All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 43
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NewsRussia's ArtDocFest confirms first titles
Festival runs in St Petersburg and Moscow from Dec 9-16.
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News'Brothers' wins DOK Leipzig's Golden Dove
New festival director Leena Pasanaen also talks future plans.
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NewsWide House to sell 'Hitler's Hollywood'
Sales agent Wide House is to be reunited with German filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland on his next documentary Hitler’s Hollywood for delivery next year.
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NewsWolfgang Petersen returns to Germany for Warner Bros crime caper
Veteran German director Wolfgang Petersen is set to make his first film in Germany for 30 years.
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NewsDSM: Oettinger stresses special case for film industry
The principle of territoriality should be preserved for the European film industry in the European Commission’s (EC) plans for a Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy, according to Günter Oettinger, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society.
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News'Alaska Is A Drag' wins in Wroclaw
Round-up of news from the sixth American Film Festival and US in Progress showcase.
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NewsNorway, Belgium join expanded distribution initiative
EXCLUSIVE: Norway’s Arthaus and Belgium’s Imagine Film Distribution have joined an expanded second edition of the distribution initiative launched last year by Poland’s Gutek Film with FestivalScope as SCOPE50.
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NewsJim Carrey thriller 'True Crimes' sets Krakow shoot date
EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography on thriller True Crimes, starring Jim Carrey, will begin in Poland’s Krakow on Nov 7.
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NewsScreen pitch winners among Baltic Event line-up
Former winners of Screen International’s Best Pitch Award are among the producers with projects at the co-production market during the 14th edition of Tallinn’s Baltic Event (Nov 16-18).
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NewsGermany's One Two Films to co-produce Laura Dern-starrer 'The Tale'
Berlin-based One Two Films is making its first foray into Stateside production as the co-producer on Jennifer Fox’s fiction feature debut The Tale, which begins shooting at locations in Louisiana today (Oct 20).
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NewsLFS's Ben Gibson to join Berlin film school amid student protests
Ben Gibson, former director of the London Film School (LFS), is set to become the first non-German director of Berlin’s German Film & Television Academy (dffb).
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NewsConnecting Cottbus to feature new projects from Ruman, Ostrochovský
The East-West co-production market has selected 10 projects this year, down from 13 in 2014.
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NewsDenmark, Iceland dominate Lübeck Nordic competition
The German festival will screen Grimur Hákonarson’s Rams, Tobias Lindholm’s A War and Klaus Harö’s The Fencer in its 2015 programme.
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NewsMEPs vote to reverse Creative Europe budget cuts
The reformed draft budget will now be put to vote at the European Parliament.
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News'Mustang', 'Nice People' among Filmfest Hamburg winners
Festival favourite Mustang took the festival’s art cinema prize, while documentary Nice People won the audience award.
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NewsGermany calls for cultural diversity guarantee in TTIP talks
The German government has issued a clear call for guarantees of diversity in the areas of culture and media in the ongoing TTIP free trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the US.
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NewsLeipzig to host Mansky, Belc, Gordillo world premieres
New films by Vitaly Mansky, Alexandru Belc and Joseph Gordillo are among the world premieres in competition at this year’s DOK Leipzig (Oct 26 - Nov 1).
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NewsGore Verbinski, Wim Wenders projects secure German finance
Iranian director Shirin Neshat to also receive support from German fund.
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NewsNordic focus at Leipzig co-production meeting
35 projects will be presented to 70 potential partners.
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NewsDiaphana picks up 'Young Karl Marx'
France’s Diaphana Distribution has picked up Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s long-gestating project, The Young Karl Marx.