Eleven documentary projects from 11 countries have been selected for the Intl. Documentary Assn.’s annual Enterprise Documentary Fund Production Grant.
Selected from 371 applicants, the 15 directors behind the 11 docus will receive a total of $435,000 in production grants.
Established in 2017, the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund supports in-depth explorations of original, contemporary stories that integrate journalistic practice into the filmmaking process. The fund is financially supported by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, with additional support from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. In its seven-year history, the fund has given over $5 million in grant money to nonfiction filmmakers.
The selected projects are currently in production in 11 countries including the U.S., Philippines, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Italy and Afghanistan. Of the 15 directors behind the docs, 46% are filmmakers of color, 69% are women or gender-non-conforming filmmakers, 12% identify as members of the Lgbtqia+ community, and 8% identify as a D/deaf or disabled person or have long-term health conditions.
Selected from 371 applicants, the 15 directors behind the 11 docus will receive a total of $435,000 in production grants.
Established in 2017, the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund supports in-depth explorations of original, contemporary stories that integrate journalistic practice into the filmmaking process. The fund is financially supported by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, with additional support from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. In its seven-year history, the fund has given over $5 million in grant money to nonfiction filmmakers.
The selected projects are currently in production in 11 countries including the U.S., Philippines, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Italy and Afghanistan. Of the 15 directors behind the docs, 46% are filmmakers of color, 69% are women or gender-non-conforming filmmakers, 12% identify as members of the Lgbtqia+ community, and 8% identify as a D/deaf or disabled person or have long-term health conditions.
- 11/15/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Danish IDFA winner Phie Ambo (“Family”) will be attending Amsterdam’s major doc showcase for the 8th time with “Fire, Water, Earth, Air,” bowing at the Forum Pitch alongside 20 other projects. Ahead of their industry pitch Nov. 13, Ambo and her producer Rikke Tambo Andersen of Copenhagen-based Tambo Film, have just secured two co-producers: Mantaray Film Sweden’s Stina Gardell and leading Faroese producer Jon Hammer of Kyk.
Securing Swedish and Faroese partners was paramount for the making of Ambo’s first creative documentary conceived as a fully-fledged collaboration with filmmaking teams in Sweden, the Faroe Islands and Norway, on top of the helmer’s own Danish crew.
The four elements-focused “Fire, Water, Earth, Air” is a poetic portrait of climate change in the global North, weaving together scientific findings with stories of everyday life in the four nations, with each country representing one element.
Nature-lover Ambo, credited for the “human...
Securing Swedish and Faroese partners was paramount for the making of Ambo’s first creative documentary conceived as a fully-fledged collaboration with filmmaking teams in Sweden, the Faroe Islands and Norway, on top of the helmer’s own Danish crew.
The four elements-focused “Fire, Water, Earth, Air” is a poetic portrait of climate change in the global North, weaving together scientific findings with stories of everyday life in the four nations, with each country representing one element.
Nature-lover Ambo, credited for the “human...
- 11/9/2023
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
GÖTEBORG, Sweden — On Saturday night, audiences at the Göteborg Film Festival, the largest movie-tv event in Scandinavia, were privy to the world premiere of “The King,” a documentary by Swedish journalist Karin af Klintberg for which she was given unprecedented access to follow Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf for two years.
REinvent International Sales has taken on world rights to the film which will be released in Sweden next month. Sf Studios is co-producing and will be distributing in the Nordics.
“The King” is produced by Stina Gardell and Petra Måhl for Af Nexiko, in co-production with Sf Studios, the Swedish Film Institute and public broadcast network Svt.
It wasn’t an easy journey for af Klintberg who was told by the King’s team that, as she had spent close to two hours doing small chat with him, when she first met him, it was a yes.
She filmed for a while,...
REinvent International Sales has taken on world rights to the film which will be released in Sweden next month. Sf Studios is co-producing and will be distributing in the Nordics.
“The King” is produced by Stina Gardell and Petra Måhl for Af Nexiko, in co-production with Sf Studios, the Swedish Film Institute and public broadcast network Svt.
