The Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 1-3), part of the Venice Production Bridge, will present 34 fiction and documentary projects.
The Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 1-3), part of the Venice Production Bridge, will present 34 fiction and documentary projects at the 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30-Septmber 9), including a new project from Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, All Before You.
All Before You offers a retelling of the 1963 farner-led revolt against British colonial rule in Palestine. Jacir’s previous director credits include The Oblivion Theory, which won the top prize at the Berlinale co-production market in 2021, Salt Of This Sea, Wajib and When I Saw You,...
The Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 1-3), part of the Venice Production Bridge, will present 34 fiction and documentary projects at the 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30-Septmber 9), including a new project from Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, All Before You.
All Before You offers a retelling of the 1963 farner-led revolt against British colonial rule in Palestine. Jacir’s previous director credits include The Oblivion Theory, which won the top prize at the Berlinale co-production market in 2021, Salt Of This Sea, Wajib and When I Saw You,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The 10th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market, organized as part of the Venice Film Festival’s industry program Venice Production Bridge, has selected 62 projects in the final stages of development and funding.
Filmmakers taking projects to Venice include Jim Sheridan, an Oscar nominee with “In America,” “In the Name of the Father” and “My Left Foot”; Annemarie Jacir, whose credits include Cannes’ “Salt of This Sea,” Berlin’s “When I Saw You” and Locarno’s “Wajib”; Aisling Walsh, who directed “Maudie” with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, and “Elizabeth Is Missing” with Glenda Jackson; and Kim Mordaunt, who won best debut at Berlin with “The Rocket.”
Also selected are Roberto Minervini, who directed Cannes’ “The Other Side” and Venice’s “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?”; Laurynas Bareisa, who won the Venice Horizons Award for “Pilgrims”; Måns Månsson, who was in Berlin competition with “The Real Estate”; György Pálfi,...
Filmmakers taking projects to Venice include Jim Sheridan, an Oscar nominee with “In America,” “In the Name of the Father” and “My Left Foot”; Annemarie Jacir, whose credits include Cannes’ “Salt of This Sea,” Berlin’s “When I Saw You” and Locarno’s “Wajib”; Aisling Walsh, who directed “Maudie” with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, and “Elizabeth Is Missing” with Glenda Jackson; and Kim Mordaunt, who won best debut at Berlin with “The Rocket.”
Also selected are Roberto Minervini, who directed Cannes’ “The Other Side” and Venice’s “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?”; Laurynas Bareisa, who won the Venice Horizons Award for “Pilgrims”; Måns Månsson, who was in Berlin competition with “The Real Estate”; György Pálfi,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
New Feature projects by Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, Ireland’s Aisling Walsh and Jim Sheridan as well as Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian have been selected for the upcoming edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market.
The 10th edition of the co-financing meeting will run from Sept. 1 to 3 as part as of the Venice Production Bridge, which is the industry component of the Venice Film Festival (Aug 30 to Sept. 9)
The market will present 62 projects in the final stages of development and funding, selected from 280 submissions.
The selection spans 34 feature-length fiction Film and documentary projects, 14 Immersive projects, 11 Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality projects and three Biennale College Cinema projects.
To be eligible for inclusion, the fiction films must have at least 70% of funding in place and be looking for minority partners only.
Full List of Feature Film Projects:
After The Evil (doc) by Tamara Erde, Gloria Films Production All Before You (fiction), by Annemarie Jacir,...
The 10th edition of the co-financing meeting will run from Sept. 1 to 3 as part as of the Venice Production Bridge, which is the industry component of the Venice Film Festival (Aug 30 to Sept. 9)
The market will present 62 projects in the final stages of development and funding, selected from 280 submissions.
The selection spans 34 feature-length fiction Film and documentary projects, 14 Immersive projects, 11 Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality projects and three Biennale College Cinema projects.
To be eligible for inclusion, the fiction films must have at least 70% of funding in place and be looking for minority partners only.
Full List of Feature Film Projects:
After The Evil (doc) by Tamara Erde, Gloria Films Production All Before You (fiction), by Annemarie Jacir,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
“Join forces,’ says Susanna Nicchiarelli, Michela Occhipinti, Chiara Bellosi, and Maura Delpero.
