The South by Southwest Film & TV Festival has announced the 2024 Jury and Special Award winners.
This year’s narrative feature competition winner was “Bob Trevino Likes It,” which was directed and written by Tracie Laymon and stars Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo. Meanwhile, “Grand Theft Hamlet” topped the documentary feature competition.
“What an extraordinary week of film and TV premieres we’ve had here at SXSW, and there is more to come through Saturday,” said Claudette Godfrey, VP, Film & TV. “Our theaters have been bursting with incredible and vocal audiences celebrating the exceptional and diverse work in our lineup, and we’re so excited to celebrate this year’s jury and special award winners!”
The Audience Award voting will conclude on Saturday, March 16, and winners will be announced that week.
See the complete list of winners below.
Feature Film Grand Jury Awards
Narrative Feature Competition
Winner: “Bob Trevino Likes It”
Director/Screenwriter: Tracie Laymon,...
This year’s narrative feature competition winner was “Bob Trevino Likes It,” which was directed and written by Tracie Laymon and stars Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo. Meanwhile, “Grand Theft Hamlet” topped the documentary feature competition.
“What an extraordinary week of film and TV premieres we’ve had here at SXSW, and there is more to come through Saturday,” said Claudette Godfrey, VP, Film & TV. “Our theaters have been bursting with incredible and vocal audiences celebrating the exceptional and diverse work in our lineup, and we’re so excited to celebrate this year’s jury and special award winners!”
The Audience Award voting will conclude on Saturday, March 16, and winners will be announced that week.
See the complete list of winners below.
Feature Film Grand Jury Awards
Narrative Feature Competition
Winner: “Bob Trevino Likes It”
Director/Screenwriter: Tracie Laymon,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Stienette Bosklopper of the Netherlands’ Circe Films and Meike Martens of Germany’s Blinker Filmproduktion have boarded “Do Fish Sleep With Their Eyes Open?,” the latest film from director Nele Wohlatz, whose 2016 documentary hybrid “The Future Perfect” won best feature in Locarno.
The co-production partnerships add European support and financing muscle to an Argentine project produced by Buenos Aires’ Ruda Cine, which has already attracted a Brazilian partner, CinemaScópio.
In “Do Fish Sleep With Their Eyes Open?” German filmmaker Wohlatz continues her examination of the immigrant experience via a feature film set in the bustling Brazilian city of Recife.
The project, which is taking part in the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market, follows three young Chinese travelers, two immigrant workers and a tourist, and explores themes of belonging and constant movement.
The film’s protagonists don’t event “try to make Recife a home, since tomorrow they might go somewhere else,...
The co-production partnerships add European support and financing muscle to an Argentine project produced by Buenos Aires’ Ruda Cine, which has already attracted a Brazilian partner, CinemaScópio.
In “Do Fish Sleep With Their Eyes Open?” German filmmaker Wohlatz continues her examination of the immigrant experience via a feature film set in the bustling Brazilian city of Recife.
The project, which is taking part in the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market, follows three young Chinese travelers, two immigrant workers and a tourist, and explores themes of belonging and constant movement.
The film’s protagonists don’t event “try to make Recife a home, since tomorrow they might go somewhere else,...
- 1/18/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The Ace Series Special is running Nov 4-9 in Brussels.
European producers organisation Ace Producers has unveiled the selection of sixteen producers who will participate in its inaugural TV drama-focused initiative, the Ace Series Special, running Nov 4-9 in Brussels.
The programme is aimed at experienced producers who want to create a series division within their film companies and, or deepen their knowledge of developing and producing TV drama series for an international audience. Each participant will attend with a series project in the early stages of development
They include Belgium’s Bart Van Langendonck at Savage Film, who will...
European producers organisation Ace Producers has unveiled the selection of sixteen producers who will participate in its inaugural TV drama-focused initiative, the Ace Series Special, running Nov 4-9 in Brussels.
The programme is aimed at experienced producers who want to create a series division within their film companies and, or deepen their knowledge of developing and producing TV drama series for an international audience. Each participant will attend with a series project in the early stages of development
They include Belgium’s Bart Van Langendonck at Savage Film, who will...
