Margarethe Von Trotta To Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor At The European Film Awards
German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th European Film Awards. von Trotta will receive the honor at a ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland, on December 10 where she will be an honorary guest. Born in Berlin and raised in Düsseldorf, von Trotta started her career as an actress, in theatre and appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff before moving behind the camera in 1978 with The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, her solo debut as a director. In 1981, her film Marianne and Juliane about the “German Sisters” Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin won the Golden Lion in Venice as well as two German Film Awards and an Italian David di Donatello. Previous winners of the European Film Academy’s lifetime achievement award include Agnès Varda and Judi Dench.
German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th European Film Awards. von Trotta will receive the honor at a ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland, on December 10 where she will be an honorary guest. Born in Berlin and raised in Düsseldorf, von Trotta started her career as an actress, in theatre and appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff before moving behind the camera in 1978 with The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, her solo debut as a director. In 1981, her film Marianne and Juliane about the “German Sisters” Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin won the Golden Lion in Venice as well as two German Film Awards and an Italian David di Donatello. Previous winners of the European Film Academy’s lifetime achievement award include Agnès Varda and Judi Dench.
- 8/23/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Films presented include Baltasar Kormákur’s Whaleman (At The Ends Of The Earth) and Gerardo Herrero’s Raqqa.
Executives from Wild Bunch, A24, Netflix and Focus Features are among those who will attend the inaugural two-day Creative Investors’ conference taking place at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff), organised in collaboration with CAA Media and running from September 19-20.
Participants will include A24 Europe’s head of film and head of TV, respectively, Rose Garnett and Piers Wenger; Netflix’s head of international original film Teresa Moneo; Focus Features’ president of production and acquisitions Kiska Higgs; Mubi’s VP...
Executives from Wild Bunch, A24, Netflix and Focus Features are among those who will attend the inaugural two-day Creative Investors’ conference taking place at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff), organised in collaboration with CAA Media and running from September 19-20.
Participants will include A24 Europe’s head of film and head of TV, respectively, Rose Garnett and Piers Wenger; Netflix’s head of international original film Teresa Moneo; Focus Features’ president of production and acquisitions Kiska Higgs; Mubi’s VP...
- 8/23/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Co-organized with CAA Media Finance, a new San Sebastian Festival Creative Investors’ Conference will see many of the good and great of the international film business descend on September’s fest edition to be pitched 10 higher-budget Spanish movies by their producers.
The Conference will run Sept.19-20. In a cosmopolitan lineup, titles pitched include international co-productions such as “Whalemen (At the Ends of the Earth)” from “Everest” director Baltasar Kormákur as well as the latest from “Amama” helmer Asier Altuna and “Raqa,” from Gerardo Herrero, an Academy Award wining producer for “The Secret in Their Eyes.”
The conference’s high-profile international investors, producers, agents and executives take in Mubi’s Bobby Allen, Piers Wenger at A24 Europe, Focus Features’s Kiska Higgs, 30West’s Trevor Groth, Vincent Maraval at Wild Bunch International and Netflix’s Teresa Moneo.
Also confirmed are the Elysian Film Group’s Danny Perkins, Neon CEO Tom Quinn,...
The Conference will run Sept.19-20. In a cosmopolitan lineup, titles pitched include international co-productions such as “Whalemen (At the Ends of the Earth)” from “Everest” director Baltasar Kormákur as well as the latest from “Amama” helmer Asier Altuna and “Raqa,” from Gerardo Herrero, an Academy Award wining producer for “The Secret in Their Eyes.”
The conference’s high-profile international investors, producers, agents and executives take in Mubi’s Bobby Allen, Piers Wenger at A24 Europe, Focus Features’s Kiska Higgs, 30West’s Trevor Groth, Vincent Maraval at Wild Bunch International and Netflix’s Teresa Moneo.
Also confirmed are the Elysian Film Group’s Danny Perkins, Neon CEO Tom Quinn,...
- 8/23/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The scripted drama boom is changing the entire TV industry. But is it a change for the better?
“It’s an exciting time,” is a refrain now most commonly uttered by those in the business of making content for the Us streaming services.
Not only have Netflix, Amazon and co fuelled a surge in the volume of scripted content, subscription video on demand services (SVoDs) are also doing their bit, as they expand and evolve, to change the business and art of high-end television.
“Partly it’s driven by the SVoDs, partly it’s driven by the retrenching of the feature film business,” says Ted Miller, co-head of the television department at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), whose client Matthew Weiner is among the high-profile writer-producers working on streaming series.
