Cph:Forum, the financing and co-production event on the industry programme of Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, has selected new projects from the producers of Flee and Cow for its 2024 edition; and has refreshed its industry awards with six prizes.
Danish producer Signe Byrge Sorensen will participate with Freedom (working title), directed by Camilla Nielsson, who previously made Sundance 2021 title President about a challenger in Zimbabwe’s corrupt presidential elections.
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Sorensen is CEO of Danish documentary production house Final Cut For Real, which has made films including The Killing Of A Journalist,...
Danish producer Signe Byrge Sorensen will participate with Freedom (working title), directed by Camilla Nielsson, who previously made Sundance 2021 title President about a challenger in Zimbabwe’s corrupt presidential elections.
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Sorensen is CEO of Danish documentary production house Final Cut For Real, which has made films including The Killing Of A Journalist,...
- 2/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Cph:forum, the financing and co-production section of the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival (also known as Cph:dox), will showcase 32 projects, including new works from producers such as Sidsel Lønvig Siersted, Signe Byrge Sørensen (“Flee”), Diane Becker (“Navalny”) and Mandy Chang, the creative director of Fremantle label Undeniable and former head of BBC documentary strand Storyville, as well as directors Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh (“Writing With Fire”), and Mads Brügger (“Cold Case Hammarskjöld”).
Other projects include those by directors Sky Hopinka (“Kicking the Clouds”), Talal Derki (“Of Fathers and Sons”), and Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche (“Advocat”), and producers Lindsey Dryden (“Trans in America”), Mila Aung-Thwin (“Midwives”) and Kat Mansoor (“Cow”).
Cph:forum will bring together more than 65 filmmakers and producers from 26 countries between March 18-21.
The selected projects will compete for a number of long-standing as well as newly-introduced awards at Cph:Industry, the professional section of the festival.
Other projects include those by directors Sky Hopinka (“Kicking the Clouds”), Talal Derki (“Of Fathers and Sons”), and Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche (“Advocat”), and producers Lindsey Dryden (“Trans in America”), Mila Aung-Thwin (“Midwives”) and Kat Mansoor (“Cow”).
Cph:forum will bring together more than 65 filmmakers and producers from 26 countries between March 18-21.
The selected projects will compete for a number of long-standing as well as newly-introduced awards at Cph:Industry, the professional section of the festival.
- 2/8/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa) has announced the eight producers selected to participate in its new Series Accelerator programme.
The initiative, supported by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, brings together emerging or mid-career European women film producers who want to deepen their understanding of the series production landscape.
Ewa is curating three industry-led workshops tailored to the European series production landscape with the first session of the programme kicking off next week in Amsterdam.
European TV producers, directors and creators including Teresa Fernández-Valdés, Mirela Năstase (Zdf Studios) and Peter Nadermann are among the industry leaders sharing their expertise in the first session.
The initiative, supported by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, brings together emerging or mid-career European women film producers who want to deepen their understanding of the series production landscape.
Ewa is curating three industry-led workshops tailored to the European series production landscape with the first session of the programme kicking off next week in Amsterdam.
European TV producers, directors and creators including Teresa Fernández-Valdés, Mirela Năstase (Zdf Studios) and Peter Nadermann are among the industry leaders sharing their expertise in the first session.
- 1/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Netflix and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa) will launch a series accelerator program for old continent film producers looking to break into scripted television.
Announced at this week’s Mia Market in Rome, the initiative will be open to members of the Ewa Network, offering emerging and mid-career film producers a three-part workshop covering series development, financing and packaging, while offering selected participants a €5,000 grant.
Eight participants will be selected for the accelerator’s inaugural class, which will launch early next year with in-person development workshop at Netflix Emea headquarters in Amsterdam, before moving online for a springtime focus on business and financing, and finally concluding next June with presentation prep ahead of an industry pitch session. The program will be open to female-identified European producers with at least one feature credit and a nascent series project.
Applicants can submit their proposals from Oct. 30 onward via the Ewa website.
Announced at this week’s Mia Market in Rome, the initiative will be open to members of the Ewa Network, offering emerging and mid-career film producers a three-part workshop covering series development, financing and packaging, while offering selected participants a €5,000 grant.
Eight participants will be selected for the accelerator’s inaugural class, which will launch early next year with in-person development workshop at Netflix Emea headquarters in Amsterdam, before moving online for a springtime focus on business and financing, and finally concluding next June with presentation prep ahead of an industry pitch session. The program will be open to female-identified European producers with at least one feature credit and a nascent series project.
Applicants can submit their proposals from Oct. 30 onward via the Ewa website.
- 10/10/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Ewa will curate three industry-led workshops supported by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity
The European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa Network) is teaming up with Netflix to launch the Series Accelerator Programme.
The programme is aimed at women film producers who want to expand their creative range by deepening their knowledge of series production.
Ewa will curate three industry-led workshops supported by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, offering emerging and mid-career women film producers practical insight and upskilling tailored to the European series production landscape.
Participants must have a minimum of one feature film credit and apply with...
The European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa Network) is teaming up with Netflix to launch the Series Accelerator Programme.
The programme is aimed at women film producers who want to expand their creative range by deepening their knowledge of series production.
