“Being from a small country is not an obstacle but a plus because you have a story no one has heard of,” Lithuanian actor and showrunner Gabija Siurbyte (“Troll Farm”) told the TV Beats panel during this week’s Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, hosted by the Black Nights Film Festival. It was the kind of optimism and can-do spirit that characterized the industry forum, which comprised an impressive range of industry panels, workshops and pitching sessions, as well as including a few innovations of its own.
Having shifted the schedule of the festival a week earlier – thereby avoiding Thanksgiving weekend – it has managed to attract a number of important industry figures, including producer Gale Anne Hurd, who gave two talks and offered inspiration from her career as well as answering questions about the role of AI and the end of the recent strikes, siding firmly with the unions and berating...
Having shifted the schedule of the festival a week earlier – thereby avoiding Thanksgiving weekend – it has managed to attract a number of important industry figures, including producer Gale Anne Hurd, who gave two talks and offered inspiration from her career as well as answering questions about the role of AI and the end of the recent strikes, siding firmly with the unions and berating...
- 11/18/2023
- by John Bleasdale
- Variety Film + TV
The market runs November 16-17 as part of Tallinn Black Nights’ industry platform.
New projects from Afghan director Sahraa Karimi and Polish filmmaker Damian Kocur are among the 15 films to be showcased in the Baltic Event Co-Production Market which runs November 16-17.
Flight From Kabul is Karimi’s second feature after her debut Hava, Maryam, Ayesha premiered in Venice in 2019. The Slovakian co-production is based on Karimi’s own experiences of fleeing the Taliban.
Scroll down for full list of projects
Kocur presents his newest feature La Manche after winning best director at Venice Horizons last year with his debut Bread And Salt.
New projects from Afghan director Sahraa Karimi and Polish filmmaker Damian Kocur are among the 15 films to be showcased in the Baltic Event Co-Production Market which runs November 16-17.
Flight From Kabul is Karimi’s second feature after her debut Hava, Maryam, Ayesha premiered in Venice in 2019. The Slovakian co-production is based on Karimi’s own experiences of fleeing the Taliban.
Scroll down for full list of projects
Kocur presents his newest feature La Manche after winning best director at Venice Horizons last year with his debut Bread And Salt.
- 10/10/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Director Katja Gauriloff has made history with “Je’vida,” the first feature shot in the Skolt Sámi language.
“It’s my native tongue, but because of forced assimilation in Finland [of the Sámi people] I didn’t actually learn it. I am studying it only now,” she tells Variety ahead of the Toronto premiere.
“It’s endangered: we have only 300 speakers. There is maybe one village where it’s still in everyday use, which also influenced casting. But we are doing everything we can to keep it alive.”
In “Je’vida,” starring Sanna-Kaisa Palo and “Compartment No. 6” breakout Seidi Haarla, not all actors are Sámi.
“It was a compromise, of course, because I had to be realistic. But also, we are talking about people who are changing cultures. These two women are fully Finnish, so they shared their characters’ confusion. That being said, I would love to make a film with an all-Sámi cast one day,...
“It’s my native tongue, but because of forced assimilation in Finland [of the Sámi people] I didn’t actually learn it. I am studying it only now,” she tells Variety ahead of the Toronto premiere.
“It’s endangered: we have only 300 speakers. There is maybe one village where it’s still in everyday use, which also influenced casting. But we are doing everything we can to keep it alive.”
In “Je’vida,” starring Sanna-Kaisa Palo and “Compartment No. 6” breakout Seidi Haarla, not all actors are Sámi.
“It was a compromise, of course, because I had to be realistic. But also, we are talking about people who are changing cultures. These two women are fully Finnish, so they shared their characters’ confusion. That being said, I would love to make a film with an all-Sámi cast one day,...
- 9/11/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
New projects from Jenni Toivoniemi, Jon Blåhed, Erol Mintaş and Ester Martin Bergsmark are among selection
The Finnish Film Affair (Ffa), Helsinki International Film Festival’s industry strand, has unveiled the line-up for its market showcase of Nordic films and Finnish series running September 20-22.
Among the 31 projects selected is Jenni Toivoniemi’s comedy Butterflies, the director’s second feature after Games People Play which was also presented at the Ffa.
