Director refuses to accept trophies in protest over immigrant issues in Greece.Scroll down for full list of winners
Panos H Koutras’ Xenia swept the sixth Hellenic Film Academy Awards on Monday evening (March 30) including the top prizes for best film, best director and best screenplay.
The film, which played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2014, was also awarded best editing, best costumes and best supporting actor for Angelos Papadimitriou.
But in an emotionally charged gesture, the director and his team chose not to accept the awards until the left wing Syriza government passed a bill regarding second-generation, referring to more than 100,000 immigrant children born and raised in Greece who are being denied Greek citizenship.
Xenia centres on two teenage boys who cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away. They hope he will identify them as sons and secure their citizenship.
Last year’s...
Panos H Koutras’ Xenia swept the sixth Hellenic Film Academy Awards on Monday evening (March 30) including the top prizes for best film, best director and best screenplay.
The film, which played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2014, was also awarded best editing, best costumes and best supporting actor for Angelos Papadimitriou.
But in an emotionally charged gesture, the director and his team chose not to accept the awards until the left wing Syriza government passed a bill regarding second-generation, referring to more than 100,000 immigrant children born and raised in Greece who are being denied Greek citizenship.
Xenia centres on two teenage boys who cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away. They hope he will identify them as sons and secure their citizenship.
Last year’s...
- 4/1/2015
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Heretic Outreach has boarded its first projects ahead of Iffr.
The Athens-based company is working on Margarita Manda’s Forever, in the Bright Futures section of International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 21-Feb 1).
Anna Mascha and Kostas Filippoglou star in the Greek drama about an engine driver and train passenger who are lonely in Athens, before they surrender to love. Faliro House produces.
In Rotterdam’s Limelight programme, Heretic is representing The Sky Above Us, a Dutch-Serbian production directed by Marinus Groothof.
The drama is about three strangers who put their lives at risk during the Belgrade bombings in 1999. Ctm Pictures produces with co-producers Entre Chien et Loup, Art & Popcorn and Heretic.
Heretic Outreach’s Ioanna Stais is attending Iffr from Jan 26-28.
Heretic Outreach - a sister to Greek production outfit Heretic - was announced in November 2014 as a new sales and festivals consultancy to help the global reach of innovative films from Southeastern Europe.
The Athens-based company is working on Margarita Manda’s Forever, in the Bright Futures section of International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 21-Feb 1).
Anna Mascha and Kostas Filippoglou star in the Greek drama about an engine driver and train passenger who are lonely in Athens, before they surrender to love. Faliro House produces.
In Rotterdam’s Limelight programme, Heretic is representing The Sky Above Us, a Dutch-Serbian production directed by Marinus Groothof.
The drama is about three strangers who put their lives at risk during the Belgrade bombings in 1999. Ctm Pictures produces with co-producers Entre Chien et Loup, Art & Popcorn and Heretic.
Heretic Outreach’s Ioanna Stais is attending Iffr from Jan 26-28.
Heretic Outreach - a sister to Greek production outfit Heretic - was announced in November 2014 as a new sales and festivals consultancy to help the global reach of innovative films from Southeastern Europe.
- 1/24/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Iffr reveals Big Screen Awards nominees and the complete line-up for its Bright Future and Spectrum strands, including world premieres from the Us, China and the Netherlands.
Second Coming, starring Idris Elba and Nadine Marshall, has been named as one of 10 films up for the Big Screen Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 21 - Feb 1).
The UK film, written and directed by Debbie Tucker Green, will be vying for a prize of €10,000 ($12,000) awarded specifically to support theatrical distribution of the film in The Netherlands
The 10 nominees are from Iffr’s Bright Future and Spectrum programmes with the winner chosen by a specially selected audience jury. Other titles include Lisandro Alonso’s Cannes Fipresci winner Jauja and Carlos Vermut’s San Sebastian winner Magical Girl.
The nominees are:
I Swear I’ll Leave This Town, Danial AragãoJauja, Lisandro AlonsoKey House Mirror, Michael NoerThe Lesson, Kristina Grozeva, Petar ValchanovMagical Girl, Carlos VermutA...
Second Coming, starring Idris Elba and Nadine Marshall, has been named as one of 10 films up for the Big Screen Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 21 - Feb 1).
The UK film, written and directed by Debbie Tucker Green, will be vying for a prize of €10,000 ($12,000) awarded specifically to support theatrical distribution of the film in The Netherlands
The 10 nominees are from Iffr’s Bright Future and Spectrum programmes with the winner chosen by a specially selected audience jury. Other titles include Lisandro Alonso’s Cannes Fipresci winner Jauja and Carlos Vermut’s San Sebastian winner Magical Girl.
The nominees are:
I Swear I’ll Leave This Town, Danial AragãoJauja, Lisandro AlonsoKey House Mirror, Michael NoerThe Lesson, Kristina Grozeva, Petar ValchanovMagical Girl, Carlos VermutA...
- 1/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Chauranga (Four Colors) by Bikas Mishra and The Fourth Direction by Gurvinder Singh have been selected to participate in ‘Paris Project’–the co-production market at Paris Cinema International Film Festival to be held in Paris from July 2-4, 2012.
Organised within the framework of the festival, Paris Project is a development and financing platform for carefully selected worldwide feature projects aimed at French and European co-production. Paris Project invites the filmmakers and producers of 14 selected projects for personalized one-to-one meetings with professionals interested in those selected projects.
The 2012 edition of Paris Project is organized in partnership with the Hong Kong International Film Festival and Haf - Asian Film Financing Forum. Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction had won the Paris Project award at Haf - Asian Film Financing Forum.
List of the 2012 selected projects
Atomic Love by Dror Shaul / Israël
Bends by Flora Lau / Hong Kong
Flowing Stories by Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan...
Organised within the framework of the festival, Paris Project is a development and financing platform for carefully selected worldwide feature projects aimed at French and European co-production. Paris Project invites the filmmakers and producers of 14 selected projects for personalized one-to-one meetings with professionals interested in those selected projects.
The 2012 edition of Paris Project is organized in partnership with the Hong Kong International Film Festival and Haf - Asian Film Financing Forum. Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction had won the Paris Project award at Haf - Asian Film Financing Forum.
List of the 2012 selected projects
Atomic Love by Dror Shaul / Israël
Bends by Flora Lau / Hong Kong
Flowing Stories by Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan...
- 6/6/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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