Tuttle revealed she will move to Berlin, learn to speak German and is excited by the state of German-language cinema.
Initial reactions from the German film industry to the appointment of Tricia Tuttle as the first female director of the Berlinale have been overwhelmingly positive.
“I truly welcome a female artistic director of the Berlinale. I think it was time that one of the big festivals has a woman as the leading person. So cheers to that!” said producer Janine Jackowski, co-founder of Komplizen Film whose production of Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms won the Golden Bear in 2019.
This sentiment was shared by Christine Berg,...
Initial reactions from the German film industry to the appointment of Tricia Tuttle as the first female director of the Berlinale have been overwhelmingly positive.
“I truly welcome a female artistic director of the Berlinale. I think it was time that one of the big festivals has a woman as the leading person. So cheers to that!” said producer Janine Jackowski, co-founder of Komplizen Film whose production of Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms won the Golden Bear in 2019.
This sentiment was shared by Christine Berg,...
- 12/12/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Filmfest Hamburg has 17 films funded by Moin screening at the festival.
Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein’s regional film fund Moin will have a strong presence at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg.
17 films funded by Moin will screen at the festival, including international productions such as Nicolaj Arcel’s King’s Land and Alice Troughton’s The Lesson as well as Isabal Herguera’s animated feature Sultana’s Dream and Leiv Igor Devold’s Norwegian Dream.
Other Moin backed features include new works by German filmmakers ranging from Sven Halfar (Heaven Can Wait - Wir Leben Jetzt) through to Stephan Rick (The Roots...
Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein’s regional film fund Moin will have a strong presence at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg.
17 films funded by Moin will screen at the festival, including international productions such as Nicolaj Arcel’s King’s Land and Alice Troughton’s The Lesson as well as Isabal Herguera’s animated feature Sultana’s Dream and Leiv Igor Devold’s Norwegian Dream.
Other Moin backed features include new works by German filmmakers ranging from Sven Halfar (Heaven Can Wait - Wir Leben Jetzt) through to Stephan Rick (The Roots...
- 9/28/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Jerusalem Film Fest Unveils 2023 Industry Program
Nir Bergman and Yona Rozenkier will be among the Israeli filmmakers presenting new projects at the Jerusalem Film Fest’s Pitch Point event this year. The annual meeting connecting Israeli directors with international partners is one pole of the festival’s Jerusalem Industry Days, running July 13 to 15. Jurors will be Olivier Père (Arte Cinema France), Thorsten Ritter (Beta Cinema), Kevin Chan (Mubi) and Claudia Solano (The Match Factory), alongside Helge Albers and producer Yael Fogiel (Les Films du Poisson). The Industry Days will also host the final pitching session for the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. Other highlights include a focus on Austria, accompanied by Austrian Films’ Anne Laurent-Delage and Emilie Dauptain and producers Antonin Svoboda (coop99), Oliver Neumann (FreibeuterFilm), Sabine Gruber (Golden Girls) and Barbara Pichler (Kgp Filmproduktion). Filmmakers Sebastian Meise,...
Nir Bergman and Yona Rozenkier will be among the Israeli filmmakers presenting new projects at the Jerusalem Film Fest’s Pitch Point event this year. The annual meeting connecting Israeli directors with international partners is one pole of the festival’s Jerusalem Industry Days, running July 13 to 15. Jurors will be Olivier Père (Arte Cinema France), Thorsten Ritter (Beta Cinema), Kevin Chan (Mubi) and Claudia Solano (The Match Factory), alongside Helge Albers and producer Yael Fogiel (Les Films du Poisson). The Industry Days will also host the final pitching session for the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. Other highlights include a focus on Austria, accompanied by Austrian Films’ Anne Laurent-Delage and Emilie Dauptain and producers Antonin Svoboda (coop99), Oliver Neumann (FreibeuterFilm), Sabine Gruber (Golden Girls) and Barbara Pichler (Kgp Filmproduktion). Filmmakers Sebastian Meise,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Four producers will work and network together in four cities throughout the year.
A residency programme for rising producers with at least one theatrical film to their name from Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands and Canada will launch in March 2023.
The four selected producers will live, work and network together for two weeks at a time in Hamburg, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Montreal where they will attend workshops as well as meet local producers and creatives.
The programme has been created and backed by Hamburg’s regional film fund Moin, the Danish Film Institute, National Film School of Denmark, the Netherlands Film Fund and Sodec Québec.
A residency programme for rising producers with at least one theatrical film to their name from Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands and Canada will launch in March 2023.
The four selected producers will live, work and network together for two weeks at a time in Hamburg, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Montreal where they will attend workshops as well as meet local producers and creatives.
The programme has been created and backed by Hamburg’s regional film fund Moin, the Danish Film Institute, National Film School of Denmark, the Netherlands Film Fund and Sodec Québec.
- 10/8/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The troubled exhibition giant has released its interim results for the sixth-month period ending on June 30, 2022.
UK-based Cineworld Group is anticipating cinema admissions will not bounce back to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 or 2024, based on its interim results for the sixth-month period ending on June 30, 2022.
The financially troubled group, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month, owns Regal Cinemas in the US, Cineworld and Picturehouse cinema chains in the UK and Ireland, Cinema City in Central and Eastern Europe and Yes Planet and Rav-Chen in Israel.
