Film industry relations between China and Europe have been kept alive throughout the coronavirus outbreak by Bridging The Dragon, an informal trade organization now in its sixth year.
After its regular event held during the Berlin film festival in February, further seminars, presentations and mixers should have taken place in Cannes in May and in Beijing in November. Travel restrictions and the cancelation of in-person film festivals and markets put paid to those ideas.
Knowledge-sharing, Btd’s core concern, can be achieved online as millions of students around the world have learned. And re-conceiving the organization’s autumn event as a virtual conference, not only allowed the connections to be kept intact, but even to be expanded. A delegation of New Zealand producers joined the virtual event for the first time with some participating in another first, informal coaching sessions.
The autumn edition included 90 participants who gathered for a series...
After its regular event held during the Berlin film festival in February, further seminars, presentations and mixers should have taken place in Cannes in May and in Beijing in November. Travel restrictions and the cancelation of in-person film festivals and markets put paid to those ideas.
Knowledge-sharing, Btd’s core concern, can be achieved online as millions of students around the world have learned. And re-conceiving the organization’s autumn event as a virtual conference, not only allowed the connections to be kept intact, but even to be expanded. A delegation of New Zealand producers joined the virtual event for the first time with some participating in another first, informal coaching sessions.
The autumn edition included 90 participants who gathered for a series...
- 12/23/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The unsolved disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway from the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005 has been made into a film, with an expected release early next year.
In a case that sparked widespread media publicity in the United States, Holloway disappeared from Aruba during a high school graduation trip. Her body has never been found.
The key suspect is Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national. He was arrested twice in the case but never charged after giving different stories about her disappearance.
Van der Sloot has since been arrested in connection with the death of business student Stephany Flores, 21, in a Lima, Peru hotel room. Police said in June that Van der Sloot had confessed to the girl's killing.
The English-language film "Me & Mr. Jones" is about an undercover journalist who breaks into Van der Sloot's home on Aruba to force a breakthrough in the Holloway case,...
In a case that sparked widespread media publicity in the United States, Holloway disappeared from Aruba during a high school graduation trip. Her body has never been found.
The key suspect is Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national. He was arrested twice in the case but never charged after giving different stories about her disappearance.
Van der Sloot has since been arrested in connection with the death of business student Stephany Flores, 21, in a Lima, Peru hotel room. Police said in June that Van der Sloot had confessed to the girl's killing.
The English-language film "Me & Mr. Jones" is about an undercover journalist who breaks into Van der Sloot's home on Aruba to force a breakthrough in the Holloway case,...
- 7/26/2010
- by By Aaron Gray-Block, Reuters
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amsterdam -- Dutch minister of Development Cooperation Bert Koenders is under attack for subsidizing a feature film that will never be released in cinemas.
His department invested 400,000 euros in the black comedy "Mafrika," directed by Paul Ruven. The film was meant to raise interest among Western teenagers for the problems in Africa.
However, no Dutch distributor is willing to release the film that stars actors from "Blackbook" and "Hotel Rwanda."
"Mafrika" won the public award at the recent Dutch Film Festival.
Opposition party D66 has asked minister Koenders to justify why he public money on a project that clearly will not reach its goal. D66 accuses Koenders of careless conduct.
His department invested 400,000 euros in the black comedy "Mafrika," directed by Paul Ruven. The film was meant to raise interest among Western teenagers for the problems in Africa.
However, no Dutch distributor is willing to release the film that stars actors from "Blackbook" and "Hotel Rwanda."
"Mafrika" won the public award at the recent Dutch Film Festival.
Opposition party D66 has asked minister Koenders to justify why he public money on a project that clearly will not reach its goal. D66 accuses Koenders of careless conduct.
- 10/13/2008
- by By Ab Zagt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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