As the industry arm of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the leading cinematic showcase for the Baltic nations, the five-day Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event has grown into a lynchpin for conversations about the current and future state of production in the region, bringing together leading entertainment, tech and Vc professionals.
This year will be no different, even as the coronavirus pandemic has forced organizers to shift to a virtual-only edition—something the forward-facing event was fully equipped to do from day one, according to industry head Marge Liiske.
Despite initial thoughts of mounting a hybrid edition, Liiske says the organizing team “decided to make it inclusive for everyone,” including those who couldn’t make the trip to Tallinn. “This really is an opportunity for different people to participate without borders,” she says.
The growing reach of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, which takes place Nov. 23-27, can be seen...
This year will be no different, even as the coronavirus pandemic has forced organizers to shift to a virtual-only edition—something the forward-facing event was fully equipped to do from day one, according to industry head Marge Liiske.
Despite initial thoughts of mounting a hybrid edition, Liiske says the organizing team “decided to make it inclusive for everyone,” including those who couldn’t make the trip to Tallinn. “This really is an opportunity for different people to participate without borders,” she says.
The growing reach of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, which takes place Nov. 23-27, can be seen...
- 11/11/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Venice 2020: Philipp Yuryev’s film has been crowned the champion of the jury composed of 27 European viewers, while 200 Meters bagged the Audience Award and Oasis scooped the Europa Cinemas Label. It’s Russian filmmaker Philipp Yuryev’s first work, The Whaler Boy, which has walked away with this year’s GdA Director’s Award at the 17th edition of Venice’s Giornate degli Autori. The story of the young whale hunter on the Bering Strait who falls in love with a webcam girl and dreams of escaping to America triumphed over the two other finalist films, Residue by Merawi Gerima and Conference by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy, which were selected from among the ten works competing in the Giornate section this year. “The jury felt that The Whaler Boy by Yuryev was the best cinematic effort, bringing together both the dramatic and the comic genres while maintaining a strong aesthetic vision”, reads the explanatory.
Before this year’s Venice Film Festival comes to a close with Saturday’s announcement of the official selection awards, the fest’s autonomous sections got the ball rolling Friday with their own prizes.
Coming out on top in the Venice Days program was Russian director Philipp Yuryev’s debut feature “The Whaler Boy,” an offbeat story of a teenage whale hunter on the Bering Strait, who sets out to meet the webcam model with whom he’s become obsessed.
The film received the Director’s Award — which carries a cash prize of €20,000 for Yuryev and Paris-based sales agent Loco Films — from a jury headed by Nadav Lapid, the Israeli auteur who won last year’s Berlinale Golden Bear for “Synonyms.” Unusually, the jury’s extended deliberations were live-streamed to the public. In a statement, Lapid praised Yuryev’s film for “[depicting] a world that has not yet been explored with...
Coming out on top in the Venice Days program was Russian director Philipp Yuryev’s debut feature “The Whaler Boy,” an offbeat story of a teenage whale hunter on the Bering Strait, who sets out to meet the webcam model with whom he’s become obsessed.
The film received the Director’s Award — which carries a cash prize of €20,000 for Yuryev and Paris-based sales agent Loco Films — from a jury headed by Nadav Lapid, the Israeli auteur who won last year’s Berlinale Golden Bear for “Synonyms.” Unusually, the jury’s extended deliberations were live-streamed to the public. In a statement, Lapid praised Yuryev’s film for “[depicting] a world that has not yet been explored with...
- 9/11/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The €20,000 Director’s Award was decided by jury of 27 young film enthusiasts presided over by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid.
Russian director Philipp Yuryev’s drama The Whaler Boy has won Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori’s top prize, the Director’s Award.
Shot entirely on location in the remote Bering Strait region of Chukotka in north-eastern Russia, the film revolves around a young whale hunter who becomes obsessed with a girl he encounters on a webcam site.
The film was produced by Russia filmmaker and producer Alexey Uchitel’s Rock Films as well as late filmmaker and producer Marion...
Russian director Philipp Yuryev’s drama The Whaler Boy has won Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori’s top prize, the Director’s Award.
Shot entirely on location in the remote Bering Strait region of Chukotka in north-eastern Russia, the film revolves around a young whale hunter who becomes obsessed with a girl he encounters on a webcam site.
The film was produced by Russia filmmaker and producer Alexey Uchitel’s Rock Films as well as late filmmaker and producer Marion...
