Film Mode Entertainment’s OCCUPATION
Slays Berlin with Sales,
including North America to Saban Films
Sci-Fi Action Epic Adventure Starring DAN EWING and TEMUERA MORRISON
Makes International Screening Debut at EFM and Garners Impressive Sales
BERLIN (February 16, 2018) – Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment announces the North American sale of the sci-fi action film, OCCUPATION to Saban Films.
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The awards given out last Friday night at the Berlin International Film Festival saw the Dutch team behind Kosovo-set short film, Kiem Holijanda triumph in the Berlinale’s Generation section, the most important dedicated children’s and youth programme among the A-list festivals of the world, taking home the Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film in the section Generation 14plus.
The jury motivation for the award states:
The Crystal B...
WE WANT MORE – DIVERSITY & VISIBILITY
The 6th discussion on the status of women in the film business and gender equity on the occasion of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival focused strongly on the topics of diversity and visibility. Organised by the Dortmund | Cologne International Women’s Film Festival the round table with international experts from various backgrounds agreed on the urgent need to implement diversity standards in German film funding according to ...
The members of the Children’s Jury in Generation Kplus – Laslo Baudouin, Luise Babette Dahns, Christian Fock, Nele Heinig, Julina Matilde Jung, Namiko Kammin, Jonas Kurth, Theresa Sagebiel, Jonas Schuster, Jonas Volkers, Ella Widmoser – give the following awards:
Crystal Bear for the Best Film:
Les rois mongols (Cross My Heart)
By Luc Picard, Canada
We are particularly fond of this film because we were able to ...
PRIZE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY
BERLIN SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
The three members of the Jury, Diogo Costa Amarante, Jyoti Mistry and Mark Toscano,
appoint as Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards
Burkina Brandenburg Komplex
by Ulu Braun
PRIZES OF THE INDEPENDENT JURIES
PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Members of the Jury: Dr. theol. Inge Kirsner (Jury President), Joachim Opahle, J...
Oben v.l.n.r./top FLTR: Paz Lázaro (Leiterin Panorama) mit ShazadLatif,Timur Bekmambetov, Valene Kane und Olga Kharina.Profile. Regie/director:Timur Bekmambetov
Foto:©Brigitte Dummer / Berlinale 2018
Unten v.l.n.r./bottom FLTR: Robert Bahar und Almudena Carracedo mitModeratorin Ana David.The Silence of Others.Regie/directors: Almudena Carracedo,Robert Bahar
Foto:©Trevor Good / Berlinale 2018
The public has cast its votes: the 20th Panorama Audience Awards go to Profile by ...
The Compass-Perspektive-Award for the Best Film in the Programme Goes to Veronika Kaserer for Her Documentary Überall wo wir sind (Everywhere We Are)
On the closing night of Perspektive Deutsches Kino, the jury – consisting of filmmakers Jules Herrmann, Sung-Hyung Cho, and Sol Bondy - presented the Compass-Perspektive-Award 2018 for the best film. The prize goes to Überall wo wir sind (Everywhere We Are) by Veronika Kaserer. Endowed with 5,000 euro, this year is the se...
This evening at the closing event of Perspektive Deutsches Kino, the Kompagnon-Fellowships were awarded for the second time. Endowed with 5,000 euros each, they were given to new projects by a screenwriter and/or director from Berlinale Talents 2018, and a director from the 2017 edition of Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
With the Kom...
Berlinale 2018: Crystal Bears and the Awards by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) in Generation 14plus
The members of the Youth Jury Generation 14plus - Jascha Katjana Richer, Lilly Rinklebe, Zoe Rentmeister, Rosa Nietzsche, Robert Schlücker, Joseph Askar Schönfelder, Jonathan Auer - give the following awards:
Crystal Bear for the Best Film:
Fortuna
By Germinal Roaux, Switzerland / Belgium
Our winn...
Yesterday evening the 16th edition of Berlinale Talents came to a successful close. Gus Van Sant, Josephine Decker, Christian Petzold, Nancy Schreiber, Agnès Godard, Tom Tykwer, Mónica Lairana and Lav Diaz, amongst 120 other mentors and experts, met in cinematic dialogue with 250 Talents and several thousand Berliners, with a notable sense of honesty and openness. The talks and the Talent-dedicated formats were not only about secrets to success and career leaps, but also ...
SUPA MODO has been honored with a Special Mention for an outstanding achievement by the Children’s Jury Generation Kplus at the Generation Kplus Award Ceremony of the 68. Berlin International Film Festival. The film is an inspiring story about a young girl dreaming of becoming a Superhero. The debut feature film by Kenyan director Likarion Wainaina celebrated its world premiere at the section Generation Kplus.