Four Italian directors came together in London last week to call for greater support for female film directors in Italy’s male-dominated industry.
Films by female directors comprised just 13 of the total films produced in Italy in both 2019 and 2020, according to data released by Cinecittà, Italy’s largest production studio. However, this is a significant gain on the 2 figure of 2010.
“There is a cultural problem at the root of all this. I realised it when I tried to get my first film done,” said Susanna Nicchiarelli, of her debut fiction feature Cosmonaut,...
Four Italian directors came together in London last week to call for greater support for female film directors in Italy’s male-dominated industry.
Films by female directors comprised just 13 of the total films produced in Italy in both 2019 and 2020, according to data released by Cinecittà, Italy’s largest production studio. However, this is a significant gain on the 2 figure of 2010.
“There is a cultural problem at the root of all this. I realised it when I tried to get my first film done,” said Susanna Nicchiarelli, of her debut fiction feature Cosmonaut,...
- 6/22/2022
- by Alina Trabattoni
- ScreenDaily
The rising clutch of women directors breaking the glass ceiling in Italy’s male dominated film industry is being celebrated by a curated screenings’ series titled The Wave playing this week in London and set to open with Chiara Bellosi’s Berlin Panorama coming-of-age drama “Swing Ride.”
Running June 15-19 at London’s Ciné Lumière, Kensington, after a previous run in Berlin, The Wave has been assembled by Cinecittà’s promotional arm to draw international notice to what chief Carla Cattani says is “a unique time” for female filmmakers in Italy where they are “no longer isolated cases.”
Indeed, as Cattani notes in her introduction to The Wave’s program notes, prior to 2010 it was very rare to find more than two Italian films directed by females within the same year. In fact in 2010, out of 122 Italian films released theatrically only two titles were directed by women.
Cut to a decade later,...
Running June 15-19 at London’s Ciné Lumière, Kensington, after a previous run in Berlin, The Wave has been assembled by Cinecittà’s promotional arm to draw international notice to what chief Carla Cattani says is “a unique time” for female filmmakers in Italy where they are “no longer isolated cases.”
Indeed, as Cattani notes in her introduction to The Wave’s program notes, prior to 2010 it was very rare to find more than two Italian films directed by females within the same year. In fact in 2010, out of 122 Italian films released theatrically only two titles were directed by women.
Cut to a decade later,...
- 6/14/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Films will be available to stream for free in 45 European countries.
Danish political thriller Sons of Denmark and Serbian stolen child drama Stiches are among the ten European features due to be showcased in the fourth edition of the competitive Artekino Festival, running December 1 to 31, its organisers have announced.
The online festival - which is a joint venture between Franco-German broadcaster Arte and Paris-based digital platform Festival Scope – will be available for free in 45 countries across Europe.
Under the initiative, aimed at promoting the circulation of European films that have not found wide theatrical distribution - 5,000 virtual seats are made...
Danish political thriller Sons of Denmark and Serbian stolen child drama Stiches are among the ten European features due to be showcased in the fourth edition of the competitive Artekino Festival, running December 1 to 31, its organisers have announced.
The online festival - which is a joint venture between Franco-German broadcaster Arte and Paris-based digital platform Festival Scope – will be available for free in 45 countries across Europe.
Under the initiative, aimed at promoting the circulation of European films that have not found wide theatrical distribution - 5,000 virtual seats are made...
- 11/29/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Moviegoing Memories is a series of short interviews with filmmakers about going to the movies. Adele Tulli's Normal is Mubi Go's Film of the week of September 27, 2019.Notebook: How would you describe your movie in the least amount of words? Adele Tulli: Up close, what counts as normal does not feel so reassuring. Anymore. Notebook: Where and what is your favourite movie theatre? Why is it your favorite?Tulli: Bologna, Piazza Maggiore, Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival. Because it is an open-air collective experience, in the evening breeze of June, in one of the most beautiful squares in Italy, public, free, and open to anyone. With a selection of restored classic and rare films, often with live music accompaniment. Ultimate cinema paradiso. Notebook: What is the most memorable movie screening of your life? Why is it memorable? Tulli: Thelma & Louise, around eleven years old, on my own, on a VHS I found at home,...
