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Scott Eastwood (The Fate of the Furious, The Longest Ride) has joined Academy Award® Winner Morgan Freeman in The Manuscript, with Nick Cassavetes (The Other Woman, The Notebook) set to direct the script by Louis Rosenberg and Joe Rosenbaum. Also joining the production is Rob Paris via his eponymous shingle Paris Film, Inc. The company will produce alongside Mike Witherill (John Wick) and Mark Williams (The Accountant). Highland Film Group is handling international sales and will con...
BLOOM announced today that Golden Globe® Winner Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator, The Expendables) will join Academy Award® Nominee Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class, Alien: Covenant, Steve Jobs) and David Hasselhoff (“Baywatch”, “Knight Rider”) in David Sandberg’s action-comedy Kung Fury, which Sandberg will also star in and produce under his Laser Unicorns’ banner, alongside Fassbender. David Katzenberg, Seth Grahame-Smith and Aaron Schmidt wil...
20/28 April 2018 – Udine – Teatro Nuovo & Visionario
FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL 20
Asian cinema icon
BRIGITTE LIN CHING HSIA
in Udine for the official opening of FEFF 20!
Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia to receive the
Golden Mulberry Lifetime Achievement Award and
Far East Film to set up a specialdedicated retrospective
– the restored version of Cloud of Romance,
European Premiere, among the titles.
Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche opted to...
Crossing Borders, a joint training program by Documentary Campus and the European Documentary Network, appoints Chris Humphrey, Director of Production, A+E NETWORKS ASIA (Singapore), as new Head of Studies for Crossing Borders. Steven Seidenberg, Head of International Coproduction, LIC (China), ends his 7-year tenure as Head of Studies for Crossing Borders in February 2018.
The Executive Board of Documentary Campus, a European initiative that provides advanced training to documentar...
IMR INTERNATIONAL TO LAUNCH WORLDWIDE SALES IN BERLIN
MadRiver Pictures announced today that Academy Award® nominee Michael Keaton (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Spotlight) is in negotiations to star in Academy Award® winner David Frankel’s (The Devil Wears Prada, Collateral Beauty) true-life biographical drama, What Is Life Worth. Additional casting is currently underway. Academy Award® winning producer Michael Sugar (Spotlight) will p...
A Tribute to Bertolucci Will Be Included in the 13th Edition of the LA, Italia Fest
LOS ANGELES, January 25 – Thirty years after its triumphant nine-Oscar romp, Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor” will be back in Hollywood for a special screening as part of the 13th edition of the Los Angeles, Italia – Film Fashion and Art Fest. The 2018 festival will take place the week preceding the Oscars (February 25-March 2) at the Chinese Six Theatr...
In order of appearance:
Jeff Bridges
Actor, Artist, Producer, Humanitarian
Dr. Piers Sellers
Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA, Meteorologist and Astronaut
(IN MEMORIAM)
Wesley Clark
General, US Army (ret.), former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
Oren Lyons
Environmental activist and Professor of American Studies
Dr. Timothy Morton
Philosopher and Author,’Humankind’ ...
Academy Award Winner Jeff Bridges and Director Susan Kucera collaborated to bring Living in the Future’s Past to the screen. Susan is director, cinematographer and editor of the film which is also, produced, narrated by and features Jeff Bridges.
Jim Swift is the executive producer who set the project in motion and whose support and passion for the subjects are reflected in the film.
Music composers + soundMusic composers + sound engineers engineers
...
Sales Agent and Producer Carlos Rincon has been working world markets for a decade, having started his career with international sales and distribution company Spotlight Pictures, where he worked on dozens of film titles including James Franco's films 'Sal' (2011) and 'Child of God' (2013). He now works for Premiere Entertainment Group as VP of Development & Acquisitions (Executive); the company has been in business for 15 years and has ...
Meg Thomson is VP of Worldwide Content for Globalgate Entertainment, a division of distribution company Lionsgate. With offices in the US and London, Globalgate specializes in the co-financing (through its Globalgate Fund), production and international distribution for local-language films within their home territories.