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Wangdrak’s Rain Boots, directed by Lhapal Gyal, premiered on Feb. 21st at 10am Berlin local time.
Wangdrak’s Rain Boots is Lhapal Gyal’s debut feature film; alongside renowned director Pema Tseden, who executive produces. Wangdrak’s Rain Boots is selected in the Generation of 68th Berlinale, the only Chinese film in this category as well as the only Chinese candidate for Crystal Bear Award of Generation.
Wangdrak’s Rain Boots is based...
VALLADOLID INTL FILM FESTIVAL 63rd edition to run 20th - 28th OCTOBER, 2018 ) Director Javier Angulo talked to filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin during a Norwegian film reception at the famous Oxymorron restaurant... where he met legendary actor Stellan Skarsgård.
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Wes Anderson Press conference: L - R, Greta Gerwig, Bryan Cranston, Anderson and a Japanese actress.
The first all star event of the 68th Berlin Film Festival (Brrlinale) was the overpopulated press conference for the opening film, Wes Anderson's full length animation "Isle of Dogs". This was the first time I have ever seen the long press conference table full from one end to the other with overflow ~ at least one star, Tilda Swinto...
By Alex C. Deleon, Filmfestivals.com
Romy Schneider look alike Marie Bäumer at Quiberon Press Conference Watch the Video
Though this was obviously not going to be the star powered program we have become accustomed to under flamboyant festival top hat Dieter Kosslick at Berlin (no Clooneys, Decaprios, or their likes in sight this year) the competition program alone had a number of high expectation films, among them, "Three Days at Quiberon", a study of the last ...
Meet Manoj Annadurai. His first film Get Happy (a comedy) premiered at Montreal World Festival and won several prizes on the festival circuit. https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/mo...
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Bruno Chatelin (filmfestivals.com) toasting like it's pPortugal (Espinoa) with festival organizers: Filipe Pereira (FESTIVAL DIRECTOR) and Fernando Vasquez (FESTIVAL PRODUCER AND PROGRAMMER)
PARTY LIKE IT’S PORTUGAL was held with much success at Ballhaus Berlin (Chausseestr. 102 10115 Berlin) on the 20th of February.
We enjoyed the best Portuguese wine - courtesy of our partner Niepoort Vinhos. DJ NUNO LOPES brought the action to dance floor - (he is also the ...
Wai-chan is one of the last remaining fishermen in Ushimado, a small village in Seto Inland Sea, Japan. At the age of 86, he still fishes alone on a small boat to make his living, dreaming about retirement. Kumi-san is an 84-year-old villager who wanders around the shore everyday. She believes a social welfare facility “stole” her disabled son to receive subsidy from the government. A “late-stage elderly” Koso-san runs a small seafood store lef...
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YOUTH, the latest film of Chinese director Feng Xiaogang, is the biggest winner of the Award Ceremony.
Screened in the Special Presentations at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, Feng Xiaogang’s YOUTH topped the December box office in China with over $157 million (1 billion yuan), ahead of Pixar animation COCO. “Feng employs traditional craftsmanship to draw a sweeping historical canvas with profound human upheavals that mirror virtues and flaws of the Chi...
Winning a prize with a debut film can really kickstart a career, so the GWFF Best First Feature Award is a promise for the future. So let us introduce you to our 2018 Jury Jonas Carpignano, Noa Regev and Călin Peter Netzer.
The winner of the GWFF Best First Feature Award will be announced at the Closing Gala on Saturday, February 24, beginning at 7.00 pm in the Berlinale Palast. The award ceremony will also be streamed live on the Berlinale Website.
The Berlin...
Since 1978, the Berlinale has devoted a section to children and young people: Generation. In two competitions, Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus, discoveries from state of the art world-cinema and on a par with young people are presented. The most outstanding films are awarded the Crystal Bears and the Prizes of the international Juries. Every year, more than 65.000 visitors attend the screenings in five venues. The premieres of the section take place at the Ha...
Gala for the 2018 European Shooting Stars Franz Rogowski, Irakli Kvirikadze, Jonas Smulders, Matteo Simoni, Matilda De Angelis, Michaela Coel, Alba August, Reka Tenki, Luna Wedler and Eili Harboe.
EFP EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS, one of EFP's flagship programmes, has placed some of the most promising young actors from all over Europe into the limelight over the past 20 years and proven to be an essential stepping stone for launching their international careers. The most promi...
Honorary Golden Bear Gala for Willem Dafoe with the laudatio by film director Wim Wenders.
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