The Circle Women Doc Accelerator today announced the projects that will take part in the sixth edition of the prestigious training program for women-identifying nonfiction filmmakers.
The 10 selected projects hail from Eastern and Western Europe, Iran, Georgia, the U.S., and the Philippines [see below for details on each of them]. The filmmakers behind the projects will participate in three separate “modules,” working with “renowned directors, writers, and producers on in-depth analysis of their films, covering multiple aspects of project development,” according to a release. “This includes fine-tuning their scripts and narrative structures, creating captivating trailers, and preparing production strategies for international audiences and markets.”
The first module is set for Evia Island in Greece from June 19-24; the second is happening in September in Serbia, while the final module takes place during Trieste’s When East Meets West event in Italy in January 2024.
“Returning as lead mentors for Circle Women Doc Accelerator 2023 are Diana El Jeiroudi, a renowned Syrian writer,...
The 10 selected projects hail from Eastern and Western Europe, Iran, Georgia, the U.S., and the Philippines [see below for details on each of them]. The filmmakers behind the projects will participate in three separate “modules,” working with “renowned directors, writers, and producers on in-depth analysis of their films, covering multiple aspects of project development,” according to a release. “This includes fine-tuning their scripts and narrative structures, creating captivating trailers, and preparing production strategies for international audiences and markets.”
The first module is set for Evia Island in Greece from June 19-24; the second is happening in September in Serbia, while the final module takes place during Trieste’s When East Meets West event in Italy in January 2024.
“Returning as lead mentors for Circle Women Doc Accelerator 2023 are Diana El Jeiroudi, a renowned Syrian writer,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Hamburg-based indie has slate of projects in advanced development.
Hamburg-based producer Fünferfilm is planning a third collaboration with filmmaker Helena Wittmann whose feature Human Flowers Of Flesh is screening at this week’s Filmfest Hamburg.
Wittman’s first collaboration with Fünferfilm was her 2017 debut Drift, followed up by her second feature Human Flowers Of Flesh. The latter world premiered in main competition at Locarno in August.
“The project is at a very early stage as a treatment with the working title of Die Stadt,” revealed Julia Cöllen, who co-founded Fünferfilm with Frank Scheuffele and Karsten Krause in 2016.
Collen said the...
Hamburg-based producer Fünferfilm is planning a third collaboration with filmmaker Helena Wittmann whose feature Human Flowers Of Flesh is screening at this week’s Filmfest Hamburg.
Wittman’s first collaboration with Fünferfilm was her 2017 debut Drift, followed up by her second feature Human Flowers Of Flesh. The latter world premiered in main competition at Locarno in August.
“The project is at a very early stage as a treatment with the working title of Die Stadt,” revealed Julia Cöllen, who co-founded Fünferfilm with Frank Scheuffele and Karsten Krause in 2016.
Collen said the...
- 10/3/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Hamburg-based indie also has slate of projects in advanced development.
Hamburg-based producer Fünferfilm is planning a third collaboration with filmmaker Helena Wittmann whose feature Human Flowers Of Flesh is screening at this week’s Filmfest Hamburg.
Wittman’s first collaboration with Fünferfilm was her 2017 debut Drift, followed up by her second feature Human Flowers Of Flesh. The latter world premiered in main competition at Locarno in August.
“The project is at a very early stage as a treatment with the working title of Die Stadt,” revealed Julia Cöllen, who co-founded Fünferfilm with Frank Scheuffele and Karsten Krause in 2016.
Collen said...
Hamburg-based producer Fünferfilm is planning a third collaboration with filmmaker Helena Wittmann whose feature Human Flowers Of Flesh is screening at this week’s Filmfest Hamburg.
Wittman’s first collaboration with Fünferfilm was her 2017 debut Drift, followed up by her second feature Human Flowers Of Flesh. The latter world premiered in main competition at Locarno in August.
“The project is at a very early stage as a treatment with the working title of Die Stadt,” revealed Julia Cöllen, who co-founded Fünferfilm with Frank Scheuffele and Karsten Krause in 2016.
Collen said...
- 10/3/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
New Female Voices CineLink Award worth €10,000 launched this year.
The Sarajevo film festival (August 12-19) has revealed the nine feature projects and seven drama series from Southeast Europe that will take part in its Co-Production Market running as part of the CineLink industry Days.
This year the festival has also launched the Female Voices CineLink Award, worth €10,000 and presented by the Slovenian Film Centre, for one participating project in the market.
The selected projects include Hear The Yellow directed by Banu Sivaci, whose first film The Pigeon played in Generation 14plus strand at the 2018 Berlinale; and Patrimonial Fears And Other Symptoms from Elina Psykou,...
The Sarajevo film festival (August 12-19) has revealed the nine feature projects and seven drama series from Southeast Europe that will take part in its Co-Production Market running as part of the CineLink industry Days.
This year the festival has also launched the Female Voices CineLink Award, worth €10,000 and presented by the Slovenian Film Centre, for one participating project in the market.
The selected projects include Hear The Yellow directed by Banu Sivaci, whose first film The Pigeon played in Generation 14plus strand at the 2018 Berlinale; and Patrimonial Fears And Other Symptoms from Elina Psykou,...
- 6/9/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Human Flowers of Flesh
German director Helena Wittmann promises to have an international breakout with sophomore film Human Flowers of Flesh in 2021, a project which was delayed from March to August due to the pandemic (and featured in Locarno’s The Films After Tomorrow program for productions halted by the pandemic). The German-French co-pro features Frank Scheuffele, Karsten Krause, Julia Collen and Christophe Bouffil as producers, and a fantastic array of cast members led by Angeliki Papoulia and Denis Lavant supported by Vladimir Vulevic, Mauro Soares and Gustavo Jahn. Wittmann’s 2017 debut Drift premiered in Critic’s Week at the Venice Film Festival.…...
