This year’s event features an unprecedented increase in women directors and a new work-in-progress lab.
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Mar 13-15), which has its 15th edition this year, has revealed its lineup of 25 projects.
Unprecedentedly, nearly half of the projects are from female directors, about a third are by first-time directors and two rarely seen genres at Haf are included - science fiction and gothic thriller.
As with previous editions, Hong Kong has a strong presence with five projects, including Derek Chiu’s No.1 Chung Ying Street, a drama about the 1967 riots in Hong Kong; Sobel Chan’s The Goddess, a tribute to classic 1930s Chinese films; new director Sunny Chan’s Man On The Dragon, a comedy-drama about five middle-aged men who take part in a dragon boat competition; new director Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split, about a bowling athlete who becomes a world champion despite a fatal disease, produced by She...
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Mar 13-15), which has its 15th edition this year, has revealed its lineup of 25 projects.
Unprecedentedly, nearly half of the projects are from female directors, about a third are by first-time directors and two rarely seen genres at Haf are included - science fiction and gothic thriller.
As with previous editions, Hong Kong has a strong presence with five projects, including Derek Chiu’s No.1 Chung Ying Street, a drama about the 1967 riots in Hong Kong; Sobel Chan’s The Goddess, a tribute to classic 1930s Chinese films; new director Sunny Chan’s Man On The Dragon, a comedy-drama about five middle-aged men who take part in a dragon boat competition; new director Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split, about a bowling athlete who becomes a world champion despite a fatal disease, produced by She...
- 1/18/2017
- by screenasia@yahoo.com (Silvia Wong)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paris-based producer Alexa Rivero will co-produce Amit Dutta’s The Invisible One through her newly-established production company Altamar Films.
Rivero worked as a line producer on Asghar Farhadi’s The Past and was also production manager on films such as Javier Fuentes-León’s Undertow (2009) and Mehdi Ben Attia’s The String (2009).
She will produce The Invisible One with Mumbai-based Anjali Panjabi, who executive produced Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s Good Morning Karachi and line produced Mira Nair’s segment in omnibus film Words With Gods.
The Invisible One received Hubert Bals funding for script and project development in 2012 and has been selected for this year’s Co-production Market at Film Bazaar. It tells the story of a young man who moves to the big city and is forced to rent a room built on top of a tree.
Rivero worked as a line producer on Asghar Farhadi’s The Past and was also production manager on films such as Javier Fuentes-León’s Undertow (2009) and Mehdi Ben Attia’s The String (2009).
She will produce The Invisible One with Mumbai-based Anjali Panjabi, who executive produced Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s Good Morning Karachi and line produced Mira Nair’s segment in omnibus film Words With Gods.
The Invisible One received Hubert Bals funding for script and project development in 2012 and has been selected for this year’s Co-production Market at Film Bazaar. It tells the story of a young man who moves to the big city and is forced to rent a room built on top of a tree.
- 11/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
Mira Nair-produced Three And A Half and Amitav Kaul’s Interpreter Of Maladies are among the 32 projects selected for the Co-production Market of this year’s Film Bazaar (Nov 20-24) in Goa, India.
Three And A Half will be directed by Mira Nair’s long-time collaborator Sooni Taraporewala, while Interpreter Of Maladies is based on Pultizer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story.
Organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), the co-production market has previously selected projects such as Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, Kanu Behl’s Cannes title Titli and Chaitanya Tamhane’s recent Venice winner Court. This year’s selection comprises 18 projects from India and 14 from overseas.
The Indian line-up also includes six projects previously selected for Nfdc Screenwriters Lab, such as Aamir Bashir’s Winter and The Boyfriend from Vidur Nauriyal and Ashim Ahluwalia.
The international line-up includes two projects from the Us, two from Sri Lanka and projects from Pakistan, Afghanistan...
Three And A Half will be directed by Mira Nair’s long-time collaborator Sooni Taraporewala, while Interpreter Of Maladies is based on Pultizer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story.
Organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), the co-production market has previously selected projects such as Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, Kanu Behl’s Cannes title Titli and Chaitanya Tamhane’s recent Venice winner Court. This year’s selection comprises 18 projects from India and 14 from overseas.
The Indian line-up also includes six projects previously selected for Nfdc Screenwriters Lab, such as Aamir Bashir’s Winter and The Boyfriend from Vidur Nauriyal and Ashim Ahluwalia.
The international line-up includes two projects from the Us, two from Sri Lanka and projects from Pakistan, Afghanistan...
- 10/13/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) announced thirty-two projects selected for the Co-Production Market to be held during Film Bazaar in Goa from November 20-24, 2014.
The lineup includes 18 Indian and 14 international projects. The international projects include two films from the Us, two from Sri Lanka, a film from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Norway, France, Germany, Singapore and United Kingdom each and an Ifp project which is selected through Nfdc collaboration with Independent Filmmaker Project, USA.
Indian projects:
• By/Two – Directed by Devashish Makhija and produced by Dutta Dave
• The School – Directed by Suchita Bhhatia and produced by Vivek Kajaria
• Blossoms (Pallavi)- Directed and produced by Nila Madhab Panda
• Nuclear Hearts – Directed by Bornila Chatterjee and produced by Tanaji Dasgupta
• Seven (Saat)- Directed by Ashish Bende and produced by Suhrud Godbole
• Medium Spicy – Directed by Mohit Takalkar and produced by Nikhil Mahajan
• The Invisible One – Directed by Amit Datta...
