Prominent Paris-based producer Marianne Slot, who has been instrumental to bringing works by auteurs such as Lars Von Trier, Lucrecia Martel, and Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso to the big screen, is being honored by the Locarno Film Festival.
Slot will receive the Swiss festival’s Raimondo Rezzonico prize for a producer who epitomizes the indie ethos. She will be bestowed with the award on Aug. 5 with a tribute that will include a screening of Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson’s environmental-themed black comedy “Woman At War,” followed by an on-stage conversation on Aug. 6.
Born in Denmark, Slot set up the Paris-based production company Slot Machine in 1993. She has been Von Trier’s French producer since 1995, starting with “Breaking the Waves.” Over the years Slot has shepherded works by a slew of indie auteurs at various stages of their careers. Besides Martel and Erlingsson these include Bent Hamer, Małgorzata Szumowska, Paz Encina,...
Slot will receive the Swiss festival’s Raimondo Rezzonico prize for a producer who epitomizes the indie ethos. She will be bestowed with the award on Aug. 5 with a tribute that will include a screening of Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson’s environmental-themed black comedy “Woman At War,” followed by an on-stage conversation on Aug. 6.
Born in Denmark, Slot set up the Paris-based production company Slot Machine in 1993. She has been Von Trier’s French producer since 1995, starting with “Breaking the Waves.” Over the years Slot has shepherded works by a slew of indie auteurs at various stages of their careers. Besides Martel and Erlingsson these include Bent Hamer, Małgorzata Szumowska, Paz Encina,...
- 4/27/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Locarno Film Festival will honor French-Danish producer Marianne Slot with its Raimondo Rezzonico Award, given to figures who have played a major role in international production, at its 76th edition running from August 2 to 12.
Over the course of her 30-year career, Slot has worked with a host of internationally renowned auteurs including Lars von Trier, Lucrecia Martel, Bent Hamer, Malgoska Szumowska, Paz Encina, Lisandro Alonso, Sergei Loznitsa, Naomi Kawase and Benedikt Erlingsson.
Slot broke into producing on the early works of von Trier, taking co-producer credits on the original The Kingdom TV series as well as Breaking The Waves and The Idiots, and has since become a key figure on the international arthouse co-production scene.
The producer will be in Cannes this year with Lisandro Alonso’s ambitious historical drama Eureka starring Viggo Mortensen, which world premieres in the Cannes Premiere section.
“Marianne Slot’s approach to film production has...
Over the course of her 30-year career, Slot has worked with a host of internationally renowned auteurs including Lars von Trier, Lucrecia Martel, Bent Hamer, Malgoska Szumowska, Paz Encina, Lisandro Alonso, Sergei Loznitsa, Naomi Kawase and Benedikt Erlingsson.
Slot broke into producing on the early works of von Trier, taking co-producer credits on the original The Kingdom TV series as well as Breaking The Waves and The Idiots, and has since become a key figure on the international arthouse co-production scene.
The producer will be in Cannes this year with Lisandro Alonso’s ambitious historical drama Eureka starring Viggo Mortensen, which world premieres in the Cannes Premiere section.
“Marianne Slot’s approach to film production has...
- 4/27/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Paris-based MPM Premium has snagged the international sales rights to French-Colombian documentary “Transfariana” ahead of its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.
The documentary, by French director-cinematographer Joris Lachaise, explores the unusual collaboration between the since-disbanded Colombian guerrilla group Farc and the trans activist movement in Colombia that led to changes in local laws.
A TV version running 1.5 hours was acquired by European culture TV channel, Arte.
In a trailer bowing exclusively in Variety, it opens with Jaison Murillo introducing himself as a political prisoner and Farc guerrilla member. He relates how Trans Laura was transferred to his prison compound where they met and formed a relationship. He’s expelled by his group but it fires him up even more to fight for change. With the historic peace pact between the government and Farc paving the way for change, both marginalized communities find common ground in their struggle for their rights.
The documentary, by French director-cinematographer Joris Lachaise, explores the unusual collaboration between the since-disbanded Colombian guerrilla group Farc and the trans activist movement in Colombia that led to changes in local laws.
A TV version running 1.5 hours was acquired by European culture TV channel, Arte.
In a trailer bowing exclusively in Variety, it opens with Jaison Murillo introducing himself as a political prisoner and Farc guerrilla member. He relates how Trans Laura was transferred to his prison compound where they met and formed a relationship. He’s expelled by his group but it fires him up even more to fight for change. With the historic peace pact between the government and Farc paving the way for change, both marginalized communities find common ground in their struggle for their rights.
- 2/3/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
In the semi-documentary film Eami, a word that tellingly means both “forest” and “world” to the indigenous Ayoreo Totobiegosode people of Paraguay, the native’s increasingly shrinking landscape, due to deforestation, serves as a grounded but dreamlike backdrop for a story that blends elements of fiction and nonfiction storytelling.
As Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina revealed during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary panel, the inspired approach – which tells the fictionalized story of a 5-year-old girl who, like so many of her people before her, finds herself forced to leave the only home she‘s known as the modern world encroaches – arrived at while attempting to persuade the Ayoreo Totobiegosode to let her tell one of their stories cinematically.
Related: Contenders Documentary — Deadline’s Complete Coverage
“I went there looking for a love story in that community,” said Encina, who’d been told of a romantic local mythos. “But it was kind...
As Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina revealed during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary panel, the inspired approach – which tells the fictionalized story of a 5-year-old girl who, like so many of her people before her, finds herself forced to leave the only home she‘s known as the modern world encroaches – arrived at while attempting to persuade the Ayoreo Totobiegosode to let her tell one of their stories cinematically.
Related: Contenders Documentary — Deadline’s Complete Coverage
“I went there looking for a love story in that community,” said Encina, who’d been told of a romantic local mythos. “But it was kind...
- 12/4/2022
- by Scott Huver
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event kicks off Sunday at 8 a.m. Pt and promises to open up distant lands and even a distant planet—no passport required.
Click her to register for and watch today’s Contenders livestream.
The terrain covered by the cast and creatives from our 20 participating films astonishes with its variety and range: an enclave of Delhi, India in All That Breathes, a remote section of Paraguay in Eami, and possibly an even more remote outpost of the Brazilian rainforest in Wildcat. Moscow is the ultimate destination of Navalny, the documentary about Russia’s imprisoned and poisoned opposition leader, and Descendant takes us to a neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama settled by survivors of the last slave ship known to have navigated U.S. waters.
About 5,600 miles separate Moscow from Mobile, mere inches apart compared to the far-flung rendezvous point of Good Night Oppy, about NASA...
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The terrain covered by the cast and creatives from our 20 participating films astonishes with its variety and range: an enclave of Delhi, India in All That Breathes, a remote section of Paraguay in Eami, and possibly an even more remote outpost of the Brazilian rainforest in Wildcat. Moscow is the ultimate destination of Navalny, the documentary about Russia’s imprisoned and poisoned opposition leader, and Descendant takes us to a neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama settled by survivors of the last slave ship known to have navigated U.S. waters.
About 5,600 miles separate Moscow from Mobile, mere inches apart compared to the far-flung rendezvous point of Good Night Oppy, about NASA...
