All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 145
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Hermann and Groenewold launch new producer-distributor
Former Senator Filmexecutive Benjamin Herrmann and media fund manager David Groenewoldhave launched an as-yet-unnamed new theatrical distribution company andproduction house to handle primarily commercial German films.The distribution arm's firsttitles are:Philipp Stoelzl's Nordwand, starring Johanna Wokalek and Benno Fuermann in a drama about the failed first ascent of thenorth wall of ...
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Locarno plans collaboration with Buenos Aires Lab
Next month's Locarno International Film Festival hasforged a new collaboration with the Buenos Aires Lab (BAL), theLatin American co-production market for independent cinema within the frameworkof the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival and TyPA (Teoria y Practica delas Artes), to allow selected filmmakers and producers from Latin America tomeet potential ...
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Heimat Fragments expected to premiere in Venice
Veteran Germandirector Edgar Reitz's fourth Heimat film, Heimat Fragments (Heimat Fragmente), isexpected to have its world premiere at this year's Venice Film Festival.This willcontinue a tradition which saw Reitz's ground-breaking first Heimat premierein Venice in 1984, followed by Heimat 2 in 1992,and Heimat 3 - A Chronicle ofEndings and Beginnings ...
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German co-producer required for tax scheme, says fund chief
Non-German producers are likely to need a local partner if they want to benefit from the tax rebate to be introduced in Germany next year.Speaking at a film financing roundtable on the eve of this year's Munich Film Festival, Klaus Schaefer, chief executive of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund ...
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German co-producer required for tax scheme, says fund chief
Non-German producers are likely to need a local partner if they want to benefit from the tax rebate to be introduced in Germany next year.Speaking at a film financing roundtable on the eve of this year's Munich Film Festival, Klaus Schaefer, chief executive of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund ...
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German co-producer required for tax scheme, says fund chief
Non-German producers are likely to need a local partner if they want to benefit from the tax rebate to be introduced in Germany next year.Speaking at a film financing roundtable on the eve of this year's Munich Film Festival, Klaus Schaefer, chief executive of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund ...
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Ascot Elite acquires six new films
Swiss distributor AscotElite, whose forthcoming release of Christopher Smith's horror comedy Severance will be screened as part of Locarno's Piazza Grande open-air programme next month, hasacquired Laurence Malkin's psychological thriller Five Fingers, starring Laurence Fishburne and Ryan Philippe, and Wilson Yip's Hong Kongaction film SPL for Germany, Austriaand Switzerland.In addition, ...
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German funds back new initiatives for Eastern Europe
Three German funding bodieshave launched new initiatives to support the film industry in Central andSouth-Eastern Europe.Baden-Wuerttemberg's MFG andLeipzig-based MDM have joined forces with the Vienna Film Fund tooffer up to six grants worth $5097 (Euros 4,000) each for young producers fromCentral and South-Eastern Europe to participate in the EAVE producers ...
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Germany's Senator to diversify business
Therevamped German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment will be developedinto integrated media company, new CEO Helge Sasse said. Speakingat their first annual general meeting since he became a majority shareholder inthe company with fellow board member Marco Weber at the end of last year, Sasse stressed that Senator's core activity would continueto ...
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Five shorts up for Europe's Cartoon d'Or
UK animator Joanna Quinn's short Dreams & Desires - Family Ties,which won prizes at the Annecy and Zagreb animation festivalslast month, is among five European shorts nominated for the Cartoon d'Or. The awards recognise the work of new talents in theEuropean animation industry.The fivenominated films, selected from a longlist of ...
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German regional funds back new films from Ben Hopkins and Marc Rothemund
Newprojects by UK film-maker Ben Hopkins,Serbia's Moma Mrdakovic andIsrael's DrorZahavi are among a raft of internationalco-productions backed by German regional film funds.Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) and Leipzig-based MDM have both put productionsupport totalling $485,203 (Euros 380,000) into Hopkins' Turkish-language blackcomedy The Market, which will startshooting this summer in and around the ...
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German government agrees tax break
The German government has agreed a tax rebate model for the film industry following on the lines of the new UK scheme to come into effect from January 1, 2007.In collaboration with a working group of experts from the film industry, State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann had been considering ...
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Grosch leaves beleaguered German fund VIP
The beleaguered German private media fund VIP Medienfondshas been dealt another blow with the news of the sudden exit of managingdirector Andy Grosch. VIP's operations will now be managed solely by Dirk Spechtwho had been brought in this March to take over responsibility for the financesand controlling of the VIP ...
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Munich Previews to draw 50 international buyers
TheEuropean representatives of such US distributors as New Line Cinema, TheWeinstein Company, Paramount Vantage, Miramax and Liaison Films will be amongthe 50 international film buyers attending the German Films' Munich Previewsshowcase.Theshowcase, being held in cooperation with the Munich Film Festival for the thirdtime, will run July 13-16. Othercompanies confirmed are ...
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Mueller tapped to head production at Senator
Christoph Mueller, producer of Marc Rothemund'sOscar-nominated Sophie Scholl - The Final Days and managing director with Sven Burgemeister of Munich-based GoldkindFilm, has been appointed as the new head of Senator Entertainment's productionarm Senator Film Produktion as of July 1.Accordingto Senator Entertainment's Marco Weber, Mueller was 'from the outset ourabsolute ideal ...
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Justus von Dohnanyi makes directorial debut with Hartz 4.2
LeadingGerman actor Justus von Dohnanyi, who has appeared in such films as Oscar-nominatedDownfall, WWII drama Napola andthriller The Experiment, is makinghis directorial debut with the road movie-black comedy Hartz 4.2 (working title) which is shooting on location in Germany andSwitzerland until July 15.The$878,955 (Euros 700,000) production by Lars Buecheland Bernd ...
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German-French funders back films by Jacquot and de Chalonge
Newfeature films by Benoit Jacquot and Christian de Chalonge are among four projects backed with a total of $1.4m(Euros 1.1m) by the German-French Funding Commission which is administered bythe German Federal Film Board (FFA) and France's CNC to promoteco-production between the two countries.Thelargest sum - $339,754 (Euros 270,000) - went ...
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Germany's Splendid Film revives theatrical business
Cologne-basedlicense trader Splendid Film is to revive the theatrical arm Splendid Filmverleih to handle the releases of its own films inGerman cinemas.Responsibilityfor Splendid's theatrical releases will be assumed bydistribution veteran Veronika Morawetzwho will continue managing her own independent distribution outfit Stardust Filmverleih at the same time.Splendid's first new release will ...
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Berlin's World Cinema Fund backs five new projects
New feature projects by Mexico's Carlos Reygadas and Kyrgyzstan's Aktan Arym Kubat are among five filmprojects recommended for a total of $363,935(Euros 290,000) production funding in the fourth selection round ofthe Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF). The WCF jury, comprising theFrench independent distributor Isabelle Dubar,UK-based curator Keith Shiri, Swiss Television'sprogramme ...
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Private investors fund new $22.6m The Red Baron
Germany's most expensive new production in 2006, Niki Muellerschoen's $22.6m (Euros 18m) English-language production The Red Baron (Der Rote Baron), begins principal photography on July 3 in Prague as a 100% privately financed project. The financing for the film about the legendary First World War fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen ...