All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 21
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NewsDOK Leipzig unveils 2021 co-pro market line-up (exclusive)
More than half of this year’s line-up is set to be directed by women filmmakers.
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News‘Great Freedom’, ‘Paris, 13th District’ to bookend 2021 Filmfest Hamburg
Line-up also includes German premieres of Venice and Locarno winners.
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NewsGermany’s Veit Helmer begins production on latest feature ‘Gondola’ (exclusive)
Helmer’s previous film was 2018 silent comedy The Bra.
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NewsPolish LGBTQ+ distributor Tongariro expanding into production (exclusive)
Kamil Krawczycki’s feature debut ’Elephant’ to begin shoot in September.
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News‘Woman On The Roof’ takes Screen works-in-progress award at 2021 Polish Days
Polish Days is the industry event for the Wroclaw-based New Horizons International Film Festival (August 12-22).
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FeaturesSarajevo 2021: Dušan Kasalica reveals the fairytale that inspired ‘The Elegy of Laurel’
Montenegrin filmmaker discusses the origins and messages behind his fantastical feature.
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Features“We’re hybrid for good”: How smaller European film festivals are adapting for the future
Festival directors reveal to what extent shifting online during the pandemic will play a part in their future.
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News‘Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ wins top prize at Locarno Film Festival
Golden Leopard goes to filmmaker from Indonesia for first time.
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NewsGerman cinemas to require unvaccinated audiences to show negative Covid test in key regions
The move impacts cinemas in areas with Covid rates above 35 in 100,000 from August 23.
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NewsThai project ‘A Useful Ghost’ leads Locarno Open Doors winners
The section concludes its three-year focus on Southeast Asia and Mongolia.
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NewsSix Swiss films get extra support for local release amid squeeze on local screens
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films.
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Features“A hybrid structure offers a democratic tool”: Locarno Pro head Markus Duffner on the future of markets
Locarno Pro’s incoming head Markus Duffner talks about assembling a hybrid edition.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Kino On Demand
Users of Kino on Demand (KoD) receive a €5 ($6) voucher for the first and every fifth film viewed, which they can redeem at one of more than 800 participating cinemas.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: filmingo
Switzerland’s trigon-film foundation has also been operating its own streaming platform since 2013.
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News‘The Whaler Boy’ wins top prize at 2021 Transilvania film festival
Other winners included P.S. Vinothraj’s ‘Pebbles’ and Martín de los Santos’s ’That Was Life’.
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NewsFILM + alumni at Transilvania with five world premieres
Film+ supports emerging filmmakers from Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Moldova.
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NewsFour new Romanian projects presented at Transilvania’s Closed Screenings showcase
New features by Gabriel de Achim, Sebastian Mihailescu, Alina Grigore and Octav Chelaru.
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NewsEuropean festival directors debate merits of going global while staying local
The challenge is how best to support local filmmakers and appeal to the wider international industry.
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NewsTransilvania’s industry platform adds three new initiatives for 2021
Transilvania Pitch Stop is now on to its eighth edition this year.
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NewsWhy the industry is heading to Transilvania to discover the hottest Romanian filmmakers
TIFF artistic director Mihai Chirilov on how the festival supports the local industry.