Exclusive: Grasshopper Film and streaming platform Documentary+ have acquired North American rights to the Oscar-shortlisted feature Apolonia, Apolonia, a deal announced as the nomination voting window opens for the 96th Academy Awards.
Grasshopper will release the film theatrically Friday at Dctv’s Firehouse Cinema in New York, “with a launch on Documentary+ following all other traditional windows,” according to a release.
The film directed by Lea Glob documents the life of French painter Apolonia Sokol over a 13-year period, examining her attempt to maintain artistic integrity in an art world — and culture — where patriarchy privileges the male gaze over the female.
Apolonia Sokol
“The result is a moving meditation on friendship, personal and creative fulfillment, and both the liberation and limitations of the female body,” the release noted. “Over the years, both Sokol and Glob see again and again that the road to artistic achievement is not an easy or...
Grasshopper will release the film theatrically Friday at Dctv’s Firehouse Cinema in New York, “with a launch on Documentary+ following all other traditional windows,” according to a release.
The film directed by Lea Glob documents the life of French painter Apolonia Sokol over a 13-year period, examining her attempt to maintain artistic integrity in an art world — and culture — where patriarchy privileges the male gaze over the female.
Apolonia Sokol
“The result is a moving meditation on friendship, personal and creative fulfillment, and both the liberation and limitations of the female body,” the release noted. “Over the years, both Sokol and Glob see again and again that the road to artistic achievement is not an easy or...
- 1/11/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Finding common cause and rhythm across language and culture is at the heart of “Far From the Nile,” from director Sherief Elkatsha, which opened the Horizons of Arab Cinema competition at the Cairo Intl. Film Festival.
Elkatsha’s latest follows 12 African musicians from seven countries along the Nile River who comprise the Nile Project, a group that seeks to highlight the conflict over increasingly scarce water resources in the region. As they leave their home countries for a 100-day tour of the American heartland, they grapple with cultural differences, musical disputes and competing egos in an effort to stay united behind their common cause.
It’s a timely film from the U.S. born, Cairo-raised director, which highlights the often humorous attempts by the musicians to resolve their differences while being introduced to each other, and the U.S., and dealing with the demands of a four-month tour.
Elkatsha admitted it wasn’t easy.
Elkatsha’s latest follows 12 African musicians from seven countries along the Nile River who comprise the Nile Project, a group that seeks to highlight the conflict over increasingly scarce water resources in the region. As they leave their home countries for a 100-day tour of the American heartland, they grapple with cultural differences, musical disputes and competing egos in an effort to stay united behind their common cause.
It’s a timely film from the U.S. born, Cairo-raised director, which highlights the often humorous attempts by the musicians to resolve their differences while being introduced to each other, and the U.S., and dealing with the demands of a four-month tour.
Elkatsha admitted it wasn’t easy.
- 11/18/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Danish documentary production company’s slate include Sundance-selected ‘The Territory’ and Eva Weber’s ‘Merkel’.
European production group Newen Studios and Oscar-nominated Danish producer Sigrid Dyekjaer have launched a new Denmark-based documentary production company, Real Lava.
Real Lava is owned by France-based Newen Studios (part of the TF1 group) and Dyekjaer, and will work on both documentary films and series for an international audience, “with a cinematic execution and high artistic value”.
The company’s first production, The Territory, has been confirmed for the world cinema documentary competition at Sundance. Alex Pritz’s film explores the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau community as...
European production group Newen Studios and Oscar-nominated Danish producer Sigrid Dyekjaer have launched a new Denmark-based documentary production company, Real Lava.
Real Lava is owned by France-based Newen Studios (part of the TF1 group) and Dyekjaer, and will work on both documentary films and series for an international audience, “with a cinematic execution and high artistic value”.
The company’s first production, The Territory, has been confirmed for the world cinema documentary competition at Sundance. Alex Pritz’s film explores the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau community as...
- 12/10/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Directors Lone Scherfig, Dagur Kari and Nikolaj Arcel have signed a letter supporting the strike.
Directors Lone Scherfig, Dagur Kari and Nikolaj Arcel, and producer Vibeke Wineløv are among the members of the Danish film industry to have signed a petition in support of an ongoing strike by students at the National Film School of Denmark.
They are calling for the removal of director Vinca Wiedemann due to curriculum changes she introduced in autumn 2019.
Now in its sixth day, the students are protesting Wiedemann’s reduction in the number of students the Copenhagen-based school accepts each year and the change...
Directors Lone Scherfig, Dagur Kari and Nikolaj Arcel, and producer Vibeke Wineløv are among the members of the Danish film industry to have signed a petition in support of an ongoing strike by students at the National Film School of Denmark.
They are calling for the removal of director Vinca Wiedemann due to curriculum changes she introduced in autumn 2019.
Now in its sixth day, the students are protesting Wiedemann’s reduction in the number of students the Copenhagen-based school accepts each year and the change...
- 11/20/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
The film will world premiere in Toronto.
Dogwoof has swooped to take international sales rights and UK distribution to Oscar-nominated Feras Fayyad’s latest feature, The Cave.
The film will premiere as the opening night film of Tiff Docs next month, and as a Documentary Special Presentation at the London Film Festival.
The film tells the story of an underground Syrian hospital and the staff who work against enormous odds to keep it going despite the ongoing conflict.
Dogwoof will be beginning sales efforts in Toronto and is planning a UK theatrical release for December 6, placing it in good position for the 2020 awards season.
Dogwoof has swooped to take international sales rights and UK distribution to Oscar-nominated Feras Fayyad’s latest feature, The Cave.
