Writers Johan Fasting, Silje Storstein, and Kristin Grue are the recipients of the 2024 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for their political drama Power Play (Makta).
The trio were awarded the prize Tuesday evening during a ceremony on the first day of the Göteborg Film Festival’s series focused sidebar TV Drama Vision.
As part of the award, they will share a Nok 200 000 (approx € 20 000) award, funded by the Nordisk Film & TV fund. This is the eighth year Göteborg has been the home of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize. This year’s jury included Vinca Wiedemann, editor, producer, and screenwriter (Denmark); Joel Spira, actor, (Sweden); Kateryna Vyshnevska, producer (Ukraine); and Charlotte Winberg, journalist and critic (Finland).
Announcing this evening’s win, the jury said: “Choosing a winner from a diverse array of such high-quality drama has been both a privilege and a pleasure for us, the jury. The nominees have...
The trio were awarded the prize Tuesday evening during a ceremony on the first day of the Göteborg Film Festival’s series focused sidebar TV Drama Vision.
As part of the award, they will share a Nok 200 000 (approx € 20 000) award, funded by the Nordisk Film & TV fund. This is the eighth year Göteborg has been the home of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize. This year’s jury included Vinca Wiedemann, editor, producer, and screenwriter (Denmark); Joel Spira, actor, (Sweden); Kateryna Vyshnevska, producer (Ukraine); and Charlotte Winberg, journalist and critic (Finland).
Announcing this evening’s win, the jury said: “Choosing a winner from a diverse array of such high-quality drama has been both a privilege and a pleasure for us, the jury. The nominees have...
- 1/30/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Norwegian writer-director Kenneth Karlstad has won the 2023 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for his gritty coming-of-age series Kids in Crime.
Karlstad was awarded the prize Wednesday evening during a ceremony on the first day of the Göteborg Film Festival’s series focused sidebar TV Drama Vision.
As part of the award, Karlstad receives a Nok 200,000 cash prize, funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
This is the seventh year Göteborg has been awarded the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize. This year’s jury comprised actor Amanda Collin, producer Nebojša Taraba, journalist Wanda Bendjelloul, and producer Leif Holst Jensen.
Announcing Karlstad’s win, the jury said: “We have based our evaluation on three main criteria: craft, relevance, and originality. The winner has it all. It’s based on a true universe from a certain time. The authenticity, honesty, brutality, and friendship drive the story and engage the audience. Accuracy, details,...
Karlstad was awarded the prize Wednesday evening during a ceremony on the first day of the Göteborg Film Festival’s series focused sidebar TV Drama Vision.
As part of the award, Karlstad receives a Nok 200,000 cash prize, funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
This is the seventh year Göteborg has been awarded the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize. This year’s jury comprised actor Amanda Collin, producer Nebojša Taraba, journalist Wanda Bendjelloul, and producer Leif Holst Jensen.
Announcing Karlstad’s win, the jury said: “We have based our evaluation on three main criteria: craft, relevance, and originality. The winner has it all. It’s based on a true universe from a certain time. The authenticity, honesty, brutality, and friendship drive the story and engage the audience. Accuracy, details,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
GÖTEBORG, Sweden: “All the Sins”’ Finnish co-writers and creators Mika Ronkainen and Merja Aakko, winners of last year’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for outstanding Nordic screenplay, are developing for Mrk Matila Röhr Productions an adoption drama set between Finland and Guatemala.
Based on a true story, the six-part series “Act of Telling” (a working title) will examine child adoption through the story of a young Finnish couple and their Guatemala-born son. The respectable father has harbored a secret for seven years -a crime he committed when he travelled alone for the adoption. When a journalist friend starts to ask questions about the son’s biological parents, the mystery threatens to come to light.
Producer Ilkka Matilä said that Finnish public broadcaster Yle has ordered the concept from the writing duo. He’s now looking for a “potential co-production partner who could facilitate the Guatemala shoot.”
