Veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winning refugee drama Green Border will release as planned in Poland on September 22 in defiance of a political backlash and wave of online hate talk.
Inspired by real-life events along Poland’s border with Belarus, the film has touched a raw nerve with the ruling right-wing, anti-migrant coalition led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party for its depictions of Polish border guards pushing back and abusing newly arrived refugees.
Public criticism of the film by coalition politicians has been accompanied by a wave of extreme online hate talk against Holland, some of it antisemitic, calling on her to be tried for treason or expelled from Poland.
Sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon at Films Boutique announced on Wednesday (September 13) that the company been forced to disable the comments on social media pages promoting the film, after they were targeted by right-wing groups.
Inspired by real-life events along Poland’s border with Belarus, the film has touched a raw nerve with the ruling right-wing, anti-migrant coalition led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party for its depictions of Polish border guards pushing back and abusing newly arrived refugees.
Public criticism of the film by coalition politicians has been accompanied by a wave of extreme online hate talk against Holland, some of it antisemitic, calling on her to be tried for treason or expelled from Poland.
Sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon at Films Boutique announced on Wednesday (September 13) that the company been forced to disable the comments on social media pages promoting the film, after they were targeted by right-wing groups.
- 9/14/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Holland’s upcoming feature Charlatan among 51 headed to the Lido.
This year’s Venice Gap-Financing Market, returning for its sixth edition in 2019, has named the 51 projects that will participate across its four strands.
There are 28 features, fiction and documentaries, heading to the Lido this year. Among them is Agnieszka Holland’s upcoming feature Charlatan (Sarlatan), which is being produced by Czech outfit Marlene Film in co-production with Film & Music Entertainment (F&me)’s Irish outpost and Slovakia’s Furia Film.
The project is based on the life of Jan Mikolášek, a Czech healer who lived in totalitarian 1950s Czechoslovakia. Films Boutique is handling sales.
This year’s Venice Gap-Financing Market, returning for its sixth edition in 2019, has named the 51 projects that will participate across its four strands.
There are 28 features, fiction and documentaries, heading to the Lido this year. Among them is Agnieszka Holland’s upcoming feature Charlatan (Sarlatan), which is being produced by Czech outfit Marlene Film in co-production with Film & Music Entertainment (F&me)’s Irish outpost and Slovakia’s Furia Film.
The project is based on the life of Jan Mikolášek, a Czech healer who lived in totalitarian 1950s Czechoslovakia. Films Boutique is handling sales.
- 7/2/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
ABC has picked up the 13-episode new crime drama Reef Break, toplined by former Unforgettable and Without a Trace star Poppy Montgomery, for summer 2019.
The project, produced by ABC Studios International, was ordered to series in May by France’s M6. With ABC’s pickup, U.S.-based ABC Studios has come on board to-produce alongside ABC Studios International in partnership with M6.
Montgomery also executive produces the series, which is based on her idea, along with Ken Sanzel, who will write as well as serve as showrunner.
Reef Break is described as a sexy, action-packed drama starring Montgomery as Cat Chambers, a thief-turned-fixer for the governor of a stunning and seductive Pacific Island paradise. Impulsive, reckless and irresistible, Cat’s less-than-perfect past gives her an instinctive gift for understanding crime and criminals as she becomes enmeshed in fast-paced, high-octane adventures and island intrigue.
Cat’s reappearance also makes waves for old friends,...
The project, produced by ABC Studios International, was ordered to series in May by France’s M6. With ABC’s pickup, U.S.-based ABC Studios has come on board to-produce alongside ABC Studios International in partnership with M6.
Montgomery also executive produces the series, which is based on her idea, along with Ken Sanzel, who will write as well as serve as showrunner.
Reef Break is described as a sexy, action-packed drama starring Montgomery as Cat Chambers, a thief-turned-fixer for the governor of a stunning and seductive Pacific Island paradise. Impulsive, reckless and irresistible, Cat’s less-than-perfect past gives her an instinctive gift for understanding crime and criminals as she becomes enmeshed in fast-paced, high-octane adventures and island intrigue.
Cat’s reappearance also makes waves for old friends,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
See the first poster for Magnolia Pictures' No Place on Earth documentary, directed by Janet Tobias. The film won was seen at last year's Toronto Film,Festival, and won the Audience Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2012. Zita Kisgergely, Paul Laikin, Rafael Marmor and Tobias produce while David McKillop, Jeff Field and J. Flint Davis executive produce alongside Susan Werbe and Katja Zink. In No Place on Earth, while mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
- 2/20/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the first poster for Magnolia Pictures' No Place on Earth documentary, directed by Janet Tobias. The film won was seen at last year's Toronto Film,Festival, and won the Audience Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2012. Zita Kisgergely, Paul Laikin, Rafael Marmor and Tobias produce while David McKillop, Jeff Field and J. Flint Davis executive produce alongside Susan Werbe and Katja Zink. In No Place on Earth, while mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
- 2/20/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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