- 12/4/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Eami means “forest” in Ayoreo. It also means “‘”world.” When director Paz Encina traveled to the land of the indigenous Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, she found that they do not make a distinction between these things: The trees, the animals and the plants that have surrounded them for centuries are all they know and now they live in an area – the Chaco plain – that is experiencing the fastest deforestation on the planet.
When Encina immersed herself in the tribe’s mythology and listened to heartbreaking stories of their people being chased of their land, she craved her latest dreamy, magical-realist film Eami, about a little girl called Eami who wanders the rainforest after her village is destroyed and her community disintegrates.
Related: The Contenders International – Deadline’s Full Coverage
“At once I felt it was something that was inevitable that I had to do, [the tribe] wanted to explain what it was like to...
When Encina immersed herself in the tribe’s mythology and listened to heartbreaking stories of their people being chased of their land, she craved her latest dreamy, magical-realist film Eami, about a little girl called Eami who wanders the rainforest after her village is destroyed and her community disintegrates.
Related: The Contenders International – Deadline’s Full Coverage
“At once I felt it was something that was inevitable that I had to do, [the tribe] wanted to explain what it was like to...
- 12/4/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
France’s Cnc Sets Carbon Footprint Stipulations In Return For Support
France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) is set to become one of the first state film and TV bodies to attach green stipulations to its funding. As of March 31, 2023, producers applying for funds across all genres and formats will have to include provisional and final carbon audits for the works when they make the application, the body announced on Wednesday.
The measure, which was approved by the Cnc board this week, is a major pole of its Plan Action! aimed at encouraging France’s audiovisual sector to make the transition towards ecologically sustainable practices and forms of energy. The body said data from the audits would be used for in-house studies assessing the environmental impact of film and TV productions, as well as to devise ways to support the sector as its takes on the challenge of embracing more sustainable practices.
France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) is set to become one of the first state film and TV bodies to attach green stipulations to its funding. As of March 31, 2023, producers applying for funds across all genres and formats will have to include provisional and final carbon audits for the works when they make the application, the body announced on Wednesday.
The measure, which was approved by the Cnc board this week, is a major pole of its Plan Action! aimed at encouraging France’s audiovisual sector to make the transition towards ecologically sustainable practices and forms of energy. The body said data from the audits would be used for in-house studies assessing the environmental impact of film and TV productions, as well as to devise ways to support the sector as its takes on the challenge of embracing more sustainable practices.
- 10/5/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
- 9/13/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
- 9/13/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Hans-Christian Schmid’s ’We Are Next of Kin’ to open German festival.
Filmfest Hamburg has lined up world premieres of films by Fatih Akin, Hans-Christian Schmid and Alrun Goette for its 30th anniversary edition, which runs from September 29 to October 8.
Golden Bear-winner Akin’s biopic of the German rapper and label boss Xatar, Rheingold, starring this year’s European Shooting Star Emilio Sakraya, will have its first screening on the director’s home turf in Hamburg.
Schmid’s adaptation of Johann Scheerer’s autobiographical novel We Are Next Of Kin, which chronicles the kidnapping of Scheerer’s literary scholar and...
Filmfest Hamburg has lined up world premieres of films by Fatih Akin, Hans-Christian Schmid and Alrun Goette for its 30th anniversary edition, which runs from September 29 to October 8.
Golden Bear-winner Akin’s biopic of the German rapper and label boss Xatar, Rheingold, starring this year’s European Shooting Star Emilio Sakraya, will have its first screening on the director’s home turf in Hamburg.
Schmid’s adaptation of Johann Scheerer’s autobiographical novel We Are Next Of Kin, which chronicles the kidnapping of Scheerer’s literary scholar and...
- 8/11/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
International competition titles include ‘Broker’ and ‘Decision To Leave’ from South Korea.
Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) has revealed the line-up of international competition titles for its 39th edition, which includes several award-winners from this year’s Cannes.
Ten features will compete in the international competition of Jff, which is set to host its 39th edition from July 21-31.
These include Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker and Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave from South Korea, which respectively picked up best actor for Song Kang-ho and best director for Park. Also selected is Abi Abbasi’s Holy Spider, which saw Zar Amir-Ebrahimi pick up best actress,...
Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) has revealed the line-up of international competition titles for its 39th edition, which includes several award-winners from this year’s Cannes.
Ten features will compete in the international competition of Jff, which is set to host its 39th edition from July 21-31.
These include Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker and Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave from South Korea, which respectively picked up best actor for Song Kang-ho and best director for Park. Also selected is Abi Abbasi’s Holy Spider, which saw Zar Amir-Ebrahimi pick up best actress,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” described by Variety as “a fizzy, delirious, impishly energized, compulsively watchable 2-hour-and-39-minute fever dream,” is set to open the 37th Guadalajara Int’l Film Festival (Ficg) on June 10.
The biopic starring Austin Butler as Elvis opposite Tom Hanks as his controversial manager, received a rousing 12-minute standing ovation at Cannes, the longest at this year’s edition.
The Festival closes June 18 with Mexico’s own musical icons, Los Tigres del Norte, in the documentary “Los Tigres del Norte: Historias que contar,” by Carlos Pérez Osorio (“Las Cronicas del Taco”), with its band members descending on Guadalajara to present it.
The documentary debuts on Prime Video the day before but it’s all about bringing back the in-person theatrical experience, said festival director Estrella Araiza.
Ficg has managed to push through the pandemic and the current government’s indifference to culture and subsequent budget cuts. Nevertheless,...
The biopic starring Austin Butler as Elvis opposite Tom Hanks as his controversial manager, received a rousing 12-minute standing ovation at Cannes, the longest at this year’s edition.
The Festival closes June 18 with Mexico’s own musical icons, Los Tigres del Norte, in the documentary “Los Tigres del Norte: Historias que contar,” by Carlos Pérez Osorio (“Las Cronicas del Taco”), with its band members descending on Guadalajara to present it.
The documentary debuts on Prime Video the day before but it’s all about bringing back the in-person theatrical experience, said festival director Estrella Araiza.
Ficg has managed to push through the pandemic and the current government’s indifference to culture and subsequent budget cuts. Nevertheless,...
- 6/10/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
In this episode, Paz Encina, Paraguayan filmmaker whose work became a reference in the cinematographic history of her country, and Kiro Russo, who has established himself in a very short time as the most important Bolivian director in activity, talk about cinema and the possibility of reducing the distance between the filmmaker and the other.Paz and Kiro talk about their interests and their relationship to the cinematic traditions of their countries.Listen to the second episode of the new season below or in your favourite podcast app. Subscribe to stay tuned for new episodes of the show:Apple PodcastsSpotify***En este episodio, Paz Encina, cineasta paraguaya cuya obra se convirtió en un referente en la historia cinematográfica de su país, y Kiro Russo, quien se ha consolidado en muy poco tiempo como el director boliviano más importante, conversan sobre el cine y la posibilidad de reducir la distancia entre el cineasta y el otro.
- 4/19/2022
- MUBI
After going virtual for two consecutive years due to the pandemic, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) festival is planning to reduce its core team by 15.
The new team, which will be announced in May during the Cannes Film Festival, will work across five divisions, content, communication and audience reach, funding and business growth, business affairs and operations.
