Berlin-based sales agent Pluto Film has boarded “Forever-Forever” (“Nazavzhdy-Nazavzhdy”), Ukrainian filmmaker Anna Buryachkova’s feature directing debut, ahead of its world premiere in Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra competition.
After transferring from a downtown high school, Tonia (Alina Cheban) befriends a group of badass youngsters, trying to find protection from the people from her past and a place she truly belongs. They spend time together, roaming around Kyiv’s post-socialist suburbs, having fun and getting in trouble. Soon, Tonia falls in love with Zhurik. When she also falls for Sania (Arthur Aliiev), she finds herself tangled up in an alluring secret love triangle. But Tonia’s painful past still haunts her, challenging this newfound friendship and romance. Will she be able to find her own path or lose herself in this new controversial relationship?
Buryachkova stated: “This film is a love song to the lost teenagers of the late...
After transferring from a downtown high school, Tonia (Alina Cheban) befriends a group of badass youngsters, trying to find protection from the people from her past and a place she truly belongs. They spend time together, roaming around Kyiv’s post-socialist suburbs, having fun and getting in trouble. Soon, Tonia falls in love with Zhurik. When she also falls for Sania (Arthur Aliiev), she finds herself tangled up in an alluring secret love triangle. But Tonia’s painful past still haunts her, challenging this newfound friendship and romance. Will she be able to find her own path or lose herself in this new controversial relationship?
Buryachkova stated: “This film is a love song to the lost teenagers of the late...
- 7/31/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Spain’s European Dreams Factory, Sweden’s Filmcentrum and Lithuania’s Kino Centras Garsas have joined the distribution team supporting soccer movie “Bigman,” which is being sold by M-Appeal. Previous sales have included Denmark’s Angel Films, Estonia’s Estinfilm and Poland’s New Horizons Association.
In “Bigman,” directed by Camiel Schouwenaar, best friends Dylan and Youssef (Anouar Kasmi and Maik Cillekens) dream of becoming professional soccer players. One day, an unexpected event changes everything for Dylan. But thanks to the help of skater girl Maya – whom he has a crush on – he learns to play in a completely new way.
“Solidarity and friendship feel especially important since the Covid pandemic, and we love how this film goes deeper into important topics in an entertaining format,” Maren Kroymann, managing director of M-Appeal, said. “We are thrilled to see its uplifting message resonate with young festival audiences and winning awards, and...
In “Bigman,” directed by Camiel Schouwenaar, best friends Dylan and Youssef (Anouar Kasmi and Maik Cillekens) dream of becoming professional soccer players. One day, an unexpected event changes everything for Dylan. But thanks to the help of skater girl Maya – whom he has a crush on – he learns to play in a completely new way.
“Solidarity and friendship feel especially important since the Covid pandemic, and we love how this film goes deeper into important topics in an entertaining format,” Maren Kroymann, managing director of M-Appeal, said. “We are thrilled to see its uplifting message resonate with young festival audiences and winning awards, and...
- 1/30/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Michael Caton-Jones is confirmed to direct an Amsterdam-set road-trip dramedy titled “Baggage,” which centers around a Holocaust survivor and her family.
The logline reads, “A dysfunctional family embarks on a road trip to their matriarch’s Holocaust hero ceremony, but their decades-old secrets threaten to derail the European vacation.”
Penned by Ryan Elkins, the script was previously recognized as a semifinalist for the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowship. “Baggage” marks Elkins’ feature film debut, but the up-and-comer is currently in production on another movie as well, which has yet to be announced.
Caton-Jones most recently directed, wrote and produced 2019’s “Our Ladies,” which is nominated for two awards, including best feature film, at the 2022 BAFTA Scotland Awards. The Scottish-born filmmaker garnered critical acclaim for his direction on features like 1990’s “Memphis Belle” and the rom-com “Doc Hollywood” the following year. Other notable works include 1997 action thriller “The Jackal,” starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere...
The logline reads, “A dysfunctional family embarks on a road trip to their matriarch’s Holocaust hero ceremony, but their decades-old secrets threaten to derail the European vacation.”
Penned by Ryan Elkins, the script was previously recognized as a semifinalist for the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowship. “Baggage” marks Elkins’ feature film debut, but the up-and-comer is currently in production on another movie as well, which has yet to be announced.