Ewa will curate three industry-led workshops supported by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, offering emerging and mid-career women film producers practical insight and upskilling tailored to the European series production landscape.
Participants must have a minimum of one feature film credit and apply with...
- 10/10/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Germany-based sales agent Patra Spanou Film has acquired rights to “Working Class Goes to Hell,” which will world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness strand.
Directed by Mladen Đorđević (“The Life and Death of a Porno Gang”), the film follows a group of ex-workers, who, after losing their loved ones, jobs, and dignity to a tragic factory fire and corrupt privatization, seek hope and justice in the supernatural.
The cast includes Tamara Krcunovic (“Humidity”), Leon Lucev (“The Load”), Momo Picuric, Ivan Djordjevic, Lidija Kordic, Mirsad Tuka, Szilvia Krizsan and Tomislav Trifunovic.
“Working Class Goes to Hell,” previously titled “Labour Day,” is supported by Film Center Serbia, Bulgarian National Film Centre, Greek Film Centre, Film Centre of Montenegro, Croatian Audiovisual Centre and Eurimages. The film is produced by Milan Stojanovic (Sense Production), Mladen Djordjevic (Banda), Martichka Bozhilova and Neda Milanova (Agitprop), Maria Drandaki (Homemade Films), Ivan Marinovic...
Directed by Mladen Đorđević (“The Life and Death of a Porno Gang”), the film follows a group of ex-workers, who, after losing their loved ones, jobs, and dignity to a tragic factory fire and corrupt privatization, seek hope and justice in the supernatural.
The cast includes Tamara Krcunovic (“Humidity”), Leon Lucev (“The Load”), Momo Picuric, Ivan Djordjevic, Lidija Kordic, Mirsad Tuka, Szilvia Krizsan and Tomislav Trifunovic.
“Working Class Goes to Hell,” previously titled “Labour Day,” is supported by Film Center Serbia, Bulgarian National Film Centre, Greek Film Centre, Film Centre of Montenegro, Croatian Audiovisual Centre and Eurimages. The film is produced by Milan Stojanovic (Sense Production), Mladen Djordjevic (Banda), Martichka Bozhilova and Neda Milanova (Agitprop), Maria Drandaki (Homemade Films), Ivan Marinovic...
- 9/4/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Olivér Rudolf’s “My Mother, the Monster” has won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink, its industry section that featured projects from Southeast Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
The Hungarian feature film project, which is produced by Genovéva Petrovits at Kino Alfa, received a cash prize of €20,000.
The film focuses on Éva, a mother in her forties who is disappointed with her life and tired of feeling insignificant. She finds a new identity behind a scary monster mask which liberates her.
The Post Republic Award, in the CineLink Work in Progress section, went to “One of Those Days Where Hemme Dies,” directed by Murat Fıratoğlu. The project, which is produced by Nefes Polat at Turkey’s Nefes Films, receives post-production services worth €30,000.
The film shows one day in the life of Eyüp, a poor guy in the city, working hard drying and salting tomatoes under the summer sun.
The Hungarian feature film project, which is produced by Genovéva Petrovits at Kino Alfa, received a cash prize of €20,000.
The film focuses on Éva, a mother in her forties who is disappointed with her life and tired of feeling insignificant. She finds a new identity behind a scary monster mask which liberates her.
The Post Republic Award, in the CineLink Work in Progress section, went to “One of Those Days Where Hemme Dies,” directed by Murat Fıratoğlu. The project, which is produced by Nefes Polat at Turkey’s Nefes Films, receives post-production services worth €30,000.
The film shows one day in the life of Eyüp, a poor guy in the city, working hard drying and salting tomatoes under the summer sun.
- 8/17/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Romanian filmmaker Cosmin Nicolae’s “Pyrrhic,” a feature debut about an army veteran sent into a downward spiral after returning home from Afghanistan, took home the top prize Friday at the Transilvania Pitch Stop, the co-production forum of the Transilvania Film Festival. The Chainsaw Europe Post-Production Award comes with €25,000 in post-production services for the winning project.
Nicolae’s war drama follows a veteran returning to her hometown on the Black Sea coast, where a harrowing discovery jeopardizes the process of coming to terms with her traumas and with a drifting society. The film is produced by Velvet Moraru of Bucharest-based Icon Production.
“It’s a very character-driven, observational drama. It’s inspired by a host of characters that I’ve been researching — it’s real people and real experiences,” Nicolae told Variety after the award ceremony. “I’m interested in marginalized characters and liminal spaces, and the way people reflect their surroundings and vice versa.
Nicolae’s war drama follows a veteran returning to her hometown on the Black Sea coast, where a harrowing discovery jeopardizes the process of coming to terms with her traumas and with a drifting society. The film is produced by Velvet Moraru of Bucharest-based Icon Production.
“It’s a very character-driven, observational drama. It’s inspired by a host of characters that I’ve been researching — it’s real people and real experiences,” Nicolae told Variety after the award ceremony. “I’m interested in marginalized characters and liminal spaces, and the way people reflect their surroundings and vice versa.
