All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 49
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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.
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NewsFiction version of 'The Forecaster' planned
Screenplay for the feature film is being written by the US screenwriter Matthew Wilder
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NewsVOICES call for Polish cinema focus
Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body to screen as part of Russian festival’s Polish cinema focus.
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NewsVenice, London next stops for European Film Forum
As the European Commission limbers up for its second European Film Forum in Cannes on Monday (May 18), plans are already afoot to take the audiovisual summit to the film festivals in Venice, San Sebastian, London and Tallinn.
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NewsLocarno nabs Doc Award from Cannes
Locarno Film Festival is to host the 8th Doc Alliance Selection (DAS) Award, after being announced during Cannes for the past seven years .
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NewsDavid Kross to portray legendary goalie “Bert” Trautmann
EXCLUSIVE: German actor David Kross, who appeared opposite Kate Winslet in Stephen Daldry’s Oscar-winning The Reader, has been cast as the legendary German-born goalkeeper Bernd ‘Bert’ Trautmann who was in goal for Manchester City from 1949 to 1964.
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NewsRuzowitzky to direct Hesse adaptation 'Narcissus and Goldmund'
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) is to direct Hermann Hesse’s 1930 international bestseller and cult novel Narcissus and Goldmund.
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NewsOettinger throws down gauntlet to European cinema
EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of his first visit to the Cannes Film Festival, European Commissioner Günther Oettinger has challenged the European film industry to deliver evidence supporting their calls for maintaining the territoriality principle.