All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 94
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NewsEntre Chien & Loup picks up Betancourt memoirs
EXCLUSIVE: Former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt is to executive produce a major new film based on her memoir Even Silence Has An End.
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Attraction drawn to Dragon Girls
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian sales outfit Attraction Distribution (formerly Delphis Films) has gobbled up world sales rights to much hyped doc Dragon Girls [pictured], winner of the Best International Feature Documentary at Hot Docs in Toronto earlier this month.
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NewsWiley launches film finance application
London-based former Woody Allen producer Gareth Wiley [pictured] (Match Point, Scoop) is in Cannes this week to launch Screen Advantage, the new online tool for financiers and producers.
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NewsCelluloid, uConnect start with Genesis
EXCLUSIVE: Early in the market, new partners Celluloid Dreams and uConnect have picked up James Napier Robertson’s Genesis, currently shooting in New Zealand and starring Cliff Curtis.
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NewsGhent to honour Scorsese
To mark its 40th anniversary edition, Film Fest Ghent (Oct 8-19) is staging a major Martin Scorsese exhibition and retrospective.
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NewsNymphomaniac gets Christmas launch
First part of Lars von Trier’s anticipated feature to receive its world premiere in Copenhagen.
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NewsSilver Reel pacts with Firth's Raindog
EXCLUSIVE: Increasingly ambitious Zurich-based film financier and producer Silver Reel Partners is to join forces with Raindog Films, the new production company set up by Oscar winning actor Colin Firth and former Sony UK Chairman Ged Doherty.
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NewsBuyers dig for Films Boutique's Oro
EXCLUSIVE: Berlin based sales company Films Boutique had closed its first deals on new feature La Jaula De Oro [pictured] by Diego Quemada-Diez.
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NewsAutlook punches with Ali doc
EXCLUSIVE: Company acquires world rights to Bill Siegel’s The Trials of Mohammad Ali [pictured].
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NewsCineart gets buying early in Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Benelux distributor Cineart has revealed details of its early Cannes acquisitions, including Only God Forgives [pictured].
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NewsNordic genre producers join forces
Blind Spot Pictures and Tappeluft Pictures among those in Cannes with latest projects.
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NewsImagina's Flowers spread to UK, Germany
Deals closed on the UK independent feature [pictured] with Metrodome and X-Verleih AG.
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NewsKevin Williams heads to Venezuela
EXCLUSIVE: Madrid-based sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates is branching out into Venezuela as the country’s filmmakers react to the death of former President Hugo Chavez earlier this year.
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NewsFilms Boutique visits the Louvre with Sokurov
Berlin-based sales outfit Films Boutique is back in business with celebrated Russian auteur and Golden Lion winner Alexander Sokurov [pictured].
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NewsMatch Factory rises with Phoenix
EXCLUSIVE: German sales outfit The Match Factory has launched sales on Phoenix, the new feature from Silver Bear winning director Christian Petzold.
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NewsSola holidays with Anderssons
EXCLUSIVE: Sola Media, the German sales agent specializing on family entertainment, has snapped up world rights on Swedish box-office hit, The Anderssons In Greece - All Inclusive [pictured].
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NewsEurimages to study itself
Research will be carried out on Eurimages’ behalf by London based media consultants Olsberg SPI.
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