- 9/11/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
This year, 831 Loews is home to the “Created in Moscow” brand, which allies 17 Russian companies. The branding is supported by the Moscow Export Center, which recognizes the contribution made by the creative industries to the Russian economy. The “Created in Moscow” lineup will be featured in a presentation on the Venice stage at the Loews building on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m.
Although Russia has many fine arthouse auteurs, at Afm buyers can find a strong selection of commercial, mainstream titles from Russia, including many genre pics and CG animated features.
Eugenia Markova, director of industry relations at Russia’s Expocontent, says: “Russia is facing year-on-year 20% sales growth on the global market. The local film industry is not only about art-house and animation – although these two are traditionally strong. Russia is producing more and more original content of all types and genres, targeting wider audiences.”
Art Pictures Studio is selling helmer Fedor Bondarchuk’s “Invasion,...
Although Russia has many fine arthouse auteurs, at Afm buyers can find a strong selection of commercial, mainstream titles from Russia, including many genre pics and CG animated features.
Eugenia Markova, director of industry relations at Russia’s Expocontent, says: “Russia is facing year-on-year 20% sales growth on the global market. The local film industry is not only about art-house and animation – although these two are traditionally strong. Russia is producing more and more original content of all types and genres, targeting wider audiences.”
Art Pictures Studio is selling helmer Fedor Bondarchuk’s “Invasion,...
- 11/8/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Like a more medically plausible version of Wade Wilson from Deadpool, the teenage antihero in Jumpman suffers from a rare genetic condition that makes him insensitive to pain. This makes him not only potentially dangerous but also eminently exploitable, as youthful Russian auteur Ivan I. Tverdovskiy suggests by using congenital analgesia as a metaphor for his homeland's current sickness under Vladimir Putin's crooked cronyism regime. Inspired by real events, this noirish thriller grew out of a marathon ongoing documentary project that Tverdovskiy is making about the Russian police.
World premiered last week at the Karlovy Vary festival, where it ...
World premiered last week at the Karlovy Vary festival, where it ...
- 7/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like a more medically plausible version of Wade Wilson from Deadpool, the teenage antihero in Jumpman suffers from a rare genetic condition that makes him insensitive to pain. This makes him not only potentially dangerous but also eminently exploitable, as youthful Russian auteur Ivan I. Tverdovskiy suggests by using congenital analgesia as a metaphor for his homeland's current sickness under Vladimir Putin's crooked cronyism regime. Inspired by real events, this noirish thriller grew out of a marathon ongoing documentary project that Tverdovskiy is making about the Russian police.
World premiered last week at the Karlovy Vary festival, where it ...
World premiered last week at the Karlovy Vary festival, where it ...
- 7/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
What would you do if you could feel no pain? Generally, movies about people with special powers turn into superhero extravaganzas but writer/director Ivan I. Tverdovskiy's Jumpman appears to be much more realistic.
Tverdovskiy's third feature stars Denis Vlasenko as Denis, a teen boy who was left in a baby box to be raised by the state. Now 16, he's broken out of a children's home by his mother who takes him into the city and tries to make up for her neglect by letting Denis do whatever he wants.
When the pair needs money, Denis takes advantage of the corrupt system by using his inability to feel pain to jump in front of cars, defrauding the insurance system and the drivers who pay him off to keep quiet.
The major drama here revolves around the fact that...
Tverdovskiy's third feature stars Denis Vlasenko as Denis, a teen boy who was left in a baby box to be raised by the state. Now 16, he's broken out of a children's home by his mother who takes him into the city and tries to make up for her neglect by letting Denis do whatever he wants.
When the pair needs money, Denis takes advantage of the corrupt system by using his inability to feel pain to jump in front of cars, defrauding the insurance system and the drivers who pay him off to keep quiet.
The major drama here revolves around the fact that...
- 7/9/2018
- QuietEarth.us
Personal stories and quests for truth dominated the Karlovy Vary film fest this year with Romanian Radu Jude taking the Crystal Globe and $25,000 for best film with his story of a director who refuses to compromise with Holocaust deniers, “’I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.’”
The film, which also won the Europa Cinemas network prize and support, employs a meta-structure historical immersion to convey a little-known chapter of WWII in which popular general Ion Antonescu led a massacre of Jews. Jury member Mark Cousins said Jude’s film “points a finger at those people who are rewriting history.”
