All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 83
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NewsNever Alone
The true story behind Finnish director Klaus Harö’s fifth feature film Never Alone (Nie Allein), which received the Screen Internatonal Best Pitch Award at December’s Baltic Event in Tallinn, has fascinated the director and producer Ilkka Matila alike ever since their childhoods.
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NewsKosslick: Berlinale may consider Cannes or Locarno management model in the future
Dieter Kosslick notes strong Asian, German, French selections for 2012 Berlinale; popular themes include upheaval and exercise of power.
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NewsOphüls Prize Film Festival to include nine world premieres in competitions
Weingartner’s Hut In The Woods will open festival in Saarbrucken.
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NewsDCM assumes sole ownership of Delphi Filmverleih
DCM to become sole owner of distributor Delphi Filmverleih by acquiring remaining 50% stake from founder Claus Boje
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NewsKosslick likely to stay at head of Berlinale until 2016
Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick is set to remain at the head of the leading international festival event until 2016.
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NewsGeorgia joins European Film Promotion
Georgia has become European Film Promotion’s (EFP) 33rd member with the acceptance of the Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) into the promotional network to present its films and talent at international marketing activities under the European banner.
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NewsWolfgang Braun steps down as head of StudioCanal Germany
Wolfgang Braun, chairman and CEO at StudioCanal in Germany since July 2009, will exit the company on Jan 1, 2012.
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NewsEye on Films network grows to 30 distributors; deals signs on Iranian, Canadian films
Charlotte Rampling and Maria de Medeiros are among a number of European actors who have been approached to be recruited as “godmothers” to promote the work of the Eye on Films (EoF) network which was launched at the beginning of 2011.
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NewsProjects by Fridriksson, Cvitkovic, Ronde to be pitched at Trieste co-production market
Second edition of multi-region co-production forum to be held Jan 19-21 in Trieste.
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NewsEurimages mooting idea of associate membership for the likes of South Africa, Argentina
Eurimages head notes that non-member UK is “special case.”
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NewsEuropean Film Promotion unveils 2012 Shooting Stars longlist
UK actor Riz Ahmed and Germany’s Anna Maria Mühe are among ten up-and-coming European acting talents selected from a longlist of 23 candidates.
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NewsBychkova, Quabeck and Mindadze films among 12 projects submitted to German-Russian Co-Development Fund
Also, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg launches another two artist in residence initiatives with Mumbai and Hong Kong.
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NewsMEDIA head calls for more lobbying; working paper suggests possible MEDIA financial breakdown
Commission Staff Working Paper says bigger countries could see more slate funding; Europa Cinemas could get almost €100m.
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NewsMelancholia wins top prize at European Film Awards
Other winners include In A Better World, The King’s Speech, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Kid With A Bike and Pina. Special honours bestowed upon Michel Piccoli [pictured] and Mads Mikkelsen.
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NewsGerman broadcasters allay producers' concerns after the dismissal of Degeto CEO
Germany’s public broadcaster ARD has sought to allay producers’ concerns after the dismissal of Hans-Wolfgang Jurgan, CEO of ARD’s central film purchasing agency Degeto Film, this week “for serious organisational deficiencies“.
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Finnish drama Never Alone among Baltic Event winners
Films from Finland, Georgia and Hungary were voted by sales agents, distributors and potential co-producers as the most promising projects at the Baltic Event’s 7th Co-Production Market which came to a close on Friday evening (Dec 2).
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NewsChristian Lemche elected new EFP president
Danish Film Institute’s Lemche takes over presidency of European Film Promotion from Eva Vezer
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NewsTallinn's Black Nights gives grand prix to A Simple Life
Other festival prize winners include We Need To Talk About Kevin, Barzakh, 33 Animals of Santa Claus, and Kotoko.
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NewsGerman and French film producers meet to discuss projects at Paris Rendezvous
A dramatic comedy with Holocaust survivors, a horror film set in Morocco and a Balkan Romeo and Juliet love story were among 25 projects presented to potential production partners at this year’s German-French Film Meeting in Paris (Nov 23-24).
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NewsEC commissioner unveils Creative Europe programme details
Vassiliou says new programme (which replaces MEDIA) will allocate more than €900m for film/audiovisual sectors; European parliament passes resolution on digitisation.