Letterbox Filmproduktion, producer of Zdf-Arte hit “Bad Banks” – and part of the Studio Hamburg Production Group that backed Netflix’s “Unorthodox” – has boarded “Davos,” a high-end drama series from Zurich-based film producer Contrast Film, producer of “Wonderland.”
“Davos,” a period espionage thriller, is being written by Switzerland’s Adrian Illien, a former producer at Swiss public broadcaster Srf of crime series “Tatort” and Germany’s Julia Penner, head writer on seasons 3, 4 and 5 of “Druck,” Germany’s adaptation of “Skam.”
Budgeted at $13 million, Contrast Film’s Ivan Madeo told Variety, “Davos” is a pioneering high-end drama series for Switzerland, for which Contrast has turned to one of the country’s biggest assets as an international content creators: Switzerland’s mystique as a setting for geo-political power play often tied to the extraordinary influence Switzerland is held to exert on the world’s financial systems.
The Swiss Alpine resort of Davos hosts...
“Davos,” a period espionage thriller, is being written by Switzerland’s Adrian Illien, a former producer at Swiss public broadcaster Srf of crime series “Tatort” and Germany’s Julia Penner, head writer on seasons 3, 4 and 5 of “Druck,” Germany’s adaptation of “Skam.”
Budgeted at $13 million, Contrast Film’s Ivan Madeo told Variety, “Davos” is a pioneering high-end drama series for Switzerland, for which Contrast has turned to one of the country’s biggest assets as an international content creators: Switzerland’s mystique as a setting for geo-political power play often tied to the extraordinary influence Switzerland is held to exert on the world’s financial systems.
The Swiss Alpine resort of Davos hosts...
- 8/11/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
New films from Pepa San Martín and Golden Bear winner Adina Pintilie among the line up.
The films selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 22-26) have been revealed and top 50% by female directors in the official project selection for the first time.
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A total of 36 features from 34 countries will be showcased by producers seeking co-production partners through one-to-one meetings with distributors, financiers and sales agents.
For the official project selection, 21 projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €5m were selected from more than 300 submissions. With 11 projects by female directors, the proportion here has exceeded 50% for the first time.
The films selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 22-26) have been revealed and top 50% by female directors in the official project selection for the first time.
Scroll down for full list of titles
A total of 36 features from 34 countries will be showcased by producers seeking co-production partners through one-to-one meetings with distributors, financiers and sales agents.
For the official project selection, 21 projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €5m were selected from more than 300 submissions. With 11 projects by female directors, the proportion here has exceeded 50% for the first time.
- 1/15/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Titles include documentary ‘Caveman’ and crime story ’Storm’.
Switzerland’s Contrast Film, which is currently enjoying a buzzy response to it San Sebastian and Zurich Film Festival competition title Midnight Runner, has a busy slate ahead of more button-pushing projects.
Stefan Eichenberger and Ivan Madeo, who both produce Midnight Runner, run Zurich- and Bern-based Contrast with filmmaker Urs Frey.
In production now is documentary Caveman, by Italy’s Tommaso Landucci (lead produced by DocLab Rome). The story is about a 50-year-old Italian sculptor working for 30 years on one work of art underground in a cave. “It’s the question of...
Switzerland’s Contrast Film, which is currently enjoying a buzzy response to it San Sebastian and Zurich Film Festival competition title Midnight Runner, has a busy slate ahead of more button-pushing projects.
Stefan Eichenberger and Ivan Madeo, who both produce Midnight Runner, run Zurich- and Bern-based Contrast with filmmaker Urs Frey.
In production now is documentary Caveman, by Italy’s Tommaso Landucci (lead produced by DocLab Rome). The story is about a 50-year-old Italian sculptor working for 30 years on one work of art underground in a cave. “It’s the question of...
- 10/4/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Locarno, Switzerland — Switzerland’s Contrast Film, producers of “Wonderland,” are entering TV production, developing what looks likely to be Switzerland’s most ambitious shorter format TV series project to date.
News, however scant, of the big TV series comes as Contrast Film’s Stefan Eichenberger, Ivan Madeo and senior partner Urs Frey advance on a 2018 movie slate which includes “Storm,” “The Good Reputation” and “Marlen’s Garden.” Following on the socially-pointed disaster movie “Wonderland,” these new films’ themes, attitudes and cast strategy confirm the Bern and Zurich-based production house as one of thew most ambitious and envelope-pushing of producers in Switzerland.
Contrast Film’s first TV series weighs in as “the biggest TV series ever produced by a Swiss production company,” Madeo said. Designed as a six-part international co-production, its budget will range from $10 million to $13 million.
Based on true events, the historical period drama is set between Wwi and WWII,...
