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All articles by Staff reporters – Page 17
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Czech doc makers hype their hypermarket hoax
Earlier this year, the Czech public fell foul to an elaborate hoax cooked up by two enterprising students of Prague's Famu film academy. One of the hoaxers, Filip Remunda, is now at IDFA to talk to commissioning editors about the documentary he and his colleague are making about this controversial ...
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WDF comes to IDFA on hunt for third film
The World Documentary Fund (WDF), the $2.5m (Eu2.1m) international initiative set up to promote theatrical documentaries, has made its first visit to IDFA where it is understood to be keen to cherry-pick its third big-budget documentary project. The fund already has one completed film - Vikram Jayanti's Game Over: Kasparov ...
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US TV cold-shoulders docs
Documentaries critical of US government policy and big business interests will find it increasingly hard to get US network broadcast slots, despite a growing demand from the public, says leading author and professor of law, Joel Bakan. Bakan, who wrote the book on which Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott's Joris ...
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Jan Vrijman Fund brings light to Darkness
Jan Vrijman Fund co-ordinator Isabel Arrante Fernandez has unveiled a raft of new projects including In The Darkness, the latest project by Sergei Devortsevoi (Highway, IDFA 1999), co-produced by Jane Balfour. Aiming for completion in spring 2004, the film has also received script development funding from the Hubert Bals Fund ...
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Be bold with ideas, HBO tells documentary makers
HBO documentary chief Sheila Nevins has called on film-makers to come forward with challenging ideas on international subjects and not to assume that the US network is only interested in US-focused films. Traditionally, HBO has a reputation for screening more domestically-oriented films - particularly in its America Undercover series. But ...
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Indican takes US rights to Two Men Went To War
Indican Pictures has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the UK comic drama Two Men Went To War.The film is an Ira Trattner Production for Little Wing Films directed by John Henderson and co-written by Richard Everett and Christopher Villiers.The deal was struck after the film screened at the recent Hollywood ...
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MIFED 2003: market deals round-up
The Agronomist (Wild Bunch)UK (Optimum), Italy (Bim)Arahan (Cinema Service)Thailand (Nontanund)Black Dahlia (Signature)Japan (Toho-Towa)Blizzard (First Look)US (Private Planet Releasing)Bright Young Things (Icon)Netherlands (RCV)Capturing The Friedmans (Fortissimo)Spain (Karma)The Card Player (Adriana Chiesa)Japan (Gaga) UK (Arrow)Coffee And Cigarettes (Fortissimo)UK (Tartan); Benelux (A-Film)Cold Mountain (Miramax)Netherlands (RCV)Cowboys And Angels (Media Luna)Hong Kong/Taiwan (I-Movie)Crash (Arclight)Japan (Movie-Eye ...
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Oscar fog finally lifts for Errol Morris
After years of beingperpetually snubbed by the Academy Awards, documentary-maker Errol Morris isfinally on the verge of securing his first ever Oscar nomination now that TheFog Of War has made the preliminaryselection cut.As in previous years, adozen documentary features have been shortlisted following a screening processinvolving documentary judging panels in ...
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Academy Award fog finally lifts for Errol Morris
After years of beingperpetually snubbed by the Academy Awards, documentary-maker Errol Morris isfinally on the verge of securing his first ever Oscar nomination now that TheFog Of War has made the preliminaryselection cut.As in previous years, adozen documentary features have been shortlisted following a screening processinvolving documentary judging panels in ...
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First ever Brazilian Film Market to start on November 19
The 36th Brasilia Film Festival is to host to the first ever Brazilian Film Market from November 19th to 24th this year. Organised by Brazilian sales and promotion company Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV, the market has already confirmed the attendance of buyers from Europe, North America, Latin America ...
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ARGENTINA
Warner Bros' The Matrix: Revolutions topped Argentina's box office ratings as it has in many parts of the world. Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark opened strongly enough to come in at second place, followed by hit Korean title The Way Home which climbed from seventh to third spot. Distributor Eurocine ...
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MIFED dangles inducements for 2004
Fiera Milano International (FMI) general division director Carlo Bassi is expected to introduce major incentives to lure buyers and exhibitors to MIFED next year. The incentives could include subsidising flights and hotel accommodation in Milan, and are being offered at a time when opinion is divided among buyers and sellers ...
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MIFED dangles inducements for 2004
Fiera Milano International (FMI) general division director Carlo Bassi is expected to introduce major incentives to lure buyers and exhibitors to MIFED next year. The incentives could include subsidising flights and hotel accommodation in Milan, and are being offered at a time when opinion is divided among buyers and sellers ...
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Media Luna strikes Tender deals
Ida Martins' Cologne-based world sales group Media Luna has signed a string of deals on its new Spanish picture Kill Me Tender. Directed by Ramon De Espana the darkly comedic tale of a widowed baker and an unscrupulous younger woman, was sold to Constellation Pictures for Mexico, Overseas Movie for ...
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Government 'death sentence' for Mexican cinema
Mexico's film industry is in an uproar over the federal government's plans to sell or shut down the country's key film institutions. The surprise proposal comes as part of a $150bn austerity package that includes getting rid of state-owned production house Imcine, the decades-old Churubusco Azteca film studio and national ...
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Just Betzer dies, aged 59
Just Betzer, the celebrated Danish producer of Oscar-winner Babette's Feast (Babettes Gaestebud), died suddenly last week. Having not produced a film since 1992, Betzer had been planning a comeback and was scheduled to arrive in Mifed on Sunday 9 November. Aged only 59, Betzer started as a camera and ...
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Arau wraps Mexican Zapata epic
Director Alfonso Arau has just wrapped an ambitious $10m biopic of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata - the most expensive Mexican film ever shot.It's been a long and tortuous effort for Arau to get the film off the ground. Arau - whose magic realism drama Like Water For Chocolate was a ...
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Duffy's Man wins London's TCM Classic Shorts prize
The MostBeautiful Man in the World, directed by British film director Alicia Duffy and funded by theUK Film Council's New Cinema Fund, has won the TCM Classic Shorts best shortfilm of 2003 as part of the Times bfi 47th London Film Festival. Winning£10,000 in prize money, the best short film ...
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European Film Award nominations announced
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for the European Film Awards 2003. The winners will be announced during the Awards Ceremony in Berlin on Saturday, December 6. European Film 2003Dirty Pretty Things, UK, Dir: Stephen FrearsDogville, Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden/France/UK/Germany Dir: Lars von TrierGood Bye, Lenin!, Germany, Dir: Wolfgang BeckerIn This ...
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Fox strikes Mexican animation deal
20th Century Fox Mexico has struck a two-pic distribution deal with Anima Studios, an animation company founded by Fernando Perez Gavilan and Fernando de Fuentes. On Nov 19, Fox will release Anima Studio's Magicians And Giants (Magos Y Gigantes), the first-ever animated movie entirely made in Mexico. The 2D traditional ...