Les Arcs Industry Village Winners: ‘The Visitor’, ‘Rossosperanza’ & ‘Veni Vidi Vici’ Take Top Prizes
Lithuanian filmmaker Vytautas Katkus’s debut feature project The Visitor won the top €6,000 Artekino International Award at the Les Arcs Coproduction Village on Tuesday.
The award, decided by Rémi Burah, President of ArteKino Foundation and CEO of Arte France Cinéma, is granted to support the development of the project.
The project, which previously won Cannes Critics’ Week Next Step prize in May, revolves around a young man attempting to make a new life for himself in a foreign land where he does not speak the language or know anyone.
“For this 2022 edition, the ArteKino International Award supports a first feature by a director walking the line between fiction and documentary, social realism and fantastic poetry, with a subtle balance that he has demonstrated in his already very mastered short films,” said Burah.
The Visitor was among 18 feature projects participating in the Les Arcs Coproduction Village.
It is one element of...
The award, decided by Rémi Burah, President of ArteKino Foundation and CEO of Arte France Cinéma, is granted to support the development of the project.
The project, which previously won Cannes Critics’ Week Next Step prize in May, revolves around a young man attempting to make a new life for himself in a foreign land where he does not speak the language or know anyone.
“For this 2022 edition, the ArteKino International Award supports a first feature by a director walking the line between fiction and documentary, social realism and fantastic poetry, with a subtle balance that he has demonstrated in his already very mastered short films,” said Burah.
The Visitor was among 18 feature projects participating in the Les Arcs Coproduction Village.
It is one element of...
- 12/12/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, who won the Cannes Grand Prize for Compartment No. 6 in 2021, will be guest of honor at the fifth Talent Village of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival, running December 10-17 in the French Alps.
The three-day meeting running within the festival’s industry program will support eight emerging European directors and consists of workshops and one-on-one meetings aimed at advancing their short and feature-length works.
Kuosmanen, whose credits also include the Cannes 2016 Un Certain Regard award winner The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, will attend in the role of Talent Village Ambassador and will meet and mentor all the participants.
Other industry professionals acting as tutors will include Danish producer Katrin Pors of Copenhagen-based production company Snowglobe; Olivier Barbier, Head of Acquisitions at France’s mk2 films, Locarno Film Festival programmer and Festival Scope co-founder Mathilde Henrot and music supervisor Martin Caraux from...
The three-day meeting running within the festival’s industry program will support eight emerging European directors and consists of workshops and one-on-one meetings aimed at advancing their short and feature-length works.
Kuosmanen, whose credits also include the Cannes 2016 Un Certain Regard award winner The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, will attend in the role of Talent Village Ambassador and will meet and mentor all the participants.
Other industry professionals acting as tutors will include Danish producer Katrin Pors of Copenhagen-based production company Snowglobe; Olivier Barbier, Head of Acquisitions at France’s mk2 films, Locarno Film Festival programmer and Festival Scope co-founder Mathilde Henrot and music supervisor Martin Caraux from...
- 11/3/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen named as Talent Village ambassador.
Les Arcs Film Festival’s industry programme has selected eight emerging directors for its Talent Village initiative and has named Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen as its Talent Village ambassador.
The programme, consisting of workshops and meetings, is designed to help the directors move from short to feature-length projects, with a particular attention given to industry issues and international aspects of the projects.
Kuosmanen won the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2021 for Compartment N°6, a follow-up to his Un Certain Regard film The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Mäki...
Les Arcs Film Festival’s industry programme has selected eight emerging directors for its Talent Village initiative and has named Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen as its Talent Village ambassador.
The programme, consisting of workshops and meetings, is designed to help the directors move from short to feature-length projects, with a particular attention given to industry issues and international aspects of the projects.
Kuosmanen won the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2021 for Compartment N°6, a follow-up to his Un Certain Regard film The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Mäki...
- 11/2/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
We take a look at the 14 projects selected for the 30th instalment of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival’s Development Grant. Tomorrow, Tuesday 20 October, will mark the beginning of the Cinemed Meetings: three days of professional meetings organised within the 42nd Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (read our news and interview with Christophe Leparc). Standing out on the agenda is the 30th instalment of the Development Grant, which has supported 101 feature film projects since 1991. This year, the 14 selected fiction projects hail from 14 Mediterranean countries and will be presented by their directors and producers to a jury composed of Georges Goldenstern (director of Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation), Marianne Dumoulin (Jba Production), Michel Zana (Sophie Dulac Distribution) and Catherine Bizern (Céci Moulin d’Andé). Two Development Grants will be handed out at the event (funded by the Cnc and the Occitanie region and further consisting of technical expertise from...
