All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 70
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CommentDoha’s got talent
Doha’s new Qumra event is a career-changing event that connects experts with emerging filmmakers. Wendy Mitchell analyses what made the gathering so special.
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NewsDégradé producers eye ambitious slate
Rani Massalha and Marie Legrand’s new French production outfit Films Du Tambour attended the Doha Film Institute’s inaugural Qumra event this week to talk about the company’s ambitious slate of international co-productions.
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NewsDanis Tanovic in Doha producer pledge
The Bosnian Oscar winner has offered his services as producer to a Middle Eastern project at the Doha Film Institute’s inaugural Qumra Masters sessions.
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NewsElia Suleiman feature to ‘cross countries’
The Palestinian film-maker is set to direct a new feature later this year or in the first half of 2016, marking his first film since 2009’s The Time That Remains.
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NewsInternational industry storms Doha for first Qumra
The Doha Film Institute’s new Qumra event kicks off today in Doha, with a focus on mentoring emerging filmmakers.
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NewsIceland's Stockfish welcomes Vachon, Bouchareb, Blethyn
Inaugural festival wrapped this weekend screening more than 30 European arthouse films.
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NewsDoha’s Qumra to welcome 250 industry attendees
The Doha Film Institute’s (DFI) new Qumra event, which kicks off on Friday (March 6), will welcome more than 100 global film professionals and 150 Qatar-based industry guests.
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NewsDunn, Cross launch crowdfunding for Sacred Country
Jaime Winstone to lead cast for Rose Tremain adaptation.
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CommentYasmin Fedda talks Queens of Syria
Documentary film-maker Yasmin Fedda didn’t know quite how her latest film would take shape, so she embedded herself in the world she was filming and let the stories unfold.
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CommentGlasgow: Alan Rickman's birthday Chaos
Alan Rickman spent his 69th birthday in Glasgow last night to present a screening of A Little Chaos, his second film as a director.
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CommentHerding cats in Glasgow
The famed Internet Cat Video festival makes its UK debut, and the crowd purrs with approval.
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NewsJim Jarmusch boards Gabe Klinger romance
Jim Jarmusch to executive produce Gabe Klinger’s Porto Mon Amour starring Anton Yelchin.
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NewsNew Europe busy on deals
EXCLUSIVE: Poland-based sales outfit concludes number of deals on its slate.
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CommentMaking a Palestinian jazzy fairytale
Muayad Alayan makes his feature debut with Love, Theft and Other Entanglements, a Palestinian feature screening in Panorama.
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CommentThe Seventh Fire: from wild rice to Terrence Malick
Director Jack Pettibone Riccobono and producer Shane Slattery-Quintanilla talk about how their intimate study of a troubled Native American community drew in high-profile collaborators.
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NewsBernal joins Doha’s Qumra; 31 projects selected
Mexican actor joins lists of ‘masters’ for DFI’s inaugural Qumra event, which will see 31 projects from 29 countries involved.
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NewsTruenorth navigates to Jonasson's Others
EXCLUSIVE: Icelandic production company gears up for first in-house production.
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NewsFestival Scope, Gutek let audiences vote
EXCLUSIVE: Scope50 presents a new arthouse distribution business model to stimulate audience interest in independent European films.
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NewsScoop readies UK road comedy After Louise
EXCLUSIVE: UK production company behind Berlin title The Beat Beneath My Feet greenlights next feature.
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NewsBreathe team sings with Beggar’s Opera
EXCLUSIVE: Partners behind Breathe Umphefumlo reteaming on new slate of films.