Filmfestivals.com articles http://www.filmfestivals.com/ ---lang_text--- Copyright (c) 1995-2002, Filmfestivals Entertainment Group Jan 26 2012 12:00AM <name>2011 the year of all records for France</name> News Film I am simply amazed by the number of records broken by the french film industry last year AND wanted to take a moment to share the salute with you, and them. •2011 was, in my view, one of the best Cannes selection in years, with Awards everyone agreed to be well deserved and well balanced. •215 M admissions, a record (going back to 1966 levels, pre facebook, pre TV, pre world Cup audience...) •Record percentage of cinema attendance 65.6% of French population saw a film: crisis what crisis?. ("Let us go to the movies to forget"...) •Record 41% of Box Office take from local films, "cocorico", Rien à déclarer, Intouchables...16 film scored over a million admissions •18,4 M admissions and counting...for "Intouchables", amazing score for a good comedy with good positive human feelings and attitude (5% of benefits go to a charity!) •And of course 10 Oscar nominations (6 Golden Globes, 12 Bafta...) a loud salute for a silent film (so creative, but only 1.5M admissions before the french relaunch)

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I am simply amazed by the combinations of historical records broken by the french film industry last year AND wanted to take a moment to share the salute with you, and them.

  • 2011 was one of the best Cannes selection in years, in my view, with Awards everyone agreed to be well deserved and well balanced.
  • 215 M admissions, a record (going back to 1966 levels, pre facebook, pre TV, pre world Cup audience...)
  • Record percentage of cinema attendance 65.6% of French population saw a film: crisis what crisis?. (&quot;Let us go to the movies to forget&quot;...)
  • Record 41% of Box Office take from local films, &quot;cocorico&quot;, Rien à déclarer, Intouchables...16 film scored over a million admissions
  • 18,4 M admissions and counting...for &quot;Intouchables&quot;, amazing score for a good comedy with good positive human feelings and attitude (5% of benefits go to a charity!)
  • And of course 10 Oscar nominations (6 Golden Globes, 12 Bafta...) a loud salute for a silent film (so creative, but only 1.5M admissions before the french relaunch)

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Now if you asked french players how 2011 was, you bet they would complain about, crisis, their unrecognised talent, distribution bottlenecks, reduced subsidies, growing difficulty to sell to TV financiers like Canal+...

In fact you may ask the same question every year and get the same results!

By the way here is the over performing share price for Gaumont (Intouchable is their biggest hit ever), you want to compare with the average CAC 40 trend in orange.

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The Artist http://www.filmfestivals.com/pixus/festivals/generic/test.gif Jan 24 2012 12:00AM <name>Fantasporto 2012 Line up</name> News Film The 32nd Fantasporto, Portugal's biggest film fest (Variety) is coming. With a programme dedicated to the newest films in the three competitions, with retrospectives and tributes, it is not only there that lies the whole interest of the event.
This edition will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the film "Blade Runner" which was seen for the first time in Fantasporto '83.
This film serves as a "leitmotiv" for the special program, a sidebar of the festival crossing the Cinema with the Arts and Sciences, which is dedicated in 2012 to "The Future Now". The 32nd Fantasporto, Portugal's biggest film fest (Variety) is coming. With a programme dedicated to the newest films in the three competitions, with retrospectives and tributes, it is not only there that lies the whole interest of the event.

In fact, this edition will celebrate officially, and with special permission of the American legal representatives, the 30th Anniversary of the film "Blade Runner" which was seen for the first time in Fantasporto '83.

This film serves as a "leitmotiv" for the special program, a sidebar of the festival crossing the Cinema with the Arts and Sciences, which is dedicated in 2012 to "The Future Now". A review of what we think is the expectable in several areas such as the Fine Arts, Literature, Science, Music and the Theatre. Lectures with renowned specialists, new films, science demonstrations, hologram exhibitions and the publication of an anthology of sci-fi short stories, among others complete this programme.