Also being showcased is Jon Blåhed’s new feature Raptures; Erol Mintaş’ Earth Song; Ester Martin Bergsmark’s Land Of Ferns; and Marika Harjusaari’s The Mire from the producer of Hatching.
The Finnish Film Affair (Ffa), Helsinki International Film Festival’s industry strand, has unveiled the line-up for its market showcase of Nordic films and Finnish series running September 20-22.
Among the 31 projects selected is Jenni Toivoniemi’s comedy Butterflies, the director’s second feature after Games People Play which was also presented at the Ffa.
Also being showcased is Jon Blåhed’s new feature Raptures; Erol Mintaş’ Earth Song; Ester Martin Bergsmark’s Land Of Ferns; and Marika Harjusaari’s The Mire from the producer of Hatching.
- 8/30/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Helsinki-based sales company The Yellow Affair has acquired world sales rights to the TIFF Centrepiece title Je’Vida, a Sámi language historical drama by Finnish filmmaker Katja Gauriloff.
The film had its world premiere at Tribeca International Film Festival earlier this year and is one of the first feature films to feature the indigenous Skolt Sámi language. The pic also won the top prize at Finnish Film Affair, Helsinki Film Festival’s parallel industry section.
Set in a time following the Second World War when fierce policies of assimilation fueled attacks on Sami culture, the pic follows an aunt and her niece who’ve never met before when they embark on a trip to Lapland to empty a house they’ve inherited. However, it turns out the withdrawn and distrusting aunt had been a victim of the assimilation policies, and the niece must make a big decision. By taking an interest in each other,...
The film had its world premiere at Tribeca International Film Festival earlier this year and is one of the first feature films to feature the indigenous Skolt Sámi language. The pic also won the top prize at Finnish Film Affair, Helsinki Film Festival’s parallel industry section.
Set in a time following the Second World War when fierce policies of assimilation fueled attacks on Sami culture, the pic follows an aunt and her niece who’ve never met before when they embark on a trip to Lapland to empty a house they’ve inherited. However, it turns out the withdrawn and distrusting aunt had been a victim of the assimilation policies, and the niece must make a big decision. By taking an interest in each other,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Finnish director Katja Gauriloff won the top prize this week at the Finnish Film Affair’s showcase of fiction works in progress for “Je’vida,” an intimate historical drama that is the first film ever shot in the Skolt Sámi language.
The film centers on Iida, an elderly Skolt Sámi woman who finds herself in the process of selling her family’s old house and land while keeping her cultural heritage secret from her niece. It’s the story of a woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation, weaving across three different historical eras to examine the fate of Finland’s Indigenous peoples in the post-war period.
“Je’vida” is a deeply personal journey for Gauriloff, a Skolt Sámi filmmaker who has spent her life reckoning with the group’s struggle for survival since World War II, when most of their ancestral homeland was lost to Russia.
The film centers on Iida, an elderly Skolt Sámi woman who finds herself in the process of selling her family’s old house and land while keeping her cultural heritage secret from her niece. It’s the story of a woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation, weaving across three different historical eras to examine the fate of Finland’s Indigenous peoples in the post-war period.
“Je’vida” is a deeply personal journey for Gauriloff, a Skolt Sámi filmmaker who has spent her life reckoning with the group’s struggle for survival since World War II, when most of their ancestral homeland was lost to Russia.
- 9/25/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The Finnish Film Affair, an annual industry event running parallel to the Helsinki International Film Festival, handed its top prize Thursday night to “Je’vida,” a historical drama about memory, survival and personal growth from director Katja Gauriloff.
“Je’vida” was one of seven fiction feature works in progress that were pitched to an audience of industry guests in Helsinki on Sept. 22, during the Finnish Film Affair’s showcase of local and regional projects. The jury noted that the winning film “is a story that needs to be told, with real potential to become relatable globally. The presentation and cinematography felt personal, beautiful and visually striking.”
Produced by Joonas Berghäll of Oktober Oy, “Je’vida” is the first film ever shot in the Skolt Sámi language. It tells the story of an elderly woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation and winds across three different time periods.