It wasn’t an easy journey for af Klintberg who was told by the King’s team that, as she had spent close to two hours doing small chat with him, when she first met him, it was a yes.
She filmed for a while,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
IDFA Forum runs until Wednesday (November 16) and IDFA itself continues until the weekend (November 20).
Mexico’s Niñxs and US project The Tuba Thieves from the US have won awards at IDFA Forum, IDFA’s international co-production and co-financing market for documentaries.
Niñxs from Kani Lapuerta won the IDFA Forum Award for best pitch on Tuesday night. The documentary, co-produced by Mexico’s La Sandía Digital Producción Audiovisual and Germany’s Jyoti Film and Dirk Manthey Film, is about a transgender girl on her journey to adolescence.
Jury members Gugi Gumilang, Marieke van den Bersselaar, and Natalia Libet applauded “the sincere...
Mexico’s Niñxs and US project The Tuba Thieves from the US have won awards at IDFA Forum, IDFA’s international co-production and co-financing market for documentaries.
Niñxs from Kani Lapuerta won the IDFA Forum Award for best pitch on Tuesday night. The documentary, co-produced by Mexico’s La Sandía Digital Producción Audiovisual and Germany’s Jyoti Film and Dirk Manthey Film, is about a transgender girl on her journey to adolescence.
Jury members Gugi Gumilang, Marieke van den Bersselaar, and Natalia Libet applauded “the sincere...
- 11/15/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Karin af Klintberg is directing.
Sf Studios has launched The King in Cannes - a feature documentary about Swedish monarch Carl XVI Gustaf, that will debut in cinemas in the 50th year of his reign in 2023.
The film is currently in production, directed by Karin af Klintberg; and produced by Stina Gardell and Petra Mahl for Sweden’s Af Nexiko, in co-production with Sf Studios, with backing from the Swedish Film Institute and Svt.
Sf Studios will release the film in Nordic territories in February 2023.
Klintberg has had intimate access to Gustaf in both his private and professional life; the...
Sf Studios has launched The King in Cannes - a feature documentary about Swedish monarch Carl XVI Gustaf, that will debut in cinemas in the 50th year of his reign in 2023.
The film is currently in production, directed by Karin af Klintberg; and produced by Stina Gardell and Petra Mahl for Sweden’s Af Nexiko, in co-production with Sf Studios, with backing from the Swedish Film Institute and Svt.
Sf Studios will release the film in Nordic territories in February 2023.
Klintberg has had intimate access to Gustaf in both his private and professional life; the...
- 5/21/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Karin af Klintberg is set to direct “The King,” a documentary about the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, which Sf Studios is co-producing and will be distributing in the Nordics.
Af Klintberg is the first journalist to have been granted unique access to follow the King and has been following him through his private and professional life. It’s also the first time that a documentary has been produced about a Swedish king while he is still alive.
The film is produced by Stina Gardell and Petra Måhl for Af Nexiko Ab, in co-production with Sf Studios, the Swedish Film Institute and Svt. Sf Studios handles Nordic distribution.
“The King” is set to premiere in Swedish theaters in February 2023 to mark the 50th anniversary of King Carl XVI Gustaf’s ascendance to the throne which makes him the longest-serving regent in Swedish history.
Af Klintberg started shooting the documentary film...
Af Klintberg is the first journalist to have been granted unique access to follow the King and has been following him through his private and professional life. It’s also the first time that a documentary has been produced about a Swedish king while he is still alive.
The film is produced by Stina Gardell and Petra Måhl for Af Nexiko Ab, in co-production with Sf Studios, the Swedish Film Institute and Svt. Sf Studios handles Nordic distribution.
“The King” is set to premiere in Swedish theaters in February 2023 to mark the 50th anniversary of King Carl XVI Gustaf’s ascendance to the throne which makes him the longest-serving regent in Swedish history.
Af Klintberg started shooting the documentary film...
- 5/21/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Björn Andrésen at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice
Björn Andrésen at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde and pronounced him to be “the most beautiful boy in the world”.
