All Features articles – Page 14
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FeaturesWhich film projects tempted festival programmers at Flanders Film Days 2025?
“There were some nice surprises,” said one festival attendee.
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FeaturesCan the American French Film Festival’s high-school screenings programme help to woo young audiences?
Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ will screen free to 3,000 US high-school students.
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FeaturesNew Film4 head Farhana Bhula talks ambitions, producer fee deferrals and winning over youth audiences
In her first sit-down interview as the new director of Film4, Farhana Bhula discusses her plans for the UK public funder.
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FeaturesWhy Belgium’s Panenka is moving into film with Flanders and Tallinn premiere ‘Sunday Ninth’
The TV powerhouse has been tempted into indie film by long-time collaborator and director Kat Steppe.
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FeaturesBangkok film festival director talks reviving the event after 16 years
Donsaron Kovitvaniycha on resurrecting Thailand’s biggest film festival.
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FeaturesWhy Angelo Tijssens is known as the “magic bullet’ of Flemish screenwriters
He has worked on films such as Lukas Dhont’s ’Girl’ and ’Close’.
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FeaturesRebel spirit Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe talks about 20 years of the British Urban Film Festival
Anyiam-Osigwe says he was inspired by figures such as Menelik Shabazz and Kanya King.
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FeaturesFlanders Film Days is part of “evolution not revolution” strategy, says VAF head Karla Puttemans
”My first priority is to safeguard stability for our industry during this economic downturn,” says the new VAF head.
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FeaturesLFF head Kristy Matheson on 2025 programme, potential protests and festival’s “next decade”
Matheson is three years into her tenure as director of BFI London Film Festival.
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FeaturesMilan Skrobanek on The Unspoken Language’, about the love affair between a blind man and a deaf woman
Skrobanek explains the challenges he found when casting the feature.
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FeaturesMarlene Bischof and Nicolai Zeitler on how they made buzzy Hamburg title ‘I Am The Greatest’
” I throw dialogue in the air and he integrates it into the structure,” says Bischof of how the rising German filmmakers effectively collaborate.
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FeaturesProducer fees and pre-sales challenges: Six key themes from the 2025 Screen Summit
Screen International’s ‘Building on the UK’s Global Success’ Summit 2025 was held on September 30 at BFI Southbank.
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Features“French film is not a genre”: American French Film Festival heads on 29th edition’s diverse line-up
‘A Private Life’ to open fest running October 28–November 3 in Los Angeles.
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Features“There was something for everyone”: International attendees cheer first NLWave25
Source: Courtesy of NLWave NLWave 25 The pilot edition of Dutch showcase NLWave25 took place from September 24-26 in Utrecht and ended on an upbeat note. Forty-five Dutch feature projects were presented over two days to an audience of international execs from companies including The Playmaker ...
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FeaturesSpanish sellers evaluate projects at San Sebastian’s industry programme
”We need to evaluate which festival launch could most boost sales,” said Latido’s Vanessa Vargas.
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FeaturesIris Otten, producer of anticipated Dutch title ‘A Family’, on why she is driven by the spirit of ‘Dirty Dancing’
Mees Peijnenburg’s ’A Family’ is a coproduction with the Dhont brothers Flemish outfit The Reunion.
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FeaturesWhy Movistar Plus+ is embracing “risk-taking films” such as ‘Sirât’ and ‘Los Tigres’
“People are tired of ‘safe’, they are hungry for different stories and the unexpected,” says Guillermo Farré.
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Features12 buzzy new TV series projects from Spain in the works
Anticipated Spanish TV productions in the works include a feminist bodice-ripper, a tech thriller and a teen prison drama
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FeaturesFabian Massah on why Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days is becoming a key B2B event in Germany
Industry Days runs from September 29 to October 2.
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FeaturesHow New York Film Festival became a key awards season destination and “de facto mini-market”
“Our goal is to summarise the year in cinema,” says artistic director Dennis Lim.