Producer Ada Solomon, in accepting the award with Jude, dedicated it “to every true patriot who dares to speak the truth about their country.” She cited parallels in the fight for the truth about Romania’s role in Holocaust with the honesty of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov,...
The film, which also won the Europa Cinemas network prize and support, employs a meta-structure historical immersion to convey a little-known chapter of WWII in which popular general Ion Antonescu led a massacre of Jews. Jury member Mark Cousins said Jude’s film “points a finger at those people who are rewriting history.”
Producer Ada Solomon, in accepting the award with Jude, dedicated it “to every true patriot who dares to speak the truth about their country.” She cited parallels in the fight for the truth about Romania’s role in Holocaust with the honesty of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov,...
- 7/7/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians has taken the top Crystal Globe award at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Czech fest’s Special Jury Prize went to Ana Katz’s Sueño Florianópolis, and Olmo Omerzu was named best director for the film Winter Flies.
See the complete list of winners below.
As previously announced, the festival, which ran from June 29 – July 7, presented a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema to actor and director Tim Robbins, and to Rain Man director Barry Levinson.
In all, the non-specialized festival, with three competitive categories, screened 236 films, with a total of 140,135 tickets sold, according to the festival. Among the films were 143 full-length and 38 short features; 55 documentary films (including 35 full-length). World premieres totaled 35 films, with eight international premieres and seven European premieres.
The fest was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary,...
See the complete list of winners below.
As previously announced, the festival, which ran from June 29 – July 7, presented a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema to actor and director Tim Robbins, and to Rain Man director Barry Levinson.
In all, the non-specialized festival, with three competitive categories, screened 236 films, with a total of 140,135 tickets sold, according to the festival. Among the films were 143 full-length and 38 short features; 55 documentary films (including 35 full-length). World premieres totaled 35 films, with eight international premieres and seven European premieres.
The fest was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary,...
- 7/7/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Radu Jude’s latest film won the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe, whilst Robert Pattinson and Barry Levinson also collected awards.
The 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 29 - July 7) closed today with its annual awards ceremony.
Radu Jude’s latest film “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” won the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe, whilst Robert Pattinson and Barry Levinson also collected awards.
Scroll down for full list of winners
“Barbarians” was selected by grand jury comprising Mark Cousins, Zrinka Cvitešić, Marta Donzelli, Zdeněk Holý and Nanouk Leopold. The Crystal Globe comes with $25,000 prize money.
The 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 29 - July 7) closed today with its annual awards ceremony.
Radu Jude’s latest film “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” won the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe, whilst Robert Pattinson and Barry Levinson also collected awards.
Scroll down for full list of winners
“Barbarians” was selected by grand jury comprising Mark Cousins, Zrinka Cvitešić, Marta Donzelli, Zdeněk Holý and Nanouk Leopold. The Crystal Globe comes with $25,000 prize money.
- 7/7/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Radu Jude’s “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” won the Grand Prix Crystal Globe, the top jury prize at the 2018 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The international competition winner tells of an artist who reenacts a real-life ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Romanian army in 1941, this time as an artistic installation.
The movie is a coproduction of six countries, led by Romania. In 2015, Jude won Berlin’s Silver Bear for best director for his film “Aferim!”
Also Read: Belarus to Enter Oscar Race After 22 Years With Indie Gem 'Crystal Swan'
The festival at Karlovy Vary, nestled in a spa town outside Prague, Czech Republic, also awarded a special jury prize to Ana Katz’s “Sueño Florianópolis,” and awarded a best director prize to Olmo Omerzu for “Winter Flies.” Mercedes Morán (“Sueño Florianópolis”) and Moshe Folkenflik (“Redemption”) won best actress and best actor, respectively.
Vitaly Mansky’s “Putin’s Witnesses,...
The international competition winner tells of an artist who reenacts a real-life ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Romanian army in 1941, this time as an artistic installation.
The movie is a coproduction of six countries, led by Romania. In 2015, Jude won Berlin’s Silver Bear for best director for his film “Aferim!”
Also Read: Belarus to Enter Oscar Race After 22 Years With Indie Gem 'Crystal Swan'
The festival at Karlovy Vary, nestled in a spa town outside Prague, Czech Republic, also awarded a special jury prize to Ana Katz’s “Sueño Florianópolis,” and awarded a best director prize to Olmo Omerzu for “Winter Flies.” Mercedes Morán (“Sueño Florianópolis”) and Moshe Folkenflik (“Redemption”) won best actress and best actor, respectively.