Andrésen in Ari Aster’s Midsommar plays a man who has reached the end of his life. In Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindström’s claustrophobic and disquieting documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World (Världens Vackraste Pojke), produced by Stina Gardell we are introduced to a man in his Sixties who is having a difficult time dealing with life.
Kristian Petri with Kristina Lindström and Anne-Katrin Titze on Björn Andrésen: “The scenes are like we are...
Björn Andrésen at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde and pronounced him to be “the most beautiful boy in the world”.
Andrésen in Ari Aster’s Midsommar plays a man who has reached the end of his life. In Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindström’s claustrophobic and disquieting documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World (Världens Vackraste Pojke), produced by Stina Gardell we are introduced to a man in his Sixties who is having a difficult time dealing with life.
Kristian Petri with Kristina Lindström and Anne-Katrin Titze on Björn Andrésen: “The scenes are like we are...
- 1/5/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindström’s claustrophobic and disquieting documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World (Världens vackraste pojke), produced by Stina Gardell, introduces us to the present-day Björn Andrésen now in his Sixties by way of his supremely filthy apartment with commentary by his then girlfriend Jessica Vennberg who may not be the best match for him or for her to get life in order.
Björn at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde, and pronounced him to be 'the most beautiful boy in the world'. Well chosen archival footage shows his supremely uncomfortable screen test in Stockholm, Björn on...
Björn at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde, and pronounced him to be 'the most beautiful boy in the world'. Well chosen archival footage shows his supremely uncomfortable screen test in Stockholm, Björn on...
- 1/4/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Isabella Rossellini has a connection to two Hamptons Doc Fest selections: Roger Sherman’s The Soul Of A Farmer and Stina Gardell’s Movie Man: “She is Stig Björkman’s very good friend over many many years.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second instalment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed Lisa Hurwitz’s The Automat; Lifetime Achievement Award honouree at the 12th edition of Doc NYC Joan Churchill and her short Shoot From The Heart with Haskell Wexler, Chris Hegedus, and Da Pennebaker; Asaf Galay’s The Adventures Of Saul Bellow; Tasha Van Zandt’s After Antarctica (recipient of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Environmental Award); Dom Aprile’s Farming Long Island; Roger Sherman’s The Soul Of A Farmer with a connection to Isabella Rossellini, who is in Stina Gardell’s Movie Man, starring Stig Björkman, director of the Opening Night film Joyce Carol Oates: A Body In...
In the second instalment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed Lisa Hurwitz’s The Automat; Lifetime Achievement Award honouree at the 12th edition of Doc NYC Joan Churchill and her short Shoot From The Heart with Haskell Wexler, Chris Hegedus, and Da Pennebaker; Asaf Galay’s The Adventures Of Saul Bellow; Tasha Van Zandt’s After Antarctica (recipient of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Environmental Award); Dom Aprile’s Farming Long Island; Roger Sherman’s The Soul Of A Farmer with a connection to Isabella Rossellini, who is in Stina Gardell’s Movie Man, starring Stig Björkman, director of the Opening Night film Joyce Carol Oates: A Body In...
- 12/4/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stig Björkman’s Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, produced by Stina Gardell, to open the Hamptons Doc Fest (pictured Joyce Carol Oates with the late Stephen Sondheim) Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the first installment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed the Hamptons Doc Fest Awards and Stina Gardell’s Movie Man star and director of the Opening Night film, Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, Stig Björkman. Dawn Porter following an introduction by Chris Hegedus will receive the Pennebaker Career Achievement Award from Lana Jokel on that evening with screenings of Bree Wayy: Promise, Witness, Remembrance and a work-in-progress excerpt of Cirque du Soleil.
Hamptons Doc Fest Artistic Director Karen Arikian with Anne-Katrin Titze on Joyce Carol Oates: “We would welcome her with open arms.”
On Saturday, Sam Pollard and Rex Miller will receive the Human Rights Award for Citizen Ashe...
In the first installment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed the Hamptons Doc Fest Awards and Stina Gardell’s Movie Man star and director of the Opening Night film, Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, Stig Björkman. Dawn Porter following an introduction by Chris Hegedus will receive the Pennebaker Career Achievement Award from Lana Jokel on that evening with screenings of Bree Wayy: Promise, Witness, Remembrance and a work-in-progress excerpt of Cirque du Soleil.