Caton-Jones most recently directed, wrote and produced 2019’s “Our Ladies,” which is nominated for two awards, including best feature film, at the 2022 BAFTA Scotland Awards. The Scottish-born filmmaker garnered critical acclaim for his direction on features like 1990’s “Memphis Belle” and the rom-com “Doc Hollywood” the following year. Other notable works include 1997 action thriller “The Jackal,” starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere...
- 11/7/2022
- by Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
Shahab Hosseini, a Cannes best actor winner in 2016 for his layered, complex performance in Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “The Salesman,” is attached to star in “The Far Mountains,” from Mitra Tabrizian.
A nuanced coming-of-age tale with an allegorical undertow, “The Far Mountains” marks Tabrizian’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut feature “Gholam,” also starring Hosseini and selected by The Guardian/Observer’s Mark Kermode as Film of the Week on its release. “Gholam” was theatrically released in the U.K. and major VOD platforms internationally.
“Gholam” producer Zadoc Nava at London-based Stray Dog Films will be introducing “The Far Mountains” at Locarno’s Match Me! where it looks like one of its highlights. at the networking initiative.
Written by Tabrizian and Cyrus Massoudi, the co-scribes of “Gholam,” “The Far Mountains” turns on Ali, a 12-year-old boy living in a small town in Iran whose mother disappeared when he was very young.
A nuanced coming-of-age tale with an allegorical undertow, “The Far Mountains” marks Tabrizian’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut feature “Gholam,” also starring Hosseini and selected by The Guardian/Observer’s Mark Kermode as Film of the Week on its release. “Gholam” was theatrically released in the U.K. and major VOD platforms internationally.
“Gholam” producer Zadoc Nava at London-based Stray Dog Films will be introducing “The Far Mountains” at Locarno’s Match Me! where it looks like one of its highlights. at the networking initiative.
Written by Tabrizian and Cyrus Massoudi, the co-scribes of “Gholam,” “The Far Mountains” turns on Ali, a 12-year-old boy living in a small town in Iran whose mother disappeared when he was very young.
- 8/6/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
M-Appeal, the Berlin-based sales outfit, has acquired world rights to Dutch title “Bigman,” which follows best friends Dylan and Youssef, as they dream of becoming professional soccer players. When Dylan is paralyzed following an accident, he has to come to terms with his new life. His dad – and former coach – wants him to accept his disability, but Dylan is determined to play soccer again.
The film will be directed by Camiel Schouwenaar. Job Tichelman co-wrote the script with Schouwenaar, drawing on his own childhood experiences, having been a wheelchair user all his life.
Schouwenaar has several award-winning shorts to his name, most notably “Polska Warrior,” an animated adventure about identity, fear, and the love of a father and his son, which took home the award for Best Dutch Short Animation at the 2018 Cinekid Festival, as well as the 2017 Golden Calf for best short film at the Netherlands Film Festival.
Maren Kroymann,...
The film will be directed by Camiel Schouwenaar. Job Tichelman co-wrote the script with Schouwenaar, drawing on his own childhood experiences, having been a wheelchair user all his life.
Schouwenaar has several award-winning shorts to his name, most notably “Polska Warrior,” an animated adventure about identity, fear, and the love of a father and his son, which took home the award for Best Dutch Short Animation at the 2018 Cinekid Festival, as well as the 2017 Golden Calf for best short film at the Netherlands Film Festival.
Maren Kroymann,...
- 10/28/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Dutch outfit Rinkel Film acquired rights to former model’s novel, inspired by Jean-Luc Brunel allegations.
Dutch production outfit Rinkel Film has teamed with France’s Bonne Pioche Story on a mini-series about sexual abuse at the highest levels of the French fashion industry.
Six-part drama Face It is an adaptation of 2020 novel Close-up, written by former Dutch model Thysia Huisman and based on her experiences in the fashion world including her alleged rape by former French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel in 1991.
Brunel has become notorious for his connections to late sex offender and disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein. Brunel...
Dutch production outfit Rinkel Film has teamed with France’s Bonne Pioche Story on a mini-series about sexual abuse at the highest levels of the French fashion industry.
Six-part drama Face It is an adaptation of 2020 novel Close-up, written by former Dutch model Thysia Huisman and based on her experiences in the fashion world including her alleged rape by former French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel in 1991.
