All Features articles – Page 147
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FeaturesKuek Yu-Chuang on Chinese streamer iQiyi’s international expansion plans
Initial strategy focuses on Chinese, Korean and “hyper local” content.
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Features“I was very nervous”: How Tallinn staged a hybrid festival amid Estonia’s second wave
“Every day when I woke up, I’m asking whether we have to cancel the festival or move it online.”
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FeaturesViesturs Kairish talks about love, language and humour in ‘The Sign Painter’
“It was a political and aesthetic choice to shoot in Lagalian Latvian.”
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FeaturesMika Kaurismäki on why he hit the bar in lockdown with ‘Gracious Night’
A planned shoot in Dubai became a lockdown film in the bar the Finnish director owns in Helsinki.
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FeaturesHow the UK’s Rise Films is balancing a slate of documentaries with feature comedies
Rise’s ‘Mayor’ has screened at IDFA and is about to open theatrically in the US.
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FeaturesVitaly Mansky says he wanted to show the human side of a Soviet leader in ‘Gorbachev. Heaven’
’Gorbachev. Heaven’ has played in competition at IDFA this month.
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FeaturesFirouzeh Khosrovani describes bringing her Iranian childhood to life in ’Radiograph Of A Family’
The documentary made its world premiere at IDFA this month.
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FeaturesHow Tallinn’s Black Night Stars showcase is nurturing new Baltic talent
New wave of acting talent emerging from the largely untapped Baltic region.
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FeaturesTurkish filmmaker Nisan Dag on falling for Istanbul’s hip-hop scene in ’When I’m Done Dying’
”I met these people who were so cool I almost didn’t want to get out of the slums.”
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FeaturesWhat do fewer blockbusters mean for the UK Christmas gift market?
Fewer tentpole releases in the summer have changed the shape of the rest of the year.
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FeaturesVentana Sur 2020 co-heads talk preserving Latin market in pandemic year
Online market runs from November 30-December 4.
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Features‘Til Kingdom Come’ director Maya Zinshtein on the odd connection between Kentucky, Trump and Israel
’Til Kingdom Come is produced by the Oscar-winning John Battsek.
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FeaturesInternational industry ready to log on to Black Nights dynamic industry programme
The Baltics’ leading industry showcase set to launch its biggest edition to date.
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Features‘The Penultimate’ filmmakers talk creating a new universe on a tight budget
It shared the inaugural Screen International Buyers Choice Award at Rome’s MIA last month.
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FeaturesWord of Mouth - Sten-Kristian Saluveer: “People describe me as a knowledge scavenger”
The CEO of Storytek on the importance of staying connected.
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FeaturesWhy some Hong Kong documentary filmmakers are staying anonymous for safety
The collective behind two IDFA premieres – Inside The Red Brick Wall and Taking Back the Legislature – are staying anonymous.
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FeaturesIDFA’s DocLab is taking audiences to existential dance classes and online discos
Caspar Sonnen, IDFA’s head of new media, has been inspired by how interactive artists have been reacting to the pandemic.
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FeaturesIDFA filmmaker Diane Sara Bouzgarrou on ‘The Last Hillbilly’ about “a town not documented in tourism or art”
French direcrtors Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe offer an intimate portrait of a hillbilly poet.
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FeaturesHow IDFA is supporting new international documentary talent
The IDFAcademy has moved online to nurture the careers of 60 emerging and directors.
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FeaturesUK film financiers discuss what investors will be looking for in 2021
Six leading figures from UK independent film discuss the key issues of a challenging year.