- 9/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
International Film Festival RotterdamReality Check report
The 2019 Iffr Reality Check conference tackled the thorny subject of development, and how filmmakers can better exploit their own content, the plethora of new platforms and the end-user to the benefit of all. The day was divided into four parts, comprising three-panel debates and a series of intensive break-out discussions on the questions raised throughout the day. A closing session presented conclusions drawn from these deliberations.
Opening the day, Iffr director Bero Beyer described how the wide spectrum of content that we see across all platforms is developed within generally narrow constraints and that it is therefore imperative that the industry offers/creates/allows for a “wide space” for ideas to develop, mature and ultimately be realised. Great talent can turn to compete for media to tell their stories, he warned, and they could, therefore, be lost to the film world.
Reality Check Program...
The 2019 Iffr Reality Check conference tackled the thorny subject of development, and how filmmakers can better exploit their own content, the plethora of new platforms and the end-user to the benefit of all. The day was divided into four parts, comprising three-panel debates and a series of intensive break-out discussions on the questions raised throughout the day. A closing session presented conclusions drawn from these deliberations.
Opening the day, Iffr director Bero Beyer described how the wide spectrum of content that we see across all platforms is developed within generally narrow constraints and that it is therefore imperative that the industry offers/creates/allows for a “wide space” for ideas to develop, mature and ultimately be realised. Great talent can turn to compete for media to tell their stories, he warned, and they could, therefore, be lost to the film world.
Reality Check Program...
- 2/24/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
There’s a scene in Nanouk Leopold’s Cobain where the titular fifteen year-old (Bas Keizer) tells his estranged, junkie mother Mia (Naomi Velissariou) that he wants to help. Her response is to ask whether she cares about what he does, the answer tragically understood before his mouth utters the word “No.” To watch her shrug her shoulders and say, “Why should you?” epitomizes love’s power and its strength in circumstances where you couldn’t be blamed for believing it didn’t exist at all. Mia has never been a mother to him and he calls her by her first name to prove it. (And don’t expect a manipulative “Mom” to be uttered either as Stienette Bosklopper’s script is uninterested in saccharine clichés). But he still can’t let her go.
Cobain is on the cusp of starting over having just been placed with a foster family...
Cobain is on the cusp of starting over having just been placed with a foster family...
- 2/19/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The teenage son of a Flemish drug addict in the Netherlands has to grow up much faster than perhaps he’d like in Cobain, the latest feature from Dutch auteur Nanouk Leopold (Guernsey, Wolfsbergen). The director’s films have long been produced by Stienette Bosklopper through her outfit Circe Films — named after the Greek enchantress, natch — and that collaboration not only continues but is actually expanded, as Leopold here films Bosklopper’s first screenplay. But the story’s rhythm and tonal shifts aren’t always convincing, though astounding newcomer Bas Keizer, in the title role, is certainly a find.
After its premiere in the Berlinale...
After its premiere in the Berlinale...
- 2/17/2018
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlinale 2018: The Netherlands Has Six Titles Screening with Hubert Bals Funding or CineMart Backing‘The Seen and Unseen’
Six titles is a record number for a small country like The netherlands
Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not is in the running for the prestigious Golden and Silver Bears, as it will have its world premiere in the Berlinale Competition. The co-production between Romania, Germany, Czech Republic and Bulgaria was part of CineMart in 2011, where it won the Arte France Cinéma Award with a value of €10,000.
The Seen and Unseen is the second feature film by Kamila Andini. She received a contribution towards the development of this project from the Hubert Bals Fund in 2011. This Indonesian production was finished in 2017 and premiered in Platform Competition at Toronto International Film Festival, after which it had its Asian premiere in Busan. The European premiere of the film will take place in Berlin,...
Six titles is a record number for a small country like The netherlands
Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not is in the running for the prestigious Golden and Silver Bears, as it will have its world premiere in the Berlinale Competition. The co-production between Romania, Germany, Czech Republic and Bulgaria was part of CineMart in 2011, where it won the Arte France Cinéma Award with a value of €10,000.