Brunel has become notorious for his connections to late sex offender and disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein. Brunel...
- 6/11/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Arun Karthick’s second feature explores the life of a Muslim salesman in Tamil Nadu.
Paris-based sales company Stray Dogs has picked up international rights to Arun Karthick’s Nasir, which will receive its world premiere in the Tiger Competition of the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr).
The Tamil-language drama revolves around the struggles of a Muslim salesman and aspiring poet, living in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, who faces an increasingly toxic society as Hindu nationalism starts to take hold.
Produced by Mathivanan Rajendran’s Chennai-based Stray Factory, the film is co-produced by Reinier Selen and Ibo...
Paris-based sales company Stray Dogs has picked up international rights to Arun Karthick’s Nasir, which will receive its world premiere in the Tiger Competition of the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr).
The Tamil-language drama revolves around the struggles of a Muslim salesman and aspiring poet, living in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, who faces an increasingly toxic society as Hindu nationalism starts to take hold.
Produced by Mathivanan Rajendran’s Chennai-based Stray Factory, the film is co-produced by Reinier Selen and Ibo...
- 1/9/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Netherlands production outfit Rinkel Film (“Rafiki”) has reteamed with India’s Stray Factory (“Nirvana Inn”) for Tamil language Western “The Tempest” (aka “Aasaimugam”). It is to be directed by emerging Indian filmmaker Arun Karthick.
The two companies previously co-produced Karthick’s communal bigotry tale, “Nasir,” which benefited from a grant of €50,000 under the Netherlands Film Fund and Hubert Bals Fund co-production scheme, and is currently in post.
Set against the backdrop of the Western Ghats mountains in South India, “Aasaimugam” is the tale of two brothers who are pitted against each other for possession of their ancestral land. Reinier Selen and Ibo Karatay will produce for Rinkel, and Mathivanan Rajendran for Stray Factory. The project is budgeted at $500,000. Rinkel and Stray Factory are seeking partners at India’s ongoing Film Bazaar.
“We are happy to extend this relationship with Stray Factory on “Aasaimugam” and support the uncompromising vision of this...
The two companies previously co-produced Karthick’s communal bigotry tale, “Nasir,” which benefited from a grant of €50,000 under the Netherlands Film Fund and Hubert Bals Fund co-production scheme, and is currently in post.
Set against the backdrop of the Western Ghats mountains in South India, “Aasaimugam” is the tale of two brothers who are pitted against each other for possession of their ancestral land. Reinier Selen and Ibo Karatay will produce for Rinkel, and Mathivanan Rajendran for Stray Factory. The project is budgeted at $500,000. Rinkel and Stray Factory are seeking partners at India’s ongoing Film Bazaar.
“We are happy to extend this relationship with Stray Factory on “Aasaimugam” and support the uncompromising vision of this...
- 11/22/2019
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Some 25 projects from 21 countries are featured in CineMart 2016, Iffr’s much vaunted co-production market.
Now in its 33rd edition, this is the oldest event in its kind - and it has received a boost this year from the appointment of producer and regular CineMart attendee Bero Beyer as Iffr festival director.
Organisers report a major spike in the number of projects submitted to CineMart.
“It is crucial to be very selective in the kind of projects that we present. There’s a lot of overproduction and a lot of markets and places where projects are brought into the world,” states Marit van den Elshout, Head of Industry/CineMart Manager.
Once projects are chosen, there is still homework to be done. It is never just a case of filmmakers turning up and pitching blindly. The CineMart organisers help them prepare for their meetings and are designing a mentoring programme for those who are interested post-CineMart.
Budgets of the...
Now in its 33rd edition, this is the oldest event in its kind - and it has received a boost this year from the appointment of producer and regular CineMart attendee Bero Beyer as Iffr festival director.
Organisers report a major spike in the number of projects submitted to CineMart.
“It is crucial to be very selective in the kind of projects that we present. There’s a lot of overproduction and a lot of markets and places where projects are brought into the world,” states Marit van den Elshout, Head of Industry/CineMart Manager.
Once projects are chosen, there is still homework to be done. It is never just a case of filmmakers turning up and pitching blindly. The CineMart organisers help them prepare for their meetings and are designing a mentoring programme for those who are interested post-CineMart.
Budgets of the...
