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Production - Ireland/UK - Jordan Scott Cracks debut feature
2008-06-03 14:48:12Ridley Scott's daughter Jordan Scott has begun principal photography on her debut feature Cracks, in Ireland. The cast includes Eva Green, Juno Temple, Imogen Poots and Maria Valverde. Cracks deals with the unhealthy relationship of girls with their teacher Miss G in an austere boarding school in 1934 England. The film is a co-production between Irish production company Element Pictures...
Production - Denmark - DFI supports Original debut and autistic film
2008-06-05 12:00:06The Danish Film Institute has awarded production support to two new feature films: Original by filmmaking duo Antonio Tublén and Alexander Brönstedt, produced by Zentropa, and Superbrother by Birger Larsen, written and produced by Åke Sandgren for Nordisk Film. The Swedish Tublén and Danish Brönstedt are making their leap from short to feature length with Original, a comedy-drama...
Funding - Belgium - CCA backs host of debut and second films
2008-06-25 05:00:06The Film and Audiovisual Centre of the French Community of Belgium granted funding to 25 projects, including nine features, at its first committee session in 2008. Eklektik Productions will thus receive a writing grant for their second feature following Joachim Lafosse's What Makes You Happy. François Pirot (co-screenwriter on Lafosse's Free Student and Private Property) has already set...
Festivals - Italy - Baricco to debut in Locarno
2008-06-25 05:00:06The 61st Locarno Film Festival will host the directorial debut of Italian author Alessandro Baricco, Lezione 21 (“Lesson 21”), an examination of Beethoven's “Ninth Symphony”, from the work's genesis to its reception at the time. The film by the writer who is no stranger to cinema (his novel Silk was adapted into a film by Francois Girard, starring Michael Pitt and...
Festivals - Italy - La Marca makes debut at Pesaro
2008-06-26 05:00:06For his debut film La terramadre (“Motherearth”), Nello La Marca took inspiration above all from some ambitious models: the films of Gianni Amelio and Luchino Visconti's The Earth Trembles. The film, in competition and makings its national premiere at the Pesaro Film Festival (after screenings in this year's Berlinale Forum), interweaves two stories of immigration against the...
Venice - Jury - Kechiche to judge debut films
2008-07-09 05:00:04Abdellatif Kechiche will preside the jury of the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Film at this year's Venice Film Festival (August 27-September 6). The Tunisian director won the award at Venice in 2000 for his first feature, Blame it on Voltaire and in 2007 won the Special Jury Prize for The Secret and the Grain, for which Hafsia Herzi also won the Best Emerging Actor award....
Production - Germany - Comedian Barth makes big-screen debut
2008-07-09 05:00:04Multiple award-winning German comedian Mario Barth (35), whose shows and television programmes draw millions of viewers, is making his big-screen debut. He is currently shooting the film Männersache in Berlin. Before the camera of DoP-turned-director Gernot Roll (The Robber Hotzenplotz), Barth is starring alongside fellow comedian Dieter Tappert (also 35 and better known by his stage...
Distribution - Italy - Mikado's new slate includes debut talent and big names
2008-07-15 05:00:07As of a few weeks ago, the two top titles from Mikado's new slate (Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control, Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist) “will not be ready for the Venice Film Festival”. The news was announced by company CEO Alessandro Usai, who after distributing this year's Golden Bear winner, The Elite Squad, in October in Italy, will also release 2008 Cannes winner, ...
Production - France - Aziza makes feature debut with La robe du soir
2008-07-15 05:00:07Educational establishments currently seem to be the epicentre of French film production. In the wake of Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning The Class (set to be released on September 27) and Christophe Honoré's La belle personne (“The Beautiful Person”, see news), Myriam Aziza trained her camera during the first two weeks of July on the Albert Camus secondary school in Thiais,...
Festivals - Italy - Locarno presents Bondi and Baricco's debuts
2008-07-21 05:00:06Besides tributes to jury members Corso Salani and Paolo Sorrentino, and the retrospective on Nanni Moretti (which includes all his films as director, as well as several titles he produced or starred in), there will be over 20 Italian films at this year's Locarno Film Festival (August 6-16), four of which have been selected in the three main sections. Screening in competition will be Mar...
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