- 9/26/2019
- MUBI
Adele Tulli’s elegantly deadpan documentary challenges the sexual stereotypes that prevail across the generations
Adele Tulli’s quizzically entitled film, Normal, is an elegantly composed, pleasingly shot series of vignettes, presented in a documentary style that I think of as anthropo-deadpan – the Austrian film-maker Nikolaus Geyrhalter is a master of this. Tulli is taking issue with the normality of sexual stereotypes as they are manufactured in Italy, from toddlerhood to early middle age. It is well made and there are some very startling moments, although I wonder if, in the end, this film is a beautifully made sermon to the choir.
A seraphically calm and heartbreakingly sweet little girl submits (with face in extreme closeup) to having earrings attached by a doctor; a boy prepares for a speedway event with his dad cheering lustily from the sidelines; a plastics factory turns out plastic moulds for irons, and then we...
Adele Tulli’s quizzically entitled film, Normal, is an elegantly composed, pleasingly shot series of vignettes, presented in a documentary style that I think of as anthropo-deadpan – the Austrian film-maker Nikolaus Geyrhalter is a master of this. Tulli is taking issue with the normality of sexual stereotypes as they are manufactured in Italy, from toddlerhood to early middle age. It is well made and there are some very startling moments, although I wonder if, in the end, this film is a beautifully made sermon to the choir.
A seraphically calm and heartbreakingly sweet little girl submits (with face in extreme closeup) to having earrings attached by a doctor; a boy prepares for a speedway event with his dad cheering lustily from the sidelines; a plastics factory turns out plastic moulds for irons, and then we...
- 9/25/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
16 titles will play across three Kinoscope sections.
Nadav Lapid’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, Juliano Dornelles’ Cannes Competition entry Bacurau and Anna Eborn’s Rotterdam award winner Transnistra are among the selection for the Kinoscope strand at Sarajevo Film Festival (August 16-23 2019).
The festival has selected 16 titles across three sections.
Scroll down for the full list of films
The Kinoscope section is open to films from around the world, excluding the Southeastern European territories which comprise the festival’s competition strand.
One title from the UK, Peter Strickland’s dark comedy In Fabric, is chosen, in the Kinoscope Surreal section.
Nadav Lapid’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, Juliano Dornelles’ Cannes Competition entry Bacurau and Anna Eborn’s Rotterdam award winner Transnistra are among the selection for the Kinoscope strand at Sarajevo Film Festival (August 16-23 2019).
The festival has selected 16 titles across three sections.
Scroll down for the full list of films
The Kinoscope section is open to films from around the world, excluding the Southeastern European territories which comprise the festival’s competition strand.
One title from the UK, Peter Strickland’s dark comedy In Fabric, is chosen, in the Kinoscope Surreal section.
- 7/26/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Festival to feature 12 UK premieres.
The UK’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (Ica) is introducing a work-in-progress event to its annual festival Frames of Representation (April 12-20).
Run in partnership with Sundance Documentary Institute, Cineteca Madrid and Kingston University, the initiative will give two filmmakers the opportunity to present their projects to both the festival audience and industry professionals, who will provide development feedback.
The two selected filmmakers will be announced closer to the festival.
Further events taking place include a workshop on cinematic language with filmmakers Zhu Shengze and Adele Tulli, who will both have films screened during the festival.
The UK’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (Ica) is introducing a work-in-progress event to its annual festival Frames of Representation (April 12-20).
Run in partnership with Sundance Documentary Institute, Cineteca Madrid and Kingston University, the initiative will give two filmmakers the opportunity to present their projects to both the festival audience and industry professionals, who will provide development feedback.
The two selected filmmakers will be announced closer to the festival.
Further events taking place include a workshop on cinematic language with filmmakers Zhu Shengze and Adele Tulli, who will both have films screened during the festival.
- 3/12/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Gender as a construct is explored to unsettling effect in the ironically titled documentary Normal, directed by Italian academic-turned-filmmaker Adele Tulli (365 without 377). This startling and confrontational work of non-fiction cinema is really in full-on observational mode — a la Nikolaus Geyrhalter and his Our Daily Bread — serving up scene after scene of mundane events and tasks carried out by John (or should that be Giovanni?) Does and Jane Does in different parts of Italy. The cumulative effect is that an idea emerges of the frightening extent to which our daily lives in the West are informed by ...
