Festival will showcase 10 European films online in 45 territories over the month of December.
UK director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion and Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska’s Mug will be among ten European films competing in an expanded third edition of the ArteKino Festival, running Dec 1-31 this year.
The online festival - which is a joint venture between Franco-German broadcaster Arte and Paris-based film professionals platform Festival Scope - lasted 10-days in its first two editions.
“We really wanted to up the festival’s game this year and make it as accessible and attractive to as large a public audience as possible,...
UK director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion and Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska’s Mug will be among ten European films competing in an expanded third edition of the ArteKino Festival, running Dec 1-31 this year.
The online festival - which is a joint venture between Franco-German broadcaster Arte and Paris-based film professionals platform Festival Scope - lasted 10-days in its first two editions.
“We really wanted to up the festival’s game this year and make it as accessible and attractive to as large a public audience as possible,...
- 11/27/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Documakers Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino (Of the Art of War) play with the boundaries of documentary and fiction in their first feature film, Crater (Il cratere), which takes its cue from the real lives of a father and his 13-year-old daughter and builds a film around them. It’s a technically impressive feat, complete with a few hidden cameras, that recalls a reality show in the hands of two very sensitive, skillful directors. But like reality TV, it has its longeurs. It has found appreciation with more sophisticated festival audiences, bowing in Venice’s Critics Week and winning the special jury...
- 11/11/2017
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Independent festival strand unveils 2017 line-up.
The line-up for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent parallel strand Critics’ Week (Aug 30 – Sept 9) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
Following last year, when UK filmmaker Alice Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge opened Venice Critics’ Week, this year’s opener is again a feature debut from a UK female director.
Writer-director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion will screen out of competition as the strand’s opening film. Starring Lily Newmark and Joanna Scanlan, the film is produced by Gavin Humphries with Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance. Executive producers are Josephine Rose, Chis Reed, and Lizzie Francke for the British Film Institute (BFI).
Pin Cushion is an all-girl gothic fairy tale set...
The line-up for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent parallel strand Critics’ Week (Aug 30 – Sept 9) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
Following last year, when UK filmmaker Alice Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge opened Venice Critics’ Week, this year’s opener is again a feature debut from a UK female director.
Writer-director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion will screen out of competition as the strand’s opening film. Starring Lily Newmark and Joanna Scanlan, the film is produced by Gavin Humphries with Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance. Executive producers are Josephine Rose, Chis Reed, and Lizzie Francke for the British Film Institute (BFI).
Pin Cushion is an all-girl gothic fairy tale set...
- 7/24/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
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