Wolschlager was a member of the European and Austrian Film Academies and the project commission of the Austrian Film Institute.
Austrian producer, screenwriter and educator Ursula Wolschlager died on September 26 in Vienna at the age of 52, after suffering from an illness.
Wolschlager has collaborated with filmmakers including Barbara Albert, Ruth Beckermann, Nathalie Borgers, Christian Frosch, Michael Glawogger, Bakhtiar Khodoynazarov, Marie Kreutzer, Tina Leisch, Tony Pemberton and Kirill Serebrennikov.
Alongside Robert Buchschwenter, she founded the script development and later also film production company Witcraft Scenario in 2008. She was also a mentor at the Diverse Stories script development programme, a founding member...
Austrian producer, screenwriter and educator Ursula Wolschlager died on September 26 in Vienna at the age of 52, after suffering from an illness.
Wolschlager has collaborated with filmmakers including Barbara Albert, Ruth Beckermann, Nathalie Borgers, Christian Frosch, Michael Glawogger, Bakhtiar Khodoynazarov, Marie Kreutzer, Tina Leisch, Tony Pemberton and Kirill Serebrennikov.
Alongside Robert Buchschwenter, she founded the script development and later also film production company Witcraft Scenario in 2008. She was also a mentor at the Diverse Stories script development programme, a founding member...
- 9/29/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
German distributor Der Filmverleih in Stuttgart has boarded Berlin-based Films in Motion’s World War II trilogy penned by American writer J. Frank James.
The films, in various stages of development, include “The Face,” produced with Leipzig-based Departures Film and starring Ludwig Trepte (“Deutschland 86”). The story turns on a traumatized Jewish survivor and an army deserter posing as a priest who are bonded together into a friendship while reconstructing a bombed out church. Markus Imboden (“The Foster Boy”) is set to direct.
In “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes,” directed by veteran helmer Jo Baier and produced with Amsterdam-based Nl Film and Hupe Film in Cologne, a former SS concentration camp guard in danger of being apprehended for his brutal past faces horrors beyond his imagination. Herbert Knaup and Matthias Habich star in the haunting drama.
“Bones of the Wise Men,” currently in development, is set in the...
The films, in various stages of development, include “The Face,” produced with Leipzig-based Departures Film and starring Ludwig Trepte (“Deutschland 86”). The story turns on a traumatized Jewish survivor and an army deserter posing as a priest who are bonded together into a friendship while reconstructing a bombed out church. Markus Imboden (“The Foster Boy”) is set to direct.
In “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes,” directed by veteran helmer Jo Baier and produced with Amsterdam-based Nl Film and Hupe Film in Cologne, a former SS concentration camp guard in danger of being apprehended for his brutal past faces horrors beyond his imagination. Herbert Knaup and Matthias Habich star in the haunting drama.
“Bones of the Wise Men,” currently in development, is set in the...
- 6/30/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Euro exhibition group Europa Cinemas, sales agent network Europa International and U.S. indie theater circuit Art House Convergence have set the films and speakers for the second Tales of Europe Exhibitor Exchange Program.
The program aims to strengthen the relationship between North American and European exhibitors and give European films without U.S. distribution a chance to shine.
The first seminar of this year’s event, the Audience Development & Innovation Lab at Cinetecca di Bologna, will take place during the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, June 22-26, 2019. It’s the first time U.S. exhibitors will be in Europe as part of the program.
Attending U.S. exhibitors will be Dylan Skolnick, Lawren Desai, Landee Bryant, Rochelle Walters and Barak Epstein.
The program funds the trip as well as the travel and accommodation for U.S. exhibitors attending the bi-annual Network Conference, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, November 21-24, 2019 and the Audience Development & Innovation Lab in Sofia, Bulgaria in March 2020.
The program selected 12 European films without U.S. distribution as part of this year’s showcase with many based on the themes of immigration and identity. The films debuted over the last year at international festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Sundance and Toronto.
