Latest festival news – Page 14
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Periscoop swoops on five docs at IDFA for the Netherlands
Periscoop is run by San Fu Maltha and Bruno Felix.
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Peter Greenaway talks ‘Lucca Mortis’ starring Dustin Hoffman, living in the Netherlands and his eccentric concerns
Greenaway is being honoured at this week’s IDFA festival in Amsterdam.
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Les Arcs unveils projects for 2023 Co-Production Village
The event runs December 16-19 in the French Alps.
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Neon distribution head Elissa Federoff delivers upbeat doc forecast in IDFA keynote
“We have seen titles doing the best they’ve ever done before in this ‘unhealthy’ marketplace.”
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Palestine Film Institute welcomes latest statement from IDFA
Festival statement followed a PFI statement lambasting IDFA’s earlier statement.
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US ‘Billy Elliot’-style doc ‘Call Me Dancer’ sells to Toei for Japan for First Hand Films (exclusive)
First Hand Films is at IDFA with a busy slate including portmanteau project ’The Ten Commandments’.
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Geneva festival and digital market hands out prizes, celebrates buoyant year
The best feature prize went to ’Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’.
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Palestine Film Institute urges withdrawal of films from IDFA following response to opening-night protest
The PFI has issued a petition demanding IDFA acknowledge the festival’s earlier statement ”unjustly criminalises Palestinian voices and narratives”.
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IDFA apologises for “hurtful” slogan shown by activists at opening ceremony
”That slogan does not represent us, and we do not endorse it in any way.”
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IDFA responds to open letter condemning inclusion of Russian film in programme
The letter said: “To continue providing space for representatives of the Russian cultural sector on international platforms means to normalize the unequal circumstances in which filmmakers in Russia and Ukraine live and work today.”
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Magnolia acquires US rights to Participant, River Road doc ‘Food, Inc. 2’
Dogwoof boards international sales.
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Hubert Bals Fund selects 10 projects for 2023 Development Support scheme
Selection includes new projects from prize winning directors Martika Ramirez Escobar, Leonardo Martinelli and Le Bao.
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Munich Film Up! mentoring programme unveils 2023 participants (exclusive)
The selected participants have all recently graduated from film school and are hoping to develop their feature debut.
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“We need to shift our view about AI”: experts say tech is a tool for storytelling at Geneva
Speakers at panel on AI put forward positive use cases for the technology.
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“New technologies offer the most amazing opportunity”: Geneva Digital Market opens with rallying cry for brave new world
Hollywood veteran Christina Lee Storm delivered opening keynote at 2023 Geneva Digital Market.
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Red Sea’s Souk Project Market selects 26 projects competing for $360,000 prizes
Industry speakers at festival include ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ director Jasmila Zbanic, former Marvel exec Karim Zreik.
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Marrakech film festival to honour Mads Mikkelsen, Faouzi Bensaidi
The Marrakech International Film Festival runs November 24 – December 2.
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Bleecker Street acquires TIFF premiere ‘Ezra’ starring Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, Robert De Niro
Family dramedy to get 2024 theatrical release.
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Red Sea film festival unveils line-ups for Competition and Arab Spectacular strands
Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry, starring Johnny Depp, will have a special screening at the festival
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UK’s Raindance Film Festival unveils winners; new dates in June 2024
Kit Vincent’s debut ‘Red Herring’ also won best UK feature