Hamptons Doc Fest Artistic Director Karen Arikian with Anne-Katrin Titze on Joyce Carol Oates: “We would welcome her with open arms.”
On Saturday, Sam Pollard and Rex Miller will receive the Human Rights Award for Citizen Ashe...
- 12/2/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” Jasmila Žbanić’s “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” and Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” are the five nominees for best film at the upcoming 34th European Film Awards, which see no clear frontrunner this year.
The more than 4,100 academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be honored at a Dec. 11 ceremony in Berlin.
And the nominees are: European Film
“Compartment No. 6,” Juho Kuosmanen
“Quo Vadis Aida?” Jasmila Žbanić
“The Father,” Florian Zeller
“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino
“Titane,” Julia Ducournau
European Comedy
“Nijababy,” Yngvild Sve Flikke
“The Morning After,” Méliane Marcaggi
“The People Upstairs,” Cesc Gay
European Documentary
“Babi Yar. Context,” Sergei Loznitsa
“Flee,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen
“Mr Bachman and his Class,” Maria Speth
“Taming The Garden,” Salomé Jashi
“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World,” Stina Gardell
European Animated Feature Film
“Even Mice Belong in Heaven,...
The more than 4,100 academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be honored at a Dec. 11 ceremony in Berlin.
And the nominees are: European Film
“Compartment No. 6,” Juho Kuosmanen
“Quo Vadis Aida?” Jasmila Žbanić
“The Father,” Florian Zeller
“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino
“Titane,” Julia Ducournau
European Comedy
“Nijababy,” Yngvild Sve Flikke
“The Morning After,” Méliane Marcaggi
“The People Upstairs,” Cesc Gay
European Documentary
“Babi Yar. Context,” Sergei Loznitsa
“Flee,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen
“Mr Bachman and his Class,” Maria Speth
“Taming The Garden,” Salomé Jashi
“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World,” Stina Gardell
European Animated Feature Film
“Even Mice Belong in Heaven,...
- 11/9/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Documentary “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World,” about the teenage actor in Luchino Visconti’s “Death in Venice,” has been sold to numerous territories by Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique.
The Swedish film, directed by Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, premiered in Sundance in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. It receives an online market screening at Cannes’ Marché du Film on Tuesday at 9.30 A.M.
The film will be distributed in the following territories: Japan (Gaga), U.K. (Dogwoof), Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Korea (Watcha), BeNeLux (Amstel), Spain (Filmin), Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Missing Films), Italy (Just Wanted), Greece (Carousel), China (Moviezone), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), Denmark (Film Bazar), Norway (Another World), Poland (Against Gravity), Ex-Yugoslavia (Five Stars) and Israel (Lev Cinema).
The Swedish distributor is TriArt, which will release the film on Oct. 15. Juno has the North American rights, and will release Sept. 24.
The documentary...
The Swedish film, directed by Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, premiered in Sundance in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. It receives an online market screening at Cannes’ Marché du Film on Tuesday at 9.30 A.M.
The film will be distributed in the following territories: Japan (Gaga), U.K. (Dogwoof), Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Korea (Watcha), BeNeLux (Amstel), Spain (Filmin), Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Missing Films), Italy (Just Wanted), Greece (Carousel), China (Moviezone), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), Denmark (Film Bazar), Norway (Another World), Poland (Against Gravity), Ex-Yugoslavia (Five Stars) and Israel (Lev Cinema).
The Swedish distributor is TriArt, which will release the film on Oct. 15. Juno has the North American rights, and will release Sept. 24.
The documentary...
- 7/5/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Sundance Film Festival: London has revealed that “Zola” and “Coda” will be among the 2021 lineup, when the festival returns to Picturehouse Central next month.
“Coda” — an acronym meaning “Child of Deaf Adults” — features Marlee Matlin (“The West Wing”) and 19-year-old Emilia Jones (“Locke & Key”) navigating their relationship, while “Zola” is based on a 148-tweet viral Twitter thread from 2015 by Aziah “Zola” Wells. It stars Taylor Paige (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”) and Riley Keough (“Max Max: Fury Road”) and will close the 4-day festival.