News, however scant, of the big TV series comes as Contrast Film’s Stefan Eichenberger, Ivan Madeo and senior partner Urs Frey advance on a 2018 movie slate which includes “Storm,” “The Good Reputation” and “Marlen’s Garden.” Following on the socially-pointed disaster movie “Wonderland,” these new films’ themes, attitudes and cast strategy confirm the Bern and Zurich-based production house as one of thew most ambitious and envelope-pushing of producers in Switzerland.
Contrast Film’s first TV series weighs in as “the biggest TV series ever produced by a Swiss production company,” Madeo said. Designed as a six-part international co-production, its budget will range from $10 million to $13 million.
Based on true events, the historical period drama is set between Wwi and WWII,...
- 8/2/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Lisa Brühlmann’s debut film takes three prizes including Best Fiction Film
Blue My Mind, the debut film from Lisa Brühlmann, won three awards at the 21st Swiss Film Awards in Zurich tonight (March 23).
The film, a coming-of-age story imbued with elements of body horror, received best fiction film, best screenplay and best actress for Lena Wedler.
See below for the full list of winners
Brühlmann’s film world premiered in the New Directors section at the 2017 San Sebastian Film Festival, and won the Golden Eye and Critics’ Choice awards at Zurich Film Festival last year.
Best documentary was awarded...
Blue My Mind, the debut film from Lisa Brühlmann, won three awards at the 21st Swiss Film Awards in Zurich tonight (March 23).
The film, a coming-of-age story imbued with elements of body horror, received best fiction film, best screenplay and best actress for Lena Wedler.
See below for the full list of winners
Brühlmann’s film world premiered in the New Directors section at the 2017 San Sebastian Film Festival, and won the Golden Eye and Critics’ Choice awards at Zurich Film Festival last year.
Best documentary was awarded...
- 3/23/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Swiss writer-director Christine Repond enjoyed festival acclaim and domestic success with her 2011 debut, the wintry coming-of-age drama Silberwald. Her second feature Vacuum turns its focus on an older generation, but maintains the same unflinching tone and starkly naturalistic feel. Partly based on real events, this female-centric domestic thriller offers an intimate portrait of a middle-aged married woman whose long-term health and security are suddenly plunged into existential jeopardy. While not exactly a fun viewing experience, Repond's somber psychodrama is a compelling piece of work, with a chilly candor and forensic eye for detail that recall Euro-gloom maestro Michael Haneke.
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- 12/24/2017
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Qaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu (Asshole) will compete at the 17th Athens International Film Festival that opens on Thursday.
The opening film of the festival is Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist.
Around 175 titles will be presented at the festival under 15 sections. The festival will pay tribute to Japanese filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura and Dutch filmmaker Johan van der Keuken. The country in focus will be Norway.
The festival will close on September 25 with Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation.
International competition lineup:
Bellflower, dir Evan Glodell (USA)
Silver Tongues, dir Simon Arthur (USA)
Volcano (Eldfjall), dir Runar Runarsson (Iceland)
Asshole (Gandu), dir Qaushik Mukherjee (India)
Familiar Grounds (En terrains connus), dir Stephane Lafleur (Canada)
Natural Selection, dir Robbie Pickering (USA)
Sensation, dir Tom Hall (Ireland)
Submarine, dir Richard Ayoade (UK, Us)
Sidewalls (Medianeras), dir Gustavo Tarreto (Argentina)
Bullhead (Rundscop), dir Michael Roskam (Belgium)
Love, dir William Eubank (USA)
Silver Forest (Silberwald), dir Christine Repond (Switzerland)
On the Ice,...
The opening film of the festival is Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist.
Around 175 titles will be presented at the festival under 15 sections. The festival will pay tribute to Japanese filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura and Dutch filmmaker Johan van der Keuken. The country in focus will be Norway.
The festival will close on September 25 with Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation.
International competition lineup:
Bellflower, dir Evan Glodell (USA)
Silver Tongues, dir Simon Arthur (USA)
Volcano (Eldfjall), dir Runar Runarsson (Iceland)
Asshole (Gandu), dir Qaushik Mukherjee (India)
Familiar Grounds (En terrains connus), dir Stephane Lafleur (Canada)
Natural Selection, dir Robbie Pickering (USA)
Sensation, dir Tom Hall (Ireland)
Submarine, dir Richard Ayoade (UK, Us)
Sidewalls (Medianeras), dir Gustavo Tarreto (Argentina)
Bullhead (Rundscop), dir Michael Roskam (Belgium)
Love, dir William Eubank (USA)
Silver Forest (Silberwald), dir Christine Repond (Switzerland)
On the Ice,...
- 9/15/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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