Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company has boarded crime drama Bad Boy, the new Hebrew-language series from Euphoria creator Ron Leshem and director Hagar Ben-Asher (Bosch, City on a Hill).
The content studio, launched last year, unveiled its “first international co-studio deal” for the series with Israel-based film and TV company Sipur (The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, Munich ’72), formerly known as Tadmor Entertainment, on Wednesday. North Road International Film & TV president Kristin Jones and Emilio Schenker, CEO of Sipur (the Hebrew word for “story”), made the announcement.
The companies are co-financing the drama alongside Israeli pay TV and telecom firm Hot and Tedy Productions, which collaborated on the original Euphoria. Principal photography began in January.
Bad Boy tells the story of Dean who was imprisoned in a cruel juvenile detention facility where he bonded with Zoro, “a grim and mysterious teenage prisoner serving time for murder,...
The content studio, launched last year, unveiled its “first international co-studio deal” for the series with Israel-based film and TV company Sipur (The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, Munich ’72), formerly known as Tadmor Entertainment, on Wednesday. North Road International Film & TV president Kristin Jones and Emilio Schenker, CEO of Sipur (the Hebrew word for “story”), made the announcement.
The companies are co-financing the drama alongside Israeli pay TV and telecom firm Hot and Tedy Productions, which collaborated on the original Euphoria. Principal photography began in January.
Bad Boy tells the story of Dean who was imprisoned in a cruel juvenile detention facility where he bonded with Zoro, “a grim and mysterious teenage prisoner serving time for murder,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: German sales outfit boards Hagar Ben-Asher film set in the days following WWII.
The Match Factory is reuniting with Israeli filmmaker Hagar Ben-Asher for her third feature film The War Has Ended.
The Cologne-based company will handle world sales on the film while managing director Michael Weber will co-produce the film through his Pola Pandora Filmproduktion outfit in Berlin alongside Poland’s Madants and Israel’s Transfax Film Productions.
Pitching the €3.5m project at this week’s Polish Days in Wroclaw, Madants’ Beata Rzezniczek said the planned Polish majority production - which received development funding from the Polish-German Fund at the beginning of 2017 - is set to begin shooting at locations in Poland from late 2018.
Set in the days following the Second World War, The War Has Ended sees a marionette puppeteer rescuing a 13-year-old girl from verge of death and subsequently teaching her the art of puppeteering. Their lives become intertwined through circumstances and the...
The Match Factory is reuniting with Israeli filmmaker Hagar Ben-Asher for her third feature film The War Has Ended.
The Cologne-based company will handle world sales on the film while managing director Michael Weber will co-produce the film through his Pola Pandora Filmproduktion outfit in Berlin alongside Poland’s Madants and Israel’s Transfax Film Productions.
Pitching the €3.5m project at this week’s Polish Days in Wroclaw, Madants’ Beata Rzezniczek said the planned Polish majority production - which received development funding from the Polish-German Fund at the beginning of 2017 - is set to begin shooting at locations in Poland from late 2018.
Set in the days following the Second World War, The War Has Ended sees a marionette puppeteer rescuing a 13-year-old girl from verge of death and subsequently teaching her the art of puppeteering. Their lives become intertwined through circumstances and the...
- 8/10/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: German sales outfit boards Hagar Ben-Asher film set in the days following WWII.
The Match Factory is reuniting with Israeli filmmaker Hagar Ben-Asher for her third feature film The War Has Ended.
The Cologne-based sales company will also serve as a co-producer on the film through its Pola Pandora Filmproduktion outfit in Berlin alongside Poland’s Madants and Israel’s Transfax Film Productions.
Pitching the €3.5m project at this week’s Polish Days in Wroclaw, Madants’ Beata Rzezniczek said the planned Polish majority production - which received development funding from the Polish-German Fund at the beginning of 2017 - is set to begin shooting at locations in Poland from late 2018.
Set in the days following the Second World War, The War Has Ended sees a marionette puppeteer rescuing a 13-year-old girl from verge of death and subsequently teaching her the art of puppeteering. Their lives become intertwined through circumstances and the belief that the war may never...