The Seen and Unseen is the second feature film by Kamila Andini. She received a contribution towards the development of this project from the Hubert Bals Fund in 2011. This Indonesian production was finished in 2017 and premiered in Platform Competition at Toronto International Film Festival, after which it had its Asian premiere in Busan. The European premiere of the film will take place in Berlin,...
- 2/14/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Beta Cinema handles world sales.
Screen can reveal the first trailer (see above) for Berlin Film Festival Generation 14plus drama Cobain by Nanouk Leopold (Brownian Movement).
Beta Cinema handles world sales on the Dutch-German co-production which will be distirbuted by Cinemien in Benelux and W-Film in Germany.
Leopold’s sixth film follows teenager Cobain who tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain must take over.
Starring are Naomi Velissariou (Out Of Love), Wim Opbrouck (Cafe Derby), Dana Marineci (Toni Erdmann) and newcomer Bas Keizer in the lead role.
Written and produced by Stienette Bosklopper (Brownian Movement), Cobain is also produced by Fish Tank associate producer Lisette Kelder.
Screen can reveal the first trailer (see above) for Berlin Film Festival Generation 14plus drama Cobain by Nanouk Leopold (Brownian Movement).
Beta Cinema handles world sales on the Dutch-German co-production which will be distirbuted by Cinemien in Benelux and W-Film in Germany.
Leopold’s sixth film follows teenager Cobain who tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain must take over.
Starring are Naomi Velissariou (Out Of Love), Wim Opbrouck (Cafe Derby), Dana Marineci (Toni Erdmann) and newcomer Bas Keizer in the lead role.
Written and produced by Stienette Bosklopper (Brownian Movement), Cobain is also produced by Fish Tank associate producer Lisette Kelder.
- 12/19/2017
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Screen Daily Test
Beta Cinema handles world sales.
Screen can reveal the first trailer (see above) for Berlin Film Festival Generation 14plus drama Cobain by Nanouk Leopold (Brownian Movement).
Beta Cinema handles world sales on the Dutch-German co-production which will be distirbuted by Cinemien in Benelux and W-Film in Germany.
Leopold’s sixth film follows teenager Cobain who tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain must take over.
Starring are Naomi Velissariou (Out Of Love), Wim Opbrouck (Cafe Derby), Dana Marineci (Toni Erdmann) and newcomer Bas Keizer in the lead role.
Written and produced by Stienette Bosklopper (Brownian Movement), Cobain is also produced by Fish Tank associate producer Lisette Kelder.
Screen can reveal the first trailer (see above) for Berlin Film Festival Generation 14plus drama Cobain by Nanouk Leopold (Brownian Movement).
Beta Cinema handles world sales on the Dutch-German co-production which will be distirbuted by Cinemien in Benelux and W-Film in Germany.
Leopold’s sixth film follows teenager Cobain who tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain must take over.
Starring are Naomi Velissariou (Out Of Love), Wim Opbrouck (Cafe Derby), Dana Marineci (Toni Erdmann) and newcomer Bas Keizer in the lead role.
Written and produced by Stienette Bosklopper (Brownian Movement), Cobain is also produced by Fish Tank associate producer Lisette Kelder.
- 12/19/2017
- by Andreas Wiseman
- ScreenDaily
Films and projects travel from Sundance to Rotterdam and Rotterdam’s love affair with Latin America becomes apparent.
Making their way from Sundance to Rotterdam, “Lemon” was Opening Night in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sloan Prize Winner “Marjorie Prime” played in Voices while director Michael Almereyda was on the Jury of the Hivos Tiger Competition. His documentary, “Escapes” also played in the Regained section of the festival.
“Marjorie Prime”: Director Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith and Jon Hamm
“Chile’s “Family Life” by Alicia Scherson and Cristian Jimenez, Singapore’s “Pop Aye”, “Lady Macbeth” and “Sami Blood” all screened here after premiering in Sundance as well.
Pop Aye director Kirsten Tan won the Big Screen Competition and in addition to the cash prize may also count on a guaranteed release in Dutch cinemas and on TV.
“The Wound” by John Trengove has even longer legs, reaching from Sundance World...
Making their way from Sundance to Rotterdam, “Lemon” was Opening Night in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sloan Prize Winner “Marjorie Prime” played in Voices while director Michael Almereyda was on the Jury of the Hivos Tiger Competition. His documentary, “Escapes” also played in the Regained section of the festival.
“Marjorie Prime”: Director Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith and Jon Hamm
“Chile’s “Family Life” by Alicia Scherson and Cristian Jimenez, Singapore’s “Pop Aye”, “Lady Macbeth” and “Sami Blood” all screened here after premiering in Sundance as well.
Pop Aye director Kirsten Tan won the Big Screen Competition and in addition to the cash prize may also count on a guaranteed release in Dutch cinemas and on TV.
“The Wound” by John Trengove has even longer legs, reaching from Sundance World...
- 2/8/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Ali Jaberansari’s Tehran, City Of Love also received an award at the industry event.
This year’s Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht awarded The Religion Of Night Walks from Serbian director Nikola Ležaić with the Cam-a-lot & Filmmore Cinema Emerging Talent Prize for Best Project (valued at €10,000 in camera and post-production facilities). Already backed by Film Center Serbia and Propeler Film (Croatia), the film is about a Yugoslavian engineer working on the construction of the first wind farm in Iran in the early 1980s.
Ali Jaberansari’s Tehran, City Of Love - a BoostNL 2016 selection - picked up the WarnierPosta Prize (€5,000 towards use of audio post-production facilities). The story follows three characters, a religious singer, an office singer and a personal trainer, looking for love in Tehran. Babak Jalali is producer of the film, which is being made through Here & There Productions (UK), Viking Film (Netherlands) and Mandra Films (France.)
Meanwhile, the Hfm...
This year’s Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht awarded The Religion Of Night Walks from Serbian director Nikola Ležaić with the Cam-a-lot & Filmmore Cinema Emerging Talent Prize for Best Project (valued at €10,000 in camera and post-production facilities). Already backed by Film Center Serbia and Propeler Film (Croatia), the film is about a Yugoslavian engineer working on the construction of the first wind farm in Iran in the early 1980s.
Ali Jaberansari’s Tehran, City Of Love - a BoostNL 2016 selection - picked up the WarnierPosta Prize (€5,000 towards use of audio post-production facilities). The story follows three characters, a religious singer, an office singer and a personal trainer, looking for love in Tehran. Babak Jalali is producer of the film, which is being made through Here & There Productions (UK), Viking Film (Netherlands) and Mandra Films (France.)
Meanwhile, the Hfm...
- 9/26/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Industry figures at the Holland Film Meeting talk to Screen about the importance of locally-based sales companies.
In the wake of the collapse of Fortissimo Films last month, a heated debate has begun in the Netherlands about the lack of sales agents in the Benelux region.
At the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht this weekend (Sept 22-25), several leading producers have commented on the importance of establishing new locally-based companies that can represent Dutch movies at international markets. There has even been talk of government support for a Dutch sales agency, either helping existing companies or setting up a new national agency.
The debate comes as Pim van Collem’s sales outfit Dutch Features Global Entertainment has revealed that it is planning to set up a small arthouse label next year, and as speculation continues to swirl around what will happen to Fortissimo’s titles.
Throughout its 20-year history, Fortissimo always handled Dutch movies alongside its Asian...
In the wake of the collapse of Fortissimo Films last month, a heated debate has begun in the Netherlands about the lack of sales agents in the Benelux region.
At the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht this weekend (Sept 22-25), several leading producers have commented on the importance of establishing new locally-based companies that can represent Dutch movies at international markets. There has even been talk of government support for a Dutch sales agency, either helping existing companies or setting up a new national agency.
The debate comes as Pim van Collem’s sales outfit Dutch Features Global Entertainment has revealed that it is planning to set up a small arthouse label next year, and as speculation continues to swirl around what will happen to Fortissimo’s titles.
Throughout its 20-year history, Fortissimo always handled Dutch movies alongside its Asian...
- 9/26/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Industry figures at the Holland Film Meeting talk to Screen about the importance of locally-based sales companies.
In the wake of the collapse of Fortissimo Films last month, a heated debate has begun in the Netherlands about the lack of sales agents in the Benelux region.