Once again be spearheaded by festival director Vanja Kaludjercic and managing director Marjan van der Haar, Rotterdam is also aiming to return as a physical event for its 52nd edition which will take place Jan. 25 and Feb. 5, 2023.
Kaludjercic said the festival has “deep respect for (its) team which has been able in these past two challenging years to engage the audience and support our filmmakers in innovative new ways.”
The executive added the festival’s ultimate goal was to “create a leading cultural platform accessible to all that champions compelling cinema and audiovisual art.
The new team, which will be announced in May during the Cannes Film Festival, will work across five divisions, content, communication and audience reach, funding and business growth, business affairs and operations.
Once again be spearheaded by festival director Vanja Kaludjercic and managing director Marjan van der Haar, Rotterdam is also aiming to return as a physical event for its 52nd edition which will take place Jan. 25 and Feb. 5, 2023.
Kaludjercic said the festival has “deep respect for (its) team which has been able in these past two challenging years to engage the audience and support our filmmakers in innovative new ways.”
The executive added the festival’s ultimate goal was to “create a leading cultural platform accessible to all that champions compelling cinema and audiovisual art.
- 4/14/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Festival line-up includes 84 world premieres.
Elizabeth, the feature documentary directed by the late Roger Michell, heads the programme of the 53rd edition of Switzerland’s Visions du Réel (VdR) film festival.
The film will play as a special screening out of competition at the non-fiction festival in Nyon. Elizabeth looks at the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving female head of state in history.
Elizabeth comes to VdR following a world premiere at Belgium’s Ostend Film Festival earlier this month.
It is produced by Kevin Loader for the UK’s Free Range Films, with Embankment Films handling sales...
Elizabeth, the feature documentary directed by the late Roger Michell, heads the programme of the 53rd edition of Switzerland’s Visions du Réel (VdR) film festival.
The film will play as a special screening out of competition at the non-fiction festival in Nyon. Elizabeth looks at the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving female head of state in history.
Elizabeth comes to VdR following a world premiere at Belgium’s Ostend Film Festival earlier this month.
It is produced by Kevin Loader for the UK’s Free Range Films, with Embankment Films handling sales...
- 3/17/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Festival line-up includes 84 world premieres.
Elizabeth, the feature documentary directed by the late Roger Michell, will have its world premiere at the 53rd edition of Switzerland’s Visions du Réel (VdR) film festival.
The film will play as a special screening out of competition at the non-fiction festival in Nyon. Elizabeth looks at the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving female head of state in history.
It is produced by Kevin Loader for the UK’s Free Range Films, with Embankment Films handling sales and Signature distributing in the UK and Ireland.
It is one of 84 world premieres on the VdR line-up,...
Elizabeth, the feature documentary directed by the late Roger Michell, will have its world premiere at the 53rd edition of Switzerland’s Visions du Réel (VdR) film festival.
The film will play as a special screening out of competition at the non-fiction festival in Nyon. Elizabeth looks at the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving female head of state in history.
It is produced by Kevin Loader for the UK’s Free Range Films, with Embankment Films handling sales and Signature distributing in the UK and Ireland.
It is one of 84 world premieres on the VdR line-up,...
- 3/17/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Paz Encina’s Eami opens with a scene that feels yanked from a dream, then hangs in this otherworldly realm for the 83 minutes that follow. The scene is a static shot of what looks like a patch of swampland, four small eggs laying camouflaged a few inches from the water. It spans eight minutes, though the way light changes gives a sense of days and nights unfurling in a relentless loop as a girl’s lilting voice, drowned in a symphony of birds’ noises and howling winds, recounts how the Earth was born and humans came into being. The girl is the eponymous Eami (Anel Picanerai), and the film—Encina’s third feature, for which she won top prize at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival—is born of and zeroes in on the indigenous community she hails from, the Ayoreo Totobiegosode, a people whom centuries of colonial violence and...
- 3/2/2022
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
EAMIThese days, as cinematic ingenuity strains to get screened in theaters, and perhaps even more so onto streaming services, film festivals are providing a most welcome ray of hope. In the film industry, many are continuing to struggle to work; many to get work made; and those lucky ones who’ve passed these hurdles, to see their work released and seen by audiences. The continued existence of a festival, despite the tremendous encumbrances of pandemic disruption and mostly undiscussed financial precarity, serves as a crucial vector of sustenance: Movies are being made; moreover they’re being shown and being seen. Even better: movies are great.That, anyway, was my take away from the second virtual International Film Festival Rotterdam, an event that had to be brought online—with one summertime in-person event for locals last June—twice already. Its most recent edition shifted virtually precariously close to its January event,...
- 2/6/2022
- MUBI
For the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, the word “eami” means forest and world. Such twinned meaning speaks to the way this indigenous community understands the environment around them. The forest is their world. Or was. For now, the Paraguayan Chaco where the Ayoreo Totobiegosode live is the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. Such a statistic may not be explicitly spelled out in Paz Encina’s dreamlike feature “Eami,” but it nevertheless helps structure this fictionalized story of a 5-year-old girl called Eami (Anel Picanerai) who’s mourning the place she now must leave, like many in her family have been forced to do before. As a conduit for the history of her people, Eami conjures up other stories that make this poetic ode to the ongoing fight for the memory of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode.
From its very first image, “Eami” demands you immerse yourself in its sensory imagination.
From its very first image, “Eami” demands you immerse yourself in its sensory imagination.
- 2/5/2022
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Paraguayan director Paz Encina, whose striking ecological fable and tale of the pain of exile, “Eami,” won the Tiger Award at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, is developing a slate of feature film projects, Variety can reveal.
The first project, “Sy,” follows the titular character – whose name means “mother” in the Guarani language – after she receives the news that she’ll give birth to a savior who will also be the son of her god. “In this project I would like to work on a woman’s dichotomy between motherhood and faith,” said Encina.
The second film, “El Único Tiempo,” tells the story of an elderly couple living in exile, where they await news of the son who disappeared during Paraguay’s military dictatorship. When their cat mysteriously vanishes one day, their search for it brings them closer to the life they couldn’t share with their missing son.
The first project, “Sy,” follows the titular character – whose name means “mother” in the Guarani language – after she receives the news that she’ll give birth to a savior who will also be the son of her god. “In this project I would like to work on a woman’s dichotomy between motherhood and faith,” said Encina.
The second film, “El Único Tiempo,” tells the story of an elderly couple living in exile, where they await news of the son who disappeared during Paraguay’s military dictatorship. When their cat mysteriously vanishes one day, their search for it brings them closer to the life they couldn’t share with their missing son.
- 2/5/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Monica Vitti in Red Desert (1964). (Courtesy of Janus Films)One of the most captivating presences in Italian cinema, actress Monica Vitti has died at age 90. She started as a stage and television actor before becoming known for her roles in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), La notte (1960), L'eclisse (1962) and Red Desert (1964). After the end of her professional and romantic relationship with Antonioni (the two would return for The Mystery of Oberwald in 1980), Vitti turned to lighter fare by international directors, including a small part in Luis Buñuel's surrealist comedy The Phantom of Liberty (1974). In the official announcement of Vitti's death, Italy’s culture minister Dario Franceschini wrote, “Goodbye to the queen of Italian cinema.”The groundbreaking artist James Bidgood, whose artistic output spanned from photography and music to films like Pink Narcissus (1971), has also died.
