The Walloon regional fund supports 11 projects including 8 features, amounting to a record-breaking total of €1,670,000. During its 99th session, held in exceptional circumstances, the Walloon regional fund Wallimage has chosen to distribute an amount higher than usual to support 11 audiovisual projects, including 8 feature films, in particular Entre la vie et la mort, the sophomore feature from screenwriter Giordano Gederlini, who showed his talents with Mothers' Instinct, Above the Law and Les Misérables. The thriller, set to star Spanish actor Antonio de la Torre and Marine Vacth, is produced in Belgium by Frakas and co-produced in France by Noodle Productions. Also supported is L’Empire du Silence, a documentary by Thierry Michel, produced by Les Films de la Passerelle. The Belgian director returns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country he has already long scrutinised and traveled, to investigate the double homicide of two United Nations...
The 47 projects for the first session of the year include works by Solange Cicurel and Stephan Streker.
The Film Selection Committee of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Fwb) has selected the 47 projects for funding at its first session of 2018.
The Committee has granted €3,569,000 to be split between 18 features, 18 documentaries, 8 shorts and 3 experimental films, with the money used for writing, development or production aid.
Fiction features awarded include Si J’Avais Su… by Solange Cicurel (Don’t Tell Her), a comedy about a family with alternative Scandinavian education methods, and Et Le Héros S’Évanouit by Stephan Streker (A Wedding).
Amongst the documentaries...
The Film Selection Committee of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Fwb) has selected the 47 projects for funding at its first session of 2018.
The Committee has granted €3,569,000 to be split between 18 features, 18 documentaries, 8 shorts and 3 experimental films, with the money used for writing, development or production aid.
Fiction features awarded include Si J’Avais Su… by Solange Cicurel (Don’t Tell Her), a comedy about a family with alternative Scandinavian education methods, and Et Le Héros S’Évanouit by Stephan Streker (A Wedding).
Amongst the documentaries...
- 5/22/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The principle of territoriality should be preserved for the European film industry in the European Commission’s (EC) plans for a Digital Single Market (Dsm) strategy, according to Günter Oettinger, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society.
Speaking at this year’s Munich Media Days conference, Oettinger argued that “if one is striving for a digital single market and has a digital vision of Europe, then, as a general rule, national boundaries should no longer be observed because they were created by Napoleon” and then re-drawn at international conferences in Vienna, Versailles, Potsdam and Yalta after the Napoleonic, First and Second World Wars, respectively.
“Napoleon knew little about digital services and communication or about electronic media,” he observed. “National boundaries may be important for culture, language, economic policy and education, but I regard national and regional boundaries to be increasingly irrelevant in the digital sector.”
Turning to the case of the film industry in Europe, he pointed...
Speaking at this year’s Munich Media Days conference, Oettinger argued that “if one is striving for a digital single market and has a digital vision of Europe, then, as a general rule, national boundaries should no longer be observed because they were created by Napoleon” and then re-drawn at international conferences in Vienna, Versailles, Potsdam and Yalta after the Napoleonic, First and Second World Wars, respectively.
“Napoleon knew little about digital services and communication or about electronic media,” he observed. “National boundaries may be important for culture, language, economic policy and education, but I regard national and regional boundaries to be increasingly irrelevant in the digital sector.”
Turning to the case of the film industry in Europe, he pointed...
- 10/27/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned a documentary about a Congolese doctor who aids rape victims, calling it a defamatory portrait of the country's military. Thierry Michel's The Man Who Mends Women tells the story of Dr. Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist who in 1999 opened a hospital in the Drc to treat women who were sexually assaulted during the country's decades-long civil war. By some estimates, Mukwege's efforts have saved over 40,000 lives; last year, he was given Europe's Sakharov Prize, awarded to those who dedicate their lives to human rights. The Drc has some of the highest levels of sexual violence in the world, as both militia groups and the country's army routinely use rape as a weapon of war. It seems likely that the film's refusal to whitewash the role the military plays in the Drc's rape epidemic was what led to its ban. The Man Who...
- 9/3/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
Total 47 film projects selected for Federation Wallonia-Brussels support.
The film selection committee of the Federation Wallonia Brussels hasselected 19 features, 10 shorts, 14 documentaries and four TV films for script, development or production support for a total amount of €3,267,000 ($4.2m).
Among the selected projects are new projects by Jaco Van Dormael, Thierry Michel, Olivier Masset-Depasse and Pauline Etienne.
Among the features selected for support are surrealist comedy Le Tout Nouveau Testament by Jaco Van Dormael, which he co-scripted with Thomas Gunzig and for which shooting in Belgium with Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve and Yolande Moreau has already started.
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, whose Amer and L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps won festival prizes, will make a film noir with the adaptation of a novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Laissez bronzer les cadavres.
Production support will also go to Animal, Frédéric Dumont’s second feature effort following Un ange à la mer, as well as...
The film selection committee of the Federation Wallonia Brussels hasselected 19 features, 10 shorts, 14 documentaries and four TV films for script, development or production support for a total amount of €3,267,000 ($4.2m).
Among the selected projects are new projects by Jaco Van Dormael, Thierry Michel, Olivier Masset-Depasse and Pauline Etienne.
Among the features selected for support are surrealist comedy Le Tout Nouveau Testament by Jaco Van Dormael, which he co-scripted with Thomas Gunzig and for which shooting in Belgium with Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve and Yolande Moreau has already started.
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, whose Amer and L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps won festival prizes, will make a film noir with the adaptation of a novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Laissez bronzer les cadavres.
