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Breakout talents from festival favorites Saint Omer and Tori and Lokita, new faces from Netflix hits The Playlist and Babylon Berlin, and discoveries from arthouse features from across Europe are among the top 10 talents picked to be the 2023 European Shooting Stars.
The annual list of up-and-coming actors from across Europe — which has proved a reliable talent spotter over the years — was unveiled Wednesday by European Film Promotion, which organizes the selection.
The eight women and two men picked by the Shooting Star jury will attend the Berlin International Film Festival in February, where they will be introduced to the international industry, and meet with talent agents, directors and producers.
Previous European Shooting Stars have included the likes of Michaela Coel (2018), Luca Marinelli (2013), Riz Ahmed (2012), Alica Vikander (2011), Daniel Brühl (2003), Ruth Negga (2006) and Matthias Schoenaerts (2003).
Here’s a short introduction to next year’s class:...
Breakout talents from festival favorites Saint Omer and Tori and Lokita, new faces from Netflix hits The Playlist and Babylon Berlin, and discoveries from arthouse features from across Europe are among the top 10 talents picked to be the 2023 European Shooting Stars.
The annual list of up-and-coming actors from across Europe — which has proved a reliable talent spotter over the years — was unveiled Wednesday by European Film Promotion, which organizes the selection.
The eight women and two men picked by the Shooting Star jury will attend the Berlin International Film Festival in February, where they will be introduced to the international industry, and meet with talent agents, directors and producers.
Previous European Shooting Stars have included the likes of Michaela Coel (2018), Luca Marinelli (2013), Riz Ahmed (2012), Alica Vikander (2011), Daniel Brühl (2003), Ruth Negga (2006) and Matthias Schoenaerts (2003).
Here’s a short introduction to next year’s class:...
- 12/14/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It isn't often that we see a science fiction film made in the Netherlands, especially an English-language one, but lo-and-behold: at this year's Imagine Film Festival there was a world première for just such a film: director Dan Geesin's dystopic eco-apocalyptic Sputum. And despite being a decidedly low-budget affair, the end result doesn't need spitting at. In Sputum, we see a world utterly destroyed and almost entirely devoid of life. A fungus evolved into a sort which could eat micro-plastics, and it has multiplied exponentially, releasing toxic spore clouds around the world. A sudden concentration of these spores and microplastics is called a 'bloom', and it is deadly for humans, animals and plants alike. With rot-powder, humans try to kill the fungus and the micro-plastics,...
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- 11/21/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Haugesund’s New Nordic Films will run as a hybrid event Aug 18-21.
Isabella Eklof, the Danish director of Sundance 2018 selection Holiday and co-writer of Cannes 2018 award-winner Border, is presenting her new feature project Kalak as part of Haugesund’s New Nordic Films Co-Production Market (August 18-21).
This year’s hybrid event will see with some participants physically attend the event in Norway and others watching online films and presentations.
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Kalak is Eklof’s second feature and is set in Greenland. It is about a man who tries to escape the demons of childhood...
Isabella Eklof, the Danish director of Sundance 2018 selection Holiday and co-writer of Cannes 2018 award-winner Border, is presenting her new feature project Kalak as part of Haugesund’s New Nordic Films Co-Production Market (August 18-21).
This year’s hybrid event will see with some participants physically attend the event in Norway and others watching online films and presentations.
Scroll down for the full list
Kalak is Eklof’s second feature and is set in Greenland. It is about a man who tries to escape the demons of childhood...
- 8/11/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦39¦
- ScreenDaily
Teona Strugar Mitevska, Sofia Exarchou, Hanna Sköld, Marian Crisan, Pavle Vučković, Moin Hussain, Emin Alper, and duo Esther Rots and Dan Geesin are representing Europe. Fifteen feature-film projects (and 16 filmmakers) hailing from 15 countries have been selected for the 16th edition of the Cinéfondation Atelier, which will take place as an integral part of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival (12-23 May), preparations for which are still in full swing, although all eyes are obviously on any new developments in the coronavirus epidemic.This year, Europe will be very well represented, with eight projects. The most prominent of them is The Happiest Man in the World by North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska, whose latest opus, God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, was unveiled in competition at Berlin in 2019 before scooping the European Parliament’s Lux Prize. As a reminder, the three previous films by the director were presented in the Panorama.
Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Moin Hussain will present his project Birchanger Green.