Vitaly Mansky’s “Putin’s Witnesses,...
- 7/7/2018
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
"There are those who jump, and those who make others jump." This line from the film is the one line that sums up the entire story and why it's being told, and it's a meaningful statement, one that should resonate with every single person no matter where they're from. Jumpman is a Russian drama about a boy who is born with a rare disease that prevents him from feeling any pain - though everything else functions as usual. It's the latest film made by Russian filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovskiy and it's an intimate, indie drama made with an intense focus on the main character, a compelling tale of dignity and integrity and humanity. It's an impressive, captivating film that I really enjoyed, even though it's cynical and depressing, there's hope found in the heart of this young boy. The filmmaking pulls us deep into that story. Jumpman stars Denis Vlasenko as Denis,...
- 7/4/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ivan I. Tverdovskiy's third feature film, Jumpman, will have its international premiere on July 4th at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. There it will compete as an official selection in the festival. Screen Anarchy is please to share with you the trailer for his new film. Find it below. Young Oksana put Denis in a baby box when he was an infant. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children’s home, intent on making amends for her neglect. Denis, however, has no idea of the heavy price to be paid for his mother’s favour: the fragile boy has one unusual quality which Oksana has no qualms about exploiting. Upon reading the press kit from the...
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- 6/29/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Ivan I. Tverdovskiy's third feature film, Jumpman, will have its international premiere on July 4th at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. There it will compete as an official selection in the festival. Screen Anarchy is please to share with you the trailer for his new film. Find it below. Young Oksana put Denis in a baby box when he was an infant. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children’s home, intent on making amends for her neglect. Denis, however, has no idea of the heavy price to be paid for his mother’s favour: the fragile boy has one unusual quality which Oksana has no qualms about exploiting. Upon reading the press kit from the...
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- 6/29/2018
- Screen Anarchy
"Do you really feel no pain?" This looks like a must see. An official trailer has debuted for an indie film from Russia titled Jumpman, which is the third film from Russian filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovskiy (Corrections Class and Zoology). Jumpman stars Denis Vlasenko as Dennis, a boy who grew up in an orphanage and has a very rare illness - he is immune to pain. This makes him popular among other boys, who take bets on how long he can endure cruel physical games. One day his mother returns and takes him in, forcing him to become a "jumpman" - someone who jumps in front of cars to blackmail the drivers for money. "Reunited with his mother, Dennis' feels that this new life is a dream come true until one day... he starts feeling pain again." The cast includes Anna Slyu, Danil Steklov, Pavel Chinarev, and Vilma Kutavičiútë. This...
- 6/29/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Latest for Zoology director Ivan I. Tverdovskiy premieres on July 4.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Jumpman, the latest film from Zoology director Ivan I. Tverdovskiy.
The film has its international premiere on July 4 in competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival (June 29 - July 7). Tverdovskiy won the special jury prize at the festival for Zoology in 2016.
Jumpman takes in a young mother, Oksana, who puts son Denis in a baby box when he is an infant. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children’s home, intent on making amends for her neglect. She discovers Denis has...
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Jumpman, the latest film from Zoology director Ivan I. Tverdovskiy.
The film has its international premiere on July 4 in competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival (June 29 - July 7). Tverdovskiy won the special jury prize at the festival for Zoology in 2016.
Jumpman takes in a young mother, Oksana, who puts son Denis in a baby box when he is an infant. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children’s home, intent on making amends for her neglect. She discovers Denis has...
- 6/28/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Natalia Meshchaninova's Serdtse mira (Heart of the World) collected the best film prize at Russia’s main national film festival Kinotavr, which drew to a close Sunday in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi.
The drama, which centers on a veterinarian working at a remote training station for hunting dogs, was also awarded the film critics' guild prize, and its male lead Stepan Devonin received the best actor prize.
Grigory Konstantinopolsky picked up the best director's award for Russky bes (Russian Demon).
Anna Slyu was tapped as best actress for her role in Ivan I. Tverdovskiy's Podbrosy (Jumpman), while ...
The drama, which centers on a veterinarian working at a remote training station for hunting dogs, was also awarded the film critics' guild prize, and its male lead Stepan Devonin received the best actor prize.