Edgar Wright’s rockumentary “The Sparks Brothers,” described as a “musical odyssey,” opens the festival on July 29.
Other feature film offerings, which have been selected from the longer line-up shown at the Sundance Film Festival, include “The Nest,” starring Jude Law (“Sherlock Holmes”), animation “Cryptozoo,” which features Lake Bell (“BoJack Horseman”) and Michael Cera (“Arrested Development”), and documentary “Writing With Fire,” about a female-run Indian newspaper, which...
“Coda” — an acronym meaning “Child of Deaf Adults” — features Marlee Matlin (“The West Wing”) and 19-year-old Emilia Jones (“Locke & Key”) navigating their relationship, while “Zola” is based on a 148-tweet viral Twitter thread from 2015 by Aziah “Zola” Wells. It stars Taylor Paige (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”) and Riley Keough (“Max Max: Fury Road”) and will close the 4-day festival.
Edgar Wright’s rockumentary “The Sparks Brothers,” described as a “musical odyssey,” opens the festival on July 29.
Other feature film offerings, which have been selected from the longer line-up shown at the Sundance Film Festival, include “The Nest,” starring Jude Law (“Sherlock Holmes”), animation “Cryptozoo,” which features Lake Bell (“BoJack Horseman”) and Michael Cera (“Arrested Development”), and documentary “Writing With Fire,” about a female-run Indian newspaper, which...
- 6/2/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Katrina Lindstrom, Kristian Petri directed the World Cinema Documentary selection.
Berlin-based Films Boutique has licensed UK rights on Sundance documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World to Dogwoof.
Films Boutique head of sales Julien Razafindranaly negotiated the deal with Dogwoof head of distribution and acquisitions Oli Harbottle.
Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri directed the World Cinema Documentary selection that premiered last week and explores the life of Bjorn Andresen, the child star of Death In Venice dubbed “the most beautiful boy in the world” by director Luchino Visconti.
‘The Most Beautiful Boy In The World’: Sundance Review
Andresen...
Berlin-based Films Boutique has licensed UK rights on Sundance documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World to Dogwoof.
Films Boutique head of sales Julien Razafindranaly negotiated the deal with Dogwoof head of distribution and acquisitions Oli Harbottle.
Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri directed the World Cinema Documentary selection that premiered last week and explores the life of Bjorn Andresen, the child star of Death In Venice dubbed “the most beautiful boy in the world” by director Luchino Visconti.
‘The Most Beautiful Boy In The World’: Sundance Review
Andresen...
- 2/3/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Juno Films has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” ahead of its world premiere at this month’s Sundance Film Festival.
The film will be of particular interest to cinephiles, as it tells the story of Björn Andrésen, who became internationally recognizable at the age of fifteen with a key role in Luchino Visconti’s “Death in Venice.” His star turn opposite Dirk Bogarde was something of a double-edged sword — it made him famous and plunged him into a world of the rich and powerful, but it also left psychological baggage. Visconti picked Andrésen because, in the director’s estimation, he was “The world’s most beautiful boy.” And he shot him in ways that highlighted his looks — a decision that has not necessarily aged well.
Andrésen suggested that Visconti’s style bordered on exploitation of a minor. In a 2003 interview with The Guardian,...
The film will be of particular interest to cinephiles, as it tells the story of Björn Andrésen, who became internationally recognizable at the age of fifteen with a key role in Luchino Visconti’s “Death in Venice.” His star turn opposite Dirk Bogarde was something of a double-edged sword — it made him famous and plunged him into a world of the rich and powerful, but it also left psychological baggage. Visconti picked Andrésen because, in the director’s estimation, he was “The world’s most beautiful boy.” And he shot him in ways that highlighted his looks — a decision that has not necessarily aged well.
Andrésen suggested that Visconti’s style bordered on exploitation of a minor. In a 2003 interview with The Guardian,...