With the High Patronage of the Ministry of Culture, welcome to Porto, a World Heritage City (UNESCO) next February 2012 and enjoy a film festival as no other!
Fantasporto will bring a tribute to ANTÓNIO-PEDRO VASCONCELOS.
A director with a long and prestigious career who brought crowds to the theatres with his most recent films, is certainly a man to watch. Fantasporto 2012 has decided to pay its tribute to director-producer António-Pedro Vasconcelos.
Born in 1939, he studied law, was a film critic,the editor of the film magazine Cinéfilo and worked on television. He directed commercials and documentaries as well as feature films. He was a cofounder of the Centro Português de Cinema. In feature films, he directed, among others, "Jaime", "The Immortals", "Call Girl" and "Beauty and the Paparazzo".

FANTASY SECTION 2012
FEATURES AND SHORTS IN COMPETITION

FEATURES

Attack the Block - Joe Cornish - 88'- UK/Fra
Bellflower - Evan Godell - 115'- USA
Calibre 9 - Jean-Christian Tassy - Fra - 91´
Code 37: The Movie - Jakob Verbruggen - Din - 96'
Eddie, The Sleepwalking Cannibal - Boris Rodriguez - USA - 76'
Eva - Kike Maíllo - Spa - 94'
Game of Werewolves (Lobos de Arga) - Juan Martinez Moreno - Spa - 100'
Hell - Tim Fehlbaum - 89' - Spa
In the Dark Half (Zona Negra )- Alastair Siddons - UK - 90'
Juan of the Dead - Alexandro Bruguès - Spa /Cuba - 94'
Key Hole - Guy Maddin - Can
Madonna's Pig - Frank van Passel - Belg - 110'
The Holding - Susan Jacobson - UK - 93'
The Whisperer in the Darkness - Sean Barney - 90'- USA

SHORTS

8 - Raul Cerezo - Spa - 13'07''
Aalterate - Christobal de Oliveira - Fra/Hol - 9' 44''
Amor Sacro - Javier Yañez - Esp - 19'50'
Blinky. TM - Ruairi Robinson - 12'- Irl
Colour Bleed - Peter Szewczyk - UK - 5
Ctin! - Cyrille Drevon - 14' - Fra
Error 0036 - Raul Fernandez Rincón - Spa - 12'
Flower of Battle / Cvijet Bitke - Simon Bogojevic Narath - Croa - 19' 40''
Hope - Pedro Pires - Can - 10'55''
Le Lac Noir - Victor Jaquier - Swi - 19' 12''
Le Vivier - Sylvia Guillet - 18' - Fra
Lizard Girl - Choi Si-Young - South Kor - 16'
Nuru - Michael Palmaers - 14' 05'' - Belg
Pristine in Torment - Carlos Dittborn - Chile - 29'18''
Sonic Birth (Accouchement Sonique) - Jérome Blanquet - 16'55''- Fra
Striptease Volcanique - Régine Cirotteau - Fra - 10'
The Monster of Nix - Rosto - 30'- Fra/Belg/Hol-

PREMIÈRE & PANORAMA 2012
New and Unreleased Films

SHORTS
Guard Dog - Global Jam - Bill Plympton (USA) - 5'25'
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forrest - Kevin Sean Michaels ( USA) - 5'44''
Le Jour où le Fils de Rainer S'est Noyé - Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux (Fra) - 15'
The Lost Town of Switez - Kamil Polak (Pol, Can, Fran, Swi, Din) - 20'

FEATURES
A Boyfriend for My Wife - Juan Taratuto (Arg) - 100'
Adventures in Plymptoons! - Alexia Anastasio (USA) - 85'
Bag of Bones - Mick Garris (USA) - 162'
Exit Humanity - John Geddes (Can) - 113'
Gandu - Q - (India) - 85'
Glorious 39 - Stephen Poliakoff (UK)
Kill List - Ben Wheatley (UK) 95'
La Milagrosa - Rafael Lara (Col) - 106'
Life in One Day - Mark de Cloe (Hol) - 94'
Meat - Victor Nieuwenhuijs, Maartje Seyferth (Hol) - 92'
Monster Brawl - Jesse T. Cook (Can) - 89'
Savages Crossing de Kevin James Dobson (Australia) - 86'
Some Guy Who Kills People - Ryan Levin (USA) - 98'
The Bunny Game - Adam Rehmeier (EUA) - 76'
The Front Line (La Primea Linea) - Renato de Maria (Ita) - 100'
The Maiden Danced to Death - Endre Hules (Hung) - 106'
The Truth of Lie - Roland Reber (Ale) - 98'
This Must be the Place - Paolo Sorrentino (USA)
Untitled - Jonathan Parker, Manfred Baumann (USA) - 96'
Zombie's Ass - Noboru Iguchi (Jap) - 84' Fantasporto 2012 http://www.filmfestivals.com/pixus/festivals/generic/fantas2012_780.jpg Jan 23 2012 12:00AM <name>Food in Film: french do it, Berlinale shows it...</name> News Film Culinary Cinema 2012: "Trust in Taste" is the motto of the 6th Culinary Cinema of the 62nd Berlinale that will be held from February 12 to 17, 2012. Fifteen films about food and the environment will be presented in the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Following the screenings, at 7:30 pm, renowned chef Sonja Frühsammer and star chefs Michael Kempf, Christian Lohse, Marco Müller from Berlin as well as Andoni Luis Aduriz from the Basque Country will each serve a meal inspired by the films in the "Gropius Mirror" restaurant, an elegant tent lined with mirrors.
 Culinary Cinema 2012: "Trust in Taste"

