The fund’s Selection Committee came together on the occasion of this year’s first funding session, deciding to support 12 projects out of the 30 submitted. The total sums invested amount to €8,518,846. For the record, the Film Fund Luxembourg’s Selection Committee is composed of film critic Boyd van Hoeij (the fund’s President), Guy Daleiden (CEO), Karin Schockweiler (Deputy Director), Gabriele Röthemeyer (formerly the director of the Regional Film Fund for the State of Baden-Wurtemberg), Meinolf Zurhorst and Sarah Bamberg (acting as Secretary). Across the various categories drawn up, the selective cash assistance has first and foremost been allocated to writing and/or development. In terms of live action feature films, the recipients are Les Terres incertaines, which is the first film directed by Tullio Forgiarini (the writer previously collaborated on the script of Baby(a)lone, released in...
Mexico’s Morelia Intl. Film Festival (Ficm) and Locarno Academy are hosting the fifth edition of their joint academy for young professionals at this year’s festival, supported by the Mexican Film Institute (Imcine) and the Ibermedia program.
The Morelia/Imcine-Locarno Intl. Industry Academy – it’s official name . counts as one of a series of Academies hosted by the Locarno Film Festival, which takes in Brazil, at the Sao Paulo Iff; in Santiago, Chile– previously in Valdivia; Iff Panama; in Greece at the Thessaloniki Festival; at the Lincoln Center in New York; and in Beirut, Lebanon.
The workshop’s main objective is to support young professionals in the areas of sales, marketing, online and traditional distribution, and exhibition and programming.
With only four days to fit in everything, the Locarno Academy at Morelia is always more sprint than marathon. Attendees arrived Monday and meet from 9am – 6:30pm each day this week.
The Morelia/Imcine-Locarno Intl. Industry Academy – it’s official name . counts as one of a series of Academies hosted by the Locarno Film Festival, which takes in Brazil, at the Sao Paulo Iff; in Santiago, Chile– previously in Valdivia; Iff Panama; in Greece at the Thessaloniki Festival; at the Lincoln Center in New York; and in Beirut, Lebanon.
The workshop’s main objective is to support young professionals in the areas of sales, marketing, online and traditional distribution, and exhibition and programming.
With only four days to fit in everything, the Locarno Academy at Morelia is always more sprint than marathon. Attendees arrived Monday and meet from 9am – 6:30pm each day this week.
- 10/22/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Radoslaw Smigulski (right), general director of the Polish Film Institute, hosted Friday’s Polish Party at Berlin’s Ewerk, where the guests included Agnieszka Holland (left), director of Berlin competition film “Mr. Jones,” and European Film Academy chairwoman.
Among the guests were filmmakers Sergei Loznitsa and Olga Chajdas, Antoine le Bos, founder of Groupe Ouest, Philip Ilienko, director of the Ukrainian State Film Agency, Mercedes Fernandez Alonso, the managing director of TorinoFilmLab, Rolandas Kvietkauskas, director of the Lithuanian Film Center, Marketa Šantrochová, head of the Czech Film Center, and Meinolf Zurhorst, head of the Arte film department at Zdf.
Other guests included Bernd Buder, artistic director of the Cottbus Film Festival, Marjorie Bendeck, director of Connecting Cottbus, Jeremy Zelnik, head of industry at Les Arcs Film Festival, Marge Liiske, managing director of Baltic Event, Nikolaj Nikitin, the Berlinale’s delegate for Central and Eastern Europe, and Guillaume Calop, general manager of Les Arcs Film Festival.
Among the guests were filmmakers Sergei Loznitsa and Olga Chajdas, Antoine le Bos, founder of Groupe Ouest, Philip Ilienko, director of the Ukrainian State Film Agency, Mercedes Fernandez Alonso, the managing director of TorinoFilmLab, Rolandas Kvietkauskas, director of the Lithuanian Film Center, Marketa Šantrochová, head of the Czech Film Center, and Meinolf Zurhorst, head of the Arte film department at Zdf.
Other guests included Bernd Buder, artistic director of the Cottbus Film Festival, Marjorie Bendeck, director of Connecting Cottbus, Jeremy Zelnik, head of industry at Les Arcs Film Festival, Marge Liiske, managing director of Baltic Event, Nikolaj Nikitin, the Berlinale’s delegate for Central and Eastern Europe, and Guillaume Calop, general manager of Les Arcs Film Festival.
