Celsius Entertainment is handling international sales.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Gillies McKinnon’s The Last Bus starring Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan from UK sales outfit Celsius Entertainment.
The film has just screened at the Bari International Film Festival, run by ex-Venice chief Felice Laudadio earlier this month. Spall picked up the international award for best leading actor at the event.
The North American premiere took place at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Thierry Wase-Bailey’s Celsius has also closed new deals with Portugal (Films4you), Korea (Cineline World) and airlines (Horizon).
DEA Planeta released The Last Bus...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Gillies McKinnon’s The Last Bus starring Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan from UK sales outfit Celsius Entertainment.
The film has just screened at the Bari International Film Festival, run by ex-Venice chief Felice Laudadio earlier this month. Spall picked up the international award for best leading actor at the event.
The North American premiere took place at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Thierry Wase-Bailey’s Celsius has also closed new deals with Portugal (Films4you), Korea (Cineline World) and airlines (Horizon).
DEA Planeta released The Last Bus...
- 10/15/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The 11th edition of the festival directed by Felice Laudadio, which is unfolding in the Apulian capital between 21 to 28 March, will also be graced by the likes of Helen Mirren and Edgar Reitz. Ken Loach, Helen Mirren, Roberto Benigni and Edgar Reitz will be the super guests of the 11th Bif&st - Bari International Film Festival, directed by Felice Laudadio, which will bring the Apulian capital to life yet again between 21 and 28 March, with one additional location in the offing this year: the very recently renovated Piccinni Theatre, which will join the ranks of the Petruzzelli and Margherita theatres on this occasion. Among the 12 films selected for the International Panorama competition and set to be judged by the jury composed of films critics Michel Demopoulos and Oscar Iarussi, directors Pif and Alessandro Piva, and actress Martina Apostolova, we find Despite the Fog by Goran Paskaljević,...
Italy’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia is ramping up production of restored Italian cinema gems with several high-profile titles set to screen at upcoming festivals including the Taviani Brothers’ “Good Morning Babilonia” which plays Thursday on Locarno’s Piazza Grande, presented by Paolo Taviani.
The fablelike “Babilonia,” which is about two immigrant stonemasons who work on the sets for D. W. Griffith’s ”Intolerance,” has been praised by Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrian as “not just a homage to the great Italian tradition of art and craft workshops, but also an insightful interpretation of what cinema is about.”
The film’s restoration was supervised by its original cinematographer Beppe Lanci, as Csc chief Felice Laudadio points out.
Laudadio has been instrumental to the current push for more restorations being done by the Csc’s film archives. “The plan from now up to next May is for 12 films, which has never been done before,...
The fablelike “Babilonia,” which is about two immigrant stonemasons who work on the sets for D. W. Griffith’s ”Intolerance,” has been praised by Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrian as “not just a homage to the great Italian tradition of art and craft workshops, but also an insightful interpretation of what cinema is about.”
The film’s restoration was supervised by its original cinematographer Beppe Lanci, as Csc chief Felice Laudadio points out.
Laudadio has been instrumental to the current push for more restorations being done by the Csc’s film archives. “The plan from now up to next May is for 12 films, which has never been done before,...
- 8/7/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Scola comes out of retirement for first film in 10 years, How Strange to be Called Federico!.
Italian director Ettore Scola has unveiled more details of his upcoming tribute to his friend and fellow filmmaker Federico Fellini, which is due for release in Italy this autumn to mark the 20th anniversary of the La Dolce Vita director’s death.
Entitled How Strange to be Called Federico!, the hybrid work combining archive footage and re-enactments of Scola’s memories of Fellini is currently in post-production.
The original Italian title - Che Strano Chiamarsi Federico! - is an allusion to a line in a poem by Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
“I don’t know what will come out of this. I am as curious as you are to discover it. The intentions and emotions are all there but it’s not ready yet,” Scola told a packed news conference in Rome’s Cinecittà film studios on Tuesday.
The $2.6m (€2m...
Italian director Ettore Scola has unveiled more details of his upcoming tribute to his friend and fellow filmmaker Federico Fellini, which is due for release in Italy this autumn to mark the 20th anniversary of the La Dolce Vita director’s death.
Entitled How Strange to be Called Federico!, the hybrid work combining archive footage and re-enactments of Scola’s memories of Fellini is currently in post-production.
The original Italian title - Che Strano Chiamarsi Federico! - is an allusion to a line in a poem by Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
“I don’t know what will come out of this. I am as curious as you are to discover it. The intentions and emotions are all there but it’s not ready yet,” Scola told a packed news conference in Rome’s Cinecittà film studios on Tuesday.
The $2.6m (€2m...
- 6/5/2013
- ScreenDaily
ROME -- Sicily's Taormina Film Festival will once again be an eight-day affair when its 53rd edition kicks off this June, thanks to a trio of new sponsors who will make up for last year's departure of a leading sponsor.
In 2006, the Rome-based Banca Nazionale di Lavoro, or BNL, which had donated €500,000 ($660,000) to Taormina's budget the year prior, pulled out at the 11th hour and threw its weight behind the RomaCinemaFest, which held its inaugural edition in October.
BNL's departure forced Taormina's then-director Felice Laudadio to reduce the festival's program from eight to six days, eliminate a number of screenings and cancel invitations to the event extended to several international personalities.