The Crown
“You have artists who want to tell great stories and if those stories are not being done in the movie business they are being done now...
“It’s an exciting time,” is a refrain now most commonly uttered by those in the business of making content for the Us streaming services.
Not only have Netflix, Amazon and co fuelled a surge in the volume of scripted content, subscription video on demand services (SVoDs) are also doing their bit, as they expand and evolve, to change the business and art of high-end television.
“Partly it’s driven by the SVoDs, partly it’s driven by the retrenching of the feature film business,” says Ted Miller, co-head of the television department at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), whose client Matthew Weiner is among the high-profile writer-producers working on streaming series.
The Crown
“You have artists who want to tell great stories and if those stories are not being done in the movie business they are being done now...
- 3/30/2017
- ScreenDaily
Author Johanna Koljonen presents fourth Nostradamus report at the Goteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market.
How the industry is coping - or not coping - with too many feature films flooding the market is one of the key topics of the fourth Nostradamus report, presented by author Johanna Koljonen today at the Goteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market.
This surge of production isn’t working in the existing value chain of distribution.
“There is no equivalent surge of innovation in distribution and audience relations,” the report stated. “A theatrical window is not feasible even for all quality films - not even on the festival circuit. A complete digital transformation of the small screen landscape seems inevitable.”
Koljonen said one reason that more films were being made were new funders entering the sector, regional funders and tax credits increasing activity, and “the democratization of film production.” As many new filmmakers start their careers, that doesn’t...
How the industry is coping - or not coping - with too many feature films flooding the market is one of the key topics of the fourth Nostradamus report, presented by author Johanna Koljonen today at the Goteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market.
This surge of production isn’t working in the existing value chain of distribution.
“There is no equivalent surge of innovation in distribution and audience relations,” the report stated. “A theatrical window is not feasible even for all quality films - not even on the festival circuit. A complete digital transformation of the small screen landscape seems inevitable.”
Koljonen said one reason that more films were being made were new funders entering the sector, regional funders and tax credits increasing activity, and “the democratization of film production.” As many new filmmakers start their careers, that doesn’t...
- 2/3/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Panelists debated how the film industry could break “the bubble” of traditional distribution and exhibition models.
A panel on Tuesday (Jan 31) at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) addressed industry questions relating to the emergence of alternative methods of film distribution and the continued saturation of available content.
Speaking on the panel was Bobby Allen, vice president at arthouse streaming service Mubi, Eurimages executive director Roberto Olla, and Anke van Diejen and Noortje van de Sande from Dutch streaming service Filmthuis.
Moderated by industry and festival consultant Hayet Benkara, the panel discussed whether producers, distributors and exhibitors were adapting enough to the opportunities presented in the evolving film market.
Allen was particularly firm in his opinion that many in the film industry needed to do more thinking about how they could connect with potential audiences.
“We really need to see distributors, exhibitors and platforms working more closely together to look for more innovation, and more opportunities...
A panel on Tuesday (Jan 31) at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) addressed industry questions relating to the emergence of alternative methods of film distribution and the continued saturation of available content.
Speaking on the panel was Bobby Allen, vice president at arthouse streaming service Mubi, Eurimages executive director Roberto Olla, and Anke van Diejen and Noortje van de Sande from Dutch streaming service Filmthuis.
Moderated by industry and festival consultant Hayet Benkara, the panel discussed whether producers, distributors and exhibitors were adapting enough to the opportunities presented in the evolving film market.
Allen was particularly firm in his opinion that many in the film industry needed to do more thinking about how they could connect with potential audiences.
“We really need to see distributors, exhibitors and platforms working more closely together to look for more innovation, and more opportunities...
- 1/31/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The annual exhibition conference is taking place at Glasgow Film Theatre.
The full programme and line-up of speakers for this year’s This Way Up film exhibition conference (November 29-30), held at the Glasgow Film Theatre, has been unveiled.
This year’s keynote speakers are Bobby Allen, VP business development at Mubi, Swedish broadcaster and media analyst Johanna Koljonen, and Dawn Walton, founder of black-led theatre company Eclipse Theatre Company.
Oscar-winning film-maker Roger Ross Williams, winner at this year’s Sundance with Life, Animated, will be in conversation with BBC Radio Scotland presenter Janice Forsyth.