- 6/17/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The 10th anniversary edition of the international co-productiom platform Transilvania Pitch Stop will kicked off at the Transylvania international film festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, this week, with ten selected projects in development, coming from first and second- time directors from Romania, Georgia, Greece, Turkey, Hungary Ukraine, Bulgaria and Republic of Moldova, being pitched to producers, distributors, sales agents, representatives of film funds and other industry professionals, followed by one-to-one meetings.
“This year, 45 projects were submitted to Transylvania Pitch Stop and after a very, very long deliberation, our selection committee carefully reviewed and handpicked 10 projects for further consideration”, says Transylvania International festival’s Head of Industry Dumitrana Lupu.
The festival’s main industry event, launched in 2014 as a workshop for up-and-coming directors from Romania and Moldova, is now one of the leading co-production events aiming to foster cross-border cooperation between the Balkans and the countries from across the Black Sea region.
“This year, 45 projects were submitted to Transylvania Pitch Stop and after a very, very long deliberation, our selection committee carefully reviewed and handpicked 10 projects for further consideration”, says Transylvania International festival’s Head of Industry Dumitrana Lupu.
The festival’s main industry event, launched in 2014 as a workshop for up-and-coming directors from Romania and Moldova, is now one of the leading co-production events aiming to foster cross-border cooperation between the Balkans and the countries from across the Black Sea region.
- 6/16/2023
- by Stjepan Hundic
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Celebrating its tenth anniversary as part of the industry program of the Transilvania Film Festival, the Transilvania Pitch Stop — one of the leading co-production and co-financing platforms for filmmakers from Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the wider Black Sea region — will showcase 10 projects by first- and second-time directors searching for potential European partners on June 15 in the historic medieval city of Cluj.
The selection, which includes projects from eight countries, is a diverse crop that ranges from intimate personal dramas to stories casting a wider net, capturing their protagonists in the throes of historical forces.
“They are very different this year,” said Dumitrana Lupu, who took over as TIFF’s head of industry in 2022. “We have genre. We have mystery. We have some magical realism.”
For the first time, the organizers selected a documentary to pitch during Tps — “Second Line,” Ukrainian director-producer Olga Stuga’s chronicle of life since the...
The selection, which includes projects from eight countries, is a diverse crop that ranges from intimate personal dramas to stories casting a wider net, capturing their protagonists in the throes of historical forces.
“They are very different this year,” said Dumitrana Lupu, who took over as TIFF’s head of industry in 2022. “We have genre. We have mystery. We have some magical realism.”
For the first time, the organizers selected a documentary to pitch during Tps — “Second Line,” Ukrainian director-producer Olga Stuga’s chronicle of life since the...
- 6/14/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include ‘Little Death’ from ‘Dogtooth’ and ‘Burning Days’ producer Yorgos Tsourgiannis.
International co-production platform Transilvania Pitch Stop has unveiled the 10 projects set to be showcased at its 10th anniversary edition.
Titles will be presented to potential partners and financiers on June 15, during the Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj, Romania. The features in development are from first and second time directors from Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
They include Little Death, the feature directorial debut of Greece’s Efthimis Kosemund-Sanidis, produced by Yorgos Tsourgiannis of Horsefly Films. Tsourgiannis produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, which played at...
International co-production platform Transilvania Pitch Stop has unveiled the 10 projects set to be showcased at its 10th anniversary edition.
Titles will be presented to potential partners and financiers on June 15, during the Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj, Romania. The features in development are from first and second time directors from Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
They include Little Death, the feature directorial debut of Greece’s Efthimis Kosemund-Sanidis, produced by Yorgos Tsourgiannis of Horsefly Films. Tsourgiannis produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, which played at...
- 5/19/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Business training and leadership skills programme celebrates its 20th year.
Cornerstone Films co-founder Alison Thompson will be the industry ambassador for the 20th anniversary edition of European business training and leadership skills development programme Inside Pictures, which has selected 20 participants including executives from Amazon, Studiocanal and Mubi.
Thompson will represent the programme to the wider international industry, and share her expertise and insight with the participants.
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For the second year Inside Pictures will cater to both film and television executives, with the 2023 cohort hailing from eight different countries.
Selected participants this year include Ashanti McIntosh,...
Cornerstone Films co-founder Alison Thompson will be the industry ambassador for the 20th anniversary edition of European business training and leadership skills development programme Inside Pictures, which has selected 20 participants including executives from Amazon, Studiocanal and Mubi.
Thompson will represent the programme to the wider international industry, and share her expertise and insight with the participants.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
For the second year Inside Pictures will cater to both film and television executives, with the 2023 cohort hailing from eight different countries.
Selected participants this year include Ashanti McIntosh,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Dekanalog has picked up North American rights to the Sarajevo competition title Men of Deeds, the latest feature from Romanian filmmaker Paul Negoescu.
Men of Deeds played Making Waves, NYC’s annual festival dedicated to showcasing contemporary Romanian contemporary cinema, on April 2nd, with Negoescu and his Director of Photography Ana Drăghici in attendance. Dekanalog will release the film later in the year.
The film is up for 10 Romanian Academy Awards this year, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Screenplay. The story follows Ilie, a village policeman who enjoys an easy life. His passivity during a series of violent events soon turns him into an accomplice to murder. Tension accumulates in the village, forcing Ilie to make a final decision.
