Germany’s film producers have expressed ¨exceptional regret¨ at learning that Angela Merkel’s cabinet has proposed reducing the annual budget for the Dfff ¨German spend¨ incentive by another €10m to €50m in the global federal budget for 2015.
In a first reaction, the German Producers Alliance said that it welcomed the statement by the new State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters that she would push in future budget negotiations for the current level of €60m to be retained.
However, the German film community had already been disappointed by Bernd Neumann’s successor earlier this year when she seem to go back on pronouncements made at the Berlinale in February to keep the Dfff’s budget at €70m when she indicated at the German Film Awards in May that €60m would be her goal.
It remains to be seen whether she has the political clout to hold her own - and the interests of the German...
In a first reaction, the German Producers Alliance said that it welcomed the statement by the new State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters that she would push in future budget negotiations for the current level of €60m to be retained.
However, the German film community had already been disappointed by Bernd Neumann’s successor earlier this year when she seem to go back on pronouncements made at the Berlinale in February to keep the Dfff’s budget at €70m when she indicated at the German Film Awards in May that €60m would be her goal.
It remains to be seen whether she has the political clout to hold her own - and the interests of the German...
- 7/4/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Nike.com
With the World Cup in Rio now just around the corner and squads being announced ahead of the world’s premier international competition, we’re giving 3 WhatCulture readers the opportunity to win a copy of a newly released documentary DVD about one of the greatest footballing nations ever known.
Ginga – the mysterious, indefinable magical quality of rhythm and movement which sets the Brazilian game apart from all the others.
Produced by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and directed by Marcelo Machado (Tropicalia), Hank Levine and Tocha Alves. Ginga follows seven young footballers from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds, providing an insight into the passionate culture that produces some of the world s finest footballers.
One of those great players is Real Madrid s Ronaldo who said: “Ginga, is in our blood, it is a gift given by God especially to Brazilians who...
With the World Cup in Rio now just around the corner and squads being announced ahead of the world’s premier international competition, we’re giving 3 WhatCulture readers the opportunity to win a copy of a newly released documentary DVD about one of the greatest footballing nations ever known.
Ginga – the mysterious, indefinable magical quality of rhythm and movement which sets the Brazilian game apart from all the others.
Produced by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and directed by Marcelo Machado (Tropicalia), Hank Levine and Tocha Alves. Ginga follows seven young footballers from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds, providing an insight into the passionate culture that produces some of the world s finest footballers.
One of those great players is Real Madrid s Ronaldo who said: “Ginga, is in our blood, it is a gift given by God especially to Brazilians who...
- 5/20/2014
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Hank Levine, the German producer who spent a couple of years in L.A. where we met before he moved to Brazil where he worked at 02 Filmes with Fernando Mirielles and had a family. He co-produced the Academy Award-nominated films City of God and Wasteland and returned to Germany a couple of years ago. He is now producing the English language directorial debut of Hans Weingartner (The Edukators) with the screen adaptation of the best selling true story of Larry Orbach and Vivien Orbach-Smith’s Soaring Underground (Der Taucher). As a young German-Jewish Berliner struggling to survive in WWII Berlin, Larry Orbach resisted and made a new life. The film will shoot in Germany, Brazil, Africa and Asia. This year, Levine will also direct his first film, Exodus, an international feature documentary. He also produced this year’s Berlinale Competition film Praia Do Futuro.
To read more on Hank Levine's projects visit his site Here...
To read more on Hank Levine's projects visit his site Here...
- 2/23/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Hans Weingartner’s to make first English-language film for Praia do Futuro producer Hank Levine.
Hans Weingartner (The Edukators) is set to make his English-language directorial debut with a screen adaptation of Larry Orbach and Vivien Orbach-Smith’s bestseller Soaring Underground (Der Taucher).
The true story of Orbach as a young German-Jewish teenager struggling to survive in Berlin during the Second World War will be produced by Hank Levine Film, one of the producers of the Competition film Praia do Futuro.
“The story personally appealed to me because the protagonist isn’t a victim, he shows resistance to the Nazi regime, and this theme of resistance is one which has run through almost all of my films,” Weingartner told ScreenDaily.
