All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 70
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NewsPolish cinema wins big at Cottbus
Polish cinema was the big winner at this year’s FilmFestival Cottbus with the international jury unanimously awarding Maria Sadowska’s Women’s Day the €20,000 Main Prize for Best Film.
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New films to be unveiled at 11th Baltic Event
New projects by Estonia’s Jaak Kilmi, Finland’s Klaus Harö and Georgia’s Bakur Bakuradze being presented at the 11th Baltic Event in Tallinn
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NewsGermany boosts film funding to €70m
Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Bernd Neumann has secured an additional €10m for the DFFF incentive programme’s annual budget from next year, bringing the total available to domestic and international productions up to €70m.
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NewsMEDIA-supported VOD initiative courts controversy
Windows debate spurred on by exhibition cancellation of titles launch through special VOD programme.
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NewsHaneke wins in Vienna; Austrian film fund boost
Directors Michael Haneke, Kenneth Lonergan, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel were among the winners at the 50th Viennale.
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NewsLocarno's Chatrian talks about programme plans and Cukor retrospective
Locarno’s new artistic director Carlo Chatrian to continue festival’s “idea of cinema as a meeting place and act of discovery” as he unveils plans to dedicate the 2013 retrospective to George Cukor and announces a reshuffle of selection committee.
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NewsBille August signs up for Nabokov's Laughter
Danish filmmaker Bille August has signed up to direct an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1932 novel Laughter in the Dark.
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NewsEC scheme awards €2m to Wild Bunch, ARP and Artificial Eye
Distributors Wild Bunch, ARP and Artificial Eye have secured nearly €2m from the European Commission (EC) to support simultaneous multiplatform releases – a scheme that has drawn criticism from cinema-owners.
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NewsEFP sends communication to EP and EC, call to lobby national politicians over Creative Europe programme
Over 400 figures from the European film industry, including Carey Mulligan [pictured], put their name to European Film Promotion’s communication to the European Parliament and European Commission.
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NewsUS deals for Deflowering and Out in the Dark
North American deals have signed by Berlin‘s m-appeal for Michiel ten Horn’s The Deflowering of Eva van End and Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark.
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NewsFonteyne's Tango Libre wins Warsaw Grand Prix
Festival director Stefan Laudyn also announced that the CentEast Market will “hopefully” expand next year to include films from Chinese independent filmmakers.
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NewsRed Square Screenings boasts Pussy Riot and Jason Flemyng projects
The punk feminist band Pussy Riot [pictured’] and UK actor Jason Flemyng might seem unlikely bedfellows, but not for those attending the first edition of the Red Square Screenings (RSS) (Oct 15-19) where they appeared in ‘works in progress’ presented to 100 industry professionals.
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NewsFilm Manufacturers boards Oscar-nominated Marc Rothemund's bestseller adaptation Galapagos
Katharine Otto-Bernstein’s New York-based Film Manufacturers Inc. has joined Munich-based Telepool and KJ Entertainment to develop and produce German director Marc Rothemund’s Galapagos which is due to begin shooting in autumn 2013.
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NewsGerman and Russian superstars unite in comedy by Cloud Atlas co-producer
Germany’s Til Schweiger and Russia’s Fyodor Bondarchuk are to unite as lead actors in Antalyagrad to be produced by Cloud Atlas co-producer and distributor Alexander Rodnyansky.
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NewsDigital age a major opportunity for film, says EC’s Kroes
EC Commissioner Kroes declares that digital age “isn’t a threat to the film industry”, but “an opportunity”.
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NewsEC's state aid for film delayed
The European Commission’s Cinema Communication on state aid for the film industry will have its publication delayed by “some weeks” after initial plans to unveil the proposed new regulation in October or November.
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NewsWinners revealed at 20th Filmfest Hamburg
Dolan, Shortland, Glasner among winners at 20th anniversary edition of Filmfest Hamburg.
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NewsLeading European players contribute to 'critical assessment' of EC's Creative Europe MEDIA strand
BFI, Match Factory and CNC among those consulted; Italian MEP Barbara Matera [pictured] has also sent a report on proposed Creative Europe programme to Committee on Culture and Education
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NewsEuropean Parliament drafts 197 amendments to EC's Creative Europe programme
EXCLUSIVE: Italian MEP Silvia Costa’s [pictured] report will be presented at the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education in Brussels next week.