Other speakers at this year’s event include the BFI’s head of audiences Ben Luxford, The Levelling writer-director Hope Dickson Leach, Dogwoof’s head of distribution Oli Harbottle, British Council film programmer Jemma Desai, National Media Museum film manager Kathryn Penny, Regional Screen Scotland CEO Robert Livingston and BFI London Film Festival film programmer Kate Taylor.
This year’s...
The full programme and line-up of speakers for this year’s This Way Up film exhibition conference (November 29-30), held at the Glasgow Film Theatre, has been unveiled.
This year’s keynote speakers are Bobby Allen, VP business development at Mubi, Swedish broadcaster and media analyst Johanna Koljonen, and Dawn Walton, founder of black-led theatre company Eclipse Theatre Company.
Oscar-winning film-maker Roger Ross Williams, winner at this year’s Sundance with Life, Animated, will be in conversation with BBC Radio Scotland presenter Janice Forsyth.
Other speakers at this year’s event include the BFI’s head of audiences Ben Luxford, The Levelling writer-director Hope Dickson Leach, Dogwoof’s head of distribution Oli Harbottle, British Council film programmer Jemma Desai, National Media Museum film manager Kathryn Penny, Regional Screen Scotland CEO Robert Livingston and BFI London Film Festival film programmer Kate Taylor.
This year’s...
- 10/27/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Iniative kicks off as film festivals continue to asses the merits of co-production markets.
Boost Nl, the new collaborative project between the Holland Film Meeting (Hfm, Sept 22-25) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart, is launching officially this week at the Hfm, which began today at the Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht
The idea behind the initiative, which will continue at the Iffr’s Cinemart next January, is not just to help Dutch projects but to assist further a number of projects that have already received support from Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund or have been presented at CineMart.
Speaking to Screen, Hfm chief Vanja Kaludjercic gave further details of the “enhanced coproduction experience” offered to the selected projects.
“Some things cannot be achieved in only three days of the event itself so what we have created is an extended trajectory,” Kaludjercic said of the new Utrecht/Rotterdam axis. The intention...
Boost Nl, the new collaborative project between the Holland Film Meeting (Hfm, Sept 22-25) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart, is launching officially this week at the Hfm, which began today at the Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht
The idea behind the initiative, which will continue at the Iffr’s Cinemart next January, is not just to help Dutch projects but to assist further a number of projects that have already received support from Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund or have been presented at CineMart.
Speaking to Screen, Hfm chief Vanja Kaludjercic gave further details of the “enhanced coproduction experience” offered to the selected projects.
“Some things cannot be achieved in only three days of the event itself so what we have created is an extended trajectory,” Kaludjercic said of the new Utrecht/Rotterdam axis. The intention...
- 9/22/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The annual exhibition conference is taking place at Glasgow Film Theatre.
This year’s This Way Up film exhibition conference (Nov 29-30), held at the Glasgow Film Theatre, will spotlight the following topics:
The Problem of Abundance: exploring the continued increase of film content in UK cinemas – there were 759 films distributed in 2015, up from 527 in 2008 – and what this means for exhibitors.
The Future of Storytelling: highlighting the new technologies of Virtual and Augmented Reality, which have played major parts at international film festivals this year, and how these can sit within traditional exhibition models.
The Power of Place: focusing on how exhibition spaces affect audiences, and what exhibitors’ roles are within communities.
Hacking the Back Office: looking at digital tools utilised by cinemas to manage time, resources and showing films.
This year’s keynote speakers will include Bobby Allen, VP business development at Mubi, Swedish broadcaster and media analyst Johanna Koljonen, and [link=nm...
This year’s This Way Up film exhibition conference (Nov 29-30), held at the Glasgow Film Theatre, will spotlight the following topics:
The Problem of Abundance: exploring the continued increase of film content in UK cinemas – there were 759 films distributed in 2015, up from 527 in 2008 – and what this means for exhibitors.
The Future of Storytelling: highlighting the new technologies of Virtual and Augmented Reality, which have played major parts at international film festivals this year, and how these can sit within traditional exhibition models.
The Power of Place: focusing on how exhibition spaces affect audiences, and what exhibitors’ roles are within communities.
Hacking the Back Office: looking at digital tools utilised by cinemas to manage time, resources and showing films.
This year’s keynote speakers will include Bobby Allen, VP business development at Mubi, Swedish broadcaster and media analyst Johanna Koljonen, and [link=nm...
- 9/15/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Svod service adds six titles, including Berlin Panorama opener I, Olga and Mathieu Amalric drama; theatrical, UK and Us deals among haul.
Ambitious Svod service Mubi has secured world digital rights to two titles and UK theatrical and digital rights on four more.