“Everything you need for a film is in the story – emotions, humanity as well as a lot of humour.“
“Orbach’s experiences have a timeless quality and a relevance for today,” added producer...
Hans Weingartner (The Edukators) is set to make his English-language directorial debut with a screen adaptation of Larry Orbach and Vivien Orbach-Smith’s bestseller Soaring Underground (Der Taucher).
The true story of Orbach as a young German-Jewish teenager struggling to survive in Berlin during the Second World War will be produced by Hank Levine Film, one of the producers of the Competition film Praia do Futuro.
“The story personally appealed to me because the protagonist isn’t a victim, he shows resistance to the Nazi regime, and this theme of resistance is one which has run through almost all of my films,” Weingartner told ScreenDaily.
“Everything you need for a film is in the story – emotions, humanity as well as a lot of humour.“
“Orbach’s experiences have a timeless quality and a relevance for today,” added producer...
- 2/9/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Brazilian producers’ growing interest in co-production was under the spotlight at this year’s RioMarket, held alongside the Rio International Film Festival.
Although a co-production treaty between Brazil and the Us is unlikely - the Americans don’t have a central regulatory agency for the audiovisual industry like in other countries - there are possibilities for collaboration between the two countries.
In one seminar at the RioMarket, New York-based media lawyer W. Wilder Knight II suggested that documentaries could be a field where producers could come together “if there is a subject of common interest”.
It was suggested that finance could be raised through crowd sourcing, although he admitted the culture of giving seems to have more of a tradition in the Us - where 80-90% of Americans give to charity at least once each year - compared to Brazil where culture has always been heavily subsidised. Direct investment in Brazil doesn’t have a long tradition...
Although a co-production treaty between Brazil and the Us is unlikely - the Americans don’t have a central regulatory agency for the audiovisual industry like in other countries - there are possibilities for collaboration between the two countries.
In one seminar at the RioMarket, New York-based media lawyer W. Wilder Knight II suggested that documentaries could be a field where producers could come together “if there is a subject of common interest”.
It was suggested that finance could be raised through crowd sourcing, although he admitted the culture of giving seems to have more of a tradition in the Us - where 80-90% of Americans give to charity at least once each year - compared to Brazil where culture has always been heavily subsidised. Direct investment in Brazil doesn’t have a long tradition...
- 10/7/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Beverly Hills, CA . The 2010 Oscar® nominees “Sun Come Up” and “Waste Land” will screen as the next installment in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 5, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the series is free.
Directed by Jennifer Redfearn, who produced the film with Tim Metzger, “Sun Come Up” tells the story of the 3,000 residents of the Carteret Islands who face hunger and relocation as the effects of global warming transform their South Pacific paradise. The film earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Short Subject.
“Waste Land” documents the lives of garbage pickers scavenge among the mountains of discarded materials in Brazil.s Jardim Gramacho, the world.s largest landfill. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, who uses trash to create his work, travels to the landfill to photograph the people whose...
Directed by Jennifer Redfearn, who produced the film with Tim Metzger, “Sun Come Up” tells the story of the 3,000 residents of the Carteret Islands who face hunger and relocation as the effects of global warming transform their South Pacific paradise. The film earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Short Subject.
“Waste Land” documents the lives of garbage pickers scavenge among the mountains of discarded materials in Brazil.s Jardim Gramacho, the world.s largest landfill. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, who uses trash to create his work, travels to the landfill to photograph the people whose...
- 9/28/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Beverly Hills, CA - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off its 30th annual .Contemporary Documentaries. screening series with last year.s Oscar®-winning feature, .Inside Job,. and .Casino Jack and the United States of Money. on Wednesday, September 21, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
Admission to all screenings in the series is free.
Directed by Charles Ferguson, who produced the film with Audrey Marrs, .Inside Job. traces the financial practices that laid the groundwork for the global economic crisis in an examination that places blame in the hands of many who are still in power. Predatory lending, credit default swaps and financial deregulation are subjected to close scrutiny and criticism in a primer on the situation that affected the lives of millions.
.Casino Jack and the United States of Money,. a portrait of disgraced Washington super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, confirms the adage...
