Vienna-based sales agent EastWest Distribution has picked up international distribution for Raffi (Rettet Raffi) by the German film-maker Arend Agthe.
The adaptation of Bettina Kupfer and Agthe’s eponymous children’s novel about eight-year-old Sammy’s struggle to save his golden hamster Raffi from the clutches of ruthless kidnappers is currently screening at the Tumbleweeds Film Festival in Salt Lake City and will screen at the Filmfest Hamburg next week.
Raffi will be released by Mfa+ in German cinemas on Oct 22.
EastWest Distribution was at this week’s Finnish Film Affair showcase with Taavi Varta’s family adventure The Island Of Secrets which it had acquired at the Film Affair’s 2014 edition after the pitch by producer Yellow Film & TV.
The adaptation of Bettina Kupfer and Agthe’s eponymous children’s novel about eight-year-old Sammy’s struggle to save his golden hamster Raffi from the clutches of ruthless kidnappers is currently screening at the Tumbleweeds Film Festival in Salt Lake City and will screen at the Filmfest Hamburg next week.
Raffi will be released by Mfa+ in German cinemas on Oct 22.
EastWest Distribution was at this week’s Finnish Film Affair showcase with Taavi Varta’s family adventure The Island Of Secrets which it had acquired at the Film Affair’s 2014 edition after the pitch by producer Yellow Film & TV.
- 9/26/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The 18th edition of the Montreal Festival International du Film pour Enfants begins on February 28th, just in time for Spring Break offering a wide range of films for children, teens and families alike. With events at Cinema Beaubien, Cinema du Parc and the Imperial theatre, there is a little something for everyone, with a wide variety of international premieres and showcases.
One of the highlights of this year’s edition of the festival is a showcase called “Focus Japan”, highlighting some of the very best children’s films from Japan. This comes as the Fifem collaborates for the first time with the Tokyo Kinder Film Festival (the next edition in August 2015 will see the fest taking on a new name, Kineko). Focus Japan will feature great Japanese films new and old, including the ever-popular works of Hayao Miyazaki (Kiki’s Delivery Service, My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle...
One of the highlights of this year’s edition of the festival is a showcase called “Focus Japan”, highlighting some of the very best children’s films from Japan. This comes as the Fifem collaborates for the first time with the Tokyo Kinder Film Festival (the next edition in August 2015 will see the fest taking on a new name, Kineko). Focus Japan will feature great Japanese films new and old, including the ever-popular works of Hayao Miyazaki (Kiki’s Delivery Service, My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle...
- 2/26/2015
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
“My grandma never attended a script writing course. But she was an engaging story teller,” Kamlesh Pandey said enthusiastically. The 5th day at Green Screen Lab in Bhubaneshwar has a new chirpy guest who has written some of the most gripping scripts of the Indian cinema like Tezaab and Rang De Basanti. We were all thrilled and enlightened with his anecdotes and views on script writing and Bollywood screenplays. His insights provoked us to look at our scripts with a new lens. The hurdles in crossing an ocean of imagination to reach the shore with a superior screenplay, never seems to end.
Children cinema is very rare and the few good films I have seen are Iranian. The only Indian children film I have watched in the last decade was a short film called Girni by Umesh Kulkarni and a feature film I am Kalam directed by Nila Madhab Panda...
Children cinema is very rare and the few good films I have seen are Iranian. The only Indian children film I have watched in the last decade was a short film called Girni by Umesh Kulkarni and a feature film I am Kalam directed by Nila Madhab Panda...
- 8/21/2012
- by Oinam Doren
- DearCinema.com
‘Story is the thing’! That’s the only thought which has inspired me through and through to tell what I want to tell which are stories born out of me, Jyoti Nisha the scriptwriter. But honestly to go through that process of growing your idea from scratch to evolving it through several stages of writing, re-writing, meditating and sleeping over it over and over again one rarely feels satisfied with the end result. Because what you want to tell and how you want to tell with clarity, vision and insight; is the toughest job of all. And frankly a writer’s day mostly begins and ends like that, filled with insecurities, self-doubts and loads of disappointment! That’s where ‘screenwriting lab’ comes to rescue to their dwindling world. First and foremost they help one restore faith in their abilities, which is essential for creating and eventually helping one hone and...
- 8/15/2012
- by Jyoti Nisha
- DearCinema.com
Our 17th and 18th fellow participants have arrived for the Green Screen Lab 2012. Bhubaneswar is a beautiful and an exciting place, especially on the Kiit University Campus, with the rain contributing to its scenic beauty. The 18 upcoming film writers/directors from different places around the country & abroad, and mentors with their hopes and experiences are providing the lacking excitement. I am optimistic that a couple of films will be made at the end of the workshop and very soon children from India and around the world will be able to see some good children films.
We are now divided in three groups guided by three mentors namely, Sanjay Chouhan, Arend Agthe & Onir. We got feedback from our assigned mentors and fellow participants after an in-depth narration of our stories in front them. Now, it is time to develop our story line according to their suggestions. Mentors are ready to take...
We are now divided in three groups guided by three mentors namely, Sanjay Chouhan, Arend Agthe & Onir. We got feedback from our assigned mentors and fellow participants after an in-depth narration of our stories in front them. Now, it is time to develop our story line according to their suggestions. Mentors are ready to take...
- 8/14/2012
- by Bhaskarjyoti Das
- DearCinema.com
Green. That is the colour of Bhubaneswar right now. Literally. And metaphorically too – for me at least, and I am sure, for my co-participants at the International Green Screen Lab 2012, focused on developing quality screenplays for Indian children’s cinema. For an Assamese, the deep shades of green during the monsoons is nothing new, Assam and the rest of North-East India having been endowed with nature’s bounty. But it is the metaphorical green that has engulfed the campus of Kiit University in the Odisha capital that is intoxicating me at this moment – it’s the colour that has inspired this screenwriting lab (click link above for the backgrounder). And it has kind of engulfed my senses too – the idea of writing and making cinema that remains environment-friendly during conceptualisation and execution is too exciting for a person who grew up close to nature but now lives in a concrete jungle called New Delhi.
- 8/11/2012
- by Utpal Borpujari
- DearCinema.com
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