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Exodus to Shangai - Meet the team in Berlin
The cast and crew will be attending Berlinale with a screening in the Market Feb 12th at 7:00 pm Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie, Potzdamer Strasse 2. Join us at the Marriott (260) to discuss sales and festival selection Chinese consul in Vienna saved thousands of Jews with visas to escape to Shangai. A true story. The film is entering the festival circuit FESTIVAL CONSIDERATION
Marriott 260 February 11-18 you are welcome to join us and enjoy free cocktails betwwen 4 and 8 pm.
Trailer I Synopsis I A film by Anthony Hickox I Produced by Michel Adam I Exodus to Shangai's blog | Website I Ask a screener I @ Mariott 260 Feb 11-17
Montreal Int Animation Film Fest August 18-21. Animaze Seeks Animation at Berlinale 2016 - Let's Meet!
Please note Animaze 2016 edition Montreal will be taking place August 18-21, 2016. Animaze is happy to attend Berlinale 2016 seeking feature length animation film, shorts, as well as interactive projects for our festival in August 18-21 in Montreal Quebec Canada. Films with more than 35% VFX (excluding credits) are also welcome to submit. Please contact us via email to set up a meeting: programming@animazefestival.com Submit your film here: FILMFREEWAY
> SUNDANCE DAILIES January 21 - 31, 2016Thunder Road Wins Sundance Short Films Grand Jury Prize
(L-R) Maman(s), Credit: Sundance Film Festival; The Procedure, Credit: Jacob Rosen; Thunder Road, Credit:Jim Cummings. Sundance Institute announced today the jury prizes in short filmmaking at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The Short Film Grand Jury Prize, awarded to one film in the program of 72 short films selected from 8,712 submissions, went to Thunder Road by director and screenwriter Jim Cummings. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Park City, Utah; full video ...
Cinema Café: Werner Herzog and Joshua Oppenheimer @ Sundance Film Festival 2016
Joshua Oppenheimer and Werner Herzog at Sundance Film Festival's Cinema Café. A daily series of informal chats rounds up special guests for thought-provoking discussions. #cinemacafe Cinema Café guests have included Louis CK, Barbara Kopple, Spike Lee, Roger Corman, Julie Delpy, Nick Hornby, Dave Grohl, Walter Murch, James Marsh, Gaspar Noé, Steve Coogan, Samantha Power, Parker Posey, Ice-T, and many more. So bring your questions and an open mind. ...
Sundance Film Festival 2016: watch the Video of Day One Press Conference with Founder Robert Redford
kick off the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with Festival Director John Cooper, Executive Director Keri Putnam, and Robert Redford Sundance Institute Executive Director Keri Putnam during the Day One Press Conference Photo: Calvin Knight ...
2016 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Competition LOVESONG A FILM BY SO YONG KIM
LOVESONG A FILM BY SO YONG KIM Actors Jena Malone (The Hunger Games), Riley Keough (The Girlfriend Experience, Mad Max), Brooklyn Decker (Grace and Frankie), Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color) and Rosanna Arquette Director/co-writer So Yong Kim and co-writer/producer Bradley Rust Gray. SYNOPSIS: Using the poetics of naturalism and minimalism in lieu of explicit dialogue and...
World Premiere of Tim Sutton's DARK NIGHT at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival - Sun. 1/24
2016 Sundance Film Festival NEXT Section DARK NIGHT Writer/Director: Tim Sutton Actors: Robert Jumper and Anna Rose Hopkins Composer: Maica Armata Producer: Alexandra Byer Executive Producer: Jonathan Gray WHEN: Sunday, January 24th, 2016 Press Check-In Time: 7:50pm Press Line Begins: 8:20pm Press Line Ends: 8:45pm Screening...
CAMERAPERSON, the Visual Memoir By Acclaimed Documentary Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson Premieres in Sundance
CAMERAPERSON A Bold Interrogation of the Power of the Camera By Director & Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson Downloadable Poster: What does it mean to film somebody? What effect does it have on them - and what does it have on you? Kirsten Johnson is one of the most notable cinematographers working in documentary cinema today, having shot Citizenfour, Happy Valley, Fahrenheit 911, The Oath, The Invisible War, and dozens of ...