- 10/19/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The industry section of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival has handed out its awards. The CineLink Industry Days, the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section, which ran online from 15-20 August, has handed out its awards. The CineLink Co-Production Market jury, comprising Sehad Čekić (Film Centre of Montenegro), Georges Goldenstern (Cinéfondation), Behrooz Hashemian (Silkroad Production), Elena Kotová (Eurimages), Annamaria Lodato (Arte France Cinéma), and Gordan Matić (Film Center Serbia), decided to present Bosnian filmmaker Srđan Vuletić with the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award for his project The Otter. Written by Montenegrin novelist Stefan Bošković, the film is a coming-of-age story about a shy sixteen-year-old girl, Hana, who believes that she is having the best day of her life as the boy she’s secretly in love with, YouTube star Mario, invites her on an excursion to shoot a video. However, on that day, Hana’s father dies. The Otter is produced by Ivan.
Indonesian project Autobiography and Skin Of Youth from Vietnam jointly won the Open Sea Fund Award
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking, to be directed by the Philippines’ Petersen Vargas, won the $15,000 Seafic Award at the conclusion of this year’s Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (Seafic).
Produced by Alemberg Ang and Jade Castro, the project follows a rich teenage runaway who joins a band of street hustlers on a road trip. The cash prize is sponsored by Thailand’s Purin Foundation.
Meanwhile, the Open Sea Fund Award, jointly sponsored by Vs Service and White Light Post, was shared by Autobiography,...
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking, to be directed by the Philippines’ Petersen Vargas, won the $15,000 Seafic Award at the conclusion of this year’s Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (Seafic).
Produced by Alemberg Ang and Jade Castro, the project follows a rich teenage runaway who joins a band of street hustlers on a road trip. The cash prize is sponsored by Thailand’s Purin Foundation.
Meanwhile, the Open Sea Fund Award, jointly sponsored by Vs Service and White Light Post, was shared by Autobiography,...
- 10/31/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The industry section of the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival has handed out its awards. The CineLink Industry Days, the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section, which ran from 17-22 August, has handed out its awards. The CineLink Co-Production Market jury, comprising Sehad Čekić (Film Centre of Montenegro), Georges Goldenstern (Cinéfondation), Behrooz Hashemian (Silkroad Production), Čedomir Kolar (A.S.A.P. Films), Annamaria Lodato (Arte France Cinéma) and Emma Scott (Screen Ireland), decided to present acclaimed Macedonian filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska with the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award for her project The Happiest Man in the World or Lessons in Love. Written by Mitevska and Elma Tataragić, who previously collaborated on the Berlinale-awarded God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, the project’s producer is, for the fifth time, her sister Labina Mitevska, of Macedonian production company Sisters and Brother Mitevski. The story follows Asja, who’s trying to find love in Sarajevo.
Titles from the Benelux, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic pick up prizes.
Projects from the Benelux, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were among the award-winners at the ninth edition of Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (January 20-22).
The International Jury, which included Cinéfondation’s Georges Goldenstern, Slovak director Peter Kerekes and Ace’s Jacobine van der Vloed presented the Film Center Development Award with a cash prize of €5,000 to Francesco Montagner’s documentary Brotherhood, to be produced by Prague-based Nutprodukce with Italy’s Nefertiti Film.
The Flow Postproduction Award with €15,000 in postproduction facilities went...
Projects from the Benelux, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were among the award-winners at the ninth edition of Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (January 20-22).
The International Jury, which included Cinéfondation’s Georges Goldenstern, Slovak director Peter Kerekes and Ace’s Jacobine van der Vloed presented the Film Center Development Award with a cash prize of €5,000 to Francesco Montagner’s documentary Brotherhood, to be produced by Prague-based Nutprodukce with Italy’s Nefertiti Film.
The Flow Postproduction Award with €15,000 in postproduction facilities went...
- 1/25/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Lab ran outside of the Jerusalem Film Festival this year.
The 2018 Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, which this year ran outside of the Jerusalem Film Festival due to the latter’s shift in dates, presented its top prize to Turkish director Emre Kayis and producer Olena Yershova for their project Anatolian Leopard.
The feature is set in the oldest zoo in Turkey, which in the film is undergoing privatisation with one obstacle remaining– an endangered Anatolian leopard. When the zookeeper finds the animal dead, he is determined to keep the news secret and tells the police it has escaped from its cage.
