Sheffield DocFest has selected 50 projects for the 2024 edition of MeetMarket, its pitching event for documentary films at development, production and rough cut stage.
Titles in the selection include Rachel Close’s One Of Us, a Romanian film in co-production with the UK. The film sees UK-Romanian filmmaker Close travel to Romania to help a stranger search for her birth mother. The project is produced by Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, who previously produced Berlinale 2023 selection Between Revolutions, and Elena Martin.
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The five Rough Cut projects include Isabel Alcantara and Alfredo Alcantara’s Mexican title The Age Of Water,...
Titles in the selection include Rachel Close’s One Of Us, a Romanian film in co-production with the UK. The film sees UK-Romanian filmmaker Close travel to Romania to help a stranger search for her birth mother. The project is produced by Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, who previously produced Berlinale 2023 selection Between Revolutions, and Elena Martin.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
The five Rough Cut projects include Isabel Alcantara and Alfredo Alcantara’s Mexican title The Age Of Water,...
- 4/25/2024
- ScreenDaily
Sheffield DocFest has selected 50 projects for the 2024 edition of MeetMarket, its pitching event for documentary films at development, production and rough cut stage.
Titles in the selection include Rachel Close’s One Of Us, a Romanian film in co-production with the UK. The film sees UK-Romanian filmmaker Close travel to Romania to help a stranger search for her birth mother. The project is produced by Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, who previously produced Berlinale 2023 selection Between Revolutions, and Elena Martin.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
The five Rough Cut projects include Isabel Alcantara and Alfredo Alcantara’s Mexican title The Age Of Water,...
Titles in the selection include Rachel Close’s One Of Us, a Romanian film in co-production with the UK. The film sees UK-Romanian filmmaker Close travel to Romania to help a stranger search for her birth mother. The project is produced by Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, who previously produced Berlinale 2023 selection Between Revolutions, and Elena Martin.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
The five Rough Cut projects include Isabel Alcantara and Alfredo Alcantara’s Mexican title The Age Of Water,...
- 4/25/2024
- ScreenDaily
Amid the cinema closures, redundancies and cancellations across the U.K. due to the coronavirus pandemic, institutions big and small are exploring myriad ways to stay in business — some more controversial than others.
Genesis, an independent cinema in East London, remained open until Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered all cinemas and theaters to shut down Friday to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Cinema director Tyrone Walker-Hebborn tells Variety that Genesis stayed open in order to “offer a moment of entertainment and escapism” during the crisis. Walker-Hebborn was personally on site every day to manage and assess the situation on a daily basis while the cinema was open.
Genesis took precautions by halving its capacity due to social distancing requirements, advising staff to self-isolate if they displayed any coronavirus symptoms, and requiring all customers and staff to wash their hands for at least 20 seconds. At any given time, only 3.5% of the cinema was occupied.
Genesis, an independent cinema in East London, remained open until Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered all cinemas and theaters to shut down Friday to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Cinema director Tyrone Walker-Hebborn tells Variety that Genesis stayed open in order to “offer a moment of entertainment and escapism” during the crisis. Walker-Hebborn was personally on site every day to manage and assess the situation on a daily basis while the cinema was open.
Genesis took precautions by halving its capacity due to social distancing requirements, advising staff to self-isolate if they displayed any coronavirus symptoms, and requiring all customers and staff to wash their hands for at least 20 seconds. At any given time, only 3.5% of the cinema was occupied.
- 3/20/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Jaime Winstone to lead cast for Rose Tremain adaptation.
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Pippa Cross have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their planned feature film adaptation of Rose Tremain’s novel Sacred Country.
The story is about a 6-year-old girl, Mary Ward, in rural Suffolk in 1952 who realises she is a boy. The film follows Mary’s quest to become Martin over the next three decades.
The Indiegogo campaign is now live at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sacred-country, and aims to raise £50,000 of the film’s initial funding in the next five weeks.
Producer Cross, whose credits include Bloody Sunday and Shooting Dogs, told Screen that the crowdfunding campaign was about more than raising money, but showing other potential partners that there is an engaged community and audience for the film, including Lgbt networks and Tremain readers.
“It’s not a niche film but it can start with a niche audience,” Cross said. “The...
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Pippa Cross have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their planned feature film adaptation of Rose Tremain’s novel Sacred Country.
The story is about a 6-year-old girl, Mary Ward, in rural Suffolk in 1952 who realises she is a boy. The film follows Mary’s quest to become Martin over the next three decades.
