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Day 1 Berlinale and EFM
by alex deleon for <filmfestivals.com> Berlin or bust ... The Grand Budapest Hotel The Berlin Film Festival was established during the height of the Cold War in 1951 and this year is the 64th edition of this major event on the international film festival calendar. Some 300,000 tickets are sold each year. Last year 16,000 film professionals from 120 different countries gathered here for this annual interchange of motion pictures, industry networking, and cross-fertilization of ...
Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters, Jury President James Schamus, and Festival Director Dieter Kosslick will open the 64th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast at 7.30 pm on February 6. During the Opening Gala, the International Jury will be introduced. In addition to James Schamus (USA), its members are Barbara Broccoli (USA), Trine Dyrholm (Denmark), Mitra Farahani (Iran), Greta Gerwig (USA), Michel Gondry...
Monika Grütters, Germany’s new Minister of State for Culture and the Media, paid the European Film Market (EFM) of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival an official visit this Friday morning. Together with Festival Director Dieter Kosslick, EFM Director Beki Probst and EFM Co-Director Andrea Kaul, Minister of State Monika Grütters toured the market for an hour and spoke with representatives of various companies. She also took a look at a new initiative of the EFM and Berl...
MEET THE DUTCH IN BERLIN The Netherlands claims a strong presence at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. All below Dutch films, except the graduation film Even Cowboys Get To Cry, are supported by the Netherlands Film Fund. COMPETITION ...
A taste of Mexican...at the Berlinale
The next edition of the Berlinale, which will be held from February 6th to the 16th, has reserved a leading role for the creations of Mexican cinema. Six Mexican projects will be shown in various sections, some of them competing for awards: Güeros by Alonso Ruizpalacios, We Are Mari Pepa by Samuel Kishi Leopo, César Chávez by Diego Luna, Los Ángeles by Damian John Harper, Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas by Marie Losier and La última película by Mark P...
Manifest Film Sales (a division of Intandem Media Group) today announced that three films, in various stages of production will be introduced to international buyers at the EFM. TOP DOG, directed by British actor, musician and filmmaker Martin Kemp (The Krays) starring Leo Gregory (Green Street Hooligans) and Ricci Harnett (28 Days Later) has wrapped and is currently in post-production. Universal Pictures UK has the UK rights and will release in June. Top Dog is based on the sequel to...
Film sales company Studio 100 Film announced today that it has completed pre-sales for the company’s new feature length films Maya The Bee – Movie, Vic The Viking – Movie, Heidi - Movie and Blinky Bill – Movie. Studio 100 Film part of leading global family entertainment group Studio 100 and a subsidiary of international children’s production and distribution company Studio 100 Media GmbH has sold the rights to Maya The Bee – Movie, Vic...
Watch out for this film and get your personal screening invite from Dreams Hill. SYNOPSIS Dr. Davide Piso, a brave and open-minded scientist, has been studying thousands of cases related to alien abductions. By placing abductees under hypnosis, he arrives at the unsettling discovery that for thousands of years, a variety of extraterrestrial races have been installing their active memories in abducted people's brains: this provides them a unique access to the human dimen...
Since 2004, the FGYO is inviting three German and three French young (18-29) film enthusiasts to Berlin to jusge and award the "FGYO Dialogue en perspective" Award. a A seventh member of the jury from a third country, a young Israeli, has qualified this year. During the Berlinale, they are invited to view features films from young German Directors from "Perspective Deutsches Kino" and judge them under the guidance of French Director D...
With 14 films, including nine full-length fictional features, and five medium-long fictional and documentary films (20 to 60 minutes), the selection for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2014 has been completed. (See also the first press release from Dec. 18, 2013.) The programme will open with the fictional feature Hüter meines Bruders made, with the support of Six Pack, a project to promote talented new filmmakers, by director Maximilian Leo. After completing ...
In memory of Hungarian master director Miklós Jancsó († January 31, 2014), the Berlinale is showing his contribution to the anthology film Magyarország 2011 (Hungary 2011) beginning February 6, 2014, online at www.berlinale.de. Miklós Jancsó, an exponent of “New Wave” cinema, developed his own recognisable personal style and cinematic signature. The Berlinale had close ties to him as he had participated in various sections ...
To mark the death of US-actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on February 2, 2014, the 64th Berlin International Film Festival will present a special screening of Capote at the CinemaxX 6 on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 9.00 pm. The Berlinale screened Bennett Miller’s Capote, for which Philip Seymour Hoffman received a Golden Globe and then an Oscar for Best Actor, in the Competition in 2006. This outstanding artist also appeared in other films at the Berlinale, such as Richard Kwietnio...