“Je’vida” was one of seven fiction feature works in progress that were pitched to an audience of industry guests in Helsinki on Sept. 22, during the Finnish Film Affair’s showcase of local and regional projects. The jury noted that the winning film “is a story that needs to be told, with real potential to become relatable globally. The presentation and cinematography felt personal, beautiful and visually striking.”
Produced by Joonas Berghäll of Oktober Oy, “Je’vida” is the first film ever shot in the Skolt Sámi language. It tells the story of an elderly woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation and winds across three different time periods.
- 9/23/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Katja Gauriloff’s Je’vida is the first film to be shot in the Skolt Sami language.
Katja Gauriloff’s Je’vida, the first feature to be made in the Skolt Sami language was awarded the best fiction project award at the Finnish Film Affair (Ffa) in Helsinki this week.
The film is now in post-production and tells a very personal story of a woman forced to assimilate into a culture that is not her own and abandon her own language and culture. Gauriloff, who is of Skolt Sami heritage, said the story is based on the experiences of her mother,...
Katja Gauriloff’s Je’vida, the first feature to be made in the Skolt Sami language was awarded the best fiction project award at the Finnish Film Affair (Ffa) in Helsinki this week.
The film is now in post-production and tells a very personal story of a woman forced to assimilate into a culture that is not her own and abandon her own language and culture. Gauriloff, who is of Skolt Sami heritage, said the story is based on the experiences of her mother,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
The film is about the global epidemic of tick-borne infections such as Lyme disease.
Copenhagen-based LevelK has boarded world sales rights to Joonas Berghäll’s completed Finnish documentary The Red Ring, about the global epidemic of tick-borne infections such as Lyme disease.
The director, who has Lyme disease himself, puts both an investigative approach as well as personal spin on the topic, and asks why efforts aren’t made to stop the global Lyme disease epidemic before it’s too late.
Berghäll previously directed films including Mother’s Wish and Steam of Life. He said, ”The most important thing is...
Copenhagen-based LevelK has boarded world sales rights to Joonas Berghäll’s completed Finnish documentary The Red Ring, about the global epidemic of tick-borne infections such as Lyme disease.
The director, who has Lyme disease himself, puts both an investigative approach as well as personal spin on the topic, and asks why efforts aren’t made to stop the global Lyme disease epidemic before it’s too late.
Berghäll previously directed films including Mother’s Wish and Steam of Life. He said, ”The most important thing is...
- 2/22/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
New projects also selected from Oscar nominees and a Venice-winning duo.
Cph:dox has unveiled the 34 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event from March 24-26.
Scroll down for full list of titles and descriptions
The selection includes new projects from Oscar-nominated Laura Nix (Walk Run Cha-Cha) and Talal Derki (Of Fathers And Sons), Berlinale winner Adina Pintilie (Touch Me Not), Sundance winners Jialing Zhang (Born In China) and Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The Law in These Parts) and Venice winning team Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski (The Prince and the Dybbuk).
Titles include Her, a documentary about...
Cph:dox has unveiled the 34 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event from March 24-26.
Scroll down for full list of titles and descriptions
The selection includes new projects from Oscar-nominated Laura Nix (Walk Run Cha-Cha) and Talal Derki (Of Fathers And Sons), Berlinale winner Adina Pintilie (Touch Me Not), Sundance winners Jialing Zhang (Born In China) and Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The Law in These Parts) and Venice winning team Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski (The Prince and the Dybbuk).
Titles include Her, a documentary about...
- 2/13/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
New titles from Petra Costa, Guido Hendrikx and Mila Turajlic.
Cph:forum, the co-production and financing strand of Denmark’s Cph: Dox, has unveiled the 33 projects it will showcase in Copenhagen from March 26-28.
The projects include Brazilian director Petra Costa’s new work Fatherland, about a daughter’s investigation into her father’s memories as he attempts to change the system in a country shaped by slavery. Costa’s most recent film, The Edge Of Democracy, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
Also selected is Guido Hendrikx’s A Wonderful Horrible Story, which blends archive footage,...
Cph:forum, the co-production and financing strand of Denmark’s Cph: Dox, has unveiled the 33 projects it will showcase in Copenhagen from March 26-28.