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
- 3/9/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Moin Hussain will present his project Birchanger Green.
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
- 3/9/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The TorinoFilmLab and Series Mania have announced the nine projects participating in this year’s SeriesLab, an intensive mentorship program that culminates March 26 in Lille when participants will present their projects to an industry audience at the Series Mania Forum.
A joint venture conceived to address the challenge of developing screenwriting talent in the European TV industry, SeriesLab mentors creative talent from across the continent by bringing together writers, creators and showrunners from nine series in early-stage development.
The program shepherds participants through the entire process of creating a TV series concept via a four-month course composed of three residential workshops and two online sessions. With the support of established script consultant tutors and other industry experts, the participants develop a commercial mini-bible and outline the treatment of the pilot.
“I’m really excited about the wonderful work our tutors and participants have done during these months,” says Nicola Lusuardi,...
A joint venture conceived to address the challenge of developing screenwriting talent in the European TV industry, SeriesLab mentors creative talent from across the continent by bringing together writers, creators and showrunners from nine series in early-stage development.
The program shepherds participants through the entire process of creating a TV series concept via a four-month course composed of three residential workshops and two online sessions. With the support of established script consultant tutors and other industry experts, the participants develop a commercial mini-bible and outline the treatment of the pilot.
“I’m really excited about the wonderful work our tutors and participants have done during these months,” says Nicola Lusuardi,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The most daring stylistic flourish in Esther Rots’ forensically first-person, raw-nerve drama seems at first like a mistake. Over crisp images of a happy Dutch family — bearded Dad, his pregnant, laughing wife and their blond, tousle-haired daughter driving around in a well-kitted-out camper van — a baritone sings a comic operetta, in English, about bathrobes, kitchen counters and home juicers. “In this neat and tidy little liiiife … she is a neat and tidy little wiiiife,” he booms to jaunty, parping tubas and pompous, martial percussion. The absurd, baroque stylings of Dan Geesin’s compositions are so incongruous with the pictures, it seems possible it’s the sound leaking in from the screen next door.
But while we never quite get over this dislocating effect — nor are we ever sure how closely we should be parsing the lyrics for clues to our protagonist’s state of mind — we’re not supposed to:...
But while we never quite get over this dislocating effect — nor are we ever sure how closely we should be parsing the lyrics for clues to our protagonist’s state of mind — we’re not supposed to:...
- 2/13/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include Colombian jungle thriller ‘Monos’.
Adventurous young Dutch distribution outfit Gusto is adding to its slate and has snapped up rights to Alejandro Landes’ Colombian jungle thriller Monos, fresh from its Sundance and Berlinale screenings.
Amsterdam-based Lemming Film was the Dutch partner on the film, which was presented at Rotterdam’s pitching market, Cinemart, in 2016.
Gusto, formed in Amsterdam by Hein van Joolen and Katrien Remijn just over a year ago, acquired Monos from the producers and the acquisition complements several other new Iffr or Berlinale titles on the company’s slate.
Gusto is on board fast-rising Dutch-Bosnian auteur...
Adventurous young Dutch distribution outfit Gusto is adding to its slate and has snapped up rights to Alejandro Landes’ Colombian jungle thriller Monos, fresh from its Sundance and Berlinale screenings.
Amsterdam-based Lemming Film was the Dutch partner on the film, which was presented at Rotterdam’s pitching market, Cinemart, in 2016.
Gusto, formed in Amsterdam by Hein van Joolen and Katrien Remijn just over a year ago, acquired Monos from the producers and the acquisition complements several other new Iffr or Berlinale titles on the company’s slate.
Gusto is on board fast-rising Dutch-Bosnian auteur...
- 2/12/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
I can’t think of a better term to describe Esther Rots’ Retrospekt than her own: “sensory cinema.” We get a feeling for what this means during the opening scene as Dan Geesin’s score and Bas Kuijlenburg’s boomingly operatic baritone drowns out the action onscreen with English lyrics telling a story of which we’re not yet certain is even worth our attention. We don’t know these characters beyond visible traits: a pregnant woman, her husband, and their young girl packed up in an Rv heading to who knows where. What this marriage of sight and sound conjures within becomes all we really have to decide to invest in this strange puzzle or frantically seek a quick escape. Hopefully you’ll choose the former because the subsequent ride is worth it.
