All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 83
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NewsUkraine eyeing Eurimages membership
Ukraine is the next East European country signalling interest to become a member of the Council of Europe’s co-production fund Eurimages.
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NewsSecond edition of Moscow Business Square attended by about 350 professionals
Moscow Co-Production Forum included new project from team behind Innocent Saturday, as well as Sarah Bernhardt English-language project.
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NewsNew international film festival to start in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent is to host its first international film festival this October organised by the Uzbekkino National Agency and the Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan.
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NewsGeorgia to become 36th Eurimages member
“Revolutionary” change to guidelines making projects with non-European directors eligible, collaboration between European Producers Club and Russian Cinema Fund
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NewsBekmambetov goes outside Russia for Six Degrees sequel
The sequel to Russian hit comedy Six Degrees Of Celebration has begun shooting with directors including Oksana Bychkova and Alexander Kott.
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NewsGerman funds partner with Russia's RCF to encourage joint development of films
Also German-Polish co-production treaty in the works.
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NewsMunich to open with The Kid With A Bike
Festival will show 237 titles in festival director Andreas Strohl’s last edition.
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NewsEuropean Commission launches public consultation on EU state aid for film industry
The European Commission has launched a public consultation as part of a review of the criteria for assessing the compatibility of national, regional, and local film and audiovisual support schemes with European Union state aid rules.
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EU commissioner: we won't cut MEDIA Programme
The funding source’s budget is to be kept at its current level and could possibly be increased in the European Union’s budget period for 2014-2010, EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski told a delegation of filmmakers in Warsaw on Friday [17].
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NewsEuropean Commissioner proposes guarantee fund for cultural and creative industries
Androulla Vassiliou wants to work with the European Investment Bank to provide guarantees to banks for loans to cultural and creative industries
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NewsFernando Meirelles’ 360 first English language production to tap Austrian incentive
The €11m project shot in Austria last month
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NewsArgentina's No Return takes top prize at Transilvania’s Cluj
Romanian Days awards go to Morgen and Outbound at Transilvania International Film Festival.
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NewsMedia Luna New Films adds four new titles
Films by Hong Kong filmmaker Scud and Finland’s Riamo O. Niemi are among four new titles acquired by Media Luna New Films for international distribution.
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NewsLocarno names first two competition titles, plans two new initiatives
Mia Hansen-Love’s third feature Goodbye First Love [pictured] will have its international premiere.
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NewsRestructured Egoli Tossell lines up slate including Hirschbiegel project
Films by Peter Chelsom, Maria von Heland, and Oliver Hirschbiegel are among the projects being lined up by a reinvigorated Egoli Tossell Film (ETF) for its 2011/2012 slate following the restructuring of the Berlin-based production company after its insolvency at the beginning of this year.
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NewsLocarno’s Pere reveals “stronger American presence”; Rohrer moves to Solothurn
Locarno’s Olivier Père is expecting to have a “stronger American presence” for his second outing as artistic director at this year’s festival (Aug 3-13).Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily during a visit to Berlin, Père said: “This year will see a difference from 2010 in that we have turned more of our ...
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NewsBeta Cinema secures US deal on My Best Enemy
The deal was one of almost two dozen sales agreements concluded by Beta Cinema at this year’s Cannes market.
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NewsUK actors Max Irons and Claire Foy set to star in Boris Damast’s Vivaldi
Celsuis is handling international sales on the historical drama to shoot this autumn; Patricia Riggen also planning different Vivaldi project.
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FeaturesCircles (Krugovi)
The Trap director Srdan Golubovic’s latest feature is the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia.
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NewsKinowelt and Universum buy big in Cannes
New films by Niels Arden Oplev, Olivier Megaton and Martin Scorsese were bought by German independent distributors Kinowelt and Universum Film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.