The projects include Brazilian director Petra Costa’s new work Fatherland, about a daughter’s investigation into her father’s memories as he attempts to change the system in a country shaped by slavery. Costa’s most recent film, The Edge Of Democracy, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
Also selected is Guido Hendrikx’s A Wonderful Horrible Story, which blends archive footage,...
- 2/6/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
New titles from Petra Costa, Guido Hendrikx and Mila Turajlic.
Cph:forum, the co-production and financing strand of Denmark’s Cph: Dox, has unveiled the 32 projects it will showcase in Copenhagen from March 26-28.
The projects include Brazilian director Petra Costa’s new work Fatherland, about a daughter’s investigation into her father’s memories as he attempts to change the system in a country shaped by slavery. Costa’s most recent film, The Edge Of Democracy, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
Also selected is Guido Hendrikx’s A Wonderful Horrible Story, which blends archive footage,...
Cph:forum, the co-production and financing strand of Denmark’s Cph: Dox, has unveiled the 32 projects it will showcase in Copenhagen from March 26-28.
The projects include Brazilian director Petra Costa’s new work Fatherland, about a daughter’s investigation into her father’s memories as he attempts to change the system in a country shaped by slavery. Costa’s most recent film, The Edge Of Democracy, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
Also selected is Guido Hendrikx’s A Wonderful Horrible Story, which blends archive footage,...
- 2/6/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Helsinki International Film Festival scores new audience record.
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida has won the audience award at the 27th Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy (Sept 18-28).
The film centres on a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.
It has proved a festival favourite since its debut at Telluride and Gdynia in 2013, picking up more than 25 awards around the world, and is Poland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.
The latest win means Ida will receive a further four screenings at Helsinki’s Orion Theatre in November.
Other films to win praise from the audience included opening film Whiplash and the closer Boyhood as well as 20 000 Days on Earth, The Zero Theorem, Of Horses and Men, The Mafia Only Kills in Summer, The Tribe, The Quiet Roar...
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida has won the audience award at the 27th Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy (Sept 18-28).
The film centres on a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.
It has proved a festival favourite since its debut at Telluride and Gdynia in 2013, picking up more than 25 awards around the world, and is Poland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.
The latest win means Ida will receive a further four screenings at Helsinki’s Orion Theatre in November.
Other films to win praise from the audience included opening film Whiplash and the closer Boyhood as well as 20 000 Days on Earth, The Zero Theorem, Of Horses and Men, The Mafia Only Kills in Summer, The Tribe, The Quiet Roar...
- 9/28/2014
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Third edition will include pitching of 17 projects and screening of 19 completed features.Scroll down for full lists
The Finnish Film Affair is to host its third edition during the Helsinki International Film Festival (Sept 23-25).
The showcase for new Finnish films will include 17 projects being pitched and the screening of 19 completed films. A Project Development Clinic has been added for first and second-time directors.
The 17 new projects will be pitched to 60 guests including sales agents, festival programmers, distributors and TV buyers, including Fortissimo Films, Wild Bunch, Memento Films International, Films Transit, Sundance Film Festival, Koch Media and Zdf/Arte.
The pitches include The Fencer by Klaus Härö, whose previous film Letters to Father Jacob sold worldwide; and Stupid Young Heart from Oscar-nominated Selma Vilhunen (Do I Have To Take Care Of Everything?).
Other titles include Tsamo by Markku Lehmuskallio, documentary Mother’s Wish by Joonas Berghäll (Steam Of Life), and Cross Your Heart by Petri Kotwica, whose...
The Finnish Film Affair is to host its third edition during the Helsinki International Film Festival (Sept 23-25).
The showcase for new Finnish films will include 17 projects being pitched and the screening of 19 completed films. A Project Development Clinic has been added for first and second-time directors.
The 17 new projects will be pitched to 60 guests including sales agents, festival programmers, distributors and TV buyers, including Fortissimo Films, Wild Bunch, Memento Films International, Films Transit, Sundance Film Festival, Koch Media and Zdf/Arte.
The pitches include The Fencer by Klaus Härö, whose previous film Letters to Father Jacob sold worldwide; and Stupid Young Heart from Oscar-nominated Selma Vilhunen (Do I Have To Take Care Of Everything?).