- 1/29/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Dutch director to remake 2014 feature with Us outfit Stun Originals.
Paula van der Oest is to remake her 2014 feature Accused (aka Lucia De B.) as an English-language Us mini-series.
The Oscar-nominated Dutch director is in development on the series with Stun Originals, the original programming division of Los Angeles-based advertising and branded entertainment company, Stun Creative.
Stun Originals president, Maria Crenna, is a former studio executive who developed hit series Friends, Criminal Minds and CSI, among others.
Accused (handled by Fortissimo) is a thriller based on a true story.
The film follows headstrong nurse, Lucia de Berk (Ariane Schluter), present at one inexplicable death too many. She is charged by the police and eventually sentenced to a life in prison. Her case, though, became acknowledged as one of the biggest miscarriages in the history of Dutch justice.
Van der Oest’s La agent brought the project to Crenna.
“What I’ve experienced in making the film...
Paula van der Oest is to remake her 2014 feature Accused (aka Lucia De B.) as an English-language Us mini-series.
The Oscar-nominated Dutch director is in development on the series with Stun Originals, the original programming division of Los Angeles-based advertising and branded entertainment company, Stun Creative.
Stun Originals president, Maria Crenna, is a former studio executive who developed hit series Friends, Criminal Minds and CSI, among others.
Accused (handled by Fortissimo) is a thriller based on a true story.
The film follows headstrong nurse, Lucia de Berk (Ariane Schluter), present at one inexplicable death too many. She is charged by the police and eventually sentenced to a life in prison. Her case, though, became acknowledged as one of the biggest miscarriages in the history of Dutch justice.
Van der Oest’s La agent brought the project to Crenna.
“What I’ve experienced in making the film...
- 12/11/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Details have emerged of the new regional film fund being set up in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands.
Two projects have already been supported by the new Limburg Fund, which is currently still at pilot stage.
Code M directed by Dennis Bots (Secrets of War, Cool Kids Don’t Cry) is the first film to have been supported by the Fund.
The feature, also known as The Sword Of D’Artagnan, will be launched for pre-sales in Cannes by Sola Media. It is produced by Harro van Staverden of Bijker Film.
The second project supported by the Limburg Fund is Playboy Priest, produced by by Reinier Selen at Rinkel Film.
Investment levels from the new fund are capped currently at €200,000 - a relatively modest amount - but it is anticipated that amounts may rise when the Fund is launched officially.
Support from the new fund can be combined with money producers access through the recently...
Two projects have already been supported by the new Limburg Fund, which is currently still at pilot stage.
Code M directed by Dennis Bots (Secrets of War, Cool Kids Don’t Cry) is the first film to have been supported by the Fund.
The feature, also known as The Sword Of D’Artagnan, will be launched for pre-sales in Cannes by Sola Media. It is produced by Harro van Staverden of Bijker Film.
The second project supported by the Limburg Fund is Playboy Priest, produced by by Reinier Selen at Rinkel Film.
Investment levels from the new fund are capped currently at €200,000 - a relatively modest amount - but it is anticipated that amounts may rise when the Fund is launched officially.
Support from the new fund can be combined with money producers access through the recently...
- 5/14/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Denmark’s Katja Adomeit and Germany’s Ingmar Trost among upcoming European producers set to be showcased at Cannes.Scroll down for full list
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging young European producers for the 16th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 15-18.
The 2014 selection includes Danish producer Katja Adomeit, who produced and co-directed the hybrid film Not At Home with the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat as well as co-producing Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure as a freelancer for the Copenhagen office of Philippe Bober’s The Coproduction Office.
Cologne-based Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko has also been selected. His credits include Ilian Metev’s award-winniıng documentary Sofıa’s Last Ambulance, Latvian director Juris Kursietis’ Modrıs and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, and he has just completed production of his third feature, Isabelle Stever’s The Weather Inside.
Lithuania will be...
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging young European producers for the 16th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 15-18.
The 2014 selection includes Danish producer Katja Adomeit, who produced and co-directed the hybrid film Not At Home with the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat as well as co-producing Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure as a freelancer for the Copenhagen office of Philippe Bober’s The Coproduction Office.
Cologne-based Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko has also been selected. His credits include Ilian Metev’s award-winniıng documentary Sofıa’s Last Ambulance, Latvian director Juris Kursietis’ Modrıs and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, and he has just completed production of his third feature, Isabelle Stever’s The Weather Inside.