The 2018 Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, which this year ran outside of the Jerusalem Film Festival due to the latter’s shift in dates, presented its top prize to Turkish director Emre Kayis and producer Olena Yershova for their project Anatolian Leopard.
The feature is set in the oldest zoo in Turkey, which in the film is undergoing privatisation with one obstacle remaining– an endangered Anatolian leopard. When the zookeeper finds the animal dead, he is determined to keep the news secret and tells the police it has escaped from its cage.
- 7/27/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Kiki Alvarez’s drama takes its place alongside five others in the Buenos Aires market’s post-production slate.
Soul Sisters (Las Chambelonas) marks Alvazrez’s follow-up to Venice, his drama that debuted in Toronto back in September 2014.
Primer Corte includes drama Los Últimos (Argentina) – the feature directorial debut of Nicolás Puenzo – and Natalia Beristain’s drama The Goodbyes (Los Adioses, Mexico).
Rounding out Primer Corte are drama Body Electric (Corpo Elétrico, Brazil) by Marcelo Caetano, comedy musical Las Malcogidas (Bolivia) by Denisse Arancibia, and comedy The Originals (Los Oriyinales, Colombia) by Harold Trompetero.
Cannes’ Cinefondation’s Georges Goldenstern selected the line-up. Ventana Sur runs from November 29-December 3.
Projects selected for the Trends platform showcasing new technologies are: Bad Winters Day (Maximiliano Trionfante, Argentina); Territoria (Gonzalo Sierra, Argentina); Sense 360 (Peterson Da Silva, Brazil); Vr Chinchorro (Diego Briet and Maria Court, Chile); Ancestros (Rodrigo Castellanos, Colombia); Cuerpos De Agua (Alvaro Rodriguez and Carlos Serrano, Colombia); and Fran...
Soul Sisters (Las Chambelonas) marks Alvazrez’s follow-up to Venice, his drama that debuted in Toronto back in September 2014.
Primer Corte includes drama Los Últimos (Argentina) – the feature directorial debut of Nicolás Puenzo – and Natalia Beristain’s drama The Goodbyes (Los Adioses, Mexico).
Rounding out Primer Corte are drama Body Electric (Corpo Elétrico, Brazil) by Marcelo Caetano, comedy musical Las Malcogidas (Bolivia) by Denisse Arancibia, and comedy The Originals (Los Oriyinales, Colombia) by Harold Trompetero.
Cannes’ Cinefondation’s Georges Goldenstern selected the line-up. Ventana Sur runs from November 29-December 3.
Projects selected for the Trends platform showcasing new technologies are: Bad Winters Day (Maximiliano Trionfante, Argentina); Territoria (Gonzalo Sierra, Argentina); Sense 360 (Peterson Da Silva, Brazil); Vr Chinchorro (Diego Briet and Maria Court, Chile); Ancestros (Rodrigo Castellanos, Colombia); Cuerpos De Agua (Alvaro Rodriguez and Carlos Serrano, Colombia); and Fran...
- 11/7/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Projects previously presented at the market include Laszlo Nemes’s Oscar-winning Son Of Saul.
The 14th CineLink Co-Production Market (Aug 18-20), the backbone of Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section, will this year present 15 projects from South-East Europe, and three guest projects from Qatar and Mexico.
CineLink boasts an impressive track record. An average of 60% of the projects that have taken part at the market in the last 13 years went all the way from development to production.
The most recent success is Laszlo Nemes’ Son Of Saul which won the Grand Prix at Cannes 2015 and Oscar for Best Foreign Language Films.
Other titles developed at the market include two winners of Venice’s Lion of the Future: White Shadow by Noaz Deshe, and Mold by Ali Aydin; two Berlinale Silver Bear winners: Harmony Lessons by Emir Baigazin and If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle by Florin Serban; and Semih Kaplanoglu’s 2010 Golden Bear winner Honey.
The...
The 14th CineLink Co-Production Market (Aug 18-20), the backbone of Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section, will this year present 15 projects from South-East Europe, and three guest projects from Qatar and Mexico.
CineLink boasts an impressive track record. An average of 60% of the projects that have taken part at the market in the last 13 years went all the way from development to production.
The most recent success is Laszlo Nemes’ Son Of Saul which won the Grand Prix at Cannes 2015 and Oscar for Best Foreign Language Films.