The official film synopsis reads: A middle-aged police chief goes on with his job and modest life in a small town, dreaming of having an orchard, managing regular...
Men of Deeds played Making Waves, NYC’s annual festival dedicated to showcasing contemporary Romanian contemporary cinema, on April 2nd, with Negoescu and his Director of Photography Ana Drăghici in attendance. Dekanalog will release the film later in the year.
The film is up for 10 Romanian Academy Awards this year, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Screenplay. The story follows Ilie, a village policeman who enjoys an easy life. His passivity during a series of violent events soon turns him into an accomplice to murder. Tension accumulates in the village, forcing Ilie to make a final decision.
The official film synopsis reads: A middle-aged police chief goes on with his job and modest life in a small town, dreaming of having an orchard, managing regular...
- 4/4/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The awards aim to celebrate outstanding and sustainable work in the world of film and TV production, locations and studios.
Leading figures in the TV and film world have joined the judging panel for Screen International’s inaugural Global Production Awards taking place at the Cannes Film Festival in May this year.
Judges so far announced include Elvis producer Schuyler Weiss, president of production and development at Bazmark; Amazon Studios’ head of worldwide production and post-production, Tim Clawson; producer and former Sundance executive Bird Runningwater; and the Association of Film Commissioners International’s (Afci) executive director, Jaclyn Philpott.
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Leading figures in the TV and film world have joined the judging panel for Screen International’s inaugural Global Production Awards taking place at the Cannes Film Festival in May this year.
Judges so far announced include Elvis producer Schuyler Weiss, president of production and development at Bazmark; Amazon Studios’ head of worldwide production and post-production, Tim Clawson; producer and former Sundance executive Bird Runningwater; and the Association of Film Commissioners International’s (Afci) executive director, Jaclyn Philpott.
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- 3/8/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Imanol Rayo’s “Dog Days,” a coming-of-age story set one sizzling summer in the Spanish countryside, won the top prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Crossroads Co-Production Forum, which wrapped with an award ceremony Wednesday night.
The Basque director’s fourth feature took home the Two Thirty-Five Co-Production Award, offering full post-production image and sound to a film that’s currently in development. Producer Iker Ganuza of Spanish production outfit Lamia was on hand to accept the prize from the jury, which praised the film as “a story about both emerging and buried passions, approached with a very personal touch of sensibility.”
Speaking to Variety ahead of the Thessaloniki industry event, Rayo described his “sensual summer story” as “a reflection on the way in which the intervention of the human being or ‘climate change’ modifies the landscapes, habits and lives of ordinary people.” The director’s debut feature, “Two Brothers,...
The Basque director’s fourth feature took home the Two Thirty-Five Co-Production Award, offering full post-production image and sound to a film that’s currently in development. Producer Iker Ganuza of Spanish production outfit Lamia was on hand to accept the prize from the jury, which praised the film as “a story about both emerging and buried passions, approached with a very personal touch of sensibility.”
Speaking to Variety ahead of the Thessaloniki industry event, Rayo described his “sensual summer story” as “a reflection on the way in which the intervention of the human being or ‘climate change’ modifies the landscapes, habits and lives of ordinary people.” The director’s debut feature, “Two Brothers,...
- 11/11/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Negoescu’s fourth feature, “Men of Deeds,” which world premieres in competition Sunday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, is at first glance a departure from the Romanian director’s previous work. Set in the rural region of Bucovina, it’s a world removed from the swanky bars and bistros of his last film, the Bucharest-set “The Story of a Summer Lover.”
The film follows llie (Iulian Postelnicu), a small-town police chief who hopes to settle into a modest, comfortable life. A man of low expectations and dubious morals, he sets his sights on a small plot of land that’s up for sale — an orchard in the countryside where he imagines he can make a fresh start.
Nothing, however, goes according to plan. Before long Ilie is being thwarted by bad choices and haunted by past misdeeds, leading to an inevitable reckoning after a series of violent events compels...
The film follows llie (Iulian Postelnicu), a small-town police chief who hopes to settle into a modest, comfortable life. A man of low expectations and dubious morals, he sets his sights on a small plot of land that’s up for sale — an orchard in the countryside where he imagines he can make a fresh start.
Nothing, however, goes according to plan. Before long Ilie is being thwarted by bad choices and haunted by past misdeeds, leading to an inevitable reckoning after a series of violent events compels...
- 8/13/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Negoescu directs story of a village policeman caught up in violent events.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Paul Negoescu’s Romanian police drama Men Of Deeds, ahead of the film’s world premiere in competition at Sarajevo Film Festival this month.
German firm Patra Spanou is handling sales on the title, which follows a village policeman in his late thirties, who is put in a dark place by his past choices and a chain of violent events.
It is Romanian filmmaker Negoescu’s fourth feature, but the first time he has directed from a script by another...
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Paul Negoescu’s Romanian police drama Men Of Deeds, ahead of the film’s world premiere in competition at Sarajevo Film Festival this month.