Other titles include Tsamo by Markku Lehmuskallio, documentary Mother’s Wish by Joonas Berghäll (Steam Of Life), and Cross Your Heart by Petri Kotwica, whose...
- 8/26/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Today it appears that the debt crisis has been sort of kind of averted though part of me wishes that we'd gotten a chance to see the legislation get a shark week crossover in the form of 'if y'all don't do your damn jobs instead of grand-standing to the media we're going to toss you in this tank with a bunch of sharks' kind of way. However since I'm not exactly qualified to discuss important political business (or sharks, really) that's the last you'll hear about that out of me. The bottom line is that we have another evening full of sharks and shark related programming on the Discovery channel that I hope all of you are able to enjoy. Because it's awesome. And watching a Great White take down a seal in mid-air is a thing of beauty. Here's your Tuesday night TV:
8:00pm: "Cupcake Wars" on Food Network...
8:00pm: "Cupcake Wars" on Food Network...
- 8/2/2011
- by Intern Rusty
Check out the links below — and check back often — for our preview, reviews, blogs and more from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival.
Preview
Siff Kicks Off 37th Edition
Audience-centric 25-day Seattle International Film Festival screens festival-circuit favorites, premieres and local projects as well as fetes Ewan McGregor and Warren Miller
Features
Editors’ Choice: 12 Best Films Filmed in Seattle
With the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival in full swing, Moving Pictures counts down the dozen greatest movies shot in the Emerald City
Siff Fetes Ewan McGregor
The Seattle International Film Festival gives an audience its fill of the star of “Beginners” during an all-evening tribute to the beloved actor
Long “Weekend”
British writer-director Andrew Haigh writes for Moving Pictures about the making of “Weekend,” which starts with a one-night stand that becomes something else.
Finding My Way in the “Steam of Life”
Writers-directors Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen write for Moving Pictures...
Preview
Siff Kicks Off 37th Edition
Audience-centric 25-day Seattle International Film Festival screens festival-circuit favorites, premieres and local projects as well as fetes Ewan McGregor and Warren Miller
Features
Editors’ Choice: 12 Best Films Filmed in Seattle
With the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival in full swing, Moving Pictures counts down the dozen greatest movies shot in the Emerald City
Siff Fetes Ewan McGregor
The Seattle International Film Festival gives an audience its fill of the star of “Beginners” during an all-evening tribute to the beloved actor
Long “Weekend”
British writer-director Andrew Haigh writes for Moving Pictures about the making of “Weekend,” which starts with a one-night stand that becomes something else.
Finding My Way in the “Steam of Life”
Writers-directors Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen write for Moving Pictures...
- 5/26/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Check out the links below — and check back often — for our preview, reviews, blogs and more from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival.
Preview
Siff Kicks Off 37th Edition
Audience-centric 25-day Seattle International Film Festival screens festival-circuit favorites, premieres and local projects as well as fetes Ewan McGregor and Warren Miller
Features
Editors’ Choice: 12 Best Films Filmed in Seattle
With the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival in full swing, Moving Pictures counts down the dozen greatest movies shot in the Emerald City
Siff Fetes Ewan McGregor
The Seattle International Film Festival gives an audience its fill of the star of “Beginners” during an all-evening tribute to the beloved actor
Long “Weekend”
British writer-director Andrew Haigh writes for Moving Pictures about the making of “Weekend,” which starts with a one-night stand that becomes something else.
Finding My Way in the “Steam of Life”
Writers-directors Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen write for Moving Pictures...
Preview
Siff Kicks Off 37th Edition
Audience-centric 25-day Seattle International Film Festival screens festival-circuit favorites, premieres and local projects as well as fetes Ewan McGregor and Warren Miller
Features
Editors’ Choice: 12 Best Films Filmed in Seattle
With the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival in full swing, Moving Pictures counts down the dozen greatest movies shot in the Emerald City
Siff Fetes Ewan McGregor
The Seattle International Film Festival gives an audience its fill of the star of “Beginners” during an all-evening tribute to the beloved actor
Long “Weekend”
British writer-director Andrew Haigh writes for Moving Pictures about the making of “Weekend,” which starts with a one-night stand that becomes something else.