The lineup includes 18 Indian and 14 international projects. The international projects include two films from the Us, two from Sri Lanka, a film from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Norway, France, Germany, Singapore and United Kingdom each and an Ifp project which is selected through Nfdc collaboration with Independent Filmmaker Project, USA.
Indian projects:
• By/Two – Directed by Devashish Makhija and produced by Dutta Dave
• The School – Directed by Suchita Bhhatia and produced by Vivek Kajaria
• Blossoms (Pallavi)- Directed and produced by Nila Madhab Panda
• Nuclear Hearts – Directed by Bornila Chatterjee and produced by Tanaji Dasgupta
• Seven (Saat)- Directed by Ashish Bende and produced by Suhrud Godbole
• Medium Spicy – Directed by Mohit Takalkar and produced by Nikhil Mahajan
• The Invisible One – Directed by Amit Datta...
- 10/13/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
D aawat Naama is one of the twenty-three films selected for the co- production market of Film Bazaar 2013. We spoke to the director Sabiha Sumar:
Sabiha Sumar
Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?
Daawat Naama is a mix of intrigue and family drama with song, dance, humour and a dash of tragedy. It is a coming of age story of two clans from opposite sides of the border who want to take their relationship to the next level but are encumbered by disturbing secrets. On one track we have our protagonist Rubs and her family. Rubs knows it’s no use trying to talk her husband Ashfaq out of inviting Abhinav Garewal to their daughter’s wedding to advance his political career by gaining useful contacts across the border. On the other track we have the Garewals, headed by Abhinav, who wants nothing to...
Sabiha Sumar
Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?
Daawat Naama is a mix of intrigue and family drama with song, dance, humour and a dash of tragedy. It is a coming of age story of two clans from opposite sides of the border who want to take their relationship to the next level but are encumbered by disturbing secrets. On one track we have our protagonist Rubs and her family. Rubs knows it’s no use trying to talk her husband Ashfaq out of inviting Abhinav Garewal to their daughter’s wedding to advance his political career by gaining useful contacts across the border. On the other track we have the Garewals, headed by Abhinav, who wants nothing to...
- 11/16/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Dok Leipzig’s Golden Dove for Best International Documentary went to the Us, while Norway scored a hat-trick at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck.
The top award in Leipzig’s International Documentary Competition went to Italian-born, Us-based film-maker Roberto Minervini’s Stop The Pounding Heart whose portrayal of a strict religious family was described by the jury as ¨refreshing and unsettling at the same time.¨
The Us-Belgian-Italian co-production is handled internationally by Doc & Film.
The Golden Dove in the German Documentary Competition was awarded to Carlo Zoratti for his feature-length debut The Special Need, while the newly-created Golden Dove for the animation-documentary hybrid form was presented to French director Daniela De Felice’s Casa.
A total of 18 prizes with cash awards totalling almost €70,000 ($95,000) included the Fipresci Prize for Gang Zhao’s A Folk Troupe; the Mdr Film Prize for Vitaly Mansky’s Pipeline; and the Youth Jury Prize to Joanna by Aneta Kopacz, a graduate...
The top award in Leipzig’s International Documentary Competition went to Italian-born, Us-based film-maker Roberto Minervini’s Stop The Pounding Heart whose portrayal of a strict religious family was described by the jury as ¨refreshing and unsettling at the same time.¨
The Us-Belgian-Italian co-production is handled internationally by Doc & Film.
The Golden Dove in the German Documentary Competition was awarded to Carlo Zoratti for his feature-length debut The Special Need, while the newly-created Golden Dove for the animation-documentary hybrid form was presented to French director Daniela De Felice’s Casa.
A total of 18 prizes with cash awards totalling almost €70,000 ($95,000) included the Fipresci Prize for Gang Zhao’s A Folk Troupe; the Mdr Film Prize for Vitaly Mansky’s Pipeline; and the Youth Jury Prize to Joanna by Aneta Kopacz, a graduate...
- 11/4/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Six Indian documentary films that underwent a year-long training programme called DocWok, will now be presented to an industry audience at Dok Leipzig (International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films) 2013. Trailers and clips of the films will be showcased on October 30, 2013 at Polnisches Institut Leipzig.
Through workshop sessions around the year, DocWok provides hands on training and guides filmmakers to find fresh ways of thinking about editing and dramaturgy, as well as sophisticated marketing, international film release and distribution. DocWok is orgnized by Dok Leipzig and Magic Lantern Movies, an imprint of Magic Lantern Foundation in New Delhi.
The 56th edition of Dok Leipzig will be held from October 28 –November 3, 2013.
The DocWok films to be presented are:
I Never Left
Director: Shazia Khan, Editor: Saba Rahman
Tahira is married to her lover but then the husband disappears. Now she is one among the many half widows in the strife torn Kashmir.
Through workshop sessions around the year, DocWok provides hands on training and guides filmmakers to find fresh ways of thinking about editing and dramaturgy, as well as sophisticated marketing, international film release and distribution. DocWok is orgnized by Dok Leipzig and Magic Lantern Movies, an imprint of Magic Lantern Foundation in New Delhi.
The 56th edition of Dok Leipzig will be held from October 28 –November 3, 2013.
The DocWok films to be presented are:
I Never Left
Director: Shazia Khan, Editor: Saba Rahman
Tahira is married to her lover but then the husband disappears. Now she is one among the many half widows in the strife torn Kashmir.
- 10/17/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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