Conductor Marin Alsop, the first woman to lead a major American symphony orchestra, in a scene from the documentary The Conductor. Courtesy of St. Louis Jewish Film Festival.
Joyful is a good word for Bernadette Wegenstein’s delightful, inspiring biographical documentary The Conductor, about Marin Alsop, the first woman conductor of a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. It is still an exceedingly rare thing, even in the 21st century, for a woman to lead a major American orchestra, rarer even than a woman leading nations.
The Conductor is part of the 2022 St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, which is virtual again this year, meaning all films can be streamed through the festival website through March 13. For tickets and more information, visit their website https://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/st-louis-jewish-film-festival.
The documentary, one of the featured films at the 2022 St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, spotlights the career and life of Marin Alsop.
Joyful is a good word for Bernadette Wegenstein’s delightful, inspiring biographical documentary The Conductor, about Marin Alsop, the first woman conductor of a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. It is still an exceedingly rare thing, even in the 21st century, for a woman to lead a major American orchestra, rarer even than a woman leading nations.
The Conductor is part of the 2022 St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, which is virtual again this year, meaning all films can be streamed through the festival website through March 13. For tickets and more information, visit their website https://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/st-louis-jewish-film-festival.
The documentary, one of the featured films at the 2022 St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, spotlights the career and life of Marin Alsop.
- 3/13/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival has returned, again in a virtual format, March 6 -13 but shifted to a new spring season instead of its previous summer slot. Being virtual means all the exciting lineup of films, including documentaries on an array of subjects plus comedy and drama narrative films, are available to view anytime during the festival, through March 13, from the comfort of your own home. For tickets and more information, visit their website https://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/st-louis-jewish-film-festival.
The 27th annual festival, which is virtual like the last two, has an array of 13 international and U.S. films with Jewish themes, with five outstanding documentaries on varied topics, and eight engrossing narrative features including dramas, comedies, historical films and thrillers, plus a trio of enticing discussions and a pre-festival bonus short film, “Touch the Sky,” which is available to stream starting Jan. 17.
Countries represented include Israel, France,...
The 27th annual festival, which is virtual like the last two, has an array of 13 international and U.S. films with Jewish themes, with five outstanding documentaries on varied topics, and eight engrossing narrative features including dramas, comedies, historical films and thrillers, plus a trio of enticing discussions and a pre-festival bonus short film, “Touch the Sky,” which is available to stream starting Jan. 17.
Countries represented include Israel, France,...
- 3/12/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In this week’s International TV Newswire Variety digs into Latin American news following Mip Cancun where Viacom International Studio’s “El Nudo” featured as one of the year’s best-selling formats. Telefe has announced it’s bringing back its popular gameshow adaptation of “Hole in the Wall.” Spain’s Atresmedia begins shooting “Benidorm” on location. And in Scandinavia “Moscow Noir” producers team up on historical series “The Nobel Brothers,” which will reveal untold stories of the “Russian Rockefellers” who used their fortune to launch the Nobel Prizes.
Viacom International Studios to Distribute “El Nudo” Globally
Viacom International Studios (Vis) has secured global distribution rights for “El Nudo,” the Spanish adaptation of Viacom own original “Love After Loving,” made by Viacom-owned network Telefe, which premiered earlier this month in Spain.
Of the top 20 series to sell formats internationally in 2018, Argentina was the major scripted format export power in the world,...
Viacom International Studios to Distribute “El Nudo” Globally
Viacom International Studios (Vis) has secured global distribution rights for “El Nudo,” the Spanish adaptation of Viacom own original “Love After Loving,” made by Viacom-owned network Telefe, which premiered earlier this month in Spain.
Of the top 20 series to sell formats internationally in 2018, Argentina was the major scripted format export power in the world,...
- 11/29/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Elisa Viihde, the popular Finnish Svod service behind “All the Sins” and “Shadow Lines,” is developing “Bad Apples,” a daring psychological drama series, with Lagardere Studios Distribution.
The concept for “Bad Apples” was created by Marja Pyykkö who will also be directed the eight-part show. Fire Monkey Productions is producing the series with Mia Ylönen (“Moscow Noir”) on board to write.
“Bad Apples” is set in 1970’s Finland when women unwilling to conform to society were considered damaged and sent to an asylum on an islolated island for treatment. Away from the world, these women seemed to have found a way to be themselves until a strange rumour started spreading about a secret ward. The series will follow a student activist, Onerva, who is committed to an experimental psychiatric program for women at a 1970s sanatorium.
Anni Wessman, the head of international at Elisa, said “Bad Apples” will be headlined...
The concept for “Bad Apples” was created by Marja Pyykkö who will also be directed the eight-part show. Fire Monkey Productions is producing the series with Mia Ylönen (“Moscow Noir”) on board to write.
“Bad Apples” is set in 1970’s Finland when women unwilling to conform to society were considered damaged and sent to an asylum on an islolated island for treatment. Away from the world, these women seemed to have found a way to be themselves until a strange rumour started spreading about a secret ward. The series will follow a student activist, Onerva, who is committed to an experimental psychiatric program for women at a 1970s sanatorium.