The Indiegogo campaign is now live at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sacred-country, and aims to raise £50,000 of the film’s initial funding in the next five weeks.
Producer Cross, whose credits include Bloody Sunday and Shooting Dogs, told Screen that the crowdfunding campaign was about more than raising money, but showing other potential partners that there is an engaged community and audience for the film, including Lgbt networks and Tremain readers.
“It’s not a niche film but it can start with a niche audience,” Cross said. “The...
- 3/2/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Brenda Blethyn in Vera on AcornTV. RLJEntertainment.com
Two-time Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn was ecstatic when her agent told her she had been cast as the lead role in a new detective series. The show was to be based around the Vera Stanhope novels by author Ann Cleeves. Brenda quickly began reading the novels so she could learn more about her new role.
“I started reading the series and Vera didn’t appear until halfway through the first book. She was described as a lumbering bag lady who looked as if she had nowhere to go. I thought ‘hold on a minute, why have they chosen me for this role,’ but I read on and I fell in love with her.”
In talking to Brenda Blethyn it quickly becomes apparent that she is nothing like the TV detective. She is warm, funny and she has a distinctly Southern accent. She is also quite stylish.
Two-time Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn was ecstatic when her agent told her she had been cast as the lead role in a new detective series. The show was to be based around the Vera Stanhope novels by author Ann Cleeves. Brenda quickly began reading the novels so she could learn more about her new role.
“I started reading the series and Vera didn’t appear until halfway through the first book. She was described as a lumbering bag lady who looked as if she had nowhere to go. I thought ‘hold on a minute, why have they chosen me for this role,’ but I read on and I fell in love with her.”
In talking to Brenda Blethyn it quickly becomes apparent that she is nothing like the TV detective. She is warm, funny and she has a distinctly Southern accent. She is also quite stylish.
- 2/17/2014
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Neruda
"No" director Pablo Larrain is set to helm the biopic "Neruda" which follows 1971 Nobel Prize-winning Latin American poet Pablo Neruda. Larrain and Guillermo Calderon will pen the script.
Fabula produces the project about the key moment in between 1946 and 1948 when Neruda became a member of Chile's Communist Party, was elected Senator, spoke out against the imprisonment of striking miners and threatened with arrest, went into hiding and began writing his famed work 'Canto General'. [Source: Variety]
Year of Wonders
Jan Dunn ("Gypo") is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' 2001 Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Year of Wonders" at Violet Pictures.
The story follows a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague. Michael Knowles and James Collie will produce. [Source: Screen]
Blowback
Janus Metz ("Armadillo") is set to helm the London-set action thriller "Blowback" for Shine Pictures and American Entertainment Investors.
"No" director Pablo Larrain is set to helm the biopic "Neruda" which follows 1971 Nobel Prize-winning Latin American poet Pablo Neruda. Larrain and Guillermo Calderon will pen the script.
Fabula produces the project about the key moment in between 1946 and 1948 when Neruda became a member of Chile's Communist Party, was elected Senator, spoke out against the imprisonment of striking miners and threatened with arrest, went into hiding and began writing his famed work 'Canto General'. [Source: Variety]
Year of Wonders
Jan Dunn ("Gypo") is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' 2001 Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Year of Wonders" at Violet Pictures.
The story follows a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague. Michael Knowles and James Collie will produce. [Source: Screen]
Blowback
Janus Metz ("Armadillo") is set to helm the London-set action thriller "Blowback" for Shine Pictures and American Entertainment Investors.
- 2/11/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Jan Dunn (Gypo) is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders for producers Michael Knowles of NoW Films and James Collie of Violet Pictures.
Creative England is backing the project’s development.
Pulitzer winner Brooks’ 2001 novel Year of Wonders is a fictionalised story about a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague.
Dunn is also directing another adaptation, Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, which will start pre-production this spring.
Creative England is backing the project’s development.
Pulitzer winner Brooks’ 2001 novel Year of Wonders is a fictionalised story about a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague.
Dunn is also directing another adaptation, Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, which will start pre-production this spring.
- 2/9/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Every week we ask a reader to tell us about where they go to watch films. This week, a volunteer-run and affordable community picture house
This week's Cine-files is from Laura Robertson, co-founder and editor of film site The Double Negative
Location
A short walk from Waterloo train station, located on main high street Crosby Road North – you can't miss it. About a 15-minute train ride from Liverpool City centre on the Southport line.