The Match Factory is reuniting with Israeli filmmaker Hagar Ben-Asher for her third feature film The War Has Ended.
The Cologne-based sales company will also serve as a co-producer on the film through its Pola Pandora Filmproduktion outfit in Berlin alongside Poland’s Madants and Israel’s Transfax Film Productions.
Pitching the €3.5m project at this week’s Polish Days in Wroclaw, Madants’ Beata Rzezniczek said the planned Polish majority production - which received development funding from the Polish-German Fund at the beginning of 2017 - is set to begin shooting at locations in Poland from late 2018.
Set in the days following the Second World War, The War Has Ended sees a marionette puppeteer rescuing a 13-year-old girl from verge of death and subsequently teaching her the art of puppeteering. Their lives become intertwined through circumstances and the belief that the war may never...
- 8/10/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Burglar
Director: Hagar Ben Asher
Writer: Hagar Ben Asher
Actress turned director Hagar Ben Asher’s first film, The Slut (2011) premiered at Cannes and went onto a rather hushed reception. She’s back with a sophomore feature, which was been backed by Eurimages with the Match Factory picking up international sales in February, 2015. We’re hoping to see the burgeoning Israeli director get a bit more traction with her latest feature which concerns young pretty Yaeli, who lives in a small town by the Dead Sea where she works as a carer for the skin diseased. Her house is a small house, with two small bedrooms. One of them belongs to her absent mother and has not been opened for a long time. Only then, brutal thieves invade the house. The door is now open, but life is impossible to live. With no primal intent, she herself becomes a burglaress.
Director: Hagar Ben Asher
Writer: Hagar Ben Asher
Actress turned director Hagar Ben Asher’s first film, The Slut (2011) premiered at Cannes and went onto a rather hushed reception. She’s back with a sophomore feature, which was been backed by Eurimages with the Match Factory picking up international sales in February, 2015. We’re hoping to see the burgeoning Israeli director get a bit more traction with her latest feature which concerns young pretty Yaeli, who lives in a small town by the Dead Sea where she works as a carer for the skin diseased. Her house is a small house, with two small bedrooms. One of them belongs to her absent mother and has not been opened for a long time. Only then, brutal thieves invade the house. The door is now open, but life is impossible to live. With no primal intent, she herself becomes a burglaress.
- 1/5/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It might be wishful thinking on our part to think that Hager Ben-Asher would somehow submit her sophomore film in January instead of holding out for the month of May. Before The Burglar (which will drop in 2016), there was the Critics’ Week Cannes Film Festival 2011 selected The Slut (see pic above) which helped make a proper name for the filmmaker. This directorial debut was indeed affiliated to the Sundance – as it was selected by the Sundance Institute for what was the 2010 Israel mini lab. Featuring newbie actress, popular Israeli model Lihi Kornowski, The Burglar was on our radar for 2015, but now we’re hopeful it’ll drop in early ’16 with stops at Rotterdam and/or Berlin as a strong possibility. While her debut was a little bit louder than a pin drop, featuring another strong female heroine, this could make a thunderous noise for her national cinema.
Gist: Lihi Kornowski...
Gist: Lihi Kornowski...
- 11/23/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Film is Rohlfilm’s second collaboration with Israeli film-maker Hagar Ben-Asher following The Slut [pictured].
The Match Factory has picked up international sales for Israeli film-maker Hagar Ben-Asher’s The Burglar, which wrapped production at the Nivre Studios in Weimar after shooting at locations by the Dead Sea in Israel
The majority production by Leipzig/Berlin-based Rohfilm stars Lihi Kornovsky as a young woman who becomes a female burglar herself after her mother’s home is broken into by brutal thieves.
The co-production with France’s Les Films du Poisson and Israel’s Cinema Group also features German actor Ronald Zehrfeld, who became known to a wider international audience in the 2012 Berlinale Competition title Barbara by Christian Petzold.
The Burglar is Rohfilm’s second collaboration with actress-director Ben-Asher after The Slut which premiered in Cannes in 2011
In addition, Rohfilm is one of the co-producers of Dutch director Sacha Polak’s drama Zurich, which will have...
