The Changing Face of Europe, which is presented by European Film Promotion (Efp) in collaboration with Hot Docs, returns to Toronto with the sixth edition of its festival-within-a-festival program—nine features and one mid-length film—exploring themes around identity, belonging and struggle.
“Over the years, the Changing Face of Europe has become one of the more impactful programs in the lineup, and also an essential component of our festival programming,” Hot Docs artistic director Shane Smith told Variety in advance of the festival.
“Europe has a rich history of and strong connection to the art of documentary filmmaking,” he said. “We are delighted to showcase the powerful work coming out of the continent that sheds light on crucial issues facing Europeans today.”
World-premiering “A Happy Man”, written and directed by anthropologist and filmmaker Soňa G. Lutherova (“Flooded”), tells the story of Marvin, who has moved from the Czech Republic to...
“Over the years, the Changing Face of Europe has become one of the more impactful programs in the lineup, and also an essential component of our festival programming,” Hot Docs artistic director Shane Smith told Variety in advance of the festival.
“Europe has a rich history of and strong connection to the art of documentary filmmaking,” he said. “We are delighted to showcase the powerful work coming out of the continent that sheds light on crucial issues facing Europeans today.”
World-premiering “A Happy Man”, written and directed by anthropologist and filmmaker Soňa G. Lutherova (“Flooded”), tells the story of Marvin, who has moved from the Czech Republic to...
- 4/27/2023
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Format
Fremantle and Kansai TV have launched new entertainment format “Quiz Pong” following a co-development deal initially revealed at MIPCOM 2022. The format was launched in Japan last month by Kansai TV and Fremantle will handle the production and global distribution.
“Quiz Pong” is a fast-paced gameshow where teams compete against each other in a fun tournament testing their mental, physical, and strategy skills. The teams go head-to-head by throwing balls into moving baskets, on a supersized set and answering general knowledge questions to score points. The harder the basket is to reach the more difficult the question inside the basket will be for their opponent. After battling through two rounds, the winning teams compete in the grand finale for a prize.
Miho Okada, executive managing director at Kansai TV, said: “Thanks to the innovative idea from our producers and creative support from Fremantle, ‘Quiz Pong’ developed into a fun, exciting,...
Fremantle and Kansai TV have launched new entertainment format “Quiz Pong” following a co-development deal initially revealed at MIPCOM 2022. The format was launched in Japan last month by Kansai TV and Fremantle will handle the production and global distribution.
“Quiz Pong” is a fast-paced gameshow where teams compete against each other in a fun tournament testing their mental, physical, and strategy skills. The teams go head-to-head by throwing balls into moving baskets, on a supersized set and answering general knowledge questions to score points. The harder the basket is to reach the more difficult the question inside the basket will be for their opponent. After battling through two rounds, the winning teams compete in the grand finale for a prize.
Miho Okada, executive managing director at Kansai TV, said: “Thanks to the innovative idea from our producers and creative support from Fremantle, ‘Quiz Pong’ developed into a fun, exciting,...
- 2/9/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Czech director-writer Beata Parkanová is in production with Czech-Slovak feature “Tiny Lights,” about a summer’s day in the life of six-year-old Amálka that captures a moment of transformation and loss, but also brings hope that she can turn this loss into the ability to observe and tell stories, Film New Europe reports.
“Tiny Lights” is set in the early 1990s in a small town in Czechoslovakia. Although the film features a main character who is a child, it is not a children’s film. It is an intimate family drama.
Parkanová said in a statement: “Against the backdrop of a heated marital crisis and complicated family relationships, the film captures a moment in the main character’s life where she undergoes a major transformation. We find ourselves in a day where external circumstances break the boundaries of Amálka’s world and bring to it a new, fully lived experience...
“Tiny Lights” is set in the early 1990s in a small town in Czechoslovakia. Although the film features a main character who is a child, it is not a children’s film. It is an intimate family drama.