SLAMDANCE'16 (Beyond Program) MY ENEMIES
Online screeners available for review and interviews Screening times at Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main Street, Park City, UT January 25th, 2016 7:45PM- Gallery January 26th, 2016 10:00PM- Ballroom MY ENEMIES is US premiering at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, UT. Starring Louise Marleau (THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE), Frederic Lemay (LOUIS CYR), Hubert Prou...
Jeremy Saulnier's Fiendishly Effective Thriller Green Room Plays at Sundance Film Festival in Spotlight Section
GREEN ROOM Jeremy Saulnier's Fiendishly Effective Thriller Opens April 1 from A24 Plays at Sundance Film Festival in Spotlight Section A punk band on the road find themselves besieged by neo-Nazis in a backwoods Oregon club, in this brilliantly crafted and wickedly fun horror-thriller starring Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat and Imogen Poots, from the director of the cult hit BLUE RUIN. Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain't Rights are fin...
The Fits premieres in Sundance 2016 | NEXT
North American Premiere Sundance 2016 | NEXT THE FITS Written + Directed by Anna Rose Holmer Starring Royalty Hightower, Makyla Burnam + Inayah Rodgers "Beguiling" - VARIETY "Captivating" - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER "Sweat, blood, and dancing" - INDIEWIRE "Royalty Hightower, gives a commanding, physical performance" - VANITY FAIR ...
THE EYES OF MY MOTHER @ Sundance
Cast: Kika Magalhaes, Will Brill, Clara Wong, Flora Diaz and Olivia Bond Francisca has been unfazed by death from an early age—her mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, imbued her with a thorough understanding of the human anatomy. When tragedy shatters her family’s idyllic life in the countryside, her deep trauma gradually awakens some unique curiosities. As she grows up, her desire to connect with the world around her takes a distinctly dark form. Shot in crisp black and whit...
KIKI, NYC's Voguing scene, Sara Jordeno's feature debut (U.S. Doc Competition)
A dynamic coming of age story about agency, resilience and the transformative artform that is voguing, KIKI offers riveting and complex insight into the daily lives of a group of LGBTQ youth-of-color who comprise the "Kiki" scene, a vibrant, safe space for performance created and governed by these activists. Following members of the scene as they prepare for and perform at exuberant Kiki ba...
Actress Daisy Ridley has signed on as an Executive Producer for the Sundance Premiere film THE EAGLE HUNTRESS
ACTRESS DAISY RIDLEY SIGNS ON TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCE SUNDANCE PREMIERE FILM “THE EAGLE HUNTRESS” Daisy Ridley, star of the current blockbuster STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and hero to young women everywhere, has signed on as an Executive Producer for the Sundance Premiere film THE EAGLE HUNTRESS, as announced by Morgan Spurlock, executive producer for the film. Ridley joined the team after seeing a cut of film and felt she was obligated to do everything within her power to make sure...
> Rotterdam 27 January – 7 February 2016Beyond Sleep: opening film IFFR 2016ID Check: Themed programme for IFFRIFFR presents: This Is Where Reconstruction StartsCineMart completes line-up for 33rd editionRens Muis designed the campaign for The International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016Line-up and jury Hivos Tiger Awards Competition IFFR 2016> Berlinale Previews and Dailies February 11 - 20, 201630. TEDDY AWARD – The International Jury
The jury of the 30th TEDDY AWARD, which will take place on February 19th in the STATION-Berlin. Nine renowned film makers and festival organisers will choose the laureates from the queer films of the Berlinale in the categories best film, best documentary/essay film and best short. Furthermore, they will award the TEDDY Jury Award. Augustas Cicelis comes from Vilnius, Lithuania, and is the Director and Programmer of Vilnius LGBT* Festival “Kreives”. He has been involved in LGBT* a...
Dutch Features secures rights to acclaimed European feature debut You Carry Me
Dutch Features Global Entertainment (DFGE) has secured the rights to festival favorite You Carry Me, the official Montenegrin entry for the 88th Academy Awards®, and returns to Berlinale’s European Film market 2016 to commence world wide sales for this critically acclaimed film. The award-winning film with female-driven story, received international rave reviews and was nicknamed the European cousin of Paul Haggis’ Crash. Filmmaker Ivona Juka’s feature film debut...
