All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 108
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Berlin Panorama announces first half of programme and Forum titles
World premieres of The Countess, by Julie Delpy, Fig Trees by John Greyson, Light Gradient by Jan Krüger and Ghosted by Monika Treut are among the 21 titles selected so far for the Berlinale Panorama by section director Wieland Speck.As in previous years, documentaries will ultimately make up approximately a ...
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More than 90 first-time exhibitors as Berlin's EFM sells out
The Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) has sold out with 386 companies and organisations from 55 countries booking, including more than 50 first time exhibitors. To date EFM has announced that 309 companies will be in the Martin Gropius Bau building with 77 based in the EFM Marriot offices. Of ...
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Senator and IM Internationalmedia make management changes
Publicly-listed Senator Entertainment and IM Internationalmedia have announced management shakeouts in the final days of 2008.Senator's COO Legal Affairs, Licences and Human Resources, Christopher Borgmann, has left his position for personal reasons to return to legal practice.The Berlin-based company will now be headed solely by CEO and main shareholder Helge ...
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Sieben's Distance to open Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino
Writer-director Thomas Sieben's feature debut Distance (Distanz) will open the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino - the sidebar dedicated to German films on February 6.Sieben describes the film as 'An existential story of violence and love which simultaneously disturbs and touches through its unconditional nature.'Distance was produced by Berlin-based GrandHotelPictures with ...
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European Film Market launches documentary initiative
The European Documentary Network (EDN) is collaborating with the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) to provide a new initiative for documentary sellers entitled Meet The Docs.Meet The Docs will serve as a connecting platform for all documentary sellers, buyers, and directors offering a meeting place and a general information service ...
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Stelios Ziannis to leave Germany's Kinowelt International
Stelios Ziannis, head of world sales at Germany's Kinowelt International for the past eight years, is leaving the company of his own accord at the end of December.Ziannis will be succeeded by Barbara Knabe, Kinowelt's head of TV sales.Kanbe will have responsibility for cooperation with the world sales and distribution ...
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Production fund to double for German film funder MFG
Christmas has come early for film producers in Germany's Baden-Württemberg region as Prime-Minister Günter H. Hettinger and Media Minister Wolfgang Reinhart have agreed to more than double regional film fund MFG Baden-Württemberg's production budget.Mug's $6.3m (Euros 4.3m) production fund budget will be increased by $4.4 (Euros 3m) in 2009 and ...
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Six world premieres selected for Berlinale's Generation section
World premieres of new films by Sweden's Fredrik Edfeldt and Germany's Lars Büchel are among the first 13 titles selected for Generation, the Berlinale's section for children and young people. The section is in its first edition under the direction of Maryanne Redpath who succeeded Thomas Hailer earlier this year.The ...
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Oliver Berben new managing director of Constantin Film Produktion
Oliver Berben has been appointed as the managing director of Constantin Film's production arm Constantin Film Produktion from January 1, 2009.Berben has been brought in to take over the management of the production arm under former managing director Martin Moszkowicz, who will now head up this division.Both moves are the ...
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Moodysson's MammothjoinsBouchareb, Potter, Ade, Miller at Berlinale
Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, with Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle Williams, and Sophie Nyweide, and world premieres of new films by Sally Potter, Maren Ade, Rebecca Miller and Rachid Bouchareb are among ten titles confirmed so far for the Competition programme of the 2009 Berlinale international film.The four world premieres selected for ...
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International co-productions benefit from $11.4mGerman support
New international co-productions by Poland's Agnieszka Holland, Serbia's Oleg Novkovic and Sweden's Björn Runge are among a raft of feature projects supported with a total of over $ 11.4m (Euros 9m) by German public film funders at their latest funding sessions.Holland's German-Canadian-Polish co-production Hidden about the struggle for survival by ...
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Senator Entertainment to reduce number of international titles
Germany 's financially beleaguered Senator Entertainment has said that it will reduce the number of international titles it acquires for distribution in future. The company is refocusing on its traditional core activity of producing and distributing German language feature films.In addition it has rescinded the contract to acquire a 51% ...
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Joel Silver and Studio Babelsberg Group agree five-year alliance
US producer Joel Silver and the Studio Babelsberg Group have agreed a strategic partnership until 2013.The deal will include the current slate of over 15 films in Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment being distributed by Warner Bros.A central element will be Studio Babelsberg's role as a co-producer in future films produced ...
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Tykwer's The International to open 59th Berlin Film Festival
The world premiere of Tom Tykwer's The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts has been named as the opening film of the 2009 Berlinale on February 5.The action thriller also stars Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne, Ulrich Thomsen and Jack McGee.The International will be presented 'out of competition' in ...
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Co-production focus at Festival of German Films in London
International co-production will bea focus of this year's Festival of German Film at London's Curzon Soho Cinema, which begins November 28 (Friday).The programme includes an industry event hosted by German Films and the UK Film Council on strategies and business models for structuring co-productions with Germany.More than 100 producers are ...
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Studio Hamburg scales down feature film activities
Germany 's Studio Hamburg has decided to scale down its feature film activities after the disappointing international performance of its English language projects.The step was taken after the stand alone companies specifically set up to provide the co-financing for by Studio Hamburg International Production's (SHIP) two English language family entertainment ...
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Spanish-German co-production The Anarchist's Wife to go to Sundance
Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr's The Anarchist's Wife (Die Frau des Anarchisten) has been selected for Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Competition in January.Speaking at a two-day co-production meeting between Catalan and German producers in Berlin, the film's Barcelona-based co-producer Jordi Rediu of Zip Films said that this would be ...
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Germany and France plan $376,000 co-development fund
Germany and France are planning to launch a $376,000 (Euros 300,000) co-development fund from next year as part of their existing bilateral mini co-production agreement.The news was announced at this year's Franco-German Film Rendez-Vous in Hamburg. 300 German and French producers, distributors and film funders attended the three-day annual event ...
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Moszkowicz commits to Constantin for another five years
Constantin Film's executive director for production Martin Moszkowicz has had his contract as a member of the German producer-distributor's management board extended to end 2013.Moszkowicz's commitment to stay at the helm of Constantin Film for production contradicts suggestions in recent months that the future of the producer-distributor could be in ...
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2009 European Film Awards to be held in Essen
The 22nd European Film Awards in December 2009 will be hosted by the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Essen and not Berlin as generally expected.This is a change in usual practice as the venue for the awards ceremony has alternated between Berlin and other European cities such as Warsaw, Barcelona, Rome, ...