As part of its objective of building into a key industry hub in the European animation and VFX landscape, Spain’s Madrid will host for the first time an edition of renowned training event Cartoon Springboard, which will run Oct. 25-27.
24 animated series and feature film projects by young European talents will be presented at the meeting, where a panel of experts will mentor the selected writers, directors, and producers with the aim of strengthening their projects both creatively and financially.
Organised by Cartoon, the training event reaches Madrid, after having been previously held in the cities of Valencia, Valenciennes and Halle.
“Madrid has inked an agreement for Springboard to be held in Madrid for the next three editions,” says Ignacio Carballo, head of audiovisual industries in the Madrid region. The deal marks a further step in the Spanish region’s goal of becoming a European epicenter of animation and VFX.
24 animated series and feature film projects by young European talents will be presented at the meeting, where a panel of experts will mentor the selected writers, directors, and producers with the aim of strengthening their projects both creatively and financially.
Organised by Cartoon, the training event reaches Madrid, after having been previously held in the cities of Valencia, Valenciennes and Halle.
“Madrid has inked an agreement for Springboard to be held in Madrid for the next three editions,” says Ignacio Carballo, head of audiovisual industries in the Madrid region. The deal marks a further step in the Spanish region’s goal of becoming a European epicenter of animation and VFX.
- 9/22/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
A trend for horror anthologies is emerging from the competing titles in this year’s Sitges Pitchbox event, as organizers Filmmarket Hub and the Sitges Film Festival announce this year’s line up.
And, as the movie project showcase opens up its doors to series for the first time, it’s buzzy titles such as “R.I.P “ and “Mr Ray” which appear to be embracing the anthology format.
Developed during a 2019 Manhattan Institute Film Workshop “Mr Ray” is created by Antoine Bours – a series creator on Belgian-French scripted crime series “Ennemi Public” (“Public Enemy”).
Pitching itself as “Penny Dreadful” meets Tim Burton’s “Big Fish,” the series is described as “a love letter to the anthology series” and a tribute to one of its pioneers, the early twentieth century Belgian horror writer Jean Ray.
The eight-part series begins in the early 1960s, following Ray’s estranged daughter Molly as...
And, as the movie project showcase opens up its doors to series for the first time, it’s buzzy titles such as “R.I.P “ and “Mr Ray” which appear to be embracing the anthology format.
Developed during a 2019 Manhattan Institute Film Workshop “Mr Ray” is created by Antoine Bours – a series creator on Belgian-French scripted crime series “Ennemi Public” (“Public Enemy”).
Pitching itself as “Penny Dreadful” meets Tim Burton’s “Big Fish,” the series is described as “a love letter to the anthology series” and a tribute to one of its pioneers, the early twentieth century Belgian horror writer Jean Ray.
The eight-part series begins in the early 1960s, following Ray’s estranged daughter Molly as...
- 9/23/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Work in Progress strand will also return for a second year.
The Iffam Project Market (Ipm) has unveiled 14 films that will be presented during the three-day event in Macao, which runs December 6-8.
They include supernatural revenge thriller Nocebo from Irish director Lorcan Finnegan, who’s Vivarium was in Cannes Critic’s Week this year, and The Day And Night Of Brahma, a family drama by South African director Sheetal Magan, whose short Paraya was presented in Cannes Directors Fortnight.
Other titles include coming-of-age feature Uk Kei from Portuguese director Leonor Teles, the youngest director to have ever won the...
The Iffam Project Market (Ipm) has unveiled 14 films that will be presented during the three-day event in Macao, which runs December 6-8.
They include supernatural revenge thriller Nocebo from Irish director Lorcan Finnegan, who’s Vivarium was in Cannes Critic’s Week this year, and The Day And Night Of Brahma, a family drama by South African director Sheetal Magan, whose short Paraya was presented in Cannes Directors Fortnight.
Other titles include coming-of-age feature Uk Kei from Portuguese director Leonor Teles, the youngest director to have ever won the...
- 10/28/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Christine Vachon's Killer Films is set to co-produce Zip Films' "Fake Orgasm." The documentary is produced by Jordi Rediu and Norbert Llaras of Zip Films. Jo Sol directs. Vachon will exec produce. "Orgasm" is based on a seven-month shoot with interviews in Europe, U.S., India, China, Thailand, Japan, Chile, Brazil and Hawaii. Sol tries to find common answers that cross boundaries of cultures, asking why three quarters of women say they're sexually unsatisfied, and many fake orgasms.
- 12/22/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
San Sebastian, Spain -- U.S. venture capital fund GC Financial Group has acquired a 25% stake in Barcelona-based Zip Films for €3.7 million, giving it a foothold in Spain from which to launch a European expansion.
"Now we have a base in Europe to take advantage of the financing structure for independent films," GC managing partner Adi Cohen said Thursday. "Zip is our base with the Spanish-speaking film industry, and gives us a place to launch our European entertainment operation."
Cohen said GC would be looking to buy another film company in Germany as part of its strategy.
"In the last 10 years most independent films were financed out of Europe," Cohen said. "We're looking to be in the center of the process, instead of at the end of the food chain."
GC gives Zip access to a $22.4 million in revolving credit as the newly teamed entity looks to become what Cohen calls a "Pan-European,...
"Now we have a base in Europe to take advantage of the financing structure for independent films," GC managing partner Adi Cohen said Thursday. "Zip is our base with the Spanish-speaking film industry, and gives us a place to launch our European entertainment operation."
Cohen said GC would be looking to buy another film company in Germany as part of its strategy.