"Trust in Taste" is the motto of the 6th Culinary Cinema of the 62nd Berlinale that will be held from February 12 to 17, 2012. Fifteen films about food and the environment will be presented in the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Following the screenings, at 7:30 pm, renowned chef Sonja Frühsammer and star chefs Michael Kempf, Christian Lohse, Marco Müller from Berlin as well as Andoni Luis Aduriz from the Basque Country will each serve a meal inspired by the films in the "Gropius Mirror" restaurant, an elegant tent lined with mirrors.

"Food is a matter of trust," Dieter Kosslick says about this year's motto. "Consumers shouldn't just focus on organic tags and finely printed labels, but above all trust their sense of taste. Experienced cooks can taste if food has been industrially mass produced, and if binders, flavour enhancers or other additives have been used. Taste is a matter of experience and that's what you can also gain at the Berlinale's Culinary Cinema."

"Before serving culinary delicacies, we'll be showing recent cinematic treats in which food and taste are looked at from many different angles," curator Thomas Struck comments about the programme. Comme un chef (The Chef) by Daniel Cohen, a French comedy, will kick off the series. The film is as light and tasty as the brioches that chef Lagarde (Jean Reno) bakes for his daughter to keep peace in the family as well as rescue French haute cuisine from molecular cooking. Sonja Frühsammer will serve a meal following the film.

This year's Culinary Cuisine includes a remarkable number of premieres. Over the past five years the programme has established itself.

In Juantxo Sardon's Mugaritz B.S.O., musician Felipe Ugarte translates delicious and visually pleasing culinary dishes made by Basque star chef Andoni Luis Aduriz from San Sebastián into music. The musician and the cook show how ingredients for a dish and music develop worldwide out of a region's landscape and tradition. Andoni Luis Aduriz is coming extra to Berlin to prepare a meal for his film.

Entre les Bras (Step Up to the Plate) by Paul Lacoste documents the stirring change of generations at the French three-star restaurant Bras in Laguiole. Father Michel Bras is convinced that getting to the top is easier than staying there. After this documentary, Michael Kempf will have the delicate task of creating a meal inspired by the French cuisine.

In the documentary Last Call at the Oasis by Oscar-winner Jessica Yu, experts and tireless activists, such as the real Erin Brockovich, fight the local and global misuse of water. Filmmakers and experts discuss surprising ways to solve the shortage of water. One proposal involves recycling wastewater. Christian Lohse will cook a meal for the occasion.

In TSAO Jui-Yuan's fictional film Joyful Reunion, a top vegetarian chef is forced to close his restaurant because he has lost his memory. When he eats a dish from his childhood, his memory comes back and he recognizes his first love again. Named Cook of the Year by Der Feinschmecker magazine, Marco Müller will prepare a meal that captures this melodrama.

The late screenings at 10 p.m. will focus on social and ecological topics. In Das Rohe und das Gekochte (The Raw and the Cooked) Monika Treut documents the emergent green movement in Taiwan. On a powerful visual journey around the world, Canned Dreams depicts the plight of all the workers who contribute to producing a can of ravioli. Lupe el de la Vaca (Lupe of the Cow) presents several small-scale Mexican farmers who master their harsh lives with humour and music. In the Korean gangster film Hindsight, the boss of a gang falls in love with a fellow student during a course in cooking. In Oma & Bella, Alexa Karolinski portrays how her grandmother and her grandmother's girlfriend cultivate Jewish traditions in Charlottenburg.
A number of shorts films will supplement the programme: Should The Wife Confess? (Bernardo Camisão), Asparragos (Laura Zuallaert), Lepokoa (Safy Nebbou) and Pokot Ash Yoghurt (Francesco Amato, Stefano Scarafia).