- 2/20/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gender as a construct is explored to unsettling effect in the ironically titled documentary Normal, directed by Italian academic-turned-filmmaker Adele Tulli (365 Without 377). This startling and confrontational work of non-fiction cinema is really in full-on observational mode — a la Nikolaus Geyrhalter and his Our Daily Bread — serving up scene after scene of mundane events and tasks carried out by John (or should that be Giovanni?) Does and Jane Does in different parts of Italy. The cumulative effect is that an idea emerges of the frightening extent to which our daily lives in the West are informed by ...
- 2/20/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
2019 is looking buoyant for Italy’s film and longform narrative TV industries, which are becoming increasingly interconnected as a new generation of directors emerges. They are crossing over between the two media while recent legislation pumps millions of Euros into the country’s production and distribution sectors.
Just as high-end TV dramas directed by Italian film auteurs such as Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope” and Saverio Costanzo’s “My Brilliant Friend” conquer global small-screen audiences, theatrical box-office returns have been plunging, prompting many of Italy’s top film industry players to regroup. Most are making both movies and TV.
Case in point: Palomar, the company behind “Piranhas,” Italy’s Berlin competition entry depicting Neapolitan teen gangsters. The gritty drama is directed by up-and-coming helmer Claudio Giovannesi and based on a novel by star author Roberto Saviano, whose mob exposé “Gomorrah” spawned both a prize-winning movie and a game-changing TV series.
Just as high-end TV dramas directed by Italian film auteurs such as Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope” and Saverio Costanzo’s “My Brilliant Friend” conquer global small-screen audiences, theatrical box-office returns have been plunging, prompting many of Italy’s top film industry players to regroup. Most are making both movies and TV.
Case in point: Palomar, the company behind “Piranhas,” Italy’s Berlin competition entry depicting Neapolitan teen gangsters. The gritty drama is directed by up-and-coming helmer Claudio Giovannesi and based on a novel by star author Roberto Saviano, whose mob exposé “Gomorrah” spawned both a prize-winning movie and a game-changing TV series.
- 2/8/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian sales company Slingshot Films has taken world sales on timely Berlin Panorama doc “Normal,” a reflection on how female and male identities play out in everyday interactions, through a collage of immersive scenes filmed all over Italy.
Directed by London and Rome-based director Adele Tulli – who has made a splash on the specialized fest circuit most recently with “Rebel Menopause,” about French women’s rights activist Thérèse Clerc – “Normal” is described by Tulli in her directors’ statement as a “ballet of moving images” capturing some of the most iconic moments in people’s life, from birth to adulthood and revealing “how our gender defines us in most of the things we do, affecting our gestures, desires, behaviors, and aspirations.”
By depicting “the spectacle of gender in everyday life” it invites the audience “to question and unravel the very idea of normality,” Tulli said.
Commenting on the pic’s experimental...
Directed by London and Rome-based director Adele Tulli – who has made a splash on the specialized fest circuit most recently with “Rebel Menopause,” about French women’s rights activist Thérèse Clerc – “Normal” is described by Tulli in her directors’ statement as a “ballet of moving images” capturing some of the most iconic moments in people’s life, from birth to adulthood and revealing “how our gender defines us in most of the things we do, affecting our gestures, desires, behaviors, and aspirations.”
By depicting “the spectacle of gender in everyday life” it invites the audience “to question and unravel the very idea of normality,” Tulli said.
Commenting on the pic’s experimental...
- 2/5/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Casey Affleck has been relatively quiet since winning an Oscar for his leading role in “Manchester by the Sea,” but he’s about to break his silence in a big way. The actor is making his narrative directorial debut with “Light of My Life,” which was just added to the Panorama section of next month’s Berlin Film Festival. Affleck stars alongside Elisabeth Moss and newcomer Anna Pniowsky in the post-apocalyptic drama, which tells of a “society without women” where “gender roles have to be renegotiated.”
