Michelle Stein and Jennifer Monks are producers of Moin Hussain’s Venice Critics’ Week entry Sky Peals.
Michelle Stein and Jennifer Monks, producers of Moin Hussain’s Venice Critics’ Week entry Sky Peals, are launching UK production company The Fold.
Stein was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2009 (as Michelle Eastwood); she has produced features including Brian Welsh’s Bifa-winning In Our Name in 2010, and Hussain’s shorts Naptha and Real Gods Require Blood.
Monks was recently a co-producer on Charlotte Regan’s Sundance premiere Scrapper, and Naqqash Khalid’s Karlovy Vary title In Camera.
The Fold banner aims...
Michelle Stein and Jennifer Monks, producers of Moin Hussain’s Venice Critics’ Week entry Sky Peals, are launching UK production company The Fold.
Stein was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2009 (as Michelle Eastwood); she has produced features including Brian Welsh’s Bifa-winning In Our Name in 2010, and Hussain’s shorts Naptha and Real Gods Require Blood.
Monks was recently a co-producer on Charlotte Regan’s Sundance premiere Scrapper, and Naqqash Khalid’s Karlovy Vary title In Camera.
The Fold banner aims...
- 7/26/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The projects, all feature debuts aside from one, will receive €60,000 to support either their production or their post-production.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) has selected four projects for its first-ever Hbf+ Europe: Post-production Scheme, alongside eight projects for minority co-production support.
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The projects, all feature debuts aside from one, will receive €60,000 to support either their production or their post-production. Hbf+Europe supports projects from filmmakers based in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe, and encourages European co-production of said projects.
Among the...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) has selected four projects for its first-ever Hbf+ Europe: Post-production Scheme, alongside eight projects for minority co-production support.
Scroll down for full list of projects
The projects, all feature debuts aside from one, will receive €60,000 to support either their production or their post-production. Hbf+Europe supports projects from filmmakers based in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe, and encourages European co-production of said projects.
Among the...
- 7/11/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Fifteen countries represented amongst the 18 individuals.
European producers platform Ace Producers has selected 18 producers for the latest edition of its Ace Producers’ Network programme, running in 2022 and 2023.
The 18 producers include Nadim Cheikhrouha of France’s Tanit Films, who will produce Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s next feature Mime. Cheikhrouha and Ben Hania secured an Oscar nomination for best international feature film last year for The Man Who Sold His Skin.
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Sara Laszlo, CEO at Hungary’s Campfilm, is another Ace Producers participant, through Denes Nagy’s The Vacation. Laszlo’s previous...
European producers platform Ace Producers has selected 18 producers for the latest edition of its Ace Producers’ Network programme, running in 2022 and 2023.
The 18 producers include Nadim Cheikhrouha of France’s Tanit Films, who will produce Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s next feature Mime. Cheikhrouha and Ben Hania secured an Oscar nomination for best international feature film last year for The Man Who Sold His Skin.
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Sara Laszlo, CEO at Hungary’s Campfilm, is another Ace Producers participant, through Denes Nagy’s The Vacation. Laszlo’s previous...
- 9/12/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Eddie Redmayne, Viola Davis, Lee Jung-jae to participate in on-stage conversations.
TIFF has announced the In Conversation With… series and the talent development programmes and participants.
On-stage conversation participants include Eddie Redmayne, Viola Davis and Lee Jung-jae, while Sarah Gadon is announced as the TIFF Micki Moore Residency.
The festival has also unveiled the 10 Industry Selects roster of acquisition titles. TIFF runs from September 8-1.
In Conversation With…
The In Conversation With… series features Damien Chazelle, the director of La La Land and Whiplash whose December release Babylon is expected to be an awards contender; Viola Davis and Gina Prince-Bythewood,...
TIFF has announced the In Conversation With… series and the talent development programmes and participants.
On-stage conversation participants include Eddie Redmayne, Viola Davis and Lee Jung-jae, while Sarah Gadon is announced as the TIFF Micki Moore Residency.
The festival has also unveiled the 10 Industry Selects roster of acquisition titles. TIFF runs from September 8-1.
