All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 149
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European Film Market to open second 'spillover' site
The European Film Market's move to a new venue - The Martin-Gropius-Bau - in February has been over-subscribed, resulting in a market 50 percent bigger than 2005 and prompting EFM organisers to open a 'spillover' venue for 40 companies.EFM director Beki Probst revealed that due to the large demand from ...
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EFM 2006 will be 50% larger than 2005
EFM director Beki Probst revealed that due to the large demand fromsales companies, we decided at thelast moment to provide additional space'We have about 40 more EFM Business Suites on the fifthfloor of Potsdamer Str.11 (where the Berlinale GuestReception is housed) to give more companies achance of having a presence ...
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Film bodies fear EU budget plans could damage MEDIA Programme
Film industry bodies claim the European Union MEDIA Programme's work could be damaged by reductions in spending on culture after 2006.This weekend, the European Union (EU) member states, under the presidency of the UK, agreed a financial framework for the EU from 2007 to 2013.The European Producers Associations Alliance (EPAA) ...
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Solothurn Film Days to show Maximilian Schell retrospective
Stina Werenfels' feature debut Nachbeben willopen the Solothurn Film Days (January 16-22, 2006), the Swiss film community's annualget-together to showcase production by its filmmakers working at home andabroad.Thefestival's Swiss Forum will also present Swiss premieres of Thomas Imbach's adaptation of the Georg Buechner play Lenz,Alain Gsponer's family drama Rose, Michael ...
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3 Degrees Colder producer launches distribution arm
blue eyes Fiction, the producer of FlorianHoffmeister's 3Degrees Colder (3 Grad Kaelter), has launched anin-house theatrical arm blue eyes Pictures to release the Silver Leopard-winnerin German cinemas on March 16.Accordingto the Munich-based production company, blue eyes Pictures will not berestricted to handling its own arthouse productions,but will also operate as ...
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New head of European MEDIA Programme appointed
Aviva Silver was today appointed as the successor to Domenico Raneri as the head of the European Commission's MEDIA Programme. The University of London law graduate has worked for the Commission since 1993, initially in the Internal Market Directorate General where she dealt with media issues. From 1997-2002, she worked ...
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New projects by Miller and Golubovic backed by Eurimages
Newfeature films by Claude Miller, Alain Resnais, Lone Scherfig, and Srdan Golubovic are among 14 projects awarded over $5.2m (Euros4.4m) by the Council of Europe's pan-European co-production fund Eurimages.Thelargest amounts - $768,850 (Euros 650,000) each - were awarded to Slovak filmmaker JurajJakubisko's Bathory, which is to be co-produced by the ...
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Lemming Director Chosen As Jury President
TheGerman-French director Dominik Moll has been named asthe jury president for the Dialogue en perspective Prize at next year's BerlinInternational Film Festival. Togetherwith seven cineastes aged between 18 and 29 from France and Germany, Moll will select awinner from one of the German films screening in the PerspektiveDeutsches Kino sidebar.The43-year-old ...
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Bavaria Film International Picks Up Schmid's Portovero
Bavaria FilmInternational (BFI) has picked up international distribution rights to Swissdirector Daniel Schmid's latest feature Portoverowhich has just begun shooting on location in Switzerland.StarringCatherine Walker (Conspiracy of Silence),Eduardo Noriega (Che),Marisa Paredes (AllAbout My Mother), David Warner (Ladies in Lavender) and Stephen Moyer (Deadlines), the script by US author Barry Gifford ...
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Kinowelt Forecasts 30% Increase in Group Turnover
Kinowelt is forecasting a 30% year-on-year increase inturnover to over $82.4m (Euros 70m) by the end of 2005. This financial forecastwill see the company return to its position as one of the key German players. Thisgrowth, despite the overall market trend, was largely down to thetheatricaldistribution division which expects to ...
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Midsummer Madness to begin shooting in March 2006
Vienna/London-basedsales agent EastWest Filmdistributionhas picked up world sales rights on Riga-born Alexander Hahn's comedy Midsummer Madness which was presented atlast week's Baltic Event Co-Production Market in Estonia's Tallinn and set to beginshooting next March.Midsummer Madness will be co-produced by Austria's Fischer Film, the UK's Steve WalshProductions and Latvia's KaupoFilm with ...
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Germans may hear new finance ideas by Christmas
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's new administration may give an indication of their plans to attract private capital to the local film industry before the Christmasbreak.The issue has been top of the local film agenda after the scrapping of media funds last week and all eyes are now on the new ...
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Yves Marmion named chairman of the European Film Academy
French producer Yves Marmion was elected as the new Chairman of the EuropeanFilm Academy (EFA) on the eve of the weekend's European Film Awards ceremony.Marmion has taken over from NikPowell who had been serving as EFA's Acting Chairmansince the sudden and unexpected death of the previous Chairman producer Humbert Balsan ...
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Marmion elected chair of European Film Academy
Frenchproducer Yves Marmion was elected as the new Chairman of the European FilmAcademy (EFA) on the eve of the weekend's European Film Awards ceremony.Marmionhas taken over from Nik Powell who had been serving as EFA's Acting Chairmansince the sudden and unexpected death of the previous Chairman producer HumbertBalsan last February.Marmion,who ...
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Lago weighs in on Lynch's Surveillance
Jennifer Lynch's long-gestating project Surveillance will go into production with Germany's Lago Film backing the $10m production.Previously announced for a 2004 start date, the filmco-written by Kent Harper tells the story of an FBI agent who is tracking aserial killer with the help of three would-be victims, all of whom ...
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Baltic Event launches its first co-production market
New filmsby Latvia's Alexander Hahn, Lithuania's Algimantas Puipa, Norway's MariusHolst, and Romania's Cristian Mungiu are among 12 projects being presented atthe first Baltic Event Co-Production Market to be held in Tallinn from December1-2.Now in itsfourth year, the Baltic Event had originally been launched to present theBaltic Screenings programme of films ...
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New Locarno director announces changes
Locarno's new artistic directorFrederic Maire has announced a series oforganisational and programme changes two months after taking up his post onOctober 1.Speakingat press conferences in Zurich and Bellinzona,Maire revealed that the next edition of the festivalfrom August 2-12, 2006 will no longer stagethe Video Competition and will transform the Film-makers ...
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Charlotte Rampling to be jury president at Berlinale 2006
Britishactress Charlotte Rampling will head up the main juryat next year's Berlinale (February 9-19, 2006). Describingher as a "fascinating woman and brilliant artist", festival directorDieter Kosslick noted that, through her work,[Charlotte Rampling] has come to stand for unconventionaland memorable cinema."Theremainder of the international jury, which will preside over Berlin's main ...
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Nicaragua ready for first production in 16 years
Germany's Shotgun Pictures will co-produce producer-directorFlorence Jaugey's feature debut La Yuma whichwill be the first feature film to be produced in Nicaragua for 16 years. French-born Jaugey, who took upresidence in Nicaragua set up her production company Camila Filmswith Nicaraguan filmmaker Frank Pineda in 1990.Budgeted at Euros 350,000and scheduled to ...
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German-French co-production finds favour with Filmstiftung NRW
TwoGerman-French co-productions attracted the bulk of the $7m (6m Euros)production support allocated by Filmstiftung NRW atits last funding session. Thelargest sum of $3m (2.5m Euros) was awarded to Jo Baier'sadaptation of Heinrich Mann's historical novel, Henri Quatre. Berlin-based Ziegler Filmwill be the producer with France's GTV as a three-partmini-series with ...