At the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht this weekend (Sept 22-25), several leading producers have commented on the importance of establishing new locally-based companies that can represent Dutch movies at international markets. There has even been talk of government support for a Dutch sales agency, either helping existing companies or setting up a new national agency.
The debate comes as Pim van Collem’s sales outfit Dutch Features Global Entertainment has revealed that it is planning to set up a small arthouse label next year, and as speculation continues to swirl around what will happen to Fortissimo’s titles.
Throughout its 20-year history, Fortissimo always handled Dutch movies alongside its Asian...
In the wake of the collapse of Fortissimo Films last month, a heated debate has begun in the Netherlands about the lack of sales agents in the Benelux region.
At the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht this weekend (Sept 22-25), several leading producers have commented on the importance of establishing new locally-based companies that can represent Dutch movies at international markets. There has even been talk of government support for a Dutch sales agency, either helping existing companies or setting up a new national agency.
The debate comes as Pim van Collem’s sales outfit Dutch Features Global Entertainment has revealed that it is planning to set up a small arthouse label next year, and as speculation continues to swirl around what will happen to Fortissimo’s titles.
Throughout its 20-year history, Fortissimo always handled Dutch movies alongside its Asian...
- 9/26/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
New projects by Karabey, Aydogan, Sakaoglu among award winners at Istanbul Meetings
New film projects by Hüseyin Karabey, Zekeriya Aydoğan, and Sinem Sakaoğlu were among the award winners at the 10th edition of Meetings on the Bridge (April 15-16) during the Istanbul Film Festival.
Four awards were given to projects presented as part of this year’s Film Project Development Workshop and were decided by an international jury comprising of such leading industry figures as Meinolf Zurhorst (Zdf), Sergio Garcia De Leaniz (Eurimages), Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau Films), Giovanni Robbiano (Mediterranean Film Institute/Mfi) and Khalil Benkirane (Doha Film Institute).
The $ 10,000 Meetings On The Bridge Award went to German-born director Tarik Aktaş’ Dead Horse Nebula - about a sequence of incidents taking place around a small village -, while the € 10,000 Cnc Award was given to The Death of Father and Son by Zekeriya Aydoğan, a period drama set in the Kurdish society.
Aydoğan’s latest...
New film projects by Hüseyin Karabey, Zekeriya Aydoğan, and Sinem Sakaoğlu were among the award winners at the 10th edition of Meetings on the Bridge (April 15-16) during the Istanbul Film Festival.
Four awards were given to projects presented as part of this year’s Film Project Development Workshop and were decided by an international jury comprising of such leading industry figures as Meinolf Zurhorst (Zdf), Sergio Garcia De Leaniz (Eurimages), Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau Films), Giovanni Robbiano (Mediterranean Film Institute/Mfi) and Khalil Benkirane (Doha Film Institute).
The $ 10,000 Meetings On The Bridge Award went to German-born director Tarik Aktaş’ Dead Horse Nebula - about a sequence of incidents taking place around a small village -, while the € 10,000 Cnc Award was given to The Death of Father and Son by Zekeriya Aydoğan, a period drama set in the Kurdish society.
Aydoğan’s latest...
- 4/17/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Veteran Dutch producer Stienette Bosklopper, owner and MD of Circe Film, is turning screenwriter and has written two projects already in advanced development.
Bosklopper, whose credits include Wolfsbergen and Brownian Movement, will be at this week’s Iffr CineMart in Rotterdam in a dual capacity - as screenwriter and producer of Nanouk Leopold’s new feature, Cobain.
The €1.6m film, which has already received backing from the Netherlands Film Fund, is being coproduced with Waterland Film.
“It’s part of a personal development you have at a certain stage in your career,” the producer says of her foray into screenwriting.
“I had been working with a lot of writers and directors. Somehow, there was an urge to contribute on a different level. To my own amazement, it is going very well. It comes quite naturally and I have the feeling that I will be continuing doing this.”
Cobain is the story of a teenage boy with a...
Bosklopper, whose credits include Wolfsbergen and Brownian Movement, will be at this week’s Iffr CineMart in Rotterdam in a dual capacity - as screenwriter and producer of Nanouk Leopold’s new feature, Cobain.