- 1/18/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Juno Films has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to the documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, the Kristina Lindstom and Kristian Petri film set to premiere in the World Documentary Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Produced by Stina Gardell’s Stockholm-based Mantaray Film, the film follows former child star Björn Andrésen who played Tadzio in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. Juno Films will release the film in theaters in May 2021.
The new film follows Andrésen, who was thrust to international stardom at the age of fifteen based on his iconic looks, as he wistfully reflects on his stardom. In 1969, Visconti traveled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in the film, and a year later discovered Andrésen, a shy Swedish teenager whom he brought to international fame overnight and led to spend a...
Produced by Stina Gardell’s Stockholm-based Mantaray Film, the film follows former child star Björn Andrésen who played Tadzio in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. Juno Films will release the film in theaters in May 2021.
The new film follows Andrésen, who was thrust to international stardom at the age of fifteen based on his iconic looks, as he wistfully reflects on his stardom. In 1969, Visconti traveled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in the film, and a year later discovered Andrésen, a shy Swedish teenager whom he brought to international fame overnight and led to spend a...
- 1/18/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Juno Films has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World,” a documentary about Swedish child star Bjorn Andresen, ahead of its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” is playing in the World Documentary Competition at this year’s Sundance, and Juno Films will release the movie in theaters this May.
Bjorn Andresen was a Swedish teen who was thrust into international stardom at the age of 15 thanks to his impeccable good looks. Director Luchino Visconti scoured Europe looking for someone who could personify absolute beauty in the film adaptation of Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice” and discovered Andresen, a shy teen who soon was shuttled through Venice, London, Cannes and Japan and was declared by Visconti to be “the world’s most beautiful boy.”
The documentary picks up with Andresen (American audiences might recognize...
“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” is playing in the World Documentary Competition at this year’s Sundance, and Juno Films will release the movie in theaters this May.
Bjorn Andresen was a Swedish teen who was thrust into international stardom at the age of 15 thanks to his impeccable good looks. Director Luchino Visconti scoured Europe looking for someone who could personify absolute beauty in the film adaptation of Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice” and discovered Andresen, a shy teen who soon was shuttled through Venice, London, Cannes and Japan and was declared by Visconti to be “the world’s most beautiful boy.”
The documentary picks up with Andresen (American audiences might recognize...
- 1/18/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Films Boutique represents world sales.
Juno Films has acquired North American rights to The Most Beautiful Boy In The World, the upcoming Sundance 2021 world premiere that documents the life of the Swedish child star of Luchino Visconti’s 1971 drama Death In Venice.
Kristina Lindstom and Kristian Petri directed the documentary, which catches up with Björn Andrésen decades after he was plucked from obscurity by Visconti, who described him at the world premiere of Death In Venice as “the most beautiful boy in the world”.
Fifteen-year-old Andrésen became a figure of fascination, even attaining cult status in Japan for his role...
Juno Films has acquired North American rights to The Most Beautiful Boy In The World, the upcoming Sundance 2021 world premiere that documents the life of the Swedish child star of Luchino Visconti’s 1971 drama Death In Venice.
Kristina Lindstom and Kristian Petri directed the documentary, which catches up with Björn Andrésen decades after he was plucked from obscurity by Visconti, who described him at the world premiere of Death In Venice as “the most beautiful boy in the world”.
Fifteen-year-old Andrésen became a figure of fascination, even attaining cult status in Japan for his role...
- 1/18/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Juno Films has picked up the North American rights to the documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World ahead of its world premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.
The film, to bow as part of the World Documentary Competition on Jan. 29, is directed by Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri and produced by Stina Gardell’s Stockholm-based Mantaray Film.
The Sundance doc portrays former child star Bjorn Andresen, whose life changed when at 15 years old he played Tadzio, the young boy for whom Dirk Bogarde develops an obsession in the 1971 movie Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti. The Italian director ...
The film, to bow as part of the World Documentary Competition on Jan. 29, is directed by Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri and produced by Stina Gardell’s Stockholm-based Mantaray Film.
The Sundance doc portrays former child star Bjorn Andresen, whose life changed when at 15 years old he played Tadzio, the young boy for whom Dirk Bogarde develops an obsession in the 1971 movie Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti. The Italian director ...
