Now in its fourth edition, the International Project Discovery Forum (Ipdf), Los Angeles Greek Film Festival’s Industry Section and development workshop will present six impressive new projects by filmmakers from the Balkans and the Middle East region.
Ipdf Director Araceli Lemos, in talking about this year’s selections remarks,"For this edition,we chose projects which are bold, diverse and thoughtprovoking. We are excited to meet all the filmmakers in person and work with them."
The 2016 Ipdf projects are from both new and established filmmakers. They are Alexis Alexiou's (“Wednesday 4:45”) third feature project "As Long As You Bleed." Vassilis Katsoupis and producer Giorgos Karnavas present "Inside," Katsoupis'debut fiction feature. His documentary “My Friends Larry Gus” is screening on Friday, June 3rd.Karnavas is a prominent Greek producer, whose previous work “The Eternal Paraskevas of Antonis Paraskevas” and “Boy Eating Bird’s Food” were worldwide festival favorites and screened in past editions of Lagff.
Sol Goodman,an American producer with projects in the Middle East and NorthAfrica, will present "The Taste of Apples is Red," a Syrian film by Ehab Tarabieh.
Three debut features will also be pitched: from Turkey, Nazlı Elif Durlu andand her producer Anna Maria Aslanoglu present
"Zuhal." From Greece's Harris Raftogiannis,comes "The River," and Serbia’s Stefan Malešević will offer up "Usud."
A four member jury of entertainment professionals will decide the winning project after hearing the final pitches on Sunday, June 5th. The 2016 Ipdf Jury member sare producer at Gunpowder & Sky, David Harris, Rebecca Katz from the Creative Producing Initiative of the Sundance Institute; Participant Media’s Ioanna Varikos, and producer and cofounder of Extraordinary Renditions, Kelly Thomas (“Spa Night”).
The winnersof the competition will receive the Aegean Award and a scholarship to attend the Mfi Script2Pitch Workshops during the Orpheus Award Ceremony on Closing Night, June 5th.
Before the Jury pitch, each filmmaker will receive group training and one-on-one meetingswith a diverse group of professionals sharing expertise in financing, directing, writing, producing, marketing and distribution. This year's experts include: K Street Pictures' president Charles Agron; writer/producer David Ariniello (“Arcadia Lost”), acclaimed director and cinematographer Steven Bernstein (“Decoding Annie Parker”), cofounder of L.A.based La Panda Productions Pau Brunet, director of creative initiatives for technology leader Bittorrent Missy Laney, film festival programmer and strategist Kathleen McInnis, manager for the feature film program’s international work at Sundance Institute Matthew Takata, and writer/Producer of the award-winning “Innocent Voices” (Voces Inocentes), Oscar Torres.
"We strive to change and grow every year, looking at what is happening in the independent film world around us, and pair our filmmakers with the best experts that can help them. Not only with these projects but for their careers as independent filmmakers," adds Ipdf ProducerGiulia Caruso.
The Ipdf Industry Events, free and open to the public, take place on Saturday, June 4.
At 12:30 p.m. the Writing for Diversity in TV panel will take place. During this group session esteemed television writers, and personalities discuss and share their experiences, challenges and efforts to promote diversity on TV – both within the writer’s room and the characters they create. Panelists are; writers Aida Croal ("Luke Cage"), Julia Fontana ("Lucifer"), Maikiko James from the newly launched Women In Film's Women Writing Lab, musician/ writer Our Lady J ("Transparent"), producer Benoni Tagoe ("Awkward Black Girl") and director/ producer Greg Yaitanes ("Banshee," "House M.D.").
At 3:00 p.m. How a Director Finds Her Characters presented by writer/director Athina Tsangari. Tsangari, one of the principal instigators of the New Greek Wave, offers a unique Masterclass on directing. Her latest awardwinning feature "Chevalier" is screening at the festival on Thursday, June 2. The masterclass will be moderated by film critic Carlos Aguilar, who has written for outlets such as Indiewire, MovieMaker Magazine, and Variety Latino.
"Every year we are amazed at the variety and quality of projects that filmmakers submit for consideration to Ipdf. It's a complicated selection process, and we always struggle to let some great projects go. To best serve the participants and their projects, we select only six films from the hundreds we receive each year.," notes Lemos.