Building
Art Deco in style, built in 1939, the Plaza initially opened and closed on the same day due to the outbreak of war. Boasting original banisters, with a sympathetic refurb in 2011 adding 30s style flooring, new cosy seats and a curved, traditional kiosk, the cinema has a lovely retro feel. Converted into a three-screen cinema in the 1970s, the Plaza has two mini screens (97 seats) and a large main auditorium (600 seats).
Much loved by the locals,...
This week's Cine-files is from Laura Robertson, co-founder and editor of film site The Double Negative
Location
A short walk from Waterloo train station, located on main high street Crosby Road North – you can't miss it. About a 15-minute train ride from Liverpool City centre on the Southport line.
Building
Art Deco in style, built in 1939, the Plaza initially opened and closed on the same day due to the outbreak of war. Boasting original banisters, with a sympathetic refurb in 2011 adding 30s style flooring, new cosy seats and a curved, traditional kiosk, the cinema has a lovely retro feel. Converted into a three-screen cinema in the 1970s, the Plaza has two mini screens (97 seats) and a large main auditorium (600 seats).
Much loved by the locals,...
- 11/27/2012
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
Life During Wartime (15)
(Todd Solondz, 2009, Us) Shirley Henderson, Paul Reubens, Ciarán Hinds. 98 mins.
It doesn't matter if you don't remember too much about Solondz's 1998 hit Happiness beyond taboo subjects and squirmingly dark comedy, since the characters are played by completely different actors. It sort of fits, as they've all relocated to Florida, seeking a new start, but they shouldn't get their hopes up. The treatment is similarly unforgiving and uncomfortable, often captivatingly so, and happiness is as distant a prospect as ever.
Dogtooth (18)
(Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009, Gre) Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni. 97 mins.
Front-runner for oddest film of the year: a warped slice of domestic surrealism in which a family wall in their teenage kids and creatively misinform them about the outside world. It's so wrong, you've got to laugh.
Date Night (15)
(Shawn Levy, 2010, Us) Tina Fey, Steve Carell. 88 mins.
Michael Scott and Liz Lemon – a match made in small-screen heaven keeps...
(Todd Solondz, 2009, Us) Shirley Henderson, Paul Reubens, Ciarán Hinds. 98 mins.
It doesn't matter if you don't remember too much about Solondz's 1998 hit Happiness beyond taboo subjects and squirmingly dark comedy, since the characters are played by completely different actors. It sort of fits, as they've all relocated to Florida, seeking a new start, but they shouldn't get their hopes up. The treatment is similarly unforgiving and uncomfortable, often captivatingly so, and happiness is as distant a prospect as ever.
Dogtooth (18)
(Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009, Gre) Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni. 97 mins.
Front-runner for oddest film of the year: a warped slice of domestic surrealism in which a family wall in their teenage kids and creatively misinform them about the outside world. It's so wrong, you've got to laugh.
Date Night (15)
(Shawn Levy, 2010, Us) Tina Fey, Steve Carell. 88 mins.
Michael Scott and Liz Lemon – a match made in small-screen heaven keeps...
- 4/23/2010
- by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
The 16th annual Bradford International Film Festival, which will run March 18-28, is a total celebration of all forms of cinema, from classic films to modern world cinema to a tribute to Cinerama and more. But, most excitingly, is a bombastic collection of some of the best, most exciting underground films being made today.
From Bad Lit’s perspective, the most thrilling screening of the entire 10-day affair is the new film by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead, Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts. In the U.S., Whitehead is a “lost” filmmaker from the underground’s heyday in the ’60s, being left out of most histories of the underground movement. Whitehead directed several influential films, including Wholly Communion and The Fall, before dropping out of filmmaking in the mid-’70s.
Film historian Jack Sargeant wrote extensively about and interviewed Whitehead for his wonderful book on Beat cinema, Naked Lens.
From Bad Lit’s perspective, the most thrilling screening of the entire 10-day affair is the new film by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead, Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts. In the U.S., Whitehead is a “lost” filmmaker from the underground’s heyday in the ’60s, being left out of most histories of the underground movement. Whitehead directed several influential films, including Wholly Communion and The Fall, before dropping out of filmmaking in the mid-’70s.
Film historian Jack Sargeant wrote extensively about and interviewed Whitehead for his wonderful book on Beat cinema, Naked Lens.
- 3/5/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
London -- The London Independent Film Festival, one of a slew of capital-set film festivals, is ramping up its ambitions ahead of next year's April event.