In Conversation With…
The In Conversation With… series features Damien Chazelle, the director of La La Land and Whiplash whose December release Babylon is expected to be an awards contender; Viola Davis and Gina Prince-Bythewood,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
UK Global Screen Fund Awards
The UK Global Screen Fund, backed by Dcms and administered by the BFI, has awarded a further £2.1M ($2.8M) to UK companies through its £7M ($9.3M) International Business Development strand. The financial support will provide companies from around the UK with funding for business strategies to create, acquire and exploit Intellectual Property (IP) for increased international revenue, activities and profile.d The awards come in the form of non-repayable grants and range between £50,000 and £117,600 in total over a three-year period. Companies to benefit from this round include Number 9 Films (Mothering Sunday), The Ink Factory (The Night Manager), Warp Films (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) and Good Chaos. Further awards went to: Alphablocks Limited; Avanti Media; The Black Camel Picture Company; Blazing Griffin; Bohemia Club; Cantilever Media; Digital Media Distribution; Dog Ears; Dorothy Street Pictures; Ida Rose; Ie Ie Productions Little Door Productions; Outsider Games...
The UK Global Screen Fund, backed by Dcms and administered by the BFI, has awarded a further £2.1M ($2.8M) to UK companies through its £7M ($9.3M) International Business Development strand. The financial support will provide companies from around the UK with funding for business strategies to create, acquire and exploit Intellectual Property (IP) for increased international revenue, activities and profile.d The awards come in the form of non-repayable grants and range between £50,000 and £117,600 in total over a three-year period. Companies to benefit from this round include Number 9 Films (Mothering Sunday), The Ink Factory (The Night Manager), Warp Films (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) and Good Chaos. Further awards went to: Alphablocks Limited; Avanti Media; The Black Camel Picture Company; Blazing Griffin; Bohemia Club; Cantilever Media; Digital Media Distribution; Dog Ears; Dorothy Street Pictures; Ida Rose; Ie Ie Productions Little Door Productions; Outsider Games...
- 12/16/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix Doc Shorts
Netflix has revealed the 10 winning filmmaker teams from its inaugural UK Documentary Talent Fund. A total of £400,000 in financing will be handed out to back 10 short documentary projects, each 8-12 minutes long and answering the brief “Britain’s Not Boring And Here’s a Story”. Winners are: Beya Kabelu’s The Detective & The Thief; Daisy Ifama’s Twinkleberry; Dhivya Kate Chetty’s Bee Whisperer; Jakob Lancaster & Sorcha Bacon’s Seal In The City; Jason Osborne and Precious Mahaga’s Love Languages; Ngaio Anyia and Aodh Breathnach’s Tegan; Sean Mullan and Michael Barwise’s Hyfin; Shiva Raichandani and Shane ShayShay Konno’s Peach Paradise; Tavie Tiffany Agama’s Women Of The Market; and Tobi Kyeremateng & Tania Nwachukwu’s ÓWÀMBÈ.
Berlinale Audience Award
The Berlin Film Festival will introduce a new audience award during its planned summer event. Due to run June 9-20, attendees will have to chance...
Netflix has revealed the 10 winning filmmaker teams from its inaugural UK Documentary Talent Fund. A total of £400,000 in financing will be handed out to back 10 short documentary projects, each 8-12 minutes long and answering the brief “Britain’s Not Boring And Here’s a Story”. Winners are: Beya Kabelu’s The Detective & The Thief; Daisy Ifama’s Twinkleberry; Dhivya Kate Chetty’s Bee Whisperer; Jakob Lancaster & Sorcha Bacon’s Seal In The City; Jason Osborne and Precious Mahaga’s Love Languages; Ngaio Anyia and Aodh Breathnach’s Tegan; Sean Mullan and Michael Barwise’s Hyfin; Shiva Raichandani and Shane ShayShay Konno’s Peach Paradise; Tavie Tiffany Agama’s Women Of The Market; and Tobi Kyeremateng & Tania Nwachukwu’s ÓWÀMBÈ.
Berlinale Audience Award
The Berlin Film Festival will introduce a new audience award during its planned summer event. Due to run June 9-20, attendees will have to chance...
