechuga
Producciones de la 5ta Avenida, Cuba
"Kodokushi" by Janus Victoria
Paperheart, Philippines/Malaysia/Japan
Art:Film projects "Cactus Flower" by Hala Elkoussy
Transit Films, Egypt
"Hurrah, Wir Leben Noch" by Agnieszka Polska
Kijora Anna Gawlita/Museum of Modern Art Poland, Poland/Germany
"Mr Sing Sing" by Phil Collins
Shady Lane Productions, Germany/USA
Audience Awards Winners
The awards, as voted for by the public audience attending the Festival, were announced this evening at the Iffr 2015 Closing Night Ceremony, hosted by Festival Director, Rutger Wolfson and Managing Director, Janneke Staarink. James Napier Robertson was awarded the Iffr Audience Award 2015 of €10,000 for his film "The Dark Horse." The award is Napier’s second of the Festival following the MovieZone Iffr Award which was presented on Friday, January 30th at the Iffr Awards Ceremony. The Hubert Bals Fund Dioraphte Award, also of €10,000, presented to the most popular film which received support from the Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) went to Oscar Ruiz Navia for "Los Hongos," an autobiographical drama centering on the youth culture of Cali, Colombia.
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On the announcement of the Iffr Audience Award 2015 Wolfson commented “The audiences who come from all over the Netherlands and around the world to participate in the Festival and explore our diverse, thought provoking programme are integral to Iffr. It would not be the special Festival it is without them so we would like to thank all who joined us in celebrating cinema this year and of course congratulations to James who created a wonderful, personal film.”
On the announcement of the Hubert Bals Fund Dioraphte Award, Manager of the Hubert Bals Fund, Iwana Chronis commented “I am thrilled with the reception the Hbf supported films received throughout the twelve days of the Festival. Oscar Ruiz Navia is a talented filmmaker with a long and successful career ahead of him, this recognition is fully deserved, we are so pleased to have been a part of helping getting this film to the big screen .”
A highly acclaimed drama, "The Dark Horse" tells the true and moving story of Genesis Potini, who fought for the future of disadvantaged children in New Zealand until his death in 2011. In spite of his own bipolar disorder, he taught them to play chess and fight for opportunities. "The Dark Horse" is both amusing and raw, and above all intensely moving. Born in New Zealand, director James Napier Robertson made a name for himself in the world of television before switching to cinema. He appeared as an actor in the series "The Tribe" and "Shortland Street." He directed his first feature film "I’m Not Harry Jenson" in 2009.
Directed by Oscar Ruiz Navia, "Los Hongos" is an autobiographically inspired drama based around two skater friends who are at the heart of the colorful, noisy street and youth culture of Cali, Colombia. With a warm heart, Ruiz tells the story of Ras and Calvin, who are looking for their own voice, a stage and of course freedom, love and fun. Born in Colombia, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s debut film "Crab Trap" won a Fipresci Award at the Berlinale in 2010. Prior to that he was focused on the development and production of independent cinema in Colombia and founded the production company Contravia Films having previously studied Social Communications and Journalism.
Top 5 Audience Award Iffr 2015
"The Dark Horse" "The Farewell Party" "Loin des Hommes" "La Vie de Jean-Marie" "Alice Cares" Top 5 Hbf Dioraphte Award 2015
"Los Hongos" "La Mujer de los Perros" (Dog Lady) "Nn" "Court" "The Tribe" The full list can be found on the Festival's website:
www.iffr.com/professionals/iffr-2015/iffr-audience-award-2015...
- 2/5/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s Chernobyl-based drama wins one of three awards at International Film Festival Rotterdam’s co-production market.
Rotterdam co-production market CineMart closed last night (Jan 28) with a hat trick of awards.
Ukrainian-German production Luxembourg was awarded the €7,000 ($7,900) Arte International Prize.
Directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (The Tribe), the film tells a story of love and revenge based in the the area around Chernobyl - the city that was decimated during the notorious nuclear power plant disaster in 1986.
Slaboshpytskiy, who won Cannes’ Critics Week Grand Prize with deaf boarding school drama The Tribe, has based Luxembourg on his 2012 short, Nuclear Waste.
On presenting the award, producer Annamaria Lodato described Slaboshpytskiy as “a talented, daring and radical director”.
“He is preparing a film that explores a world unknown to most of us: today’s Chernobyl,” she added. “Far from being a ‘disaster film’, it is a story about living in the Chernobyl zone, a world with...
Rotterdam co-production market CineMart closed last night (Jan 28) with a hat trick of awards.