A statement said that “the Covid-19 pandemic has materially impacted all aspects of the...
UK-based Cineworld Group is anticipating cinema admissions will not bounce back to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 or 2024, based on its interim results for the sixth-month period ending on June 30, 2022.
The financially troubled group, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month, owns Regal Cinemas in the US, Cineworld and Picturehouse cinema chains in the UK and Ireland, Cinema City in Central and Eastern Europe and Yes Planet and Rav-Chen in Israel.
A statement said that “the Covid-19 pandemic has materially impacted all aspects of the...
- 9/30/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Jury prizes returned this year following a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic.
Prize money totalling €125,000 was handed out to 10 films screening in this year’s Filmfest Hamburg (September 30-October 9), which saw jury prizes return following a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic.
On Friday evening (October 8) at Hamburg’s producer awards, the jury comprising producer Martina Haubrich and directors Julian Pörksen and Arman T. Riahi presented the producers award for German cinema productions, worth €25,000, to Jonas Weydemann of Weydemann Bros for Sabrina Sarabi’s No One’s With The Calves, which had been screened in the Grosse Freiheit section.
Sarabi...
Prize money totalling €125,000 was handed out to 10 films screening in this year’s Filmfest Hamburg (September 30-October 9), which saw jury prizes return following a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic.
On Friday evening (October 8) at Hamburg’s producer awards, the jury comprising producer Martina Haubrich and directors Julian Pörksen and Arman T. Riahi presented the producers award for German cinema productions, worth €25,000, to Jonas Weydemann of Weydemann Bros for Sabrina Sarabi’s No One’s With The Calves, which had been screened in the Grosse Freiheit section.
Sarabi...
- 10/11/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The Moin Filmförderung supported 13 features at Filmfest Hamburg and several industry initiatives.
Northern Germans traditionally greet each other with a heartfelt “Moin!“ instead of a “Guten Tag” or “Guten Abend“ but another meaning has now been coined after the regional fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh) underwent a major rebranding this summer.
“The fund’s name change to Moin Filmförderung (Moving Images North) was important for us an organisation to be much clearer in how we communicate what we do,“ says the fund’s CEO Helge Albers.
“There’s a lot to this claim,“ he explains. “it covers regionality and a...
Northern Germans traditionally greet each other with a heartfelt “Moin!“ instead of a “Guten Tag” or “Guten Abend“ but another meaning has now been coined after the regional fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh) underwent a major rebranding this summer.
“The fund’s name change to Moin Filmförderung (Moving Images North) was important for us an organisation to be much clearer in how we communicate what we do,“ says the fund’s CEO Helge Albers.
“There’s a lot to this claim,“ he explains. “it covers regionality and a...
- 10/11/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The Moin Filmförderung supported 13 features at Filmfest Hamburg and several industry initiatives.
Northern Germans traditionally greet each other with a heartfelt “Moin!“ instead of a “Guten Tag” or “Guten Abend“ but another meaning has now been coined after the regional fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh) underwent a major rebranding this summer.
“The fund’s name change to Moin Filmförderung (Moving Images North) was important for us an organisation to be much clearer in how we communicate what we do,“ says the fund’s CEO Helge Albers.
“There’s a lot to this claim,“ he explains. “it covers regionality and a...
Northern Germans traditionally greet each other with a heartfelt “Moin!“ instead of a “Guten Tag” or “Guten Abend“ but another meaning has now been coined after the regional fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh) underwent a major rebranding this summer.
“The fund’s name change to Moin Filmförderung (Moving Images North) was important for us an organisation to be much clearer in how we communicate what we do,“ says the fund’s CEO Helge Albers.
“There’s a lot to this claim,“ he explains. “it covers regionality and a...
- 10/11/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Komplizen’s Janine Jackowski and Constantin’s Katharina Hiersemenzel were
Leading German producers Janine Jackowski of Komplizen Film and Katharina Hiersemenzel, the senior vice president of public policy of Constantin Film, challenged Wolf Osthaus, Netflix director of public policy for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, of a perceived imbalance between the streaming services and independent producers at an industry panel at Filmfest Hamburg.
The producers said the signing of the production service agreement meant that the copyright and any revenues for a project stayed in the hands of the streamer, and the production company’s function amounted to little more than...
Leading German producers Janine Jackowski of Komplizen Film and Katharina Hiersemenzel, the senior vice president of public policy of Constantin Film, challenged Wolf Osthaus, Netflix director of public policy for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, of a perceived imbalance between the streaming services and independent producers at an industry panel at Filmfest Hamburg.
The producers said the signing of the production service agreement meant that the copyright and any revenues for a project stayed in the hands of the streamer, and the production company’s function amounted to little more than...
- 10/5/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Film fund chief Helge Albers reflects on an eventful 12 months in the job.
“It’s definitely not been boring for me here at the film fund over the past 12 months,” reflects Helge Albers, CEO of the local regional film fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh).
“We made changes to the structure and composition of the funding committees, reduced the red tape by streamlining the procedure for funding applications and have now given the jury the opportunity to invite applicants to present their projects via video conferencing during the actual funding session.”
In addition, he says, the fund hopes to “open up...