"In the last 10 years most independent films were financed out of Europe," Cohen said. "We're looking to be in the center of the process, instead of at the end of the food chain."
GC gives Zip access to a $22.4 million in revolving credit as the newly teamed entity looks to become what Cohen calls a "Pan-European,...
- 9/24/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival
AMSTERDAM -- Latest filmmaker to try his luck at time travel is Nacho Vigalondo, making a feature debut after a shorts career that included an Oscar nomination (2003's "7:35 in the Morning"). Vigalondo remains a promising talent rather than the finished article: A smart, notably economical calling-card, "Timecrimes" ("Los Cronocrimenes") is set for a remake by United Artists, but it's ultimately little more than clever and thus may struggle to convert its festival-circuit acclaim to mainstream appeal.
Time-travel stories are great fun to devise, but can be excessively tortuous for audiences to navigate. Vigalondo thankfully doesn't go quite so far down the cul-de-sac of impenetrable smart-aleckery occupied by Shane Carruth's "Primer", but nor does he achieve the unpretentious breeziness that made the likes of "The Butterfly Effect" so satisfying.
Schlubby, 50-ish Hector (Karra Eljalde) is moving into his isolated new house with wife Clara (Candela Fernadez) when he spots something odd in the adjoining trees. Investigating, he's attacked by a half-glimpsed, scissor-wielding figure whose face is covered by pinkish bandages. Seeking first-aid in a nearby building, Hector is (improbably) persuaded by a nervy scientist (Vigalondo) to hide in a lidded, Jacuzzi-like device. He emerges to find he's hopped back an hour in time -- which proves to be only the start of his woes.
Even the most attentive viewer may struggle to keep up with the multiple "Hectors" and their overlapping antics. Eljalde's hangdog, everyday-Jose characterization is a consistent plus, however, as is Vigalondo's impressively sober visual style -- nice work by DP Flavio Martinez Labiano -- and the deadpan humor he mines from Hector's nightmarish situation. As a whole, the picture is, frustratingly, always much more about structure than substance.
TIMECRIMES
Magnolia Pictures
A KV Entertainment production in association with Ibarretxe & Co.
Sales: Magnolia Pictures
Credits:
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Writer: Nacho Vigalondo
Producer: Eduardo Carneros
Executive Producers: Esteban Ibarretxe, Javier Ibarretxe, Nahikari Ipina, Norbert Llaras, Jordi Rediu
Director of photography: Flavio Martinez Labiano
Production designers: Jose Luis Arrizabalaga, Arturo ("Biaffra") Garcia, Urko Aguirre, Jaime Gartzia
Music: Eugenio Mira
Co-producers: Santi Camunas, Jorge Gomez
Costume designer: Estibaliz Markiegi
Editor: Jose Luis Romeu
Cast:
Hector: Karra Elejalde
Clara: Candela Fernandez
Girl in the forest: Barbara Goenaga
Young man: Nacho Vigalondo
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
AMSTERDAM -- Latest filmmaker to try his luck at time travel is Nacho Vigalondo, making a feature debut after a shorts career that included an Oscar nomination (2003's "7:35 in the Morning"). Vigalondo remains a promising talent rather than the finished article: A smart, notably economical calling-card, "Timecrimes" ("Los Cronocrimenes") is set for a remake by United Artists, but it's ultimately little more than clever and thus may struggle to convert its festival-circuit acclaim to mainstream appeal.
Time-travel stories are great fun to devise, but can be excessively tortuous for audiences to navigate. Vigalondo thankfully doesn't go quite so far down the cul-de-sac of impenetrable smart-aleckery occupied by Shane Carruth's "Primer", but nor does he achieve the unpretentious breeziness that made the likes of "The Butterfly Effect" so satisfying.
Schlubby, 50-ish Hector (Karra Eljalde) is moving into his isolated new house with wife Clara (Candela Fernadez) when he spots something odd in the adjoining trees. Investigating, he's attacked by a half-glimpsed, scissor-wielding figure whose face is covered by pinkish bandages. Seeking first-aid in a nearby building, Hector is (improbably) persuaded by a nervy scientist (Vigalondo) to hide in a lidded, Jacuzzi-like device. He emerges to find he's hopped back an hour in time -- which proves to be only the start of his woes.
Even the most attentive viewer may struggle to keep up with the multiple "Hectors" and their overlapping antics. Eljalde's hangdog, everyday-Jose characterization is a consistent plus, however, as is Vigalondo's impressively sober visual style -- nice work by DP Flavio Martinez Labiano -- and the deadpan humor he mines from Hector's nightmarish situation. As a whole, the picture is, frustratingly, always much more about structure than substance.
TIMECRIMES
Magnolia Pictures
A KV Entertainment production in association with Ibarretxe & Co.
Sales: Magnolia Pictures
Credits:
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Writer: Nacho Vigalondo
Producer: Eduardo Carneros
Executive Producers: Esteban Ibarretxe, Javier Ibarretxe, Nahikari Ipina, Norbert Llaras, Jordi Rediu
Director of photography: Flavio Martinez Labiano
Production designers: Jose Luis Arrizabalaga, Arturo ("Biaffra") Garcia, Urko Aguirre, Jaime Gartzia
Music: Eugenio Mira
Co-producers: Santi Camunas, Jorge Gomez
Costume designer: Estibaliz Markiegi
Editor: Jose Luis Romeu
Cast:
Hector: Karra Elejalde
Clara: Candela Fernandez
Girl in the forest: Barbara Goenaga
Young man: Nacho Vigalondo
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 4/23/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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