- 5/27/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Title revealed of the upcoming feature from the director of ‘This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection’.
The next feature from Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is among 10 upcoming projects to receive support from the Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf), administered by the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The writer and director of Sundance award-winner This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection has received a grant of €10,000 for script and project development on his fourth feature, titled The Chattering Of Teeth.
Earlier this year, the filmmaker said he was developing a new feature around the theme of siege and fear...
The next feature from Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is among 10 upcoming projects to receive support from the Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf), administered by the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The writer and director of Sundance award-winner This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection has received a grant of €10,000 for script and project development on his fourth feature, titled The Chattering Of Teeth.
Earlier this year, the filmmaker said he was developing a new feature around the theme of siege and fear...
- 5/27/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Zhannat is an award-winning writer/director and producer from Kazakhstan. She studied Ma in Filmmaking at the London Film School and her graduation short film “End of Season” (2018) premiered at Cannes Film Festival (Cinefondation), won Most Promising Director Award in Tel-Aviv and Best Cinematography Award in Munich. In 2019 Zhannat got selected for Bela Tarr’s directing residency, where she developed and shot a film “Paola Makes A Wish” (2019), produced by Locarno Film Festival, Cisa and Ticino Film Commission. The film got screened at various international film festivals, including Locarno Film Festival, PÖFF Shorts and Sundance Film Festival.
Her latest short film “History of Civilization” (2020) premiered at Locarno Film Festival and won silver prize – Pardino D’Argento. The film is also selected for TIFF, Hamptons Iff, Clermont-Ferrand, Cairo Iff and many others. Zhannat is currently developing two feature projects: “Mother Tongue” (Arte France’s ArteKino International Award at Asian Project Market...
Her latest short film “History of Civilization” (2020) premiered at Locarno Film Festival and won silver prize – Pardino D’Argento. The film is also selected for TIFF, Hamptons Iff, Clermont-Ferrand, Cairo Iff and many others. Zhannat is currently developing two feature projects: “Mother Tongue” (Arte France’s ArteKino International Award at Asian Project Market...
- 3/19/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Kazakh Zhannat Alshanova’s graduation film from the London Film School, “End of Season”, premiered at Cannes Film Festival (Cinefondation), won Most Promising Director Award in Tel-Aviv and Best Cinematography Award in Munich.
The story revolves around Rosa, a 50 year old woman who arrives at her husband resort, a small hotel in the vast dry steppe, to check on staff and collect the accounts. As the film begins, she is found sitting in embryonic stance by the side of the road, when two women stop and try and help her, although she seems completely unresponsive, in some kind of trance, in which she sees a young girl in a bus, which does not appear to actually be there, however. The next scene has her sitting on a kind of doctor’s bed, where a younger man asks her about her problem, and she lets him know that her leg is hurting,...
The story revolves around Rosa, a 50 year old woman who arrives at her husband resort, a small hotel in the vast dry steppe, to check on staff and collect the accounts. As the film begins, she is found sitting in embryonic stance by the side of the road, when two women stop and try and help her, although she seems completely unresponsive, in some kind of trance, in which she sees a young girl in a bus, which does not appear to actually be there, however. The next scene has her sitting on a kind of doctor’s bed, where a younger man asks her about her problem, and she lets him know that her leg is hurting,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova studied at the London Film School.
Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova was the big winner at Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum for her feature debut project A Winner Is Seen At The Start which won there prizes including the main Film Center Serbia development award with a cash prize of €5,000. The forum ran online from January 24-28.
Alshanova, a graduate of the London Film School also received the Pop Up Film Residency award and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa) best woman director award for the project.
A Winner Is Seen At...
Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova was the big winner at Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum for her feature debut project A Winner Is Seen At The Start which won there prizes including the main Film Center Serbia development award with a cash prize of €5,000. The forum ran online from January 24-28.
Alshanova, a graduate of the London Film School also received the Pop Up Film Residency award and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa) best woman director award for the project.
A Winner Is Seen At...
- 1/28/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova studied at the London Film School.
Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova was the big winner at Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum for her feature debut project A Winner Is Seen At The Start which won there prizes including the main Film Center Serbia development award with a cash prize of €5,000. The forum ran online from January 24-28.
