At the end of last year we reported that the Fantasia Film Festival is gearing up to become the next hot spot to acquire unproduced projects being sold as part of its film market - the Frontières International Co-Production Market. And now we have additional details.
From the Press Release
Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world, is embarking on its 16th edition with a major new industry-driven venture: the Frontières International Co-Production Market. Frontières is the first international co-production market to connect North American with Europe and Australasia in an environment focused specifically on genre film production.
The projects to be presented in the market have now been chosen and feature an exciting array of filmmakers, from gifted newcomers to world-renowned maestros, as well as numerous established international producers.
Blood Borne (Australia) Director / Writer:...
From the Press Release
Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world, is embarking on its 16th edition with a major new industry-driven venture: the Frontières International Co-Production Market. Frontières is the first international co-production market to connect North American with Europe and Australasia in an environment focused specifically on genre film production.
The projects to be presented in the market have now been chosen and feature an exciting array of filmmakers, from gifted newcomers to world-renowned maestros, as well as numerous established international producers.
Blood Borne (Australia) Director / Writer:...
- 5/7/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Deadline is reporting that Julie Dash will, for the first time since 1991′s Daughters of the Dust, get behind the camera for a feature — this time around, it’s Tupelo 77. Produced by Angel Entertainment and scripted by Rich Mancuso, the film focuses on “a group of people from various backgrounds in a small town in Mississippi who struggle to overcome obstacles of poverty, racial and religious differences and wounds of war.” I smell an ensemble drama comprised of a multi-racial cast!
Oh, speaking of, casting is underway for the project, which is expected to kick off shooting during the summer. (That’s as specific as we can get here.) Deadline’s story doesn’t offer anything else — so if there’s additional, outside coverage worth noting, it’s that Dash is returning from a long break; her last full-length work was the Angela Bassett-starring The Rosa Parks Story, which...
Oh, speaking of, casting is underway for the project, which is expected to kick off shooting during the summer. (That’s as specific as we can get here.) Deadline’s story doesn’t offer anything else — so if there’s additional, outside coverage worth noting, it’s that Dash is returning from a long break; her last full-length work was the Angela Bassett-starring The Rosa Parks Story, which...
- 1/23/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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