All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 84
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NewsFortissimo secures 'Ants On A Shrimp' deals
EXCLUSIVE: In advance of the film’s Berlinale premiere, the sales company has announced multiple deals.
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NewsCoproduction Office scores 'Creative Control' deals
EXCLUSIVE: Euro sales outfit inks additional deals after Amazon Studios took US rights.
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NewsHany Abu-Assad set to move 'Mountain Between Us'
Double Oscar nominee has been in Rotterdam with his new feature, The Idol, a biopic of Palestinian singer Mohammad Assaf.
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NewsShuttered A-Film back catalogue finds distributors
As the dust settles after the shock closure last year of A-Film, details have emerged as to what has happened with the back catalogue of the blue-chip Dutch distribution company.
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NewsSergei Loznitsa reveals details of WWII projects
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), has revealed details of his new projects.
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NewsGender issues tackled at Rotterdam fest
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to deal with the zeitgeist topic in “a playful and provocative way”.
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News'Paint Drying' director in talks to screen protest film
British director Charlie Lyne has provoked a debate in the UK about censorship and the inner workings of the BBFC with his film/provocation, Paint Drying.
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NewsDutch films to get investment boost
Fewer Dutch films with more production investment and marketing clout behind them. That is what Doreen Boonekamp, director of the Netherlands Film Fund, is promising in the next four-year funding cycle, 2017-2020.
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NewsIFFR's Art:Film to showcase 'The Notebooks', 'What If Women Ruled The World?'
This is the fifth year that IFFR has included an Art: Film platform within the CineMart as part of an ongoing attempt to bring art world professionals closer together with their colleagues from cinema.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Pieter-Jan De Pue, 'The Land Of The Enlightened'
Pieter-Jan De Pue, whose debut feature The Land Of The Enlightened screens in Rottedam’s Tiger competition, first visited Afghanistan after leaving film school.
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NewsIFFR: Udo Kier talks 'Iron Sky 2'
Hitler is back - and he will be sharing the screen with The Pope, Osama Bin Laden, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin and Jesus Christ, as well as various dinosaurs .
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NewsWaterland producers launch The Film Kitchen
EXCLUSIVE: Leading Dutch producers Jan van der Zanden and Ineke Kanters have launched a new production company, The Film Kitchen.
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NewsRotterdam launches second IFFR Live
The second edition of the festivals’ hugely ambitious, border crossing IFFR Live launched on Friday with a showing of Leyla Bound’s As I Open My Eyes in 46 screens across 17 countries.
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NewsIFFR unleashes VOD initiative
IFFR Unleashed is the festival’s new attempt to reach audiences through VOD platforms.
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NewsCineMart prepares to launch 33rd edition
Some 25 projects from 21 countries are featured in CineMart 2016, IFFR’s much vaunted co-production market.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund finds stable footing
Anyone doubting the effectiveness of Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund need only look at the make-up of next month’s Berlinale competition.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Fiona Tan, 'History's Future'
The filmmaker reveals the challenge of making her debut feture.
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News'Beyond Sleep' opens IFFR as new festival director strikes political note
Dutch royalty attend opening, which kicked off with Boudewijn Koole’s new feature; Bero Beyer hails Rotterdam diversity.
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NewsReel Suspects teams with 'Broken Circle Breakdown' producer
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales outfit adds Rotterdam premieres and sales manager.
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FeaturesRotterdam: the new-look festival
Ahead of this month’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 27-Feb 7), new artistic director Bero Beyer talks about the radical changes he has introduced.