Other titles developed at the market include two winners of Venice’s Lion of the Future: White Shadow by Noaz Deshe, and Mold by Ali Aydin; two Berlinale Silver Bear winners: Harmony Lessons by Emir Baigazin and If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle by Florin Serban; and Semih Kaplanoglu’s 2010 Golden Bear winner Honey.
The...
- 8/17/2016
- ScreenDaily
This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of Film Comment and the Swiss Alliance of Film Journalists. The following interview, conducted by a member of the Critics Academy, focuses on a participant in the affiliated Filmmakers Academy program at the festival.
Watching “Varvari” (“Barbarians”), the first film feature of Yugoslavian filmmaker Ivan Ikić, one could easily have an impression of déjà-vu. Shown as part of the Filmmaker Academy’s screenings at the 69th Locarno International Film Festival, the film set in Yugoslavia depicts youth living on margins of society, that recalls the troubled kids populating the films of Alan Clarke or Ken Loach.
Read More: Here’s What One Young Filmmaker Learned From Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang...
Watching “Varvari” (“Barbarians”), the first film feature of Yugoslavian filmmaker Ivan Ikić, one could easily have an impression of déjà-vu. Shown as part of the Filmmaker Academy’s screenings at the 69th Locarno International Film Festival, the film set in Yugoslavia depicts youth living on margins of society, that recalls the troubled kids populating the films of Alan Clarke or Ken Loach.
Read More: Here’s What One Young Filmmaker Learned From Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang...
- 8/12/2016
- by Fanta Sylla
- Indiewire
Previewing the annual Latin American sales jamboree
Glance at the current profile of foreign-language Oscar contenders and the winners’ roster at major international festivals this year and the march of Latin American cinema in 2015 is clear for all to see.
César Augusto Acevedo’s Land And Shade and Ciro Guerra’s The Embrace Of The Serpent, the newly minted Indie Spirit nominee, earned four awards in Cannes, while Jayro Bustamante’s Guatemala-France drama Ixcanul took honours in Berlin.
Add to that list El Clan, the Argentinian thriller that earned Pablo Trapero a Silver Lion in Venice, and producers, sale agents and festival programmers heading to Buenos Aires for Ventana Sur (November 30-December 4) have reason to be cheerful.
“What we have seen is more and more attention for Latin American films,” says Jerome Paillard, executive co-director of Ventana Sur, a collaboration between Argentina’s Incaa film promotion body and Cannes (Paillard also serves as executive director of the...
Glance at the current profile of foreign-language Oscar contenders and the winners’ roster at major international festivals this year and the march of Latin American cinema in 2015 is clear for all to see.
César Augusto Acevedo’s Land And Shade and Ciro Guerra’s The Embrace Of The Serpent, the newly minted Indie Spirit nominee, earned four awards in Cannes, while Jayro Bustamante’s Guatemala-France drama Ixcanul took honours in Berlin.
Add to that list El Clan, the Argentinian thriller that earned Pablo Trapero a Silver Lion in Venice, and producers, sale agents and festival programmers heading to Buenos Aires for Ventana Sur (November 30-December 4) have reason to be cheerful.
“What we have seen is more and more attention for Latin American films,” says Jerome Paillard, executive co-director of Ventana Sur, a collaboration between Argentina’s Incaa film promotion body and Cannes (Paillard also serves as executive director of the...
- 11/26/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Screen previews the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry events, which includes a UK focus, the annual Regional Forum and highlights of the Work in Progress and CineLink projects.
Over the last ten years, Southeast Europe’s most important film event Sarajevo Film Festival has also become its main industry hub.
What started in 2003 with CineLink, a co-production market initially modeled after Rotterdam’s CineMart, has developed into an increasingly wide array of industry events, simultaneously expanding from the region towards Caucasus countries, and in recent years aiming to spread its activities and networking overseas, in partnerships with the Doha Film Institute, the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, and from this year, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine).
While the Industry Days peak in the final part of the festival, from August 20-23, its activities started on Sunday [17], with the presentation of the newly established Sarajevo City of Film Fund.
In addition to CineLink, the heart of...
Over the last ten years, Southeast Europe’s most important film event Sarajevo Film Festival has also become its main industry hub.
What started in 2003 with CineLink, a co-production market initially modeled after Rotterdam’s CineMart, has developed into an increasingly wide array of industry events, simultaneously expanding from the region towards Caucasus countries, and in recent years aiming to spread its activities and networking overseas, in partnerships with the Doha Film Institute, the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, and from this year, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine).