- 2/11/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Raising The Beast from Laos also picked up an award at Southeast Asian Fiction Film Lab.
Ajooma, to be directed by He Shuming and produced by Singapore’s Tan Si En, won the Seafic Award at the conclusion of the Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (Seafic) in Bangkok.
The project, which picked up a cash prize worth $15,000, follows a middle-aged, Korean-drama obsessed widow from Singapore who travels to Seoul and promptly gets lost.
Jury members for the award include Killer Films CEO Christine Vachon, Jacob Wong, director of the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) and Meinolf Zurhorst, head of fiction at Zdf/arte.
Ajooma, to be directed by He Shuming and produced by Singapore’s Tan Si En, won the Seafic Award at the conclusion of the Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (Seafic) in Bangkok.
The project, which picked up a cash prize worth $15,000, follows a middle-aged, Korean-drama obsessed widow from Singapore who travels to Seoul and promptly gets lost.
Jury members for the award include Killer Films CEO Christine Vachon, Jacob Wong, director of the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) and Meinolf Zurhorst, head of fiction at Zdf/arte.
- 11/7/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
“I’m still an outsider, that has guaranteed my freedom for all these years.”
Meinolf Zurhorst, the highly-respected producer, commissioner and writer who has worked at French-German public broadcaster Arte since 1992, was in Sarajevo Film Festival on Tuesday (Aug 14) to deliver a reflective talk on his career.
In an interview with Simon Perry from the Ace Producers network, Zurhorst discussed his time at Arte, which he first joined as a commissioning editor in the cinema department, before becoming head of the Arte film department of German broadcaster Zdf (one of Arte’s major shareholders and where the films are broadcast...
Meinolf Zurhorst, the highly-respected producer, commissioner and writer who has worked at French-German public broadcaster Arte since 1992, was in Sarajevo Film Festival on Tuesday (Aug 14) to deliver a reflective talk on his career.
In an interview with Simon Perry from the Ace Producers network, Zurhorst discussed his time at Arte, which he first joined as a commissioning editor in the cinema department, before becoming head of the Arte film department of German broadcaster Zdf (one of Arte’s major shareholders and where the films are broadcast...
- 8/14/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
“I’m still an outsider, that has guaranteed my freedom for all these years.”
Meinolf Zurhorst, the highly-respected producer, commissioner and writer who has worked at French-German public broadcaster Arte since 1992, was in Sarajevo Film Festival on Tuesday (Aug 14) to deliver a reflective talk on his career.
In an interview with Simon Perry from the Ace Producers network, Zurhorst discussed his time at Arte, which he first joined as a commissioning editor in the cinema department, before becoming head of the Arte film department of German broadcaster Zdf (one of Arte’s major shareholders and where the films are broadcast...
Meinolf Zurhorst, the highly-respected producer, commissioner and writer who has worked at French-German public broadcaster Arte since 1992, was in Sarajevo Film Festival on Tuesday (Aug 14) to deliver a reflective talk on his career.
In an interview with Simon Perry from the Ace Producers network, Zurhorst discussed his time at Arte, which he first joined as a commissioning editor in the cinema department, before becoming head of the Arte film department of German broadcaster Zdf (one of Arte’s major shareholders and where the films are broadcast...
- 8/14/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Six projects selected for second edition of festival industry event.
Returning in 2017, Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Drama strand has selected six projects for its second edition.
Showcasing television series in development, the aim of the initiative is to bolster regional TV production.
The projects will be shown to European and regional broadcasters, VoD and SVoD Operators, and will include an open pitch session followed by one-on-one meetings.
This year will also see the introduction of a new development award - a €10,000 cash prize sponsored by Film Centre Serbia.
The jury awarding the prize will consist of Meinolf Zurhorst, Tatjana Andersson and Giacomo Durzi, who will select the most promising project out of the six chosen.
Jovan Marjanović, Sarajevo’s head of industry, commented: “We were excited to get so many submissions for the new drama series. The projects that have been selected promise to bring a new chapter to regional screens. The potential...
Returning in 2017, Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Drama strand has selected six projects for its second edition.
Showcasing television series in development, the aim of the initiative is to bolster regional TV production.
The projects will be shown to European and regional broadcasters, VoD and SVoD Operators, and will include an open pitch session followed by one-on-one meetings.