- 2/2/2022
- MUBI
RuPaul Leads The Way On BBC Three Return
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Versus The World led the way on BBC Three’s return to linear TV after a six year break last night, securing five times more viewers than any other show. The spin-off format, in which queens from around the world compete, was viewed by 350,000 people from 9pm-10pm, according to Barb data from overnights.tv. It was way ahead of reality format Eating With My Ex (70,000) from the previous slot, while the Launch Party managed just 28,000. The RuPaul spin-off will air for the next 10 weeks and comes off the back of the huge success of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, which has aired for three seasons and is widely recognized to be BBC Three’s most popular non-scripted show.
ITV Studios Promotes Richard Cowles
Love Island and I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! co-creator Richard Cowles...
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Versus The World led the way on BBC Three’s return to linear TV after a six year break last night, securing five times more viewers than any other show. The spin-off format, in which queens from around the world compete, was viewed by 350,000 people from 9pm-10pm, according to Barb data from overnights.tv. It was way ahead of reality format Eating With My Ex (70,000) from the previous slot, while the Launch Party managed just 28,000. The RuPaul spin-off will air for the next 10 weeks and comes off the back of the huge success of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, which has aired for three seasons and is widely recognized to be BBC Three’s most popular non-scripted show.
ITV Studios Promotes Richard Cowles
Love Island and I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! co-creator Richard Cowles...
- 2/2/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman, Max Goldbart and Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina’s “Eami” – being sold by MPM Premium – has won the top Tiger Award and a €40,000 cash prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the festival announced Wednesday. The 51st edition of the Dutch event, forced online due to the Omicron wave, will wrap on Sunday.
The jury, made up of Zsuzsi Bankuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki, was impressed with her complex, magical realist take on the suffering of the indigenous tribes, calling it a “powerful film.” “It gave us the opportunity to dream and, at the same time, a chance to wake up,” they stated.
Inspired by the stories of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, as well as their mythology, Encina created a tale about a young girl who embarks on a journey after her village is destroyed.
“All my films deal with an issue of exile, of the diaspora,...
The jury, made up of Zsuzsi Bankuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki, was impressed with her complex, magical realist take on the suffering of the indigenous tribes, calling it a “powerful film.” “It gave us the opportunity to dream and, at the same time, a chance to wake up,” they stated.
Inspired by the stories of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, as well as their mythology, Encina created a tale about a young girl who embarks on a journey after her village is destroyed.
“All my films deal with an issue of exile, of the diaspora,...
- 2/2/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Paraguayan, French and Chinese features among winners.
Paz Encina’s ecological drama Eami has won the Tiger Award, worth €40,000, at the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The jury said the Paraguayan drama placed a spotlight “on the global massacres of indigenous tribes”. The film depicts the violence committed against the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, who lived in the Northern Paraguayan Chaco but were displaced by rampant deforestation.
It marks the second narrative feature of Paraguayan auteur Encina, whose 2006 debut Paraguayan Hammock won the Fipresci prize when it premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard.
Paris-based MPM Premium handles sales of Eami,...
Paz Encina’s ecological drama Eami has won the Tiger Award, worth €40,000, at the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The jury said the Paraguayan drama placed a spotlight “on the global massacres of indigenous tribes”. The film depicts the violence committed against the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, who lived in the Northern Paraguayan Chaco but were displaced by rampant deforestation.
It marks the second narrative feature of Paraguayan auteur Encina, whose 2006 debut Paraguayan Hammock won the Fipresci prize when it premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard.
Paris-based MPM Premium handles sales of Eami,...
- 2/2/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Filmmakers Paz Encina, Sam de Jong and Roee Rosen talked music, magic realism and fairytales.
Filmmakers Paz Encina, Sam de Jong and Roee Rosen discussed the films they have screening in the Tiger competition and the means used to convey their message onscreen at a digital press conference held by the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Monday (January 31.)
Encina’s third feature film Eami sees the Paraguayan director depict the violence committed against the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode indigenous people of Chaco, capturing a world that may soon be lost. The director said she only recently came to feel it her mission...
Filmmakers Paz Encina, Sam de Jong and Roee Rosen discussed the films they have screening in the Tiger competition and the means used to convey their message onscreen at a digital press conference held by the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Monday (January 31.)
Encina’s third feature film Eami sees the Paraguayan director depict the violence committed against the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode indigenous people of Chaco, capturing a world that may soon be lost. The director said she only recently came to feel it her mission...
- 2/1/2022
- by Alina Trabattoni
- ScreenDaily
World premiering in this year’s Rotterdam Tiger Competition, Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina’s fourth feature “Eami” is a mythological tale born of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode, an indigenous community from the country’s northern regions. Unique in its form, the film blends Encina’s documentarian strengths that have garnered her international recognition and her interest in a highly poetic narrative storytelling.
Produced by Silencio Cine and sold by MPM Premium, the story follows Eami, a child who embodies a bird-god and, in a trance, imagines herself wandering through the forest in constant contact with the cruel reality that surrounds her in the form of deforestation that is a very real, very tangible danger for the Ayoreo Totobiegosode.
The film features a bevy of co-producers including France’s Eaux Vives Productions, Arte France and MPM Film; Mexico’s Splendor Omnia, Barraca Producciones, Piano and Grupo Lvt; Germany’s Black Forest; Argentina...
Produced by Silencio Cine and sold by MPM Premium, the story follows Eami, a child who embodies a bird-god and, in a trance, imagines herself wandering through the forest in constant contact with the cruel reality that surrounds her in the form of deforestation that is a very real, very tangible danger for the Ayoreo Totobiegosode.
The film features a bevy of co-producers including France’s Eaux Vives Productions, Arte France and MPM Film; Mexico’s Splendor Omnia, Barraca Producciones, Piano and Grupo Lvt; Germany’s Black Forest; Argentina...
- 1/27/2022
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Louverture Films, the production company founded by actor Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes, is moving into television as well as animation, gaming and installation works. With two new principal partners in situ, the expansion has enlisted a host of creatives, including directors Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Lucrecia Martel.
Co-founded by Glover and Barnes in 2005 — alongside long-time partners Susan Rockefeller and the Bertha Foundation’s Tony Tabatznik — the company has brought on board Sawsan Asfari and Jeffrey Clark as principal partners. Variety understands that the new partners will allow Louverture to access more funding resources.
In addition, producer Karin Chien, who on Sunday delivered a rousing Sundance Institute Producing Fellows’ keynote, is becoming a partner and executive VP. Meanwhile, Barnes has been promoted to president while Glover remains CEO and co-founder.
Louverture, named after Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture, has built its reputation on international and arthouse films and a strong theatrical documentary slate.
Co-founded by Glover and Barnes in 2005 — alongside long-time partners Susan Rockefeller and the Bertha Foundation’s Tony Tabatznik — the company has brought on board Sawsan Asfari and Jeffrey Clark as principal partners. Variety understands that the new partners will allow Louverture to access more funding resources.
In addition, producer Karin Chien, who on Sunday delivered a rousing Sundance Institute Producing Fellows’ keynote, is becoming a partner and executive VP. Meanwhile, Barnes has been promoted to president while Glover remains CEO and co-founder.
Louverture, named after Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture, has built its reputation on international and arthouse films and a strong theatrical documentary slate.