While the Industry Days peak in the final part of the festival, from August 20-23, its activities started on Sunday [17], with the presentation of the newly established Sarajevo City of Film Fund.
In addition to CineLink, the heart of...
- 8/18/2014
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Argentina’s Natural Sciences (Ciencias Naturales), directed by Matías Lucchesi, on Friday (December 6) won Ventana Sur’s main Primer Corte Award, the competitive section of films still in post-production.
The story of the journey of a girl in search of her father was honoured by the European sponsors of the fifth edition of the Latin American film market held in Buenos Aires. Cine + Club, Titratvs and Eye On Films supported the most senior prizes in Primer Corte this year through post production services and support for distribution in Europe.
Natural Sciences received an award for distribution, which represents €15,000 for the French company that acquires the title. The film will also benefit from post-production services at Titratvs of France (including €4,000 in digital copies and a bonus of €2,000 for colour grading if the film does its post at Titratvs.) There is also a €2,000 prize offered by Eye On Film to the French distributor of the film.
Max Zunino’s Open...
The story of the journey of a girl in search of her father was honoured by the European sponsors of the fifth edition of the Latin American film market held in Buenos Aires. Cine + Club, Titratvs and Eye On Films supported the most senior prizes in Primer Corte this year through post production services and support for distribution in Europe.
Natural Sciences received an award for distribution, which represents €15,000 for the French company that acquires the title. The film will also benefit from post-production services at Titratvs of France (including €4,000 in digital copies and a bonus of €2,000 for colour grading if the film does its post at Titratvs.) There is also a €2,000 prize offered by Eye On Film to the French distributor of the film.
Max Zunino’s Open...
- 12/7/2013
- by elaineguerini@terra.com.br (Elaine Guerini)
- ScreenDaily
The presence of Latin America films in Cannes has grown by 40% since 2009, when Ventana Sur was created by Incaa (Argentina’s film institute) and Marché du Film/Festival de Cannes.
This is one of the achievements of the film market that, now in its 5th edition (Dec 3-6) in Buenos Aires, has become the biggest gathering of its kind for Latin America’s titles.
“Ventana Sur has been instrumental in growing the Latin American presence in Cannes,” said Jérome Paillard, who shares the executive direction of Ventana Sur with Bernardo Bergeret.
“Pablo Giorgelli’s Las Acacias and Michael Rowe’s Año Bisiesto, which started their careers in Buenos Aires, won the Cannes Camera d’Or in 2011 and 2010, respectively.”
Bergeret added: “Other examples of films that had international recognition and started here are Paraisos Artificiales (Mexico), El Tunel de los Huesos (Argentina), Jardín de Amapolas (Colombia), De Martes a Martes (Argentina), Solo (Uruguay), Ausente (Argentina), Los insolitos peces gato...
This is one of the achievements of the film market that, now in its 5th edition (Dec 3-6) in Buenos Aires, has become the biggest gathering of its kind for Latin America’s titles.
“Ventana Sur has been instrumental in growing the Latin American presence in Cannes,” said Jérome Paillard, who shares the executive direction of Ventana Sur with Bernardo Bergeret.
“Pablo Giorgelli’s Las Acacias and Michael Rowe’s Año Bisiesto, which started their careers in Buenos Aires, won the Cannes Camera d’Or in 2011 and 2010, respectively.”
Bergeret added: “Other examples of films that had international recognition and started here are Paraisos Artificiales (Mexico), El Tunel de los Huesos (Argentina), Jardín de Amapolas (Colombia), De Martes a Martes (Argentina), Solo (Uruguay), Ausente (Argentina), Los insolitos peces gato...
- 12/3/2013
- by elaineguerini@terra.com.br (Elaine Guerini)
- ScreenDaily
Locarno, Aug 8: Georges Goldenstern, executive director of Cinefondation in Cannes, says he has come to the Locarno International Film Festival in search of young talented filmmakers from India and to ask them to apply for residence in Paris.
'I am looking for talent all over the world and this year I chose India so I'm curious to discover interesting projects and to ask them to apply for residence. I have met some of them,' Goldenstern told Ians.
Established in 2000, the Residence du Festival welcomes directors who work there.
'I am looking for talent all over the world and this year I chose India so I'm curious to discover interesting projects and to ask them to apply for residence. I have met some of them,' Goldenstern told Ians.
Established in 2000, the Residence du Festival welcomes directors who work there.
- 8/8/2011
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
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