The woman is Mette (Circé Lethem), a domestic abuse counselor who takes her job very seriously...
The woman is Mette (Circé Lethem), a domestic abuse counselor who takes her job very seriously...
- 9/23/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
AFI Fest 2012 presented by Audi, a program of the American Film Institute, today announced the remaining sections and films that will screen in the festival.s World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight and Shorts programs. AFI Fest, which annually presents the best of world cinema in the movie capital of the world, will take place November 1 through 8 at the historic Grauman.s Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the submission process and Midnight.s selections are always haunting. Both World Cinema and Breakthrough feature a number of films making their North American or U.S. Premieres, including The Angels. Share, Greatest Hits, Laurence Anyways, Nairobi Half Life, Pieta, White Elephant and Zaytoun.
Two of the shorts in competition are from AFI Conservatory.s recent class of...
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the submission process and Midnight.s selections are always haunting. Both World Cinema and Breakthrough feature a number of films making their North American or U.S. Premieres, including The Angels. Share, Greatest Hits, Laurence Anyways, Nairobi Half Life, Pieta, White Elephant and Zaytoun.
Two of the shorts in competition are from AFI Conservatory.s recent class of...
- 10/16/2012
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Today, AFI 2012 announced its complete lineup, after previously debuting its New Auteurs, Young Americans, Galas and Special Screenings we finally get a look at the Midnight, Breakthrough, Shorts, and deliriously good World Cinema Selections.
The Shorts section, with almost too many to count, features new work from Nacho Vigalando, Nicolas Provost, and even Shia Labeouf (Cannes selected), among many others. The four Midnight titles all played in Tiff 2012’s Midnight Madness selection, and here we see John Dies at the End making a stop here after originally premiering at Sundance. They’ve nabbed three North American premieres in their Breakthrough section, including Kid from Fien Troch, Nairobi Half Life from David Tosh Gitonga, and Oh Boy from Jan Ole Gerster. But AFI has managed to really impress with it’s World Cinema selections. Just as they nabbed Cannes premiere Holy Motors for their Special Screenings, they’ve nabbed several high...
The Shorts section, with almost too many to count, features new work from Nacho Vigalando, Nicolas Provost, and even Shia Labeouf (Cannes selected), among many others. The four Midnight titles all played in Tiff 2012’s Midnight Madness selection, and here we see John Dies at the End making a stop here after originally premiering at Sundance. They’ve nabbed three North American premieres in their Breakthrough section, including Kid from Fien Troch, Nairobi Half Life from David Tosh Gitonga, and Oh Boy from Jan Ole Gerster. But AFI has managed to really impress with it’s World Cinema selections. Just as they nabbed Cannes premiere Holy Motors for their Special Screenings, they’ve nabbed several high...
- 10/16/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
UK Short Films festival Encounters has announced its 2010 line-up.
Encounters 16th International Film Festival will be held in Bristol from November 16 to 21 and brings together new and established international short and animated film talent, UK premieres, workshops, industry events and an array of awards and special guests.
Organisers have this year relaunched two competitive strands to the festival: Animated Encounters and Brief Encounters.
Animated Encounters (November 17 to 21) will provide a showcase for the best homegrown and international animation talent around.
Highlights include a celebration of graffiti in animation with previously unseen CCTV footage reported to reveal Bansky at work, while Desert Island Flicks welcomes comedian and actorTim Minchin to discuss his new animated short film Storm, which will premiere at the festival.
Brief Encounters (November 16-21) will present today's leading short filmmaking talent from around the world.
Highlights include BAFTA: A Brief Encounter with actor Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings,...
Encounters 16th International Film Festival will be held in Bristol from November 16 to 21 and brings together new and established international short and animated film talent, UK premieres, workshops, industry events and an array of awards and special guests.
Organisers have this year relaunched two competitive strands to the festival: Animated Encounters and Brief Encounters.
Animated Encounters (November 17 to 21) will provide a showcase for the best homegrown and international animation talent around.
Highlights include a celebration of graffiti in animation with previously unseen CCTV footage reported to reveal Bansky at work, while Desert Island Flicks welcomes comedian and actorTim Minchin to discuss his new animated short film Storm, which will premiere at the festival.
Brief Encounters (November 16-21) will present today's leading short filmmaking talent from around the world.
Highlights include BAFTA: A Brief Encounter with actor Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings,...
- 9/24/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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