New films from ITN at EFM 2016
NATURAL SELECTION 110 min. HD. 2016. Complete. Cast: Katherine McNamara (IMDB #12, Star of ABC Family's and NetFlix's Shadowhunters, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials), Anthony Michael Hall (Netflix's War Machine with Brad Pitt, The Dark Knight, Foxcatcher), Catherine Missal (Vacation), Amy Carlson (CBS' Blue Bloods, Law & Order), Mason Dye (Lifetime's Flowers in ...
EFM Industry Debates 2016
EFM Industry Debates 2016: Producers as Entrepreneurs, the Boom in High-end TV Series in Europe, and Korea’s Growing Influence on South East Asian Cinema Now in its tenth year, the EFM Industry Debates is again focussing - in three panel discussions with top experts - on current issues in the film and media industry. The debates are being presented for the fifth time by the IFA, the leading global trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, and official partner of t...
International Forum of New Cinema gives Inertia International Premiere
Claudia Landsberger, Baseworx For Film and Timothy O'Brien, Oration Films are proud to be partnering to represent Idan Haguel's first feature Inertia in the Berlinale Forum. Taking place by the shores of the Mediterranean, Inertia is a deadpan surrealist and blackly comic examination of a woman's identity crisis - utterly modern yet timeless in it's exploration of the impact of dreams and desires. Synopsis: Mira is a woman trapped in a dull life - alienated ...
SOY NERO by Rafi Pitts in Competition at Berlinale
Rafi Pitts' new feature film SOY NERO will celebrate its world premiere in Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016. SOY NERO marks Rafi Pitts' third time in Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2006 his film IT'S WINTER was selected for Official Competition and in 2010 he attended the Berlin International Film Festival with THE HUNTER in Competition again. Synopsis: Nero is running in the desert. He is trying to es...
K5 line-up @ EFM
New Title Paterson A wry comedy which chronicles the challenges of work and love and observes the quiet triumphs and defeats of daily life, and the poetry evident in its smallest details. Genre Comedy Director/Writer Jim Jarmusch Cast Adam Driver Golshifteh Farahani ...
Memento Films International @ EFM
BERLIN EFM Screening Schedule NEWS FROM PLANET MARS by Dominik Moll Berlinale Official Selection - Out Of Competition with François Damiens,Vincent Macaigne & Veerle Baetens Sunday, 14th – 9:30 am > Cinemaxx 8 (Market Screening - Buyers Only) Monday, 15th – 11:10 am > Cinemaxx 5 (Market Screening - Buyers Only) THE FREE WORLD by Jason Lew U.S. Dramatic Compe...
The Yellow Affair @ EFM
Miira Paasilinna and Chris Howard of The Yellow Affair will be attending EFM this year NEW RELEASES THE YARD (Berlinale Forum) A single father and peripheral poet loses his job as a literary critic when he reviews his own book. With no formal education, he ends up at a car trans-shipment hub. He becomes an outcast, a nameless stranger with a five-digit number. Personal morals are pitted against the demands of fatherhood in an escalating conflict that is ultima...
Watch out for our reviews of Berlinale Classics by Alex Deleon
The Road Back von / by James Whale. Quelle / Source: NBC Universal Archives & Collections © Universal Pictures The Berlinale Classics series of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival will present premieres of six films, two German and four international productions, five of them world premieres. Heiner Carow’s semi-autobiographical film Die Russen kommen (The Russians are Coming, GDR, 1968) is set in the waning days of World War II. For 16-y...
‘THE MINE’ to feature @ EFM
THE MINE, a pacey probing story with heavy topical relevance, is set for its market premiere at this year’s EFM. The film has a stellar Finnish cast and is beautifully shot in the exotic north of Finland. THE MINE is also selected for the Dragon Awards Competition in Gothenburg. CLICK HERE FOR TRAILER THE MINE, an env...
