All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 73
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CommentThe Seventh Fire: from wild rice to Terrence Malick
Director Jack Pettibone Riccobono and producer Shane Slattery-Quintanilla talk about how their intimate study of a troubled Native American community drew in high-profile collaborators.
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NewsBernal joins Doha’s Qumra; 31 projects selected
Mexican actor joins lists of ‘masters’ for DFI’s inaugural Qumra event, which will see 31 projects from 29 countries involved.
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NewsTruenorth navigates to Jonasson's Others
EXCLUSIVE: Icelandic production company gears up for first in-house production.
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NewsScoop readies UK road comedy After Louise
EXCLUSIVE: UK production company behind Berlin title The Beat Beneath My Feet greenlights next feature.
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NewsFestival Scope, Gutek let audiences vote
EXCLUSIVE: Scope50 presents a new arthouse distribution business model to stimulate audience interest in independent European films.
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NewsBreathe team sings with Beggar’s Opera
EXCLUSIVE: Partners behind Breathe Umphefumlo reteaming on new slate of films.
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FeaturesAndrew Haigh, 45 Years
Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years is a truthful story about an older couple. He tells Wendy Mitchell about the film’s thematic inspirations and working with the dream cast of Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay.
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NewsWarp collaborators launch Duck Soup
Company will announce its first slate of projects closer to Cannes.
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FeaturesBerlin 2015: the coolest premieres
Screen previews the Berlinale’s world premieres in this year’s Competition, Panorama and Berlinale Special sections.
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FeaturesTerritory Focus: Spain
Spain is not an easy territory to categorise. In many ways, it is a cinema industry of contrasts.
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CommentBroadcast blues
The Berlinale’s European Film Market kicks off the year’s dealmaking for the European film industry in earnest.
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NewsLora-Mungai, Matatu form African studio Restless Global
Producers Marie Lora-Mungai and Tendeka Matatu are merging their assets to create Restless Global, a development, finance, production, distribution and exhibition studio for African content both within and outside Africa.
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FeaturesJeppe Ronde, Bridgend
The Danish director talks about his teen suicide drama, which screens at the Goteborg International Film Festival, following its world premiere in Rotterdam.
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NewsRotterdam: How festivals can evolve with audiences
At a panel in Rotterdam, the ‘next wave’ of festival programmers from across the globe debated topics such as how much to programme audience-friendly films while championing more challenging work.
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NewsRivers, Russell, Benhaim win IFFR Short Tigers
UK wins two of three Canon Tiger Awards at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR); Serbia-Germany short submitted to EFAs.
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NewsNorfolk producer readies new projects
EXCLUSIVE: Crybaby Pictures plans project with The Bureau, Steel Mill Pictures.
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CommentIFFR Live: from Rotterdam to the world
I’m not sure what it felt like in Ljubljana or Dundee, but from Rotterdam the first IFFR Live screening of Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s drama Atlantic. was quite exciting.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Jeppe Ronde, Bridgend
The Danish director talks about his teen suicide drama, which receives its world premiere in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
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NewsHeretic Outreach takes two to Rotterdam
Heretic Outreach has boarded its first projects ahead of IFFR.
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FeaturesTomm Moore, Song Of The Sea
Oscar-nominated Irish animation Song Of The Sea draws on ancient folklore and traditional animation techniques to tell a universal family story. Wendy Mitchell talks to director Tomm Moore about the inspirations for the film