From Patricia Highsmith’s diaries to French graphic novels, the 6th edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market (Barm) at the Venice Production Bridge film market, gave publishers a welcome chance to meet face-to-face with producers interested in good writing for the screen.
The three-day event hosted meetings between top European publishers, and their production partners, from Switzerland’s Diogenes Verlag to Britain’s Andrew Nurnberg Associates, whose titles include “Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War” by Laurence Rees.
“As every year, the Book Adaptation Rights Market offers a unique possibility of having one-to-one meetings between 25 international publishers, on one side, and producers or broadcasters and streaming platforms on the other one,” Venice market topper Pascal Diot tells Variety.
Publishers have presented multiple works, which is not the case at some other markets, publishers say.
“We aren’t highlighting one novel or essay per publishers (as...
The three-day event hosted meetings between top European publishers, and their production partners, from Switzerland’s Diogenes Verlag to Britain’s Andrew Nurnberg Associates, whose titles include “Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War” by Laurence Rees.
“As every year, the Book Adaptation Rights Market offers a unique possibility of having one-to-one meetings between 25 international publishers, on one side, and producers or broadcasters and streaming platforms on the other one,” Venice market topper Pascal Diot tells Variety.
Publishers have presented multiple works, which is not the case at some other markets, publishers say.
“We aren’t highlighting one novel or essay per publishers (as...
- 9/11/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
I've been interested in the literature of the Holocaust since I was young. I read everything I could get my hands on about it, trying to understand how such a massive travesty could occur, and how the people involved could possibly rationalize it to themselves, how anyone could have the ability to move on from such a horrific experience. It's been about fifteen years since I read my first book on the subject, and I am probably no closer to understanding than I was then.
Laurence Rees's book, Auschwitz, is focused on that particular camp. He begins by discussing the Nazis' original plans for the "Final Solution" (based on his research, Rees believes their original plan was much different than the one most of us were taught). He continues to explain how Auschwitz was planned, built, and operated, first as a concentration/work camp. He then shows how-due to...
Laurence Rees's book, Auschwitz, is focused on that particular camp. He begins by discussing the Nazis' original plans for the "Final Solution" (based on his research, Rees believes their original plan was much different than the one most of us were taught). He continues to explain how Auschwitz was planned, built, and operated, first as a concentration/work camp. He then shows how-due to...
- 1/12/2011
- by Tamatha Uhmelmahaye
If World War 2: Behind Closed Doors proves anything, it’s that cable television has little left to say about our most televised war (which is quite an impressive feat, considering how many wars have happened since the advent of television). With the absolute glut of History Channel documentaries about D-day and the bizarre details of Hitler’s personal life out there, Behind Closed Doors doesn’t exactly have its work cut out for it. But even if the program doesn’t greatly alter our understanding of the greatest generation’s war, it does provide some insight into some of less overexposed aspects of the conflict, in particular some of the shady dealings that went on between the Soviet Union, Britain, the United States and even Germany. In short, everyone kind of screwed over Poland.
Opening its narrative at the outbreak of the second world war and taking it all...
Opening its narrative at the outbreak of the second world war and taking it all...
- 5/7/2009
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
LONDON -- Sixty years after the closure of the Nazi death camps, BBC2 will pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust in a specially commissioned series of programs that will head its winter season, BBC2 controller Roly Keating said Thursday. Made by Laurence Rees, the BBC's creative director of history and the man behind the internationally successful The Nazis: A Warning From History, the documentary Auschwitz will use CGI technology to show dramatic reconstructions of life within the camps and will also feature testimony from Holocaust survivors. The show, which heads BBC2's winter lineup, comes as the pubcaster unveiled research showing that in interviews with 4,000 people 16 years old and older, 45% claimed never to have heard of the notorious death camp Auschwitz.
- 12/3/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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