Parkanová said in a statement: “Against the backdrop of a heated marital crisis and complicated family relationships, the film captures a moment in the main character’s life where she undergoes a major transformation. We find ourselves in a day where external circumstances break the boundaries of Amálka’s world and bring to it a new, fully lived experience...
- 7/22/2022
- by Alexander Gabelia
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Lion Television, the All3Media-owned production company behind series including Cash Cab, has struck a partnership with viral prankster Michael Krivicka and his producing partner Peter Veverka to develop TV formats.
Krivicka is best known for producing online prank videos including Rings TV Store Prank (below), which has over 10M views on YouTube, Devil Baby Attack and Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise. His videos have over 3B online views combined.
Lion will work with Krivicka and Veverka to develop, and produce original prank formats for premium cable networks and streaming platforms.
The first two projects that they are working on are Crazy Products and Fear the Prank. Crazy Products is a format that sees unsuspecting people test out ‘new products’ on camera, while Fear the Prank builds on Krivicka’s viral pranks, scaring the living daylights out of people with ridiculous supernatural incidents in public places.
Krivicka (left) and Veverka...
Krivicka is best known for producing online prank videos including Rings TV Store Prank (below), which has over 10M views on YouTube, Devil Baby Attack and Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise. His videos have over 3B online views combined.
Lion will work with Krivicka and Veverka to develop, and produce original prank formats for premium cable networks and streaming platforms.
The first two projects that they are working on are Crazy Products and Fear the Prank. Crazy Products is a format that sees unsuspecting people test out ‘new products’ on camera, while Fear the Prank builds on Krivicka’s viral pranks, scaring the living daylights out of people with ridiculous supernatural incidents in public places.
Krivicka (left) and Veverka...
- 6/23/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Berlin-based Flare Film is continuing its focus on international productions with German filmmaker Bastian Günther’s “Avalanche,” which just wrapped principal photography in Louisiana.
The timely social drama, which stars Carrie Preston (“Claws”) and British thesp Joe Cole (“A Prayer Before Dawn”), is set in America’s troubled social and cultural environment and explores the caustic repercussions of extreme capitalism that exploits underprivileged people for profit and entertainment.
The story follows the marketing manager of a small-town car dealership, played by Preston, who organizes an endurance contest in which 20 down-on-their-luck contenders compete to win a new pickup truck, and a young contestant (Cole) hoping for a better life.
The drama marks producer and Flare Film managing director Martin Heisler’s third collaboration with Günther after his debut feature, “Autopilots,” and his 2013 Sundance screener “Houston,” which was likewise set in the U.S.
“Avalanche” is produced by Heisler and Los Angeles-based co-producer Peter Veverka,...
The timely social drama, which stars Carrie Preston (“Claws”) and British thesp Joe Cole (“A Prayer Before Dawn”), is set in America’s troubled social and cultural environment and explores the caustic repercussions of extreme capitalism that exploits underprivileged people for profit and entertainment.
The story follows the marketing manager of a small-town car dealership, played by Preston, who organizes an endurance contest in which 20 down-on-their-luck contenders compete to win a new pickup truck, and a young contestant (Cole) hoping for a better life.
The drama marks producer and Flare Film managing director Martin Heisler’s third collaboration with Günther after his debut feature, “Autopilots,” and his 2013 Sundance screener “Houston,” which was likewise set in the U.S.
“Avalanche” is produced by Heisler and Los Angeles-based co-producer Peter Veverka,...
- 11/3/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Carrie Preston, who can currently be seen on Season 2 of TNT’s Claws, has signed on to star in Avalanche, an indie drama from writer/director Bastian Gunther. Preston will play Joan Dempsey, the organizer of one of the town’s biggest annual events, the “Hands On” competition, where 20 contestants keep one hand on a new Chevy Avalanche, and the last one standing wins. As the contestants endure blazing hot Texas days and torrential downpours, tensions fray and blood boils. Peter Veverka and Martin Heisler will produce the pic which is shooting in Baton Rouge next month. Preston, who has recurred on CBS’s The Good Wife, Person Of Interest, and HBO’s True Blood, is repped by Innovative, Sanders Armstrong Caserta Management, and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman, Wertheimer.