The Match Factory has picked up international sales for Israeli film-maker Hagar Ben-Asher’s The Burglar, which wrapped production at the Nivre Studios in Weimar after shooting at locations by the Dead Sea in Israel
The majority production by Leipzig/Berlin-based Rohfilm stars Lihi Kornovsky as a young woman who becomes a female burglar herself after her mother’s home is broken into by brutal thieves.
The co-production with France’s Les Films du Poisson and Israel’s Cinema Group also features German actor Ronald Zehrfeld, who became known to a wider international audience in the 2012 Berlinale Competition title Barbara by Christian Petzold.
The Burglar is Rohfilm’s second collaboration with actress-director Ben-Asher after The Slut which premiered in Cannes in 2011
In addition, Rohfilm is one of the co-producers of Dutch director Sacha Polak’s drama Zurich, which will have...
- 2/6/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Burglar
Director: Hagar Ben Asher // Writer: Hagar Ben Asher
Actress turned director Hagar Ben Asher’s first film, The Slut (2011) premiered at Cannes (we were there at its Critics’ Week premiere) and went onto a rather hushed reception. She’s back with a sophomore feature, which has recently been backed by Eurimages and is in pre-production. While it’s unclear when filming begins on The Burglar, we’re hoping to see the burgeoning Israeli director get a bit more traction with her latest feature which concerns young pretty Yaeli, who lives in a small town by the dead sea where she works as a carer for the skin diseased. Her house is a small house, with two small bedrooms. One of them belongs to her absent mother and has not been opened for a long time. Only then, brutal thieves invade the house. The door is now open, but life is impossible to live.
Director: Hagar Ben Asher // Writer: Hagar Ben Asher
Actress turned director Hagar Ben Asher’s first film, The Slut (2011) premiered at Cannes (we were there at its Critics’ Week premiere) and went onto a rather hushed reception. She’s back with a sophomore feature, which has recently been backed by Eurimages and is in pre-production. While it’s unclear when filming begins on The Burglar, we’re hoping to see the burgeoning Israeli director get a bit more traction with her latest feature which concerns young pretty Yaeli, who lives in a small town by the dead sea where she works as a carer for the skin diseased. Her house is a small house, with two small bedrooms. One of them belongs to her absent mother and has not been opened for a long time. Only then, brutal thieves invade the house. The door is now open, but life is impossible to live.
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Berlin-based production house to team up with The Slut director on Deadsea.
Berlin-based production house Rohfilm is to reunited with Israeli film-maker Hagar Ben Asher (The Slut) on her next feature Deadsea which is set to shoot at locations in Israel from this autumn.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, co-managing director Benny Drechsel said that the co-production will be made with France’s Les Films du Poisson and Israel’s Cinema Group.
Drechsel and his business partner Karsten Stöter were the German co-producers on Asher’s debut feature The Slut, which had its world premiere at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2011, and they returned to this sidebar last year with Ritesh Batra’s international bestseller The Lunchbox.
Beforehand, this summer will see Rohfilm rolling principal photography on Axel Koenzen’s feature film debut Deadweight set completely on a container ship.
“Koenzen’s short films Firn and the previous Wax’n’Wane were both invited to the festival in Cannes...
Berlin-based production house Rohfilm is to reunited with Israeli film-maker Hagar Ben Asher (The Slut) on her next feature Deadsea which is set to shoot at locations in Israel from this autumn.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, co-managing director Benny Drechsel said that the co-production will be made with France’s Les Films du Poisson and Israel’s Cinema Group.
Drechsel and his business partner Karsten Stöter were the German co-producers on Asher’s debut feature The Slut, which had its world premiere at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2011, and they returned to this sidebar last year with Ritesh Batra’s international bestseller The Lunchbox.
Beforehand, this summer will see Rohfilm rolling principal photography on Axel Koenzen’s feature film debut Deadweight set completely on a container ship.
“Koenzen’s short films Firn and the previous Wax’n’Wane were both invited to the festival in Cannes...
- 5/18/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: German sales company Films Boutique has snapped up world rights to several new titles.