This year will also see the introduction of a new development award - a €10,000 cash prize sponsored by Film Centre Serbia.
The jury awarding the prize will consist of Meinolf Zurhorst, Tatjana Andersson and Giacomo Durzi, who will select the most promising project out of the six chosen.
Jovan Marjanović, Sarajevo’s head of industry, commented: “We were excited to get so many submissions for the new drama series. The projects that have been selected promise to bring a new chapter to regional screens. The potential...
- 7/27/2017
- ScreenDaily
Wise Hassan, Asia take top prizes.
The winners from the 12th edition of Jerusalem Pitch Point have been unveiled at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The initiative’s top prize, dubbed the Van Leer Award and worth $5,500 (20,000 Nis), went to Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael’s Wise Hassan.
A Tel Aviv-set thriller, the film marks the director’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem.
It is being produced by Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films, who presented the project alongside Abu Wael at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday (July 16).
The Db & Opus Award, which comes with post-production services in the value of $15,000 (55,000 Nis), was presented to Ruthy Pribar’s Asia.
The project was presented by Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir of Tel-Aviv based Gum Films. It is currently completing financing ahead of production. The story will follow a 35-year-old mother who must face the death...
The winners from the 12th edition of Jerusalem Pitch Point have been unveiled at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The initiative’s top prize, dubbed the Van Leer Award and worth $5,500 (20,000 Nis), went to Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael’s Wise Hassan.
A Tel Aviv-set thriller, the film marks the director’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem.
It is being produced by Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films, who presented the project alongside Abu Wael at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday (July 16).
The Db & Opus Award, which comes with post-production services in the value of $15,000 (55,000 Nis), was presented to Ruthy Pribar’s Asia.
The project was presented by Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir of Tel-Aviv based Gum Films. It is currently completing financing ahead of production. The story will follow a 35-year-old mother who must face the death...
- 7/17/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Serbia-Bulgaria-Macedonia co-pro wins takes prize.
Bojan Vuletić has won the Karlovy Vary Works In Progress award for his dark comedy Requiem For Mrs J.
The award is worth €100,000 and combines post-production services in the Czech based Upp and Soundsquare as well as a cash award from Barrandov Studio of €10,000.
Speaking to Screen after winning the award, Vuletić said of his film: “It’s a dark comedy about a woman who wants to commit suicide but because of corruption and bureaucracy in Serbia, she cannot even do that.
“It’s also a family drama with a lot of emotion and love. In a way, until we reach death in one moment we cannot start living again.”
The win marks a return to the film festival in the Czech Republic for Vuletić.
“Karlovy Vary is where I had the premiere of my first feature, Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying, in the East...
Bojan Vuletić has won the Karlovy Vary Works In Progress award for his dark comedy Requiem For Mrs J.
The award is worth €100,000 and combines post-production services in the Czech based Upp and Soundsquare as well as a cash award from Barrandov Studio of €10,000.
Speaking to Screen after winning the award, Vuletić said of his film: “It’s a dark comedy about a woman who wants to commit suicide but because of corruption and bureaucracy in Serbia, she cannot even do that.
“It’s also a family drama with a lot of emotion and love. In a way, until we reach death in one moment we cannot start living again.”
The win marks a return to the film festival in the Czech Republic for Vuletić.
“Karlovy Vary is where I had the premiere of my first feature, Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying, in the East...
- 7/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
Belgrade hosts co-pro meeting dedicated to women filmmakers as study reveals industry progress on gender equality in region.
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
- 3/9/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Belgrade hosts co-pro meeting dedicated to women filmmakers as study reveals industry progress on gender equality in region.
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
- 3/9/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
New projects by Karabey, Aydogan, Sakaoglu among award winners at Istanbul Meetings
New film projects by Hüseyin Karabey, Zekeriya Aydoğan, and Sinem Sakaoğlu were among the award winners at the 10th edition of Meetings on the Bridge (April 15-16) during the Istanbul Film Festival.
Four awards were given to projects presented as part of this year’s Film Project Development Workshop and were decided by an international jury comprising of such leading industry figures as Meinolf Zurhorst (Zdf), Sergio Garcia De Leaniz (Eurimages), Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau Films), Giovanni Robbiano (Mediterranean Film Institute/Mfi) and Khalil Benkirane (Doha Film Institute).