I recently interviewed Meg about her experience, position and the company.
Before your current position with Globalgate Entertainment, you were a film ...
Closing the Gap: A seminar with creatives and financiers
on how to take action towards 50/50 by 2020.
WIFT Germany, WIFT Nordic and the Swedish Film Institute
host a seminar on elevating quality through gender equality
with the support of the 68th Berlinale.
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) was the first public film financing body to achieve its stated intent of gender parity in public film funding. This seminar combines the forces of WIFT Germany and WIFT Nordic...
Italian-American actress Maria Bello has been selected by the Board of the Capri in the World Institute to chair the 13th Annual Los Angeles, Italia – Film, Fashion and Art Fest, which runs February 25th to March 3rd. The 2018 Festival comes to Hollywood on the eve of the Oscars, with a star-studded array of Italian, Italian-American and international artists all scheduled to participate in the week-long pre-Academy Awards celebration showcasing the best of Italian culture and will ...
The 33rd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) had its biggest day yet on Saturday, playing host to the Producers Panel, Writers Panel, and Virtuosos Awards honoring Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Hong Chau (Downsizing), John Boyega (Detroit), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), and Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name).
The Lobero Theater served as a major attraction to festival attendees early in the day as it hosted both the Produ...
PRODUCER’S PANEL 10 AM
Saturday, Feb. 3
10 a.m. – 12 noon
Lobero Theatre presented by Mirai
Panelists: Peter Spears (Call Me By Your Name), Lisa Bruce (Darkest Hour), Emma Thomas (Dunkirk), Sean McKittrick (Get Out), Evelyn O’Neill (Lady Bird), Daniel Lupi (Phantom Thread), J. Miles Dale (The Shape of Water), and Graham Broadbent (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Moderator: Glenn Whipp
The Producers Panel brings together some of today&rsq...
Thessa Mooij (director of communications) and Simone Cassas (director of creative services).
Photo credit: Jill Wachter for SingularDTV
SingularDTV, the blockchain entertainment studio, rounds out its marketing team with Thessa Mooij as Director of Communications and Simone Cassas as Director of Creative Services. Both work out of the company's New York office and report to Senior VP of Marketing Oliver Mahrdt (formerly North American represe...
Ever since its foundation in 1951, the exploration of the multivoicedness and diversity of society has been a defining element of the Berlin International Film Festival’s identity. Art and culture always engage themselves in both contemporary aesthetic and social issues - a phenomenon reflected in the film programmes of the different sections and in the initiatives of the Berlinale each year.
As an international cultural event, we are a forum where questions and ideas are heard an...
Since the award’s inception in 1986, the Berlin International Film Festival has been honouring individuals and institutions from the world of film that the festival feels particularly connected to with the Berlinale Camera, as a token of gratitude for their contributions to cinema.
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Adele Romanski, Foto: © James Laxton; Tom Tykwer, Foto: © Joachim Gern; Stephanie Zacharek
Chema Prado, Foto: © Chema Prado; Cécile de France, Foto: © Ben Dauchez; Ryūichi Sakamoto, Foto: © nss (zakkubalan)
Once again a multitalented International Jury will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale 2018. 19 films are competing for the awards in this year’s Competition. The winners will be announced at the Berlinal...
We are happy to present to you the jury of the 32nd TEDDY AWARD, which will be awarded on February 23rd in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Seven renowned filmmakers and festival organisers will choose the laureates from the queer films of the Berlinale in the categories Best Feature Film, Best Documentary/Essay Film and Best Short Film. Furthermore, they will award the TEDDY Jury Award.
Natascha Frankenberg is the programmer of begehrt!, the queer film section of the International Women&rsquo...
Godard, Sargnagel, Arslan, Bonnefoy, Löbau, Bekolo, Szymanski, Meilicke, Nazzaro, Angerer, Seibel, Mendonça Filho, Knörer: The Who’s Who of the Berlin Critics’ Week Debates 2018.
In the span of seven nights, between the 15th and 22nd of February, the Berlin Critics’ Week sparks debates on questions of p...
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