Production support will also go to Animal, Frédéric Dumont’s second feature effort following Un ange à la mer, as well as...
- 9/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
International market dedicated to factual content runs June 23-26 in La Rochelle, France.
Sunny Side of the Doc is gearing up for its 25th anniversary, running June 23-26 in La Rochelle, France.
The international market dedicated to factual content is now open to every continent and, following the success this year’s Asian Side of the Doc, there will be a bigger Chinese delegation at this year’s event.
To mark its 25th anniversary, there will be free screenings of 17 films that have benefitted from Sunny Side, Asian Side or Latin Side including Gonzalo Arijón’s Battle for Rio, Tonislav Hristov’s Love and Engineering and Thierry Michel’s The Chebeya Affair, A State Crime?.
Panels at this year’s event include an exploration of how producers and broadcasters are confronting the issues of environmental pollution, how commercial funding can be integrated into the documentary ecology and the future for public service media.
The European...
Sunny Side of the Doc is gearing up for its 25th anniversary, running June 23-26 in La Rochelle, France.
The international market dedicated to factual content is now open to every continent and, following the success this year’s Asian Side of the Doc, there will be a bigger Chinese delegation at this year’s event.
To mark its 25th anniversary, there will be free screenings of 17 films that have benefitted from Sunny Side, Asian Side or Latin Side including Gonzalo Arijón’s Battle for Rio, Tonislav Hristov’s Love and Engineering and Thierry Michel’s The Chebeya Affair, A State Crime?.
Panels at this year’s event include an exploration of how producers and broadcasters are confronting the issues of environmental pollution, how commercial funding can be integrated into the documentary ecology and the future for public service media.
The European...
- 6/11/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Three productions from the French-speaking area of Belgium to be presented at upcoming Idfa, which runs Nov 20-Dec 1.
The International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (Idfa) has selected three productions from Wallonia Brussels to screen at its upcoming edition.
Thierry Michel’s The Irrésistible Rise of Moïse Katumbi [pictured] will screen in the Masters programme, while Sarah Vanagt’s Dust Breeding screens as part of Paradocs 2 (alongside Eitan Efrat & Sirah Foighel Brutmann’s Journal).
Additionally, Koen Vidal & Ibbe Daniëls’ Rêve Kakudji will compete in the Idfa competition for student/music documentary.
Idfa runs Nov 20-Dec 1.
The International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (Idfa) has selected three productions from Wallonia Brussels to screen at its upcoming edition.
Thierry Michel’s The Irrésistible Rise of Moïse Katumbi [pictured] will screen in the Masters programme, while Sarah Vanagt’s Dust Breeding screens as part of Paradocs 2 (alongside Eitan Efrat & Sirah Foighel Brutmann’s Journal).
Additionally, Koen Vidal & Ibbe Daniëls’ Rêve Kakudji will compete in the Idfa competition for student/music documentary.
Idfa runs Nov 20-Dec 1.
- 11/13/2013
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Today in history… September 7, 1997… Congo/Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, died in exile in Morocco, from prostate cancer.
On film, you’ll find Mobutu (played by Alex Descas) in Raoul Peck’s 2000 film, Lumumba - the story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba – a film that’s been previously mentioned on this blog. Mobutu isn’t prominently featured, as it is Lumumba’s story; the film ends with Mobutu seizing power and taking control of the region, on September 14, 1960, in a coup backed by the American CIA (Lumumba was eventually assassinated, as the film shows).
He renamed the country Zaire, and thus began his 30-year long totalitarian reign of violence, repression, and corruption, as he became one of the richest and most feared men in the world.
Also...
On film, you’ll find Mobutu (played by Alex Descas) in Raoul Peck’s 2000 film, Lumumba - the story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba – a film that’s been previously mentioned on this blog. Mobutu isn’t prominently featured, as it is Lumumba’s story; the film ends with Mobutu seizing power and taking control of the region, on September 14, 1960, in a coup backed by the American CIA (Lumumba was eventually assassinated, as the film shows).
He renamed the country Zaire, and thus began his 30-year long totalitarian reign of violence, repression, and corruption, as he became one of the richest and most feared men in the world.
Also...
- 9/7/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Chicago – We’re back with week two of the 13th Annual EU Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center, one of the best film events of the year in the Windy City. If you missed part one of our coverage, and want to relive highlights of last week, check it out here. On to week two…
This year’s edition, running from March 5th to April 1st, includes high profile films from world renowned filmmakers like Peter Greenaway, Jacques Rivette, Neil Jordan, Catherine Breillat, Amos Gital, Bruno Dumont, Jan Hrebejk and Caroline Link. Moviegoers should take note of the fact that several of these titles won’t be screened outside of the EU festival in Chicago, making their appearance here all the more priceless.
The 13th Annual European Union Film Festival includes 59 feature films, all of which are making their Chicago premiere. If you’ve had your fill with Hollywood,...
This year’s edition, running from March 5th to April 1st, includes high profile films from world renowned filmmakers like Peter Greenaway, Jacques Rivette, Neil Jordan, Catherine Breillat, Amos Gital, Bruno Dumont, Jan Hrebejk and Caroline Link. Moviegoers should take note of the fact that several of these titles won’t be screened outside of the EU festival in Chicago, making their appearance here all the more priceless.
The 13th Annual European Union Film Festival includes 59 feature films, all of which are making their Chicago premiere. If you’ve had your fill with Hollywood,...
- 3/11/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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