For a few years now, a chorus of individuals, myself included, have been calling the Whistler Film Festival the "Sundance of the North." The festival has always featured an impressive line-up of Canadian titles and the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature has always attracted a high calibre of Canadian film but this year's Canadian features line-up features no less that 22 home grown titles, 11 of which are world premieres.
Among this year's notable titles are the world premieres of Sean Garrity's follow up to Blood Pressure (review) After the Ball, Carl Bessai's blaxploitation homage Bad City, Sophie Deraspe's Wolves, Cameron Labine's [Continued ...]...
Among this year's notable titles are the world premieres of Sean Garrity's follow up to Blood Pressure (review) After the Ball, Carl Bessai's blaxploitation homage Bad City, Sophie Deraspe's Wolves, Cameron Labine's [Continued ...]...
- 10/27/2014
- QuietEarth.us
European Film Promotion (Efp) has launched a new initiative, Producers Lab Hamburg (Plh), bringing producers from across Europe to meet with their Hamburg-based opposite numbers.
The event’s two-day programme (Oct 1-2) during this year’s Filmfest Hamburg will include seminars, pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings and a Hamburg location tour.
The ten European producers coming to Hamburg are drawn from the pool of Efp’s former Producers on the Move, including the UK’s Isabelle Stead (Human Films), Luxembourg’s Donata Rotunno (Tarantula), Norway’s Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord Kidstory) and Spain’s Antonio Saura (Zampa Audiovisual).
Stead will be coming to Hamburg after having taken part in the fifth edition of the Producers Lab Toronto, while Rotunno is now developing Yilmaz Arslan’s new project Raqs after producing his last film Fratricide and is also looking for German partners for his own third feature film Sara Sarà.
Eik has produced and co-produced more than 20 feature films and...
The event’s two-day programme (Oct 1-2) during this year’s Filmfest Hamburg will include seminars, pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings and a Hamburg location tour.
The ten European producers coming to Hamburg are drawn from the pool of Efp’s former Producers on the Move, including the UK’s Isabelle Stead (Human Films), Luxembourg’s Donata Rotunno (Tarantula), Norway’s Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord Kidstory) and Spain’s Antonio Saura (Zampa Audiovisual).
Stead will be coming to Hamburg after having taken part in the fifth edition of the Producers Lab Toronto, while Rotunno is now developing Yilmaz Arslan’s new project Raqs after producing his last film Fratricide and is also looking for German partners for his own third feature film Sara Sarà.
Eik has produced and co-produced more than 20 feature films and...
- 8/28/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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