Alshanova, a graduate of the London Film School also received the Pop Up Film Residency award and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa) best woman director award for the project.
A Winner Is Seen At...
Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova was the big winner at Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum for her feature debut project A Winner Is Seen At The Start which won there prizes including the main Film Center Serbia development award with a cash prize of €5,000. The forum ran online from January 24-28.
Alshanova, a graduate of the London Film School also received the Pop Up Film Residency award and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa) best woman director award for the project.
A Winner Is Seen At...
- 1/28/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The debut project by Kazakhstan’s Zhannat Alshanova received the Film Center Serbia Development Award. The “Out of the Box” edition of the Italian co-production forum When East Meets West, which featured 21 projects, announced its winners during the awards ceremony, which was presented by Alessandro Gropplero, head of Wemw, and was streamed live from the Savoia Excelsior Palace in Trieste. The main prize, the Film Center Serbia Development Award, valued at €5,000, was granted to the project A Winner Is Seen at the Start by first-time Kazakh writer-director Zhannat Alshanova, co-produced by the director and Yevgeniya Moreva for Almaty-based Accidental Films. The story follows 19-year-old Mila, who joins an experimental swimming school, but after the death of a teammate, a series of revelations come to light. The film also received the Pop Up Film Residency Award, and Alshanova was also crowned with the European Women’s Audiovisual Network...
Assaf Lapid and Marija Kavtaradze among other filmmakers with projects at the co-production forum.
New features from Emma Dante and Antonio Lukic are among more than 30 projects selected for Trieste’s When East Meets West forum, which will take place online from January 25-28 due to the virus crisis.
The Wemw Co-Production Forum will comprise 11 fiction features and 10 documentaries from 14 countries, having received a record 387 submissions from 56 countries.
The titles, set to be pitched virtually to more than 500 decision-makers and producers, include the third feature from leading Italian playwright Emma Dante, Misericordia. Dante’s adaptation of her own play, The Macaluso Sisters,...
New features from Emma Dante and Antonio Lukic are among more than 30 projects selected for Trieste’s When East Meets West forum, which will take place online from January 25-28 due to the virus crisis.
The Wemw Co-Production Forum will comprise 11 fiction features and 10 documentaries from 14 countries, having received a record 387 submissions from 56 countries.
The titles, set to be pitched virtually to more than 500 decision-makers and producers, include the third feature from leading Italian playwright Emma Dante, Misericordia. Dante’s adaptation of her own play, The Macaluso Sisters,...
- 1/13/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Cairo International Film Festival’s 42nd outing saw films directed by women or featuring female-centric stories dominate its short film section, Cinema of Tomorrow.
Films receiving their world premieres at Ciff included Saudi Arabian director Sara Mesfer’s second self-funded short, “The Girls Who Burned the Night,” a 25-minute story of two sisters and a small act of rebellion that ends in violence when one is refused entry to a grocery store.
According to Mesfer, the film was shot on “practically no budget” and derived from “certain feelings of being trapped and feeling mad about being trapped” that the Jeddah-based director wanted to portray.
“Those are the feelings of the main character, who is the opposite of her sister,” she adds.
Also premiering at the festival was French/Tunisian short “I Bit My Tongue,” the second short film from Marseille-based documentary film editor Nina Khada, which explores some lost aspects...
Films receiving their world premieres at Ciff included Saudi Arabian director Sara Mesfer’s second self-funded short, “The Girls Who Burned the Night,” a 25-minute story of two sisters and a small act of rebellion that ends in violence when one is refused entry to a grocery store.
According to Mesfer, the film was shot on “practically no budget” and derived from “certain feelings of being trapped and feeling mad about being trapped” that the Jeddah-based director wanted to portray.
“Those are the feelings of the main character, who is the opposite of her sister,” she adds.
Also premiering at the festival was French/Tunisian short “I Bit My Tongue,” the second short film from Marseille-based documentary film editor Nina Khada, which explores some lost aspects...