“It’s definitely not been boring for me here at the film fund over the past 12 months,” reflects Helge Albers, CEO of the local regional film fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh).
“We made changes to the structure and composition of the funding committees, reduced the red tape by streamlining the procedure for funding applications and have now given the jury the opportunity to invite applicants to present their projects via video conferencing during the actual funding session.”
In addition, he says, the fund hopes to “open up...
- 9/30/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The most ambitious film fund in Germany is introducing checklists to encourage and ensure diversity in front of and behind the camera. The Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh), the most ambitious film fund in Germany, is introducing diversity checklists to tackle the issue of diversity in the film industry. In line with the preamble of its funding guidelines, the Ffhsh seeks to promote the representation of a diverse, multicultural and inclusive society without discrimination on the basis of age, appearance, disability, gender, skin colour, background, religion or belief, sexual identity or socio-economic status. It thus becomes mandatory for funding applicants to answer a series of questions when applying for development, production or distribution support. “We want to see our versatile, multicultural society in a modern and diverse way on screen,” says Helge Albers, managing director of the Ffhsh. “With our diversity checklist, we want to sensitise our applicants for more diversity.
Fleadh Forum to shift live discussions online due to virus crisis.
The future of film production and distribution is set to come under the spotlight at Ireland’s annual Fleadh Forum, which is taking place online for the first time as part of the Galway Film Fair from July 8-10.
The 11th edition of the industry platform, which has shifted online due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, will comprise three webinars under the banner ‘Looking Towards Tomorrow’. It will focus on how key areas of the business have been impacted by the virus crisis and can move forward.
The first...
The future of film production and distribution is set to come under the spotlight at Ireland’s annual Fleadh Forum, which is taking place online for the first time as part of the Galway Film Fair from July 8-10.
The 11th edition of the industry platform, which has shifted online due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, will comprise three webinars under the banner ‘Looking Towards Tomorrow’. It will focus on how key areas of the business have been impacted by the virus crisis and can move forward.
The first...
- 6/29/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Since taking the helm at German regional funder Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh) last year, Helge Albers has revamped the organization, worked to increase its budget by €3 million ($3.3 million) and introduced new initiatives aimed at young filmmakers.
Albers, a former film producer who previously served as head of the German Producers Assn. and a member of the German Federal Film Board’s production and script funding committee, came in with plenty of ideas to boost the funder’s activities and help adapt it to the rapidly changing film market.
Among the new initiatives is a first-of-its-kind deal with Warner Bros.’ Hamburg-based German division, Warner Bros. Entertainment, which has agreed to annual financial contributions of €1 million ($1.1 million) to the funder. The Ffhsh will allocate 25% of the new funding to projects from young up-and-coming filmmakers.
The subsidy board has also increased series funding, with €2 million ($2.2 million) in annual support aimed primarily at the...
Albers, a former film producer who previously served as head of the German Producers Assn. and a member of the German Federal Film Board’s production and script funding committee, came in with plenty of ideas to boost the funder’s activities and help adapt it to the rapidly changing film market.
Among the new initiatives is a first-of-its-kind deal with Warner Bros.’ Hamburg-based German division, Warner Bros. Entertainment, which has agreed to annual financial contributions of €1 million ($1.1 million) to the funder. The Ffhsh will allocate 25% of the new funding to projects from young up-and-coming filmmakers.
The subsidy board has also increased series funding, with €2 million ($2.2 million) in annual support aimed primarily at the...
- 2/21/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
It’s unclear if the Iranian auteur will be allowed to attend the film’s premiere.
Berlin-based Films Boutique is to handle world sales on Mohammad Rasoulof’s Berlin competition title There Is No Evil.
The Iranian auteur has faced censorship challenges in Iran since his second feature Iron Island (2005), and last summer was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment on charges of endangering national security through his work. He is now out of jail but is not allowed to leave Iran as he remains under a travel ban.
Films Boutique COO Gabor Greiner has called on the Iranian authorities...
Berlin-based Films Boutique is to handle world sales on Mohammad Rasoulof’s Berlin competition title There Is No Evil.
The Iranian auteur has faced censorship challenges in Iran since his second feature Iron Island (2005), and last summer was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment on charges of endangering national security through his work. He is now out of jail but is not allowed to leave Iran as he remains under a travel ban.
Films Boutique COO Gabor Greiner has called on the Iranian authorities...
- 2/13/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Warner Bros.’ Hamburg-based German division, Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH, has agreed for the first time to financial contributions of €1 million ($1.1 million) annually for regional funder Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh).
The three-year deal, signed between Warner Bros. and the Ffhsh on Friday, marks the first time that Warner Bros. has contributed to any of Germany’s eight main regional funds. The Ffhsh will allocate 25% of the new funding to projects from young up-and-coming filmmakers.
“Warner Bros. has been committed to German film through investments as a co-producer and distributor since 1995,” said Willi Geike, Warner Bros. Entertainment president and managing director.
“With our new initiative at the Ffhsh, we want to support young screenwriting talents and filmmakers from the region, enable the production of innovative feature films and strengthen Hamburg as a location.”
Ffhsh managing director Helge Albers added: “We are very pleased that with Warner Bros., a big major in Hamburg...
