One of the major figures at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Academy Award-nominated “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino will serve as president of the main competition official jury at Spain’s 68th San Sebastian Festival.
The announcement comes as Guadagnino world premieres two films at Venice: the doc feature “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams,” about extraordinary Italian luxury shoe designer-entrepreneur Salvatore Ferragamo, and a more personal 122-minute short “Fiori, Fiori, Fiori,” in which Guadagnino looks up childhood friends to see how they’re faring during Covid-19.
At San Sebastian, Guadagnino will also be on double duty as he will also present out of the competition the world premiere of his series “We Are What We Are,” an HBO/Sky Italia production sold by Fremantle.
Acclaimed for his often glamorous movies directed with a high-style, and set in glorious locations and featuring marvelous houses – Guadagnino nevertheless maintains he has no style,...
The announcement comes as Guadagnino world premieres two films at Venice: the doc feature “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams,” about extraordinary Italian luxury shoe designer-entrepreneur Salvatore Ferragamo, and a more personal 122-minute short “Fiori, Fiori, Fiori,” in which Guadagnino looks up childhood friends to see how they’re faring during Covid-19.
At San Sebastian, Guadagnino will also be on double duty as he will also present out of the competition the world premiere of his series “We Are What We Are,” an HBO/Sky Italia production sold by Fremantle.
Acclaimed for his often glamorous movies directed with a high-style, and set in glorious locations and featuring marvelous houses – Guadagnino nevertheless maintains he has no style,...
- 9/4/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include Colombian jungle thriller ‘Monos’.
Adventurous young Dutch distribution outfit Gusto is adding to its slate and has snapped up rights to Alejandro Landes’ Colombian jungle thriller Monos, fresh from its Sundance and Berlinale screenings.
Amsterdam-based Lemming Film was the Dutch partner on the film, which was presented at Rotterdam’s pitching market, Cinemart, in 2016.
Gusto, formed in Amsterdam by Hein van Joolen and Katrien Remijn just over a year ago, acquired Monos from the producers and the acquisition complements several other new Iffr or Berlinale titles on the company’s slate.
Gusto is on board fast-rising Dutch-Bosnian auteur...
Adventurous young Dutch distribution outfit Gusto is adding to its slate and has snapped up rights to Alejandro Landes’ Colombian jungle thriller Monos, fresh from its Sundance and Berlinale screenings.
Amsterdam-based Lemming Film was the Dutch partner on the film, which was presented at Rotterdam’s pitching market, Cinemart, in 2016.
Gusto, formed in Amsterdam by Hein van Joolen and Katrien Remijn just over a year ago, acquired Monos from the producers and the acquisition complements several other new Iffr or Berlinale titles on the company’s slate.
Gusto is on board fast-rising Dutch-Bosnian auteur...
- 2/12/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Around The World When You Were My AgeThe titles for the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam are being announced in anticipation of the event running January 23 – February 3, 2018. We will update the program as new films are revealed.Tiger COMPETITIONSons of Denmark (Ulaa Salim)Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević)Present.Perfect. (Shengze Zhu)Sheena667 (Grigory Dobrygin)Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (Camila José Donoso)Koko-di Koko-da (Johannes Nyholm)Els dies que vindran (Carlos Marqués-Marcet)Bright Future COMPETITIONAlva (Ico Costa)Chèche lavi (Sam Ellison)De nuevo otra vez (Romina Paula)Doozy (Richard Squires)Dreissig (Simona Kostova)Ende der Saison (Elmar Imanov)Fabiana (Brunna Laboissière)The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain (Ridham Janve)Heroes (Köken Ergun)Historia de mi nombre (Karin Cuyul)Last Night I Saw You Smiling (Kavich Neang)Lost Holiday (Michael Kerry Matthews/Thomas Matthews)Maggie (Yi Okseop)Mens (Isabelle Prim)No Data Plan (Miko Revereza...
- 1/9/2019
- MUBI
A line-up of 22 projects were presented at first edition of event.
Azerbaijan-born Elmar Ivanov’s debut feature End Of Season took home the main award of €20,000 in postproduction services from Mmc Film & TV Studios at the first edition of the new market platform European Work in Progress (Ewip) in Germany’s Cologne last week (October 10).
“We really need this prize!” said Ivanov who had shot the film about a family drama over 24 hours on location in his native Azerbaijan last autumn.
He and his partner Eva Blondiau of their company Color of May presented footage at Ewip to find support...
Azerbaijan-born Elmar Ivanov’s debut feature End Of Season took home the main award of €20,000 in postproduction services from Mmc Film & TV Studios at the first edition of the new market platform European Work in Progress (Ewip) in Germany’s Cologne last week (October 10).
“We really need this prize!” said Ivanov who had shot the film about a family drama over 24 hours on location in his native Azerbaijan last autumn.
He and his partner Eva Blondiau of their company Color of May presented footage at Ewip to find support...
- 10/12/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
€20,000 in post services awarded to debut film from Elmar Ivanov.
End Of Season, the debut feature from Azerbaijan director Elmar Ivanov, won the main award of €20,000 in post-production services from Mmc Film & TV Studios, at the first edition of the new market platform European Work in Progress (Ewip), part of the Film Festival Cologne on Tuesday (October 11).
¨We really need this prize!¨ said Ivanov, who had shot the film about a family drama over 24 hours on location in his native Azerbaijan a year ago.
He and his partner Eva Blondiau of their company Color of May had presented footage at...
End Of Season, the debut feature from Azerbaijan director Elmar Ivanov, won the main award of €20,000 in post-production services from Mmc Film & TV Studios, at the first edition of the new market platform European Work in Progress (Ewip), part of the Film Festival Cologne on Tuesday (October 11).
¨We really need this prize!¨ said Ivanov, who had shot the film about a family drama over 24 hours on location in his native Azerbaijan a year ago.
He and his partner Eva Blondiau of their company Color of May had presented footage at...
- 10/11/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
By uniting forces, the two co-production platforms of the Holland Film Market and Rotterdam Film Festival’s (Iffr) CineMart have created a new space in which the selected projects can get stronger film industry exposure and support.
The participant projects’ representatives receive advice from film professionals through a series of individual meetings with special attention paid to their festival, sales and marketing strategies. From the first BoostNL program, four films entered the Iffr 2018 program.
The interest now lies in watching BoostNL films as they progress through the international film circuit:
The Reports on Sarah and Selim, Muayad Alayan. After its world premiere at Iffr 2018, it continued winning for Best Actress and Best Picture at Durban Ff and playing at Hamburg and Jeonju Film Festivals. International sales by Heretic Outreach did extremely well, going to Australia/Nz- Hi Gloss, Benelux-Moov, Croatia & Ex-Yugoslavia-Mediterranean Film Festival Split/ Kino Mediteran, Mena-Mad Solutions, France-Bodega, Germany-Missingfilms,...
The participant projects’ representatives receive advice from film professionals through a series of individual meetings with special attention paid to their festival, sales and marketing strategies. From the first BoostNL program, four films entered the Iffr 2018 program.
The interest now lies in watching BoostNL films as they progress through the international film circuit:
The Reports on Sarah and Selim, Muayad Alayan. After its world premiere at Iffr 2018, it continued winning for Best Actress and Best Picture at Durban Ff and playing at Hamburg and Jeonju Film Festivals. International sales by Heretic Outreach did extremely well, going to Australia/Nz- Hi Gloss, Benelux-Moov, Croatia & Ex-Yugoslavia-Mediterranean Film Festival Split/ Kino Mediteran, Mena-Mad Solutions, France-Bodega, Germany-Missingfilms,...
- 10/1/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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