Pierre Jolivet's The Night Watchman (aka Jamais De La Vie) was awarded the Golden Goblet for Best Film on Sunday night at the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival, while Chinese crime drama The Dead End nabbed the Best Director prize for Cao Baoping and Best Actor, which was shared between the film's three leads: Deng Chao, Duan Yihong and Guo Tao. Best Actress went to Krista Kasonen, for her role in the Finnish drama Midwife (aka Katilo).The Jury Grand Prix was awarded to Jacek Lusinski's Carte Blanche, Patrick Tobin won Best Screenplay for the Jennifer Aniston starrer Cake, Vladislav Opeliyants won the Best Cinematography award for his work on the Russian film Sunstroke, while the Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement was presented to the South Korean...
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- 6/23/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Pierre Jolivet’s France-Belgium co-production The Night Watchman won best feature in the Golden Goblet competition of this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (June 13-21), while Cao Baoping’s The Dead End won best director and actor.
The acting prize for The Dead End was split between Deng Chao, Duan Yihong and Guo Tao. The Jury Grad Prix went to Polish filmmaker Jacek Lusinski’s Carte Blanche, while best actress went to Krista Kosonen in Antti Jokinen’ Finland-Lithuania co-production The Midwife (see full list of winners below)
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev headed the Golden Goblet jury, which also included Chinese director Cai Shangjun, Chinese actress Hao Lei, French filmmaker Philippe Muyl, Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi and Us producer Ron Yerxa.
Last Thursday, Iranian filmmaker Hooman Seyedi’s 13 won best film and cinematography at the Asian New Talent Awards. Best director went to Japan’s Momoko Ando for 0.5mm, while best actress...
The acting prize for The Dead End was split between Deng Chao, Duan Yihong and Guo Tao. The Jury Grad Prix went to Polish filmmaker Jacek Lusinski’s Carte Blanche, while best actress went to Krista Kosonen in Antti Jokinen’ Finland-Lithuania co-production The Midwife (see full list of winners below)
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev headed the Golden Goblet jury, which also included Chinese director Cai Shangjun, Chinese actress Hao Lei, French filmmaker Philippe Muyl, Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi and Us producer Ron Yerxa.
Last Thursday, Iranian filmmaker Hooman Seyedi’s 13 won best film and cinematography at the Asian New Talent Awards. Best director went to Japan’s Momoko Ando for 0.5mm, while best actress...
- 6/22/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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Tara Karajica is a young journalist and film critic who contributes to SydneysBuzz from Europe with film business reports, festival reports, interviews and film reviews, interviews. She also contributes to Indiewire, Screen International, Festivalists and Altcine among many other media outlets including her own website, The Film Prospector. Tara is a member of Criticwire and the International Cinephile Society. She has taken part in the Locarno Critics Academy - Class of 2013, the "Nisimazine Venice" film journalism workshop organized by Nisi Masa during last year's Venice Film Festival and the Warsaw Fipresci Project at the 2013 Warsaw Film Festival.
Welcome aboard, Tara!
By Tara Karajica
Industry representatives from all over the world watch the latest Polish films at closed screenings, and film producers as well as financial backers look for Polish projects to get involved in at Polish Days, the most important industry event at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival.
Almost thirty projects by Polish filmmakers were showcased. Seven were completed films shown at special screenings, eleven films were being pitched and ten were works in progress.
For Joanna Łapińska, the head of Polish Days and the artistic director of the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, “Polish Cinema has numerous faces. It is constantly changing, becoming bolder all the time and it is exactly this sort of cinema that we [wanted] to tell you about at Polish Days”.
2014 marked the third edition that took place from 30 July to 1 August and its special guests were a number of Turkish film professionals invited to Wrocław in cooperation with the Istanbul Film Festival to mark the 600th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Poland.
Thanks to the contacts made at the meetings, the ongoing cooperation with sales agents and festival programmers as a result of the previous two editions, the Polish Days initiative has secured an important position in the laborious process of film production and international promotion. Indeed, according to Agnieszka Odorowicz, the general director of the Polish Film Institute, Polish Days is the “top industry event of the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival” that has “grown to be a brand of great significance for the international promotion of Polish Cinema.”
Read More: Polish Days Titles Announced!
The outcome was the following: Wide Management has initiated pre-sales on the Polish-German co-production "Summer Solstice” directed by Michal Rogalski while according to the producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film, the German theatrical distribution for this film will be handled by Farbfilm.
Poland,1943. Summer days put together four young people - a Polish boy; a young German soldier, a girl from the Polish village and a Jewish girl who has escaped from a train on its way to a death camp. During the war they will experience love, but can love save them?
Jacek Lusinski’s second feature “Carte Blanche,” produced by Leszek Budzak of Aurum Film, will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
This year’s works in progress included the Czech-Polish-Slovak co-production “I, Olga Hepnarova” by Tomás Weinreb and Petr Kazda, which was presented in the Polish Days pitching forum last year as well as Magnus von Horn’s Polish-Swedish-French co-production “The Here After”, being repped by Craig Kastel of William Morris Endeavor, was seeking a sales company to work on a festival strategy and international distribution.
Two prizes were awarded for the first time this year to the best pitches made at the Polish Days by the post-production houses Chimney and Toya Studios. Chimney will offer a 50% reduction on the costs for the visual post-production to “Our Baker’s Daughter” and “Volhynia”, while Toya Studios will offer a 50% reduction on the sound post-production of “Volhynia”.
