All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 8
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NewsAnonymous, Banijay, Endor execs to advise on Ukrainian series initiative
The aim is to build international bridges for quality, internationally appealing content from Ukraine.
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NewsSweden’s Studio Fares unveils Europe’s largest projector-based virtual production wall
Delegation from Goteborg Film Festival unveils opening at Trollhättan-based studio.
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FeaturesNigeria’s CJ Obasi on how West African folklore inspired Sundance title ‘Mami Wata’
The film premiered on Jan 23 in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
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NewsNorwegian and Sami films in the spotlight at Tromso International Film Festival
Sarah Polley’s ‘Women Talking’ wins two prizes.
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FeaturesHow Sundance doc ‘Fantastic Machine’ explores our obsession with framing the world through the camera lens
Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck’s feature doc world premieres at Sundance.
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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.