The three-year deal, signed between Warner Bros. and the Ffhsh on Friday, marks the first time that Warner Bros. has contributed to any of Germany’s eight main regional funds. The Ffhsh will allocate 25% of the new funding to projects from young up-and-coming filmmakers.
“Warner Bros. has been committed to German film through investments as a co-producer and distributor since 1995,” said Willi Geike, Warner Bros. Entertainment president and managing director.
“With our new initiative at the Ffhsh, we want to support young screenwriting talents and filmmakers from the region, enable the production of innovative feature films and strengthen Hamburg as a location.”
Ffhsh managing director Helge Albers added: “We are very pleased that with Warner Bros., a big major in Hamburg...
- 1/24/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Around 25% will be invested in projects by new talents.
Warner Bros Germany is to invest €3m over the next three years in the development and production of feature films originating from or shot in the German region of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein in the first deal of its kind between a German regional fund and a Us major.
At least 25% of each annual €1m will be earmarked for projects by up-and-coming filmmakers to boost talent development in the region.
The deal was signed today (January 24) between Hamburg-based Warner Bros Entertainment and the regional film fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh)
The financial...
Warner Bros Germany is to invest €3m over the next three years in the development and production of feature films originating from or shot in the German region of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein in the first deal of its kind between a German regional fund and a Us major.
At least 25% of each annual €1m will be earmarked for projects by up-and-coming filmmakers to boost talent development in the region.
The deal was signed today (January 24) between Hamburg-based Warner Bros Entertainment and the regional film fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh)
The financial...
- 1/24/2020
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Berlin-based company to move into international co-productions and branch out into fiction.
Berlin-based production outfit Achtung Panda! Media has appointed Jamila Wenske and Melanie Blocksdorf as new heads of the company. Wenske will served as producer and managing director and Blocksdorf as producer.
Carli Hameder joins as the company’s project manager.
These hires follow the departure of previous head Helge Albers, who has started in his new position as CEO of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
Achtung Panda! was launched in 2015 by Danny Krausz and Oliver Damian. The pair remain shareholders but aren’t involved actively in productions.
The company has...
Berlin-based production outfit Achtung Panda! Media has appointed Jamila Wenske and Melanie Blocksdorf as new heads of the company. Wenske will served as producer and managing director and Blocksdorf as producer.
Carli Hameder joins as the company’s project manager.
These hires follow the departure of previous head Helge Albers, who has started in his new position as CEO of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
Achtung Panda! was launched in 2015 by Danny Krausz and Oliver Damian. The pair remain shareholders but aren’t involved actively in productions.
The company has...
- 8/22/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
German producer Jamila Wenske has left One Two Films to head Achtung Panda!, a Berlin-based film production company.
Wenske succeeds former managing director Helge Albers, who left Achtung Panda! to become the new CEO of regional funder Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
Wenske partnered with Sol Bondy and Christoph Lange to launch One Two Films in 2010. The Berlin company has co-produced domestic and international productions, including Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale,” Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop” and Vadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons.”
Variety selected Wenske and Bondy for its 10 Producers to Watch list last year.
Producer Melanie Blocksdorf, who previously worked at Berlin-based Propellerfilm, is joining Wenske at Achtung Panda!
Established as a joint venture in 2015 between Danny Krausz’s Vienna-based Dor Film and Oliver Damian’s 27 Films in Berlin, Achtung Panda! had largely focused on documentaries under Albers’ management. But Wenske and Blocksdorf, along with project manager Carli Hameder, intend to...
Wenske succeeds former managing director Helge Albers, who left Achtung Panda! to become the new CEO of regional funder Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
Wenske partnered with Sol Bondy and Christoph Lange to launch One Two Films in 2010. The Berlin company has co-produced domestic and international productions, including Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale,” Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop” and Vadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons.”
Variety selected Wenske and Bondy for its 10 Producers to Watch list last year.
Producer Melanie Blocksdorf, who previously worked at Berlin-based Propellerfilm, is joining Wenske at Achtung Panda!
Established as a joint venture in 2015 between Danny Krausz’s Vienna-based Dor Film and Oliver Damian’s 27 Films in Berlin, Achtung Panda! had largely focused on documentaries under Albers’ management. But Wenske and Blocksdorf, along with project manager Carli Hameder, intend to...
- 8/22/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the North American rights to Cunningham Alla Kovgan’s documentary about Merce Cunningham, one of the world’s most influential and groundbreaking choreographers. The film immerses viewers in the choreographer’s world and will be released in both 2D and 3D later this year. Dogwoof will release in the UK, Sophie Dulac Distribution in France, and Camino Films in Germany.
Cunningham follows Merce’s artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery (1944–1972). It will trace his career from his early years as a struggling dancer in postwar New York to his emergence as one of the world’s most visionary choreographers. The 3D technology weaves together Merce’s philosophies and stories, creating a journey into his innovative work. The film will be a tribute to one of the world’s greatest modern dance artists with never-before-seen material and promises a breathtaking experience of dance.
“3D...
Cunningham follows Merce’s artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery (1944–1972). It will trace his career from his early years as a struggling dancer in postwar New York to his emergence as one of the world’s most visionary choreographers. The 3D technology weaves together Merce’s philosophies and stories, creating a journey into his innovative work. The film will be a tribute to one of the world’s greatest modern dance artists with never-before-seen material and promises a breathtaking experience of dance.