Grigory Konstantinopolsky picked up the best director's award for Russky bes (Russian Demon).
Anna Slyu was tapped as best actress for her role in Ivan I. Tverdovskiy's Podbrosy (Jumpman), while ...
- 6/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Natalia Meshchaninova's Serdtse mira (Heart of the World) collected the best film prize at Russia’s main national film festival Kinotavr, which drew to a close Sunday in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi.
The drama, which centers on a veterinarian working at a remote training station for hunting dogs, was also awarded the film critics' guild prize, and its male lead Stepan Devonin received the best actor prize.
Grigory Konstantinopolsky picked up the best director's award for Russky bes (Russian Demon).
Anna Slyu was tapped as best actress for her role in Ivan I. Tverdovskiy's Podbrosy (Jumpman), while ...
The drama, which centers on a veterinarian working at a remote training station for hunting dogs, was also awarded the film critics' guild prize, and its male lead Stepan Devonin received the best actor prize.
Grigory Konstantinopolsky picked up the best director's award for Russky bes (Russian Demon).
Anna Slyu was tapped as best actress for her role in Ivan I. Tverdovskiy's Podbrosy (Jumpman), while ...
- 6/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Stars: Natalya Pavlenkova, Dmitriy Groshev, Irina Chipizhenko, Aleksandr Nekhoroshikh | Written and Directed by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
The sophomore directorial feature of Russian youngster Ivan I. Tverdovskiy (he debuted in 2014 with Corrections Class), Zoology is an intriguing and sad slice of magical realism.
Natasha (Natalya Pavlenkova) is an asthenic middle-aged middle-manager, working at a zoo in a Russian coastal town. She’s lonely and shy and she lives with her elderly mother (Irina Chipizhenko). Natasha also has a tail. A real tail: a full, living continuation of the spine. The locals, including Natasha’s own mother, whisper rumours of a woman who’s “sinned with an ape”; a woman with three tails; a woman of the Devil. Local folklore is rife, isolating Natasha further. She finally decides to have her tail looked at by doctors, which brings her into contact with Peter (Dmitriy Groshev), a handsome young radiologist many years her junior.
The sophomore directorial feature of Russian youngster Ivan I. Tverdovskiy (he debuted in 2014 with Corrections Class), Zoology is an intriguing and sad slice of magical realism.
Natasha (Natalya Pavlenkova) is an asthenic middle-aged middle-manager, working at a zoo in a Russian coastal town. She’s lonely and shy and she lives with her elderly mother (Irina Chipizhenko). Natasha also has a tail. A real tail: a full, living continuation of the spine. The locals, including Natasha’s own mother, whisper rumours of a woman who’s “sinned with an ape”; a woman with three tails; a woman of the Devil. Local folklore is rife, isolating Natasha further. She finally decides to have her tail looked at by doctors, which brings her into contact with Peter (Dmitriy Groshev), a handsome young radiologist many years her junior.
- 10/30/2017
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Ivan Tverdovsky’s supernatural drama scores deals for New Europe Film Sales.
Arrow Films has picked up North American and UK rights to Ivan Tverdovsky’s supernatural drama Zoology from New Europe Film Sales.
The deal was concluded shortly after the film’s North American premiere screening in at Toronto International Film Festival and ahead of its screening at this week’s Zurich Film Festival.
Zoology, which won the special jury prize at Karlovy Vary, follows a middle-aged zoo worker whose quiet life in small coastal town seems to be going nowhere until one day she undergoes a supernatural transformation.
Producers are New People Film Company (Russia), Arizona Productions (France) and Moviebrats (Germany).
Read: Karlovy Vary Q&A: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy, ‘Zoology’
Arrow plans to release the film theatrically in all three territories as part of a theatrical push into the North American market.
The expanding outfit launched Us classics/cult label Arrow Video 18 months ago and...
Arrow Films has picked up North American and UK rights to Ivan Tverdovsky’s supernatural drama Zoology from New Europe Film Sales.
The deal was concluded shortly after the film’s North American premiere screening in at Toronto International Film Festival and ahead of its screening at this week’s Zurich Film Festival.
Zoology, which won the special jury prize at Karlovy Vary, follows a middle-aged zoo worker whose quiet life in small coastal town seems to be going nowhere until one day she undergoes a supernatural transformation.
Producers are New People Film Company (Russia), Arizona Productions (France) and Moviebrats (Germany).