"Attack of the Lederhosenzombies" @ EFM 2016!
check out "Attack of the Lederhosenzombies”! Our long-awaited Alpine zombie flick will be screened at the EFM: Tuesday Feb. 16th at 12:45, CinemaxX Studio 19 Don’t hesitate to contact a meeting with our Sales Manager, Yannick Rudynski: yannick@eastwest-distribution.com For Festivals contact our Festival Manager, Octavia Peyrou: festivals@eastwest-distribution.com EastWest Filmdistribution will be attending the EFM at booth ...
European Film Market 2016 – new edition of the successful “EFM Startups” platform showcases European innovation
The latest edition of “EFM Startups” will be held on February 15 and 16, as part of the European Film Market (Feb 11–19, 2016). The joint initiative of the EFM, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Startup Germany e.V. was launched to great success in 2015. The call for participation went out Europe-wide for the first time in 2016. Ten selected startups from Berlin, Norway, Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium will i...
Premiere Ent. @ EFM
CURRENT TITLES FALL GUY GENRE: Action DIRECTOR: Kevin Carraway PRODUCERS: Angelica Montesano CAST: Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Paz Vega (Grace of Monaco) SYNOPSIS: A cab driver with a gambling debt accepts a job to transport a valuable briefcase, and gets in over his head whe...
FANTASTIC FILMS INTERNATIONAL @ EFM 2016
FANTASTIC FILMS INTERNATIONAL invites you to email us for a EFM 2016 meeting. Let us know your preferred date and time (from Feb. 10th- 16th), so we can introduce you to our Fantastic NEW titles: THE BROKEN KEY (with additional name cast and new trailer); DEX HAMILTON AND THE DOOMSDAY SWARM; LUGGY; AROUND THE WORLD ON A FLYING WINDMILL; THE CUSHION; BIGI AND FRIENDS (TV series). We will also introduce a number of other new titles at the market. A...
‘THE YARD’ to feature at Berlinale
THE YARD, a compelling Swedish drama about a fallen poet lost in the mundane world of unskilled work, is to feature at this year’s Berlinale in the Forum Section (see screenings below). This follows its selection as opening film in Gothenburg (selected in the Dragon Awards Competition). The Yellow Affair A single father and peripheral poet loses his job as a literary critic when he revi...
Doc drama Putin Forever @ EFM
PUTIN FOREVER? ORIGINAL TITLE: PUTIN NAVSEGDA? 2016, DCP, 93 min., Russian CATEGORY: Documentary COUNTRY: Russia PRODUCTION : Independent documentary project BUDGET : $2 000 CREW Director : Kirill Nenashev Screenplay : Kirill Nenashev Cinematographer : Kirill Nenashev Producers : Maria MuskevichThe day before Vladimir Putin’s inauguration, a march takes place on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square – a protest...
Screen Media @ EFM - 2016
Screen Media @ EFM - 2016 THE ASIAN CONNECTION (Complete) 2015 - Action/Thriller Director: Daniel Zirilli Cast: Steven Seagal, Michael Jai White Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord's money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang'...
Generation 2016: Opening Films, Juries and Special Screening The Diary of Anne Frank
Opening Films: Dreamy Girls and Women Power The competition Generation 14plus will celebrate its opening with the international premiere of the Australian production Girl Asleep, from Rosemary Myers. The director will present her film on February 12 at 7.30 pm at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), together with the film’s female lead. Bethany Whitmore plays the role of Greta in the film, a young woman who takes a deep dive into a bizarre and dangerous dream world full of odd creature...
Berlinale Special Series 2016
Anders Hove, Esben Dalgaard, Stine Schrøder Jensen, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Peter Plaugborg, Hanne Uldal und Maria Rossing in Splitting Up Together Brand-new series from Denmark, Britain, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and the US will round off the Berlinale Special programme at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. This year’s selection once again provides a good look at the creativity and variety of forms evident in series production. &nbs...
Communal Experiences – Initiatives for Refugees during the Berlinale
When the Berlin International Film Festival was launched 66 years ago, there were millions of German refugees and traumatised displaced persons in Europe. The festival made a point of fostering understanding, tolerance and acceptance. Since then, it has always been responsive to current events in society – not only with the film programme, but also with many complementary activities. Last year 79,034 people sought refuge in the German capital (source: Berlin Senate department of...
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