Industry events include co-pro forum, China Day, Argentina-Brazil focus.
The Rome Film Festival’s (Oct 16-25) boutique market Business Street (Oct 17-21) has reported a record 25% increase year-on-year in international buyers, sales agents and producers, according to organisers. This should see a rise on the average number of industry accreditations of 750.
The market will welcome approximately 90 sellers and 283 buyers from more than 50 countries.
Attending sellers will include The Match Factory, Beta Cinema, Wild Bunch, Gaumont, Le Pacte, EuropaCorp, HanWay, WestEnd and Bankside.
Buyers include TWC, Magnolia, Film Movement, Memento, Senator, Soda, A Contracorriente, Metropole and Cineart as well as Asian buyers from Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Japan and Australia.
“This year we are looking at 20-25% year-on-year growth,” confirmed Business Street head Massimo Saidel. “By the end of July we were having to turn people away.”
Industry events
The market will feature around 80 market screenings as well as the return of sidebar Re-make It!, a selection...
The Rome Film Festival’s (Oct 16-25) boutique market Business Street (Oct 17-21) has reported a record 25% increase year-on-year in international buyers, sales agents and producers, according to organisers. This should see a rise on the average number of industry accreditations of 750.
The market will welcome approximately 90 sellers and 283 buyers from more than 50 countries.
Attending sellers will include The Match Factory, Beta Cinema, Wild Bunch, Gaumont, Le Pacte, EuropaCorp, HanWay, WestEnd and Bankside.
Buyers include TWC, Magnolia, Film Movement, Memento, Senator, Soda, A Contracorriente, Metropole and Cineart as well as Asian buyers from Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Japan and Australia.
“This year we are looking at 20-25% year-on-year growth,” confirmed Business Street head Massimo Saidel. “By the end of July we were having to turn people away.”
Industry events
The market will feature around 80 market screenings as well as the return of sidebar Re-make It!, a selection...
- 10/6/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Bruce Willis has signed to produce and narrate The People Demand, a feature documentary detailing the aspirations of protesters around the world in their pursuit of democracy, free speech and human rights. Willis will spearhead the film with Station 18 CEO and Lord of War exec producer Michael Mendelsohn and Michelle McElroy, exec director and Willis’s partner in the Bruce Willis Foundation. The story centers around the current crisis in Cairo, where pro-democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee (for founding the April 6 Movement) Ahmed Maher was sentenced to three years of hard labor for violating harsh anti-protesting laws meant to quell dissent in a country where peaceful protests led to the ouster of two governments in three years. Maher and his co-defendants get their appeal tomorrow. The documentary looks at the political motivations for suppressing free speech and democratic movements, while taking an unflinching look at leadership in...
- 1/19/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
One of a handful of upcoming projects selected for the TorinFilmLab (a year-round, international lab that supports emerging talents from all over the world, working on their first and second feature films, through training, development and funding) is Egyptian filmmaker Ahmed Maher's In Which Land You Die. The film's darkly humorous story goes... Reyad, an Egyptian illegal immigrant, has been living in Italy for twenty years. He has changed his identity and survives by committing petty crimes. He has never gone back home and has not contacted his mother in years. He finally calls her and finds out she is very ill. Feeling guilty, Reyad arranges for her to come to...
- 11/28/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Omar Sharif Jr., grandson of the Doctor Zhivago star, is currently in the news because he has come out as a gay man who happens to be half-Jewish (on his mother's side) in an essay found in The Advocate — one accompanied by a photograph showing a hairy, buffed-up, bare-chested man (Sharif Jr.?) holding the Egyptian flag. In the essay, the 29-year-old Montreal-born actor explains he wrote the piece out of "fear for my country, fear for my family, and fear for myself." As per Sharif Jr., the problem is that in Egypt "the full spectrum of equal and human rights are now wedge issues used by both the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Islamist parties, when they should be regarded as universal truths." Further down in his piece, he adds: And so I hesitantly confess: I am Egyptian, I am half Jewish, and I am gay.
- 3/20/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
In a new story for tablet app The Atavist, writer David Wolman explores just how important social media really was to the Egyptian uprising. Here's an early look.
In March 2008, a young would-be civil engineer named Ahmed Maher created a Facebook page called April 6 Youth with a woman named Issra Abdel-Fattah. Their goal was to support a workers' strike in the Nile River Delta--and to find out if a digital movement could bolster real-life action. In three weeks, the April 6 Youth Facebook group gained 70,000 people. The otherwise barely noticeable strike became a riot, a media event, and an embarrassment to the regime of Hosni Mubarak.
The Facebook group would become an undeniable factor in a movement that helped unseat Mubarak. But as writer David Wolman writes in "The Instigators," the latest offering from longform journalism publication The Atavist (available via smartphone, tablets, and e-readers soon--as a Kindle Single now), the...
In March 2008, a young would-be civil engineer named Ahmed Maher created a Facebook page called April 6 Youth with a woman named Issra Abdel-Fattah. Their goal was to support a workers' strike in the Nile River Delta--and to find out if a digital movement could bolster real-life action. In three weeks, the April 6 Youth Facebook group gained 70,000 people. The otherwise barely noticeable strike became a riot, a media event, and an embarrassment to the regime of Hosni Mubarak.
The Facebook group would become an undeniable factor in a movement that helped unseat Mubarak. But as writer David Wolman writes in "The Instigators," the latest offering from longform journalism publication The Atavist (available via smartphone, tablets, and e-readers soon--as a Kindle Single now), the...
- 5/4/2011
- by Tyler Gray
- Fast Company
Rome -- A year after delays in production tied to the U.S. writers strike helped produce what appears to be the Venice Film Festival's weakest lineup in years, the festival hopes to be back on track when it opens Wednesday with a star-studded lineup full of firsts.
The main competition selection will include five first works from among the record-setting 19 debut or second efforts in the overall selection.
"Baaria," a biopic from Oscar winner Giuseppe Tornatore, will be the first Italian film to open the festival in a generation.
The festival will hold its first sidebar competition for 3D films.
There's even first-time star power on tap, as action film icon Sylvester Stallone -- who played the boxer known as "The Italian Stallion" in Oscar-winning "Rocky" in 1976 -- will make his first trip to Venice's Lido to receive a prize for his influence on world cinema.
Ditto for Michael Moore,...
The main competition selection will include five first works from among the record-setting 19 debut or second efforts in the overall selection.
"Baaria," a biopic from Oscar winner Giuseppe Tornatore, will be the first Italian film to open the festival in a generation.
The festival will hold its first sidebar competition for 3D films.
There's even first-time star power on tap, as action film icon Sylvester Stallone -- who played the boxer known as "The Italian Stallion" in Oscar-winning "Rocky" in 1976 -- will make his first trip to Venice's Lido to receive a prize for his influence on world cinema.
Ditto for Michael Moore,...
- 9/1/2009
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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