In early development,...
Based on a true story, the six-part series “Act of Telling” (a working title) will examine child adoption through the story of a young Finnish couple and their Guatemala-born son. The respectable father has harbored a secret for seven years -a crime he committed when he travelled alone for the adoption. When a journalist friend starts to ask questions about the son’s biological parents, the mystery threatens to come to light.
Producer Ilkka Matilä said that Finnish public broadcaster Yle has ordered the concept from the writing duo. He’s now looking for a “potential co-production partner who could facilitate the Guatemala shoot.”
In early development,...
- 1/25/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Elisa Viihde, the thriving Finnish Svod service, has ordered a second season of the local series “All the Sins” whose season one was a critical success and sold to over 30 countries.
The new season of “All the Sins,” written by the award-winning Mika Ronkainen and Merja Aakko, takes viewers back in time to the year 1999. A new millennium approaching, and there are causes for concern both in the secular and conservative worlds. After a husband and wife are found dead in their kitchen, a criminal investigation is launched.
Production on the show will kick off in January and the show is expected to bow on Elisa next Fall.
“All the Sins” received the award for Best Script at the Goteborg Film Festival, and it also competed for best TV drama at Zürich. “All the Sins” is also the only Finnish TV series chosen for the Nordic Film Days Lübeck festival.
The new season of “All the Sins,” written by the award-winning Mika Ronkainen and Merja Aakko, takes viewers back in time to the year 1999. A new millennium approaching, and there are causes for concern both in the secular and conservative worlds. After a husband and wife are found dead in their kitchen, a criminal investigation is launched.
Production on the show will kick off in January and the show is expected to bow on Elisa next Fall.
“All the Sins” received the award for Best Script at the Goteborg Film Festival, and it also competed for best TV drama at Zürich. “All the Sins” is also the only Finnish TV series chosen for the Nordic Film Days Lübeck festival.
- 10/14/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: This year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia will include spotlights on two high-profile international series, Chernobyl and The Feed, as part of the event’s industry program.
Launched in 2018, the TV Beats Forum, running November 25 – 26 this year, explores case studies of international and regional series with a view to influencing and growing the local industry.
Three executives from the UK’s All3Media will travel to Tallinn to host a case study on Amazon series The Feed, the sci-fi drama about a man’s invention of a brain implant that allows people to share thoughts. David Thewlis and Michelle Fairley star in the show written by Channing Powell. It was produced by Amazon with the UK’s Liberty Global, Studio Lambert and All3Media. The latter company’s Executive Vice President of Emea & European Co-Productions Stephen Driscoll, Acquisitions Executive Laura White and Sales Manager Debra Bergg...
Launched in 2018, the TV Beats Forum, running November 25 – 26 this year, explores case studies of international and regional series with a view to influencing and growing the local industry.
Three executives from the UK’s All3Media will travel to Tallinn to host a case study on Amazon series The Feed, the sci-fi drama about a man’s invention of a brain implant that allows people to share thoughts. David Thewlis and Michelle Fairley star in the show written by Channing Powell. It was produced by Amazon with the UK’s Liberty Global, Studio Lambert and All3Media. The latter company’s Executive Vice President of Emea & European Co-Productions Stephen Driscoll, Acquisitions Executive Laura White and Sales Manager Debra Bergg...
- 9/26/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Other winners include Transnistra, Lucky One, Season
May el-Toukhy’s Danish drama Queen Of Hearts has won Goteborg’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.
The cash award of $110,000 (1m Sek) makes it the world’s most lucrative film prize. The prize is financed by Presenting partner Volvo Car Group alongsie Region Västra Götaland and the City Council of Gothenburg.
The jury included directors Adina Pintilie, Jyoti Mistry and Dominga Sotomayor, author Hanne-Vibeke Holst and Nick James, editor of Sight & Sound.
