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30 years after her first festival job — working for the guest department at the Berlinale — and after more than two decades as a sales agent and acquisitions exec for French indies Celluloid Dreams and Memento Films, Tanja Meissner returns to Berlin this year as the new director of Berlinale Pro, overseeing all the…
The Indigenous Cinema Alliance (ICA) returns to the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market (EFM), marking its 10th anniversary showcasing native and Indigenous filmmakers worldwide. Established in 2015 as the NATIVe Indigenous Cinema Stand, the ICA has served as a platform for Indigenous filmmakers to showcase market-ready projects to the international market. An official…
Berlin: ‘The Teacher’s Lounge’ Wins Best European Film Prize İlker Çatak’s The Teachers‘ Lounge, a German drama set in a primary school, has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Panorama section of the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. Leonie Benesch (Babylon Berlin, Around the World in 80 Days) stars in…
Berlin: Spanish Drama ‘Ivan & Hadoum’ Wins Euroimages Co-Production Award Iván & Hadoum, a Spanish feature film project, to be directed by Ian de la Rosa, has won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, along with a $21, 000 (€20,000) endowment, beating out the more than 30 pitches at this year’s Berlinale Co-Production Market. Spanish producers…
Berlin: Rolf de Heer on How COVID and BLM Shaped ‘The Survival of Kindness’ Questions of authenticity and authorship in cinema – who gets to tell what stories — are thorny ones. With his trilogy of films on the Aboriginal experience, The Tracker, Ten Canoes and Charlie’s Country, Dutch-born white Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer…
Berlin: Simon Rex Joins Heaven’s Gate Cult Drama ‘The Leader’ (Exclusive) The Leader, the upcoming biopic about the Heaven’s Gate cult set to star Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga, has lured another big-name follower. The Hollywood Reporter can reveal that Simon Rex has joined the real-life crime drama, unveiled earlier this week at the…
Building a Better Backlot in the Baltics Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the three nations that stretch along the Baltic Sea coast, jammed in between Poland to the south and Finland across the water to the north, are barely the size of Missouri and, with a combined citizenry of 6.2 million, rank up there with Denmark in…
Berlin: StudioCanal Takes Mike Leigh’s Untitled Next Feature for U.K. StudioCanal has acquired U.K. rights to Mike Leigh’s secretive and untitled next project, marking the first time the distributor has worked with the iconic director. The deal sees StudioCanal take over from eOne, which had been handling U.K. on the project in 2020 before it…
Berlin: Sean Penn Makes Plea for Greater Arms Support for Ukraine For those paying attention to his year-long campaigning in support of Ukraine, Sean Penn covered a lot of familiar ground Saturday at the Berlin press conference for his latest film, Superpower, a documentary profile of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The actor-director spoke of Zelensky’s…
Berlin According to Brightlight Pictures’ Emily Alden Emily Alden is back in Berlin this year, heading to its market in her role as vp of originals at Vancouver’s Brightlight Studios. The Good Doctor producer had hired Alden in 2020 as vp of development with a mandate to expand its film and TV slate, which has also…