- 1/24/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based sales agent MPM Premium has shared with Variety a first trailer for “Eami,” a striking ecological fable and tale of the pain of exile which will world premiere in main competition at the 2022 Rotterdam Festival.
Brought onto the market at Ventana Sur, “Eami” marks the fourth feature, and second narrative movie, from Paz Encina, Paraguay’s most prominent auteur whose 2005 debut, “Hamaca Paraguaya,” about an old couple awaiting their son’s return from the 1932-35 Chaco War, opened Cannes Critics’ Week, winning the Intl. Federation of Film Critics Fipresci Award for best film in that section.
The background to “Eami” is the forced displacement of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode, who lived in the Northern Paraguayan Chaco, by one of the most rampant deforestations in the world, as companies coveted their land for stockbreeding. But Encina, as in her 2016 doc feature “Memory Exercises” and last year’s “Varaderos,” is interested less...
Brought onto the market at Ventana Sur, “Eami” marks the fourth feature, and second narrative movie, from Paz Encina, Paraguay’s most prominent auteur whose 2005 debut, “Hamaca Paraguaya,” about an old couple awaiting their son’s return from the 1932-35 Chaco War, opened Cannes Critics’ Week, winning the Intl. Federation of Film Critics Fipresci Award for best film in that section.
The background to “Eami” is the forced displacement of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode, who lived in the Northern Paraguayan Chaco, by one of the most rampant deforestations in the world, as companies coveted their land for stockbreeding. But Encina, as in her 2016 doc feature “Memory Exercises” and last year’s “Varaderos,” is interested less...
- 1/24/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Answering the SunInternational Film Festival Rotterdam have announced the full lineup for their "scaled-down" 51st edition, which will take place online between January 26 — February 6. As part of a full, nationwide lockdown, cinemas will remain closed in the Netherlands until at least 14 January. Tiger COMPETITIONAchrome (Maria Ignatenko)The Cloud Messenger (Rahat Mahajan)The Child (Marguerite de Hillerin/Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois)Eami (Paz Encina)Excess Will Save Us (Morgane Dziurla-Petit)Kafka for Kids (Roee Rosen)Malintzin 17 (Mara Polgovsky/Eugenio Polgovsky)Met mes (Sam de Jong)The Plains (David Easteal)Proyecto Fantasma (Roberto Doveris)Le rêve et la radio (Renaud Després-Larose/Ana Tapia Rousiouk)Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish (Lei Lei)To Love Again (Gao Linyang)Yamabuki (Juichiro Yamasaki)Big Screen COMPETITIONAssault (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)Broadway (Christos Massalas)Third Grade (Jacques Doillon)Daryn’s Gym (Brett Michael Innes)Drifting Petals (Clara Law)The Harbour (Rajeev Ravi)The Island (Anca Damian)Kung Fu Zohra (Mabrouk El Mechri...
- 1/7/2022
- MUBI
This year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the 14 films selected for its flagship Tiger Competition. Scroll down for the full list.
The selection is typically globe-trotting, with features ranging from Chile to China, Sweden to Israel, and Mexico to India. A jury will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award, plus two special jury awards. On the jury are: Zsuzsi Bánkuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki.
Last year’s winner of IFFR’s Tiger competition was Indian filmmaker Vinothraj P.S.’s Pebbles, which was the country’s contender for this year’s International Oscar race, though didn’t make the shortlist.
Today, the festival also confirmed the line-ups for its Big Screen Competition, which aims to bridge the gap between popular and arthouse cinema. Titles selected range from Romania to France and South Africa. The Tiger Short Competition was also unveiled.
The selection is typically globe-trotting, with features ranging from Chile to China, Sweden to Israel, and Mexico to India. A jury will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award, plus two special jury awards. On the jury are: Zsuzsi Bánkuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki.
Last year’s winner of IFFR’s Tiger competition was Indian filmmaker Vinothraj P.S.’s Pebbles, which was the country’s contender for this year’s International Oscar race, though didn’t make the shortlist.
Today, the festival also confirmed the line-ups for its Big Screen Competition, which aims to bridge the gap between popular and arthouse cinema. Titles selected range from Romania to France and South Africa. The Tiger Short Competition was also unveiled.
- 1/7/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
As new Covid protocols bedeviled travel to the U.K. and other parts of Europe, 3,000 lucky souls, including several hundred execs from Europe, were able to enjoy summer sun and post-lockdown reunions at Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur. Latin America’s biggest film and TV market and forum, it wrapped Friday Dec. 3 with an humungous, though thankfully rapid, awards ceremony. Following, 10 takeaways from the hybrid event:
The Way the Market’s Going
Is this the shape of things to come? At least in the short-term?Big films and deals were announced at or during Ventana Sur: Vis revealed it’s teaming with El Estudio and Infinity Hill on the Rob Schneider-directed “Love Is Love,” now a Paramount Plus Original; Pantelion Films unveiled its “most ambitious undertaking to date,” “Usurpadora, the Musical,” a modern movie adaptation of the Televisa classic; FilmSharks confirmed deals with Netflix and HBO Max on Veronica Chen’s “High Tide.
The Way the Market’s Going
Is this the shape of things to come? At least in the short-term?Big films and deals were announced at or during Ventana Sur: Vis revealed it’s teaming with El Estudio and Infinity Hill on the Rob Schneider-directed “Love Is Love,” now a Paramount Plus Original; Pantelion Films unveiled its “most ambitious undertaking to date,” “Usurpadora, the Musical,” a modern movie adaptation of the Televisa classic; FilmSharks confirmed deals with Netflix and HBO Max on Veronica Chen’s “High Tide.
- 12/4/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based MPM Premium is bringing onto the market “Eami,” the latest film from Paraguay’s Paz Encina whose debut “Hamaca Paraguay” won a Cannes Un Certain Regard Fipresci Prize.
A timely ecological fable and tale of the pain of exile, “Eami” will be presented to select buyers in person at Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur this week as well as online by MPM Premium’s Quentin Worthington.
He used 2020’s Ventana Sur market to unveil “The Pink Cloud,” from Brazil’s Iuli Gerbase, which went on to become a hit at this year’s Sundance Festival.
It would not be surprising if “Eami” figures at a significant festival in early 2021. Encina’s third feature, after 2006’s “Hamaca Paraguaya” and 2016 doc “Memory Exercises,” “Eami” delivers full immersion in the worldview mindset, forest and tragedy of Eami, aged 5, a member of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode community whose homeland is invaded by white hired-hands intent...
A timely ecological fable and tale of the pain of exile, “Eami” will be presented to select buyers in person at Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur this week as well as online by MPM Premium’s Quentin Worthington.
He used 2020’s Ventana Sur market to unveil “The Pink Cloud,” from Brazil’s Iuli Gerbase, which went on to become a hit at this year’s Sundance Festival.
It would not be surprising if “Eami” figures at a significant festival in early 2021. Encina’s third feature, after 2006’s “Hamaca Paraguaya” and 2016 doc “Memory Exercises,” “Eami” delivers full immersion in the worldview mindset, forest and tragedy of Eami, aged 5, a member of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode community whose homeland is invaded by white hired-hands intent...
- 11/29/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Revolver Amsterdam is in Berlin meeting with Us and European sales agents.
