All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 46
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NewsStudioCanal to sell Nazi euthanasia drama 'Fog In August'
EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal to handle world sales on Kai Wessel’s wartime drama.
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News'For Some Inexplicable Reason' wins Grand Prix at VOICES
Germany’s Burhan Qurbani wins best director prize for We Are Strong. We Are Young.
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NewsCreative Europe's 'level playing field' plans under fire
EXCLUSIVE: Plans by the European Commission (EC) to create a level playing field between high and low production capacity countries in its Creative Europe MEDIA sub-programme have come increasingly under fire from film distributors in the larger EU Member States.
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NewsOleg Sentsov trial “not before end of July”
EXCLUSIVE: The trial of the detained Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov is expected “not before the end of July”, according to his cousin Natalja Kaplan.
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News'Losers' triumphs in Moscow
Veteran Bulgarian actor Ivaylo Hristov’s third feature film as director, the coming-of-age tale Losers, won the Golden St. George Prize for best film on Friday at the 37th edition of the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), which ran from June 19-26.
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NewsSilvestrov's 'The Ice Hole' wins Screen's first Moscow prize
Producer-director Andrey Silvestrov’s The Ice Hole was named the winner of the first Screen International Best Pitch Award at the Moscow Business Square (MBS).
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NewsSchipper's 'Victoria' victorious at German Lolas
Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria was the big winner at this year’s German Film Awards, taking home six statuettes from its seven nominations including the Golden Lolas for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Lead Actor.
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NewsCreative Europe set for 8% budget boost
EXCLUSIVE: European Union plans to increase Creative Europe’s budget by 8% for 2016.
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NewsNew funds boost German, French film industries
Co-production between Germany and France is set to be given an additional boost with the creation of two new development funds.
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NewsDigital Single Market on MPAA agenda
The European Commission’s plans for a Digital Single Market (DSM) were high on the agenda as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) held its annual strategy meeting in Berlin for first time.
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NewsUkraine bans 'Under Electric Clouds'
Alexey German Jr.’s Under Electric Clouds has become the first high-profile title to fall victim to Ukraine’s new distribution ban on Russian films and TV series, which came into effect last week.
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News'Call Me Marianna' wins four in Krakow
Feature about gender reassignment wins international documentary competition.
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NewsTzoumerkas, Csaszi among new Nipkow intake
EXCLUSIVE: Greece’s Syllas Tzoumerkas and Hungary’s Adam Csaszi are among 13 international filmmakers selected to each spend three months in Berlin as part of the Nipkow Programme residency.
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NewsNew Brüggemann, Ranisch films in Munich Fipresci premiere
New films by Dietrich Brüggemann, Alex Ranisch and Philip Koch are to be judged by Munich Film Festival’s first ever Fipresci jury in its New German Cinema sidebar at this year’s forthcoming edition (June 25 - July 4).
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NewsEuropean films win online distribution funding boost
Creative Europe’s MEDIA sub-programme is to boost its funding for the online distribution of European films this year.
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NewsKrakow focus on Lithuania; Polish doc showcase
Lithuanian documentaries will be in the spotlight at this year’s 55th Krakow Film Festival (May 31-June 7) which opens with Krzysztof Kopczynski’s The Dybbuk. A Tale Of Wandering Souls.
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NewsMoscow Business Square to spotlight Finland, Austria
The film industries of Finland and Austria will be under the spotlight at the 7th Moscow Business Square (MBS) (June 21-22).
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NewsEuro commissioners differ on Digital Single Market views
Commissioners singing from different song sheets as European funders reiterate their views on Digital Single Market strategy
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NewsEU ministers discuss Digital Single Market strategy
European media and culture ministers discussed the European Commission’s plans for a Digital Single Market (DSM) at this week’s Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council in Brussels.