All Features articles – Page 125
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FeaturesSarajevo festival directors on bringing cinema back to the city and tuning in to TV
Mirsad Purivatra and Jovan Marjanović on the films, TV series, female directors and industry activity at the 2021 Sarajevo Film Festival.
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FeaturesLocarno 2021: the eight projects selected for the Open Doors Hub co-pro platform
The eight projects come from Southeast Asia and Mongolia.
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Features“A hybrid structure offers a democratic tool”: Locarno Pro head Markus Duffner on the future of markets
Locarno Pro’s incoming head Markus Duffner talks about assembling a hybrid edition.
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FeaturesLocarno’s Open Doors head Sophie Bourdon evaluates the end of the Southeast Asia cycle
Locarno’s Open Doors bids farewell to Southeast Asia and Mongolia this year, but pledges to stay connected with the region.
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Features“I’m not a horror genre filmmaker”: Julien Knafo on Fantasia opening film ‘Brain Freeze’
Barbara Shrier of Canada’s Palomar Productions produced “zom-com”.
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FeaturesCharlotte Colbert on the “normalisation” of mastectomy wounds in Locarno drama ‘She Will’
The film will have its world premiere in Locarno on August 5.
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FeaturesFantasia Fest artistic director on why scary films thrill him the most
Mitch Davis also discusses pros and cons for the festival when a genre film like ‘Titane’ is feted by Cannes.
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FeaturesLocarno 2021 line-up guide: Piazza Grande and International Competition titles
Screen profiles the titles selected by Locarno’s incoming artistic director Giona A Nazzaro for its 2021 edition.
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FeaturesDocs Ireland line-up includes Mark Cousins, Ken Fero, Lucy Parker titles
Docs Ireland takes place as an in-person event in Belfast from August 25-29.
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Features“I’ve been working with my pleasure principle”: Locarno’s new artistic director on programming 2021 edition
Locarno returns as a physical event after last year’s mainly online edition, with a new artistic director at the helm.
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FeaturesWord of Mouth: The BFI’s Lizzie Francke talks tastemakers, text groups and pool temperatures
The London-based editor-at-large at the BFI FIlm Fund reveals who her trusted tastemakers are and what she is watching now.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Kino On Demand
Users of Kino on Demand (KoD) receive a €5 ($6) voucher for the first and every fifth film viewed, which they can redeem at one of more than 800 participating cinemas.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: filmingo
Switzerland’s trigon-film foundation has also been operating its own streaming platform since 2013.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Elisa Viihde
Finnish cinema fans have hundreds of Finnish films at their fingertips thanks to Elisa Viihde, the entertainment division of leading Finnish telecom and digital services company Elisa.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: FilmoTV
Launched by Wild Bunch in 2008, FilmoTV is one is France’s oldest digital distribution platforms and works across both SVoD and TVoD.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Chili
Chili was created by a group of former Fastweb executives, including the president and CEO Giorgio Tacchia, who left the internet service provider in 2012 to launch the film start-up.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Filmin
“We could be described as a mixture of HBO, Criterion and Mubi.”
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: BFI Player
Launched in 2013 by the British Film Institute, the UK’s lead organisation for film and a cultural charity, BFI Player is keen to position itself as offering a service that is complementary to, and not in competition with, commercial players.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: ViaPlay
Viaplay — the SVoD service operated by NENT Group — launched in Sweden in 2007 and is expanding from its footprint in the Nordics and Baltics
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Curzon Home Cinema
Curzon Home Cinema’s revenue has tripled over the period of the pandemic, compared to pre-Covid levels.