Mubi has secured all UK and Ireland rights for Berlinale Panorama opener I, Olga, Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda’s intense re-telling of the Czech murderess Olga Hepnarova, set in 1970s Prague.
Mubi will premiere the feature in cinemas and on the service in the coming months.
Mubi has secured rights in Us, UK and Ireland for Rachel Lang’s feature length debut, Baden Baden, and also rights in the UK and Ireland for Eugène Green’s latest feature, Son Of Joseph. They will both premiere in cinemas and on the service later this year.
The company has inked global digital rights on Luis Lopez-Carrasco’s experimental 80s-set Locarno 2013 title El Futuro...
Ambitious Svod service Mubi has secured world digital rights to two titles and UK theatrical and digital rights on four more.
Mubi has secured all UK and Ireland rights for Berlinale Panorama opener I, Olga, Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda’s intense re-telling of the Czech murderess Olga Hepnarova, set in 1970s Prague.
Mubi will premiere the feature in cinemas and on the service in the coming months.
Mubi has secured rights in Us, UK and Ireland for Rachel Lang’s feature length debut, Baden Baden, and also rights in the UK and Ireland for Eugène Green’s latest feature, Son Of Joseph. They will both premiere in cinemas and on the service later this year.
The company has inked global digital rights on Luis Lopez-Carrasco’s experimental 80s-set Locarno 2013 title El Futuro...
- 4/5/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A woman covered in blood runs with her baby and hides under the bed, but she's found and killed. Dean (Jensen Ackles) brings Lisa (Cindy Sampson) and Ben (Nicholas Elia) back to a new house. Lansing, Michigan. Sam (Jared Padalecki) dressed in suit and tie tells Samuel (Mitch Pileggi) the alarm never went off and the baby is missing. Dean wants them to stay in and orders pizza. Sam didn't find any Emf, or sulphur. Samuel has trouble using the computer, so why didn't he just call Bobby, even though we are meant to see them getting to work with their family more? "Sometimes I wonder about us." Sam: "Sometimes I wonder about me too." The alarm never went off and there are same systems in other houses. Sam doesn't seem interested in the missing babies, whereas in the past that would have been his first concern. He's more interested in the hunt.
- 12/16/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Note - This is written about 3.5 months after it originally aired, but I am writing it as close to what I remember as possible. Also things jump from Dean and Sam's Pov at the beginning so I consolidated them. The wacky back and forth makes for a hard time recapping. Finally, beware. This is stream-of-conscious, making it less concise and probably less coherent than usual. And we all know those aren't my strengths on a good day. Oh, and I love Lisa.
Previously - Sam's been back for a year, Dean's ticked about it, Dean made a life with Lisa and Ben, Bobby betrayed Dean by not telling him about Sam, we met the Csa (Campbell Soup Army) led by Grandpa Creepy - oh yeah!, no one knew why Sam and Grandpa Creepy were back, shapeshifters are not mandroids but they are gross with the shedding thing, Dean...
Previously - Sam's been back for a year, Dean's ticked about it, Dean made a life with Lisa and Ben, Bobby betrayed Dean by not telling him about Sam, we met the Csa (Campbell Soup Army) led by Grandpa Creepy - oh yeah!, no one knew why Sam and Grandpa Creepy were back, shapeshifters are not mandroids but they are gross with the shedding thing, Dean...
- 1/3/2011
- by Dahne
So I’m sitting here recovering from a bad haircut (thank god for Hats!), and thinking thank god for television and attractive people who can’t see me! More on topic, “Two and a Half Men” turned out to be a great episode, with both humour and mystery, and lots of brotherly bonding time. We’re introduced to probably a big part of the season arc, and it’s all very exciting. Let’s take a look at it…
Cause young blonde women never die on television…
The episode opens with the redshirts of the week, this time a young (blonde, of course) woman and a baby... and of course you know that at least the baby will survive because television doesn't kill babies unless it's Battlestar Galactica. The woman, however, is brutally slaughtered in front of the poor thing, and then the monster makes off with it. Cue mystery!
Cause young blonde women never die on television…
The episode opens with the redshirts of the week, this time a young (blonde, of course) woman and a baby... and of course you know that at least the baby will survive because television doesn't kill babies unless it's Battlestar Galactica. The woman, however, is brutally slaughtered in front of the poor thing, and then the monster makes off with it. Cue mystery!
- 10/8/2010
- by Selina
"This is about moving to an island full of topless women, not dragging my ass to a cubicle everyday."