Read: Karlovy Vary Q&A: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy, ‘Zoology’
Arrow plans to release the film theatrically in all three territories as part of a theatrical push into the North American market.
The expanding outfit launched Us classics/cult label Arrow Video 18 months ago and...
- 9/27/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Celebrating its Us premiere today at the 2016 Fantastic Fest is Russian filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovskiy’s Zoology, a movie about one woman’s journey of self-discovery after she mysteriously sprouts a tail and must contend with all the complications that arise because of her new appendage.
Daily Dead recently had the chance to conduct a Q&A with Tverdovskiy about his sophomore effort and his excitement over Zoology being showcased during this year’s Fantastic Fest.
Congrats on Zoology being a part of this year’s Fantastic Fest. Considering you’re still an up-and-coming directorial talent, how great does it feel to have your film playing alongside so many other notable projects?
Ivan Tverdovskiy: I am very grateful that our film was invited by a North American festival. For me, it’s a kind of debut—my previous film wasn’t invited to many North American Festivals. And now, with Fantastic Fest and Tiff,...
Daily Dead recently had the chance to conduct a Q&A with Tverdovskiy about his sophomore effort and his excitement over Zoology being showcased during this year’s Fantastic Fest.
Congrats on Zoology being a part of this year’s Fantastic Fest. Considering you’re still an up-and-coming directorial talent, how great does it feel to have your film playing alongside so many other notable projects?
Ivan Tverdovskiy: I am very grateful that our film was invited by a North American festival. For me, it’s a kind of debut—my previous film wasn’t invited to many North American Festivals. And now, with Fantastic Fest and Tiff,...
- 9/22/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The winners for the 51st annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Awards were announced on Saturday night.
Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu’s “It’s Not the Time of My Life” took home the Grand Prix Crystal Globe prize and a $25,000 cash award. The helmer, who also stars in the film, was also awarded the best actor award for his role. The movie follows two families that happen to temporarily share an unusual apartment.
The Special Jury Prize and the $15,000 cash prize was given to “Zoology.” Directed by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy, the feature follows a disillusioned middle-aged woman who grows a tail and embarks on a thrilling new romance before reality catches up with her.
Read More: Karlovy Vary Review: ‘We’re Still Together’ Is A Smart And Sensitive Micro-Budget Drama
Damjan Kozole won the best director award for “Nightlife,” which tells the story of a wealthy couple that changed by a sudden accident.
Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu’s “It’s Not the Time of My Life” took home the Grand Prix Crystal Globe prize and a $25,000 cash award. The helmer, who also stars in the film, was also awarded the best actor award for his role. The movie follows two families that happen to temporarily share an unusual apartment.
The Special Jury Prize and the $15,000 cash prize was given to “Zoology.” Directed by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy, the feature follows a disillusioned middle-aged woman who grows a tail and embarks on a thrilling new romance before reality catches up with her.
Read More: Karlovy Vary Review: ‘We’re Still Together’ Is A Smart And Sensitive Micro-Budget Drama
Damjan Kozole won the best director award for “Nightlife,” which tells the story of a wealthy couple that changed by a sudden accident.
- 7/9/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Amazon Studios’ Ted Hope to reveal “vision for film”; works in progress winner to receive new award worth more than $100,000.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-9) has announced its industry programme and the projects selected for its works in progress and Eurimages Lab Project awards.
The line-up includes an in conversation event with Ted Hope, head of motion picture production at Amazon Studios, who will offer his future vision for film.
The festival will also host mark 20 years since the death of Czech filmmaker František (Frank) Daniel with a workshop, where Daniel’s teaching methods will be presented by analysing the film Some Like It Hot.
Other events will provide insight into the Czech Republic’s production benefits; panels on approaches to film education in Europe; and the 10th annual conference of Europa Distribution.
In addition, the European Parliament will unveil the 10 films nominated for the 10th Lux Film Prize; the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program...
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-9) has announced its industry programme and the projects selected for its works in progress and Eurimages Lab Project awards.
The line-up includes an in conversation event with Ted Hope, head of motion picture production at Amazon Studios, who will offer his future vision for film.
The festival will also host mark 20 years since the death of Czech filmmaker František (Frank) Daniel with a workshop, where Daniel’s teaching methods will be presented by analysing the film Some Like It Hot.
