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Baldvin Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Life In A Fishbowl was the big winner at this year’s Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, taking home the Ndr Film Prize, worth $15,655 (€12,500)
Lead actor Thorsteinn Bachmann accepted the award in person from the five-person jury, which said it was “a touching and hopeful film about seemingly hopeless situations”.
The co-production between Iceland, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic is Iceland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar and is being handled internationally by Films Boutique.
Special mentions were also given to Hisham Zaman’s Letter To The King (Norway) and J-p Valkeapää’s They Have Escaped (Finland) by the jury comprising actors Victoria Trauttmansdorff and Niklas Osterloh, producer Christoph Thoke, Ndr commissioning editor Diana Schulte-Kellinghaus and Finnish film-maker Kirsi Marie Liimatainen.
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Baldvin Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Life In A Fishbowl was the big winner at this year’s Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, taking home the Ndr Film Prize, worth $15,655 (€12,500)
Lead actor Thorsteinn Bachmann accepted the award in person from the five-person jury, which said it was “a touching and hopeful film about seemingly hopeless situations”.
The co-production between Iceland, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic is Iceland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar and is being handled internationally by Films Boutique.
Special mentions were also given to Hisham Zaman’s Letter To The King (Norway) and J-p Valkeapää’s They Have Escaped (Finland) by the jury comprising actors Victoria Trauttmansdorff and Niklas Osterloh, producer Christoph Thoke, Ndr commissioning editor Diana Schulte-Kellinghaus and Finnish film-maker Kirsi Marie Liimatainen.
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- 11/3/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
- Like the Sundacne lab experience and what the Rotterdam film festival does for burgeoning filmmakers with CineMart, the Berlinale Co-production Market (a 3-day event that takes place between the 10th-12th of Feb) is (as this year proves) an important manner in which to find production dollars for international film projects by high-caliber directors and new filmmakers. Take a look at this year's list (you'll find some familiar names) below - 35 were chosen out of almost 400 projects. Projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2008 (listed alphabetically by production company) The Hecatomb (Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev), A-One Films, Russia/MacT, France Carpet Boy (Director: Deepa Mehta), Arsam & Lucid Pictures, France/UK The Last Mission (Director: Agnieszka Holland), Bow and Axe Entertainment, Poland Blanco (Director: Christophe Van Rompaey), Cccp, Belgium The Visitor (Director: Aaron Woodley), Creative Engine Pictures, Canada The Famous and the Dead (Director: Esmir Filho), Dezenove Som e Imagens, Brazil Lake
- 1/15/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
PARIS -- The Festival de Cannes on Wednesday named the six young filmmakers chosen to attend a four-month residence in Paris to prepare a movie project. Those selected by a jury headed by Gallic director Claire Denis are Brazil's Karim Ainouz, Argentina's Veronica Chen, Britain's Stephen Ellis, Finland's Kirsi Liimatainen, Hungary's Kornel Mundrunczo and Italy's Marta Parlatore. Mundrunczo's first film was selected in the Cannes sidebar Un Certain Regard in 2002, while Ainouz's directing debut screened in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar this year. The Festival Residence is organized under the auspices of the Cinefondation and provides an opportunity for filmmakers to develop a first or second feature-length movie. Previous participants include U.S. filmmaker Peter Sollett (Long Way Home) and the United Kingdom's Emily Young (Kiss of Life), both of which unspooled in Un Certain Regard.
- 7/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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