The film will premiere as the opening night film of Tiff Docs next month, and as a Documentary Special Presentation at the London Film Festival.
The film tells the story of an underground Syrian hospital and the staff who work against enormous odds to keep it going despite the ongoing conflict.
Dogwoof will be beginning sales efforts in Toronto and is planning a UK theatrical release for December 6, placing it in good position for the 2020 awards season.
- 8/30/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Mikala Krogh directs; The Bridge’s Nikolaj Scherfig is co-writing.
Copenhagen-based LevelK has acquired world sales rights for the Danish TV documentary series Scandinavian Star.
The six-part series examines one of the largest unsolved crimes in recent Scandinavian history: the catastrophic fire on board the Ms Scandinavian Star ferry in April 1990, when it was sailing from Norway to Denmark. Some 159 people died. Investigations have pointed to arson – but many questions remain unanswered.
The series will use archive material, new interviews and reconstructions.
Scandinavian Star is written by Nikolaj Scherfig alongside director Mikala Krogh (A Year Of Hope) and journalist Lars Halskov,...
Copenhagen-based LevelK has acquired world sales rights for the Danish TV documentary series Scandinavian Star.
The six-part series examines one of the largest unsolved crimes in recent Scandinavian history: the catastrophic fire on board the Ms Scandinavian Star ferry in April 1990, when it was sailing from Norway to Denmark. Some 159 people died. Investigations have pointed to arson – but many questions remain unanswered.
The series will use archive material, new interviews and reconstructions.
Scandinavian Star is written by Nikolaj Scherfig alongside director Mikala Krogh (A Year Of Hope) and journalist Lars Halskov,...
- 4/2/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Nordisk Panorama takes place on Sept 20-25 in Malmo, Sweden.
Nordisk Panorama has confirmed the films in its two juried competitions, for Best Nordic Documentary and Best Nordic Short Film, for its Sept 20-25 festival in Malmo, Sweden.
The Best Nordic Documentary prize comes with $12,900 sponsored by the Nordic public broadcasters Dr, Yle, Ruv, Nrk and Svt.
Those 15 films include The Raft, which already won the top prize at Cph:Dox; and The Distant Barking of Dogs, which has won a slew of awards at festivals including San Fransicso, Thessaloniki, Goteborg, Idfa, Dokfest Munich and Oslo.
The Best Nordic Short...
Nordisk Panorama has confirmed the films in its two juried competitions, for Best Nordic Documentary and Best Nordic Short Film, for its Sept 20-25 festival in Malmo, Sweden.
The Best Nordic Documentary prize comes with $12,900 sponsored by the Nordic public broadcasters Dr, Yle, Ruv, Nrk and Svt.
Those 15 films include The Raft, which already won the top prize at Cph:Dox; and The Distant Barking of Dogs, which has won a slew of awards at festivals including San Fransicso, Thessaloniki, Goteborg, Idfa, Dokfest Munich and Oslo.
The Best Nordic Short...
- 7/10/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Netflix to launch Us-Danish documentary Knox in autumn; Screen speaks to key doc companies about their lineups.
The Danish documentary world has been going from strength to strength – and not just Joshua Oppenheimer’s Danish productions The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.
Screen spoke to three of Denmark’s most prominent documentary production companies last week in Copenhagen, to talk about their slates, which include a new Netflix title with exclusive access to Amanda Knox, two Syrian documentaries, and a Tribeca premiere about insects as a sustainable food source.
All the companies said Danish documentaries were booming thanks in part to generous support systems from the Danish Film Institute, which has specialist documentary funding consultants, to help them create such a range of work now.
As Signe Byrge Sorensen of Final Cut For Real says: “There is a long tradition here for documentary, and its also very diverse. People do all...
The Danish documentary world has been going from strength to strength – and not just Joshua Oppenheimer’s Danish productions The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.
Screen spoke to three of Denmark’s most prominent documentary production companies last week in Copenhagen, to talk about their slates, which include a new Netflix title with exclusive access to Amanda Knox, two Syrian documentaries, and a Tribeca premiere about insects as a sustainable food source.
All the companies said Danish documentaries were booming thanks in part to generous support systems from the Danish Film Institute, which has specialist documentary funding consultants, to help them create such a range of work now.
As Signe Byrge Sorensen of Final Cut For Real says: “There is a long tradition here for documentary, and its also very diverse. People do all...
- 4/13/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
On Screen Off Record from The Act of Killing producer Signe Byrge Sørensen.
On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.
The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”
The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and have filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...
On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.
The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”
The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and have filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...
- 11/14/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
On Screen Off Record from The Act of Killing producer Signe Byrge Sørensen.
On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.
The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”
The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...
On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.
The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”
The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...
- 11/14/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
BERLIN -- Danish production company Tju-Bang has teamed up with Denmark's SF Film A/S to form the startup production shingle Tju-Bang Film A/S, the companies said Friday. SF Film, the Danish outpost of Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri sealed a deal with Tju-Bang after months of hunting around for a suitable partnership to expand its production ambitions in Denmark. The jointly owned startup said it aims to produce as many as two features and two to three documentaries each year from development through production. Formed by director Soren Fauli, director and editor Jacob Thuesen, director Nils Grabol, editor Per K. Kirekgaard, documentary director Mikala Krogh, editor Theis Schmidt and producer Sigrid Dyakjaer, the company will also look for co-production opportunities, the firm said Friday at the Berlin International Film Festival.
- 2/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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