- 1/18/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Juno Films has picked up the North American rights to the documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World ahead of its world premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.
The film, to bow as part of the World Documentary Competition on Jan. 29, is directed by Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri and produced by Stina Gardell’s Stockholm-based Mantaray Film.
The Sundance doc portrays former child star Bjorn Andresen, whose life changed when at 15 years old he played Tadzio, the young boy for whom Dirk Bogarde develops an obsession in the 1971 movie Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti. The Italian director ...
The film, to bow as part of the World Documentary Competition on Jan. 29, is directed by Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri and produced by Stina Gardell’s Stockholm-based Mantaray Film.
The Sundance doc portrays former child star Bjorn Andresen, whose life changed when at 15 years old he played Tadzio, the young boy for whom Dirk Bogarde develops an obsession in the 1971 movie Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti. The Italian director ...
- 1/18/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The film is about the shy teenager who starred in Luchino Visconti’s ’Death In Venice’ in 1971.
Berlin-based Films Boutique has picked up world rights to Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri’s Swedish documentaryThe Most Beautiful Boy In The World, which is set to premiere at Sundance 2021.
Produced by Stina Gardell’s Stockholm-based Mantaray Film, the film will compete in the World Cinema Documentary section.
It is about Björn Andrésen, the Swedish teenager plucked from obscurity by legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti to star opposite Dirk Bogarde in Death In Venice in 1971. For Visconti, Andrésen was “the world’s most beautiful boy.
Berlin-based Films Boutique has picked up world rights to Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri’s Swedish documentaryThe Most Beautiful Boy In The World, which is set to premiere at Sundance 2021.
Produced by Stina Gardell’s Stockholm-based Mantaray Film, the film will compete in the World Cinema Documentary section.
It is about Björn Andrésen, the Swedish teenager plucked from obscurity by legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti to star opposite Dirk Bogarde in Death In Venice in 1971. For Visconti, Andrésen was “the world’s most beautiful boy.
- 12/17/2020
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Pitching forum moved online in the wake of coronavirus concerns.
Participants in the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s first live-stream pitching session have praised the initiative but said it cannot replace face-to-face events.
The Greek festival moved the one-day pitching forum of its annual Agora Doc Market to an online streaming format this week, in the wake of concerns over coronavirus and shortly after its 22nd edition was postponed.
Some 12 documentary film projects took part in Monday’s Thessaloniki Pitching Forum, which saw 40 producers, directors, commissioning editors, festival programmers and other industry professionals dial in from 16 countries. Organisers said it was...
Participants in the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s first live-stream pitching session have praised the initiative but said it cannot replace face-to-face events.
The Greek festival moved the one-day pitching forum of its annual Agora Doc Market to an online streaming format this week, in the wake of concerns over coronavirus and shortly after its 22nd edition was postponed.
Some 12 documentary film projects took part in Monday’s Thessaloniki Pitching Forum, which saw 40 producers, directors, commissioning editors, festival programmers and other industry professionals dial in from 16 countries. Organisers said it was...
- 3/11/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
It should come as no surprise that Cannes Film Festival will play host to Kent Jones’s doc on the touchstone of filmmaking interview tomes, Hitchcock/Truffaut (see photo above). The film has been floating near the top of this list since it was announced last year as in development, while Jones himself has a history with the festival, having co-written both Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. and Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy, both of which premiered in Cannes. The film is scheduled to screen as part of the Cannes Classics sidebar alongside the likes of Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words, which will play as part of the festival’s tribute to the late starlet, and Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna’s Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (see trailer below). As someone who grew up watching road races with my dad in Watkins Glen,...
- 5/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Section to also include celebrations of Ingrid Bergman and Orson Welles as well as screenings of The Terminator and Jurassic Park 3D.
Costa-Gavras has been named guest of honour at this year’s Cannes Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
The Greek-French film director and producer won the Palme d’or with Missing in 1982, was member of the jury in 1976 that crowned Taxi Driver and picked up the award for best director with Section spéciale in 1975.