The full list of new additions to the Panorama section:
“La Arrancada (On the Starting Line)” — France / Cuba / Brazil
by Aldemar Matias
Aldemar Matias delivers this delicate, sensitively filmed family portrait from Cuba. The life of competitive athlete Jenniffer is on the brink of change, just like the whole country. She is poised on the starting blocks – and not just in the 100-meter dash.
The full list of new additions to the Panorama section:
“La Arrancada (On the Starting Line)” — France / Cuba / Brazil
by Aldemar Matias
Aldemar Matias delivers this delicate, sensitively filmed family portrait from Cuba. The life of competitive athlete Jenniffer is on the brink of change, just like the whole country. She is poised on the starting blocks – and not just in the 100-meter dash.
- 1/21/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres.
The final titles for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Among the new additions is Light Of My Life, directed by and starring Casey Affleck and co-starring Elisabeth Moss.
Titles revealed back in December include Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres. There are 29 features, 16 documentaries and 19 directorial debuts.
The full list...
The final titles for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Among the new additions is Light Of My Life, directed by and starring Casey Affleck and co-starring Elisabeth Moss.
Titles revealed back in December include Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres. There are 29 features, 16 documentaries and 19 directorial debuts.
The full list...
- 1/21/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Casey Affleck-directed drama Light Of My Life, starring Affleck, Elisabeth Moss and newcomer Anna Pniowsky, will get its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. The dystopian drama, about a father and his young daughter who are trapped in the woods, is one of a raft of additions to the Panorama lineup. Scroll down for the lineup in full.
A total of 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres, will screen in the section. Panorama’s opening film will be Flatland by Jenna Bass, in which a bride and her pregnant friend make a liberating getaway across South Africa.
Among the strand’s highlights are Affleck’s first narrative feature as director, which is produced by The Imitation Game outfit Black Bear Pictures; Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul follow-up Tremblores (Tremors), about a father who tries to break free from his past after breaking the silence about...
A total of 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres, will screen in the section. Panorama’s opening film will be Flatland by Jenna Bass, in which a bride and her pregnant friend make a liberating getaway across South Africa.
Among the strand’s highlights are Affleck’s first narrative feature as director, which is produced by The Imitation Game outfit Black Bear Pictures; Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul follow-up Tremblores (Tremors), about a father who tries to break free from his past after breaking the silence about...
- 1/21/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians has taken the top Crystal Globe award at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Czech fest’s Special Jury Prize went to Ana Katz’s Sueño Florianópolis, and Olmo Omerzu was named best director for the film Winter Flies.
See the complete list of winners below.
As previously announced, the festival, which ran from June 29 – July 7, presented a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema to actor and director Tim Robbins, and to Rain Man director Barry Levinson.
In all, the non-specialized festival, with three competitive categories, screened 236 films, with a total of 140,135 tickets sold, according to the festival. Among the films were 143 full-length and 38 short features; 55 documentary films (including 35 full-length). World premieres totaled 35 films, with eight international premieres and seven European premieres.
The fest was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary,...
See the complete list of winners below.
As previously announced, the festival, which ran from June 29 – July 7, presented a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema to actor and director Tim Robbins, and to Rain Man director Barry Levinson.
In all, the non-specialized festival, with three competitive categories, screened 236 films, with a total of 140,135 tickets sold, according to the festival. Among the films were 143 full-length and 38 short features; 55 documentary films (including 35 full-length). World premieres totaled 35 films, with eight international premieres and seven European premieres.
The fest was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary,...
- 7/7/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Ahmad Ghossein’s Lebanese film wins in first year award is open to films from the Middle East.
The winners of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s ‘Eastern Promises’ - the rebranded name for the event’s industry offerings - were revealed last night at its annual industry party.
The works in progress award, open to films from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East, was won the Lebanon/France/Germany co-production All This Victory directed by Ahmad Ghossein. The film was one of 11 other projects pitched during the event.
“The project is based on a true story,...
The winners of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s ‘Eastern Promises’ - the rebranded name for the event’s industry offerings - were revealed last night at its annual industry party.
The works in progress award, open to films from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East, was won the Lebanon/France/Germany co-production All This Victory directed by Ahmad Ghossein. The film was one of 11 other projects pitched during the event.
“The project is based on a true story,...
- 7/4/2018
- by Laurence Boyce
- ScreenDaily
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