The fund has doubled its number of investments for the 2023 selection.
TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected features Titanic Ocean and Erratics to receive €50,000 each through its Co-Production Fund, doubling the number of grants offered from last year.
Titanic Ocean is the debut feature by Greek filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani, and previously came through the Tfl FeatureLab in 2018. Set in a school that trains teenage girls to be professional mermaids, a 16-year-old discovers a secret about life, love and the world’s end. It is produced by Greece’s Homemade Films – which receives the Tfl award - with France’s Manny Films, Germany’s Wunderlust,...
TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected features Titanic Ocean and Erratics to receive €50,000 each through its Co-Production Fund, doubling the number of grants offered from last year.
Titanic Ocean is the debut feature by Greek filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani, and previously came through the Tfl FeatureLab in 2018. Set in a school that trains teenage girls to be professional mermaids, a 16-year-old discovers a secret about life, love and the world’s end. It is produced by Greece’s Homemade Films – which receives the Tfl award - with France’s Manny Films, Germany’s Wunderlust,...
- 8/3/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Chile’s foremost industry forum Sanfic Industria wrapped Friday Aug. 19 with a wealth of prizes doled out to projects from across Latin America and Spain.
Still reeling from the pandemic, the forum’s 11th year saw another hybrid edition but a definite upsurge in attendance. The various sections included Wip Ibero-American, Santiago Lab: Fiction and Documentary, Sanfic-Mórbido Lab, Sanfic Series and the new space created for female producers, Productoras Lab.
Most telling, a number of projects from small countries and by women directors as well as upcoming new talent triumphed at the forum this year.
Bolivian drama “Diamond,” the feature debut of Yashira Jordan that follows an Indigenous trap-singing teen as she searches for her estranged father, took home the most prizes in the Santiago Lab Fiction section, with three honors, including the Bdc Co-Production award.
Guatemala’s “Kicks of Soil” by Indigenous filmmaker Leyzer Chiquin and Chilean Constanza Figari’s second feature,...
Still reeling from the pandemic, the forum’s 11th year saw another hybrid edition but a definite upsurge in attendance. The various sections included Wip Ibero-American, Santiago Lab: Fiction and Documentary, Sanfic-Mórbido Lab, Sanfic Series and the new space created for female producers, Productoras Lab.
Most telling, a number of projects from small countries and by women directors as well as upcoming new talent triumphed at the forum this year.
Bolivian drama “Diamond,” the feature debut of Yashira Jordan that follows an Indigenous trap-singing teen as she searches for her estranged father, took home the most prizes in the Santiago Lab Fiction section, with three honors, including the Bdc Co-Production award.
Guatemala’s “Kicks of Soil” by Indigenous filmmaker Leyzer Chiquin and Chilean Constanza Figari’s second feature,...
- 8/20/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Chile’s Santiago Lab, the Santiago Film Festival’s industry initiative to support Ibero-American projects in development, has selected 28 titles, 14 fiction and 14 documentaries, culled out of hundreds of entries from across Latin America and Spain.
Some of the titles were picked from other festivals’ industry events such as “Diamante,” from Malaga’s Mafiz; Constanza Figari’s “A Woman Wants to Die,” which Sanfic awarded at Industria Guadalajara this year, along with “Mc Silencio,” a Colombian production from Medellin, an emerging audiovisual hub in Colombia, said Sanfic Industry head and festival co-founder, Gabriela Sandoval.
The same goes for some of the documentaries such as “The Silence of a Patio” a gripping documentary about the dark history of the Casa de la Beneficencia of Castellón, Spain which was presented at Doc Valencia. Docu “Bloques Erraticos” is the first full-length feature doc of Thomas Woodroffe whose acclaimed shorts include “Austral Fever” and “Holding Desire.
Some of the titles were picked from other festivals’ industry events such as “Diamante,” from Malaga’s Mafiz; Constanza Figari’s “A Woman Wants to Die,” which Sanfic awarded at Industria Guadalajara this year, along with “Mc Silencio,” a Colombian production from Medellin, an emerging audiovisual hub in Colombia, said Sanfic Industry head and festival co-founder, Gabriela Sandoval.
The same goes for some of the documentaries such as “The Silence of a Patio” a gripping documentary about the dark history of the Casa de la Beneficencia of Castellón, Spain which was presented at Doc Valencia. Docu “Bloques Erraticos” is the first full-length feature doc of Thomas Woodroffe whose acclaimed shorts include “Austral Fever” and “Holding Desire.
- 7/29/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Europe-based Pop Up Film Residency mentorship program has unveiled the filmmakers and mentors who will participate in its summer 2022 edition.
The program, which is among a number of feature development initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residences focused on one project only in different locations across Europe.
Mentors for the upcoming edition include French director Lucile Hadžihalilović, who won San Sebastian’s Special Jury Prize last year for gothic psychological horror Earwig; Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, whose debut film The Heiresses broke out with a Berlinale Silver Bear victory in 2018, and Marie Amachoukeli, a Caméra d’Or winner in 2014 for first film Party Girl, who is currently completing her first solo feature.
Confirmed feature directors joining the programme include Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza, whose joint work with Raffaella Costa, My Name Is Baghdad won best film in the Berlinale...
The program, which is among a number of feature development initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residences focused on one project only in different locations across Europe.
Mentors for the upcoming edition include French director Lucile Hadžihalilović, who won San Sebastian’s Special Jury Prize last year for gothic psychological horror Earwig; Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, whose debut film The Heiresses broke out with a Berlinale Silver Bear victory in 2018, and Marie Amachoukeli, a Caméra d’Or winner in 2014 for first film Party Girl, who is currently completing her first solo feature.
Confirmed feature directors joining the programme include Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza, whose joint work with Raffaella Costa, My Name Is Baghdad won best film in the Berlinale...
- 7/11/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Auden Lincoln-Vogel's Zorg 2, Theodore Ushev's The Physics of Sorrow, Pham Tien An's Stay Awake, Be Ready, and Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch's Masel Tov Cocktail are among the awardees. The 32nd edition of Filmfest Dresden took place from 8-13 September in a hybrid format after being postponed from its traditional April dates, screening 338 short films in competition and sidebar programmes. A total of €68,000 in prize money was split among 14 awards. In the Golden Horseman International Competition, US-born, Tallinn-based animator Auden Lincoln-Vogel's Zorg 2 (Estonia) received the Best Animated Film Prize, worth €7,500. Theodore Ushev's The Physics of Sorrow (Canada) won the Audience Award in the International Competition, worth €3,000, and a Special Mention in the animation category. Pham Thien An's Stay Awake, Be Ready (Vietnam/South Korea/USA) triumphed in the Fiction Competition. The Golden Horseman of the Youth Jury International Competition and €2,000 went to Thomas Woodroffe's...
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