- 12/10/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Upcoming movies from two Argentine filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel’s “Chocobar” and Mari Alessandrini’s “Zahori,” won the top Pardo 2020 Awards at the Locarno Film Festival’s The Films After Tomorrow, its highest-profile competition, the festival announced Friday.
Of other major plaudits in The Films After Tomorrow, a section highlighting Covid-19-hit productions, “Savagery,” from Portugal’s Miguel Gomes, scooped the strand’s Special Jury Prize. Its prize for most innovative project went to “The Fabric of the Human Body,” from Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.
The top awards – Martel and Alessandrini winning Pardos for best international and Swiss projects, respectively, which both come with SFr 70,000 cash prizes – went to movie projects that explore themes of race, or the malpractice of supposedly unimpeachable authority.
Lead produced by Argentina’s Rei Cine, “Chocobar,” a hybrid creative documentary, sees Martel double down on the historical and cultural context of the assassination in 2007 of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar,...
Of other major plaudits in The Films After Tomorrow, a section highlighting Covid-19-hit productions, “Savagery,” from Portugal’s Miguel Gomes, scooped the strand’s Special Jury Prize. Its prize for most innovative project went to “The Fabric of the Human Body,” from Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.
The top awards – Martel and Alessandrini winning Pardos for best international and Swiss projects, respectively, which both come with SFr 70,000 cash prizes – went to movie projects that explore themes of race, or the malpractice of supposedly unimpeachable authority.
Lead produced by Argentina’s Rei Cine, “Chocobar,” a hybrid creative documentary, sees Martel double down on the historical and cultural context of the assassination in 2007 of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar,...
- 8/14/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Japanese writer Nakai Nomie’s “Topography of Solitude” won the Busan Award, top prize at the Asian Project Market, part of the Busan International Film Festival. Sponsored by Busan Metropolitan City, the award comes with a $15,000 cash prize.
“Topography” revolves around a woman who works for a company that hires people to pretend to be relatives of random strangers. She uses her fake relationships for a revenge mission when her boyfriend is killed by police.
China’s Hu Jia (“The Taste of Betel Nut”) won the Mas Award and a cash prize of $20,000 for his thriller comedy project “The Courier Always Knocks Twice.” “Courier” presents the story of a scriptwriter who discovers that the protagonist of his horror stories may actually be his true self.
The Cj Entertainment award, which commits $10,000 in cash to an international project, was won by Philippines director Antoinette Jadaone’s comedy drama “Boldstar.” The Lotte award,...
“Topography” revolves around a woman who works for a company that hires people to pretend to be relatives of random strangers. She uses her fake relationships for a revenge mission when her boyfriend is killed by police.
China’s Hu Jia (“The Taste of Betel Nut”) won the Mas Award and a cash prize of $20,000 for his thriller comedy project “The Courier Always Knocks Twice.” “Courier” presents the story of a scriptwriter who discovers that the protagonist of his horror stories may actually be his true self.
The Cj Entertainment award, which commits $10,000 in cash to an international project, was won by Philippines director Antoinette Jadaone’s comedy drama “Boldstar.” The Lotte award,...
- 10/8/2019
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
Line-up includes new titles from Yosep Anggi Noen, Hussein Hassan, Ash Mayfair and Hu Jia.
Busan International Film Festival (Biff)’s Asian Project Market has unveiled the 29 projects selected for this year’s edition of the financing and co-production event (October 6-8).
The line-up includes Silah And The Man With Two Names, the new project from Indonesian director Yosep Anggi Noen, whose latest film The Science Of Fictions will premiere in competition at this year’s Locarno.
Other projects of note include Black And White Photo, from Nepali filmmaker Rajesh Prasad Khatri, which received development funding from Biff’s Asian Cinema Fund...
Busan International Film Festival (Biff)’s Asian Project Market has unveiled the 29 projects selected for this year’s edition of the financing and co-production event (October 6-8).
The line-up includes Silah And The Man With Two Names, the new project from Indonesian director Yosep Anggi Noen, whose latest film The Science Of Fictions will premiere in competition at this year’s Locarno.
Other projects of note include Black And White Photo, from Nepali filmmaker Rajesh Prasad Khatri, which received development funding from Biff’s Asian Cinema Fund...
- 8/8/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
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