All Features articles – Page 389
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FeaturesOlympic tremors
With a fortnight to go to the London 2012 Opening Ceremony, the UK film industry is buckling down for what promises to be a daunting Olympic fortnight (27 July to 12 August.)
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FeaturesScreaming room
As genre titles become more popular in the marketplace, festivals such as Fantasia, FrightFest and PiFan are not just for the fanboys any more. Ian Sandwell examines how the industry is embracing fantastic events.
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FeaturesFlorian Flicker
Screen talks to Austrian director Florian Flicker, whose fifth feature Crossing Boundaries world premieres at the Sarajevo Film festival this week.
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FeaturesScreen's Stars of Tomorrow Party
Rising talents and industry veterans celebrated at The Langham Hotel in London.
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FeaturesOn the road to success
South East Europe has seen a boom in production in recent years, with regional hits such as The Parade, but the exhibition and distribution sectors still have to catch up.
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FeaturesMoscow International Film Festival, Russia
Attendees at the Moscow International Film Festival (21 - 30 June).
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FeaturesEdinburgh International Film Festival
Winners, attendees and industry events at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (20 June - 1 July).
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FeaturesParis Cinema Film Festival Opening Night
The stars were out at the opening of the Paris Cinema Film Festival, which runs June 29 to July 10.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary Q&A: Robert Vinovskis, People Out There
Set to premiere in the East of the West competition, Aik Karapetjans’ People Out There is an intense Latvian film about a young man who dreams of a better life despite his difficult circumstances.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary Q&A: Toomas Hussar, Mushrooming
Estonian film Mushrooming is an intriguing mixture of satire and drama as a politician, in the midst of being accused of expense fraud, finds himself lost in the woods.
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FeaturesDOORS film summit, Moscow
The First International Travelling Film Market (DOORS) hosted a well-attended film summit on June 23 in Moscow.
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FeaturesPeter Strickland
Screen talks to British director Peter Strickland, who is in Edinburgh this week for the world premiere of his second feature Berberian Sound Studio.
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FeaturesAndrew Cripps and Richard Gelfond, IMAX
Imax CEO Richard Gelfond and new EMEA president Andrew Cripps talk to Wendy Mitchell about their blockbuster summer ahead and the international territories that could see the most growth.
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FeaturesD-Cinema advances push exhibitors to invest
With digital transition of the world’s 130,000 cinema screens expected to be complete in the major territories by 2015, technology suppliers are lining up the next big technical advance with which to entice further investment from exhibitors.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary Q&A: Marek Najbrt (Director), Polski Film
The film, exploring the boundaries of reality and fiction, offers a different style than other Czech productions.
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FeaturesThe Sweeney
After years in development, Vertigo’s big-screen feature version of iconic seventies TV series The Sweeney has arrived (eOne is releasing in the UK on September 12), complete with fast cars, bank robberies and Ray Winstone and Ben Drew as crime busting duo Regan and Carter.
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FeaturesBombay Sapphire Gin & Tribeca Film Festival to discover the most imaginative filmmakers
Find out more about the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series short film competition, with a script by Oscar winner Geoffrey Fletcher (pictured). Entries are open until Aug 1.
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FeaturesChina faces up to Hollywood competition
There was much hand-wringing at last week’s Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) about how local films are suffering following the widening of China’s import quotas for foreign films.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary Q&A: Jan Jakub Kolski, To Kill A Beaver
Polish Film To Kill A Beaver is an intense and raw tale of a soldier undertaking a mysterious mission while holed up in an abandoned farm. There he has a torrid encounter with a young girl and it soon becomes apparent all is not what it seems.