All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 56
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NewsK5 Independent takes Father
K5 Independent is to handle international sales for Visar Morina’s feature debut Father (Babai) which is currently shooting in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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NewsCreative Europe names MEDIA head
Spanish-born Lucía Recalde Langarica has been named successor to Xavier Troussard as head of the MEDIA sub-programme for Creative Europe.
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FeaturesOdessa International Film Festival
Gallery of pictures from the Odessa International Film Festival (July 11-19).
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NewsMH17 tragedy overshadows Odessa
Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation won the Grand Prix at this year’s Odessa International Film Festival (OIFF), overshadowed in its final days by the shooting down of a Malaysian Airways plane.
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NewsDovzhenko biopic secures co-producers
Konstantin Konovalov’s Odessa-set biopic about the Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko.Odessa-Debut, has already found co-producers in Finland and Argentina.
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NewsUS majors eye Ukrainian blockbuster
Speaking at the Odessa Film Festival the producer of Sergey Mokritsky’s war drama Unbroken said that the project had now completed principal photography.
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NewsFirst timers gear up for Locarno
EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic, Oscilloscope and Koch Media are among the first-time companies attending the Locarno Film Festival this year.
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NewsBuder departs Connecting Cottbus
Philipp Bräuer also announces decision to leave Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival.
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NewsOdessa honours Frears
UK director Stephen Frears has been awarded the Golden Duke Lifetime Achievement Award during the opening ceremony of the fifth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival (OIFF, July 11-19).
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NewsPuskepalis in Clinch with Leviathan star
Russian actor Sergey Puskepalis is to make his directorial debut and has cast Alexey Serebryakov, star of Cannes winner Leviathan.
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NewsSentsov case heads to Strasbourg
The campaign to free Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov from detention in Russia has been taken to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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NewsStill Life wins at VOICES
Uberto Pasolini’s second feature [pictured] wins at fifth edition of Russian showcase for young European cinema.
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NewsIndustry mourns Frank Stehling
Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg veteran was most recently MD of Berlin-based PRIMEHOUSE.
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NewsOdessa unveils works in progress
EXCLUSIVE: The Battle of Sevastopol among 11 projects being presented next week.
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NewsAward-winner pulled due to Russian obscenity law
EXCLUSIVE: Festival screening of Yes and Yes [pictured] pulled due to Russia’s new anti-obscenity law.
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NewsGerman producers 'regret' over €10m cuts proposal
Germany’s film producers have expressed ¨exceptional regret¨ at learning that Angela Merkel’s cabinet has proposed reducing the annual budget for the DFFF ¨German spend¨ incentive by another €10m to €50m in the global federal budget for 2015.
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NewsDepardieu eyed for children's fantasy
Actor Gérard Depardieu is being considered for a Russian fantasy feature.
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NewsRussia fears death of arthouse cinema
New legislation banning use of obscene words came into effect yesterday [July 1].
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NewsUK Focus at Vologda's VOICES
UK film-makers are in the spotlight at the fifth edition of Vologda’s VOICES festival (July 4-8), which will open with Ken Loach’s Cannes Competition film Jimmy’s Hall.
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NewsFirst MBS deals announced
EXCLUSIVE: Among the deals, Mexico’s In Films We Trust will buy a package of eight Russian films from Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs.