All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 155
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UK animator wins Cartoon D'or with Jo Jo
UK animator MarcCraste has won this year's Cartoon D'or for his dark 12-minute short Jo JoIn The Stars at theCartoon Forum co-production market held in Denmark's Kolding from September21-24.Described as"a story of love, self-sacrifice and jealousy played out against ablack-and-white world that is both nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful", JoJo In ...
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Swiss select Hiver as Oscar candidate
Greg Zglinski's featuredebut Tout Un Hiver Sans Feu hasbeen selected as Switzerland's entry for the race for the Foreign LanguageOscar.According toSwitzerland's Federal Office for Culture (BAK), Zglinski's film was chosen"for its broad cinematic staying power, its universally valid language,its sensitive mise-en-scene, its convincing screenplay and its cinematographywhich conveys a wonderful ...
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Germany names Sophie Scholl as Oscar choice
Marc Rothemund's Silver Bear winner Sophie Scholl - TheFinal Days has been selected as Germany's entry to enter the race for theForeign Language Film Oscar.Announcing its decision, the jury responsible for selectingthe country's Oscar candidate described Sophie Scholl as "a film ofgreat emotional concentration, carried by outstanding acting achievements. Itssignificance ...
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White Masai takes top spot at German box office
The White Masai,directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, has become the second local film this yearafter Til Schweiger's Barefoot to take the number one spot at the Germanbox-office.The love storybetween cultures between a Swiss businesswoman and a black Masai warrior hadbeen primarily targeted by distributor Constantin at female audiences, althoughthe Euros 7m ...
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Falk's Collector gathers Polish Film Fest prizes
Veteran filmmaker FeliksFalk was the big winner at this year's 30th Polish Film Festival (Sept 12-17)in the Baltic port of Gdynia with his first film for 10 years, The Collector(Komornik), which picked up five prizes at the weekend's closing galaceremony.Falk and his producer JanuszMorgenstern of Film Studio Perspektywa received the ...
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UK animated shorts make Cartoon d'Or final
TwoUK animated shorts - Marc Craste's Jo Jo In The Stars and Daniel Greaves' LittleThings- are among the five finalists nominated for this year's Cartoon d'Or to beawarded at the Cartoon Forum co-production market (Sept 21-25) in Denmark'sKolding.The other nominated films are: Gaelle Denis' CityParadise (France), Peter Kaboth's Falling (Germany) ...
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Warsaw festival launches CentEast film market
The Warsaw International Film Festival (WFF)(Oct 7-16) is launching the CentEast regional film market for films fromCentral and Eastern Europe for the first time this year over four days fromOctober 12-15.WFF festival director Stefan Laudyn told ScreenDaily.comthat CentEast builds on the experiences of the festival's previous WarsawScreenings and will include ...
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Funny Balloons swoops for Mueller's Face Addict
Paris-basedFunny Balloons has taken on international sales for Edo Bertoglio's documentaryFace Addict whichwas produced by Venice Film Festival director Marco Mueller's Downtown Picturesand Switzerland's Amka Films in association with Swiss Television and the USA'sMako Productions.Focusing onthe past and present lives of New York's downtown scene from the late '70s andearly ...
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MDC to mastermind Trzaskalski's San Sebastian entry
MDCInternational is to handle world sales for Polish director Piotr Trzaskalski's TheMaster (Mistrz) which will have its world premiere in San Sebastian'sZabaltegi section next month.The title role of the master, an Afghanistan war veteran travellingthrough Poland with a knife-throwing act, is played by the Russian actorKonstantin Lavronenko.Hebecame known to international ...
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Russell shows off Hot Pants at Oldenburg
VeteranUK director Ken Russell is to be feted with a retrospective including theworld premiere of his latest film Hot Pants at this year's OldenburgInternational Film Festival (Sept 7-11).Themaverick filmmaker will come to the festival which has been dubbed the"German Sundance" for the screening of such films as Women In Love,The ...
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Bavaria adds three from Li, Armendariz, Svoboda
BavariaFilm International (BFI) has added three new titles to its sales lineup fromChinese filmmaker Li Yu, Spain's Montxo Armendariz and Austria's AntoninSvobodaThe triowill be screening at the film festivals in Venice, Toronto and San Sebastiannext month.Li Yu'sChinese-French co-production Hongyan (Dam Street)will be premiering in Venice's Orizzonti and then showing in ...
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Workingman's Death starts life with PTD
Luxembourg-basedPaul Thiltges Distributions (PTD) will handle international sales on Austrian filmmakerMichael Glawogger's documentary Workingman's Death.Thefilm will have its world premiere in the Orizzonti sidebar at Venice nextmonth.Produced by Lotus Film with Germany's Quinte Film, Workingman'sDeath focuses on the act of performing heavy manual labour and on thoseworkers who toil at ...
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Warhol set for major Vienna retrospective
Andy Warhol is to be givenone of the most comprehensive presentations of his cinematic ouevre to date atthis year's Vienna International Film Festival, the Viennale (October 14-26).Curated by theUS filmmaker and author Jonas Mekas in cooperation with the Filmmuseum, theretrospective will show more than 30 of Warhol's central works as ...
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Weber quits Bavaria to launch own sales outfit
Michael Weber, managingdirector of Bavaria Media and Bavaria Film International (BFI), is leaving thecompany to set up his own as-yet-unnamed world sales outfit. Munich based sales companyBFI will now be run by two of its experienced executives: head of salesThorsten Schaumann and head of marketing Thorsten Ritter who have been ...
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New Locarno chief outlines festival strategy
Locarno Film Festival's incoming artisticdirector Frederic Maire has set himself of the goal of making the event"the festival of the future."Speaking to ScreenDaily.com a day afterthe unanimous decision by the festival's board to appoint him as successor toIrene Bignardi, Maire said that "the spirit of Locarno must be preserved:Locarno is ...
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Austrian box office plunges in first half of 2005
Mirroring the general internationaltrend, Austrian exhibitors have reported year-on-year falls in box-officerevenues and admissions for the first half of 2005, but are bullish aboutprospects for the next six months.According to figures collated by theAustrian exhibitors' association FLA, 7.35m tickets were sold in the first sixmonths - down 18.3% on 2004's ...
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Pair of film channels to launch in Germany
Germany's free-TV channels Tele 5 and NBC Giga are beingrelaunched as film channels from this autumn.Tele 5, which is a 100% subsidiary of Herbert Kloiber's TeleMuenchen Group (TMG), will be relaunched on September 22 and has acquired a70-title package from license trader Intertainment including Grey Owl, TheBig Kahuna and The ...
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Garcia's Nine Lives takes top Locarno prize
RodrigoGarcia's Nine Lives has becomethe first US film to win Locarno's top award, the Golden Leopard for Best Film,for 14 years.The last US film to win thetop honour was Tom DiCillo's feature debut Johnny Suede at the festival in 1991.Nine Lives, which was the only US title selected for thisyear's ...
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Bignardi plans life after Locarno
Locarno's outgoing artistic director Irene Bignardi says she hopes hersuccessor will build on the work of the last five years to give the festivalits own unique place in the international festival landscape.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, she diplomatically skirtedthe issue of confirming who her successor would be (the name of Frederic ...