They said Queen Of Hearts “is a many-layered film that challenges our preconceptions about the moral ad sexual forces...
May el-Toukhy’s Danish drama Queen Of Hearts has won Goteborg’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.
The cash award of $110,000 (1m Sek) makes it the world’s most lucrative film prize. The prize is financed by Presenting partner Volvo Car Group alongsie Region Västra Götaland and the City Council of Gothenburg.
The jury included directors Adina Pintilie, Jyoti Mistry and Dominga Sotomayor, author Hanne-Vibeke Holst and Nick James, editor of Sight & Sound.
They said Queen Of Hearts “is a many-layered film that challenges our preconceptions about the moral ad sexual forces...
- 2/3/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Mika Ronkainen and Merja Aakko won the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for outstanding writing on a Nordic drama series on Wednesday evening for “All the Sins,” a crime thriller and broken family drama set in Finland’s singular Bible belt and sod by Sky Vision.
The six-part series marks the first venture into series drama creation by documentary director Ronkainen, whose 2003’s “Screaming Men” played Sundance, and 2009’s “Freetime Machos” the Tribeca Film Festival, and by Aako, a former journalist specialized in human interest stories and social issues.
“All the Sins” is lead produced for Finnish VOD service Elisa Viihde by Ilkka Matila at Finland’s Mrp Matila Rohr Productions.
The series begins with detective Lauri Räiha being dispatched to investigate the murders of two men, both pillars of the ultra-conservative Laestadian religious community, in Varjakka, a small northern Finnish town where he grew up. He is accompanied by a senior officer,...
The six-part series marks the first venture into series drama creation by documentary director Ronkainen, whose 2003’s “Screaming Men” played Sundance, and 2009’s “Freetime Machos” the Tribeca Film Festival, and by Aako, a former journalist specialized in human interest stories and social issues.
“All the Sins” is lead produced for Finnish VOD service Elisa Viihde by Ilkka Matila at Finland’s Mrp Matila Rohr Productions.
The series begins with detective Lauri Räiha being dispatched to investigate the murders of two men, both pillars of the ultra-conservative Laestadian religious community, in Varjakka, a small northern Finnish town where he grew up. He is accompanied by a senior officer,...
- 1/30/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In “Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart,” Finland’s Mika Ronkainen, best known for his documentaries – 2003’s “Screaming Men,” 2009’s “Freetime Machos” – portrays the dislocation of 1970s Finnish emigrants in Sweden via a father-and-son musical road movie.
For “All the Sins,” a Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize entry written with Merja Aakko, Ronkainen takes very much the same elements – a genre, here the murder mystery; a near documentary depiction, here of small town bigotry; and cornerstone family relationships – and recasts them in a drama series, awash in a sense of (unmerited) shame and guilt, with a contemporary feminist turn. The result is a crime thriller which works on several levels.
“All the Sins” begins in classic Nordic Noir with a body winched upside down in a barn as a shadowy assassin draws a knife seemingly to dispatch the victim. But, diverging from the Nordic Noir playbook, we never see the corpse. After a ten-year absence,...
For “All the Sins,” a Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize entry written with Merja Aakko, Ronkainen takes very much the same elements – a genre, here the murder mystery; a near documentary depiction, here of small town bigotry; and cornerstone family relationships – and recasts them in a drama series, awash in a sense of (unmerited) shame and guilt, with a contemporary feminist turn. The result is a crime thriller which works on several levels.
“All the Sins” begins in classic Nordic Noir with a body winched upside down in a barn as a shadowy assassin draws a knife seemingly to dispatch the victim. But, diverging from the Nordic Noir playbook, we never see the corpse. After a ten-year absence,...
- 1/9/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“State of Happiness,” “The Flatey Enigma” and “The Inner Circle” are among the six Nordic drama series which will be presented at Goteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision and compete for the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize.
Written by Mette M. Bølstad (“Nobel”), “State of Happiness” follows four young characters who come from different backgrounds and are thrown into a whirlwind of opportunity during Norway’s oil boom of the 1970s.
