‘Skunk’ is from writer-director Koen Mortier.
London-based sales and production outfit Reason8 Films has boarded worldwide sales rights to new Belgian drama Skunk, from writer-director Koen Mortier.
Skunk tells the story of Liam, who grows up in a family where alcohol, violence and sex dominate, to become a confused teenager who goes to extreme lengths to break with his past. It stars Natali Broods, Boris Van Severen and Thibaud Dooms as Liam. Top Belgian cinematographer Nicolas Karakatsanis is director of photography.
Mortier’s previous films include festival titles including Ex Drummer (2007), which won a Tiger award at International Film Festival Rotterdam,...
London-based sales and production outfit Reason8 Films has boarded worldwide sales rights to new Belgian drama Skunk, from writer-director Koen Mortier.
Skunk tells the story of Liam, who grows up in a family where alcohol, violence and sex dominate, to become a confused teenager who goes to extreme lengths to break with his past. It stars Natali Broods, Boris Van Severen and Thibaud Dooms as Liam. Top Belgian cinematographer Nicolas Karakatsanis is director of photography.
Mortier’s previous films include festival titles including Ex Drummer (2007), which won a Tiger award at International Film Festival Rotterdam,...
- 1/17/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Skunk
Blasting onto the film scene with Ex Drummer in 2007 and followed by 22nd of May in 2010 and distinct opposites attract in Angel in 2018, Koen Mortier is good to go in ’23 with his fourth feature which was an Out of Competition work-in-progress selection at Les Arcs Film Festival last month. The book to film adaptation of Skunk was filmed October of 2021 with thesps in first time actor Thibaud Dooms, Natali Broods, Boris Van Severen and Dirk Roofthooft with Nicolas Karakatsanis serving as cinematographer. Czar Film’s Eurydice Gysel and Mortier produced what is coined as a pitch dark teenage drama.…...
Blasting onto the film scene with Ex Drummer in 2007 and followed by 22nd of May in 2010 and distinct opposites attract in Angel in 2018, Koen Mortier is good to go in ’23 with his fourth feature which was an Out of Competition work-in-progress selection at Les Arcs Film Festival last month. The book to film adaptation of Skunk was filmed October of 2021 with thesps in first time actor Thibaud Dooms, Natali Broods, Boris Van Severen and Dirk Roofthooft with Nicolas Karakatsanis serving as cinematographer. Czar Film’s Eurydice Gysel and Mortier produced what is coined as a pitch dark teenage drama.…...
- 1/6/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Leading Belgian filmmaker Koen Mortier is directing the series.
Maze Runner star Thomas Brodie-Sangster has joined an ambitious new Netflix-backed documentary series about the Second World War.
Voices Of Liberation is an 11-part, English-language series written and directed by leading Belgian filmmaker Koen Mortier, whose credits include crime drama Ex Drummer.
UK actor Sangster, also known for roles in Game Of Thrones and The Queen’s Gambit, will front the first two episodes of the documentary that traces the “liberation route” across Europe, and will share his own family connections to the war effort.
Other hosts include Bouli Lanners, the...
Maze Runner star Thomas Brodie-Sangster has joined an ambitious new Netflix-backed documentary series about the Second World War.
Voices Of Liberation is an 11-part, English-language series written and directed by leading Belgian filmmaker Koen Mortier, whose credits include crime drama Ex Drummer.
UK actor Sangster, also known for roles in Game Of Thrones and The Queen’s Gambit, will front the first two episodes of the documentary that traces the “liberation route” across Europe, and will share his own family connections to the war effort.
Other hosts include Bouli Lanners, the...
- 5/5/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Netflix will provide 40% of the total budget.
Leading Belgian filmmaker Koen Mortier is embarking on an ambitious new Netflix-backed documentary series about the Second World War.
Liberation Route will be a 12-part, English-language series and is being made through Czar – the production company behind Berlinale Encounters title Naked Animals.
It marks the first project to receive financing from Netflix since a law was passed in Belgium requiring the streaming giant to invest 2% of its income from subscriptions in Flanders into Flemish content. Netflix will provide 40% of the total budget.
The project has also secured Belgian Tax Shelter funding, a presale...
Leading Belgian filmmaker Koen Mortier is embarking on an ambitious new Netflix-backed documentary series about the Second World War.
Liberation Route will be a 12-part, English-language series and is being made through Czar – the production company behind Berlinale Encounters title Naked Animals.