For more information on the Ipdf projects and filmmakers go to http://lagff.org/festival/internationalprojectdiscoveryforum
The International Project Discovery Forum is the industry program of Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
The International Project Discovery Forum is a Los Angeles pioneer in the promotion of international independent film development and coproduction. Utilizing the innumerable resources that exist in Los Angeles, the festival aims to create a bridge between two very different worlds – the American Independent Film and the Greek/Balkan Independent Film.
They look for films that have an original approach, made by independent producers and filmmakers that have a unique voice. The stage of development of the selected projects varies from inspiring and promising scripts in an early stage, which they want to nurture through their journey, to more advanced projects in the financing stage that they connect with producers, distributors, sales agents and programmers that can actively support the film. The festival wants to create a circle of collaborators who share the same vision – a network of creative professionals from Greece, the Balkans and the Us that share the same idea of how they want to make films.
Besides their open call for entries, they look for projects in other industry forums in the Balkan region such as Thessaloniki Iff’s Crossroads, Sofia Meetings, Mfi Script Workshop.
The Forum includes a development lab only for Ipdf selected Filmmakers and a series of roundtables that are free and open to the public.
The goal is not only to promote Greek and Balkan filmmakers by helping strong, local stories with international appeal get told, but they also want to create an occasion for a true and lively exchange between European and American cinema. The forum provide a venue where dialogue is encouraged and creative collaborations are formed...
Ipdf Director Araceli Lemos, in talking about this year’s selections remarks,"For this edition,we chose projects which are bold, diverse and thoughtprovoking. We are excited to meet all the filmmakers in person and work with them."
The 2016 Ipdf projects are from both new and established filmmakers. They are Alexis Alexiou's (“Wednesday 4:45”) third feature project "As Long As You Bleed." Vassilis Katsoupis and producer Giorgos Karnavas present "Inside," Katsoupis'debut fiction feature. His documentary “My Friends Larry Gus” is screening on Friday, June 3rd.Karnavas is a prominent Greek producer, whose previous work “The Eternal Paraskevas of Antonis Paraskevas” and “Boy Eating Bird’s Food” were worldwide festival favorites and screened in past editions of Lagff.
Sol Goodman,an American producer with projects in the Middle East and NorthAfrica, will present "The Taste of Apples is Red," a Syrian film by Ehab Tarabieh.
Three debut features will also be pitched: from Turkey, Nazlı Elif Durlu andand her producer Anna Maria Aslanoglu present
"Zuhal." From Greece's Harris Raftogiannis,comes "The River," and Serbia’s Stefan Malešević will offer up "Usud."
A four member jury of entertainment professionals will decide the winning project after hearing the final pitches on Sunday, June 5th. The 2016 Ipdf Jury member sare producer at Gunpowder & Sky, David Harris, Rebecca Katz from the Creative Producing Initiative of the Sundance Institute; Participant Media’s Ioanna Varikos, and producer and cofounder of Extraordinary Renditions, Kelly Thomas (“Spa Night”).
The winnersof the competition will receive the Aegean Award and a scholarship to attend the Mfi Script2Pitch Workshops during the Orpheus Award Ceremony on Closing Night, June 5th.
Before the Jury pitch, each filmmaker will receive group training and one-on-one meetingswith a diverse group of professionals sharing expertise in financing, directing, writing, producing, marketing and distribution. This year's experts include: K Street Pictures' president Charles Agron; writer/producer David Ariniello (“Arcadia Lost”), acclaimed director and cinematographer Steven Bernstein (“Decoding Annie Parker”), cofounder of L.A.based La Panda Productions Pau Brunet, director of creative initiatives for technology leader Bittorrent Missy Laney, film festival programmer and strategist Kathleen McInnis, manager for the feature film program’s international work at Sundance Institute Matthew Takata, and writer/Producer of the award-winning “Innocent Voices” (Voces Inocentes), Oscar Torres.
"We strive to change and grow every year, looking at what is happening in the independent film world around us, and pair our filmmakers with the best experts that can help them. Not only with these projects but for their careers as independent filmmakers," adds Ipdf ProducerGiulia Caruso.
The Ipdf Industry Events, free and open to the public, take place on Saturday, June 4.
At 12:30 p.m. the Writing for Diversity in TV panel will take place. During this group session esteemed television writers, and personalities discuss and share their experiences, challenges and efforts to promote diversity on TV – both within the writer’s room and the characters they create. Panelists are; writers Aida Croal ("Luke Cage"), Julia Fontana ("Lucifer"), Maikiko James from the newly launched Women In Film's Women Writing Lab, musician/ writer Our Lady J ("Transparent"), producer Benoni Tagoe ("Awkward Black Girl") and director/ producer Greg Yaitanes ("Banshee," "House M.D.").