Easily the best piece of dialog I've heard since I began blasting through this season's new pilots and by the time David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman) uttered the line in tonight's Lone Star premiere, I was already hooked on this show.
Yup, if Fox is looking to pull a season long con on viewers with its latest original one-hour drama, I'm an easy mark.
I watched Lone Star for the second time tonight, looking for flaws, tells if you will, that the Amy Lippman (A Party of Five) produced drama might not be as good as I thought it was the first time around. Turns out, it's even better.
The series revolves around second generation Texas con man Bobby Allen (played by the fresh faced James Wolk). When you...
Easily the best piece of dialog I've heard since I began blasting through this season's new pilots and by the time David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman) uttered the line in tonight's Lone Star premiere, I was already hooked on this show.
Yup, if Fox is looking to pull a season long con on viewers with its latest original one-hour drama, I'm an easy mark.
I watched Lone Star for the second time tonight, looking for flaws, tells if you will, that the Amy Lippman (A Party of Five) produced drama might not be as good as I thought it was the first time around. Turns out, it's even better.
The series revolves around second generation Texas con man Bobby Allen (played by the fresh faced James Wolk). When you...
- 9/21/2010
- UGO TV
Ray Winstone is reteaming with his Sexy Beast and 44 Inch Chest scribe David Scinto for the screenwriter's directing debut - which is being called not a gangster film, but a "terrifying romantic thriller". Night Flower would obviously involve a female lead of some sorts and word is that a pair of young, talented Brit actors Ben Whishaw (Bright Star) and Andrew Garfield (Never Let Me Go) are also in talks to join the cast. The pic is expected to go into production in the fall. - Ray Winstone is reteaming with his Sexy Beast and 44 Inch Chest scribe David Scinto for the screenwriter's directing debut - which is being called not a gangster film, but a "terrifying romantic thriller". Night Flower would obviously involve a female lead of some sorts and word is that a pair of young, talented Brit actors Ben Whishaw (Bright Star) and Andrew Garfield (Never Let Me Go...
- 2/13/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Screen Daily reports that Dominic Cooper, Julie Christie and Imogen Poots are currently attached to Hello Darkness -- which has Bobby Allen and Alexandra Stone producing, with Steve Golin, one of my favorites Todd Haynes and Adam Shulman acting as executive producers. - For every Cary Fukunaga and Marc Webb, there are about a dozen examples of filmmakers who've made it big with their first film at Sundance only to find themselves sludging through the same growing pains in the second time out. You might say this was the case for the working Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer tandem. They made a decent sized splash in Park City with Quinceañera (it got picked up by Spc), only to be stuck in gestation/financing period that is finally changing for the better (I'm guessing vampires truly are the big thing. Screen Daily reports that Dominic Cooper, Julie Christie and...
- 2/12/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
New York - Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch will be introducing some U.S. moviegoers to a different kind of music: African pop.
Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories has nabbed domestic rights to the rockumentary "Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love," a portrait of the influential Senegalese musician.
Chai Vasarhelyi's film, set for an early Summer 2009 theatrical release in conjunction with Ndour's tour, covers two years in the life of the Muslim musician and controversy surrounding his songs about Islam. Oscilloscope's David Fenkel negotiated the deal with Celluloid Dreams' Bobby Allen and Hengameh Panahi.
Additionally, Regent Releasing hopes to sell audiences the the secret to happiness for just "$9.99." The distributor picked up North American rights to Tatia Rosenthal's stop-motion animated comedy. Geoffrey Rush and Anthony Lapaglia are among the voices who'll be heard when "$9.99," based on Etgar Keret's short stories, hits select U.S. theaters next spring. Regent's Mark Reinhart...
Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories has nabbed domestic rights to the rockumentary "Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love," a portrait of the influential Senegalese musician.
Chai Vasarhelyi's film, set for an early Summer 2009 theatrical release in conjunction with Ndour's tour, covers two years in the life of the Muslim musician and controversy surrounding his songs about Islam. Oscilloscope's David Fenkel negotiated the deal with Celluloid Dreams' Bobby Allen and Hengameh Panahi.
Additionally, Regent Releasing hopes to sell audiences the the secret to happiness for just "$9.99." The distributor picked up North American rights to Tatia Rosenthal's stop-motion animated comedy. Geoffrey Rush and Anthony Lapaglia are among the voices who'll be heard when "$9.99," based on Etgar Keret's short stories, hits select U.S. theaters next spring. Regent's Mark Reinhart...
- 9/26/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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