Orange Is The New Black star Taryn Manning, Nick Stahl, and Agnes Bruckner are set to appear in the indie film, The Haunting of Nicole Brown Simpson,...
Orange Is The New Black star Taryn Manning, Nick Stahl, and Agnes Bruckner are set to appear in the indie film, The Haunting of Nicole Brown Simpson,...
- 7/31/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Foresight Unlimited and Envision Entertainment, riding high on the number one North American release of 2 Guns, will finance and produce the $30m action film.
A Good Day To Die Hard director John Moore is on board The Englishman and will direct from a screenplay by William Wisher. Foresight will handle worldwide sales.
Foresight founder and head Mark Damon [pictured] will produce alongside James Gibb, Benedict Carver, Tim Peternel and Moore. Production is set for early next year in South Africa.
The Englishman is based on the book Once A Pilgrim by former Sas officer turned mercenary Will Scully and recounts the time he rescued innocent civilians trapped inside an African hotel during a coup.
London-based Derby Street Films developed the screenplay and the company’s Nicola Horlick and Rachel Green serve as executive producers with Shaun Redick, Ray Mansfield, Ash Shah, Chris Hanley, Peter Veverka, Foresight president Tamara Birkemoe and Envision’s Stepan Martirosyan, Vitaly Grigoriants...
A Good Day To Die Hard director John Moore is on board The Englishman and will direct from a screenplay by William Wisher. Foresight will handle worldwide sales.
Foresight founder and head Mark Damon [pictured] will produce alongside James Gibb, Benedict Carver, Tim Peternel and Moore. Production is set for early next year in South Africa.
The Englishman is based on the book Once A Pilgrim by former Sas officer turned mercenary Will Scully and recounts the time he rescued innocent civilians trapped inside an African hotel during a coup.
London-based Derby Street Films developed the screenplay and the company’s Nicola Horlick and Rachel Green serve as executive producers with Shaun Redick, Ray Mansfield, Ash Shah, Chris Hanley, Peter Veverka, Foresight president Tamara Birkemoe and Envision’s Stepan Martirosyan, Vitaly Grigoriants...
- 8/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Foresight Unlimited and Envision Entertainment have come aboard to produce and finance The Englishman.
Director John Moore (A Good Day To Die Hard, Behind Enemy Lines) is attached to helm the film from a screenplay written by William Wisher (Terminator 2: Judgment Day). Foresight Unlimited will also be handling worldwide sales for the film.
Mark Damon will produce the $30M action film alongside James Gibb, Benedict Carver, Tim Peternel, and Moore.
The Englishman was developed by London-based Derby Street Films. Derby Street’s Nicola Horlick and Rachel Green are executive producing, together with Shaun Redick, Ray Mansfield, Ash Shah, Chris Hanley, Peter Veverka, and Foresight’s President, Tamara Birkemoe. Envision Entertainment’s Stepan Martirosyan, Vitaly Grigoriants, and Remington Chase will also be executive producers on the film.
Set to shoot in South Africa early next year, The Englishman is a true story based on the book “Once a Pilgrim” by Will Scully.
Director John Moore (A Good Day To Die Hard, Behind Enemy Lines) is attached to helm the film from a screenplay written by William Wisher (Terminator 2: Judgment Day). Foresight Unlimited will also be handling worldwide sales for the film.
Mark Damon will produce the $30M action film alongside James Gibb, Benedict Carver, Tim Peternel, and Moore.
The Englishman was developed by London-based Derby Street Films. Derby Street’s Nicola Horlick and Rachel Green are executive producing, together with Shaun Redick, Ray Mansfield, Ash Shah, Chris Hanley, Peter Veverka, and Foresight’s President, Tamara Birkemoe. Envision Entertainment’s Stepan Martirosyan, Vitaly Grigoriants, and Remington Chase will also be executive producers on the film.
Set to shoot in South Africa early next year, The Englishman is a true story based on the book “Once a Pilgrim” by Will Scully.
- 8/9/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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