“The Flatey Enigma,” written by Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, is a mystery thriller series based on Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson’s novels. “The Inner Circle,” penned by Håkan Lindhé, is a political thriller about an ambitious young man belonging to the Swedish political elite on a journey to fulfill his life long dream and become Prime Minister of Sweden.
The other nominated series are “Kieler Street,” written by Stig Frode Henriksen, Jesper Sundnes and Patrik Syversen; “All the Sins,” written by...
Written by Mette M. Bølstad (“Nobel”), “State of Happiness” follows four young characters who come from different backgrounds and are thrown into a whirlwind of opportunity during Norway’s oil boom of the 1970s.
“The Flatey Enigma,” written by Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, is a mystery thriller series based on Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson’s novels. “The Inner Circle,” penned by Håkan Lindhé, is a political thriller about an ambitious young man belonging to the Swedish political elite on a journey to fulfill his life long dream and become Prime Minister of Sweden.
The other nominated series are “Kieler Street,” written by Stig Frode Henriksen, Jesper Sundnes and Patrik Syversen; “All the Sins,” written by...
- 12/18/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Festival will take titles on tour to Edinbugh and Glasgow.
The Nordic Film Festival is returning to London for its second edition (Nov 25-Dec 4), focussing on films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
The 15-title strong programme will include five UK premieres and two London premieres. The line-up comprises family and youth dramas, crime thrillers, documentaries, animation, experimental film and shorts.
The festival will open with the UK premiere of Marcus Fjellstrom’s short noir animation series, Odboy and Erordog Suite, with live soundtrack performed by Swedish quartet The Pearls Before Swine Experience.
Other UK premieres include Rune Denstad Langlo’s Chasing the Wind; documentary My Stuff with a Q&A with director Petri Luukkainen; and documentary Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart with a Q&A with director Mika Ronkainen.
Other highlights include Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night and closing film You and Me Forever by director Kaspar Munk. The latter screening will be attended by lead...
The Nordic Film Festival is returning to London for its second edition (Nov 25-Dec 4), focussing on films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
The 15-title strong programme will include five UK premieres and two London premieres. The line-up comprises family and youth dramas, crime thrillers, documentaries, animation, experimental film and shorts.
The festival will open with the UK premiere of Marcus Fjellstrom’s short noir animation series, Odboy and Erordog Suite, with live soundtrack performed by Swedish quartet The Pearls Before Swine Experience.
Other UK premieres include Rune Denstad Langlo’s Chasing the Wind; documentary My Stuff with a Q&A with director Petri Luukkainen; and documentary Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart with a Q&A with director Mika Ronkainen.
Other highlights include Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night and closing film You and Me Forever by director Kaspar Munk. The latter screening will be attended by lead...
- 11/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
The second edition of the Finnish Film Affair, scheduled for Sept 24-26 in Helsinki, will again showcase hot local titles and works in progress.
This year’s event boasts an expanded guest list of sales agents, buyers and festival programmers, including representatives from Zdf/Arte, Celluloid Dreams, Wild Bunch, Hanway, Tribeca, Palm Springs, Rotterdam and Locarno. About 200 industry experts will attend.
“The first edition introduced the Finnish Film Affair to international decision makers,” said Sara Norberg, executive director of the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, which launched the event. “We’re very proud that the success of last year’s works-in-progress and the positive buzz around the event has attracted even more interest from the international industry.”
The new films to be screened include Toronto-bound titles Concrete Night by Pirjo Honkasalo and Heart of Lion by Dome Karukoski, in addition to other festival selections such as Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart by Mika Ronkainen and Alcan Highway by Aleksi...
This year’s event boasts an expanded guest list of sales agents, buyers and festival programmers, including representatives from Zdf/Arte, Celluloid Dreams, Wild Bunch, Hanway, Tribeca, Palm Springs, Rotterdam and Locarno. About 200 industry experts will attend.
