Yianna Americanou’s Cypriot/Greek Debut Feature Dog Picked Up by Urban Distribution International
Cyprus 23-11-2021NICOSIA: The Paris-based sales agent Urban Distribution International has acquired the rights to Yianna Americanou’s first feature film Dog. This Cypriot/Greek coproduction had its world premiere in the Meet the Neighbours competition of the Thessaloniki IFF, running 4 - 14 November 2021, where it received the Special Youth Jury Award.
TALLINN: POFF Shorts, which operates under the umbrella of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, running 12 – 28 November 2021, awarded the best live action short prize to the Cambodian film Sunrise in My Mind by Danech San. The win makes the film eligible for the short film Oscar nomination.
TALLINN: The Hungarian TV series project Elephant from writer David Csicskar and producer Balazs Zachar won the HBO Europe award of 5,000 EUR at MIDPOINT TV Launch, held as part of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival kicks off a very special 25th anniversary edition
Festivals 16-11-2021At the opening ceremony on Friday night, legendary Estonian actress Elle Kull was awarded PÖFF's Lifetime Achievement Award and Pääru Oja was recognised with the Bruno O’Ya award supporting up and coming actors.
The 25th edition of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival began with an opening gala in the Alexela Concert Hall, featuring performances from Holy Motors, and followed by a screening of Ildikó Enyedi’a The Story Of My Wife. The opening film, in a year that features a programme demonstrating the depth and breadth of Hungarian cinema, was attended by director Ildikó Enyedi, producer Monika Mécs and composer Adam Balazs.
The 18th International Animateka Animated Film Festival is just around the corner. Due to the situation with the pandemic, Animateka will take place between 29.11. and 5.12.2021 both in cinemas and online, on a streaming platform.
The programme is diverse and of high quality and includes 344 short films and 7 feature films. 121 short films will be available on the online platform of the festival, including all films from the competition sections.
Yesterday, the 29th edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography EnergaCAMERIMAGE was officially opened in the CKK Jordanki Festival Centre in Toruń. During the Opening Gala Philippe Rousselot received his overdue 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award and Haley Bennett accepted the New Generation Acting Award. The Festival also screened The Tragedy of Macbeth (dir. Joel Coen, cin. Bruno Delbonnel) and Parallel Mothers (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, cin. José Luis Alcaine).
Philippe Rousselot with Lifetime Achievement Award,
photo by Witek Szydłowski
Haley Bennett with New Generation Acting Award,
photo by Witek Szydłowski
Joel Coen and Bruno Delbonnel,
photo by Maria Kowalska
José Luis Alcaine,
photo by Krzysztof Wesołowski
Joe Wright, Head of the Main Competition Jury,
photo by Paweł Skraba
The Opening Gala of the 29th edition of EnergaCAMERIMAGE,
photo by Paweł Skraba
29th edition of EnergaCAMERIMAGE will last until November 20th. Follow us for updates on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!
Yesterday, the Slovenian Film Centre, the Directors Guild of Slovenia, and the Ljubljana International Film Festival – Liffe – hosted the central professional event titled Women on the Go.
Režiserke na ustvarjalni poti_foto Matjaž Rušt
During its first part, we looked at what the “soft” measures to promote gender balance have meant for the Slovenian national film production to date. In her findings, Nika Gričar, an external technical assistant at the Slovenian Film Centre, concluded the following: “The fact that during the Yugoslav period the Slovenian film production failed to produce a single female film director cannot be ignored. Only as late as in 2002, in the independent state of Slovenia, did the first two women finally sign two live-action features: Maja Weiss (Guardian of the Frontier) and Hanna Slak (Blind Spot).
WEMW inaugurates a series of new INSPIRATIONAL LABS for producers who wish to join the market onsite!
Festivals 17-11-2021Deadline: December 15, 2021
After closing the call for the Co-Production Forum with a successful record number of over 430 submissions, WEMW launches a complete programme of Inspirational Labs, a series of mini-workshops meant to stimulate producers to develop new content, explore new business models and discover new markets.
BUCHAREST: The American animated fantasy adventure film The Legend of Ochi directed by Isaiah Saxon and starring Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Finn Wolfhard and Helena Zengel is currently shooting in Romania with Castel Film Studios providing services.
scene from Events Meant to Be Forgotten
Two Croatian titles, one of which will appear in the main competition programme, screening at PÖFF Shorts, the short film and animation festival held in Tallinn, Estonia. The festival runs 16th – 24th November, in parallel to the 25th Black Nights Film Festival which will show a minority Croatian co-production The Cars We Drove into Capitalism directed by Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov.
