Meteore has acquired French distribution rights to Paulo Carneiro’s Savanna and the Mountain which plays in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.
Set in northern Portugal, the hybrid documentary centres on a local community organising themselves after they discover that a British company plans to build the largest open-pit lithium mine in Europe just few metres from their homes. The Portuguese filmmaker, who is readying his latest feature Ma Terre Ma Force, wrote the project with Uruguayan director Alex Piperno.
Portugal Films is handling international sales. Carneiro’s Bam Bam Cinema and Piperno’s La Pobladora produce. The project won the Rtp...
Set in northern Portugal, the hybrid documentary centres on a local community organising themselves after they discover that a British company plans to build the largest open-pit lithium mine in Europe just few metres from their homes. The Portuguese filmmaker, who is readying his latest feature Ma Terre Ma Force, wrote the project with Uruguayan director Alex Piperno.
Portugal Films is handling international sales. Carneiro’s Bam Bam Cinema and Piperno’s La Pobladora produce. The project won the Rtp...
- 5/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Once Upon a Time in Barroso: Carneiro Speaks Truth to Power
Opening with the gusto of a faded fairy tale, Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Carneiro’s Savanna and the Mountain (A savana e a montanha), which is technically the documentary filmmaker’s narrative debut, aims to shine a light on the shady dealings of a multinational’s mining operation in the tranquil community of Covas do Barroso. Surprisingly, we learn the re-enacted events, all told from the perspective of the local villagers, is an ongoing struggle of the recent past, when the corporation Savanna Resources decided to pursue the creation of lithium quarries, with a broader plan to transform the region.…...
Opening with the gusto of a faded fairy tale, Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Carneiro’s Savanna and the Mountain (A savana e a montanha), which is technically the documentary filmmaker’s narrative debut, aims to shine a light on the shady dealings of a multinational’s mining operation in the tranquil community of Covas do Barroso. Surprisingly, we learn the re-enacted events, all told from the perspective of the local villagers, is an ongoing struggle of the recent past, when the corporation Savanna Resources decided to pursue the creation of lithium quarries, with a broader plan to transform the region.…...
- 5/18/2024
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Paulo Carneiro’s third feature, “Savanna and the Mountain,” is world premiering at this year’s Cannes in the Director’s Fortnight section. The film depicts a David-and-Goliath struggle between rural folk from Covas de Barroso in the North of Portugal and London-based Savannah Resources, which plans to build Europe’s biggest open-air lithium mine.
The venture to carve out the local mountains in the search for lithium, first proposed around 2017, has been met with fierce resistance from local villages and councils. A corruption scandal associated with the fast-tracked approval process led to the downfall of the previous Socialist government, led by Antonio Costa, a recent general election that saw the center-right party Psd take power, and a surge in votes for the far-right party, Chega.
In 2019, ecologists and the community of the small village of Covas de Barroso, which faced the devastation of its agricultural properties, decided to contact Carneiro,...
The venture to carve out the local mountains in the search for lithium, first proposed around 2017, has been met with fierce resistance from local villages and councils. A corruption scandal associated with the fast-tracked approval process led to the downfall of the previous Socialist government, led by Antonio Costa, a recent general election that saw the center-right party Psd take power, and a surge in votes for the far-right party, Chega.
In 2019, ecologists and the community of the small village of Covas de Barroso, which faced the devastation of its agricultural properties, decided to contact Carneiro,...
- 5/17/2024
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro described a busy and joyful festival.
The 20th edition of Doclisboa closed this weekend on an upbeat note with festival director Miguel Ribeiro reporting audiences were back to pre-pandemic levels.
“We are closing the festival with a great sense of having been a big celebration of cinema, a great get-together,” said Ribeiro. ”There was a feeling of joy in the corridors of the venues and during the informal encounters, the parties at the end of each day.”
Nikita Lavretski’s A Date In Minsk won the festival’s main prize, the City of Lisbon Award for best international competition film.
The 20th edition of Doclisboa closed this weekend on an upbeat note with festival director Miguel Ribeiro reporting audiences were back to pre-pandemic levels.
“We are closing the festival with a great sense of having been a big celebration of cinema, a great get-together,” said Ribeiro. ”There was a feeling of joy in the corridors of the venues and during the informal encounters, the parties at the end of each day.”
Nikita Lavretski’s A Date In Minsk won the festival’s main prize, the City of Lisbon Award for best international competition film.
- 10/17/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Further funding awarded to new Bruno Dumont feature and ‘Niko’ franchise.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s upcoming musical The End starring Tilda Swinton is one of 23 features to receive a share of €5.5m ($6.1m) in the latest round of Eurimages co-production support funding.
The film, a co-production between Denmark, Germany and Ireland, receives €480,000 – the largest of the 23 awards in this selection.
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The End stars George MacKay and Stephen Graham alongside Swinton in the musical about the last human family. Neon has acquired North America rights.
The Empire, the latest film from French director Bruno Dumont,...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s upcoming musical The End starring Tilda Swinton is one of 23 features to receive a share of €5.5m ($6.1m) in the latest round of Eurimages co-production support funding.
The film, a co-production between Denmark, Germany and Ireland, receives €480,000 – the largest of the 23 awards in this selection.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The End stars George MacKay and Stephen Graham alongside Swinton in the musical about the last human family. Neon has acquired North America rights.
The Empire, the latest film from French director Bruno Dumont,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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