It marks the first project to receive financing from Netflix since a law was passed in Belgium requiring the streaming giant to invest 2% of its income from subscriptions in Flanders into Flemish content. Netflix will provide 40% of the total budget.
The project has also secured Belgian Tax Shelter funding, a presale...
- 2/25/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Documentaries and dramas impressed industry professionals at the Ghent event.
Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.
Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.
The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”
Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.
Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.
Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.
The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”
Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.
- 10/9/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
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Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.
Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.
The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”
Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.
Another doc, Janet van den Brand...
Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.
Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.
The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”
Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.
Another doc, Janet van den Brand...
- 10/9/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with cycling drama starring Niels Willaerts and Koen De Graeve.
Screen can exclusively reveal the trailer for Coureur, a Belgian drama that will have its international premiere in the Limelight section at Rotterdam.
Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with Coureur, which follows Felix, a Flemish cyclist who is willing to risk his lifeto win, and to please his demanding father. Mercken, a former cyclingchampion himself, also wrote the script with Monica Stan. Eurydice Gysel and Koen Mortier produce for Brussels-based Czar Film & TV. Co-producers are Belgium’s Climax Films and Italy’s Kino Produzioni.
Screen can exclusively reveal the trailer for Coureur, a Belgian drama that will have its international premiere in the Limelight section at Rotterdam.
Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with Coureur, which follows Felix, a Flemish cyclist who is willing to risk his lifeto win, and to please his demanding father. Mercken, a former cyclingchampion himself, also wrote the script with Monica Stan. Eurydice Gysel and Koen Mortier produce for Brussels-based Czar Film & TV. Co-producers are Belgium’s Climax Films and Italy’s Kino Produzioni.
- 1/3/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with cycling drama.
Screen can exclusively reveal the trailer for Coureur, a Belgian drama that will have its international premiere in the Limelight section at Rotterdam.
Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with Coureur, which follows Felix, a Flemish cyclist who is willing to risk his lifeto win, and to please his demanding father. Mercken, a former cyclingchampion himself, also wrote the script with Monica Stan. Eurydice Gysel and Koen Mortier produce for Brussels-based Czar Film & TV. Co-producers are Belgium’s Climax Films and Italy’s Kino Produzioni.
The cast includes Niels Willaerts,...
Screen can exclusively reveal the trailer for Coureur, a Belgian drama that will have its international premiere in the Limelight section at Rotterdam.
Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with Coureur, which follows Felix, a Flemish cyclist who is willing to risk his lifeto win, and to please his demanding father. Mercken, a former cyclingchampion himself, also wrote the script with Monica Stan. Eurydice Gysel and Koen Mortier produce for Brussels-based Czar Film & TV. Co-producers are Belgium’s Climax Films and Italy’s Kino Produzioni.
The cast includes Niels Willaerts,...
- 1/3/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Belgium and Senegal-set drama is screening for industry at Flanders Image’s Connext event this week.
Oration Films has sold Koen Mortier’s Angel (Un Ange) to Wayna Pitch for France.
The Belgium-Netherlands co-production is produced by Mortier and Eurydice Gysel for their Belgian production company Czar Film & TV. Co-producers are Belgium’s Anonymes Films, Proximus, Telenet and Canvas; and Graniet Film of the Netherlands.
The film shot in Belgium and Senegal, in the French and Wolof languages.
The film was made with the support of the Flemish Film Fund (Vaf) and the Dutch Film Fund (Nff). The film also...
Oration Films has sold Koen Mortier’s Angel (Un Ange) to Wayna Pitch for France.
The Belgium-Netherlands co-production is produced by Mortier and Eurydice Gysel for their Belgian production company Czar Film & TV. Co-producers are Belgium’s Anonymes Films, Proximus, Telenet and Canvas; and Graniet Film of the Netherlands.
The film shot in Belgium and Senegal, in the French and Wolof languages.
The film was made with the support of the Flemish Film Fund (Vaf) and the Dutch Film Fund (Nff). The film also...
- 10/9/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The debut feature from Kenneth Mercken triumphed in a field of eight projects.
Coureur, directed by Kenneth Mercken and produced by Eurydice Gysel and Koen Mortier of Czar Film, has won the best project pitch at the inaugural NeXT in Ghent.
The Flanders Image event invited eight projects in development — all backed by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund — to pitch to the international industry in attendance.
