All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 59
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NewsSacro GRA gets triple day-and-date
Doc Alliance lines up triple day-and-date premiere with Venice winner.
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NewsGlobal Screen, Picture Tree reveal Cannes market premieres
New films by actor-director Matthias Schweighofer, Marco Kreuzpaintner, Robert Glinski, and Bettina Oberli are among the titles being lined up by German sales agents Global Screen and Picture Tree International (PTI) for the Marché du Film in Cannes next month.
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NewsGerman producers join Ataman project
Detailfilm reunites with director Kutlug Ataman following their collaboration on The Lamb.
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NewsMedia Luna takes five for Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: New films by Dominique Deruddere, Alfonso Zarauza and Chus Gutiérrez are among five new titles acquired by Cologne-based Media Luna New Films ahead of Cannes’ Marché du Film.
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NewsLove & Engineering to open Visions du Réel
Tonislav Hristov’s Love & Engineering is to open the 20th edition of the Visions du Réel documentary film festival.
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NewsEFP names Producers on the Move 2014
UK’s Tristan Goligher and Germany’s Henning Kamm among upcoming European producers set to be showcased at Cannes.
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NewsWarner Bros. Germany secures Madame Bovary
Warner Bros. Germany has picked up German-speaking European rights for Sophie Barthes’ new adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel Madame Bovary, which is currently in post production.
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NewsIda wins at Wiesbaden's goEast
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida received the Skoda Film Prize for Best Film at Wiesbaden’s goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, which ended with the awards ceremony on Tuesday evening (April 15).
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NewsGreenaway receives CNC support
Other projects supported by Romania’s film fund include Cristian Mungiu’s RMD and Tudor Giurgiu’s Apropierea.
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NewsScreen Int'l winner wins fresh funding
EXCLUSIVE: Screen award-winner among seven features funded by Lithuanian Film Centre (LFC).
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NewsGerman fund budget cut by $14m
Plans by the German government to slash the budget for incentive programme DFFF by €10m ($13.8m) has surprised the film community.
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NewsR&C boards 'explicit sex' project
Berlin-based sales outfit Raspberry&Cream (R&C) is partnering with Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion to co-produce Like Cattle Towards Glow, which aims to achieve a new way of portraying sex on screen.
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NewsEuropean creatives talk industry future
Film-makers Stephen Frears, Béla Tarr, Costa-Gavras, and veteran theatre director Peter Brook are among 50 leading figures of the European creative community to sign a declaration “For a New Deal for Culture in Europe.”
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NewsJapanese Dog wins at Vilnius
Romania was the big winner at Vilnius’ Kino Pavasaris (Cinema Spring) festival with Tudor Cristian Jurgiu’s feature debut Japanese Dog was named Best Film in the New Europe - New Names competition.
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NewsPutin eyes Crimean film scene
Ahead of this week’s NIKA Awards ceremony in Moscow, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin heard the plans by Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky to re-launch the film festival in Crimea’s Yalta and the festival for children’s cinema in the small resort town of Gurzuf.
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NewsConstantin retains German crown
Constantin Film has been named by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) as the nation’s top producer of German films for the ninth consecutive year in 2013 and the top distributor for the tenth consecutive year.
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NewsFormer EFP president dies aged 56
Éva Vezér, the former European Film Promotion (EFP) president, died at the weekend following a serious illness.
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NewsGreenaway planning second Eisenstein film
Gosfilmofond to collaborate with Greenaway [pictured] on Eisenstein Among Friends; director is currently shooting Eisenstein in Guanajuato.
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NewsKeeper wins big at Swiss Film Awards
I Am The Keeper, Dreamland and Father’s Garden win at Swiss Film Awards; First Saas-Fee Filmfest honours Soldate Jeannette and Love Steaks.
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FeaturesFilmart 2014: Russia steps it up
The territory is responding to China’s growing interest in Russian films by establishing a pavilion to raise its profile at Filmart.