Finding My Way in the “Steam of Life”
Writers-directors Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen write for Moving Pictures...
- 5/26/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
MoMA’s film exhibitions for June include a look at the influence of melodrama and soap opera on cinema, as well as some of Finland’s best documentaries.
Good to note is that the price of a film ticket may be applied toward the price of a Museum admission ticket with the presentation of the film ticket stub within 30 days of the date on the stub!
June 4-19, 2011: Drama Queen: The Soap Opera in Experimental Cinema
Through filmmakers such as Eija- Liisa Ahtila, Dara Birnbaum, Stan Brakhage, Ximena Cuevas, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hollis Frampton, George Kuchar, Kalup Linzy, Tony Oursler, Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Sirk, Andy Warhol, and John Waters, “Drama Queen” tackles the cinematic reinvention, deconstruction and parodying of melodrama within experimental filmmaking.
The series’ titles include:
Far from Heaven. 2002. USA. Written and directed by Todd Haynes. With Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson. 107 min.
Coming Apart.
Good to note is that the price of a film ticket may be applied toward the price of a Museum admission ticket with the presentation of the film ticket stub within 30 days of the date on the stub!
June 4-19, 2011: Drama Queen: The Soap Opera in Experimental Cinema
Through filmmakers such as Eija- Liisa Ahtila, Dara Birnbaum, Stan Brakhage, Ximena Cuevas, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hollis Frampton, George Kuchar, Kalup Linzy, Tony Oursler, Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Sirk, Andy Warhol, and John Waters, “Drama Queen” tackles the cinematic reinvention, deconstruction and parodying of melodrama within experimental filmmaking.
The series’ titles include:
Far from Heaven. 2002. USA. Written and directed by Todd Haynes. With Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson. 107 min.
Coming Apart.
- 5/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
MoMA’s film exhibitions for June include a look at the influence of melodrama and soap opera on cinema, as well as some of Finland’s best documentaries.
Good to note is that the price of a film ticket may be applied toward the price of a Museum admission ticket with the presentation of the film ticket stub within 30 days of the date on the stub!
June 4-19, 2011: Drama Queen: The Soap Opera in Experimental Cinema
Through filmmakers such as Eija- Liisa Ahtila, Dara Birnbaum, Stan Brakhage, Ximena Cuevas, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hollis Frampton, George Kuchar, Kalup Linzy, Tony Oursler, Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Sirk, Andy Warhol, and John Waters, “Drama Queen” tackles the cinematic reinvention, deconstruction and parodying of melodrama within experimental filmmaking.
The series’ titles include:
Far from Heaven. 2002. USA. Written and directed by Todd Haynes. With Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson. 107 min.
Coming Apart.
Good to note is that the price of a film ticket may be applied toward the price of a Museum admission ticket with the presentation of the film ticket stub within 30 days of the date on the stub!
June 4-19, 2011: Drama Queen: The Soap Opera in Experimental Cinema
Through filmmakers such as Eija- Liisa Ahtila, Dara Birnbaum, Stan Brakhage, Ximena Cuevas, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hollis Frampton, George Kuchar, Kalup Linzy, Tony Oursler, Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Sirk, Andy Warhol, and John Waters, “Drama Queen” tackles the cinematic reinvention, deconstruction and parodying of melodrama within experimental filmmaking.
The series’ titles include:
Far from Heaven. 2002. USA. Written and directed by Todd Haynes. With Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson. 107 min.
Coming Apart.
- 5/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Joonas Berghäll´s and Mika Hotakainen's Finnish documentary "Steam of Life" has been picked up by PBS for U.S broadcast on the series Pov. In Finland, "Steam of Life" has been screening for a record-breaking 52 weeks a row in Helsinki and Tampere, which is an achievement for any film in the country, let alone for a documentary film. "Life" has screened at over 50 international film festivals, winning the grand ...
- 3/28/2011
- Indiewire
The Cinema Eye Honors, devoted to highlighting the best of the year's nonfiction films, have flipped for Lixin Fan's fantastic "Last Train Home," which follows a family of migrant workers as they struggle to stay connected while living separated by hundreds of miles. "Last Train Home" received the most nominations -- seven -- while Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop" and Afghanistan documentary "Armadillo" each received six. The award ceremony will take place on January 18 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and will be broadcast on the Documentary Channel.