Admission to all screenings in the series is free.
Directed by Charles Ferguson, who produced the film with Audrey Marrs, .Inside Job. traces the financial practices that laid the groundwork for the global economic crisis in an examination that places blame in the hands of many who are still in power. Predatory lending, credit default swaps and financial deregulation are subjected to close scrutiny and criticism in a primer on the situation that affected the lives of millions.
.Casino Jack and the United States of Money,. a portrait of disgraced Washington super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, confirms the adage...
- 9/7/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
During the first five days of the Berlinale and Efm, I was hardly able to see a film, but I was happily busy the last three days catching up on whatever movies I could get tickets to and had been too busy to see earlier during the main events of the market.
From the well selling Arclight film Red Hill (I’m not a Western fan) to The Owls whose distribution through TheFilmCooperative.org bears watching, to Menemsha’s pickup of Kawasaki Rose the Czech Republic’s version of The Lives of Others, the Brazilian film produced by Hank Levine and directed by Lucy Walker, Waste Land, which deservedly won the Audience Award in the Panorama and has been called the breakout film of the of the Berlinale, Kyoto Story, a surprising and deeply satisfying sweetly bittersweet love story showing the real workers of Japanese society as doc with the...
From the well selling Arclight film Red Hill (I’m not a Western fan) to The Owls whose distribution through TheFilmCooperative.org bears watching, to Menemsha’s pickup of Kawasaki Rose the Czech Republic’s version of The Lives of Others, the Brazilian film produced by Hank Levine and directed by Lucy Walker, Waste Land, which deservedly won the Audience Award in the Panorama and has been called the breakout film of the of the Berlinale, Kyoto Story, a surprising and deeply satisfying sweetly bittersweet love story showing the real workers of Japanese society as doc with the...
- 3/7/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Canadian film actress Sarah Polley will star as the 17th century Queen of Sweden in the dramatic feature Queen Kristina, to be directed by Mika "The House Of Branching Love" Kaurismäki. The film is a co-production with Anna Stratton and Robin Cass of Toronto's Triptych Media, Kaurismäki through his Marianna Films and Hank "City Of God" Levine of Berlin's Hank Levine Film. The real Kristina, born into Swedish royalty in 1626, was her father.s only heir, raised as a Prince and educated as a boy. Upon her father's death she took the oath as a king, not a queen and was nicknamed 'Girl King'. The film will lense in Canada and Sweden, winter/spring of 2011 for a Canadian release by Union Pictures...
- 9/11/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
Toronto -- Sarah Polley ("Dawn of the Dead") is to play the Queen of Sweden in Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki's historical drama "Queen Kristina," it was announced Thursday.
The Canada-Nordic co-production comes from Toronto-based Triptych Media, Kaurismaki's Marianna Films in Helsinki and Berlin-based Hank Levine Film Eleven.
Canadian screenwriter Michel Marc Bouchard will pen the script for "Queen Kristina," a portrait of the 17th century Swedish queen who ascended to the throne at age six years and became an eccentric political and military leader who eventually abdicated her throne to pursue artistic and scientific interests.
The picture will shoot in Canada and Sweden in early 2011. Union Pictures has picked up the Canadian rights.
Mika Kaurismaki's latest film, "The House of Branching Love," will have its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, after earlier opening on theatrical release in Finland.
Polley's latest film, Jaco van Dormael's "Mr Nobody,...
The Canada-Nordic co-production comes from Toronto-based Triptych Media, Kaurismaki's Marianna Films in Helsinki and Berlin-based Hank Levine Film Eleven.
Canadian screenwriter Michel Marc Bouchard will pen the script for "Queen Kristina," a portrait of the 17th century Swedish queen who ascended to the throne at age six years and became an eccentric political and military leader who eventually abdicated her throne to pursue artistic and scientific interests.
The picture will shoot in Canada and Sweden in early 2011. Union Pictures has picked up the Canadian rights.
Mika Kaurismaki's latest film, "The House of Branching Love," will have its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, after earlier opening on theatrical release in Finland.
Polley's latest film, Jaco van Dormael's "Mr Nobody,...
- 9/10/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.