The country’s film body has earmarked over €13 million for the support of 29 new audiovisual productions. Film Fund Luxembourg’s selection committee has announced the recipients of its latest round of funding. On this occasion, the public body has earmarked a total of €13,174,566 to be invested in 29 new productions. In detail, €439,500 have been allotted to the development of 13 new projects. The beneficiaries of this slate of funding are Loïc Tanson’s Läif a seil, Eric Lamhène and Rae Lyn Lee’s Mir géint d'Welt, Yuki Kawamura’s Ama, Eileen Byrne’s Marianengraben, and Sarah Hirtt’s Cyclopes in the fiction features category, while Thierry Schiel’s Quantrics and Lena Junker’s Mirabelle are the two animated flicks...
The story of Romeo and Juliet is one that has been adapted millions of times but I've never seen it take on a life quite like this one.
From the minds of Peter Lawrence and Thierry Schiel comes The Way of the Cat, a wholly new approach to the age old tale of lovers torn by family and society. But there’s much more to this story than romance because the tale takes places on the ship-city of Catatonia described as a "steam-punk creation several kilometers long, which 'sails' a parched and hostile desert, eternally searching for life-giving water." If that’s not cool enough, there’s also the little fact that these aren’t humans.
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The Katzers are the city’s ruling class – evolved feline humanoids who have maintained their grip on Catatonian society for as long as history records.
The Caninists are the subservient...
From the minds of Peter Lawrence and Thierry Schiel comes The Way of the Cat, a wholly new approach to the age old tale of lovers torn by family and society. But there’s much more to this story than romance because the tale takes places on the ship-city of Catatonia described as a "steam-punk creation several kilometers long, which 'sails' a parched and hostile desert, eternally searching for life-giving water." If that’s not cool enough, there’s also the little fact that these aren’t humans.
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The Katzers are the city’s ruling class – evolved feline humanoids who have maintained their grip on Catatonian society for as long as history records.
The Caninists are the subservient...
- 11/18/2009
- QuietEarth.us
TORONTO -- Canadian director Lalita Krishna's Move Your World, a documentary about young people raising AIDS prevention awareness in Tanzania, earned the audience award at the 9th annual Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children on Sunday. Sprockets' festivalgoers also gave the audience award for best animated film to Thierry Schiel's Renart the Fox, from Luxembourg, as the curtain went down on the Toronto International Film Festival's annual showcase of kids-themed films. Feature films grabbing trophies as part of juried competition included British director Paul Marcus for Heidi, which starred Emma Bolger, Max von Sydow and Geraldine Chaplin, and U.S. director Doug Atchison earning an award for Akeelah and the Bee, a drama set around the U.S. National Spelling Bee that stars Keke Palmer, Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne.
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