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
- 11/5/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
For some reason, this press release wasn't in my inbox. The European Film Awards have named the three documentary film candidates earlier yesterday for the aptly titled the European Documentary category. Among the trio we find the familiar pair that stretched between Cannes/Tiff with Janus Metz's award-winning Armadillo and Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light. Completing the noms is Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen's Steam of Life from sauna loving nation of Finland (even small apartments have a built in saunas) and the shared experience of them. Award night is set next to Finland's neighbor (Talinn, Estonia) on December 4th. Gist: Since we already know enough on the Cannes preemed pair, I figure I'd concentrate on the lesser known one from Finland (official candidate for the 2011 Oscar race). It won the Prize of the Interreligious Jury at Visions du Réel, a Special Jury Mention at Silverdocs and...
- 10/28/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The European Film Academy nominates three documentary films for its Prix Arte award. The selection was made by Efa Board Members Despina Mouzaki (Greece), Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Francine Brücher (Switzerland), along with experts Claas Danielsen (International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film), Ally Derks (director Idfa, the Netherlands), and Jacques Laurent (producer, Belgium). The 2,300 members of the Efa will now watch and vote on the winner, to be awarded on December 4. The nominees are: Armadillo, Denmark/Sweden directed by Janus Metz produced by Ronnie Fridthjof & Sara Stockman Miesten Vuoro (Stream of Life), Finland/Sweden written & directed by Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen produced by Joonas Berghäll Nostalgia De La Luz (Nostalgia for the Light), France/Germany/Chile written & directed by Patricio Guzmán produced by Renate Sachse...
- 10/27/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
Janus Metz's Armadillo (photo: Lars Skree) (top); Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen's Steam of Life (middle); Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light (bottom) Janus Metz's Armadillo, Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen's Steam of Life, and Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light are the three documentaries nominated for the 2010 European Film Awards' Prix Arte, the European Film Academy announced today. Cannes 2010 Critics Week winner Armadillo, which caused a furor in Denmark, shows the brutality and viciousness of the war in Afghanistan, where Danish soldiers may have been guilty of war atrocities. As one soldier puts it, they "liquidated wounded people and piled up the dead to take pictures of ourselves as heroes." In Steam of Life, naked Finnish men discuss just about everything while sweating away in many of Finland's multifarious saunas. Set in Chile's Atacama desert, Nostalgia for the Light presents three disparate sets of activities...
- 10/27/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
I have been keeping track of all of the Foreign Language Oscar submissions in my "The Contenders" section of the site and today the official list of sixty-five films from sixty-five countries was unveiled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 83rd Academy Awards. On January 20, 2011 a shortlist of nine contenders will be announced prior to the naming of the nominees on January 25, 2011.
I have included the complete list directly below, which includes first-time entrants Ethiopia and Greenland. The only film that was originally thought to be under consideration, but didn't show up on the Academy's final list was Afghanistan's entry, Black Tulip, directed by Sonia Nassery Cole. IMDb doesn't list a release date for the film, which means it may not have met the release requirements in time.
I have linked each film to their corresponding IMDb page for those films not included...
I have included the complete list directly below, which includes first-time entrants Ethiopia and Greenland. The only film that was originally thought to be under consideration, but didn't show up on the Academy's final list was Afghanistan's entry, Black Tulip, directed by Sonia Nassery Cole. IMDb doesn't list a release date for the film, which means it may not have met the release requirements in time.
I have linked each film to their corresponding IMDb page for those films not included...
- 10/13/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The highlights of the 2010 Guth Gafa Festival have been announced. 30 international and Irish award-winning films will be screened at the event at which guests such as Sundance's Patricia Finneran and Cork Film Festival director Mick Hannigan will be present. Some of the award winning international films being screened at the Guth Gafa festival include Peter Kerekes' 'Cooking History'; Peter Liechti's 'The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy'; Rupert Isaacson's 'The Horse Boy'; Michael Madsen's 'Into Eternity'; Kaleo la Belle's 'Beyond this Place'; John Appel's 'The Player' and 'Steam of Life' from Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen.
- 5/13/2010
- IFTN
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