“3D...
- 4/16/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The 3D immersive film is set for release later this year, the centenary of Merce Cunningham’s birth.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Cunningham, the 3D documentary about choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Magnolia plans to release the film, directed by Alla Kovgan, in both 2D and 3D formats in the Us later this year, the centenary of Cunningham’s birth.
Dogwoof, which took on worldwide sales of the immersive dance documentary last autumn, is set to release in the UK and the film has been pre-sold to Sophie Dulac Distribution for France and Camino Films for Germany.
Cunningham...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Cunningham, the 3D documentary about choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Magnolia plans to release the film, directed by Alla Kovgan, in both 2D and 3D formats in the Us later this year, the centenary of Cunningham’s birth.
Dogwoof, which took on worldwide sales of the immersive dance documentary last autumn, is set to release in the UK and the film has been pre-sold to Sophie Dulac Distribution for France and Camino Films for Germany.
Cunningham...
- 4/16/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Saturday Fiction
Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye’s eleventh feature Saturday Fiction promises to be among his more extravagant offerings of late, featuring a handsome international cast led by Gong Li, also including Zhang Songwen, Huang Xiangli, and Wang Chaunjun. Produced through Lou’s YingFilms, Helge Albers through Berlin’s Achtung Panda! and Japan’s Uplink, the period drama is lensed by Dp Zeng Jian. Lou Ye’s 2003 Purple Butterfly brought him to the Cannes competition. Three years later, he was famously banned from filmmaking in China for five years following 2006’s Summer Palace and his representation of Tiananmen Square (which was yanked from the official Cannes comp).…...
Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye’s eleventh feature Saturday Fiction promises to be among his more extravagant offerings of late, featuring a handsome international cast led by Gong Li, also including Zhang Songwen, Huang Xiangli, and Wang Chaunjun. Produced through Lou’s YingFilms, Helge Albers through Berlin’s Achtung Panda! and Japan’s Uplink, the period drama is lensed by Dp Zeng Jian. Lou Ye’s 2003 Purple Butterfly brought him to the Cannes competition. Three years later, he was famously banned from filmmaking in China for five years following 2006’s Summer Palace and his representation of Tiananmen Square (which was yanked from the official Cannes comp).…...
- 1/4/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Simone Baumann to replace new Berlinale director Mariette Rissenbeek at German Films.
After months of speculation in the German film industry, independent producers Simone Baumann and Helge Albers have now been appointed as the new managing directors of German Films Service + Marketing and Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, respectively.
Baumann, who has been representing German Films in Central and Eastern Europe since 2003 in addition to her role overseeing documentary production at Leipzig-based Saxonia Entertainment, was confirmed as the successor to the present incumbent Mariette Rissenbeek at a meeting of the promotion agency’s supervisory board in Munich yesterday (3 December).
55-year-old Baumann will...
After months of speculation in the German film industry, independent producers Simone Baumann and Helge Albers have now been appointed as the new managing directors of German Films Service + Marketing and Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, respectively.
Baumann, who has been representing German Films in Central and Eastern Europe since 2003 in addition to her role overseeing documentary production at Leipzig-based Saxonia Entertainment, was confirmed as the successor to the present incumbent Mariette Rissenbeek at a meeting of the promotion agency’s supervisory board in Munich yesterday (3 December).
55-year-old Baumann will...
- 12/4/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Simone Baumann to replace new Berlinale director Mariette Rissenbeek at German Films.
After months of speculation in the German film industry, independent producers Simone Baumann and Helge Albers have now been appointed as the new managing directors of German Films Service + Marketing and Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, respectively.
Baumann, who has been representing German Films in Central and Eastern Europe since 2003 in addition to her role overseeing documentary production at Leipzig-based Saxonia Entertainment, was confirmed as the successor to the present incumbent Mariette Rissenbeek at a meeting of the promotion agency’s supervisory board in Munich yesterday (3 December).
55-year-old Baumann will...
After months of speculation in the German film industry, independent producers Simone Baumann and Helge Albers have now been appointed as the new managing directors of German Films Service + Marketing and Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, respectively.
Baumann, who has been representing German Films in Central and Eastern Europe since 2003 in addition to her role overseeing documentary production at Leipzig-based Saxonia Entertainment, was confirmed as the successor to the present incumbent Mariette Rissenbeek at a meeting of the promotion agency’s supervisory board in Munich yesterday (3 December).
55-year-old Baumann will...
- 12/4/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Dogwoof has acquired world sales rights to 3D documentary “Cunningham,” the U.K.-based documentary specialist has revealed to Variety. Dogwoof, which is also set to distribute the feature in the U.K. and Ireland, will present a first-look teaser from the film to international buyers at the upcoming American Film Market.
“Cunningham,” which is currently in production, tells the story of legendary American choreographer Merce Cunningham. It is set to see its U.K. release through Dogwoof, as well as releases in pre-sold markets France and Germany via Sophie Dulac and Camino Films respectively, in Spring 2019 to coincide with the centenary of the choreographer’s birth.
Filming in 3D, the documentary, which is described as a “breath-taking explosion of dance and music,” is directed by Alla Kovgan and edited by Andrew Bird. It traces Cunningham’s artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery from his early years...
