All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 6
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NewsNew team including ‘Lamb’ producer takes over at Iceland’s Stockfish festival (exclusive)
Career achievement award, physical cinema sidebar and Slovakian collaboration planned for 2023.
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NewsTrustNordisk rides Swedish ‘Carousel’ (exclusive)
The film, now in post, is directed by Simon Sandquist, who was Oscar-nominated for his 1998 short Victor.
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NewsElisa Fernanda Pirir exits Mer Film to set up Norwegian production company Staer
Collaborators include documentary specialist Kristine Ann Skaret, US producer Jim Stark.
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Features70 European and Mena films to tempt festival directors in 2023
Jessica Hausner, Marco Bellocchio, Michel Gondry and Lone Scherfig are among the auteurs with new films this year.
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NewsLevelK boards Rotterdam, Goteborg title ‘Four Little Adults’ (exclusive)
New film from Selma Vilhunen, who directed 2019 Berlinale Crystal Bear winner ‘Stupid Young Heart’.
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Features‘Babylon’ team on designing Damien Chazelle’s ambitious Old Hollywood vision: “It was high octane”
Damien Chazelle’s 1920s tale of outsiders breaking into Hollywood combines rich and poor, opulent parties and desert locations — as Babylon production designer Florencia Martin and costume designer Mary Zophres explain to Screen.
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FeaturesSara Dosa on ‘Fire Of Love’: “This forced me to work and think in a completely different way”
Fire Of Love director Sara Dosa talks to Screen about delving into archive, finding an unusual love story and why volcanoes are ‘the stuff of magic’.
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FeaturesMargaret Brown on making slave ship documentary ‘Descendant’, partnering with the Obamas
Descendant director Margaret Brown talks to Screen about how the community in Mobile, Alabama is still reckoning with the legacy of the last slave ship to reach the US.
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NewsGoteborg to open with Abbe Hassan’s ‘Exodus’; Jan Troell gets top honour
Goteborg will screen nearly 250 films in 700 screenings, making it the largest film festival in Scandinavia.
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NewsRuben Östlund to ‘direct the audience’ at Goteborg Film Festival screening
He is preparing to “break the fourth wall” during a screening of his ’Triangle Of Sadness.
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FeaturesWhy Brian Tyree Henry signed up for ‘Causeway’ without reading the script: “I didn’t really care what my part was”
‘Causeway’ actor Brian Tyree Henry discusses working with director Lila Neugebauer and co-star Jennifer Lawrence.
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Features‘She Said’ writer on the “huge responsibility” to #MeToo survivors
Rebecca Lenkiewicz wanted to honour the journalists and survivors at the centre of the Weinstein scandal.
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NewsHBO’s ‘True Detective 4’ becomes first recipient of Iceland’s new 35% incentive as local industry booms (exclusive)
The series is party shooting at Baltasar Kormakur’s RVK Studios and is doubling Iceland for Alaska.
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NewsLevelK boards Berlinale Generation title ‘Sea Sparkle’ (exclusive)
The debut film from Belgian director Domien Huyghe deals with the grief of a teenage girl.
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NewsTrustNordisk boards Berlinale Panorama selection ‘The Quiet Migration’ (exclusive)
Danish filmmaker Malene Choi previously directed The Return.
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FeaturesWhat has been the cost of Denmark’s landmark streaming deal to the stalled local industry?
The Danish production sector has been almost shut down for a year amid talks with the streamers for improved terms.
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NewsLevelK boards Danish animation ‘Rosa And The Stone Troll’ (exclusive)
Film is first feature animation from director Karla Nor Holmbäck.
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News‘Triangle Of Sadness’, Icelandic music and Ukraine were the stars of the 2022 European Film Awards
Tributes to Ukraine draw standing ovations at the ceremony held in Reykjavik.
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NewsYellow Affair closes North America, UK, France and German deals for ‘Punch', starring Tim Roth (exclusive)
Project is director Welby Ings’ debut feature.
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FeaturesWhat are the pros and cons of gender-neutral acting categories?
The Bifas adopted gender-neutral acting categories for the first time this year, with the Berlinale switching in 2021.