“Becoming an Astronaut,” an ambitious documentary that will focus on four new astronauts who will be announced by the European Space Agency (Esa) this November, has won the Focal Audience & Market Strategies pitching event at the Zurich Film Festival.
Organized by Focal, the Lausanne-based foundation for film and audiovisual media training, Audience & Market Strategies is a three-part training program that helps producers promote their projects at an early stage. This year’s event showcased eight Swiss projects in various states of development.
The program culminated with the pitching event, in which the producers presented their projects to sales company representatives, industry experts and an international jury comprising Stephen Kelliher of Bankside Films, Netflix’s Lars Wiebe, Olivier Tournaud of Cinephil, Sven Wälti, head of film at Swiss pubcaster Srg Ssr, and Deadline’s Diana Lodderhose.
Produced by Franziska Sonder of Ensemble Film and set to be directed by Roman Hodel,...
Organized by Focal, the Lausanne-based foundation for film and audiovisual media training, Audience & Market Strategies is a three-part training program that helps producers promote their projects at an early stage. This year’s event showcased eight Swiss projects in various states of development.
The program culminated with the pitching event, in which the producers presented their projects to sales company representatives, industry experts and an international jury comprising Stephen Kelliher of Bankside Films, Netflix’s Lars Wiebe, Olivier Tournaud of Cinephil, Sven Wälti, head of film at Swiss pubcaster Srg Ssr, and Deadline’s Diana Lodderhose.
Produced by Franziska Sonder of Ensemble Film and set to be directed by Roman Hodel,...
- 9/24/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Lars Wiebe, Neflix’s newly installed manager of international original film for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, has set out the kind of projects that he is looking for.
Speaking at the Zurich Summit, Wiebe said the streamer leans into “interesting, new and fresh ideas – films that might not have been possible in the old traditional world.”
The streamer has had big international success recently with the release of German vampire and plane hijacking movie “Blood Red Sky.” Coming up is the first ever German language adaptation of “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
In post for the past two and a half months, Wiebe said that he was looking for a range of projects, and stressed that Netflix had the ability to greenlight films that might previously have struggled to put together funding.
Citing “Blood Red Sky,” he said: “Where else would you find a vampire action film on a plane made out of Germany,...
Speaking at the Zurich Summit, Wiebe said the streamer leans into “interesting, new and fresh ideas – films that might not have been possible in the old traditional world.”
The streamer has had big international success recently with the release of German vampire and plane hijacking movie “Blood Red Sky.” Coming up is the first ever German language adaptation of “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
In post for the past two and a half months, Wiebe said that he was looking for a range of projects, and stressed that Netflix had the ability to greenlight films that might previously have struggled to put together funding.
Citing “Blood Red Sky,” he said: “Where else would you find a vampire action film on a plane made out of Germany,...
- 9/30/2021
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
MGM Motion Picture Group president Pamela Abdy and chairman Michael De Luca are to open the Zurich Summit on Saturday with a keynote conversation with CAA Media Finance co-head Roeg Sutherland.
Billed as a boutique conference, the two-day Summit gathers around 100 film producers, sales executives and creators in film, TV and entertainment as well as technology entrepreneurs and financiers at The Dolder Grand.
The first day of the Summit features keynotes and panel sessions, while the second day includes networking activities such as a tennis tournament, a barbecue and a dinner.
Head of Zff Industry Reta Guetg says Zurich deliberately opts for a boutique feel to its Summit where people “have input on Saturday, and fun on Sunday and in the evenings” to create a point of difference with other major events in the festival and market calendar. The idea is to create an atmosphere where execs and creatives can...
Billed as a boutique conference, the two-day Summit gathers around 100 film producers, sales executives and creators in film, TV and entertainment as well as technology entrepreneurs and financiers at The Dolder Grand.
The first day of the Summit features keynotes and panel sessions, while the second day includes networking activities such as a tennis tournament, a barbecue and a dinner.
Head of Zff Industry Reta Guetg says Zurich deliberately opts for a boutique feel to its Summit where people “have input on Saturday, and fun on Sunday and in the evenings” to create a point of difference with other major events in the festival and market calendar. The idea is to create an atmosphere where execs and creatives can...
- 9/22/2021
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Wiebe [pictured] appointed head of German productions as company expands its production activities into Germany.
Munich-based distributor-producer SquareOne Entertainment is expanding its production activities into Germany.
Speaking exclusively to Screen, SquareOne’s CEO Al Munteanu revealed that he had been harbouring the idea of production in Germany for the past two years.
“People kept asking me why I wasn’t involved in German production and I never had a good answer. Then I had a bizarre experience in Toronto when I met Sebastian Koch who told me about a film he had starred in, The Weekend by Vivian Naefe, which didn’t have distribution.¨
Subsequently, Munteanu released the film - an adaptation of a book by The Reader author Bernhard Schlink - in Germany last year. “This is when I had my epiphany that there is a real appetite for new distribution partners in Germany, who have a perhaps more hands-on approach to marketing films.”
“This accelerated...
Munich-based distributor-producer SquareOne Entertainment is expanding its production activities into Germany.
Speaking exclusively to Screen, SquareOne’s CEO Al Munteanu revealed that he had been harbouring the idea of production in Germany for the past two years.
“People kept asking me why I wasn’t involved in German production and I never had a good answer. Then I had a bizarre experience in Toronto when I met Sebastian Koch who told me about a film he had starred in, The Weekend by Vivian Naefe, which didn’t have distribution.¨
Subsequently, Munteanu released the film - an adaptation of a book by The Reader author Bernhard Schlink - in Germany last year. “This is when I had my epiphany that there is a real appetite for new distribution partners in Germany, who have a perhaps more hands-on approach to marketing films.”
“This accelerated...
- 2/9/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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