The $ 10,000 Meetings On The Bridge Award went to German-born director Tarik Aktaş’ Dead Horse Nebula - about a sequence of incidents taking place around a small village -, while the € 10,000 Cnc Award was given to The Death of Father and Son by Zekeriya Aydoğan, a period drama set in the Kurdish society.
Aydoğan’s latest...
New film projects by Hüseyin Karabey, Zekeriya Aydoğan, and Sinem Sakaoğlu were among the award winners at the 10th edition of Meetings on the Bridge (April 15-16) during the Istanbul Film Festival.
Four awards were given to projects presented as part of this year’s Film Project Development Workshop and were decided by an international jury comprising of such leading industry figures as Meinolf Zurhorst (Zdf), Sergio Garcia De Leaniz (Eurimages), Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau Films), Giovanni Robbiano (Mediterranean Film Institute/Mfi) and Khalil Benkirane (Doha Film Institute).
The $ 10,000 Meetings On The Bridge Award went to German-born director Tarik Aktaş’ Dead Horse Nebula - about a sequence of incidents taking place around a small village -, while the € 10,000 Cnc Award was given to The Death of Father and Son by Zekeriya Aydoğan, a period drama set in the Kurdish society.
Aydoğan’s latest...
- 4/17/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Screen previews the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry events, which includes a UK focus, the annual Regional Forum and highlights of the Work in Progress and CineLink projects.
Over the last ten years, Southeast Europe’s most important film event Sarajevo Film Festival has also become its main industry hub.
What started in 2003 with CineLink, a co-production market initially modeled after Rotterdam’s CineMart, has developed into an increasingly wide array of industry events, simultaneously expanding from the region towards Caucasus countries, and in recent years aiming to spread its activities and networking overseas, in partnerships with the Doha Film Institute, the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, and from this year, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine).
While the Industry Days peak in the final part of the festival, from August 20-23, its activities started on Sunday [17], with the presentation of the newly established Sarajevo City of Film Fund.
In addition to CineLink, the heart of...
Over the last ten years, Southeast Europe’s most important film event Sarajevo Film Festival has also become its main industry hub.
What started in 2003 with CineLink, a co-production market initially modeled after Rotterdam’s CineMart, has developed into an increasingly wide array of industry events, simultaneously expanding from the region towards Caucasus countries, and in recent years aiming to spread its activities and networking overseas, in partnerships with the Doha Film Institute, the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, and from this year, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine).
While the Industry Days peak in the final part of the festival, from August 20-23, its activities started on Sunday [17], with the presentation of the newly established Sarajevo City of Film Fund.
In addition to CineLink, the heart of...
- 8/18/2014
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Seven projects will take part in WiP, and three more titles have been added to CineLink line-up
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced seven projects from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Israel, Kazakhstan, Romania, Slovenia and Serbia that have been picked to take part in his year’s CineLink Work in Progress sessions.
CineLink’s Work in Progress sessions (Aug 20-21) present promising films currently in post-production to specially invited decision-makers from the European film industry, interested in engaging in their completion or distribution.
The line-up consists of six fiction projects, including new films by Romania’s Tudor Giurgiu (Of Snails And Men), Kazakhstan’s Emir Baigazin (Harmony Lessons), Slovenia’s Vlado Škafar (Dad), and the new documentary by Serbia’s Mila Turajlić (Cinema Komunisto), selected from the festival’s documentary workshop Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
The Work in Progress jury, consisting of Nelleke Driessen, Managing Director, Fortissimo Films; Meinolf Zurhorst, Commissioning Editor...
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced seven projects from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Israel, Kazakhstan, Romania, Slovenia and Serbia that have been picked to take part in his year’s CineLink Work in Progress sessions.
CineLink’s Work in Progress sessions (Aug 20-21) present promising films currently in post-production to specially invited decision-makers from the European film industry, interested in engaging in their completion or distribution.
The line-up consists of six fiction projects, including new films by Romania’s Tudor Giurgiu (Of Snails And Men), Kazakhstan’s Emir Baigazin (Harmony Lessons), Slovenia’s Vlado Škafar (Dad), and the new documentary by Serbia’s Mila Turajlić (Cinema Komunisto), selected from the festival’s documentary workshop Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
The Work in Progress jury, consisting of Nelleke Driessen, Managing Director, Fortissimo Films; Meinolf Zurhorst, Commissioning Editor...
- 8/8/2014
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
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