Ukrainian-German production Luxembourg was awarded the €7,000 ($7,900) Arte International Prize.
Directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (The Tribe), the film tells a story of love and revenge based in the the area around Chernobyl - the city that was decimated during the notorious nuclear power plant disaster in 1986.
Slaboshpytskiy, who won Cannes’ Critics Week Grand Prize with deaf boarding school drama The Tribe, has based Luxembourg on his 2012 short, Nuclear Waste.
On presenting the award, producer Annamaria Lodato described Slaboshpytskiy as “a talented, daring and radical director”.
“He is preparing a film that explores a world unknown to most of us: today’s Chernobyl,” she added. “Far from being a ‘disaster film’, it is a story about living in the Chernobyl zone, a world with...
- 1/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Antwerp musician Tom Barman, founding member of cult rock band dEUS, is setting aside time to devote to his film work and has three film projects at early stages.
Barman is currently writing the screenplay for The Alcoholics. This will be his first feature as a director since his Antwerp-based debut feature Any Way The Wind Blows in 2003.
The film is being made through Savage Film. Barman hopes to shoot it next summer.
“The funny thing is that there is very little drinking in. Almost none apart from the first five minutes,” Barman said of Alcoholics. He is promising a film with “a very fast pace and a nervous energy”.
The Alcoholics will aim “to show the effects of addiction in an unambiguous way”.
The main character John Carrol (41) has had enough of being a janitor in a Miami nightclub. He takes a deal to act as a drugs mule to Spain but it goes horribly wrong and...
Barman is currently writing the screenplay for The Alcoholics. This will be his first feature as a director since his Antwerp-based debut feature Any Way The Wind Blows in 2003.
The film is being made through Savage Film. Barman hopes to shoot it next summer.
“The funny thing is that there is very little drinking in. Almost none apart from the first five minutes,” Barman said of Alcoholics. He is promising a film with “a very fast pace and a nervous energy”.
The Alcoholics will aim “to show the effects of addiction in an unambiguous way”.
The main character John Carrol (41) has had enough of being a janitor in a Miami nightclub. He takes a deal to act as a drugs mule to Spain but it goes horribly wrong and...
- 1/27/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Savage Films presents new projects at Rotterdam; Oscar-nominated Flemish director Michaël R. Roskam’s Belgian-set feature The Faithful planning shoot.
The Faithful, set in Brussels against the backdrop of the gang war in the city in the early 1990s, is expected to star Matthias Schoenaerts, who worked with Roskam on his debut feature Bullhead.
Production had originally been expected to begin in 2016 but the film’s producer, Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films, told Screen that the film could move into production much sooner.
“We’re looking to shoot later this year,” Van Langendonck said of the film, which Savage is making with Stone Angels in France.
Sales agents are clamouring around the project, which is likely to be packaged up and announced formally in Cannes.
Roskam’s most recent feature was Us drama The Drop, starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in his final role.
New projects
The Savage Film boss was speaking during this year...
The Faithful, set in Brussels against the backdrop of the gang war in the city in the early 1990s, is expected to star Matthias Schoenaerts, who worked with Roskam on his debut feature Bullhead.
Production had originally been expected to begin in 2016 but the film’s producer, Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films, told Screen that the film could move into production much sooner.
“We’re looking to shoot later this year,” Van Langendonck said of the film, which Savage is making with Stone Angels in France.
Sales agents are clamouring around the project, which is likely to be packaged up and announced formally in Cannes.
Roskam’s most recent feature was Us drama The Drop, starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in his final role.
New projects
The Savage Film boss was speaking during this year...
- 1/24/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-nominated Flemish director Michaël R. Roskam’s Belgian-set feature The Faithful may shoot as soon as this summer; Savage Films presents new projects at Rotterdam.
The film, set in Brussels against the backcloth of the gang war in the city in the early 1990s, is expected to star Matthias Schoenaerts, who worked with Roskam on his debut feature Bullhead.
Production had originally been expected to begin in 2016 but the film’s producer, Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films, told Screen that the film could move into production much sooner.
“We’re looking at summer of 2015 to shoot,” Van Langendonck said of the film, which Savage is making with Stone Angels in France.
Sales agents are clamouring around the project, which is likely to be packaged up and announced formally in Cannes.
Roskam’s most recent feature was Us drama The Drop, starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in his final role.
New projects...
The film, set in Brussels against the backcloth of the gang war in the city in the early 1990s, is expected to star Matthias Schoenaerts, who worked with Roskam on his debut feature Bullhead.
