First Hand Films is at IDFA with a busy slate including portmanteau project ’The Ten Commandments’.
Toei has acquired Japanese rights to Leslie Shampaine and Pip Gilmour’s completed Billy Elliot-style US doc Call Me Dancer, from Switzerland’s First Hand Films. The sales outfit is now talking to buyers about the remaining rights, including North America, at IDFA this week.
The film follows a teen with a passion to dance who struggles against the disapproval of his family. It was made with support from Zdf/Arte, yes Docu and Ebs. North American rights are still available.
First Hand Film...
Toei has acquired Japanese rights to Leslie Shampaine and Pip Gilmour’s completed Billy Elliot-style US doc Call Me Dancer, from Switzerland’s First Hand Films. The sales outfit is now talking to buyers about the remaining rights, including North America, at IDFA this week.
The film follows a teen with a passion to dance who struggles against the disapproval of his family. It was made with support from Zdf/Arte, yes Docu and Ebs. North American rights are still available.
First Hand Film...
- 11/13/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Documentarist – Istanbul Documentary Days, Turkey’s largest documentary film festival, was held for the fourth time from May 31 to June 5, 2011. The festival has been garnering more attention internationally and widening the scope of its programme every year. The result of prodigious efforts undertaken by the founders as well as a large team of young people who are mainly university students, Documentarist is organized under the auspices of the Eurasia Art Collective (Ask) and is activist in its inclinations. This year’s festival was comprised of various sections focusing on such themes as environmentalism, music, anthropology and the post-communist era.
The World We Consume section of the festival included films with striking insights into some of the most important environmental issues of our times. “There Once Was an Island” (2010), directed by
Briar March, tells in a poignant manner the story of people of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific.
The World We Consume section of the festival included films with striking insights into some of the most important environmental issues of our times. “There Once Was an Island” (2010), directed by
Briar March, tells in a poignant manner the story of people of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific.
- 6/30/2011
- by N. Buket Cengiz
- The Moving Arts Journal
TORONTO -- Political documentaries about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict were the big winners of jury awards as the Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival went into its closing weekend. Israeli director Yoav Shamir picked up the trophy for best international documentary feature for "Checkpoint", a portrait of Palestinians facing hostile Israeli soldiers as they crossed into Israel. And the FIPRESCI (international critics) award for best first documentary feature was given to Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel for their film "Arna's Children", about an Israeli woman bravely running a small theater group for Palestinian children, some of whom go on to join the struggle for Palestinian independence.
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