A total of 46 films and 27 series will be showcased at the online-only event.
Lukas Dhont’s second feature Close and Olga Lucovnicova’s Last Letters From My Grandma are among the 46 feature and 27 series projects to be showcased at Re>Connext, the annual showcase for films and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels, Belgium.
Close is filmmaker Dhont’s follow-up to Girl, which won the Camera d’Or following its premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2018. Last year, the project was pitched at Re>Connext under the title The Invisible.
For this edition, drama Close returns as a work in progress,...
Lukas Dhont’s second feature Close and Olga Lucovnicova’s Last Letters From My Grandma are among the 46 feature and 27 series projects to be showcased at Re>Connext, the annual showcase for films and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels, Belgium.
Close is filmmaker Dhont’s follow-up to Girl, which won the Camera d’Or following its premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2018. Last year, the project was pitched at Re>Connext under the title The Invisible.
For this edition, drama Close returns as a work in progress,...
- 9/27/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The temporary aid scheme aims to benefit indigenous features when cinemas reopen.
The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Vaf) has unveiled a temporary aid scheme, which aims to support the distribution of local productions after the Covid-19 lockdown is lifted.
The €325,000 fund is aimed at non-subsidised distributors and will focus on indigenous feature films that went into production after June 30, 2019 and received Vaf support.
The goal is to increase the visibility of these local films in a market that is expected to be highly competitive when cinemas reopen, and an emphasis will be placed on innovative marketing campaigns.
A further objective will...
The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Vaf) has unveiled a temporary aid scheme, which aims to support the distribution of local productions after the Covid-19 lockdown is lifted.
The €325,000 fund is aimed at non-subsidised distributors and will focus on indigenous feature films that went into production after June 30, 2019 and received Vaf support.
The goal is to increase the visibility of these local films in a market that is expected to be highly competitive when cinemas reopen, and an emphasis will be placed on innovative marketing campaigns.
A further objective will...
- 5/8/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Conference speakers to include Rikke Ennis, Philip Knatchbull and Walter Iuzzolino.
The Broken Circle Breakdown and Tabula Rasa actress Veerle Baetens will pitch her directorial debut, The Melting, at the fourth edition of Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase CONNeXT (October 6-9).
The Melting is adapted from Lize Spit’s novel about a woman looking back on one pivotal summer with the two boys who were her best friends in the small Flemish town of Bovenmeer.
CONNeXT invites international experts to Ghent to preview or screen features and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels. In past years,...
The Broken Circle Breakdown and Tabula Rasa actress Veerle Baetens will pitch her directorial debut, The Melting, at the fourth edition of Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase CONNeXT (October 6-9).
The Melting is adapted from Lize Spit’s novel about a woman looking back on one pivotal summer with the two boys who were her best friends in the small Flemish town of Bovenmeer.
CONNeXT invites international experts to Ghent to preview or screen features and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels. In past years,...
- 9/16/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Connext pitches for new Flemish films also include cycling drama and plastic surgery-themed horror.
Johan Heldenbergh, best known from Belgian hit The Broken Circle Breakdown, will lead the cast of My Dad Is A Sausage, a family drama pitched today at Flanders Image’s Connext event in Ghent.
Anouk Fortunier will direct what she calls a “buddy movie with a father and daughter”; Heldenbergh plays a father who is depressed in his job as a banker and decides to leave that career to become an actor. His wife, a CEO, is concerned about his plans, but his 11-year-old-daughter Zoe realises...
Johan Heldenbergh, best known from Belgian hit The Broken Circle Breakdown, will lead the cast of My Dad Is A Sausage, a family drama pitched today at Flanders Image’s Connext event in Ghent.
Anouk Fortunier will direct what she calls a “buddy movie with a father and daughter”; Heldenbergh plays a father who is depressed in his job as a banker and decides to leave that career to become an actor. His wife, a CEO, is concerned about his plans, but his 11-year-old-daughter Zoe realises...
- 10/8/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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