“The first edition introduced the Finnish Film Affair to international decision makers,” said Sara Norberg, executive director of the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, which launched the event. “We’re very proud that the success of last year’s works-in-progress and the positive buzz around the event has attracted even more interest from the international industry.”
The new films to be screened include Toronto-bound titles Concrete Night by Pirjo Honkasalo and Heart of Lion by Dome Karukoski, in addition to other festival selections such as Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart by Mika Ronkainen and Alcan Highway by Aleksi...
- 8/21/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"The Films of Rita Hayworth"
Released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
A collection of five of the brunette bombshell's films -- the 1944 Gene Kelly musical "Cover Girl" and her most famous film "Gilda," as well as the 1945 musical "Tonight and Every Night," "Miss Sadie Thompson" and "Salome," which are making their first appearance on DVD -- with introductions by Martin Scorsese on "Tonight and Every Night," Baz Luhrmann on "Cover Girl" and Patricia Clarkson on "Miss Sadie Thompson," the original trailers for each of the films and a featurette with Scorsese and Luhrmann comparing notes on "Gilda."
"Angel"
Directed by François Ozon
Released by Mpi Home Video
It's been a long journey for French filmmaker Ozon's first fully-English film - he's already made three others since "Angel" premiered at Berlinale in 2007, but it boasts a bunch of big names including Michael Fassbender,...
"The Films of Rita Hayworth"
Released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
A collection of five of the brunette bombshell's films -- the 1944 Gene Kelly musical "Cover Girl" and her most famous film "Gilda," as well as the 1945 musical "Tonight and Every Night," "Miss Sadie Thompson" and "Salome," which are making their first appearance on DVD -- with introductions by Martin Scorsese on "Tonight and Every Night," Baz Luhrmann on "Cover Girl" and Patricia Clarkson on "Miss Sadie Thompson," the original trailers for each of the films and a featurette with Scorsese and Luhrmann comparing notes on "Gilda."
"Angel"
Directed by François Ozon
Released by Mpi Home Video
It's been a long journey for French filmmaker Ozon's first fully-English film - he's already made three others since "Angel" premiered at Berlinale in 2007, but it boasts a bunch of big names including Michael Fassbender,...
- 12/20/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
For my latest bit of virtual tourism via the the online streaming program of the Tribeca Film Festival, I visited Northern Finland, specifically the city of Oulu, which apparently has the worst rugby team in the nation. Documented throughout a single season by Mika Ronkainen for his film Freetime Machos, the underdogs sadly never come up from behind to make a dramatic championship victory, as they might in a Hollywood production. But that somewhat works to the advantage of the doc's exploration of modern masculinity within a constantly humiliated sports club.
I say somewhat, because I was honestly bored for much of the film's 86 minutes, whether it was the result of my having no understanding or interest in rugby or the matter of tedious repetition on the part of the story. Here's another game, they lose, they sauna, they get drunk, wrestle a bit in their skivvies, have serious or...
I say somewhat, because I was honestly bored for much of the film's 86 minutes, whether it was the result of my having no understanding or interest in rugby or the matter of tedious repetition on the part of the story. Here's another game, they lose, they sauna, they get drunk, wrestle a bit in their skivvies, have serious or...
- 4/27/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
If you've ever wondered to yourself, 'Gee, I wonder what the northernmost rugby team in the world is?' then Freetime Machos is the film you want to see at Tribeca this year. Something like a This Is Spinal Tap (but genuine) about a fairly poor rugby team in Northern Finland, Freetime Machos emerges as a compelling, intimate portrait of a team of men who play as much for love of the game as for an escape-space where they can avoid their nagging wives and girlfriends and the larger concerns in their lives. Focusing on a friendship between two players - Matti Keranen and Mikko Koljonen - director Mika Ronkainen manages to evoke the emotional fabric of the team with great strength. The film's North American premiere was Sunday night at the Village East Cinemas. After the screening, Ronkainen came out, alongside four of the team's members and its coach,...