Dutch producer Revolver Amsterdam is in Berlin meeting with Us and European sales agents and financiers on a trio of projects as it steps up its strategy of working with international partners on globally appealing content.
Raymond Van Der Kaaij is taking meetings on The Occupant, a sci-fi about two sisters that echoes Arrival and The Revenant. Hugo Keijzer will direct and Revolver Amsterdam is producing with Maurice Schutte, whose short film trailer to The Occupant: Prologue went viral on YouTube.
The roster of $1.5m-$5m projects includes...
Dutch producer Revolver Amsterdam is in Berlin meeting with Us and European sales agents and financiers on a trio of projects as it steps up its strategy of working with international partners on globally appealing content.
Raymond Van Der Kaaij is taking meetings on The Occupant, a sci-fi about two sisters that echoes Arrival and The Revenant. Hugo Keijzer will direct and Revolver Amsterdam is producing with Maurice Schutte, whose short film trailer to The Occupant: Prologue went viral on YouTube.
The roster of $1.5m-$5m projects includes...
- 2/24/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Feature takes place in the Paraguayan Chaco region, site of intense deforestation.
Amsterdam-based production outfit Revolver Amsterdam has boarded Memories From The Forest, the upcoming feature from Paraguayan director Paz Encina whose Paraguayan Hammock won the Cannes Un Certain Regard Fipresci Prize in 2006.
The film takes place in the Paraguayan Chaco region on the border with Bolivia that faces rapid deforestation, and explores the plight of the endangered Ayoreos indigenous people, who inhabit a small territory that remains untouched.
Silence Cine from Paraguay is producing in co-production with Revolver Amsterdam, Black Forest Films from Germany, Mpm from France, Louverture Films from the Us,...
Amsterdam-based production outfit Revolver Amsterdam has boarded Memories From The Forest, the upcoming feature from Paraguayan director Paz Encina whose Paraguayan Hammock won the Cannes Un Certain Regard Fipresci Prize in 2006.
The film takes place in the Paraguayan Chaco region on the border with Bolivia that faces rapid deforestation, and explores the plight of the endangered Ayoreos indigenous people, who inhabit a small territory that remains untouched.
Silence Cine from Paraguay is producing in co-production with Revolver Amsterdam, Black Forest Films from Germany, Mpm from France, Louverture Films from the Us,...
- 12/16/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Recipients include a Berlin Silver Bear winner.
The Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has selected 11 film projects from countries across Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia for its latest script and project development programme.
Two sections, Hbf Bright Future and Hbf Voices, will see the selected films receive grants totalling €99,000.
Hbf Bright Future is supporting nine projects, all of which are debuts with the exception of Pepe, La Imaginación En El Tercer Cine by Dominican director Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias. His debut Cocote premiered at Locarno 2017.
The selection also includes Rwandan filmmaker Samuel Ishimwe,...
The Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has selected 11 film projects from countries across Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia for its latest script and project development programme.
Two sections, Hbf Bright Future and Hbf Voices, will see the selected films receive grants totalling €99,000.
Hbf Bright Future is supporting nine projects, all of which are debuts with the exception of Pepe, La Imaginación En El Tercer Cine by Dominican director Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias. His debut Cocote premiered at Locarno 2017.
The selection also includes Rwandan filmmaker Samuel Ishimwe,...
- 11/21/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Mubi's retrospective New Argentine Cinema is playing from August 7 - September 28, 2017 in most countries around the world. La CiénagaBeginning in the mid-1990s, young directors, the majority of whom had graduated from one of many film schools in Argentina, began producing low-budget, independent films in a style that earned this group the classification of the New Independent Argentine Cinema.Part of this upsurge had to do with a small grants program that was initiated by the National Film Institute (Incaa) in the mid-1990s. These recent graduates have made short films (cortometrajes), and then have gone on to raise funds through co-production funding (Hubert Bals Fund at the Rotterdam film festival, the Visions Sud Est program from Switzerland, among others). They have relied on their own networks of like-minded young people rather than depend on the traditional film sector structure (the film union, established director’s associations, and the few...
- 9/6/2017
- MUBI
Jurors, audiences award prizes at culmination of Colombian event; the oldest film festival in Latin America.
Kiro Russo’s adventure mystery earned top honours as the 57th annual Cartagena International Film Festival came to a close on Monday night.
Dark Skull centres on a troublesome young man sent to work in the Bolivian tins mines of the Oruro region. The film premiered in Locarno last autumn.
Vladimir Duan was named best director for So Long Enthusiasm and also scooped the best film prize in the Colombian competition. It premiered in the Berlinale’s Forum strand last month.
Christopher Murray’s Venice Film festival hit The Blind Christ won the Fipresci award.
The Cartagena International Film Festival ran from March 1-6. For further details click here.
Best Film
Dark Skull
Best Director
Vladimir Duan, So Long Enthusiasm
Fipresci
The Blind Christ
Best Film, Colombian Competition
So Long Enthusiasm
Best Director, Colombian Competition
Rubén Mendoza, Señorita María, La...
Kiro Russo’s adventure mystery earned top honours as the 57th annual Cartagena International Film Festival came to a close on Monday night.
Dark Skull centres on a troublesome young man sent to work in the Bolivian tins mines of the Oruro region. The film premiered in Locarno last autumn.
Vladimir Duan was named best director for So Long Enthusiasm and also scooped the best film prize in the Colombian competition. It premiered in the Berlinale’s Forum strand last month.
Christopher Murray’s Venice Film festival hit The Blind Christ won the Fipresci award.
The Cartagena International Film Festival ran from March 1-6. For further details click here.
Best Film
Dark Skull
Best Director
Vladimir Duan, So Long Enthusiasm
Fipresci
The Blind Christ
Best Film, Colombian Competition
So Long Enthusiasm
Best Director, Colombian Competition
Rubén Mendoza, Señorita María, La...
- 3/6/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
In May 1954, Paraguayan General Alfredo Stroessner overthrew President Federico Chávez, instituting a dictatorship that would violently rule over the country for thirty-five years. The regime regularly tortured and murdered political opponents and infamously sheltered Auschwitz physician Josef Mengele. In 2008, the country’s Truth and Justice Commission counted no less than 59 summary executions and more than 300 disappearances, nearly 19,000 incidents of torture, and nearly 20,000 arbitrary detentions during the dictatorship. Though Stroessner’s rule ended with another coup d’état in 1989, he never faced justice and his Colorado Party has ruled the country since with only a five-year interruption.Martín Almada, a victim of imprisonment and torture during the regime, spent fifteen years searching for documents that would prove his experience to the many that doubted him. In 1992, a tip-off led him to a cache of 700,000 documents detailing terror by Stroessner’s regime and a network of CIA-backed dictators in South America’s Southern Cone.
- 2/8/2017
- MUBI
Films and projects travel from Sundance to Rotterdam and Rotterdam’s love affair with Latin America becomes apparent.
Making their way from Sundance to Rotterdam, “Lemon” was Opening Night in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sloan Prize Winner “Marjorie Prime” played in Voices while director Michael Almereyda was on the Jury of the Hivos Tiger Competition. His documentary, “Escapes” also played in the Regained section of the festival.