“Cunningham,” which is currently in production, tells the story of legendary American choreographer Merce Cunningham. It is set to see its U.K. release through Dogwoof, as well as releases in pre-sold markets France and Germany via Sophie Dulac and Camino Films respectively, in Spring 2019 to coincide with the centenary of the choreographer’s birth.
Filming in 3D, the documentary, which is described as a “breath-taking explosion of dance and music,” is directed by Alla Kovgan and edited by Andrew Bird. It traces Cunningham’s artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery from his early years...
- 10/15/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Cast includes Gong Li, Mark Chao, Tom Wlaschiha, Pascal Greggory and Joe Odagiri.
Berlin-based production house Achtung Panda! and Japan’s Uplink have boarded Saturday Fiction, a 1940s-set period drama from controversial Chinese director Lou Ye.
Gong Li, Taiwanese actor Mark Chao, German actor Tom Wlaschiha, France’s Pascal Greggory and Japan’s Joe Odagiri and Ayumu Nakajima head the cast of the multilingual drama, also produced by Lou’s YingFilms. Chinese actors Zhang Songwen, Huang Xiangli and Wang Chuanjun also star.
Helge Albers is producing for Achtung Panda! and is presenting the project to sales agents, distributors and other potential European partners at the Efm.
Lou recently completed The Shadow Play, a drama following Chinese families over three decades of reform and increased openness in China. As the film is undergoing a lengthy review process by Chinese authorities, he returned to Shanghai to start work on pre-production and actors’ rehearsals for Saturday Fiction.
Set in Shanghai...
Berlin-based production house Achtung Panda! and Japan’s Uplink have boarded Saturday Fiction, a 1940s-set period drama from controversial Chinese director Lou Ye.
Gong Li, Taiwanese actor Mark Chao, German actor Tom Wlaschiha, France’s Pascal Greggory and Japan’s Joe Odagiri and Ayumu Nakajima head the cast of the multilingual drama, also produced by Lou’s YingFilms. Chinese actors Zhang Songwen, Huang Xiangli and Wang Chuanjun also star.
Helge Albers is producing for Achtung Panda! and is presenting the project to sales agents, distributors and other potential European partners at the Efm.
Lou recently completed The Shadow Play, a drama following Chinese families over three decades of reform and increased openness in China. As the film is undergoing a lengthy review process by Chinese authorities, he returned to Shanghai to start work on pre-production and actors’ rehearsals for Saturday Fiction.
Set in Shanghai...
- 2/16/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Festival’s industry strand crowns work-in-progress winners from Macedonia and Ukraine.
The Grand Prix of FilmFestival Cottbus (8-13 November) went to Russia for the fourth time in the last six years, with filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky taking the top award for his second feature Zoology after also winning top honours for his debut Corrections Class in 2014.
The other previous winners from Russia had been Angelina Nikonova in 2011 with Twilight Portrait and Alexander Veledinsky in 2013 with The Geographer Who Drank His Globe Away.
Moreover, Tverdovsky is the third film-maker to win Cottbus’s top prize twice in the festival’s 26-year history following Slovakia’s Martin Sulik (1993: Everything I Like and 1995: The Garden) and Serbia’s Oleg Novkovic (2006: Tomorrow Morning and 2010: White White World).
The international jury, which included veteran Israeli producer Marek Rosenbaum and Serbian actress-director Mirjana Karanovic, described Zoology as ¨an original and emotional story about loneliness, love, hope and...
The Grand Prix of FilmFestival Cottbus (8-13 November) went to Russia for the fourth time in the last six years, with filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky taking the top award for his second feature Zoology after also winning top honours for his debut Corrections Class in 2014.
The other previous winners from Russia had been Angelina Nikonova in 2011 with Twilight Portrait and Alexander Veledinsky in 2013 with The Geographer Who Drank His Globe Away.
Moreover, Tverdovsky is the third film-maker to win Cottbus’s top prize twice in the festival’s 26-year history following Slovakia’s Martin Sulik (1993: Everything I Like and 1995: The Garden) and Serbia’s Oleg Novkovic (2006: Tomorrow Morning and 2010: White White World).
The international jury, which included veteran Israeli producer Marek Rosenbaum and Serbian actress-director Mirjana Karanovic, described Zoology as ¨an original and emotional story about loneliness, love, hope and...
- 11/14/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
New partner organisations from Egypt, Nepal and SingaporeScroll down for full list
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has selected 61 emerging film producers from 26 countries to the 16th edition of Rotterdam Lab.
Rotterdam Lab is organised by Iffr’s co-production market, CineMart, in collaboration with various partner organisations involved in the training of young producers, as well as funding bodies.
Rotterdam Lab is a five-day training workshop for emerging producers designed to provide the means to create and expand their international network and boost their confidence and skills to navigate the world of international finance, sales and distribution and markets.
Another aim of Rotterdam Lab is to support its participants setting up or adapting their companies within the quickly changing media landscape. The participants are nominated by the 29 CineMart partners. This year, Rotterdam Lab welcomes Arab Cinema Center (Egypt), Docskool (Nepal) and Singapore Film Commission as new partners.
The Rotterdam Lab programme includes panel discussions on topics such as...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has selected 61 emerging film producers from 26 countries to the 16th edition of Rotterdam Lab.
