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Two new features in Berlin from Summer Hill Entertainment

Ted Chalmers Summer Hill Entertainment explains why he is using filmfestivals.com

Ted CHALMER pictured with his colleague Camilla Angelica BREGNER SKARSTAD (Overseas Marketing Assistant)  

 

Ted explained to us how he has consistently driven additional sales from clients he sometimes did not even know previously, which were driven by the blasts and sales picthes advertised in filmfestivals.com newsletters. "That's the reason I keep returning as a client at every big market" he told Bruno Chatelin today at his booth at the 1st floor of Mariott 119; he also shared his passion for documentaries...

Meet Ted Chalmers / SUMMERHILL ENTERTAINMENT / ted@summerhillfilms.com
EFM/Berlin from February 8 through 13. 

 

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Charlotte Rampling in the Festival Spotlight

Max mon amour, the first film seen at the festival in the homage to Charlotte Rampling retro was somewhat of a disappointment. I had seen this picture when it first came out in Japan and was favorably impressed at the time by its outrageous sense of the absurd, especially as made by a serious A level Japanese director like Nagisa Oshima.(died 2013 at age 80).  This time around the humor, at least for me, did not hold up and I was rather bored most of the way.

Today it is little more than of passing historical interest

There is, however, an interesting background to this very offbeat franco-Japanese co-production from the year 1986 by which time Oshima was regarded as a first class Japanese iconoclast.  Outside of Japan he was highly regarded in France where his mainstream hardcore porno films In the realm of the senses (1976) and Empire of Passion (1978j were screened at Cannes and had created a sensation...

VIDEO: Mariette Rissenbeek describes German Films initiative for young german faces in TV Series

Mariette Rissenbeek is the Head of German Films and soon to be in charge of Berlinale with Locarno Fest collegaue Carlo Chatrian. She took  a moment to tell filmfestivals.com a bit about this year's initiative for young german faces in TV Series, while hosting a reception at Spree Gold by Zoo Palast. We met the acting talent of the 4th edition of FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS at a panel event and reception during the Berlinale Drama Series Days.

 

 

Guy Nattiv's remarkable film SKIN: press conference with Jamie Bell and Danielle Macdonald

(SKIN press conference, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)   By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER   The oh-so-talented cast and crew of Guy Nattiv's intense and emotional film Skin were very open to questions and comments about their remarkable film. Jamie Bell and Danielle Macdonald joined their director fielding questions about their experiences dealing with such a heavy topic, such a relevant topic not just in the United States but elsewhere in the world. Skin is one of a handful of f...

 

Press conference for Kız Kardeşler: A Tale of Three Sisters

(Cast and crew of A Tale of Three Sisters, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)   By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER   The director of A Tale of Three Sisters Emin Alper shared that the filming location was meant to give a timeless quality to the story when a member of the press asked about the location. Alper also stated that great effort was taken to coact the accents of the actors and actresses because the locations in the story called for particular accents which were quite new for most ...

 

 

Chloë Grace Moretz is set to star in Roseanne Liang’s action horror Shadow in the Cloud

 

    ENDEAVOR CONTENT handling sales at EFM   Chloë Grace Moretz (Equalizer, If I Stay, The Miseducation of Cameron Post) is set to star in Roseanne Liang’s action horror SHADOW IN THE CLOUD. Endeavor Content is handling worldwide sales and will present the project to buyers at EFM.  Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Midnight Special, Sinister, EP on Insidious franchise) and Fred Berger (La La Land, Destroyer, The Autopsy of Jane Doe) from Automatik, Kelly McCo...

 

 

CHAMELEON picked up by APL

International sales company APL Film will represent Worldwide Sales on the new crime thriller Chameleon, which will make its market debut at Berlin, it was announced today. Warren Nimchuk, CEO of APL and APL President of Global Sales Brian Sweet negotiated the deal with the film’s writer, director and producer Marcus Mizelle (Actor For Hire, My Marilyn). The film is executive produced by Jillian Longnecker (Vice, If Beale Street Could Talk, Phantom Thread).   Chameleon stars Austral...

 

 

Jason Segel and Dakota Johnson set to star in Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s upcoming drama The Friend,

Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, This is 40, The End of the Tour), Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, A Bigger Splash, Suspiria) and Academy Award-winner Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea, Old Man & the Gun upcoming Light of My Life) are set to star in BAFTA nominee Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s (Blackfish, Megan Leavey) upcoming drama The Friend, written by Brad Ingelsby (Run All Night, Out of the Furnace) and based on Matthew Teague’s National Magazine Awar...

 

 

First Look Image of Johnny Depp, as production begins on Minamata directed by Andrew Levitas

Principal Photography has begun on Minamata, directed by filmmaker, writer, and acclaimed artist Andrew Levitas and starring three-time Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe winner Johnny Depp as celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith.   Bill Nighy (The Kindness of Strangers, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) has joined the cast of Minamata which will co-star Minami (Vision), acclaimed actor Hiroyuki Sanada (Avengers: Endgame, Westworld, Mr. Holmes, The Twilight...

 

 

Bridging the Dragon Networking Reception at Josty co-hosted by Norwegian Film Institute

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Divine concert with Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing at Norway House

Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing. ...

 

 

Party like it's Portugal in Berlin

FEST - New Directors | New Films Festival is an international film festival that offers 200 films and 50 film industry ... June 24th - July 1st 2019, Espinho, Portugal it is run by Festival director : Filipe Pereira and Fernando Vasquez Head of Programming.  Both welcomed guests at their annual Berlinale event:  party like it's portugal fest@fest.pt ...

 

 

Meet Michel Noll a Serial Festival Organizer

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Interview with Producer, Director Writer Stu Levy @ 2019 Berlinale

Stu Levy Fluent in Japanese with a background as a California attorney, business owner, producer, director and writer Stu Levy has one of the most prismatic careers in the international film industry. As publisher and entrepreneur, Stu is the founder and CEO of TOKYOPOP, a manga graphic novel company spanning three continents with bases in Tokyo, Los Angeles and Berlin.  Stu produced the English adaptations of TV and home video anime series 'Initial D', 'GTO' and 'Rav...