All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 79
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FeaturesIceland: Baltasar Kormakur & Agnes Johansen, RKV Studios
Film-maker Baltasar Kormakur and his producing partner Agnes Johansen talk to Wendy Mitchell about building RVK Studios, a Reykjavik firm that has global ambitions while staying true to its local roots.
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FeaturesTERRITORY FOCUS: Iceland
Iceland has seen a recent Hollywood boom with projects such as Noah, Game Of Thrones and The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, and local talents are also thriving despite funding challenges. Wendy Mitchell looks at the filmic draw of this unique island nation.
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NewsOnes Below begins shoot with Poesy, Morrissey
David Farr’s psychological thriller starts shooting with Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
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NewsDoha backs 21 projects from 14 countries
The Doha Film Institute has unveiled the spring recipients from its film grants programme, backing 21 projects from 14 countries.
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FeaturesMikkel Norgaard, The Absent One
The Fantastic Fest world premiere is a Danish crime thriller that offers a big scale and more complex topics than the first film in the Department Q series, The Keeper of Lost Causes.
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NewsFilmmakers launch new Iceland festival
A group of film industry veterans is launching a new film festival in Iceland, Stockfish Film Festival.
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News'Montenegro' team plan Berlin TV series
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Holdridge and Linea Saasen, the writer/directors in Toronto with Meet Me in Montenegro, are now writing an ambitious TV series to be set in 1945 post-war Berlin.
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FeaturesOlivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, Samba
The French directing duo follow up their huge hit Intouchables with Samba, starring Omar Sy as an African immigrant in Paris who falls in love with his immigration worker.
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NewsIFFR Live! to kick off with Atlantic
EXCLUSIVE: European cinemas and VOD platforms to host films simultaneously with Rotterdam festival launches.
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CommentTrumbo hits Toronto
Bryan Cranston and Jay Roach promote their upcoming biopic of Dalton Trumbo.
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NewsNimbus scares up ghost story
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Lars Bredo Rahbek of Copenhagen’s Nimbus Film, whose Itsi Bitsi screened premiered at TIFF last night, is now developing a big-screen adaptation of In Search of a Distant Voice by author Taichi Yamada.
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NewsBuyers hello to Farewell
Venice Days BNL People’s Choice award winner sells to Benelux, Germany and Australia/New Zealand, among others.
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NewsSoda takes UK/Canada for Angel
EXCLUSIVE: Distributor acquires UK/Ireland and Canadian rights to Michal Winterbottom’s Toronto premiere.
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CommentAll the Toronto tips you'll ever need...
If you can’t take one more drink in the Hyatt bar, two Torontonians have just the list for you.
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NewsUS experts head OMDC panel
John Sloss of Cinetic Media, Jonathan Sehring from IFC Films and Jason Janego & Tom Quinn [pictured] from RADiUS among those on panel.
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NewsDavid Gordon Green heads to Bolivia
Our Brand Is Crisis stars Sandra Bullock, who will also executive produce, with the Warner Bros project produced by Smokehouse.
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FeaturesSusanne Bier, A Second Chance
The Oscar-winning Danish filmmaker follows the romance Love Is All You Need with this darker tale of a detective (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who crosses a moral line after a family tragedy.