Production had originally been expected to begin in 2016 but the film’s producer, Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Films, told Screen that the film could move into production much sooner.
“We’re looking at summer of 2015 to shoot,” Van Langendonck said of the film, which Savage is making with Stone Angels in France.
Sales agents are clamouring around the project, which is likely to be packaged up and announced formally in Cannes.
Roskam’s most recent feature was Us drama The Drop, starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in his final role.
New projects...
- 1/24/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Kevorkian, Shoval, Haq, Fiennes, Sigurðsson, Nikonova and Runarsson heading to Les Arcs European Film Festival with upcoming projects.Scroll down for full list of projects
The UK’s Johnny Kevorkian and Sophie Fiennes, Israeli Tom Shoval, Norwegian Iram Haq and Russia’s Angelina Nikonova will be among the filmmakers presenting their upcoming projects at the Les Arcs Co-Production Village this year.
The event, running Dec 13-16 within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 13-20), will present 25 projects in development and a further 10 Works-in-Progress.
“I thinks it’s a good sign that filmmakers whose projects we presented in development are now coming back to show their films in Work-in-Progress, which is the case for Sparrow and Rams,” said Les Arcs industry head Vanja Kaludjercic.
“Conversely, we’ve got directors who presented in Works-in Progress, such as Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, who came with Paris of the North last year, who is back with his new project The Tree...
The UK’s Johnny Kevorkian and Sophie Fiennes, Israeli Tom Shoval, Norwegian Iram Haq and Russia’s Angelina Nikonova will be among the filmmakers presenting their upcoming projects at the Les Arcs Co-Production Village this year.
The event, running Dec 13-16 within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 13-20), will present 25 projects in development and a further 10 Works-in-Progress.
“I thinks it’s a good sign that filmmakers whose projects we presented in development are now coming back to show their films in Work-in-Progress, which is the case for Sparrow and Rams,” said Les Arcs industry head Vanja Kaludjercic.
“Conversely, we’ve got directors who presented in Works-in Progress, such as Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, who came with Paris of the North last year, who is back with his new project The Tree...
- 11/24/2014
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The European film industry business training programme has selected its 16 producers and executives for the week-long sessions with senior industry professionals in Los Angeles from September 15-19.
The participants span nine countries and represent all areas of the industry and will hear from and interact with Los Angeles-based studios executive and other professionals.
This year’s participants are:
Conor Barry, producer, Savage Production Ltd;
Sara Boss, senior sales executive, K5 International;
Morgan Bushe, co-owner, Fastnet Films / WildCard Distribution;
Helena Danielsson, executive producer, producer and CEO, Hepp Film International;
Katie Ellen, senior distribution manager, film fund, British Film Institute;
Simon Gillis, associate director, legal and business affairs, Universal Pictures International Entertainment;
Teun Hilte, managing director, Under The Milky Way UK;
Mark Lane, producer and company director, The Tea Shop & Film Company;
Graeme Law, finance director, Prescience Film Finance;
Anthony Mestriner, agent, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates Ltd;
Claire Mundell, producer, Synchronicity Film Ltd;
Natja Rosner, head of sales...
The participants span nine countries and represent all areas of the industry and will hear from and interact with Los Angeles-based studios executive and other professionals.
This year’s participants are:
Conor Barry, producer, Savage Production Ltd;
Sara Boss, senior sales executive, K5 International;
Morgan Bushe, co-owner, Fastnet Films / WildCard Distribution;
Helena Danielsson, executive producer, producer and CEO, Hepp Film International;
Katie Ellen, senior distribution manager, film fund, British Film Institute;
Simon Gillis, associate director, legal and business affairs, Universal Pictures International Entertainment;
Teun Hilte, managing director, Under The Milky Way UK;
Mark Lane, producer and company director, The Tea Shop & Film Company;
Graeme Law, finance director, Prescience Film Finance;
Anthony Mestriner, agent, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates Ltd;
Claire Mundell, producer, Synchronicity Film Ltd;
Natja Rosner, head of sales...
- 8/27/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
New co-production platform to take place during Champs Elysées Film Festival in June.
The team behind Les Arcs European Film Festival is launching a new Paris-based co-production market to run in the French capital in June.
The new event, titled Paris Coproduction Village, launches its call for applications today (March 11) with a deadline for April 18.
The platform has been created to continue the work of Paris Project, which used to run during the Paris Cinema Film Festival in July but has been axed due to public spending cuts. The festival continues in a reduced format.