Lithuania will be...
- 4/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- 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
Rudolf van den Berg’s feature stars Tygo Gernandt [pictured] as the notorious art forger Han van Meegeren.
Leading Dutch production outfit Rinkel Film has revealed further details of its new feature about notorious art forger Han van Meegeren.
A Real Van Meegeren, as the project is called, will be directed by Rudolf van den Berg (Tirza, Süskind), who has cowritten the screenplay with Jan Eilander.
It is being produced by Rinkel Film (through Reinier Selen) together with Fu Works (San Fu Maltha) and Cadenza Films (Jeroen Koolbergen). The other partners are, in Luxembourg, Tarantula Luxembourg (Donato Rotunno), and, in Croatia, Nukleus Film Croatia (Sinisa Juricic).
Cineart will release in Benelux.
Van Meegeren is often called “one of the greatest art forgers of the Twentieth Century”. He was renowned for his fake Vermeers and for his forgeries of work by Seventeenth Century Dutch masters.
Among the clients he managed to hoodwink in his shady but illustrious career was leading...
Leading Dutch production outfit Rinkel Film has revealed further details of its new feature about notorious art forger Han van Meegeren.
A Real Van Meegeren, as the project is called, will be directed by Rudolf van den Berg (Tirza, Süskind), who has cowritten the screenplay with Jan Eilander.
It is being produced by Rinkel Film (through Reinier Selen) together with Fu Works (San Fu Maltha) and Cadenza Films (Jeroen Koolbergen). The other partners are, in Luxembourg, Tarantula Luxembourg (Donato Rotunno), and, in Croatia, Nukleus Film Croatia (Sinisa Juricic).
Cineart will release in Benelux.
Van Meegeren is often called “one of the greatest art forgers of the Twentieth Century”. He was renowned for his fake Vermeers and for his forgeries of work by Seventeenth Century Dutch masters.
Among the clients he managed to hoodwink in his shady but illustrious career was leading...
- 6/30/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Australian 3D animation [pictured] is the Stuttgart-based sales outfit’s biggest ever project.
Stuggart-based family film sales powerhouse Sola Media has arrived in Cannes pre-selling its biggest ever project.
Australian 3D animated feature Santa: Lost Down Under has a reported budget of $30m.
“It is the biggest project that we have ever had,” commented company Managing Director Solveig Langeland.
Sola will be screening a promo reel for the film in the Marché.
The film, directed by Rob Nunn, is billed as a bold new Aussie take on the traditional Christmas story. Santa and Rudolph end up stranded in the outback just four days before Christmas. The producers are Diana Girogiutti, Ben Cunningham and Charles Glaspole.
Also new on Sola’s slate is another big budget animated 3D feature, the $17m Manou The Swift. This is being produced in Stuggart by Andrea Block and Christian Haas.
On the live action front, Sola is handling Dutch kids’ movie Secrets Of War from director...
Stuggart-based family film sales powerhouse Sola Media has arrived in Cannes pre-selling its biggest ever project.
Australian 3D animated feature Santa: Lost Down Under has a reported budget of $30m.
“It is the biggest project that we have ever had,” commented company Managing Director Solveig Langeland.
Sola will be screening a promo reel for the film in the Marché.
The film, directed by Rob Nunn, is billed as a bold new Aussie take on the traditional Christmas story. Santa and Rudolph end up stranded in the outback just four days before Christmas. The producers are Diana Girogiutti, Ben Cunningham and Charles Glaspole.
Also new on Sola’s slate is another big budget animated 3D feature, the $17m Manou The Swift. This is being produced in Stuggart by Andrea Block and Christian Haas.
On the live action front, Sola is handling Dutch kids’ movie Secrets Of War from director...
- 5/15/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Pre-sales to commence on Dutch film Lucia De B. and Ghadi from Lebanon in Berlin next week.
Fortissimo Films has revealed two additions to its Berlin slate: Lucia De B. (working title) from The Netherlands and Ghadi from Lebanon.
Both films are in post-production and slated for festival launches later in the year.
Fortissimo will handle worldwide sales outside the respective countries of origin and will introduce the films to buyers by showing exclusive footage at the European Film Market (Efm), which starts next week.