Anni Wessman, the head of international at Elisa, said “Bad Apples” will be headlined...
- 10/24/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Hollywood royalty will be mingling with European royalty at this month’s Monte Carlo Television Festival.
The Hollywood contingent travelling to Monte Carlo — known for its glamorous location, red carpets and press junkets — includes Michael Douglas, who will receive the event’s top award, the Crystal Nymph, from Prince Albert II of Monaco.
Kennedy family scion and Academy Award-nominated documentary maker Rory Kennedy heads the festival’s news jury, and also presents the world premiere of the National Geographic film “Apollo: Missions to the Moon.”
Stars Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union will be in Monte Carlo for the festival’s opening screening of Sony Pictures Television series “L.A.’s Finest.” “SpongeBob SquarePants” will screen at the fest’s Kids & Family Day to mark its 20th anniversary.
Set up in 1961 by Monaco’s Prince Rainier, whose marriage to actress Grace Kelly lent an aura of showbiz glamour to the tiny but wealthy principality,...
The Hollywood contingent travelling to Monte Carlo — known for its glamorous location, red carpets and press junkets — includes Michael Douglas, who will receive the event’s top award, the Crystal Nymph, from Prince Albert II of Monaco.
Kennedy family scion and Academy Award-nominated documentary maker Rory Kennedy heads the festival’s news jury, and also presents the world premiere of the National Geographic film “Apollo: Missions to the Moon.”
Stars Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union will be in Monte Carlo for the festival’s opening screening of Sony Pictures Television series “L.A.’s Finest.” “SpongeBob SquarePants” will screen at the fest’s Kids & Family Day to mark its 20th anniversary.
Set up in 1961 by Monaco’s Prince Rainier, whose marriage to actress Grace Kelly lent an aura of showbiz glamour to the tiny but wealthy principality,...
- 6/12/2019
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Russell T. Davies’ upcoming future-set drama “Years and Years” will be on HBO Europe and HBO Latin America. The series is already set for HBO in the U.S.
“Queer as Folk” and “Doctor Who” scribe Davies’ new series follows one family over 15 years, through a period of political instability, technological advances and a changing economy. Emma Thompson, who recently played an activist interrogating a politician on environmental issues in “Extinction,” stars as a charismatic celebrity-turned-politician in the show.
It is produced by Studiocanal’s Red Production Company and is a co-production between the BBC in the U.K., Canal Plus in France, and HBO in the U.S.
Studiocanal is overseeing distribution and closed the post-MipTV deals with HBO in Europe and Latin America. BBC Studios has bought the series for its BBC Benelux channel. Studiocanal also sold “Sanctuary” and two seasons of “Trust Me” to HBO in the Iberian region.
“Queer as Folk” and “Doctor Who” scribe Davies’ new series follows one family over 15 years, through a period of political instability, technological advances and a changing economy. Emma Thompson, who recently played an activist interrogating a politician on environmental issues in “Extinction,” stars as a charismatic celebrity-turned-politician in the show.
It is produced by Studiocanal’s Red Production Company and is a co-production between the BBC in the U.K., Canal Plus in France, and HBO in the U.S.
Studiocanal is overseeing distribution and closed the post-MipTV deals with HBO in Europe and Latin America. BBC Studios has bought the series for its BBC Benelux channel. Studiocanal also sold “Sanctuary” and two seasons of “Trust Me” to HBO in the Iberian region.
- 5/8/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Canal+ Séries will offer original shows and international acquisitions.
France’s Canal Plus Group has announced details of its new streaming service dedicated to high-end TV drama series, which is due to launch via any of its subscriptions packages via on March 12.
Canal+ Séries will offer a combination of Canal Plus’s highly-regarded Créations Originales shows as well as acquisitions of high-end international series. The move is the latest attempt by the pay-tv giant to re-position itself in France’s premium content market, which has been heavily disrupted by the arrival of Netflix and other global digital players.
Figures released in February revealed Netflix,...
France’s Canal Plus Group has announced details of its new streaming service dedicated to high-end TV drama series, which is due to launch via any of its subscriptions packages via on March 12.
Canal+ Séries will offer a combination of Canal Plus’s highly-regarded Créations Originales shows as well as acquisitions of high-end international series. The move is the latest attempt by the pay-tv giant to re-position itself in France’s premium content market, which has been heavily disrupted by the arrival of Netflix and other global digital players.
Figures released in February revealed Netflix,...
- 3/11/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
2018 was a landmark year for Stockholm-based producer Piodor Gustafsson, head of Black Spark Film & TV whose Oscar-nominated films “Border,” “The Wife” and TV dramas “Moscow Noir “and “Sthlm Requiem” landed on screens worldwide. The producer also stepped up to his role as talent spotter/nurturer by adding the job of film and TV agent at Scandinavia’s leading Salomonsson Agency.