Other events will provide insight into the Czech Republic’s production benefits; panels on approaches to film education in Europe; and the 10th annual conference of Europa Distribution.
In addition, the European Parliament will unveil the 10 films nominated for the 10th Lux Film Prize; the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program...
- 6/21/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Female sniper movie marks first Russia-Ukraine co-production in years.
Epic Second World War female sniper movie Battle For Sevastopol has gone to several territories in advance of its screening in the Cannes market.
Deals now confirmed include New Select (Japan), Sonamu (South Korea), Bulgaria (Bnt) and Thailand (Digital Content Factory Co, Ltd). These sales were confirmed by Russian producer Mila Rozanova.
The film, which screened recently at the Beijing International Film Festival, is in advance negotiations with several other major territories including China, France and the UK.
Battle for Sevastopol, marked the first large-scale collaboration between Russia and Ukraine in years. It was completed in spite of deteriorating relations between the two countries last year.
The film, directed by Sergei Mokritsky, was a big hit when it was released in Russia earlier this spring, opening on 1,500 screens.
Co-producer Film UA is handling sales. Battle For Sevastopol is a Russian (New People Film Company), Ukranian (Kinorob Company...
Epic Second World War female sniper movie Battle For Sevastopol has gone to several territories in advance of its screening in the Cannes market.
Deals now confirmed include New Select (Japan), Sonamu (South Korea), Bulgaria (Bnt) and Thailand (Digital Content Factory Co, Ltd). These sales were confirmed by Russian producer Mila Rozanova.
The film, which screened recently at the Beijing International Film Festival, is in advance negotiations with several other major territories including China, France and the UK.
Battle for Sevastopol, marked the first large-scale collaboration between Russia and Ukraine in years. It was completed in spite of deteriorating relations between the two countries last year.
The film, directed by Sergei Mokritsky, was a big hit when it was released in Russia earlier this spring, opening on 1,500 screens.
Co-producer Film UA is handling sales. Battle For Sevastopol is a Russian (New People Film Company), Ukranian (Kinorob Company...
- 5/14/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Ivan Ostrochovský’s boxer drama Goat (Koza) has been named Best Film at the 20th Vilnius International Film Festival.
The film, which had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February, won the ¨New Europe - New Names¨ competition at the festival, which ran from March 19 to April 2.
The film, about a former Olympic boxer who goes on a punishing ‘tour’ to raise some fast cash, also took home the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Goat (Koza), which won the works in progress prize at last year’s Karlovy Vary, is handled internationally by fledgling sales company Pluto Film.
The ¨New Europe - New Names¨ jury, which included Chilean director Cristián Jiménez, Israeli actress Hadas Yaron, and Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, gave its award for Best Director to Ukraine’s Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for The Tribe and its acting honours to Hungary’s Márton Kristóf (Afterlife) and Bulgaria’s Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Meanwhile, the Baltic...
The film, which had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February, won the ¨New Europe - New Names¨ competition at the festival, which ran from March 19 to April 2.
The film, about a former Olympic boxer who goes on a punishing ‘tour’ to raise some fast cash, also took home the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Goat (Koza), which won the works in progress prize at last year’s Karlovy Vary, is handled internationally by fledgling sales company Pluto Film.
The ¨New Europe - New Names¨ jury, which included Chilean director Cristián Jiménez, Israeli actress Hadas Yaron, and Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, gave its award for Best Director to Ukraine’s Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for The Tribe and its acting honours to Hungary’s Márton Kristóf (Afterlife) and Bulgaria’s Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Meanwhile, the Baltic...
- 4/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
It’s hard to talk about Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s “Corrections Class” immediately after seeing it because it’s simply overwhelming, emotionally and intellectually. I walked out of the theater sort of slack-jawed and agog, unable to put the experience into words. The film has a manic, madcap energy, and an immediate, visceral and jarring audio and visual presence. This is chaotic, and in that chaos, true and unflinching moments are revealed, funny and dark and bruising and absurd. The film opens with a scene that is an accurate bellwether for the darkness that it explores. Lena (Maria Poezhaeva) is with her mother on the way to her first day at school when they are stopped at the train tracks where a boy has been hit. They try, but it's impossible to avoid the splatter of blood and bone. Lena is wheelchair-bound with a muscular disease, myopathy. She's been assigned to the Corrections class,...