Lucia De B., produced by Rinkel Film, is the latest from Dutch director Paula Van der Oest, who was Oscar-nominated for Zus & Zo. Zus & Zo).
The film is a thriller based on one of the Netherlands most controversial court cases. Veteran nurse Lucia de B. was sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having killed seven patients under her care at various hospitals. But an assistant district attorney discovers a number of inconsistencies...
Fortissimo Films has revealed two additions to its Berlin slate: Lucia De B. (working title) from The Netherlands and Ghadi from Lebanon.
Both films are in post-production and slated for festival launches later in the year.
Fortissimo will handle worldwide sales outside the respective countries of origin and will introduce the films to buyers by showing exclusive footage at the European Film Market (Efm), which starts next week.
Lucia De B., produced by Rinkel Film, is the latest from Dutch director Paula Van der Oest, who was Oscar-nominated for Zus & Zo. Zus & Zo).
The film is a thriller based on one of the Netherlands most controversial court cases. Veteran nurse Lucia de B. was sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having killed seven patients under her care at various hospitals. But an assistant district attorney discovers a number of inconsistencies...
- 1/31/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
European Film Promotion (Efp) announces its 10th lineup of Producers On The Move at the Cannes International Film Festival (13-24 May, 2009)
Efp's goal is to support producer networking on a European level and attract the attention of the international film industry and press. Funded by the Media Programme of the European Union, the Efp member organizations have established a label and a platform to make new contacts.
Efp producers in the festival itself include Official Selection/ Special Screening of Jaffa coproduced by Emmanuel Agneray (Bizibi) for France, Critics Week short film Party (Tulum) coproduced by Ankija Juric Tilic, and the Directors Fortnight short film History of Aviation produced by Emmanuel Agneray.
This year, the Efp members have selected 23 up-and-coming, independent producers who have already made a mark with their outstanding productions in their home countries and at film festivals, but are still at the beginning of their international careers. A...
Efp's goal is to support producer networking on a European level and attract the attention of the international film industry and press. Funded by the Media Programme of the European Union, the Efp member organizations have established a label and a platform to make new contacts.
Efp producers in the festival itself include Official Selection/ Special Screening of Jaffa coproduced by Emmanuel Agneray (Bizibi) for France, Critics Week short film Party (Tulum) coproduced by Ankija Juric Tilic, and the Directors Fortnight short film History of Aviation produced by Emmanuel Agneray.
This year, the Efp members have selected 23 up-and-coming, independent producers who have already made a mark with their outstanding productions in their home countries and at film festivals, but are still at the beginning of their international careers. A...
- 5/3/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
PARIS -- Twenty-two promising young producers will take the spotlight at this year's Festival de Cannes as part of European Film Promotion's ninth annual Producers on the Move program.
The initiative to promote young producers, financed by the European Union's MEDIA program and EFP member organizations, will feature roundtable discussions, co-production lunches and meetings May 17-20.
"Particularly for young producers, it is extremely important that they can network with producers from other European countries and have an exchange of ideas on a high international level," EFP managing director Renate Rose said.
This year's crop of hopefuls selected from the EFP's member organizations includes Marc-Antoine Robert of 2.4.7. Films, whose animated hit "Persepolis" already has made waves across the Atlantic, and Swedish producer Fredrik Heinig of St. Paul Film, whose first film, "Darling", has been an international success.
Other Producers on the Move participants include Manuel Cristobal (Perro Verde Films), Maria Drandaki (Bad Movies), Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord), Alise Gelze (Film Angels Studio), Oana Giurgiu (Libra Film Production), Grzegorz Hajdarowicz (Gremi Film Production), Laura Hastings-Smith (Wayward Films), Dalma Hidasi (Extreme Film), Sigrid Hoerner (moneypenny filmproduktion), Max Karli, (Rita Prods.), Macdara Kelleher (Fastnet Films), Jiri Konecny (Endorfilm), Daniele Mazzocca (Verdeoro), Bernard Michaux (Lucil), Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film & TV Prods.), Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson, (Saga Film), Ulla Simonen, Marko Skop (Artileria), Louise Vesth (Zentropa) and Leonel Vieira (Stopline Films).
The initiative to promote young producers, financed by the European Union's MEDIA program and EFP member organizations, will feature roundtable discussions, co-production lunches and meetings May 17-20.