German firm Patra Spanou is handling sales on the title, which follows a village policeman in his late thirties, who is put in a dark place by his past choices and a chain of violent events.
It is Romanian filmmaker Negoescu’s fourth feature, but the first time he has directed from a script by another...
- 8/8/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Boutique German sales agent Patra Spanou Film has acquired international sales rights to “Men of Deeds,” the fourth feature by Romanian director Paul Negoescu (“Two Lottery Tickets”), which will be presented in a closed screening for industry guests on June 24 at the Transilvania Film Festival.
The film tells the story of llie (Iulian Postelnicu), a small-town police chief who wants to build a modest, comfortable life for himself but makes all the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to be a part of something – to build an orchard, even a home. But his past combines with a series of violent events to push him toward a dark place, where he’s desperate to find solutions in his search for justice.
“Men of Deeds” is produced by Anamaria Antoci and co-produced by Poli Angelova. Production companies are Papillon Film, Tangaj Production, Screening Emotions and Avanpost Production.
Negoescu said...
The film tells the story of llie (Iulian Postelnicu), a small-town police chief who wants to build a modest, comfortable life for himself but makes all the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to be a part of something – to build an orchard, even a home. But his past combines with a series of violent events to push him toward a dark place, where he’s desperate to find solutions in his search for justice.
“Men of Deeds” is produced by Anamaria Antoci and co-produced by Poli Angelova. Production companies are Papillon Film, Tangaj Production, Screening Emotions and Avanpost Production.
Negoescu said...
- 6/23/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Stories of urban life under pressure dominated the 25th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival as the event wrapped Saturday with top honors going to Slovak director Barbora Sliepkova for “Lines,” called by the jury an “exceptional” approach to showing how “beauty, intimacy and space are intertwined” amid social and economic contradictions and connections.
“Lines” also took the prize for best debut and sound design by Michal Horvath along with $10,000, and was praised for its “complex and perfectly well crafted work.”
Main competition special mention went to “When You Are Close to Me,” a look at the lives of deaf and blind people by Italian director Laura Viezzoli, which the jury, including Syrian writer and filmmaker Orwa Al Mokdad and Romanian producer Anamaria Antoci, honored for its explorations of “sensitive and intimate space.”
Prizes for crucial non-directing work initiated this year went to Mexican director Tin Dirdamal for editing on “Dark Light Voyage,...
“Lines” also took the prize for best debut and sound design by Michal Horvath along with $10,000, and was praised for its “complex and perfectly well crafted work.”
Main competition special mention went to “When You Are Close to Me,” a look at the lives of deaf and blind people by Italian director Laura Viezzoli, which the jury, including Syrian writer and filmmaker Orwa Al Mokdad and Romanian producer Anamaria Antoci, honored for its explorations of “sensitive and intimate space.”
Prizes for crucial non-directing work initiated this year went to Mexican director Tin Dirdamal for editing on “Dark Light Voyage,...
- 10/31/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
“Flowers Are Not Silent,” a film about the brutal suppression of demonstrations against last year’s rigged presidential election in Belarus, will open the 25th Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival on Tuesday. Oliver Stone will deliver a masterclass at the festival as will Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky.
Festival chief Marek Hovorka said that “Flowers Are Not Silent,” which plays in the main international competition section, Opus Bonum, is “a brave testimony of the state’s violent repression against peaceful protests.” He added: “It shows how brutally this last European dictatorship resists the transformation of Belarus into a freer society.” The film’s Belarusian director, Andrei Kutsila, will attend the screening.
The festival’s Contribution to World Cinema Award will be presented to Czech director Jana Ševčíková, whose films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Rotterdam, Paris, Nyon and Leipzig, among others, and screened at Moma in the U.
Festival chief Marek Hovorka said that “Flowers Are Not Silent,” which plays in the main international competition section, Opus Bonum, is “a brave testimony of the state’s violent repression against peaceful protests.” He added: “It shows how brutally this last European dictatorship resists the transformation of Belarus into a freer society.” The film’s Belarusian director, Andrei Kutsila, will attend the screening.
The festival’s Contribution to World Cinema Award will be presented to Czech director Jana Ševčíková, whose films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Rotterdam, Paris, Nyon and Leipzig, among others, and screened at Moma in the U.
- 10/22/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
After exploring the blossoming romance between two young Romanian women in his first feature, “Several Conversations About a Very Tall Girl,” Bogdan Theodor Olteanu returns with a charged sophomore effort that looks at the fallout when a young actress splits from the boyfriend who slapped her in a jealous fit.
“Mia Misses Her Revenge” stars Ioana Bugarin as a woman reeling from the act of violence that brought her relationship to a sudden, bitter end. Determined to get even, she decides to make a sex tape as a form of revenge – a plan that proves to be easier said than done. Crippled by indecision and self-doubt, she finds her convictions put to the test by a cast of characters who have their own opinions about how she should respond.
Written and directed by Olteanu, “Mia Misses Her Revenge” won a Jury Special Mention after its 2020 premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival.
“Mia Misses Her Revenge” stars Ioana Bugarin as a woman reeling from the act of violence that brought her relationship to a sudden, bitter end. Determined to get even, she decides to make a sex tape as a form of revenge – a plan that proves to be easier said than done. Crippled by indecision and self-doubt, she finds her convictions put to the test by a cast of characters who have their own opinions about how she should respond.