But for this year's events, Swiss jewelry and watchmaker Harry Winston, Italian business solutions company Atena and the Banco di Sicilia have combined to provide €1.2 million ($1.6 million) in new funding. The regional Sicilian government also has upped its financial backing of the event, though the actual value of the increase was not released.
In 2006, the Rome-based Banca Nazionale di Lavoro, or BNL, which had donated €500,000 ($660,000) to Taormina's budget the year prior, pulled out at the 11th hour and threw its weight behind the RomaCinemaFest, which held its inaugural edition in October.
BNL's departure forced Taormina's then-director Felice Laudadio to reduce the festival's program from eight to six days, eliminate a number of screenings and cancel invitations to the event extended to several international personalities.
But for this year's events, Swiss jewelry and watchmaker Harry Winston, Italian business solutions company Atena and the Banco di Sicilia have combined to provide €1.2 million ($1.6 million) in new funding. The regional Sicilian government also has upped its financial backing of the event, though the actual value of the increase was not released.
ROME -- The Taormina International Film festival's long-time assistant artistic director, Deborah Young, has been elevated to the event's top post, organizers announced Monday. Young replaces Felice Laudadio, who left to head the new Rome festival focusing on television films.
Young's appointment comes at a difficult time for Taormina, which was forced to shrink down the 52nd edition of the Sicilian festival last year after the main sponsor pulled out and threw its weight behind the inaugural RomaCinemaFest.
This year's edition of the June festival will focus on films from around the Mediterranean, the Middle East and from Arabic countries, Young said in a statement. It will also include a retrospective on the work of Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, best known for the 1988 classic "Cinema Paradiso".
Young, a consultant with New York's Tribeca Film Festival and a former Venice Film Festival official evaluating U.S. films, spent the past five years under Laudadio in Taormina.
Young's appointment comes at a difficult time for Taormina, which was forced to shrink down the 52nd edition of the Sicilian festival last year after the main sponsor pulled out and threw its weight behind the inaugural RomaCinemaFest.
This year's edition of the June festival will focus on films from around the Mediterranean, the Middle East and from Arabic countries, Young said in a statement. It will also include a retrospective on the work of Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, best known for the 1988 classic "Cinema Paradiso".
Young, a consultant with New York's Tribeca Film Festival and a former Venice Film Festival official evaluating U.S. films, spent the past five years under Laudadio in Taormina.
ROME -- Italy's new RomaFictionFest TV festival has tapped Taormina Film Festival artistic director Felice Laudadio as the director of its first edition, organizers said Tuesday.
Laudadio is a familiar face on the Italian film scene. In addition to his role as chief of the Taormina event, the 62-year-old held the same post at the Venice Film Festival in 1997 and 1998 and is the director of Rome's Casa del Cinema, the city's two-year-old film promotion center.
Laudadio, who has held his Taormina post since 1999, will assume his new role in addition to his current duties.
RomaFictionFest organizers hailed the appointment as a feather in the inaugural festival's hat.
"Laudadio's level of experience is a guarantee for a new festival like the RomaFictionFest," said Giulia Rodano, cultural director for the Regional Government of Lazio, a major sponsor of the July 2-7 event.
The festival also announced that its budget will be in the range of €6 million-€7 million ($8 million-$9.3 million).
Laudadio is a familiar face on the Italian film scene. In addition to his role as chief of the Taormina event, the 62-year-old held the same post at the Venice Film Festival in 1997 and 1998 and is the director of Rome's Casa del Cinema, the city's two-year-old film promotion center.
Laudadio, who has held his Taormina post since 1999, will assume his new role in addition to his current duties.
RomaFictionFest organizers hailed the appointment as a feather in the inaugural festival's hat.
"Laudadio's level of experience is a guarantee for a new festival like the RomaFictionFest," said Giulia Rodano, cultural director for the Regional Government of Lazio, a major sponsor of the July 2-7 event.
The festival also announced that its budget will be in the range of €6 million-€7 million ($8 million-$9.3 million).
ROME -- Italy's Taormina Film Festival gets underway Tuesday with a severely reduced program and an uncertain future after its lead sponsor pulled out to back the first edition of October's RomaCinemaFest. The developing budget crisis forced artistic director Felice Laudadio to shorten the 52nd edition of the festival to six days from the originally planned eight at the 11th hour. Taormina -- which runs through Sunday -- also jettisoned several of the international screenings due to a lack of funds to pay foreign travel expenses. Banca Nazionale di Lavoro, best known as BNL, contributed €500,000 ($630,000) to Taormina last year, the bank's fourth year as a sponsor.
- 6/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- Italy's Taormina Film Festival gets underway Tuesday with a severely reduced program and an uncertain future after its lead sponsor pulled out to back the first edition of October's RomaCinemaFest. The developing budget crisis forced artistic director Felice Laudadio to shorten the 52nd edition of the festival to six days from the originally planned eight at the 11th hour. Taormina -- which runs through Sunday -- also jettisoned several of the international screenings due to a lack of funds to pay foreign travel expenses. Banca Nazionale di Lavoro, best known as BNL, contributed €500,000 ($630,000) to Taormina last year, the bank's fourth year as a sponsor.
- 6/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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