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Fremantle’s global drama CEO Christian Vesper outlines “nascent” film strategy
In 2023, Fremantle expects to surpass the 100 series and 17 films it made last year.
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“Everything has changed”: Berlinale co-heads reveal challenges of planning 2023 edition
Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek reflect on the impact of the pandemic, why there are no titles from Russia and receiving a €2.2m funding boost.
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How Muayad Alayan filmed ‘A House In Jerusalem’ in Palestine and Israel during the pandemic
The title received its world premiere in the Limelight strand at Rotterdam.
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Ukrainian director Philip Sotnychenko has mixed feelings being at a film festival: “Our fight is on the cultural front”
’La Palisiada’, the debut feature of Kyiv-based filmmaker Philip Sotnychenko, is screening in the Tiger competition at Rotterdam.
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New talent focus: ‘Wolf And Dog’ director Cláudia Varejão on why she moved from docs to fiction
“I realised fiction can be a place of freedom.”
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Jessica Woodworth on her Rotterdam world premiere ‘Luka’: “What I really love is its intrinsic humour”
The ambitious film is based on the classic Italian novel, Dino Buzatti’s ’The Desert Of The Tatars’
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Topkapi producer Laurette Schillings on the company’s strategy for reaching international audiences
‘Goodbye Stranger’, the latest film from the Dutch company, is debuting in Rotterdam this month.
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Rotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic on diversifying the line-up for her first in-person festival
Kaludjercic talks about the role the festival plays in bringing smaller filmmakers to a global audience.
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How Sundance doc ‘Fantastic Machine’ explores our obsession with framing the world through the camera lens
Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck’s feature doc world premieres at Sundance.
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Sundance breakout Chloe Domont on ‘Fair Play’: “I wanted to reckon with unresolved feelings from my past”
Director talks ”unsettling link between female empowerment and male fragility”, finance jargon, next project.
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‘Lady Macbeth’ director William Oldroyd talks Sundance title ‘Eileen’: “I love provocation in cinema”
“It took me 36 years to make my first film. Making the second five years later is short!”
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Bafta chair Krishnendu Majumdar reflects on final year in role, “progress” of 2023 film nominations
Under Majumdar’s watch, Bafta embarked on a radical overhaul of its voting procedures and membership to improve diversity.
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‘Babylon’ team on designing Damien Chazelle’s ambitious Old Hollywood vision: “It was high octane”
Damien Chazelle’s 1920s tale of outsiders breaking into Hollywood combines rich and poor, opulent parties and desert locations — as Babylon production designer Florencia Martin and costume designer Mary Zophres explain to Screen.
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How Ruth E Carter pays tribute to T’Challa through the outfits in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
Following her Oscar-winning work on Black Panther, costume designer Ruth E Carter tells Amber Wilkinson how her designs for the sequel honour its departed lead character while expanding the film’s world.
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“The hardest thing I’ve ever done”: Behind the gruelling process of editing ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Editor Eddie Hamilton talks to Screen.
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My Screen Life: ‘A Man Called Otto’ producer Rita Wilson on Venice, ‘Mary Poppins’ and the FBI
The actress, producer and singer is Oscar-shortlisted for the song ‘Til You’re Home’.
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Margaret Brown on making slave ship documentary ‘Descendant’, partnering with the Obamas
Descendant director Margaret Brown talks to Screen about how the community in Mobile, Alabama is still reckoning with the legacy of the last slave ship to reach the US.
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In conversation: ’The Inspection’, ’Nanny’, ’Cha Cha Real Smooth’ directors talk authentic casting, indie film financing
Elegance Bratton, Nikyatu Jusu and Cooper Raiff sat down with Screen.
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‘Mrs Harris Goes To Paris’ star Lesley Manville and costume designer Jenny Beavan on the film's “nerve-wracking” Dior recreations
Worlds collide in 1950s-set Mrs Harris Goes To Paris. Costume designer Jenny Beavan and star Lesley Manville tell Patricia Dobson about wardrobe choices, from post-war London to Dior haute couture.
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Making ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’: Martin McDonagh on exploring a platonic male breakup, insisting on a theatrical window
“Most male friendships are seen in buddy comedies or as silly in some way.”