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Features“I genuinely didn’t love it”: PR guru Matthew Freud on turning producer for Oscar winner ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse’ (exclusive)
Freud reflects on a “consuming two years” bringing the adaptation of Charlie Mackesy’s hit book to the screen.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: MipTV, Mipcom director Lucy Smith on what she has learned from Shonda Rhimes and Bob Iger
She also discusses why she loves her job and how she unwinds from its fast pace
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FeaturesHow Japan’s first Niigata International Animation Film Festival was drawn up
The festival drew major names from the county’s iconic animation scene for its first edition.
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FeaturesWhy French auteurs are arriving fashionably late to the series business
”Here in France, I think filmmakers are so used to doing things a certain way, that the transition has been more difficult”
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Features“Films are not made by one person”: The revolutionary production story of LFF winner ‘Blue Bag Life’
The BFI London Film Festival audience award winner will be released by Modern Films in the UK and Ireland.
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FeaturesCEO of Italian producer Lux Vide talks Fremantle deal, upcoming slate and country’s production boom
Luca Bernabei became CEO of leading Italian producer Lux Vide in 2013.
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FeaturesBeta Fiction Spain duo on their new production and distribution outfit: “Local films will be our priority”
Veteran Spanish execs Mercedes Gamero and Pablo Nogueroles talk to Screen.
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Features‘The Good Mothers’ team on bringing a “female gaze” to the Mafia
The Italian series follows three Mafia women who bring down the organisation from the inside
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FeaturesHow Nordic platform Viaplay became a “truly international company”
The Nordic platform has expanded into North America and the UK.
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FeaturesUniversal International Studios president Beatrice Springborn on building a talent-focused studio group
The studio is working with French-Vietnamese ’Call My Agent!’ writer Quoc Dang Tran and ‘We Are Lady Parts’ creator Nida Manzoor.
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FeaturesSky's Zai Bennett talks content strategy: ”I’d rather bet big on fewer things and just go for it”
Bennett is managing director of content at Sky and oversees Now TV and a suite of generic channels
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FeaturesHollywood holds breath as US writers guild talks get underway
Writers are calling for higher compensation – particularly with regard to residuals, now that re-runs can be such a common feature of the streaming age.
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Features“We have to do right by our subjects”: ‘Beyond Utopia’ filmmakers on their duty to North Korean defectors
Madeleine Gavin’s documentary has its international premiere this evening at CPH:DOX.
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FeaturesSix Spanish producers with international ambitions to look out for
The producers are at the Malaga Film Festival this week.
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FeaturesNetflix in Europe: the inside story of the streamer’s rise, growing pains and next steps
Since launching in Europe in 2012, Netflix has had a transformational effect on the European industry.
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Features“We’re having to focus on certain markets”: how sales agents and buyers are navigating the busy TV industry calendar
How to navigate a busy calendar of markets and festivals has become a key issue for a global TV industry looking to save time and costs.
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FeaturesUK industry welcomes film and TV relief reform as pre-emptive move ahead of global tax restructure
Beyond animation and children’s TV, there is little uplift and nothing new to help indie film producers.
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Features“The quality of all films has risen”: ICAA’s Beatriz Navas on the impact of state support for female filmmakers
Beatriz Navas is the general director of the Spanish Film Insitute (ICAA).
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FeaturesHow Canal+ is looking to retain its European film and TV crown in the face of streamer competition
There is now a renewed sense of confidence about the French pay-TV giant.
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Features“We don’t want to be boring” say CPH:DOX heads as festival celebrates its 20th anniversary
Festival heads talk world premieres, key guests and a new ticketing system.