The project is being presented at the 2022 European Genre Forum in Tallinn.
Hamburg-based producer Sebastian Weyland of Heimathafen Film & Medien is reuniting with Lithuanian filmmaker Tomas Vengris for The True Story Of Earth And Sky which is being pitched to potential partners at the European Genre Forum at the Black Nights International Film Festival in Tallinn this week.
The English-language project is in early development. Described as “a lyrical allegory set in the not-too-distant future”, The True Story Of Earth And Sky centres on a low-level server technician for a power hub who can’t help but think that there...
Hamburg-based producer Sebastian Weyland of Heimathafen Film & Medien is reuniting with Lithuanian filmmaker Tomas Vengris for The True Story Of Earth And Sky which is being pitched to potential partners at the European Genre Forum at the Black Nights International Film Festival in Tallinn this week.
The English-language project is in early development. Described as “a lyrical allegory set in the not-too-distant future”, The True Story Of Earth And Sky centres on a low-level server technician for a power hub who can’t help but think that there...
- 11/23/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The festival is held from September 26 to October 5.
The line-ups for six juries at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg (Sept 26 to Oct 5) have been revealed.
The all-German jury that will award the Hamburg producer prize for German cinema productions includes actress Susanne Wolff (Styx), director Ilker Çatak and editor Sebastian Thümler, who worked on Özgür Yildirim’s Only God Can Judge Me. The award comes with a €25,000 cash prize.
Judging the German producer in an international co-production award are Serbian cinematographer Ivan Markovic, Swiss producer Ivan Madeo and German-Swiss dramaturg and curator András Siebold.
The all-German jury for the Hamburg...
The line-ups for six juries at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg (Sept 26 to Oct 5) have been revealed.
The all-German jury that will award the Hamburg producer prize for German cinema productions includes actress Susanne Wolff (Styx), director Ilker Çatak and editor Sebastian Thümler, who worked on Özgür Yildirim’s Only God Can Judge Me. The award comes with a €25,000 cash prize.
Judging the German producer in an international co-production award are Serbian cinematographer Ivan Markovic, Swiss producer Ivan Madeo and German-Swiss dramaturg and curator András Siebold.
The all-German jury for the Hamburg...
- 8/15/2019
- ScreenDaily
Heartstone and Norwegian film-makers win big in Lübeck; Austerlitz takes home Golden Dove at Leipzig.
Lübeck’s 58th Nordic Film Days (Nov 2-6) has become the latest successful stop for Icelandic filmmaker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Heartstone after premiering in the Venice Days in September and picking up three awards at Warsaw Film Festival last month.
Gudmundsson’s debut was awarded the €12,500 Ndr Film Prize by a jury including Swedish actress Inger Nilsson (who played the title role of Pippi Longstocking in the classic children’s films when she was nine years old), Munich-based producer Jörg Bundschuh (The Fencer) and film director Marc Brummund (Sanctuary), for a “feature film of special artistic quality”.
The intensely moving coming of age tale, which takes place over one summer at a remote fishing village in Iceland, is being handled by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique.
Three nods for Norway
Elsewhere, Norwegian filmmakers took home three awards from the largest Nordic...
Lübeck’s 58th Nordic Film Days (Nov 2-6) has become the latest successful stop for Icelandic filmmaker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Heartstone after premiering in the Venice Days in September and picking up three awards at Warsaw Film Festival last month.
Gudmundsson’s debut was awarded the €12,500 Ndr Film Prize by a jury including Swedish actress Inger Nilsson (who played the title role of Pippi Longstocking in the classic children’s films when she was nine years old), Munich-based producer Jörg Bundschuh (The Fencer) and film director Marc Brummund (Sanctuary), for a “feature film of special artistic quality”.
The intensely moving coming of age tale, which takes place over one summer at a remote fishing village in Iceland, is being handled by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique.
Three nods for Norway
Elsewhere, Norwegian filmmakers took home three awards from the largest Nordic...
- 11/7/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Heartstone and Norwegian film-makers win big in Lübeck; Austerlitz takes home Golden Dove at Leipzig.