- 4/26/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Freetime Machos
If you're not offended by blond, Finnish, amateur rugby players who have a penchant for blowup dolls, homosexual allusions, the frequent use of “pussy,” and a fear of being fired by their employer, Nokia, Mika Ronkainen’s affable documentary might just be up your alley.
This oddball look at the Oulos, the third lousiest rugby team from their area, clearly argues that men will be men no matter the latitude: “In Finland, you rather get stabbed in the back than complain of female trouble.”
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If you're not offended by blond, Finnish, amateur rugby players who have a penchant for blowup dolls, homosexual allusions, the frequent use of “pussy,” and a fear of being fired by their employer, Nokia, Mika Ronkainen’s affable documentary might just be up your alley.
This oddball look at the Oulos, the third lousiest rugby team from their area, clearly argues that men will be men no matter the latitude: “In Finland, you rather get stabbed in the back than complain of female trouble.”
read more...
- 4/25/2010
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
Documentary filmmaker Mika Ronkainen will premiere his latest raucous documentary "Freetime Machos," to North American audiences at Tribeca. Matti and Mikko play for Finland's worst amateur rugby team. Overworked and domesticated, the two men long for a space to revel in their masculinity and bond with other men. While weekend rugby allows them to indulge in a communal fantasy of virility, between practices the teammates struggle with their more real and ...
- 4/16/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Documentary filmmaker Mika Ronkainen will premiere his latest raucous documentary "Freetime Machos," to North American audiences at Tribeca. Matti and Mikko play for Finland's worst amateur rugby team. Overworked and domesticated, the two men long for a space to revel in their masculinity and bond with other men. While weekend rugby allows them to indulge in a communal fantasy of virility, between practices the teammates struggle with their more real and ...
- 4/16/2010
- Indiewire
TribecaFilm.com: Tell us a little about Freetime Machos. What inspired you to tell this story? Mika Ronkainen: I was under the impression that nobody played rugby up in northern Finland where I come from. And I must say, I had a bit of stereotypical prejudice about men who play rugby, you know. So when I heard about the team, I was immediately intrigued. And when I went to see them play, and I saw how they were together, I fell in love with them. They proved my stereotypes wrong. If you have great characters in an unusual setting, you can't fail. I realized I had great characters, and I could relate to them. Then it struck me that rugby was a sorf of last masculine resort for them in modern Finland. At work you don't use your physical masculinity that much anymore, and at home the role of...
- 4/14/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
The ongoing media shift to online entertainment has just moved even further. The Tribeca Film Festival has decided to bring its annual festival online to home viewers. If you've ever waited on the lines at Tribeca, you can understand the importance of this digital upgrade. Now, you'll be able to bypass the lines - at least for a select group of films. Right now, the festival only appears to be screening eight feature film, which Tribeca is calling premium films, and 18 shorts from their full schedule. The feature films include: - Buried Land from Directors Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood - Elvis & Madona Directed by Marcelo Laffitte - Freetime Machos Directed by Mika Ronkainen - Into the Cold Directed by Sebastian Copeland - Nice Guy Johnny Directed by Edward Burns - Possessed Directed by Lee Yong-ju - The Sentimental Engine Slayer Directed by Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Spork Directed...
- 4/6/2010
- by Alexis James-Whitehead
- BuzzFocus.com
Ice Cube's documentary about the Los Angeles Raiders, "Straight Outta L.A.," will have its world premiere April 23 at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival as it launches the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival, which runs April 21-May 2.
"Straight" is part of Espn's "30 for 30," a collection of sports docs marking the sports net's 30th anniversary. "Straight" will be broadcast by Espn on May 11.