- 12/12/2014
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
Mexican feature Perpetual Sadness and Israeli drama Next to Her take top prizes at Greek festival.Scroll down for full list of winners
Mexican director Jorge Perez Solorzano’s Perpetual Sadness (La Tirisia) was named best film at the 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Oct 31 - Nov 9) winning the Golden Alexander.
It beat competition from 13 other first and second films screened in this year’s international competition section.
The film deals with the stoicism and the sadness shared by women in a remote village facing the departure of their sons in search of work. World sales are handled by Media Luna.
It marks the second consecutive year that a Mexican production has won top honours at Thessaloniki. Last year, Diego Quemada-Diez’s Golden Dream (La jaula de oro) scooped the top award as well as best director.
Some 10 Mexican features have played in competition at the festival since 2000, winning cropping 12 principal awards.
Israeli feature...
Mexican director Jorge Perez Solorzano’s Perpetual Sadness (La Tirisia) was named best film at the 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Oct 31 - Nov 9) winning the Golden Alexander.
It beat competition from 13 other first and second films screened in this year’s international competition section.
The film deals with the stoicism and the sadness shared by women in a remote village facing the departure of their sons in search of work. World sales are handled by Media Luna.
It marks the second consecutive year that a Mexican production has won top honours at Thessaloniki. Last year, Diego Quemada-Diez’s Golden Dream (La jaula de oro) scooped the top award as well as best director.
Some 10 Mexican features have played in competition at the festival since 2000, winning cropping 12 principal awards.
Israeli feature...
- 11/10/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Russia big winner at FilmFestival Cottbus for second consecutive year.
Russia was the big winner for the second year in a row at the FilmFestival Cottbus with Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Corrections Class picking up four awards at the weekend.
The feature debut received the International Jury’s main prize ¨for its unsentimental and unpretentious presentation of a powerful social theme presented through the prism of an excellent ensemble performance¨, thereby qualifying for the Connecting Cottbus Special Pitch Award, which will allow Tverdovsky and his producers to pitch a new project at the East-West co-production market in a year’s time.
Tverdovsky’s Russian-German co-production, which won the Best Debut prize at Kinotavr in Sochi and the East of the West Award in Karlovy Vary, also picked up the prizes from the Fipresci and Interfilm juries in Cottbus.
Last year, the main prize at Cottbus went to Russian director Alexander Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe...
Russia was the big winner for the second year in a row at the FilmFestival Cottbus with Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Corrections Class picking up four awards at the weekend.
The feature debut received the International Jury’s main prize ¨for its unsentimental and unpretentious presentation of a powerful social theme presented through the prism of an excellent ensemble performance¨, thereby qualifying for the Connecting Cottbus Special Pitch Award, which will allow Tverdovsky and his producers to pitch a new project at the East-West co-production market in a year’s time.
Tverdovsky’s Russian-German co-production, which won the Best Debut prize at Kinotavr in Sochi and the East of the West Award in Karlovy Vary, also picked up the prizes from the Fipresci and Interfilm juries in Cottbus.
Last year, the main prize at Cottbus went to Russian director Alexander Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe...
- 11/10/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Corn Island wins Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Elle Fanning wins best actress prize.
George Ovashvili’s Corn Island, a mostly silent portrait of an old man and his granddaughter attempting to grow crops on a small patch of land in the middle of a river, has picked up the Crystal Globe at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12).
The prize, awarded on the closing night of the festival in the Czech spa town, included $25,000 to be shared between director Ovashvili and the film’s producer.
Earlier in the day, it was announced that Corn Island had won the Ecumenical Jury Award.
Gyorgy Palfi’s Free Fall, which tells the stories of characters over several floors of an apartment building, picked up several awards including the Special Jury Prize worth $15,000.
The Hungary-France-South Korea co-production also won Palfi the Best Director Award and the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the best...
George Ovashvili’s Corn Island, a mostly silent portrait of an old man and his granddaughter attempting to grow crops on a small patch of land in the middle of a river, has picked up the Crystal Globe at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12).
The prize, awarded on the closing night of the festival in the Czech spa town, included $25,000 to be shared between director Ovashvili and the film’s producer.
Earlier in the day, it was announced that Corn Island had won the Ecumenical Jury Award.
Gyorgy Palfi’s Free Fall, which tells the stories of characters over several floors of an apartment building, picked up several awards including the Special Jury Prize worth $15,000.
The Hungary-France-South Korea co-production also won Palfi the Best Director Award and the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the best...
- 7/12/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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