Lübeck’s 58th Nordic Film Days (Nov 2-6) has become the latest successful stop for Icelandic filmmaker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Heartstone after premiering in the Venice Days in September and picking up three awards at Warsaw Film Festival last month.
Gudmundsson’s debut was awarded the €12,500 Ndr Film Prize by a jury including Swedish actress Inger Nilsson (who played the title role of Pippi Longstocking in the classic children’s films when she was nine years old), Munich-based producer Jörg Bundschuh (The Fencer) and film director Marc Brummund (Sanctuary), for a “feature film of special artistic quality”.
The intensely moving coming of age tale, which takes place over one summer at a remote fishing village in Iceland, is being handled by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique.
Three nods for Norway
Elsewhere, Norwegian filmmakers took home three awards from the largest Nordic...
Lübeck’s 58th Nordic Film Days (Nov 2-6) has become the latest successful stop for Icelandic filmmaker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Heartstone after premiering in the Venice Days in September and picking up three awards at Warsaw Film Festival last month.
Gudmundsson’s debut was awarded the €12,500 Ndr Film Prize by a jury including Swedish actress Inger Nilsson (who played the title role of Pippi Longstocking in the classic children’s films when she was nine years old), Munich-based producer Jörg Bundschuh (The Fencer) and film director Marc Brummund (Sanctuary), for a “feature film of special artistic quality”.
The intensely moving coming of age tale, which takes place over one summer at a remote fishing village in Iceland, is being handled by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique.
Three nods for Norway
Elsewhere, Norwegian filmmakers took home three awards from the largest Nordic...
- 11/7/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The selection screenings for the independent expert jury who will be making a decision on the German entry for the 88th Oscar® competition in the category for Best Foreign Language Film will begin in Munich on 25 August 2015 . The film then being sent into the race for Germany will be announced on the morning of Thursday, 27 August 2015 .
The following eight titles were submitted by German producers:
"13 Minutes" by Oliver Hirschbiegel
(Lucky Bird Pictures, Delphi Medien, Philipp filmproduction)
"Sanctuary" by Marc Brummund (Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion)
"Head Full of Honey" by Til Schweiger
(Barefoot Films, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Seven Pictures Film)
"Labyrinth of Lies" by Giulio Ricciarelli
(Claussen + Putz Filmproduktion, naked eye filmproduction)
"Jack" by Edward Berger
(Port-au-Prince Film & Kultur Produktion, cine plus Filmproduktion, Neue Bioskop Film, Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft, zero west filmproduktion)
"Schmidts Katze" by Marc Schlegel
(Ffl Film- und Fernsehlabor Ludwigsburg)
"Victoria" by Sebastian Schipper
(MonkeyBoy, deutschfilm, RadicalMedia) – submission accepted with reservations. Until the final decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences regarding the proportion of English in the film.
"We Are Young. We Are Strong." by Burhan Qurbani
(Ufa Fiction, cine plus Filmproduktion, Ufa Cinema)
The decision on the German entry for the Oscar® in the category of Best Foreign Language Film is taken by a selection committee which is appointed anew each year and consists of nine representatives from various associations and institutions active in the field of cinema.
German Films is entrusted as the responsible umbrella organization with the preparation and organization of the selection procedure for the German candidate who will then compete for the Oscar® in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.However, German Films, is not represented in the selection committee.
The following eight titles were submitted by German producers:
"13 Minutes" by Oliver Hirschbiegel
(Lucky Bird Pictures, Delphi Medien, Philipp filmproduction)
"Sanctuary" by Marc Brummund (Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion)
"Head Full of Honey" by Til Schweiger
(Barefoot Films, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Seven Pictures Film)
"Labyrinth of Lies" by Giulio Ricciarelli
(Claussen + Putz Filmproduktion, naked eye filmproduction)
"Jack" by Edward Berger
(Port-au-Prince Film & Kultur Produktion, cine plus Filmproduktion, Neue Bioskop Film, Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft, zero west filmproduktion)
"Schmidts Katze" by Marc Schlegel
(Ffl Film- und Fernsehlabor Ludwigsburg)
"Victoria" by Sebastian Schipper
(MonkeyBoy, deutschfilm, RadicalMedia) – submission accepted with reservations. Until the final decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences regarding the proportion of English in the film.
