Industry executives, creatives and international buyers came together to preview an exclusive selection of upcoming high-end German series at the Up Next: Germany showcase at the Berlinale Series Market, the dedicated serial content arm of the EFM running between Feb. 19-21.
Four projects were selected for the showcase: Dystopian drama “A Better Place” imagines the aftermath of a revolutionary state-led program that eradicates all German prisons. Directors include Anne Zohra Berrached and “Capernaum” editor Konstantin Brock. Studiocanal TV handles world sales on the French-German-Austrian co-production.
“Young Berlusconi” is a three-party documentary trailing the early stages of Silvio Berlusconi’s career and his pivotal role in revolutionizing commercial television in Italy and across Europe. “Goodbye Darling, I’m Off to Fight” director Simone Manetti helms the series, with Arte on board as the German broadcaster and Mediawan handling world sales.
ZDFneo brought two series to the event: “Love Sucks,” an unconventional...
Four projects were selected for the showcase: Dystopian drama “A Better Place” imagines the aftermath of a revolutionary state-led program that eradicates all German prisons. Directors include Anne Zohra Berrached and “Capernaum” editor Konstantin Brock. Studiocanal TV handles world sales on the French-German-Austrian co-production.
“Young Berlusconi” is a three-party documentary trailing the early stages of Silvio Berlusconi’s career and his pivotal role in revolutionizing commercial television in Italy and across Europe. “Goodbye Darling, I’m Off to Fight” director Simone Manetti helms the series, with Arte on board as the German broadcaster and Mediawan handling world sales.
ZDFneo brought two series to the event: “Love Sucks,” an unconventional...
- 2/20/2024
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
Roberto Rossellini, besides being Italian Neorealism’s most acclaimed film director, was also the father of a nonconformist, cosmopolitan and slightly crazy family that includes Hollywood stars such as Isabella Rossellini, another daughter who converted to Islam, and a son who has chosen to live on a desert island in Sweden.
The Rossellini family also comprises the revered maestro’s Rome-based grandson Alessandro (pictured as a child behind the camera) who is a former photographer and also a recovering drug addict. After gaining his sobriety, Alessandro felt he had not lived up to the expectations — and also the burden — of his family name. And he was pretty sure that his relatives also suffered a form of what he calls “Rossellinitis.”
Partly in an effort to improve his dwindling finances, at age 55, Alessandro Rossellini decided to visit his extended family around the globe, and force everyone to undergo a “family therapy...
The Rossellini family also comprises the revered maestro’s Rome-based grandson Alessandro (pictured as a child behind the camera) who is a former photographer and also a recovering drug addict. After gaining his sobriety, Alessandro felt he had not lived up to the expectations — and also the burden — of his family name. And he was pretty sure that his relatives also suffered a form of what he calls “Rossellinitis.”
Partly in an effort to improve his dwindling finances, at age 55, Alessandro Rossellini decided to visit his extended family around the globe, and force everyone to undergo a “family therapy...
- 5/1/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Projects include ’The Real Truman Show’, Sally Potter’s ’Oh Moscow’ and docs about Frank Bruno and Sinead O’Connor.
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 6-11) has revealed the titles that will pitch for funding at the 15th edition of its MeetMarket initiative.
Among the line-up are films by Sally Potter and Mark Cousins, and docs about Frank Bruno and Sinead O’Connor.
62 project teams from 27 countries will pitch to international and UK decision makers for research, development and production funding. Over 300 delegates from 30 countries will attend the market, including executives from Netflix, BBC, Channel 4 and ESPN.
The festival has...
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 6-11) has revealed the titles that will pitch for funding at the 15th edition of its MeetMarket initiative.
Among the line-up are films by Sally Potter and Mark Cousins, and docs about Frank Bruno and Sinead O’Connor.
62 project teams from 27 countries will pitch to international and UK decision makers for research, development and production funding. Over 300 delegates from 30 countries will attend the market, including executives from Netflix, BBC, Channel 4 and ESPN.
The festival has...
- 4/10/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Tel Aviv-based sales agent Cinephil has taken international sales rights to high-concept doc “The Rossellinis,” which will provide a tongue-in-cheek autobiographical look at the descendants living around the world of iconic Italian director Roberto Rossellini’s extended family and is being directed by his grandson, Alessandro Rossellini.
“The Rossellinis,” which is being pitched at Rome’s Mia market, takes its cue from the uneasy legacy that the master auteur, who first galvanized global film buffs with “Rome Open City,” left on the progeny spawned by three wives — who include Ingrid Bergman of course — during the course of a glorious, albeit uneven, cinematic career that followed. Besides Ingrid Bergman, the other two women with whom Rossellini had kids were Italian production designer Marcella De Marchis and Indian screenwriter Sonali Das Gupta.
