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Production - Netherlands - Smits' Aviatrix of Kazbek takes flight
2008-05-28 15:21:43After their collaboration on Magonia from 2001, Dutch director Ineke Smits again teams up with novelist Arthur Japin for her latest venture The Aviatrix of Kazbek (De Vliegenierster van Kazbek). Filming on the project started last week. Japin, still most famous for his debut novel " The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi ", wrote the original screenplay. The story is inspired by real events that...
Cannes 2008 - Market/Hungary - Delta drives business for The Coproduction Office
2008-05-28 15:21:43Lauded in official competition last week at the Cannes Film Festival and crowned with the Fipresci Award, Delta, by young Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó (see news) was sold by The Coproduction Office for France (Le Pacte), Spain (Silenzio), Benelux (Lumière and Filmuseum), Switzerland (Look Know!), Greece (Seven Films), Bulgaria (Art Fest), India, Korea and Mexico. The French company...
Production - France - Guillaume Depardieu stars in Sarah Petit's Au voleur
2008-06-02 14:06:17Shooting kicks off today on Au voleur (“Stop Thief”), the debut narrative feature by Sarah Petit, a director who first came to attention with her documentaries (Napoli 90, Les Limbes) before making the successful transition to fiction with her medium-length films L'arpenteur (“The Surveyor”, Jean Vigo Award 2002) and Le Lac et la rivière (“The Lake and the...
Production - Norway - NFI goes for extremes
2008-06-02 14:06:17In its last round of production support, the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) has gone for totally opposite genres: horror film Snarveien (“Shortcut”), produced by Bjørn Ervind Aarskog, and three children's films. All were awarded a total of NOK28m (€3.5m) After several horror shorts (including The Chamber), in September Severin Eskeland will start shooting a feature in his...
Production - Luxembourgh - Van Werveke ready for his Interview close-up
2008-06-02 14:06:17Famous film actors in Luxembourg are few and far between, but the 50-year-old screen veteran Thierry Van Werveke is certainly one of them. The Luxembourg audience will soon be able to get to know him better in the new documentary Interview from director Andy Bausch. Luxembourg director Bausch has collaborated with Van Werveke numerous times, including on the 1988 cult feature Troublemaker,...
Production - Finland - Wrecking campaign pays for Kaukomaa and Vuorensola
2008-06-02 14:06:17Blind Spot Pictures producer and CEO Tero Kaukomaa, who was in Cannes on a mission to find co-financiers for his Finnish sci-fi spoof Iron Sky, left with several deals in the pocket. The film will be co-produced in Germany by Olivier Damian of 27 Films Production (Russian Ark) and released in Poland by Kino Świat. “Since we're making a film about space Nazis, we're going to...
Production - Spain - Increase in film shoots across country
2008-06-02 14:06:17Spanish film production hasn't stopped growing and every year a new record is reached in terms of the number of titles produced (172 in 2007). This year, the trend appears to be continuing and this is borne out by new film shoots that have kicked off in the north (Rabia in Guipúzcoa and Trash in Barcelona) and the south (Rosa y negro and El libro de las aguas, both in Andalucia). Rabia -...
Production - Italy - Pitzianti looks at multi-ethnic Sardinia in first feature
2008-06-03 14:48:12Tutto torna, the first narrative film by Enrico Pitzianti (the director of the documentary Piccola pesca), has become a hit in its native Sardinia, where it was released on May 9. The film will now try for the same success on the “continent”. The low-budget film - produced with numerous difficulties (and more than one lawsuit against the Ministry of Culture) by Gianluca...
Production - France - Family and organised crime in Le Premier Cercle
2008-06-03 14:48:12Nice, Antibes, Nîmes: since May 5, shooting has been underway on the Côte d'Azur on Laurent Tuel's fourth feature: Le Premier Cercle (“The First Circle”). Exploring yet another genre after Le Rocher d'Acapulco (“The Rock of Acapulco”, 1996 - selected at Cannes in the Cinemas in France section), Children's Play (2001) and Jean-Philippe (1.29m admissions in 2006),...
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...
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