Jury includes Golden Leopard-winning director Angelina Maccarone, actress jenny Schily and producer Jochen Laube.
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the jury that will award the fourth “Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship” to a young director prior to the Berlinale.
Part of the Berlinale’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino section, the fellowship supports young German filmmakers in developing a project, material and screenplay. The €15,000 fellowship is funded by watch manufacturer Glashütte Original.
Eligible to participate were all directors who had a film in the Perspektive programme in 2014.
Press screenings of the Perspektive 2015 will kick off on Jan 19 with the presentation of this fellowship to a young talent from the 2014 edition.
The new jury members, all of whom will attend the award ceremony, are director Angelina Maccarone, actress Jenny Schily and producer Jochen Laube. Film journalist Knut Elstermann will host the occasion and invite the press in the name of the Berlinale to talk with the new fellowship holder...
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the jury that will award the fourth “Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship” to a young director prior to the Berlinale.
Part of the Berlinale’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino section, the fellowship supports young German filmmakers in developing a project, material and screenplay. The €15,000 fellowship is funded by watch manufacturer Glashütte Original.
Eligible to participate were all directors who had a film in the Perspektive programme in 2014.
Press screenings of the Perspektive 2015 will kick off on Jan 19 with the presentation of this fellowship to a young talent from the 2014 edition.
The new jury members, all of whom will attend the award ceremony, are director Angelina Maccarone, actress Jenny Schily and producer Jochen Laube. Film journalist Knut Elstermann will host the occasion and invite the press in the name of the Berlinale to talk with the new fellowship holder...
- 11/26/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Parallax Entertainment
LONDON -- Directed and co-written by John Furse and produced by Sally Hibbin for her new Parallax Entertainment company, Blind Flight is a wholly believable and deeply moving story of two men who help each other survive in the direst circumstances. It's hard to imagine it will reach a wide audience, but those who seek it out will be rewarded with a film of great resonance.
Based on a true story and the recollections of the two men concerned, it tells of Irish teacher Brian Keenan and English journalist John McCarthy, who were held hostage in Lebanon for more than four years in the 1980s. Each has written about his experiences and their recollections in the script by Furse and Keenan. It is brilliantly unsentimental and succeeds in not only eschewing politics but also in not demonizing the pair's captors.
The film focuses tightly on the two men. Keenan is simply bundled into the trunk of a big car one night and thrown into a room. Fed minimally, interrogated and made to wear a blindfold whenever his jailers enter his space, Keenan hears nothing except the screams of those being beaten and shot down the corridor.
Months later, McCarthy is thrown into his cell and then begins an extraordinary story of human strength and solidarity as they are moved from one place to another and suffer beatings and deprivation. Among the cruelest things is a kindness from the guards in showing McCarthy a videotape of his mother sending a greeting, not knowing where he is or if he's alive.
Ian Hart as Keenan and Linus Roache as McCarthy give memorably unadorned performances as the incarcerated pair, and the supporting cast matches them.
LONDON -- Directed and co-written by John Furse and produced by Sally Hibbin for her new Parallax Entertainment company, Blind Flight is a wholly believable and deeply moving story of two men who help each other survive in the direst circumstances. It's hard to imagine it will reach a wide audience, but those who seek it out will be rewarded with a film of great resonance.
Based on a true story and the recollections of the two men concerned, it tells of Irish teacher Brian Keenan and English journalist John McCarthy, who were held hostage in Lebanon for more than four years in the 1980s. Each has written about his experiences and their recollections in the script by Furse and Keenan. It is brilliantly unsentimental and succeeds in not only eschewing politics but also in not demonizing the pair's captors.
The film focuses tightly on the two men. Keenan is simply bundled into the trunk of a big car one night and thrown into a room. Fed minimally, interrogated and made to wear a blindfold whenever his jailers enter his space, Keenan hears nothing except the screams of those being beaten and shot down the corridor.
Months later, McCarthy is thrown into his cell and then begins an extraordinary story of human strength and solidarity as they are moved from one place to another and suffer beatings and deprivation. Among the cruelest things is a kindness from the guards in showing McCarthy a videotape of his mother sending a greeting, not knowing where he is or if he's alive.
Ian Hart as Keenan and Linus Roache as McCarthy give memorably unadorned performances as the incarcerated pair, and the supporting cast matches them.
- 4/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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