All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 73
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NewsBroken wins Odessa audience grand prix, Golden Duke
UK director Rufus Norris’ feature debut Broken starring Tim Roth (pictured), Cillian Murphy and Rory Kinnear has won Odessa International Film Festival’s (OIFF) Grand Prix, the Golden Duke statuette and $15,000 in prize money.
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NewsSam Riley to play title role in Softley's Ivanhoe
UK actor Sam Riley is to play the title role in Iain Softley’s epic adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe which is being developed by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film New GmbH (ETF) with Spain’s Morena Films as a European co-production with partners from Belgium and the UK.
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NewsBavaria boosts film fund for international productions
The increasing competition between the German Länder to attract film productions to their respective regions has taken on a new dimension this week with Bavaria’s introduction of a € 6m dedicated programme for international productions over the next two years .
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NewsCreative Europe, Eurimages on Ukraine's agenda
The European Union’s planned Creative Europe framework programme should be made accessible for the EU Neighbourhood countries, according to professionals from Ukraine and Moldova.
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NewsPeter Greenaway – Eisenstein project ‘99pc in place’
Speaking at the third Odessa International Film Festival the veteran director said financing was nearly complete on his €5m feature Eisenstein In Guanajuato.
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NewsSweden's Avalon big winner at third edition of Russia's VOICES film festival
Also announced, Odessa International Film Festival, which runs July 13-21, will open with the screening of Matteo Garrone’s Reality.
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NewsHaneke co-producers reunite for Wolfgang Becker's latest feature
The adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s bestseller Ich & Kaminski will be Wolfgang Becker’s first feature since Good Bye, Lenin!, which he made ten years ago.
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NewsConstantin launches new label for low-budget productions and creative filmmakers
Alpenrot to work on films with budgets of €1m or under.
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NewsMockert to produce Anthony Minghella's brother's directorial debut
Veteran German producer Rainer Mockert is returning to feature production with Dominic Minghella’s directorial debut Doria and Austrian Walter Bannert’s drama Kolyma set in the postwar Soviet Union.
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NewsThierry Potok has big plans for Germany's Hürth studios
Former Studio Babelsberg chief Thierry Potok returns to managing a German studio, set sights on bigger MMC studios and von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.
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NewsGerman Films Previews hosts 11 market premieres in Hamburg.
New German films by Meerapfel, Schmidt, Klandt shown at 12th German Films Previews in Hamburg, promo-reels from Reitz and Buck.
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NewsMoscow's Grand Prix won by UK's Junkhearts
Eddie Marsan named Best Actor, Sokurov calls for 2bn rouble rescue package for Lenfilm Studios.
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NewsRussia's Glavkino boasts largest sound stage in Eastern Europe
Glavkino’s in-house production division has already backed $16m action film August 8th.
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NewsMoscow Co-Production Forum's best pitch awards go to UK and Russia
Projects by the UK’s Cowboy Films and Russia’s Trikita Entertainment were awarded best pitch prizes at this year’s Moscow Co-Production Forum.
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NewsRussia benefits from its membership of Eurimages with support for production and exhibition
Russia’s arthouse cinema sector has now received support from the pan-European fund Eurimages.
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NewsGreenaway reveals more details about his next feature Food Of Love at Moscow Co-production Forum
Peter Greenaway revealed more details about his next feature Food Of Love when he pitched the project at this week’s fourth Moscow Co-Production Forum as part of the Moscow Business Square.Speaking to an international audience which included such Russian producers as Natalia Ivanova (Horosho Production), Evgeny Gindilis (TVINDIE), and Mila ...
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NewsNew film planned about Julian Assange's internet dating adventures
EXCLUSIVE: After his documentary on the imprisoned Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, German filmmaker Cyril Tuschi is now setting his sights on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
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European Commission wants Catalonia to open up distribution of non-Spanish films
The European Commission (EC) has requested Spain to put an end to the discriminatory rules in the Catalan Law on Cinema, which hurts the distribution of non-Spanish films.
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NewsRuminov, Litvinova projects among titles at first Moscow market
Films by Pavel Ruminov, Renata Litvinova and Avdotya Smirnova are among 20 titles to be screened at the first DOORS film market (June 21-24) which is being organised by Roskino and the Russian Film Commission USA as part of the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF).
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NewsVassiliou rejects 'unofficial rumours' about MEDIA brand disappearing after 2014
EC Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou denied ‘unofficial rumours’ that the MEDIA brand would disappear after 2013 when she appeared at a session of the European Parliament’s Committee for Culture and Education on Tuesday afternoon (June 19).