All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 14
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NewsThessaloniki doc festival responds to weekend attack on trans people with a “loud and clear message of tolerance”
The festival has introduced the Citizen Queer programme this year to celebrate Greece’s recent legalisation same-sex marriage.
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FeaturesHow Qumra’s “core idea” has sustained the project incubator through its 10th edition
“We wanted a place where filmmakers would be inspired and would be able to progress their films.”
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NewsBerlinale doc ‘Favoriten’ scores key deals for Autlook (exclusive)
The fly-on-the-wall film follows a class of kids over a three-year period at a high school in Vienna.
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FeaturesThessaloniki’s doc festival’s Orestis Andreadakis on this month’s event
There are fils celebraing 50 years of modern Greek democracy and a new Citizen Queer programme.
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News‘Birdman’ sound designer Martin Hernandez details upcoming Netflix project ‘The Master Of Monarchs’
The documentary series follows an environmental activist murdered in 2020 for standing up to organised crime groups.
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NewsFrench director Leos Carax says it is “easier to take money from producers you don’t like”
Carax discussed his upcoming mid-length film C’est pas moi in Qumra.
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FeaturesUK film committee chair Caroline Dinenage on tax credits, streamer levies and cinema quotas
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has been looking into the challenges facing the independent film and high-end TV industry.
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FeaturesWhy it’s boom time for theatrical re-releases of classic films
The success of the re-release market is also spawning more documentaries about filmmakers like Berlin title ‘Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger’.
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NewsOdin’s Eye hatches deals on ‘Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue’ (exclusive)
Dazzler sets UK theatrical release for Match 29.
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NewsUK producer David P Kelly joins Sergei Paradjanov doc hybrid
Director Zara Jian shooting material at Berlinale for ’I Will Revenge This World With Love’.
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NewsGeorgian film industry dispute reaches Berlin (exclusive)
Two rival organisations are insisting on their right to be representing Georgian cinema in the festival.
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NewsHarvey Keitel to star in futuristic drama ‘Milarepa’ (exclusive)
The film is produced by Italy’s L’Altrofilm and the US’ Orwo Studios.
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NewsIs the Berlinale eyeing a move from Potsdamer Platz? (exclusive)
It has long been rumoured but is a move really on the cards? Screen investigates.
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NewsThe Playmaker boards Sandra Hüller starrer ‘Two To One’, releases first look image (exclusive)
Comedy joins Munich-based sales agents EFM slate alongside female driven action thriller Early Birds.
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NewsSola Media boards ‘The Lost Tiger’, the first animated feature directed by an Indigenous woman (exclusive)
‘The Lost Tiger’ is directed and co-written by Chantelle Murray.
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Features‘American Symphony’: Matthew Heineman talks funding challenges and the dramatic finale
Best known for documentaries in conflict zones, Matthew Heineman competes for a Bafta with a film about musician Jon Batiste and his wife Suleika Jaouad.
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NewsVue CEO Tim Richards on how company has been “to hell and back”, personally lost him “eight figure” sum (exclusive)
A confident Tim Richards now believes the company is “in the strongest position of any exhibitor” right now.
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FeaturesHow can Dutch films and talent find greater international success?
Netherlands Film Fund’s Sandra Den Hamers spotlights upcoming titles and the Fund’s new strategy.
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FeaturesFrom ‘Full Metal Jacket’ to ‘Head South’: IFFR opening director Jonathan Ogilvie charts his eclectic career
The New Zealand-born, Australia director of ‘Head South’ describes receating 1970s Christchurch for his autobiographical coming of age story.
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FeaturesHow IFFR’s Focus marries a lively mix of 1970s Chilean films, Italy’s Manetti brothers and Hong Kong provocateur Scud
The aim is to bring the films of such gleefully iconoclastic filmmakers to a wider interenational audience.