All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 57
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NewsJapan is big winner in Moscow
Japan was the big winner at this year’s Moscow International Film Festival which ended on Saturday evening with the Golden St. George trophy for best film going to Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s My Man (Watashi-No Otoko) [pictured].The film, which also received the Silver St. George best actor honours for Tadanobu Asano, had ...
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NewsBondarchuk says Battalion will top Stalingrad
Stalingrad 3D’s producer-director Fyodor Bondarchuk has a US major in his sights for the national and international distribution of the forthcoming Russian war film, Battalion Of Death, set during the First World War.
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NewsRussian 'leaders' pitch projects to RCF
31 projects were presented by nine Russian production houses at a pitching to the Russian Cinema Fund.
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NewsBondarchuk prepared to bleep obscenities
Leading Russian actor-director-producer Fyodor Bondarchuk has indicated that he is prepared to bleep out the obscenities in Valeria Gai Germanika’s new film Yes And Yes (Da I Da) to ensure its Russian theatrical release.
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NewsFramestore, David Kelly board Mexican Cold War film
EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Framestore and producer David P. Kelly are set to partner on a $5m Mexican Cold War feature Lunik III, pitched at this week’s Moscow Business Square (MBS).
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NewsPatrick Cassavetti boards Lenin?!
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran UK producer Patrick Cassavetti has boarded Marat Alykulov’s black comedy Lenin?!.
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NewsCreative Europe chief to step down
EXCLUSIVE: Xavier Troussard to leave after 12 months in role.
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NewsSerbia first non-EU country to sign Creative Europe agreement
Serbia has become the first non-European Union country to sign up and participate in the European Union’s new Creative Europe programme.
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NewsEC backs Berlinale, Rotterdam funds
Co-production funds run by the Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals and a new day-and-date initiative are among new projects by supported by the European Commission (EC).
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NewsThe Tribe wins at Tarkovsky fest
Ukrainian feature wins Grand Prix at ‘Zerkalo’ Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival.
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NewsSentsov's lawyer speaks out
Ukrainian film-maker “cruelly beaten”, threatened with rape and isolated from lawyers.
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NewsBerlinale and Cannes winners competing in Odessa
Peter Webber to head jury, David Puttnam to deliver lecture during fifth edition of the Ukranian festival.
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NewsThilo Rothkirch dies aged 65
European animators mourn passing of producer-director Thilo Rothkirch.
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NewsUK and Latin America focus at 6th MBS
Moscow Business Square (June 21-24) runs parallel to the Moscow International Film Festival.
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NewsTest wins at Kinotavr
Alexander Kott’s love story [pictured] awarded the Grand Prix and the prize for best cinematography.
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NewsTransilvania Trophy goes to Spain
The Transilvania International Film Festival’s (TIFF) main prize went this year to Spanish film-maker Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Stockholm as the week-long festival came to a close on June 8.
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NewsTransilvania reveals first grants
An observational documentary and two fiction films are the first projects to be supported by the Transilvania Film Festival Fund (TFFF).
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NewsLeviathan producer named Russian leader
Non Stop Productions, producer of Cannes winner Leviathan, is among nine “industry leaders” selected by the Russian Cinema Fund (Fond Kino) to take a share of $55m (RUB1.9bn).
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NewsJeunet's Spivet to open Munich
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet will be the opening film at this year’s Filmfest München (June 27-July 5) after Jeunet previously kicked off the festival in Munich in 2001 with Amelie From Montmartre.