Rotterdam Lab is organised by Iffr’s co-production market, CineMart, in collaboration with various partner organisations involved in the training of young producers, as well as funding bodies.
Rotterdam Lab is a five-day training workshop for emerging producers designed to provide the means to create and expand their international network and boost their confidence and skills to navigate the world of international finance, sales and distribution and markets.
Another aim of Rotterdam Lab is to support its participants setting up or adapting their companies within the quickly changing media landscape. The participants are nominated by the 29 CineMart partners. This year, Rotterdam Lab welcomes Arab Cinema Center (Egypt), Docskool (Nepal) and Singapore Film Commission as new partners.
The Rotterdam Lab programme includes panel discussions on topics such as...
- 1/30/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Bernie, Middle of Nowhere, Moonrise Kingdom and Beasts of the Southern Wild each received a pair of nominations for the 22nd Gotham Independent Film Awards, but the big surprise has to be the Best Picture snub of Benh Zeitlin’s Sundance and Cannes winner. The jury of five favored Moonrise Kingdom, Bernie, Middle of Nowhere, The Loneliest Planet and The Master over other well-received truly indie titles such as Craig Zobel’s Compliance and James Ponsoldt’s Smashed. The awards will be handed out on November 26th.
Best Feature
Bernie
Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Ginger Sledge, Celine Rattray, Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer, Matt Williams, David McFadzean, Judd Payne, Dete Meserve, producers (Millennium Entertainment)
The Loneliest Planet
Julia Loktev, director; Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Helge Albers, Marie Therese Guirgis, producers (Sundance Selects)
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson, director; Joanne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, producers (The...
Best Feature
Bernie
Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Ginger Sledge, Celine Rattray, Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer, Matt Williams, David McFadzean, Judd Payne, Dete Meserve, producers (Millennium Entertainment)
The Loneliest Planet
Julia Loktev, director; Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Helge Albers, Marie Therese Guirgis, producers (Sundance Selects)
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson, director; Joanne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, producers (The...
- 10/18/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
This morning, the Gotham Awards nominations were announced (indeed tweeted), and in a very competitive field, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, Richard Linklater’s Bernie, Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere and Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom lead the way, each earning two nominations.
Commenting on the nominations, IFP’s executive director Joana Vicente said, “From master film artists to richly talented newcomers, this year’s nominees comprise a diverse group of filmmakers and actors that defines the spectrum of independent film today. In addition to celebrating the work and the community, we also hope that the Gotham Award attention will encourage more audiences to explore the range of vibrant, entertaining, challenging, and innovative films represented here.”
As previously announced, this year the Gothams will honor actors Matt Damon and Marion Cotillard, director David O. Russell and Participant Media founder Jeff Skoll.
Below are the nominations in...
Commenting on the nominations, IFP’s executive director Joana Vicente said, “From master film artists to richly talented newcomers, this year’s nominees comprise a diverse group of filmmakers and actors that defines the spectrum of independent film today. In addition to celebrating the work and the community, we also hope that the Gotham Award attention will encourage more audiences to explore the range of vibrant, entertaining, challenging, and innovative films represented here.”
As previously announced, this year the Gothams will honor actors Matt Damon and Marion Cotillard, director David O. Russell and Participant Media founder Jeff Skoll.
Below are the nominations in...
- 10/18/2012
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
New York, NY – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today the nominees for the Gotham Independent Film Awards™. Signaling the kick-off to the film awards season, IFP’s Gotham Independent Film Awards™ nominations were given to a total of 26 films across six competitive categories for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance, and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.
The Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 26th at Cipriani Wall Street. In addition to the competitive awards, actors Marion Cotillard and Matt Damon, director David O. Russell, and Participant Media founder Jeff Skoll will each be presented with a career tribute.
As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. Previous winners...
The Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 26th at Cipriani Wall Street. In addition to the competitive awards, actors Marion Cotillard and Matt Damon, director David O. Russell, and Participant Media founder Jeff Skoll will each be presented with a career tribute.
As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. Previous winners...
- 10/18/2012
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
#22. The Loneliest Planet Director/Writer: Julia LoktevProducers: Helge Albers, Marie-Therese Guirgis, Lars Knudsen and Jay Van HoyDistributor: Rights Available. The Gist: A chamber-piece set in a landscape that is both overwhelmingly open and frighteningly closed. A young couple is backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia a year after tensions with Russia erupted in a brief war and settled into an uneasy peace. The couple hires a local guide to lead them on a several-day hiking trip, and the three set off into an alien, isolated wilderness. In a moment of fear, something happens, an involuntary gesture, a gesture that takes only two or three seconds, a gesture that's over almost as soon as it begins...(more) Cast: Gael García Bernal, Hani Furstenberg and Bidzina Gudjabidze List Worthy Reasons...: The entire packaging of Loktev's sophomore film is alluring. First you have this filmmaker not afraid to move into uncharted...
- 1/15/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features about a half-dozen projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This June, we are keeping tabs on the newly announced docu-comedy project from Morgan Spurlock who'll be chasing nerd core of comic book fans at Comic-con this year. Jack and Diane seems to be going ahead this month with casting officially in place and announced during the Cannes film festival, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will begin filming his latest thriller with two big name talents on board and only one 11 year-old girl left to cast. - At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features about a half-dozen projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This June, we are keeping tabs on the newly announced docu-comedy project from Morgan Spurlock who'll be...
- 6/3/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features about a half-dozen projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This June, we are keeping tabs on the newly announced docu-comedy project from Morgan Spurlock who'll be chasing the nerd core at Comic-con this year. Bradley Rust Gray must be all smiles now that casting is complete for his long gestating project -- casting is now officially in place. Announced during the Cannes film festival, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will begin filming his latest thriller with two big name talents on board and only one 11 year-old girl left to cast. We have Vera Farmiga's directorial debut in the works - basing herself on Carolyn Briggs' memoir This Dark World which is thematically touching upon some items explored in Paul Thomas Anderson's scientology project -- the status of the project should be known fairly soon,...
- 6/1/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Perspektiv Deutsches Kino
BERLIN -- Iranian director and football fan Ayat Najafi must have been hearing voices like Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams when he approached various bodies (including FIFA) to sponsor a friendly match between a local Berlin girls' soccer team and Iran's national women's team. But tackling all the political, religious and cultural defenses that stand in their way is harder than building a stadium.
Nevertheless, as Najafi says to his co-director David Assman, "In Iran, everything is impossible and everything is possible," the teams' refusal to give up pays off and the climactic match presents some exhilarating footage of sports fanaticism and girl power.
Do not expect the trenchant anti-authoritarian observations of Offside or any deep probing into the German-Iranian team members on their feelings of being Persepolis-like emigres visiting their parents' homeland. Politically inoffensive, bursting with teenage energy and softened by a lovely Middle Eastern-flavored score, the documentary will find a sympathetic audience among soccer lovers and young people. With the current popularity of films that mix women soccer fans with ethnicity such as Bend It Like Beckham and Offside, this feel-good exercise might be able to score a golden goal in the worldwide market.
Football Under Cover kicks off with the Iranian members of the Berlin-based BSV AL-Dersimpor girls' soccer team waxing lyrical about the sport. There are the token tomboys and Beckham groupies, but more fascinating is one member's mother, who played for Iran's national team in pre-Revolution days and now coaches her daughter.
Najafi and co-producer Marlene Assmann fly to Iran to meet their potential sponsor, Iranol Oil. The ensuing tug-of-war to make the match possible is confusing and not as eye-opening as the directors intended it to be. The film only heats up at the match itself. Female audiences will enjoy a sense of vindication to see men (even the president of the association) banished from the stadium and get a taste of what the heroines of Offside suffered. The responses of Iranian women spectators make an amusing spectacle and demonstrate the utter impotence of the moral watchdogs present.
FOOTBALL UNDER COVER
Flying Moon Filmproduktion
Credits:
Directors: Ayat Najafi, David Assmann
Producers: Patrick Merkle, Helge Albers, Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
Directors of photography: Anne Misselwitz, Niclas Reed Middleton
Music: Niko Schabel
Co-producers: Marlene Assmann, Corinna Assmann
Editor: Sylke Rohrlach
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BERLIN -- Iranian director and football fan Ayat Najafi must have been hearing voices like Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams when he approached various bodies (including FIFA) to sponsor a friendly match between a local Berlin girls' soccer team and Iran's national women's team. But tackling all the political, religious and cultural defenses that stand in their way is harder than building a stadium.
Nevertheless, as Najafi says to his co-director David Assman, "In Iran, everything is impossible and everything is possible," the teams' refusal to give up pays off and the climactic match presents some exhilarating footage of sports fanaticism and girl power.
Do not expect the trenchant anti-authoritarian observations of Offside or any deep probing into the German-Iranian team members on their feelings of being Persepolis-like emigres visiting their parents' homeland. Politically inoffensive, bursting with teenage energy and softened by a lovely Middle Eastern-flavored score, the documentary will find a sympathetic audience among soccer lovers and young people. With the current popularity of films that mix women soccer fans with ethnicity such as Bend It Like Beckham and Offside, this feel-good exercise might be able to score a golden goal in the worldwide market.
Football Under Cover kicks off with the Iranian members of the Berlin-based BSV AL-Dersimpor girls' soccer team waxing lyrical about the sport. There are the token tomboys and Beckham groupies, but more fascinating is one member's mother, who played for Iran's national team in pre-Revolution days and now coaches her daughter.
Najafi and co-producer Marlene Assmann fly to Iran to meet their potential sponsor, Iranol Oil. The ensuing tug-of-war to make the match possible is confusing and not as eye-opening as the directors intended it to be. The film only heats up at the match itself. Female audiences will enjoy a sense of vindication to see men (even the president of the association) banished from the stadium and get a taste of what the heroines of Offside suffered. The responses of Iranian women spectators make an amusing spectacle and demonstrate the utter impotence of the moral watchdogs present.
FOOTBALL UNDER COVER
Flying Moon Filmproduktion
Credits:
Directors: Ayat Najafi, David Assmann
Producers: Patrick Merkle, Helge Albers, Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
Directors of photography: Anne Misselwitz, Niclas Reed Middleton
Music: Niko Schabel
Co-producers: Marlene Assmann, Corinna Assmann
Editor: Sylke Rohrlach
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/13/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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