The producers behind Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Iceman join forces on the genre bending FEAR PARIS, a bold new film of inter-connected stories exploring the dark underbelly of the city of lights. Helmed by directors Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Hole), Xavier Gens (Hitman), and Timo Vuorensola (Iron Sky), the genre bending stories will present a Paris unlike anything seen before, in a combination of fantasy, horror and science fiction. Casting is under way as the...
THE NIGHT CREW GENRE: Action Thriller DIRECTOR: Christian Sesma (Shoot The Hero) PRODUCER: Ryan Noto, Elias Axume CAST: Luke Goss (Death Race 2, Blade II, Hellboy II), Danny Trejo (Machete Kills) Bokeem Woodbine (Total Recall, Ray, The Rock) LOGLINE: THE NI...
SONY PICTURES CLASSICS TO DISTRIBUTE BERLIN COMPETITION TITLE ALOFT Dreamcatchers announced today that Sony Pictures Classics have acquired all US and Latin American rights to Berlin competition title, ALOFT, written and directed by Claudia Llosa. Producers on the film include Jose María Morales on behalf of WANDA, Ibon Cormenzana on behalf of ARCADIA, Phyllis Laing on behalf of BUFFALO GAL and Jerome Vidal on behalf of NOODLES. This is Llosa's first English La...
The Dutch-Belgian co-production Above Us All by director Eugenie Jansen (Achterland, Calimucho) has its world première on Wednesday, 12 February at the 64th film festival in Berlin. Jansen has chosen a very special form for Above Us All: this 3D film is made up entirely of circular movements, with the camera revolving through 360-degree pans. Each circle is a scene containing no cuts, allowing the viewer to experience a unity of time and space. Above Us Al...
“The Red Robin,” starring Academy Award-nominated Judd Hirsch, Ryan O’Nan (The Iceman) and CS Lee ("Dexter") Embarks On Euro Festival Tour; Cinemavault Debuts Feature at EFM in Berlin New York, February 5, 2014 -- “The Red Robin,” the award-winning film by independent filmmaker Michael Z. Wechsler, will make its European premiere in February at the Glasgow Film Festival (February 20-March 2, 2014) and the Fantasporto Festival in Portuga...
Bella Mia About the Film A farmer gets some bad news: the tests were positive and all of this year’s stock must be disposed of. Their transport is accompanied by confusion which allows the escape of a small group led by Bella. They try to survive in nature, unprotected from human cruelty and arrogance. One by one the cows succumb to the pursuit of the hunters and the harsh winter conditions. With spring comes yet another attack from the hunters on the herd and onl...
The 28th TEDDY AWARD will be presented on 14 February 2014 at a gala ceremony in the Komische Oper Berlin. This year the Special TEDDY AWARD goes to two filmmakers whose works have had a remarkable impact on queer cinema. Rosa Von Praunheim Rosa Von Praunheim is particularly well known for his pioneering 1970/71 film Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt [It is not the homosexual who is perverse, but the society in which he lives] that played a cruci...
The programme for the 64th Berlinale is available at www.berlinale.de. The list of PR agents for the films is also available online at: https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pr-agenten/index.html News: Berlinale Screening Edward Snowden – Das Interview The Berlinale is presenting Edward Snowden – Das Interview (dir: Hubert Seipel) in a special screening at CinemaxX 5, at 10.00 pm on February 10, 2014. In his first TV interview since fleeing to Russia, former NSA contractor Ed...
Hi Shall we schedule a quick meeting in Berlin (9/15) to discuss promotion of your festival on filmfestivals.com? Chinese are celebrating the Horse for the coming new year… I wish you too a Happy New Year of the Horse... or any other ride you prefer! Kindest regards Bruno Chatelin T H E E D I T O R Member of Cesar, European Film Academy, Advisory Member IFFS, BIFF Phone +33 (0)1 72 74 71 79 Cell: +33 (0)6 80 99 57 34 The non-stop fes...
The Fantasia team in Berlin: Mitch Davis, Festival Co-Director, Co-Director of Programming Tony Timpone, Co-Director of Programming Stephanie Trepanier, Market Director Lindsay Peters, Programmer (Europe and Scandinavia) Eric Boisvert, Programmer (Action and Asia) follow on Facebook ...
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