"Particularly for young producers, it is extremely important that they can network with producers from other European countries and have an exchange of ideas on a high international level," EFP managing director Renate Rose said.
This year's crop of hopefuls selected from the EFP's member organizations includes Marc-Antoine Robert of 2.4.7. Films, whose animated hit "Persepolis" already has made waves across the Atlantic, and Swedish producer Fredrik Heinig of St. Paul Film, whose first film, "Darling", has been an international success.
Other Producers on the Move participants include Manuel Cristobal (Perro Verde Films), Maria Drandaki (Bad Movies), Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord), Alise Gelze (Film Angels Studio), Oana Giurgiu (Libra Film Production), Grzegorz Hajdarowicz (Gremi Film Production), Laura Hastings-Smith (Wayward Films), Dalma Hidasi (Extreme Film), Sigrid Hoerner (moneypenny filmproduktion), Max Karli, (Rita Prods.), Macdara Kelleher (Fastnet Films), Jiri Konecny (Endorfilm), Daniele Mazzocca (Verdeoro), Bernard Michaux (Lucil), Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film & TV Prods.), Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson, (Saga Film), Ulla Simonen, Marko Skop (Artileria), Louise Vesth (Zentropa) and Leonel Vieira (Stopline Films).
- 4/14/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- Young producers will be in the spotlight at May's Festival de Cannes, with the European Film Promotion unveiling the names of 22 promising producers from across the continent Monday for the ninth year of its Producers on the Move program.
The initiative to promote young producers, financed by the European Union's MEDIA program and EFP member organizations, will feature round table discussions, co-production lunches and meetings from May 17-20.
"Particularly for young producers, it is extremely important that they can network with producers from other European countries and have an exchange of ideas on a high international level," EFP managing director Renate Rose said.
This year's crop of producing hopefuls selected from the EFP's member organizations includes Marc-Antoine Robert of 2.4.7. Films, whose animated hit Persepolis has already made waves across the Atlantic, in addition to Swedish producer Fredrik Heinig of St Paul Film whose first film Darling has been an international success.
Other Producers on the Move include: Manuel Cristobal (Perro Verde Films), Maria Drandaki (Bad Movies), Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord), Alise Gelze (Film Angels Studio), Oana Giurgiu (Libra Film Production), Grzegorz Hajdarowicz (Gremi Film Production), Laura Hastings-Smith (Wayward Films), Dalma Hidasi, (Extreme Film), Sigrid Hoerner (moneypenny filmproduktion), Max Karli, (Rita Productions), Macdara Kelleher (Fastnet Films), Jiri Konecny (Endorfilm), Daniele Mazzocca (Verdeoro), Bernard Michaux (Lucil), Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film & TV Productions), Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson, (Saga Film), Ulla Simonen, Marko Skop (Artileria), Louise Vesth (Zentropa) and Leonel Vieira (Stopline Films).
The initiative to promote young producers, financed by the European Union's MEDIA program and EFP member organizations, will feature round table discussions, co-production lunches and meetings from May 17-20.
"Particularly for young producers, it is extremely important that they can network with producers from other European countries and have an exchange of ideas on a high international level," EFP managing director Renate Rose said.
This year's crop of producing hopefuls selected from the EFP's member organizations includes Marc-Antoine Robert of 2.4.7. Films, whose animated hit Persepolis has already made waves across the Atlantic, in addition to Swedish producer Fredrik Heinig of St Paul Film whose first film Darling has been an international success.
Other Producers on the Move include: Manuel Cristobal (Perro Verde Films), Maria Drandaki (Bad Movies), Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord), Alise Gelze (Film Angels Studio), Oana Giurgiu (Libra Film Production), Grzegorz Hajdarowicz (Gremi Film Production), Laura Hastings-Smith (Wayward Films), Dalma Hidasi, (Extreme Film), Sigrid Hoerner (moneypenny filmproduktion), Max Karli, (Rita Productions), Macdara Kelleher (Fastnet Films), Jiri Konecny (Endorfilm), Daniele Mazzocca (Verdeoro), Bernard Michaux (Lucil), Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film & TV Productions), Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson, (Saga Film), Ulla Simonen, Marko Skop (Artileria), Louise Vesth (Zentropa) and Leonel Vieira (Stopline Films).
- 4/14/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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