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News‘Highways Of Hope’, ‘Bugboy’ impress industry at Thessaloniki’s Agora platform
Agora is the industry strand of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
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NewsTorinoFilmLab unveils line-up for 2025 comedy development programme
ComedyLab was launched last year as an annual programme to develop feature film comedies.
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FeaturesSundance, Venice, Locarno programmers heading to Meeting Point Vilnius for Lithuania showcase
MPV is hosting a works in progress showcase of 21 projects from Lithuania and the Baltic region .
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NewsNewgrange Pictures developing Irish drug loophole comedy ‘Pillgate’ (exclusive)
John Morton is writing the script based on a temporary decriminalisation of Class A drugs in Ireland.
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NewsPalestinian sci-fi ‘In Memory Of Times To Come’ among Qumra 2025 projects
49 projects include 27 features, plus TV, web series and shorts.
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Features“European animation is a vibrant industry,” says Cartoon Movie’s Annick Maes
Projects being pitched include Will Sharpe’s ‘Absolute Surrender’.
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NewsWerner Herzog’s first animated feature ‘The Twilight World’ among line up for Cartoon Movie 2025
Cartoon Movie is Europe’s leading co-production and pitching event.
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NewsLess Is More selects 16 projects including UK title ‘Drifters’ (exclusive)
18 writers are working across the 16 projects, including participants from Ireland, Estonia and Russia.
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News‘The Wind In The Willows’ animated feature adaptation blows into Scotland (exclusive)
The feature will include new female characters that are not in the book.
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NewsHuang Ji, Qiu Jiongjiong, Reza Rahadian projects among HAF 2025 WIP selection
Stars including Fan Bingbing, Lee Kang-Sheng and Mugi Kadowaki are set to appear in the upcoming films.
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NewsCPH:Forum selects new projects from ‘Notes on Blindness’, ‘Honeyland’ directors
‘Flee’ producer Monica Hellstrom, director Mark Cousins will also present projects.
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NewsKore-eda project among HAF 2025 development selection; adds animation section
Further producers attached to the in-development projects include Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Sylvie Pialat, Lee Sinje, Stanley Kwan and Yeh Ju-Feng.
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NewsBerlinale book-to-screen pitches include graphic novel ‘Impenetrable’ about sexual dysfunction
Several genre titles among the 10 books selected for their film potential.
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NewsLes Arcs industry guests select buzzy projects
Norwegian project ‘Solomamma’, Kosovan story ‘Hatixhe And Shaban’ and Germany’s ‘Babette’ draw praise.
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NewsUK development fund The Uncertain Kingdom to end
The November 2024 funding round will be awarded as planned in the new year.
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NewsScreen Scotland sets aside £1.2m for four talent development initiatives
The initiatives are aimed at short films and those on the cusp of a first feature.
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NewsFilm4-backed Genre Feature Lab selects three projects from Northern creatives (exclusive)
Bafta-winning producers Ivana Mackinnon, Emily Leo lead the Lab.
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NewsÁlex Montoya to adapt Spanish Civil War graphic novel ‘The Abyss Of Oblivion’ (exclusive)
Montoya recently adapted Paco Roca graphic novel ‘La Casa’ which won prizes at Malaga film festival this year.
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week Next Step Programme selects eight international directors
The workshop to help them prepare theri first feature is taking place in Normandy and Paris from Dec 8-13.
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Features“It’s humour that will save us,” says ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’ director Lina Soualem as she prepares first fiction feature
‘Alicante’ is about a woman’s relationship with her Algerian parents who have moved to Spain to open a restaurant.