Written and directed by Olteanu, “Mia Misses Her Revenge” won a Jury Special Mention after its 2020 premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival.
- 8/2/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Film+ supports emerging filmmakers from Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Moldova.
The Film + programme that supports independent micro-budget film production by filmmakers from Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova, has seen films by seven alumni, including five world premieres, selected for this year’s Transilvania (TIFF) programme.
Two of the films premiering in Cluj this week had been developed in one of the Film + modules over the past five years.
Alex Pintica’s musical short No Singing After 8, which is being shown in one of the Romanian Shorts programmes, had participated in Film +’s first Production Llab in 2016, while...
The Film + programme that supports independent micro-budget film production by filmmakers from Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova, has seen films by seven alumni, including five world premieres, selected for this year’s Transilvania (TIFF) programme.
Two of the films premiering in Cluj this week had been developed in one of the Film + modules over the past five years.
Alex Pintica’s musical short No Singing After 8, which is being shown in one of the Romanian Shorts programmes, had participated in Film +’s first Production Llab in 2016, while...
- 7/30/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The feature, starring Iulian Postelnicu, will start production in May in Romania’s northernmost county. After debuting with A Month in Thailand in 2012, directing one of his country’s very few domestic hits, Two Lottery Tickets, in 2016 and releasing The Story of a Summer Lover in 2018, Romanian director Paul Negoescu is ready to start production on his fourth feature, Men of Deeds (working title). The project is being staged by Negoescu’s Papillon Film in co-production with Tangaj Production, represented by Anamaria Antoci, Screening Emotions and Avanpost Production (Romania). The screenplay, written by Radu Romaniuc and Oana Tudor, focuses on Ilie, the forty-something chief of police in a village in Northern Romania, close to the Ukrainian border. Surrounded by illegalities (for example, both the mayor and the...
A handful of awards have been bestowed upon the participating projects in the Crossroads and Works in Progress sections. Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has wrapped its latest, digital edition by handing out its awards, which were announced online on 13 November. Starting with the 16th Crossroads Co-Production Forum, the jury, comprising Anamaria Antoci, producer at Tangaj Production (Romania); Milan Stojanović, producer at Sense Production (Serbia); and Katarina Tomkova, producer at kaleidoscope (Slovakia) and consultant at the Midpoint Institute, picked the winner of the Co-Production Award provided by Greek post-production company 2|35, which ended up being 20,000 Species of Bees by Estibaliz Urresola. The feature-length fiction debut by the Basque writer-director was selected for “the exceptional directorial vision of a fragile universe composed of sensations of nature, as experienced by a transgender girl while her family matures towards acceptance; it is a subject we feel...
- 11/16/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The story about a young actress trying to get even with her violent boyfriend also questions the idea of empathy. Two years after releasing the micro-budget LGBT drama Several Conversations About a Very Tall Girl, which earned four Gopo Award nominations in 2019, Romanian director Bogdan Theodor Olteanu returns to the limelight with a new independent, female-centred drama, Mia Misses Her Revenge. The exclusively Romanian project was produced by Anamaria Antoci and Anda Ionescu through Tangaj Production, and co-produced by Sub25 and Papillon Film. The film will shortly world-premiere in the 1-2 Competition of this year’s Warsaw International Film Festival (9-18 October). Promoted as a “darkly comic revenge story”, the film, written by Olteanu, follows Mia, a young actress who is plunged into a deep emotional crisis after her jealous boyfriend slaps...
All have projects at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink industry strand.
With the CineLink industry programme in full swing at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Screen profiles five producers from the region with an international outlook.
Jelena Angelovski (Serbia/Montenegro)
Serbian-born actress and producer Angelovski began to make her mark internationally when she produced Tamara Drakulić’s feature debut Wind through her Belgrade-based Monkey Production in 2016. It played at various international festivals including Torino and Goteborg.
Angelovski followed it up with two freelance projects: Ivan Salatić’s 2018 Venice Critics Week entry You Have the Night. made through Podgorica-based Meander Film,...
With the CineLink industry programme in full swing at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Screen profiles five producers from the region with an international outlook.
Jelena Angelovski (Serbia/Montenegro)
Serbian-born actress and producer Angelovski began to make her mark internationally when she produced Tamara Drakulić’s feature debut Wind through her Belgrade-based Monkey Production in 2016. It played at various international festivals including Torino and Goteborg.
Angelovski followed it up with two freelance projects: Ivan Salatić’s 2018 Venice Critics Week entry You Have the Night. made through Podgorica-based Meander Film,...
- 8/21/2019
- by Vladan Petkovic
- ScreenDaily
Seven of the selected projects are debut films this year, with four directed by women.
The TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has revealed the 11 new projects selected for the 2019 FeatureLab training programme.
Seven of the projects are debut films this year, with four directed by women and nine women producing.
For the first time a documentary project is in the line-up: Cristina Picchi’s About The End.
Focusing on first and second feature films, the lab selects projects at an advanced stage of production and helps a team of directors, scriptwriters and producers get their ideas on screen.