"We Are Young. We Are Strong." by Burhan Qurbani
(Ufa Fiction, cine plus Filmproduktion, Ufa Cinema)
The decision on the German entry for the Oscar® in the category of Best Foreign Language Film is taken by a selection committee which is appointed anew each year and consists of nine representatives from various associations and institutions active in the field of cinema.
German Films is entrusted as the responsible umbrella organization with the preparation and organization of the selection procedure for the German candidate who will then compete for the Oscar® in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.However, German Films, is not represented in the selection committee.
- 8/23/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria awaiting a decision over the proportion of English in the film.
Eight films have been submitted for selection as Germany’s entry to the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards.
Selection screenings for the independent jury who will make the decision will begin in Munich on Aug 25 and the film chosen to represent Germany will be announced on Aug 27.
The entries include Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria, a film shot in a single take about a party girl who finds herself pulled into a bank robbery, which won three prizes at this year’s Berlinale and a further six at the German Film Awards.
However, the submission of Victoria has been “accepted with reservations” and awaits the final decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences regarding the proportion of English in the film.
Victoria is played by Spanish actress Laia Costa, who speaks...
Eight films have been submitted for selection as Germany’s entry to the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards.
Selection screenings for the independent jury who will make the decision will begin in Munich on Aug 25 and the film chosen to represent Germany will be announced on Aug 27.
The entries include Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria, a film shot in a single take about a party girl who finds herself pulled into a bank robbery, which won three prizes at this year’s Berlinale and a further six at the German Film Awards.
However, the submission of Victoria has been “accepted with reservations” and awaits the final decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences regarding the proportion of English in the film.
Victoria is played by Spanish actress Laia Costa, who speaks...
- 8/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Films by Petri Kotwica and Jan Prusinovský are among four new titles acquired by Media Luna New Films ahead of next week’s Cannes Marché.
The first new addition to Media Luna’s sales line-up is Petri Kotwica’s Finnish-Irish drama Absolution, starring Laura Birn (A Walk Among The Tombstones), Mari Rantasila and Eero Aho.
Also new to the slate is Dutch filmmaker Joost van Ginkel’s Amsterdam-set drama The Paradise Suite, with Magnus Krepper (The Girl Who Played With Fire), and Slovenian Blaz Zavrsnik’s comedy Juliet And Alfa Romeo.
The final new addition is Czech director Jan Prusinovský’s local box-office hit The Snake Brothers with Kryštof Hádek and Matěj Hádek.
Ida Martins’ Cologne-based outfit is also handling international sales for veteran director Stijn Coninx’s feelgood drama Marina, based on the childhood memories of the Italian-Belgian singer Rocco Granata, which has been selected for the Cannes Écrans Juniors competition this year.
Global Screen...
The first new addition to Media Luna’s sales line-up is Petri Kotwica’s Finnish-Irish drama Absolution, starring Laura Birn (A Walk Among The Tombstones), Mari Rantasila and Eero Aho.
Also new to the slate is Dutch filmmaker Joost van Ginkel’s Amsterdam-set drama The Paradise Suite, with Magnus Krepper (The Girl Who Played With Fire), and Slovenian Blaz Zavrsnik’s comedy Juliet And Alfa Romeo.
The final new addition is Czech director Jan Prusinovský’s local box-office hit The Snake Brothers with Kryštof Hádek and Matěj Hádek.
Ida Martins’ Cologne-based outfit is also handling international sales for veteran director Stijn Coninx’s feelgood drama Marina, based on the childhood memories of the Italian-Belgian singer Rocco Granata, which has been selected for the Cannes Écrans Juniors competition this year.
Global Screen...
- 5/8/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Ivan Ostrochovský’s boxer drama Goat (Koza) has been named Best Film at the 20th Vilnius International Film Festival.
The film, which had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February, won the ¨New Europe - New Names¨ competition at the festival, which ran from March 19 to April 2.
The film, about a former Olympic boxer who goes on a punishing ‘tour’ to raise some fast cash, also took home the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Goat (Koza), which won the works in progress prize at last year’s Karlovy Vary, is handled internationally by fledgling sales company Pluto Film.