The €1.6m film, which has already received backing from the Netherlands Film Fund, is being coproduced with Waterland Film.
“It’s part of a personal development you have at a certain stage in your career,” the producer says of her foray into screenwriting.
“I had been working with a lot of writers and directors. Somehow, there was an urge to contribute on a different level. To my own amazement, it is going very well. It comes quite naturally and I have the feeling that I will be continuing doing this.”
Cobain is the story of a teenage boy with a...
- 1/22/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Media Luna's Fipresci awarded Hemel, whose world premiere was at this year's Berlin Film Festival, just had the North American premiere at the New Directors/New Films Festival!
Hemel was directed by Sacha Polak ♀, written by Helena van der Meulen ♀ and produced by Stienette Bosklopper.
Hemel is fighting a guerrilla war with every man in town. Her father is the only man that really counts. When he falls in love with young Sophie, Hemel has to find the difference between sex and love herself. (read more!)
hemel by azmovies
"Beautifully lensed look at the moment just before a daughter has to let go of her father should travel extensively and turn Polak into a name to watch." (click here to read more!) --Variety.
For more information on Media Luna’s titles, please visit their website www.medialuna.biz, or just contact them:
media luna new films
Ida Martins (mobile: +49 170 9667900)
Aachener Strasse 24 | D-50674 Cologne - Germany
Tel.: +49 221 51091891 | Fax: +49 221 51091899
idamartins@medialuna.biz | Skype: idamartins...
Hemel was directed by Sacha Polak ♀, written by Helena van der Meulen ♀ and produced by Stienette Bosklopper.
Hemel is fighting a guerrilla war with every man in town. Her father is the only man that really counts. When he falls in love with young Sophie, Hemel has to find the difference between sex and love herself. (read more!)
hemel by azmovies
"Beautifully lensed look at the moment just before a daughter has to let go of her father should travel extensively and turn Polak into a name to watch." (click here to read more!) --Variety.
For more information on Media Luna’s titles, please visit their website www.medialuna.biz, or just contact them:
media luna new films
Ida Martins (mobile: +49 170 9667900)
Aachener Strasse 24 | D-50674 Cologne - Germany
Tel.: +49 221 51091891 | Fax: +49 221 51091899
idamartins@medialuna.biz | Skype: idamartins...
- 3/28/2012
- by SydneyLevine
- Sydney's Buzz
AMSTERDAM -- Sales agent Fortissimo Film Sales and Amsterdam-based production house Circe Films are joining forces to work on European co-productions, the duo said Tuesday at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
The aim of both companies is to produce high-quality Art House titles in Europe. Up until now, Fortissimo Film primarily produced Asian and U.S. independent titles such as Penek Ratanaruang's "Invisible Waves", John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus" and "Mysterious Skin" by Gregg Araki.
Circe Films concentrates mainly on Dutch films, with titles including Nanouk Leopold's "Guernsey" and "Wolfsbergen".
Circe director Stienette Bosklopper hopes to profit from the sales experience offered by familiar market face Fortissimo, in exchange for a first look deal on Circe's projects.
For his part, Fortissimo co-founder Wouter Barendrecht plans to get more involved in Dutch productions.
The first co-production both companies will work on is "Face", the new film by Tsai Ming-Liang, set up by production banner JBA from France, together with the Louvre museum in Paris.
The aim of both companies is to produce high-quality Art House titles in Europe. Up until now, Fortissimo Film primarily produced Asian and U.S. independent titles such as Penek Ratanaruang's "Invisible Waves", John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus" and "Mysterious Skin" by Gregg Araki.
Circe Films concentrates mainly on Dutch films, with titles including Nanouk Leopold's "Guernsey" and "Wolfsbergen".
Circe director Stienette Bosklopper hopes to profit from the sales experience offered by familiar market face Fortissimo, in exchange for a first look deal on Circe's projects.
For his part, Fortissimo co-founder Wouter Barendrecht plans to get more involved in Dutch productions.
The first co-production both companies will work on is "Face", the new film by Tsai Ming-Liang, set up by production banner JBA from France, together with the Louvre museum in Paris.
- 1/30/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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