All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 71
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FeaturesAndrew Haigh, 45 Years
Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years is a truthful story about an older couple. He tells Wendy Mitchell about the film’s thematic inspirations and working with the dream cast of Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay.
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NewsWarp collaborators launch Duck Soup
Company will announce its first slate of projects closer to Cannes.
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FeaturesBerlin 2015: the coolest premieres
Screen previews the Berlinale’s world premieres in this year’s Competition, Panorama and Berlinale Special sections.
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FeaturesTerritory Focus: Spain
Spain is not an easy territory to categorise. In many ways, it is a cinema industry of contrasts.
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CommentBroadcast blues
The Berlinale’s European Film Market kicks off the year’s dealmaking for the European film industry in earnest.
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NewsLora-Mungai, Matatu form African studio Restless Global
Producers Marie Lora-Mungai and Tendeka Matatu are merging their assets to create Restless Global, a development, finance, production, distribution and exhibition studio for African content both within and outside Africa.
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FeaturesJeppe Ronde, Bridgend
The Danish director talks about his teen suicide drama, which screens at the Goteborg International Film Festival, following its world premiere in Rotterdam.
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NewsRotterdam: How festivals can evolve with audiences
At a panel in Rotterdam, the ‘next wave’ of festival programmers from across the globe debated topics such as how much to programme audience-friendly films while championing more challenging work.
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NewsRivers, Russell, Benhaim win IFFR Short Tigers
UK wins two of three Canon Tiger Awards at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR); Serbia-Germany short submitted to EFAs.
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NewsNorfolk producer readies new projects
EXCLUSIVE: Crybaby Pictures plans project with The Bureau, Steel Mill Pictures.
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CommentIFFR Live: from Rotterdam to the world
I’m not sure what it felt like in Ljubljana or Dundee, but from Rotterdam the first IFFR Live screening of Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s drama Atlantic. was quite exciting.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Jeppe Ronde, Bridgend
The Danish director talks about his teen suicide drama, which receives its world premiere in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
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NewsHeretic Outreach takes two to Rotterdam
Heretic Outreach has boarded its first projects ahead of IFFR.
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FeaturesTomm Moore, Song Of The Sea
Oscar-nominated Irish animation Song Of The Sea draws on ancient folklore and traditional animation techniques to tell a universal family story. Wendy Mitchell talks to director Tomm Moore about the inspirations for the film
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NewsAgile's Brodie sets up VERYFINE
Kristian Brodie, one of the producers of BIFA-winning documentary Next Goal Wins, is departing Agile Films to become an independent producer under his own banner VERYFINE.
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CommentSelma’s bad timing
The exclusion of Selma’s David Oyelowo from the Oscar nominations is more than a snub - it’s an injustice.
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FeaturesRotterdam 2015: artful vision
Rutger Wolfson, festival director of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), tells Wendy Mitchell how the event stays true to its cinephile roots while also having an openness to changing forms and digital models
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FeaturesSundance 2015: hot properties
Screen International’s picks of the hot films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival (Jan 22-Feb 1).
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NewsBirdman leads Women Film Journalists nominees
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists has announced the nominees for its eighth-annual EDA Awards.
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CommentWomen of substance
Wendy Mitchell reflects on women in film over the past 12 months and what to look forward to in 2015.