"Youth Food Cinema" will address the importance of traditions in the family at 9:30 a.m. on February 17. The Mexican film Canela (Cinnamon) by Jordi Mariscal tells the story of a girl, her grandmother and their love of cooking. Afterwards, the chef of the Mexican embassy, Armando Hernández, will prepare a Mexican meal with students. As Grandmother Tere says in the film: "Cooking well is not a question of age but of talent."

"TeaTime" will host readings, discussions and tastings in the "Gropius Mirror" tent at 5 p.m. On February 14, Michael Hoffmann will present his new cookbook for the blind and sighted: "Trust in Taste". Following the presentation, guests will be served finger foods based on recipes from the book (in German, admission 10 euros).

On Feb. 15, there will be a discussion entitled "The Real Erin Brockovich" with the environmental activist Erin Brockovich. She will talk about her latest experiences in the battle for a clean environment (in English, participation upon registration only: at kulinarisches.kino@berlinale.de).
25 million people have seen Steven Soderbergh's film Erin Brockovich starring Julia Roberts.

Advance ticket sales for Culinary Cinema begin at 10 a.m. on February 6, 2012 at the central ticket counters in the Arkaden am Potsdamer Platz, Kino International and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, as well as online at www.berlinale.de and theatre ticket offices linked with the Eventim network.

The programme is sponsored by WMF, the official partner of Culinary Cinema, and highly professional supplier of modern cook- and tableware.


Films in Culinary Cinema 2012


Canela (Cinnamon) Mexico
By Jordi Mariscal
With Ana Martín, Isabel Yudice, Norma Angélica, Mónica Dionne, Carlos Cobos
World premiere

Canned Dreams Finland
Documentary by Katja Gauriloff
International premiere

Comme un chef (The Chef) France
By Daniel Cohen
With Jean Reno, Michaël Youn, Raphaëlle Agogué, Julien Boisselier, Salomé Stevenin, Serge Larivière, Issa Doumbia, Bun Hay Mean
International premiere

Entre les Bras (Step Up to the Plate) France
Documentary by Paul Lacoste
World premiere

Hindsight Republic of Korea</&#58492; >
By Lee Hyeon-seung
With Song Gang-ho, Shin Se-kyung, Chun Jeong-myung
European premiere

Joyful Reunion Taiwan/China
By Tsao Jui-Yuan
With Gua Ahleh, Huo Siyan, Lan Zheng-Long (Blue), Kenneth Tsang
World premiere

Last Call at the Oasis USA
Documentary by Jessica Yu
International premiere

Lupe el de la Vaca (Lupe of the Cow) Mexico
Documentary by Blanca X. Aguerre
International premiere

Mugaritz B.S.O. Spain
Documentary by Felipe Ugarte, Juantxo Sardon
German premiere

Oma & Bella Germany/USA
Documentary by Alexa Karolinski
World premiere

Das Rohe und das Gekochte (The Raw and the Cooked) Germany/Taiwan
Documentary by Monika Treut
World premiere


Short films

Asparragos Belgium/Peru
Documentary by Laura Zuallaert
German premiere

Lepokoa (The Scarf) Spain/France 2003
By Safy Nebbou
With Pilar Rodríguez, Joseba Apaolaza, Olatz Beobide, Manu Gaigne

Pokot Ash Yoghurt (Living Food Communities) Italy
Documentary by Francesco Amato, Stefano Scarafia
World premiere