“Marjorie Prime”: Director Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith and Jon Hamm
“Chile’s “Family Life” by Alicia Scherson and Cristian Jimenez, Singapore’s “Pop Aye”, “Lady Macbeth” and “Sami Blood” all screened here after premiering in Sundance as well.
Pop Aye director Kirsten Tan won the Big Screen Competition and in addition to the cash prize may also count on a guaranteed release in Dutch cinemas and on TV.
“The Wound” by John Trengove has even longer legs, reaching from Sundance World...
Making their way from Sundance to Rotterdam, “Lemon” was Opening Night in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sloan Prize Winner “Marjorie Prime” played in Voices while director Michael Almereyda was on the Jury of the Hivos Tiger Competition. His documentary, “Escapes” also played in the Regained section of the festival.
“Marjorie Prime”: Director Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith and Jon Hamm
“Chile’s “Family Life” by Alicia Scherson and Cristian Jimenez, Singapore’s “Pop Aye”, “Lady Macbeth” and “Sami Blood” all screened here after premiering in Sundance as well.
Pop Aye director Kirsten Tan won the Big Screen Competition and in addition to the cash prize may also count on a guaranteed release in Dutch cinemas and on TV.
“The Wound” by John Trengove has even longer legs, reaching from Sundance World...
- 2/8/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The festival’s Zabaltegi strand is introducing a competition for the first time.
The 64th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has completed the line-up for its Zabaltegi-Tabakalera strand, which will be competitive for the first time.
New additions include sci-fi Midnight Special from Us filmmaker Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud), which premiered at the Berlinale in February.
Todd Solondz comedy-drama Wiener-Dog, first seen at Sundance in January, has also been selected for the strand. It marks the third time the Us writer/director has been chosen for Zabaltegi, after presenting Happiness in 1998 and Storytelling in 2001.
As previously announced, Bertrand Tavernier’s Voyage A Travers Le Cinema Francais (A Journey Through French Cinema) will open the strand.
Other highlights include Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch’s documentary about Iggy Pop and The Stooges, which premired at Cannes in May.
Also in the line-up is Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues’s fifth feature O Ornitólogo (L’Ornithologue), playing in competition...
The 64th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has completed the line-up for its Zabaltegi-Tabakalera strand, which will be competitive for the first time.
New additions include sci-fi Midnight Special from Us filmmaker Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud), which premiered at the Berlinale in February.
Todd Solondz comedy-drama Wiener-Dog, first seen at Sundance in January, has also been selected for the strand. It marks the third time the Us writer/director has been chosen for Zabaltegi, after presenting Happiness in 1998 and Storytelling in 2001.
As previously announced, Bertrand Tavernier’s Voyage A Travers Le Cinema Francais (A Journey Through French Cinema) will open the strand.
Other highlights include Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch’s documentary about Iggy Pop and The Stooges, which premired at Cannes in May.
Also in the line-up is Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues’s fifth feature O Ornitólogo (L’Ornithologue), playing in competition...
- 8/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine des Realisateurs (a.k.a Directors’ Fortnight) has in the past couple of years, counted on a healthy supply of French, Spanish and Belgium produced film items, and has been geared towards the offbeat genre items as with last year’s edition curated by Edouard Waintrop and co. To be unveiled on the 22nd, as we attempted with our Critics’ Week predix, Blake Williams, Nicholas Bell and I (Eric Lavallee) are thinking out loud and hedging our bets on what the section might look like or what the programmers might be looking at for 2014. Here is our predictions overview:
Alleluia
Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.
Alleluia
Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.
- 4/16/2014
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
The Doha Film Institute has selected 20 projects for its first global film grants programme, including post-production support for Benjamin Naishtat’s debut feature History of Fear, which premieres in Berlin in Competition.
The grants go to projects (mostly first or second features) from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East-North Africa (Mena) region; the 20 are selected from 396 applications.
This is the first global round of the grants, which were previously only available to Mena projects.
The funding is used for development, production and post-production. The next round of applications are open April 1-21.
The Narrative features backed are:
Men in the Sun directed by Mahdi Fleifel (Palestine/United Kingdom/Greece/Denmark/Qatar);
The Returning directed by Ehab Tarabieh (Syria/Qatar);
Burning Birds directed by Sanjeewa Pushpakumara (Sri Lanka/France/Qatar);
By The Time It Gets Dark directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand/Qatar);
Hedi directed by Mohamed Ben Attia (Tunisia/Qatar);
House Without Roof directed by [link...
The grants go to projects (mostly first or second features) from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East-North Africa (Mena) region; the 20 are selected from 396 applications.
This is the first global round of the grants, which were previously only available to Mena projects.
The funding is used for development, production and post-production. The next round of applications are open April 1-21.
The Narrative features backed are:
Men in the Sun directed by Mahdi Fleifel (Palestine/United Kingdom/Greece/Denmark/Qatar);
The Returning directed by Ehab Tarabieh (Syria/Qatar);
Burning Birds directed by Sanjeewa Pushpakumara (Sri Lanka/France/Qatar);
By The Time It Gets Dark directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand/Qatar);
Hedi directed by Mohamed Ben Attia (Tunisia/Qatar);
House Without Roof directed by [link...
- 2/9/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Berlinale World Cinema Fund has awarded production and distribution funding of €165,000 ($223,000) to eight films.
The jury made their selection from 121 submissions from 43 countries and chose the following features:
Production funding
Los Hongos
Dir: Óscar Ruiz Navia (Colombia). Production: Burning Blue & Contravia Films, Colombia. Feature film.
Funding: €30,000.
Benjamín o el Planetario
Dir: Carlos Machado Quintela (Cuba). Production: Rizoma, Argentina. German partner: M-Appeal. Feature film.
Funding: €35,000.
Ejercicios de la Memoria
Dir: Paz Encina (Paraguay). Production: Autentika Film, Germany. Documentary.
Funding: €35,000.
Te Prometo Anarquía
Dir: Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala). Production: Interior 13, Mexico. Feature film.
Funding: €30,000.
In the Last Days of the City
Dir: Tamer El Said (Egypt). Production: Zero Production (Egypt). Documentary.
Funding: €20,000.
Distribution funding
Coming Forth by Day
Dir: Hala Lofty (Egypt). German distributor: Arsenal für Film und Videokunst e.V. Release in Germany: Nov 14, 2013.
Funding: €4,357.50.
Carne de Perro
Dir: Fernando Guzzoni (Chile). German distributor: déjà-vu film Ug. Release in Germany: Jan 23, 2014.
Funding: €5,000.
Workers
Dir: José Luís Valle...
The jury made their selection from 121 submissions from 43 countries and chose the following features:
Production funding
Los Hongos
Dir: Óscar Ruiz Navia (Colombia). Production: Burning Blue & Contravia Films, Colombia. Feature film.
Funding: €30,000.
Benjamín o el Planetario
Dir: Carlos Machado Quintela (Cuba). Production: Rizoma, Argentina. German partner: M-Appeal. Feature film.
Funding: €35,000.
Ejercicios de la Memoria
Dir: Paz Encina (Paraguay). Production: Autentika Film, Germany. Documentary.
Funding: €35,000.
Te Prometo Anarquía
Dir: Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala). Production: Interior 13, Mexico. Feature film.
Funding: €30,000.
In the Last Days of the City
Dir: Tamer El Said (Egypt). Production: Zero Production (Egypt). Documentary.