Run by film producer Erich Schultz, the Liff aims to provide a platform for low-budget and no-budget films in the U.K. and will open with Jan Dunn's "The Calling" in 2010.
Written and directed by Dunn, the movie stars Brenda Blethyn, Susannah York and Rita Tushingham and details the story of a woman who gives up her life to become a nun.
Said Dunn: "We make films because we have something to say but often we can't compete with the sheer weight of a commercial feature to get our films onto a British cinema screen...so well done Liff in giving filmmakers like us a starting point!"
Dunn secured the festival's £50,000 ($82,000) prize for "Ruby Blue," which screened during the festival's 1998 edition and used...
Run by film producer Erich Schultz, the Liff aims to provide a platform for low-budget and no-budget films in the U.K. and will open with Jan Dunn's "The Calling" in 2010.
Written and directed by Dunn, the movie stars Brenda Blethyn, Susannah York and Rita Tushingham and details the story of a woman who gives up her life to become a nun.
Said Dunn: "We make films because we have something to say but often we can't compete with the sheer weight of a commercial feature to get our films onto a British cinema screen...so well done Liff in giving filmmakers like us a starting point!"
Dunn secured the festival's £50,000 ($82,000) prize for "Ruby Blue," which screened during the festival's 1998 edition and used...
- 12/7/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- Director Joe Wright will preside over this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival Michael Powell Jury, organizers said Monday.
Wright will be president of the festival's main jury alongside actor Frank Langella, USA Today film critic Claudia Puig, journalist, broadcaster and author Janet Street-Porter and Australian actor Sacha Horler.
Wright said he was delighted to be returning to the Scottish shindig, describing it as a place "which has always been the greatest melting pot of the British film industry and culture."
Named in homage to one of Britain's most original filmmakers and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the U.K. Film Council and carries a purse of £20,000 ($32,700).
The jury will pick a winner from Brian Percival's "A Boy Called Dad," Duncan Ward's "Boogie Woogie," Jan Dunn's "The Calling," Justin Molotnikov's "Crying With Laughter," Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" Lindy Heymann's "Kicks,...
Wright will be president of the festival's main jury alongside actor Frank Langella, USA Today film critic Claudia Puig, journalist, broadcaster and author Janet Street-Porter and Australian actor Sacha Horler.
Wright said he was delighted to be returning to the Scottish shindig, describing it as a place "which has always been the greatest melting pot of the British film industry and culture."
Named in homage to one of Britain's most original filmmakers and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the U.K. Film Council and carries a purse of £20,000 ($32,700).
The jury will pick a winner from Brian Percival's "A Boy Called Dad," Duncan Ward's "Boogie Woogie," Jan Dunn's "The Calling," Justin Molotnikov's "Crying With Laughter," Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" Lindy Heymann's "Kicks,...
- 6/15/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Ioncinema.com presents: Best of Fests Tromsø International Film Festival When: January 16th to 21st, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 16, 2007'); Where: Location: Tromsø, NorwayOfficial Website: http://www.tiff.no/What: Tiff is a popular film festival for our audience, and at the same time an important meeting point for Norwegian and international film industry. TIFF07 will be Tromsø's 17th international film festival. Tromsø International Film Festival had in 2006 a total admission of 44 804. This makes Tiff Norway' largest festival.Accredited: No Film Line Up:Opening NightSPANDEXMAN - Bobbie Peers, 2007Winterland - Hisham Zaman, 2006Closing NightONCE In A Lifetime - John Dower, Paul Crowder, 2005Competition ProgramBORDERPOST - Rajko Grlic , 2006Born And Bred - Pablo Trapero , 2006Chronicle Of An Escape - Isreal Adrián Caetano, 2006Colossal Youth - Pedro Costa, 2006Family Ties - Kim Tae-Yong, 2006Glue - Alexis Dos Santos, 2005Gypo - Jan Dunn, 2005Longing - Valeska Grisebach, 2006Lucy - Henner Winckler, 2006Requiem -
- 1/13/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Wolfe Releasing has acquired two new titles for theatrical distribution: Thom Best's thriller Ice Men and Jan Dunn's political drama Gypo. Wolfe president Maria Lynn brokered the deal for Gypo, which portrays the breakdown of a working-class family, at the Festival de Cannes with Fil Frank Mannion of Swipe Films. The deal includes all North American festival, theatrical and home video rights. Lynn brokered a similar deal for Ice Men, which revolves around a group of friends whose secrets are revealed, with Sara Bagdasarianz of Seville Pictures.
- 5/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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