This year’s line-up has...
The TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has revealed the 11 new projects selected for the 2019 FeatureLab training programme.
Seven of the projects are debut films this year, with four directed by women and nine women producing.
For the first time a documentary project is in the line-up: Cristina Picchi’s About The End.
Focusing on first and second feature films, the lab selects projects at an advanced stage of production and helps a team of directors, scriptwriters and producers get their ideas on screen.
This year’s line-up has...
- 4/30/2019
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
France-Finland co-production A Girl’s Room takes €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.
The 2018 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has named the winners of its Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event awards after a week of presentations and meetings.
More than 400 delegates attended this year’s event.
In the festival’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market, which featured 16 projects, France-Finland feature A Girl’s Room, from director Aino Suni and producers Sébastien Aubert and Ulla Simonen, won the €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.
The Cannes Marché du Film Producers’ Network Award, which comes with free accreditations to next year’s edition of Cannes, went to...
The 2018 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has named the winners of its Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event awards after a week of presentations and meetings.
More than 400 delegates attended this year’s event.
In the festival’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market, which featured 16 projects, France-Finland feature A Girl’s Room, from director Aino Suni and producers Sébastien Aubert and Ulla Simonen, won the €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.
The Cannes Marché du Film Producers’ Network Award, which comes with free accreditations to next year’s edition of Cannes, went to...
- 11/30/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Russian drama Ayka wins best film.
Russian director Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Ayka, about a young woman attemping to survive after abandoning her baby in Moscow, was the big winner at Germany’s Filmfestival Cottbus (Nov 6-11), taking home the best film prize in the feature competition as well as prize of the ecumenical jury.
Ayka, which is Dvortsevoy’s second feature, premiered in competition at Cannes earlier this year and is Kazakhstan’s entry for the best foreign- language film Oscar category. The Match Factory is handling international sales.
Russian films regularly garner the main prize in...
Russian director Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Ayka, about a young woman attemping to survive after abandoning her baby in Moscow, was the big winner at Germany’s Filmfestival Cottbus (Nov 6-11), taking home the best film prize in the feature competition as well as prize of the ecumenical jury.
Ayka, which is Dvortsevoy’s second feature, premiered in competition at Cannes earlier this year and is Kazakhstan’s entry for the best foreign- language film Oscar category. The Match Factory is handling international sales.
Russian films regularly garner the main prize in...
- 11/12/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
If the 18 participants selected to take part in the Emerging Producers program of the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival aren’t entirely sure what to expect from this year’s edition, they’re not alone. “I don’t know how to define it,” says Italian producer Paolo Benzi, who along with Irena Taskovski is tutoring the group.
Over the course of five days during the festival, participants come together to question, debate, joust, reflect, and “discuss what it means to produce films nowadays,” Benzi says. “[Emerging Producers] isn’t a training in the strict sense of the word. It’s kind of an awakening of awareness of what we do.”
The program was born out of a 2012 encounter between Benzi and Ji.hlava head Marek Hovorka, where the two discussed the scarcity of places in the documentary field “where you could really get the time or the space to think about...
Over the course of five days during the festival, participants come together to question, debate, joust, reflect, and “discuss what it means to produce films nowadays,” Benzi says. “[Emerging Producers] isn’t a training in the strict sense of the word. It’s kind of an awakening of awareness of what we do.”
The program was born out of a 2012 encounter between Benzi and Ji.hlava head Marek Hovorka, where the two discussed the scarcity of places in the documentary field “where you could really get the time or the space to think about...
- 10/27/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
European Film Promotion highlights 28 European films for the 90th Academy AwardsPutting a spotlight on a record number of 28 European Oscar® entries, Efp (European Film Promotion) offers additional screenings of the films in L.A. for Academy members, journalists, U.S. distributors and international buyers. With the special support of the Efp member organizations, the event helps the productions to stand out among a record number of 92 submissions for the 90th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
This year the Efp Screenings Of Oscar® Entries From Europe were held from November 2–15 at the state of the art Dick Clark Screening Room. The campaign is financially supported by the Creative Europe — Media Programme of the European Union and the participating Efp member organizations.
Many of the European Oscar submissions feature European Shooting Stars or were made by Efp-related filmmakers. Notably four films were realized by participants of this year’s edition...
This year the Efp Screenings Of Oscar® Entries From Europe were held from November 2–15 at the state of the art Dick Clark Screening Room. The campaign is financially supported by the Creative Europe — Media Programme of the European Union and the participating Efp member organizations.
Many of the European Oscar submissions feature European Shooting Stars or were made by Efp-related filmmakers. Notably four films were realized by participants of this year’s edition...
- 11/17/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Amazon Studios’ Ted Hope to reveal “vision for film”; works in progress winner to receive new award worth more than $100,000.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-9) has announced its industry programme and the projects selected for its works in progress and Eurimages Lab Project awards.
The line-up includes an in conversation event with Ted Hope, head of motion picture production at Amazon Studios, who will offer his future vision for film.
The festival will also host mark 20 years since the death of Czech filmmaker František (Frank) Daniel with a workshop, where Daniel’s teaching methods will be presented by analysing the film Some Like It Hot.