The extended Rossellini family includes Italians, Swedes, Afro-Americans, Indians, atheists, Catholics and Muslims.
“It’s a voyage of rediscovery of my family,...
“The Rossellinis,” which is being pitched at Rome’s Mia market, takes its cue from the uneasy legacy that the master auteur, who first galvanized global film buffs with “Rome Open City,” left on the progeny spawned by three wives — who include Ingrid Bergman of course — during the course of a glorious, albeit uneven, cinematic career that followed. Besides Ingrid Bergman, the other two women with whom Rossellini had kids were Italian production designer Marcella De Marchis and Indian screenwriter Sonali Das Gupta.
The extended Rossellini family includes Italians, Swedes, Afro-Americans, Indians, atheists, Catholics and Muslims.
“It’s a voyage of rediscovery of my family,...
- 10/19/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The new issue of cléo, a journal of film and feminism, features interviews with Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) and Alanis Obomsawin, articles on Michael Glawogger’s Whores’ Glory, Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch, James Gray’s The Immigrant, Ivan Reitman’s Junior, Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi’s Hair India, Sophie Hyde’s 52 Tuesdays, Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, USA and Sally Potter’s Rage and a roundtable on Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child. Also in today's roundup of news and views: J. Hoberman on David Lynch and Werner Herzog, Dick Cavett's steamy interview with Robert Altman and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/21/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The new issue of cléo, a journal of film and feminism, features interviews with Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) and Alanis Obomsawin, articles on Michael Glawogger’s Whores’ Glory, Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch, James Gray’s The Immigrant, Ivan Reitman’s Junior, Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi’s Hair India, Sophie Hyde’s 52 Tuesdays, Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, USA and Sally Potter’s Rage and a roundtable on Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child. Also in today's roundup of news and views: J. Hoberman on David Lynch and Werner Herzog, Dick Cavett's steamy interview with Robert Altman and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/21/2014
- Keyframe
The world premiere of Bedabrata Pain’s drama Chittagong featuring Manoj Bajpayee will open the 10th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. The film is set against the backdrop of 1930’s British-occupied Chittagong on the brink of a youth led revolution, and tells the story of 14-year-old Jhunka who comes of age as he is faced with the ultimate questions of sacrifice, love, and the quest for true freedom.
The award-winning film Patang by Prashant Bhargava will be the closing film of the festival. The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles announced its 2012 lineup comprising 33 features, documentaries, and short films.
The eight feature films to be screened at the festival include Salim Ahmed’s Abu, Son of Adam, Rajan Khosa’s Gattu, Karan Gour’s Kshay and Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni’s Deool.
Documentaries include the world premiere of Ruchika Muchhala and Faiza Khan’s look into Indian society with The Great Indian Marriage Bazaar...
The award-winning film Patang by Prashant Bhargava will be the closing film of the festival. The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles announced its 2012 lineup comprising 33 features, documentaries, and short films.
The eight feature films to be screened at the festival include Salim Ahmed’s Abu, Son of Adam, Rajan Khosa’s Gattu, Karan Gour’s Kshay and Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni’s Deool.
Documentaries include the world premiere of Ruchika Muchhala and Faiza Khan’s look into Indian society with The Great Indian Marriage Bazaar...
- 3/16/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 33rd annual Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival will screen 33 films, including documentaries and other non-narrative works, animation, experimental films and indigenous media, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The event will open Nov. 12 with the Gotham premiere of Peter Kerekes' "Cooking History," in which the helmer tours 20th century battlefields by revisiting mess halls and field kitchens and having the cooks re-create the meals they served on the front lines. Reliving the battles while they prepare these military meals, the cooks are proud of their roles in serving their countries but are haunted by the horrors of war.
The local premiere of Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi's "Hair India" will close the fest Nov. 15. Centered on a Hindu belief that the only way to repay a debt to the gods is by sacraficing one's hair, the film follows the course of this...
The event will open Nov. 12 with the Gotham premiere of Peter Kerekes' "Cooking History," in which the helmer tours 20th century battlefields by revisiting mess halls and field kitchens and having the cooks re-create the meals they served on the front lines. Reliving the battles while they prepare these military meals, the cooks are proud of their roles in serving their countries but are haunted by the horrors of war.
The local premiere of Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi's "Hair India" will close the fest Nov. 15. Centered on a Hindu belief that the only way to repay a debt to the gods is by sacraficing one's hair, the film follows the course of this...
- 10/14/2009
- by By Tricia Ro
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 33rd Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Film Festival, the documentary festival named after the pioneering anthropologist, will run from November 12-15 at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. The opening night film, Péter Kerekes’s “Cooking History,” tours 20th century battlefields, asking cooks to recreate the dishes they served to their troops. Sunday’s closing night film will be Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi’s “Hair India,” a doc about the …...
- 10/13/2009
- Indiewire
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