All articles by Tim Dams – Page 2
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NewsTorinoFilmLab awards €50,000 co-production grant to ‘9 Temples To Heaven’
Chidgasornpongse’s fiction debut wins €50,000 production grant plus TFL training sessions.
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NewsLocarno adds Naomi Kawase’s ‘Yakushima’s Illusion’ to international competition
Japanese director’s latest stars Vicky Krieps.
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NewsCAT&Docs takes on sales for Parsifal Reparato’s Locarno Critics Week title ‘She’
EXCLUSIVE: Documentary focuses on female workers in one of the largest electronic industrial plants based in Vietnam.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund selects 15 projects for 2025 development support scheme
Fund back projects from directors such as Amanda Nell Eu, Mamadou Dia, Farida Baqi and Xiaoxuan Jiang.
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NewsCape Verde, Zimbabwe and South Africa projects triumph at Durban FilmMart
Three projects won multiple prizes at Durban event focused on African storytelling.
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NewsBenedict Cumberbatch set for Zurich Film Festival honour
British actor to receive festival’s Golden Eye Award.
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NewsTrue Colours takes on sales for Franco Maresco’s Venice competition title ‘Bravo Bene!’
EXCLUSIVE: Italian director was previously in Venice competition with Mafia Is Not What It Used To Be (2019)
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FeaturesEight talking points from the Venice 2025 line-up
Long films, up to 305 minutes; starry nights, with Julia Roberts, George Clooney set to attend; political topics.
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NewsIntramovies acquires Tereza Nvotová’s Venice Horizons premiere ‘Father’
EXCLUSIVE: Father won the Screen International award last year at MIA Market’s work-in-progress programme C EU Soon.
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FeaturesLocarno Pro 2025 aims to match private film financiers with emerging talent
Locarno Pro head Markus Duffner reveals some of the highlights of the festival’s industry programme.
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NewsNicola Borrelli, head of cinema at Italy’s ministry of culture, steps down
Borrelli’s departure comes amid a mounting scandal over the way the country’s tax credit funds are used.
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News“We’re an antidote to the algorithm,” says BFI Player director as platform goes international
BFI Player director Paul Lewis on growing the service’s international footprint and addressing tech issues to make it more accessible.
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NewsOpen Reel scores North America and UK deals for ‘Only Good Things’ and ‘Keep Coming Back’
EXCLUSIVE: Italian sales agent also strikes North America deal for Alan Brown’s Other People’s Bodies.
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NewsKorea’s CJ ENM bets big on AI for future hits across film, TV and animation
Entertianment giant lays out artificial intelligence strategy for creating future film, TV and animation productions.
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FeaturesThe making and marketing of word-of-mouth UK comedy hit ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’
Film has been championed by a wide range of podcasters, comedians, journalists and industry figures such as Notting Hill director Richard Curtis.
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NewsPauline Durand-Vialle to lead European Audiovisual Observatory
Durand-Vialle joins from the Federation of European Screen Directors (FERA).
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NewsACF Investment Bank launches New York office and UK initiative
New York office will be headed by former Lazard banker Jason Rejebian, while ACF Growth will support emerging media companies.
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NewsDocaviv artistic director Michal Weits recovering after missile hits Tel Aviv home
Weits was sheltering with her husband and two children in the safe room of their Tel Aviv house when it was hit on Sunday.
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NewsKarlovy Vary reveals secret Iranian feature ‘Bidad’ for Crystal Globe competition
Festival had withheld details of film until director Soheil Beiraghi and the members of his crew could safely travel out of Iran.
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NewsLukas Dhont, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ryusuke Hamaguchi projects among €10.7m Eurimages funding recipients
European organisation’s latest round of funding has also backed films by Marie Kreutzer, Jonas Poher Rasmussen and Radu Jude.