Polish Days was co-organized by the Polish Film Institute, Odra Film, and the Wrocław Film Commission. Event partners included the National Audiovisual Institute, the Film Commission Poland, the Łódź Film Commission, the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, the Poznań Film Commission, the Krakow Film Commission and the Silesia Film Commission.
Tara Karajica is a young journalist and film critic who contributes to SydneysBuzz from Europe with film business reports, festival reports, interviews and film reviews, interviews. She also contributes to Indiewire, Screen International, Festivalists and Altcine among many other media outlets including her own website, The Film Prospector. Tara is a member of Criticwire and the International Cinephile Society. She has taken part in the Locarno Critics Academy - Class of 2013, the "Nisimazine Venice" film journalism workshop organized by Nisi Masa during last year's Venice Film Festival and the Warsaw Fipresci Project at the 2013 Warsaw Film Festival.
Welcome aboard, Tara!
By Tara Karajica
Industry representatives from all over the world watch the latest Polish films at closed screenings, and film producers as well as financial backers look for Polish projects to get involved in at Polish Days, the most important industry event at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival.
Almost thirty projects by Polish filmmakers were showcased. Seven were completed films shown at special screenings, eleven films were being pitched and ten were works in progress.
For Joanna Łapińska, the head of Polish Days and the artistic director of the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, “Polish Cinema has numerous faces. It is constantly changing, becoming bolder all the time and it is exactly this sort of cinema that we [wanted] to tell you about at Polish Days”.
2014 marked the third edition that took place from 30 July to 1 August and its special guests were a number of Turkish film professionals invited to Wrocław in cooperation with the Istanbul Film Festival to mark the 600th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Poland.
Thanks to the contacts made at the meetings, the ongoing cooperation with sales agents and festival programmers as a result of the previous two editions, the Polish Days initiative has secured an important position in the laborious process of film production and international promotion. Indeed, according to Agnieszka Odorowicz, the general director of the Polish Film Institute, Polish Days is the “top industry event of the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival” that has “grown to be a brand of great significance for the international promotion of Polish Cinema.”
Read More: Polish Days Titles Announced!
The outcome was the following: Wide Management has initiated pre-sales on the Polish-German co-production "Summer Solstice” directed by Michal Rogalski while according to the producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film, the German theatrical distribution for this film will be handled by Farbfilm.
Poland,1943. Summer days put together four young people - a Polish boy; a young German soldier, a girl from the Polish village and a Jewish girl who has escaped from a train on its way to a death camp. During the war they will experience love, but can love save them?
Jacek Lusinski’s second feature “Carte Blanche,” produced by Leszek Budzak of Aurum Film, will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
This year’s works in progress included the Czech-Polish-Slovak co-production “I, Olga Hepnarova” by Tomás Weinreb and Petr Kazda, which was presented in the Polish Days pitching forum last year as well as Magnus von Horn’s Polish-Swedish-French co-production “The Here After”, being repped by Craig Kastel of William Morris Endeavor, was seeking a sales company to work on a festival strategy and international distribution.
Two prizes were awarded for the first time this year to the best pitches made at the Polish Days by the post-production houses Chimney and Toya Studios. Chimney will offer a 50% reduction on the costs for the visual post-production to “Our Baker’s Daughter” and “Volhynia”, while Toya Studios will offer a 50% reduction on the sound post-production of “Volhynia”.
Polish Days was co-organized by the Polish Film Institute, Odra Film, and the Wrocław Film Commission. Event partners included the National Audiovisual Institute, the Film Commission Poland, the Łódź Film Commission, the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, the Poznań Film Commission, the Krakow Film Commission and the Silesia Film Commission.
- 8/10/2014
- by Tara Karajica
- Sydney's Buzz
Noaz Deshe’s feature debut White Shadow was the big winner at this year’s T-Mobile New Horizons in Poland’s Wroclaw.
The International Jury - including Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski, the Austrian Film Commission’s managing director Martin Schweighofer and Cannes Film Festival’s Christian Jeune - presented the €20,000 ($27,000) Grand Prix to the Tanzanian-German-Italian co-production, which was also voted by New Horizons’ festival-goers as the recipient of the Audience Award.
Berlin-based Deshe’s tale of albinos in Tanzania was premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it received the Luigi de Laurentis Award for the best debut.
It has since won the best director award at the Tarkovsky ¨Zerkalo¨ festival and the best feature film at London’s East End Film Festival as well as a special mention at the Transilvania International Film Festival.
White Shadow is handled internationally by Premium Films.
The Fipresci International Critics Prize went to another feature debut by Argentinian...
The International Jury - including Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski, the Austrian Film Commission’s managing director Martin Schweighofer and Cannes Film Festival’s Christian Jeune - presented the €20,000 ($27,000) Grand Prix to the Tanzanian-German-Italian co-production, which was also voted by New Horizons’ festival-goers as the recipient of the Audience Award.
Berlin-based Deshe’s tale of albinos in Tanzania was premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it received the Luigi de Laurentis Award for the best debut.
It has since won the best director award at the Tarkovsky ¨Zerkalo¨ festival and the best feature film at London’s East End Film Festival as well as a special mention at the Transilvania International Film Festival.
White Shadow is handled internationally by Premium Films.
The Fipresci International Critics Prize went to another feature debut by Argentinian...
- 8/4/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Wroclaw New Horizons roundup: works in progress include Close Ups and I, Olga Hepnarova.
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
- 8/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Wroclaw New Horizons roundup: works in progress include Close Ups and I, Olga Hepnarova.
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
- 8/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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