A pair of Oscar nominations for “Collective,” a blistering exposé of corruption in his native Romania, was certainly a triumph for Alexander Nanau, one of Europe’s most acclaimed documentary filmmakers. But it was a success story shared by co-producer HBO Europe, which has spent the past decade beefing up its documentary arm en route to becoming one of the continent’s leading producers of documentary films.
Now that doc division is readying for the global spotlight, as WarnerMedia begins the international rollout of its HBO Max streaming service, which will launch across Latin America in June and in much of Europe later this year. “This is really an exciting thing, telling local stories for a global audience,” says Hanka Kastelicova, HBO Europe’s VP of documentaries, who spoke to Variety during Hot Docs.
The kudos for “Collective,” which earned a rare double nod from the Academy in the documentary and international feature film categories,...
Now that doc division is readying for the global spotlight, as WarnerMedia begins the international rollout of its HBO Max streaming service, which will launch across Latin America in June and in much of Europe later this year. “This is really an exciting thing, telling local stories for a global audience,” says Hanka Kastelicova, HBO Europe’s VP of documentaries, who spoke to Variety during Hot Docs.
The kudos for “Collective,” which earned a rare double nod from the Academy in the documentary and international feature film categories,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
2015 European Film Awards winners and nominations Best European Film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. En Duva Satt På En Gren Och Funderade På Tillvaron. Sweden, France, Germany, Norway, 96 min. Written and directed by: Roy Andersson. Produced by: Pernilla Sandström. Mustang. France, Germany, Turkey, 100 min. Directed by: Deniz Gamze Ergüven. Written by: Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour. Produced by: Charles Gillibert. Rams. Hrútar. Iceland, Denmark, 93 min. Written and directed by: Grímur Hákonarson. Produced by: Grímar Jónsson. The Lobster. U.K., Ireland, Greece, France, Netherlands, 118 min. Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos. Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou. Produced by: Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey and Yorgos Lanthimos. Victoria. Germany, 138 min. Written and directed by: Sebastian Schipper. Produced by: Jan Dressler. * Youth. Youth – La Giovinezza. Italy, France, U.K., Switzerland, 118 min. Written and directed by: Paolo Sorrentino. Produced by: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima and Carlotta Calori. Best...
- 12/13/2015
- by Mont. Steve
- Alt Film Guide
Andrew Renzi‘s directorial debut about a third wheel starring Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning and Theo James, Reed Morano‘s relationship testing drama featuring Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson, Onur Tukel‘s secret unleashed on the airwaves and Gregory Kohn‘s hallucinatory tale with Eléonore Hendricks topling are part of the American independent offerings at the 14th Tribeca Film Festival. Renzi’s Franny and Morano’s Meadowland will be competing in the dozen selected in the World Narrative Competition while Tukel’s Applesauce and Kohn’s Come Down Molly are among the in the Viewpoints sidebar. Here are the selected titles below sans synopsis.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
- 3/3/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Top brass at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) presented by At&T have announced the World Narrative and Documentary Competition and Viewpoints selections.
Organisers also said that At&T’s Film For All Friday will return with free screenings on April 24. The festival is set to run in New York City from April 15-26 and the festival hub is Spring Studios.
Tuesday’s announcement covers 51 films out of a total 97 features at the upcoming 14th edition. As previously announced, Tribeca will open with the documentary Live From New York!
The line-up includes world premieres of Andrew Renzi’s Franny starring Richard Gere, Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries with James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris and Cynthia Nixon and documentaries In My Father’s House by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg and In Transit from Albert Maysles and four co-directors.
Thirty of the festival’s feature film directors are women –the highest percentage in Tribeca history. Nine of...
Organisers also said that At&T’s Film For All Friday will return with free screenings on April 24. The festival is set to run in New York City from April 15-26 and the festival hub is Spring Studios.
Tuesday’s announcement covers 51 films out of a total 97 features at the upcoming 14th edition. As previously announced, Tribeca will open with the documentary Live From New York!
The line-up includes world premieres of Andrew Renzi’s Franny starring Richard Gere, Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries with James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris and Cynthia Nixon and documentaries In My Father’s House by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg and In Transit from Albert Maysles and four co-directors.
Thirty of the festival’s feature film directors are women –the highest percentage in Tribeca history. Nine of...
- 3/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Main awards won by films from Uruguay, Romania and Switzerland.
Germán Tejeira’s A Moonless Night (Una Noche Sin Luna) has won the International Feature Film Golden Eye award at the 10th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 5).
The drama centres on three lonely lives in rural Uruguay.
The International Documentary Film Golden Eye was won by Alexander Nanau’s Romanian film, Toto and His Sisters, about a 10-year-old and his two teenage sisters who learn to survive while waiting for their mother’s release.