Other events will provide insight into the Czech Republic’s production benefits; panels on approaches to film education in Europe; and the 10th annual conference of Europa Distribution.
In addition, the European Parliament will unveil the 10 films nominated for the 10th Lux Film Prize; the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program...
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-9) has announced its industry programme and the projects selected for its works in progress and Eurimages Lab Project awards.
The line-up includes an in conversation event with Ted Hope, head of motion picture production at Amazon Studios, who will offer his future vision for film.
The festival will also host mark 20 years since the death of Czech filmmaker František (Frank) Daniel with a workshop, where Daniel’s teaching methods will be presented by analysing the film Some Like It Hot.
Other events will provide insight into the Czech Republic’s production benefits; panels on approaches to film education in Europe; and the 10th annual conference of Europa Distribution.
In addition, the European Parliament will unveil the 10 films nominated for the 10th Lux Film Prize; the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program...
- 6/21/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The UK’s Lucas Ochoa and Poland’s Klaudia Smieja are among upcoming European producers set for neworking initiative in Cannes.Scroll down for the full list
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging European producers for the 17th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the Cannes Film Festival between May 14-17.
The participating producers will take part in a programme of round-table project presentations, one-on-one speed dating pitches and case studies of successful projects.
The 2016 selection includes the UK’s Lucas Ochoa, producer on Andrea Arnold’s Cannes competition entry American Honey. Ochoa has had winning films at the Sundance Film Festival for four years in a row including Robert Egger’s multi-award winning The Witch and this year’s Michal Marczak documentary All These Sleepless Night.
Poland’s Klaudia Smieja, an executive producer on Icelandic hit Rams, has also been selected. Her additional...
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging European producers for the 17th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the Cannes Film Festival between May 14-17.
The participating producers will take part in a programme of round-table project presentations, one-on-one speed dating pitches and case studies of successful projects.
The 2016 selection includes the UK’s Lucas Ochoa, producer on Andrea Arnold’s Cannes competition entry American Honey. Ochoa has had winning films at the Sundance Film Festival for four years in a row including Robert Egger’s multi-award winning The Witch and this year’s Michal Marczak documentary All These Sleepless Night.
Poland’s Klaudia Smieja, an executive producer on Icelandic hit Rams, has also been selected. Her additional...
- 4/21/2016
- ScreenDaily
Acting awards split between casts of Mustang and Chevalier, Son Of Saul wins Special Jury Prize.Scroll down for full list of winners
The 21st Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) wrapped tonight with Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang winning the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film.
The film also received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress, which went to its whole female cast: Güneş Şensoy, Doga Doğuşlu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit İşcan, and Ilayda Akdoğan.
László Nemes picked up the Special Jury Prize for Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier won a Special Jury Mention, and its male ensemble, consisting of Yorgos Kéntros, Vangelis Mouríkis, Panos Kóronis, Makis Papadimitríou, Yorgos Pyrpassópoulos, and Sakis Rouvás received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor.
The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary went to Alexander Nanau’s Toto And His Sisters, while the same award in the short film competition went to A Matter Of Will...
The 21st Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) wrapped tonight with Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang winning the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film.
The film also received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress, which went to its whole female cast: Güneş Şensoy, Doga Doğuşlu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit İşcan, and Ilayda Akdoğan.
László Nemes picked up the Special Jury Prize for Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier won a Special Jury Mention, and its male ensemble, consisting of Yorgos Kéntros, Vangelis Mouríkis, Panos Kóronis, Makis Papadimitríou, Yorgos Pyrpassópoulos, and Sakis Rouvás received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor.
The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary went to Alexander Nanau’s Toto And His Sisters, while the same award in the short film competition went to A Matter Of Will...
- 8/22/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Acting awards split between casts of Mustang and Chevalier, Son Of Saul wins Special Jury Prize.Scroll down for full list of winners
The 21st Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) wrapped tonight with Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang winning the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film.
The film also received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress, which went to its whole female cast: Güneş Şensoy, Doga Doğuşlu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit İşcan, and Ilayda Akdoğan.
László Nemes picked up the Special Jury Prize for Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier won a Special Jury Mention, and its male ensemble, consisting of Yorgos Kéntros, Vangelis Mouríkis, Panos Kóronis, Makis Papadimitríou, Yorgos Pyrpassópoulos, and Sakis Rouvás received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor.
The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary went to Alexander Nanau’s Toto And His Sisters, while the same award in the short film competition went to A Matter Of Will...
The 21st Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) wrapped tonight with Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang winning the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film.
The film also received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress, which went to its whole female cast: Güneş Şensoy, Doga Doğuşlu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit İşcan, and Ilayda Akdoğan.
László Nemes picked up the Special Jury Prize for Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier won a Special Jury Mention, and its male ensemble, consisting of Yorgos Kéntros, Vangelis Mouríkis, Panos Kóronis, Makis Papadimitríou, Yorgos Pyrpassópoulos, and Sakis Rouvás received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor.
The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary went to Alexander Nanau’s Toto And His Sisters, while the same award in the short film competition went to A Matter Of Will...
- 8/22/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
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