German director Helena Wittmann promises to have an international breakout with sophomore film Human Flowers of Flesh in 2021, a project which was delayed from March to August due to the pandemic (and featured in Locarno’s The Films After Tomorrow program for productions halted by the pandemic). The German-French co-pro features Frank Scheuffele, Karsten Krause, Julia Collen and Christophe Bouffil as producers, and a fantastic array of cast members led by Angeliki Papoulia and Denis Lavant supported by Vladimir Vulevic, Mauro Soares and Gustavo Jahn. Wittmann’s 2017 debut Drift premiered in Critic’s Week at the Venice Film Festival.…...
- 1/4/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Upcoming films from Lucrecia Martel, Lisandro Alonso, Lav Diaz and Miguel Gomes selected for special initiative.
The Locarno Film Festival has announced the line-up of 20 features that it has selected for its exceptional The Films After Tomorrow initiative.
The special event was created to support feature films that have stalled at various stages of production due to the Covid-19 pandemic which also led to the cancellation of the physical edition of the 73rd edition of Locarno.
Locarno’s artistic director Lili Hinstin said that 545 projects had been submitted to the initiative in a sign of the impact that the pandemic has had on independent filmmaking.
The Locarno Film Festival has announced the line-up of 20 features that it has selected for its exceptional The Films After Tomorrow initiative.
The special event was created to support feature films that have stalled at various stages of production due to the Covid-19 pandemic which also led to the cancellation of the physical edition of the 73rd edition of Locarno.
Locarno’s artistic director Lili Hinstin said that 545 projects had been submitted to the initiative in a sign of the impact that the pandemic has had on independent filmmaking.
- 6/25/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Cph:dox has announced its 2014 programme including more than 200 documentaries from around the world.
Laura Poitras will serve as guest curator, working on the surveillance-themed programme Astro Noise, who will also screen (in competition) her new film Citizenfour about Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden.
There are four world premieres in the main Dox:award competition (full list at end of story).
An art film programme will include a special focus on Keren Cytter.
This year the festival launches a new festival format called Megatrends, which includes the surveillance programme as well as focuses on technology, the economy, inequality, and Africa.
The festival’s new ambitions this year also include screenings in the whole capital region, with Dox:on:tour. As previously reported, the festival’s opening film 1989 by Anders Østergaard will not only be screened in the Dr Concert Hall in Copenhagen, but also simultaneously in theatres across the country, and in more than ten different countries in Europe.
The investigative...
Laura Poitras will serve as guest curator, working on the surveillance-themed programme Astro Noise, who will also screen (in competition) her new film Citizenfour about Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden.
There are four world premieres in the main Dox:award competition (full list at end of story).
An art film programme will include a special focus on Keren Cytter.
This year the festival launches a new festival format called Megatrends, which includes the surveillance programme as well as focuses on technology, the economy, inequality, and Africa.
The festival’s new ambitions this year also include screenings in the whole capital region, with Dox:on:tour. As previously reported, the festival’s opening film 1989 by Anders Østergaard will not only be screened in the Dr Concert Hall in Copenhagen, but also simultaneously in theatres across the country, and in more than ten different countries in Europe.
The investigative...
- 10/16/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Berlinale has completed the selection for its Perspektive Deutsches Kino strand.
The lineup comprises 14 films: nine full-length fiction features and five medium-long fiction titles and documentaries.
The programme will open with feature Hüter meines Bruders by director Maximilian Leo.
This year’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino list:
Amma & Appa by Franziska Schönenberger (documentary)
Anderswo (Anywhere Else) by Ester Amrami
Bosteri unterm Rad (Bosteri Beneath the Wheel) by Levin Hübner (documentary)
El carro azul (The Blue Car) by Valerie Heine
Flowers of Freedom by Mirjam Leuze (documentary)
Hüter meines Bruders (My Brother’s Keeper) by Maximilian Leo
Lamento by Jöns Jönsson
Nebel (Fog) by Nicole Vögele (documentary)
Raumfahrer (Spacemen) by Georg Nonnenmacher (documentary)
Der Samurai by Till Kleinert
Szenario (Scenario) by Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause
Tape_13 by Axel Stein
Die Unschuldigen (The Innocents) by Oskar Sulowski
Zeit der Kannibalen (Age of Cannibals) by Johannes Naber...
The lineup comprises 14 films: nine full-length fiction features and five medium-long fiction titles and documentaries.
The programme will open with feature Hüter meines Bruders by director Maximilian Leo.
This year’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino list:
Amma & Appa by Franziska Schönenberger (documentary)
Anderswo (Anywhere Else) by Ester Amrami
Bosteri unterm Rad (Bosteri Beneath the Wheel) by Levin Hübner (documentary)
El carro azul (The Blue Car) by Valerie Heine
Flowers of Freedom by Mirjam Leuze (documentary)
Hüter meines Bruders (My Brother’s Keeper) by Maximilian Leo
Lamento by Jöns Jönsson
Nebel (Fog) by Nicole Vögele (documentary)
Raumfahrer (Spacemen) by Georg Nonnenmacher (documentary)
Der Samurai by Till Kleinert
Szenario (Scenario) by Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause
Tape_13 by Axel Stein
Die Unschuldigen (The Innocents) by Oskar Sulowski
Zeit der Kannibalen (Age of Cannibals) by Johannes Naber...
- 1/8/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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