Both awards come with a cash prize of more than $30,000 (CHF25,000) and (CHF100,000) for Swiss promotion.
The Golden Eye in the Focus: Switzerland, Germany, Austria section was won Bruno Deville’s Swiss comedy, Boucoule.
The prize include Chf 20’000 ($20,0007) cash prize. Each winner also receives Chf 100’000 ($10,700) for the promotion of their film in Swiss cinemas.
The newly introduced Emerging Swiss Talent Award went to Bruno Deville’s Boucoule (Switzerland), and the Critic’s Choice...
Germán Tejeira’s A Moonless Night (Una Noche Sin Luna) has won the International Feature Film Golden Eye award at the 10th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 5).
The drama centres on three lonely lives in rural Uruguay.
The International Documentary Film Golden Eye was won by Alexander Nanau’s Romanian film, Toto and His Sisters, about a 10-year-old and his two teenage sisters who learn to survive while waiting for their mother’s release.
Both awards come with a cash prize of more than $30,000 (CHF25,000) and (CHF100,000) for Swiss promotion.
The Golden Eye in the Focus: Switzerland, Germany, Austria section was won Bruno Deville’s Swiss comedy, Boucoule.
The prize include Chf 20’000 ($20,0007) cash prize. Each winner also receives Chf 100’000 ($10,700) for the promotion of their film in Swiss cinemas.
The newly introduced Emerging Swiss Talent Award went to Bruno Deville’s Boucoule (Switzerland), and the Critic’s Choice...
- 10/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 13 new films will compete for the $67,000 prize.
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27) has revealed the films that will make up its New Directors section and compete for an award worth €50,000 ($67,000).
The strand will feature 13 first or second works by new filmmakers. The titles include:
Chrieg
Simon Jaquemet (Switzerland)
On a boot camp for kids in the Swiss Alps, four delinquent teenagers have taken over. They have a mission and rush down to the city. Feverish nights full of violence and destruction. Their war. Against grown-ups. Against everything. Against Love.
In Her Place
Albert Shin (Canada - South Korea)
A mother and her teenaged daughter living on a rural farm in South Korea take in a mysterious woman from Seoul with the hopes of helping each other repair their damaged lives.
Cain’s Children (Káin Gyermekei)
Marcell Gerő (Hungary - France)
Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering...
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27) has revealed the films that will make up its New Directors section and compete for an award worth €50,000 ($67,000).
The strand will feature 13 first or second works by new filmmakers. The titles include:
Chrieg
Simon Jaquemet (Switzerland)
On a boot camp for kids in the Swiss Alps, four delinquent teenagers have taken over. They have a mission and rush down to the city. Feverish nights full of violence and destruction. Their war. Against grown-ups. Against everything. Against Love.
In Her Place
Albert Shin (Canada - South Korea)
A mother and her teenaged daughter living on a rural farm in South Korea take in a mysterious woman from Seoul with the hopes of helping each other repair their damaged lives.
Cain’s Children (Káin Gyermekei)
Marcell Gerő (Hungary - France)
Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering...
- 7/30/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Sundance Institute has announced the 22 Fellows representing nine documentary film projects participating in the 2013 Documentary Edit and Story Labs, set to run from Jun 21-29 and Jul 5-13 at Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah.
Documentary Film Program (Dfp) staff and creative advisors will join the Fellows in the process.
The Fellows for the Jun 21-29 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Kirsten Johnson and editor Amanda Laws for A Blind Eye (Us); co-directors and editor Ed Pincus and Lucia Small for Elephant In The Room (Us); co-directors Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting and editor Edgar Burcksen for The Last Hijack (Us-Netherlands); director Andrew James and editor Jason Tippet for Street Fighting Man (Us); and director Alexander Nanau and editor Mirceau Olteanu for Totonel (Romania).
The Fellows for the Jul 5-13 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Elizabeth ‘Chai’ Vasarhelyi and editor Jay Freund for An African Spring (Us); co-directors Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly and editor...
Documentary Film Program (Dfp) staff and creative advisors will join the Fellows in the process.
The Fellows for the Jun 21-29 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Kirsten Johnson and editor Amanda Laws for A Blind Eye (Us); co-directors and editor Ed Pincus and Lucia Small for Elephant In The Room (Us); co-directors Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting and editor Edgar Burcksen for The Last Hijack (Us-Netherlands); director Andrew James and editor Jason Tippet for Street Fighting Man (Us); and director Alexander Nanau and editor Mirceau Olteanu for Totonel (Romania).
The Fellows for the Jul 5-13 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Elizabeth ‘Chai’ Vasarhelyi and editor Jay Freund for An African Spring (Us); co-directors Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly and editor...
- 6/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
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