Entering its fourth year, the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival spotlights indie films about sports and competition. This year's lineup also includes: Jeff Tremaine's "The Birth of Big Air"; Mika Ronkainen's "Freetime Machos"; Sebastian Copeland's "Into the Cold"; Bjoern Richie Lob's "Keep Surfing"; Jon Small and Greg Whitely's "Last Play at Shea"; and Jeff Zimbalist's "The Two Escobars."...
"Straight" is part of Espn's "30 for 30," a collection of sports docs marking the sports net's 30th anniversary. "Straight" will be broadcast by Espn on May 11.
Entering its fourth year, the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival spotlights indie films about sports and competition. This year's lineup also includes: Jeff Tremaine's "The Birth of Big Air"; Mika Ronkainen's "Freetime Machos"; Sebastian Copeland's "Into the Cold"; Bjoern Richie Lob's "Keep Surfing"; Jon Small and Greg Whitely's "Last Play at Shea"; and Jeff Zimbalist's "The Two Escobars."...
- 3/17/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
While most eyes are on Austin, Texas this week for SXSW, many people on the East Coast eagerly await a closer show as this year’s Tribeca Film Festival kicks off on April 21st. The festival is mainly for indie pictures, rather than the larger, blockbuster films, but is also a great place for up-and-coming directors and writers to showcase their work.
With the festival coming up in just over a month, they are already rolling out this year’s schedule and have announced the first 34 films out of a total of 85 feature length and 47 shorts screening at this year’s fest. Among the titles were those submitted to the World Narrative and Documentary competition, as well as the Showcase and Special Events.
Some of the titles look to be quite intriguing, and could include some of the bigger names of the next decade. Be sure to check out the...
With the festival coming up in just over a month, they are already rolling out this year’s schedule and have announced the first 34 films out of a total of 85 feature length and 47 shorts screening at this year’s fest. Among the titles were those submitted to the World Narrative and Documentary competition, as well as the Showcase and Special Events.
Some of the titles look to be quite intriguing, and could include some of the bigger names of the next decade. Be sure to check out the...
- 3/11/2010
- by Matt Raub
- The Flickcast
9th Annual Festival to Present 85 Feature-Length and 47 Short Film Selections from April 21 – May 2, 2010
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Tribeca Film Festival Virtual and Tribeca Film Boost Festival Reach
New York, NY [March 10, 2010] – The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced the first 34 films to be presented among the 85 feature length and 47 short films at this year’s Festival. The 34 titles include 24 World Narrative and Documentary Competition films, as well as out-of-competition feature film selections in the Showcase and Special Events sections.
The 2010 Tff will take place from April 21 to May 2 in lower Manhattan. The 2010 film selection encompasses feature films from 38 different countries, including 45 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres and 12 New York Premieres, among which are 7 titles which are part of the fourth annual Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival. 96 directors will be presenting feature works at the Festival, with 38 of these filmmakers presenting...
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Tribeca Film Festival Virtual and Tribeca Film Boost Festival Reach
New York, NY [March 10, 2010] – The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced the first 34 films to be presented among the 85 feature length and 47 short films at this year’s Festival. The 34 titles include 24 World Narrative and Documentary Competition films, as well as out-of-competition feature film selections in the Showcase and Special Events sections.
The 2010 Tff will take place from April 21 to May 2 in lower Manhattan. The 2010 film selection encompasses feature films from 38 different countries, including 45 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres and 12 New York Premieres, among which are 7 titles which are part of the fourth annual Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival. 96 directors will be presenting feature works at the Festival, with 38 of these filmmakers presenting...
- 3/10/2010
- Makingof.com
The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival has announced its scheduled lineup -- and just like its home, New York City, its got a little bit of everything.
The Festival will kick off with the world premiere of DreamWorks' 3D "Shrek Forever After."
But then it launches into a darker realm with documentaries like Alex Gibney's latest. The Oscar-winning director ("Taxi to the Dark Side") will screen his new untitled doc on the former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, who resigned his post in 2008 due to a sex scandal, as a work-in-progress. The film will screen as one of three special events that festival organizers announced Wednesday (Mar. 10).