Funding: €20,000.
Distribution funding
Coming Forth by Day
Dir: Hala Lofty (Egypt). German distributor: Arsenal für Film und Videokunst e.V. Release in Germany: Nov 14, 2013.
Funding: €4,357.50.
Carne de Perro
Dir: Fernando Guzzoni (Chile). German distributor: déjà-vu film Ug. Release in Germany: Jan 23, 2014.
Funding: €5,000.
Workers
Dir: José Luís Valle...
- 11/19/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
#97. Manuel Nieto Zas’ El Lugar Del Hijo (The Militant)
Gist: Workshopped at Cannes’ Cinefondation Residence in 2008′, this is about a college student involved in militant leftist activism is faced with some difficult decisions when his father suddenly dies, leaving him in charge of their troubled ranch and forcing him to take on the role of a middle class bourgeois.
Prediction: Un Certain Regard: Right on cue, we should meet with a new figure in Uruguayan cinema and logically the launching pad might be in the same lieu where his first director work on films from Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll (25 Watts and Whisky), Lisandro Alonso (Los Muertos and Liverpool) and Paz Encina (Hamaca Paraguaya) were presented. His first feature film, The Dogpound showed at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2006, where it won the Vpro Tiger Award, and work on this sophomore film actually began in late 2011 – so this is...
Gist: Workshopped at Cannes’ Cinefondation Residence in 2008′, this is about a college student involved in militant leftist activism is faced with some difficult decisions when his father suddenly dies, leaving him in charge of their troubled ranch and forcing him to take on the role of a middle class bourgeois.
Prediction: Un Certain Regard: Right on cue, we should meet with a new figure in Uruguayan cinema and logically the launching pad might be in the same lieu where his first director work on films from Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll (25 Watts and Whisky), Lisandro Alonso (Los Muertos and Liverpool) and Paz Encina (Hamaca Paraguaya) were presented. His first feature film, The Dogpound showed at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2006, where it won the Vpro Tiger Award, and work on this sophomore film actually began in late 2011 – so this is...
- 4/2/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
CANNES -- Short can be awfully long, as this 78-minute movie proves. Dragging along in a tedious rhythm of long takes and big talk, Hamaca Paraguaya is a cinematic bust. Thematically ambitious, it also is aesthetically primitive. It's hard to conceive of anyone paying money to see this pseudo-absurdist, amateurish production other than those compelled by familial obligations to the filmmakers. Reportedly, the last Paraguayan film to be shot in 35mm to have a theatrical release was made in the 1970s. That record should remain intact.
Indeed, the '70s might be a telling reference point for this film. Cinematically, Hamaca Paraguaya resembles a student film circa 1970, when young filmmakers studied the long takes of Antonioni and were flush with the absurdist dialogue of such playwrights as Beckett and Pirandello.
For those of you not up to date on Paraguayan history, it's been fraught with wars and outside oppression. Its landless peasants have been embattled and oppressed throughout. Yet overall, Paraguayan history per se is merely incidental because filmmaker Paz Encina has whacked out a story that seemingly could apply to most Third World nations. Unfortunately, his rendering does not do justice to the suffering and plight that the people of those countries have endured.
In this ambitious opus, an old farmer, Ramon Ramon Del Rio), and his elderly wife, Candida (Georgina Genes), sit in a jungle hammock and yammer to each other. Mostly, they lament their missing son, who has been off at war, but they also grouse about the barking dog that yelps and bleats offscreen as some sort of Canine Greek Chorus. For a while, the dog stops barking and they try to read in some sort of transcendent meaning to his stoppage. Such is the ideological and philosophical depth of this woofer. As one suspects, the dog is not really plugged in to the cosmos; he merely hasn't been given any water.
Cinematically, Hamaca Paraguaya consists of a half-dozen or so static long takes, most shot at 50 paces. Throughout, Papa Ramon is optimistic about his son's survival, Mama Candida is pessimistic. Hence unending utterances both hopeful and fatalistic and abundant enough to stock a whole garage full of throw-away Ingmar Bergman.
Only near the end of the film do we see the two players' faces with some clarity, and then only in sideshot. As such, it is hard to assess the performances because there is no clear-cut evidence that any acting was going on.
Encina further enervates the production with his unsure marshaling of the technical team: The pacing is leaden, the cinematography dim and the compositions parched. On the plus side, he managed to elicit a wide range of barks, bleats and howls out of the uncredited dog -- the film's most lingering aesthetic flourish.
HAMACA PARAGUAYA
ID Distribution
Credits:
Director-writer: Paz Encina
Producers: Marianne Slot, Lita Stantic, Ilse Hughan
Director of photography: Behnisch Willi
Composer: Oscar Cardozo Ocampo
Editor: Miguel Schverdfinger
Production designer: Carlo Spatuzza
Cast:
Ramon: Ramon del Rio
Candida: Georgina Genes
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 78 minutes...
Indeed, the '70s might be a telling reference point for this film. Cinematically, Hamaca Paraguaya resembles a student film circa 1970, when young filmmakers studied the long takes of Antonioni and were flush with the absurdist dialogue of such playwrights as Beckett and Pirandello.
For those of you not up to date on Paraguayan history, it's been fraught with wars and outside oppression. Its landless peasants have been embattled and oppressed throughout. Yet overall, Paraguayan history per se is merely incidental because filmmaker Paz Encina has whacked out a story that seemingly could apply to most Third World nations. Unfortunately, his rendering does not do justice to the suffering and plight that the people of those countries have endured.
In this ambitious opus, an old farmer, Ramon Ramon Del Rio), and his elderly wife, Candida (Georgina Genes), sit in a jungle hammock and yammer to each other. Mostly, they lament their missing son, who has been off at war, but they also grouse about the barking dog that yelps and bleats offscreen as some sort of Canine Greek Chorus. For a while, the dog stops barking and they try to read in some sort of transcendent meaning to his stoppage. Such is the ideological and philosophical depth of this woofer. As one suspects, the dog is not really plugged in to the cosmos; he merely hasn't been given any water.
Cinematically, Hamaca Paraguaya consists of a half-dozen or so static long takes, most shot at 50 paces. Throughout, Papa Ramon is optimistic about his son's survival, Mama Candida is pessimistic. Hence unending utterances both hopeful and fatalistic and abundant enough to stock a whole garage full of throw-away Ingmar Bergman.
Only near the end of the film do we see the two players' faces with some clarity, and then only in sideshot. As such, it is hard to assess the performances because there is no clear-cut evidence that any acting was going on.
Encina further enervates the production with his unsure marshaling of the technical team: The pacing is leaden, the cinematography dim and the compositions parched. On the plus side, he managed to elicit a wide range of barks, bleats and howls out of the uncredited dog -- the film's most lingering aesthetic flourish.
HAMACA PARAGUAYA
ID Distribution
Credits:
Director-writer: Paz Encina
Producers: Marianne Slot, Lita Stantic, Ilse Hughan
Director of photography: Behnisch Willi
Composer: Oscar Cardozo Ocampo
Editor: Miguel Schverdfinger
Production designer: Carlo Spatuzza
Cast:
Ramon: Ramon del Rio
Candida: Georgina Genes
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 78 minutes...
- 5/18/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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