2019 Movie Program:
A Polar Year, dir. Samuel Collardey, Greenland
Amateurs, dir. Gabriela Pichler, Sweden
Cops, dir. Stefan A Lukacs, Austria
I Still Hide to Smoke, dir. Rayhana, Algeria
Killing God, dir. Albert Pintó, Caye Casas, Spain
L’Animale, dir. Katharina Mückstein, Austria
Mug, dir. Malgorzata Szumowska, Poland
Murer: Anatomy of a Trial, dir. Christian Frosch, Austria
Pororoca, dir. Constantin Popescu, Romania
Taranta on the Road, dir. Salvatore Allocca, Italy
The Final Adventure of Kaktus Kid, dir. Djordje Markovic, Serbia
The Venerable W, dir. Barbet Schroeder, Myanmar...
The program aims to strengthen the relationship between North American and European exhibitors and give European films without U.S. distribution a chance to shine.
The first seminar of this year’s event, the Audience Development & Innovation Lab at Cinetecca di Bologna, will take place during the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, June 22-26, 2019. It’s the first time U.S. exhibitors will be in Europe as part of the program.
Attending U.S. exhibitors will be Dylan Skolnick, Lawren Desai, Landee Bryant, Rochelle Walters and Barak Epstein.
The program funds the trip as well as the travel and accommodation for U.S. exhibitors attending the bi-annual Network Conference, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, November 21-24, 2019 and the Audience Development & Innovation Lab in Sofia, Bulgaria in March 2020.
The program selected 12 European films without U.S. distribution as part of this year’s showcase with many based on the themes of immigration and identity. The films debuted over the last year at international festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Sundance and Toronto.
2019 Movie Program:
A Polar Year, dir. Samuel Collardey, Greenland
Amateurs, dir. Gabriela Pichler, Sweden
Cops, dir. Stefan A Lukacs, Austria
I Still Hide to Smoke, dir. Rayhana, Algeria
Killing God, dir. Albert Pintó, Caye Casas, Spain
L’Animale, dir. Katharina Mückstein, Austria
Mug, dir. Malgorzata Szumowska, Poland
Murer: Anatomy of a Trial, dir. Christian Frosch, Austria
Pororoca, dir. Constantin Popescu, Romania
Taranta on the Road, dir. Salvatore Allocca, Italy
The Final Adventure of Kaktus Kid, dir. Djordje Markovic, Serbia
The Venerable W, dir. Barbet Schroeder, Myanmar...
- 6/19/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Munich-based sales company Morefilms is moving into production with Nazi war criminal thriller “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes.”
The film, which is set to begin production this fall, has pre-sold to Dubai-based Gulf Film for the Middle East and was also acquired by Der Filmverleih in Stuttgart for Germany.
Morefilms has now also boarded the project as a co-producer, along with René Asch’s Berlin-based Films in Motion and Zodiak Belgium’s Serge Bierset.
Directed by Jo Baier, “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes” follows an elderly former SS concentration camp guard desperately trying to avoid capture by U.S. authorities.
Morefilms also sold Christian Frosch’s “Murer: Anatomy of a Trial,” about the 1963 trial of former SS leader Franz Murer, to Seventh Art Releasing in the U.S., Der Filmverleih in Germany, Adso Films in Spain and Wing Sight Culture & Media Co. in China. The pic...
The film, which is set to begin production this fall, has pre-sold to Dubai-based Gulf Film for the Middle East and was also acquired by Der Filmverleih in Stuttgart for Germany.
Morefilms has now also boarded the project as a co-producer, along with René Asch’s Berlin-based Films in Motion and Zodiak Belgium’s Serge Bierset.
Directed by Jo Baier, “Life Through a Dead Man’s Eyes” follows an elderly former SS concentration camp guard desperately trying to avoid capture by U.S. authorities.
Morefilms also sold Christian Frosch’s “Murer: Anatomy of a Trial,” about the 1963 trial of former SS leader Franz Murer, to Seventh Art Releasing in the U.S., Der Filmverleih in Germany, Adso Films in Spain and Wing Sight Culture & Media Co. in China. The pic...
- 2/11/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Hany, an experimental drama made in one continuous shot by Czech director Michal Samir, has won the top prize at the 21st Oldenburg International Film Festival, the indie fest known as “Germany's Sundance,” which wrapped on Sunday. French crime thriller Fever, from director Raphael Neal, received a special mention from the Oldenburg jury. Newcomer Victoria Schulz won Oldenburg's acting honor, the Seymour Cassel Award, for her starring role in Christian Frosch's Von jetzt an kein Zuruck (From Here On, No Way Back), a period drama co-starring Ben Becker. Oldenburg's lifetime achievement honor this year went to Australian cult
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- 9/15/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
European Film Promotion (Efp) has launched a new initiative, Producers Lab Hamburg (Plh), bringing producers from across Europe to meet with their Hamburg-based opposite numbers.