The ¨New Europe - New Names¨ jury, which included Chilean director Cristián Jiménez, Israeli actress Hadas Yaron, and Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, gave its award for Best Director to Ukraine’s Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for The Tribe and its acting honours to Hungary’s Márton Kristóf (Afterlife) and Bulgaria’s Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Meanwhile, the Baltic...
The film, which had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February, won the ¨New Europe - New Names¨ competition at the festival, which ran from March 19 to April 2.
The film, about a former Olympic boxer who goes on a punishing ‘tour’ to raise some fast cash, also took home the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Goat (Koza), which won the works in progress prize at last year’s Karlovy Vary, is handled internationally by fledgling sales company Pluto Film.
The ¨New Europe - New Names¨ jury, which included Chilean director Cristián Jiménez, Israeli actress Hadas Yaron, and Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, gave its award for Best Director to Ukraine’s Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for The Tribe and its acting honours to Hungary’s Márton Kristóf (Afterlife) and Bulgaria’s Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Meanwhile, the Baltic...
- 4/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Interview with Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick.
The Berlinale’s greater emphasis on television this year should not be interpreted as the first step towards a German Mip, according to festival director Dieter Kosslick.
In an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily, Kosslick said: ¨We don’t want to make a Mip TV or Mipcom, that’s as sure as day follows night and anything more would overstretch us.¨
He pointed out that that the Berlinale had had successful screenings of quality TV in the past with such productions as Dominik Graf’s Im Namen des Verbrechens, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
“We have now been working for the past two years on this programme which is composed of two parts: a series of discussions on new trends at the Efm and two days of drama series integrated into the festival programme and shown at Haus der Berliner [link=tt...
The Berlinale’s greater emphasis on television this year should not be interpreted as the first step towards a German Mip, according to festival director Dieter Kosslick.
In an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily, Kosslick said: ¨We don’t want to make a Mip TV or Mipcom, that’s as sure as day follows night and anything more would overstretch us.¨
He pointed out that that the Berlinale had had successful screenings of quality TV in the past with such productions as Dominik Graf’s Im Namen des Verbrechens, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
“We have now been working for the past two years on this programme which is composed of two parts: a series of discussions on new trends at the Efm and two days of drama series integrated into the festival programme and shown at Haus der Berliner [link=tt...
- 1/27/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-nominated UK director Tanel Toom and Estonian documentary maker Jaak Kilmi are among 22 film-makers with film projects in the fifth edition of the When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (Jan 18-20).
Estonian-born Toom, who was nominated for The Confession (his graduation film from the UK’s Nfts), will be in Trieste with his fiction feature debut, the sci-fi thriller Gateway 6, to be produced by Matt Wilkinson and Ben Pullen’s Stigma Films, while Latvian producer Antra Gaile of Mistrus Media will be pitching Kilmi’s People From Nowhere.
A total of 10 documentaries and 12 fiction feature projects from 13 countries were selected from a record 285 submissions, including 57 from Italy, 38 from the UK, 19 from Canada, 15 from Ireland, 13 from the Us, and 143 from Eastern Europe.
Since Wemw’s 2015 edition has a focus on English-speaking countries, the line-up includes:
veteran Canadian film-maker Anne Henderson’s documentary project Missing Persona;
the Us-Italian co-production The Oldest Man Alive by Antonio Tibaldi, to be produced...
Estonian-born Toom, who was nominated for The Confession (his graduation film from the UK’s Nfts), will be in Trieste with his fiction feature debut, the sci-fi thriller Gateway 6, to be produced by Matt Wilkinson and Ben Pullen’s Stigma Films, while Latvian producer Antra Gaile of Mistrus Media will be pitching Kilmi’s People From Nowhere.
A total of 10 documentaries and 12 fiction feature projects from 13 countries were selected from a record 285 submissions, including 57 from Italy, 38 from the UK, 19 from Canada, 15 from Ireland, 13 from the Us, and 143 from Eastern Europe.
Since Wemw’s 2015 edition has a focus on English-speaking countries, the line-up includes:
veteran Canadian film-maker Anne Henderson’s documentary project Missing Persona;
the Us-Italian co-production The Oldest Man Alive by Antonio Tibaldi, to be produced...
- 1/5/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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