Of Coureur, the industry jury said they were “especially impressed with Kenneth’s personal point of view in his own father-son story, and how he can tell this story of the cycling world from a very inside point of view in a unique way… We think it’s a film that will be quite personal to his experience but also can appeal to wide audiences.”
Ace and Lites donate $11,000 (€10,000) in facilities spend to each award winner. The prize also includes a media spend for advertising.
Details of the...
Coureur, directed by Kenneth Mercken and produced by Eurydice Gysel and Koen Mortier of Czar Film, has won the best project pitch at the inaugural NeXT in Ghent.
The Flanders Image event invited eight projects in development — all backed by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund — to pitch to the international industry in attendance.
Of Coureur, the industry jury said they were “especially impressed with Kenneth’s personal point of view in his own father-son story, and how he can tell this story of the cycling world from a very inside point of view in a unique way… We think it’s a film that will be quite personal to his experience but also can appeal to wide audiences.”
Ace and Lites donate $11,000 (€10,000) in facilities spend to each award winner. The prize also includes a media spend for advertising.
Details of the...
- 10/11/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Kevorkian, Shoval, Haq, Fiennes, Sigurðsson, Nikonova and Runarsson heading to Les Arcs European Film Festival with upcoming projects.Scroll down for full list of projects
The UK’s Johnny Kevorkian and Sophie Fiennes, Israeli Tom Shoval, Norwegian Iram Haq and Russia’s Angelina Nikonova will be among the filmmakers presenting their upcoming projects at the Les Arcs Co-Production Village this year.
The event, running Dec 13-16 within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 13-20), will present 25 projects in development and a further 10 Works-in-Progress.
“I thinks it’s a good sign that filmmakers whose projects we presented in development are now coming back to show their films in Work-in-Progress, which is the case for Sparrow and Rams,” said Les Arcs industry head Vanja Kaludjercic.
“Conversely, we’ve got directors who presented in Works-in Progress, such as Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, who came with Paris of the North last year, who is back with his new project The Tree...
The UK’s Johnny Kevorkian and Sophie Fiennes, Israeli Tom Shoval, Norwegian Iram Haq and Russia’s Angelina Nikonova will be among the filmmakers presenting their upcoming projects at the Les Arcs Co-Production Village this year.
The event, running Dec 13-16 within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 13-20), will present 25 projects in development and a further 10 Works-in-Progress.
“I thinks it’s a good sign that filmmakers whose projects we presented in development are now coming back to show their films in Work-in-Progress, which is the case for Sparrow and Rams,” said Les Arcs industry head Vanja Kaludjercic.
“Conversely, we’ve got directors who presented in Works-in Progress, such as Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, who came with Paris of the North last year, who is back with his new project The Tree...
- 11/24/2014
- ScreenDaily
Benelux is the regional focus for Trieste’s fourth edition of its When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (January 20-22, 2014) being held during the Trieste Film Festival.
Eight of the 22 projects being presented in public pitches at the forum, which runs Jan 20-22, will be projects from the Benelux countries - Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg - looking for potential co-producers and distributors from Italy or Eastern Europe.
They include new projects from Luxembourg’s Bady Minck, 1313 Dante’s Emperor, and The Netherlands’ David Verbeek, Full Contact, as well as the Belgian documentary film-makers Daniel Lambo, Eternal Silence, and Gilles Coton, Meet Enver Hadri.
Wemw’s project manager Alessandro Gropplero told ScreenDaily that this year’s call for projects had attracted a record 200 entries - 23 from the Benelux, 32 from Italy and 145 from Eastern Europe - with 140 fiction film projects and 60 documentary projects.
An international jury then selected 10 fiction and 12 documentary projects in development to be pitched...
Eight of the 22 projects being presented in public pitches at the forum, which runs Jan 20-22, will be projects from the Benelux countries - Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg - looking for potential co-producers and distributors from Italy or Eastern Europe.
They include new projects from Luxembourg’s Bady Minck, 1313 Dante’s Emperor, and The Netherlands’ David Verbeek, Full Contact, as well as the Belgian documentary film-makers Daniel Lambo, Eternal Silence, and Gilles Coton, Meet Enver Hadri.
Wemw’s project manager Alessandro Gropplero told ScreenDaily that this year’s call for projects had attracted a record 200 entries - 23 from the Benelux, 32 from Italy and 145 from Eastern Europe - with 140 fiction film projects and 60 documentary projects.
An international jury then selected 10 fiction and 12 documentary projects in development to be pitched...
- 12/19/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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