The Special Events section also includes another work-in-progress screening of "The Western Front." This documentary follows its writer/director and Marine, Zachary Iscol, who returns to his battle site in Iraq's Al Anbar province. David Lean's 1965 classic "Doctor Zhivago" got a make-over for its 45th anniversary,...
The Festival will kick off with the world premiere of DreamWorks' 3D "Shrek Forever After."
But then it launches into a darker realm with documentaries like Alex Gibney's latest. The Oscar-winning director ("Taxi to the Dark Side") will screen his new untitled doc on the former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, who resigned his post in 2008 due to a sex scandal, as a work-in-progress. The film will screen as one of three special events that festival organizers announced Wednesday (Mar. 10).
The Special Events section also includes another work-in-progress screening of "The Western Front." This documentary follows its writer/director and Marine, Zachary Iscol, who returns to his battle site in Iraq's Al Anbar province. David Lean's 1965 classic "Doctor Zhivago" got a make-over for its 45th anniversary,...
- 3/10/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Tribeca International Film Festival announced the first 34 feature films of the 2010 festival slate. “This year’s competition, the core of the Festival, represents contemporary international filmmaking at its finest, bringing together fresh voices with established storytellers. These stories will leave audiences engaged, as well as entertained, which is what our Festival is all about,” said David Kwok, Director of Programming for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Representing 8 countries, this year’s World Narrative Feature Competition will be an international film collection created by many first- and second-time directors. 7 of the films here in this section are World Premieres. Road, Movie directed by Dev Benegal will be screened in ‘Showcase’ section of the festival. The lineup is as follows:
World Narrative Feature Competition "Buried Land," directed by Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood, written by Rhodes, Eastwood and Dzenan Medanovic. Set in a war-torn town in Bosnia that attracts tourists visiting ancient pyramids.
Representing 8 countries, this year’s World Narrative Feature Competition will be an international film collection created by many first- and second-time directors. 7 of the films here in this section are World Premieres. Road, Movie directed by Dev Benegal will be screened in ‘Showcase’ section of the festival. The lineup is as follows:
World Narrative Feature Competition "Buried Land," directed by Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood, written by Rhodes, Eastwood and Dzenan Medanovic. Set in a war-torn town in Bosnia that attracts tourists visiting ancient pyramids.
- 3/10/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Alex Gibney's latest documentary, a portrait of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned his post in 2008 because of a sex scandal, will be spotlighted at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 21 to May 2 in New York.
The currently untitled film from the director of the Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side," will screen as a work-in-progress as one of three special events that festival organizers unveiled today.
"I think people will be really surprised," said David Kwok, the festival's director of programming. "It doesn't just focus on the scandal. It's more comprehensive than that, looking at Eliot Spitzer as a person and at his entire career."
Also playing in the fest's Special Events section are David Lean's 1965 epic "Doctor Zhivago," marking its 45th anniversary with a new restoration that will be released by Warner Home Video, and a work-in-progress screening of the doc "The Western Front,...
The currently untitled film from the director of the Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side," will screen as a work-in-progress as one of three special events that festival organizers unveiled today.
"I think people will be really surprised," said David Kwok, the festival's director of programming. "It doesn't just focus on the scandal. It's more comprehensive than that, looking at Eliot Spitzer as a person and at his entire career."
Also playing in the fest's Special Events section are David Lean's 1965 epic "Doctor Zhivago," marking its 45th anniversary with a new restoration that will be released by Warner Home Video, and a work-in-progress screening of the doc "The Western Front,...
- 3/10/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Channel has acquired four documentaries from the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for the network's Docday programming block: The Five Obstructions, by Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier; The Garden, by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash; Investigation Into the Invisible World, by Jean Michel Roux; and Screaming Men, by Mika Ronkainen.
- 3/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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