“Paris is a key hub for co-productions and from the moment it became clear that Paris Project was being axed, we decided to launch an alternative platform,” explained Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin, co-founder of Les Arcs European Film Festival alongside Guillaume Calop.
Les Arcs European Film Festival, which runs in December in the French Alps, has built a solid industry programme since its launch...
The team behind Les Arcs European Film Festival is launching a new Paris-based co-production market to run in the French capital in June.
The new event, titled Paris Coproduction Village, launches its call for applications today (March 11) with a deadline for April 18.
The platform has been created to continue the work of Paris Project, which used to run during the Paris Cinema Film Festival in July but has been axed due to public spending cuts. The festival continues in a reduced format.
“Paris is a key hub for co-productions and from the moment it became clear that Paris Project was being axed, we decided to launch an alternative platform,” explained Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin, co-founder of Les Arcs European Film Festival alongside Guillaume Calop.
Les Arcs European Film Festival, which runs in December in the French Alps, has built a solid industry programme since its launch...
- 3/11/2014
- ScreenDaily
Serbian film No One’s Child, about a boy raised by wolves, has been named top project at the Les Arcs European Film Festival’s Work-in-Progress screenings.
No One’s Child (Nicije dete) is the first feature of Belgrade writer and director Vuk Rsumovic and is produced by Art & Popcorn’s Miroslav Mogorovic.
It beat nine other projects to the inaugural Digimage Classics Awards, which comprises services valued up to $8,300 (€6,000).
The jury included Films Boutique head of acquisitions Gabor Greiner, Fortissimo Films acquisitions consultant Ellis Driessen and Karel Och, artistic director at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The jury praised the film for “a sincere and convincing presentation” and “for strong screen presence”.
No One’s Child, made on a budget of $1m (€750,000), is currently in post-production with an expected delivery date of April 2014.
Kinorama (Hungary) is co-producing. The project is currently looking for a sales agent.
Inspired by a true story, it stars Denis Murtic...
No One’s Child (Nicije dete) is the first feature of Belgrade writer and director Vuk Rsumovic and is produced by Art & Popcorn’s Miroslav Mogorovic.
It beat nine other projects to the inaugural Digimage Classics Awards, which comprises services valued up to $8,300 (€6,000).
The jury included Films Boutique head of acquisitions Gabor Greiner, Fortissimo Films acquisitions consultant Ellis Driessen and Karel Och, artistic director at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The jury praised the film for “a sincere and convincing presentation” and “for strong screen presence”.
No One’s Child, made on a budget of $1m (€750,000), is currently in post-production with an expected delivery date of April 2014.
Kinorama (Hungary) is co-producing. The project is currently looking for a sales agent.
Inspired by a true story, it stars Denis Murtic...
- 12/16/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Fitzgibbon, Sitaru, Vicari, Huddles, Runarsson and van Geffen will be at Les Arcs this December.
Ireland’s Ian Fitzgibbon, Romania’s Adrian Sitaru, Iceland’s Runar Runarsson (pictured), Italy’s Daniele Vicari and America’s John Huddles are among the directors who will be presenting their new projects at the Les Arcs Co-production village this year.
The event, which runs Dec 14-17 within France’s alpine, Sundance-style Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21), unveiled the production line-up on Thursday as well as the productions that will be presented in the Works in Progress section on Dec 15.
This year’s co-pro selection mixes upcoming productions from established independent filmmakers with a slew of projects from feted shorts directors who are embarking on their first features.
“We pretty proud of this year’s line-up. There’s a lot of projects I would be seriously looking at if I were going to Les Arcs in a professional capacity rather...
Ireland’s Ian Fitzgibbon, Romania’s Adrian Sitaru, Iceland’s Runar Runarsson (pictured), Italy’s Daniele Vicari and America’s John Huddles are among the directors who will be presenting their new projects at the Les Arcs Co-production village this year.
The event, which runs Dec 14-17 within France’s alpine, Sundance-style Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21), unveiled the production line-up on Thursday as well as the productions that will be presented in the Works in Progress section on Dec 15.
This year’s co-pro selection mixes upcoming productions from established independent filmmakers with a slew of projects from feted shorts directors who are embarking on their first features.
“We pretty proud of this year’s line-up. There’s a lot of projects I would be seriously looking at if I were going to Les Arcs in a professional capacity rather...
- 11/14/2013
- ScreenDaily
Fitzgibbon, Sitaru, Vicari, Huddles, Runarsson and van Geffen will be at Les Arcs this December.