Should The Wife Confess? Belgium/Portugal
By Bernardo Camisão
With Sofia Caessa, Hilbren Buys
German premiere
 Berlinale Logo http://www.filmfestivals.com/pixus/festivals/logos/berlinlogo2.jpg Jan 17 2012 12:00AM <name>Rotterdam Lab welcomes 78 young film producers</name> News Film The International Film Festival Rotterdam welcomes 78 young film producers taking part in the 12th edition of the Rotterdam Lab. The participants of CineMart's successful event for emerging producers have been nominated by the twenty-eight Rotterdam Lab partner organisations. Rotterdam Lab, part of CineMart, takes place January 28 - February 1. (See full list of participants attached and partner organisations below)
 The International Film Festival Rotterdam welcomes 78 young film producers taking part in the 12th edition of the Rotterdam Lab. The participants of CineMart's successful event for emerging producers have been nominated by the twenty-eight Rotterdam Lab partner organisations. Rotterdam Lab, part of CineMart, takes place January 28 - February 1. (See full list of participants attached and partner organisations below)
For its 12th edition, Rotterdam Lab also welcomes eight new partner organisations: Catalan Films & TV (Spain), Cinergia (Costa Rica), Doha Film Institute (Qatar), Film I Vast (Sweden), The Finnish Film Foundation (Finland), Meetings on the Bridge/Istanbul Film Festival (Turkey), Skillset (United Kingdom), and Sundance Institute (USA).
Rotterdam Lab, organised by CineMart's Jacobine van der Vloed and Nienke Poelsma, takes place in festival venue De Unie (a few steps from CineMart location De Doelen).
The participants of the Rotterdam Lab are emerging producers, who are ‘nominated' by the international training bodies and funding agencies with which CineMart has partnerships. Traditionally, panel discussions are organised on topics such as development, financing, post-production, (digital) distribution, VOD, and sales. This edition, the Rotterdam Lab coaching session on pitching film projects will be given by Ido Abram of EYE Film Institute Netherlands and representatives from the Binger Filmlab.
The Rotterdam Lab meetings take place in an informal setting and are organized to illustrate the process by which a project in need of financing is completed and brought to its audience. In these panels, industry experts give the producers tools on how to present their project and how to build up an international network. This edition, themes will be ‘Crowd funding' (speaker: Elisabeth Holm, Kickstarter, USA), ‘Development and the role of the creative producer' (speaker: Katriel Schory, Israel Film Fund), ‘Digital Distribution and VOD' (speakers: Pierre Alexandre Labelle, Under The Milky Way, France and Jamie King, VODO, UK ) and ‘Post-production management' (speakers: Diana Elbaum, EP2C Training, Belgium and Ozcar Ramirez, Arte Mécanica, Mexico).
Complimentary to the panels, participants take part in ‘speed-dating' sessions, during which they have time to meet personally with industry delegates and receive advice on their own projects. The Rotterdam Lab allows these producers to present their companies and projects, test the grounds, receive feedback on how to proceed and expand their network in an effective way. The Rotterdam Lab fits very well in Rotterdam's spirit of nurturing emerging talent. Moreover, the Rotterdam Lab has developed into a valuable tool to strengthen CineMart's international network of independent producers.
Over the past years, the Rotterdam Lab has expanded steadily. The Lab has already resulted in many producers returning to CineMart, and films by producers who have attended the Lab have been screened in the official Festival Programme. By bringing together a mix of producers from around Europe and the rest of the world, the Rotterdam Lab has also generated many alluring international co-productions.
In addition to the organized Rotterdam Lab programme, it is important that the producers take the chance to participate in all other CineMart events, such as networking breakfasts, lunches, cocktails and other panels. They are encouraged to take advantage of their time in Rotterdam as much as possible by strengthening their network.

Rotterdam Lab partner organisations:
ACE/ Ateliers du Cinema Europeen
Catalan Films & TV
Centre for the Moving Image/Creative Scotland
Cinergia
Doha Film Institute
Durban FilmMart/ Durban Film Office
Eruopean Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE)
Film I Vast
Film -und Medienstiftung NRW
The Finnish Film Foundation
Flanders Image / VAF, Belgium
Fundación TyPA (MEDIA Mundus)
Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
Indigenous Branch - Screen Australia
Irish Film Board
Israel Film Fund
Korean Film Council (KOFIC)
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany
Meetings on the Bridge/Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey
National Film Development Corporation India
New Zealand Film Commission
PROIMAGENES COLOMBIA
Rotterdam Media Fund, the Netherlands
Screen Australia
Rio de Janeiro State Secretary of Culture, Brazil
Skillset, United Kingdom
Sundance Institute, USA
Telefilm Canada
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