At 3:00 p.m. How a Director Finds Her Characters presented by writer/director Athina Tsangari. Tsangari, one of the principal instigators of the New Greek Wave, offers a unique Masterclass on directing. Her latest awardwinning feature "Chevalier" is screening at the festival on Thursday, June 2. The masterclass will be moderated by film critic Carlos Aguilar, who has written for outlets such as Indiewire, MovieMaker Magazine, and Variety Latino.
"Every year we are amazed at the variety and quality of projects that filmmakers submit for consideration to Ipdf. It's a complicated selection process, and we always struggle to let some great projects go. To best serve the participants and their projects, we select only six films from the hundreds we receive each year.," notes Lemos.
For more information on the Ipdf projects and filmmakers go to http://lagff.org/festival/internationalprojectdiscoveryforum
The International Project Discovery Forum is the industry program of Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
The International Project Discovery Forum is a Los Angeles pioneer in the promotion of international independent film development and coproduction. Utilizing the innumerable resources that exist in Los Angeles, the festival aims to create a bridge between two very different worlds – the American Independent Film and the Greek/Balkan Independent Film.
They look for films that have an original approach, made by independent producers and filmmakers that have a unique voice. The stage of development of the selected projects varies from inspiring and promising scripts in an early stage, which they want to nurture through their journey, to more advanced projects in the financing stage that they connect with producers, distributors, sales agents and programmers that can actively support the film. The festival wants to create a circle of collaborators who share the same vision – a network of creative professionals from Greece, the Balkans and the Us that share the same idea of how they want to make films.
Besides their open call for entries, they look for projects in other industry forums in the Balkan region such as Thessaloniki Iff’s Crossroads, Sofia Meetings, Mfi Script Workshop.
The Forum includes a development lab only for Ipdf selected Filmmakers and a series of roundtables that are free and open to the public.
The goal is not only to promote Greek and Balkan filmmakers by helping strong, local stories with international appeal get told, but they also want to create an occasion for a true and lively exchange between European and American cinema. The forum provide a venue where dialogue is encouraged and creative collaborations are formed...
- 5/24/2016
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Fangoria readers in the Los Angeles area have a chance to get their copies of Slaughter, Autopsy, and From Within (review here) signed tonight at Dark Delicacies in Burbank.
The From Within crew gave Fango the heads-up that stars Thomas Dekker (Laid To Rest, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Elizabeth Rice (Mad Men) are planning on joining them tonight, along with director Phedon Papamichael (Arcadia Lost), and writer Brad Keene (The Grudge 3). Full details after the jump.
The 8 Films To Die For signing begins at 7pm tonight, ar Dark Delicacies, 4213 W. Burbank, Burbank, CA 91505.
Also scheduled to appear:
From Slaughter - Writer/Director Stewart Hopewell (Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film), Craig Robert Young (Perkins 14, Charmed), Maxim Knight (How My Dad Killed Dracula), and Vance Daniels.
From Autopsy (see our review here) - Writers Jace Anderson & Adam Gierasch (Night Of The Demons,...
The From Within crew gave Fango the heads-up that stars Thomas Dekker (Laid To Rest, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Elizabeth Rice (Mad Men) are planning on joining them tonight, along with director Phedon Papamichael (Arcadia Lost), and writer Brad Keene (The Grudge 3). Full details after the jump.
The 8 Films To Die For signing begins at 7pm tonight, ar Dark Delicacies, 4213 W. Burbank, Burbank, CA 91505.
Also scheduled to appear:
From Slaughter - Writer/Director Stewart Hopewell (Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film), Craig Robert Young (Perkins 14, Charmed), Maxim Knight (How My Dad Killed Dracula), and Vance Daniels.
From Autopsy (see our review here) - Writers Jace Anderson & Adam Gierasch (Night Of The Demons,...
- 3/31/2009
- Fangoria
According to Hollywood Reporter, a cast is coming together for Phedon Papamichael’s indie coming of age drama Arcadia Lost. The film will star Nick Nolte, Haley Bennett and Carter Jennings. It is based on a script by David Ariniello. The story is about two step brothers whose first family trip is cut short by a car crash. Now with their parents dead, the stunned teens roam the Greek countryside and befriend an expatriate played by Nick Nolte, who leads them to a mysterious spiritual ceremony.