Ireland’s Ian Fitzgibbon, Romania’s Adrian Sitaru, Iceland’s Runar Runarsson (pictured), Italy’s Daniele Vicari and America’s John Huddles are among the directors who will be presenting their new projects at the Les Arcs Co-production village this year.
The event, which runs Dec 14-17 within France’s alpine, Sundance-style Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21), unveiled the production line-up on Thursday as well as the productions that will be presented in the Works in Progress section on Dec 15.
This year’s co-pro selection mixes upcoming productions from established independent filmmakers with a slew of projects from feted shorts directors who are embarking on their first features.
“We pretty proud of this year’s line-up. There’s a lot of projects I would be seriously looking at if I were going to Les Arcs in a professional capacity rather...
Ireland’s Ian Fitzgibbon, Romania’s Adrian Sitaru, Iceland’s Runar Runarsson (pictured), Italy’s Daniele Vicari and America’s John Huddles are among the directors who will be presenting their new projects at the Les Arcs Co-production village this year.
The event, which runs Dec 14-17 within France’s alpine, Sundance-style Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21), unveiled the production line-up on Thursday as well as the productions that will be presented in the Works in Progress section on Dec 15.
This year’s co-pro selection mixes upcoming productions from established independent filmmakers with a slew of projects from feted shorts directors who are embarking on their first features.
“We pretty proud of this year’s line-up. There’s a lot of projects I would be seriously looking at if I were going to Les Arcs in a professional capacity rather...
- 11/14/2013
- ScreenDaily
Fitzgibbon, Sitaru, Vicari, Huddles, Runarsson and van Geffen will be at Les Arcs this December.
Ireland’s Ian Fitzgibbon, Romania’s Adrian Sitaru, Iceland’s Runar Runarsson (pictured), Italy’s Daniele Vicari and America’s John Huddles are among the directors who will be presenting their new projects at the Les Arcs Co-production village this year.
The event, which runs Dec 14-17 within France’s alpine, Sundance-style Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21), unveiled the production line-up on Thursday as well as the productions that will be presented in the Works in Progress section on Dec 15.
This year’s co-pro selection mixes upcoming productions from established independent filmmakers with a slew of projects from feted shorts directors who are embarking on their first features.
“We pretty proud of this year’s line-up. There’s a lot of projects I would be seriously looking at if I were going to Les Arcs in a professional capacity rather...
Ireland’s Ian Fitzgibbon, Romania’s Adrian Sitaru, Iceland’s Runar Runarsson (pictured), Italy’s Daniele Vicari and America’s John Huddles are among the directors who will be presenting their new projects at the Les Arcs Co-production village this year.
The event, which runs Dec 14-17 within France’s alpine, Sundance-style Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21), unveiled the production line-up on Thursday as well as the productions that will be presented in the Works in Progress section on Dec 15.
This year’s co-pro selection mixes upcoming productions from established independent filmmakers with a slew of projects from feted shorts directors who are embarking on their first features.
“We pretty proud of this year’s line-up. There’s a lot of projects I would be seriously looking at if I were going to Les Arcs in a professional capacity rather...
- 11/14/2013
- ScreenDaily
Bullhead movie protagonists are teaming up for two different projects. Both movies directly have in common the outfit behind Bullhead –Savage Film’s Bart Van Langendonck and feature two roles by same actor, Matthias Schoenaerts who gave a breakthrough performance in a gripping crime story set amid an unlikely underworld of farmers and gangsters.
Firstly, Schoenaerts, who can be seen in Rust & Bone, will be reteaming with his Bullhead director Michael R. Roskam for his third feature named The Faithful. Secondly, he’s also been cast in Robin Pront‘s directorial debut, The Ardennes, which has been written by Bullhead actor Jeroen Perceval (Diederik).
Roskam was reportedly writing the script with a high-profile scribe whose identity has yet to be revealed. The film noir Faithful is centering on a crime gang in Brussels and is expected to start shooting in spring 2014.
On the other side, The Ardennes is described as Trainspotting meets Fargo project,...
Firstly, Schoenaerts, who can be seen in Rust & Bone, will be reteaming with his Bullhead director Michael R. Roskam for his third feature named The Faithful. Secondly, he’s also been cast in Robin Pront‘s directorial debut, The Ardennes, which has been written by Bullhead actor Jeroen Perceval (Diederik).
Roskam was reportedly writing the script with a high-profile scribe whose identity has yet to be revealed. The film noir Faithful is centering on a crime gang in Brussels and is expected to start shooting in spring 2014.
On the other side, The Ardennes is described as Trainspotting meets Fargo project,...
- 12/18/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
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