The event’s two-day programme (Oct 1-2) during this year’s Filmfest Hamburg will include seminars, pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings and a Hamburg location tour.
The ten European producers coming to Hamburg are drawn from the pool of Efp’s former Producers on the Move, including the UK’s Isabelle Stead (Human Films), Luxembourg’s Donata Rotunno (Tarantula), Norway’s Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord Kidstory) and Spain’s Antonio Saura (Zampa Audiovisual).
Stead will be coming to Hamburg after having taken part in the fifth edition of the Producers Lab Toronto, while Rotunno is now developing Yilmaz Arslan’s new project Raqs after producing his last film Fratricide and is also looking for German partners for his own third feature film Sara Sarà.
Eik has produced and co-produced more than 20 feature films and...
The event’s two-day programme (Oct 1-2) during this year’s Filmfest Hamburg will include seminars, pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings and a Hamburg location tour.
The ten European producers coming to Hamburg are drawn from the pool of Efp’s former Producers on the Move, including the UK’s Isabelle Stead (Human Films), Luxembourg’s Donata Rotunno (Tarantula), Norway’s Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord Kidstory) and Spain’s Antonio Saura (Zampa Audiovisual).
Stead will be coming to Hamburg after having taken part in the fifth edition of the Producers Lab Toronto, while Rotunno is now developing Yilmaz Arslan’s new project Raqs after producing his last film Fratricide and is also looking for German partners for his own third feature film Sara Sarà.
Eik has produced and co-produced more than 20 feature films and...
- 8/28/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday named the 13 directors who will compete for the Artistic Innovation Award in September.
This year's competition includes the Afghan film "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" from Hana Makhmalbaf, the youngest daughter of Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Spanish director Jose Luis Guerin's "Dans La Ville de Sylvia", a virtually dialogue-free quest film.
Also competing for the Innovation nod are Philippine director Lav Diaz's "Death in the Land of Encantos"; Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer's "Dr. Plonk", a black-and-white silent comedy shot with a hand-cranked camera; Anahi Berneri's "Encarnacia", from Argentina; and "M," a supernatural love story from South Korean director Lee Myung-se ("Duelist").
Rounding out the sidebar are Michelange Quay's "Mange, ceci est mon corps" (France); Lawrence Johnston's "Night" (Australia); Alexander Voulgaris' "Pink" (Greece); Christian Frosch's "Silent Resident" (Australia); Hiner Saleem's "Sous les toits de Paris" (France); Naqi Nemati's "Those Three" (Iran) and Dorota Kedzierzawska's "Time to Die" (Poland).
All 13 titles will screen as part of the Visions program and will be judged by a jury composed of Dutch multimedia artist Lonnie van Brummelen, Canadian photoconceptual artist Ian Wallace and hat designer Misa Harada.
This year's competition includes the Afghan film "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" from Hana Makhmalbaf, the youngest daughter of Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Spanish director Jose Luis Guerin's "Dans La Ville de Sylvia", a virtually dialogue-free quest film.
Also competing for the Innovation nod are Philippine director Lav Diaz's "Death in the Land of Encantos"; Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer's "Dr. Plonk", a black-and-white silent comedy shot with a hand-cranked camera; Anahi Berneri's "Encarnacia", from Argentina; and "M," a supernatural love story from South Korean director Lee Myung-se ("Duelist").
Rounding out the sidebar are Michelange Quay's "Mange, ceci est mon corps" (France); Lawrence Johnston's "Night" (Australia); Alexander Voulgaris' "Pink" (Greece); Christian Frosch's "Silent Resident" (Australia); Hiner Saleem's "Sous les toits de Paris" (France); Naqi Nemati's "Those Three" (Iran) and Dorota Kedzierzawska's "Time to Die" (Poland).
All 13 titles will screen as part of the Visions program and will be judged by a jury composed of Dutch multimedia artist Lonnie van Brummelen, Canadian photoconceptual artist Ian Wallace and hat designer Misa Harada.
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