Over the last 25 years, through his various roles as indie producer, film consultant for the Swedish Film Institute and commissioning editor for pubcaster Svt, Gustafsson has refined his editorial flair. “As decision-maker, you get to see a lot of projects that get made and you do get a feel of what works or not,” he says.
Although widely diverse in genres, most of his productions are literary adaptations, often combining the daring with the mainstream. “Piodor harnesses unique universes and stories with a great narrative power and relatable characters,...
Over the last 25 years, through his various roles as indie producer, film consultant for the Swedish Film Institute and commissioning editor for pubcaster Svt, Gustafsson has refined his editorial flair. “As decision-maker, you get to see a lot of projects that get made and you do get a feel of what works or not,” he says.
Although widely diverse in genres, most of his productions are literary adaptations, often combining the daring with the mainstream. “Piodor harnesses unique universes and stories with a great narrative power and relatable characters,...
- 2/10/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Nent Group’s Nordic streaming service Viaplay has boarded “With One Eye Open,” partnering Twelve Town and Nice Drama on the Swedish drama series which brings a fresh look to Swedish and Russian ties.
The eight-part series is based on Martin Österdahl’s “Ask No Mercy,” the first of three books in the Max Anger suspense trilogy.
First pitched at Lille’s Series Mania in May, the project is set in 1996 Saint Petersburg on the run-up to Boris Yeltsin’s election. Max Anger, a former attack diver for the Swedish navy now works for think tank Vektor, set up to help Swedish companies open up shop in Russia. When his Russian/Swedish girlfriend suddenly goes missing, while investigating a neo-Stalinist plot against Sweden, he goes on a mission to rescue her and at the same time, uncovers secrets about his own past.
In the lead-up to TV Drama Vision on Jan.
The eight-part series is based on Martin Österdahl’s “Ask No Mercy,” the first of three books in the Max Anger suspense trilogy.
First pitched at Lille’s Series Mania in May, the project is set in 1996 Saint Petersburg on the run-up to Boris Yeltsin’s election. Max Anger, a former attack diver for the Swedish navy now works for think tank Vektor, set up to help Swedish companies open up shop in Russia. When his Russian/Swedish girlfriend suddenly goes missing, while investigating a neo-Stalinist plot against Sweden, he goes on a mission to rescue her and at the same time, uncovers secrets about his own past.
In the lead-up to TV Drama Vision on Jan.
- 1/30/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — There’s a scene in “Moscow Noir” (“Dirigenten”), the brand new Studiocanal series screening Tuesday at Mipcom, where Tom, a rudderless and emotionally damaged stock market trader, visits an defunct inland oil field, the motionless rigs like stranded big metal birds in a field in pastoral Russia. The cameras cut from a shot of his hire car speeding down a dirt track to a medium shot as he gets out of the car. Then there’s a close up of a dog, an establishing shot from some height of Tom and a guard, the oil field behind; a closer up two-shot, then a one shot of the guard, a two-shot and a return to the establishing shot of Tom, the guard and the oil rigs.
“In Russia, the only constant is chaos,” says one Russian character in the movie. Co-written by Alesky Bardy, directed by Mikael Håfström, whose credits include Netflix’s “Bloodline,...
“In Russia, the only constant is chaos,” says one Russian character in the movie. Co-written by Alesky Bardy, directed by Mikael Håfström, whose credits include Netflix’s “Bloodline,...
- 10/15/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — Launching new production units in France and the U.K., European film-tv powerhouse Studiocanal is priming its established talent relationships as it pushes ever more fiction format sales. The production-distribution-sales house hits Mipcom with “Pros and Cons,” the latest series from Sam Productions, co-run by “Borgen’s” Adam Price, and “,” from Nicola Shindler’s Red Picture Company, “Happy Valley” producers.
With Urban Myth Films’ producer-scribe Howard Overman set to shown “The War of the Worlds,” produced by Urban Myth, Canal Plus and Fox Networks Group Europe, Studiocanal has now acquired world sales rights outside Spain to “Instinto,” a original series from Telefonica’s Movistar + produced with Ramon Campos and Teresa Fernández-Valdes Bambu Producciones, in which, as Sam and Urban Myth, Studiocanal holds a minority equity stake.
The “Instinto” deal marks Studiocanal’s first move on a title from Bambu Producciones, one of the drivers in Spain’s fiction boom,...
With Urban Myth Films’ producer-scribe Howard Overman set to shown “The War of the Worlds,” produced by Urban Myth, Canal Plus and Fox Networks Group Europe, Studiocanal has now acquired world sales rights outside Spain to “Instinto,” a original series from Telefonica’s Movistar + produced with Ramon Campos and Teresa Fernández-Valdes Bambu Producciones, in which, as Sam and Urban Myth, Studiocanal holds a minority equity stake.
The “Instinto” deal marks Studiocanal’s first move on a title from Bambu Producciones, one of the drivers in Spain’s fiction boom,...
- 10/15/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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