Here at the Cannes market, the company is unveiling Monument To Michael Jackson, which will have a closed screening for buyers.
Directed by Darko Lungulov, the bittersweet comedy is set in a dying town in Serbia, where daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life.
When an old communist-era monument is removed front he Main Square, he comes up with the idea to build a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his town and seduce his wife again. But the town’s mayor has his own plans.
During the festival, Films Boutique will also be introducing buyers to Directors’ Fornight title Next To Her, the debut feature by Asaf Korman who worked as editor on The Slut by Hagar Ben Asher. The film stars Dana Ivgy and Liron Ben-Shlush.
Based on autobiographical...
Here at the Cannes market, the company is unveiling Monument To Michael Jackson, which will have a closed screening for buyers.
Directed by Darko Lungulov, the bittersweet comedy is set in a dying town in Serbia, where daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life.
When an old communist-era monument is removed front he Main Square, he comes up with the idea to build a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his town and seduce his wife again. But the town’s mayor has his own plans.
During the festival, Films Boutique will also be introducing buyers to Directors’ Fornight title Next To Her, the debut feature by Asaf Korman who worked as editor on The Slut by Hagar Ben Asher. The film stars Dana Ivgy and Liron Ben-Shlush.
Based on autobiographical...
- 5/14/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Updated through 5/21 — with awards announcements.
As noted last week, with support from the 4+1 Film Festival, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Critics' Week with a free retrospective of some of the greatest films screened over the past 50 editions. What follows is a roundup of what the critics are saying about the films screening this year.
"Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation — created for $300 (£185) on his iMac out of old Super 8 videos and family photos — created a stir at Cannes in 2004 for its original visual language," begins Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian. "In his latest he returns to Tarnation's material: his rich but intensely difficult family life. At the heart of Walk Away Renée is a road trip he takes with his mother, Renée, from Houston to New York State, as he helps her transfer from one assisted-living facility to another. Renée, who received electric shock therapy from the age...
As noted last week, with support from the 4+1 Film Festival, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Critics' Week with a free retrospective of some of the greatest films screened over the past 50 editions. What follows is a roundup of what the critics are saying about the films screening this year.
"Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation — created for $300 (£185) on his iMac out of old Super 8 videos and family photos — created a stir at Cannes in 2004 for its original visual language," begins Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian. "In his latest he returns to Tarnation's material: his rich but intensely difficult family life. At the heart of Walk Away Renée is a road trip he takes with his mother, Renée, from Houston to New York State, as he helps her transfer from one assisted-living facility to another. Renée, who received electric shock therapy from the age...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
The 50th edition of the Cannes Critics Week announced its lineup on Monday. War is declared by French director Valerie Donzelli will be the opening film of the Critics Week. Why are you crying? by Katia Lewcowicz will be the closing film of the selection.
The Special Session will include screening of Walk Away Renee by Jonathan Caouette (Etats-Unis/France/Belgique) and My Little Princess by Eva Ionesco (France).
Founded in 1962 by the Union of French Film Critics, the Critics Week is the oldest of the Cannes festival sidebars. Each year, a panel of international critics selects around a dozen shorts and features from first and second-time filmmakers to compete in this section.
This year, the event will take place from May12-20, 2011.
The complete lineup:
Feature films
Las Acacias by Giorgelli Pablo (Argentina / Spain)
Hail by Konstantin Bojanov (Bulgaria / France)
17 girls by Delphine Coulin, Coulin Muriel (France)
Sauna on...
The Special Session will include screening of Walk Away Renee by Jonathan Caouette (Etats-Unis/France/Belgique) and My Little Princess by Eva Ionesco (France).
Founded in 1962 by the Union of French Film Critics, the Critics Week is the oldest of the Cannes festival sidebars. Each year, a panel of international critics selects around a dozen shorts and features from first and second-time filmmakers to compete in this section.
This year, the event will take place from May12-20, 2011.
The complete lineup:
Feature films
Las Acacias by Giorgelli Pablo (Argentina / Spain)
Hail by Konstantin Bojanov (Bulgaria / France)
17 girls by Delphine Coulin, Coulin Muriel (France)
Sauna on...
- 4/19/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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