The filmmaker will be present for a screening of Z, which won the jury prize in 1969, and has had the original negative scanned in 4k and restored frame by frame in 2K, supervised by Costa-Gavras.
Orson Welles
Marking 100 years since the birth of Orson Welles, Cannes will screen restorations of films from the legendary Us actor, director, writer and producer, who died in 1985.
The titles include his staggering debut Citizen Kane (1941), which has received a 4k restoration completed...
Costa-Gavras has been named guest of honour at this year’s Cannes Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
The Greek-French film director and producer won the Palme d’or with Missing in 1982, was member of the jury in 1976 that crowned Taxi Driver and picked up the award for best director with Section spéciale in 1975.
The filmmaker will be present for a screening of Z, which won the jury prize in 1969, and has had the original negative scanned in 4k and restored frame by frame in 2K, supervised by Costa-Gavras.
Orson Welles
Marking 100 years since the birth of Orson Welles, Cannes will screen restorations of films from the legendary Us actor, director, writer and producer, who died in 1985.
The titles include his staggering debut Citizen Kane (1941), which has received a 4k restoration completed...
- 4/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A Royal Affair, Ex Machina star to voice documentary set for Cannes Film Festival.
Fast rising Swedish actress Alicia Vikander is to be the “voice” of legendary star Ingrid Bergman in Stig Björkman’s documentary Ingrid Bergman - In her Own Words.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, Björkman described Vikander as “the Bergman of today”.
The film, sold by TrustNordisk, receives its world premiere at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in mid-May prior to its Swedish release on August 28 - the day before the centenary of Ingrid Bergman’s birth. Cannes will also commemorate the centenary by featuring the late Casablanca star on its poster.
Vikander (A Royal Affair, Testament Of Youth) was apparently eager to join the film.
Björkman has unearthed unique personal records of Bergman - including home movies, films of her as a child, diary entries and many letters.
“I’ve met Alicia a couple of times over the years and I like her very much...
Fast rising Swedish actress Alicia Vikander is to be the “voice” of legendary star Ingrid Bergman in Stig Björkman’s documentary Ingrid Bergman - In her Own Words.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, Björkman described Vikander as “the Bergman of today”.
The film, sold by TrustNordisk, receives its world premiere at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in mid-May prior to its Swedish release on August 28 - the day before the centenary of Ingrid Bergman’s birth. Cannes will also commemorate the centenary by featuring the late Casablanca star on its poster.
Vikander (A Royal Affair, Testament Of Youth) was apparently eager to join the film.
Björkman has unearthed unique personal records of Bergman - including home movies, films of her as a child, diary entries and many letters.
“I’ve met Alicia a couple of times over the years and I like her very much...
- 3/30/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Short promo to be presented at Berlin’s European Film Market.
TrustNordisk has picked up the international sales rights for the upcoming Swedish documentary Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words and will present a short promo for the film at the upcoming Efm (Feb 5-13).
Bergman was one of the most famous actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age with performances in classic films such as Casablanca (1942), Gaslight (1944) and Notorious (1946).
Through never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews with her children and former colleagues, the documentary, which is currently in post-production, presents a personal portrait and look behind the scenes of the life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American cinema.
The film is directed by Stig Björkman and produced by Stina Gardell for Mantaray Film, co-produced by Zdf, Svt, Ntr, Yle, Jonas Gardell Produktion, Spellbound Ab and Örebro Invest through Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen and Chimney Pot Ab with...
TrustNordisk has picked up the international sales rights for the upcoming Swedish documentary Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words and will present a short promo for the film at the upcoming Efm (Feb 5-13).
Bergman was one of the most famous actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age with performances in classic films such as Casablanca (1942), Gaslight (1944) and Notorious (1946).
Through never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews with her children and former colleagues, the documentary, which is currently in post-production, presents a personal portrait and look behind the scenes of the life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American cinema.
The film is directed by Stig Björkman and produced by Stina Gardell for Mantaray Film, co-produced by Zdf, Svt, Ntr, Yle, Jonas Gardell Produktion, Spellbound Ab and Örebro Invest through Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen and Chimney Pot Ab with...
- 2/3/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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