Phedon Papamichel is best known as a director of photography for movies like Sideways and Walk the Line, but he also helmed the indie horror flick From Within, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year.
The film is produced by Chambers Production with...
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Phedon Papamichel is best known as a director of photography for movies like Sideways and Walk the Line, but he also helmed the indie horror flick From Within, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year.
The film is produced by Chambers Production with...
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- 9/27/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
Nick Nolte, Haley Bennett and Carter Jenkins have signed on to star in Phedon Papamichael’s upcoming coming-of-age drama “Arcadia Lost,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The story follows two siblings who travel around the Greek countryside and befriend a vagabond (Nolte) after their parents die in a car crash during their vacation in Greece.
Papamichael, cinematographer of “Sideways” and “Walk the Line,” is directing a script by David Ariniello.
Bennett was last seen in the disastrous teen comedy “College.” She will next star in “The Haunting of Molly Hartley,” followed by “Marley & Me.” Nolte last appeared in Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder.”
As for Jenkins, his credits include “Keeping Up with the Steins” and “Bad News Bears.”...
The story follows two siblings who travel around the Greek countryside and befriend a vagabond (Nolte) after their parents die in a car crash during their vacation in Greece.
Papamichael, cinematographer of “Sideways” and “Walk the Line,” is directing a script by David Ariniello.
Bennett was last seen in the disastrous teen comedy “College.” She will next star in “The Haunting of Molly Hartley,” followed by “Marley & Me.” Nolte last appeared in Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder.”
As for Jenkins, his credits include “Keeping Up with the Steins” and “Bad News Bears.”...
- 9/27/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
As insane as it would be to see a movie where Nick Nolte chats with God, that's not quite the Arcadia he's getting involved in. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Nolte, Haley Bennett, and Carter Jenkins have signed on for a coming-of-age indie called Arcadia Lost. Bennett and Jenkins star as pretty unlucky step-siblings -- mom and dad die in a car crash on their first family trip, and while on their own "the stunned teens roam the Greek countryside and befriend an expatriate vagabond (Nolte) who leads them to a mysterious spiritual ceremony." So it's kinda god-like, but in a style more fitting to Nolte. If this is your cup of tea, check out THR for info on tracking the film through Facebook.
And then there's the sleek and tough Maggie Q. Variety tells us she's going to star in a new historical action pic directed by Tian ZhuangZhuang...
And then there's the sleek and tough Maggie Q. Variety tells us she's going to star in a new historical action pic directed by Tian ZhuangZhuang...
- 9/26/2008
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
New York -- Nick Nolte, Haley Bennett and Carter Jenkins face a Greek holiday tragedy in the indie coming-of-age-drama "Arcadia Lost."
Bennett and Jenkins play step-siblings whose first family trip is cut short by a car crash. With their parents dead, the stunned teens roam the Greek countryside and befriend an expatriate vagabond (Nolte) who leads them to a mysterious spiritual ceremony.
Director Phedon Papamichael, best known as the cinematographer of "Sideways" and "Walk the Line," is filming David Ariniello's screenplay in his home country with producer Kelly Thomas. The shoot can be tracked by Facebook members in the site's "Follow a Film" section.
The Gersh/Untitled Entertainment-repped Bennett can be seen next month opposite Chace Crawford in the title role of "The Haunting of Molly Hartley." Endeavor/In Momentum-repped Jenkins will next be seen in Fox's "They Came From Upstairs." Two-time Oscar nominee Nolte, repped by CAA and Kingsgate Films,...
Bennett and Jenkins play step-siblings whose first family trip is cut short by a car crash. With their parents dead, the stunned teens roam the Greek countryside and befriend an expatriate vagabond (Nolte) who leads them to a mysterious spiritual ceremony.
Director Phedon Papamichael, best known as the cinematographer of "Sideways" and "Walk the Line," is filming David Ariniello's screenplay in his home country with producer Kelly Thomas. The shoot can be tracked by Facebook members in the site's "Follow a Film" section.
The Gersh/Untitled Entertainment-repped Bennett can be seen next month opposite Chace Crawford in the title role of "The Haunting of Molly Hartley." Endeavor/In Momentum-repped Jenkins will next be seen in Fox's "They Came From Upstairs." Two-time Oscar nominee Nolte, repped by CAA and Kingsgate Films,...
- 9/26/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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